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Detox 101: Separating Fact from Fiction
Detox and cleanse programs have become the latest rage for quick weight loss and a boost in energy. Celebrities carry their green juices everywhere, and magazines run articles promoting rapid weight loss and perfect skin. But many of these juice-based programs are big on promises with little basis in science.
Here, I will help you learn the difference between fad diets and detox that is medically proven to work.
What is a detox program?
We are all exposed to toxins in our lives, and nature gave us this wonderful built-in detox organ called the liver. However, your liver can get fatigued trying to keep up with the chemicals, heavy metals, pesticides, and plastics that, despite your best efforts, are coming into your body every day. A detox program is a lifestyle program that helps you rid your body of toxins by supporting your liver. A good program should focus on 3 things: food, supplements, and cleaning up your environment to reduce your exposure to every day toxins.
What is a cleanse? Is it the same as a detox?
People often use the word "cleanse" to talk about anything from a juice fast to gut cleanses that use laxatives to "clean out" the bowel. This is very confusing! Cleansing can be part of your detox program, but when it comes to detox, it specifically refers to eating and drinking foods that support excretion of toxins, thus "cleansing" the liver and tissues. This should not affect the gut or the bowels.
A "juice cleanse" can be very supportive and part of a detox program, and when organic and from a good-quality company, can supply high amounts of important nutrients for your liver.
Who should do a detox program?
Toxins are stored in fat cells and this can cause accumulation of body fat that is hard to get rid of. Helping the body release these stored toxins so that the body will then metabolize the fat, should be the first step for anyone who wants to lose weight. If you are tired and don't know why, feeling puffy all over, or having difficulty concentrating, these could be the signs of too many toxins in your body and you could benefit from a detox program.
If you have an autoimmune disease, chronic pain, headaches, or any symptom that is bothering you and you don't know why, a detox program would be good for you, too.
Who shouldn't do a detox program on their own? (Supervision is suggested!) If you are undergoing treatment for cancer, or are on steroids or any other life-sustaining medication, or if you have inflammatory bowel or other severe gut issues, you should consult with your doctor or an integrative practitioner such as a naturopath, chiropractor, or functional medicine specialist before starting a detox.
What should you eat?
There must be a food plan! Supplements alone aren't enough.
Eat lots of organic greens like kale, cruciferous veggies like broccoli and cabbages, and antioxidants from deeply colored fruits and veggies. These nutrients support enzymes in the liver that process and remove toxins.
Don't forget the protein. While juicing is great, your liver also needs amino acids, which you get from eating protein. Vegetable sources like beans, nuts, and seeds are just as healthy as chicken and fish, which are also good.
What not to eat: foods that are stressful to your liver. For the duration of your detox program follow these dietary guidelines.
Remove all processed sugar: Cakes, cookies, breads, candy, soda and juices. Eliminate coffee and alcohol.
Do not eat gluten, dairy, soy, corn, eggs and red meat.
Gluten is found in wheat, barley, rye, kamut and spelt. Choose gluten-free grains, such as quinoa, millet, rice or buckwheat.
Avoiding dairy means all cow, sheep, and goat products like yogurt, kefir, cheese, butter, milk, and cream. Choose non-dairy milks and cheeses made from rice, almond, and coconut.
Avoiding corn means you must read labels and avoid corn starch, corn syrup, and all foods that have corn listed in the ingredients in any form.
Avoiding soy includes soy sauce and all products that have soy listed as an ingredient in any form, such as soy protein, soy lecithin.
When you finish your detox, you can reintroduce each of these foods one at a time, every 3 days, to see if they trigger a physical symptom, like a headache, fatigue, brain fog, arthritis, or gut symptoms like gas and bloating, or another symptom that is familiar for you. If it does, then you are sensitive to this food and you should remove it from your diet or eat it very rarely.
Do I need supplements or can I do a detox with food alone?
We recommend adding some liver-boosting supplements to your food plan and you will really get the detox engine going. Include antioxidants, B vitamins, herbs like milk thistle, and amino acids like glycine (you can also get this as part of a liver-support protein shake).
You can check out our recommendations at www.immuneprogram.com
You can also do various cleanses without supplements, but make sure to eat protein or drink protein shakes if you are choosing to do a juice cleanse. Remember, a detox program includes supplements, while a cleanse can be juice and food alone and are meant to be short term.
Clean up your world.
A detox program should address not only what you are eating, but also your exposure to toxic environmental factors at the same time. Work on filtering your water, eating organic, not using pesticides on your lawn or using harsh cleaning products.
Check out www.ewg.org for ideas on cleaning up your house and your environment. What to expect during a 21-day detox program:
The first week you might feel more sluggish, or worsening of the symptoms you are familiar with. For most people, this is mild and passes by the end of the first week. If your symptoms get much worse, are uncomfortable or cause you to be concerned, it is a sign that you probably have lots of toxins in your body and need to slow down the detox. This happens most often when you do a detox program for the first time, because your toxin load is the highest. You can slow down the detox by cutting the supplements in half, or even taking a few days off.
By the second week you will begin to feel more energy and notice you are feeling better. And by the third week you should be feeling great! If you are very toxic, you might not feel better until the third week, but stick with it, eventually the clouds will part and the sun will come out.


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This coming weekend is Labor Day weekend (which really just means that Monday is Labor Day and therefore most of the business community gets a three day weekend). For many people – especially here in Colorado – that means getting in one last camping trip, one last big summer cookout, or one last festival or fair. And while that's not all it means, those things are all important parts of this holiday, because that's exactly what Labor Day is – a holiday.
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August 12, 2017 at 7:29 am #163562NatalieParticipant
I started talking and dating with this guy for about a month, and everything was going just fine. He would text me all the time, go out whenever possible due to our busy work schedules, talk about everything. I really felt a connection, and I saw in him everything I ever wanted in a man. He is intelligent, well spoken, educated, successful and definitely the most handsome man I've ever dated.
He got out of a long term relationship not a long time ago. He was very honest to me about it, and I realized he had been very hurt. I decided to give him time, meaning I didn't want to rush him or myself to commit that fast or something like that. Actually he was the one rushing things, talking all the time about future us.
Then we had a fight, since I had made plans with my friends for two weekends. He got mad because we wasn't making time each other, I couldn't spend a weekend with him and, that he had been always second or third to friends, parties, plans in his previous relationship. I reassured him that I wanted to spend my time with him more than anything, and I actually never said no every time he invited me out, but these were plans I made before I was even talking/dating him. He apologized, and told me that he just likes me that much and doesn't want to spend a second away from me, and I had the power to bring him up and I make him very happy. This made me realize that he was still hurt, but I thought he had honest intentions with me, otherwise why would he be mad.
Then after a while, he started acting distant and ignoring me. He didn't text me back, didn't answer my calls, and then he would come up with lame excuses like he forgot his phone, he was busy.
When I asked him for a coffee because I hated texting, so we could talk about us, because it was obvious that something is not okay, and if I had done something wrong since he was acting like he was mad at me (because of the weekend thing). He told me that he was busy, just got out of a relationship and this is all he can do right now(which was nothing, compared to what he was doing in the beginning) and that he wasn't even measuring if we were ok or not, everything is good at my end, and that we would talk about it.
And this was it. Never contacted me again. Never contacted him again.
Now I know it was only a month, but he was perfect and everything I ever wished for. I have been struggling with low self esteem, depression and anxiety for the most part of my life, ever since my mom died. The time I spent with him made me so happy, having a guy like him like someone like me, made me feel like I can enjoy life too, that there's more to life than being sad and scared all the time.
Then he just disappeared. Without a decent explanation. Now I'm back to my misery, even worse.
How do I get him, and the way he made me feel out of my head?August 12, 2017 at 9:37 am #163616anitaParticipant
Dear Natalie:
You wrote: "Then we had a fight, since I had made plans with my friends for two weekends. He got mad because we wasn't making time each other.." –
It takes two to have a fight, two parties (or more) attacking each other. I understand he attacked you, verbally, for choosing to spend time with your friends. What was the nature of your attacking him?
(I ask this because that fight seemed to be what brought this one month relationship to an end).
anitaAugust 12, 2017 at 11:10 am #163622NatalieParticipant
Hi Anita,
I don't think I ever attacked him, I just got defensive because I didn't like to be compared to other people.August 12, 2017 at 11:45 am #163626anitaParticipant
Dear Natalie:
If you would like to share, how did you defend yourself during that fight?
anitaAugust 12, 2017 at 3:29 pm #163640jayParticipant
Observe the thoughts that you have about him and eventually they will go away. Also, you're literally feeling miserable about the past which does not exist, it's all in your head. The past and future are illusions of your own mind, therefore it's just as simple as letting go.August 12, 2017 at 5:21 pm #163654ElianaParticipant
Hi Natalie,
I'm sorry this happened. I know what it's like to like someone so much, then we have hopes and dreams of a possible future of a person because during the brief time you were together, there were good memories, and those memories are hard to let go.
Perhaps, what happened, is things got intense too quick. You weren't together very long and he starts to act very controlling just because you wanted to spend time with your friends, he had a temper tantrum, got hurt, because it reminded him of the pain of his recent break-up and he decided the intensity, too much, too soon frightened him off..no ones fault..he simply wasn't ready or emotionally available. Even if you did reconcile, would you always want to be "walking on eggshells" afraid to do anything with your friends because of his insecurity? You would not have been happy in the long run, and neither would he. He was just not ready.
August 12, 2017 at 7:34 pm #163674giaParticipant
- This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by Eliana.

Dear Natalie, I am sorry you are living in the process of what you described. I felt you when you said you were so happy with him, because "having a guy like him like someone like me" — that's my self talk as well, when someone I am attracted to pays me attention. What I do when that attention ceases is I plunge, as if to an endless bottom. You said he hadn't contacted you again after telling you everything was good on your end. He placated you to avoid what he imagined would be unpleasant, so he chose that way out. I have done that to others; I have also had that done to me. When I was the one doing it, I had no intention of re-establishing contact; when it was done to me, I began to mentally cling onto the person, thinking him into this all-loving, all-perfect person that doesn't and never did exist. I hope I didn't sound cruel with what I said. I wanted to share my experience with you so you could walk free from expectations that he was great and that it was your loss. Take care of yourself, Natalie. Gia
August 14, 2017 at 10:23 am #163918AmberParticipant
When you first met him was he actively dating and then you guys became exclusive? From what I can tell on the whole dating thing is people nowadays look for love on dating websites and seem to keep the relationship "open" for a better opportunity and once it comes along, they disappear. It could very well be that or he reconciled with an ex of his?
Even though it was only a month of dating I fully understand how that can feel when he basically ghosted you. I think only time can heal you and the more and more time goes by the more he'll fade from your memory. It hurts right now but it won't always be like that. I would keep yourself busy and try as best you can to keep him from your mind (better said than done). I experienced this a few times when I was dating a few people. They would just suddenly disappear (because they were talking to someone else they thought was more compatible) and that would be the end of the contact. It took a few weeks depending on the person but I'd soon realize they simply weren't right for me. I was fortunate enough to meet someone amazing and couldn't be happier!August 14, 2017 at 2:10 pm #163938JanieParticipant
I have the exact same situation. I was with a man for 6 years & he had been away working for a month & after he had been to see his kids he phoned me to meet but I had a lecture which I couldn't miss, so I told him he could come round after, later that night, or the next night. He then started acting funny & didn't come to see me for a week, of me convincing him that nothing had changed between us, I was genuine busy. Then we had an argument & I said a couple of things I shouldn't have said, purely out of frustration. Then we met up & I asked him if we could fix it & he said, yes of course. Then proceeded to ignore me & now hasn't spoken to me for over a month. I just don't get it! Why say we can fix it, if you don't want to? I really miss him. And most of all, I feel so bad for what I said, I try to be such a nice & good person & I believe I am, but for the first time in my life, I said something horrid & I don't know why. It really damaged my integrity & who I believed I was.


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Interview with Meg Stuart
Performance Journal: Where are you now as you write?
Meg Stuart: I am participating in an amazing ten-day project called Flying Circus where artists from Asia, Europe and the States are invited to present their work and exchange ideas with each other. We started in Singapore, and we are now in Hoh Chi Minh City. Motorbikes zoom past as I write this.
PJ: Where would you call home?
MS: Never easy to answer as one of my recurring issues in my work is the dual experience of feeling at home everywhere and nowhere. I live in Berlin.
PJ: You are American-born and have primarily developed your work in a European context. The story of you being "selected" by Europe to come be the next hot thing is obviously a construction of certain people's storytelling skills. Could you explain your work – who, where, when?
MS: I choreographed quite a bit in NYU and after I graduated I continued to make work, dance for others, take workshops, and tons of restaurant jobs to survive – a typical New York story. Though I must say I was very happy in New York at that time. I didn't try to push my work in the scene in any way but I would show a piece on a showcase when I had the time and the possibility…I was crushed when I was rejected for Fresh Tracks. Tine Van Aerschot, a playwright in Belgium who was looking for interesting young work in New York saw one of my rehearsals and from there got me in contact with Bruno Verbegt who invited me to create my first evening-length piece for the Klapstuk Festival in Leuven, Belgium. This was a huge step for me as I had no reviews of my work and had never made a piece longer than 15 minutes. I accepted, not without a lot of doubts. This first piece, Disfigure Study, was very successful much to my awe, and led to touring in Europe and residencies for a second work. I made No Longer Readymade two years later. During that period I met many artists at festivals and in projects like Skite in Paris where I collaborated on many small works. At a certain point, I realized I was spending much more time in Europe than New York; and more that I was becoming part of an international artistic community, and in order for my work to develop and in order to research movement in an intensive way I needed time and space to work which seemed only possible in Europe. In 1994 with the guidance of the producers in Klapstuk, I established the company Damaged Goods and became the first non-Flemish choreographer to apply for subsidies. In the beginning, we received grants for projects, and then were given structural support as a company in 2001.
PJ: After you attended NYU, you were in Randy Warshaw's company, who danced with the Trisha Brown Company. How did this experience influence you?
MS: Anytime you start working with someone over a period of time they become a model for you. Not only watching them make artistic choices and participating in these choices but all those other decisions — How much rehearsal time to make a piece? How to prepare a group before the show? How to keep up older works? How to audition dancers? I worked with Randy for 5 years and we lived together for part of this time so I was very close to the work without much distance. I loved his classes — the floor technique and the Contact classes. I am still impressed by Randy's logical sequencing and that for some work he created it move by move from the beginning to the end. I am more cut and paste with my work – quite chaotic. For one piece we learned our individual improvisations from video, every single detail without any corrections. I found this very difficult at the time but I still use this method in my own work.
PJ: Who else was in the company at the time? Jennifer Lacey? Did the company give you a sense of community and belonging that in those days many people found or believed they could find in "the company"?
MS: Here were really brilliant dancers and choreographers that worked with Randy at different moments — Joseph Lennon, Jose Navas, Allyson Green, Iréne Hultman, Susan Blakensopp, Bill Young, and others. I learned a tremendous amount from all of them from dancing with them: how they structured their lives living in New York, their views on dance and so on… I was always the youngest one, then Lacey joined the company and she became the young one.
PJ: How did that experience influence your development of Damaged Goods as a company?
MS: We're a project-based company, although I often work with dancers for more than one project. I like to create an open structure where dancers are independent and have the opportunity to be involved in other projects. Unfortunately, because the performers create the work, it is not easy to replace them or tour the older pieces. It is equally important that I create company works that are on different scales. Some larger, some more intimate. And for each piece I try to find new methods of working and to give the performers experiences that will inform that particular work. The casting is very important and the projects and issues are very connected to the performers' own identities.
PJ: You once said that your work always refers back to the traumatized body or that subconsciously you draw from this idea. Perhaps this is a misquote, but can you correct the quote and does Damaged Goods refer to this?
MS: I see the body as a container of memories and impressions we have from our own past, but also from contemporary life. I filter these experiences through movements. I'm not so interested in the accidents, in the traumatic event, but how someone recovers, how people continue on, adapt to new situations, and reintegrate themselves into the world. Often the movements also express things which aren't stated, which are difficult to express, so there's a lot of slippage between the interior world and the outside reality. 'Damaged goods' was the last line of Burt Supree's review of Disfigure Study. I am not sure he meant it as a compliment.
PJ: Most recently you have been doing different configurations of projects based more on collaborations with other choreographers such as Philipp Gehmacher, Benoît Lachambre, and Francisco Camacho. Is this a new direction and what does this foretell for the future of Damaged Goods?
MS: I've always had a history of collaboration. I like to create work in dialogue, to dance with them in a conceptual way. In a way they help you define yourself, but they also disrupt you. It's also an irritation, they take you to places you wouldn't dare on your own. I think there's something important to say about the circularity; all the people I've worked with in the past. People aren't just passing through me; I'm re-experiencing relationships, looking through my history again; revisiting all the links and connections I made with people I've worked with before. The work is continually evolving, and I simply enjoy the conversation with artists that share similar ideas.
PJ: As a young choreographer making work in New York, how did you perceive your work in the context of downtown dance at the time?
MS: There was so much going on and work to see, I think I saw three shows a week. It was difficult for me to be away and miss anything. I was quietly very involved. Alhough I think we all carry our issues and obsessions wherever we go, they're certainly affected by working inNew York. I was moved by the AIDS crisis in the late 80s and early 90s. There was a very, very strong sense of supportamong the artists, but I'd only been makingsmall pieces, and I don't know howthey fit in. How can you fit your work into a context? What does that mean? I would never know that.
PJ: Also, a few people who were around during the time you began choreographing have said that you work was not well received by the scene here and that people were somewhat shocked that you were invited to Europe. Was that your perception, as well, at the time? Or is this all poppycock?
MS: I don't think that was the case. We had a very strong response when we showed Disfigure Study at The Kitchen and sketches for Readymade at P.S. 122. I think most people didn't even know that I made dances because I didn't promote myself, and were surprised that I was given the opportunity to make my first work in Europe. I agree; I do think the Klapstuk Festival took a big risk presenting my first evening-length piece. I would like to think that other European presenters would have so much trust in young artists today. What do they have to lose? I have to say that there was a very virtuosic, complex dance scene that was shown at that time. And for me, it felt like that I was interested in dance that was more vulnerable, that was more fragile, that questioned itself. I wanted to slow movement down, to let images linger. There was a kind of continuation of movement and speed in the work that I saw and I wanted to arrest the flow. I choreographed a series of images to affect the audience in a more emotional way. Like Francis Bacon, to appeal to their nervous system.
PJ: How did this European context change you as a choreographer? And how did you have to adapt as a choreographer in this new context?
MS: I think often choreographers in New York talk about the difficulties of making work and in Europe people talk more about the work itself. It's true that when we were talking about the dancing in New York, it was very immediate, very movement-based, and all of a sudden there was a chance to think about the total experience, to work with a whole set of production values that I didn't have access to in New York. My performances stopped bringing dancers onstage. They started becoming people. And I started to investigate theatricality and how to translate choreographic ideas into other mediums and forms, using choreographic strategies to compose text or to collaborate with artists in video and sound.
PJ: Disfigure Study was the piece that brought you to large international attention. What were the conditions for making this work?
MS: The budget was rather limited. I had the theatre two weeks before the premiere and worked with the dancers in residency in Leuven and rehearsed as well in New York. The whole piece was an accumulation of two years of work. Hard to remember, it was so long ago.
PJ: As you gained prominence with this work, how did it change your perception of the work and yourself as a choreographer?
MS: Don't know.
PJ: As a choreographer you have not settled into a large institutional practice and structure, is that something you would desire? Or would you say your time in Zurich was that possibility?
MS: I have a dual interest in both the need to construct work to practice the art of composition with different ideas or starting points, such as monstrosity, fanaticism, ghosts, absence, loss, and build a world with others from there. But it's equally important that I have time for process to exchange with other artists, such as the project I am in now, so that I can continue movement investigations. I wouldn't want to just play in these larger and larger houses but equally for the audience to experience the work in more intimate settings. In Zurich, I was able to meet Christoph Marthaler who was older and more experienced than me — to see the actors interact and change roles from night to night, to share a space where other people were making work, to watch them build the set, to see the costumes being made, to see different artists and designers work in the same house. I loved that.
PJ: Improvisation is a large part of your background training and practice, as well as the impetus for projects such as the Crash Landing series and Auf den Tisch!. What role did your American education and training play in this? In a way, you also seemed to be a part of the force that brought this focus on improvisation to Europe, no?
MS: Taking risks, enjoying the discomfort, seeing artists trust each other, bringing artists together and people that under different circumstances would never improvise has informed me about how I dance; but also about how to meet the world trying to find the bones to get to the deepest of contact or connection with another in any situation. I was frustrated that improvisation seemed to become for me stale at one point because I am passionate about the form. I have many questions about improvisation, so in collaboration I have tried to ignite the practice by involving other disciplines and creating settings where improvisation can be discussed as a form. Together with Myriam Van Imschoot, I created Auf den Tisch!, an improvised conference that includes the audience.
PJ: Teaching is also a part of your practice; this too seems to hark back to the American modern dance tradition where teaching and choreographing are inextricably linked. It seems less so in Europe. Can you comment on these thoughts?
MS: I try to teach what is most burning for me at the moment. I share my questions, my investigations, and open up process with my students. I expose myself very much when I teach. I usually teach improvisation and often I improvise when I teach. It is part of my own personal process… Ultimately, language is the most important thing for me — expanding the possibilities of what we express in movement and seeing movement as text laid out in spatial time. I do think it takes an extraordinary amount of research and time to make breakthroughs in one's own movement language whether it be improvised or set movement.
PJ: It is nice that your work is coming more frequently now to New York after an absence of many years. How many years between Splayed Mind Out at The Kitchen and Forgeries, Love And Other Matters at DTW? Although you performed some smaller pieces at Judson and at the MR Festival too, no?
MS: More than seven years. Yes, it is very important and special for me to perform in New York. It was here that I learned about contemporary art and performance, and I learned how to dance here. Yes, I guess I am very nostalgic about my time in New York.
PJ: Perhaps Americans feel that they have a special lens on your work. Some of the images and movement play on our subconscious repertoire of American iconography and metaphors, yet this is rarely addressed or fully comprehended in Europe. In Forgeries… the American West, in It's not funny, Hollywood and Las Vegas, and perhaps in BLESSED, Hurricane Katrina. Perhaps this is just a projection onto your work from an American perspective, but then again, it seems that like perhaps Henry James and James Baldwin, you are addressing American culture from both inside and outside.
MS: I guess I feel comfortable talking about American culture because it is a lens, a way of looking at the world that I can understand, reflect upon, be critical of, but have affection for as well. With the political climate being what it is and having the distance and the perspective of being in Europe, I think one can't help but reflect on American issues. I haven't always felt so comfortable being an American in Europe, but knowing certainly I am not German nor Belgian and never will be. I was born in New Orleans. It was terrible being far away and watching the trauma of Hurricane Katrina with my mouth wide open, shocked, and feeling so helpless. BLESSED is, personally, perhaps, one of my most important works that I have made until now.
PJ: Isn't it a trip to bring the work "home" so to speak?
MS: I can only answer yes and no.


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Emmanuel Macrons candidate for Paris mayor, Benjamin Griveaux, withdrew from the race over a leaked sex video Friday, in a blow for the French presidents party ahead of March local elections.
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Griveaux, 41, said he opted for retreat to protect his family after a website published the video with messages addressed to a woman, which was said to have come from the former government spokesman.
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- 2 cup/2 oz. Swiss chard sliced into ¼" ribbons
- 4 cups no sodium added chicken broth*
- 1 (14 oz.) can plum tomatoes
- ¼ cup ancini de pepe
- ¼ cup sliced basil
*For a vegetarian or vegan option, simply substitute vegetable broth.
- Heat a large soup pot over medium heat. Add the oil, onion, carrot, thyme, and rosemary. Cook until the onions are softened and starting to brown (about 5 minutes).
- Stir in the garlic and Swiss chard and continue to cook until aromatic (about 30 seconds). Add the stock, tomatoes, and acini de pepe. Bring to a simmer.
- Season with salt and pepper and cook until the ancini de pepe is al dente (about 10 minutes). Taste and adjust seasoning.
- Divide between 4 bowls and sprinkle with basil.
Pasta e Ceci with a Twist
- 4 oz. pappardelle
- 1 Tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
- 2 Tbsp. chopped garlic
- 2 tsp. finely chopped rosemary
- 14 oz. (half a jar) prepared favorite tomato sauce
- 3 oz. prepared hummus, perhaps flavored such as roasted red pepper
- ¼ cup/¼ oz. chopped parsley
- Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Cook the pappardelle according to package directions. Drain and reserve.
- Heat a large saucepan over medium heat. Add the olive oil and sauté the garlic and rosemary until aromatic (about 30 seconds).
- Add the tomato sauce and hummus. Stir and simmer for a few minutes for the flavors to meld. Taste and adjust seasoning.
- Stir in the pappardelle and toss to coat. Divide between 4 bowls and sprinkle with parsley.
Warm Moroccan Spiced Couscous Salad
- 2 tsp. vegetable oil
- 1 ½ cups/6 oz. sliced onion
- 2 cups/7 oz. ½" cubed eggplant
- 2 Tbsp./1 oz. grated ginger
- 2 Tbsp./½ oz. chopped garlic
- ⅛ tsp. ground cinnamon
- ¼ tsp. ground cumin
- ½ tsp. ground coriander
- 2 tsp. sriracha or other hot sauce, or to taste
- 1 cup/4 oz. thinly sliced carrots
- 1 cup/4 oz. diced red pepper
- 1 cup/6 oz. Israeli couscous
- 1 cup/ 2 oz. roughly chopped cilantro
- Heat a large saucepan over medium heat. Add the vegetable oil and sauté the onion, seasoning with salt and pepper, until soft and starting to brown (about 5 minutes).
- Add the eggplant, stir together with the onions. Cover and cook until softened (about 3 minutes).
- Add the ginger and garlic, stirring to caramelize. Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste.
- Add the cinnamon, cumin, coriander, and sriracha. Stir to bloom the spices.
- Add the carrots, red pepper, and couscous. Stir to mix everything well.
- Add 2 cups water and a pinch of salt. Cover and simmer for 10 minutes or until the water is absorbed. Taste and adjust seasoning.
- Stir in cilantro and divide between bowls.


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Peng GONG
Title: Principal Investigator E-mail: email@example.com
1998, B.S. Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
2001, B.S. Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
2006, Ph.D. Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA
Research Interests
The RNA-dependent RNA polymerases (RdRPs) play essential roles in RNA virus genome replication. The research in my laboratory focuses on the mechanisms of catalysis and regulation of viral RdRPs as well as the development of RdRP-based antiviral strategies.
1. Peng Gong, Edward A. Esposito, and *Craig T. Martin. (2004) "Initial bubble collapse plays a key role in the transition to elongation in T7 RNA polymerase." J Biol Chem 279(43), 44277-44285.
2. Peng Gong and *Craig T. Martin. (2006) "Mechanism of instability in abortive cycling in T7 RNA polymerase." J Biol Chem 281(33), 23533-23544.
3. #Michael N. Muphy, #Peng Gong, Kenneth Ralto, Laura Manelyte, Nigel J. Savery, and *Karsten Theis. (2009) "An N-terminal clamp restrains the motor domains of the bacterial transcription-repair coupling factor Mfd." Nucleic Acids Res 37(18), 6042-6053. [pdb entry: 3HJH]
4. Peng Gong and *Olve B. Peersen. (2010) "Structural basis for active site closure by the poliovirus RNA-dependent RNA polymerase." Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 107(52), 22505-22510. [pdb entries: 3OL6-3OL9; 3OLA-3OLB]
5. Nina F. Gn?dig, Stéphanie Beaucourt, Grace Campagnola, Antonio V. Bordería, Marta Sanz-Ramos, Peng Gong, Hervé Blanc, Olve B. Peersen, and *Marco Vignuzzi. (2012) "Coxsackievirus B3 mutator strains are attenuated in vivo." Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 109(34), E2294-E2303.
6. Guoliang Lu and *Peng Gong. (2013) "Crystal structure of the full-length Japanese encephalitis virus NS5 reveals a conserved methyltransferase-polymerase interface." PLoS Pathog 9(8): e1003549. Recommended by Faculty of 1000 (http://f1000.com/prime/718078445). [pdb entry: 4K6M]
7. Zengqin Deng, Kathleen Lehmann, Xiaorong Li, Chong Feng, Guoqiang Wang, Qi Zhang, Xiaoxuan Qi, Lin Yu, Wenhai Feng, Wei Wu, Xingliang Zhang, Peng Gong, Ye Tao, Clara Posthuma, Eric Snijder, *Alexander Gorbalenya, and *Zhongzhou Chen. (2014) "Structural basis for the regulatory function of a complex zinc-binding domain in a replicative arterivirus helicase resembling a nonsense-mediated mRNA decay helicase." Nucleic Acids Res 42(5):3464-77. [pdb entries: 4N0N, 4N0O]
8. Jiqin Wu, Guoliang Lu, Bo Zhang, and *Peng Gong. (2015) "Perturbation in the conserved methyltransferase-polymerase interface of flavivirus NS5 differentially affects polymerase initiation and elongation." J Virol 89(1):249-61.
9. Bo Shu and *Peng Gong. (2016) "Structural basis of viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase catalysis and translocation." Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 113(28):E4005-4014. Recommended by Faculty of 1000 (http://f1000.com/prime/726446704). [pdb entries: 5F8G-5F8J; 5F8L-5F8O]
10. Guoliang Lu and *Peng Gong. (2017) "A structural view of the RNA-dependent RNA polymerases from the Flavivirus genus." Virus Res 234:34-43. [Invited review in the special issue of Viral Polymerases. Editors: Dr. Luis Menéndez Arias and Dr. Raul Andino]
11. Bo Shu and *Peng Gong. (2017) "Uncoupling of catalysis and translocation in the viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase." RNA Biol 14(10):1314-1319. [Solicited "Point of View"]
12. #Fengwei Zheng, #Guoliang Lu, Ling Li, *Peng Gong, and *Zishu Pan. (2017) "The uncoupling of protease trans-cleavage and helicase activities in the pestivirus NS3." J Virol 91(21). pii:e01094-17. [pdb entry: 5WX1]
13. Wenhua Kuang, Huangyu Zhang, Manli Wang, Ning-Yi Zhou, Fei Deng, Hualin Wang, *Peng Gong, and *Zhihong Hu. (2017) "Three conserved regions in baculovirus sulfhydryl oxidase, P33, are critical for enzymatic activity and function." J Virol 91(23). Pii:e01158-17. Cover stroy. [pdb entry: 5XKI, 5XTN-5XTR]


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Malicious Rebirth Sequel Malicious Fallen Announced Exclusively for PS4 on Famitsu
The latest issue of Weekly Famitsu included the announcement of Malicious Fallen, sequel of Avlon's Malicius and Malicious Rebirth that were released in 2010 for PS3 and in 2012 for PS Vita. The game will be released in japan in spring 2017 exclusively for PS4, and it's already 85% complete.
Interestingly, the game will include a large number of stages that can be tackled in any order, without any predefined path to follow, each including huge bosses to fight and a multitude of enemies.
Not only this is a sequel of the previous game, but it also includes chapters from the past to revive them with improved visuals. Both the Subjugation chapter from Malicious and the Rebirth chapter from Malicious Rebirth will be included.
Combat will use the Cloak of Cinders that can freely change shape between different weapons. Each time a boss is defeated, a new attack technique will be learned. It'll be possible to execute exhilarating actions at high speed with easy controls, like running up walls or slaughtering enemies with the cloak turned into a giant blade.
The cloack can still transform in sword, fists, spears and wings like in the past games, but there will also be new cloak actions, expanding the tactics that the player will be able to use in battle. Two newly revealed one, which you can see at the end of the gallery below, are the scythe and the stake.
Quite obviously, no western release date has been announced yet, which is understandable, considering that both previous games took about two years to be localized. Here's hoping that this one will come faster, assuming that it does.
As usual, keep in mind that the screenshots below come from magazine scans, so their quality isn't representative of how the game will actually look on your screen.


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Part of a series on Nizari-Ismāʿīli Batiniyya, Hurufiyya, Kaysanites and Twelver Shī'ism
The Babai Revolt was an insurrection in the Sultanate of Rûm in the thirteenth century
Sultanate of Rûm was a medieval state in Anatolia founded by Seljuq Turks who had recently converted to Islam. Although initially a part of the Great Seljuk Empire, it lasted longer than the Great Seljuks, reaching its apogee during the reign of Alaattin Keykubat I. But in the mid-13th century, Seljuks faced the problem of refugees. The Mongols had defeated the Khwarazm Empire at the east, and Oghuz Turk clans were escaping from the Turkistan area to Anatolia. These clans were nomadic and mostly Tengriist, i.e. non Muslim.[1] The Seljuk sultan Gıyaseddin Keyhüsrev II attempted to settle these people in Southeast Anatolia (Asiatic part of modern Turkey), but they defied his diktat. They started to convert to Islam, but their interpretation of Islam was more tolerant than that of the settled population, and they were regarded as heretics. However they were supported by the nomadic Turkmen people of Central Anatolia who had migrated earlier than the newcomers but had the same problems.
Gıyasettin had ceded power to his ministers, notably Sadettin Köpek who excelled at political murder and repression. He had the leaders of Khwārazm people (like Kirkhan) imprisoned. The revolt began in 1239 around Samsat (in modern Adıyaman Province), and spread quickly to Central Anatolia. Baba Ishak who led the revolt was a follower of Baba İlyas, the kadı (judge) of Kayseri. Although the Seljuk governor of Malatya tried to suppress the revolt he was defeated by the revolutionaries around Elbistan (in modern Kahramanmaraş Province). The revolutionaries captured the important cities of Sivas, Kayseri and Tokat in Central and North Anatolia. The governor of Amasya killed Baba Ishak in 1240, but this did not mean the end of the revolt. The revolutionaries marched on Konya, the capital. The sultan saw that his army could not suppress the revolt, and he hired mercenaries of French origin. The revolutionaries were defeated in a decisive battle on the Malya plains near Kırşehir.[2]
Rāss'ūl-Allāh Bābā Eliyās al-Khorāsānī († 1240)[3] was an influential mystic from Eastern Persia, who was the Bābā Ishāq Kafarsudī, and consequently executed by Mūbārez'ūd-Dīn-ee Armāğān-Shāh,[4] the supreme commander-in-chief of the armies of the Anadolu Selçuklu Devleti (Sultanate of Rum).
The revolt was suppressed with much bloodshed. But with the diversion of resources needed to suppress the revolt, the Seljuk army was severely affected. The defence of the eastern provinces was largely ignored, and most of Anatolia was plundered. The Seljuks lost the valuable trade colony in the Crimea, on the north of the Black Sea. The Mongol commander Bayju saw this as an opportunity to occupy East Anatolia, and in 1242 he captured Erzurum. In 1243, he defeated Keyhüsrev's army in the battle of Kösedağ, and the Seljuks became vassals of the Mongols.[2]
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Kuha'o Case is truly inspiring! He was born premature at 27 weeks, weighing only 2 lbs, 2 oz, and was struck with an infection that called for an extensive surgery and led to his blindness at the age of 2 months old. He was not expected to live and he beat all odds! Today at the young age of 15 years old, Hawaiian-born Kuha'o Case, is only three years into his own journey of personal discovery, and is already an unarguable musical prodigy. After discovering that he had a special connection with the piano, Kuha'o taught himself to play both the piano and the organ (he received formal lessons for about a 6 week period, but was teaching his instructor more than he was learning, so other than that he is completely self-taught). As if that's not enough, Kuha'o has the remarkable ability to listen to any song, only once or twice, and play back his own beautiful arrangement of that song, he has perfect pitch, and he is the happiest boy you will ever meet! Translated from Hawaiian, Kuha'o means 'extraordinary,' and his middle name, Makana, means 'gift'. He truly both posseses and is an 'extraordinary gift'. In his short fifteen years, Kuha'o has already lived up to his own name. Anyone who has the privilege of hearing him play the piano is significantly moved by the magnitude of his gift. He needs to share it with the world!
On Thursday, July 12 at 7pm at the USU Kent Concert Hall there will be a FREE CONCERT featuring Kuha'o Case. Everyone is invited. He would love nothing more than to know that the entire hall was filled with supportive fans!
Many great things that are lining up for Kuha'o here in Utah. He will be participating in the USU Youth Conservatory Summer Piano Clinic. It has also been arranged for him to receive lessons from Dr. Lynn Thomas as well as from Richard Elliot, Mormon Tabernacle Choir organist. He will also be performing a 20 minute opening set for Landau Eugene Murphy Jr (season 6 winner of America's Got Talent) on Saturday, July 21 at the Ogden Amphitheater.
This sweet boy has a dream of touching people's lives with his music, and we have no doubt that he will. Actually he already has, but he wants to touch more and more lives! How neat would it be to have even a small part in helping make his dream come true. Kuha'o gave a talk at a church event back in April entitled "Dare to Dream" and it truly left me and my husband inspired to help him succeed. My husband has started a funding project for Kuha'o on a website called kickstarter.com. We are working to raise funds so Kuha'o can own his own piano (He doesn't even own his own piano! He practices on the weekends at his grandparent's home) and produce his first CD. We only have 11 days left to raise a total of $30,000 for this. Already we have raised over $10,000 and if we don't collect the rest of it by July 21, then we don't receive any of the funds (that's how this fundraising platform works). It's all or nothing. You can find out more about this project and see videos of him playing the piano by going to kuhaosdream.com and clicking on the links.
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Whenever another photographer gets in touch to have me take their family portraits, I get so, so excited! As a photographer, being on the other side of the lens is not always easy. We spend a good portion of our working hours making other people feel comfortable in front of a camera, but when it's our turn to be the subject, it can feel awkward! But apparently Dawn is the exact opposite of me because her and her family were total naturals! Ok, maybe I'm just super awkward and this isn't even a problem for other photographers?
Seriously. Look at these girls. Can I mention too that it was freezing cold and we did this whole session in 20 minutes? Nailed it.


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Yesterday, the welcome offers on both of the SPG credit cards changed, decreasing in value substantially, with each card offering a measly statement credit at the time of writing that is worth much less than the previous point-based signup bonuses. However, Miles to Memories reports receiving word from Marriott's communications team that Amex will continue to issue both cards after August 1st and that there will be "very rich" welcome offers coming in the next few weeks.
What they mean by a "very rich" offer is anyone's guess. During the Marriott launch event, David Flueck emphasized several times that the value proposition on the personal Amex SPG card wasn't changing since you would be getting a free anniversary night valid at any hotel charging up to 35,000 points per night in addition to 2x everywhere on the card when the changes take effect on August 1, 2018. He seemed to float this as the idea that you're effectively still getting the same 3x on the first $35K in spend since you'll get up to 70,000 points at 2x plus an annual anniversary night worth another 35K. Of course, that anniversary night isn't really worth 35K since you can't trade it for points and use it for hotels that are more expensive or for multiple nights at hotels that are less expensive; unlike points the certificate will expire, etc.
It's interesting to note that Doctor of Credit was also able to verify with Amex that they will continue to issue the consumer version of the SPG card. We had previously been under the impression that this card would no longer be available once the programs merged and the new credit cards were released. It sounds like maybe there will be a lot of Marriott cards on the market for at least a little while, which could be good news for those looking to further stock up on points (though I suspect the new offers on the SPG consumer and SPG business cards will continue to be unavailable to those who have or have had the SPG cards before). Gary Leff at View from the Wing explains this situation coming about since the names of the programs (SPG, Ritz-Carlton, and Marriott) will not change to a unified single name until next year. Presumably, Amex has the exclusive rights to issue an SPG card, and SPG will continue to exist until they change the name. On August 1st, you'll begin logging in to the hotel program with one account and being able to book all properties through one site and one set of points, but the name "Starwood Preferred Guest" will live on until the single-name program debuts, so apparently these cards will continue to be issued for at least as long as the name exists.
At the very least, it's good to hear that there should be better offers in the coming weeks, as the current offers are pretty crummy.
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