So if you had a cheating husband, what would you do? Read what Georgia did HERE - BOOM
In 1929, aged 41, Georgia O’Keeffe took a trip to New Mexico. By then, with the help of her husband, Alfred Stieglitz – an influential photographer and manager of the first modern art gallery in the United States – she had long outgrown her roots as a Wisconsin dairy farmer’s daughter, and established herself as America’s pre-eminent modernist painter.
And she's from Wisconsin (like me) which makes me a giant fan... Georgia O’Keeffe is at Tate Modern, London SE1 (020 7887 8888), from July 6 until Oct 30; tate.org.uk
Researchers analyzed the diets of 2,600 French adults who for seven days recorded everything they ate. The researchers then teased out several distinctly French dietary styles.
1. They are masters of portion control. The most popular diet of all, describing 23% of the population, was a “small eater” diet—one that encompassed all kinds of foods, but significantly less of them. People who ate this diet also ate fewer calories.
2. They don’t fear full fat. In fact, 89% of people in the study ate full-fat cheese, while only 8% ate the low-fat kind. Another French study this year found that cheese, rich in saturated fat as it is, isn’t harmful for health when kept to two daily servings. And new research suggests that they have the right idea: people who eat full-fat dairy tend to less obese than those who eat low-fat dairy.
3. They eatspare amounts of fried and processed food. Only 29% of people reported eating processed fried or breaded foods in those seven days. In the U.S., 50% of people ate fried foods at least once in a given week—and 8% of them did so four to six times per week.
5. They drink. 68% of the population reported drinking alcohol in the past week—mostly wine.
6. They generally eat healthy food. About 13% of people stuck to a Mediterranean diet, rich in fish, fruit, vegetable oils, full-fat dairy and unprocessed foods. Just as popular was what the researchers classified as a “health-conscious diet”—though theirs was dominated by neither quinoa nor green juice. A healthy diet in France means one filled with multigrain bread, soups, fruit, tea, lower-fat foods and—most surprisingly of all—cakes and pastries. “It’s really interesting, because we can see that individuals who seem to be healthful didn’t forget the pleasure dimension of eating,” says Rozenn Gazan, the main author of the study. “It’s an important aspect in France.”
7. Their not-as-healthy foods are nothing like America’s. About 17% of French people had a “traditional” diet, heavy in fat, sugar and salt—but from wine, salami, cheese, bread, red meat, grains and desserts. Fast food on this list is noticeably absent.
8. They keep things simple. About 10% of the population followed what the researchers deemed a basic diet, eating mostly simple, unprocessed foods like cheese, eggs, potatoes, butter, yogurt and animal fat, as well as pasta and bread. This report made clear that the French embrace a wide range of foods, and in reasonable quantities. “It’s clear that there is not one way of eating,” Gazan says. “But in most of the dietary patterns, the pleasure and conviviality and social dimension of diet remains really strong in France.”
French people are the best at everything, according to all the literature. READ WHY
After coming across this first link from the Google Cultural Institute, I thought I’d take a look at some interesting art this time. BIG BOOM! https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/project/art-camera The ultra definition in these works is incredible. Working with museums around the world, Google has used its Art Camera system to capture the finest details of artworks from their collection.
Maybe I have watched too many sci-fi movies and I still think we could have utopia on the planet, instead of this mess called capitalism, oops I mean oligarchy faking it as democracy...
Don't ya feel like we've been had... as in duped?
The Catholic Church should be closed down and the trillions in cash, paintings and buildings/land, could be spread around to END POVERTY around the world.
Please think this thought with me - "close the Catholic Church down"... BOOM we all think alike...
Based on a true story about apartheid in South Africa, Phillip Noyce's film shows what can happen when one man finds the will to fight back. And then summons the strength to forgive. Full review
She's still big; it's the pictures that are getting smaller. Kristen Stewart, who became one of the most recognizable humans in the world for playing Bella Swan, the tender, tremulous teenage vampire-lover in the massively successful Twilight franchise, has lately been showing off her talents in a string of more modest productions. In the almost four years since the fifth and final installment of the Twilight saga was released, the actress has scrupulously avoided blockbusters, instead headlining and taking supporting roles in auteurist films made on either side of the Atlantic.
Her range post-Bella was demonstrated last month at Cannes, where two disparate projects premiered within days of each other: Woody Allen's 1930s-set Café Society, in which she plays a bobby-socked movie studio secretary caught in a love triangle, and Olivier Assayas's resolutely of-this-moment Personal Shopper, a shape-shifting ghost story that features the actress in nearly every frame.
My father John Warhola was Andy Warhol’s older brother. He had so many wonderful stories of what it was like growing up as one of the “Warhola” boys. He would talk about the good times, the bad times, and everything in between. One of my favorite stories was the one about the 1936 Pittsburgh flood, the D. L. Clark Company (the candy company known for Clark bars), and what is now The Andy Warhol Museum. You might be thinking, how are all of these connected? Well, let’s find out.
So dad told me the tale of how a story was circulating around their Oakland neighborhood after the 1936 Pittsburgh flood. The story was that the Clark candy company was throwing out candy bars because they had been contaminated by the flood. When Paul, John, and Andy heard of this, they decided to venture down to the North Side to see if they could get any of the “free” candy. As young boys, they were not concerned about the safety of the candy. Fortunately, when they got to the Clark candy company, they realized that this was in fact just a story, with no truth.
Disappointed, they started their journey back to Oakland, on foot, of course. By this time Andy was already very tired; it had been a long walk from home (more than two miles from Oakland, through downtown, and across the bridge to the North Side). He looked to his older brothers to give him a “horsey,” allowing Andy to straddle their backs and have one of them carry him. Both Paul and John were equally tired and suggested that Andy just rest on the steps of the building they were passing. Andy did sit on the steps of that building at 117 Sandusky Street, a warehouse built in 1911 for Frick & Lindsay (supply distributors for oil wells, steel mills, and mines), and now the home of The Andy Warhol Museum.
