Wedding: Food & Drink ? Almost Vegan

Our wedding catering was provided by the incredible Natasha Bailey of Eatable Swank. Natasha swooped in to rescue me from my catering conundrum (i.e. having a very hard time finding gluten-free vegan catering in Kansas City!) even though her new business wasn?t even fully set up yet. She basically let me design the menu top to bottom, and came through with the most delicious buffet food I?ve ever had?and our guests agreed. There were NO leftovers!

I am devastated to report, however, that I do not have photos of the vast majority of the food served that night. Our photographer had a medical emergency shortly after the ceremony and had to leave immediately, so we have no photos from dinner, including the toasts and speeches. (Later that evening, a photographer friend of the DJ?s came and snapped some reception photos, but only about an hour?s worth.) I was SO PROUD of the food we served, and everybody ? literally everybody, full-blown carnivores and all ? loved it and gushed about it. I wish with all my heart I had photos of everything to show you, but all I?ve got from the day of are a few shots from before the ceremony and two guests? camera-phone shots of their plates. I do, however, have a few photos from our tasting sessions that I can show you, even though the final dishes may have been slightly different. So, onwards.

100% vegan and gluten-free buffet
? Fresh fruit cups & kebabs with vanilla-mint syrup
? Hummus with olive oil & Arabic spice
? Raw Caesar salad with avocado dressing & Brazilnut parmesan
? Tuscan spaghetti with pesto, white beans, & broccoli
? Thai-style stir-fry with noodles & mixed vegetables
? Indian chickpea curry with roasted cauliflower
? Choice of brown rice or quinoa
? Roasted baby potatoes with garlic & sea salt

Natasha attended to every detail, right down to the recycled, eco-friendly flatware, plates, and bowls.

Fresh fruit cups & kebabs with vanilla-mint syrup
We served these during cocktail hour. Matt and I didn?t even get to have one; sad!

Hummus with olive oil & Arabic spice
Natasha?s hummus was dreamily smooth and exotically spiced. Honestly some of the best hummus I?ve ever had.

The hummus was served with gluten-free rice chips.

Raw Caesar salad with avocado dressing & Brazilnut parmesan
No photo, sadly, but this Caesar salad was delectable. We served it with an optional scoop of olive tapenade on each portion. (Matt and I made all these namecards ourselves, by the way!)

Indian chickpea curry with roasted cauliflower
We served this with a choice of brown rice or quinoa. Even people inexperienced or unfamiliar with Indian food fell in love with this mild, saucy curry.
Tuscan spaghetti with pesto, white beans, & broccoli
Made with gluten-free corn noodles, this pasta with fresh basil pesto was bright-tasting and wonderful.

Thai-style stir-fry with noodles & mixed vegetables
Natasha came up with the perfect complex stir-fry sauce for this delicious mess of noodles and veggies.

Roasted baby potatoes with garlic & sea salt
BEST roasted potatoes Matt and I have ever had, period. The perfect amounts of olive oil, sea salt, and garlic. I can?t even describe how good these were! In fact, this was the first dish the buffet ran out of.

We provided an open bar that evening, with wines by The Vegan Vine.

I?ll conclude with two dinner photos taken by guests, plus one more photo from an earlier tasting session.

Our wedding buffet was everything I wanted it to be, and more. We and our guests all felt it was the best catered food we?d ever eaten. I wish I could eat it all again! A thousand thanks to Eatable Swank for making it all happen.

P.S. I?ll be featuring the cake(s) in a separate post. Just you wait.

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Celebrity Real Estate - Curbed National

Friday, November 30, 2012, by Amy Schellenbaum

Billie Joe Armstrong, frontman of the ever-adolescent punk band Green Day, has listed his Newport Beach, Calif., cottage for $1.895M. The bungalow?which has an honest-to-goodness picket fence?is weirdly adorable for a house owned by a celebrity, especially for a rockstar, especially a rockstar who is prone to on-stage, profanity-infused meltdowns. The Real Estalker has more. [The Real Estalker]

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As of ?12:26 p.m. in Damascus, Syria is no longer on the Internet, reports?Renesys, an International research firm.?

"In the global routing table, all 84 of Syria's IP address blocks have become unreachable, effectively removing the country from the Internet,"?chief technology officer?James Cowie wrote on the?Renesys blog.?

Akamai Technologies, a Web content?distributor,?confirmed the outage, and the Associated Press reports that Syrian activists reached via?satellite?confirmed the unprecedented blackout." Mobile and land?line telephone connections are reportedly intermittent.??

Internet access in Syria has been?occasionally?distributed?during the 20-month citizen insurgency against the country's existing government, led by President Bashar Assad. This, however, is this is the first complete shutdown.?

Cutting off this means of both local and International communication is now standard operation for governments facing civil unrest, as seen in?Libya, Iran and Egypt.?

Egypt's startling?disappearance?from the Internet in January 2011, when Renesys?"observed the virtually simultaneous withdrawal of all routes to Egyptian networks in the Internet's global routing table."?

The Egyptian government cut off virtually all access to the Internet by switching off routers at individual ISPs, a process GigaOm's Stacey Higginbotham?explains, is "made easier by the fact that their were few ISPs to contact." ?

As?Higginbotham points out, "it's unclear how Syria disconnected its citizens.?Some news reports say insurgents are communicating still via satellite phones, but the lost of IP addresses means no IP services can find their way to end users within the country. When a packet destined for a Syrian IP address is sent, it simply can?t find out where it?s supposed to go."

Helen A.S. Popkin goes blah blah blah about privacy and then asks her to join her on Twitter and/or Facebook. Also, Google+.?Because that's how she rolls.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/syria-drops-internet-1C7319908

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Vimeo?s universal app for iOS has been updated to version 3.0 today. The changes focus on the iPhone and include tab-based navigation, a new view called Feed that allows you to browse new videos, and support background uploads while you continue to watch videos in the app. Users can also now share videos using the built-in iOS sharing features.

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Will 'Killing Them Softly' Be a Hit at the Box Office?

From Killing Them Softly to Silver Linings Playbook, get the scoop on what's playing in theaters!

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Mr. President: Pardon the Turkey, Not Industrial Animal Agriculture

This op-ed originally ran on Civil Eats.

In just a few days, Americans will prepare and serve about 45 million turkeys. This bounty is worthy of our thanks, but the conditions in which most of these birds were raised are not. Today, the overwhelming majority of turkeys we eat are produced in ways that endanger our environment and the public?s health ? and it does not have to be this way.

According to a recent report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), 96 percent of turkeys were raised in facilities that produced at least 30,000 birds per year?(PDF).? These industrial operations are a far cry from the average farm of 50 years ago, which raised just 225 birds annually. Turkey production has increased almost seven-fold since then, but the birds now come from 150,000 fewer farms.

Across the United States, industrial farms generate manure ? and lots of it. Last year, 248 million turkeys (PDF) raised in the United States generated more than two million tons of waste. Animal agriculture overall generates about 1 billion tons (PDF) of manure each year.? Much of this is applied to crops as fertilizer, but often in quantities too high for the plants to absorb, so it simply runs off into nearby waterways.

The waste contains a range of pollutants, including excess nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus. These elements create ?dead zones? in downstream waters where a lack of oxygen destroys numerous species that are vital to healthy ecosystems that provide food and livelihoods for millions of people. In 2008, runoff from concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) along the Mississippi River contributed to a dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico larger than the state of Massachusetts.

Because the waste is untreated, it can also contain bacteria and viruses that are harmful to human health, as well as toxic metals and even antibiotics.

What are antibiotics doing in the waste? These medicines are most widely used on CAFOs not to treat sick animals but to make healthy animals grow faster and to help protect them from diseases that spread easily in crowded, unsanitary living conditions. In 2009, drug makers sold about seven million pounds of antibiotics to treat sick people, but they sold about four times that amount?? 29 million pounds ? to aid in the production of meat and poultry.

These practices create an ideal breeding ground for dangerous antibiotic-resistant superbugs that can infect people. Allan Sexton, a veterinarian and hog farmer from Illinois, traveled to Washington, D.C., last May with his wife Jeanne to advocate for common-sense antibiotic policies.? He put it this way: ?If you gave me the assignment to create a superbug, I would do exactly what they do in big feeding lots.?

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the USDA, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have all testified before Congress that there is a definitive link between the routine use of antibiotics in food animal production and the crisis of resistant infections in humans. This position is supported by the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and other leading scientists and medical experts who all warn that the injudicious use of these drugs in food animals presents a serious and growing threat to human health because the practice creates new strains of dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Indeed, hundreds of studies conducted over the past four decades demonstrate how antibiotic use in food animal production contributes to the growing health crisis of antibiotic resistance. New research indicates how these practices are even contributing to diseases not traditionally associated with food, including drug-resistant urinary tract infections and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, also known as MRSA.

The FDA and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are taking steps to address this problem. The EPA, for example, is considering new regulations to better manage CAFO food production and prevent pollution.

The FDA is working to require greater veterinary oversight of antibiotic use in meat and poultry production; today, many of the drugs available to people by prescription only are for sale over the counter at feed stores across the country. The agency also has issued guidance documents designed to eliminate the use of antibiotics for growth promotion purposes. This is important, but it leaves open a loophole that would allow industrial farms to continue using these drugs as a crutch to compensate for unsanitary conditions.

Congress can also act. Last month, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) proposed a bill to require drug makers to report in greater detail how their antibiotics are being used on industrial farms.

These are encouraging steps, but more must be done.

Fortunately, consumers have some opportunities to take action. First, they can encourage responsible meat and poultry production by voting with their wallets, starting this Thanksgiving by buying a turkey that was raised without antibiotics. They can also encourage their local institutions that buy large quantities of meat and poultry?e.g., school districts, hospital systems?to start doing the same with the products they purchase and offer.

People can also get involved in fixing our policies. The Pew Charitable Trusts offers many educational materials and advocacy tools to help consumers become advocates for issues they care about.

The Obama administration has publicly committed to improving the way CAFOs produce meat and poultry. Now is the time to turn that commitment into action by establishing and enforcing policies that protect our environment and the public?s health.

The White House turkey deserves a presidential pardon. Industrial animal agriculture does not.

Read the article at Civil Eats

Source: http://www.pewhealth.org/news-room/opinions/mr-president-pardon-the-turkey-not-industrial-animal-agriculture-85899431639

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New electricity tariff killing small businesses ? NASME

By PROVIDENCE OBUH

The new electricity tariff, known as, Multi-Year-Tariff Order (MYTO) II is killing Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing sector, says National Association? of Small and Medium Enterprises (NASME).

This was one of the findings of a survey initiated by the Association to assess the impact of the new electricity tariff on micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the country. ?SMEs in the manufacturing sector have been the hardest hit by the MYTO II tariff.

They have experienced increases ranging from 70 per cent to 440 per cent in their monthly electricity tariff. On average, manufacturing SMEs across the country have experienced an increase of 188.6 per cent in electricity tariff since the introduction of MYTO II?, the Association said.

The findings of the survey were presented by Executive Secretary, NASME, Mr Eke Ubiji during a one-day Policy Dialogue with the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on the effect of the MYTO II policy on MSMEs in Nigeria.

He said the survey was initiated by NAMSE following several complaints received from members about the high cost implication of the new tariff.

He said the survey, which was conducted by NOI, took place from November 6th to 12th 2012 in the six geo-political zones in the country with field work conducted in Cross-River, Bauchi, Imo, Kaduna, Lagos states and Abuja.

A total of 138 businesses were interviewed and 127 interviews were completed, 45 per cent of the completed interviews were NASME members, while 55 per cent were non- NASME members but SMEs as well as being members of other business membership organisations (BMOs) such as Nigerian Association of Small Scale Industrialists (NASSI), Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) and State Chambers of Commerce and Industries.

Ubiji noted that the importance of MSMEs cannot be over emphasized, saying that findings from the survey shows that BMO members have a very negative perception about the MYTO II tariff and its introduction.

?Also more businesses have increased their average spend on electricity from between 10 per cent to 20 per cent of total operating costs before June 2012 and from 20 per cent to 30 per cent of total operating costs after June 2012. There has also been an increase from 11 per cent to 18 per cent on the average spend on electricity as a percentage of their operating cost since June 2012.

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N. California community mourns family swept to sea

In this photo provided by the Arcata High School Pepperbox, Arcata High School students wear green colored clothing in tribute to fellow student Gregory Kulijan Monday, Nov. 26, 2012, at Arcata High School in Arcata, Calif. The Kuljian family were out for a walk Saturday, Nov. 24 at Big Lagoon beach, playing fetch with their dog when Gregory Kuljian tossed a stick that took their dog down to the water's edge. Kuljian's son ran to save the dog, and struggled as he was captured by the surging surf. Howard Kuljian followed, and later his wife. Both parents' bodies were later recovered, but the boy, presumed dead, is still missing. (AP Photo/Arcata High School Pepperbox, Forrest Lewis)

In this photo provided by the Arcata High School Pepperbox, Arcata High School students wear green colored clothing in tribute to fellow student Gregory Kulijan Monday, Nov. 26, 2012, at Arcata High School in Arcata, Calif. The Kuljian family were out for a walk Saturday, Nov. 24 at Big Lagoon beach, playing fetch with their dog when Gregory Kuljian tossed a stick that took their dog down to the water's edge. Kuljian's son ran to save the dog, and struggled as he was captured by the surging surf. Howard Kuljian followed, and later his wife. Both parents' bodies were later recovered, but the boy, presumed dead, is still missing. (AP Photo/Arcata High School Pepperbox, Forrest Lewis)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Howard Kuljian and his family were out for a walk on a damp, overcast morning at Big Lagoon beach, playing fetch with their dog Fran as 10-foot surf churned the water just feet away like a washing machine.

Signs near the beach warned of "sneaker waves," the kind that suddenly roar ashore.

Kuljian tossed a stick that took the dog down to the water's edge, and in an instant, authorities said, a wave swallowed it, setting off a nightmarish scramble.

"Everything kind of snowballed from there," Coast Guard Lt. Bernie Garrigan said.

Kuljian's 16-year-old son, Gregory, ran to save the dog, only to be captured by the surging surf himself. Kuljian, 54, followed, and then his wife, Mary Scott, 57. On shore, their 18-year-old daughter, Olivia, and Gregory's girlfriend could only watch.

Both parents' bodies were later recovered, but the boy ? presumed dead ? is still missing.

The dog eventually made it back to shore.

News of Saturday's tragedy shocked many in the small college town of Arcata on the rough Northern California coastline about 280 miles north of San Francisco.

Students at Gregory's high school wore green in his memory Monday.

By late afternoon, more than 1,300 people "liked" a Facebook page set up by the teenager's friends called "Wear Green for Geddie" ? using his nickname. Dozens tweeted tributes with the hash-tag (hash)WearGreenForGeddie.

"I will always remember him no matter how long," wrote Emmalaya Owen on the Facebook page. "Especially how he was such an upbeat happy person or how he tried to put up 'Be Happy' propaganda posters he drew around school."

Others were trying to come to terms with the deaths. His sister graduated last year.

"He was just a friendly guy, and everyone who knew him liked him, and his family was very close," said Day Robins, a high school senior. She said Gregory and his family were active in school athletics and sailing.

At Big Lagoon beach, a short drive from Arcata, signs posted near the parking lot warned beachgoers not to turn their back to the surf and to pay special attention to sneaker waves.

"Because the beach is designed that way, when that 10-foot wall breaks, it surges up on the beach and surges back really fast," said Garrigan, the Coast Guard officer. "It's like a cyclical washing machine."

As the family walked along the beach, Howard Kuljian threw the stick and the dog gave chase, said Dana Jones, a state parks district superintendent.

Seeing his son in the water, Kuljian leapt to action, and disappeared into the frigid water.

Gregory managed to pull himself back onto the sand, but after realizing his father was drowning, both he and his mother went in to save him.

As Olivia and the girlfriend watched in horror, a nearby bystander called police. By the time help arrived, it was too late. Jones said the officer wasn't able to get to the family members because of the high surf.

Garrigan said the search for the teenager was stopped because a person without a wetsuit could not survive for long in the cold surf.

The Coast Guard deployed a helicopter and two motorized life boats to find the teenager, but thick coastal fog made the search difficult. The parks department also called off its search.

"When there is shorebreak like that, you don't even have to go into the water to be pulled into the sea," Jones said. "It's a reminder to be real careful around the ocean."

Associated Press

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New mechanism for cancer progression discovered

ScienceDaily (Nov. 27, 2012) ? The protein Ras plays an important role in cellular growth control. Researchers have focused on the protein because mutations in its gene are found in more than 30 percent of all cancers, making it the most prevalent human oncogene.

University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and Harvard researchers have discovered an alternative mechanism for activating Ras that does not require mutation or hormonal stimulus. In healthy cells, Ras transmits hormone signals into the cell that prompt responses such as cell growth and the development of organs and tissues. A mutation on the RAS gene can chronically activate those signals, leading to tumor initiation and progression.

In an article published on-line in a November issue of Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, the UNC and Harvard teams discovered that modification of Ras at a specific site with a small protein known as ubiquitin can also lock Ras into an active signaling state. Thus, modification of Ras with a single ubiquitin -- a process known as monoubiquitination -- switches Ras to an active signaling state by disrupting the action of another protein known as the GTPase activating protein, or GAP. Work by two of the papers co-authors, Atsuo Sasaki and Lewis Cantley of Harvard, had previously found evidence for Ras's potential to become activated and promote Ras-mediated tumorigenesis by monoubiquitination.

Because of the strong link between Ras and cancer, Ras should be an attractive target for drug discovery efforts. Despite considerable efforts at developing treatments targeting the protein, Ras itself is now considered to be 'undruggable', leading researchers to try new approaches to developing drugs that target activated Ras. This could lead to benefits beyond cancer therapies, as the RAS gene has also been linked to developmental disorders such as Noonan syndrome, Costello syndrome and autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome.

Lead researcher Rachael Baker, a PhD candidate doing joint work in the labs of Henrik Dohlman, PhD, professor of pharmacology and vice chair of biochemistry and biophysics and Sharon Campbell, PhD, professor of biochemistry and biophysics at UNC, developed a novel method to modify Ras with ubiquitin and then subsequently characterized how ubiquitin modification can lead to Ras activation.

The attachment of ubiquitin to Ras at a specific site leads to Ras activation, much like with an oncogenic mutation, leading to an increased potential for cancer formation. Baker notes that the reaction can be reversed by enzymes in the cell that remove ubiquitin, making these enzymes possible targets for future pharmaceutical research.

"Establishing how Ras is activated by ubiquitin is just the first step in understanding this novel mechanism of cellular regulation." said Campbell.

The researchers next step will be to obtain a more detailed understanding of its role in cancer progression, first in cells and in animals and eventually in cancer patients.

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Yahoo's stock hits $19 for 1st time since 2010

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Yahoo's shares touched $19 Monday, the first time they have traded that high in more than two and half years.

The latest gains extend a rally that has been gaining momentum in recent weeks as Yahoo Inc. buys back its own stock and more investors bet on CEO Marissa Mayer's ability to turn around the long-struggling company.

Mayer, a former top executive at Internet search leader Google Inc., became Yahoo's fifth CEO in less than a year when the company hired her in July. Since her arrival, Mayer has vowed to make Sunnyvale, Calif., company a better place to work, refine its online services and roll out more products tailored for smartphones and tablet computers.

Yahoo has also been trying to boost its stock price by spending most of money that it received from a recent deal to buy back its own shares.

After taxes, the company pocketed $4.3 billion by selling half its stake in Chinese Internet company Alibaba Group Ltd. Mayer has pledged to spend $3.6 billion buying back Yahoo's stock, including $600 million that had gone toward share repurchases before the Alibaba deal closed in mid-September.

Yahoo had spent $212 million buying back 13 million shares from Oct. 1 through Nov. 8, according to a recent regulatory filing, with $928 million spent so far this year.

Since Mayer made the buyback commitment, Yahoo's stock has climbed by nearly 20 percent. The shares hit $19 in Monday's early trading for the first time since April 2010.

Goldman Sachs analyst Heath Terry believes Yahoo's stock will climb even higher, as more investor enthusiasm builds for Mayer's turnaround strategy and the value of the company's remaining holdings in Asian Internet companies becomes clearer. Besides retaining a 24 percent stake in Alibaba, Yahoo also owns 35 percent of Yahoo Japan. He also thinks Yahoo's stock will get a boost from future buybacks planned by Yahoo.

In a Monday research report, Terry raised his price target for Yahoo's shares to $24 from $22. The price targets of 15 other analysts surveyed by FactSet range from $16.50 to $22.

After climbing to $19 in Monday's early trading, Yahoo shares closed at $18.75, up 18 cents.

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Cell biology: Calcium 'accelerator' keeps cell power supply going

ScienceDaily (Nov. 25, 2012) ? A team of scientists from Temple University School of Medicine and the University of Pennsylvania has moved another step closer to solving a decades-long mystery of how the all-important flow of calcium into the cell's power source, the mitochondria, is controlled.

By painstakingly shutting down the activity of 50 genes, one at a time, they have identified a protein, MCUR1, which hugs the inside of the mitochondrial membrane and is part of an elaborate mitochondrial channel pore system. MCUR1 acts as an accelerator to help regulate calcium coming into the mitochondria from the cell's large reservoir.

The results, appearing November 25, 2012 in an advance online issue of the journal Nature Cell Biology, may also point to new treatment opportunities. Understanding how to manipulate MCUR1 may help in the development of treatments for disease conditions involving excessive calcium in the cell, such as cardiovascular disease and stroke.

"Calcium is a key to regulate many fundamental processes in cells," said co-senior author Muniswamy Madesh, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at Temple University School of Medicine and a member of Temple's Center for Translational Medicine. "Excessive calcium in the cell's mitochondria could lead to heart and neuronal mitochondrial dysfunction and cell death. This pathway could be contributing to disease conditions during ischemia/reperfusion injury and stroke, and this discovery opens up possible therapeutic interventions."

Maintaining calcium at an appropriate level is crucial for cells to work properly, and especially important in the mitochondria. Cells rely on mitochondria to generate usable energy in the form of the chemical ATP, which is necessary to carry out normal cellular and metabolic activities. ATP production in turn depends on calcium -- more specifically, charged calcium ions -- that can enter into the mitochondria from the cell's vast supply in the cytoplasm. Dr. Madesh, co-senior author Kevin Foskett, PhD, at the University of Pennsylvania, and their co-investigators recently described the role of a gatekeeper protein in maintaining a calcium "set point" under normal resting conditions in the mitochondria. But a long unanswered question remained: the details of how calcium entry into the mitochondria is controlled.

How MCUR1 Dictates Calcium Load

In the current study, Drs. Madesh and Foskett and their co-workers may have come closer to solving this puzzle. Dr. Madesh and his group sought to identify the genes involved in the flow of calcium into the mitochondria. They developed a way to use a technology called targeted RNA interference (RNAi) to screen 50 mitochondrial proteins, systematically testing whether eliminating the function of each of these genes individually altered the movement of calcium into the mitochondria. They found a mitochondrial inner membrane protein -- MCUR1 -- that regulates a calcium channel pore during active calcium uptake.

MCUR1 is part of a calcium channel pore called the uniporter, the existence of which has been known for some five decades. Recent studies identified two important pieces of the pore -- a subunit protein, MCU, and the gatekeeper protein, MICU1, to maintain calcium levels at a resting, set point. The researchers found that MCUR1 interacts with MCU to accelerate the movement of calcium into mitochondria when the cell's calcium level rapidly rises.

"MCUR1 is an essential third component of the uniporter complex," Dr. Madesh said. "In the absence of MCUR1, mitochondrial calcium uptake is markedly reduced, with adverse cellular consequences, including compromised cellular bioenergetics."

Without this accelerator, the mitochondria channel pore alone cannot take up calcium. When MCUR1 is physically attached to the pore, it is functional, and when it is not attached, it is much less active. "The regulator is always on, and its activity level increases when the extra-mitochondrial calcium levels increase. When there is a high calcium level, say during a disease state, the MCUR1 senses this and facilitates the channel activity, dumping calcium inside," Dr. Madesh explained.

Calcium Control as a Targeted Therapeutic

Dr. Madesh explained that in some disease conditions -- such as ischemic reperfusion injury (tissue damage that occurs when blood returns to tissue after a period without oxygen), stroke involving brain injury from ischemia, and myocardial infarction -- calcium floods into the mitochondria. "The mitochondria have a massive membrane potential and grab external calcium. The mitochondria then are overloaded and rupture, leading to cell death and possible organ injury."

Because some diseases are characterized by an overabundance of calcium in the mitochondria, a possible therapy could involve slowing down the amount of calcium coming into the mitochondria. "We want to control the calcium entering the mitochondria," he said.

"Further studies already underway should reveal the precise molecular mechanisms by which MCUR1 accelerates the channel pore MCU, providing insights into mitochondrial bioenergetics," said first author Karthik Mallilankaraman, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biochemistry and the Center for Translational Medicine at Temple University School of Medicine.

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1. Karthik Mallilankaraman, C?sar C?rdenas, Patrick J. Doonan, Harish C. Chandramoorthy, Krishna M. Irrinki, T?nde Golen?r, Gy?rgy Csord?s, Priyanka Madireddi, Jun Yang, Marioly M?ller, Russell Miller, Jill E. Kolesar, Jordi Molg?, Brett Kaufman, Gy?rgy Hajn?czky, J. Kevin Foskett, Muniswamy Madesh. MCUR1 is an essential component of mitochondrial Ca2 uptake that regulates cellular metabolism. Nature Cell Biology, 2012; DOI: 10.1038/ncb2622

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Consumer News: The Best Cyber Monday Deals | Personal Finance ...

This column highlights the most interesting and useful business and financial commentary on consumer companies from around the Web.

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Link: Best Cyber Monday 2012 Tech Deals: Wal-Mart, Amazon, Gamestop, Target, and Best Buy (Video)
?Sunday,?Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT), Target (NYSE:TGT), Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), and Best Buy?(NYSE:BBY) emailed customers about their exciting Cyber Monday sales and adding products to their sale list; Black Friday weekend is the biggest shopping weekend of the year and Cyber Monday...is the online version of Black Friday. Sunday, Amazon, Wal-Mart, and Target started their Cyber Monday deals and are calling them Cyber Week deals.
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?Wal-Mart has hundreds of items on sale for Cyber Week including: a 32? JVC TV for $199, an iPod Touch bundle kit from $179, Power Wheels Barbie Jeep from $88, and more. For more information on?Wal-Mart?s Cyber Week sales,?click here.?
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Link: US Holiday Shoppers Buy Early, Often, Online
?US shoppers went to stores earlier this Thanksgiving weekend and bought online more than in years past, giving retailers a strong start to the holiday shopping season, data showed on Sunday.
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?The more successful retailers, analysts said, were companies such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Macy's Inc (NYSE:M), which did better at combining physical stores with their online and mobile channels into a seamless shopping experience.?
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Tech Crunch
Link: Pushing Fire Sales Outside the US, Amazon Says UK Black Friday Kindle Device Sales Tripled Previous Record, Stays Mum on Hard?Numbers
?Black Friday is not just for Thanksgiving-celebrating Americans. Amazon today?announced?that in the UK, where it has also been running Black Friday sales, it sold a record number of Kindle devices ? triple the previous record amount. As usual with Amazon, it is not giving a hard figure on how many actual units this means, or how many e-readers it sold compared to Fire tablets.
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?But it looks like at least some of the focus of activity here ? at least as Amazon would like it to be seen ? is on its Kindle Fire tablet.?
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Link: Scattered Wal-Mart Protests Don?t Dent Bottom Line
?Scattered?walk-outs and protests by Wal-Mart workers and their supporters?in at least nine states may have scored symbolic points Friday by taking on the retail giant head-on, but apparently they did little to keep shoppers away as the company quickly claimed its best Black Friday ever.
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?The company said in a?statement?Friday morning that its stores rang up almost 10 million transactions from the time doors opened for Black Friday shoppers at 8 p.m. Thursday until midnight, or about 5,000 items per second.?
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Link: Janney Commented on Black Friday and Holiday Sales on Apparel and Footwear Companies
?On Monday analysts at Janney reported on Black Friday traffic and sales which could lead to positive Holiday sales expectations for companies like Foot Locker Inc.?(NYSE:FL), Finish Line Inc.?(NASDAQ:FINL), and Dicks Sporting Goods Inc. (NYSE:DKS).
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?Overall, analyst Eric Tracy said that traffic on Black Friday was lighter than in years past, but this could be due to a migration to online shopping as well as extending hours at various malls and retail stores.?

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Elton John dedicates show to Chinese artist Ai

BEIJING (AP) ? Pop icon Elton John publicly dedicated his only concert in Beijing to Chinese artist and political critic Ai Weiwei, sending a murmur of shock through an audience accustomed to tight censorship of entertainment.

Minutes into a more than two-hour show Sunday night, John told the audience that the performance was dedicated "to the spirit and talent of Ai Weiwei," according to several audience members. They said the crowd rumbled in recognition that Ai remains a touchy subject for the Chinese government.

An internationally acclaimed sculptor and installation artist, Ai has used his art and his renown to draw attention to social injustice. He was detained for nearly three months last year, and he remains barred from leaving China.

Ai and John met each other briefly on Sunday before the concert. "I super like him," Ai said on his feed on Twitter, which is banned in China but on which he has 180,000 followers.

China-based online media sites reported on John's Beijing show, as they did on a Friday night performance in Shanghai, but they did not report John's remark about Ai.

The Chinese government exercises tight control of live performances, requiring artists to submit detailed lists of songs, casts and crew members before approval is given. Censors further tightened scrutiny after singer Bjork shouted "Tibet, Tibet" at the close of a song titled "Declare Independence" at a Shanghai performance in 2008.

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Taghazout Surf Festival: a new way of promoting green tourism in ...

By Fatima Matousse

Morocco World News

Fez, November 25, 2012

Taghazout Festival is set to take place from the 17th to 29th of December in a stunning beach village called Taghazout. This village is situated 18 km north of Agadir, in Souss-Massa-Draa region. An association called Izorane (?roots? in Tamazight) was created in 2007 to contribute to the development of this village by organizing several activities such as surf competitions, concerts, beach cleaning, and heritage celebrations.

Taghazout is known to be one of the destinations of the most skillful surfers in the world. It also receives millions of tourists every year.

The program of the festival will include the following: surf competition with DJ, a music concert on the beach, beach cleaning, and press conference. Through this event, university professors specializing in the environmental field aim is to raise awareness about the effect of pollution on their region.

Beach cleaning of the village will take place on the 28th of December starting from 10 a.m. Villagers, tourists, surfers and association activists will take part in this event.

The surf competition will take place on the 29th of December. That same day, a musical concert will entertain the audience with the participation of the famous singer Amazigh Amouri Mbraek, DJ Face, Rass Derb, Abdellah Khoutia, MC Jamal, and Eava from Morocco. The winners in the competition will be awarded prizes.

Taghazout and the surrounding beaches near Agadir are known for being one of the most frequented destinations for surfing in the world. For instance, Imourane, a beach located near Taghazout, is known for hosting national and international surf competitions.

While the villagers continue to rely on fishing as one of their sources of living, sport tourism has become an important economic activity of many young people in the region who operate surf camps, shops that rent surf materials, furnished apartments, who also interact with tourists coming from all over the world. This festival comes to contribute to the development of the region and it is an opportunity for people to network, have fun, educate each other and learn to surf.

Source: http://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2012/11/66997/taghazout-surf-festival-a-new-way-of-promoting-green-tourism-in-southern-morocco/

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Celebrity Photos: November 2012

Sandra Bullock picked up her adorable son Louis after a day of school in Los Angeles, Calif., on Nov. 20. Bullock was seen consoling Louis with a kiss and touch on the cheek before heading home for the day.

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Jessica Biel looked stunning as she made an appearance on "The Late Show with David Letterman" in New York City on Nov. 19.

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Syrian troops bomb southern parts of capital

BEIRUT (AP) ? Activists say Syrian troops have shelled southern neighborhoods of the capital as they try to advance in rebel-held areas.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the shelling of Tadamon and Hajar Aswad came as government troops conducted raids in the central Damascus neighborhood of Bab Sreijeh.

The violence came as Iran's parliament speaker Ali Larijani arrived in Damascus on Friday. He is expected to meet President Bashar Assad.

Iran is Assad's strongest ally in the region.

Syria's conflict erupted in March 2011 with an uprising against Assad's regime, inspired by other Arab Spring revolts. The crisis has since morphed into a civil war. More than 40,000 people have been killed in the unrest, according to activists.

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Twin Epidemics: Childhood Obesity and Diabetes

In the realm of childhood obesity research, one of the big perplexing mysteries is the relationship between childhood obesity and diabetes. What exactly is going on there? How do cause and effect apply? Is it a vicious cycle? Take the United States. ?Dramatic increases? is the term used by Reuters correspondent Julie Steenhuysen to describe the change in the number of diabetes cases. She writes:

According to a study released on Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of diagnosed cases of diabetes grew by 50 percent or more in 42 U.S. states, and by 100 percent or more in 18 states.

When something grows by 100%, attention must be paid, because 100% growth means it has doubled. There are 18 states where the number of diagnosed diabetes patients has become twice as large in the time period concerned, which was between 1995 and 2010.

But it?s almost 2013, a person might unthinkingly protest. What about now? And there lies one of the real obstacles to making correlations between two different trends, or to any question in epidemiology and many other related fields. It takes time to gather information, and more time to crunch the numbers and make conclusions.

Among all the questions, one thing is clear. The very large majority of diabetes is Type 2. The CDC finds that at least 90% of diabetes cases, and maybe as many as 95%, were preventable. Think back to the plague epidemic in the Middle Ages. If people knew they could, with 90-95% certainty, avoid catching the plague, wouldn?t they have preserved their lives by doing whatever was necessary to prevent it? Of course they would have. Look how hard they tried, making pilgrimages on their knees to shrines, and wearing beaky masks.

Apparently, contemporary Americans are not even as smart as pre-industrial-age peasants. We have an epidemic going on that is preventable in all but 5% to 10% of cases. Why? Is it, as Dr. Pretlow believes, the addictiveness of processed foods and the tendency of human beings to become addicted? If so, some of the important questions in both diabetes and obesity are about addiction. What can help people recover?(link is PDF) from it, and, more importantly, what causes it? Steenhuysen quotes Ann Albright, a CDC director:

These rates will continue to increase until effective interventions and policies are implemented to prevent both diabetes and obesity.

But what are those interventions and policies? Everyone is looking for them. Here are the words of Larry Romany, president of the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (T&TOC):

We want to assess what would happen to children exposed to high levels of obesity. We are looking at data collection. Important data would help develop the sporting landscape from the cradle to the womb. We felt there was the need for a timely intervention to alleviate childhood diabetes, high blood pressure and even low self-esteem.

In the Caribbean republic, plans are afoot for a program featuring the country?s own celebrated javelin thrower, Keshorn Walcott, and other elite athletes who recently won prizes during London?s Olympic Games. Michelle Loubon wrote about this projected campaign, which is designed to sensitize children and youth about the consequences of obesity, such as diabetes and high blood pressure.

Along with the T&TOC, other partners in the project are the Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of Education, and Johns Hopkins, which will evaluate the data and assist in developing protocols. While the American medical school has broader priorities, the people of Trinidad and Tobago specifically want to send more champions to the future Olympics.

Your responses and feedback are welcome!

Source: ?Big rise in Americans with diabetes, especially in South,? Reuters, 11/15/12
Source: ?Keshorn to lead campaign to fight diabetes among kids,? The Trinidad Guardian, 11/11/12
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Source: http://childhoodobesitynews.com/2012/11/23/twin-epidemics-childhood-obesity-and-diabetes/

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