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A top police investigative unit breaks an illegal gambling operation in the context of rampant police corruption and drug-fueled gangster violence in the city. Lead detective Jeremy Ryder is a physically powerful, quiet and meticulous investigator. His partner Navi Pillay is a small and exceptionally strong Tamil martial arts instructor, and she provides the speed and physical power to complement Ryder's incisive sleuthing abilities. Together with their other detective colleagues Ryder and Pillay crack open two interwoven criminal operations. There are two key villains. One is a corrupt murderous senior police officer at the heart of the illegal gambling operation and the other is a sinister and violent gangster dealing in drugs and murder. Each of them presides over lesser criminals and each of them controls separate domains of corruption until their paths cross in a spectacular climax.
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Yes. I liked them both, but the audio is even better.
Very relevant to the things I know about police work and criminal justice. And I love thrillers anyway.
Could anyone doubt this? The villain. He is so bad. And the narrator gets him perfectly without making him a caricature.
I was horrified at the murder on the Tuesday morning. So graphic and terrifying.
I think it's a really good thriller and so relevant to modern life.
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Excitingly different
Having read the book and thoroughly enjoyed it, I was wary of trying the audio version. I wondered how one voice could replicate all the fascinating characters, accents, slang words and local-language words in the original text. No need to worry. The author himself reads. Who better to trust with these things? Really enjoyable. And, speaking as a musician, the studio that produced this needs to be congratulated. Great sound.
There are fantastic action scenes counter-pointed with tender and quite sad moments. And there's a great plot moment when we meet someone we weren't expecting.... better not give it away.
Very clear professional reading, and thank goodness it's from a South African accent. An American accent here would have been out of place, as would a British accent.
Very, very sad at one point, for anyone who's ever been a cop or knows a cop. Tear-jerking, actually.
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|Sing Stars! Pretty Cure
|シング スターズ! プリキュア
shingu sutaazu! Purikyua
|General Information
|Emma-chi animation
|TV Emma-chi
|Original Run
|31 December 2014
|Series Info
|Twilight Dream! Pretty Cure
Sing Stars! Pretty Cure (シング スターズ! プリキュア Shingu Sutaazu! Purikyua) is the third pretty cure fan series created by Emma-chi. The theme for the series is singing idols, music instruments and fashion designing.
The Melody Queen is a wonderful singer in Sing-Song Land. She is admired by lots of people in the Kingdom, but an evil King called Fight takes her voice. To bring back the queen's beautiful singing voice, legendary warriors, Sing Stars Pretty Cure must fight.
Hoshioto Yume (星音 夢 Hoshioto Yume)
Yume is a fourteen year old girl in the music club at school. She cares a lot for animals and insects as well as her classmates. She is very confident and has the courage to stand up to bullies. Her alter ego is Cure Harmony. Her theme colours are pink and white and her main instrument is the guitar.
Sakiuta Chihaya (先歌 千早 Sakiuta Chihaya)
Chihaya loves designing clothes and making them. She is 14 years old. She is addicted to Caramel and eats a lot of it. Her alter ego is Cure Chorus. Her theme colours are white and green and her main instrument is the piano.
Shikoe Kokone (四声 心音 Shikoe Kokone)
Kokone is an idol and Yume was the first to find out that she was attending the same school. She is secretly shy and does not want to show herself much so she wears a scarf and a big hat and tries to stay away from lots of people until she becomes Cure Rhapsody and learns the benefits of making friends. Her theme colours are blue and purple and her main instrument is the harp.
Dream - Yume's mascot partner. When she is a human, she is 11 years old.
Dress - Chihaya's mascot partner. When she is human, she is 9 years old.
Sound - Kokone's mascot partner. When he is human, he is 15 years old.
Hana - A fairy at looks like a human but smaller and with wings. She watches over the Cures until they find out on episode 10.
Fight - The leader of the team.
Black - A boy with crimson hair and one black eye and the other green. He loves fizzy drinks.
Cloud - A boy with long, silver hair and yellow eyes. He loves candy. He blows kisses to the Cures when his monsters get defeated and the Cures find it annoying, particularly Kokone.
Yada - A girl who is addicted to make-up and 'can't live' without it on everyday basic. She loves gum.


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OSLO, May 11 (Reuters) - Norway will spend less money from its sovereign wealth fund this year than had initially been expected, news agency NTB reported on Thursday.
In its revised 2017 fiscal budget, due to be released at 0845 GMT, the government will cut the spending of money from the fund by 4.7 billion Norwegian crowns ($547 million), NTB added.
The original budget, presented last October, called for spending of 225.6 billion crowns from the fund.
$1 = 8.5954 Norwegian crowns Reporting by Oslo newsroom, editing by Camilla Knudsen


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Traveling Luck for Pier 56, Washington, United States
Where is Pier 56?What's around Pier 56?
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The timezone in Pier 56 is America/Whitehorse
Sunrise at 07:24 and Sunset at 16:26. It's light
Latitude. 47.6072°, Longitude. -122.3408° , Elevation. 1m
Weather near Pier 56; Report from Seattle, Seattle Boeing Field, WA 10.4km away
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- King Street Station (1.5km)
- Union Depot (1.6km)
- Terminal Number 46 (1.6km)
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- Seattle Aquarium (0.2km)
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- Rainier Club (0.9km)
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- airport;
- a place where aircraft regularly land and take off, with runways, navigational aids, and major facilities for the commercial handling of passengers and cargo.
- 1001 Fourth Avenue Plaza Heliport (0.7km)
- Washington Building Heliport (0.9km)
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- KOMO-TV Heliport (1.6km)
- Harborview Medical Center Heliport (1.7km)
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- a high conspicuous structure, typically much higher than its diameter.
- KRPM-AM (Seattle) (0.3km)
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- Waterfront Park (0.1km)
- Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park (1.2km)
- Denny Park (1.6km)
- Qwest Field (1.7km)
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- a subterranean passageway for transportation.
- North Portal (0.5km)
- Battery Street Subway (1.1km)
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- building(s) where instruction in one or more branches of knowledge takes place.
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- a building in which sick or injured, especially those confined to bed, are medically treated.
- Mason Hospital (1.4km)
- Harborview Hospital (1.7km)
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- a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work.
- Seattle (0.9km)
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- a neighborhood or part of a larger town or city.
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- an elevation standing high above the surrounding area with small summit area, steep slopes and local relief of 300m or more.
- Denny Hill (0.9km)
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Pier 56
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- Seattle Art Museum landmark museum
- Pike Place Market landmark sport
- Alaskan Way Viaduct bridge
- Rainier Tower tower
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Boeing fld king co international(BFI), Seattle, Usa (10.4km)
Seattle tacoma international(SEA), Seattle, Usa (20.3km)
Snohomish co(PAE), Everett, Usa (38.3km)
Mc chord afb(TCM), Tacoma, Usa (60.9km)
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Magic Trick FAIL
Meet Michel and Sven, two little German kids who recorded themselves performing a magic trick. It starts innocently enough, but it ends in full-fledged magic FAIL catastrophe. Do you think it's a real magical mishap? Why would it take two kids to perform a tablecloth pull? Why does the little blonde kid stand in such an awkward place? Then again, why would two kids plan for an entire entertainment center to crush one of them? I'm still not sure if this video is real or a set-up, so you be the judge:
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Spokane's Paton Honored For Contribution To Youth Sports
Sun., Nov. 5, 1995
Jim Paton of Spokane, whose involvement in sports has reached to Russia, has been named to receive Washington's 1995 SGMA HEROES award for his dedication and volunteer work in youth sports.
The award is given in partnership between the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association and National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association to those who have made an exceptional and lasting contribution to sports.
Paton, 52, was a high school teacher and baseball coach for 25 years before retiring from those positions at Rogers because of Parkinson's disease. But he remains active in youth sports, particularly American Legion baseball, and youth baseball camps.
During his years as a coach, Paton was instrumental in creating the all-star feeder series that allow high school players to play their way on to state all-star teams. He says one of his biggest honors is having a baseball field in Russia named after him.
Paton, who will receive a $100 cash award and a $400 donation to a local sports program, is eligible for one of three SGMA HEROES national awards. Winners will be announced Feb. 5 in Atlanta.
The Spokane Tigers all-star team wound up third out of 80 teams in the 30-and-over National Championships last weekend in Phoenix.
Spokane won its pool with a 5-1 record and its first game in the medal round, but lost 5-3 to Riverside, Calif., which went on to win its second straight championship.
The Tigers, who finished with a 6-2 record, placed left-fielder Mike Smith on the all-tournament team with a .518 batting average and 13 RBIs.
Other key contributors were catcher Scott Malone (.348), utilityman Shawn Mackin (2-0 as pitcher, .392), right fielder Paul Sorensen (.392, eight stolen bases), first baseman Steve McDonald (.355) and pitcher Jim Olsen (2-0, .400).
Registration for the high school intramural AAU program for 9th-10th- and 11th-12th-grade boys and girls teams is due Monday, except for those trying out for high school teams. Their registration is due Nov. 27.
Info: (509) 927-9167.
The Inland Northwest Sub-Novice Tournament, for boxers with five bouts or less, will be Saturday and Sunday at the Spokane Karate Center, 1818 E. Sprague.
Boxers from throughout the Northwest and Canada are expected. Weigh-in and physicals begin at 8 a.m. Saturday. Elimination bouts begin at 1 and 7 p.m. Finals begin Sunday at noon.
Info: Dan Vassar, (509) 928-6584.
Two men from the Spokane Club had a golden experience at the ninth annual Huntsman World Senior Games last month in St. George, Utah.
Bernie Goble of Spokane compiled a 6-0 record, winning 17 of the 18 games he played, to win the gold medal in the men's 70-75-year-old singles division.
George Sherman of Worley, Idaho, had a 7-0 record and beat the country's No. 2 ranked player en route to winning the men's 60-65 division.
And together, they won the men's 60-65 doubles.
The victories earned the two, who earlier in the summer had similar success in the Idaho state championships, berths in the U.S. Senior Olympics in 1997 in Texas.
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Victoria Melita, Princess of Saxe Coburg and Gotha
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German-British royalty, known to the royal families of Europe as "Ducky", the daughter of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (later Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha) and Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia. She had both Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Czar Alexander II for grandparents.
She was coaxed by her grandmother Victoria to marry her homosexual cousin, Ernest Ludwig (known to the royal families as "Ernie"), the future Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, on 19 April 1894 in Coburg, Germany. The couple had one daughter, Eisabeth Marie Alice Viktoria, on 11 March 1895. The couple split in 1901, when a frustrated Ducky, liberated by the death of Queen Victoria, left Ernie for her lover, Grand Duke Kirill of Russia, whom she eventually married on 8 October 1905 in Tegernsee, Germany, after divorcing Ernie.
Little Elisabeth died of typhoid in Skierniewice, Poland on 16 November 1903. Ducky was not there at the time, but was alerted by telegram that her daughter was sick. Unfortunately, she did not make it in time to see her daughter alive again. She and Kirill eventually had two daughters and a son.
She died in Amorbach, Bavaria, Germany on 2 March 1936.
- parent->child relationship with Elisabeth, Princess of Hesse and by Rhine (born 11 March 1895)
- child->parent relationship with Alfred, Prince (1844) (born 6 August 1844)
- spouse relationship with Cyril Vladimirovich, Grand Duke of Russia (born 30 September 1876 Jul.Cal. (12 Oct 1876 greg.))
- spouse relationship with Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (born 25 November 1868)
- sibling relationship with Alexandra, Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (born 1 September 1878)
- sibling relationship with Alfred, Prince (1874) (born 15 October 1874)
- sibling relationship with Beatrice, Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (born 20 April 1884)
- sibling relationship with Marie, Queen of Romania (born 29 October 1875)
- Relationship : Marriage 19 April 1894 at 12:00 noon in Coburg (First husband, Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine)
chart Placidus Equal_H.
- Family : Change in family responsibilities 11 March 1895 in Darmstadt (Daughter Elisabeth Marie Alice Viktoria)
chart Placidus Equal_H.
- Death of Sibling 6 February 1899 at 4:15 PM in Merano (Prince Alfred of England, suicide by gunshot)
chart Placidus Equal_H.
- Death of Father 30 July 1900 at 10:00 PM in Schloss Rosenau b. Coburg (Prince Alfred, Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha)
chart Placidus Equal_H.
- Relationship : Marriage 8 October 1905 in Tegernsee (Second husband, Grand Duke Kirill of Russia)
chart Placidus Equal_H.
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Sophie Dupré website, selling memorabilia, quotes a document from Queen Victoria of Great Britain, signed to the president of Peru:
"Our dearly beloved Daughter-in-law ... the Duchess of Edinburgh, Daughter of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, was safely delivered of a Princess at the Sant Antonio Palace, Malta, at five minutes to six o'clock on the afternoon of the 25th Ultimo"
Dimitri Macedonsky's website on Russian succession quotes the Windsor Castle court circular, 27 November 1876, and The Times, 28 November 1876:
"Her Majesty received on Saturday night the joyful intelligence of the Duchess of Edinburgh's confinement at 6 o'clock that evening at Malta and of the birth of a Princess, Her Majesty's sixteenth granddaughter and twenty-fifth grandchild. Both the Duchess and infant Princess are geing on quite well."
Sy Scholfield quotes The London Gazette, 27 November 1876, p. 6526 for the 25th at "5.55 in the afternoon." https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/24387/page/6526
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Hanger Orthopedic Group Launches Online Social Networking Community for Amputees, www.EmpoweringAmputees.org
Hanger Orthopedic Group (NYSE: HGR) announced the launch of www.EmpoweringAmputees.org, an online social networking community created specifically for amputees and others affected by limb loss. Designed to serve as the online extension of Hanger's nationwide peer-to-peer support network called the Amputee Empowerment Partners (AEP), EmpoweringAmputees.org is a free resource for individuals around the world to connect and discuss topics related to the life of amputees.
"As the industry leader in orthotics and prosthetics patient care, it is Hanger's responsibility to provide our profession and the amputee community with the most advanced resources available," Hanger President and CEO Tom Kirk said. "We recognize that the way people communicate is rapidly evolving. EmpoweringAmputees.org addresses this evolution and provides a secure environment for valuable discussion among those affected by limb loss. We anticipate EmpoweringAmputees.org will become the primary social networking site for amputees."
Built on the established Ning (www.ning.com) platform, the EmpoweringAmputees.org community is intended to provide a safe place for amputees, family members, caregivers, and medical professionals to share personal stories, educational information, community events, photographs and videos, and to ask questions and start discussions with others affected by limb loss or congenital limb deficiency.
"Every time a connection is made between people who really understand what the other is going through, we become stronger, wiser, more aware and more empowered," AEP National Coordinator Carrie Davis said. "As someone born with a limb deficiency, it's my opinion that our hands and feet are just bonuses; if they're lost to an injury, disease, or if they were never there at all, we can rise to the challenge and reinvent ourselves according to who we are - not what we're missing. EmpoweringAmputees.org provides a place where people can glean inspiration and knowledge from people who really get it."
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Industry collaboration creates greener concrete
James Cook University (JCU) scientists have teamed up with Queensland company Fibercon to develop a concrete product that is made from recycled plastic, reducing the carbon footprint of construction at no additional cost.
The research team led by Dr Rabin Tuladhar from JCU developed the innovative product using recycled polypropylene plastic waste from industry to reinforce concrete. The manufacturing process includes melt-spinning and hot-drawing processes which strengthen the molecular structure of the recycled polypropylene, and surface modification (diamond shaped indents) which improve its bonding with concrete.
The result is Emesh – a robust, durable and crack-resistant concrete product strong enough to replace steel mesh in concrete footpaths. Earlier this year, the product was successfully trialled in the construction of a 100m concrete footpath at JCU, and pre-cast concrete drainage pits designed by Fibercon.
Environmentally-friendly products are often more expensive than traditional alternatives, but with Emesh that's not that case. The product is either cost neutral or offers cost and time savings compared to steel-reinforced concrete. Using recycled plastic in concrete also reduces the plastic waste that goes to landfill and helps to decrease the carbon footprint of construction.
This 'greener concrete' was developed as part of PhD student Shi Yin's research at JCU, and recently won the Manufacturing, Construction and Innovation category at The Australian Innovation Challenge. The next phase of research will further enhance the mechanical and bond properties of plastic fibres using surface modification. The team is also looking into the potential use of recycled plastic fibres in other pre-cast concrete applications.


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"This is a very healthy muffins, good for breakfast and lunch. You can see there are many ingredients making the muffins full of flovour, however, the muffins come out not moist and sweet but good for health. Sweet and butter lover, please don't try."
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- 1 1⁄2 cups whole wheat flour
- 3⁄4 cup oats
- 1 cup milk
- 1 fresh lemon juice
- 1 cup whole grain cereal
- 4 tablespoons light brown sugar
- 3⁄4 cup maple syrup
- 2 eggs (beaten)
- 1⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1⁄3 teaspoon nutmeg
- 3⁄4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 cup pecans (or your desired)
- 1⁄2 cup raisins (or your desired)
- Preheat oven at 375 degree.
- Combine the whole wheat flour, baking powder, baking soda, nutmeg, cinnamon and salt together and set aside.
- Mix the milk and fresh lemon juice together and set aside for about five minutes (or you can use 1 cup sour cream instead); I place the mixture in hot water, so that the milk becomes thicken quicker.
- Soaked the whole grain cereal in the milk mixture and set aside.
- Stir the light brown sugar and egg and mix well.
- Add vanilla extract and maple syrup into the egg mixture and mix well.
- Pour the milk mixture into the egg mixture and stir a little bit and then add pecans and raisins.
- Pour the dry ingredient into the mixture and mix well (not too much, just mix them together or the flour cannot be seen.
- Put the mixture into muffin cups about 3/4 full (i Usually make them full) and bake for 25 to 30 minutes.
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Perhaps we need to begin with a question — does love create sexual desire or does sexual desire create a feeling of love? For me, the answer lies in why people get married in the first place.
One would assume that every marriage is sexual but you might be surprised to hear that it's not. In the early stages, most couples can't get enough. Everything else in their lives is fitted around love-making but, after the first one to two years, the intensity of these feelings inevitably dies down, hopefully to be replaced by friendship, trust and respect, and other deeper connections. That's not to say that romance and sex should take a second place, but they fall into a more balanced perspective.
As the years go by, however, if partners don't work at it, they can grow further and further apart until there's nothing much left. Couples then either play up, split up, or endure 'dead' marriages.
A few actually decide, quite deliberately, to give up sex — to be asexual partners and live on together for the sake of the children, for financial reasons or out of habit. I think many just drift into these arrangements because they're too lazy to find a solution, or because repair's been left too late.
Is no sex better than bad sex? My view, and that of experts in this field, is yes. It's the same as the debate over breaking up or staying together. Breaking up is painful but not as much as staying in a hurtful marriage. Yet millions of people around the world live in hurtful marriages and have poor sex constantly. Too many of us forget that sex is not a mindless, physical activity — it engages the whole body, the heart, the imagination, not just the genital areas.
"To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves." ― Federico García Lorca
To be sexy, we need to feel sexy, think sexy and act sexy. There's a tendency for married people to assume their partners are always there, ready and available to them, or that they are permanently responsible for their sexual desire. A case in point came from a man who would complain that he had a constant erection (not most people's idea of a problem!) and his wife was sick of it. He said she would groan every night when he entered the bedroom with his hard-on. It was a lighthearted problem but raised an interesting issue. I told him to reassure his wife that she's not responsible for dealing with his erections, that just because he's hard doesn't imply an obligation on her.
There's usually less preamble in a marital relationship. Couples lose or neglect the art of seduction. Apart from the stresses and pressures, each partner also brings all the disappointment, disillusionment and hang-ups from the past into the current alliance. This extra baggage gets in the way of present-day attempts to enjoy unhampered closeness. None of us has a perfect childhood or a perfect sex education. Overly prescriptive, guilt-ridden backgrounds are common and they create uptight, control freaks who are too scared to break out of their conditioned responses and find a new, better way to be happy and to relate.
It's not hard to understand why sex turns sour in so many marriages. Male attitudes still dominate, I'm afraid, and women are often not encouraged to initiate or take an active role in love-making. Later in the marriage, men get tired or bored with doing all the work but, by then, women cannot break out of their passive roles. Conversely, women who enjoy initiating can sometimes threaten their partners' masculinity and this causes a different set of problems. Men who lack finesse and tenderness, women who lack sensitivity and participation — these can never make ideal bed-partners. The relationship itself dictates the success or failure of the love-making between them.
"I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are." ― Jess C. Scott
If individuals feel unhappy, let-down, unloved, vulnerable, put-down, used and so on, they're unlikely to enjoy sex fully. Spontaneity is impossible under these conditions, as it opens up the possibility of rejection. Partner response is a spicy ingredient in the love-making stew, and only the most egocentric or cynical lover would ignore or underestimate its importance. Without it, you may just as well masturbate. Uninterested or unfeeling participants are cheating themselves, as we saw in the section on libido, but they're also denying their partners the greatest pleasure of all — to see and feel another's sexual joy.
Foreplay is vitally important, not just to achieve orgasm for the woman, but for closeness and mutual pleasuring. It isn't just the half-hour or so of touching, kissing and fondling that goes on in bed before intercourse. That's a very limited view of foreplay. I believe that sex is merely an extension of the good feelings generated between people during the day, an extended form of communication. If that rapport is positive, positive, loving feelings will be taken into bed. If communication is negative, negative energy in bed will result.
Dr Michael Clarke speaks of the 23-and-a-half-hour foreplay, in other words, the whole day leading up to the half-hour of actual love-making. It doesn't have to be a big deal — just a wink, a touch, a glance, a cheeky smile, a light touch, gestures that say 'I love you and I can't walt to make love to you tonight.' The sexist thing in the world is love. That feeling of sexual desire and knowing that you turn another person on is the most exciting aphrodisiac.


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Numberfit is a numeracy program for children between 3 and 14 years old. Our integrated sessions combine mathematics, with an emphasis on problem solving, in line with the national curriculum, with fitness, fun and team sport. We make learning numeracy enjoyable and engaging. Our approach allows children of differing abilities to compete in a rare environment where a child's sex is no advantage. We use a creative incentive scheme to further motivate participants. We involve parents in sessions and look for coaches passionate about numeracy to enthuse children.
Numberfit is looking for an intern to support the business sales and marketing. No experience is necessary, we are looking for someone with great ideas and the energy and enthusiasm to be part of this growing and innovative company. As the role is fairly new it will develop, but we would ideally like somebody who could progress into a strategic role. The role will include:
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This is a great opportunity to be part of something new and exciting at the beginning of its journey and grow with it into the future.
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AER Lingus' performance during the key summer months of July and August of this year was better than the same time last year.
In a trading update issued ahead of an investor day presentation, the airline said that yields per passenger in those months increased by 4.6pc compared to last year.
It said that passenger volumes for July and August rose by 1.4pc, and passenger yields are 7.1pc ahead so far this year.
Aer Lingus said that ancillary revenue per passenger increased by 5.1pc compared to the same time in 2010 and is now in line with 2010 on a year to date basis.
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As strange as it sounds, the Game Boy Color could use a few great big-head kart racers. These games have been a staple of console systems since Nintendo's Super Mario Kart lit the green light, but for some strange reason, the Game Boy Color hasn't seen its share. Developers are finally catching up at the end of the life-cycle -- and by this time next year, we'll be swimming in Mario Kart clones on the Game Boy Advance.
But even then, those Mode 7 racers will all look sort of the same, and might all play the same as well. Now is the opening for Game Boy Color designers to try some new tricks and perfect old standards on the Game Boy Color before it all becomes too easy on the new hardware. Woody doesn't go for the new tricks, but it finally perfects the Kart racing gameplay on the Game Boy Color. It's about time!
- Trade ghost lap records with other Game Boy players
- Linked two-player racing
- Battery back-up save keeps times and trophies for three players
- Only for Game Boy Color
As absurd as it seems, the almost inconsequential Woody Woodpecker Racing (based on Walter Lantz classic hyperactive cartoon character, all but forgotten with the Pokémon-addicted digi-kids) is the best kart racer on the Game Boy Color. It's slow, but steady, and it wins the race with a trunk loaded with extras.
Fueled up by Konami internal development studios, the production values of this game are above and beyond the call of duty in the quick-to-move Christmas season. There's a battery back-up to save a player's stats instead of the traditional hassle password, and it keeps those stats over three players in the quasi-quest mode. Each player will have to battle through the game's increasingly difficult and interesting stages to unlock all of the characters and extra car parts. The game also stores three Ghost laps for players to challenge themselves if they find the computer too simple. These Ghost laps can be traded to other Woody racers so they can see just how good you are before you link up and play against each other in the game's multiple tracks. And those power-ups and hidden weapons you've unlocked? They'll come in handy in the Link play as well, since each player's individual progress is available to use against the other racer. They may have unlocked more of the faster racers, but you might have unlocked better car parts for the standard racer, so who has the advantage is up in the air (unless you're racing a newbie, of course. Then, they're toast.) This is the kind of integrated bonus material and polished features that usually only come out in first-party Nintendo games, and it's incredible to see that quality here.
And that sharp detailing stretched down into the graphics as well. The car models and big head figures are absolutely forgettable and unrecognizable -- a real heartbreaker when one of the badly-drawn characters is Chilly Willy. That much of the game needed much improvement, but since most of these characters wouldn't be familiar to most kids anyway, it's not a grand loss, and to compensate for the shoddy racers, there is an inset window at the bottom of the player's screen showing an animated close-up of your racer gritting his teeth from a hit or throwing back a good laugh as you blow pass the leader.
The track visuals, on the other hand, are sharp and varied, with subtle coloring and lots of variety. There aren't any effects (although, back to the cars really quick, the Ghost lap shows a nice transparency effect on the ghosted racer), but the main goal was clean, clear visuals that go somewhere in a lap. You'll see a golf course with pins and sand traps, train tracks in the Wild West Ghost Town, and even a full pirate ship in the icy stage (which, of course, has a ramp up to race on its bridge). And while the tracks are mostly flat-colored, the surface detail (when it is there) is sharp and actually interactive -- little pixels of gravel make the racer bump and slow down slightly. There are also nice touches for the comic effect -- racers drop with a whistle when they slide off the track, and some stages have dogs on the sidelines, fish jumping in the pond, and other details along the track. Halloween Town has hanging pumpkin lanterns, and one stage even has polar bears pointing the way.
Nice graphics are great, but racing games live and die by their control. Woody Woodpecker Racing drives very smoothly, but may be too slow for most race fans. It's a leisurely game unfortunately, and even fully powered, cars don't move as fast as they might in something like R.C. Pro Am. Still, the game's challenge is fair and strong, always pushing gamers but never unfairly like in the PlayStation version, and the racing fun is there still in the slower pace.
If you can get used to the low speed, the game's controls reward. Driving is smooth and precise, with a nice power-sliding engine and smart placement of Zipper Plates and other track elements to encourage smart driving. Enemy AI isn't brilliant -- the computer will make mistakes it should have seen -- but in some cases, it's smart enough to pose a good challenge. For instance, when enemies get Invincibility potions, they will intentionally steer to wipe out other racers. As far as the weapon selection, it's not brilliant or different from Mario, and only a few attacks really do much damage, but some are handled cleverly even though they're generic attacks. The best is the Missile, which seeks out the leader and hammers him. If you're battling for the lead and launch a Missile, best be careful not to pass your opponent, or the Missile will tag you instead!
Outside of the speed, the only complaints I'd have are that the engine sometimes slows down -- otherwise, it runs silky-smooth with lots of frames of animation for the racers, so even though it's not so fast, it still races technically. Rarely does the slowdown kill you in play, but when it happens, it's pretty severe and slows the game to a crawl for a second. Also, Konami of America should have double-checked this game before getting it to market -- the text is plagued with little funny Japanglish phrases like "The grade has become 4" and "Aim at full victory!" When one of the racers is unlocked, he exclaims that it's about time he's gotten his fair shot at the title, but crunched into Japanglish, the text became, "It's about time I got shot!"
While Konami's PlayStation versions of Universal Interactive games have been universally disappointing, the Game Boy games have been an entirely different surprise. The Grinch was chosen as one of our Editor's Choice titles, and from our brief play of The Mummy, the game is an old-school but promising platformer. And now Woody Woodpecker Racing is the best surprise in any kart racer on the Game Boy Color. All developed by Konami's great Japanese production staff, the quality of these games bodes greatly for Konami and Universal's other upcoming games -- Jurassic Park III, The Thing, and the incredible PlayStation expatriate and Crash Bandicoot on the Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance.
We weren't sure what to expect from these games at first, especially since the Universal / Konami deal and titles came so fast and furious, but with trademark Konami quality shown in Woody Woodpecker Racing, there's no need to fear. Nice lap, Konami. Keep up that pace and you'll smoke 'em out there.


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Skeletal muscle insulin sensitivity improves with a moderate reduction in caloric intake. We studied possible mechanisms in calorie-restricted [CR: 60% ad libitum (AL) intake] compared with AL rats, utilizing a time-matched feeding protocol (3, 5, 10, or 20 days). Visceral fat mass was lower for CR vs. AL at 10 and 20 days, but insulin-stimulated muscle 3-O-methylglucose transport was higher in CR vs. AL rats only at 20 days. Fructose 6-phosphate (precursor for the hexosamine biosynthetic pathway, which has inverse relationship with insulin sensitivity) was reduced only at 3 days of CR. Insulin stimulation of insulin receptor substrate (IRS)-1-, IRS-2-, and antiphosphotyrosine-associated phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) was similar for CR and AL. A PI3K inhibitor, wortmannin, reduced insulin-stimulated 3-O-methylglucose transport to basal levels, regardless of diet. With brief time-matched CR, reduced visceral fat mass precedes increased insulin sensitivity; transient reduction in fructose 6-phosphate may trigger more persistent changes but does not coincide with enhanced insulin action; and PI3K is essential for insulin-stimulated 3-O-methylglucose transport in CR as well as AL rats, although insulin-stimulated PI3K is not significantly greater in CR compared with AL animals.
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moderate calorie restriction (CR; consuming 60–75% of ad libitum intake) improves insulin action, and a pivotal adaptation to CR is the enhanced insulin-stimulated glucose transport in skeletal muscle (18). Skeletal muscle accounts for most of the whole body insulin-mediated glucose clearance (14, 19), and glucose transport appears to be the rate-limiting step of glucose metabolism in skeletal muscle (28). Little is known about the cellular mechanisms underlying this process. Elucidating these mechanisms has importance for both fundamental biology and clinical application. Our overall hypothesis is that CR induces changes in the skeletal muscle insulin-signaling pathway, secondary to changes in the metabolic milieu of the muscle (for example, changes in concentrations of key metabolites).
In this study, our first goal was to evaluate the time course for CR effects on glucose transport. We previously characterized the time course for increased insulin sensitivity with brief CR and found increased glucose transport after 5 days of CR despite no significant reduction in visceral fat mass detected at 5 days of CR, suggesting that a substantial decline in this tissue mass was not essential for the improved insulin action (4). In that study, CR animals were provided their feed in a single daily allotment, whereas controls had continuous access to feed. With this conventional (once daily) feeding approach, CR rats eat all of their food within 2–3 h of being fed, whereas ad libitum-fed rats eat throughout the day. To evaluate the effects of reduced food intake, independent of temporal differences in consumption, we studied control and CR groups of rats that were matched for timing of feeding, and we found that CR elicited enhanced insulin action compared with time-matched controls (18). Because we previously compared time-matched groups after only 20 days of CR, we have now investigated the effects on glucose transport of a time-matched feeding protocol with shorter periods (3, 5, and 10 days) of CR to determine whether enhanced insulin action preceded a detectable decline in visceral fat mass under time-matched feeding conditions.
Brief (5–28 days) CR does not increase insulin receptor number, binding affinity, or tyrosine kinase activity (1, 7), suggesting a postreceptor mechanism. However, CR does not induce an increased abundance of insulin receptor substrate (IRS)-1 or IRS-2 (the two IRS proteins expressed by skeletal muscle) or p85 phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) abundance (13). There is also no significant increase in IRS-1-associated PI3K activity with CR (12, 13). Furthermore, insulin-stimulated glucose transport is also increased in transgenic mice that lack IRS-1, implicating an IRS-1-independent mechanism (16). None of these studies used a time-matched feeding protocol.
Considerable evidence indicates that insulin stimulation of glucose transport is dependent on PI3K activity (8, 24); therefore, our second goal was to assess the possible influence of CR on PI3K and the role of PI3K in CR-induced increase in insulin-stimulated glucose transport. We used four approaches to assess the relationship between CR and PI3K in muscle. First, we assessed IRS-1-PI3K activity in time-matched CR rats. Second, we determined the effect of CR on IRS-2-PI3K activity, which had not been previously evaluated with CR. Third, we determined the influence of CR on phosphotyrosine (pTyr)-associated PI3K activity in muscle. The rationale for this experiment was that another intervention, a single bout of exercise that increases insulin-stimulated glucose transport without increasing IRS-1-associated PI3K (10, 25, 26), has been shown to elevate pTyr-associated PI3K (27). It seemed possible that CR might also amplify this aspect of insulin signaling. Finally, we used wortmannin, a specific PI3K inhibitor, to examine whether the CR-induced increase in insulin-stimulated glucose transport requires the insulin-mediated increase in PI3K activity.
Our third goal was to determine the influence of brief CR on skeletal muscle concentration of fructose 6-phosphate (F-6-P). F-6-P is a substrate for glutamine:fructose-6-phosphate amidotransferase (GFAT), the first and rate-limiting enzyme of the hexosamine biosynthetic pathway. High flux through this pathway is associated with insulin resistance (21); therefore, we reasoned that reduced flux through this pathway may be associated with increased insulin sensitivity with CR. Consistent with this idea, we recently found that 20 days of CR led to a reduction in muscle concentration of UDP-N-acetylhexosamine (formed by the hexosamine pathway) (18). We now test the hypothesis that muscle F-6-P concentration declines with CR, which, in turn, could potentially account for lower UDP-N-acetylhexosamine levels. We also measured muscle concentration of glucose 6-phosphate (G-6-P), the immediate precursor for F-6-P, which is an important allosteric regulator of glycogen metabolism.
Animal care and feeding.
Animal procedures were approved by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Research Animal Review Committee. For both experiment 1 (3, 5, and 10 days of CR) and experiment 2 (20 days of CR), male Fischer 344 × Brown Norway, F1 generation rats (F344BNF1/Nia), aged 4 mo, were obtained through the National Institute on Aging from Harlan Sprague Dawley (Indianapolis, IN). Animals were housed individually in wire-bottomed cages in a controlled environment (22–25°C, 40–50% humidity, 12:12-h light-dark cycle with lights on 0600–1800). Rats were given ad libitum access to water and feed (Teklad Rodent Diet no. 8604, Harlan Teklad, Madison, WI) for a 1-wk acclimation period.
After acclimation, rats in experiment 1 were randomly assigned to treatment groups. Baseline feed intake was assessed over 7 days for each rat by presenting feed ad libitum and measuring feed eaten, remaining, and spilled. All rats were familiarized to a meal-feeding protocol for 7 days, wherein they were given a portion of 100% of their individual baseline feed allotment in three 1.5-h periods (30% at 0600, 30% at 1500, and 40% at 2000). After familiarization with the meal-feeding protocol, the ad libitum (AL) group continued receiving 100% of baseline intake for 10 (10AL) days, and the calorie-restricted (CR) groups received 60% of their individual baseline intake according to the same meal-feeding protocol for 3 (3CR), 5 (5CR), or 10 (10CR) days. Feed intake and loss by spillage were measured daily for all rats.
Rats in experiment 2 were ranked by weight and assigned to control or treatment groups such that initial weight means ± SE were similar for all groups. Baseline feed intake assessment was as inexperiment 1. The meal-feeding protocol familiarization was as in experiment 1 except that meal proportions were slightly adjusted to ensure complete consumption of feed (35% at 0600, 25% at 1500, and 40% at 2000). After familiarization with the meal-feeding protocol, the AL group continued to receive 100% of baseline intake for 20 (20AL) days while the CR group received 60% of their individual baseline intake for 20 (20CR) days. Feed intake and spillage were measured daily for all rats. As necessary to correct for spillage, adjustments in feed allotments were made to ensure that AL and CR animals consumed ∼100 and 60%, respectively, of their individual baseline intake.
Animals received their 0600 meal on the day they were killed, and at 1000 they were moved from the animal facility to the laboratory and housed individually with water ad libitum. Rats were anesthetized with pentobarbitol sodium (50 mg/kg ip) between 1300 and 1600. Order of anesthetization was alternated among groups. Epitrochlearis muscles were dissected out for in vitro incubations. A plantaris muscle was also dissected from each rat in experiment 1 and immediately freeze-clamped and stored at −80°C until analysis. The epididymal fat pads and retroperitoneal fat pads were removed and weighed.
3-O-Methylglucose transport.
Glucose transport activity was determined in isolated epitrochlearis muscle, as previously reported (18). Briefly, dissected epitrochlearis muscles were incubated (30°C) with continuous shaking in flasks of oxygenated (continuously gassed with 95% O2-5% CO2) Krebs-Henseleit buffer (KHB) containing 0.1% BSA, 2 mM sodium pyruvate, and 6 mM mannitol in the absence or presence of insulin (500 μU/ml), with or without the addition of 0.5 μM wortmannin (as noted), and with continuous gassing (95% O2-5% CO2) and shaking. One epitrochlearis muscle from each rat was used for assessing basal glucose transport, and the contralateral muscle was incubated with insulin. In a subset of experiment 2, one epitrochlearis muscle from each rat was incubated in the absence or presence of insulin (500 μU/ml), with the contralateral epitrochlearis muscle additionally receiving wortmannin (0.5 μM). After 30 min of incubation, muscles were transferred to flasks of KHB-BSA containing 8 mM 3-O-[3H]methylglucose (3MG; 0.25 mCi/mmol; NEN Life Science Products, Boston, MA), 2 mM [14C]mannitol (0.1 mCi/mmol; Amersham Pharmacia, Piscataway, NJ), and insulin and wortmannin levels as in the first incubation. After 15 min, muscles were blotted, trimmed, freeze-clamped, and stored at −80°C until analyzed. Rate of 3MG transport was determined as previously described (2) by use of a portion of the muscle after homogenization in 0.3 N perchloric acid.
Glycogen concentration.
Muscle glycogen was determined in PCA homogenates of plantaris (experiment 1) and epitrochlearis (experiment 2) by the fluorometric amyloglucosidase method (22).
G-6-P and F-6-P concentrations.
G-6-P and F-6-P in plantaris muscles were measured by fluorometric procedure, as previously described (20).
A portion of the epitrochlearis muscle of animals in experiment 2was used for insulin signaling assessment by measuring PI3K activity, as previously described (13). Frozen epitrochlearis muscle was homogenized in ice-cold homogenization buffer [50 mM HEPES, pH 7.5, 150 mM NaCl, 10 mM sodium pyrophosphate (NaPP), 2 mM Na3VO4, 10 mM NaF, 2 mM EDTA, 2 nM phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride (PMSF), 5 μg/ml leupeptin, 1% NP-40, and 10% glycerol]. A portion of the resultant supernatant was used for determination of protein concentration using bicinchoninic acid. Immunoprecipitation of IRS-1-, IRS-2-, and pTyr-PI3K was performed on epitrochlearis homogenate by use of polyclonal anti-IRS-1 antibody, raised against the carboxy-terminal 14-amino acid peptide [(C)YASINFQKQPEDRQ] of rat liver IRS-1; polyclonal anti-IRS-2 antibody, raised against a GST fusion protein containing amino acids 976–1094 of mouse IRS-2 from Upstate Biotechnology (Lake Placid, NY), cat. nos. 06–248 and 06–506, respectively; or monoclonal anti-pTyr clone PT-66 antibody, derived from the hybridoma produced by the fusion of mouse myeloma cells and splenocytes from a mouse immunized with a phosphotyrosine-BSA conjugate; Sigma (St. Louis, MO), cat. no. P3300.
IRS- and pTyr-associated PI3K assays.
IRS-1-, IRS-2-, and pTyr-associated PI3K activities were assessed as previously described (13). The reaction mixture contained 30 μCi of [γ-32P]ATP (NEN Life Science Products, Boston, MA) and 20 μg of phosphatidylinositol (AVANTI Polar Lipids, Alabaster, AL). Results are reported as counts per minute per milligram protein per 20 min.
Statistical analysis.
Differences among diet groups were analyzed by one-way ANOVA with a Tukey-Kramer multiple comparisons post hoc test for multiple group statistics, or by Student's t-test when only two groups were compared (InStat, GraphPad Software, San Diego, CA). A Pvalue <0.05 was considered to be significant.
Food intake.
Figure 1 shows average food intake for rats for experiment 2. A similar pattern of eating occurred for experiment 1 (which ended after 10 days of CR). On the first day of the meal familiarization period (designated as "day −7" on Fig. 1), feed intake was reduced compared with baseline values. However, rats rapidly adjusted their feeding behavior so that during the 10-day treatment period forexperiment 1, mean feed intake of the 10AL group equaled 97% of their baseline intake, and during the 20-day treatment period of experiment 2, mean feed intake of the 20AL group equaled 98% of their baseline intake. The mean daily feed intake of CR groups in experiment 1 (3CR, 5CR, and 10CR) equaled 65–67% of the 10AL group. The feed intake of the 20CR group during the treatment period equaled 61% of the 20AL group.
Body and fat pad weights.
In each experiment there was no difference in initial animal weights; however, as expected, final body weight was lower in CR compared with AL groups (Fig. 2, P < 0.0001). Retroperitoneal fat pad mass was significantly lower in the 5CR, 10CR, and 20CR groups than in respective AL groups inexperiments 1 and 2 (Table1, P < 0.05). Epididymal fat pad mass did not significantly differ among treatment groups inexperiment 1 but was significantly lower in 20CR compared with 20AL in experiment 2 (P < 0.0001).
Muscle glycogen concentration.
Muscle glycogen concentration did not differ among treatment groups in either experiment (data not shown).
G-6-P and F-6-P concentrations.
Muscle G-6-P concentration was not significantly different among diet groups (Fig. 3 A). Muscle F-6-P concentration (Fig. 3 B) was significantly lower in the 3CR compared with the 10AL group (P < 0.05). Muscle F-6-P concentrations were not different in the 20CR compared with the 20AL group.
Epitrochlearis 3MG transport.
There was no significant effect of 3, 5, or 10 days of CR on either basal or insulin-stimulated 3MG transport in epitrochlearis (data not shown). As expected, basal 3MG transport did not differ between 20AL and 20CR groups (Fig. 4). Insulin-stimulated 3MG transport was significantly greater in the 20CR compared with the 20AL group (P = 0.006). Wortmannin inhibited 3MG transport in insulin-stimulated muscles to values not different from basal levels (data not shown).
PI3K activity.
IRS-1, IRS-2, and pTyr-associated PI3K activities were determined from 20AL and 20CR rat epitrochlearis muscle (Fig.5). There was no significant difference between AL and CR groups for IRS-1-, IRS-2-, or pTyr-associated PI3K activity under basal or insulin-stimulated conditions. These values were also not significantly different between diet groups when expressed as an increase above basal level (insulin-treated value − basal value) or as a degree of increase (insulin-treated value ÷ basal value). Wortmannin treatment reduced pTyr-PI3K activity in insulin-treated muscles to values not different from basal levels (data not shown).
In this study, we have matched the timing of eating in the CR and control groups because timing of eating can influence metabolism and gene expression (15, 22), and failure to control for this variable may confound the identification of changes that are related to amount, rather than timing, of food intake. The major aims of the experiments reported here were to 1) assess effects of a time-matched feeding protocol on insulin-stimulated 3MG glucose transport in skeletal muscle after 3, 5, 10, and 20 days of CR;2) investigate effects of time-matched CR on IRS-1, IRS-2-, and pTyr-associated PI3K activity and to determine whether the CR-induced increase in insulin sensitivity is wortmannin inhibitable; and 3) assess effects of brief CR on F-6-P(initial substrate for the hexosamine biosynthetic pathway) in skeletal muscle.
We previously reported an increase in insulin-stimulated 3MG transport in skeletal muscle of rats (8 mo-old, female, F344) after 5 or 20 days of once daily feeding CR (4). Our current results, using a time-matched feeding CR protocol, demonstrate a significant increase in insulin-stimulated 3MG transport after 20 days of CR but not after 3, 5, or 10 days of CR. In our earlier study, the CR rats consumed their allotment of feed within 3 h, whereas the AL-fed controls ate throughout the day. Thus, on the day the animals were killed, the CR animals had been without feed considerably longer, which may have influenced insulin sensitivity. We recently compared 20 days of once daily and time-matched feeding and found a significant increase in insulin-stimulated 3MG transport with each CR group compared with AL-fed animals (18). Furthermore, there was no significant difference in glucose transport between the two CR feeding protocols. Taken together, these studies suggest that the increase in insulin-stimulated glucose transport that we previously observed after only 5 days of once daily feeding CR was likely due to differences in timing of eating. It is also possible that differences in the time courses between the current study and the original study with once daily feeding CR (4) were influenced by differences in age, gender, or rat strains. This earlier study also reported that the increase in insulin sensitivity preceded any change in abdominal fat mass changes, whereas our current study identified significant decreases in retroperitoneal fat mass before a significant increase in insulin-stimulated 3MG transport.
We found that CR did not significantly increase IRS-1-associated PI3K activity, confirming our previous results (12, 13). In each of these studies, there has been a nonsignificant trend for a slightly higher IRS-1-associated PI3K in the CR groups compared with the AL control group. We also extend our previous findings by demonstrating that brief CR does not alter IRS-2- or pTyr-associated PI3K activity. Furthermore, we found that wortmannin, a specific PI3K inhibitor, blocked the CR-induced increase in glucose transport. Taken together, these results suggest that PI3K activity is essential for improved insulin action with CR but that the insulin-stimulated increase in IRS-1/2-associated PI3K is not markedly elevated for CR compared with AL groups. Several possible mechanisms might account for these results. For example, it is conceivable that CR 1) alters cellular localization of signaling components; 2) acts on a post-PI3K signaling event; and/or 3) affects one or more components of a recently proposed pathway (involving the proteins Cbl, CAP, CrkII, C3G, and TC10), which is parallel to and acts in concert with the PI3K pathway (9, 23). Regardless of the putative effects on insulin signaling, the enhanced insulin-stimulated glucose transport can ultimately be accounted for by a greater translocation of the GLUT-4 glucose transporter to the cell surface of muscle from CR compared with AL rats (11).
After a single bout of exercise, insulin-stimulated glucose transport is increased in skeletal muscle (3, 5, 6). A recent study reported that insulin-stimulated pTyr-associated PI3K activity was higher in exercised compared with nonexercised muscle (27). Therefore, we considered the possibility that CR might have a similar effect, and we found that brief CR did not increase insulin-stimulated pTyr-associated PI3K activity, suggesting a difference in the mechanisms by which CR and exercise increase insulin sensitivity. Consistent with this interpretation, prior exercise leads to enhanced activation of glucose transport by insulin-independent stimuli (in vitro hypoxia) (5), but CR does not enhance hypoxia-stimulated glucose transport (13).
High flux through the hexosamine biosynthetic pathway is associated with insulin resistance (21), and we previously found that muscle concentration of UDP-N-acetylhexosamine (formed in the hexosamine biosynthetic pathway) was lower after 20 days of CR compared with ad libitum controls (with time-matched feeding protocol) despite no change in GFAT activity (17). In light of these results, an attractive hypothesis was that CR would result in lower F-6-P values compared with time-matched controls, which might, in turn, account for the lower UDP-N-acetylhexosamine levels with CR. Our present findings identified a transient decrease in F-6-P at 3 days of CR treatment, but this decrement did not coincide with the lower levels of hexosamine metabolites that we previously found at 20 days of CR. The absence of a CR effect on GFAT activity was determined at a saturating F-6-P concentration (18). Perhaps CR caused a decreased Michaelis-Menten kinetic constant of GFAT for F-6-P, which could lead to lower accumulation of hexosamine metabolites.
In conclusion, the present results indicated that a moderate loss of visceral fat mass with CR preceded increased insulin-stimulated glucose transport when timing of food intake was matched with controls. Therefore, it remains possible that there is a link between the brief CR-induced changes in body composition and muscle insulin action. There was a decline in F-6-P at 3 days of CR that was reversed by 20 days of CR. The transient decline in F-6-P may trigger more persistent changes, but lower F-6-P concentration does not directly account for enhanced glucose transport with 20 days of CR. Insulin stimulation of glucose transport was inhibited by wortmannin in CR as well as AL rats, demonstrating an essential role for PI3K in activating glucose transport, regardless of diet. In addition, PI3K activity was not significantly different between AL and CR groups, suggesting that improved insulin sensitivity with brief CR is the result of enhanced signaling at a post-PI3K step, altered subcellular distribution of PI3K, and/or modification of PI3K-independent insulin signaling.
We acknowledge the technical assistance of Joel Chapman, Charles L. Dumke, Mark Obermyer, and Jay Wong.
This study was supported by National Institutes of Health Grant R01-AG-10026 (to G. D. Cartee).
Address for reprint requests and other correspondence: G. Cartee, Kinesiology Dept., 2000 Observatory Dr., Madison, WI 53706 (E-mail: cartee{at}education.wisc.edu).
The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. The article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.
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