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An earlier version of this story gave incorrect details for the release of MGM Resorts International's results. The story has been corrected.
CHICAGO (MarketWatch) — Among the companies whose shares could see active trade in Monday's session are Berkshire Hathaway Inc., MGM Resorts International and Dollar Thrifty.
After Friday's closing bell, Berkshire Hathaway BRK.A, -1.28% BRK.B, -1.19% reported its second-quarter profit rose to $3.42 billion from $1.97 billion in the year-ago period.
On Monday, MGM MGM, -3.20% is slated to report second-quarter results after the market close. The casino resort operator is expected to lose 14 cents a share on revenue of $1.58 billion, according to the average estimate of analysts polled by FactSet Research.
Also due after the market close are results from 99 Cents Only Stores NDN, +7.69%. It is set to record a fiscal first-quarter profit of 27 cents a share on revenue of $368.3 million, if Wall Street's best guess is on the mark.
Other firms expected to report quarterly results Monday include Live Nation Entertainment Inc. LYV, -3.43%.


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There have been two places I knew I had to visit this year – one was McLeod Ganj, returning to that special, scenic, soothing reading and tea drinking spot of October 2015. The other was Leh – the unknown land of lakes and Himalayan mountains.
What has become clear upon learning in and leaving both of these beautiful places is that I was surely guided there by my intuition. I was guided there by the Universe. Because magic happened. Healing happened in both places.
Quite quickly into my year trip in India I realised my soppy sappy defensive heart yearns for connection to God through Bhakti yoga – the practice of love. In order to connect, you have to be open hearted, vulnerable and surrender in devotion, and it's fair to say my heart has been carefully wrapped under dense anxiety ridden protective layers for most of my life and it's been an active healing process with 3 years of camel pose (a heart opening asana which I no longer boil with rage through), chanting and changing how I treat and feel about myself with self love and self care, using mantra and song to connect to the sensual, expressive energy of the Goddess Lalita, and by learning how to trust love in all its glorious forms.
I'm a rather impatient overachiever – and it's fair to say I've expected to blast through this spiritual process with the same ruthless charm (I hope) as I attacked half marathons, & job interviews in the Legal world. And I was frustrated every time I would hear that healing, that 'The Path', all unfolds in its own time and when you are ready – at the right time.
But those wiser souls were correct!
My heart was blasted open in my 7.5 weeks in Leh. And I've been taught how to hold my nerve through the magical movement of life (and the nauseating night bus back to Manali) and truly surrender to a new found understanding of love.
I have been healed and held by the beauty of the mountains, the icy cold streams and motionless clear blue lakes. I've been safe at home within myself, and the home of my sweet guesthouse, being force-fed extra meals and chai by the family there. My heart has been warmed by the beauty of new friends, fresh ladakhi bread for breakfast, beside bonfires, beneath stars and through countless rounds of shithead (the ONLY card game for people who enjoy smugness) and, finally, by the tremendous connection with one particular charming Italian man.
There's a quote (I think by the spiritual legend Ram Dass) that if you think you are enlightened, then go live with your parents. (Did that.. and it confirmed my suspicion that I'm not anywhere near….) I say, if you think you've healed your insecurities around love, then go let someone into your heart.
For the first time in a very long time I met someone who mirrored the dreams in my heart. Who spoke about wanting a big family, travel, the adventures, the dogs and the daughters. Who could even imagine me as a mother lying beside my baby girls, caressing me with tiny little hands of love. A man who as a result of his grounding, affection and sensitive presence made me stop hiding under bluster and confront the aching truth of my own heart.
My dreams of love, of a husband and children are something which I've tried very hard for years to be ok with not existing, and I've been finding contentment in life without them (you know, just in case I run out of eggs, use up my funny lines and my relatively pert boobs surrender to gravity, and towards my knees) but which in the face of this most recent heart obliterating process is simply not the truest reflection of my heart's desires.
My heart has been continually shattered since I surrendered to wherever the path of yoga needs to take me. So, what do you do when your heart is raw and thudding achingly with another deepening crack despite a long held fear of love? Well, if you are like me, you cry, you breathe and decide to keep it that way. I have surrendered into the messy pain of the unknown & the sick pain of heartache and goodbye. I have surrendered all of the emotion and snot to the Universe with gratitude that this man even existed, and that he came into my life and heart not once, but twice. That he ignited my truth – the one I've tried to be better and braver than.
That after a long year of self healing, self exploration and self love I give thanks that the Universe answered my prayers and sent me a man, a connection, when I was ready to embrace it. That I spent 3 glorious weeks with someone who inspires me to want even more from this life. To believe I am capable of more – of loving more, and perhaps of coming back to Leh to climb the mountain peaks that I've not felt quite ready for.
After years of dating, of 'singledom', it's been scarier for me to finally meet a man who is emotionally open, to have my dreams reflected back in deep brown kind eyes, whilst accepting that the experience of being seen and held in the arms of an adventurous man always had a ticking temporary timeframe.
So it remains a true test in faith to see what happens in the unknown after saying goodbye to all the love I found in Leh. Perhaps moving on is necessary to create space for something else I need to learn in my last month in India? Perhaps I'm to use this experience to strengthen my resolve and faith in the loving guidance of God before I return home to the sometimes spiritually unsupportive value system in the West? Perhaps it's to continue to develop my faith, manifest more, to wait again, and then finally be ready to welcome into my life truly what my heart beats for. At the right time.
If you trust love and understand its lessons then every type of love changes you – it changes the beat of your heart and I can no longer deny what I want thanks to the light, love and laughter this man shone into my life. Or, of how fearful I have been that it may never come true.
Love, like the mountains he climbs, involves risk and ridges. Perhaps it includes the death of your previous held beliefs, nerve wracking assents, scary knee knocking slides back down to Earth (ungraciously on your arse if you're me) to dust yourself off and start again. Even the odd axe may be required to shatter your illusions, & those precious icy defences you thought kept you safe.
Love isn't linear. It doesn't lead to anything other than a deeper knowing of yourself if you are willing to face yourself – wholly and with acceptance of all that lurks within. Love is about experience and immersing yourself fully even if you know it's temporary and no promises can be made. Because in reality they never can. Life constantly changes and you constantly have to learn to let go and begin again.
Sometimes you are held back from your plans to trek with a slightly dodgy tummy because you are meant to meet an incredible man in your guesthouse a couple of nights later, and then at other times your separate plans mean you have to say another red-faced snotty goodbye (me, not him). Love is knowing either experience is for your own good, your progression and learning about love. About how to embrace love when you have it. To give thanks. And to let it go. And to realise under the thudding pain of your beating heart that it's all love at the end of the day. That the Universe wants me to heal, keep healing, keep loving and that's why after months of self work, She, the Divine Mother, sent me a love, sent me a fellow dreamer, sent me a sign to keep manifesting, keep doing my practice, to keep doing the spiritual work but most importantly how to finally bear the honest truth in my heart. So that I can steer myself in love, to a future of love, because of Her Divine Love.
And that is Bhakti – a complete surrender every and all the time back to the loving guidance and wonder of the love of God. To accept the gifts in this life as they arise, to let them go when the time comes and to believe you are loved unconditionally. And finally, through all of the lessons of this last year, I know I am.
With blessings and love to you. And in particular to those beautiful souls I shared 'home' with in Rai Wa guesthouse, Leh. X

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Mr Meakin, set up his award-winning business because he noticed that although printers were fairly cheap for average people, the replacement inks supplied by the manufacturers were not.
He said: "Epson is getting Amazon and eBay to take down thousands of listings nationally, purely on their say-so that these listings are infringing their Intellectual Property rights.
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"Effectively Epson is saying that if a cartridge functions but isn't made by Epson, then by definition it is infringing their patent.
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The Bass Pro Shops® Crappie Maxx® Fish Basket's unique construction prevents it from sinking, no matter how full it gets. A special glow-in-the-dark top ring shines brightly during the night, making locating the basket and filling the basket quick and easy. With 3/4'' mesh and 14'' x 24'' overall size, the Crappie Maxx Fish Basket is exactly what serious slab hunters need to hold their catch until fillet time. Measures: 14"D x 24"H.


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the mauve is cotton, soy mordant, dipped into acorn-tin-can dye overnight with coins clamped
Saturday, 26 October 2013
for Grace
the mauve is cotton, soy mordant, dipped into acorn-tin-can dye overnight with coins clamped
8 comments:
- grace Forrest~Maestas said...
yes. This One. am still looking
to know why it is so pleasing to
maybe...well...no, still looking.
Thank you for putting it here...
- 27 October 2013 at 00:36
- Nancy said...
The printing, dying...many moons...love this. I see the season of spooky all wrapped up in this one!
- 27 October 2013 at 03:12
- grace Forrest~Maestas said...
i like the layering...like layers
of Understanding about How Stuff
and i like that the dark images
have taken the central space, as
if they are some "code" become
visible for a short time...only.
- 27 October 2013 at 16:01
- Saskia said...
goodevening Grace and Nancy, it's really nice reading your comments, for me they make the piece more accesible, as if I had only understood a very small part of it; your words reveal new layers of meaning
I suddenly get the feeling that evreything I make is an attempt at making sense of a life, my life
maybe the attempt is without answers, futile even, but the trying keeps me going, so I guess I will be making more in the forseeable future
- 28 October 2013 at 19:06
the fact that you say "maybe these efforts are futile" shows a quality of inquiry I admire, but I want to shout "NO!" These things you make are wonderful, whether or not you or I or anyone can speak the reasons why.
This one puts me in mind of Jude's idea about constructing landscapes in three or four disconnected horizontal chunks (even though yours are connected)... an idea that I have not consciously explored yet, but has been tickling my thoughts.
- 31 October 2013 at 23:44
- Saskia said...
hello Dee, okay so not futile and for me they aren't, for me it's all about discovering truths....it sounds big and maybe that's why I say futile, trying not to sound pretentious; and what you say about how horizontal chunks create a landscape, it is the way our eye/brain works isn't it, always trying to make sense of what we 'see', labeling it until a better explanation comes along....do you remember where Jude said this so I can go there as well??
- 1 November 2013 at 10:49
- patricia said...
saskia--i've been away for a while--and come back to be totally thrilled and amazed with the direction of your work. it's really exciting me. yesterday i used pennies for the first time with a can wrap. now i'm looking at your orbs and really resonating. love that you have a press to experiment with--wondering about the green color? dye? thanks for all of this inspiration.
- 1 November 2013 at 11:57
- Saskia said...
hi Patricia, you're welcome;-)
the green's not a dye, but a commercial textile paint I still had; the arrival of the Press has brought countless possibilities, I'm dyeing the fabrics with the home-made dyes and printing straight onto them with both the home-made dyes and commercial textile paints, the range is far greater than I -for the moment- am able to create
- 1 November 2013 at 15:23


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eight year-old brains needs to get back to his real family up in space before being exterminated by the human family he lives with on planet earth. ufo is a playful and poignant fiction about the power of the imagination and the danger of alienation.
genre: supernatural horror
director: gregory king
writer: gregory king
producer: mhairead connor
year: 2014
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A Literary Kind of Day
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
2 comments :
- Jill Norwood said...
Cheryl it sounds like you and I spent our day in the same way! I love the picture and what a wonderful memory for you both. My son Tim is going to a "Live Action Role Playing" event this weekend and we spent yesterday and several other days working on his "Steam-punk" costume. It has been a lot of fun helping him put it together! We are almost done....hope to finish it up tomorrow. Happy Summer! :)
- July 15, 2015 at 2:05 AM
- Leslie Miller said...
It's things like this that help develop character and lets your daughter know how important she is to you. I don't know that I'll be able to read Go Set a Watchman since To Kill a Mockingbird was an all time favorite of mine. I'm probably being a little idealistic, but I can't bear to ruin my image of Harper Lee. I did read all of the Hunger Games books, too.
- July 17, 2015 at 1:02 AM


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Hello Lovelies!
Lately I have been skipping the frozen banana in my smoothies and going with something more crisp and light. I am in heaven this season with the amazing organic apples the local farms have been growing, so I have been using lots of apples lately.
This smoothie is light, blissfully refreshing. Hints of citrus and apples. This is not a meal replacement by any means. It's a perfect pre-drink to your a.m. breakfast.
Actually-I make my smoothies the moment I wake up so I can take them in the shower with me. I know that sounds weird, but sometimes after washing my hair, I take a seat in my shower and relax with a refreshing smoothie in a wine glass with a straw. It makes me feel like I am on vacation on an island somewhere, under a waterfall. It's quite nice and quite relaxing. Try it.
1/2 large cucumber
1/2 cup unsweetened coconut milk
1 medium dessert apple
1/2 Tbsp-1 Tbsp. raw vegan coconut butter
Juice from 1/2 lime
Juice from 1/2 red grapefruit
1/2 tsp. Rose Water
1/2 tsp. Rose Water
Ice cubes
Serves 2
This one is super easy. Just throw it all in the Nutribullet or high speed blender and blend away. Add the ice last. Then re-blend again.
Helpful hint: If you go with organic fruits you will notice a HUGE difference in taste. I have noticed that when I buy organic, the flavor is so alive. If buying organic is too much money, then I recommend that you at least buy organic apples. I'm telling you. Such a world of a difference!
Helpful hint: Even though I have already added ice to my smoothie, I always put an extra 1 or two ice cubes in my glass before pouring the smoothie into it. I like my smoothies extra cold.Helpful hint: You don't have to use rose water extract. You can add in which ever extract you would like whether it be vanilla, lavender, orange, lemon, mint…the possibilities are endless.


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India is the world's largest democracy, and general elections begin later this month. The voting is staggered, and will not finish till mid-May, but the results will be known almost immediately after. India has successfully adopted electronic voting machines, which appear to be quite tamper-proof. The spread out voting allows government personnel to be deployed sequentially to oversee polling places in different states. In general, the election process is conducted efficiently and fairly. Of course, campaign finance involves large sums of money, some of it not transparent, and voters are bribed and sometimes coerced. But ultimately, democracy works in India: the results are trusted and accepted. The table below summarizes the outcome of the 2004 elections, and the predictions of four different opinion polls.
|Polls Parties
|2004 Elections
|The Star News Nielsen Poll(March 22)
|The Times of India Newspaper (March 6)
|DNA Newspaper (Daily News and Analysis) (March 9)
|The CNN-IBN News Channel and Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (Feb 21)
|United Progressive Alliance (Congress and allies) – UPA
|National Democratic Alliance (Bharatiya Janata Party and allies) – NDA
|Left Front
|Bahujan Samaj Party
|Samajwadi Party
Note that national vote shares in opinion polls are not very useful predictors of seats won, because of the large number of regional parties, and the heterogeneity of voter preferences across different states. For example, from 1999 to 2004, the Congress vote share fell, but shifts in pre-election alliances meant that it increased its number of parliamentary seats quite substantially, and was able to displace the BJP-led coalition in forming the national government in New Delhi. The above seats-won predictions are constructed from state-by-state opinion polls, aggregated up to the national level. This time, alliances are not very clear, and the Congress appears to be going it alone somewhat more than in the last election. Overall, the opinion polls suggest that the Congress and allies will capture about as many seats as in 2004. Even if the BJP-led alliance picks up a few seats, the Congress will stand a better chance of forming a post-election coalition with several of the parties that are outside the NDA and UPA.
Indian opinion polls are not necessarily good predictors, because of the fragmentation described above, but also because polls don't necessarily capture voter sentiment very well, and that sentiment can shift quite suddenly. Given slowing growth and consumer price inflation that has been stubbornly high (despite zero wholesale price inflation), it seems surprising that the UPA is polling so well. It may be that the BJP has failed to make significant portions of the electorate comfortable with what it really stands for. Or it could be that the Congress strategy of pumping money into the rural economy has worked in building political support. Another possibility is that the electorate finds the national-level Congress leadership more appealing than any of the alternatives. It could also be that the polls are simply misleading.
If the outcome is similar to what the polls are predicting, we will almost certainly see a government with support from the northern-based Samajwadi and Bahujan Samaj parties, and without the communists. This is probably good for Indian economic reform and growth. India's top economic policymakers have been laying the groundwork for further economic reforms in the financial sector, and they could move forward once the election is decided. There are also tax reforms in the works, and possibilities for improving corporate governance and other aspects of corporate law, especially bankruptcy law. Indian reform has mostly been a series of small steps, but their overall impact has been significant. The BJP-led NDA coalition has a similar reform stance, but it tends to be somewhat hampered by its ideological baggage. Nevertheless, the important suggestion from the opinion polls is that new and untried leaders are unlikely to come to power and upset the "strong consensus for weak reforms" that has kept India's growth reasonably high.
Nirvikar Singh is a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz


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Solar plane makes first flight
Swiss-made Solar Impulse 2 made its first test flight on Monday morning over Switzerland. In 2015, the plane will travel around the world non-stop.
The aircraft spent two hours and 17 minutes in the air above western Switzerland. They plan several other flights over the coming months before the final world tour next year.
The Solar Impulse 2 is a bigger and better version of a single-seat prototype that first took flight five years ago.


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This is kind of a touchy topic. Have you noticed lately a complete gray area with right and wrong? No one seems willing to stand up for what they believe in anymore. I'm not really sure people even know what they believe in. If you are a Christian you are Christ's follower. We follow his example. He didn't just choose to be around godly people, actually he picked some pretty flawed men to be in his posse, BUT that didn't mean that he became like them. We are supposed to stand apart, to be different. We are called as his followers to be salt and light. There should be something so unique and special about our walk that people are drawn to us and ultimately to HIM. This doesn't mean we walk around like religious zealots pushing our views down people's throats. It just means that we do as he taught us in his word and know what we believe as believers. Our lives might be the only Bible others ever read, but do we know what the actual Bible says? It's very clear, very straight to the point...no gray. To read the rest click here.
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TheCoronation Festival
To celebrate the Coronation Festival we put together a full-size collection of wines and spirits found in the original Doll's House collection which was made for Queen Mary in the 1920's.
This full-size Collection Mixed Case at £30,000, took its inspiration from the miniature bottles sourced by Berry Bros. & Rudd in the early 20th century for the famous Queen Mary's Dolls' House, which now sits proudly on display in Windsor Castle.
Built for Queen Mary between 1921 and 1924 by leading architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, 1,200 miniatures of wines, spirits and beer made up the fully stocked cellar. The idea was that the cellar should comprise of genuine samples of the best wines of the day. It included 1906 Veuve Clicquot, 1911 Louis Roederer, 1875 Ch. Lafite, 1888 Ch. Haut Brion, 1899 Ch. Margaux, 1878 Cockburn's, 1896 Taylor's, 1889 Montrachet, 1904 Romanée, 1874 Ch. d'Yquem and 1854 Grande Fine Champagne Cognac.
Simon Berry, Chairman of Berry Bros. & Rudd and current Clerk of the Royal Cellars, says of The Dolls House Collection, 'It was a great honour for my grandfather to be asked to select and prepare the Queen Mary Dolls House cellar. Today's Collection brings together more recent vintages of 12 of the wines and spirits originally included to create a one off case that will demonstrate how only finest was selected for Queen Mary.
The Coronation Festival, hosted by the Royal Warrant Holders Association, took place on 11th-14th July in the Gardens of Buckingham Palace to celebrate the 60th anniversary of The Queen's Coronation.
Berry Bros. & Rudd holds two warrants for H.M. The Queen and H.R.H. The Prince of Wales and will be at The Coronation Festival, continuing to supply the finest wines and spirits to the British Royal Family, as has been the case for 300 years.
The 2013 Dolls House Collection included:
- 1990 Veuve Clicquot, La Grande Dame
- 1985 Louis Roederer, Cristal
- 2000 Ch. Lafite Rothschild, Pauillac
- 1989 Ch.u Haut-Brion, Pessac-Léognan
- 1990 Ch. Margaux, Margaux
- 1855 Taylor Scion
- 2009 Le Montrachet, Domaine de la Romaneé-Conti
- 2009 Romanée-Conti, Domaine de la Romanée-Conti
- 1988 Ch. d'Yquem, Sauternes
- 1948 Grande Champagne, BBR Btld 1976 Frapin
- 1973 Berrys' Own Selection Glenlivet
- Berrys' Own Selection Sloe Gin


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Venturi is the game show with a unique way to win a million.
In the studio are 100 floating white spheres. Hidden in this grid are 10 winning (green) spheres and 6 losing (red) spheres. By correctly answering general knowledge questions, the contestant may reveal the colour of spheres.
The aim is to find as many green spheres as possible, while avoiding the red ones.
How does it work?
Two players begin the game and the audience choose which player is to be the Contestant and which is the Sentinel. The Contestant goes on to answer questions while the Sentinel observes and tries to thwart their progress.
The Sentinel may steal the prize money if the player finds more red spheres than green by the end of the game.
The Contestant starts with 10 points. They are asked 9 general knowledge questions that are worth:
- 10 points if answered without help
- 6 points if given a four-answer multiple choice
- 3 points if given a two-answer multiple choice
- 0 points if incorrectly answered. The Sentinel is also allowed to hide an extra red sphere in the grid
After each question, the contestant chooses spheres from the game grid via a spectacular virtual panel; one sphere for each point earned. In the final segment of the game, the 10 points from the start of the show are used to collect spheres by hand from the studio.
The total number of winning spheres found determines the prize money, up to a maximum of 1 million for all 10 green spheres.
The player can seek help from an audience member of their choice once during the game.
The Sentinel
The 'eliminated' person watches the game unfold. For each question the Contestant answers incorrectly, the Sentinel hides a red sphere in the game grid, thus increasing their chances of stealing the prize.
If the number of red spheres found by the Contestant is greater than the number of green, the Sentinel steals all the prize money. If the number of uncovered red and green spheres are equal, the Contestant wins and the Sentinel is invited back the following week to try and become the Contestant.
Innovative design
Venturi, with its visually striking studio layout and cutting edge graphics never before seen in a TV game show, is a deceptively simple game. Every contestant plays for the prize money, whether they have collected 10 spheres or 90. The game combines strategy, tension, skill and suspense in equal measure.
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Hello 2013, so much for trying to post more often. That's one resolution out the window.
I've wanted to share so many things about my Christmas break (I had 10 days off work) but too much time has passed, too much wine was drunk and now I can't remember all those things. Perhaps editing via wine drinking is a good technique to spare you the boring details. So I'm giving you a summary of some of the happenings of the last month.
The good:
The weather -thank you mother nature – although its been hot its been fantastic to have a non-raining summer. My little part of the world has come to life, the beaches are swarming with happy people, the BBQ's have been getting a work out and its been so much fun.
Thank you santa for my new bike (yes I do sound like a child but my new bike is making me very happy)
The interesting
This year I got my Christmas ham in a somewhat unusual way. No supermarket or butchers shop for me, I met with some fabulous organic pig farmers in the carpark of a train station – don't believe me, check out this photo. Faces were not shown, just bums (sorry Meg). These are people who are passionate about food quality and animal welfare. Their pigs get to spend alot of time foraging for food, eating the excess from their harvests, snuffling aorund in the dirt and simply enjoying life as a pig. Time to maturity depends on many things – the quality of the crops, the natural cycle of growth of the animals, the weather etc. Last year they didn't have any hams for christmas as the pigs did not grow fast enough. Not to worry, they sold easter hams. This year the piggies were huge, much bigger than expected and the butchers had to get creative when cutting up sellable pieces of ham. Thats nature and I love it. The ham was amazing, beautiful texture, great flavour and I feel really lucky to enjoy such a special product.
As we were driving off, the gorgeous M's mini me asked 'was that lady a real cowgirl?'
So now onto the The Bad
Food waste – sorry, close down now if you find this boring. Last week new data indicated that half of the food produced in the world is thrown away! Alot of produce simply doesn't leave the farm because our multi national food companies have forced prices so low, the cost to the farmer is greater to get it to market than to trash it. Just last year on the Sunshine coast hinterland my students visited a strawberry farm whilst in the process of trashing tonnes of strawberries. It was a bumper crop year and the prices were so low that the farmers couldn't make a profit by selling to large markets. I remember one large multinational company selling strawberries last year 3 punnets for $5. Okay so its great that a fruit is so affordable but its not great if its putting farmers out of business. So what can we do – we can try to buy local and buy from farmers markets, roadside stalls or join a co-op that buys straight from farms. Do some searching on the internet, there are so many ways to buy food and cut out the middle man. I got 10kg of grass fed beef delivered to my door over christmas from a mob called Bonnie Beef.These types of sellers are popping up all over the country.
The second bad to this equation is food waste in the home. 2 out of every 6 bags of groceries bought is thrown away. Thats your precious hard earned money going in the bin. So what can you do – try meal planning and maybe doing your shopping list at the same time. Don't impulsively buy a perishable (because its on sale ;-)) without considering if you will actually cook it or eat it. Go through your vegetable crisper and make some meals to use up the vegetables that are starting to look sad. Or juice them or make a big vegetable coup. Or buy some chooks or learn how to compost properly or get a worm farm. I have a wise young friend who collects her childrens half eaten fruit (especially apples – you know what I'm talking about don't you), cut off the bits they haven touched and freezes these scraps to use later. You can stew the apples to put on porridge or through yoghurt etc. I know, this is all boring and hard work but do you want to keep throwing your money away? Think of all the pairs of shoes you could buy if you didn't chuck 2 bags of food away each week/fortnight.
Sorry for being preachy, but its the big stuff that I care about. Do you throw away alot of food or do you have some tricks that you use?


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Turns out, people rarely have "a minute" to be harassed by random college students about their views on the news media. Considering our own reactions in the past when we were stopped by canvassers and their ilk: Sorry, I'm in a rush! Or: Sorry, I'm just a broke college student! Or: *stares at the ground and pretends not to hear* we probably shouldn't have been so surprised.
Filled with a newfound sense of responsibility during one of our first days in Philly, however, we ended up stopping for two canvassers who looked to be about our age. We explained that even though we didn't have any money to give, we understood how hard it could be out here. In response, they immediately took off their charity's vest and asked if they could be interviewed. This simple interaction led to two of our greatest interviews, and even some pointers on the best places to stand.
While canvassers have the added challenge of needing to ask people for money, we have the challenge of asking to stick a video camera in their faces. Considering the fact that it's summertime and our last stop might as well have been built on a swamp (though, sadly, the saying that D.C. used to be a swamp is in fact a myth) the heat was cited more than a handful of times as people's reasoning for not stopping.
Faced with this sweaty reality, we had to choose between interviewing in the shade or having a national monument as the interview's backdrop. Unfortunately for the documentary's aesthetic, the shade usually won out.
In Philly, we had taken to asking people "do you have a minute?" and following up with "we're Northwestern students" as quickly as possible. Well, more like, "WE'RENORTHWESTERNSTUDENTS."
Sammi also intentionally sipped from a Northwestern water bottle the entire time. Maybe people just really like purple or maybe our school's re-branding efforts have been more successful than previously assumed, but the water bottle often meant the difference between asking to hear more and pretending that they hadn't heard us.
However, we didn't get nearly as many "yesses" until we dragged a friend we were staying with out to help us do man-on-the-street interviews.
Her strategy? Instead of, "do you have a minute?" she yelled "do you want to be interviewed for a documentary?!"
Apparently, when phrased as a Cool Exciting Thing You Get to be a Part of and Aren't You Lucky We Asked, people aren't so unwilling, after all.


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Fox Closing In on Agreement With Charter
Fox Networks Group is moving towards a deal with Charter Communications, according to FNG President and COO Randy Freer.
Fox began warning Charter subscribers that they could lose the Fox broadcast network, FX, National Geographic and Fox regional sports networks two weeks ago because their distribution deal was expiring.
After the deadline, a series of extensions have been agreed to and in the past few days Fox has stopped running ads urging viewers to seek alternatives to Charter.
"We're working out the issues," Freer said.
One of those issues involved Fox News Channel, which sued Charter because after acquiring Time Warner Cable, Charter began paying TWC's lower affiliate fees in Charter markets.
Settling that suit may be part of the agreement.
Fox News is on a separate contract from Fox Networks Group, even though both are part of 21st Century Fox.
"We go to market as one company," Freer said.
Fox News' affiliate relations were consolidated into FNG's distribution team last year.
Freer did not say when an agreement would be finalized, noting that big, long-term agreements are extremely complex.


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by Dan Gonzalez
This is the second part of my focus on the Rosslyn-Ballston (R-B) corridor as an oasis of prosperity and vibrance in the Washington region. Served by five Metro stops within four miles, the corridor continues to attract new tenants, buyers, and developers in the face the deepest recession since the Great Depression.
The reasons for the corridor's success: thousands of jobs concentrated around endpoints Ballston and Rosslyn, high population density around Metro stops, and a variety of restaurants, bars, and retail to service residents and workers. John Shooshan of the Shooshan Company was quoted as saying, "We're just blessed to be in the right place, even at the wrong time." The Shooshan Company is responsible for several large residential and commercial projects in the corridor.
The R-B Corridor was one of the first areas in the Washington, DC region to see residential sales bounce back after the 2008 crash. The health of the residential market is credited with fostering commercial successes, too (discussed in my previous blog post).
The 3.3-mile corridor traverses the high-rises along the Potomac River in Rosslyn; through Courthouse; to "cool" Clarendon; to Virginia Square, with its branch campus of George Mason University; and finally to Ballston, with high-rise offices, hotels and residences -- and also a hub for science and technology.
"We just consistently have new development in what we call urban villages," said Terry Holzheimer, Arlington County's director of economic development, recalling that R-B was a "decaying urban corridor in the 1970s."
Projections are that the Rosslyn-Ballston corridor will continue to be one of the most desirable residential and commercial markets in the DC region. It has prospered during the worst recession in decades, and should continue to do so, as demand and supply should be in balance for the next several years.
Sunday, April 8, 2012
The Rosslyn-Ballston Corridor, Part II: A Vibrant, Mixed-Use Oasis in the Washington DC Area
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Botnets target the enterprise warn experts
Versatile and increasingly vicious bots will cause enterprises a lot of grief in 2005, security experts say.
Deborah Hale knows firsthand how bots can bring an enterprise to its knees.
A computer security specialist for Sioux City, Iowa-based BCP Enterprise Inc., she had a nasty run-in with bots in September and spent three weeks trying to help one of her clients flush them out.
"The organization has 40 locations … approximately 60 servers and approximately 3,000 workstations,"
They shut the network down, investigated and slowly brought locations back online. The attack resumed, and the Norton antivirus definitions weren't updating. It turns out half the workstations and some of the servers were infected with W32.Gaobot. Infected machines were cleaned and the definition files updated. Then they were hit again, and Norton wasn't detecting it as W32.Gaobot. They later learned two different executable files were at work.
It's an experience more enterprises are certain to suffer in the coming year, security experts predict.
You heard a lot about zombie PC armies this year. But it's the bots that actually take control of the machines, using them to unleash spam, denial-of-service attacks and other deeds. The zombie PC army, or botnet, is typically associated with home computers, but they spread so rapidly experts predict more enterprises will be affected.
"Since botnets are built with open source code, the sheer number is extremely large," said Mikko Hypponen, director of AV research for Finish security firm F-Secure Corp. "With a typical worm or virus you may see 10 variants in a month. With bots you can see 600 variants in a month."
Or, said Mike Murray, director of vulnerability and exposure research for San Francisco-based nCircle: "Where there are 10 variations of a worm in a month, there are 10 variations in a day for bots."
Because they spread so quickly, most antivirus software can't keep up, prompting handlers at the Internet Storm Center to focus on them aggressively.
"One reason we focus on botnets so much is because it's very hard to defend against them," said Johannes Ullrich, CTO of the Internet Storm Center. "They're very flexible, very quiet and antivirus software has a very hard time counting them and keeping up with all the variations."
Enterprises are a target because there's a lot of money to be made, Ullrich said. "A couple years ago bots came from kids trying to knock each other off. They had a game called Bot Jousting, where the winner was the one who could go the longest without their computer being knocked down. Now it's a big business. Some corporations hire people to launch bots that can help knock down the Web sites of their competitors."
New York-based e-mail security firm MessageLabs noted the scope of the problem in its MessageLabs report detailing malicious botnet activity in October. The company scanned 1.9 billion e-mails for spam, finding it 76.8% of the time. During the same period, the company scanned more than 2.3 billion e-mails for viruses, Trojans and other malicious content, finding more than 71 million sinister programs.
So what's an IT administrator to do?
"It's all about defense-in-depth," Murray said. "You need your antivirus, your firewall, intrusion detection and you need to apply patches the moment you hear about them."
All agreed antivirus companies must also update their products to meet the growing threat.
"Get to know your computer and your network intimately," Hale said. "Know when something just doesn't look or feel right. I am amazed how many small business and home computer users have no idea what software is installed on their computer. Things like bots, keyloggers, downloaders, viruses [and] Trojans go undetected for days, even weeks."


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Monday, September 18, 2006
"No Facts, No Manners, No Service" --MEC
You have heard about our boys and girls in Iraq at "checkpoints" randomly shooting at cars at night and that some of those contained mothers and relative heading for hospitals for imminent births.
Now the UK Independent has data showing that through the incompetence of Bush, Cheney and their bloody-handed contractors, many babies and children are dying because of unsafe conditions in hospitals and lack of the most basic and even cheap medical products and drugs. No baby-size oxygen masks, no power to run the oxygen meter, no pure water for powdered infant formula, no prosthetics for children losing limbs in the Iraq war, etc. You have to see it to believe it!
Just like the Vietnam war, now we have BABY KILLERS!
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Marina BadenesInstituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), Oeiras, Portugal Referring article:Deletion of iRhom2 protects against diet-induced obesity by increasing thermogenesis
Patricia Brubaker, Andrew BiancolinUniversity of Toronto, ON, Canada Referring article:The core clock gene, Bmal1, and its downstream target, the SNARE regulatory protein secretagogin, are necessary for circadian secretion of glucagon-like peptide-1
Bochra Tourki, Vasundhara Kain, Ganesh HaladeThe University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, USA Referring article:Lack of resolution sensor drives age-related cardiometabolic and cardiorenal defects and impedes inflammation-resolution in heart failure
Sophie TrefelyDrexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA Referring article:Subcellular metabolic pathway kinetics are revealed by correcting for artifactual post harvest metabolism
Michael C. GoldingTexas A&M University, USA Referring article:Programmed increases in LXRα induced by paternal alcohol use enhance offspring metabolic adaptation to high-fat diet induced obesity
Isa Kolbe, Henrik OsterUniversity of Lübeck, Germany Referring article:Circadian clock network desynchrony promotes weight gain and alters glucose homeostasis in mice
Mostafa Bakhti, Katharina ScheibnerHelmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany Referring article:Establishment of a high-resolution 3D modeling system for studying pancreatic epithelial cell biology in vitro
Astrid Johannesson HjelholtAarhus University Hospital, Denmark Referring article:Temporal patterns of lipolytic regulators in adipose tissue after acute growth hormone exposure in human subjects: A randomized controlled crossover trial
Emilio MottilloWayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA Referring article:Genetically-encoded sensors to detect fatty acid production and trafficking
Christopher Auger, Marc JeschkeSunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Referring article:Metformin prevents the pathological browning of subcutaneous white adipose tissue
Jacqueline BeaudryLunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Referring article:Physiological roles of the GIP receptor in murine brown adipose tissue
Daniela CotaINSERM, Bordeaux, France Referring article:mTORC1 and CB1 receptor signaling regulate excitatory glutamatergic inputs onto the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus in response to energy availability
Brandon L Roberts, Baylin BennettOregon National Primate Research Center, Beaverton, Oregon, USA Referring article:Reelin is modulated by diet-induced obesity and has direct actions on arcuate proopiomelanocortin neurons
Ildiko Kasza, Caroline AlexanderUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison, United States Referring article:Evaporative cooling provides a major metabolic energy sink
Konstantin Kandror, Alla Grishok, Nava ZaarurBoston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA Referring article:ATGL-1 mediates the effect of dietary restriction and the insulin/IGF-1 signaling pathway on longevity in C. elegans
Anne White, Jonathan Wray, Erika HarnoUniversity of Manchester, UK Referring article:Global transcriptomic analysis of the arcuate nucleus following chronic glucocorticoid treatment
Mary-Ellen Harper, Rajaa Sebaa, Michael DowneyUniversity of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada Referring article:SIRT3 controls brown fat thermogenesis by deacetylation regulation of pathways upstream of UCP1
Amna KhamisUniversity of Lille, CNRS, Institute Pasteur de Lille, Lille, France Referring article:Laser capture microdissection of human pancreatic islets reveals novel eQTLs associated with type 2 diabetes
Anastasia Kralli, Yoshitake ChoThe Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA Referring article:Perm1 regulates CaMKII activation and shapes skeletal muscle responses to endurance exercise training
Jaqueline BeaudryLunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Referring article:The brown adipose tissue glucagon receptor is functional but not essential for control of energy homeostasis in mice
Rami Aqeilan, Rania AkkawiHebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel Referring article:WWOX somatic ablation in skeletal muscles alters glucose metabolism
Randy J. Seeley, Henriette Frikke-SchmidtDepartment of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA Referring article:GDF15 acts synergistically with liraglutide but is not necessary for the weight loss induced by bariatric surgery in mice
Kristina Wardelmann, André KleinriddersGerman Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Germany Referring article:Insulin action in the brain regulates mitochondrial stress responses and reduces diet-induced weight gain
Gretchen WolffGerman Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany Referring article:Diet-dependent function of the extracellular matrix proteoglycan Lumican in obesity and glucose homeostasis
Marjoleine F. BroekemaUniversity Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands Referring article:Natural helix 9 mutants of PPARγ differently affect its transcriptional activity
Elizabeth M. RheaUniversity of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA Referring article:Ghrelin transport across the blood–brain barrier can occur independently of the growth hormone secretagogue receptor
Mauro Costa, Raghav PandeyThe Jackson Laboratory, USA Referring article:Metformin intervention prevents cardiac dysfunction in a murine model of adult congenital heart disease
Brandon PanaroLunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Referring article:Fibroblast activation protein is dispensable for control of glucose homeostasis and body weight in mice
Rosalía Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Cristina MiralpeixUniversitat Internacional de Catalunya, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Spain Referring article:CPT1C in the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus is necessary for brown fat thermogenesis activation in obesity
Tadahiro Kitamura, Takayoshi SugaGunma University, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan Referring article:SGLT1 in pancreatic α cells regulates glucagon secretion in mice, possibly explaining the distinct effects of SGLT2 inhibitors on plasma glucagon levels
Abdelfattah El OuaamariRobert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, USA Referring article:TRPV1 neurons regulate β-cell function in a sex-dependent manner
Raffaele Teperino, Lucia Berti, Raffaele GerliniGerman Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany Referring article:Glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity define adipocyte transcriptional programs in human obesity
Florian MerkleUniversity of Cambridge, UK Referring article:Quantitative mass spectrometry for human melanocortin peptides in vitro and in vivo suggests prominent roles for β-MSH and desacetyl α-MSH in energy homeostasis
George Kyriazis, Kathleen SmithSanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, Orlando, FL, USA Referring article:T1R2 receptor-mediated glucose sensing in the upper intestine potentiates glucose absorption through activation of local regulatory pathways
Enrique Saez, Bernard KokThe Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA Referring article:Intestinal bitter taste receptor activation alters hormone secretion and imparts metabolic benefits
Daniel DruckerMt. Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada Referring article:GLP-2 receptor signaling controls circulating bile acid levels but not glucose homeostasis in Gcgr−/− mice and is dispensable for the metabolic benefits ensuing after vertical sleeve gastrectomy
Mark EvansUniversity of Cambridge, UK Referring article:Molecular reductions in glucokinase activity increase counter-regulatory responses to hypoglycemia in mice and humans with diabetes
Jørgen Wojtaszewski, Janne HingstUniversity of Copenhagen, Denmark Referring article:Exercise-induced molecular mechanisms promoting glycogen supercompensation in human skeletal muscle
Jörg Heeren, Alexander FischerUniversity Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany Referring article:The adaptor protein PID1 regulates receptor-dependent endocytosis of postprandial triglyceride-rich lipoproteins
Nathan DentonUniversity of Oxford, UK Referring article:Cartilage oligomeric matrix protein is differentially expressed in human subcutaneous adipose tissue and regulates adipogenesis
Paolo Sassone-CorsiUniversity of California, Irvine, USA Referring article:Human metabolomics reveal daily variations under nutritional challenges specific to serum and skeletal muscle
Susan BurkePennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA Referring article:Pancreatic deletion of the interleukin-1 receptor disrupts whole body glucose homeostasis and promotes islet β-cell de-differentiation
Shin Jae Lee, Wolfgang LanghansETH Zürich, Switzerland Referring article:Loss of dorsomedial hypothalamic GLP-1 signaling reduces BAT thermogenesis and increases adiposity
Karen Nørgaard Nielsen, Zachary Gerhart-HinesNovo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Referring article:NAMPT-mediated NAD+ biosynthesis is indispensable for adipose tissue plasticity and development of obesity
Jacques Behmoaras, Toni OlonaImperial College London, UK Referring article:Epoxygenase inactivation exacerbates diet and aging-associated metabolic dysfunction resulting from impaired adipogenesis
Landon Wood, Darleen SandovalUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA Referring article:Vertical sleeve gastrectomy corrects metabolic perturbations in a low-exercise capacity rat model
Mark Febbraio, Helene KammounBaker Heart & Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia Referring article:Evidence against a role for NLRP3-driven islet inflammation in db/db mice
Philipp Scherer, Yingfeng Deng, Zhao WangUniversity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA Referring article:Adipocyte Xbp1s overexpression drives uridine production and reduces obesity
Merel DefourWageningen University, The Netherlands Referring article:The Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor α is dispensable for cold-induced adipose tissue browning in mice
Sandra HummelHelmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany Referring article:Efficacy of vildagliptin for prevention of postpartum diabetes in women with a recent history of insulin-requiring gestational diabetes: A phase II, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study
Kathleen MountjoyUniversity of Auckland, New Zealand Referring article:Desacetyl-α-melanocyte stimulating hormone and α-melanocyte stimulating hormone are required to regulate energy balance
Bharath Mani, Carlos CastorenaUniversity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA Referring article:Ghrelin mediates exercise endurance and the feeding response post-exercise
Jorge Ruas, Manizheh Izadi, Amanda Petterson-KleinKarolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Referring article:Small molecule PGC-1α1 protein stabilizers induce adipocyte Ucp1 expression and uncoupled mitochondrial respiration
Alessandro di SpiezioUniversity of Lübeck, Germany Referring article:The LepR-mediated leptin transport across brain barriers controls food reward
Tobias FrommeTechnical University of Munich, Germany Referring article:Degradation of brown adipocyte purine nucleotides regulates uncoupling protein 1 activity
Martin HeniUniversity of Tübingen, Germany Referring article:Androgen receptor overexpression in prostate cancer in type 2 diabetes
Jean-Sébastien AnnicotteLille University, France Referring article:Cdkn2a deficiency promotes adipose tissue browning
Reid Bolus, Alyssa HastyVanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA Referring article:Elevating adipose eosinophils in obese mice to physiologically normal levels does not rescue metabolic impairments
Balyssa Bell, Kamal RahmouniUniversity of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, USA Referring article:Differential contribution of POMC and AgRP neurons to the regulation of regional autonomic nerve activity by leptin
Michael Roden, Sofiya GanchevaLeibniz Center for Diabetes Research, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany Referring article:Constant hepatic ATP concentrations during prolonged fasting and absence of effects of Cerbomed Nemos® on parasympathetic tone and hepatic energy metabolism
Michael TarpeyVirginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA Referring article:Skeletal muscle autophagy and mitophagy in endurance-trained runners before and after a high-fat meal
Chun-Xia YiAcademic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Referring article:Deficiency of leptin receptor in myeloid cells disrupts hypothalamic metabolic circuits and causes body weight increase
Roger Cox, Lee MoirMRC Harwell Institute, Harwell Campus, Oxfordshire, UK Referring article:Disruption of the homeodomain transcription factor orthopedia homeobox (Otp) is associated with obesity and anxiety
Luc PellerinUniversité de Lausanne, Switzerland Referring article:AMPK activation caused by reduced liver lactate metabolism protects against hepatic steatosis in MCT1 haploinsufficient mice
Fernando Forato AnhêCardiology Axis of the Québec Heart and Lung Institute, Canada Referring article:A polyphenol-rich cranberry extract reverses insulin resistance and hepatic steatosis independently of body weight loss
Christian Binsch, Hadi Al-HasaniGerman Diabetes Center, Düsseldorf, Germany Referring article:Absence of the kinase S6k1 mimics the effect of chronic endurance exercise on glucose tolerance and muscle oxidative stress
Marc ReitmanNational Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, USA Referring article:Bombesin-like receptor 3 (Brs3) expression in glutamatergic, but not GABAergic, neurons is required for regulation of energy metabolism
Daniel Drucker, Laurie BaggioLunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mt. Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Canada Referring article:The autonomic nervous system and cardiac GLP-1 receptors control heart rate in mice
Morten Lundh, Brice Emanuelli University of Copenhagen, Denmark Referring article:Bidirectional manipulation of gene expression in adipocytes using CRISPRa and siRNA
Tony JourdanNational Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, USA Referring article:Decreasing CB1 receptor signaling in Kupffer cells improves insulin sensitivity in obese mice
Ursula NeumannUniversity of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Referring article:Lipid nanoparticle delivery of glucagon receptor siRNA improves glucose homeostasis in mouse models of diabetes
Joseph TamObesity and Metabolism Laboratory, The Institute for Drug Research, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9112001, Israel Referring article:Peripheral cannabinoid-1 receptor blockade restores hypothalamic leptin signaling
Chun-Xia YiAcademic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Referring article:Dietary sugars, not lipids, drive hypothalamic inflammation
Philipp Schommers, Rudolf WiesnerUniversity of Köln, Germany Referring article:Metformin causes a futile intestinal–hepatic cycle which increases energy expenditure and slows down development of a type 2 diabetes-like state
Jeffrey ZigmanUniversity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA Referring article:The role of ghrelin-responsive mediobasal hypothalamic neurons in mediating feeding responses to fasting
Andrea Rozo, Doris StoffersPerelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA Referring article:Neonatal GLP1R activation limits adult adiposity by durably altering hypothalamic architecture
Lisa NicholasLund University Diabetes Centre, CRC, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden Referring article:Mitochondrial transcription factor B2 is essential for mitochondrial and cellular function in pancreatic β-cells
Colin Flaveny, Ryan WelchSaint Louis University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, USA Referring article:Rev-Erb co-regulates muscle regeneration via tethered interaction with the NF-Y cistrome
Isa Kolbe, Henrik OsterUniversity of Lübeck, Germany Referring article:Hepatic gene therapy rescues high-fat diet responses in circadian Clock mutant mice
Maureen GannonTennessee Valley Health Authority, Nashville, USA Referring article:Opposing effects of prostaglandin E2 receptors EP3 and EP4 on mouse and human β-cell survival and proliferation
Jean-Christophe JonasUniversité catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium Referring article:NNT reverse mode of operation mediates glucose control of mitochondrial NADPH and glutathione redox state in mouse pancreatic β-cells
Min HanHoward Hughes Medical Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA Referring article:Rasal2 deficiency reduces adipogenesis and occurrence of obesity-related disorders
Flaminia FanelliUniversity of Bologna, Italy Referring article:Plasma 2-arachidonoylglycerol is a biomarker of age and menopause related insulin resistance and dyslipidemia in lean but not in obese men and women
Giles YeoUniversity of Cambridge, UK Referring article:Heterogeneity of hypothalamic pro-opiomelanocortin-expressing neurons revealed by single-cell RNA sequencing
Randy J. Seeley, Henriette Frikke-SchmidtUniversity of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, USA Referring article:Weight loss independent changes in adipose tissue macrophage and T cell populations after sleeve gastrectomy in mice
Donald ScottIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA Referring article:DNA methylation alters transcriptional rates of differentially expressed genes and contributes to pathophysiology in mice fed a high fat diet
Jennifer LeeUniversity of Toronto, Canada Referring article:Enteroendocrine-derived glucagon-like peptide-2 controls intestinal amino acid transport
András Frankó University Hospital Tübingen, Germany Referring article:Bezafibrate ameliorates diabetes via reduced steatosis and improved hepatic insulin sensitivity in diabetic TallyHo mice
Emily L. GoldbergYale School of Medicine, Referring article:Carnitine acetyltransferase (CRAT) expression in macrophages is dispensable for nutrient stress sensing and inflammation
Carly Cederquist, Valentina PerissiBoston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA Referring article:Systemic insulin sensitivity is regulated by GPS2 inhibition of AKT ubiquitination and activation in adipose tissue
Charlotte Schmitt, Alexandra GrosfeldSorbonne Universités, Paris, France Referring article:Intestinal invalidation of the glucose transporter GLUT2 delays tissue distribution of glucose and reveals an unexpected role in gut homeostasis
Tamires Zanotto, Mario SaadState University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil Referring article:Blocking iNOS and endoplasmic reticulum stress synergistically improves insulin resistance in mice
Lars Stechemesser, Elmar AignerParacelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria Referring article:Metabolomic profiling identifies potential pathways involved in the interaction of iron homeostasis with glucose metabolism
Cheryl CeroUniversity of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA Referring article:The neuropeptide TLQP-21 opposes obesity via C3aR1-mediated enhancement of adrenergic-induced lipolysis
Mitchell Lazar, Jarrett RemsbergPerelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA Referring article:Deletion of histone deacetylase 3 in adult beta cells improves glucose tolerance via increased insulin secretion
Rana Gupta, Mengle Shao, Chelsea HeplerThe University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, TX, USA Referring article:Fetal development of subcutaneous white adipose tissue is dependent on Zfp423
Qingzhang ZhuThe Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, USA Referring article:Global IP6K1 deletion enhances temperature modulated energy expenditure which reduces carbohydrate and fat induced weight gain
Yossi TamThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Referring article:Targeting the endocannabinoid/CB1 receptor system for treating obesity in Prader–Willi syndrome
Kevin Williams, Jia Sun, Ting Yao, Yong GaoThe University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, TX, USA Referring article:Adiponectin potentiates the acute effects of leptin in arcuate Pomc neurons
Christian Benedict, Jonathan CedernaesUppsala University, Sweden Referring article:Gut microbiota and glucometabolic alterations in response to recurrent partial sleep deprivation in normal-weight young individuals
Mark A. Febbraio, Robert S. Lee-YoungBaker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia Referring article:Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase contributes to the regulation of glucose uptake in skeletal muscle
Ammy M. Santiago, Vanessa H. RouthRutgers University, Newark, USA Referring article:Estrogens modulate ventrolateral ventromedial hypothalamic glucose-inhibited neurons
Anna M. D'souzaUniversity of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Referring article:Suppressing hyperinsulinemia prevents obesity but causes rapid onset of diabetes in leptin-deficient Lepob/ob mice
Gregory MortonUniversity of Washington, Seattle, USA Referring article:Physiological role for leptin in the control of thermal conductance
Sarbani GhoshalThe Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, USA Referring article:TNP [N2-(m-Trifluorobenzyl), N6-(p-nitrobenzyl)purine] ameliorates diet induced obesity and insulin resistance via inhibition of the IP6K1 pathway
Paula MeraColumbia University, New York, USA Referring article:Osteocalcin is necessary and sufficient to maintain muscle mass in older mice
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Stylized on the rural are built cottage about 10 years earlier. Concealed by reed.
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PaulVDV (49032) 2014-05-24 4:40
Hello Aleksander,
Not my favorite kind of weather :) but wonderful capture of the heavy gusts of rain and the lightning flashes!
Perfectly presented in a very good composition.
I hope for you that this storm did not last long.
Best regards, Paul
grigand (20290) 2014-05-24 6:54
Hi Aleksander,
Great capture in difficult situation, very bad weather, rain and storm are good details, perfect exposition, bravo
photographer_sg (6059) 2014-05-24 7:18
Hello Aleksander
amazing capture of the lightning that almost appears unreal. Excellent shot taken under difficult conditions. The framing of the cottage amidst the lush green vegetation is superb.
Thanks for sharing and have a great Sunday.
best regards
Nicou (190036) 2014-05-24 8:42
Fantastiqeu vue la grande classe quel effet de la pluie irageuse et cet éclair dans le ciel, la végétatione t cette cabane de bois, sueprbe.
Bravo et amitié
Royaldevon (65270) 2014-05-24 9:15
Hello Aleksander,
I have to say ... WOW!
This house certainly captures the style of the old buildings and is in a fine setting, the downside is the weather! But, what a capture! It is rare to see anything quite like this!
My warm regards,
Bev :-)
abmdsudi (82738) 2014-05-24 10:39
Hi Aleks
Lovely experience in extreme weather condition like this taken from out of your comfort zone, a dramatic sky indeed giving us an idea of what the weather was like and wherever one looks there's the potential of a great atmospheric shot and a real beauty. This is great, love the dark colours with hint of rain drops and the striking thunderbolt to boost the overall visual effect. You did your very best here with excellent result, Congrats
Best regards
cornejo (61494) 2014-05-24 11:10
Aleksander Witaj very good picture of this town in a storm, very well captured in this interesting image, with good sharpness, nice light, color and good quality. Very good and interesting job well done, congratulations my friend. Thanks for sharing this beautiful work.
Good night and good Sunday.
Best wishes from southern Spain.
Didi (61569) 2014-05-25 8:53
Hi Aleksander
A very good decisive moment
You should show us the exif file :)
Not so simple to catch without a long time exposure
Best regards
mohammad_H (10178) 2014-05-25 21:03
Beautiful landscape with a sense of relief for life, if the thunder, this not peace does distort the
good work
have a nice day
jemaflor (126903) 2014-05-25 23:08
Hi Aleksander,
So nice result with storm nad rain, perfectly managed, congratulations.
ourania (51103) 2014-05-26 6:19
Hello Aleksander,
this is a fine simple composition, a really impressive capture. We get a great description of the cottage and its immediate surroundings, there's an effective sense of depth and space and the framing of the scene in the background is superb. I like very much the natural moody colours that express the atmosphere so well. The capture of the thunder is amazing and adds so much drama. I also like that the rain covers the whole of the frame and is visible against any colour. Congratulations and thank you!
All the best, have a great day,
serp2000 (47063) 2014-05-26 6:30
Hello, Aleksander,
This is one of the most impressive photos of the storm. Excellent exposure, perfect sharpness. I think, it was not so easy way to catch the lightning. Well done! My congratulations!
emka (141020) 2014-05-26 9:27
Cześc Olek, Ta chałupa jak wzieta z Anglii z ta piekna strzecha. Znakomicie udalo Ci sie sfotografowac błyskawice. Gratuluje szybkości (Twojej i aparatu).
W Franadzie rzeczywisci jest wiele ciekawych miejsc do ziedzania, zwłaszcza jak nie trzeba pilnowac grupy :). Jeszcze pokaże. Teraz siedze w Polskim Busie i korzystam z Wifi, zeby podróz (12 godzin z Wiednia) sie nie dłuzyła
Pozdrawiam M.
dta (95936) 2014-05-26 12:08
hello Aleksander ,
A superb capture of this pretty thatched house under the rain and the storm . very well done .
jmdias (93305) 2014-07-16 2:37
fantastic image, well taken and surprising. I liked the special moment you caught. so lucky you are ! perfect details and use of the beautiful house and other elements. congratulations.
Photo Information
- Copyright: Aleksander Gruszecki (Graal) (103040)
- Genre: Places
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2014-05-01
- Categories: Nature, Architecture
- Camera: Nikon D200, Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 AT-X 116 PRO DX AF, Phottix 77mm UV slim
- Photo Version: Original Version
- Date Submitted: 2014-05-24 3:17


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