#Dominic D’Agostino

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The Extreme Nutritional Benefits of Mushrooms: Varieties and Mechanisms of Anti-Cancer, Anti-Death, Nootropic Effects

The Extreme Nutritional Benefits of Mushrooms: Varieties and Mechanisms of Anti-Cancer, Anti-Death, Nootropic Effects

Mushrooms have been part of the human diet for up to 18,000 years, since the Upper Paleolithic’s Magdalenian phase, possibly beginning with bolete (porcini) variety mushrooms, which are still popular in Italian cuisine today. Delicious and an ample quality-protein source, mushrooms are also extremely beneficial to health in important ways. Generally, they are nootropic brain-protectants,…

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‘Secret Room’ Decorated by Michelangelo to Open to the Public in Italy

He’s known for his colossal works, such as the statue of David, the floor-to-ceiling frescoes of the Sistine Chapel, and the dome of St. Peter’s which dominates the Rome skyline.

But it’s Michelangelo Buonarroti’s less bombastic work that’s on display to the public for the first time in the artist’s “secret room” in Florence.

The tiny space sits beneath the Medici Chapels in Florence, where Michelangelo sculpted intricate tombs for members of the Medici family behind the church of San Lorenzo in the Sagrestia Nuova, or New Sacristry.

In 1975, during works to create a new exit for the venue, a restorer carrying out cleaning experiments uncovered multiple drawings of human figures under two layers of plaster in a corridor underneath the sacristy which had been used to store coal.

The narrow space is 33 feet long, 10 wide and eight feet high.

The figures – sketched in charcoal and sanguine (rust-colored chalk or crayon), often one on top of the other, and of different sizes – were attributed to Michelangelo by Paolo Dal Poggetto, the former director of the Medici Chapels.

It is believed that the artist hid in the claustrophobic space for several weeks in 1530 when pope Clement VII – a member of the Medici family, who had recently returned to power in Florence, having been kicked out by a republican government for whom Michelangelo had worked – ordered his death. The death sentence was rescinded after two months, and Michelangelo returned to work in Florence, before moving to Rome four years later.

It’s believed the drawings are sketches for future works, including the legs of one of the statues in the New Sacristy.

“This place grants today’s visitors the unique experience of being able to come into direct contact not only with the creative process of the maestro, but also with the perception of the formation of his myth as a divine artist,” said Francesca de Luca, curator of the Museum of the Medici Chapels, in a statement. Paola D’Agostino, director of the Bargello Museums, which the chapels are part of, said the restoration has been “time-consuming, constant and painstaking work.”

The space has never been open regularly to the public before, but will open for visits on November 15 to highly limited numbers in order to preserve the drawings. A maximum of 100 people will be able to visit per week, in groups of four, and 15-minute visits will take place every day except Tuesdays and Sundays.

By Julia Buckley.

#Michelangelo #‘Secret Room’ Decorated by Michelangelo to Open to the Public in Italy #Medici Chapels in Florence #italian artist #charcoal drawing #sanguine drawing #art #artist #art work #art world #art news

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my very long thoughts on Piranesi

Overall my hottest non-spoiler take is that I don’t think it’s as....mysterious and strange as reviewers seem to think it is. I think parts of it are marvellous and fun, but not quite a”delicious dark bonbon of a book” as much as one review says it is. 

It’s mindblowing if you’ve...never picked up a fantasy book before, I guess. 

****SPOILERS UNDER CUT***** 

(I’m dying to talk about this wth someone)

Okay, first of all, what is UP with the queer villain character (Laurence Arne-Sayles)?? I can’t figure out how much I actually condemn it, but like, is it not enough that he’s a fucking asshole and an arrogant misogynist? Do we really need the additional mini subplot about him picking up young men and imprisoning James Ritter in his house? It’s a bit too cliche 20th century posh British movie villain for me. They’re not mentioned, but you know that this guy has both A) velvet smoking slippers; B) a crystal decanter of port in front of a fireplace; C) some sort of fucked up episode that occurred while he was at Eton. That’s how cliche it felt

On that topic, both Ketterly and the narrator (Piranesi/Matthew Rose Sorenson) felt more subtly queer, and I think i do like the mild homoerotic fascination that Piranesi had with The Other. It felt biblical and strange and innocent in the best way

Piranesi didn’t feel like a follow-up to JS&MN (and that’s fine!!!), but it REALLY felt like a follow-up to His Dark Materials universe. Almost more so than Pullman’s actual sequel trilogy. Piranesi reading the movement of birds over statues = Lyra reading the alethiometer. And the existence of the House = a physical embodiment of Dust

this is a snippet of the conversation between Piranesi and Arne-Sayles:

“Imagine water flowing underground. It flows through the same cracks year after year and it wears away at the stone. Millennia later you have a cave system. But what you don’t have is the water that originally created it. That’s long gone. Seeped away into the earth.?

[...]

‘Is that why there are Statues?’ I asked.

‘Is what why there are Statues?’

‘Do the Statues exist because they embody the Ideas and Knowledge that flowed out of the other World into this one?’ (p.61)

THAT’S DUST, BABY

That most interesting reading I think you can do of Piranesi is to do a theological comparison between it and His Dark Materials, especially how Clarke approaches the idea of innocence and belief vs. Pullman. Clarke’s book suggests that to enter this elevated, fantastical world, you have to return to a state of unknowing childlike innocence, and the adult characters - Piranesi and James Ritter - crave re-entering the House after they return to the real world, and they’re able to, because in Clarke’s system, the boundary between the mundane and fantastic is fluid. 

Meanwhile, HDM is all about children growing up and and losing access to the fantastic altogether, which in Pullman’s world is not a tragedy. Pullman, i think, celebrates the loss of innocence as the beginning of knowing good and evil. The end of The Amber Spyglass is all about Will and Lyra losing each other, as well as the alethiometer/ the subtle knife, but what they gain instead is a very adult, very bittersweet motivation of building the Republic of Heaven where they are 

So Piranesi’s ending offers hope through returning to the realm of the fantastic, and HDM’s ending offers hope through improving the world where you already live. Very fascinating mirror ideas.

And to be clear, I don’t think one is better than the other!!! And because there are so many interviews and pieces written about this, I can’t help but read Piranesi through a biographical lens. Clarke is openly religious (compare to Pullman, who is openly atheist) and she has chronic illness, so i also interpret Piranesi as a story about escape when you literally have no other avenues...like, some people dont have the avenues/resources to build the Republic of Heaven, but that doesn’t mean their lived experience is wrong. 

OTHER TIDBITS I ALSO LIKED:

Sylvia D’Agostino is such a great character. Sorry to mention him again, but both Clarke and Pullman are at their best when they do extremely specific academic characters/lowkey satires of academia. UGH the grad student being FUCKING TORMENTED by her asshole of a supervisor through a cult of personality was just...too real. And I love the description of her films! I get a bit of a H.D. (hilda doolittle) vibe? Like that intersection between psychoanalysis/imagist poetry/film. Love it

Matthew Rose Sorenson is such a dandy...his obsession with clothes?? his lil hair decorations with the shells and the bones and coral?? I kind of wish he was explicitly queer, just so the novel wouldn’t be dominated by the one villainous queer character. 

The part where he describes each one of the dead skeletons is astonishingly good and creepy. Best part of the book. but also, raises a question: how could it be that Arne-Sayles and his students are the only people to have found the House? in all of human history? or is there something complicated going on? perhaps there are many Houses, but then why do the novel’s characters all come into this one House?

I also have some thoughts about the history of science (how “natural philosophers” became modern “scientists”) and how it applies to Piranesi and religion in general, but I can formulate them just yet

Sarah Raphael is played by Olivia Colman in the inevitable film adaptation. That is it.

#piranesi #susanna clarke #jonathan strange and mr norrell #my thoughts

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new boots [as of 27/04/20]

MAIN WANTS: jersey boys oz, great comet, billy elliot oz, book of mormon oz, hamilton, hadestown broadway, heathers west-end, heathers original off-broadway, urinetown, something rotten, mean girls, opening or closing performances of any of these - performers: thayne jasperson, jon rua, jason mraz, gavin lee, sutton foster, eden espinosa, karen olivo, wesley taylor, jai’len christine li josey, emmy raver-lampman

NOTES: date formatted as dd-mm-yyyy, dm me with what you’d like to trade and a link to your list please, 1:1 video, 1:1 audio, 2 audios:1 video, i can be flexible with the ratios if the boot is rarer or i actually rlly want it lol

NEW BOOTS:

V I D E O S

A BRONX TALE [1] - INFO: D quality - CAST: ???

A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER [1] - INFO: C quality, partial boot - CAST: ???

ANASTASIA [1] - INFO: broadway, 17-09-2017, C+ quality, .vob files - CAST: ???

BANDSTAND [2] - INFO: broadway, C quality - CAST: ??? 

- INFO: C- quality - CAST: ???

BEETLEJUICE [3] - INFO: original broadway cast, C quality, lots of shoulder blocking, partial boot - CAST: alex brightman, sophia anne caruso

- INFO: obc, upper level seating, C quality, obscured at times, partial boot[?] - CAST: alex brightman, sophia anne caruso

- INFO: original broadway cast, very poor quality, zoom focus, limited view - CAST: alex brightman, sophia anne caruso

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BE MORE CHILL [1] - INFO: broadway, C- quality - CAST: ??? 

HADESTOWN [1] - INFO: london, C quality, vertical video, partial boot, only act 2 i believe - CAST: amber gray, andre de shields, eva noblezada, reeve carney, patrick page

HAMILTON [1] - INFO: broadway, B+ quality, .vob files - CAST: javier munoz, lexi lawson, chris jackson, andrew chappelle, anthony ramos, renee elise goldsberry

HEATHERS [1] - INFO: west end, 11-24-2018, final performance, C+ quality, .vob files, NYCg8r’s master - CAST: carrie hope fletcher, jamie muscato, jodie steele, t’shan williams, sophie isaacs, nathan amzi, dominic andersen, jon boydon, christopher chung, amy booth-steel, jenny o’leary, merryl ansah, lauren drew, charlotte jaconelli, alex james-hatton, john lumsden, olivia moore, brandon lee sears

JERSEY BOYS [1] - INFO: broadway, very poor quality, shaky camera at times - CAST: ???

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR [1] - INFO: west end, 2012 arena tour, C quality - CAST: tim minchin, mel c, ben forster

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA [4] - INFO: broadway, 1993, very poor quality - CAST: davis gaines, dale kristien

- INFO: west end, 2005 - CAST: john owen-jones

- INFO: west end, 2011, royal albert hall, C quality - CAST: ???

- INFO: broadway, 2014, very poor quality - CAST: sierra boggess, norm lewis

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THE PROM [1] - INFO: broadway, B+ quality, partial boot - CAST: ???

SPRING AWAKENING [1] - INFO: broadway, 18-10-2015, d quality, .vob files - CAST: ???

THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE [1] - INFO: original broadway cast, very poor quality - CAST: ???

WAITRESS [2] - INFO: original broadway cast, very poor quality - CAST: possibly jessie mueller and keala settle??

- INFO: broadway, C+ quality - CAST: colleen ballinger

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WICKED [1] - INFO: broadway, 10-20-2004, very poor quality, .vob files - CAST: ???

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A U D I O S

JERSEY BOYS [1] - INFO: oz cast [melbourne], 13-04-2019, matinee, my master - CAST: daniel raso [frankie valli alt], thomas mcguane [bob gaudio], cristina d’agostino [mary delgado], cameron macdonald [tommy devito], glaston toft [nick massi] - NOTES: first row, cuts off towards the end of the show :’(

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA [1] - INFO: los angeles, 1988 - CAST:  michael crawford, patti cohenour

SPONGEBOB [1] - INFO: broadway, 09-16-2018, final performance - CAST: ???

WICKED [1] - INFO: 30-04-2019 - CAST: ???

#musical bootleg #musical boot #video bootleg #audio bootleg #bootleg #hadestown bootleg #hamilton bootleg #heathers bootleg #be more chill bootleg #beetlejuice bootleg #broadway boot #broadway bootlegs #kimura trades #jersey boys oz #jersey boys bootleg

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𝑪𝑯𝑨𝑹𝑨𝑪𝑻𝑬𝑹 𝑺𝑯𝑬𝑬𝑻

repost,  don’t reblog !

𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐬 !

FULL NAME.   Persephone PRONUNCIATION.   Purr-seh-phone-nee NICKNAME.    percy, perce, honey (from josh), blondie (from bender) GENDER.   Cis female HEIGHT.   5′6″ AGE.   19 (verse dependent) ZODIAC.    Leo SPOKEN LANGUAGES.   english, a little bit of german. (in her da verse: common tongue, a little bit of orlesian & tevene)

𝐩𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 !

HAIR COLOR.   blonde (naturally brown), occasionally pink EYE COLOR.    green SKIN TONE.      pale BODY TYPE.    curvy ACCENT.    central new york (in her da verse: ferelden) VOICE.   speaking - jennifer damiano | singing - kelli o’hara DOMINANT HAND.   Right POSTURE.  usually pretty good (she’s a trained singer, after all), though she’ll slouch if she’s in a bad mood SCARS.  on her knees, some on her fingers TATTOOS.   None BIRTHMARKS.   none MOST NOTICEABLE FEATURE(S).  scattered freckles and moles (the ones on her right forearm are in the shape of the big dipper), including a small beauty mark by her left eye. 

𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝 !

PLACE OF BIRTH. upstate new york / verse dependent HOMETOWN.  verse dependent BIRTH WEIGHT.         BIRTH HEIGHT.           MANNER OF BIRTH.  Natural childbirth FIRST WORDS.  baby SIBLINGS.   two stepbrothers (mike jr. and nick), an older stepsister (faith), and a younger half-brother (aiden).       PARENTS.  margaret victory & louis potter; also janice richardson-potter (stepmother) and michael miller (former stepfather) PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT.  a warm relationship with her mother, who does her best to support percy. her relationship with her father is also warm on the surface, though louis tends to guilt-trip. she and michael are drifting apart, and she would be perfectly happy never seeing janice again (considering janice is the source of most of her trauma).

𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 !

OCCUPATION.   english & theatre arts major, pre-law (verse dependent) CURRENT RESIDENCE.  college dorm CLOSE FRIENDS.  shannon taylor, sam d’agostino, leah simone-rogers, james victory. RELATIONSHIP STATUS.  Single, In a relationship (dependent) FINANCIAL STATUS.  middle class (only because of her mother) DRIVER’S LICENSE. No       CRIMINAL RECORD.  none VICES.  alcohol, impulsive spending, flirting

𝐬𝐞𝐱 & 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 !

SEXUAL ORIENTATION.  pansexual ROMANTIC ORIENTATION.   panromantic    PREFERRED EMOTIONAL ROLE.       submissive |  dominant |  switch. PREFERRED SEXUAL ROLE.       submissive  |  dominant  |  switch. LIBIDO.  high        TURN ON’S.  praise, compliments, piercings, respect, on occasion blatant flirting         TURN OFF’S. bigotry, insults, rudeness     LOVE LANGUAGE.  words of affirmation, mostly, though also acts of service, physical touch, and quality time RELATIONSHIP TENDENCIES.  very tactile; lots of hand-holding, hugs, kisses, and cuddles. says “i love you” early & frequently. lots of dumb jokes & staying up late.

𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐨𝐮𝐬 !

CHARACTER’S THEME SONG.  when i was a boy - dar williams / nobody - mitski HOBBIES TO PASS TIME.  sketching, writing, singing        MENTAL ILLNESSES. Depression, anxiety, adhd PHYSICAL ILLNESSES.  minor allergies        LEFT OR RIGHT BRAINED.  Right brained FEARS. abandonment, never finding romantic love, death SELF CONFIDENCE LEVEL. low, with rare spikes. VULNERABILITIES.  in most verses (excluding her da & marvel ones), she’s physically quite weak & unable to defend herself in a fight. she takes insults & criticism to heart very easily, and will do almost anything if it means gaining people’s approval.

Tagged by: @justicebound Tagging: everyone !!!

#persephone potter.

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Birighitti brilliance earns Mariners draw

Birighitti brilliance earns Mariners draw

Central Coast have scored late against Melbourne Victory to pinch an A-League Men point despite being dominated on their home deck. In-form Nick D’Agostino struck to deliver the Victory the lead but that was cancelled out six minutes from time when Mariners substitute Nicolai Muller bobbed up to square the match at 1-1. Only a masterful display from Mariners keeper Mark Birighitti allowed them to…

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[myfloatingdream]

Pennywise x Reader (Playlist):

WARNING! This playlist contain: Angst -a lot of angst- dominant Daddywise, explicit BDSM context, not always involved in romantic relationship. Hope you’ll enjoy it!

The Devil Within - Digital Draggers (Pennywise for Reader):

(I made myself at home in the cobwebs and the lies, I’m learning all your tricks I can hurt you from inside)

Flesh - Simon Curtis (Reader for Pennywise):

(Push up to my body sink your teeth into my flesh) >> NEED TO SAY ELSE?

Call me Master - Blood on the Dance Floor (Pennywise for Reader):

(You-you-you are, you are my slave. My little fucking disaster. I-I-I am, I am your god, call me, call me, call me your master)

Bruises & Bitemarks - Good With Grenades (Pennywise for Reader):

(You will believe my lies that I'm not like other guys, that sparkle in my eyes is just part of my disguise)

You’re Mine - Disturbed (Pennywise for Reader):

('Cause you're mine! I knew I could be whole if you were mine! I'll vanquish any foe because you're mine)

Love the way you hate me - Like a Storm (Pennywise for Reader):

(Tell me I'm a freak, tell me I'm a creep, tell me I'm obscene. Hate me!)

A Dangerous Mind - Within Temptation (Reader for Pennywise):

(It's in your eyes, what's on your mind. I fear your smile and the promise inside)

Haunted - Evanescence (Reader for Pennywise):

(I know you're still there watching me, wanting me, I can feel you pull me down. Fearing you, loving you, I won't let you pull me down)

Monster - Lady GaGa (Reader for Pennywise):

(He licked his lips, said to me “Girl you look good enough to eat”)

Bleed (Must be dreaming) - Evanescence (Reader for Pennywise - not necessarily involve into romantic relationship):

(We all live and  we all die, but  that does not begin to justify you)

Bad Romance - Halestorm (Lady GaGa Cover) (Reader for Pennywise):

(I want your horror I want your design, ‘cause you're a criminal as long as you're mine, I want your love)

BONUS TRACK!!

I’ll fly with you - Gigi D’agostino (Reader for Pennywise)

Ok, this may seems out of context but just try to change fly with float aaaaaand...the game is done!

#pennywise #pennywise playlist #pennywise x reader #pennywise x you #it2017 #daddywise #clownfuckers #clumsy #you'll float too

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Starving cancer: Dominic D’Agostino at TEDxTampaBay Dr. D'Agostino is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida College Of Medicine, Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology where he develops and ... source

#diet

[strongfithealth]

Starving cancer: Dominic D’Agostino at TEDxTampaBay

source https://strongfithealth.com/starving-cancer-dominic-dagostino-at-tedxtampabay/

[filmstruck]

Down to the Crossroads by Susan Doll

I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (’43) became the second in the series of low-budget horror films produced by Val Lewton for RKO during the 1940s. The series is renowned for an emphasis on moody cinematography, an economy of storytelling and the suggestion of the supernatural in lieu of overt monsters. Many consider the three directed by Jacques Tourneur to be the best, including I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE.

The sensationalistic title was forced on Lewton by RKO production head Charles Koerner, whose imagination was sparked when he had stumbled across an article in American Weekly called “I Met a Zombie” by Inez Wallace. Though Wallace was credited for original story, the narrative of the film had nothing to do with her anecdotal account of voodoo practices. Instead, Lewton conceived a love triangle set in the exotic Caribbean with echoes of Jane Eyre. This latter bit of trivia is frequently recounted in lore about the movie, but ZOMBIE’s similarity to Charlotte Bronte’s novel is vague.

Frances Dee stars as nurse Betsy Connell, who is sent by an employment agency to the fictional island of St. Sebastian to care for the catatonic Jessica Holland (Christine Gordon), wife of sugar planter Paul Holland (Tom Conway). Part of the European planter class, the Holland family has been growing sugar cane for generations. According to the Hollands, Jessica suffered from a high fever, which caused her to lose her mind; according to the island’s natives, whose ancestors were brought to St. Sebastian as slaves, she was turned into a zombie as punishment for the love triangle between Jessica, Paul and Paul’s half-brother, Wesley Rand (James Ellison). Wesley was in love with Jessica, and he claims the feeling was mutual. Now that Jessica is a shell of her former self, with no consciousness and no free will, the tension between the two brothers is unbearable. Betsy falls in love with the enigmatic Paul and decides to try to restore Jessica’s mind, either through science or through voodoo.

Whatever the origins, the story is not what gives the film its rich atmosphere. It’s the stellar cinematography by J. Roy Hunt with its focus on patterns of light and shadow in addition to the tropical-flavored set design by Albert S. D’Agostino. Not only are both beautiful but the lighting and the set details are inspired by the visual language of German Expressionist filmmaking. This means that the visual patterns and motifs hold meaning related to the narrative.

One motif or pattern dominates the set design and lighting of this film, and that is a variety of bar shapes. Venetian-style bamboo blinds are a major part of the décor in the Holland house, emphasizing slats and lines. When light shines through them, bar shadows are cast against the wall. In Expressionist symbolism, bars are used to suggest prison bars, meaning entrapment.

In true Expressionist fashion, the visual design echoes the predicament of the characters, because all of them are trapped. Paul was stuck in a loveless marriage, but his current trap is his own emotional scars. He not only feels responsible for Jessica, but he believes that everything he touches becomes corrupted, so he is not free to love Betsy. Wesley, who works as the plantation overseer, squirms under the thumb of older brother Paul, but he can’t leave Jessica. Of course, Jessica is trapped by her mental state, lost in limbo somewhere between voodoo and science. Their cages are of their own making—the result of sibling rivalry and a bitter love triangle. What about Nurse Betsy? Aside from being stuck on an island, she falls in love with Paul but feels compassion for Wesley. The stage is set for history to repeat itself with another love triangle. Betsy’s potential as a participant in the on-going melodrama at the Holland household is foretold through her shadow. Her exact shadow shape is cast against the wall in several scenes, suggesting she has a doppelganger—or a dark side to her. She’s not evil, but she is tainted by the possibility of repeating a love triangle that will surely trap her as well. This idea is also suggested in the strange folk song about the Holland family sung by Calypso singer Sir Lancelot when Wesley and Betsy imbibe in a cocktail at the local café. He sings: “The brothers are lonely and the nurse is young / And now you must see that my song is sung.”

The main characters are not the only ones who are trapped. An important landmark is the statue of Saint Sebastian that is in the garden at the Holland Plantation. The island natives call the statue T Misery. It was the figurehead from the slave ship that first brought the natives’ ancestors to St. Sebastian. The black carriage driver who takes Betsy to the Holland residence upon her arrival tells her the story of the slave ship to which she insensitively responds, “Well, they brought them to a beautiful place.” The driver replies, “If you say so, Miss.” The exchange reveals the undercurrent of tension between the white planters and the black islanders who work for them. On the surface, the black islanders are polite but their compliant veneer hides a rift between them and the privileged whites. The dual name for the statue in the garden symbolizes the way that the black islanders and the white planters see the history of the island differently. The animosity surfaces briefly in key scenes, including the driver’s exchange with Betsy and Sir Lancelot’s pointed lyrics.

Betsy tries to cure Jessica with both science and voodoo. The latter includes Betsy’s walk with Jessica through the jungle to a voodoo ceremony, which reflects the film’s title. The title might be cheesy, but this sequence is one of the most hauntingly beautiful in film history. The scene is made eerie through the use of sound, including the rustling of clothes, the hum of the wind through a gourd and the rumble of the voodoo drums. It prepares us for the sight of the zombie Carrefour (Darby Jones), who is standing in the cane filed guarding the Houmfort, where the ceremony is held. Carrefour means “crossroads” in French, and his image not only suggests the boundary between the white world of the cane planters and the voodoo culture of the black islanders but also the boundary between life and death. It is a scene that is the essence of this film, which is less about plot and more about suggestion, expression and evocation. For that reason, I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE was one of Tourneur’s favorite films of his career.

#I Walked With A Zombie #Jacques Tourneur #Val Lewton #Frances Dee #StreamLine Blog #Susan Doll #FilmStruck

[the-expert-zone]

What is Keto? – KetoNutrition – Dr. Dominic D’Agostino, Ph.D.

At its simplest, a ketogenic diet is a very low carbohydrate, high fat, moderate protein diet. The purpose of following a ketogenic diet is to put the body into a state of ketosis where the body relies on burning fat for fuel instead of sugar.

See, the body has two major fuels – sugar or fat.

Today, most people exist primarily in the sugar-burning state due to constant access to food and high carbohydrate diets.

Carbohydrates are broken down in the body to glucose, and it is this glucose that is used by our cells as fuel. Turns out that although glucose is essential to survival, carbohydrates are not since we the body is designed to generate all the glucose it needs, even in a fasted state.

The ketogenic diet dramatically reduces the amount of carbohydrates in the diet, shifting to fat as an alternative fuel. Ketones are a by-product of accelerated fat burning, but we only produce them carbohydrate restriction, or fasting for extended periods of time. This is because the brain demands a constant supply of energy, and in a carbohydrate-fed state, the brain relies exclusively on glucose for fuel. So, when glucose and glycogen levels fall, the brain needs an alternative fuel. However, because the brain can’t directly use fat for energy (except for MCTs), the liver converts fat to ketone bodies to sustain brain energy metabolism. Ketones also serve an anti-catabolic function as a survival mechanism to spare our skeletal (and cardiac) muscle tissue from being broken down for glucose, so in this way the ketogenic diet is also muscle-sparing.

The ketogenic diet is unique from any other diet in that it is the only diet defined by the presence of an elevated biomarker, defined as hyperketonemia (elevated beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHB), acetoacetate (AcAc), and acetone). When we are in a state of ketosis, ketones can be found in our blood, urine, and breath, and measuring their presence is used to determine if your diet is ketogenic, since an elevation of blood ketones defines ketosis, and achieving ketosis defines a ketogenic diet.

The origin of the ketogenic diet dates back to the early 1900s and was designed to mimic the metabolic state of fasting. At the time, fasting was being used to control seizures in epileptic patients, but as soon as these patients resumed their normal diet, their seizures would return. Scientists figured out that replacing carbohydrates in the diet with fat tricked the body into behaving as it would in the fasted state – triggering the body to make ketones – and thus the diet was coined the ketogenic diet. Over the past century, the diet has evolved and its applications have expanded tremendously. Many people turn to the ketogenic diet for weight loss, but if you browse the articles on our blog you will see that the benefits of ketosis extend far beyond weight loss, although if that is your goal then it can work pretty well for that, too!

So, what do you eat on a ketogenic diet?

When following a well-formulated ketogenic diet, your nutrition will be coming from quality foods like avocado, eggs, meats, fish, grass-fed butter, nuts and seeds, extra-virgin olive oil, leafy greens, and fibrous/non-starchy vegetables. Carbohydrates on a ketogenic diet are typically capped at a total of 50g, and protein can range from 1-1.8 g/kg of goal body weight. The remaining calories will come from fat, and it’s recommended that fat is eaten to the point that you are satisfied or to your personal caloric needs.

The general macronutrient breakdown ranges from:

·      65-85% fat

·      15-35% protein

·      0-10% carbohydrates

Everyone’s ketogenic diet will look a little different because we all have different bodies and lifestyles that influence our ability to achieve ketosis, and that’s why these ranges seem quite broad. The more you experiment with a ketogenic diet, the more you will learn how to modify your intake of each macronutrient to best suit your body and your goals.

Limiting carbohydrates is the most essential component of following a ketogenic diet because it is the low levels of glucose that initiates the cascade of reactions that eventually result in ketosis, and overeating carbohydrates just a little bit can be enough to shut down ketogenesis (the production of ketones).

General Keto Food List

–   Fatty cuts of meat

–   Poultry with skin

–   Fatty fish

–   Eggs

–   High quality oils (e.g., coconut oil, extra-virgin olive oil, avocado oil, MCT oil)

–   Butter/ghee

–   Avocados

–   Coconut

–   Low-sugar berries (e.g., wild blueberries)

–   Nuts & seeds

–   All leafy greens and lettuces

–   Cruciferous vegetables (e.g., broccoli, cauliflower, Brussel sprouts, cabbage)

–   Other produce: celery, cucumber, mushrooms, zucchini, onions, garlic, etc.

How do you know if you’re in ketosis?

There are three primary ways to measure ketones. Generally, ketosis is defined by a blood level of BHB at or above 0.5 mmol/L.

1.     Blood ketones

The most accurate way to measure ketosis is to measure blood ketones, which tests for BHB. This requires a blood ketone meter and ketone strips.

2.     Urine ketones

Urine ketone strips test for the ketone, AcAc, but the accuracy of this method varies on how long you have been following a ketogenic diet and hydration status. Ketones can end up as “waste” in the urine after being filtered through the kidneys, depending on the body’s energy needs. In the beginning stages of a ketogenic diet, testing urine ketones can be quite accurate, but as you become more keto-adapted, and therefore better at using ketones as fuel, you excrete less in the urine. Thus, testing urine ketones at this stage isn’t representative of your level of ketosis.

3.     Breath ketones

Technological advancements have brought to the market a number of breath ketone meters that represent an easy and accurate way to test for ketosis. These meters test for the ketone acetone excreted on our breath, which may also make your breath smell “fruity.”

Besides objective measures to test for ketosis, increased and sustained energy levels, reduced appetite, mental clarity, and “fruity breath” may be indicators that you are in ketosis.

Check out our other blog articles to learn more about the applications of nutritional ketosis!

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