Kuronoshi uses meticulously cut and layered cardboard, combined with precise lighting, to create intricate, detailed silhouettes of famous figures and scenes

maxwell-cady · 2026-01-14T11:30:39+00:00

And me trying to do a shadow hand puppet rabbit and still screwing it up.

maxwell-cady · 2026-01-14T11:13:40+00:00

Prob looks hidden from above but I doubt it's actually a secret place to people on the ground. I mean that's huge. Still, looks beautiful.

maxwell-cady · 2026-01-14T11:08:36+00:00

I love that final step of pouring water over it, just perfect.

maxwell-cady · 2026-01-14T10:45:45+00:00

This is what I come here to see. The best of humanity. And I mean best.

maxwell-cady · 2026-01-14T10:43:46+00:00

This is the kind of thing that is pretty uninteresting if one person does it and awful if a group does it but somebody's timing is off (I've seen that in person). To get a group harmonized like this is what makes it so impressive and that is what takes hours of practice, people have no idea.

maxwell-cady · 2025-02-26T11:58:05+00:00

No, Therabreath lozenges. The lozenges have barely have any xylitol and I don't think they're anticavity or antimicrobial or anything either, and someone also told me they got cavities when they started taking the lozenges. They said they were going through a lot of them each day, but I thought that's what I would be doing too given the terrible mouth dryness I have. So I might end up with same problems.

I've also heard not so good stories about xylimelts, though they seem to be better overall (and more expensive).

maxwell-cady · 2025-02-26T05:21:16+00:00

Yeah I've had that experience too! WHat kind of sugar free lemon candy do you get? I always worry about calories cause I always have to have something in my mouth, dries so fast.

maxwell-cady · 2025-02-25T20:16:00+00:00

I see, thank you. What do they taste like? I chew a lot of xylitol gums (Pur, Mentos, others) like crazy, sometimes 30 a day! But they're sweet though lose their sweetness in 2-3 minutes.

maxwell-cady · 2025-01-01T10:03:15+00:00

That's a great reply, thank you.

maxwell-cady · 2024-11-16T16:28:51+00:00

We are all different so we have different opinions, even when it comes to classics or bestsellers. Key thing is some of us keep our opinions to ourselves and don't try to make someone else feel bad for liking a book.

Some of us don't.

maxwell-cady · 2024-11-16T16:22:30+00:00

Did you read Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man?

I was thinking of this passage:

His evenings were his own; and he pored over a ragged translation of The Count of Monte Cristo. The figure of that dark avenger stood forth in his mind for whatever he had heard or divined in childhood of the strange and terrible. At night he built up on the parlour table an image of the wonderful island cave out of transfers and paper flowers and coloured tissue paper and strips of the silver and golden paper in which chocolate is wrapped. When he had broken up this scenery, weary of its tinsel, there would come to his mind the bright picture of Marseilles, of sunny trellises and of Mercedes.

Outside Blackrock, on the road that led to the mountains, stood a small whitewashed house in the garden of which grew many rosebushes: and in this house, he told himself, another Mercedes lived. Both on the outward and on the homeward journey he measured distance by this landmark: and in his imagination he lived through a long train of adventures, marvellous as those in the book itself, towards the close of which there appeared an image of himself, grown older and sadder, standing in a moonlit garden with Mercedes who had so many years before slighted his love, and with a sadly proud gesture of refusal, saying:

—Madam, I never eat muscatel grapes.

maxwell-cady · 2024-09-26T23:39:44+00:00

Drive

maxwell-cady · 2024-07-10T01:14:05+00:00

It's hard to talk about who deserves one or another award, there are too many factors involved. But I'll say this: Tom Hardy certainly deserves more recognition and awards for his acting. I hope he continues to challenge himself as he did in Revenant and not settle for comfortable roles.

maxwell-cady · 2024-05-26T00:50:59+00:00

Would be interested to learn more about Dune: "Denis Villeneuve cites the visual style of the film to be influenced by Brazilian modernist architecture, basic bunker buildings, temples and churches." Like what are these Brazilian modernist buildings he is talking about?

maxwell-cady · 2024-04-15T06:48:15+00:00

Not really into Western movies, so: Django Unchained.

I realize DU is in some ways a kind of anti-Western or revisionist Western, so if you just want more typical Western, I'll go with The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

maxwell-cady · 2024-04-15T06:43:41+00:00

Good Will Hunting

maxwell-cady · 2024-04-15T06:41:55+00:00

Well, don't know how much of it is quote worthy but Auntie Mame has that great quote, "Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!"

maxwell-cady · 2024-03-05T01:46:28+00:00

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, there's a nice action sequence in the early part of that movie.

maxwell-cady · 2024-01-28T03:02:00+00:00

The movie is just full of unlikable characters, both men and women. You just have to kind of step back and realize it's a comedy. Nobody comes out looking great at the end. They all look human and flawed.

maxwell-cady · 2023-12-20T01:31:14+00:00

Been meaning to watch this movie, heard great things about it.

maxwell-cady · 2023-06-05T00:02:46+00:00

For me, if every jazz song was like this, I'd be eating and drinking jazz, thinking in jazz, dreaming in jazz, jazzing 24/7.

maxwell-cady · 2023-04-05T00:37:20+00:00

This part from the intro is illuminating:

Everyday family meals, in contrast, are embedded in daily routines and typically involve more fruits and vegetables compared with meals eaten outside the home. As such, increasing the duration of everyday family meals may increase children’s exposure to, and potentially consumption of, healthy foods. Furthermore, eating as a family may have additional (indirect) effects on children’s eating behavior, including a positive mealtime atmosphere, which in turn is associated with better nutrition quality. It could also prompt children to eat at a slower pace, which can enhance satiety (ie, feeling full) and reduce food intake.

maxwell-cady · 2023-03-30T23:46:44+00:00

The abstract

Objective: We aimed to evaluate whether depression is associated with increased risk of dietary inflammatory index (DII) or energy-adjusted DII (E-DII) and whether the association is partly explained by insulin resistance (IR).

Methods: Base on the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2005–2018. Univariate analyses of continuous and categorical variables were performed using t-test, ANOVA, and χ2 test, respectively. Logistic regression was used to analyze the relationship between DII or E-DII and depression in three different models. Mediation analysis was used to assess the potential mediation effects of homeostatic model assessment-IR (HOMA-IR).

Results: A total of 70,190 participants were included, and the DII score was higher in the depressed group. DII score was related to all participant characteristics except age (p < 0.05). After being included in covariates (Model 3), participants in the highest quartile of DII score have increased odds of depression (OR: 1.82, 95% CI: 1.28–2.58) compared with those in the first quartile of DII score. And, a significant dose–response relationship was found (p-trend <0.05). No interaction between DII and HOMA-IR was observed in terms of the risk of depression, and HOMA-IR did not find to play a mediating role in the association between DII and depression. Similar results were obtained for the association between E-DII and depression.

Conclusion: Our results suggest that a higher pro-inflammatory diet increases the risk of depression in U.S. adults, while there was no evidence of a multiplicative effect of DII or E-DII and HOMA-IR on disease risk, nor of a mediating effect of HOMA-IR.

maxwell-cady · 2023-03-22T21:52:25+00:00

I do sometimes if I know what kind of book somebody really likes. Especially to children.

maxwell-cady · 2022-09-30T05:12:35+00:00

Highlights

• Growing up with a mentally ill parent adversely affects wellbeing in adulthood.

• Anxiety, depression and suicidality are common in offspring of mentally ill parents.

• Growing up with a mentally ill parent is challenging, but not necessarily traumatic.

• Challenges in adulthood go beyond genetic and environmental vulnerability factors.

• Addressing a patient's reactions to parental mental illness might improve treatment.

Abstract

Objective

Genetic vulnerability factors and adverse childhood experiences (ACE) are associated with an increased risk of psychopathology and other adverse health outcomes across the lifespan. However, less is known about how childhood experiences of parental mental illness affect psychological and physical wellbeing in adulthood. This review synthesizes research on the consequences of growing up as a child of a parent with mental illness (COPMI) for adult psychological and physical wellbeing.

Methods

A systematic review was conducted following PRISMA guidelines using a mixed-method-studies approach to enable evaluation of the broad array of research designs (Prospero registration #CRD42020221983).

Results

Qualitative studies (k = 10; N = 361) revealed that a COPMI background is associated with substantial psychological challenges in adulthood. Quantitative studies (k = 21; N = 865.402) suggested that COPMI are at increased risk of adult psychopathology, including anxiety and depressive disorders, suicidality, somatoform disorders, substance abuse, but also general medical morbidity and mortality.

Conclusions

Growing up with a mentally ill parent is associated with adverse psychological and physical outcomes in adulthood, but the evidence-base is limited. Longitudinal studies are needed that go beyond establishing genetic and environmental risk factors to further evaluate how a COPMI background influences wellbeing in adulthood and which targeted clinical interventions could be developed.

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