Jeanelle Willi

It’s been several days and I’m still recovering from my meat extravaganza the other night. The actual day after, Boyfriend and I both took it easy. He had to work a little and I decided to spend the day outside with Dog and we did some shopping and other errands.

I have to state that the city really comes alive in the summer. There are a ton of festivals and patios to dine on, it’s a nice place to live. The weather on Sunday was gorgeous, it was around 85 and there were people everywhere. After finishing up with errands, I decided to treat myself to a tiny bite at one of my favorite restaurants Adobo Grill. This place was actually the site of Boyfriend and my first ever outing, he took me for a whole snapper a couple of days after we met.

Whenever I come here I get the Acapulco Apasionado. It’s Chinaco Blanco Tequila, Alize Passion, and White Cranberry Juice. And the Shrimp Ceviche. It is so dee-lish. Since it was hot and since the Ceviche comes cold, I had to have it.

I nibbled on it for a while as I read the new Vanity Fair, had another cocktail and then ordered some Salbutes, which were these little Tostadas, topped with some Black Beans, some Achiote Marinated Chicken, Cheese, Sour Cream and some Pickled Purple Onions. I had never had them before and they were really good.

I shared them with the guys at the next table because there was more than I could eat. Boyfriend showed up a bit later and we decided to split the Chicken Tamale appetizer before heading home.

On Monday, I spent the morning getting some work done and did take a break around noon. I had this frozen Chicken Tikka Masala thing in the fridge from Whole Foods, so I popped it in the microwaved and had it for lunch. It was okay, a skimpy on the chicken and I thought the sauce was a watery but it did hit the spot.

I spent a huge chunk (2.5 hours) of the afternoon watching the Lost finale. I’m not ready to about it yet, but I will say that I really liked it. I’m already going through withdrawals at the idea that there will be no more Sawyer.

For dinner I made things simple, I had some Spaghetti and a little Salad from Chicago’s Pizza.

4 Responses to “Please the ideal food for a yellow belly slider hatchiling.?”

1. Therapist Says:
   

   May 25th, 2010 at 11:23 pm

   id go see a doctor… but you can try an antifungal otc med….
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2. Greg D Says:
   

   May 25th, 2010 at 11:41 pm

   hi, i have 2 ybs and i feed mine lettuce the lettuce thats already cut up is the best and u can feed him crickets
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3. Brittany B Says:
   

   May 25th, 2010 at 11:52 pm

   Turtle pellets
   Meal worms
   aquatic snails
   krill
   shrimp
   Romaine lettuce
   water mellon
   feeder fish
   minnows etc.
   you will probably notice that since hes young he will eat more meat and a vegetation and thats okay, as he gets older he will eat more vegetation. However our right cabbage is not good for them.
   You can add in crickets as someone else said, but the have very to no nutritional value for turtles and should not be givin as part of the main diet.
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4. lynnly Says:
   

   May 26th, 2010 at 12:11 am

   Try some tiny feeder fish, they love them just be careful how many fish you feed it bcuz they have alot of fat
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Who makes the best burger in Los Angeles? That question is the one people ask me and my burger confreres the most, and is perhaps the most difficult to answer. I came up with a list of favorites last fall, but now, just six months on, looking at it leaves me shaking my head. Is the order just right? Would I replace one for a new burger that I've tried since? It seems like a snapshot in time rather than an enduring document, but I imagine that's part of what makes the question interesting. The conversation about the best burger is an ongoing one.

Not too long ago The Foundry chef/owner Eric Greenspan decided that he wanted in on the dialogue and in a major way. Greenspan challenged Sang Yoon and his heralded Father's Office burger to a “Burger Bout” by placing a sign on the restaurant's door in the middle of the night. The stunt got the attention of the food “in crowd” here in Los Angeles and Greenspan's burger profile was raised. More recently, his burger bona fides were validated when LAist named The Foundry home to the best gourmet burger in town. All this burger brouhaha meant I was compelled to give The Foundry burger a closer look.

Greenspan opened his restaurant a few years back after making a reputation working under some of the most elite chefs in the country. His haute cuisine background is stamped all over his menu, but it runs counter to what you'd expect when meeting him. Despite his small stature there's not much about Greenspan that's diminutive. He cuts a Hitchcock-esque profile and has voluble brashness that on others would feel like self-conscious bad-boy-chef attitude. On Greenspan it just feels like the guy he's always been. Combine his big personality with years of dedicated training and you get a casual restaurant with fine dining refinement.

His burger, called The Patio Season Burger, has a simple description on the menu that belies the complexity of its construction. Listed as “Cheddar / Hawaiian Bread / Winter Condiments,” the truth of this sandwich is much bigger than that. The beef is an 80/20 blend that I'd guess has some stronger beef cuts (perhaps clod?), but when I inquire I am told quite simply, “Beef.” What I do know is that Greenspan adds what he calls “lard” for extra juice, but I'd guess it's duck fat (more on that in a bit).

The cheddar is a thin-sliced sharp, but it's in his condiments where things get a bit complex. Served on the burger is a tomato prepared confit along with a measured amount of arugula and supremely sour cornichon. On the side come three onion rings, a tamarind, onion tapenade, homemade mayonnaise, and pineapple and bacon relish. The bun is actually four small King's Hawaiian rolls left attached in the shape of a square.

The rich and full-flavored patty comes in a fine grind that would normally be a mark against a burger, but when matched by a superior crust it's a balancing texture. In fact, this patty's crust is as prodigious as any I've come across. It's deep and brown and so full of fat and flavor that I'd bet there's more going on than just proper seasoning and high heat. I suspect Greenspan makes good use of some fat—duck fat and butter perhap—to get his burgers this crusty and delicious.

The confit tomato and cornichon are overpowering on their own, but meld nicely with the other elements of the burger. The mayonnaise is so light and smooth that it makes me forget my soft spot for Hellman's. The onions and relish aren't unwelcome, but I have a hard time discerning just what they added. The onion rings, however, are so good—among the best I've ever had—that I have a hard time putting them on my burger as instructed. The addition of the King's Hawaiian bun seems out of place with the other high-end elements. It's a soft and spongy roll to be sure, but it feels decidedly off-the-rack against what is otherwise a beautifully bespoke burger creation.

The whole of the experience at The Foundry is noticeably put together. The service is attentive, but not overly formal. On one visit a mustachioed manager inquired about whether I was enjoying my food because so much was left uneaten (I was just full). On another, an impossibly beautiful server, from whom I'd expected the standard Los Angeles aloof treatment, was as solicitous and friendly as I could ask for. The music is live—while I usually avoid it with my meals, here it's mellow enough to seem like a convivial touch.

It's much the same with the burger: It's a collection of elements that I'd expect to be disappointed by, but it comes together nicely. Is it the best burger in Los Angeles? No, but it's damn good.

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WASHINGTON — The race to become the next president of the nation's fastest growing labor union became clearer on Wednesday after one of the candidates dropped out of the contest.

Anna Burger withdrew her bid to succeed Andy Stern as head of the politically powerful Service Employees International Union. Burger is second in command at the union that has close ties to President Barack Obama.

Burger was the favored choice of Stern, who is leaving after 14 years of dynamic yet sometimes divisive leadership.

Her move makes it almost certain that Mary Kay Henry – head of the union's health care division – will become its new president next month.

Four of the union's most influential vice presidents had backed Henry last week, saying they wanted the union to take a new direction. Their endorsement of Henry over Burger was widely viewed as a surprising rejection of Stern. His top-down management style has created friction and led leaders of a major SEIU local in Northern California to form a rival union.

But Burger, in a statement, rejected any suggestions that the contest represented a shift in SEIU's priorities or “rejection of the Stern/Burger agenda.”

“We women have a special knack for putting our egos aside and keeping our eye on the bigger picture and the common good,” Burger said. She called Henry an ally who shares “the same goals for our union and for the larger labor movement.”

Stern earlier this month announced his intent to step down from the 2.2-million member union that he helped build into one of the nation's largest and most politically active. He is a member of Obama's deficit commission, which held its first meeting this week.

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A of us get a great amount of good feelings out of eating. Eating feelings reward, obviously a pretty evolutionarily successful strategy. Not only that, of higher “value” body, give approval fats(butter), proteins (steak!), and high in calories (CHOCOLATE), those don't (like celery).

Obviously, is you feelings and the brain, the system pleasure that you put for the purpose. The neurotransmitter dopamine (about which Sci does to blog), is associated with feelings reward, is of neurotransmitters that highjacked by addictive drugs like cocaine. And scientists have hypothesized some that, quite, completely dopamine is dysregulated NARCOTIC addiction, perhaps is in addition dysregulated problems other natural rewards, intake problems.

This isn't a far fetched thought. The symptoms severe binge eating diseases are some symptoms of give substance having effect upon the senses addiction. People severe binge eaters* [basic, social] to overeat KNOW bad for them and society is not who are overweight. This of the same sort to having effect upon the senses addicts, take up again drug though they in even though they KNOW it is a unhappy feeling thing do. In addition, binge eaters power of mind often to reduce their food intake, attempting places for building of diets, consistently fail, very similar give substance having effect upon the senses addicts, make hard to put up with taking the drug, or attempting to quit times, to relapse.

With these similarities, it might a to how binge disrupts the dopamine system, a system with rewarding caused by and food, and whether chronic binge eating can cause changes that are like the making public drugs.

And for this, need rat.

(Sci be pleased with note makes feel famous to google an image and get it…on site. So famous! I'm the #2 go deep into “fat rat”!)

So they took rats, divided three groups. The first group (we [basic, social] them 'chow') access only to normal boring old rat chow. The give support to (motion) group got limited access 1 hour day to a high diet, is rats (we'll call them 'snackers'). The group their diet cafeteria style, of the day, every (we [basic, social] 'fat' because that's what got). They then a unbroken bunch questions three of rats.

Question 1: Do “fat” rats reward are rats?

Well first, let's take a look at 'em.

Above the three groups rats. You see the chow snacking rats (labeled “restricted” for restricted access) gained a mass less time than rats all the high they could eat. By then end, the “fat” group weighed twice as as chow group!!! They in addition took in a larger number of calories than the chow snack groups, and their calories the that tasty, fat food.

The authors then decided to at these responded reward. For they used used telephone “brain stimulation reward” BSR. Scientists certain a have a great desire if put electrode an area of the lateral hypothalamus an through it, an rewarding effect in rats. It's so that power of mind great mass of a lever for it, will even food, sex, and nice things get liquid by crushing (fruit) lever.

But this case, they “fat” rats in needed of (time, money) MORE BSR rats did. The “fat' rats a reaction to reward. This even AFTER rats taken their high food.

Question 2: Ok, have responses, how with dopamine?

To this question, scientists looked at the dopamine D2 receptor. This of makes common with a group of dopamine receptors the brain. More importantly, several (including current person on company board of NIDA, Nora Volkow) have that (and animals) who are addicted cocaine have numbers of D2 receptors, and that and animals WITH low D2 receptors “like” NARCOTICS and are more likely to abuse them. So, if binge eating give approval NARCOTIC abuse, great powers expect D2 receptors in the direction.

And enough, this what saw:

Sci loves figure in particular you can see a lovely correlation. Ah, a picture indeed a thousand words. Or least a paragraph. As you can see, as weight up (the light, grey, black dots), levels of D2 receptor words (in gel cause the picture) DOWN. So in reward, and had LOWER D2 receptor levels!

And you enough, and that is indeed a little paper. But then got GOOD.

Question 3: We know that the rats D2 and changed reward responses. If WE the D2, will reward changes and food intake go on with it?

Now, you force ask, HOW do you the receptors in a head?! Well, scientists are just that cool. There is a viral-mediated expression. Basically (very basically), you a harmless things making bad (this one was a lentivirus), a protein with some DNA inside, that is capable getting cells. You DNA virus, and you up, and insert gene of choice. In this case, they took a go journeying DOWN, reduce, the of D2 receptors. Then you that DNA back in things making bad (usually with extra make all nice), that into the brain want. And you this:

That pretty be moved by injected virus, and the virus gave disease to the cells. In this case, you're looking rat striatum, which an square measure dopamine where reduced D2 receptors linked with increased propensity for having effect upon the senses abuse. In case, virus injected the prison rooms green, and ALSO down D2 receptors in space (and ONLY area, which is makes awesome). So now, these (new rats, not the chow rats), had artificially low levels of D2 receptors in the striatum.

Then authors did same thing did with the first group, they had them BSR. And rats that had down D2 receptors made clear dysregulated BSR, fat rats before! Interestingly, these rats didn't eat more, they also had exposed the diet, and it's they couldn't put one's hands on as much at a time.

Question 4: Do fat continue overeat even the of punishment?

This is an question ask to work really the way binge eat. To this, you give a access to high fat food, a (not that damage, just short painful). You pair a light. The rat will learn power of mind (presumably) stop eating. Sure enough, when not of great weight came on, the chow rats and snack rats stopped eating. The fat rats, however, DIDN'T. Their food intake wasn't punishment anymore, something may they power of mind take up again overeat even though it is them. This ALSO when they made an attempt it with rats not naturally D2 receptors, they only this minute on eating, showing the D2 receptors have something with the way rats were food.

However, couldn't get the fat binge eat, when a term access. So the isn't perfect.

So what does mean?

All these data [second, science] that binge eating of highly in rats causes changes in D2 receptors and reward systems the following drugs of abuse. This that binge eating this is of the same sort to having effect upon the senses other models, and in D2 receptors could part of similarities.

Sci likes study for quite a number reasons. First, it's really complete. They with getting rats fat, looking differences, and then seeing if could differences, and a similar behavior. It's a study that way. It's also good they were with receptor using were a binge eating model, and with receptor knockout animals, places for building of other differences. This helps the work room design clean.

And writing-room could important. It makes a between overeating changes D2 receptors (something that has seen in humans), suggests this to changes seen drug addiction, making clear chronic overeating and addiction have mechanisms. This be very important scientists move forward in hears to give attention to present all the time overeating in humans, and how we problem, as one addiction certainly than unwillingness get the gym.

But it how not simple present all the time overeating can be. Even overeating IS just be pleased with drug wrong use (and it's probably quite a number ways), not something that is easily cured (and haven't NARCOTIC addiction yet, which gives an account you how far we go!). After all, the end, the making person do by wounding feelings for give substance having effect upon the senses QUIT, to having effect upon the senses entirely, or as possible. But can't ever QUIT eating. Instead, to be moderated and controlled, makes it almost treat. But be certain about of the mechanisms is one the steps to the problem.

Johnson, P., & Kenny, P. (2010). Dopamine D2 receptors in addiction-like reward dysfunction and compulsive eating obese rats Nature Neuroscience DOI: 10.1038/nn.2519

(*Keep mind, I'm talking about binge eating disorders, iodine talking about Sci's ten pins of Special or pint best part of anything I be certain got (flowers) and in TV. No, Sci is about binge eating, people cannot stop themselves, who a result, with making an exchange of letters quality life issues, often extremely unhappy. So don't go results of this that you're a food addict. Some you may be, of you probably aren't.)

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