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So as you can see I have used this quite alot. As it has lost it's dome like shape. This is the UK's take on the ever so famous EOS lip balms.
Now packaging wise, it is very appealing. With the really interesting sphere shape. It did come with a phone charm string, which I took off almost immediately. As saw no point in it. It is also very easy to open. You just use a twisting motion, where the two meet.
It smells lovely, it is not too overpowering. The lipbalm it's self is actually quite wet and not waxy. I have heard that the EOS ones are. To be perfectly honest, I don't mind that, as long as it is moisturizing. Which it is.
Overall, I would say it is a good lip balm. I would have to say that it is something I would not really splash out £4.99, for a lip balm again though. But it has lasted pretty well.
So if you are wanting to treat yourself, then yes Balmi is the way forward. At some point I am sure I will get my hands on an EOS lip balm.
How does this compare with ESO?
This is a scheduled post, as I'm away on holiday and won't be back until 3rd August.
I love the blackberry version of this!


The twelfth hole is a Par 5 dogleg left with a long fairway bunker on the left side of the Fairway. (215 yds from the Tee) Bunkers to the left and right of the Green catch many shots and are difficult to execute good shots from. Lay up to 100-120 yds if you can't reach the Green in two. You will have a better view of the Pin from that yardage.


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New York Calling (1942)
Sponsor/Production Co.: New York Central Railroad. Producer: Frederick G. Beach. Writer: Gordon Auchincloss. Narrator: Vincent Connelly. Transfer Note: Scanned from a 16mm print held by the Library of Congress. Running Time: 21 minutes.
Travelogue sponsored by a railroad company serving New York City. Approaching the metropolis by rail, the film covers major tourist destinations such as Coney Island, Times Square, celebrated nightclubs, and Rockefeller Center, where NBC provides an experimental television demonstration.
Note: Produced in Technicolor. Also released in 16mm. Revised in 1948.
"New York Calling: Road's Color Film," Christian Science Monitor, Mar. 7, 1942, 3; "New Films of the Month," Educational Screen 21 (May 1942): 195; Educational Film Catalog, comps. Dorothy E. Cook and Eva Rahbek-Smith (New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1943), 347; Frederick G. Beach, "Films Serve the New York Central," Business Screen 7, no. 5 (1946): 25.

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THIS HOUSE MATTERS - A DOCUMENTARY
(Order a DVD - $15.00)
Showing - October 23, 2016, YOFI (Yonkers) Film Festival, 66 Main Street, Yonkers @ 2:00pm
(order tickets now)
Showing - October 16, 2016, Palisades Community Center @ 4:00pm
Nyack's Oldest House Matters: Watch Tina Traster's 'This House Matters', Review on Nyack News & Views, April 10, 2016
Tina Traster talking about "This House Matters" on WRCR 1700-AM talk radio, April 1, 2016.
Learn more at: Facebook: This House Matters
Featured in The New York History Blog
Historical News and Views from The Empire State
Rockland County Times
Race Against Time: Documentary Highlights Effort to Save Historic Homes
The 30-minute documentary, This House Matters, is a behind-the-scenes look at the successes and failures of trying to preserve and restore several English and Dutch sandstone historic houses in the the Hudson Valley.
This House Matters tells the story of four historic houses: the Abram Lent House, that was unnecessarily demolished to make room for a parking lot; the John Green House, that a preservation group is trying to save after successfully convincing a bank to donate it; the Seth House, that is being incorporated into a new housing development, and the Vanderbilt/Budke House that has been "saved" but sits idle as its potential as a cultural jewel may be squandered. What these stories show - and they speak to so many similar stories in the region and nationwide - is that preservation of 18th and 19th century buildings, buildings that evoke nostalgia and invite mystery and delight us, are in peril, and that the mechanisms for saving them are extremely tenuous. Concerned, passionate citizens try all the time to "rescue" and preserve these buildings, but ultimately, government - village, town, county and state - need to do more to save these treasures.
Nyack Film Festival, August 15, 2015
Tina Traster and Lennon Nersesian
The Abram Lent House, circa 1930.
The Abram Lent House, Orangeburg, NY
Erected 1752, demolished to make way for a parking lot, 2015.
The John Green House, built 1818, Nyack, NY.
The John Green House today, derelict and boarded up. Waiting to be saved.
Vanderbilt/Budke House, as a residence, early 20th century. Rockland County's oldest houses.
Vanderbilt/Budke House, West Nyack, NY.
Erected circa 1730. Waiting to be restored and preserved.
Producer and Director
Tina Traster is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in scores of newspapers, magazines and literary journals including The New York Times, The New York Post, Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, The Atlantic, Redbook, Family Circle, Parade, Time Out New York, Audubon, Ski Magazine and many others. She is the author of the award-winning memoir Rescuing Julia Twice: A Mother's Tale of Russian Adoption and Overcoming Reactive Attachment Disorder. Since 2006, Traster has written the "Burb Appeal" column for The New York Post.
Contact Tina Traster at ttraster@aol.com. Writer and Editor
Lennon Nersesian is the editor of the award-winning 2014 documentary Two: The Story of Roman & Nyro, about Desmond Child's ten-year journey to parenthood. Nersesian made his directorial debut in 2013 with the music video for artist Levi Hummon's first single, "Make it Love." In addition to filmmaking, Nersesian is a published author of four novels and has written several award-winning screenplays. Nersesian won First Prize at the inaugural Fordham Film Festival for his short dramatic film, Repent, and he teaches a film lab at Sarah Lawrence College.


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The Great Wall Haval H3 (Chinese: 长城哈弗; pinyin: Chángchéng Hāfú), also known as the Great Wall Hover, is a compact sports utility vehicle (SUV) produced by the Chinese manufacturer Great Wall Motors from April 2005 to 2012.
The Haval H5, also known as the Great Wall Haval H5 and Hover H5, is a compact sport utility vehicle (SUV) produced by the Chinese manufacturer Great Wall Motors since 2009.
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Selection and reconstruction of warehouse facilities in Astrakhan oblast, Republic of Kalmykia and Krasnodar Region.
- covered warehouse area - above 6 000 sq. m.
- cargo turnover in 2012 – 2014 – over 55 000 tons.


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Inclusion in the information society for the "excluded" women in Greek thrace
Keratso Georgiadou, Gerassimos Kekkeris, Mary Kalantzis
Education Policy, Organization and Leadership
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
This article is based on a research conducted in Thrace, a Greek region in the North, bordering Turkey and Bulgaria. It aims to describe the efforts women, belonging to socially excluded communities i.e. Muslim women, Pontian women immigrants from the former Soviet Union and Roma women, make to adapt to the demands of today's world and to detect whether these women have access to and use of ICTs.
Emerging Technologies and Information Systems for the Knowledge Society - First World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2008, Proceedings
1st World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2008 - Athens, Greece
Duration: Sep 24 2008 → Sep 26 2008
5288 LNAI
1st World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2008
Greek Thrace
Greek-Pontian immigrants from FSU
Muslims of Turkish origin
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Community Mathematics
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Georgiadou, K., Kekkeris, G., & Kalantzis, M. (2008). Inclusion in the information society for the "excluded" women in Greek thrace. In Emerging Technologies and Information Systems for the Knowledge Society - First World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2008, Proceedings (pp. 460-468). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 5288 LNAI). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87781-3_50
Inclusion in the information society for the "excluded" women in Greek thrace. / Georgiadou, Keratso; Kekkeris, Gerassimos; Kalantzis, Mary.
Emerging Technologies and Information Systems for the Knowledge Society - First World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2008, Proceedings. 2008. p. 460-468 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 5288 LNAI).
Georgiadou, K, Kekkeris, G & Kalantzis, M 2008, Inclusion in the information society for the "excluded" women in Greek thrace. in Emerging Technologies and Information Systems for the Knowledge Society - First World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2008, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 5288 LNAI, pp. 460-468, 1st World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2008, Athens, Greece, 9/24/08. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87781-3_50
Georgiadou K, Kekkeris G, Kalantzis M. Inclusion in the information society for the "excluded" women in Greek thrace. In Emerging Technologies and Information Systems for the Knowledge Society - First World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2008, Proceedings. 2008. p. 460-468. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87781-3_50
Georgiadou, Keratso ; Kekkeris, Gerassimos ; Kalantzis, Mary. / Inclusion in the information society for the "excluded" women in Greek thrace. Emerging Technologies and Information Systems for the Knowledge Society - First World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2008, Proceedings. 2008. pp. 460-468 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).
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New Zealand is bountiful not only with dairy products but also of scenic heaven. Every spot you see is like something new, a place you've never been to and a place where you want to wake up to if given the chance. New Zealand is like a breath of fresh new air. It's invigorating and inviting.
The parks in New Zealand are some of the best in the world. They're still virgin, spacious and clean. They also offer the best parking spots. Their holiday parks offer back to nature camping giving any visitor a different style of vacation.
Travelling at your own pace and at your own time gives you a free spirited feeling. This is what it feels like when you are hiring a car or a campervan when you're out and travelling New Zealand.
Maui is probably one of the most popular rental companies in New Zealand and Australia. They are already over 25 years in business and that's not without a reason. The rental conditions are quite strict and they only rent to international tourists owning an English (or translated – international) driving license. The campervans are top-class and the hire cars are less than 2 years old!
Maui has three rental locations on the North and South Island so even one-direction rental is no problem. In case of problems you can contact their 24/7 customer service.
Jucy Rentals is a family owned rental company and offers hire cars and small campervans from their 6 branches spread out over the North and South Island. Since the start in 2001 the company has grown from 35 vehicles to over 3,000 vehicles in New Zealand, Australia and USA.
If you hire at Jucy then you will receive a discount for the Interisland ferry and depending on the durations of your hire period this discount can be quite considerate!
The company doesn't only rent out cars but they run the Jucy Cruise in Milford Sound and the Jucy Hotel in Auckland.
With 17 branches all over New Zealand and Australia, Ace Rental Cars sure does promise quality service.
They give their clients the convenience to easily book with them online. They are open 7 days a week and offer a wide array of vehicles for the clients to choose from. Ace Rental Cars also cover 24/7 Mechanical Roadside Assistance as well complimentary shuttles for airport pickups.
Started in 1992, the Omega Rental Cars company has been a well-known car rental service that with solid and reliable services. They've been servicing both local and international guests for 21 years now.
The vehicles they offer their guests with are regularly maintained with each undergo 40-point safety check. They also provide their clients with a 500+ page of travel guide and road atlas to help them with their journey or GPS services to make navigation more carefree. Their vehicles are also covered with 24-hour Roadside Assistance.
A saver for a backpacker, Bargain Rental Cars truly gives good value for their services. They have 8 branches nationwide and provide services in Auckland Airport, Wellington Airport and Christchurch Airport.
Bargain Rental Cars is wholly Kiwi owned and operated business. It offers guests with competitive prices and promises no hidden charges. Their vehicles are covered with basic insurance and 24-hour AA Roadside Assistance. They also provide their clients with free maps and guides.
Whether it's a car, van or a 4-wheel drive vehicle, Go Rentals promises to give their clients with the best services. They have 5 branches nationwide in the country's major destinations such as in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Wellington and Queenstown.
They have a fast and reliable online booking system that lets clients to easily choose the vehicle they want for their New Zealand adventure. They offer their vehicles at very competitive rates. They put capping on the number of kilometres you should be driving as it gives the hirer with unlimited kilometres. The policy comes in with free basis car insurance and 24-hour AA Roadside assistance. They also provide their guests with free maps and guides and a free play discount card for more than 60 activities.
A wholly Kiwi owned company; Walkabout Rentals has been in business since 1999. They offer their clients with variety of motorhomes and campervans for hire for the budget conscious to the luxurious ones.
Their 4 modern and fully equipped campervans are the newest as they assure their guests that their fleets are no more than 2 years old. For 4 and 6 berths, they have added outdoor table and chairs for the users' convenience. They have also added a colour TV to their 4 and 6 berths for additional entertainment.
They don't charge for diesel road tax, additional drivers and credit card fees. Users can be assured that help is always available as they have 24/7 free phone roadside assistance should there be unlikely events that might happen while you're on tour.
A campervan is like a mobile house. It provides you with a sleeping and eating facility and depending on the size it could have a shower and toilet feature in it. If you're out for camping, this probably is one of the best modes to travel in New Zealand.
A 2 berth campervan is a small size van that comes in with high ceiling, a kitchen and a bed. Take note that the kitchen facilities may vary depending on the rental company.
The 2/3 campervan with toilet and shower has the same size as the standard campervan but has added toilet and shower facilities.
4/6 berth is a motorhome with luxurious facilities. It comes in with almost all the necessities you need for a home with a lot of room for storage.
Campervans in New Zealand come in with either manual or automatic transmission. Basically, it can accommodate at least 2 persons or 6 persons at most. There are campervan models that can be as small as a car while there are others that have a refrigerator, separate sitting area, shower and toilet in it.
Minimum rental period for a campervan in New Zealand is 5 days but during peak season especially on Christmas and New Year, the minimum rental period is 10 days.
Normally a hirer must be at least 25 years old at the time he is booking but there are rental companies that offer campervans for younger renters (backpackers and young travellers) and you must possess a driver's license that is in accordance with the New Zealand driving policies.
Another way to enjoy New Zealand without any tour guides or commuting on a public transport is by hiring a car and doing a self-drive holiday. New Zealand rental companies offer tourists with many options to choose from and may vary on the size of the group and their vehicle requirements. Thing is, there is always a vehicle meant for your budget.
Cars that are up for rent may be manual or automatic transmission, with CD player and air conditioning system. Rental duration is computed for every 24-hour interval from the time of its pickup. Rental companies don't give refunds for returns less than the scheduled time. If a renter opted to cancel his reservation within 72 hours of pickup they may still charge you for three days use and the same goes for "No Show". When booking for car hire, they usually require you to deposit 10%, and pay the remaining balance upon pickup.
In New Zealand, a car hire comes in with a full comprehensive insurance. It is mandatory and is already included in the rental rates. There is a certain amount for the hirer to pay should there be any damages in the car upon return.
Most rental companies require you to have a credit card where they will put a pre-authorization on. The pre-authorization can be between a few hundred to a few thousand New Zealand dollars, depending on your age, duration of the hire period and the car or campervan.
It's a rule that for a hirer to be allowed to rent a car in New Zealand, he/she must be 21 years old and above and is holding a driver's license with English translation in it. They normally won't require you to pay for extra driver just make sure that the co-driver is also 21 years old and above and must have a valid license.
Any traveller who wishes to travel a new place at his own pace, renting a car or a campervan is the best way. However, there are always a lot of options out there and picking out the right, if not the best rental company is not a piece of cake.
The decision to hire a car or a campervan is another issue you should be dealing with if you're planning to tour New Zealand on your own.
What to look for when renting for a car or campervan in New Zealand?
Is the car company dependable especially during emergency situations? Check if the car rental company that you are about to get booked includes a 24-hour roadside assistance.
Does it have everything that you need? You should be able to identify what are your specific requirements for a car when in New Zealand. Divulge to them all those requirements including your budget. It's pretty sure that they will always have a car for you.
What is included in the payment? You must check on the details of what you are paying for. Ask them what are the inclusions and exclusions of the service.
Does the car company also have a ferry service? If you are travelling North Island and South Island, then you'll really need a ferry to cross between those islands. There are car rental companies that have depots on both islands.
When hiring campervans, check if the rental company offers windscreen insurance cover. This will be of great help should breakage occurs. Check with them what is not included in the policy so you can set aside a budget should disaster happens.
Be wary of the fuels the vehicle needs. Generally, cars and smaller campervans will require either regular diesel or petrol. However, larger vehicles usually need diesel to keep on running.


The most recent study on the link between oil price and economic recession came from energy industry consultancy Wood Mackenzie (WoodMac) published earlier this month. The chart below from WoodMac illustrates "the mechanism" of how an oil price shock would derail the global economy.
U.S. domestic petroleum products are priced off of Brent since WTI has become a less relevant oil price marker due to the inventory glut at pipeline-capacity-challenged Cushing, OK depressing the WTI price. So using the current spread between WTI and Brent of around $15-$20, WTI $130 would suggest Brent at about $150 range. Brent futures already hit $128.40 a barrel, the highest since 2008, in early March, but has since given back some of the gains..
Rather than reflecting market fundamentals, dollar prices for Brent crude, up more than 15% this year, has been pushed up mainly by fears about Iran, and the loss of supply from three relatively small oil producing countries–Syria, Yemen and South Sudan–adding to the supply worries. In other words, the oil price is bid up primarily by trading actions on the geopolitical factors (chiefly Iran).
So no, unless something totally unexpected shocks the oil price into no man's land, WTI and Brent are unlikely to hit the levels that could possibly bring about a global recession any time soon. In fact, among the major possible drivers of a global recession, European economic and debt crisis looks to be the greater risk than an oil price shock.


Great Yarmouth - cycled in from the campsite about 1.5 miles along the prom and locked bikes up at the pier. Walked into the main shopping areas straight into Wetherspoons for a healthy all day traditional English breakfast for ?2.99 - not really healthy but tastes good. Then to a National Trust Elizabethan House which was good. Went back to bikes then cycled to the harbour area and found a floating museum of the last steam drifter fishing boat the Lydia Eva which again is worth a visit.
Plenty to do in Yarmouth all the usual seaside type shops and arcades. It is a bike friendly town with dedicated cycle lanes and plenty of places to lock up bikes. Easy parking on northern ends of prom for motorhomes and caravans beside dunes / beach still within walking or cycling into the main areas. Plenty of uncrowded beach space.


Hefting buckets, nets and an aerator, Kim Brannock and her family set out Friday morning to help stranded fish in a dwindling pool in a dry channel of the Deschutes River close to Bend.
Going on tips from a fish biologist friend, Brannock used the nets to scoop the fish showing the most life into the buckets, where the aerator gave them a boost of oxygen.
"Oh my gosh, it is so hard to pick who gets to go," said Brannock, 42, of Bend. Brannock spotted the fish Thursday afternoon while running along the Deschutes River Trail, downstream from Lava Island Falls.
Hundreds of fish, including rainbow and brown trout, as well as sculpin, filled the shrinking, heart-shaped pool.
Most were already dead as the side channel of the river around Lava Island had gone dry. The pool remained in what had formerly been a deep section of the river.
The Oregon Water Resources Department dropped river flows upstream of Bend within the last week, storing more water in Wickiup Reservoir in preparation for the next growing season.
The change saves water for water-right holders and was done in consultation with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, said Kyle Gorman, regional manager for the state's Water Resources Department in Bend.
"We are in storage season, now," he said.
Gorman said he's been in Central Oregon since 1990, and this is the first time he'd seen lowered flows lead to stranded fish.
While the lowered flows started about a week earlier than normal this year, he said the department follows a ramping schedule to ease into them.
Chip Dale, regional manager for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, said he has seen flows drop around Lava Island Falls before, but he has never seen stranded fish there, either.
"I couldn't tell you why we saw it this year and not other years," he said.
A leak in the Newport Avenue Dam in Bend recently lowered Mirror Pond and caused mudflats to emerge along the river in the heart of town. But Gorman said the Mirror Pond mudflats and the stranded fish, miles upstream on the Deschutes, are not connected.
More than 400 rainbow and brown trout, as well as about 1,300 sculpin and 1,300 whitefish, were found dead in the pool and four other pools that had gone completely dry in the side channel, Dale said.
The trout ranged from fingerlings to adults over 20 inches long.
Brannock,her husband, Lee Brannock, 42, her daughter, Bella Brannock, 7, and her neighbor, Courtney Davidson, 36, formed their own rescue team.
Amid the rush to move fish from the pool into the buckets, Davidson paused.
"This guy right here is breaking my heart," she said as she looked down at a gasping, 6-inch-long rainbow trout.
Kim Brannock, who designs fishing waders and apparel for Patagonia, said she would like to see more water left in the river — for the sake of fish and other animals in what had been a wetland.
"I can't believe, in this community, that the water is managed like this," Brannock said. "It's astonishing."
For years representatives from conservation groups, irrigation districts, state agencies, tribes and Central Oregon cities have been talking about the distribution of water on the Deschutes, said Tod Heisler, executive director for the Deschutes River Conservancy. The talks focus on who gets what — and when.
"Ultimately, what we would like is to have some kind of agreed to (higher) minimum flow year-round on that upper river," he said.
A pair of ODFW employees joined the fish rescue on Friday morning.
"We'll just try to salvage as many fish as we can and get them into the river," said Erik Moberly, ODFW assistant district fish biologist in Bend.
Moberly joined a group lugging buckets full of fish onto the river trail and then up and over a riverside rise. The rock of Lava Island blocked a direct path to the main stem of the river, so the haul route covered about an eighth of a mile.
In all, about 500 fish were saved, Brannock said, mostly trout. There were also some sculpin, stone fish and crayfish in the buckets.
Moberly and Dale said ODFW officials would meet next week to determine if the agency should close trout fishing season early. The season usually lasts until Oct. 31.
Dale said the potential closure isn't related to the stranded fish. Instead, it's based on concerns about fish being particularly easy to catch farther up the river.
"The inclination is not to close it," Dale said.


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Гуарана (, ) — в'юнка ліана роду пауллінія () родини сапіндових (), у природі зростає в амазонській частині Бразилії та Парагваю, а також зустрічається в Перу, Венесуелі і Колумбії. У Бразилії гуарану вирощують у штатах Амазонас і Баїя. Гуарана вирізняється великими листками і квітками, зібраними в пучки. Рослина відома, перш за все, завдяки своїм плодам, які за розміром нагадують кавові зерна. Як харчова добавка, гуарана є ефективним стимулятором: і містить удвічі більше кофеїну, ніж кавові зерна (2-4,5 % кофеїну в насінні гуарани проти 1-2 % — у кавових зернах). Кофеїн виконує роль захисного токсину, який огороджує ягоди й насіння від хвороботворних мікроорганізмів. Плід гуарани завбільшки з горіх — фундук, покритий шкіркою від глибокого жовтого до сірого кольору; після дозрівання шкірка лопається і відкриває одне лілово-коричневе або чорне зернятко. Насіння гуарани містить смоли, дубильні речовини і до 6 % кофеїну. З нього отримують пасту, яку застосовують в окремих країнах в медичних цілях. З пасти добувають кофеїн, її додають у шоколад і застосовують щоб приготувати напій, аналогічний до кави.

Історія
Рослину відкрив німецький ботанік  у XVIII столітті, на честь якого рослина отримала свою латинську назву. Португальське слово guaraná походить від назви warana («плід, як очі людей») мовою амазонської народності мауе. Рослину вперше описали в європейських колоніях і Європі у XVI столітті Ов'єдо, Ернандес, Кобо та інші іспанські літописці. До 1958 року торгівля гуараною вийшла на міжнародний рівень.

Гуарана відіграє важливу роль у культурах народів Тупі та Гуарані. Плід гуарани в перетині нагадує очне яблуко, що лягло в основу міфу, згідно з яким злий бог убив дитину улюбленця села народу мауе. Щоб утішити сільських жителів, більш великодушний бог взяв у дитини ліве око і посадив його в лісі, що дало велике розмаїття гуарани. Потім бог взяв у дитини праве око і посадив його в селі, тим самим поклавши початок одомашненню гуарани.

Вперше використовувати фрукти гуарани почав Луїс Перейра Баррету (Luiz Pereira Barreto). Він був лікарем родом з Ріо-де-Жанейро. У 1906 році цей чоловік випустив першу в світі содову на основі фруктів гуарани і побудував цілий завод для виробництва цього напою. 1921 року Луїс Перейра Баррету запустив завод із виробництва знаменитого шампанського — Шампанське Гуарана Антарктика (Guaraná Champagne Antarctica).

Склад
 Продукт = Насіння гуарани
 КДж = 0
 Білки = 9,86 %
 Жири = 0,30 %
 Крохмаль = 5-6 %
 Кофеїн = 20 мг

 Дод1 = Зола 1,42 %
 Дод2 = Таннін 0,50-1,20 %
 Дод3 = Теофілін0-0,25 %
 Дод4 = Теобромін 0,02-0,04 %

У таблиці праворуч вказані речовини, що знайдені в насінні гуарани; інші частини рослини можуть містити ці речовини в інших кількостях.

Гуаранін за хімічним складом ідентичний до кофеїну, що отриманий з інших джерел, наприклад, кави, чаю або мате. Гуаранін, теїн і матеїн — це все синоніми кофеїну, тому що ці речовини не містять нічого, окрім кофеїну. Окрім самого кофеїну, природні джерела цієї речовини містять багато варіантів сумішей ксантинових алкалоїдів, включаючи кардіостимулятори теофілін і теобромін та інші речовини, такі як поліфеноли, які можуть утворювати нерозчинні суміші з кофеїном. Основні поліфеноли, знайдені в гуарані — катехіни і епікатехіни. Також до складу гуарани входять вітаміни B, A і  E.

Використання

Рослину віддавна використовували корінні жителі Південної Америки — індіанці тупі та гуарані, зокрема, під час далеких переходів. Деякі племена використовували цю рослину як платіжний засіб.

Крім того, це насіння традиційно вживали для лікування головного болю, спеки, лихоманки, спазмів, як антидепресант, для профілактики від бактеріальних інфекцій, як тонізувальний і зміцнювальний засіб. Індіанці Латинської Америки вірять, що гуарана допомагає не лише від голоду, а й від втоми, артриту і діареї. Також гуарану досить довгий час використовували для лікування від похмілля.

Після того, як плоди зібрані, насіння відокремлюють від м'якоті, запобігаючи бродінню. Після цього насіння смажать, позбавляючи його від шкірок. А вже потім перетирають у дрібний порошок. Індіанці вірять, що саме цей порошок здатний вилікувати дуже багато захворювань.

На початку XXI ст. гуарана входить до складу більшості енергетичних напоїв, іноді — до складу льодяників і цукерок, її також додають у чаї. У Бразилії широкого вжитку набули продукти зі смаком гуарани — від газованих напоїв до зубної пасти. В Південній Америці більшу частину кофеїну отримують саме з гуарани. Екстракт гуарани використовують у спортивному харчуванні, а також як харчову добавку і добавку для зниження ваги.

Напої
Бразилія, яка є третім за обсягом споживачем безалкогольних напоїв у світі, виробляє кілька брендів напоїв, що містять екстракт гуарани. Португальське слово «Guaraná» широко вживають у Бразилії як загальну назву для всіх безалкогольних напоїв. Бразильський продаж напоїв «гуарана» перевищує продаж коли. Також Бразилія виробляє різні види алкогольних напоїв з екстрактами гуарани, без додавання кофеїну.

Попри те, що всі ці напої виготовлені на основі гуарани, вони відрізняються один від одного за смаковими якостями, і зовсім не зберігають природний смак гуарани. Як правило, смак цих напоїв фруктовий і досить м'який, із солодкуватим присмаком. Також напої, виготовлені в Бразилії, експортують до сусідніх країн. Найвідоміший напій-бренд Бразилії, на основі гуарани, це «Гуарана Антарктика» («Guaraná Antarctica»). Парагвай має цілу низку своїх напоїв-брендів на основі гуарани. Відомі такі бренди Парагваю як «Maxi», «Де Ла Коста» («De La Costa») і Ніко («Niko»). Місцеві жителі і дрібні виробники також виготовляють напої з гуарани, але лише для своїх потреб. Або ж для малого, внутрішнього бізнесу.

В Перу також випускають безалкогольні напої під брендом «гуарана», який належить компанії «Backus and Johnston». У 2007 році напій займав 5 % перуанського ринку безалкогольних напоїв, і повторно вийшов з новою пляшкою і емблемою, а також у новій легкій версії, і вже рік по тому продаж напою зріс на 49 %.

З гуарани роблять чай шляхом лущення, вимочування та сушіння насіння і подальшого розтирання його в дрібний порошок. Порошок додають у тісто, з якого ліплять циліндри. Цей продукт відомий як хліб гуарана, який розтирають і занурюють у гарячу воду з цукром.

Когнітивний ефект
Гуарана містить багату кофеїну, тому вчених цікавить питання як вона впливає на когнітивні здібності. 1997 року було проведене клінічне дослідження гуарани на щурах. Результати показали, що група щурів, яка споживала гуарану, фізично розвинулася краще, ніж контрольна група. Також, група щурів, що приймала гуарану, мала кращу пам'ять.

2007 року проведено перші експерименти на людині, під час яких вивчали вплив чотирьох різних доз (, ,  і ) екстракту гуарани. Після перших двох доз уже був помітний позитивний вплив на пам'ять, бадьорість і настрій. Після прийому дози понад  відбувалося істотне поліпшення пізнавальних здібностей.

Інше застосування і побічні ефекти
В США гуарана має статус «generally recognized as safe», що говорить про безпеку продукту для здоров'я людини. Американське УПМ ( — ) не підтверджує жодних лікувальних властивостей гуарани. На думку фахівців, гуарану не можна використовувати для діагностики, лікування, або запобігання будь-яких захворювань.

В одному з досліджень, яке провели в червні 2001 року, вивчали вплив рослини на зниження маси тіла людини. За підсумками експерименту відзначені такі результати: у групі, яка приймала суміш з мате, гуарани і даміани, середня втрата ваги становила 5,1 кілограм після 45 днів, а в групі плацебо за той самий час середня втрата ваги становила менш ніж півкілограма. Однак це дослідження не доводить, що саме гуарана вплинула на зниження ваги, оскільки учасники вживали суміш з різних рослин. Більш того, цей експеримент суперечить результатам іншого дослідження, яке показало, що формула, яка містить гуарану, жодним чином не впливає на вагу людини.

Екстракт гуарани досліджували і в Бразильському університеті. Тут вивчали гуарану як медичний препарат. В результаті виявилося, що гуарана на тридцять сім відсотків перешкоджає зниженню тромбоксану. При цьому не відомо, чи впливає така дія на ризик розвитку інфаркту міокарда або інсульту.

Інші лабораторні дослідження продемонстрували антиокислювальну і антибактеріальну дію гуарани. В результаті постійного вживання в їжу гуарани (у комбінації з лінолевої кислотою) у мишей відзначалося зменшення жирового прошарку.

Гуарана в поєднанні з кофеїном є також активним компонентом деяких «енергетичних жувальних гумок», що виготовлені в Європі, США та Австралії.

За непідтвердженою інформацією, надмірне вживання енергетичних напоїв із вмістом гуарани (особливо в поєднанні з кофеїном і таурином) може сприяти початку епілепсії у деяких людей. Побічні ефекти від рослини гуарани бували досить рідко, але попри це, лікарі не рекомендують зловживати цим продуктом.

Примітки

Посилання
 Guarana at USDA database

Ліани
Сапіндові
Лікарські рослини
Ентеогени
Тропічне сільське господарство
Плодові чагарники
Психостимулюючі гриби і рослини

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Basketball action was fierce June 15 at the Diamond Willow Middle School outside basketball court during a summer basketball league that brings many Filipino families to Ponoka over the summer.
Filipino community hosts summer basketball series
"It's a family affair. It shows how we Filipinos love basketball." Ramil Ayuno, co-organizer of the summer basketball league
Jeffrey Heyden-Kaye
The basketball court near Diamond Willow Middle School was full of shouts and cheers last weekend for the third Invitational Summer Basketball League kick-off.
Hosted by the a Christian organization called Christ's Corridor, Filipino families and friends around central Alberta come to Ponoka to be part of the 10-week basketball series.
The majority of competitors are from the Philippines, explained co-organizer Jerry Nepomucemo. "It's a means of reaching out to the community."
He says basketball is a popular sport in the Philippines and it gives people a chance to come together over the summer months. Every Saturday and Sunday starting at 6 p.m. registered teams will vie for top spot.
Excitement was high and the competition was fierce over the weekend while families and friends cheered on their favourite players. Organizers take the event seriously, which could be seen in the play-by-play commentary. There were also two referees and a ceremonial tip-off to start the series.
Another reason the tournament is hosted is so Filipinos can come together and meet other folks from the Philippines, explained co-organizer Ramil Ayuno. "It's a family affair. It shows how we Filipinos love basketball."
Competitors come from Red Deer, Lacombe, Blackfalds, Camrose and Ponoka and this year, basketball players from Ponoka Secondary Campus and St. Augustine Catholic School asked to join in.
In an effort to ensure an even challenge, Ayuno says they integrated high school athletes into other teams. Commentators had fun with the additional players and called them "imports," similar to those found in the Philippine Basketball Association, which finds many non-Filipino players drafted into the association.
Nepomucemo hopes they can host an indoor league next summer to continue games in case of inclement weather. However, last weekend brought decent weather with no rain during game times.
Fathers' Day present from U16 Storm: Gold medals from Camrose
High School rodeo competitors graduate to bigger dreams


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awesome movie poster friday - the VHS WEEK edition!
Well, friends, the long national nightmare known as VHS Week is finally over. Back to regular life as we know it. Back to movies (mostly) on disc or made out of pixels or whatever. Don't worry, I still have some tapes around here to watch and I'm sure I'll let you know when I do, even the garbage ones. What am I saying! I mean especially the garbage ones. For now, though, let's celebrate with some awesome movie posters from some of the awesome and not entirely awesome movies from VHS Week. You probably knew this was coming because of the post title, right? Good job, you, and thanks for reading!
TODAY'S VOCAB: awesome movie poster friday, VHS rules
VHS Week Day 14: MARTIN (1977)
George A. Romero: he's more than just zombies. I know that you know that, you're savvy and learned. I'm simply pointing it out to the total horror noobs who only know Romero from his three (AND ONLY THREE) (okay, maybe Land of the Dead is kind of fun to watch once, but THAT'S IT) great zombie films: Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, and Brunch Day of the Dead. Though the films are often overlooked, Romero has explored horror in ways far removed from those undead shuffling people-eaters. One such film is 1977's Martin.
Set amidst the depressed, crumbling landscape of fading steel town Braddock, PA, Martin tells the tale of...well, of Martin (John Amplas), who believes himself to be a vampire. His elderly cousin Cuda also believes that Martin is a vampire. It's been a family curse for generations, and while Cuda allows Martin to live with him, he also makes the young man a promise: "First I will save your soul...then I will destroy you." But is Martin actually a vampire? Or is he simply a kookadook?
Romero isn't interested in definitive answers as much as he is in deconstructing the vampire genre and deromanticizing the myths. Regardless of Martin's true nature, he's no gothic-flavored bloodsucker from a Hammer production; nor is he a terrifying, otherworldly creature à la Salem's Lot's Mr. Barlow. Garlic, crosses, and sunlight give Martin no pause. He's incapable of mesmerizing victims into submission, so he relies on drug injections to do it for him. He has no fangs, so he wields a razor blade. Martin's reality is completely unlike the bodice-rippers and monsters we're accustomed to calling "vampire."
Martin is rife with the same types of simple metaphors and symbolism that Romero incorporates into many of his films. It's an examination of sexual repression and insecurity as well as a swipe at religion, particularly the ways in which staunch religious beliefs can twist a person or a family. The "family curse"–what Cuda claims is the curse of Nosferatu–can be seen as any kind of "otherness" or perhaps it's merely hereditary mental illness.
Aside from all of this, Martin works fairly well as a straight-up horror movie. Because the attacks rarely go as smoothly as Martin plans, they're prolonged and all the more shocking as his victims fight back. While it's easy to feel sympathy for poor, confused Martin, there's no doubt that he is a monster. Whether he's of the mythical or the mundane variety, though, that's for you to decide.
TODAY'S VOCAB: 1977, reviews, VHS rules
VHS Week Day 13: THE ATTIC (1980)
A suicidal, depressed librarian. An abusive curmudgeon in a wheelchair. A chimpanzee in a sailor suit. YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!
Ugh, stupid Final Girl...clickbait goes in the headline, not in the post itself. This will never go viral now!
Meet Louise (Carrie Snodgress), our suicidal, depressed librarian. She spends her days kind of hating her job–the books...they look at her sometimes and so she tries to burn the place down. She spends her nights crying over the man who left her at the altar years before and taking care of her father, Wendel (Ray Milland), our abusive curmudgeon in a wheelchair. Louise's life is a big, drab, sad mess, but that doesn't mean it's without some bright spots: alcohol, one night stands, and her coworker Emily. The women strike up a friendship that's equal parts support and pity; Emily feels sorry for Louise and tries to nudge her out of her drudgery, while Louise tries to save Emily from falling into the same. Louise buys Emily a one-way ticket to California so she can escape her domineering mother and marry her love, Emily buys Louise a chimpanzee. You know. Friendship!
Wendel loathes pretty much everything, but he loathes his daughter and her chimp most of all. Horror fans know this is all gonna come to a head at some point, right? Like, maybe Dickie the Chimp will attack Wendel and then, having acquired a taste for human flesh, he will totally flip out and eat everyone in Wichita, Kansas?
Look, I'm not going to spoil the end of this movie, even though it's like 70 years old, but I will let you know that Dickie the Chimp does not flip out, so don't get your hopes up. But don't worry! The ending still packs a serious wallop. A seriously depressing wallop. We've all seen some depressing endings before (even during this never-ending VHS Week!), but lawd-a-mighty, The Attic might just take the cake. And then it throws the cake into the void of existential despair, and then you jump in after it not only because you can't bear to see a cake go to waste, but also because everything is terrible and life is cruel and what does anything even matter.
Don't get me wrong–it's not just the ending. The entire GD movie is depressing! Loneliness, alienation, lives spent lost and adrift...this is by no means a light watch, even if the film's incongruous musical cues and bizarre jokes sometimes give it the feel of one. A better life for Louise seems to be just out of reach, and you desperately hope she'll get there, but this is a horror film, not a life-affirming yogurt love journey movie.
From time to time, though, you might find yourself wondering if The Attic really is a horror movie. It's not so much a "slow burn" as it is a "slow drama/character piece with some horror elements crammed into the last seven minutes." Those seven minutes are worth it, mind, I just want you to know what you're in store for if you're fixin' to check this one out. Then again, The Attic boasts a scene where a showercap-wearing Ray Milland sits in a bathtub with a Reader's Digest propped in front of him and a bowl of spiced gum drops at his side. That's what really makes watching it worth your time as far as I'm concerned.
VHS Week Day 12: THE NIGHT EVELYN CAME OUT OF THE GRAVE (1971)
I knew nothing about The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave going into it, but I certainly had some expectations thanks to the awful label on this VHS edition. Every single thing about it screams EXPLOITATION WITH TEN EXCLAMATION MARKS. It's distributed by Something Weird Video, purveyors of cult garbage; it's endorsed (somehow? I guess?) by Frank Henenlotter, writer/director of cult garbage (Frankenhooker, Basket Case); it's a SEXY SHOCKER for ADULTS ONLY. I found myself anticipating something along the lines of Nude for Satan: crazy sexy EuroSleaze. But my friends, Evelyn is not that. I have been misled! Which is a shame, because my brain spent too long going "Where is the crazy sexy EuroSleaze?" before realizing that the videotape lied. Ah, horror movie advertising, messing things up again. ("PREACH!" - Crimson Peak "I FEEL YOU, GURL!" - Bug '06)
Side note one: please know that when I say "cult garbage" it is not disparaging, but rather meant with all the love my cold, black heart can muster.
Side note two: "Crazy Sexy EuroSleaze" is my favorite TLC album.
The Night Evelyn Really Needed Some Moisturizer But Her Hair Looked Pretty Good All Things Considered
Lord Alan Cunningham is a wealthy playboy with a bit of a problem: he just can't stop murdering redheaded prostitutes! They remind him of his dead wife Evelyn, you see, who cheated on him and died in childbirth. He's tried just about everything to cure himself, from psychiatry to séances, but nothing works. As a last resort, he marries a woman with blonde hair. That should work, right? Never mind that they will be living in the castle he shared with Evelyn, that Evelyn's brother still lives there too, and that there is a big portrait of Evelyn in the master bedroom. The new wife is blonde! Evelyn will be forgotten in no time.
Evelyn, however, is done with all that going quietly into that good night shit. She's, you know, come out of the grave to drive Alan mad and to kill kill KILL!
Maybe. The story twists and turns and we're kept guessing if Evelyn is really back, if she's Alan's guilt made real or imagined, or if she's something else entirely. "People who are supposed to be dead may not be dead" and "let's scare the protagonist to death" are two of my favorite horror subgenres, and Evelyn wraps 'em up in a stylish gothic giallo package.
There is a hint of EuroSleaze: some delightfully weird strip numbers, plenty of bare breasts, the kind of sex scene where naked people just roll around together, and a little whipping in Alan's Torture Dungeon for Prostitutes. But "SEXY SHOCKER" and "ADULTS ONLY" are pure hyperbole, for it's all quite tame, sort of PG-with-boobs. Not that this is a problem, since I wasn't really in the mood for "man explicitly beats and murders hookers." Not that I'm ever really in the mood for that, but you know what I'm saying. Ultimately Evelyn is a very late night horror movie/drive-in feeling flick that boasts more than a few memorable moments. It's worth a look, especially if you know what you'll be lookin' at.
TODAY'S VOCAB: reviews, VHS rules
VHS Week Day 11: THE HAUNTING OF JULIA (1977)
It is quite fitting that The Haunting of Julia is better known as Full Circle because friends, my brain with regards to Final Girl is coming full circle. Or, okay, not quite full circle. More like my brain and this blog are forming something that is sort of like a möbius strip slowly sinking into quicksand. Time is folding in on itself and tearing apart. This has all happened before and it will all happen again. Up is down, dogs and cats are getting married, and, as usual, I can't find my pants.
Look, what I'm trying to say is that I've already reviewed this movie here! It was even a gotdanged Film Club choice! I knew I'd seen it–several times, in fact. I'm not that crazy. But as I never added The Haunting of Julia to the looonnng list of review links when we talked about it 3+ years ago, I plumb forgot I wrote about it. I watched it again for VHS Week, wrote down a bunch of notes...and then found the old review, which touches on basically everything I wrote down in my notes. I've talked about a lot of movies here and this blog is over ten years old and I am over 81 years old so give me a break.
So you know what? I'm not gonna try to come up with new ways to say the same things, nor am I going to make you click something and go to another page. That's right–I'm cuttin' and pastin' and no one can stop me. The old review is in between the pics.
You know what I love about Mia Farrow? It's the way she appears so vulnerable and fragile–what with her slight frame and her look of bewilderment and her delicate features–but she's got such a goddamn spine to her. I find myself wanting to protect her (or, I suppose I should say, characters she portrays, like Rosemary Woodhouse and Julia Lofting), but when push comes to shove she proves she won't be pushed or shoved.
And so after the tragic death of her young daughter and a breakdown, Julia ups and abandons her husband Magnus (Keir Dullea) on the spur of the moment as she leaves the hospital. Before long, Julia is...wait for it...haunted. But by what? The spirit of her daughter? Her own guilt? The spirit of the house's former resident? Unlike nearly every other supernatural flick on the market, The Haunting of Julia keeps all the goings-on vague and subtle, so much so that we're hard-pressed to discern whether or not there's any haunting going on at all. There aren't any Poltergeist-style furniture-flying-around-on-its-own theatrics to be found; sure, there's some bloodshed and casualties, but it's more about atmosphere or, as Julia puts it, the "feeling of hate" that engulfs her home.
Still, what's a good ghost story without some sort of mystery to be solved (not to mention that since it's a 70s film, there's a good old fashioned séance to boot)? And boy, Julia uncovers a good one–a downright chilling one, with a ghost that could give The Ring's Samara a lesson or two in evil. A note to wayward ghosts everywhere: I'm not fucking helping you, you're on your own.
The Haunting of Julia is a quiet film that will get under your skin more that it will outright scare you, and if quiet-n-subdued ain't your bag, it will undoubtedly get on your nerves more than it will get under your skin. But if you're in the mood for some precious blonde daughter dies early on and does she come back as a ghost or is her mother just mad with guilt? horror (that's totally a subgenre, you know), pair this up with Don't Look Now and go nuts!
As I said, there are no spook house histrionics to be found. There is grief so intense that it presses down upon you. There is a subtle unease throughout and by the time we get to the ending–and what an ending it is–the cumulative effect of this sad, chilling tale is incredibly powerful. But there are no easy answers, which may prove frustrating if you don't fall under Julia's spell.
There are plenty of similar films from the era that fans love to talk about: Don't Look Now, The Changeling, Burnt Offerings...films that have shocking, memorable moments worth recounting. The Haunting of Julia isn't "iconic" in that way (no red balls bouncing down the stairs, no homicidal dwarves), but it's absolutely worth adding to the pantheon. It's got a devoted following even as it's been completely neglected since the days of VHS. What I wouldn't give for a restored version, one that wasn't overly dark at times, one that doesn't snap and crackle, one that doesn't sound like there's a generator running just offscreen the entire time. Should it ever finally get the home release love it deserves, I'm sure I'll review it again, having forgotten all about the time I spent writing this post. No offense or anything, you're great. It's not you, it's me.
Wait, what was I talking about?
VHS Week Day 10: DIE! DIE! MY DARLING! (1965)
Although it comprises but a handful of films and didn't last a decade, Grande Dame Guignol is one of my favorite genres. A woman's mental health deteriorates to the point of flip-out, or maybe she's been wackadoo since birth; either way, she spends her golden years a-tormentin' and a-killin' anyone who gets her dander up. It's entertaining and inspirational!
Sure, they're melodramatic and corny. However, what takes every film in the genre from "must see" to "DID YOU HEAR ME I SAID 'MUST SEE'" are the Grande Dames themselves. The genre served to bolster the later careers of some of the greatest actresses in cinema history. You see, despite their talent, faded looks may have prevented them from landing leading roles...so they hagged themselves up with pancake makeup, aged themselves further, and went homicidal. It's depressing in a "women aren't allowed to age" way, but on the flip side of that, these women treat even the most B of B-grade material like it's their shot at an Oscar. In other words, they remain consummate professionals and they fucking act. Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Geraldine Page, Ruth Gordon, Olivia de Havilland–they truly elevate the material they're given into something more than mere camp. They class up the joint. And such is the case with the formidable Tallulah Bankhead, who stars as Mrs. Trefoile in Die! Die! My Darling!
Pat Carroll (Stefanie Powers) is in England with her fiancé Alan (Maurice Kaufmann) when she decides to pay a courtesy visit to Mrs. Trefoile. Pat dated Mrs. Trefoile's son before he met an untimely end, and wrapping things up with his mother is just a nice thing to do. Things start off a little weird, what with Mrs. Trefoile's insistence that Pat stay on over night, and Mrs. Trefoile's insistence on reading bible verse after bible verse, and Mrs. Trefoile's insistence that Pat wipe off her lipstick, and Mrs. Trefoile's insistence that no condiments are allowed in the house ("God's food should be eaten unadorned!")...yes, a little weird indeed. Mrs. Trefoile is so pious that I'm sure even Margaret White would be, like, "Hey there, easy on the Jeezy," you know? (It's worth noting that the casting of the notoriously hedonistic Bankhead as the notoriously devout Mrs. Trefoile is particularly delicious and inspired.)
Once Mrs. T finds out that Pat never intended to marry her son, she decides to hold the young woman captive and "cleanse her soul" before enforcing some kind of death-n-soul-marriage. It totally makes sense if you think about it.
Will Pat survive, and what will be left of her? Will one of Mrs. T's servants come to their senses and release her? Will Alan come and rescue her? One thing is for sure: Die! Die! My Darling! (known as Fanatic outside the US) was released in 1965, and thus Pat Carroll is no Final Girl. In other words, she doesn't much try to save herself, and when she makes a bit of effort she's easily thwarted. Look, I'm not blaming the victim here...but there comes a point when you want her to use her brain a bit.
At 97 minutes it's at least 10 minutes too long, but you still can't really go wrong with this film. It's a Hammer Production written by Richard Matheson. It features a young Donald Sutherland in an early role as a mentally impaired handyman. There are "cat fights" and a bit of blood here and there. Most of all, there's the gravel-voiced Tallulah Bankhead delivering sermons and spitting hellfire, playing it all straight. She's menacing, sympathetic, insane, and utterly delightful. They sure don't make 'em like this–or her–anymore, and I doubt they could if they wanted to.
Aw yeah, it's Friday the 13th. Make sure you avoid masked killers, tents, cabins in woods, boats headed for Manhattan, outer space, etc etc. If you are completely bored/have exhausted everything else on The Internet, check out my F13 archive tag. I don't remember everything that's in there, but I'm sure it's all 100% A++ quality! KI KI KI HA HA HA
Or if you're like "words are so over" then you can always peruse Death Count and pick out your favorite Friday victim. KI KI KI WOW WOW WOW
Whatever you do, enjoy your day...while it lasts.
That's not a threat or anything, it's just...well, today will end eventually. That's how time works. I thought you knew that.
And from the SHAMELESS PLUG department, here are some Friday-related things I have drawn, which you can get on a mug or a shirt or a tote bag or whatever. CLICK RIGHT HERE! There are other designs, too! And today there is FREE SHIPPING, huzzah. Every sale helps me survive, which I'm kind of into for the moment.
Sorry–KI KI KI HUZZAH HUZZAH HUZZAH
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TODAY'S VOCAB: friday the 13th
programming note
Dudes and y'alls, when I went and scheduled this here VHS Week I forgot that I have a thing.
It is the sort of thing that will have me away from the sweet warm embrace of my VCR for a few days, so I apologize I'm afraid we must press pause on the proceedings. VHS Week will resume on MONDAY. I know it will be a difficult time for all of us, but let's just think of this as an intermission. Stretch your legs, go buy a rectangle of pizza and some Sno Caps, and meet me back here and we'll finish this shit together. The lineup for the week will be:
Mon 5/16 - DIE! DIE! MY DARLING! (1965, Silvio Narizzano)
Tues 5/17 - THE HAUNTING OF JULIA (1977, Richard Loncraine)
Wed 5/18 - THE NIGHT EVELYN CAME OUT OF THE GRAVE (1971, Emilio Miraglia)
Thur 5/19 - THE ATTIC (1980, George Edwards & Gary Graver)
Fri 5/20 - MARTIN (1977, George A. Romero)
Who knows, maybe I'll throw in some other surprises. Or not. I guess we'll just have to wait and see!
By the way, The Thing? I have been to see it, I know what it is! It's in Arizona somewhere...it's a mummified mother and child, eww! But I guess it's a fake. It's in a glass (or plexiglass or whatever) coffin thing in a pre-fab building, and when I saw it the top of the glass was all covered in bird poop. They also had a car that Hitler supposedly rode in once. EERIE!
VHS Week Day 9: PARASITE (1982)
As I always suspected, the future looks mighty terrible. Gas is $41/gallon. Regular currency is worthless. Electricity only works sometimes. Everyone is grimy and hair is woefully unconditioned. People are tattooed and forced into labor camps. Yes, there are some genuine pew-pew laser guns around, but mostly everything is dirty and depressing and life can be summed up thusly:
"It's gettin' so a fella can't get away from the goddamned sickies no more."
Parasite is set six months after Donald Trump is sworn in as President in a post-nuclear 1992 world gone to heck. Paul Dean is a scientist harboring parasites in his stomach and in his future-thermos. He's pursued by a man in a suit who drives a future-car; it seems Paul absconded with these parasites when he found out that The Company had evil intentions for them, and now The Company wants them back. Paul tries to hide in the desert, but he runs afoul of a gang o' thugs that would be right at home in Friday the 13th Part 3. Demi Moore takes him to her lemon farm (not a euphemism) and he tries to solve this whole mess by doing some science. Can he destroy all the parasites before they kill him? Can he destroy the parasites before The Company reclaims them? Can he destroy the parasites before the parasites fart out a million spores that will turn into more parasites? You won't get any spoilers outta me, fool!
This may prove a controversial stance, but I'm going to say it anyway: I don't much like parasites. I'm sure they serve some kind of purpose as a link in the grand cosmic food chain, but I say no thank you. I've read too many sensational news stories like "Parasite Swims Up Dude's Urethra" and "Parasite Lives in Some Lady's Brain for 15 Years" to think they're anything but a l'il tiny real bad time. I'd even go so far as to call them one of my least favorite things on Earth. When I saw that Paul was harboring the parasites in his stomach, I was like..."Paul, you crazy!" for that's how much I do not like them. Mind you, the parasites in Parasite–designed by the mighty Stan Winston!–aren't microscopic jerks, but rather they are approximately the size of a Corgi and they have a shit ton of teeth. They do kind of go into and burst out of people regardless of their enormousosity, so I guess they still count as parasites, although I can't say for sure as I am not a scienceologist.
And yeah, you read that correctly: Demi Moore's lemon farm. Parasite marks her first starring role and she's about as unremarkable as you might expect from someone in their first starring role. Not that she had a whole lot to work with here–I mean, it's a Charles Band film called Parasite–but still. I was way more excited when I saw Cherie Currie's name in the opening credits, but sadly she only has about two lines and then she gets infected and dies. Okay, that's a spoiler you'll get outta me. But that's it, no more!
This movie is small in scope and budget, so we've got limited locations and a steady rotation of three types of scenes: Paul sweats and frets, the thugs thug it up, and The Company dude looks for Paul. The action occurs mostly towards the end when the parasite goes nuts and infects several people, and I'm sure it would look great if I was watching this on anything besides an extremely dark and muddy VHS copy. I could kind of see slime? And blood sometimes.
It was also a hoot–well, that's overstating it...let's say it was a lite hoot–picking out all of the obvious 3D!!! moments in the film, as originally it was shown in three whole dimensions. Among the things that point at/travel towards the camera:
a pipe that juts from an abdomen
a hand that kind of points
some goo that drips
parasites that fly toward you
I'm not sure whether or not you can tell by what I've written, but rest assured, Parasite is pure schlocky early-80s monster movie fun. And just think, I'm saying that even though much of the action was obscured by VHS darkness and I could barely see the parasites. Although considering my hatred of them, maybe that's for the best.
TODAY'S VOCAB: 3-D is awesome, reviews, VHS rules
VHS Week Day 8: THE GRANNY (1995)
Reader, I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm not here to lie. Out of the 750 movies comprising VHS Week, The Granny is the one I anticipated the least. In fact, I'm not entirely sure how it came to be in my possession in the first place. Did I buy it? Was it a gift? Is this some kind of Sadako nonsense and it simply appeared in my apartment one day? Does it really exist? Do I really exist? Does anything?
*disappears in a puff of ennui*
Anyway. The point is, somehow I have this film and I made it a part of VHS Week, but I was dreading it. I know it's not very horror fan or Final Girl of me, but my tolerance for "deliberate garbage" these days is super low. But the truth of it is, can you really have a two-week VHS Week without sampling some mid-90s straight-to-video trash? You could, but you and the world and certainly VHS Week would be lesser for it. And so it was with humanity's best interests at heart I got on with The Granny. And you know what? It's possible that I need to lighten up ("YA THINK?" - everyone) because The Granny and I had a grand ol' time.
Thanksgiving is a time for family, they say, even if everyone in the family hates each other–which is absolutely the case with Granny's family. She's cantankerous and loathes everyone but Kelly, who is totally unsightly and nerdy (she wears her hair up and sports glasses). Granny is convinced her relatives just want her vast fortune...and she's right. Everyone is tired of waiting for her to die, so this year they intend to pull the ol' "poison in the soup" gag. That one always kills! Ha ha! Get it? IT KILLS!
Granny has her own surprise in store, however–she's bought a special elixir that will grant her immortality. Like a Gremlin, the elixir comes with a list of DOs and DO NOT DOs that must be strictly adhered to for fear of grave consequences. The elixir and the imbiber must forever avoid direct sunlight, and the imbiber must undergo a "cleansing ritual." While Granny manages to perform the ritual, the elixir is almost immediately exposed to sunlight and therefore tainted. And thus Granny is infested with a demon, comes back from the dead, and gets her revenge on her greedy family.
Make no mistake, my friends, this movie is 100% stupid...but you see, it knows it's stupid. It's a horror-comedy, and while plenty of the jokes fall flat and you'll be ashamed of yourself for watching this/existing, there are also some–gasp!–genuine laughs. As Granny, Stella Stevens hams it up and has the time of her life, delivering lines like "You! You're a load I should've swallowed!" with gravel-voiced gusto. In spite of myself, I also delighted at the scene where a woman's neck is ripped open by reanimated fur stoles. The "cleansing ritual"–which simply consists of saying "I love everybody" out loud–may be my favorite thing of all time. And had I known beforehand that The Granny features a demonic/zombie Stella Stevens attacking $10,000 Pyramid mainstay Teresa Ganzel, well, let's just say I wouldn't have dreaded watching it. Let's just say the tape probably would have caught on fire from the blazing speed at which I put it in the VCR.
Even at a scant 82 minutes, The Granny does eventually wear out its welcome, but I'll be damned if it isn't a moronic good time. It's fairly raunchy, kinda purposefully funny, a bit gross, and a whole lotta dumb–in other words, it's just about the perfect background-at-a-party movie. It'd go great with Night of the Demons or something of that ilk, paired up like the finest cheese and wine more cheese. I don't think it's ever received the DVD treatment, and VHS copies are fairly hard/expensive to come by now...but hey, if my experience is any indication, take a look around: you probably acquired a copy at some point and it's sitting in your collection right now. Shockingly, as it turns out that's...not really a complaint. Long live VHS Week!
VHS Week Day 7: RABID (1977)
After a horrific motorcycle accident, Rose (Marilyn Chambers) is brought to a nearby plastic surgery clinic to treat her life-threatening wounds. As Rose is unconscious, doctors say "Eh, why the hell not?" and perform an experimental skin graft, treating her excised thigh tissue before transplanting it inside her abdomen. There's a chance for cancerous tumors to develop, but when the patient finally wakes a month later, the result is much worse: instead of sprouting tumors or rejecting the graft, Rose now has a sphincter (or a vagina, depending on the results of your Rorschach test) under her arm, from which a needle-tipped phallus occasionally protrudes. Human food no longer cuts it for Rose, so she goes around hugging people and poking them with her armpit-sphincter/vagina-needlepenis, which allows her to drink their blood for sweet sweet nourishment. If the victims don't die, they quickly become frothy and leaky and bitey and murder-y–"rabid," if you will. Before long, Montreal is collapsing in violent (and gross) chaos, while Rose, largely unaware of her condition even when she gets her hug o' death on, attempts to reunite with her boyfriend.
"I thought you said the results were worse than cancerous tumors," you say. "An armpit-sphincter/vagina-needlepenis sounds awesome and quite useful."
I mean, I'm not really sure what else to call what's going on here besides armpit-sphincter/vagina-needlepenis
The good times can't last forever, though, and Rabid ultimately has one of the more depressing, nihilist, empty endings I've seen in a horror film. Gotta love that David Cronenberg and his love of humanity!
While Rabid may not rank with Cronenberg's best–it's a bit bloated in the midsection and hews a bit too closely to its predecessor Shivers–it's still got that delight(fully disgusting) sleazy/cerebral combination that only he can deliver.
While she wasn't the director's first choice for Rose (Cronenberg wanted Sissy Spacek but producers balked at her accent, of all things), the stunt casting of porn star Marilyn Chambers in her first leading mainstream role turned out to be a genius move if you want to give Rabid a feminist read: Rose dispatches plenty of men–who assume they have a right to her body–with something akin to passionless sex.
Spacek makes an appearance in the film regardless
Of course, you don't have to get all hoity-toity with it. Rabid is quite satisfactory as a straight-up virus/body horror film, no metaphors or analysis required! After all, if there's one thing I learned in Psych 101, it's that sometimes an armpit-sphincter/vagina-needlepenis is just an armpit-sphincter/vagina-needlepenis.
VHS Week Day 6: THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD (1971)
If you were to make a list of the worst things that could drip from one's house, surely blood would rank near the top. I mean, the very notion of it is enough to induce heebies and jeebies–it's gross, unhygienic, and scary. A house that drips blood is not at all something you want in your life! The House that Dripped Blood, however, is another matter entirely. You definitely want it in your life, but only if any or all of the following appeal to you:
Amicus Productions
Anthology movies
All of those things appeal to you, right? You're not, like, some kind of lame or something, right? Right? I don't want any lames hanging out around here!
A cynical Scotland Yard detective is searching for a famous actor who's gone missing. The trail leads to a house the actor rented from an agent named Stoker (how scary!), who regales the detective (and us) with several tales from the house's history. Each tale centers around a renter who meets (or makes) a grisly end within its walls: a horror writer whose evil creation may have leapt from fiction to reality, a retiree who is drawn to a macabre wax museum, a father who frightens–and is frightened of–his young daughter, and finally, the famous actor himself, whose search for authenticity while making a vampire movie may not be the wisest career move.
Yes, indeed, this movie is as delightful as those bullet points up top would lead you to believe. Like most every other anthology film, it's campy at times, creepy at times, and rocks a decidedly EC Comics vibe with all of its twist endings and mad people. More than anything, though, it's a real celebration of "horror." Characters are tied to the genre in various ways, and there are shout outs to Poe, Hoffman, Universal monsters...there's even a sly wink at Christopher Lee's incarnation of Dracula. While it's a terrific Sunday afternoon kind of fright flick, it lacks the truly memorable stories and moments you'll find in other anthology films, such as "And All Through the House" (Tales from the Crypt) or basically any second of Creepshow. Still, any movie that has the good sense to cast Ingrid Pitt as a vampire is an automatic A++ movie, so there you go.
VHS Week Day 5: THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE (1970)
"Bring in the perverts."
Yes, that is obviously my everyday rallying cry, but it's also a line from The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, the auspicious directorial debut from the one and only Dario Argento. It bears many of the hallmarks of Argento's later, more famous works–the intermingling of sex, death, and art; the disconcerting camerawork–but it also proves what a boon restraint can be for an indulgent filmmaker.
After living and working in Italy for several weeks, American writer Sam Dalmas (Tony Musante) is set to return to his native land when he witnesses an attempted homicide through an art gallery window. Sam becomes embroiled in the investigation, first as a suspect, then as an amateur sleuth. Several young women throughout Rome have fallen victim to the same knife-wielding maniac from the gallery, and Sam is determined to suss out his memories from that fateful night. Of course, the knife-wielding maniac enjoys all the killin'...will Sam take a bite out of crime, or will it take a bite out of him (by stabbing him right to death)?
What we've got here, my friends–you guessed it–is a giallo. It's a mystery thriller! It's stylish! It's full of bizarre characters! It's got intense sequences! It's got some touches of black comedy and it's got black gloves! It's also shockingly subdued when you consider this is a Dario Argento film. Granted, it's his earliest work and after all, I did watch a VHS copy which may have been hacked up like one of the women in the film...but I'll be damned if the whole thing doesn't make sense. How unexpected! It's not just the storytelling that's restrained, however, as the murders are largely bloodless and decidedly untheatrical. You won't find the psychotropic, candy-colored wonderment of Suspiria here, but you will find coherence alongside the thrills. Surely that's some sort of a tradeoff?
VHS Week Day 4: ANGUISH (1987)
I am shocked–shocked, I tells ya–that it's taken me so long to see Anguish. Lo, it was a video store staple back in The Day. This GD cover haunted me from the shelves every time I went a-browsin', and my friends and I would rent anything remotely resembling a horror movie. Why oh why did I never take it home?
I kind of left it behind in the rental era; in recent years, whenever it'd enter my brain space, I'd think "Oh, I've seen that and I wasn't wild about it." However, that thought was actually regarding Monkey Shines–my brain done mixed up those striped monkey pants and the swirl over Zelda Rubenstein's face. Stupid brain! (side note: should I give Monkey Shines another chance?)
Anyway. Now, at long last, I have seen Anguish. To be honest, although the film had some surprises in store, my life pretty much feels the same as it used to.
Anguish starts out in Total Weirdsville as we meet Mother (Rubenstein) and John (Michael Lerner). They keep birds and snails in their cramped apartment. John eats his bananas-n-milk in a slurpy disgusting way...it's just one of those classic skeevy mommy and middle-aged son cinematic relationships. Things get weirder when mom busts out the hypnosis swirl and puts John in a bit of a trance, then sends him out to murder those who have slighted him in any way. He doesn't just murder them, though–he cuts out their eyeballs, rinses them off, and adds them to his collection.
We take a sharp turn into Oh That's Pretty Cooltown when it's revealed that we haven't been watching Anguish–we've been watching The Mommy alongside an audience. Yep, it's the ol' "movie within a movie" trick!
On-screen happenings bleed into real life as the hypnosis swirl induces nausea and odd behavior in viewers, and it's not long before an ardent Mommy fan begins killing off members the theater crowd. The two realities intertwine and we often can't tell if we're watching Anguish or The Mommy or both or neither. The obvious parallel to draw here is to Lamberto Bava's Demons; Anguish shares the nesting doll-style conceit and a similar feel, although it's more in the slasher vein than the supernatural. As viewers of The Mommy grew increasingly uncomfortable and cautiously looked around the dark theater in fear, it struck me that it must have been something to see Anguish on the big screen. All meta-like and shit, you know?
At times I hailed Anguish as a lost gem and lamented that it took me so long to discover it, particularly since I'd passed it over so many times when a-browsin'. It's got a creepy vibe, it's gross, it's a bitchin' idea...I was ready shout SEE ANGUISH NOW from the blogtops. By the time it was over, however, I was more than a bit fatigued. The film stagnates about 3/4 in as various bits are repeated and rehashed: one audience member cries and cries because The Mommy scares her so much, another one escapes and tries to convince a man to help her...these same few scenes play out again and again and you just want Anguish to get on with it already. So look, I'm not shouting "see Anguish now" but I will definitely say it. Although it may not be a lost gem, it's absolutely a lost novelty that deserves a look. And I had some seriously bloody dreamception dreams after watching it last night where I could no longer discern whether or not I was actually awake–maybe Zelda Rubenstein's hypnosis swirl worked on me after all!
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Not long ago, I moved to Boston after living my whole life in Israel. Apart from the technical and social challenges such a move involves, I found myself thinking a lot about my Judaism, what defines me as a Jew and how am I supposed to act now that I don't live in Israel anymore.
Trying to analyze my life in Israel, my definition as a Jew derives from the fact that I was born in Israel to a Jewish family. During the time I was living in Israel, I had no obligation nor need to practice Judaism.
I have a close friend that lives in Israel to this day, who literally does no Jewish Mitzvah. He never went to the synagogue, didn't have a Bar Mitzvah, eats Treif, and basically does nothing to practice Judaism. Still, if you ask him to his religion, he will answer proudly that he is a Jew. It is definitely a major part of his identity.
Personally, I have felt and still feel an urge to do more Jewish activities since I moved. I light Shabbat candles, I want to participate in services and I'm looking for Jewish gatherings in the area where I live. I even started going to weekly torah portion lessons. At first, it felt really weird. I am Jewish, I lived in Israel, I served in the IDF. Why should I not feel like a Jew?
I think that the answer lies in the day-to-day life. While in Israel, the society is Jewish in its being, in the Diaspora you are what you do. For example, in the Chagim (Jewish holidays) in Israel you get a day off while in the Diaspora, the Chag is just like any other day. At home, Friday afternoon and evening has a meaning even if you do not have a Shabbat dinner with your family. Here in Boston, you have to create this Friday afternoon atmosphere or else you won't have it.
The difference is in the presence of Judaism. When you live in Israel, you don't have to practice anything to feel Jewish. The fact that you are located in Israel and part of its society already gives you the benefit of feeling like a Jew. This is why my friend feels like a Jew even though he does not act like one. The Jewish atmosphere already exists without him having to practice it. In the Diaspora on the other hand, if you don't practice it, nothing differs you from being like any other person in that country. Nothing makes you Jewish but your own deeds.
This is the reason why sometimes it is hard for Jews from both ends to understand each other. The Jews in Israel do not feel the obligation to practice Judaism while the ones abroad definitely do feel the need to. This gap can sometimes cause tension and misunderstanding and should be bridged on a personal level. The more Israelis get to know their Jewish fellows in the States, in France or anywhere else (and vice versa) the more united the Jewish people will be.
Can Jewgether.org help bridge this gap?
Agree? Disagree? Please share your thoughts at boaz@jewgether.org.


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AC176 NPN Germanium transistor in a TO-1 can from the 70's as used in many analogue synthesisers and guitar effects box 's of the period. Status: NOS (New Old Stock) unbranded. Tested Components: YES &..
AC176K NPN Germanium transistor from the 70's.as used in many analogue synthesisers and guitar effects box 's of the period.these come already mounted in a big aluminium block (7 x 7 x 18.5mm - NS257 package *) which can be bolted down using an M5 bolt. (see photo)(* note some variations..
AD162 germanium PNP transistor in a TO-66 can by Siemens.Download Siemens AD162 datasheet (in German) :Status: NOS (New Old Stock) Tested Components : YESRoHS compliant: No ..
AF200 germanium PNP transistor by Siemens - A BLAST FROM THE PAST !Cica : 1965. These are the original Siemens item in the stretched TO-72 tin can with four gold leads. 4.7mm diameter x 9mm high(see picture) not to be confused with the later true TO-092. packaged 25 in a ..
AF239 Germanium PNP transistor in a four pin TO-72 can by Siemens.Download Siemens AF239 datasheet: Status: NOS (New Old Stock) with gold leads !RoHS: no ..
BC147 silicon NPN transistor in a SOT-25 (through hole version - half an octagon with staggered centre pin) case by Siemens.awaiting datasheetStatus: NOS (New Old Stock) RoHS: no ..
BC147A silicon NPN transistor in a SOT-25 (through hole version - half an octagon with staggered centre pin) case by Siemens.awaiting datasheetStatus: NOS (New Old Stock) RoHS: no ..
BC148 silicon NPN transistor in a SOT-25 case by Siemens.awaiting datasheetstatus: NOS ( New Old Stock) Tested Comnponents: YESRoHS: no ..
BC148A silicon NPN transistor in a SOT-25 case by Siemens.awaiting datasheetstatus: NOS ( New Old Stock)RoHS: no ..
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Food-grade plastic recycling facility commissioned
The Hindu, 14 September 2021
Srichakra Polyplast has also set up a new polyolefins recycling unit near Hyderabad
Plastic recycling and waste management firm Srichakra Polyplast on Tuesday said it has commissioned an upgraded food-grade plastic recycling facility and a new polyolefins recycling unit, near Hyderabad, with an investment of over $10 million.
While the upgraded facility is the first of its kind in the country to produce food-grade quality recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) pellets, the polyolefins recycling facility will produce deodorised bottle-to-bottle grade quality polyolefin pellets. The company said with the investment recycling capabilities had been strengthened, thus enabling supply of highest grade recycled plastic to customers in India as well as Europe and the U.S.
Founded in 2010, the company makes PET and olefin flakes and granules from plastic waste. It is a major supplier to the packaging industry. CEO and co-founder Ravindra Venkata said Srichakra is focused on using leading-edge technology to create reliable, high-quality materials that help brand owners reduce use of virgin plastic. On the back of technology sourced from Starlinger, a leading technology provider for high quality plastic recycling globally, the company said it is poised to become the largest solid state polymerised (SSP) PET processor in the country.
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