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First down: The most stunning stat from Thursday night was that though Aaron Rodgers completed 39 passes, Jordy Nelson caught only one (for nine yards) even though he played the most snaps (83) of all the Packers' receivers. That's probably a good sign for the Packers because it means Rodgers wasn't locking onto his favorite receiver too much. Rodgers targeted Nelson only four times, compared with 16 targets for Davante Adams, 15 for Randall Cobb and 13 for Ty Montgomery. Throw it to whoever is open or has the best matchup.
Second down: Packers practice will look different for the next few weeks and maybe the rest of the season now that they've gone to spreading out the field with four and five receivers as the crux of their offense. That means a lot of shuttling personnel between plays and not running the ball as much as they try to sharpen their new approach on the practice field. One thing to look for in the next few weeks is to see if they can find ways to turn short completions into long gainers with big runs after the catch. If defenses are going to sit back with two safeties deep, then throwing over the top will be tough, especially for a team that hasn't done much with the deep ball anyway. But run after the catch is a staple of the West Coast system, so that will be their best chance for chunk plays. You have to think eventually either Trevor Davis or Jeff Janis, their two fastest receivers, will break off a long run.
Third down: LaDarius Gunter is living the ups and downs of an NFL quarterback. Two weeks ago as an injury fill-in against the New York Giants, he played an excellent game in which he regularly matched up with one of the NFL's most dynamic receivers, Odell Beckham Jr. Then last week he had a brutal day against the Dallas Cowboys – quarterback Dak Prescott's passer rating was a little more than 150 when he threw at Gunter, according to Pro Football Focus. And then Thursday night, Gunter had another strong game. With his top three cornerbacks out because of injuries, defensive coordinator Dom Capers had Gunter cover the Bears' best receiver, Alshon Jeffery, and Gunter came back with a strong game. Gunter matched up well because he has good length (6-1) to handle Jeffery's size (6-3). Jeffrey also isn't a burner, so Gunter's lack of straight-line speed wasn't an issue. Jeffery ended up with only three catches for 33 yards.
Fourth down: What a contrast watching the Packers play offense and defense Thursday night. On offense they were running in new personnel down after down. But on defense, in part because they were missing their top three cornerbacks, they were as static as you're going to see a Capers' defense. Capers played most of the game in nickel personnel, switching to dime only on really obvious passing downs. Micah Hyde's ability to play slot cornerback was a big help to Capers here. In the nickel Gunter and Demetri Goodson were the outside cornerbacks and with Hyde with in the slot, Capers didn't have to play rookie cornerback Josh Hawkins. Jake Ryan (31 of 48 defensive snaps) and Blake Martinez (35) were the inside linebackers, and the only rotating of personnel took place on the defensive line and at outside linebacker.


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Catch Me! (Originaltitel: Tag) ist eine US-amerikanische Actionkomödie von Jeff Tomsic aus dem Jahr 2018. Der Film basiert auf einer realen Geschichte und ist in den USA am 15. Juni 2018 erschienen. In Deutschland kam der Film am 26. Juli 2018 in die Kinos.

Handlung
Fünf Jugendfreunde spielen seit ihrer Kindheit Fangen. Auch jetzt noch, knapp 30 Jahre nach Beginn des Spiels, veranstalten sie es jedes Jahr im Mai. Dieses Jahr heiratet Jerry, der einzige der fünf Freunde, der noch nie geschlagen wurde, im Mai. Seine Freunde versuchen natürlich, ihn zu fangen, doch Jerry hat einige Tricks auf Lager. Spielregelwidrige Einmischungen seitens Ehefrauen, Verlobten und Ex-Freundinnen sorgen für zusätzlichen Wirbel.

Produktion
Der Film basiert auf einer wahren Begebenheit.

Bereits zu Beginn der Dreharbeiten brach sich Hauptdarsteller Jeremy Renner beide Arme. Um trotzdem weiterdrehen zu können, wurde der Gips grün gefärbt. So konnten die Arme später in der Filmbearbeitung per CGI hinzugefügt werden.

Rezeption
Der Film erhielt gemischte Kritiken. Bei Metacritic erhielt der Film einen Metascore von 56/100 basierend auf 35 Rezensionen, bei Rotten Tomatoes waren 56 Prozent der 190 Rezensionen positiv.

Peter Debruge von Variety schreibt, die letzten zehn Minuten des Films ließen "das Publikum […] inspiriert zurück". Jon Frosch vom Hollywood Reporter hingegen nennt den Film "oft amüsant, aber selten lustig".

Der Film spielte weltweit 78,1 Millionen US-Dollar ein, davon 54,7 Millionen US-Dollar in den USA. In Deutschland verzeichnet der Film bislang 156.501 Besucher.

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A perfect game to play it while doing something else. While writing this review, I've earned about a million gold in Car Merger. Just don't let your boss see you play at work.
So cars in this semi-automatic game are completely automatic if you know what I mean. How could you, you don't know me! Okay, so premise is quite simple and it needs little to no explanation. Buy cars, merge them together and let them do the racing by themselves. Unlock new cars, new parking and track spots and watch your net worth grow! Oh If I could only transfer all of that gold to World of WarCraft or a Dota 2 match, or even real life. That would be awesome, huh? Well, not an option. But you can buy new cars with it, in this battery and time killer addictive game!
This game is like 2048 but with something to do else than merging. So, you'll start off with a single level 1 car, which is a small green one you can see on the screenshots below. After buying the second one, you'll have a choice: either put them both in the racing track to earn more gold per second, or merge them together to unlock/create a new car: level 2. And it goes on and on. I've been playing for some time and I've reached level 10. Each new level you'll get another parking lot space and another racing track space, too. That way you can employ a lot of vehicles to make money for you while you do other stuff. Also, whenever you buy a car, its price goes up a little bit.
Every now and then, you'll get a mystery box on one of your parking slots containing a car of a random unlocked level. You can even put all of your cars off the track, and just wait for your parking lot to fill up with those boxes. You'll get to a car Christmas eventually. One thing that happens occasionally is that a piggy bank appears riding on the tracks. You should use that opportunity to put all of your available cars to use in that moment, because the piggy bank means bonus gold. After some time, you'll notice the big flaw: you can't lose and you don't need to actually do anything in this game. It will feel less and less engaging and more and more like a chore. The only arc you can feel in the gameplay is the number of the cars changing constantly.
For such a simple game, it really does look and sound good. The cars are different, interesting and it always is amusing to unlock a new one. There are lots of kinds available in-game, none of them are a replica of a real life model, but you can see through the design and recognize the original inspirations. And the minimum input you have also feels good, the sliding mechanic, sound of cars merging, gold gathering and gaining levels is cool. Too bad that's all there is, so after a few minutes it will start annoying you like hell.


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Welcome to the next section of the Corrupt Kitchen VR development diary. Today we're going to talk about the events and aspects of the system beyond the core task of burger making. These fall largely under the separate headings of 'health and safety' and 'corruption'. In general, Corrupt Kitchen VR is a game about balancing your principal resource of time against the need to perform other tasks. The more of these tasks you perform the more 'correctly' you're doing the work, but consequently the less money you are likely to make. The game questions how much a player is willing to cut corners, then delivers its message in the form of post-hoc consequences.
There are a number of health and saftey oriented tasks in the game. These are generally time sink tasks, that is, things you must do to safely operate your restaurant. Neglecting them does not directly negatively impact your profit (very much a simplification of real life), however they do affect your environment. Two consequences are apparent to the game. First, at the end of the game your restaurant is inspected by the 'health and safety bot' who will fine you for violations, and second the consequences of neglecting them are shown to the player at the end of the game in the form of news reels, for example stating the number of elvises who died of food poisoning due to your cavalier attitude to pest control.
Mopping the floor: Floors get dirty. It's just a fact of life. Every so often you do have to clean them, and in Corrupt Kitchen VR this is as true as anywhere else, it's just a somewhat accelerated process.
The dirty floor is created using a series of transparent "grunge" textures. These are laid out on the floor in a grid. The textures then have their alpha value tied to how dirty the game thinks that grid tile should be. The dirtiness of the floor is just a timer: the longer it has been since the mop-head touched each grid-tile of the floor, the dirtier that part of the floor will appear. If the mop head is currently touching that tile, the process is reversed at a much faster rate, so while it takes four minutes for each tile of the floor to get to its dirtiest, it only takes four seconds to clean it. Mechanically, the floor and mop have colliders on them, and the mop is an interactable object (i.e. you can pick it up). We need only check each frame the colliders are intersecting to see if the player is cleaning the floor – if not, simply make it dirtier.
Pest control: If the floors get dirty that might also attract pests. In corrupt kitchen VR, if the floors reach 50% of their maximum dirtiness, some AI mice are spawned, which will run about and generally get in the way. They are harmless, but distracting. To remove them the player needs to get one of the mousetraps, and put it on the floor. This causes the mice to leave the building (this is, after all, a family friendly experience). Mechanically, this simply involves checking if the position of the traps is below a certain Y-threshold. If so, we assume they are on the floor and let the mouse AI script know to set its movement target outside the building – otherwise the AI just picks random positions around the room.
Washing your hands. If you handle raw meat in real life, it's probably a good idea to wash your hands. Here it's completely optional, and the sink is deliberately placed far enough away from the fridge that you have to walk over to do it. The game records your hands as "dirty" every time you handle raw meat. Each time you then touch another object it records this, for purposes of working out how much food poisoning you might have caused. If the health and safety inspector catches you with dirty hands, that's a hefty fine too. To clean your hands, all you need to do is turn on the tap in the sink and "wash" your controller in the water stream. Like the mop, this is done using collider intersection.
Keeping meat fresh: If you leave meat out that's probably not great. The paradise kitchen is a pretty hot place, and it seems meat here spoils quite a bit faster than in the real world. Leaving the meat in the grinder for more than a minute fill causes flies to start appearing round it. Fortunately the fridge instantly kills such infestations, but the game keeps track of how many fly-ridden burgers you have served to the hungry, but not overly discerning elvises. This is simply a timer. If the meat is in its original position (the fridge) the timer is reset to zero each frame. If its elsewhere, it increments. Once it reaches a certain time (60s) the 'flies' particle effect is enabled.
Keeping the fire door clear: This one doesn't have an immediate consequence. The game doesn't burn down the kitchen, but the fire door does start out blocked. If you don't take the time to tidy it up, you'll be due a healthy fine from the inspector. The game also offers a news reel with a more serious consequence to this (lack of) action. To make this work, we simply check the distance of the two interactable objects from the door. If they are more than half a meter away we assume that the fired door is clear. If not, it's blocked.
Now let's look at some of the more obviously morally grey aspects of the game. These are things you can do which might increase how much money you make, but have little effect on your time in the game.
Not paying your taxes: Quite easy this one. The till can be set to either accept cards, or cash only. This is a stand in for the idea of not paying sales tax on each burger. If you set till to cash only (done by using it with the controller) you receive 20% more payment per burger then if you set it to receive cards.
Hiring illegal workers: If you want to make more burgers it would help to have more help. Half way through the game a second worker (blue robot) arrives. He doesn't have any identification or qualifications and he doesn't need to be paid. If you hire him, you can make burgers faster as more plates and buns will be prepared for you to pop the burgers into. To hire him, just pass him a chef's hat. If not, he'll just leave of his own accord. If the inspector catches you with an illegal worker though – that's a serious fine. It's up to you to decide if it's worth it.
The game has kept track of all the things you were supposed to do, even if you haven't. The last thing that happens is that you will be visited by an inspector (red robot).
When the inspector calls, she'll have a look around then list out your various violations. This is done using microsoft's speech API, so that she can have different scripts for different violations and experiments with minimal change. Also it makes her sound quite robot-y. The last major decision you'll have to make as a player is whether to try to bribe the inspector. She'll issue you with a fine (you're bound to have forgotten something), after which she'll suggest that the problem could be made to go away. If you choose to take some money from your till and pay her that's just fine. I mean, you can live with yourself after doing that can't you?
In the next developer diary, we'll have a look at how the consequences of the game are realised, and show you a video of the game in action.


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El miso (del japonés 味噌, miso, 'fuente del sabor', a su vez procedente de mi 'sabor o condimento', y so 'fuente') es un condimento consistente en una pasta aromatizante, hecha con semillas de soja o cereales y sal marina fermentada con el hongo koji. Durante siglos fue considerado un alimento curativo en China y Japón.
El kome miso era el preferido por la familia imperial japonesa y los samuráis, por tener un sabor más refinado e incluso un poco dulce. Su consumo empezó a popularizarse hace tan sólo unos 100 años.

Contiene enzimas que ayudan a la digestión, y suministra carbohidratos, lípidos, vitaminas, minerales y proteínas. Algunos sostienen que el miso sin pasteurizar puede recuperar la flora intestinal que haya sido deteriorada por dietas de alto contenido en carnes, azúcar, productos químicos y antibióticos, aunque no hay ningún estudio científico que lo ratifique.
Los ingredientes de base para producir miso pueden ser una mezcla de granos de soja, cebada, arroz, alforfón, mijo, centeno, trigo, semillas de cáñamo, etc. que después se fermenta.

En la elaboración de un miso liviano o ligero, la soja es inoculada con un cultivo o fermento fúngico y se incuba durante 72 horas. El cultivo preparado para producir miso se llama kōji (麹), y es una mezcla de trigo o arroz con el hongo kōji-kin (麹菌, especie de hongo asociado actualmente al Aspergillus oryzae), o, si no, con el shōyu-kōji-kin (醤油麹菌, Aspergillus sojae). La elaboración del miso y el tamari en Japón tiene una larga tradición, donde el clima y el proceso de fermentación son críticos para el resultado final del producto. Existen catadores profesionales. Se usan barricas de madera de cedro, en las que se almacena el producto durante más de un año. Los productos elaborados industrialmente no siguen estos procesos tradicionales, lo que incide en la calidad final del producto.

Los tipos de miso más afamados son fermentados durante largo tiempo. Pueden obtenerse diferentes tipos, como:
 Shiromiso, es decir miso blanco: su fermentación dura aproximadamente un año y resulta ser el de sabor más suave;
 Akamiso, es decir miso rojo: su fermentación dura aproximadamente dos años, teniendo un sabor más fuerte que el blanco;
 Kuromiso, que es el miso negro: su fermentación dura aproximadamente tres años y su gusto es intenso;
 Hatchomiso es la variedad más concentrada y proteica al no llevar ningún tipo de grano añadido (arroz, trigo o cebada).

Los miso blancos, rojos o negros se utilizan especialmente para condimentar sushi durante el invierno, ya que de esa manera el sushi, que de por sí es fresco, recibe un tono cálido para el paladar.

Alimento simbiótico y microbiota
El intestino humano está colonizado por una variedad de especies bacterianas, que desarrollan importantes capacidades metabólicas e inmunes, con un impacto en el estado de la dieta y el bienestar. La microbiota intestinal se puede fortalecer con el uso de suplementos prebióticos y probióticos. Los prebióticos suelen ser oligosacáridos complejos que no son procesados por enzimas y, por lo tanto, terminan en el intestino inferior donde promueven el desarrollo y la multiplicación de la microbiota intestinal ocupante. En consecuencia, se indican los prebióticos para mejorar el desarrollo de bacterias intestinales residentes beneficiosas. Los probióticos favorecen las funciones del intestino mediante una combinación de mecanismos, incluido el equilibrio del sistema inmunológico del huésped y promueven la construcción, integridad y función del intestino. Los probióticos también impactan directamente en diferentes bacterias, incluidos los patógenos, mediante la creación de metabolitos y compuestos antimicrobianos.  El miso es una auténtica pasta japonesa de soja fermentada que se utiliza para hacer sopa de miso. El miso se obtiene envejeciendo las semillas de soja con 'Koji', creado a partir de un moho Aspergillus oryzae.  El área local microbiana del miso se considera vital para la mejora del sabor excepcional, la superficie y el perfil saludable del miso.  La característica simbiótica del miso consolida las cualidades de los probióticos y prebióticos, nutriendo a los microorganismos y formando nuevas colonias de microorganismos que son comparativamente beneficiosos para la microbiota intestinal.

Estado de procesamiento y biodisponibilidad de la soja fermentada
La biodisponibilidad de los nutrientes dependerá de la forma en que se procese la soja fermentada de miso; el proceso tradicional es la fermentación de la soja para producir miso. Los cambios debidos a la fermentación de miso implican la producción de enzimas, la hidrólisis de macromoléculas, la degradación de factores antinutricionales, la transformación de metabolitos bioactivos y la producción de sabor. El porcentaje de macromoléculas varía según el tipo de proceso de la soja. La soja cruda contiene 35% (23,67g) de carbohidratos, los principales encontrados fueron isomalt, fructosa y glucosa (almidón sacarificado a glucosa).  Durante el ciclo de desarrollo (fermentación) de la soja, la medida de sacarosa disminuyó de 3,15% y la medida de glucosa se expandió de 1,82 a 19,93%. En la última fase de la interacción de desarrollo, se descubrió que la glucosa era el segmento significativo de los azúcares libres. En la maduración de la soja, los carbohidratos complejos se descomponen en monosacáridos y disacáridos que incorporan glucosa, fructosa, manosa y sacarosa aumentando su biodisponibilidad. Los lípidos tienden a cambiar durante el envejecimiento y el almacenamiento. El examen de lípidos de las pruebas de arroz-koji miso mostró que el triacilglicerol se hidrolizaba progresivamente en grasas insaturadas libres, que luego se transformaban en ésteres etílicos de grasas insaturadas. Además, el ácido linoleico disminuyó en la fracción de triglicéridos, con el aumento de ácido linoleico en las fracciones de monoglicéridos y diglicéridos.   Eso hizo una disminución de los lípidos de la soja cruda de un 20% a un 2-10% en la fermentación de los mismos.

El alto porcentaje de proteína en la soja genera beneficios con un 40% en total y durante la fermentación del miso un valor entre 32 - 42%, compuesto principalmente por proteínas específicas de soja glicinina y β-conglicinina. La fermentación hidroliza estas proteínas y se liberan péptidos bioactivos terapéuticos.  Durante la fermentación, una gran parte de la proteína es transformada por proteasas en péptidos y aminoácidos. La sustancia de aminoácidos totalmente libre muestra una expansión rápida en los primeros 10 días de envejecimiento y luego una expansión lenta en las últimas fases de la interacción. El ácido glutámico libre, el ácido aspártico y la prolina aumentan directamente con el avance de la fermentación hasta 50 días. Una gran parte de estas progresiones se debe a las enzimas liberadas por A. oryzae, que incorpora proteasas ácidas, neutras y alcalinas, amilasa, lipasas, metalopeptidasa, glutaminasa, fosfatasa ácida y fitasa. La proteinasa ácida y las carboxipeptidasas ácidas liberadas por A. oryzae son responsables del incremento de aminoácidos libres.  Se ha demostrado que las enzimas inkoji hidrolizan las proteínas y el almidón en péptidos, aminoácidos y azúcares durante los primeros 5 meses de envejecimiento del miso. Uno de estos productos químicos, la glutaminasa, que se crea durante el envejecimiento del koji, es especialmente importante para cambiar la glutamina a un corrosivo glutámico y darle al miso el inconfundible sabor umami. Después de los primeros 5 meses, se cree que el color y el sabor del miso se intensifican debido a la reacción de Maillard a baja temperatura, una reacción química entre los aminoácidos y los azúcares reductores.

Además, aumentan las vitaminas, minerales y compuestos fitoquímicos. En la soja cruda, el calcio, el hierro, el cobre, el fósforo y el zinc tienen un valor de 5-6% pero durante la fermentación aumenta a 5-30%, especialmente el hierro con un 34,3% .  Esto sucede porque los taninos se descomponen en compuestos secundarios no complejos por las fitasas que conducen a una mayor biodisponibilidad de minerales como el zinc y el hierro, ya que el metabolismo se vería afectado desfavorablemente por la aparición de cantidades considerables de taninos, fibra dietética y fitato. El hierro es muy importante para la recuperación de la microbiota intestinal. Son los micronutrientes más abundantes dentro del miso. La recomendación diaria que se sugiere es entre 7 a 10 mg / día para niños y 8-15 para hombres y mujeres. De hecho, la absorción de hierro de la soja es perfecta, debido a que la mayor parte del hierro de la soja proviene de la ferritina. Este tipo es altamente biodisponible, casi igual a la absorción de hierro del sulfato ferroso. Los fitatos ácido fítico comprenden alrededor del 1 al 2% de la carga en estas variedades de alimentos y el 75% del ácido fítico y están relacionados con componentes de fibra soluble. Estas mezclas pueden disminuir la asimilación de hierro en algún lugar entre el 51 y el 82%, presumiblemente debido al desarrollo de fitatos di y tetraférricos. Se ha establecido que la fermentación del ciclo de calentamiento aumenta por completo la biodisponibilidad.

Referencias

Véase también
 Sopa de miso
Miso de crisantemo

Enlaces externos
Miso: qué es y qué variedades hay

Receta de la sopa de miso

Ingredientes de Japón
Alimentos fermentados de soja
Condimentos
Gastronomía vegetariana


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Christmas is the perfect opportunity to treat yourself or someone you love. If you or a special someone in your life is experiencing the menopause, these beautifully thought out gifts could be a great way to do that.
Every woman's experience of the menopause is different, but some of the common side effects can include things like changing of mood, hot flushes, headaches, sleep disturbance and a diminished libido. The gifts in this article address the menopause and its symptoms in a helpful, direct and comforting way, perfect for anyone experiencing this particular change in their body.
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The Indian Institute of Space Science, Bangalore in association with XOVIAN is organizing a workshop on CAN Satellite-Designing and Launching at Pravega'14. The 2 days' workshop will be conducted on 31st Jan-1st Feb 2014 at IISC premises.


Trinidad and Tobago is ranked 105 among 190 economies in the ease of doing business, according to the latest World Bank annual ratings. The rank of Trinidad and Tobago deteriorated to 105 in 2018 from 102 in 2017. Ease of Doing Business in Trinidad and Tobago averaged 82.91 from 2008 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 105 in 2018 and a record low of 63 in 2012.
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New FX Drama "Snowfall" Co-Created By John Singleton Premiere (Video)
From Los Angeles to Harlem 1983. A storm is coming and its name is crack. Snowfall is a one-hour drama set against the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic and its ultimate radical impact on the culture as we know it. The story follows numerous characters on a violent collision course, including: Franklin Saint (Damson Idris), young street entrepreneur on a quest for power; Gustavo "El Oso" Zapata (Sergio Peris-Mencheta), a Mexican wrestler caught up in a power struggle within a crime family; Teddy McDonald (Carter Hudson), a CIA operative running from a dark past who begins an off-book operation to fund the Nicaraguan Contras and Lucia Villanueva (Emily Rios), the self-possessed daughter of a Mexican crime lord.
Created by John Singleton and Eric Amadio and Dave Andron, Snowfall is executive produced by Singleton, Andron, Thomas Schlamme, Amadio, Michael London and Trevor Engelson.
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Despite his slick, handsome appearance, Douglas Fowley was frequently cast as a bad guy or rabble-rouser for much of his acting career. His early credits consisted of B-flicks such as the 1937 comedy "Charlie Chan on Broadway," but the film gave him the main villain role--racketeer Johnny Burke. By the '50s, he was alternating between movies and television series, and one in particular, the musical "Singin' in the Rain," allowed him to branch out from playing a sleaze to a motion picture director. During this period, he appeared as a supporting player in all manner of films, the most memorable of which included the special effects-laden adventure "Mighty Joe Young" and the 1950 film noir "Armored Car Robbery," in which he played "Benny" McBride, who gets recruited by a gang of thieves only to find out the mastermind is also sleeping with his character's wife. An interesting departure from rogue characters came with the 1949 war drama "Battleground," in which he instead played a soldier. By the mid-'50s, his small-screen resume included the role of Doc Holliday in the series "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp," all the while becoming an increasingly familiar face in western-themed programs. In the '60s, he grew a long beard and started going by Douglas V. Fowley. His notable roles included "Pistols 'n' Petticoats," a sitcom about a family of frontier women who do just fine without men around. Fowley passed away at age 86.
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By Sandee LaMotte, CNN
Published 6:31 PM EDT, Thu July 14, 2022
Drinking alcohol doesn't provide any health benefits to people under 40 but raises the risk of injury, the study said.
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No amount of alcohol is healthy if you are younger than 40, mostly due to alcohol-related deaths by auto accidents, injury and homicide, according to a new global study.
If you are 40 or older without underlying health conditions, however, the new research found small amounts of alcohol might reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, stroke and diabetes.
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"Those diseases just happen to be major causes of death in a good chunk of the world," said senior author Emmanuela Gakidou, professor of health metrics sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington's School of Medicine.
"So when you look at the cumulative health impact, particularly among older adults, it shows that a small amount is actually better for you than no drinking. For all other causes, it's harmful at all levels of consumption."
Indeed, the study found no protective effect for diseases such as tuberculosis, hypertension, atrial fibrillation, liver disease, epilepsy, pancreatitis and many cancers.
"Alcohol guidelines, both global ones and national ones, have typically emphasized the difference between consumption level for men compared to women," Gakidou said. "What our work suggests is that global guidelines, national guidelines and local guidelines would be more effective if they emphasize age as opposed to sex."
The findings underscore "the importance of alcohol recommendations that are tailored to specific regions and populations," Amanda Berger, vice president of science and health for the trade group Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, told CNN in an email.
"Importantly, no one should drink alcohol to obtain potential health benefits, and some individuals should not drink at all."
Younger than 40 found at highest risk
The report, released Thursday in the journal Lancet, is the first to report alcohol risk by global geographical region, age, sex and year, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, which prepared the study.
The analysis looked at 30 years of data on people ages 15 to 95 from 204 countries and territories gathered by the institute's Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study, which tracks premature death and disability from over 300 diseases.
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Think you're OK because you only drink on weekends? Think again, study says
The analysis estimated that 1.34 billion people around the world consumed harmful amounts of alcohol in 2020. More than 59% of the people who drank unsafe amounts of alcohol were between 15 and 39. Over two-thirds were men.
In every geographic region, the study found drinking alcohol does not provide any health benefits to people under age 40 but does raise the risk of injury, such as motor vehicle accidents, suicides and homicides.
The study defined a standard drink as 10 grams of pure alcohol, which might be a small 3.4-fluid ounce (100 milliliters) glass of red wine, a 12-fluid ounce (355 milliliters) standard can or bottle of beer (3.5% alcohol) or a 1-fluid ounce shot of spirits (30 milliliters) that is 40% alcohol by volume.
Conclusions criticized
While praising the analysis as well-conducted, some experts not involved with the research expressed concern about the study's conclusions.
Statistics show there are "over 14 times as many alcohol-attributable deaths in the UK among 70-74 year-olds than 20-24 year olds," said Colin Angus, a senior research fellow at the Sheffield Alcohol Research Group at the UK's University of Sheffield, in a statement. The data "contradicts the assertion in this new study that we should focus on the drinking of younger age groups," Angus said.
"The elephant in the room with this study is the interpretation of risk based on outcomes for cardiovascular disease – particularly in older people," said Dr. Tony Rao, visiting clinical research fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London.
"We know that any purported health benefits from alcohol on the heart and circulation are balanced out by the increased risk from other conditions such as cancer, liver disease and mental disorders such as depression and dementia," Rao said in a statement.
A study published in March found just one pint of beer or glass of wine a day can shrink the overall volume of the brain, with the damage increasing as the number of daily drinks rises. On average, people at age 50 who drank a pint of beer or 6-ounce glass of wine a day in the last month had brains that appeared two years older than those who only drank half of a beer.
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We really did buy more alcohol during the early pandemic, study finds
Research in the US has shown drinking among adults rose during pandemic, particularly among women, with "a 41% increase in heavy drinking days," said Dr. Sarah Wakeman, medical director of the Substance Use Disorders Initiative at Massachusetts General Hospital, in an earlier CNN interview.
A study published in June found many moderate drinkers over age 30 binge on the weekend – defined as five or more drinks in a row or within a short period of time. Drinking an average of more than one drink a day for women and two drinks a day for men – or five or more drinks on the same occasion – was linked to alcohol problems nine years later.
Women are especially sensitive to the effects of alcohol, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, or NIAA. Alcohol-related problems appear sooner and at lower drinking levels than in men, it said.
Women are more susceptible to alcohol-related brain damage and heart disease than men, and studies show women who have one drink a day increase their risk of breast cancer by 5% to 9% compared with those who abstain.
"The recommendation that those under 40 should not drink at all is totally unrealistic," Matt Lambert, CEO of the Portman Group, an industry-funded group that regulates alcohol marketing in the UK, said in an email.
Gakidou, the study's senior author, admitted that "it's not realistic to think young adults will stop drinking. Still, we think it's important to communicate the latest evidence so that everyone can make informed decisions about their health."
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For those over age 65, any increase in drinking is worrisome because many older adults "use medications that can interact with alcohol, have health conditions that can be exacerbated by alcohol, and may be more susceptible to alcohol-related falls and other accidental injuries," the NIAA said.
"There is a high threshold for being able to say that alcohol is an effective prevention therapy, and the studies so far do not reach that threshold. If they did, then you can be sure that the drinks industry would be applying to the FDA for a license," said Dr. Nick Sheron, a professor in the hepatology department at the UK's University of Southampton.
'A more detailed and nuanced analysis'
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation last published a report on alcohol four years ago when it analyzed 2016 Global Burden of Disease data on people 15 to 49, finding no amount of liquor, wine or beer was safe for overall health.
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"What we have done in this new study is a more detailed and nuanced analysis of 21 different world regions," Gakidou said. "What we've been able to do now is break it down: Who is alcohol harmful for? Who is alcohol beneficial to? That's why the message is coming across as different, but it is actually consistent with what we said before.
"If you ask me, 'Will the message be different in 10 years?' Maybe. It is likely new evidence will come out," she said. "That may change our thinking."


Selwyn Primary uses a method of teaching called 'Synthetic Phonics' to help children learn to read and spell. Phonics is one method of teaching children how to read and write using sounds. There are 44 sounds in the English language, which we put together to form words. Some are represented by one letter, like 's' in sit, and some by two or more, like 'sh' in shop and 'igh' in high. Children are taught the sounds first, then how to match them to letters, and finally how to use the letter sounds for reading and spelling. Synthetic phonics refers to 'synthesising', or blending, the sounds to read words.
The 44 sounds (phonemes) of the English language, and the way they are written down, are taught one by one. The order of teaching these sounds has been specially developed so that children can start reading complete words as soon as possible. A phonics lesson begins with revising any sounds the children have already been taught. Then the teacher will introduce a new sound and its spelling. Children will then have an opportunity to practice the skill and apply it.
At Selwyn Primary School we use the 'Letters and Sounds' programme. This is split into 6 Phases with then children starting Phase 1 in Nursery and moving through to Phase 6 by Year 2.
We run parent workshops in order to support parents in helping their children at home. The school is very well resourced with phonic games and equipment and making use of ICT where appropriate. Children's phonics ability is assessed regularly and children who need support are offered individual or group tutoring.


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Jim is chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM). As chairman, he is involved in helping guide all aspects of GSAM's business around the world. Prior to assuming this role in September 2010, Jim was head of Global Economics, Commodities and Strategy Research. He serves on the European Management Committee. Jim joined Goldman Sachs in 1995 as a partner, co-head of Global Economics Research and chief currency economist.
Prior to joining the firm, Jim was head of research, globally, for Swiss Bank Corporation (SBC) from 1991 to 1995. He joined SBC in 1988. Prior to that, he was with Bank of America and International Treasury Management, a division of Marine Midland Bank.
Jim is the creator of the acronym BRICs. Together with his colleagues, he has published much research about BRICs, which has become synonymous with the emergence of Brazil, Russia, India and China as the growth opportunities of the future.
Jim is a member of the board of the Itinera Institute, and has been on the board of Bruegel since its creation. He is a member of the UK-India Round Table and the UKIBC. Jim is chairman and one of the founding trustees of the London-based charity SHINE. He is also chairman of the Greater Manchester Local Enterprise Partnership Advisory Board. Jim serves on the board of Teach for All and a number of other charities specializing in education.
Jim previously served as a non-executive director of Manchester United before it returned to private ownership in 2005.
Jim earned a degree in economics from Sheffield University in 1978 and a PhD from the University of Surrey in 1982. He received an honorary doctorate from the Institute of Education, University of London, in 2009 for his educational philanthropy.
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Facebook earns $9bn despite whistleblower scandal
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The social media giant made $9bn (£6.5bn) of profit in the three months to September, up from $7.8bn last year.
However, it was hit by a new privacy update to Apple's iOS 14 operating system, which made it harder for brands to target ads at specific users.
It comes amid fresh claims of unethical behaviour made by a former employee.
Frances Haugen has released a cache of internal documents to the public, alleging that Facebook put profit before user safety.
Multiple media reports say the documents show Facebook struggled to moderate content that promoted hate speech and sex trafficking outside of the US.
On Monday, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerburg told investors on a conference call: "What we are seeing is a coordinated effort to selectively use leaked documents to paint a false picture of our company."
In the 12 months to 30 September, the social media giant said its monthly user-base had grown 6% to 2.91 billion.
However, despite its strong profits, its revenue slightly undershot analyst expectations, amid "headwinds" caused by Apple's privacy rules.
Facebook said the privacy update would also have an impact on its digital business in the final quarter of the year, but that it expected to adjust to the changes in time.
The firm said it would spend some $10bn on its metaverse division this year – known as Facebook Reality Labs – which is tasked with creating augmented and virtual reality hardware, software and content.
The world's largest social media network is under scrutiny from global lawmakers and regulators, including from the Federal Trade Commission, which has filed an antitrust lawsuit alleging anticompetitive practices.
The whistleblower documents, which were first reported by the Wall Street Journal, have only intensified that pressure.
They include internal research about Instagram's effects on teen mental health; whether Facebook's platforms stoke division; and the social media giant's handling of the 6 January Capitol riot.
At a hearing on Monday, Ms Haugen told UK MPs that Facebook is "unquestionably making hate worse".
She said Facebook safety teams were under-resourced, and that "Facebook has been unwilling to accept even little slivers of profit being sacrificed for safety".
The MPs are considering what new rules to impose on big social networks under the planned Online Safety Bill.
But on his conference call, Mr Zuckerberg hit back: "Good faith criticism helps us get better, but my view is that we are seeing a coordinated effort to selectively use leaked documents to paint a false picture of our company.
"The reality is that we have an open culture that encourages discussion and research on our work so we can make progress on many complex issues that are not specific to just us."
Despite the allegations, shares in Facebook climbed by 1.3% in after-hours trading on Monday. The firm's stock is up by about 20% so far this year.
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Lansing feeling a little underdressed, with two monumental portraits of actors from The Players: Booth as Cardinal Richelieu by John Collier on the left and, on the right, Jefferson as Bob Acres by John White Alexander.
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For forty years, Lansing Moore, the owner of Center Art Studio, has been restoring fine art and objects. Established in 1919, the studio is one of the oldest art conservation studios in New York. Moore, along with his team of highly-skilled conservators, have restored works by Picasso, Miro and Bonnard as well as many ancient sculptures and ceramic objects from various Chinese dynasties … not to mention a little clay disc bearing a pair of toddler's handprints, American, circa 2010, that was shattered into thirty pieces.
The thing I loved about your website was this idea that broken things can be fixed and old things can be renewed.
I'm delighted you took that away because at the risk of sounding mad, I think that there is something very consequential about what we do … it's quite clear to me that we are living in a society that is inheriting great objects that were made by individual artisans and artists and were intended for interesting or sacred places and are now being cut up and destroyed. As a person who loves to work with his hands, I really respect that heritage of hand making—and it's nice to see that younger people are back into that.
Treatment underway at the Center Art Studio.
You're like the doctor for these objects!
Well yeah, but we don't do anything that bleeds.
It's inherently optimistic, what you do, isn't it?
Yes and no. It's like I'm always glad when a species is saved from extinction but I'm depressed that some others weren't. When the [Art Deco] caryatids were removed from in front of the old Bonwit Teller building or when the Picasso got moved from the Four Seasons, those were scandals. The Palm Restaurant had those walls with those great caricatures—now The New York Times reported that they were demolished and discarded because according to the developer, they could not be saved. Not true. In fact there are people who would have bought them and they would have made money out of them.
Annie Canning cleaning the Chase Portrait after Velazquez. Annie has worked at the studio during her time off from school for the last three years, in addition to studying in Italy and interning at the Guggenheim. Now that she has graduated we are trying to lure her back but we are getting stiff competition from the ski slopes.
Caryn Byllott cleaning antique picture frames. Caryn also got her degree, in Fabrication and Design, from the well-regarded art program at SUNY New Paltz. Her expertise includes 3D printing, project management and object conservation.
Kerry Joyce filling a tear in an antique Japanese screen showing the Tales of Genji. Kerry combines excellent technical ability with a degree in Classics (Ancient Greek and Etruscology) from Columbia. She is a technician and instructor at the archaeological excavations at Hadrian's Villa in Italy.
Sara Barth Drew working at Bonham's Madison Avenue gallery to repair some limited shipping damage on La danza di Salome by Andrea Marchisio.
Theodora Drew, Sara's daughter, during her recent first visit to the studio. Theodora (Teddy to her friends) helps Sara review artwork for clients on the days when Sara works from home.
Grace Johnson removes old restorations from the background of another Neagle actor's portrait, John Foote as Dr. Cantwell in The Hypocrite, from The Players Foundation Collection. Grace is a gifted conservator who counts the excavations at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli among her professional experiences. Since graduating from Columbia she has had a successful career as a painter, with several shows including at Mark Borghi Gallery, Greenpoint Gallery and the New York Studio School.
Kady Min Pu, who recently joined the team. Kady's experience includes work at the excavation at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli, like Grace and Kerry.
Working on location in Jamestown, Rhode Island to clean a mural painted in 1888 by William Trost Rochards over the fireplace of a house in which the artist lived for the summer. (From top: Caryn Byllott, Kerry Joyce, Tyler Lentini).
The team, from left: Melissa Barton, Tyler Lentini, Julieta Cardenas, Sara Barth Drew and Grace Johnson. Not shown here: Kerry Joyce. Recently Julieta left to pursue her interest in architecture. The studio has recently welcomed new team members Caryn Byllott and Kady Min Pu.
Do you think there's a difference between America and Europe in terms of valuing these things?
I do, yeah. There are people who are not thoughtful about their heritage in Europe but they're in the minority. For instance we have an Instagram account and we have gotten to know people and we've met a lot of restorers in Europe, in Iran, in Taiwan, in South America and I'm becoming aware of this core of people all around the world doing excellent work saving things. In Italy for instance they have a carefully managed and government-supported program of restoration, including guidelines on how to restore.
Yes, almost codifying it, perhaps?
It is. I don't like to be told what to do but if they do, I'd at least like them to agree with me … and I agree with that [program]. The American Institute of Conservation is a strong organization and puts forward its point of view. I am not a member but I agree with them. You cannot plead ignorance to this sort of stuff.
Sometimes it helps to turn the work upside-down. Here conservator Julieta Cardenas treats John Duff as Marmion from the Neagle group.
Conservator Melissa Barton treating another Players actor portrait by Neagle, Mrs. Darley as Juliet. Melissa enters the Courtauld Institute in London this fall to complete their prestigious Postgraduate Diploma in the Conservation of Easel Paintings.
Melissa removing yellowed varnish from Loss of the East Indiaman Admiral Garner on the Goodwin Sands by Thomas Buttersworth, from the collection of Richard Ember.
Treating paintings and ceramics at the main treatment table. On the left, conservator Tyler Lentini treats the frame of an early 19th c. ship portrait. Tyler brings his training in the BFA program at SUNY New Paltz and his experience working and exhibiting as a painter to the practice of conservation at Center Art Studio.
Detail of inpainting the frame using 23 ct. gold powder paint.
Senior Conservator Sara Barth Drew treating a 19th c. portrait of an actor from The Players Foundation Collection, Joe Cowell as Crack in "The Turnpike Gate" by John Neagle (1796 – 1865). Sara has worked at the studio since 2011. She takes a lead role in conservation and in the art advisory practice at the studio. Sara and Lansing restored the famous Eloise at the Plaza portrait by Hilary Knight before it went on exhibit at the New-York Historical Society.
In the forground, Sara inpaints British Men of War in a Gale by Thomas Buttersworth. On the right, Melissa works on the companion, Loss of the East Indiaman Admiral Garner on the Goodwin Sands (also by Thomas Buttersworth). Both paintings are from the Richard Ember Collection.
Luis Gonzales cleaning a picture frame.
Detail of the frame repair process.
Indispensable tools of the trade.
What about on a personal level when someone comes to you with their granny's teapot?
I love those moments. Here's a great example: We had a young woman come to me about ten years ago and I pick up the phone—she was clearly holding back tears. She said, "I have this thing which is not worth any money but it's worth so much to me." She came over right away and she had this little clay, grey disc with two handprints—they were her toddler's handprints. Some person had knocked it off the shelf and broken it into, like thirty pieces. I said I can certainly take care of it but it's going to take quite a few hours, so it's going to be expensive. And she said, go ahead and we did it.
I saw some things on your website that were so shattered that I couldn't even figure out how you could envisage what it was even meant to be in the first place. They looked like … dust almost. How do you tackle this problem?
It's a challenge but it's also true that there's almost always a context. You can research. One of the advantages of having been at this for so long, growing up in a family of collectors, is that I understand a fragment of porcelain about this size, and it's blue and white, is brushed not screened, is white on the inside with flowing lines … it's most likely Chinese not Japanese. These are little tricks. You also have a pretty good idea if it's a closed vessel or an open vessel [because of the curve.]
An old bronze drum from Southeast Asia lies in pieces after someone mistook it for a stool during a party.
Detail of a massive late 19th c. French gilt wood frame, before treatment. The frame is 8 feet tall by 10 feet wide (for Jessica Rose at Judson Interiors).
Endless shelves of materials at the studio. Brush holders include a 17th c. Spanish maiolica vase.
Limited inpainting using Gamblin Conservation Colors.
It's all about the brushes at Center Art. In the background, a 17th c. Neapolitan allegorical painting from the Studio collection.
And what about the stories of who broke the piece?
No one is confessing! Usually cats, grandchildren, the housekeeper … they get the blame.
With paintings, there is also the problem of over-restoration. How do you know when you're veering towards that? What are the alarm signals?
Layers. And solubility. Briefly you have to understand the painting as something that is in three dimensions and complex. Everything we do, we test, even if we know that 99 times out of 100, the surface solvent will be effective and not damaging to an oil painting, one out of 100 odds are not good. We always proceed from the least strong interventions.
Francesco Zuccarelli (1702-1788), one of four pastoral scenes in the Studio collection, before treatment.
Another of the Zuccarellis, with three oil sketches by Orlando Rouland (also from the Studio collection).
Summertime in the Catskills by Orlando Rouland, a painting from the Robert and Betsey Schwengel Collection, showing the view from Rouland's house while he stayed in the Onteora Club around 1920. Lansing and his wife Iliana have a home in Onteora and are active in the curation of Onteora's art collection. The light strips are the first steps in the cleaning process.
This sculpture of a lady was abandoned at the studio thirty years ago. She has watched over the studio ever since. Anyone with a clue about her, please contact the studio!
But surely it's your eye, ultimately, that is judging this process, right?
It is your eye. Take this painting [he shows us a small seascape] The top layer is a mixture of oil, nicotine, grease as well as all the effects of a smoky environment, and there is another layer below that, which is a natural varnish applied by the painter that has turned yellow over time. Then below that is oil paint. Now the top layer will dissolve in a simple detergent or soap with a little bit of solvent added. But the layers of varnish need a stronger solvent, one that does not affect the oil paint. You want to get down to the oil paint and the original level of varnish layer that has relevance to the piece.
By looking really closely …
Lansing cleaning an old Peruvian painted alabaster figure of the Immaculate Conception. This figure is carved from Piedra Huamanga, a type of alabaster found in Peru and used for religious figures from the 17th century onward. The figure shown, Inmaculada Concepción, comes from Doyle Auctions and entered the Huber Collection with the assistance of Center Art Studio.
Removing old restorations from another 18th c. Peruvian alabaster figure. The details of the Virgin's intricately carved hair were clogged with old fill and restorer's paint. The robes have added luster from having been painted in translucent oil washes over gold leaf.
A 16th century German carved wood figure of Saint Sebastian mid-treatment, waiting to have his missing arrows replaced.
A 19th c. bronze sculpture that was exposed to soot in a fire, after surface cleaning. Lansing finished the object by warming it up using a hot air gun then applying clear wax and buffing by hand.
Egyptian sarcophagus lid (part), presiding over the wood room. This came to Lansing from Sam Green, who introduced the studio to John Lennon and Yoko Ono in the late 1970s. Lansing's first housecall as an apprentice was to the Lennon's apartment in the Dakota.
Sculptures awaiting treatment, including a beautiful painted alabaster Virgin from the collection of Richard and Roberta Huber (top). The studio has worked on objects and paintings from the Huber Collection since 2011, including many of the works in the recent exhibit Highest Heaven: Spanish and Portuguese Colonial Art from the Collection of Roberta and Richard Huber which opened at the San Antonio Museum of Art in 2016.
A Victorian plaster sculpture of a scene from Shakespeare, Is it so Nominated in the Bond? by John Rogers (1824-1904), from The Players. The studio works on sculpture in wood, stone, plaster and metal, as well as paintings.
A very good antique Chinese carved wood, lacquer and gold relief after cleaning.
This remarkable Spanish Colonial altar cabinet sat in an office in the Church of the Resurrection on East 74th Street for many years, until Father Barry Swain asked Lansing to take a look at it during a meeting on another matter. Although the cabinet and the suite of painted wood figures were dilapidated and very dirty, it was immediately clear that this was a rare and important object. With the support of the Church the altar and figures were transported to Center Art Studio for treatment that lasted about eight months. Each painted and gilt wood statue was cleaned, stabilized and inpainted where necessary. The joinery of the cabinet was tightened, missing parts were replicated and the finish was refreshed. Early restorations were removed, revealing the original gold and painted decoration. Finally, Center Art worked with fiberoptic lighting engineers Sandra Liotus and David Crampton-Barden to fabricate and install a low-intensity lighting system so the painted surfaces could be appreciated. The altar is now on view in the main area of the church at 119 East 74th Street, in the building designed by architect James Renwick and completed in 1869. It dates to the early 18th century and was made in the Altiplano. A parishioner brought it to New York and gave it to the church some time in the 1930s. Photo by Edward Addeo.
How about fixing mistakes?
We work with reversible materials. A mistake that would be very difficult to fix would be if we over-cleaned or put a hole in something. Thank God, that is a vanishingly rare experience.
How did you get your start in this?
I started as an apprentice in 1978, as a sophomore in college—I was at Brown. It was a very happy fluke, actually. When I was a kid the thing I most liked to do was paint and draw and play around with antiques. When we moved to New York, one of my father's pieces, a Chinese bronze, was broken in the move. I was headed for a career in the corporate world and I worked for American Express in the summers. When this piece was broken and the gallery recommended that my father take it to a studio to be fixed, my dad saw that this was a place I'd be interested in. I went to see the place and I was charmed by it. My first house call was to John Lennon and Yoko Ono!
Booth as Cardinal Richelieu by John Collier, in progress.
Jefferson as Bob Acres by John White Alexander, in progress.
Annie Canning performing the first cleaning of the Alexander portrait of Jefferson. They clean these paintings first with a conservation soap to remove dirt and smoke residue, then with solvents to remove discolored varnish and previous restorations.
Lansing using Wolbers solvent gel to remove over a century's accumulated residue from cigar smoke, coal fires and previous restoration.
Sara Barth Drew, Lansing Moore, Annie Canning, and Melissa Barton standing in front of the two monumental portraits of actors from The Players.
What did they want fixed?
The last thing I wanted to do was to show up as the nineteen-year-old kid who wanted John Lennon's autograph. I had my little fishing box of stuff. The project was a painted cedar sarcophagus. They had a collection of Egyptian art in addition to the Japanese stuff. There were blisters on the surface. Sean [Lennon], who was a toddler then, was running around popping the blisters. It meant mixing rabbit skin glue and injecting it under the blisters and pressing it down while it dried. I went up to the Dakota, went into the ground floor office and they took me up to the residence. The sculpture was standing in the gallery that runs along Central Park West—they had two [apartments] It took me ten days, a couple of hours a day. John Lennon came by and we chatted for a bit and I managed to keep it about what I was doing. It was an ecstatic experience!
I love the term "house call" – like I say, you are a kind of doctor!
Well, you do have to do house calls. We also worked for Iman and David Bowie. I had a good conversation with Bowie and we were talking about Chinese joined furniture. There's a guy, who first of all was the nicest person in the world, but was also so very curious and very specific about the way the wood grain goes, why they cut it this way and that way, nuts and bolts stuff.
The paintings corridor in the studio, a thirty-foot-long space with north facing windows, is an ideal spot for displaying and treating paintings. Hanging at the end is a portrait of a jester by William Merritt Chase, after Velázquez' Portrait of Pablo de Valladolid in the Prado. Chase donated the painting to The Players while he was a member. The group of actors' portraits by John Neagle hangs on the wall to the left.
Another view of the Neagle portraits in the paintings corridor. This group of sixteen paintings by Neagle is the largest group of paintings by the artist in a single collection. All were done in Philadelphia in the first half of the 19th century. It is very rare to find so many images of theatrical subjects from this period.
Another view of the Chase portrait, with WALL-E, the studio's fume extractor, in the foreground.
The first cleaning reveals the yellow-orange residue characteristic of nicotine (detail of Portrait of a
Jester after Velazquez by William Merritt Chase, from the collection of The Players).
The first test cleaning is so satisfying. The small bright patch above the eye shows how very dirty this portrait is. Over 150 years of soot and cigar smoke, and a varnish that has turned yellow, hide the original paint surface.
Old canvasses can become quite brittle. This painting has a crack through the canvas at the nostril, which Lansing will reinforce from behind, then fill in and paint.
Yes, I got the impression he would have been someone who likes people who know things.
That's the ultimate credential. Everybody loves money—and I'm part of that too. But what's really essential is space and ability.
I have been looking around the pieces in here and I have been thinking, I will admit, that I rather like the dirt on some of them. I like the yellowed, shadowy feel to them
Me too. Too many bad plastic surgery jobs can really ruin the thing. My view is that the conservation process allows you to see it. A painting should not look stark, staring clean.
The home of The Players, at 16 Gramercy Park South. The noted actor Edwin Booth bought the building in 1888 and transformed it into a private club for actors and those with a strong connection to the theatrical world. Booth hired architect Stanford White to make the transformation. Recently the club renovated the facade, for which they received the prestigious Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award from the New York Landmarks Conservancy.
The group of actor's portraits by Neagle, after treatment and reinstallation in the library at The Players.
William Francis as Sir George Thunder in Wild Oats.
William B. Wood as King John.
William Charles Macready as Macbeth.
Thomas H. Hilson as Tyke in The School for Reform.
Mrs. Darley as Juliet.
Mrs. William Francis as Miss Harlow in The Old Maid.
John Duff as Marmion.
Mary Duff as Mary in Superstition.
John Foote as Dr. Cantwell.
John Barnes as Billy Lackaday in Sweethearts and Wives.
Joe Cowell as Crack in The Turnpike Gate by John Neagle.
James Roberts as Bob Logic in Tom and Jerry by John Neagle
Edmund Kean as King Lear.
Edmund Kane by John Neagle.
Edmund Kane as Richard III.
Charlotte Barnes, Mrs. Edmond S. Connor, as Isabella.
But also our tastes have changed. Like the hideous way Roman sculpture was painted in its own era—all garish colors. We like the white marble and think it classical. You would never go back and "restore" those to their bright colors, right?
That's the classic test case. No, I would never go back and do that. The whole psychology of seeing is very complicated.
Party PicturesJun 17
The Municipal Art Society of New York's annual gala; American-Scandinavian Foundation's annual Spring Gala; Ziel and Helene Feldman hosted an event to celebrate Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone; The 6th Annual Collaborating for a Cure Ladies Luncheon to benefit the Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation.
When Stars collide in Hollywood; a chapter from an unfinished memoir of Arlene Dahl; a pleasure and a gift.
Palm BeachJan 25
A taste of the good life and the good doin' down in Palm Beach.
Writer David Savage, who assisted Jackie Rogers in co-writing her memoir, writes about the lady he came to know and love.
A dreary ole snowless winter-weekend in the Big Town turned into a pleasure thanks to Bianca Jagger's New Look.
NEXT POST A Taste of Summer


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Here's a collage of a bunch of the pictures from the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving point. I've also included a slide show of the pictures.
The girls had a great time with the boys. Ivy wanted to be in the stroller for the first half, so there are more pictures of the bigs with Harrison than there are of Ivy. But, once she got out, she was constant smiles.
I love getting to take a day off here and there to play with the girls. (The girls includes Mom and Kat). After the tulips, we enjoyed an ice cream sundae from the soda fountain at Thanksgiving Point, while the kids had ice cream cones.
If you live in Utah and haven't been to the Tulip Festival, you really should plan on attending next spring. It's beautiful and they do a really nice job one it. During the weekends and evenings there are booths with treats and crafts.
Seriously, when are you going to take my family pictures?
You have serious skills, cousin!! Take note on Thursday, you'll have a lot to teach me.
And, dang cute outfits, on dang cute girls.
Great photos of an adorable crew. You did a great job of capturing the spirit of the day!


I think my sister said it best at my dad's funeral back in 2012, "It was not easy being my dad's daughter…" It's true. It was certainly not bad like some kids have it. I think things got better as we got older, but I can't speak for my sister on that one. Growing up with Barry Craig Isom was not easy.
Sometimes I think when a person passes on, it's easy to forget all the difficult and painful things you may have experienced with them and put all focus on the good. That's definitely where my memories go first. But I feel like I'd be leaving out a lot of the things I've become grateful for if I left out all the stuff that was hard. The hard stuff shapes us just as much as the good stuff maybe, in some cases, even more. So maybe some peeks at those things are OK too.
My dad was a Vietnam Veteran, and a good man who loved us. There was a lot of PTSD. My mom had stories from before I was born, of months he slept on the floor because the bed was too soft or he'd stay up through the night keeping watch outside in the bushes. Times he'd wake up in fighting defense to the slightest movement of the cat jumping on the bed. The jumpiness remained throughout much of my childhood. He never could sit at a restaurant with his back toward the door. We learned it was not a good idea to surprise my dad or catch him off guard.
There were a lot of times when I felt like I was being raised as a Marine. Not just the drill sergeant like shouting to clean my room or help around the house or in the shop but there was no tolerance for tears or crying, no tolerance for any backtalk. I think in a lot of ways, this has benefitted me with a bit of mental toughness I may not have otherwise had. In retrospect, tactical drills and the ability to field strip an AK-47 were fairly impressive skills for a 15-year-old cheerleader to have.
I can count on several fingers the times visiting my dad in VA mental wards, throughout my childhood and as an adult. I remember one time visiting him in the Palo Alto VA hospital, the maximum security ward, he'd gotten in trouble for trying to break out. Visiting him, he explained that he just wanted to show them how easy it was and that they had some things they needed to fix. To me, he always seemed like the normal guy in those places.
I learned a lot about independence from my dad. He was great at following his heart. Maybe that's a more positive spin on him having no tolerance for work he didn't like, or working with people he didn't respect. Or maybe, that's the exact essence of following your heart. Through my younger years, he changed jobs a lot. Through most of my teen years, my dad owned his own sand and gravel business. I remember things like making a family event of sorting through stacks of receipts getting things organized for taxes. I got summer/weekend work at times, washing giant loaders. My dad always had ideas. He was always trying new things, listening to self-improvement tapes and learning things. Like Morse code… via audio tapes… on long road trips.
There were 10 years between my parents deaths. I grew a lot closer to my dad in the years after my mom passed away. At first it was tough, he was so, so sad. He'd come hang out at my office on Fridays after his VA meetings and just sit. Occasionally he'd try to understand what I did for a living. All he really got was that I "worked on computers" but I was doing alright. Sometimes he'd stay the night at my house. We'd have long talks about business and life. Eventually, he met and married an awesome woman named Mary. Visits became a bit more sparse, but I really enjoyed them.
My dad was at my house the night before he passed on. He left that morning on his motorcycle and never made it home to Mary. In one of our last conversations, I asked him how he felt brave enough to make some of the big job shifts in his life that he made when he had a family to support. I asked if he ever worried about what might happen to us all. He said, "I didn't care if we had to live in a tent, I wanted to do work I liked doing and I knew we'd be alright." My dad made a good life for us, we didn't want for much. We never did live in a tent. He knew that if he liked what he did, the rest would work out. He cared that we had each other.
I couldn't be more grateful for the life I had growing up with Barry as my dad. Our family life was a bit different and it gave me so much that I am grateful for. It was not so much a "normal" or easy childhood but in hindsight, it was a good one and there was love.


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