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Drugs Abuse- Today's Health and Fitness Problem | Nutrition Facts ...
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IN RE INNOVATIVE COMMUNICATION CORPORATION | Chapter ...
In re: INNOVATIVE COMMUNICATION CORPORATION, Chapter 11, Debtor.
Civil No. 2007-130, Case No. 07-30012.
United States District Court, D. Virgin Islands, Division of St. Thomas & St. John.
July 20, 2010.
John P. Raynor, Omaha, NE, Pro Se Plaintiff.
Jeffrey J. Prosser, St. Croix, U.S.V.I., Pro Se Plaintiff.
J. Daryl Dodson, Esq., St. Thomas, U.S.V.I., for Rural Telephone Finance Cooperative.
Toby L. Gerber, Esq., Dallas, TX, for Rural Telephone Finance Cooperative.
Kent D. Bressie, Esq., Washington, DC, for Rural Telephone Finance Cooperative.
William R. Greendyke, Esq., Houston, TX, for Rural Telephone Finance Cooperative.
Thomas J. Allingham II, Esq., Gregg M. Galardi, Esq., Mark L. Desgrosseilliers, Esq., Wilmington, DE, for Greenlight Capital Qualified, L.P., Greenlight Capital, L.P., and Greenlight Capital Offshore, Ltd.
Matthew J. Duensing, Esq., Richard H. Dollison, Esq., St. Thomas, U.S.V.I., for Greenlight Capital Qualified, L.P., Greenlight Capital, L.P., and Greenlight Capital Offshore, Ltd.
Daniel C. Stewart, Esq., Michaela C. Crocker, Esq., Dallas, TX, for Stan Springel, Chapter 11 Trustee of Innovative Communication Corp.
Kathryn B. Bussing, Esq., Steven Kupka, Esq., Kansas City, MO, for Blackwell Sanders, LLP.
MEMORANDUM OPINION
CURTIS V. G?MEZ, Chief District Judge.
Before the Court is a filing that purports to be an appeal of several decisions of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of the Virgin Islands (the ?Bankruptcy Division?) by Jeffrey J. Prosser (?Prosser?) and John P. Raynor (?Raynor?). In the alternative, Prosser and Raynor seek to have this Court withdraw the automatic reference to the Bankruptcy Division and stay ?all related cases.?
I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
Because the Court has previously outlined the facts of this matter in related proceedings, the Court recites only those facts pertinent to its analysis in this particular motion.
Stan Springel (?Springel?) is the trustee of three entities ? Emerging Communications, Inc. (?ECI?), Innovative Communication Company, LLC (?ICC-LLC?), and Innovative Communication Corporation (?New ICC?). All three entities are in chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. The filing before the Court arises from the bankruptcy proceedings for New ICC.
Rural Telephone Finance Cooperative (?RTFC?) is a member-owned, non-profit lending cooperative based in Virginia, which provides financing to telecommunication companies.
Greenlight Capital Qualified, L.P., Greenlight Capital, L.P., and Greenlight Capital Offshore, Ltd. (jointly, ?Greenlight?) are two limited partnerships organized under Delaware law and a corporation organized in the British Virgin Islands.
RTFC and Greenlight are creditors of ICC-LLC and ECI.
Raynor was a director of New ICC. Prosser was the chairman of New ICC. New ICC is a management and holding company. New ICC is a wholly owned subsidiary of ECI. ECI is owned by ICC-LLC.
On September 7, 2007, the Bankruptcy Division issued an order authorizing Springel, as the trustee for ECI, to vote the shares of New ICC to replace New ICC?s board. On September 21, 2007, the Bankruptcy Division issued an order placing New ICC into involuntary bankruptcy. On October 3, 2007, the Bankruptcy Division issued an order appointing Springel as the trustee for New ICC. Prosser and Raynor appeal these three orders (jointly, the ?orders?).
Following the September 7, 2007 order authorizing Springel to vote the shares of New ICC, Springel executed two unanimous written consents in lieu of meetings, which removed Prosser and Raynor from their positions with New ICC and its subsidiaries. As such, neither Prosser nor Raynor is a current director or officer of New ICC.
II. JURISDICTION AND STANDARD OF REVIEW
The Court has jurisdiction to review this case pursuant to Title 28 U.S.C. ? 158(a). [1] The Court will review the Bankruptcy Division?s findings of fact for clear error and will exercise plenary review over questions of law. In re Barbel, No. 01-221, 2004 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 19417, at *2 (D.V.I. Sept. 21, 2004) (?A district court reviews the Bankruptcy Division?s conclusions of law de novo but may only review findings of fact that are clearly erroneous.?) (citing Fed. R. Bankr. P. 8013; In re Excalibur Auto. Corp., 859 F.2d 454, 457 (7th Cir. 1988) ). A bankruptcy court?s decision to grant a motion to appoint a Chapter 11 trustee is reviewed for abuse of discretion. See In re Marvel Entertainment Group Inc., 140 F.3d 463, 470 (3d Cir. 1998) . A court will be held to have abused its discretion ?if its decision was based on a clearly erroneous factual conclusion or an erroneous legal conclusion.? United States v. Wise, 515 F.3d 207, 217 (3d Cir. 2008) .
III. ANALYSIS
Springel contends that, whether the Court construes Prosser and Raynor?s filing as an appeal of orders of the Bankruptcy Division or as a motion to withdraw the reference, Prosser and Raynor lack standing to seek the relief requested. Springel argues that the Bankruptcy Code and rules make the trustee the only person with legal authority to take actions on behalf of New ICC.
Federal Rule of Bankruptcy Procedure 2012(a) provides that, ?[i]f a trustee is appointed in a chapter 11 case . . . the trustee is substituted automatically for the debtor in possession as a party in any pending action, proceeding, or matter.? On October 3, 2007, pursuant to the Bankruptcy Division?s order appointing Springel as the trustee of New ICC, Springel became the only party with standing to appeal the Bankruptcy Division?s orders regarding New ICC.
The right to appeal is part of the debtor?s estate in bankruptcy. Martin v. Monumental Life Ins. Co., 240 F.3d 223, 232 (3d Cir. 2001) ; see also 11 U.S.C. ? 541(a) (defining what comprises the bankruptcy estate). Accordingly, the right to appeal rests with the trustee, as ?the representative of the estate.? 11 U.S.C. ? 323(a); see also Fed. R. Bankr. P. 6009 (?With or without court approval, the trustee . . . may prosecute or may enter an appearance and defend any pending action or proceeding by or against the debtor, or commence and prosecute any action or proceeding in behalf of the estate before any tribunal.?). After a bankruptcy trustee has been appointed, only the trustee can pursue an appeal on behalf of the debtor corporation. See Martin, 240 F.3d at 232 (explaining that, because the right to appeal is part of the bankruptcy estate, only the trustee can pursue an appeal, unless the trustee has abandoned the appeal as part of the estate, pursuant to 11 U.S.C. ? 554). This is true unless the trustee first initiates an appeal and then decides to abandon it, subject to notice and a hearing, pursuant to 11 U.S.C. ? 554. Id.
In this case, after Springel was appointed as Chapter 11 trustee for New ICC, the authority to pursue appeals on behalf of New ICC belonged exclusively to Springel. At that point, Prosser and Raynor lost standing, to the extent they had it, to pursue the instant appeal. See, e.g., Riggs v. Aetna Life Ins. Co., 188 Fed. Appx. 659, 662-63 (10th Cir. June 14, 2006) (holding that a plaintiff who initiated a lawsuit and later filed for bankruptcy lacked standing to continue to pursue her claims in the lawsuit after a trustee in bankruptcy was appointed because ?[a]t that point, the bankruptcy trustee, not Ms. Riggs, was the real party in interest?); In re Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. Research Reports Securities Litigation, 375 B.R. 719, 725-26 (S.D.N.Y. 2007) (noting that, when a debtor filed for bankruptcy and a trustee was appointed, the debtor lost standing to pursue his claims in a pending action); see also In re Eisen, 31 F.3d 1447, 1451 n.2 (9th Cir. 1994) (?[E]ven if Eisen is a `person aggrieved,? Eisen, as a debtor, has no standing because Moneymaker, as trustee, is the representative of Eisen?s estate.?).
To the extent Prosser and Raynor?s filing is deemed to be a motion to withdraw the reference, their petition is similarly wanting. It is axiomatic that a party to a bankruptcy proceeding can seek withdrawal of the reference to the bankruptcy division. Section 157(d) provides that ?[t]he district court may withdraw, in whole or in part, any case or proceeding referred under this section, on its own motion or on timely motion of any party, for cause shown.? 28 U.S.C. ? 157(d). In determining whether ?cause? exists for discretionary withdrawal under section 157(d), courts are to consider four factors: (1) promoting uniformity in bankruptcy administration, (2) reducing forum-shopping, (3) fostering economical use of debtors? and creditors? resources, and (4) expediting the bankruptcy process. In re Pruitt, 910 F.2d 1160, 1168 (3d Cir. 1990) .
However, as non parties, Prosser and Raynor do not have standing to file a motion to withdraw the automatic reference to the Bankruptcy Division. See, e.g., Springel v. Prosser, No. 2008-145, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 99490, at *6 (D.V.I. 2008) (?As a non-party, however, Dawn Prosser does not have standing to file a motion to withdraw the reference in that particular proceeding.?); Pitre v. Blanchard, No. 96-0014, 1996 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 4368, at *4 n. 4 (E.D. La. Mar. 27, 1996) (?the court notes that Pitre III is not a party to Adversary Proceeding No. 95-1200; consequently, he has no standing to bring a motion to withdraw the reference of that action.?).
IV. CONCLUSION
For the foregoing reasons, whether Prosser and Raynor?s filing is construed as an appeal or as a motion to withdraw the reference, their petition for relief will be denied, and this matter will be dismissed. An appropriate order accompanies this memorandum opinion.
[1] Title 28 U.S.C. ? 158(a) provides that ?[t]he district courts of the United States shall have jurisdiction to hear appeals . . . from final judgments, orders, and decrees . . . of bankruptcy judges entered in cases and proceedings referred to the bankruptcy judges under [28 U.S.C. ? 157].? An appeal under this subsection shall be taken only to the district court for the judicial district in which the bankruptcy judge is serving.? 28 U.S.C. ? 158(a).
Source: http://chapter11cases.com/in-re-innovative-communication-corporation/
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Venezuelan TV channel pays $2.2 million fine
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) ? The Venezuelan television channel Globovision on Friday paid a fine of more than $2 million imposed by regulators, calling it an unfair penalty but saying it had no choice after the Supreme Court ordered an embargo on its assets for nonpayment.
The channel, which takes a critical stance against President Hugo Chavez's government, has been trying to challenge the fine. Broadcast regulators slapped the penalty on the channel last year for its coverage of a prolonged prison uprising.
"We came to pay the unjust and disproportionate fine," said Carlos Zuloaga, Globovision's vice president, who spoke outside the Supreme Court building with other station executives, accompanied by employees and supporters.
Globovision paid the fine a day after the Supreme Court ordered an embargo on nearly $5.7 million in assets belonging to the channel. Zuloaga said the station paid about 9.4 million bolivars, equivalent to $2.2 million.
He said the court should immediately lift the embargo order now that the fine has been paid. He noted the channel still has legal appeals pending and said Globovision "is going to continue fighting."
"We have an obligation to keep Globovision open," he said.
Telecommunications regulators last year imposed the fine against Globovision accusing it of "justifying crime," ''altering the public order" and promoting political intolerance during its coverage of an intervention by troops to quash rioting at El Rodeo prison.
The telecommunication commission's director general, Pedro Maldonado, said at the time that for four days Globovision broadcast 18 emotional reports with relatives of the prisoners and repeated them almost 300 times, adding the sound of gunfire over the reports.
The June 2011 prison riot erupted after troops raided one of two adjacent prisons looking for weapons. The raid set off gunfights that left three dead, and the standoff finally ended with negotiations after 27 days. Authorities said four inmates who escaped also were slain by soldiers.
Globovision has accused Chavez's government of trying to shut it down, and has said it did nothing wrong. Government officials have repeatedly accused the channel of violating broadcast regulations.
Press freedom groups condemned the Supreme Court's decision ordering the embargo on the channel's assets.
Reporters Without Borders called it "a dangerous precedent for freedom to report the news, given the disproportionate financial penalty that threatens the very survival of the media organization."
The Inter American Press Association similarly criticized the court's order in a statement, saying it was a "flagrant attack on press freedom."
Globovision, a 24-hour news network, provides a key outlet for opposition candidate Henrique Capriles to get out his message ahead of Venezuela's Oct. 7 presidential vote, while state television and other state-run media are largely monopolized by coverage of Chavez's appearances and other government events.
Globovision has been the only stridently anti-Chavez channel on the air in Venezuela since another opposition-aligned station, RCTV, was forced off cable and satellite TV in 2010. RCTV had been booted off the open airwaves in 2007 when the government refused to renew its broadcast license.
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Friday, June 29, 2012
Malaysia to Buy Canada Gas Firm
BY EDWARD WELSCH
CALGARY, Alberta?Malaysian state-owned Petroliam Nasional Bhd. agreed to buy Canadian natural-gas producer Progress Energy Resources Corp. for 5.5 billion Canadian dollars (US$5.36 billion), marking the latest foray into the North American energy patch by an Asian company.
Petronas also said it plans to build a liquefied-natural-gas export terminal in Prince Rupert, British Columbia, off Canada's western coast?the fourth major LNG export project under consideration for the country.
North American natural-gas prices have fallen sharply amid a boom in new natural-gas drilling techniques on the continent. That has spurred a number of projects, all in the early stages, in the U.S. ...
BY EDWARD WELSCH
CALGARY, Alberta?Malaysian state-owned Petroliam Nasional Bhd. agreed to buy Canadian natural-gas producer Progress Energy Resources Corp. for 5.5 billion Canadian dollars (US$5.36 billion), marking the latest foray into the North American energy patch by an Asian company.
Petronas also said it plans to build a liquefied-natural-gas export terminal in Prince Rupert, British Columbia, off Canada's western coast?the fourth major LNG export project under consideration for the country.
North American natural-gas prices have fallen sharply amid a boom in new natural-gas drilling techniques on the continent. That has spurred a number of projects, all in the early stages, in the U.S. ...
Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303649504577494352051901884.html?mod=asia_home
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Thursday, June 28, 2012
Google Nexus 7 tablet is 7-inch quad-core HD movie, book and game machine
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Just as?Google's developer conference was getting started, details of the company's?rumored Nexus 7 tablet emerged. As previously reported, it is a 7-inch tablet powered by a Nvidia?Tegra 3 quad-core processor?that will run Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, and come in 8GB ($199)?and 16GB versions ($249). You can order today, but it ships in mid-July.
The display is true high-def ? 1280x800, so a bit better than 720p ? and there's a front-facing 1.2-megapixel camera and microphone?for video chatting, though there's no rear-facing camera. (That's okay -- do you really take pictures with tablets?) It also has a micro?USB port, GPS, near-field communication and both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. There's no mention of an SD card slot for expanding the memory, however.
Not surprisingly, it was built by (and even branded)?Asus, the manufacturer that had already?made the most headway with quad-core gamer-friendly Android tablets. (See our video on the Transformer Prime below.)
Clearly, at a starting price of $199, the Nexus 7 is positioned to compete with the similarly 7-inch?Kindle Fire, rather than taking on the 9.7-inch?iPad (and the 10.6-inch Surface tablet from Microsoft).
Although they were careful to make the device comfortable to hold, with a textured back and light weight, some people just prefer to have a case anyway. And there is indeed a nice little $20 matte polymer cover in which you can ensconce your Nexus 7 and protect its screen. It's available in gray right now, but Asus sent out a picture showing it in a number of bright yet muted colors:
Meanwhile, Google pitched the Nexus 7 ? with its gryoscope and accelerometer ??as "a serious gaming device." By way of example, they showed off the action-heavy game "Horn" and the zombie shooter "Dead Trigger."?
And because, with all of those tablets, content seems to be the biggest incentive, Google is playing up the Play store, even granting early buyers $25 in Google?Play credit and "some great free content" including "Transformers: Dark of the Moon." Even if you don't think any of the "Transformers" films is truly "great," it is nice to see Google aggressively pushing content, even adding TV shows and magazines to their lineup. Tablet buyers need a reason to buy a tablet.?
UPDATE:?Google has made the above video operational again, along with the following links to the?8GB and 16GB versions on Google Play. Have at 'em!?
--?Via TechCrunch and The Verge
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Android 4.1 Jelly Bean review: a look at what's changed in Google's mobile OS
Google's next iteration of Android wasn't quite the full-point release jump that many of you were perhaps anticipating. Rather than using Google I/O 2012 as the launching pad for Android 5.0, we're being formally introduced to v4.1 -- a mere 0.1 ahead of where Ice Cream Sandwich placed us around six months ago. Aside from grabbing a name change, the minor numerical bump also provides Jelly Bean the opportunity to usher in a few new features for Nexus owners to enjoy.
If you missed yesterday's keynote, Google revealed that Android 4.1 would arrive on Nexus devices in "mid-July," but there's no clear word on when partner companies will begin pushing it to their products. Moreover, pundits are quick to point out the legions of Android products that still haven't made the leap to 4.0, leaving us to wonder if those Froyo and Gingerbread laggards will simply take the fast track to 4.1 now that it's (almost) available. Care to see if the latest and greatest will live up to your expectations once it lands in a few weeks? Head on past the break as we discuss some of the larger changes that Jelly Bean has to offer.
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Home health care - Why Should You Hire Home Care Services for ...
Seniors or elders need proper health care and assistance in their daily activities. If you have elders in your family who want to spend their remaining times in their own homes, you need to think of professional assistance, as you may not have enough time to provide them with that extra care in this hectic life. There is a wide range of home care services adequate to meet the growing needs of your senior parents. You do not have to worry about father taking to the hospital, giving him medicines or assisting him in any other activity. With in -home care services, you can be relieved of the burdens of taking care of your parents, while making retirement years more enjoyable for them.
Studies show that parents can live a better life in their retirement years at their own homes. They are less vulnerable to a variety of diseases like stress, depression, high blood pressure and heart attack. Your parents feel happy, as they are able to see or chat with their loved ones. They feel respectable when they are assisted in their daily activities by professional caregivers. Home care services are available for 24 hours. They comprise almost everything right from providing companionship, supervising diet and eating, giving medication reminders, assisting with getting up and into the bed, taking seniors to doctor to stimulating mental awareness to chatting in a friendly way. They also involve maintaining calendars, arranging appointments, serving food, and organizing mails and letter-writing services for elders.
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Vegetarianism! Lifestyle ponderings, health tips, meals-vs ...
Dear Mr & Mrs,
For health reasons, I am switching to a vegetarian diet. Can you give me some easy cooking, grocery shopping tips? I can?t afford to keep buying prepared meals.
Simple recipes are what I need, but no kale! Long-winded answers please!
Yours,
Elizabeth
Huzzah! This young one, undaunted by the lengthy rants of yore, writes to Yours Truly with a simple request for simple advice, unmindful of the lengthiness (or rantiness?) of the possible response! Which is considerable, as you will see!
Also Huzzah to you, young lady. In this Bacon Age, I tell you it does my heart good to see people still turning to vegetarianism. I think changing your diet in any number of ways can be a really positive, healthy experience for a person, because it encourages thoughtfulness. Even just eating less meat, or eating a different kind of meat, encourages this thoughtfulness. The one thing I can not stand is when otherwise intelligent people pride themselves on refusing to consider the food they eat, like it?s some sort of mark of courage or coolness when really it?s just incredibly defensive and lazy. I think a lot of us grow up without ever thinking about the food we eat?where it comes from, who makes it, what?s even IN it?and once you start making actual decisions about it it can be very empowering. I remember when my mother in law finally realized that her constant terrible yeast infections were tied to eating too much sugar, which made her start reading labels on food for the first time in her life. She had this huge epiphany. Realizing that the 16 ounce caramel latte she gets every morning from Starbucks actually has an incredible shit-ton of sugar in it, etc. She had NO IDEA how much sugar she was eating on a daily basis. A lot of people don?t think about this stuff. But once you make a decision?eating less sugar, not eating meat, eating locally, whatever?it allows you to turn your perception onto your food intake and actually pay attention to it in a more mindful way. I am a fan of mindfulness, generally. Like even if you?re going to eat meat, there is a vast world of difference between some hippie-dippie field-raised hand-slaughtered cow and the meat you get at Safeway, and it?s not just a price difference. And a lot of people don?t even think about that difference, and I think they should, is all I?m saying. Because our planet is fucking dying. Fun!
On to the advice:
You?re right that you need to stop buying prepared meals! I don?t even know what this means?do you mean you are going to restaurants all the time? Which is one thing, but if what you mean is that you?re buying, like, frozen dinners? Or something? Then yeah, you should stop! Not only is it expensive but it is not that healthy.
The one mistake a lot of vegetarians and vegans make, especially if they switch over while young, is that they just start eating a shit-ton of fake meat. Everybody knows the vegan who eats only tofurkey and that vegan is not your role model! I hardly ever eat fake meat. I only eat it in the context of a fun junk food experience, like a barbecue or if I?m drunk.
Also, the one mistake vegetarians make is eating too much cheese. Don?t eat cheese with every meal! It?s too intense!
So, lets talk about WHOLE FOODS. Not the grocery store?the actual thing! Whole foods are foods that have not been processed, that don?t have added shit, that haven?t been turned into anything else. Think of things in their natural state. Beans, rice, the dreaded kale?you want to eat a lot of whole foods. Not 100% whole foods?you aren?t a crazy person, we all have other shit we need to do in our day aside from obsessively deal with our nutritional intake, plus, come on, things like BREAD and SOY SAUCE and tempeh and the occasional awesome coconut ice cream?but just, like, kind of a lot of whole foods, is what you need to focus on. At first it is difficult to transition from prepared foods to preparing your own whole foods, but after awhile it becomes normal and you find yourself getting mildly ill if you go to your family reunion and every single thing everyone makes involves velveeta cheese and white bread.
Helpful Motto: Buy ingredients, not meals
When you go to the store, think about ingredients rather than meals. What are ingredients? They are the vegetables themselves but also things like spices and nutritional yeast and soy sauce and vinegar and noodles and bread and beans and rice and whatever. You fill your kitchen with ingredients and then you create food out of those ingredients. In a second I will give you a list of staple ingredients to maybe think about. I?ll also give you some health tips, lifestyle tips, and then finally a couple recipes/meal ideas and cookbooks. Okay here we go!
HEALTH THINGS:
People will tell you, ?oh god, but you have to eat meat, IT?S NATURAL, etc. etc. protein iron.? One thing you might want to do is read Carol Adams? truly bonkers book The Sexual Politics of Meat. It?s obviously about gender issues and is very theoretical, but in her early chapters she also digs into the history of meat eating. And actually?and this is obvious, if you think about it?most people in the world, for all of history, do/did not actually eat much meat. Eating meat every day was a rich man?s game. It?s largely the product of marketing, coupled with the cheapness of factory farming, that led Americans to believe you have to eat big slabs of meat with every meal. That?s how kings eat, historically, not the rest of us. And what else did kings experience that the rest of us didn?t? Gout! Obesity! Weird digestive problems! ?Eating like a king? is not actually that good for your body. Obviously you also don?t want to eat like a medieval serf (gruel and/or nothing), but I do think there is a balance to be found, and that the cultural perception that if you don?t eat tons of meat you?ll be unhealthy is largely bullshit. Lately there?s this whole thing of, like, oh, if you don?t eat meat, you stop ovulating and you can?t have babies! To this I would simply submit: The country of India.
Cultural vegetarianism has been around a lot longer than you or I, and those people do just fine. So don?t let your weird uncle hassle you about how you have to go to Applebees and eat a steak or you?ll turn white and die. We have the privilege and the luxury of thinking about our diet and picking and choosing our diet, rather than scrabbling desperately for survival like everybody else does/has done, and that?s great, and lucky, and an amazing gift. So lets think about it and make some calls!
So! No biggie! When you give up meat, I believe the two things you need to focus on getting enough of in your diet are iron and protein. I am not a doctor (not that kind)! But after nigh on 25 years of vegetarianism (!!! I am a million years old), and reading about it and thinking about it and experimenting with my lifestyle, this is basically how I roll, and I feel healthy and good in my body and am not anemic or anything. My last physical exam came back ?all systems go.? KNOCK ON WOOD. Also, re: ovulation, I chart my cycles and am definitely still ovulating, for whatever that information is worth to you. I know people who are WAY MORE UPTIGHT than I am about getting x number of servings of x number of things every day, and to those people I say chill out! Or don?t, whatever works for you.
(Also: everyone is different. Some people?s bodies really don?t like wheat. Some people (ahem) just can?t fucking stand squash. etc. etc. A lot of people claim they don?t feel good unless they are eating meat regularly, which could totally be true, although it hasn?t been my experience. So I just want to stress that these are the things that work for ME and for MY GUTS, but you should feel free to experiment with other ideas, other amounts, etc., and also give yourself the leeway to not like certain stuff. And don?t beat yourself up if you fall off the wagon and eat a hamburger sometimes?this isn?t a zero sum game! Just be thoughtful and try to listen to your body, and introduce changes slowly and thoughtfully, and think about the long game rather than completely changing your entire life overnight, and you?ll be good)
I focus on:
- eating at least one big serving of dark leafy greens a day (if you don?t like kale, experiment with other greens?or with your cooking methods? See below?but I?m sorry, you definitely need to eat your leafy greens. Spinach salad? Collards with sweet potatoes? Secretly putting them in a smoothie? Get it done! Major source of iron and calcium, super important)
- eating some amount of protein every day?beans, nuts, eggs, even cheese, the occasional tempeh or tofu, etc.
- eating at least one piece of fruit a day (everyone should do this, not just vegetarians)
That?s it! It?s easy, you can do it. Using these 3 guidelines, you can plan your meals and be delighted at the sweet bounty of the earth or whatever. Okay moving on:
Staples I Always Have In My Kitchen:
Some of these might not work for you?you need to find your own flavor palette!?but just for something to start building from, here?s a list of stuff I basically always have on hand. It doesn?t mean I use only them, every day, but they are a pretty foundational part of my diet. It took me a long, long time to figure this out, during my years-long transition out of eating mainly boca burgers. Some of this stuff may not be super healthy, even, I don?t know, but since you asked, this is what I do:
- couple pounds of dry beans of various types (pinto, black and lentil are the current faves (see below re: cooking/using them))
- brown rice (see below re: cooking it in such a way that it does not totally suck)
- various pastas (a lot of people don?t love pasta?it?s a big wheat gluten blast?but for me it is foundational and I love it and I don?t give a shit)
- soy sauce
- rooster sauce (sriracha (sp?) you can make your own if you get the Hot Knives cookbook, see below)
- olive oil
- various vinegars (balsamic, brown rice, white, and maybe a red wine)
- toasted sesame oil
- nice honey
- spices: chili powder, basil, oregano, cinnamon, turmeric, dill, crushed red pepper flakes, cayenne, these are my main go-tos, plus salt and pepper obviously
- nutritional yeast
- vegetable stock or boullion cubes
- dark leafy greens (kale, chard, collards, mustard, beet, spinach?can be raw or cooked, also see below)
- plain yogurt (or soy yogurt, however you want to roll. You need the cultures, and the calcium is good too, plus I assume some protein. I use it instead of sour cream and I also just eat it plain but I am a weirdo (it?s super sour))
- peanut butter or some other nut butter
- assorted raw nuts (walnuts and almonds, though recently my parents have been spoiling me with 1/2 pound sacks of crazy expensive hazelnuts)
Most of this you can get in the bulk bins/tanks at your local hippie store. Bring your own bags and bottles, save some money and waste less plastic! Spices especially are INSANELY CHEAPER if you buy them bulk, but also beans and rice and really everything. And even if it?s only a few cents cheaper you still get the satisfaction of not throwing millions of jars in the garbage or whatever. I?ve had the same olive oil bottle for almost five years, I love it. You just get them to weigh it before you do your shopping (this is called a ?tare? weight) and then they subtract that weight from your purchase. I get olive oil, vinegar, honey, peanut butter, laundry soap, dish soap, soy sauce, braggs, plus all my dry goods (beans, rice) and spices, in bulk. The hippier your co-op the more normal this will be?the Alberta St. co-op here in town has a scale where you can do your own tares, and they even have bulk vegenaise and tofutti cream cheese and margarine and salsa and kombucha. Next level!
I also enjoy keeping all this stuff in jars rather than bags. It is easier to keep track of and looks better in the cupboard. So I have all these pickle jars and peanut butter jars and big mason jars, all filled with beans and rice and couscous and yeast. My soy sauce is in a kombucha bottle. My sugar is in a tomato paste jar. I also like looking in thrift stores for cool vintage tiny jars for my spices. Thrift stores are great for mason jars, too. Etc etc have fun in the kitchen
Also decent pots and pans can not be overestimated in terms of enjoying your cooking life. I got a set of Calphalon pots/pans on ebay for like $150 (retail $500) and will have them until I am old. Scour thrift stores for Le Cruset and Calphalon and other top durable legit chef-approved cookware, although you probably won?t find much because people hold onto it. Estate sales! If you get married, definitely make a set of pots and pans and a set of knives a priority in terms of telling your mom to tell your rich relatives to buy for you.
Okay, here?s some specifics!
Nutritional Yeast
excellent source of vitamin B12, which mostly just vegans have to worry about, but still it is very good for you and tastes awesome and probably has other health benefits I?m forgetting. Here is the main way I use it: salad dressing! I stole this recipe from my friend Genevi?ve who is an amazing cook: make a nice olive oil/balsamic vinegar dressing, add the juice of maybe 1/3 of a lime, a little salt, mix it up, then add nutritional yeast until it turns into a pourable paste. HOLY SHIT! I get more compliments on this salad dressing than on probably anything else I have ever made. We eat this basically every day.
Beans
Well, so you put a pound of dry beans in a big soup pot, cover them with 2 inches of water, let them soak overnight. Then in the morning you drain them, fill the pot back up with water (or veggie stock, which is much better), add a chopped onion, a couple chopped jalape?os, a chopped bell pepper, several minced cloves of garlic, a couple tablespoons of chili powder, a dollop of olive oil, some salt, maybe some oregano. Bring to a boil, cover, turn down to a very low simmer, simmer for like 30 minutes or until very very tender. I sometimes add half a chopped apple like 10 minutes before they?re done. Now you?ve got a huge pot of rad beans! Make burritos, enchiladas, chili, or just eat in a bowl with rice and tortillas. Lasts for days, also you can freeze them in mason jars for lazy nights when you don?t want to deal with cooking.
(High Altitude Cooking: stuff boils at a lower temperature. So like growing up, my parents would take an entire day to cook beans?they?d just simmer on the stove all day. Then I moved to Oregon and made my first batch of non-high-altitude beans, and cooked them for 8 hours like usual, and they were unbelievably ruined. Turns out you only need like 45 minutes. I told my dad and he was stunned. Does anyone reading this live at high altitude? It?s crazy, right? There are also arcane baking substitutions you have to make but I don?t know about that because I never bake)
Brown Rice Not Being So Boring You Want To Die
brown rice is terrible. So you have to cook it in veggie stock, instead of water! Then when it?s done, add a tablespoon of butter or margarine. Suddenly, this rice tastes good!! Amaze your friends
veggie stock
yes, you can buy this in big jugs, or you can use boullion cubes. But it is more fun to make your own. I keep a giant tupperware in the freezer and I throw all my odds-and-ends into it. The ends of carrots, the weird tough ends of kale that you don?t want to eat, onion skins, garlic tips, the ends of green onions, potato peels, and any veggies that are about to go bad that you don?t want to deal with. When the tupperware fills up (usually takes me like a week or maybe 2), it?s time to make stock! Dump all the frozen bits in your big soup pot, fill the pot up with water, add some salt, soy sauce, olive oil, a whole thing of parsley, an onion cut in quarters, a head of garlic, maybe some tomatoes and mushrooms. Bring to a boil, turn down to low and cover, and simmer for like 45 minutes. Drain, and you?ve got stock! I keep my stock in an enormous jug in the fridge and use it for everything?cooking beans and rice mainly, but it is also the foundation for any soup, and can also be used to thin things, like if you?re like ?crap this spaghetti sauce is too thick,? don?t add water, add stock! etc. (note: too many carrots, and your stock will be grossly sweet, as I recently discovered to my horror)
cooking dark leafy greens
Why do you hate kale?? My life would be but a thin charade without kale to delight me each day! But this is fair, to each his own. Still, there is a possibility you just aren?t cooking it right? Maybe??? Here is how I do it:
chop up the kale, rough chop (I usually do a whole thing of kale at once. If there?s leftovers then great)
put in big pan with like a tablespoon of soy sauce, juice of half a lemon (the lemon helps you digest the kale, somehow, but mainly it tastes good), splash of balsamic, squirt of rooster sauce, dollop of olive oil
then cook until JUST BARELY tender, like it?s still bright green.
Tastes so good! Do you really not like it? Okay if not, maybe try collards? I cook them a bit differently, I go southern style?chop them up, put in pan with some veggie stock, salt, pepper, and a lot of rice vinegar. Delicious!
Simple Meal Ideas
- burritos with your homemade beans, non-shitty brown rice, and a big salad
- tempeh chili with the rest of the beans once you?re sick of them
- spaghetti and kale and garlic bread
- spicy lentils (look up recipe; they are different from other beans) with braised cauliflower (cauliflower cooked in big pan with cilantro, curry powder, and tons of lime juice, until just tender), rice, and yogurt
- blackened tempeh (from Veganomicon (see below), you will die it?s so good), potatoes, green beans, maybe some sort of squash with onions and tomatoes? I hate squash
- soup, salad, bread (with your veggie stock, experiment with soup-making! Soups are awesome)
- peanut noodle bowl (peanut sauce (peanut butter, soy sauce, rice vinegar, sesame oil, green onion, garlic, cilantro, lime juice, rooster sauce, brown sugar), noodles, marinated veggies just barely cooked in a big pot or wok)
- in spring and summer, I like to make big pastas with veggies?I marinate asparagus, mushrooms, tomatoes, bell pepper, whatever else you can get ahold of, in: olive oil, balsamic, minced garlic, dash of soy sauce, then very lightly stir-fry or roast them until just barely tender. Put into big bowl with noodles, tons of chopped parsley, and nutritional yeast or grated parmesan. So good!!
- in general I eat a lot of roasted veggies. Beets, carrots, potatoes, fennel, mushrooms, green beans, yams, in various combinations, put them in a little oil and salt and balsamic, and roast. Delightful
- sandwiches! avocado, sprouts, cucumber, bell pepper, pickles, vegenaise/mustard/cheese if you want. With chips and salsa, why not?
- crazy pasta: chop up a ton of almonds, a ton of kalamata olives, a whole bag or jar of sundried tomatoes, a whole thing of basil, a can of artichoke hearts, and sautee it all for a minute in some oil and garlic, then put over spiral pasta. What? It?s so good! Eat with chard on the side or a salad!
- if we have been having unhealthy times (family reunion with velveeta, e.g.) we sometimes come home and make what we call Plate Of Veggies, to recuperate. It?s kind of boring but can taste amazing if you?ve been eating like shit for awhile: mashed sweet potatoes or yams, green beans, kale, and yellow squash sauteed with onion and canned tomatoes. I don?t like squash but somehow it seems inextricable from the rest of this meal. (green beans: pick off the tips, then put in a big pan with a tiny bit of water and a bit of olive oil; put a lid on it; steam until BARELY tender, then add some butter and salt, WHOAAA)
- straight-up lasagna
Eat a handful of nuts every day, just do it
One Other Thing To Think About
I do not do this every day, but I really would like to. Sometimes I get in the zone of doing it every day and I feel awesome. And that thing is: SMOOTHIES, or what my dad calls POWER DRINKS. This is a really good way to get a health blast and eat some of the things you maybe don?t feel like actually eating (for me: flax). I make a huge thing of power drink and then keep it in a big jar in the fridge, and drink a glass of it a day (diluted with water or juice because it usually thickens as it sets, which is great because it lasts longer that way) until it?s gone. Here?s what I put in a power drink. Remember, this is meant to be a health blast, not a milkshake. But still, it usually actually tastes pretty good:
- banana
- other fruit on hand (half an apple; blueberries; gross cantaloupe; whatever you?ve got)
- couple spoons of plain yogurt
- big dump of ground flaxseed meal
- juice of entire lime
- couple spoons of peanut butter
- couple leaves of raw kale (here is how to get your kale without tasting it!)
- carrot
- beet
- juice enough to make it thin enough to drink
- optional: garlic clove; parsley; protein powder
- Hot Tip: I have a big tupperware in the freezer where I put fruit odds and ends?fruit that?s about to go bad, or like if I buy a cantaloupe I chop it up and put it in there, etc. This way you?ve got frozen fruit, which makes the smoothie more like a cold slushy treat. Also having a place to put stuff that?s about to go bad, so you don?t waste it, is awesome. All hail freezer technology!
Okay, and finally, get a couple of good cookbooks and just set yourself the task of making something out of them at least twice a week until you develop a stable of 5-10 recipes you know you enjoy and can make.
Cookbooks I Have Loved
I don?t use cookbooks that often, but here are a couple life-changers:
The Hot Knives: Salad Daze UrHo friends and all-around great guys, I know these dudes personally and can vouch for every food item I have ever tasted from their hands. They have also won some sort of California-wide grilled cheese competition. This cookbook has so many really weird amazing recipes and is all vegetarian. Written in their charming personal voices; absolutely stunning food photography! A bit on the elaborate/fancy side but that can be so fun!
Veganomicon! Can?t say enough good things about this cookbook. Here is the everyday, non-elaborate companion to the Hot Knives one. It has recipes ranging from really involved to incredibly simple; it has an informational section in the beginning that tells you what stuff is (like, tempeh vs. tofu), what?s the point, where to get stuff, etc.; and it?s written in a really comforting colloquial tone that I appreciate?NON FANCY. I got this book at a time when I was so sick of everything I was cooking and it really changed my whole vibe, and introduced several new staples. The blackened tempeh in here is not to be believed. Baja Surf Tacos! Also they have this crazy corn casserole that is so good I gave it to my friend who eats nothing but KFC and he loved it so much he ate it with his hands.
I?d start here, and work outwards. Find what you like, what works for your lifestyle. Don?t try to bite off more than you can chew (LOL)?don?t, like, suddenly decide you?re going to make enormous meals at home 3 times a day if that?s not how you have traditionally rolled. Start small. Make one thing, see how it feels/tastes. Make another thing. Experiment with ingredients and leafy greens and whatever else. Read these books I have recommended. Think about what you like and how to accomplish it.
A lot of it is really about changing your ?tude. A lot of people don?t cook very much, anymore, and it is a learned lifestyle you can get into if you want to. But it takes thought and effort. If you?re not accustomed to cooking regularly it can seem like a drag?so you have to be mindful and change your outlook. I find it incredibly comforting and grounding, cooking in my kitchen most nights. It gives me a lot of comfort and joy to see all my jars of nuts and grains lined up in the cupboard; to know I can whip up a weird soup out of stuff in my house; to have the confidence to experiment with recipes. My freezer is full of food I made, just waiting for me to thaw it out and eat it! These things feel good, to me. Even the increased labor of the kind of shopping that involves filling up your own jars, etc., I really enjoy. It?s like, actually spending time during every day, caring for your body and thinking about the things you spend your money on/the things you eat. I have come to appreciate this very much. I really like having a busy day and then just putting on a podcast and spending 45 minutes in the kitchen, having quiet time, chopping and mincing and stirring and sniffing things and making decisions about the meal I?m preparing. For me it can be very meditative and peaceful and then so satisfying when you?ve finally turned all these weird raw materials into a beautiful plate of food. And having the routine of eating dinner at home can be really wonderful. I hang out in my sunny kitchen, cooking, and then my old man and I sit down at the table with napkins and wine and everything, and we eat and talk and hang out, and then I go play online scrabble while he does the dishes. It?s fucking awesome.
Good luck! We should recipe-share in the comments, I know everyone out there has their own cool food items they make. Every time I go to Freddy?s house she makes something I literally can?t believe I?m eating, maybe she can weigh in. I know so many good cooks! Also follow-up questions are always welcome.
HUZZAH TO US ALL
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Cheaper cell phones with better signal quality: World's most powerful nanoscale microwave oscillators developed
ScienceDaily (June 26, 2012) ? A team of UCLA researchers has created the most powerful high-performance nanoscale microwave oscillators in the world, a development that could lead to cheaper, more energy-efficient mobile communication devices that deliver much better signal quality.
Today's cell phones, WiFi-enabled tablets and other electronic gadgets all use microwave oscillators, tiny devices that generate the electrical signals used in communications. In a cell phone, for example, the transmitter and receiver circuits contain oscillators that produce radio-frequency signals, which are then converted by the phone's antenna into incoming and outgoing electromagnetic waves.
Current oscillators are silicon-based and use the charge of an electron to create microwaves. The UCLA-developed oscillators, however, utilize the spin of an electron, as in the case of magnetism, and carry several orders-of-magnitude advantages over the oscillators commonly in use today.
UCLA's electron spin-based oscillators grew out of research at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). This research focused on STT-RAM, or spin-transfer torque magnetoresistive random access memory, which has great potential over other types of memory in terms of both speed and power efficiency.
"We realized that the layered nanoscale structures that make STT-RAM such a great candidate for memory could also be developed for microwave oscillators for communications," said principal investigator and research co-author Kang L. Wang, UCLA Engineering's Raytheon Professor of Electrical Engineering and director of the Western Institute of Nanoelectronics (WIN).
The structures, called spin-transfer nano-oscillators, or STNOs, are composed of two distinct magnetic layers. One layer has a fixed magnetic polar direction, while the other layer's magnetic direction can be manipulated to gyrate by passing an electric current through it. This allows the structure to produce very precise oscillating microwaves.
"Previously, there had been no demonstration of a spin-transfer oscillator with sufficiently high output power and simultaneously good signal quality, which are the two main metrics of an oscillator -- hence preventing practical applications," said co-author Pedram Khalili, project manager for the UCLA-DARPA research programs in STT-RAM and non-volatile logic. "We have realized both these requirements in a single structure."
The SNTO was tested to show a record-high output power of close to 1 micro-watt, with a record narrow signal linewidth of 25 megahertz. Output power refers to the strength of the signal, and 1 micro-watt is the desired level for STNOs to be practical for applications. Also, a narrow signal linewidth corresponds to a higher quality signal at a given frequency. This means less noise and interference, for a cleaner voice and video signal. It also means more users can be accommodated onto a given frequency band.
In addition, the new nanoscale system is about 10,000-times smaller than the silicon-based oscillators used today. The nano-oscillators can easily be incorporated into existing integrated circuits (computer chips), as they are compatible with current design and manufacturing standards in the computer and electronic device industries. And the oscillators can be used in both analog (voice) and digital (data) communications, which means smart phones could take full advantage of them.
"For the past decade, we have been working to realize a new paradigm in nanoelectronics and nanoarchitectures," said Wang, who is also a member of the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA. "This has led to tremendous progress in memory research. And along those same lines, we believe these new STNOs are excellent candidates to succeed today's oscillators."
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- Zhongming Zeng, Pedram Khalili Amiri, Ilya N. Krivorotov, Hui Zhao, Giovanni Finocchio, Jian-Ping Wang, Jordan A. Katine, Yiming Huai, Juergen Langer, Kosmas Galatsis, Kang L. Wang, HongWen Jiang. High-Power Coherent Microwave Emission from Magnetic Tunnel Junction Nano-oscillators with Perpendicular Anisotropy. ACS Nano, 2012; : 120611105915006 DOI: 10.1021/nn301222v
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012
'Wild Things' author spoke of desire to kill Bush
By Kurt Schlosser
In one of his final interviews, celebrated children's book author Maurice Sendak said he fantasized about killing former President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
The "Where the Wild Things Are" author and illustrator, who died on May 8 at age 83, spoke with Gary Groth for an interview in The Comics Journal. A preview of the interview was published last month.
The famously cranky Sendak?spoke at length about his comics career,?his life and times, and blowing up the president.
"Bush was president, I thought, 'Be brave. Tie a bomb to your shirt. Insist on going to the White House,'" Sendak told Groth. "And I wanna have a big hug with the vice president, definitely. And his wife, and the president, and his wife, and anybody else that can fit into the love hug.
"And then we?ll blow ourselves up, and I?d be a hero," Sendak said. "To hell with the kiddie books. He killed Bush. He killed the vice president. Oh my God. ... It would have been a very brave and wonderful thing. But I didn?t do it; I didn?t do it."
Eric Reynolds, associate publisher at Fantagraphics Books, where Groth is founder and president, said Tuesday that they've seen quite a bit of outrage on Twitter and a few?conservative blogs. "I saw a tweet just a few minutes ago that said, 'I wish I'd read and collected Sendak's books as a kid so I could burn them now.'"
Sendak certainly never shied from expressing his outrage at numerous things. In an interview with The Guardian last fall, he railed against everything from e-books to the American political right to Gwyneth Paltrow.
"Anyone who has watched Sendak's infamous interview on the 'Colbert Report' (or read his books, for that matter), should recognize that not only was he cranky, he had a razor-sharp wit and a very dark sense of humor," Reynolds said. "He was 83 years old when he gave this interview [to Groth]. He was at the point in his life where he clearly didn't give a damn about propriety; he could speak his mind and clearly enjoyed provocation. I see these comments as part and parcel of his personality, not as a legitimate, actionable, treasonous threat."
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Going for Broke: 5 Experiments That Went Out in a Blaze of Glory
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Burning up, blowing up or crash-landing is usually considered a bad thing for a space mission. But some of the most successful missions have ended when scientists deliberately steered them to their demise. For some spacecraft, such destruction was always part of the plan. Others had simply achieved their goals, budget outlays had run their course, the time had come to wind them down, and researchers realized that they had nothing left to lose by sending the probes on one last daredevil plunge.
View a slide show of five experiments pushed to the limits?and beyond.
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Why do fat cells get fat? New suspect ID'd
Monday, June 25, 2012
As the world fights obesity at the human level, scientists at the University of Michigan and their colleagues have made a surprising finding at the microscopic level that could help fuel that fight.
Their work helps explain why fat-storing cells get fatter, and burn fat slower, as obesity sets in. If their findings from mice can be shown to apply to humans, they may provide a new target for obesity-fighting drugs.
By studying the tiny signals that fat-storing cells send to one another, the team has shown a crucial and previously unknown role for a molecule called Sfrp5.
The results, which appear online today and will be in the July issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, surprised them.
In a series of experiments, the team showed that Sfrp5 influences a signaling pathway known as WNT to stimulate fat cells ? called adipocytes ? to grow larger and to suppress the rate at which fat is burned in the mitochondria inside them.
By stopping cells from making Sfrp5, they were able to make mice that didn't get as fat as quickly because their adipocytes didn't grow large ? even when the mice were fed a high-fat diet. They even showed the impact when transplanting fat from Sfrp5?deficient mice into other mice.
The research was performed with National Institutes of Health funding in the U-M Medical School laboratory of Ormond MacDougald, Ph.D., the Faulkner Professor in the Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, a professor of internal medicine and a member of U-M's Brehm Center for Diabetes Research.
Working with postdoctoral fellow and first author Hiroyuki Mori, Ph.D., and colleagues, MacDougald says the team built on its previous findings about the importance of WNT signaling in fat cell development.
"WNT signaling plays a crucial role in regulating, and inhibiting, white fat cell growth and the recruitment of new cells to store fat," he explains. "But it appears that in obesity, Sfrp5 can interfere with that signaling, and may create a feedback loop that keeps stimulating production of more of itself."
He notes that the new results contradict previous work published by another group, which found essentially the opposite role for Sfrp5. A commentary accompanying the new U-M paper, by scientists from Denmark, notes the strong evidence behind the new findings and emphasizes the importance of further research on the topic.
MacDougald and his team zeroed in on Sfrp5 after years of studying WNT signaling between adipocytes. They and other teams had already seen that the amounts of Sfrp5 produced within fat tissue were higher in obese animals.
They were able to breed mice that could not make the molecule, and expected to see that these mice resisted obesity because they couldn't convert more cells into adipocytes to store excess fat from their high-fat diet.
But instead, they found that the mice without Sfrp5 did have just as many fat cells as other mice -- but that these cells didn't accumulate fat and grow bigger. As a result, the mice didn't get fat, no matter how rich their diet.
Looking more closely at Sfrp5-deficient mice, they saw a surge of activity in expression of genes related to mitochondria ? the furnaces inside cells that burn fat or other fuel to power cell activity. It was as if the furnaces had been stoked when Sfrp5 wasn't present, so fat could be burned at a higher rate than normal.
"From our results, we believe that Sfrp5 is an important moderator of mitochondrial activity, the first time this has been seen for the WNT signaling pathway in adipocytes," says Mori. "This underscores the complexity of WNT signaling."
In essence, MacDougald says, Sfrp5 poses as a decoy receptor for WNT signals to bind to, keeping them from binding to the receptors on the cell surface that they otherwise would bind to. With WNT signaling reduced, cells store fat and grow larger, and don't burn it as quickly. Then, the cells produce even more Sfrp5, creating the feedback loop that perpetuates the tendency for adipocytes to accumulate lipid.
While pharmaceutical companies are already looking at WNT signaling as a possible target for drugs related to bone formation, the new findings suggest that perhaps the same signaling pathway could be a target for anti-obesity drugs.
But, MacDougald cautions, the findings need to be explored further in both mice and humans. With the obesity epidemic putting hundreds of millions of people at risk of all types of diseases, that research has a special urgency behind it.
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Sandusky lawyers raise appeal issue on timing
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) ? Jerry Sandusky's lawyers said they tried to quit at the start of jury selection in his child sex abuse trial because they weren't given enough time to prepare, raising an argument on the trial's speed that could become the thrust of an appeal.
And one of the jurors who convicted Sandusky of 45 child sex abuse counts said Saturday he was swayed by the "very convincing" testimony of eight accusers who said the retired Penn State assistant football coach molested them for years.
"It's hard to judge character on the stand, because you don't know these kids," juror Joshua Harper told NBC's "Today" show. "But most were very credible ? I would say all."
A day after Sandusky's conviction, his lawyers disclosed Saturday they felt too unprepared to adequately defend him because of how quickly the case was brought to trial. Experts have said the seven months between Sandusky's November arrest and trial was fast-paced by Pennsylvania standards.
"We told the trial court, the Superior Court and the Supreme Court we were not prepared to proceed to trial in June due to numerous issues, and we asked to withdraw from the case for those reasons," attorney Joe Amendola told The Associated Press.
The issues included a scheduling conflict with a defense team member and the need to read a cache of documents produced by a lengthy grand jury investigation. Judge John Cleland denied their request.
The attorneys raised other issues that could be part of the future appeal, saying a mistrial was sought and denied over a repetition at trial of a brief part of a November interview Sandusky had with NBC's Bob Costas.
Jurors in the two-week trial convicted Sandusky of 45 of the 48 counts against him, meaning Sandusky, 68, likely will die in prison.
Harper said the accusers who testified one by one of horrific abuse at Sandusky's hands were each believable, "but then also the fact that we saw this corroborating story between all of them. It was very convincing."
Then Sandusky's impassive face when the verdict was read was confirmation for the jury, he said.
"I looked at him during the reading of the verdict and just the look on his face. No real emotion," he said, "because he knew it was true."
Harper said jurors had some issues with the testimony of Mike McQueary, a then-assistant who said he saw Sandusky assaulting a boy in the Penn State showers in 2001; jurors acquitted Sandusky on one count relating to the incident.
The case is poised to move to an investigation of university officials' role in reporting the charges; two ex-school administrators face trial on charges they didn't properly report McQueary's account of the suspected abuse in 2001.
Almost immediately after the verdict, Penn State President Rodney Erickson signaled an openness to quickly settle potential civil lawsuits arising from the convictions, saying the school "wants to provide a forum where the university can privately, expeditiously and fairly address the victims' concerns and compensate them for claims."
The university recently reported a $1.8 billion endowment. But both sides have reasons not to want to go to court, said Jason Kutulakis, a Harrisburg-area lawyer who specializes in child welfare and juvenile law. Victims are reluctant to get on the stand and have their credibility attacked, he said.
But "Penn State's got so much egg on their face, they probably just want to make it all go away," he said.
For now, the school is facing one lawsuit from an accuser, Travis Weaver, who was not among those represented in the criminal case against Sandusky.
Lawyers for McQueary, who testified against Sandusky, have signaled their intent to sue, along with a lawyer for one accuser, so-called Victim 5.
Jeff Anderson, who represents Weaver, said that he represents more victims of Sandusky's and that he will ask the court to allow him to begin seeking information from Penn State in Weaver's case.
The next step is to determine the extent of Penn State's culpability, lawyers say. In part, that means finding out who in the university's upper ranks knew Sandusky was preying on boys and could have stopped it.
The former Penn State officials facing charges, athletic director Tim Curley and retired vice president Gary Schultz, are charged with lying to a grand jury about what they knew of a 2001 incident in which McQueary said he saw Sandusky assaulting a boy in a football team shower.
A separate investigation by ex-FBI director Louis Freeh, who was hired by Penn State's board of trustees to investigate the university's handling of the Sandusky allegations, is due later this summer.
Hall of Fame coach Joe Paterno was fired for a failure of leadership for not going to the police after McQueary told him about that incident. The scandal also caused the departure of university president Graham Spanier.
Philadelphia-based lawyer Fortunato Perri Jr., who followed the trial, said the jury's dismissal of the charge involving the 2001 shower incident could help Curley and Schultz' defense.
"You've now had a jury kind of preview your case with respect to the credibility of McQueary, and they didn't believe him," Perri said. "Who knows if the next jury would believe him or not believe him?"
But the administrators' attorneys would probably be precluded from introducing the acquittal evidence at the separate trial, Perri said.
Sandusky's sentencing is expected to occur in about three months; an exact date hasn't been set. Because of the severity of the charges and mandatory minimum sentences, he faces an effective life sentence.
Until his next court date, Sandusky is one of 272 inmates at the Centre County Correctional Facility, seven miles from the Penn State campus. He was kept under watch overnight and is allowed access to some personal items including a prayer book, and can get visits from family, friends and attorneys.
Rominger said he planned to visit him on Sunday.
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Associated Press writer Marc Levy in Harrisburg, Pa., contributed to this report.
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Monday, June 25, 2012
Anti-Cancer Diet Made her Beat Breast Cancer | TopNews United ...
Determination to recover from breast cancer made this woman decide to do all the stuff on her own. Vicky Sewart was diagnosed with the cancer some four years ago, and had to undergo an operation in which one of her breasts was removed with lymph node.
Next stage after that gruesome surgical procedure was to start a combination of after-surgery processes. It included chemotherapy and radiotherapy. In both the procedures, a chemical had to be used named as Tamoxifen, which will keep estrogen production to minimum level.
Sewart knew that she did not want to witness the side effects of Tamoxifen, and told her doctors that she will not take it, and will replace it with her specially designed anti-cancer diet. Since then, she made sure that she does every bit of work on her own.
From cleaning utensils to cleaning home and making food, everything was being done by her. While performing all these tasks, she made sure that she does not use anything synthetic that can harm her.
She erased dairy products from her diet, and swapped them with organic food, like strawberries and Indian spices and did not forget to perform moderate exercises. Her anti-cancer diet has made her to register triumph against cancer.
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Sunday, June 24, 2012
Turkey vows action against Syria for downing jet
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ? Turkey will take retaliatory steps against Syria for the downing of one of its military jets, President Abdullah Gul said Saturday, even as he suggested that the aircraft may have violated Syrian airspace.
It was not clear if Gul was suggesting military retaliation, increased sanctions against Syria or other possible steps, including demands for an apology, and his aide would not comment on his words. But Faruk Celik, Turkey's Labor and Social Security Minister, said Turkey would retaliate "either in the diplomatic field or give other types of response."
"Even if we assume that there was a violation of Syria's airspace ? though the situation is still not clear ? the Syrian response cannot be to bring down the plane," Celik told reporters.
"The incident is unacceptable," he said. "Turkey cannot endure it in silence."
Syria said Friday its forces had shot down a Turkish military plane that entered its air space. The plane, an unarmed F-4, went down in the Mediterranean Sea about 8 miles (13 kilometers) from the Syrian town of Latakia, Turkey said.
The incident further escalated tensions between Syria and NATO-member Turkey. The two neighbors used to be allies before the Syrian revolt began in March 2011, but Turkey has become one of the strongest critics of the Syrian regime's brutal response to the country's uprising and is playing host to civilian and military Syrian opposition groups.
In Baghdad, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said the recent defection of a Syrian pilot to Jordan and the downing of the Turkish jet showed that the Syrian conflict could have far-reaching repercussions.
"Our main concern is the spillover of the crisis into neighborhood countries. No country is immune from this spillover," he said. "If this conflict were to turn into all-out sectarian or civil war, Iraq would be affected, Lebanon would be affected, Jordan would not be immune, Turkey could be (affected)."
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said he was "greatly worried" by the incident, urged a thorough investigation and welcomed Turkey's cool-headed reaction in the incident's immediate aftermath.
"Everything must be done to ensure that there won't be any further escalation in the already tense region,' he said in a statement.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davuoglu chaired a meeting Saturday with military officials during which they discussed possible steps and a search and rescue mission for the two missing pilots, the Foreign Ministry said. There was no announcement after the meeting.
Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc insisted the plane was not a fighter jet but a reconnaissance plane and said Turkey was awaiting an explanation from Syria.
The president said Turkey was still trying to establish the exact circumstances of the incident, but said it was "routine" for jets flying in high-speeds to unintentionally violate other countries' air spaces for short periods of time.
"These incidents are routine," Gul said. "They are incidents that are not ill-intentioned and happen because of the speeds (of the jets)."
"Was that the case, or did (the incident) occur in our own air space, these facts will emerge," he said. "No one should have any doubt that whatever (action) is necessary will be taken."
Gul did not elaborate. But Turkey said after an April border shooting incident ? in which two people inside a Turkish refugee camp died? that it would call on its NATO allies to intervene should it feel its security was being threatened.
Syrian coast guards joined Turkish coast guards in their search for the jet's two missing crew members for a second day Saturday, Arinc, the deputy prime minister said. Gul said earlier that some pieces of the wreckage had been found.
Late Friday, Syria's state-run news agency, SANA, said the military had spotted an "unidentified aerial target" flying at low altitude and high speed.
"The Syrian anti-air defenses counteracted with anti-aircraft artillery, hitting it directly," SANA said. "The target turned out to be a Turkish military plane that entered Syrian airspace and was dealt with according to laws observed in such cases."
Syria claimed the jet violated its air space over territorial waters, penetrating about 1 kilometer (0.62 mile). It said Syrian forces only realized that it was a Turkish jet after firing.
On Saturday, the banner headline of Turkish newspaper Hurriyet accused Syria of "Playing with Fire," while Vatan newspaper said Syria would "pay the price" for the attack.
Arinc and other government ministers however, urged restraint.
"We must remain calm and collected," he said. "We must not give premium to any provocative speeches and acts."
The leader of Turkey's main opposition party, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, said the downing of the plane was unacceptable but also urged calm.
"All diplomatic channels must be kept open. We are expecting a coolheaded assessment of the incident," he added.
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Associated Press writers Lara Jakes and Kay Johnson, in Baghdad, and Juergen Baetz, in Berlin, contributed to this report.
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