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Rated as one of the Best Lightening Cream in an Independent Review!
A revolutionary Lightening cream packed with load of Anti-oxidants, Vitamins, Anti-aging and Pimple Blocker
ingredients. GLUTA-C Lightening Cream
. This formula will not only help lighten your overall complexion but will also help lighten and diminish old scars, acne scars, age spots, dark underarms, Inguinal areas, stretchmarks and even freckles and birthmarks. This skin lightening cream with the addition of plant-derived (Alpha- Arbutin and Japanese Rice Sake derived Kojic Acid), contains non-irritating ingredients that helps prevent itchy, red and splotchy skin during your initial use.
It contains proprietary blends of multiple peptides and skin brightener ingredient such as Glutathione, a powerful Anti-oxidant and anti-aging supplement with added Vitamin C.
However, for people with sensitive skin, initial reactions ie; redness, blotchy, itchy & irritated skin is inevitable for these reaction hence don't be alarmed as these symptoms will go away as your skin tries to adapt to the ingredients of the cream. If burning sensation arise, please temporarily discontinue use as your skin may be too sensitive for everyday use, try alternating its use every 2-3 days. If burning sensation persist, discontinue use permanently. As an alternative, you can use it anywhere on your body or mix it with your favorite body lotion or evening moisturizer.
removes scars permanently, lightens minor or even major burns, lightens inner thighs, underarms, buttocks and groin area (avoid applying on moist areas). Turns nipples pink. Lightens and removes age spots, melasma, liver spots and freckles. Great anti-aging cream as it erases wrinkles and signs of aging ie; crows feet, dry and lifeless flaky skin. The list are endless...Discover the possibilities. Say no more to embarrassing dark spots & scars. And say HELLO to younger, pinkish, fairer, blemish free skin!
We have considered all possible factors in creating
GLUTA-C Lightening Cream
therefore we are confident that this product will surpass all Skin lightening cream in the market today as far as efficacy, safety and over all performance. As far as safety, our product does not contain Hydroquinone, steroids, Mercury or other harmful ingredients.
Apply only at night before bed. Wash face thoroughly preferably with Kojic or Glutathione skin whitening soap. Rinse thoroughly with cold water. While the skin is still damp, apply a pea size cream, thinly all over face. Avoid getting near the eyes, nose and mouth. In the morning, rinse and wash face with Glutathione or Kojic soap, then apply moisturizer and
Products recommended to use with Gluta-C Lightening Cream:
skin whitening soap
and any store bought sunblock SPF 30 or more is preferable.
INGREDIENTS: Glutathione, Alpha Arbutin, Kojic Acid, Retinol (Vit. A), Grapeseed extract, Vitamin C flower extract, Scultellaria Baicalensis, beeswax, Sodium sulfate, glyceride, water.
Gross wt: 4oz - Net cre
am wt: 2oz
Gluta-C® Skin Lightening Cream- FDA VCRP CPIS#
store in a cool dry place. One container will last you for months (face).
After a month of every day use, give your skin at least 1-2 weeks rest. This will ensure an oxygen rich skin (pinkish glow) as you let the skin breathe. Continue using every other night. Continue the regimen of 1 month use, 1-2 weeks rest until you finally achieved the skintone of preference. During this break, please use Sunblock or Moisturizer w/ Sunblock to maintain and protect the skin. Avoid sun at any cost.
Do not use other skin lightening products in conjunction with Gluta-C cream, you assume all the risk of contraindication by doing so. Maintenance: once-twice a week.
Container lid will differ sometimes due to availability from the Manufacturer. Rest assured, contents are not affected by these changes.
Will I peel or shed after using Gluta-CSkin Lightening Cream?
Yes, peeling/shedding should start at the base of the nose and around the lips then out, its' mostly shedding not peeling, you'll feel that your skin will turn tight and dry and dry/dead skin will
to fall off. This process should start around the 3rd or 4th day, for some takes longer.
Is Gluta-C Skin Lightening safe?
Gluta-C Skin Lightening Cream is formulated with these factors in mind, Efficacy and safety. It does not contain Hydroquinone, mercury, steroids or other harmful ingredients. It's active ingredients are plant derived (Alpha Arbutin), Kojic Acid (from Rice Sake), Vitamin A (Retinol) a great anti-aging and Glutathione known as the Ultimate anti-oxidant, anti-aging and skin lightening agent.
How long does it last (shedding or peeling)?
It depends on your current condition. Shedding can last from 1-4 weeks. Please note, that shedding or peeling is very minimal compare to peeling from using Maxi Peel. This stage should not even be noticeable esp. if you use Petroleum jelly to rub off dead skin and dirt.
How come I can't use toner, astringent or even cleansing pads while using Gluta-C Skin Lightening Cream?
Gluta-C Lightening cream is highly concentrated, and is an all in one skincare regimen. From toning, exfoliating, anti-aging, pimple/acne blocker, moisturizing and skin lightening. Once you start using this cream, you no longer need to use other skincare products except for the Glutathione or Kojic soap, Sunblock or daytime moisturizer w/ Sunblock. That's all you need. Talking about a cost effective skincare and skin lightening regimen! However, if you needed to use toner, Funky Mommy Skin Lightening toner is formulated to work synergistically with Gluta-C® Cream with minimal after feel effects.
What can I expect from using Gluta-C Skin Lightening Cream?
First week of usage: Your skin will go through the cleansing stage, shedding of dirt and old dead skin cells. Although this can also last up to a month esp. if this is your first time doing such maintenance on your skin. Don't be alarmed as shedding is very minimal, this will not affect your everyday social life. **Some users experience scar lightening during this stage. Skin will be sore and feel raw at this point. Do not rub skin. Skin will turn pinkish or reddish when exposed to excessive heat or sun.
Some would experience acne breakout, mostly if you're a smoker or really oily skin. Don't be alarmed once this phase is over, pimples will start to disappear and skin will start to look smooth and lighter.
2nd-3rd week: Scars, age spots, liver spots, hyper pigmentation starts to lighten. Skin starts to lighten, Skin's becoming firm and well tone. Acne breakout is minimized or has stop completely.
4th week and going forward: For medium skin, this stage will look promising as far as skin lightening, texture and skin tone. After the one month break, skin will look oxygen rich and oh so smooth. For darker skin; This stage will mark the beginning of drastic skin improvement, although a little delay due to the fact that darker skin means melanin production is twice as much compare to individuals with lighter and medium skin.
Can I use a different brand of Sunblock?
Absolutely, any brand will do.
If I stopped using Gluta-C cream, will my skin get darker?
No, your skin will not get darker, but if you don't protect it with Sunblock and refrain from going out in the sun for a long period of time, skin will return to its regular color prior to lightening.
I have a very sensitive skin, can this cream work for me?
Although we only use the safest skin lightening ingredients, there's a chance that some people may experience allergic reactions from one of its natural ingredients. Therefore, as a precautionary, we suggest that you do a patch test. If a light tingling sensation occurs, this is NOT a sign that you are allergic to it, simply a sign that the cream is working its way through the skin. If redness/burning sensation occurs after you have been using it for days, this means that you're skin is was too sensitive to be using the cream every day, please discontinue use, apply aloe vera or Petroleum jelly to affected area until it's completely healed. You can continue using it with 2-3 day interval, do not use it every day.
Since your skin will be sore and sensitive to other products, we highly recommend the use of
Calendula Moisturizer
it contains great healing power that rejuvenates and helps expedite the skin's renewal.
How many shades can I lighten with the cream?
Gluta-C Skin Lightening cream can lift 2-4 shades or as much as your body/skin will allow.
Is this formulation safe for long term use?
Gluta-C cream does not contain harmful chemicals such as hydroquinone, mercury or benzonene. Although it is safe for long term use, we suggest to have at least 1-2 week break after every 30 days so skin can have a breather, this will give skin to regain oxygen that was lost during treatment.
Can I wax my eyebrows or face while using Gluta-C cream?
No Gluta-C cream is a treatment cream, what it does is expedite the shedding of old skin to reveal younger looking skin underneath making the skin sensitive and vulnerable to hot wax. But if you really need to get your wax session done, then we i suggest to NOT apply Gluta-C cream where the wax will be on.
Where do I keep/store the cream?
You can keep it in a cool dry place.
I'm pregnant, Can I use it?
No, we do not recommend it, although it hasn't been tested to have negative effects, but we'd rather advise our clients from abstaining while pregnant or lactating, just to be on the safe side. If you chose to use Gluta-C® Cream under these circumstances, then you are using it at your own risk & discretion.
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works like a charm
I made a review on Pores cleanser mask a few days ago and as I promised on my review I am giving my review about Gluta-C as well, I have been using this cream for a few days now and what a difference, I have been using also Kojie soap for a month now and it does work but using this cream with the soap has made my skin much more brighter and softer, I have noticed a very tiny, not noticeable to eyes of others but to myself a small peeling effect of my face which is a good sign, I support the claim of this cream for sure.
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- 8/18/2013
I am in love with this!!
This cream is so powerful yet very friendly on my skin. I am so hook that I always look my face in the mirror, and I am loving my skin everyday!! I used to have acne, uneven, dark rough skin, name it! I felt so hopeless! But I was so glad that I tried FM products! 1st day of use, u can tell the difference, and everyday it keeps getting better! Do not be afraid to try, and I can honestly say their products really works even better than branded or expensive ones! Do not listen to some bad reviews, I suggest you try them. My skin never felt this good, no more acne, smooth and lightens everyday!! Ive got a lot to say but the space wont fit now haha! Thank you FM!! Please continue selling us your products!! Pleaseeeee :)
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- 5/3/2013
working great!
product works great,applying cream once at bedtime and the kojic soap washing twice daily,some old scar on my face from sun exposure has completely fade away,these products are working just fine,after being exposed for many years to direct sunlight it will take some time,but when these products are finished I will contact your company for more purchase, thanks again.
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Harry R.
from Toronto, CA.
- 3/26/2012
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The results were dramatic and remarkable as it really faded my aged sun spots and marks. This cream worked major wonders as my skin lightened. I also have the reduction of appearances of forehead creases and mouth creases.
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- 3/16/2012
worth every $$
Yes, Gluta-C cream has been very consistent with it's promise. Never failed me eversince i started using it last year. I use it only every 3-4 days now that my scars and skin has lightened considerably, now im focusing on my neck, arms and legs (even private parts) to even out everything, i wish FM sells this by the gallon lol!
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- 3/27/2012
products that work!!
OMG! I LOVE LOVE LOVE your products! In just ONE WEEK, I have my High school and college Skin BACK! Please don't Stop selling your products. Because I don't think I could survive without them :) Works great with Kojic soap, lotion and Gluta-C pills!
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- 11/15/2012
Love your products!
I have been using the kojic acid soap and Gluta- C cream for several months now. I love them both. I just ordered some placenta day creme and the BEBLESH balm. I love your products. I wish I'd had them 20 years ago!
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- 2/19/2013
Omg i love this product ; i have been using it twice a day with kojic acid soap for about 3 and half weeks now and i swear i am 2 shades lighter than i was before plus my face is so bright and so soft . i cant wait to order some more . love it
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- 1/14/2013
Hit and miss
This cream was hit and miss for me, my jar is almost empty and even though it did make my skin very smooth, it didn't lighten my scars much, I used the glutathione soap with the cream, which I really liked, I may order the soap again, but not the cream
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- 3/29/2012
Love it
I received a free sample of this cream and love it. I will be ordering soon. I used this on my lady parts to lighten some dark spots. The spots are much lighter there is an overall brighten of the area too.
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- 1/23/2013
loving it
Gluta C has made a difference to my skin making it softer and brighter.
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- 5/16/2012
This product is PHENOMENAL & AMAZING, my skin is glowing & even toned,in just 10 days. A product that "REALLY & TRULY DELIVERS".FINALLY,THE INTEGRATION OF SKIN LIGHTENING & ANTI AGING PROPERTIES WHICH MAKES IT SUCH A REMARKABLE PRODUCT.Excellent customer service,SOPHIE IS BRILLIANT.CONGRATZ ON THE BIRTH OF THE "GLUTA C CREAM" A BREAKTHROUGH IN SKIN LIGHTENING,GOODBYE FAKE PRODUCTS, HELLO REAL THING!!!
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- 4/13/2012
very effective!
I tried alot of face cream in the market but this is the only one that works for me it really works wonders i love it! from day 1 i can feel its working my skin become pinkish and my pimple scars are diminishing especially when your pimples just heal and you use this cream your pimples mark is gone. it works with your old pimples scars too coz it lighten and it gives your face a nice glow thanks funkymommy!
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from new jersey usa.
- 4/8/2012
Wonderful product!
made my skin soft, smooth and age spots/scars..GONE!
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from BC, Canada.
- 9/22/2012
Amazing is the word that comes to mind when describing this product. I stumbled on this website by accident and decided to try this after reading all the great reviews. Everyone is correct; gluta C does work. Results are seen within a month or so.
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- 3/23/2012
Questions and Answers
Im planning to use the gluta c cream on my face and visible areas, how noticable is the peeling? and is there a way to hide it? why does it have to peel?
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- 9/23/2013
Not everyone peels, it's the exfoliating phase, however if you peel, you can apply petroleum jelly so it won't be as noticeable.
Answer provided by: Administrator (9/23/2013)
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The Momentum Proteas Women have won the toss and elected to field in the first One Day International (ODI) against Bangladesh Women at Sahara Willowmoore Park in Benoni on Friday. The Selectors have named the same team that defeated Bangladesh in the third T20 International in Potchefstroom on Sunday.
South Africa XI: Trisha Chetty (KwaZulu-Natal Coastal), Mignon du Preez (capt, Northerns), Shabnim Ismail (Western Province), Marizanne Kapp (Eastern Province), Alexis Le Breton (Western Province), Lizelle Lee (North West), Marcia Letsoalo (Northerns), Sunette Loubser (Boland), Suné Luus (Northerns), Dané van Niekerk (Eastern Province), Yolandi Potgieter (Boland).
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Has it been a while since you've seen a proper bastardization of a classic? Then might we suggest an evening with Frankenstein, the Musical? See, we think that if you're going to put a spin on something, then you might as well spin it till you're dizzy, which is what locals Mary Medrick and Rodney Dobbbs did to Mary Shelley's classic about the most misunderstood monster of them all. Not to be confused with its hoity step-sibling (the award-winning Frankenstein — A New Musical), this performance is full of all of the things you would expect from a Pocket Sandwich production, dubbed "a rollicking musical spoof." Frankenstein, the Musical opens Friday and runs through September 29 at the Pocket Sandwich Theatre, 5400 E. Mockingbird Lane, #119. Seating and food service (featuring a full menu, beer and wine) start an hour and a half before curtain. Tickets are $10 to $20. Call 214-821-1860 or visit pocketsandwich.com.
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STS*: Josh Bush Carves Out a Special NichePosted by on December 16, 2012 – 9:22 am
For Josh Bush, it seems like only yesterday when he was gearing up for his first NFL training camp.
Now it's the middle of December and his rookie season is reaching its final stages.
"It's gone by very fast," Bush said Thursday inside the Jets locker room. "People were telling me stories about the rookie wall and this and that, but it's flying by to me."
Unlike his teammate, wide receiver Stephen Hill, Bush said of the rookie wall: "I haven't experienced it."
The Jets' sixth-round draft selection described his first year in the pros as fun but admitted things could be better if the team had a winning record. The Green & White are 6-7 but still have a chance to end their season with an above-.500 record as three regular-season games remain.
One week ago, Bush made one of the best plays of his young NFL career during the Jets' 17-10 win Jacksonville. On the second-half kickoff, he beat his block and took down returner Jordan Todman with a low tackle at the Jaguars' 11-yard line. The play seemed to ignite the entire team as the Jets defense immediately forced a three-and-out and minutes later the Jets offense scored their first TD of the afternoon when RB Shonn Greene rushed for a 1-yard score to cap a nine-play, 57-yard drive.
"We just went over it in a special teams meeting," Bush said of the play. "We put something new in. Coach Westhoff drew up a great play. I was really coming down, stacking up behind Antonio [Allen], and I read it. Nick [Bellore] was playing off of me, and the hole just opened up."
No. 32 said he was only doing his job on the play, but acknowledged it was nice to see the play executed properly.
"We definitely practiced it," he said. "That was exactly what we practiced."
Bush, a safety on defense, has played a significant role on special teams this season. He played on 15 special teams plays against Jacksonville and on 168 this season, 44% of the Jets' total ST plays. And his tackle of Todman was his 13th on kick and punt coverage this season, tying him for the team lead with Nick Bellore and fellow rookie Demario Davis.
Yet he never played special teams in high school and his only action on specials at Wake Forest occurred early his freshman year.
Although he hasn't seen much action at his natural position, he has valued the opportunity to learn from coordinator Mike Westhoff, now in what he's said is his final season as an NFL coach. Bush said what Westhoff has taught him most is that focusing on the task at hand can lead to successful things getting done. Yet early on, Bush said the ST coach had his doubts on whether he could ever be a special teams factor.
"He honestly told me when they drafted me that he didn't think I'd be able to play special teams," Bush said. "So just to hear that from him, and him telling me that I've been doing a good job, that's just a positive."
The Jets rank eighth in opponents' kickoff-return average and are 13th with opponents' drives averaging starts at their 21.5 yard-line. At the same time, they lead the league with 22 opponents' drives starting inside their own 20. While the ranking certainly isn't despairing, Bush knows it could be better.
"We've had ups and downs," Bush said. "But for the most part, it's not where we want to be."
Tennessee's kick-return unit ranks 31st in the NFL in return average, but Bush said the Jets, in a must-win situation every week now, can't afford to overlook main returner Darius Reynaud and the Titans.
"It's the NFL," Bush said. "You can't sleep on anyone. Special teams is a very important part of the game, so you've got to bring it every time."
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Since 1991, 37 children under 12 have drowned in Broward County.
The majority were toddlers who died when they tumbled into a backyard swimming pool. Nine lost their lives in the canals that snake through Broward`s neighborhoods.
Since 1991, 37 children under 12 have drowned in Broward County.
The majority were toddlers who died when they tumbled into a backyard swimming pool. Nine lost their lives in the canals that snake through Broward`s neighborhoods.
Two of the 37 deaths share another common denominator: They occurred in the swimming lagoon at Topeekeegee Yugnee Park in Hollywood.
Those two drownings, and one other in the ocean in 1991, are the only child drownings in a public swimming area, according to statistics from the Broward Medical Examiner`s Office.
On Sunday, Nicholas Gonzalez, 3, died at T-Y Park after he wandered out of the children`s section and into the adult swimming area.
Laura Gonzalez, Nicholas` mother, was combing the lagoon for her son when another swimmer discovered her child`s body in the water. Laura Gonzalez, of Miami, was at the park with a companion, Nicholas and four other children, Hollywood police spokesman Ed Cunningham said.
In 1991, an 8-year-old Hallandale boy drowned while at a summer camp outing at the lagoon. A lawsuit has been filed against the county by the child`s family, but it has not been resolved, said Doris Naisby, claims adjuster with Broward County Risk Management.
About 150 children die by drowning in Florida each year, and Broward usually is one of the deadliest counties. During the past eight years, the number of drownings among Broward children ages 14 and under has ranged from 8 in 1991 to 23 in 1985, according to medical examiner`s records. Ages 1 to 4 are at the greatest risk.
Despite the two drownings at T-Y Park`s lagoon, there are not any changes planned to improve safety there, said Bob Harbin, director of Broward County Parks and Recreation. After reviewing reports of Sunday`s death and the 1991 drowning, Harbin concluded that his staff had done nothing wrong.
``It`s an unfortunate incident. But it appears everyone did what they were supposed to do,`` Harbin said.
There were about 150 people at the lagoon on Sunday when Nicholas Gonzalez drowned, and about six lifeguards on duty. But the lifeguards cannot constantly watch every toddler, Harbin said, and parents must realize that ultimately, their children`s lives are their responsibility.
Parents at T-Y Park on Monday praised the park`s staff and agreed that the best way to prevent drownings is to constantly watch your children.
``They supervise good here. They make sure the kids are with their parents,`` said Maritza Moreno, of Hollywood.
Every 30 minutes, lifeguards clear the pool and make sure children are with their swimming buddies or parents. Floatation devices such as inner tubes and water wings are not allowed because they give parents a false sense of security, Harbin said.
The children`s and adult`s swimming lagoons are physically separated, and swimmers must walk from one to another. Signs warn that any child under 14 must be accompanied by a parent.
Mary Morrison, of New York, stood on the shore of the lagoon intently watching her two children.
``You can`t assume the lifeguards are watching your kids,`` Morrison said. Those parents who do -- and many do, she said -- are courting tragedy.
0-4 years 5-12
Pool 8 0
Canal 2 0
Lake 0 0
Ocean 0 0
Bathtub 0 0
0-4 years 5-12
Pool 5 1
Canal 2 1
Lake 0 0
Ocean 0 0
Bathtub 2 0
* Death of Nicholas Gonzalez,3, has not yet been classified.
SOURCE: Broward County Medical Examiner`s office.


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Recent epidemiological evidence suggests that prolonged sitting (sedentary behavior: time spent in behaviors that have very low energy expenditure, such as television viewing and desk-bound work) has deleterious cardiovascular and metabolic correlates, which are present even among adults who meet physical activity and health guidelines. Further advances in communication technology and other labor-saving innovations make it likely that the ubiquitous opportunities for sedentary behavior that currently exist will become even more prevalent in the future. We present evidence that sedentary behavior (too much sitting) is an important stand-alone component of the physical activity and health equation, particularly in relation to cardio-metabolic risk, and discuss whether it is now time to consider public health and clinical guidelines on reducing prolonged sitting time that are in addition to those promoting regular participation in physical activity.
There is general recognition among physicians and other health professionals that regular participation in moderate- to vigorousintensity physical activity (i.e. brisk walking, jogging, lap-swimming) is one of the cornerstones of chronic disease prevention and management. In addition to the physical and psychological benefits, there is considerable evidence that moderate- to vigorous-intensity activity has a positive influence on cardio-metabolic risk factors.1 As a consequence, public health campaigns and recommendations regarding advice that may be provided by health professionals have typically focused on this intensity of physical activity, with current recommendations supporting the accumulation of at least 30 minutes of moderate to vigorous activity on at least five days of the week.
While there has been some success with these public health campaigns, evident through the population-wide increases in leisuretime physical activity being observed in some countries over the past 10 years, this success has also coincided with a rapid rise in the prevalence of overweight and obesity in several countries over the same period.2 Several factors may explain this apparent paradox. The most plausible explanation is the sole focus on an important, but limited, element of the overall physical activity spectrum: moderateto vigorous-intensity activities. Focusing on this single component does not address the health consequences of participation in the plethora of sedentary behaviors that occupy the waking hours of most adults.
For instance, for a person who typically sleeps for eight hours per day, meeting the minimum public health physical activity levels of 30 minutes of moderate- to vigorous-intensity activity each day constitutes only a small proportion of the remaining 16 hours in his or her day (see Figure 1). Indeed, recent studies that have used accelerometers to objectively measure daily physical activity among Australian adults have identified that, on average, the majority of adults' non-sleeping hours (up to 60%) is spent in sedentary time, with the remainder being disproportionally distributed to light-intensity (incidental movement; 35%), and only a small fraction of time to moderate to vigorous physical activities (usually less than 5%; see Figure 2).3
Sedentary time, derived from the Latin word 'sedere' meaning 'to sit', represents the time that individuals spend in various behaviours that require low energy expenditure such as working on the computer, watching television or driving a car. Sedentary behaviour, often used interchangeably with sedentary time, is the term now used to collectively characterise those behaviours that people encounter at home, at work and during leisure and transportation that involve prolonged sitting rather than ambulatory movement.4–6
Recent evidence indicates that time spent in sedentary behaviours, independent of time spent in moderate- to vigorous-intensity activity, is related to health outcomes and cardio-metabolic biomarkers of chronic disease risk among adults.4 The independence of these two behaviours is further reinforced in studies that have demonstrated detrimental cardio-metabolic health outcomes for 'active couch potatoes' (i.e. those individuals who meet the physical activity guidelines but also have high sedentary time; see Figure 3).7–9 These findings have led to the emergence of a strong scientific interest in understanding and influencing sedentary behaviour.
In this article, we posit that sedentary behaviour (too much sitting) may be at least as important a public health problem as the lack of moderate- to vigorous-intensity physical activity (too little exercise). We put forward an argument for an expanded perspective on physical activity and health where behaviour (both sedentary and physical activity) across the day and at all intensities should be considered. We present a brief overview of recent evidence that identifies too much sitting as an important ingredient of the physical activity and health equation, particularly in relation to cardio-metabolic risk. We emphasise that the impacts of too much sitting need to be considered as influences that are additional to the still very important clinical and public health concerns about too little exercise.


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Starship Troopers
A Review by Noah Antwiler
Robert A. Heinlein's novels, in my opinion, are very insightful books that usually have quite a lot to say. I think people read Heinlein novels not for the science fiction elements, but for the exploration of the human situation. Most of the time, he seems to explore social issues such as the role of the family, men, women, the military, the government. I personally find his books to be overly didactic, and most of the time the plot is just a clothesline on which to hang extended essays about his views on these matters. I have only read Starship Troopers, The Puppet Masters, and Stranger In A Strange Land, so I'm by no means a Heinlein scholar, but I actually find Heinlein's style very effective and his novels are always very thought provoking. There's only one thing handicapping Heinlein's books.
He is insane.
Starship Troopers is probably Heinlein's tamest novel in terms of expressing his controversial views. This book explores the role of violence as the dominant way to resolve disputes, translated faithfully into the movie. It also introduces an odd form of government where the democracy is given to an elite class of citizens who must earn voting rights through civic service in the armed forces. Sort of a funky democratic/fascist government. It's much deeper than all that, and Heinlein actually presents a convincing case that such a government might be ideal, despite his relatively weak justification that this government was adopted simply because "It just worked." Or you could argue that it's a satirical argument against such a government. Whatever floats your dropship. The Puppet Masters gets rather comical by introducing an alien threat that eventually requires the world to walk around entirely naked. Constantly. But where it gets really weird is in the near-allegorical retelling of the Christ story in Stranger In A Strange Land, where Heinlein introduces a savior that encourages free, repetitive, and very public sex with many, many partners. It gets even weirder still when this same savior shares these wacko orgies with entire families, encouraging incestuous behavior.
And that's where he starts to lose you. I read once that if you want to read Heinlein, you should avoid Stranger, because he can really scare you off. I've also read that the rest of his books can get even weirder still. The man has some really out-there ideas that just weren't for me, such as not really seeing much of a problem with incest. So odds are good that eventually, most people will jump off the Heinlein bandwagon sooner or later. But he's undoubtedly contributed some of the finer sci-fi novels to the world.
But that has nothing to do with the movie.
The movie is, well, not the book. At all. Here is a complete list of the ways in which the book and the movie are the same:
- Some of the characters in the movie happen to have the same names as other characters in the book.
- There are indeed hostile bugs that live on a planet called Klendathu.
- The system of government is basically the same.
- There is a scene in which a grizzled sociology teacher explains that violence can solve any problem.
And that's about it. Basically, you've got a movie about gung-ho commando types-- all of whom look like models-- fighting an army of CG bugs. And then they sprinkled Heinlein juice on it to give it flavor. As such, there are two ways a viewer can take this movie. As a serious interpretation of the Heinlein novel-- in which case you will be horrified, offended, and probably walk out of the theater-- or as a generally witless over-the-top action movie that knows precisely how campy it is. I know a lot of people that have serious mental anguish over this movie, and if you even mentioned the words "Starship Troopers" in their presence, they will go on for an hour about how much they hated it. I personally never liked television or movies labeled "campy" because that just really means "intentionally bad." If you make a movie intentionally lame, is it still not lame? You can't just make a crappy movie, throw winks to the camera every chance you get, and expect us to forgive how bad the movie is because you meant it to be stupid. And yet, movies like Cabin Fever and the Batman movies are praised for their camp and kitch values.
So it was with conflicted hearts that we approached Starship Troopers, because there's arguably no sport in taking shots at a movie that knows it sucks. So I really watched the movie closely (probably more closely than it ever deserved to be watched) to see if it is indeed a campy romp through a clichéd war movie. I no longer think it is. There are certainly satirical elements in the film, primarily the newsreel-style footage with the tagline "Would You Like To Know More?" But upon listening to the director's commentary, I find that the satire is not aimed towards mocking the war movie, but more towards mocking fascism and the sort of "manifest destiny" American imperialism demonstrated in the movie. I don't remember any time in which the director, Paul Verhoeven, admits to camping the movie up, or having a laugh at the cheesiness of it all. He actually seems quite earnest in his exploration of the fascist imagery in the film. It seems he has a gift at satirizing the American media's style of news delivery, especially in his earlier film Robocop, which is very similar in tone.
I no longer think it's camp he was going for, just a really over-the-top action extravaganza that'd be a lot of fun. You watch that football scene and you'll get the picture. Most people heard the line "They sucked his brains out," marveled that Michael Ironside could say it with a straight face, and decided a line THAT bad had to be camp. Might have been, but the movie still sucks.
I remember with fondness how many people begged me-- literally begged me-- on message boards and private e-mails to do Starship Troopers as an Experiment. I'm still really shocked at how much venom people had at this movie. I mean, I didn't like it, but there are nerds that must burn Verhoeven in effigy in their basements next to their shrines to Sephiroth. It does really go against almost everything represented in the book, and thoroughly soils the title with its badness. It's got no jumping mechs-- the trademark weapon of the Federaration's Mobile Infantry, the characters are all wrong, and so on. Evidently, Heinlein is credited with inspiring the whole mecha-in-anime culture with some of the people I've talked with. If you don't get understand, you have to realize that these fans were completely betrayed by this movie. You can't just steal a title from an established story and discard the story. You have to at least try and involve the source material here. These fans got hit with a bait-and-switch. It's like going into a movie called Moby Dick and suddenly being blindsided with 90 minutes of David Arquette and Carrot Top chasing a whale around on jet skis, shouting their collect call telephone plan jingles at each other. You can name Arquette's character Queequeg if you like, you're still going to piss people off.
After writing the Experiment for this movie, I have newfound respect for the MST3K guys, especially since they go through the movies more than we do. The previous experiment, Dungeons & Dragons, took about two days of writing. The work went pretty fast and we went right to recording. But this movie took literally ten times as long to get through. I can't really explain why this could be, but Troopers proved to be a completely soul-crushing experience when forced to actually sit down and pay attention to it. We kept putting writing sessions off for the next day, and often could no longer take the movie for any more than 2 hours at a time. And I really don't think this is because we're getting lazy, I rather think it's because we'd just seen Starship Troopers 2, and were on about our 3rd writing session to discover to our horror we'd only gotten an hour into the film AND FOUND WE HAD ANOTHER 70 MINUTES TO GO. This movie is devastatingly long and at that point, we had already burned out on the film. And yes, Starship Troopers 2 is a far, FAR worse film.
The basic premise is simple: human colonization has extended to the stars, and McDonalds has so many franchises now that the number must be expressed in exponential notation. This expansion has gotten the race into trouble, however, as they've intruded on a hive-minded race of bugs (called, appropriately, "The Bugs") that don't take kindly to intruding monkeys. The Bugs exterminate humans where they can find them and routinely chuck asteroids at Earth from clear across the galaxy. How the Bugs know where Earth is, and how they're able to throw rocks with perfect accuracy at such an awesome distance is never made clear. I'm also no physicist, but I should imagine these rocks would take thousands of years to cross the intervening distance between planets, even assuming they were hurled at the speed of light. This makes the Bugs' aim all the more impressive, since planets and stars are in constant motion during this time. If this is not the case, then the Bugs must have some way of tossing rocks at a speed much higher than light speed, which is impossible. It would also make the asteroids impossible to intercept as demonstrated in the opening newsreel. And so, we combat this threat with the Mobile Infantry and the Fleet. The Mobile Infantry is a group of jarheads who wear plastic armor with morale that would shatter if they saw the Sharks from West Side Story approaching.
The hero is Johnny Rico, a blond-haired, blue-eyed young American with a manly man's square jaw and nice teeth. He has nothing to do with the book's Johhny Rico, who is supposed to be a Filipino. I'm not sure what a Filipino was doing in Buenos Aires, but the Johhny Rico in the movie is still quite out of place. He's about the least "Rico" looking person you could find aside from Dustin Diamond, and I should think for a hero who lives in Buenos Aires named Rico, you might cast someone who looks-- you know-- Argentinean. Brazilian, Chilean, Mexican, Spanish, ANYONE who might be able to justify that their name is Rico without being the whitest white boy around. Before you ask, nope, he's not an adopted Rico, since his mom and dad are white too! It's stuff like this that happens right away in a movie that just plain distracts me, wondering what convoluted history led to the odd twist of fate where this guy got named Rico. Although you're not watching Starship Troopers to see a movie that makes sense, you're watching it to see stuff blow up.
Johnny is in love with a local girl named Carmen Ibanez, played by Denise Richards. This is even more laughable than Whitey Rico, because of all the people you imagine might conceivably be called Carman Ibanez, it sure ain't Denise Richards. They go to the same high school with Doogie Howser, M.D. and a girl who has a crush on Johnny, Dizzy Flores. Dizzy is played by Dina Meyer, who also looks nothing remotely like someone named Flores. It's an interesting note that 99.9% of the people I see in this Argentinean high school are white, over the age of 25, and all attractive. There appear to be no native citizens of Buenos Aires here at all, and everyone here has become the physical ideal of human beauty, and everyone speaks English. There are no real geeks, fat kids, skinny kids, smelly kids, or goths that went to my high school. The entire campus looks like a modeling school where the women wear dresses that would have had the security at my school sending them home to change immediately. But then, my school was kind of puritanical. The point is, in this movie clearly America has invaded Argentina and put all the citizenry to death, populating the country primarily with Caucasian runway models.
Johhny is also captain of the football team. The movie takes us to the last game of the season where Johhny's team is taking on the Giants. Not the New York Giants, presumably from another Argentinean school populated entirely by white people. This is probably the most hilarious scene in the movie because of how ridiculously over the top the action is. When stiff-armed or hit, anyone who is not a major cast member flies backwards comically as if they were shot with a high powered rifle in a Lethal Weapon movie. When Rico, Zander, or Dizzy break tackles, everyone they even remotely touch is catapulted backwards as if hit by a truck or repelled by some awesome haymaker to the face. This proves that having a defensive line composed entirely of stuntmen is a bad idea. Johnny can also apparently do a running somersault clearing 8 vertical feet, even throwing in a twisting pike to impress the judges. Either that, or football fields of the future come with trampolines or pneumatic stunt catapults at the 20-yard line. They also don't appear to follow the rules of football, since there are no kickoffs, and there are no PATs. Even arena football has kickoffs. It's also funny because no flags are thrown for blatant personal fouls, and incredible that three touchdowns are made on three consecutive plays. But the funniest bit must be that Dina Meyer is the team quarterback. Excuse me a moment.
Allow me to clarify. Gender equality is a major component of this movie. Co-ed football, co-ed showers, co-ed military units that are free to fraternize. Gender equality is a very good thing. It is also not always true. Football is such an example. Dina Meyer might truly be tough as nails, but in any high school football game there would be some very large, very angry 300 lbs. men who would spear her so hard, she'd snap like a saltine cracker. She must be quicker than a hiccup, because most of the football players I've seen in my time would be all too happy to hit a QB so hard his head would fly off, and then drink the blood from his neck stump. They're REALLY REALLY big people. Not to say that Rico is a football-worthy physical specimen either. I'd like to see him take a pass up the middle and get destroyed by a free safety at a full run.
Anyway, the opposing team captain (Zander), keeps hitting on Rico's chick. Zander is played by Patrick Muldoon, but he looks and sounds so much like Rob Lowe from The West Wing and Wayne's World it's terrifying. Rico is understandably jealous since Carmen obliviously eats up every line Zander throws her way. Carmen at all times seems to be on a reefer high, or at least possessed of a stupidity that would make Paris Hilton shrink in awe. Since she looks nothing like someone named Carmen Ibanez, I hereby dub her Space Bimbo. I now call Zander Space Rob. because he's Rob Lowe...IN SPACE!!! Space Bimbo tells Rico that she's leaving to the Academy immediately after graduation to train as a pilot in the space fleet. I find this rather amusing since Space Bimbo seems ill-suited to pilot a golf cart, much less a ship with warp drive. Space Bimbo is the kind of high-maintenance chick that you constantly need to impress to assert dominance, else she realizes what a loser you are and moves on to more worthy mates. So it is thus that Space Bimbo drags Rico by his manhood into federal service because (for some mysterious reason) he loves her.
Rico is hard-pressed to out-think a dead muskrat, and his piss-poor test scores earn him a one-way ticket into the Mobile Infantry. They used to call it the Dead Meat Walking, but morale plummeted. Space Bimbo's scores are great (yeah, right) and she gets accepted into the Academy. Doogie's a psychic (just roll with it) and gets put into Military Intelligence. This whole segment's taken up about 20 godawful minutes so far, and it's only now that Rico's going to BOOT CAMP. He's not even close to going out to fight Bugs, and this is when despair starts to set in.
Rico gets sent to army boot camp, and is promptly shouted at for the remainder of his stay by the hardassed, perpetually angry Career Sergeant Zim. This is unfortunate since any boot camp scene involving a hardassed shouting drill sergeant is immediately labeled a ripoff of Full Metal Jacket, whether true or not. Nothing really happens in this part of the movie, except to transition Rico away from Buenos Aires while the bugs drop a gigantic rock on it, which fuels him with feelings of revenge against the Bugs. To further rip off FMJ, though, we have to spend an inordinate amount of time watching Rico and Dizzy (who stalks him all the way into requesting a transfer into his unit) run obstacle courses and train and stuff. The other two main functions of this scene are to introduce the character named Ace, played by a most unwelcome Jake Busey and the only talked-about scene of the movie.
In one of the most unlikely twists of fate, the director opts to go a step further with his gender equality angle and boldly demonstrates that in the future, men and women in the military shower together! This is a laughably impossible scenario even for the most wildly fantastic science fiction, because men simply aren't wired to handle that kind of visual input. For centuries, men are conditioned to keep their eyes level and pay attention to the present business. It's the Shower Code, eyes up, clean up, get out. But all of a sudden you throw naked breasts and soap into the mix, and the instinctive male's eyes are drawn like moths to a flame to stare like idiots. Even assuming nobody's worried about sexual harassment, discrimination, or violence, you have to imagine that if you put chicks like Dina Meyer naked in a shower in a room full of marines, someone's going to lose an eye.
Training continues for Rico, which seems to consist only of the most unimportant tasks like running the Eliminator course from American Gladiators and throwing knives. I see the value in athletic ability, but the days of training to throw knives seems rather pointless. "The enemy cannot push a button if you disable his hand!" Zim declares. Yeah. But I could shoot him in the face with my rifle, too. I'd also be genuinely surprised to learn if modern marine knives are balanced for accurate throwing, anyway. Another activity is the laser tag course where Rico and Dizzy show off their impossible football moves to kill the other team and capture their flag. I wonder why they're not being trained traditionally in firing actual rifles for a brief time until I find out in the next scene.
During their first live fire exercise, the squad proves to be entirely inept and unable to check their own fire, and Cadet Hick gets capped in the head. It seems they've never learned a damn thing about safe weapons usage, nor even trained to fire from a stationary position. Nope, here they're given live ammo and told to run forward spraying their weapons like idiots. But hey, they're professionals. I'm sure nobody will be hurt.
But even if they were well-trained, I question the logic of the military introducing target drones that fire lasers which cause electrical shocks and involuntary muscle spasms that could accidentally trigger the discharge of an automatic weapon. Rather than Rico's ignorance, the liability probably lies with the Federation's extremely badly thought-out training exercise. But Rico takes the fall anyway, and Captain Chip-Tooth decrees that he be given "administrative punishment." Which is really just a fancy term for The Spanking Machine.
Meanwhile, Space Bimbo is training at the fleet Academy. We're led to believe this is all happening roughly at the same time since we see several video-mails exchanged between Rico and herself, so color me surprised when she rushes out to a space shuttle AND FLIES IT SOLO. She pulls Skywalker-worthy twists and turns through the fleet shipyards that, if any competent officer ever saw, would have her flight status revoked before you could say "Wild Things sucked." Here I go again bringing the real world into this, but I know for certain that you have to train for years before the Air Force will let you fly an aircraft, yet she's referred to as "Cadet" at this time and seemingly given carte blanche to fly as crazy as she likes with people's lives on the line, despite a bad reputation that seems to have circulated through the entire base. But it gets worse; she's allowed to helm a battle cruiser! So after a week or two, Rico's still throwing knives, and Space Bimbo's already cleared to fly shuttlecraft and capital-scale warships? I guess math really is important after all.
Space Bimbo lands and meets the bridge crew as she takes the helm. The captain reminds me eerily of Captain Janeway from Star Trek: Voyager, which is never a pleasant reminder. And Space Bimbo's supervising instructor is, get this, Zander from the football game. Excuse me a moment.
This movie has a very skewed perception of time. If the protagonists are fresh out of high school, they're no more than 18 or 19 years old, and there's no way in hell an 18 year old is entrusted with the helming of a capital ship or allowed to train recruits. Further, it's incredible to believe that Rico's still stuck running an obstacle course while Zander and the Bimbo are already the active helm officers on a real military operation.
Space Bimbo, once given control of the helm, continues to show off and endanger the ship with her reckless behavior. Once again, any competent supervisor or captain would have her brigged quicker than a gnat farts. The ship prepares to head out, and Zander commands Space Bimbo to engage the Warp Drive. Yes, the Warp Drive. Full power, Scotty! But they don't engage it yet; Zander feels compelled to mount the tension and issues a rather strange countdown by shouting "5! 4! Ready! Steady! Go!" Ready steady go? Has anyone ever issued a countdown on ready-steady-go in military history? No? Know why they didn't? BECAUSE IT MAKES YOU SOUND LIKE A DORK! And never mind that the countdown has seemingly no purpose whatsoever other than to prepare you for a blast of noise and CG that'll "wow" you.
Zander wastes no time in moving in on Rico's chick, complimenting her on her ability to, quote, "lick my navs." This quote is in top contention for the goofiest line in the film, because there's no way it could have looked good even on paper. It just sounds dirty, but Zander is really complimenting the navigational route she's planned, which is apparently an optimal flight path. I will in no way minimize the complexities of astronavigation, but come on, it's a straight line! Can't a computer do that kind of thing by now anyway? Unfortunately, this optimal route sends them right down the throat of a bug meteor. (What ARE the odds of that happening by chance in the vast infinity of space?) Instead of immediately taking evasive action, they nonsensically break out the emergency thrusters whose button is rather inconveniently encased in glass (?) and proceed to count down (?) before engaging them. Why would you wait to get CLOSER to the giant meteor before activating the super thrusters? Just TURN! Did they feel they needed a challenge or something? The rock hits the ship anyway and tears off a sizable hunk of the dorsal side which was probably pretty important, proving once again that women are lousy drivers. Captain Janeway is rather glib about the whole affair though, despite losing several crewmen and actually compliments them on their excellent piloting! Seems to me their piloting got a lot of your boys killed, Cap. They weren't paying attention to their post and were actually busy flirting with each other when the meteor caught them by surprise.
Naturally, Space Bimbo immediately cheats on Rico and dumps him like week-old takeout food at the earliest opportunity. Disheartened, Rico immediately quits and is rather upset to learn that the bugs dropped a meteor on Buenos Aires (why?) which puts the kaibosh on his welcome home party, since Chuck E. Cheese has been pulverized into a zillion flaming bits. Rico entreats Captain Chip-Tooth (who really should get that thing looked at) to let him return to active duty, since all his clothes are toast. Rico gets back in easily and finally-- FINALLY-- we're getting to the actual war.
NOT! They're organizing for the major offensive! More talking! Yayyyy! As the troopers muster for the invasion, Rico runs into his ex and promptly picks a fight with him. Actually, Rico demonstrates considerable restraint. If this guy had stolen my chick I'd probably have cranked him over the head with a steel folding chair from behind and run away before he woke up. The most surprising twist is that Zander is rather anxious to brawl with Rico who IS a trained marine. Most marines I know wouldn't even breathe hard after feeding an Air Force jet jockey his own elbows. The two fight to a relatively even match (proving this is science fiction) before they're separated.
The first major battle on the human offensive is at the bug homeworld of Klendathu (gezundheit!) which, naturally, is a complete rout for the marines. Thoroughly unprepared, the marines mount a land invasion ON FOOT across the desolate landscape, and proceed to get cut to pieces in short order. It doesn't help that the marines' morale breaks like the wind in a Taco Bell, and their rifles seem to be wholly inadequate to even piss the bugs off. It takes a dozen of them to corral and put down a single arachnid warrior, which means the bugs are destined to win by attrition alone. Even more mystifying is what the infantry hopes to achieve with this land invasion, since the bugs appear not to have any cities or industrial complexes of strategic importance. Charging blindly across the surface of the planet seems to be just lining up for the slaughter, which is exactly what happens. The bug counterattack comprised of brightly colored warrior bugs and giant tick-looking things that launch gigantic blue balls of flame from their asses which can destroy targets in space proves to be too much for the infantry, forcing them into a full retreat.
In space, things aren't going much better. It seems the space fleet's primary tactic is to cluster their slow, unwieldy ships in a formation so tight if the captain farted, the vibration would be felt 4 ships away. They're packed so tightly together, the Ass Bug Flak doesn't even need to be that accurate to cause near-total devastation on the fleet. The formation further cripples them because damaged ships and explosions causes massive collisions and even further casualties. They're unable to even take the most modest evasive action. I remind you, gentle reader, that space happens to be quite vast. There's lots of room for everybody! Why are they all packed together like boxed foam peanuts?
Rico, gravely wounded from the battle, recuperates from his injuries by floating in a glass tank full of green fluid (where have I seen that before?). Zander and Space Bimbo make a token effort to see if Rico survived, but he's listed as KIA. Being observant for the first time in her existance, Space Bimbo notes, "It's strange, there's almost no missing or wounded," to which Zander ponderously replies "Bugs don't take prisoners."
Wow. That's deep.
The newsreels inform us that the Sky Marshal in charge of this whole military snafu basically got laughed out of office for such a ridiculous failure. We're talking Italian tank offensive bad. So there's a new Sky Marshal and a new battle plan: "To fight the bug, we must understand the bug." Hey, wow, I'm seriously impressed that there's a voice of reason around here. This is a valid strategy, phrased in a way most likely to illicit giggles from even the most serious-minded viewer. There's no rest for the recuperated Rico, and he's thrust back into a new group. This group is led by Rico's old cynical and wholly bitter sociology teacher, Mr. Rasczak, who's got a new chromed cybernetic hand to replace his old war amputation. Good thing he joined the ARMy, eh? Ha ha ha ha!
All right, that was bad, and I apologize.
You can really tell Michael Ironside is having a good time with this movie because he growls out his lines with a hardassed earnestness and intensity that actually reminds us of what good, fun acting is. You know, sorta like R. Lee Ermey's Full Metal Jacket drill sergeant with a Clint Eastwood "make my day" angle. Ironside can actually elevate most terrible material like this from the diahhroea it usually is to something actually memorable...if no less goofy. He makes history as being the best actor to date to growl out the line "They sucked his brains out," with the most dramatic, honest, straight face ever EVER. Yeah I mean the line is stupid, but imagine having to actually say that line in a movie and keep from grinning. His utterance of the line "If you see a bug-hole, NUKE IT" is also worthy of praise. Once again, he elevates bad dialogue to something entertaining! He can't work miracles, though.
The marines land on Planet P-- yeah, can you believe that? Planet P?-- and quickly find that the planet crawls. The infantry journeys briefly and battles with a giant napalm-spewing cricket, or a dog tick or something, that Rico dispatches with his football acrobatics (really) and a hand grenade shoved up its ass (really). It's also here that we discover that bugs are filled entirely with Nickelodeon goop products. I leave the science to you.
They find a ruined outpost that's either been totally trashed by the bugs or was simply the recent site of a Rammstein concert. Eager to get the hell out of Dodge, one team sweeps for survivors and Fudge Popsicles in the mess hall, while the other tries to get the radio working. It's here that they find the aforementioned fellow with the sucked brains, as well as a panicking future vision of Private Hudson from Aliens promoted to a general, hiding in the freezer. In between chewing the scenery and shouting "Game over, man!" the General reveals that there's some kind of new bug that actually has an independent intelligence that laid a trap for them. Rasczak gets tired of his bitching and wuss-slaps him down. The bugs attack right on cue, leading to the showcase battle of the movie. It ain't the Battle of Helm's Deep; the movie clearly suffers from the lack of an effeminate platinum-blond ninja elf. But it's actually not too bad. Oh it's chock-full of war clichés being shouted back and forth like "Lock and load!" "Reload! Reload!" "Hold the line!" "Last one! Make it count!" "Incoming!" "We need retrieval!" and "Where's my communications??", but it's still kinda cool.
It's still entirely stupid, of course, but kinda cool. For example, looking over the wall, the troopers can see the horde of bugs for miles ahead of them. This seems an ideal time to break out those much-flaunted rocket-powered nukes they used not 5 minutes previously in the film to wipe out an entire bug nest. Against a swarming force like this, I would think they'd pack a whole bunch of these weapons to neutralize the bugs' numbers advantage, but there's not an explosive to be seen. I guess they forgot them. A second rather strange omission to this battle are the hand grenades which only Rico and Dizzy ever seem to carry. Instead, the troopers hold the walls with their laughably ineffectual rifles. In this situation, it's rather like trying to kill a swarm of bull elephants with paintball guns. But in a funky twist of inconsistency, the rifles actually pile up the bodies rather quickly until the corpses actually mount over the walls. Previously it took half the platoon 15 seconds of concentrated rifle fire to slay a single bug, but now they're stacking up like student loan payments.
The bugs manage to burrow under the fort and take Rasczak by surprise by snatching him from underneath. It must have been ridiculously easy for the bugs to do this, since the fort seems to be constructed over a foundation of sawdust and kitty litter. Rico puts him out of his misery with a rifle shot to the chest (And be honest, don't you envy him at this point?) as a rescue dropship arrives to pull them out of danger. The dropship is piloted by none other than Space Bimbo and Zander, who not only are responsible for piloting the carrier, but also for piloting emergency retrieval missions. Dizzy dispatches another one of those napalm-belching ticks with a hurled grenade down his gob like a football pass (is there anything football can't teach us?). But she, too, is slain by the bugs who punch her full of more holes than the current Star Wars continuity.
Rico drags her onto the dropship where she has a tender death scene with Rico, who has actually been a Grade A jerk to her up to this point. I honestly doubt she'd be able to even whimper a pithy catch phrase with the injuries she took, much less a heroic death speech, but hey if it gets the movie closer to the end, I don't care. At least it wasn't as long as Trinity's death scene. JEEEEEZ.
Back home, Rico meets up with Doogie from high school, who seems to have been fully inducted into the Hitler Youth. With the grey gestapo getup, he looks like some space version of Colonel Klink. Once again, the funky movie time takes effect, as Doogie's made the rank of full colonel in LESS THAN A YEAR. Der Komissar promotes Rico to the rank of lieutenant (his authority to do this is doubtful), and declares ominously, "We're going back to P." With dialogue like this, I sometimes wonder if I even need to be here.
Once Rico returns to P (tee hee), he promptly steals all of Rasczak's best schtick and uses it on his new group of privates, who also came to P (tee hee!). All of these new reinforcements are supposed to be recruits straight out of boot, and it sure looks like it. They look more like my junior high pep band than an elite military unit. Their mission: capture the brain bug! The bugs deploy their asstillery and turn it on the space fleet in high orbit. Once again, for reasons unknown, the entire fleet is clustered so tightly together, if you reached out the window, you could probably touch the ship next to you. You know, if explosive decompression didn't kill you horribly. The ships are once again entirely unable to avoid the barrage because of their awkward, nonsensical formation, and promptly cut to pieces. Space Bimbo's ineffective piloting gets the ship nailed dead-on by an ass blast (women drivers), and the ship is crippled. The captain gets crushed beneath a blast door as Zander and the Bimbo flee, and taking the prize for worst-acted scene in the movie, Captain Janeway gives the heroic speech "Abandon ship! That's an orr-uhhh--ugggggghhhhh..." as uber-heroic Souza band music plays to inspire us. For the next two minutes, Zander and Bimbo indulge themselves in lots of the action movie orgiastic shots of "Protagonists Running Away From The Gigantic Explosion." They reach the escape pods and blast off.
After many more shots of "Protagonists Flying Away From Giant Explosions" that space movies always have, Bimbo aims them square at Planet P. Zander scouts out a landing zone as they enter the atmosphere and once again refuses to deploy the drag chutes until he's given a "3! 2! 1!" countdown for absolutely no reason. I'm not sure why Zander keeps insisting on these countdowns, since they usually only serve to get them into more trouble and they're not really serving any purpose. Space Bimbo proves once again that women can't drive by crashing the escape pod into a sheer cliff face! Fortunately for our heroes, the mountainside proves to be hollow(!) and they land safely in some kind of cavern. Luckily, the escape pod is fully equipped with loaded infantry rifles and armor. Did I say luckily? I meant implausibly.
The bugs quickly enter the cavern and Zander holds them off with his guns until they're overpowered and captured. Sorta blows that whole "Bugs don't take prisoners" thing out of the water, don't it? Guess it's just the Klingons who don't. The Brain Bug (henceforth known as "Jabba the Bug") enters the chamber. Jabba the Bug is a goofy-looking mealworm-tyle creature with some kind of oral opening that looks like the terrifying final stage of a horribly disfiguring feminine STD outbreak. It's really goopy and nasty. The bugs hold Zander down and the Brain Bug plunges its natural drinking straw into his skull, sucking his brains out! (It doesn't take long.) Space Bimbo is next, although I'm sure the brain bug senses she's barely a snack, but she lashes out with her commando knife, slicing off his...uh...drinking thing. This makes me look like a complete fool for questioning Sergeant Zim's previous sage advice, "The enemy cannot suck out your cerebral cortex if you slice off his drinking straw." Or something like that.
They're about to kill SB when Rico finally makes the save, brandishing a tactical nuke in his hand. Jabba the Bug holds his drone warriors back, inventing some kind of weird new standoff. Jabba makes his retreat while Rico saves the Bimbo. The bugs attack swiftly, forcing the group into retreat. The guy-who-goes-with-them-but-whose-name-I-never-bothered-to-learn is wounded and grabs up the nuke, telling Rico to run while he still can! This is all supposed to be very heart-wrenching and heroic, but do remember that we're fighting giant cockroaches, and we never really bother to learn anything about this guy, so his sacrifice is kind of emotionally ambiguous. This was all really just to set up another "Heroes running away from a giant explosion" shot anyway, and that's just what we get. Gee, Space Bimbo's running awfully well for being stabbed through a major shoulder artery and/or lung.
Rico & Carmen emerge from the bowels of P to a scene of mass celebration! The movie's over! But that's not entirely why they're happy. Nope, it's because another unit managed to capture the brain bug, and it's led by none other than Sergeant Zim from boot camp, or rather, PRIVATE Zim who got himself demoted and reassigned. I think it would have saved a lot of manpower if they'd just sent the Crocodile Hunter. Oi'll getcha that little bloighter! Croikey! Herr Doogie uses his telepathy to detect that the bug brain is afraid, which seems to please the troopers greatly. The sight of the credits is a greater comfort to me.
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Own a piece of authentic Irish craftsmanship with these Irish Belleek Porcelain pieces. Shop vases, mugs, lamps, bowls, teacups and more.Belleek Pottery Ltd is a porcelain company that began trading in 1884 as the Belleek Pottery Works Company Ltd in Belleek, County Fermanagh, in what was to become Northern Ireland. The factory produces porcelain that is characterised by its thinness, slightly iridescent surface and that the body is formulated with a significant proportion of frit.
Irish Belleek Porcelain was made in Ireland, other European countries, and the United States. The glaze is creamy yellow and appears wet. The first Belleek was made in 1857. All pieces listed here are Irish Belleek. The mark changed through the years. The first mark, black, dates from 1863 to 1890. The second mark, black, dates from 1891 to 1926 and includes the words Co. Fermanagh, Ireland. The third mark, black, dates from 1926 to 1946 and has the words Deanta in Eirinn. The fourth mark, same as the third mark but green, dates from 1946 to 1955. The fifth mark (second green mark) dates from 1955 to 1965 and has an R in a circle added in the upper right. The sixth mark (third green mark) dates from 1965 to 1981 and the words Co. Fermanagh have been omitted. The seventh mark, gold, was used from 1981 to 1992 and omits the words Deanta in Eirinn. The eighth mark, used from 1993 to 1996, is similar to the second mark but is printed in blue. The ninth mark, blue, includes the words Est. 1857 and the words Co. Fermanagh Ireland are omitted. The tenth mark, black, is similar to the ninth mark but includes the words Millennium 2000 and Ireland. It was used only in 2000. The eleventh mark, similar to the millennium mark but green, was introduced in 2001. The twelfth mark, black, is similar to the eleventh mark but has a banner above the mark with the words "Celebrating 150 Years." It was used in 2007. The thirteenth trademark, used from 2008 to 2010, is similar to the twelfth but is brown and has no banner. The fourteenth mark, the Classic Belleek trademark, is similar to the twelfth but includes Belleek's website address. The Belleek Living trademark was introduced in 2010 and is used on items from that giftware line. The word Belleek is now used only on the pieces made in Ireland even though earlier pieces from other countries were sometimes marked belleek. These early pieces are listed by manufacturer, such as Ceramic Art Co., Haviland, Lenox, Ott & Brewer, and Willets. The courts ruled in 1929 that only the Irish company could use the word Belleek with a capital "B." Others are required to use belleek with a lowercase "b."
Most Irish Belleek Porcelain are white or a shade of pearly white. Tea sets in the Echinus pattern originally were made to be completely white, but the pieces that were colored, like yours, were custom finished for special customers.
Belleek registered the Echinus pattern, one of the first designs ever to be registered, so no other unscrupulous manufacturer could copy it.
According to legend, Queen Victoria was so taken with the Echinus pattern that she ordered a tea set for herself and one as a gift for the empress of Germany. I've also heard stories that she ordered another set as a wedding present for one of her children. And it's no wonder, since your teapot is certainly stunning. It is worth about $200.
Let's eliminate the confusion about Irish Belleek Porcelain and American Belleek.
Irish Belleek Porcelain is a beautiful, lightweight, translucent porcelain made in a factory founded in Ireland by David McBirney. It has a creamy iridescence like a seashell. All kinds of articles were made — tea sets, figurines, centerpieces, etc.
Irish Belleek Porcelain enjoyed such popularity in America that there soon emerged imitators in this country. Ott & Brewer in Trenton, N.J.; Ceramic Art Pottery, later Lenox China; Willets Manufacturing Co., also of Trenton; and Knowles, Taylor & Knowles of East Liverpool, Ohio, were prominent among the American manufacturers of Belleek-type porcelain.
The American version is heavier and less translucent and is not likely to be mistaken for Irish Belleek.
The Irish Belleek is easy to identify by its marks, which show
some combination of a hound, tower, harp and shamrock. The American marks are also easy to recognize — they all are marked "Belleek" for obvious reasons. In addition, they usually include their own name, such as Willets, Lenox, Coxon, etc.
Strangely enough, American Belleek brings prices as high as and sometimes higher than Irish Belleek. There has been much more of the Irish Belleek made than all of the American versions combined.
Irish Belleek bearing the first mark (hound, harp and tower over Belleek) was made between 1863 and 1891. It is the most desirable and brings the highest prices.
American Belleek hasn't been made in almost 100 years and brings higher prices than Irish Belleek made in the last 50 years.
Send your questions about antiques with picture(s), a detailed description, a stamped, self-addressed envelope and $1 per item to James G. McCollam, P.O. Box 1087, Notre Dame, Ind. 46556. All questions will be answered; published pictures cannot be returned. Mr. McCollam is a member of the Antique Appraisers Association of America.This Handcrafted Irish Belleek Tara China Photo Frame is decorated with handpainted shamrocks and Celtic Embossed bands. Great gift idea for newly weds, Anniversaries, New homes or even a Birthday Present for Collectors for any precious memories to share. Decorated with Belleeks famoulsy known handpainted green Irish shamrocks and embossed Celtic knots. Made in Ireland and presented in a Belleek Box. This Irish Piece Measures at 13 inches and has a photo window measuring of 8 inches x 10 inches. Belleek Pottery When you buy a piece of Belleek China you become the owner of a truly unique piece of Irish craftsmanship. No two pieces are ever the same. Based in County Fermanagh, Ireland, their materials and techniques have been handed down from generation to generation. Every handle, flower and brush stroke is lovingly applied by hand to create the look and feel that is uniquely Belleek. Only Belleek of the highest quality is ever put on sale. When Belleek was established in 1857 the pottery's founder John Caldwell Bloomfield declared that any piece with even the slightest flaw should be destroyed. 151 years later, this golden principle of perfectionism is still strictly adhered to.


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She might not be the most famous style icon to hang out with Jamie Hince, but here at Grazia Daily we have a rather large soft spot for Alison Mosshart and her signature brand of laid-back cool. To celebrate the release of The Kills new album (Blood Pressures – out today!) we take a look at Mosshart's wardrobe of skinny jeans, vintage tees, leather jackets and THAT fringe.
Describing herself as someone who wears 'the same stuff over and over again' (amen to that, sister), Mosshart says 'I don't really go out of my way to buy expensive clothes or know what's happening… Style for me always comes from people who are doing things that have nothing to do with the fashion world, they're usually artists or painters or musicians or writers. It all depends on what people are doing. I don't flip out over someone just walking down the street or in a magazine doing nothing, it's gotta be in the context of their life. What they're wearing tells a story about what they're doing'.
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She might be proving her fashion credentials styled as a 1930s style film noir screen siren in a shoot for this weekend's New York Times Style Magazine, but that doesn't mean Katie Holmes hasn't experienced a few fashion faux-pas in the past. Witness her revelations about watching her first ever movie ET wearing Care Bear sweat-pants and rocking some hand-sewn sequin taffeta gowns for auditions in the video above. Hmmm, somehow we think she won't be digging out those family albums for Tom Cruise this Christmas... Who, incidentally, in between her fashion confessions she also spills on in the accompany article. Including her initial reaction to meeting Tom - 'He was so warm and I thought Wow! You can be a superstar and a human being' - and addressing 'a misperception about me that I just became this wallflower, this woman who doesn't have any control of her life.' [NY Times]
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Local hospitals have noticed that premature boys suffer more ailments than girls, but a worldwide trend showing a slightly higher premature birth rate among boys isn't as conclusive here.
The new report on the health of the world's newborns showed the gender difference isn't large: About 55 percent of preterm births in 2010 were male.
Dr. Edward McCabe of the March of Dimes says pediatric specialists have long noticed that baby boys start out a bit more vulnerable.
People are curious about it. We'd like to understand why this occurs, McCabe said.
This is a double whammy for boys, said Dr. Joy Lawn of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, who led the team of researchers. It's a pattern that happens all over the world.
One possible reason: Mothers have a higher risk of certain pregnancy complications – high blood pressure and placenta abnormalities – when carrying boys, Lawn said.
And if a boy preemie and a girl preemie are born at the same gestational age, the boy will be at higher risk of death or disability, she said. But the report concluded there is too little information to quantify how big that risk is.
Girls walk sooner than boys. They talk sooner than boys. They develop more quickly. That's also true in utero, Lawn said. For a preterm baby, the difference of a few days' maturity between a boy and a girl can mean the difference between major lung complications or not.
Locally, data since the beginning of the year show a slight trend toward boys being more likely to be born premature at St. Joseph Hospital in Fort Wayne. But at Lutheran Hospital, the rate slants slightly toward girls.
Overall, it balanced out to where it was less than a percent in favor of boys being more preterm, said Dr. James Cameron, medical director of the neonatal intensive care unit at Lutheran Hospital.
Year-to-date data at Dupont Hospital, also part of Lutheran Health Network, closely mirror the national report, with boys making up 53.6 percent of preterm births, spokesman Geoff Thomas said.
Parkview Health did not have prematurity rates by gender. But numbers from its Women's and Children's Hospital's Newborn Intensive Care Unit show boys being admitted at a higher rate than girls, spokesman Eric Clabaugh said. That rate has declined slightly from 59.9 percent of admissions in 2010 to 56.5 percent so far this year, Clabaugh said.
Lutheran's Cameron noted that preterm boys have a higher rate of health problems than girls but that there is no clear reason why, he said.
We don't have an answer for that yet, but I suspect over the next decade we probably will find out more of those answers, Cameron said.
Indiana has started an infant mortality task force through the state health department, Cameron said. It started a little more than three years ago when Indiana was rated near the bottom among states for its prematurity and infant mortality rates, he added.
Indiana's prematurity rates went from 11.6 percent in 2011 to 10.9 percent in 2012, Cameron said.
Prematurity is among the top reasons for the high infant mortality rate, Cameron said, and preterm babies are at greater risk of developmental problems as they get older.
And so those are the things that by preventing prematurity we can hopefully impact the health of our country and overall make a bigger impact in society here, Cameron said.
A report this month in the journal Pediatric Research examined newborn health and prematurity.
About 15 million babies worldwide are born too soon, most of them in Africa and parts of Asia where survival is difficult for fragile newborns. Globally, about 1 million babies die as a direct result of preterm birth, and another million die of conditions for which prematurity is an added risk, the researchers calculated.
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I'm baaaaaack! I'll write a longer update this weekend when I have time but for now I wanted to bring you a tidbid of what's in my mind. I joined a new raid team this week for the first time in many many years, started straight away on heroic 10 man content.
After which, I've decided to revise my Holy Paladin in MoP healing flowchart.
It's pretty much this.
However, one small change and I'll put it here in RED CAPS so you know that I'm actually screaming it.
USE HOLY POWER SPELLS (3EF / HS on cd / LoD) AT EVERY CHANCE BECAUSE MY FUCKING MANA IS ALWAYS GONE.
Oh and spamming DL is fun, for 30 seconds then I'm drained.
What else I've discovered? Oh yeah, being a HPS god feels like its totally over in MoP but I'm still getting used to our new above playstyle so it could be my curve, too, or gear. Meh gear.
Gear RNG Gods
Speaking of gear.
Dear blizzard RNG gods, Thank you for blessing me with 4 new shiny epics Thursday night in our raid. I like my new shoes even though they have no spirit. However, of the other 3, I didn't really need three f'in offhands. Yes, I appreciate the:
- Spirit offhand with my extra lucky coin roll
- Spirit offhand made by a dear guildie
- Spirit shield
I could have been much happier with things OTHER than another off-hand Blizzard gods and been more useful to my gear upgrades. Le sigh. Hugs and snuggles, Gina
Haste vs. Mastery
Something else I noticed when working on 3 healing HC Stone Guard is that while I love my mastery reforging for everything I had done so far, I now noticed that my heals simply didn't hit fast enough to keep up with the damage on the tank with the bleed and 2 doggies. If the spirit buff is kept up nicely, I think reforging some to haste aiming for 25% raid buffed haste, then reforging the rest to mastery, will be useful.
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Contrary to swirling rumor, the viral video was not sent by Demi from her rehab facility. A source close to the "Sonny with a Chance" star clarified the report, saying it was actually recorded prior to the holiday season and her entry into the treatment.
Thus, any claim suggesting Demi has come out of her seclusion is false. She still stays in rehab even during Thanksgiving. "She remains committed first and foremost to her treatment. Demi has made tremendous progress to date, but understands that she has more work to do. (Her parents will) be there to celebrate Thanksgiving with her," her rep said earlier this month.
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FORT LAUDERDALE His father's dream has become his mission.
But for Martin Luther King III, who spoke at a YMCA fundraiser Friday morning, there is still so much to be done.
"I always have a heavy heart in January because we have not yet realized the dream," he said. "We have elements of the dream that have been fulfilled, but dad wanted to eliminate racism, poverty, militarism and violence in our society. In race, we have made great strides. But in poverty, it's sort of scary to look at where we are. We got to find a way to create a spirit that lifts people up."