Eat This, Do This, Read This: Philly Weekend Planner, November 9 ...

Story and Photo by Danya Henninger
The election is over, Sandy is behind us (although more wintery weather is unfortunately on the way) - this weekend is prime for food and drink enjoyment. Check out some choice eats, fun events and bookmark a few articles to read as you leisurely sip your Saturday morning coffee... or mimosa. We won?t judge.

Eat This

Butternut Squash French Toast at Ela
Sunday brunch just recently launched at Ela, but the Queen Village dining room feels like it was made for weekend lounging, with soft sun cozily glinting off the exposed brick walls. It?s hard to choose from Jason Ciconski?s dozen sweet and savory midday dishes, but convince at least one in your party to go for the butternut squash french toast. Fluffy slices of thick, house-baked challah are crisped around the edges, and serve as a base for toppings of warm, slightly sweet squash pur?e and housemade ricotta cream. Instead of maple syrup, which would mute the delicate fall flavors, drag your bites through the drizzle of thick espresso syrup on the plate - but be forewarned you might be tempted to follow up with your tongue (267-687-8512).

Burnt Grains Pappardelle at Fork
Chef Eli Kulp recently transferred his culinary creativity from NYC?s Torrisi Italian Specialties to Ellen Yin?s Old City mainstay, and Philadelphia diners get to reap the rewards. His housemade pappardelle is nearly black, not from squid ink but instead from the burnt grains used to make the dough, and the result is a pasta that?s totally unique in flavor and texture. The thick noodles suck up the wild boar ragu with olives and preserved lemon so that each bite is an umami explosion, but one with a very light footprint - each mouthful seems to sublimate away. The smaller portion ($16) is perfect as a starter and the larger plate ($26) will satisfy as a light main course (215-625-9425).

Do This

PA Beerfest
A new beerfest has come to Philadelphia, and instead of being on the outskirts of town, this one is right in the middle. Held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, the Saturday festival will feature tastes from over 100 breweries from around the country. Tickets are $40 and are still available (here) for Session 2 (7-10 PM; the early session is sold out already). Food will be available to buy on site, though organizers suggest you eat a full meal before heading over and drinking your fill of malty suds.

Tapas Tasting at Jamonera
The first Sunday tasting menu at this Midtown Village hot spot was super successful, so the Spanish tapas bar is bringing it back. A slate of 10 different bites and dishes includes papas fritas, tuna crudo, Moorish chicken kebabs, duck sausage, cannelloni and much more, all made with Marcie Turney?s deft touch. The meal runs $40 per person, and reservations are encouraged (215-922-6061).

Read This

Freshly Minted: How Mint Became the Default Flavor of Dental Hygiene
Shopping for toothpaste is not a trivial activity for writer Sara Davis - she?s allergic to mint. In a piece for Table Matters, she looks at how this ?cooling? flavor ended up in our mouthwash and in after-dinner treats around the world (hint: a lot of marketing hype may have been involved).

Why Fernet Is Fueling The Restaurant Industry, And Not As Bad Tasting As You Think
Are you a fan of Fernet Branca? In recent years, the bitter Italian?aperitif?has taken the industry by storm. Food Republic takes a quick look at the spirit?s history and reveals the source of its startling and unique flavor - it tastes like mint, but it actually comes from copious quantities of saffron.

Source: http://blog.zagat.com/2012/11/eat-this-do-this-read-this-philly.html

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UPND to 'occupy' parliament and picket MPs over Sata's selfish ...

Opposition UPND supporters plans to march to parliament and picket law makers ?to urge them to block the K1.4 billion that ?president Michael Sata has allocated to himself to build a retirement house.

The UPND has notified police that they will walk peacefully from their Secretariat in Rhodes Park to Parliament buildings on November 15, 2012, (Next week Thursday).

The UPND supporters and their leaders will also be marching against the allocation K20 billion to a constitution making process that has no legal framework.

The opposition party has told the police in its notification signed by Kuchunga Simusamba that they really don?t need the police to accompany them as they will provide their own security to control the crowd.

President Michael Sata has started building his retirement house as one of his priorities just after one year of being in office.

Construction of retirement houses for three of Sata?s predecessors, Chiluba, Mwanawasa and Banda have not yet commenced.

There is not even allocation in the 2013 budget for construction of the former president?s houses two of which have since died.

Four months after he was elected, Sata, known to his followers as ?man of action? increased his salary and allowances by more than 100 per cent.

There has also been a public outcry among the farming community who have not been paid there money despite the on-set of the rains as well as a number of retirees who have not been paid their benefits.

Source: http://www.zambianwatchdog.com/2012/11/07/upnd-to-occupy-parliament-and-picket-mps-over-sata-selfish-retirement-house/

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Caffeine improves recognition of positive words

ScienceDaily (Nov. 7, 2012) ? Caffeine perks up most coffee-lovers, but a new study shows a small dose of caffeine also increases their speed and accuracy for recognizing words with positive connotation. The research published November 7 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Lars Kuchinke and colleagues from Ruhr University, Germany, shows that caffeine enhances the neural processing of positive words, but not those with neutral or negative associations.

Previous research showed that caffeine increases activity in the central nervous system, and normal doses of caffeine improve performance on simple cognitive tasks and behavioral responses. It is also known that certain memories are enhanced when strong positive or negative emotions are associated with objects, but the link between caffeine consumption and these emotional biases was unknown.

This study demonstrates, for the first time, that consuming 200 mg of caffeine, equivalent to 2-3 cups of coffee, 30 minutes before a task can improve the implicit recognition of positive words, but has no effect on the processing of emotionally neutral or negative words. The authors suggest that this effect is driven by caffeine's strong dopaminergic effects in the language-dominant regions of the brain.

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1. Lars Kuchinke, Vanessa Lux. Caffeine Improves Left Hemisphere Processing of Positive Words. PLoS ONE, 2012; 7 (11): e48487 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048487

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How underground rodent wards off cancer: Second mole rat species has different mechanism for resisting cancer

ScienceDaily (Nov. 5, 2012) ? Biologists at the University of Rochester have determined how blind mole rats fight off cancer -- and the mechanism differs from what they discovered three years ago in another long-lived and cancer-resistant mole rat species, the naked mole rat.

The team of researchers, led by Professor Vera Gorbunova and Assistant Professor Andrei Seluanov, found that abnormally growing cells in blind mole rats secrete the interferon beta protein, which causes those cells to rapidly die. Seluanov and Gorbunova hope the discovery will eventually help lead to new cancer therapies in humans. Their findings are being published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Blind mole rats and naked mole rats -- both subterranean rodents with long life spans -- are the only mammals never known to develop cancer. Three years ago, Seluanov and Gorbunova determined the anti-cancer mechanism in the naked mole rat. Their research found that a specific gene -- p16 -- makes the cancerous cells in naked mole rats hypersensitive to overcrowding, and stops them from proliferating when too many crowd together.

"We expected blind mole rats to have a similar mechanism for stopping the spread of cancerous cells," said Seluanov. "Instead, we discovered they've evolved their own mechanism."

Gorbunova and Seluanov made their discovery by isolating cells from blind mole rats and forcing them to proliferate in culture beyond what occurs in the animal. After dividing approximately 15-20 times, all of the cells in the culture dish died rapidly. The researchers determined that the rapid death occurred because the cells recognized their pre-cancerous state and began secreting a suicidal protein, called interferon beta. The precancerous cells died by a mechanism which kills both abnormal cells and their neighbors, resulting in a "clean sweep."

"Not only were the cancerous cells killed off, but so were the adjacent cells, which may also be prone to tumorous behavior," said Seluanov.

"While people don't use the same cancer-killing mechanism as blind mole rats, we may be able to combat some cancers and prolong life, if we could stimulate the same clean sweep reaction in cancerous human cells," said Gorbunova.

The research team also included Christopher Hine, Xiao Tian, and Julia Ablaeva in Rochester, Andrei Gudkov at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, NY, and Eviatar Nevo at the University of Haifa in Israel.

Gorbunova and Seluanov say they next want to find out exactly what triggers the secretion of interferon beta after cancerous cells begin proliferating in blind mole rats.

Gorbunova believes the anti-cancer mechanism is an adaptation to subterranean life. "Blind mole rats spend their lives in underground burrows protected from predators," said Gorbunova. "Living in this environment, they could perhaps afford to evolve a long lifespan, which includes developing efficient anti-cancer defenses."

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1. Vera Gorbunova, Christopher Hine, Xiao Tian, Julia Ablaeva, Andrei V. Gudkov, Eviatar Nevo, and Andrei Seluanov. Cancer resistance in the blind mole rat is mediated by concerted necrotic cell death mechanism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 5, 2012 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1217211109

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Honoring our veterans and service members | University of ...

November 05, 2012

Each year, UW-Whitewater celebrates its veterans and service members with a week of events. This year's festivities take place Nov. 2 - 12, and include gallery displays, competitions, tributes, panels, card signings and more.

"The Veterans Day committee is excited to be honoring our veterans with a number of activities. We are especially proud of the diversity these events represent. Not everything is learned through a lecture," said Elizabeth Watson, coordinator of events and director of the Center for Students with Disabilities.

The week includes:

• The Warhawk football game vs. UW-Eau Claire at Perkins Stadium on Saturday. The team provided free tickets to student and community veterans and service members, and recognized them at halftime. The UW-Whitewater marching band performed a military-themed show.
• Roberta's Art Gallery in the James R. Connor University Center is featuring "Stories of Soldiers," a collection of memorabilia from World War II, including military coins, newspaper articles from the 1940s, family photos and uniforms. The Wisconsin Historical Society, Whitewater Public Library and private community individuals are among the contributors.
• In addition to the game and gallery, UW-Whitewater will host its official Veterans Day ceremony Monday, Nov. 12, at the Alumni Center flagpole, beginning at 11 a.m. A free lunch for veterans will follow at any of the university dining facilities.
• Information Services is collecting holiday cards to send to wounded warriors, veterans, and military service members. The cards will be signed on Wednesday, Nov. 7, from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. in the University Center Concourse.
• Warhawk Alley will honor veterans and military members by offering free bowling and billiards all week.

The Pentagon Pentathlon combines beanbag toss, bowling, ladder golf, pool and trivia throughout the week.

"This is an activity to get students to interact with UW-Whitewater's Air Force ROTC, Army ROTC and the Veterans Student Organization," said Andrea Payton, Warhawk Alley coordinator. "This is a multiple day and?multiple?event competition, and giving to charity. ?Proceeds will benefit the Wounded Warriors Project, a charity that helps veterans who were injured while serving."

Click here to view the full list of events.

Source: http://www.uww.edu/news/archive/2012-11-veterans

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Moore On Running: Great Idea, Bad Planning - Childhood Obesity ...

Time for my Health?Activist Soapbox post (day five of the National Health Blog Post Month)...

This is going to be a tough one for me to post, but I think?Dean Karnazes?(Ultra Runner) missed something when he planned his running route across the United States to "Inspire a Nation".

Most people who read a lot about running either love him or hate him, I happen to be a huge fan of?Dean Karnazes. ?I read his first book, "Ultramarathon Man", and I am currently reading his second book, "50/50". ?In fact, I have been reading 50/50 to my son at night when he goes to bed (what can I say, he loves running stuff as much as me).

Anyway, Dean teamed up with?Live! with Regis and Kelly?to run across the United States in a campaign against childhood obesity. ?He started February 25, 2012 and ran about two marathons a day until he reaches New York, NY.

From the CDC Childhood Obesity page:?
Childhood obesity has more than tripled in the past 30 years. The prevalence of obesity among children aged 6 to 11 years increased from 6.5% in 1980 to 19.6% in 2008. The prevalence of obesity among adolescents aged 12 to 19 years increased from 5.0% to 18.1%.^1,2

I love that Dean is able to use his superhuman abilities to raise awareness for something so important, but I have to wonder who planned his running route.

When I heard about his plan I was so excited. ?I even thought I would try to go out and see him on one of his runs. ?You can imagine my disappointment when I saw that he would not be coming through South Carolina (ranked in the top four states for childhood obesity). ?As I looked at the?map?I realized that not only was he not coming through South Carolina, he was completely bypassing the South!

I pulled up the?CDC Overweight and Obesity Trends?and compared the two maps. ?You can see that Dean comes close to Kentucky and West Virginia, but never reaches any of the states that have the worst statistics of obesity.

I still think what?Dean Karnazes is doing is awesome. ?I just think he and the planners of this run missed a huge opportunity by running a route that takes him away from the main battle zone...

Source: http://www.mooreonrunning.com/2012/11/great-idea-bad-planning-childhood.html

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NASA radar images Asteroid 2007 PA8

ScienceDaily (Nov. 6, 2012) ? Scientists working with NASA's 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have obtained several radar images depicting near-Earth asteroid 2007 PA8. The images were generated from data collected at Goldstone on Oct. 28, 29 and 30, 2012. The asteroid's distance from Earth on Oct. 28 was 6.5 million miles (10 million kilometers). The asteroid's distance to Earth was 5.6 million miles (9 million kilometers) on Oct. 30. The perspective in the images is analogous to seeing the asteroid from above its north pole. Each of the three images is shown at the same scale.

The radar images of asteroid 2007 PA8 indicate that it is an elongated, irregularly shaped object approximately one mile (1.6 kilometers) wide, with ridges and perhaps craters. The data also indicate that 2007 PA8 rotates very slowly, roughly once every three to four days.

JPL scientists chose to image asteroid 2007 PA8 due to its size and relative proximity to Earth at the point of closest approach. On Nov. 5 at 8:42 a.m. PST (11:42 a.m. EST /16:42 UTC), the space rock was about four million miles (6.5 million kilometers) from Earth, or 17 times the distance between Earth and the moon. The trajectory of asteroid 2007 PA8 is well understood. This flyby was the closest Earth approach by this asteroid for at least the next 200 years. NASA detects, tracks and characterizes asteroids and comets passing close to Earth using both ground- and space-based telescopes. The Near-Earth Object Observations Program, commonly called "Spaceguard," discovers these objects, characterizes a subset of them, and plots their orbits to determine if any could be potentially hazardous to our planet.

JPL manages the Near-Earth Object Program Office for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

More information about asteroids and near-Earth objects is at: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroidwatch . More information about asteroid radar research is at: http://echo.jpl.nasa.gov/ . More information about the Deep Space Network is at: http://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/dsn .

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