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What to visit in Slovenia?
And make no mistake, despite being a small country, Slovenia is full of natural wonders; historical cities; resorts and spas; wineries and casinos.
In the center of the country visit the charming capital, Ljubljana. It is the largest city in Slovenia, with about 280 thousand inhabitants. Ljubljana is a flat, delightful city for walking. In the historic center forbidden the traffic of cars and buses. Only small authorized vehicles that help seniors can circulate. Right in the middle of the historical center, you can see the river Ljubljanica. If you have time take the boat trip down the river. It's a very quiet tour that gives a different perspective of what is like to live in the capital of this small country. Strolling through the center you will discover a lot of shops with local products. Handicrafts; clothing; thrift stores; souvenir; honey; lavender; sea salt; as well as several cafes and restaurants. Will be difficult to choose only one.
The second largest city in Slovenia is Maribor, with approximately 95.000 inhabitants. The city is located in a famous region of wine production and several spas. Some of them are Rogaška Slatina, Radenci, Čatež ob Savi, Dobrna and Moravske Toplice. Maribor is also known for the Maribor Pohorje ski resort. Which in January hosts the Women's Slalom competitions and the Giant Slalom of the Alpine Skiing World Cup, also known as The Golden Fox. For the more adventurous Maribor also has several sports parks. Some of them are the Adrenaline Park Pohorje (Park Adrenalinski Pohorje); Pohorje Bike Park; and Betnava Adventure Park (Pustolovski Park Betnava).
Stunning Nature
Slovenia has some incredible nature. From beautiful caves that hide endangered species to amazing lakes with natural islands, surrounded by mountains.
Lake Bled
The charming Lake Bled is World famous for having a natural island right in the center of the lake, with a picturesque church. The small church can only be visited after facing 100 steps, but it's worth! The Bled Castle, at the top of the hill, is also a must for anyone visiting the city. It is a very nice castle, with the most beautiful view of the lake. It has museums, a restaurant/cafe, and very interesting facilities!
Postojna Caves
Descending towards the Karst plateau, the country's coastline, be sure to visit the Postojna Caves, one of the most famous in Europe. Make a stop also for the Predjama Castle. For those who are fans of caves and who like to visit unusual places, it is also worth visiting the Škocjan Caves. Listed by UNESCO as World Natural and Cultural Heritage since 1986. Continuing towards the sea, you will find the Slovenian Istria. Visit the small town of Piran and, if it is summer, enjoy your sunbathing time in Portorož.
Triglav National Park
In the north-western corner of the country is the Triglav National Park. It is the country's only national park. Almost in the middle of the park is Mount Triglav, the highest peak of the Julian Alps, a treat for those who love outdoor walks and adventure.
Slovenian Weather
In Ljubljana, the average temperature in January is 0 °C (32 °F), during winter. Snow falls often and fogs are also frequent in the region, bringing intense frosts.
At summer the average temperature in the capital is 21 °C (70 °F) in July. Rainfall is abundant during the whole year, in fact, this is one of the rainiest capitals in Europe. So during summer, you can count on afternoon thunderstorms, although the sun also appears frequently. On the high summer season can happen some short heat waves, with peaks of 35 °C (95 °F). The sun in Ljubljana is rarely seen in winter, while in the summer it shines quite often, though not as often as along the coast.
The area closer to the sea can be described as the transitional Mediterranean climate. So, winter is quite mild in cities such as Portorož, Piran, Izola, Koper. The average temperature in January in this region is around 5/6 °C (41/43 °F). But, as is common in the Balkans, this area is exposed to a very strong and cold wind, Bura. When Bura, a cold furious wind, blows the temperature undergoes sudden drops. Snowfall in this area is rare.
On the other hand, rainfall in Portorož is fairly abundant and well distributed throughout the year. So summer rains, like thunderstorms can be expected. However, in this region the rainiest season is autumn.
The sea temperature is high and great for swimming in July and August, and sometimes even in September.
Traditional food and drink
Meals – Idrijski žlikrofi are dumplings made from dough with potato filling. They can be served either as a side dish to meat or on their own, in which case they are topped with breadcrumbs. Belokranjska povitica a dough made of flour, water, salt, and vinegar, rolled out and stretched out as thin as possible. The filling is then made of curd cheese, eggs, heavy cream, oil, and butter. Kranjska
Desserts – Impossible to not mention the famous Kremšnita. It looks like a very tall piece of cake, but when you eat it disappears on
Drinks – Slovenia has very good wines and visiting a winery is a must in the country. Besides great red and white wines, Slovenians also love a good beer. Laško/Zlatorog beer is the country's most famous one. You will also find Borovničke, a delicious and sweet liqueur of Blueberry. Češnjevec a cherry brandy. Slivovitz, a spirit drink made of plums, similar to Croatian Rakija.
Itinerary suggestions
Slovenia in 1 Day
5 Days in Slovenia
Try your luck! – Casinos
For those who like to venture and bet Slovenia is also famous for its casinos. The country has the highest percentage of casinos per 1.000 inhabitants of the European Union. The Hotel and Casino Perla, in the city of Nova Gorica, is the largest casino in the region.
If you have more time in the country, other popular tourist destinations include the historic towns of Ptuj, Škofja Loka, and several castles.
Useful information
Before traveling to Slovenia make sure you know the basics about the country.
Local currency – Slovenia uses the Euro as its local currency. So if you are traveling from Croatia, make sure to exchange some money.
Time zone – Slovenia is part of the CET zone, CEST during summer time.
Vignette – It is necessary and obligatory for all that enter by car or motorcycle in Slovenia. You can choose the vignette sticker that most suits your trip. Right after the passport control, at the borders, you will find purchase points. Other points are gas stations and post offices. Do not take the risk, if you drive the country without this sticker the fines are from 300euros to 800euros. Find out more here.
Weekly vignette 15,00 EUR
Important phone numbers
Country code +386
Emergency number: 112
Fire brigade: 122
Police: 133
Mountain rescue: 140
Doctors: 141
Rescue/ Ambulance: 144


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QUẢNG TRỊ —Trần Văn Phúc, a young man from central Quảng Trị Province, has learned how to grow oyster mushrooms at his university thanks to an agricultural course created through an Israel-Việt Nam partnership.
When Phúc, who was born in 1993 in Lan Đình Village, Gio Phong Commune, graduated from the Biotechnology department at Đà Nẵng City's Food and Foodstuffs College, many of his classmates sought jobs in the city. But he decided to return to his hometown in a poor commune in Quảng Trị Province, to start career in mushroom cultivation with the hope of escaping poverty.
Thanks to his success, neighbours have praised Phúc for his creative mind. He dared to do and was determined to get rich. And he had a secret weapon: thet raining he had received during a one-year agricultural course in Israel.
Phúc said that when he was in college, he was chosen along with 17 other outstanding students to join the programme.
Throughout the one-year learning course in Israel, Phúc learned modern cultivation techniques by working on farms.
Phúc said the Israelis were farming with the latest scientific techniques. In the orchards, most processes were automated. In addition, due to the development of organic vegetables, Israel was very limited in the use of chemical fertilizers.
After a year in Israel, he returned home and graduated from college. Thanks to experiences on mushroom planting technology, Phúc decided to come back home to set up his own mushroom farm.
First, he visited some successful mushroom farms in Quảng Trị to see how he might apply his knowledge from Israel to the Vietnamese mushroom industry.
In early 2017, he launched his career and chose oyster mushrooms as his first product, because this kind of fungus is popular and tasty.
With his family's financial support, along with savings from his time in Israel, Phúc and his brother set up a VNĐ250 million oyster mushroom farm.
He said his business experienced losses in the initial period due to a lack of experience in mold treatment and understanding of climate conditions.
"The mushroom cultivation process is also potentially risky, so the basic requirement is to treat insects, catch fungal diseases and adjust the temperature accordingly," Phúc said.
However, his first failures taught the young man lessons. For the following planting, he focused on giving care in the early growing stages to yield a strong harvest.
His farm's oyster mushrooms have been present in all markets in the province. On average, he can harvest 200kg of mushroom each crop.
"Oyster mushrooms are very easy to sell in the market, with the price per kilogram of about VNĐ25,000-30,000," he said.
Phúc said he is now processing the soil to prepare for a new mushroom-growing season.
If the growers invest time and meticulous care, mushrooms will grow well, according to Phúc, because in Việt Nam the supply doesn't yet meet the increasing demand in big cities. "That also motivates me to continue expanding the farm," he said.
"In addition to oyster mushrooms, I will grow some other kinds."-- VNS

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Al-Futtaim Toyota launched the new 2018 Toyota Yaris and according to them it is a significant because the new Yaris is marking a new advanced and emotional design for the compact sedan. The Yaris sedan offers class leading comfort and advanced safety features in addition to the same uncompromised blend of quality, durability and reliability.
Al Futtaim Motors Launches the all new 2018 Toyota Yaris Sedan
Since its launch in, back in 2005, the Yaris has sold globally over 300,000 units and going strong. The new Yaris is important for the regional market because of its attractiveness for corporate fleet as it offers a competitive price point powered further by Al Futtaim's excellent after sales support and Toyota's strong resale value. The Yaris is equally important for retail as new and first time car owners tends to buy the Yaris as well as Uiversity students.
The Yaris comes in two engine sized, 1.3L and the 1.5L. However, this region would have predominantly the 1.5L variant as dictated by the market. The 1.5L is available in two trims, the SE and the SE+.
The new Yaris is now quieter than before thanks to extensive use of sound deadening material between the engine room and passengers and an increase in body rigidity. The suspension is tuned to make the ride plusher as well. The interior is roomier and I was able to sit perfectly with inches of knee room while the front passenger seat was set at my level; and I'm almost 6 feet tall!! The Yaris gets a 7s Multidrive CVT transmission which aids in achieving a class leading 20km/L fuel consumption, that 5L/100kms which is better than the 2018 Honda Jazz which had 5.8L/100Kms and significantly better than Ford's Figo which was 6.4L/100kms and was the most economical internal combustion engine powered car we tested till 2017.
Saud Abbasi, Managing Director of Al-Futtaim Toyota, said: "Yaris Sedan is one of the key models not only for our retail customers but also for our corporate and SME partners. The new model offers so much more than superior value and best-in-class fuel efficiency. The interior, exterior and cutting-edge technology of the new stylish Yaris sedan have been crafted thoughtfully to be the number one choice for aspiring young executives, or small families."
The overall length has been increased by 15 mm to 4,425 mm, and the overall width of the vehicle has grown by 30 mm to 1,730 mm. The result is a highly aerodynamic body with a wider and more masculine stance.
The front of the new Yaris has been updated with a horizontal grille for a wider appearance. LED daytime running lamps have also been integrated into the shape of the grille, while slimmer rear combination taillights freshens out the rear of the car. The addition of the newly introduced Shark Fin antenna adds to the aerodynamic design of the car. Available in eight distinctive exterior colors of which two have been newly-developed, including Red M.M., and Dark Blue M.M., the new Yaris has been rearmed with a newly designed 15-inch alloy wheels.
The interior of the 2018 Toyota Yaris gets simulated stitching along the edges from the instrument panel to the front console while the front cup holders are equipped with an LED shower light. The cabin gets a range of enhanced features, including Smart Entry & Start System, Cruise Control System and 4.2-inch Thin Film Transistor (TFT) multi-information display, automatic air conditioning system, as well as a Six-speaker sound system with AUX and USB jacks. The interior is available in two colors; Black and Ivory.
The new Yaris comes with a 1.5-liter four-cylinder engine that is good for a maximum output of 106 hp and 14.3 kg-m of torque and is mated to the Multidrive 7S CVT transmission.
The 2018 Toyota Yaris Sedan is now available across all Al-Futtaim Toyota showroom in the UAE for AED 59,900 inclusive of VAT.
|2018 Toyota Yaris Sedan
|1.5L, 4 Cylinder, 16V, Dual VVT-i
|7S MultiDrive CVT
|Rated Output
|106 Hp @ 6000 rpm
|Fuel Consumption
|5.0L/100kms Claimed
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Top Attractions in Inverurie by Aberdeen
Fyvie Castle
Turriff, Aberdeen and Grampian, AB53 8JS
Garden: all year, daily 9-sunset. Grounds: all year, daily.
Castle, Shop and Tearoom: 1 Apr to 30 Jun, Sat-Wed 12-5; 1 Jul to 31 Aug, daily 11-5; 1 Sep to 31 Oct, Sat-Wed 12-5.
Last admission to castle 4.15.
Tel. 0844 493 2182
Tolquhon castle
Ellon, Aberdeenshire AB41 7LP
Tel. 0131 668 8800
Open all year round winter only open weekends
Admission adult £4.50, Child £2.70, Concessions £3.60
Sitting within spacious grounds, Tolquhon has been described as one of the most beautiful castles in Scotland. Sir William Frobes who commissioned it in 1584 intended it to be an impressive residence though he incorporated plenty gun loops to deter any hostile visitors.
Aberdeen Maritime Museum - Shiprow , Aberdeen AB11 5 BY - Tel. 01224 337700
Aberdeen Maritime Museum tells the story of the city's long relationship with the sea. The museum is located in the Provost Ross's House which was built in 1953. The Museum hosts a unique collection of fast sailing ships, ship building, fishing and port history. From the museum you can also see displays on the North sea oil and gas industry.
Performing Arts
Aberdeen Performing Arts manages Aberdeen's three premier entertainments venues and a busy box office selling tickets for venues across Scotland. With the grandeur of His Majesty's Theatre, the variety of the Music Hall and the vibrancy of The Lemon Tree our venues ensure we are at the forefront of the entertainment scene and are providing something for everyone.
The Lemon Tree
Music, drama, comedy, dance venue. Located in Aberdeen's city centre on West North Street. Contact 01224 641122 or aberdeenperformingarts.com for more details of up and coming events.
His Majesty's Theatre
Aberdeen prestigious performance venue brings the biggest names to Aberdeen to entertain the people and visitors or Aberdeen. Performances such as Coldplay, Billy Connolly and John Bishop with productions such as We Will Rock You, The sound Of Music and Dirty Dancing have all step onto the stage in Aberdeen. Located in the city of Aberdeen
The Music Hall
Located in the heart of the city centre, the music hall hosts a wide variety of concerts, performances, shows and events ranging from classical concerts to contemporary comedy. The building was designed by local architect Archibald Simpson and opened in 1822. The Music hall holds around 1300 at seated shows and 1500 at standing gigs. The stunning murals in the Music Hall date back to 1899 and were designed by local artist Robert Douglas Strachan.
Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums
Schoolhill, Aberdeen AB10 1FQ
The Art Gallery is one of the most visited attractions in Aberdeen, it houses one of the finest art collections in Britain with painting, sculpture and graphics from the 15th century to today. As well as discovering the Art Gallery's magnificent and important collection you can discover the history of the Gallery which can be traced back to 1873. The Gallery also boosts a gallery shop, gallery café, crèche services.
Whisky Distilleries
Aberlour, Strathisla and The Glenlivet distilleries are located in the famous malt whisky producing region of the Speyside. The River Spey is also renowned for salmon fishingand runs through the heart of the region.
Aberlour Distillery
Located at the south end of Aberlour on the A95.
High Street Aberlour AB38 9PJ
01340 881 249
Cost approx £12.00pp
Strathisla Distillery
In the centre of Keith just off A96.
Seafield Avenue, Keith, Ab55 5BS
01542 783 044
Tours run every 30 minutes; last tour each day 4pm.
Cost approx £6.00pp (under 18s free) - groups of 10 or more must book.
The Glenlivet
Just off the B9008, ten miles north of Tomintoul.
Glenlivet, Ballindalloch, Banffshire, AB37 9DB
01340 821 720


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Multistones Rectangle Ring
A fine and intricate gold ring featuring a row of three different shapes with elaborate detail around the setting surrounded by two flowers either side. The ring look amazing worn solo or stacked with other rings.
Pictured in 9ct yellow gold, sapphire & white diamonds.
Band width: 1.5mm
Rectangle sapphire : 4x3mm Round diamonds : 2x1.6mm (0.03ct)
All pieces are entirely hand crafted, please allow around 2-3 weeks for delivery.


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Cosi in Copenhagen!
I have just come back from a wonderful trip to Copenhagen, where I was directing a production of Mozarts 'Cosi Fan Tutte' for the Academy of Royal Danish Opera. Working with singers who were nearly all finishing their 3 years of study, we made a wild and passionate version of the story, low on budget and high on imagination!
They were a truly magnificent team of people, who threw themselves into the concept and produced a fun, exciting and moving show. I am very proud of them! It's really not an easy piece - a truly ridiculous libretto, matched with some sublime music. It's all too easy to let the music make up for the absurd and misogynistic story, but we were determined not to do that. I hope, I think, we were able to do that! When looked at in the right way, it is in fact a story very much of our times.
The task was really to make this with a tiny budget, pulling together things we could find in the opera stores in order to tell the story - no set, costume, or lighting designer, just resourcefulness and a committed few people who went the extra mile to help make it happen. I felt extremely lucky to be surrounded by such wonderful people. Here are some hastily taken images from our dress rehearsal;
The Sheriff of Shoreditch
We have just completed our research and development time on Sheriff at Shoreditch Town Hall. It was wonderful. Of course full of challenges, but ones that were a pleasure to take on and try to overcome…


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Learning Age – Instant Memory Board
More than 1000 combinations enhance the ability of memory in no time. Images memorizing training is the most efficient method for fostering the good memory. Adopt the design of magnetic board makes the operation easier and more portable.
Direct import from Taiwan.
Photographic memory training is taught in Shichida classes.
Instant memory board is a home set to teach or improve your child's photographic memory.
Creates more than 1000 combinations and may be use for linking memory as well.
Consist of 2 magnetic boards
– 60 picture pieces, and
– 12 learning cards.
Method of playing:
1. Photomemory skill:
play piece on 1 boards and let your child see for 30 second. pass him the other board and let him/ her place the picture piece in the same location. Increase the number of pieces as you increases the difficulty.
2. Linking Memory:
place random picture tiles on the board in sequence. Create a story based on the random pictures place. This increases creativity.
3. Spot the Difference (Addition):
Place pictures in the same order on 2 boards. On 1 board, add another picture cards and let your child spot the difference.
4. Spot the Difference (Subtraction):
Place pictures in the same order on 2 boards. On 1 board, remove 1-2 picture cards and let your child spot the difference.
Dimension: 22.5cm x 31cm x 4.5cm
Age: 2 years and up
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Registration for the 2019-2020 season is open! Please complete the form below to register your wrestler. One form must be completed per wrestler.
Note that only Merrimack residents are eligible to participate in the MYA Wrestling program as directed by the Merrimack Youth Association Executive Board. Wrestler's or their parent/guardian must reside in Merrimack.


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Hair Loss
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Hair Loss Introduction
Hair loss in both men and women is defined as Alopecia. Alopecia is the termed used to describe the loss or thinning of hair. This condition is classified into varying categories, including scarring alopecia and non-scarring alopecia. Unlike scarring alopecia, whereby all hair follicles are destroyed and rendered useless, non-scarring alopecia may be reversed. The remaining categories of hair loss include;
- Male-pattern baldness
- Female-pattern baldness
- Hirsutism (male-pattern hair growth affecting a minority of women)
- Hair shaft disorders.
Hair is cyclical. In fact, most hair loss is part of our normal growth cycles. Three phases occur in the production and reproduction of body hair. These phases are referenced as the anagen growth phase, catagen involutional phase, and the telogen resting phase. [1] It is not unusual for one to lose an average of 50 to 100 hairs per day during the resting, or latent phase of the hair cycle (telogen). New hair will eventually replace these lost hairs.
A legitimate concern arises when there is noticeable thinning or baldness. The defining factors determining this type of hair loss can range from genetic pre-disposition to a particular vitamin and/or mineral deficiency. The thinning or balding of hair is not an immediate threat to ones physical health, but often adversely effects an individual's psychological well-being.
Other causes of common hair loss may include; prescription drug therapies, skin disorders, autoimmunity, severe stress, scalp radiation, pregnancy, diseases, bacterial infections, excessive androgen production, and over processed hair. Genetic predisposition remains the greatest determinant in the balding of hair - some 95% of both men and women.
Hair Loss Symptoms
Signs and symptoms of alopecia are disorder-specific, meaning that each condition exhibits unique traits and patterns regarding the accompanying hair loss. A physician or dermatologist often evaluates a patient and determines the type and severity of a given thinning/balding pattern. [2] The following information indicates the specific signs and symptoms of categorized hair disorders:
- Non-scarring alopecia- characterized by circular areas of hair loss, receding hair lines, a smoothness of scalp region, and inflammation. Extreme cases may also include the loss of eyebrows, lashes, and pubic hair.
- Scarring alopecia- area specific; noted by visual abnormalities, such as violet-colored skin patterns, scaling, and lesions.
- Hirsutism- characterized by male-pattern hair growth in women. Other symptoms include; genital abnormalities, deepening of voice, acne, and irregular and/or lack of menstruation.
- Hair shaft disorders-usually involves hair that is excessively dry, brittle and very coarse. May also be recognized by skin and other noted irregularities.
Signs and symptoms which require immediate medical assistance include; hair which falls out in clumps, patchy hair loss, development of male characteristics in females, and redness, flaking, and scarring of the scalp where hair loss has taken place.
Types of Hair Loss:
Male-Pattern Baldness
Male-pattern baldness is also known as common baldness, hereditary baldness, and Androgenetic Alopecia. This type of baldness is distinctive and has a marked progression in the hair loss taking place on the scalp. The cause of this type of hair loss is due to genetic susceptibility (including hair follicle sensitivity), hormones, and androgens. It is agreed that there are three causal factors in this form of hair loss: age, inherited tendency to early baldness, and the most important factor, dihydrotestosterone (DHT). Persons with this condition also have a prolonged latent phase in the hair cycle, which further enhances the balding process. [3]
DHT is a potent androgen in hair follicles and is derived directly from testosterone. It causes the shrinking of hair follicles and causes these follicles to become dormant, or inactive. DHT also triggers specific growth factors and suppresses cell proliferation, causing apoptotic cell death. The inhibition of such growth factors, like TGF-beta2, paralleled with DHT suppression, has proved significant in the treatment of hair loss. [4]
Female-Pattern Baldness
Female-pattern baldness is also known as "diffused balding." Like its counterpart of the male variety, it too is caused by age, genetic susceptibility, and androgen. Females with this conditions experience a slower progression than males, with signs of balding around the age of 30. This process may continue throughout menopause, or until a permanent degradation of hair follicles takes place. However, unlike males, female-pattern baldness rarely equates to near or complete baldness and rarely interferes with the hairline. [4]
Alopecia Areata
Alopecia areata is categorized as an autoimmune skin disease. Hair follicles are mistakenly attacked by an individual's immune system, which results in the arrest of hair growth. Alopecia areata may initially manifest itself as bald patches on one's head and can progress to complete loss of scalp hair (Alopecia totalis), or even the complete loss of all body hair (Alopecia Universalis). [5] Nearly two percent of the entire population suffers from this disease, despite its relative obscurity.
Alopecia Universalis
Persons suffering from this condition are genetically predisposed to complete hair loss, and possible distortions of the nails. Alopecia Universalis is classified as both an acute and permanent disorder. Individuals with this condition are usually more susceptible to diseases of the thyroid gland and vitiligo than the general population. This form of alopecia differs from other forms which permanently damage hair follicles. The regrowth of body hair remains possible for individuals suffering from this condition regardless of time spent with the complete absence of body hair.
Other forms of hair loss Other forms and causes of hair loss:
- Telogen Effluvium
- Chemotherapeutic Induced Hair Loss
- Trichotillomania
Of interest, nearly 67% of all men, and 25% of women will suffer from significant hair loss. 25% of men begin balding before age 30, with 65% balding by the age of 60. Women experience thinning hair, primarily, within the age range of 25 to 45 years of age; with complete loss after the age of 40. Pre and post-menopausal women have a significantly elevated risk for the development of alopecia.
Hair Loss Treatments
Specialists often biopsy hair to determine the integrity of a given hair follicle. This evaluation is used to establish the underlying cause of the hair thinning / balding, and to decide what treatment options are available. Traditional medicines include:
- Minoxidil– used for hair regrowth and to inhibit any additional loss of hair
- Tretinion- decreases dermal layers on scalp to further the penetration of applied products containing minoxidil
- Finasteride (Propecia)
- Hair Transplantation
- Topical or Injectable Steroid Treatments
- Radiation Therapy (PUVA)
Supplements helpful with Hair Loss
Nutritional Applications for Hair Loss:
|Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs)
|Improves Hair Texture
|Raw Thymus Glandular
|Improves Functioning Capacity of Hair Glands
|B-complex Vitamins
|Extremely Important Nutrients for the Overall Health and Growth of Hair
|Deficiencies of Biotin Have Been Linked to Hair Loss
|Critical for Proper Hair Growth
|Methylsulfonyl-methane (MSM)
|Assists With Production of Keratin, a Protein Component of Hair
|Vitamin C with Bioflavonoids
|Provides Antioxidant Action in Hair Follicles/Increases Scalp Circulation
|Vitamin E
|Also Increases Scalp Circulation, d-alpha tocopherol Improves Health and Growth of Hair
|Stimulates Hair Growth via Immune System
|Coenzymes Q10, A
|Increases Tissue Oxygenation in Scalp
|Dimethylglycine (DMG)
|Circulation Properties
|Dense Mineral Which Assists in Hair Growth
|Used in conjunction with Zinc, Chelated Copper Aids in Hair Growth
|Grape Seed Extract
|Antioxidant Properties Protect Follicles from Free Radical Damage
|L-Cysteine, L-methionine, Glutathione
|Amino Acids which Prevent Hair Fallout/Promotes Blood Supply to Scalp
|Aids in the Health and Growth of Hair
|Inhibits 5-alpha-reductase Conversion of Testosterone into Dihydrotestosterone
|Enhances Nitric Oxide to Promote and Maintain Health and Growth of Hair
|Saw Palmetto
|Block 5-alpha-reductase, Provides a Reduction in DHT Uptake by Follicles, Blocks Binding of DHT to Specific Androgen Receptors
|Green Tea Extract
|Adversely Affect type I 5-alpha-reductase
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We've made it one week into Lent. How are y'all doing? I've discovered it's really hard to get a hold of my siblings at working times when we live in different time zones. We've been playing phone tag Hail Mary much of the week.
We also had (like much of the country) a severe snowstorm that meant everybody had to go outside and dig. Our house has a 1/10th of a mile driveway so any time there's more than two inches, we need all hands on deck to shovel out. We've owned a snowblower, but it quit on us after snomageddon of I think 2010.
This round of fluffy white stuff took out one of the four shovels. We got 3/4th of the way down the driveway when a neighbor took pity on us and came over with his snowblower/thrower and finished the job. Today I'm making pumpkin bread to take over as thank you for our backs.
But I got to thinking as to why we haven't replaced the machine which could have saved us some time. Part of it is hassle. But part of it is my husband loves the snow and loves being out in it, and having his children out in it as well. Also, I can't help but notice after we have one of those everyone-has-to-work days how much better all of them get along for a short period afterwards. They become united, both in the labor and the leisure. We held a sit down dinner and even those who don't normally get along, got along.
I personally am ready for spring, but we may have to make a once a month project that requires everyone, if only to experience the afterglow of snow day labors.
Aside from that, we finished up basketball season. (Cue happy dance at the prospect of getting our weekends back!) And of course I signed up one kid for track and another for soccer and one daughter also came home and asked to be in a talent show. So now I see our weekends filled up from now through May.
Easy come. Easy go. We seem to thrive on longing for more time, and then discovering that, when we have it, we wish we had something to do. I may need a snow day with no shoveling to survive.
Hope your week was filled with small and big successes. Keep working to have a blessed Lent!
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Dr. Maria Montessori was the first female physician in Italy and revolutionized how children are taught in school. Born in Chiaravalle, Italy in 1870, Dr. Montessori graduated from medical school in 1896. She began a traditional medical practice but after making clinical observations of children, she began to analyze how children learn. She then shifted her focus from treating the body to treating the mind and returned to college to study psychology and philosophy. Dr. Montessori graduated from the University of Rome in 1904 and became a professor of anthropology. In 1907, Dr. Montessori opened her first school and implemented her theories.
Dr. Montessori developed a new teaching methodology that has become known as the Montessori method. The Montessori method of teaching is a student centered approach. The method is structured around a child's innate desire to learn. Teachers using a Montessori mode of instruction work to provide students with a stimulating environment and tools needed to explore and learn about this environment. Teachers set minimal limits and design a curriculum based on the child's level of development. Dr. Montessori's methods were in stark contract to the teaching methods of the time which were predicated on respect and structure.
As part of the Montessori method, a system of Math learning materials for very young children was developed which allowed four and five year olds to explore their interests where. Montessori was also the first in education to have child-sized tables and chairs made for the students. Dr. Montessori believed that the learning environment was just as important as the learning itself. Because of this belief her schools were often peaceful, orderly places, were the children valued their space for concentration and the process of learning. Likewise, The Montessori method teaches reading via phonics and whole language, the benefits of which are presently being studied and learned today.
The Montessori Method is often used in schools today, primarily in preschools and elementary schools. Teachers design lessons that engage students so that they can apply what they have been taught. This is where the term engaged learning came into our schools. Lessons are centered around allowing the students to conduct hands on projects to better understand what they have read in a book or been lectured on.
After her first schools succeeded, Dr. Montessori opened school across Italy and eventually began lecturing on her teaching methods around the world, including in the United States. For her work, Dr. Montessori was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize three times in in 1949, 1950, and 1951. Dr. Montessori died in Holland in 1952. Her works lives on through the Association Montessori Internationale, the organization should founded in 1929. More important, Dr. Montessori's legacy can be found in classrooms around the world.


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Spurs looking for 12th straight home win against 76ers
No one can deny the San Antonio Spurs are having a fantastic season. More than halfway through, they've only lost 11 games.
But here's where it gets weird. Six of those 11 defeats came against teams with losing records. Do the Spurs just get cocky when playing a team so much worse than themselves? There's no explaining it. But hopefully, that doesn't prove to be an issue tonight.
The Philadelphia 76ers are 18-30 on the season so far, and the matchup seems like a sure-thing for the Spurs. But, history. Still, San Antonio has been great at home, and tonight's game is at AT&T Center.
Another plus is that Sixers star and Rookie of the Year favorite Joel Embiid won't be playing. He's missed six of the last seven games with a bruised knee and didn't even make the trip to Texas this time. Minus Embiid, the Sixers fell to the Dallas Mavericks yesterday, a game in which Philadelphia's offense looked weak. It's obvious they need Embiid to have any serious hope of beating a team as good as the Spurs.
Besides, San Antonio has won 10 straight against Philadelphia (dating back to 2011) and 11 consecutive at home.
Still, the 76ers have been showing improvement. Last season, they only won 10 games total. This season, they've already won 18. And while they have a losing record, the team finished January with a 10-5 record, their best month since January 2012.
"This team has grown a lot," Robert Covington said. "We're showing a lot of poise. And it's still early. There's still a lot of time for us to really grow even more."
But tonight they're going up shorthanded against an all-around solid Spurs bench led by powerhouses Kawhi Leonard and LaMarcus Aldridge. In Tuesday's game against the Oklahoma City Thunder, those two combined for 61 of San Antonio's total 108 points. Despite their history, this should be a solid win for the Spurs.


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But I want to mention a text by a "daily explainer" Esther Inglis-Arkell at IO9.com
What are Gravitons and Why Can't We See Them?which is pretty good, especially if one realizes that the author doesn't seem to be trained in these issues. Before I tell you about some flaws of the article, I want to focus on what I consider good about it because that may be more important in this case.
First, the article is a product by an "explainer". Its goal is to "explain" some background. This activity is hugely missing in the "news stories" about physics, especially cutting-edge physics. Physics is like a pyramid with many floors built on top of each other and the newest discoveries almost never "rebuild" the basement. They reorganize and sometimes rebuild the top floor and maybe the floor beneath it.
Everyone who wants to understand a story about this reconstruction of the near-top floor simply has to know something about some of the floors beneath it. Unfortunately, most of the science journalists are pretending that the news stories may be directly relevant for someone who has no background, who doesn't know about simpler and more fundamental "cousins" of the latest events. It is not possible.
A related point is that this article tries to present a picture that is coherent. The storyline isn't too different from the structure of an article that an expert could construct. What is important is that it doesn't distract the readers with topics that are clearly distractions.
In particular, it tells you that the problem with the non-renormalizability of gravitons is solved by string theory, and why, without misleading "obligatory" comments about loop quantum gravity and similar "alternative" viewpoints on vaguely related matters. Most articles unfortunately try to squeeze as much randomly collected rubbish analogous to loop quantum gravity in the few paragraphs as possible so that the result is unavoidably incoherent. Almost all readers are trying to build an opinion that "combines" or "interpolates" in between all these ideas.
But if you try to "combine" valid string theory with "components" imported from some alternative "sciences", you may end up with an even more illogical pile of rubbish than if you just parrot the alternative "science" separately. Those things simply should be segregated. Even if there were some real doubts that string theory is the only framework that avoids the logical problems with the gravitons' self-interactions, and there aren't really any doubts, there should be articles that only talk about one paradigm or another – just like actual scientists aren't jumping from one framework to another every minute. And the articles shouldn't focus on the "spicy interactions" between the vastly different research directions because that's not what the good scientists are actually spending their time with, or what is needed to understand Nature.
Some people might argue that things like loop quantum gravity shouldn't be "obligatory" in similar articles because the people researching it professionally represent something like 10% of the researchers in quantum gravity, write 5% of the articles, and receive about 1% of the citations. So these are small numbers which is a reason to neglect those things. But I don't actually believe in such an approach or in such a justification of the omission. It is perfectly OK to investigate things that represent a minority of researchers, papers, and citations. What's more important is that someone thinking about physics must preserve some consistency and focus on the content – and constant distractions by sociologically flavored metaphysical debates are no good for genuine progress in physics.
OK, let me now say a few comments about the flaws of the IO9 article on gravitons.
It says that the gravitons are particles that self-interact, unlike photons and like gluons, and this leads to the non-renormalizability of classical GR, and string theory solves the problem by replacing the point-like gravitons by strings which makes the self-replication of gravitons manageable. The LHC has been and will be looking for gravitons in warped geometry scenarios in the form of missing transverse energy.
The writer offers some rather usual comments about the forces and virtual particles that mediate them. Somewhere around this paragraph I started to have some problems:
What we call "force" at the macro level seems to be conveyed by particles at the micro level. The graviton should be one of these particles. The trouble with gravitons - or, more precisely, the first of many troubles with gravitons - is that gravity isn't supposed to be a force at all. General relativity indicates that gravity is a warp in spacetime. General relativity does allow for gravitational waves, though. It's possible that these waves could come in certain precise wavelengths the way photons do, and that these can be gravitons.The first thing that I don't like about these comments is that they suggest that there is a contradiction between "gravity is a force" and "gravity is a warp in spacetime". There is no contradiction and there has never been one. "A warp in spacetime" is a more detailed explanation how the force works, much like some biology of muscle contractions "explains" where the force of our hands comes from.
In this context, I can't resist to make a much more general remark about the laymen's logic. When you say that "a graviton is an XY" and "a graviton is a UV", they deduce that either there is a contradiction, or "UV" is the same thing as "XY". But this ain't the case. The sentences say that the "set of gravitons" is a subset of the "set of XYs" or the "set of UVs". All these sets may be different and "XY" may still be a different set than "UV" while the propositions about the subsets may still hold. "XY" and "UV" may overlap – and sometimes, one of them may be a subset of the other. Many laymen (and I don't really mean the author of the article who seems much deeper) just seem to be lacking this "basic layer of structured thinking". They seem to understand the only meaning of the phrase "A is B", namely "A is completely synonymous to a different word B". But no non-trivial science could ever be built if this were the only allowed type of "is". If it were so, science would be reduced to the translation of several pre-existing objects to different languages or dialects.
I also have problems with the last sentence of the paragraph that "gravitons could come with precise wavelengths" just like photons. In the Universe, both gravitons and photons are demonstrably allowed to have any real positive value of the wavelength (the Doppler shift arising from the change of the inertial system is the simplest way to change the wavelength of a photon or a graviton to any value you want) although particular photons and gravitons resulting from some process may have a specific wavelength (or a specific distribution of wavelengths). Moreover, she talks about gravitons although she should be logically talking about gravitational waves – which are coherent states of many gravitons in the same state, as she doesn't seem to explain at all.
In the section about gravitons and string theory, she writes that gravitons are technically "gauge bosons". It is a matter of terminology whether gravitons are gauge bosons. Conceptually, they sort of are but exactly if we add the word "technically", I think that most physicists would say that gravitons are technically not gauge bosons because the term "gauge bosons" is only used for spin-1 particles. She says lots of correct things about the spins herself, however.
Then she describes a "recursive process" of production of new photons and (using the normal experts' jargon) addition of loops to the Feynman diagrams. Things are sort of OK but at one point we learn
Although this burst of particles may get hectic, it doesn't produce an endless branching chain of photons.It actually does. Loop diagrams with an unlimited number of loops (and virtual photons) contribute. The number of terms is infinite. The point is that one may sum this infinite collection of terms and get a finite result. And the finite result isn't really a "direct outcome" of the procedure. A priori, the (approximately) geometric series is actually divergent. However, the quotient (I guess that the right English word is the common ratio, and I will use the latter) that is greater than one (naively infinite) may be "redefined" to be a finite number smaller than one, and that's why the (approximately) geometric series converges after this process and yields a finite result.
This is the process of renormalization and the theory is renormalizable if we only need to "redefine" a finite number of "types" of divergent common ratios or objects.
(A special discussion would be needed for infrared divergences. When it comes to very low-energy photons, one literally produces an infinite number of very soft photons if two charged objects repel one another, for example. And this infinite number of photons is no illusion and is never "reduced" to any finite number. Calculations of quantities that are "truly measurable by real-world devices with their limitations" can still be done and yield finite results so the infinities encountered as infrared divergences are harmless if we are really careful about what is a measurable question and what is not.)
Concerning the renormalizability, she writes:
Because of this, photons and electron interactions are said to be renormalizable. They can get weird, but they can't become endless.Again, they can and do become endless, but it's not a problem. It may be a good idea to mention Zeno's paradoxes such as Achilles and the turtle. Zeno believed that Achilles could never catch up with the turtle because the path to the hypothetical point where he catches up may be divided to infinitely many pieces. And Zeno was implicitly assuming that the sum of an infinite number of terms (durations) had to be divergent. That wasn't the case. Infinite series often converge.
When mathematicians started to become smarter than Zeno and his soulmates, they saw that Zeno's paradoxes weren't paradoxes at all and some of Zeno's assumptions (or hidden assumptions) were simply wrong. Similarly, when Isaac Newton and his enemy developed the calculus, they were already sure that Zeno's related paradox, "the arrow paradox", wasn't a paradox, either. Zeno used to argue that an arrow cannot move because the trajectory may be divided to infinitesimal pieces and the arrow is static in each infinitesimal subinterval. Therefore, he reasoned, the arrow must always be static. Well, of course, we know that if you divide the path to infinitely many infinitesimal pieces, you may get and you often do get a finite total distance.
In this sense, mathematicians were able to see that many previous paradoxes aren't really paradoxes. We may continue and present the renormalization as another solution to a previous would-be Zeno-like paradox. Not only it is OK if there are infinitely many terms in the expansion to Feynman diagrams. It is even OK if this expansion is naively divergent – as long as the number of the "types of divergences" that have to be redefined to a finite number is finite.
The author of the article similarly discusses the loops with many gravitons and concludes:
That huge amount of energy causes the newly-created graviton to create yet another graviton. This endless cycle of graviton production makes gravitons nonrenormalizable.This is of course deeply misleading. As the article didn't mention (even though it claimed to discuss the gluons as well), the gluons self-interact in the same sense as gravitons do. But the gluons' self-interactions – which may also involve an arbitrary number of virtual gluons in multiloop diagrams – are renormalizable and therefore harmless because the series we have to resum is closer to a geometric series and it is enough to renormalize the naively divergent common ratio in order to tame the whole sum.
In the case of the gravitons, the common ratio is "more divergent" because the high-energy virtual gravitons have stronger interactions (gravity couples to energy and not just the constant charge) and the series is further from a geometric one because the common ratios are not so common – the ratios increase with the number of loops. That's why we face an infinite number of "types of divergences", an infinite spectrum of something that looks like a common ratio of a geometric series but it is not really common. To determine a finite result of this sum, we would need to insert an infinite amount of information to the theory – to redefine an infinite number of distinct divergent objects to finite values. And in the absence of a hierarchy that would make most of these divergences "inconsequential", this process renders the theory unpredictive because it's simply not possible to measure or otherwise determine the value of the "infinitely many different divergent integrals".
To summarize, the author has oversimplified the situation and said that the nonrenormalizability arises whenever the processes have contributions from arbitrarily complicated loop diagrams. But they always do and it is not a problem yet. The real problem of nonrenormalizability only arises if a sequence of "cures" that are analogous to Newton's cure of Zeno's arrow paradox is applied and fails, anyway.
She says that strings are extended which cures the problem and...
That bit of wiggle room keeps the creation of a graviton from being so energetic that it necessitates the creation of yet another graviton, and makes the theory renormalizable.Well, again, string theory doesn't change anything about the fact that arbitrarily complicated multiloop diagrams contribute to the total amplitude. But strings cure the problems with nonrenormalizability. But is it quite right to say that "strings make the theory renormalizable"?
Not really. First of all, strings aren't "surgeons" that would cure a field theory. Instead, strings replace it with a different theory that isn't a quantum field theory in the conventional sense (if we're strict about its definition – and if we overlook conceptually difficult dualities that show that string theory and field theories are really inseparable and piecewise equivalent as classes of physical theories). So strings don't do anything with "the theory". Instead, they tell us to use a different theory, string theory!
Second, it isn't quite right to say that string theory (as a theory in the spacetime) is renormalizable. In fact, string theory as a theory in the spacetime is completely finite so divergences from short-distances processes never arise in the first place. So this "problem" or "disease" that arises in almost all quantum field theories doesn't arise in string theory at all – which also means that it doesn't have to be cured. (String theory changes nothing about the emergence of infrared divergences in many situations or vacua – they were real physics in quantum field theory and have to remain real physics in any valid theory going beyond field theory.) String theory still involves some calculations on the world sheet that has intermediate divergences that have to be treated and yes, the theory on the world sheet is a field theory and it is a renormalizable one. But because the dynamics of string theory in the spacetime isn't a field theory, it doesn't even make sense to ask whether it is renormalizable. The adjective "renormalizable" is only well-defined for field theories.
Finally, she talks about the possible detection of gravitons. She is aware that there are facilities such as LIGO that should look for gravitational waves but if you want to see a graviton, an individual particle, you need something as good as the LHC. I am adding something here because as I have mentioned, the article hasn't really clarified the relationship between gravitational waves and gravitons at all.
Her comments about the LHC are referring to the theories with large or warped extra dimensions that could make some effects involving gravitons observable. I think that it is "much less likely than 50%" that the LHC will observe something like that and I would surely mention this expectation in an article I would write. But there is really no rock-solid argument against these scenarios so the LHC may observe these things.
The only other complaint I have against this part of the text is that she used the word "hole" for the missing transverse energy – a potential experimental sign indicating that the gravitons were sent in the extra dimensions. I had to spend half a minute to figure out what the hole was supposed to mean – I was naturally thinking about "holes in the Dirac sea" analogous to positrons as "holes in the sea of electrons". There's some sense in which a "hole" is just fine as a word for the "missing transverse energy" but its usage is non-standard and confusing. Physicists imagine rather specific things if you say a "hole" or a "missing energy" – if you know what these phrases mean, you should appreciate how much harder it is for the laymen who are imagining "holes" in the billiard table or "missing energy" after a small breakfast, or something like that. It can't be surprising that they're often led to completely misunderstand some texts about physics even though the texts look "perfectly fine" to those who know the right meaning of the words in the context.
I've mentioned many flaws of the article but my final point is that those are unavoidable for an article that was more ambitious than the typical popular ones. And if one wanted to "grade" the article according to these flaws, he shouldn't forget about the context – and the context is that the author actually decided to write a much more technical, detailed, less superficial article than what you may see elsewhere. Writers should be encouraged to write similar things even if there are similar technical problems. They can get fixed as the community of writers and their readership get more knowledgeable about all the issues.
But if writers decide not to write anything except for superficial – and usually sociological and "spicy" – issues, there is nothing to improve and the readers won't really ever have any tools to converge to any semi-qualified let alone qualified opinions about the physics itself.


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It feels like a coming-out-of-the-closet moment to admit I have more than a passing knowledge of some of the games described in this Slate article about Gary Gygax, the creator of Dungeons & Dragons. Yeah, I know, I seemed like a healthy, well-adjusted young lady before this. But seriously, I'm not lying when I tell you that my friends and I who participated in role-playing weren't total dorks. For one thing, we weren't celibate. (Mom and Dad, please disregard that last sentence!) We were the theater kids — faux suburban hip hop culture just wasn't doing it for us. Most of us are pretty normal these days.
In any case, during my adolescence, it never really occurred to me to think about the ethics of D&D, mostly because I was a dabbler and not a hardcore fanatic. In Slate, Eric Sofge — who, as an editor at Popular Mechanics, I assume is a far more typical former role-player than I — argues that the massive killing of entire races encouraged by Gygax's gaming system is akin to genocide. Think of the hated, dark-skinned orcs from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series; those greedy (Semitic?) dwarves; or the high-cheek boned, delicate, Northern elves. This is partly what I was drawing from when I wrote an essay back in the day on how the Harry Potter books conform to some of the more conservative identity politics of the fantasy genre. Looking back, that piece seems over-argued (after all, I enjoyed the Potter books!), but there's definitely a there there.
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Beginning of the year resolutions are a dime a dozen; and with all that talk about pricey gym memberships and maple syrup-lemon juice cleanses, it's no wonder we tend to lose sight of them.
However, a 5 or 15K run is something you can accomplish in just under one day—or even a few hours, if you're lucky. The 2011 San Diego Resolution Run will give you extra encouragement to start the New Year off on a healthy foot. You can choose between the two adult races, as well as youth races and a Stroller Street Fun.
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Although its official release date is still a long way off (early October 2013), Spike Lee's "Oldboy" has finally given us something to look at. A poster teaser was recently released that shows little more that twenty red scratches, along with the controversial titling: "A Spike Lee joint" (whatever that means). Indeed, since it was announced that Park Chan-wook's award winning film was to be given the Hollywood 'bump', fans and critics alike have been very vocal in asking the very simple and obvious question-Why?
Park Chan-wook is a prolific and highly influential Korean director whose 2003 cult-classic "Old Boy" won the Grand Prix of the Jury at the 57th Cannes Film Festival. Arguable Park's greatest film, "Old Boy" seems a bizarre, a perhaps insulting, choice for Hollywood to wrap its greasy fingers around. Starring Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ji-tae and Kang Hye-jung, "Old Boy" was an international hit, being one of the most popular Korean film's to circulate itself in the Western world. It was popular, award winning, and a stand-alone masterpiece that typifies one of Korea's most notably genre films-the bloody revenge thriller.
Anyone familiar with Korean cinema will know that the Land of the Morning Calm has a blood-soaked relationship with revenge thrillers. In fact, Park Chan-wook's "Old Boy" is but one of a loosely strung together 'revenge trilogy'. The other two being "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance" (2002) and "Sympathy for Lady Vengeance" (2005)-both of which are stunning and masterpieces in their own right. Other popular Korean revenge films include "A Bittersweet Life" (2005), "Bedevilled" (2009), "The Chaser" (2008), "I Saw the Devil" (2010) and "The Yellow Sea" (2010). Indeed the revenge thriller has become a genre all on its own in Korea, but now one of its most recognisable inclusions will have an awkward Western doppelganger to contend with.
The question of why Hollywood would want to remake the film is realtively understandable, as the story's premise itself is a compelling one and any director with a flare for violence, psychological complexity and, of course, a good-old fashion revenge flicks, would want a bash at "Old Boy". Here's how the U.S. version describes itself (which at this stage shows little to no deviation from the original):
"An advertising executive is kidnapped and held hostage for 20 years in solitary confinement. When he is inexplicably released, he embarks on an obsessive mission to discover who orchestrated his punishment, only to find he is still trapped in a web of conspiracy and torment".
If we are taking originals, and I believe we are, then most will be aware Park Chan-wook's film is actually an adaptation of a Japanese manga of the same name. Broken up into eight volumes, "Old Boy" (オールド・ボーイ Ōrudo Bōi) is an equally dark piece of crime fiction by Garon Tsuchiya and illustrated by Nobuaki Minegishi. "Old Boy" was written by Park himself along with Hwang Jo-yoon ("Masquerade"), Spike's version has had its screenplay developed by Mark Protosevich ("I Am Legend", "Thor", "The Cell", Poseidon) and the news has been the U.S. version will be even darker that Park's original. Whether that's a good thing remains to be seen, however Park's "Old Boy" contains so many iconic moments (some darker than others) that it is going to be fascinating to see how Mr. Lee's 'joint' handles some key hinges and sequences in the story. From the famous, and rather dangerous, 'octopus eating' scene to the long and uncut corridor brawl, "Old Boy" is full of and has made these and other moments iconic signatures of not only the film, but of the man behind the camera.
Spike Lee has received much criticism as being the chosen director to remake the film (assuming now that it has to be made at all). Looking at his recent filmography doesn't inspire much confidence (save, perhaps, for the "25th hour"), and I am sure many Asian viewers might be shaking their head at this African-American director from Altanta, Georgia, whose body of work contains such heavy U.S-related racial/political themes. I wonder if he would consent to Park remaking "Malcolm X" or "Jungle Fever"? It is just doesn't make sense and, perhaps more honestly, its patronising, to Park's efforts and to the original manga. That all being said, I am actually rather hoping the film comes out well, not for Spike's sake so much, but rather for the spirit of the story itself which has thus been incredible in both Park's film and Tsuchiya's manga.
Not that I would have had an issue with an African-American actor taking the lead in Spike's remake (Will Smith almost ended up with the role, and Spike seems to have managed to sneak Samuel L. Jackson into the cast), but again it just all seems a little off-centre and questionable given the story's origins in both Japan and Korea. Still, the U.S-version will have some top stars trying to convince us all of their efforts in the form of Josh Brolin ("Gangster Squad" & "Men in Black III"), Elizabeth Olsen ("Silent House" & "Martha Macy May Marlene") and Sharlto Coley ("District 9", "The A-Team"). Let's see how Josh handles that live octopus scene.
Like it or not, a U.S-version is coming and Spike Lee is behind the wheel. I for one can't wait to see how it all turns out, but I am pretty sure that even when October rolls around and I've sat through Spike's attempt, we'll find that the better versions of this tale will still be found where the sun rises and not where it goes down.
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Super Bowl parties should be fun and low key, but most importantly, they should be awesome. Unless you have VIP box seats in Dallas to offer your peeps, your awesomeness must center around food and atmosphere (yep, ours too). Just remember, this is football, not the Tonys — forget high-brow and go with guy-friendly.
Football Field Centerpiece. Okay, we did this last year — but we STILL love Hostess with the Mostess' great centerpiece idea with wheat grass and little plastic football guys. Want to go more budget? Buy a small swag of artificial grass "carpet" (available at craft stores) and pick up some plastic football dudes at the dollar store or actual "Football Guys" at amazon.com. Even MORE budget? Take a simple sheet cake, ice it in green and put your plastic men on top. Now you have a centerpiece that is gridiron-worthy — and delicious.
Yummy Chili. The can't-go-wrong main food event? Chili. You may already have a tried-and-true recipe, but may we suggest this one from Epicurious.com? The chili cheddar shortcakes are optional — and if you don't have a food processor OR a butcher (see the recipe) get a "Mix N' Chop" (only $10.50 at Pampered Chef!) to get your ground beef super-ground.
Fun Drinks. Of course beer is the go-to, but sometimes you want something a little more festive — The Neelys have a great recipe for "Gina's Super Bowl Punch" — and punch tends to stretches your resources, for more bang for your buck.
Spectator Games. Print off these trivia questions and hand them out to your guest for a little added fun while you're waiting for kick-off. The only cost is paper and printer ink — and to up the ante, offer a prize (pick up an official Wilson football for around $15 from Walmart — or a Nerf ball if your budget is even tighter) for the guest who gets the most correct answers. Tally the results during half-time.
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