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Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College and HospitalPuducherry
Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College and HospitalPuducherry
Veluswami D.,Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College and HospitalPuducherry |
Ambigai Meena B.,Sree Lakshmi Narayana Institute of Medical SciencesPuducherry |
Latha S.,Sree Lakshmi Narayana Institute of Medical SciencesPuducherry |
Gayathri Fathima I.,Sree Lakshmi Narayana Institute of Medical SciencesPuducherry |
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Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research | Year: 2015
Introduction: Taste blindness to the phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) is an inherited trait that is shown to influence our food and dietary preferences which in turn influence our body weight. Obesity is a global epidemic issue known to be on rise among the developing countries. Relating taste perception to obesity, the present study was undertaken to assess the prevalence of phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) taste blindness among obese individuals. Materials and Methods: Three hundred and fifty individuals of age group 20-40 y were recruited from the local community for the present cross sectional study. Anthropometric measurements were taken and BMI was calculated. Subjects were classified as underweight, normal, overweight and obese based on their BMI. Normal, overweight and obese individuals were then asked to taste the commercially available PTC test papers and classified as non tasters and tasters of PTC. Results: Out of 350 individuals, mean age group of 30±6.02 y, based on their BMI they were divided into 4 groups, Group A-underweight (16%), Group B-normal (35%), Group C-overweight (28%) and Group D-obese (21%) individuals. In group B, 28% were non tasters of PTC and 65% were tasters. In group C, 82% were non tasters and 13% were tasters and in Group D, 81% were non tasters and 19% were tasters of PTC. The PTC non taster phenotype individuals showed higher BMI as compared with the tasters' phenotype. Conclusion: Exploring the novel connections between taste perception and obesity would help us to gain a control over the global epidemic-Obesity, which is the crux factor for various other health problems. The study advocates the usage of PTC tasting as a reliable indicator of weight gain susceptibility. © 2015, Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research. All right reserved.
Kalaiselvan G.,Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College and HospitalPuducherry |
Dongre A.R.,Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College and HospitalPuducherry |
Murugan V.,Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College and HospitalPuducherry
Indian Journal of Tuberculosis | Year: 2014
Background: As per the Medical Council of India (MCI), the posting in the Chest and TB department is elective during internship. Hence, they lack hands on exposure to various components of RNTCP programme. This gap in treating TB patients by using RNTCP guidelines may be bridged by sensitizing the interns through early exposure of medical interns to training programmes. Objective: The workshop was conducted and evaluated, 1) To know learners' immediate reaction and 2) To know its effects on their learning and practice. Methods: A series of training workshop on RNTCP guidelines was organized for Interns by the Core-committee of the State Task Force (STF), RNTCP and Department of Community Medicine, Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College and Hospital (SMVMCH), Puducherry, during January2012-November 2012. A Pre and Post test self-administrated questionnaire, immediate feedback and other open-ended feedback after six months was obtained from Interns to know its effect on their clinical practice. Results: The pre and post test mean scores were highly significant (p<0.001). In the analysis of feedback, the consensus score for all the responses was above 75%. As per the responses of the feedback from interns taken after six months, the three broad categories of common responses from the manual content analysis emerged were: 1) Effect of training in patient care, 2) Acquaintance of RNTCP Guidelines, 3) Future Plan of application of lessons learned. Conclusion: This training programme has been well received by the medical interns and has now been incorporated as a regular activity for the Interns posted in the Department of Community Medicine. © 2014, Tuberculosis Association of India. All rights reserved.
Selvaraj N.,Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College and HospitalPuducherry |
Adhimoolam M.,Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College and HospitalPuducherry |
Perumal D.K.,Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College and HospitalPuducherry |
Rajamohammed M.A.,Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College and HospitalPuducherry
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research | Year: 2015
Background: The available conventional antiepileptics do not afford cure or prophylactic treatment and henceforth there is always a quest to explore new targets for management of convulsions. In this perspective, dihydropyridine calcium channel blockers have been investigated in various animal models of epilepsy. Lercanidipine, a newer dihydropyridine calcium antagonist, is a potential candidate with its favourable lipid profile and longer duration of action. Objective: (1) To evaluate the anticonvulsant effect of lercanidipine alone and in combination with standard drug in adult male Swiss albino mice. (2) To evaluate the muscle relaxant and spontaneous locomotor activity of lercanidipine in adult male Swiss albino mice. Materials and Methods: Adult male Swiss albino mice weighing 20-30g were used to study the anticonvulsant, muscle relaxant and spontaneous locomotor activity using electroconvulsometer, rotarod and actophotometer apparatus respectively. The mice were divided into six groups of six animals in each group. Group 1 and 2 served as control (vehicle treated) and standard group respectively. Standard drug used to evaluate anticonvulsant effect is phenytoin sodium 25 mg/kg I.P. whereas muscle relaxant activity and locomotor activity is diazepam 4 mg/kg I.P., Group 3 and 4 received lercanidipine 1 and 3 mg/kg I.P., respectively. Anticonvulsant models included group 5 and 6 and they were given combination of phenytoin sodium 12.5 mg/kg I.P., with lercanidipine 1 and 3 mg/kg i.p, respectively. Abolition or reduction of tonic hind limb extension was considered as index of anticonvulsant activity whereas the balancing time of the animals in rod was recorded to asses muscle relaxant activity. The locomotor activity was recorded for 5 minutes. The data were analysed with one-way Analysis of Variance followed by post-hoc 'Dunnett t-test'. Results: Lercanidipine given alone in a dose of 1 and 3 mg/kg had significantly reduced the tonic hind limb extension. Combination of lercanidipine (3 mg/kg) and phenytoin had offered 100% protection. The results also revealed that the test drug didn't impair the motor coordination and locomotor activity in mice. Conclusion: The present study had demonstrated that lercanidipine could be potential novel candidate for the treatment of convulsions. © 2015, Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research. All right reserved.


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Inventing Science Fiction
By admin on Nov 17, 2009 | In Welcome
Science Fiction has done more than entertained and informed, it has invented. There are a number of imagined devices in science fiction stories which have become reality. The value of a form of entertainment which inspires new things is incalculable.
A link use to be here which was relevant back in 2009, that link is no longer available and relevant, however I can assure you that science fiction has inspired way more that 15 devices. One in the novel 1984, by George Orwell comes to mind for the term Doublethink as an example.
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Assembly of a cyclo-Tetrastibinotetraphosphonium Tetracation by Reductive Elimination†
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Square deal: Reactions of SbF3 with Me3SiOSO2CF3 produce Sb3+ and [Sb-F]2+ cations, which form complexes with two or three Me3P ligands. Subsequent reductive elimination of diphosphonium or fluorophosphonium cations from the complexes give the folded square cyclo-[(Me3P)4Sb4][OTf]4. Formation of the tetracation framework reveals new redox chemistry for Sb.


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For the love of
Bach, to discover Ysaÿe
It was ANTJE
WEITHAAS' own idea to jointly
record Johann Sebastian Bach's six
sonatas and partitas for solo
violin in conjunction with Eugène
Ysaÿe's six solo violin sonatas.
"The works by Bach are rather
well-known", she remarks. "But
what about the Ysaÿe sonatas?
Ysaÿe is invariably shoved into
the virtuoso corner, but as a
composer he is to be taken quite
seriously!" - Now the No. 3:
1720, in his new post as
Kapellmeister in Köthen, he made a
new copy of all the sonatas and
partitas in his most beautiful
handwriting for his own use, and
in order to present his skill to
others. Bach plotted the best
points for page-turning , while
thoughtfully placing ornaments and
bowings in the score. When
his employer Prince Leopold took
the court orchestra to play for
him while he stayed at the health
resort in Carlsbad, Bach finished
the score there. "What a fortune
for us violinists!" exclaims Antje
Weithaas: on this recording she
has followed the composer's
precise instructions. "I have
applied all his original trills
and bowings, purposefully avoiding
mere ease and comfort; that's the
only way to make the music sound
truly lively." (Excerpt from the
Booklet notes)
" ….Nevertheless
it is particularly exciting and
refreshing to hear Weithaas in
true isolation with her beautiful
and varied tone (on her modern
Greiner violin which she plays
with extraordinary skill of
compensation, especially when
maintaining the heavy poise of the
Chaconne) and absolutely
meticulous technique. Most of all,
you can hear her complex thinking
clearly evidenced in the light but
ever-present dance lilt in all
Bach's movements, despite their
musical and intellectual
gravities. ….."(The
Gramophone, March 2015)
Masked Impressions
work's high opus number should not
mislead us: Mendelssohn composed
Sextet for piano and five strings
when he was only fifteen years
old. Since he did not hold this
early composition in high regard,
it was only published after his
death. . .Here one will
not yet find innovative writing of
the caliber of what Mendelssohn
would soon produce in the Octet or
in the Overture to "A Midsummer
Night's Dream". .
Starting in the 1980s, Penderecki
abandoned all avant-garde
tendencies and has been
increasingly using the music of
the 19th and early 20th centuries
as his models. This
likewise applies to the Clarinet
Sextet, premièred in the year 2000
in Vienna .... With a
generous playing time of 35
minutes, the work presents itself
as a reminiscence of great Slavic
composers of the 20th century.
Here one can easily detect
Penderecki's penchant for
Stravinsky, even more so for
Bartók and, above all, for
Shostakovich ....
(Excerpts from the line notes by
Pedro Obiera)
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"Nielsen's music sets itself apart
from the prevailing bathos of Late
Romanticism thanks to its linear
melodies and overall transparency.
In his compositional style he
displayed skillful mastery of
counterpoint and modern rhythm
while incorporating elements of
Gregorian chant and of folk music.
Accused at times of
detached coolness, the composer
once justified his approach with
the following words: "Why do we
have to go on proving ad nauseam
that a beautifully sounding third
is to be regarded as a gift of
God, a fourth as a true
experience, and a fifth as the
utmost joy?" We likewise
enter the circus ring with Sergey
Prokofiev's Quintet Op. 39 for the
unusual combination of oboe,
clarinet, violin, viola, and
double bass.Prokofiev
wrote this work in 1924 under the
title "Trapeze" as a ballet for
choreographer Boris Romanov and
his itinerant dance troupe: music
depicting "scenes from the circus
life". With its scoring
reduced to the bare essentials,
the work was designed to be
readily performable in all sortsof
circumstances and locations.
Prokofiev, nevertheless, ended up
composing a technically ambitious
work, sporting a quirky character
and "several rhythmic
difficulties", as he readily
admitted himself."(Excerpts
from the liner notes by Matthias
George Enescu was Romania's true
musical ambassador. He belonged to
the first generation of composers
born in the relatively young
Kingdom of Romania, but left his
native land as a sevenyear-old
child prodigyto study in Vienna,
then in Paris: from then on, he
led a cosmopolitan life.
He would soon become a world-famed
celebrity: first as a violinist,
soon also as a composer,pianist
and conductor. Yehudi Menuhin, his
most renowned pupil, referred to
Enescu as the most extraordinary
human being he ever encountered.
(Excerpts from the line notes
by Johannes Jansen)
Echo of the Apocalypse
"What we are about to hear is not
a performance by conceptual
artists who have decided to set a
discarded Bechstein or Blüthner on
fire – no, we are going to hear
piano pieces by Galina Ivanovna
words of the renowned Dutch music
critic quoted above offer a
precise, vivid description of the
musical output of one of the most
enigmatic composers of our time.
is hard to apply the usual
musicological jargon to
Ustvolskaya's music. She was not
the apocalypse of 20th century;
she was its echo. Thanks to
providence, she was never sent to
one of Stalin's concentration
camps: destiny allowed her to live
in seclusion as an artist never
blinded byhopes of success.
In choosing solitude,
she was by no means a Romantic
"hero" fleeing fromreality,
overtly proud of fulfilling a
mission or playing an exclusive
role. Her seclusion,instead, was
the bitter loneliness of a noble
soul trembling in view of the
world's utter imperfection. .
."(Excerpts from the liner notes
by Iosif Raiskin)


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Holy Week Reflections
This Sunday is the beginning of what the church refers to as Holy Week. This week is considered holy because it commemorates the last week in the life of Jesus. In many ways, this week communicates in a nutshell the core of the gospel and the heart of our faith as Christians. Some Christians feel uncomfortable observing the days of this week because the days seem to be identified with a particular branch of the church about which they have marked differences. For others, the primary identifying branch of the church notwithstanding, the week is a powerful experience to remember these significant days, to focus on Jesus' teaching, and to feel the highs and lows that he feels. I believe that there is great spiritual power in connecting to the week.
Palm or Passion Sunday commemorates Jesus' entry into Jerusalem. This is a day to acknowledge along with the people of Jerusalem the messianic fulfillment of Jesus. Up to this time, Jesus has been resistant to allow the demons or others to declare the purpose of his coming. Now that the time is near, Jesus is no longer hesitant. He clearly encourages the declarations of the people which provokes the ire of the religious leaders. When they complain that Jesus shouldn't allow the people to say such things, Jesus rebukes them: If these people don't proclaim it, the rocks will.
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of Holy Week observe the activity and teaching of Jesus in the temple and in Bethany with his disciples. These days highlight Jesus cleansing the temple of the high priest's loan sharks, Jesus being anointed with expensive oil, and warnings about the frightful days to come for those who reject Jesus and his invitation to redemption and life. These days tend to be thoughtful, contemplative days to ponder the hard, challenging words of Jesus.
Maundy Thursday commemorates the last night that Jesus spends with his disciples. The word "Maundy" is from the Latin word mandatum, which means "command." It describes this night because Jesus tells His disciples in John 13:34, A new command I give you: Love one another. On this night we come face to face with the final words of Jesus: Love. We are reminded that the gospel is about love—God's love for all people culminating in the death of Christ and our love for God that is most clearly revealed in our love for others, particularly others who are difficult for us to love. Maundy Thursday ends with the arrest, trial and torture of Jesus and the darkness of love crucified on the cross.
Good Friday is a day focused on the cross. This day is a day of darkness and pain for followers of Jesus. This is a day of agony, confusion and loss for followers of Jesus. On this day we envision the disciples walking away from the cross dejected, demoralized, anxious and uncertain. All of their hopes and dreams are dead. The last three plus years wasted. Evil wins again. Power crushes the vulnerable. Goodness and righteousness is for losers. This is a day in which our faith wavers, our risks of love seem untenable, and our thoughts of joy seem meaningless.
Holy Saturday or Silent Saturday is a day for waiting, hoping, praying that what took place on Friday might not be the end. This is day when our trust is put to the test: despite what we witness the day before, despite what we know to be true about evil and Satan and crucifixion, despite the limp, lifeless form of God's Son. Is it possible that something miraculous might still happen? Is it possible that God, who we believe is greater, will reveal his power? Is it possible?
Easter is the highest holy day of the year. Easter begins with an image of the women going to the tomb and finding it empty. This day celebrates what we had hoped all along: that the cross is not the end of the story, that the tomb is not the final word, that death is not greater than life. On this day we celebrate Jesus' life that makes it possible for us to have life. This is a day that changes everything! This is a day that makes all other days—Christmas, Ash Wednesday, Good Friday—meaningful.
The Church has given us a powerful tool for connecting with these monumental moments. I am convinced that the celebration of Easter reaches a deeper level for us when we engage ourselves in the days that lead up to Easter. When we experience something of pain, heartache, loss and defeat of the rest of the week, Easter morning feels like…well, it feels like…resurrection. I encourage you to embrace the ancient church's shaping of this week that it might be a powerful spiritual pilgrimage in our journey with Christ.


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More boobs than I ever need in my life.
Sometimes...sometimes when I am looking through my Deviant art notifications from certain DAZ 3d/Poser/3D art groups, I feel so...so very discouraged.
There is nothing wrong with nude art, in my opinion. That's not the problem. The problem I see is the MULTITUDE of exploitative renders featuring women being in various states of...distress, either suggesting rape, or out right sexual assault being rendered and passed off as "BDSM/Kink/Fetish art." Some of it--anyway--others write these LOVELY little "stories" for these delightful renders and it's 100% clear there is no safe word, no consenting, nothing consensual at all.
And then there's the 540334023 images of over blown tits and ass. Or nudes. Or bikinis. And out of those 3232392039023 images I might see TWO images actually tastefully portraying homosexuality, non gender conformity, or trans representation that isn't outright porn or even art directly for women (be they straight or not) and I remind myself that, those are the good ones.
I'm not sure where I was going with this. Just--it's disheartening. I think it really detracts from some of beautiful, breath-taking, artistic, emotive nudes I have seen buried in out-right porn and some days I wonder if it's worth continuing.
Then I remember I ain't doing this for them. The whole point of me starting to learn 3d art was to make the art FOR ME that *I* wanted to see.
Just hafta keep reminding myself of that last part. Over and over and over and over and over again.
Today I am exactly 3 years old & having a tantrum--
-- about the heat.
See, I knew, and I know, how hot it gets in Florida in the area I live in, during summer. And summer can start, really, anytime after Feb. here. The winters...oh the winters are SO NICE. The winter's here remind me of constant spring/summer in canada. Zero to low humidity, 70ish to middling 70's degrees. Windy or gentle windy days and it's so nice. Night times can drop to the 60's and occasionally 50's and below where in I actually MIGHT need to toss an extra blanket on the bed because I've had all the windows in the house wide open with that breeze blowing through.
But then...but then summer comes. And it's not a gentle thing, either. You get no foreplay and no warning. Just one day you wake up and your weather app / favorite weather website tells you it's 87 with humidity over 60% and you are literally covered in a fine sheen of gross sweat, EVERYWHERE, within five seconds of leaving the house. The breeze is completely gone and the humid heat just drones and drones on you.
It really doesn't help that I am fat, too. This kind of heat doesn't encourage me to actually go out and DO ANYTHING.
Today is a summer day. The humidity is oppressing. I went outside earlier this morning to enjoy my coffee and watch the birds and all I could do was sit and sweat and moan dramatically.
I have to go grocery shopping soon and I JUS DUN WANNNNNNAAAAA. Yes, I am just going to a car. From the ac in the car, to an AC cooled farmer's market type grocery store, back to car, back to home...But there's something about Florida's humidity that is just OPPRESSIVE AF in the summer that literally hoover-sucks all will to move, breathe, and be when you are in it for any small amount of time.
So I am sitting here writing and complaining and bitchin' and moanin' about it instead of getting off my ass and going out into it because I am 3 and having a temper tantrum and I just DUN WANNA ADULT TODAY NOOOOOO. :(
Period Cat, Period cat, does whatever a...period...cat...does?
Okay, now that I have suitably frightened the shit out of those who are squeamish or not willing to read and or discuss anything that has to do with monthly lady business...
I have a period cat.
Mel, you ask, what the hell is a period cat? And I'll say: I'm so glad you asked. LET ME TELL YOU.
Usually, women are much smarter about their periods than I, on the whole. I didn't get into actually trying to track my monthly RED WEDDING until a few YEARS ago--when I realized that HOLY GOD SOME SMART MOFOS made TRACKING APPS! I COULD GET WARNED BEFORE THE DESTROYER CAME TO TOWN! Or at the very least, since my period is about as predictable as I am--a general consensus of when and where I should be ready to shut down and feel like I am dying for a week so I can plan and prepare.
I'm not sure when it happened. And it took me a long time to clue in. But--here's the thing: we have five cats. The oldest, and crankiest, and craziest is named Flora. Flora is a tiny little black cat who the Vets she goes to--to my CONSTANT delight (I love it), have sweetly nicknamed her SATAN KITTY. We think Flora is half siamese. She has that very, very, very distinctive siamese nose and triangle head--but is all black (or all very deep brown in direct sunlight.) She is a very nutty, bitey, scratchy, hissy loveable cat. Not all cats are super affectionate love bugs, and we at Casa De Pence are ok with that. Hell, Shawn owned a cat before we got married--and had her years after--that hid 18 hours of the day behind the bed and only came out to let us pet her, use the litter box, eat, and hide again.
Flora is particular. She WANTS your attention and affection, yes. But only how SHE wants it. And the secret is: she never tells us how. Somedays you can pet her head and scritch the side of her face for hours until she turns into a liquid. Some days she allows you to pet her for EXACTLY 4.5 pets and then she freaks out and wants to devour your soul. That's just how she is.
But for the last few years, she's taken, to what I thought was randomly, sleeping directly on my pillow a few nights out of the month. Sometimes its just one night. Sometimes it's two-three. And when she does, she will LITERALLY take up the entire pillow by loafing smack dab in the middle leaving me no room but a corner to either nuzzle her forepaws, or have her ass warm the top of my head. And she WON'T budge.
After she has done this catly duty, she won't be seen on the bed again for another month-ish.
And recently I realized that she has been doing this, on the dot, 1-3 days before I get my period.
Literally, if she is on my pillow, I don't even have to look at my period tracker app anymore because if I see her on my pillow I know THE STORMS A'COMIN'.
Some people use the calendar. Some people use a tracker. Some people don't use anything. Me? I get a period cat.
Mumble Mumble I should be asleep Mumble Mumble
Allllright, sweet, look at me already almost forgetting to write here.
It's not that I actually lead an exciting life however let me promise you that. I think I am the queen of, "no thank you I will stay home and clean my house / watch netflix / rp /not be social."
I've also been bad at doing some render / 3d art work and I need to fix that or at least, try soon.
p.s. This weekend marks about 4 weeks of eating healthy. We're giving the last hurrah to alchy-hol until my birthday and also going to quit smoking.
Once more.
At last.
How's this week treating you?
What I Stuffed in my Facehole Today: Supper
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So today, everyone in my house is Boo boo kitty fuck. Husband? Boo boo kitty fuck. Quaker parrot? Boo Boo Kitty Fuck. Everyone of the five cats? All Boo boo kitty fucks.
No, I don't know why. No, I can't explain why I like it or find it hilarious. Just go with it.
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It's been 85 years.
No, no it hasn't, but it feels like it. As I said in my NEW NEW JUST EDITED BRAND NEW sticky that I think the last time I did any journaling that was remotely consistent was back in 2014. Social media, man. Social media. It got me. Also, LJ just kept fucking up so badly that I started to find my friends list more and more inactive that I had to dodge tumbleweeds every time I went to look at my friends entries.
Also, well--most of them had already meandered over to either the Face of the Book, or my favorite--google plus.
Also, also, go me--I discovered Tumblr. And although Tumblr has a huge list of weirdness and faults, I really adored it there because if you got the right followers and followed the right people, your dash turned out to be fucking hilarity, fan crack, hot fan pics, and everything in between. Though my personal Tumblr's been sorta forgotten now because I DISCOVERED RP THERE.
I can't wrap my brain around the amount of changed since 2014. We had four cats--adopted a fifth named Mr. Chubblepenny. Mr. Chubble penny ended up very sick and passing away in my arms. (Cheerful, I know.) We have five birds, too--but Chicken and Nibblet both passed away very suddenly.
Then last year we got yet, again, our fifth cat--Miss Tinkletonne, Tinkles for short and she was our first Tortie kitten and HO BOY WE WERE NOT PREPARED FOR TORTIE 'TUDE AND THE ENERGY. But she was, and still is, the sweetest too. So every time she fucks shit up off the edge of something, I can't help but awwww. She's almost a year and she is still the TINIEST cat. Her head is smaller than my fist and her peets (paw feets) are no bigger than my thumb. ....oh god she has me SO WRAPPED.
Uhh--lesse! My husband went from having to go into work, to getting to work from home!!!! I happily proclaim that I get to have my Therapy Husband with me at all times now.
Also, I've been "changing my lifestyle," (we don't say diet in this house or else we turn into slavering fatties with huge cravings and eat anything that moves.) Lots of veggies, lots of lighter protein, lots of lower fat, NO WHITE THINGS. AKA: no white pasta, no white rice, no white flour (and no bread of any kind.) No sugar (except for naturally occurring in veggies and fruits), lotsa organic shifts, lotsa chickpeas an' chicken and spinach and just green shit in general. It's good. My sugars have been steady at 140 when before they were 200ishness. Which makes it SO WEIRD because like, my body has been so used to higher sugars that it's now like ??????? WHAT DO WE DO THE SUGARS ARE LOWER FREAK OUT! PANIC! BEHAVE LIKE YOU ARE HYPERGLYCEMIA and I check my blood sugars and are like, "No, dude. Chill. We aren't. This is what normal's like."
Fun times.
ALSO HI PEOPLE WHO JUST ADDED ME I literally do not know who you are because it has been ten centuries and don't recognize user names. Say hi? Tell me who you are?
Anywayyyyy, I think this entry is a hot mess, like myself, but a good attempt at getting back into the swing of things. WOOO.
When you can't run, you crawl. And when you can't crawl...
Life is difficult, for everyone. We each struggle day-to-day with our issues and problems. We have bills. We have loss. We have joy. We have love, we have each other, or we have just ourselves to lean on. Financially, it's tight for a lot of people I know and love. They're struggling to come up with mortgage payments, car payments and groceries.
Imagine, however, this: you've always struggled. Your whole entire life has been a struggle. A struggle to get out of a place that poisons you. Away from a situation that may have broken you. Imagine the strength and the self-will, the pride it takes and breaks—to get out on your own and find your way. Imagine that, now you have a loved one. You have a child. You have a friend that offers you a home to rent and while things were never, ever perfect—you think, "Finally. A step in the right direction. I can do this."
And then imagine everything that could go wrong, does go wrong.
In between the good things day to day, there are cracks.
And so, I have made up my mind.
I can't cure this. I can't do anything to help the family where I am. I can't comfort them so far away.
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Premeditated birthday
~~Hug someone you don't normally hug (but are comfortable in doing.)
~~Remind someone that you love them by doing something small but recognizable.
~~Donate cans of pet food, used but clean towels, blankets, kitty litter, dog/cat toys, garbage bags to your local no-kill shelter and or rescue-er.
~~If you get a pet or are looking for one around this time, DON'T SHOP. ADOPT!
~~Send me a birthday selfie on July 2nd of you wearing something pink.
~~Anything, anything at all from this wish list: http://amzn.com/w/21CLMEYFWS8ZM
In an effort to make a better game stream and be able to play more games, I am faced with the reality that my computerybits are starting to age. With the newest $1000 dolla dolla septic bill, all plans at upgrading are put off indefinitely. Now I DON'T expect anyone to actually buy any of this. Really. But you know I am putting it out there because I can dream and dreams are like sparkle-farting unicorns: you just never know.
~~Graphics card upgrade
~~Stand alone mic with pop shield (for streams)
~~Processor upgrade: for better games, better graphics, better game streams
~~Additional RAM, for recording gaming and to become more powerful than any fart-sparkling unicorn ever.
~~Digital Downloads/Collectors edition/Computer games
~~All of these can be found in my Mels Computery Daydream wish list here: http://amzn.com/w/2O40DYJ6C785W
So there you have it. These are the things I dream. (Other than riding across the sky on a pink glitter carpet shoving shinies in peoples eyes.)
Mother's Day
There is always a light.
Right beside your favorite rocking chair in the middle of my mind,
cluttered like your favorite table.
You filled your table with nail-file swords and lip-gloss unicorns,
nail polish knights that came to life because
these were 'big girl,' things.
And as I lay back,
your arm a pillow for my dreams, the rocking chair's sway
making the light a bobbing lantern carried in the night--
I thought I could be like this forever.
The first time I saw the needle I marveled.
How this plastic numbered vial with metal entered your body
to save you everyday, as if it were some soul-resurrecting insulin god
come down to touch its gloried warrior on the battle field filled with
test strips. Jabs. Alcohol wipes.
I laughed when they made you test on an orange.
There was light streaming from the hospital door when we left.
It made the curls of your hair into angel halos.
The first time I came home and you weren't there, my father played it off.
A chance to relax, he said.
We'll have fun and visit her as much as we can.
Just keep the house clean.
When you came home you spoke of sugar-comas as if you were shopping for new shoes.
How the EMT's with you began shaking you and calling your name.
How you said it felt like you were at the bottom of a lake, seeing their faces
wavering through distant light.
The last picture I have of you
staring blankly ahead, above you.
Your skin reminds me of jellyfish beached; there's no color.
I am afraid of your arms.
I am startled by your legs.
The coffee cup in your hand has more substance in the entire picture than you do,
it looks more real than the woman laying prone.
I don't know who she is.
I don't know how to keep looking at this picture.
Dad asked me to write something for your funeral.
As if asking a daughter to pen something quick for her dead mother could ever be easy.
As if a single word could erase the fact that I won't be paying out my asshole for flowers sent from one country to the next and not even care because I love you, and,
that's what daughters do.
As if a single speech represented all the mistakes I made, shooting us into the past where a picture of you, laying blue-lipped and grey shell-skinned didn't send me into a panic attack that kept me up for three days straight.
I never wrote anything. I never wrote anything good enough.
He said he read something of mine, anyway.
He said there were over one hundred people who packed into a church made centuries ago to handle no more than fifty to hear him speak.
To remember you.
He said you would have loved what I wrote.
And I remember.
There is always a light.
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Christmas Card & Amazon wishlists
Hello Santa's elves and Scrooge's humbugs.
This year, like every year--I would like to send you cards. I have a card-address-sharing post up already with screened comments for leaving your address or an email for you to contact me. You can find thaaaaaaaaaaat heeeeeeeere:
( http://elf-fu.livejournal.com/703731.
Next up, I've done a few bits of shopping on the Amazon wishlists of friends we could afford to give to so far. I'm trying to stagger it out this year.
If you have an amazon.com wishlist (with your list profiles filled out, otherwise I can't send you anything) PLEASE feel free to share with me your wishlists!
And for those curious, here is mine IT HAS A LOT OF STUFF SORRY OKAY ITS A LIST OF WISHES I DON'T EXPECT ANYTHING <33 MELS CHRISTMOOOOS AMAZON WISHLIST
( http://amzn.com/w/21CLMEYFWS8ZM )
It's that time of year again - Christmas Card post - (Yes! I always start it early!)
Hello Dreamwidth & Livejournal!
Every year, I try and send out a real, old-fashioned christmas card with some sort of scribbly message and christmas greetings on it and send it out to anyone who would like them. Because a)Snail mail is awesome. 2.) Nobody should go through life without getting sparkly christmas cards!
So this year, if you would like a Christmas card from yours truly, please reply to this post ( All comments are screened and will remain screened so only I can see them) with your address--or message me via Dreamwidth or LiveJournal so I can write you a messy note in a twinkly card of Melmass cheer!
If you would rather note comment or not send a PM via DW or LJ, you can also send me your address via email: email@example.com
I know that some of you are a little side-eyeballing the Christmas stuff that seems to come earlier and earlier this year; and I know I am contributing. But usually I get a great response to these (which makes it awesome), and I like starting this early so I can make sure I get everyone!
A beautiful christmas sorrow.
In November, I begin listening to Christmas songs, because I love Christmas. It's the one holiday in the year I feel like I can do things for people who might really need them. I send cards, I write notes in them, I hand tinsel and watch, enchanted by the way the lights are reflected and become glowing in each piece.
I hum Christmas carols well after and into January. I put my tree up as soon as I can.
To me, my thankfulness for having what I do, the friends I do, my family now translates into the spirit of thanksgiving AND Christmas well.
But there is a small cloud across the moon of my holidays.
My mother died on December 11th. As October passes, this quiet feeling of missing a giant limb from my heart begins and grows.
I have a difficult time not crying during some Christmas songs.
"I'll be home for Christmas," wrecks me.
Remembering my family as I was a little girl around my grandmother's tree--and I feel that strange prick at the back of my eyes and the heat-burn of tears down the middle of my throat into my chest. I see beautiful lights, and feel sorrow mingle with each twinkling of them.
It's a hard balance. I will laugh and be enthusiastic and wear my silly hats. I will talk about gift giving and share amazon wish lists and send cards. I will smile.
But I will do it all without my mother. With the distinct, inescapable fact that she is dead. That there's no return from that. That there's no way for me to show her the tree, the house, our new cats. That there's no way she will ever see Disney's Christmas celebration. That, she's dead. There's no coming back from that. I can't call her to apologize for the things I have done. I can't tell her I am sorry I didn't take her last hospitalization seriously and didn't press to speak to her, maybe just one time.
That I didn't have one last Christmas with her.
So my stomach churns, but I smile crooked, a mix of sadness and hope when I hear a carol and see the decorations already out in the store.
My husband waits patiently for any tears. My cats know something is off already.
Christmas these last few years has become such a reflection of everything I have, had, and should have learned to keep. It has turned into a beautiful sorrow that I embrace willingly every year.
Because I'd have it no other way.
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I didn't finish Flash Fiction month, as per usual. But I did end up writing a few short stories.
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Ye olde faithful. Chardonnay 100% from grand crus in Cotes des Blancs. Sweet perfume shows ripe apple, brioche, caramel and cookie dough. Has an appeal albeit sweet. Creamy mousse with bright bubbles, green apple crunch, flecks of ginger biscuit, good length, mouthwatering citrussy finish. Great aperitif style, but will find further use! Has a lot of appeal.2016 - 2030
Disgorged roughly a year ago after 10 years of maturation on lees in the cellars, this wine has a complex nature with precise focus and purity. The chalky edge is strong and there s a bright chardonnay citrus and melon note, with lovely, gentle, haunting, toasty autolysis. The palate has terrific acidity and finely beaded texture, and some crisp acid drive that really lingers long through the finish. Superb Champagne, really striking, on point.Good Wine Guide 2013
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Ram-Leela - External Reviews
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Thumbs up by Subhash K. Jha , Apun Ka Choice ..."Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela" is the most vital romantic musical in the last five years. To experience it is to serenade the divine. To miss it would be a crime... full review
Thumbs up by Yashika Mathur, Apun Ka Choice ...The strong point of the "Ram Leela" album is the soft romantic songs. Bhansali has put his best 'musical' foot forward. It deserves to be heard and enjoyed.... full review
Thumbs up by Taran Adarsh, Bollywood Hungama ...It's a work of outstanding artistry. No two opinions about it. A masterpiece by the master craftsman Sanjay Leela Bhansali! ... full review
Thumbs up by Khalid Mohamed, Deccan Chronicle ... Looking drop dead gorgeous and going at her part with a wallop, she's the prime asset of 'Ram-Leela'. Eminently worth a dekko.... full review
Thumbs up by Smita, Desi Martini ...A beautifully crafted, well paced film with a strong story and great acting and sets. What more can I say... full review
Thumbs up by Nikhil Arora, Desi Martini ...Ram-leela works due to three reasons: Deepika Padukone, Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Deepika Padukone. ... full review
Thumbs up by Rony D'costa, Desi Martini ...Music, set design and sizzling chemistry ki ras leela is what Bhansali's Ram Leela is all about ... full review
Thumbs up by Ameetbhuvan, Desi Martini ... For all its visual splendor, Ram Leela has no particular point to prove, save for the fact that Bhansali and excess are synonymous ... full review
Thumbs up by Sarita Tanwar, DNA ...This is a film by a true romantic, who is brimming with crazy passion. If you share that with him, watch it.... full review
Thumbs up by Swayamsrestha Kar, fullhyd.com ...Go watch Ram-Leela. Although hardly perfect, it is a beautiful impassioned ode to the bard we all love, and deserves to be watched.... full review
Thumbs up by Rajeev Masand, IBN Live ...In the end it is Bhansali - credited for screenplay, editing, music, and direction - who leaves his stamp all over the film.... full review
Thumbs up Indicine ...Ram Leela is back to form stuff from the showman of the post-Subhas Ghai era. He knocks it out of the park with his Gujarati Romeo Juliet adaptation.... full review
Thumbs up by Mohar Basu, koimoi ...the film despite its ostentatious feel is at core a fierce love story enacted effectively by Ranveer and Deepika. Putting up an astonishingly prodigious chemistry, the duo pull through the film with might... full review
Thumbs up by Shubha Shetty-Saha, MiD DAY ...Ram-Leela is definitely a unique, deserving nothing but the big screen experience.... full review
Thumbs up by Jaidev Hemmady, Movie Talkies ...If passionate love stories rock your world, Ram Leela is a must watch!... full review
Thumbs up by Mansha Rastogi, Now Running.com ...Goliyon Ki Rasleela Ram-Leela has brilliance written all over it. One of Sanjay Leela Bhansali's finest. Yes, there are flaws but it isn't said for no reason that imperfections make a thing more real... full review
Thumbs up by Lidia Ostepeev , Planet Bollywood ...A team of choreographers was responsible for these beautiful sequences among them - Ganesh Acharya, Samir Tanna, Arsh Tanna, Vishnu Deva and Terrence Lewis. ... full review
Thumbs up by Sonia Chopra, Sify Movies ...The cinematography by Ravi Varman matches step with Bhansali's vision, the performances are beautiful, and the chemistry will keep you riveted.... full review
Thumbs up by Meena Iyer, Times of India ...Deepika is breathtaking and in top form. Ranveer displays his six packs and histrionics with fair ease... full review
Thumbs up by Rummana Ahmed, yahoo! India ...Goliyon Ka Raasleela Ram-leela' is visually spectacular but the love story makes little impression.... full review
Thumbs up by Gayatri Sankar, ZEENEWS.COM ...Sanjay Leela Bhansali's films have always been high on passion. His films have given us visual references to his incredible imagination and storytelling prowess. And the mise-en-scene has always reflected his fetish for perfection!... full review
So-So by Pooja Rao, Bolly Spice ...Ram-Leela, the thrill of being a fulfilling movie experience. Consuming, thoroughly entertaining, with little unexpected surprises and twists that keep you engaged for most part of it, Ram-Leela is well worth a watch.u... full review
So-So by Namrata Thakker, Bollywood Life ... Don't expect too much and you'll be satisfied after watching the film... full review
So-So Daily Bhaskar ... A lust story amid bloodshed & Bhansali's extravagance ... full review
So-So by Piyasree Dasgupta, FirstPost ... Ram Leela is almost like that chick-flick pretending to be noir, or a noir killed by its secret wish to be a romantic musical. For all its beauty, it's a baffling film.... full review
So-So by Shubhra Gupta, indian express ...Ram-Leela' creates a couple that ignites the screen, and most of the time when these two are on screen, you keep watching.... full review
So-So by Sanjukta Sharma, Live Mint ...The lead pair is played radiantly by Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone. Singh seems to fit neatly into the Bhansali scheme of histrionics... full review
So-So by Divya Solgama, MoviezADDA ...On overall basis a decent comeback from the ace film maker, though not in his best form. But due to average screenplay, tiring length and connectivity with the theme of the film, viewers will end up with little bit of disappointment. Thus, would sum it up by saying that this time 'leela toh acchi rachi lekin ram wali baat nahin thi'... full review
So-So by Karan Anshuman, Mumbai Mirror ...So can we reward a film for the way it looks, superlative acting, and a director who knows exactly what he's doing despite the indulgence in the writing department... full review
Thumbs down by Baradwaj Rangan, Blogical Conclusion, The New Sunday Express ... Ram-Leela is so generic, it could have been made by anyone with the sense to hire a good cinematographer and art director. After a while, there's nothing to see except the calligraphy on the curtains and the murals on the walls. Bhansali, earlier, had vision; now he just has visuals.... full review
Thumbs down by Bobby Sing, Bobby Talks Cinema.com ...RAM-LEELA - Bhansali's another self-obsessed film, which is visually stunning with few notable performances but how many times I am supposed to watch the same story again & again. ... full review
Thumbs down Cinemaa Online ...It happens with all Sanjay Leela Bhansali's films—they are extravagant, flamboyant, loud, the unoriginal content packaged into Incredible India ad style visuals... full review
Thumbs down by Aneela Zeb Babar, Desi Martini ...Apt that a movie calling itself Goliyo Ki Rasleela wants me to put a goli through my head. Or at least a Saridon ki goli ... full review
Thumbs down by Deepa Deosthalee, Film Impressions ...Although objectively speaking, he's right. What's Ram Leela if not an amalgam of Shantaram and Kondke channelled through Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at the designer village nautanki?... full review
Thumbs down by Rachit Gupta, Filmfare ...Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-leela is an illogical love tale dressed up in opulence. A classic case of looks can be deceptive... full review
Thumbs down by Martin D'Souza, Glamsham.com ...Apart from the lead pair, Supriya Pathak, Gulshan Devaiah and Richa Chadda stand out in their respective roles. ... full review
Thumbs down by Saibal Chatterjee, NDTV ...Goliyon ki Raasleela Ram-Leela is all body and no soul. ... full review
Thumbs down by Raja Sen, Rediff ...At one point in this silly, wasteful, loud film with many a shifting accent, Ranveer Singh's Ram, a leading man addicted to selfies, takes a picture of himself and Deepika's Leela, proclaiming that it be announced immediately across Twitter (!) that Ram-Leela are now one.... full review
Thumbs down by Karan Bali, Upper Stall ...Finally, for all its visual and technical strengths and some fine performances, Goliyon ki Raasleela Ram-Leela fails to dig itself out of the hole it creates for itself by taking on an overtly familiar and hackneyed scenario and just not being able to do enough with it. ... full review


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Three Contend For Superman's Leading Lady, But Not Lois Lane
In a shocking turn of events (at least to this comic book geek), Variety claims that Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures upcoming Superman reboot is ready to fly without Lois Lane. Instead, one lucky lady will play an undisclosed role as leading lady to Henry Cavill's Clark Kent in The Man of Steel.
According to the source, Alice Eve, Diane Kruger and Rosamund Pike are being considered by the studio for the part. These three bombshell's vary in age and experience, but one is likely to work with Zack Snyder on his highly anticipated film that Christopher Nolan is producing and his brother Jonah, along with veteran genre scribe/producer David Goyer, is writing.
Eve made lots of heads turn in breakout roles this year in WB's Sex and the City 2 and Paramount's She's Out Of My League. She's a real stunner and will certainly ensure that hordes of horny teen boys will flock to theaters come December 2012, when the film is set to release. On the other hand, both Pike and Kruger have cut their teeth on past big-budget productions. Pike starred as a villainess in 2002's James Bond entry Die Another Die in addition to the 2009 dud Surrogates. She's balanced out her resume with prestigious pictures like An Education, Pride and Prejudice and, most recently, Barney's Version.
Kruger is perhaps the most well known of them all, with credits including Troy, National Treasure and Inglourious Basterds under her belt. On February 18th, she co-stars in Warner's Unknown, opposite Liam Neeson. Having worked for the studio in the past, and taking into account her higher profile career, I'm going to call her the true front-runner in this high stakes race (at least until the next batch of potentials are announced).
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