Yogurts or the ubiquitous Indian ‘Dahi’ are a wonder when it comes to health benefits. This delicious, creamy thing is consumed in a variety of ways; be it a fruit dessert, snacks, or as a cooking ingredient. It’s as much nutritious as tasty. The good news is that, this versatile food has come up with more yummy versions in the form of flavoured varieties. Nowadays, flavoured yogurt manufacturers have opened up an array of choices for yogurt flavours. So, now we have different forms of yogurt flavours, and one can choose anything among fruit flavours to classical chocolate and popular confectionary flavours. The availability of so many yogurt flavours has added to its existing popularity.
Among health pros, yogurts are one of the top natural sources of available probiotics. The manufacturing process of yogurt involves bacterial activity which converts milk lactose to lactic acid. So the yogurt is loaded with beneficial bacteria that improves your digestion and enhances the healthy biota of the alimentary canal. Some yogurts come with a special ‘probiotic’ label, and we have flavoured yogurt manufacturers who have also launched their probiotic flavoured versions.
Yogurts come from milk. So it has many of the nutritional benefits associated with milk. Firstly, yogurt is rich in calcium. Calcium enhances bone density and proper calcium intake will keep several ailments like osteoporosis at bay. Many prefer yogurt to milk, and you can add it to your everyday meal as a dessert or snack.
Yogurt is a wholesome food choice and some even come with low fat content. In this case yogurt is an ideal option for losing weight. It keeps your stomach full for a long time and controls food cravings.
Yogurt contains protein. So any yogurt preparation is a good meal post a workout session. It is also stuffed with several nutrients like potassium, magnesium, phosphorous, zinc and vitamin B12. Some yogurt varieties available in the market are enriched with vitamin D. Yogurt has also been found to help in maintaining normal blood pressure and enhance the immune system, protecting from infections. So all this sums up yogurt as a power food.
Yogurt will continue to be a popular food choice among foodies and health conscious alike. The entry of flavoured yogurt manufacturers in the market in recent years has made things even more interesting.
The first season of American Crime Story has received critical acclaim. The review aggregatorRotten Tomatoes gave the season an approval rating of 97%, based on 64 reviews, with an average rating of 8.6/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story brings top-shelf writing, directing, and acting to bear on a still-topical story while shedding further light on the facts – and provoking passionate responses along the way."[37] On Metacritic, the season has a score of 90 out of 100, based on 43 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[38]
Many critics have singled out many cast members for the performances, particularly Paulson and Vance.[39][40][41] Dan Feinberg of The Hollywood Reporter praised Paulson and Vance's performances, writing: "As Clark's discomfort grows, Paulson's collection of tics seem more and more human[...] Vance's Cochran is sometimes hilarious, but he has a dynamic range such that he's occasionally introspective and always intelligent as well."[40] Brian Lowry of Variety praised the casting of the smaller roles, particularly Connie Britton as Faye Resnick and Nathan Lane as F. Lee Bailey.[42]
Despite the praise for the rest of the cast, Travolta's portrayal of Shapiro and Gooding's portrayal of Simpson have received mixed critical reviews. Brian Lowry of Variety called Travolta "awful" in the role, adding: "Yes, Shapiro spoke in stiff, measured tones, but the actor's overly mannered line readings turn the attorney into a buffoon, in sharp contrast to the more nuanced portrayals around him."[42] Nicole Jones of Vanity Fair called his performance "campy and calculated."[43] Dan Feinberg of The Hollywood Reporter also criticized his performance, calling it "a mesmerizingly bad performance from the eyebrows down." Feinberg also observed: "His unnecessary accent varies by episode, and Travolta's laser intensity feels arch and almost kabuki at times, turning Shapiro into a terrifying character from the next American Horror Story installment, rather than a part of this ensemble."[40]
Maureen Ryan of Vanity Fair, conversely, became more impressed with Travolta as the season progressed: "I started in the realm of puzzled disbelief, arrived at amusement, and ultimately traveled to a place of sincere appreciation. You simply can’t take your eyes off Travolta, and that is a form of enchantment."[44] Elisabeth Garber-Paul of Rolling Stonealso called it "arguably [Travolta's] best performance since Tarantino brought him back from the dead."[45] Robert Bianco of USA Today wrote that Travolta's was the show's "broadest performance."[46]
Dave Schilling of The Guardian panned Gooding's performance, writing: "his whiny, gravely voice sounds absolutely nothing like the real OJ Simpson’s deep, commanding tones."[47] Michael Starr of The New York Post was also highly critical of Gooding's performance, saying that he "portrays Simpson as a hollow, sad-sack cipher who speaks in a high-pitched whine and sleepwalks in a fog he never shakes after being arrested for the brutal double murder of ex-wife Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman. He’s a forgettable, annoying presence in what should be a showcase role for Gooding — who, to be fair, is reciting lines written for him, so he can only do so much with the material."[48]
On the other hand, Joe McGovern was more positive on Gooding's performance, writing that his casting "takes a risk and pulls it off."[49] Elisabeth Garber-Paul of Rolling Stonedescribed his performance as "an unnervingly believable take on a potential psychopath with teetering sanity."[45] Nick Venable of Cinema Blend also opined that Gooding's turn as Simpson "could indeed get him on a shortlist of Emmy nominees."[50]
Preceding film in origin by thousands of years, early plays and dances had elements common to film: scripts, sets, costumes,production, direction, actors, audiences, storyboards, and scores. Much terminology later used in film theory and criticism apply, such as mise en scène (roughly, the entire visual picture at any one time). Owing to the lack of any technology for doing so, the moving images and sounds could not be recorded for replaying as with film.
The magic lantern, probably created by Christiaan Huygens in the 1650s, could be used to project animation, which was achieved by various types of mechanical slides. Typically, two glass slides, one with the stationary part of the picture and the other with the part that was to move, would be placed one on top of the other and projected together, then the moving slide would be hand-operated, either directly or by means of a lever or other mechanism. Chromotrope slides, which produced eye-dazzling displays of continuously cycling abstract geometrical patterns and colors, were operated by means of a small crank and pulley wheel that rotated a glass disc.[5]
In the mid-19th century, inventions such as the phenakistoscope and zoetrope demonstrated that a carefully designed sequence of drawings, showing phases of the changing appearance of objects in motion, would appear to show the objects actually moving if they were displayed one after the other at a sufficiently rapid rate. These devices relied on the phenomenon of persistence of vision to make the display appear continuous even though the observer's view was actually blocked as each drawing rotated into the location where its predecessor had just been glimpsed. Each sequence was limited to a small number of drawings, usually twelve, so it could only show endlessly repeating cyclical motions. By the late 1880s, the last major device of this type, thepraxinoscope, had been elaborated into a form that employed a long coiled band containing hundreds of images painted on glass and used the elements of a magic lantern to project them onto a screen.
Horror comics are comic books, graphic novels, black-and-white comics magazines, and manga focusing on horror fiction. In the US market, horror comic books reached a peak in the late 1940s through the mid-1950s, when concern over content and the imposition of the self-censorship Comics Code Authority contributed to the demise of many titles and the toning down of others. Black-and-white horror-comics magazines, which did not fall under the Code, flourished from the mid-1960s through the early 1980s from a variety of publishers. Mainstream American color comic books experienced a horror resurgence in the 1970s, following a loosening of the Code. While the genre has had greater and lesser periods of popularity, it occupies a firm niche in comics as of the 2010s.
Precursors to horror comics include detective and crime comics that incorporated horror motifs into their graphics, and early superhero stories that sometimes included the likes of ghouls and vampires. Individual horror stories appeared as early as 1940. The first dedicated horror comic books appear to be Gilberton Publications' Classic Comics #13 (Aug. 1943), with its full-length adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Avon Publications' anthology Eerie #1 (Jan. 1947), the first horror comic with original content. The first horror-comics series is the anthology Adventures into the Unknown, premiering in 1948 from American Comics Group, initially under the imprint B&I Publishing
Alexander Alekseyevich Sizonenko (Ukrainian: Олександр Олексійович Сизоненко; Russian: Александр Алексеевич Сизоненко; 20 July 1959 – 5 January 2012) was a Sovietbasketball player.
Sizonenko was born in the city of Zaporizhia, Ukrainian SSR. Possibly the tallest person to have ever played professional basketball, he was measured by Guinness World Records at 2.45 m (8 ft 0 in) and named the world's tallest man in 1991. Sizonenko was said to have grown since this measurement was taken, although age reduced his standing height considerably. Because of his enormous growth, his mobility was increasingly impaired.
The winner of the annual IFBBMr. Olympia contest is generally recognized as the world's top male professional bodybuilder. The title is currently held by Phil Heath of the United States. The winner of the Women's Physique portion of the competition is widely regarded as the world's top female professional bodybuilder. The 2015 title is currently held by Juliana Malacarne, a Brazilian-born American IFBB Pro fitness and figure competitor and Ladies All-Star Wrestling Professional. Since 1950, the NABBAUniverse Championships has been considered the top amateur bodybuilding contest with many notable winners such as Steve Reeves, Bill Pearl, Reg Park, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lee Priest.