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In a traditional transaction system, the application or user has very few verbs with which to control transactions. Typically these are "begin", "commit" and "rollback". When an application asks for a transaction to commit, the coordinator will execute the two-phase protocol before returning an outcome. The elapse time between the execution of the first phase and the second phase is typically milliseconds to seconds.

However, the actual two-phase protocol does not impose any restrictions on the time between executing the first and second phases. Obviously the longer this period takes the more chance there is for a failure to occur and the longer resources remain locked. BTP on the other hand, took the approach of allowing the time between these phases to be set by the application simply by expanding the verbs available to include explicit control over both phases, i.e., "prepare", "confirm" and "cancel". The application has complete control over when it can tell a transaction(s) to prepare and using whatever business logic is required, later determine which transaction(s) to confirm or cancel. This ability to explicitly control the termination protocol is a powerful tool.

Architecture of the Business Transaction Protocol

The BTP architecture can best be described with reference to Figure 3. Web Services do work within the scope of atoms (similar to atomic transactions), which are created by the initiator of the business transaction; multiple atoms are composed into a business transaction (e.g., arranging a holiday) by a cohesion composer such that different atoms may possess different outcomes, as directed by the business logic, e.g., cancel one insurance quote and confirm another.

BTP actors

Figure 3: BTP actors.

The actors involved in a BTP business transaction are:

  • Coordinator (atom): used to scope work performed on Web Services. As with an atomic transaction, the coordinator is responsible for informing enlisted participants about whether they should accept (confirm) or reject (cancel) the work done within the scope of that atom.
  • Initiator of the atom: communicates with an atom manager (factory) and asks it to start a new atom. Once created, information about the atom (the context) can be propagated to Web Services in order for the work to be conducted within the scope of an atom.
  • Terminator of the atom: This will typically be the same entity as the initiator, but need not be. Although an atom can be instructed to confirm all participants immediately, as mentioned in Section 3.2, it is more typically instructed to prepare them first, and later (hours, days, etc.) to either confirm or cancel them.
  • Web service, e.g., the taxi booking service: Whenever the initiator contacts a service whose work it wishes to be under the control of an atom, it flows the context to that service. The service can then use this information to enlist a participant with the atom. The service is responsible for ensuring that concurrent accesses by different applications are managed in a way that guarantees some internal consistency criteria for that service.
  • Each participant supports a two phase termination protocol via the prepare, confirm and cancel operations. What the participant does when asked to prepare is implementation dependant (e.g., reserve the theatre ticket); it then returns an indication of whether or not it succeeded. However, unlike in an atomic transaction, the participant does not have to guarantee that it can remain in this prepared state; it may indicate that it can only do so for a specified period of time, and also indicate what action it will take (confirm or cancel) if it has not been told how to finish before this period elapses. In addition, no indication of how prepare is implemented is implied in the protocol, such that resource reservation need not occur.
  • Cohesion composer: the business logic for gluing together the flow of the application into one or more atoms. Although Web Services do work within the scope of atoms, it is the cohesion composer (cohesion) that ultimately determines which atoms to confirm, and which to cancel. The composer may prepare and cancel atoms at arbitrary points during the lifetime of the business transaction. The main difference between an atom and a cohesion is that whereas all participants enrolled with an atom will either confirm or cancel, the participants enrolled with a cohesion (atoms) may have different outcomes. However, once the composer has arrived at its confirm-set (the participants that will confirm) it essentially collapses down to become an atom and guarantees an all-or-nothing effect.

Through the cohesion composer, BTP gives the business logic the flexibility to structure interactions with services into multiple consensus groups. The fact that atoms may be prepared at any point in the normal flow of business and later confirmed or cancelled, gives greater flexibility to the application.

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Here are the first images of the Maggie’s Centre for cancer care that New York architect Steven Holl is designing for St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London.

Maggie's Barts by Steven Holl

Maggie’s Barts will replace a former office block and the initial drawings show it as a cylindrical building with a bamboo interior and coloured glass windows.

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Maggie’s was founded fifteen years ago to provide support to anyone affected by cancer and they now have centres all around the UK - see all the ones we've featured here, including Maggie’s Gartnavel by OMA and Maggie’s South West Wales by Kisho Kurokawa and Garbers & James, which both picked up an RIBA award last week.

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Maggie’s is delighted to announce that Steven Holl Architects has agreed to design the Maggie’s Centre at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London.

Steven Holl Architects is internationally-honoured with the most prestigious awards in architecture as well as publications and exhibitions for excellence in design.

The practice’s most famous works include the Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki and the 2007 Bloch Building addition to the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City.

Steven Holl is also the winner of the 2012 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal.

Maggie’s Barts will replace an existing 1960s block that was once used as offices which is located at the periphery of the square.

Steven Holl said: "It is a great honor to design a Maggie's Centre and a very special challenge to be given such an important central site in London. The hospital has been at the forefront of medical understanding for centuries. We are inspired by the deep history of the area, and particularly the nearby St. Bartholomew the Great church which has been in continuous use with marvelous music since 1143. Our proposal is like a vessel within a vessel within a vessel. In the spirit of music, architecture can be a vessel of transcendence."

Laura Lee, chief executive of Maggie’s said: “We are very excited that Steven Holl is working with us to design a Maggie’s Centre. It is also a huge privilege to be able to build a Centre at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and we look forward to opening our doors and helping Londoners who are affected by cancer.”

Director of Barts Cancer Centre, Professor Nick Lemoine, said: “We treat an average of 3,100 new cancer patients every year so thousands will benefit from services offered at the new Maggie’s Centre.

“In addition to the physical effects of cancer treatment, patients and carers often require extra emotional support so I look forward to working with Maggie’s on this special partnership.”

St Bartholomew’s Hospital which serves a population of 1.5m in North East London is the oldest hospital in the country and has always been at the forefront of medical knowledge and understanding. It was the first hospital to train female doctors and the first to trial high voltage radiotherapy for people with cancer.

Today, it is home to one of the most advanced cancer centres in Europe with world-leading specialists and state-of-the-art technology.

  • Alex

    I certainly do not think that it’s a good idea to design a centre for palliative care around a spiral staircase?!


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GERD and the Relation to Diabetes

GERD known as gastroesophageal reflux disease, is a condition where the contents of the stomach back up. It is also a chronic condition that can lead to Barrett's Esophagus. Though GERD is very common, it happens moreso in a diabetic. Why is this? Read on.

Your esophagus is responsible for transporting your food from mouth to your stomach. The stomach is acidic in everyone, and this helps to break down food during digestion after being activated by enzymes. You have an esophageal sphincter, which is a ring of muscle that acts as a valve. This valve opens and will allow your food to go from the esophagus to the stomach. Then the valve closes again, so that it prevents stomach contents from coming back up.

When your lower esophageal sphincter does not close as it should, GERD can occur. If there is an autonomic neuropathy present, which is a diabetic complication, this is a cause for having a reflux problem. Acidic contents cause damages to these nerves, and the result is heartburn in certain degrees of severity, burping or belching, or the feeling that you have food stuck in your throat. It can also cause halitosis, (bad breath), and a dry type of cough.

A number of things can worsen reflux problems. One of them is alcohol consumption, overweight/obesity, smoking brings a lot of it on, chocolate consumption, and fried foods. Not to mention spicy foods and foods that are tomato based may irritate the problem as well.

One of the best things to do when you have this problem with the heartburn, obe of the best ways to control it when laying down is to raise your head up by adding extra pillows. This seems to help soothe the problems. Other things you can do are the following:

Take Tums or other antacids. Maalox or Mylanta is also very good and will soothe the heartburn.

Histamine-2 receptor blockers or H@ blockers like Tagamet, Pepcid, or Zantac inhibit the production of stomach acid by preventing the chemical histamine from stimulating a pump inside the stomach that releases acids in the first place.

There is another type of medication available called proton pump inhibitors. Prilosec and Prevacid are types of these drugs. They are very powerful H2 blockers.

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Starvation Is No Diabetes Cure

You probably saw the news. Scientists and journalists are saying a two-month starvation diet has “cured” or “reversed” Type 2 diabetes in 11 people. Actually, there were some benefits, but nothing close to a cure. What can we actually learn from this study?

Well, the first thing we learn is that many people are totally ignorant when it comes to the temporary nature of weight-loss benefits. The second thing is that journalists will hype scientific results far beyond what the studies actually show.

In this study, 11 people with Type 2, and a similar number of controls, were placed on a 600-calorie-a-day diet. They ate only liquid diet drinks with non-starchy vegetables like broccoli. Their insulin sensitivity and the fat content in their livers and pancreas were monitored, as well as their blood sugar levels.

The study was done at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom and sponsored by the charity Diabetes UK. To quote their press release:

After just one week…[subjects’ fasting] blood glucose levels had returned to normal… A special MRI scan…revealed that the fat levels in the pancreas had returned from an elevated level (8%) to a normal (6%) level. In step with this, the pancreas regained the normal ability to make insulin and as a result, blood glucose after meals steadily improved.

The starvation diet lasted two months, after which, “The volunteers were returned to eating normally but had received advice on portion size and healthy eating.” Three months later, 7 of the 11 people with diabetes still had normal blood glucose levels. One man was quoted as saying he still did not need any diabetes medicines after 18 months.

This research was presented at the American Diabetes Association’s scientific sessions in San Diego and published in the journal Diabetologia.

The theory behind the starvation treatment is that fat stored in the pancreas interferes with insulin production. Studies in mice and humans have shown that fat in the pancreas can damage beta cell function and the cells themselves. Lead researcher Roy Taylor, MD, said that “the very low-calorie diet reduced the amount of fat in the pancreas and liver, which allowed insulin production and function to return to normal.”

How does he know that, though? Reducing pancreatic fat could have caused the improvement, but maybe the beta cells just had less to do and were able to keep up. Or maybe lower glucose levels allowed the beta cells to function better. On 600 calories a day, you would need very little insulin.

And even after returning to a reasonably healthy diet, fat and muscle cells will be gobbling glucose and fat to refill what they’ve lost. This process can go on for weeks or months, so blood glucose levels will stay low until the fat deposits are back where they started.

Dr. Taylor said he got the weight loss idea from looking at the results of bariatric surgeries. As we’ve reported before, some of these people virtually wake up from surgery with their diabetes in remission. Why? Dr. Taylor thought it might be that rapid weight loss was de-fatting the pancreas and liver, improving insulin function. He wanted to replicate the crash weight loss that bariatric surgery patients experience to see if nonsurgical dieters could get the same results.

This reasoning seems illogical, because even after bariatric surgery, it takes a little bit of time to see significant weight loss. But the diabetes remissions often occur right away. A more likely explanation is that reconfiguring the intestines enables normal insulin function, as we discussed here. The rapid weight loss might contribute, but it’s not the whole story, or even most of it, in my opinion.

What’s the bottom line? It looks like excess pancreatic fat is bad for you, and possibly getting rid of it would be good for your diabetes. But we know that weight regain is the norm. Dr. Taylor himself said the real challenge is figuring how to keep the pancreatic fat off.

So the best thing one can say about the starvation treatment is that it could jumpstart the recovery process by helping people regain better insulin function temporarily. Then if they self-manage extremely well, they might be ahead of where they would have been if they hadn’t starved. But the more likely outcome will be that most of the starvers will regain the weight they lost and more, because that’s how bodies respond to dieting. And some of that fat will probably end up in the pancreas.

After three months of being “cured,” four of the eleven subjects have relapsed. In another six months, probably another four will have relapsed. Hopefully, one or two will stay diabetes free, but I wouldn’t bet on it.

Maybe this study was worth a try. I just wish scientists like Taylor wouldn’t self-promote and health journalists wouldn’t sensationalize. I mean, this is a study of 11 people for three months, and they’re announcing a cure? Read all such announcements with serious skepticism.

  • calgarydiabetic

    There is no doubt the a hypocaloric diet makes blood glucose better nearly immediately. While I was loosing weight on a 1400 calorie/day diet my BG was only slightly too high but after loosing 85 lb I had to stop loosing weight and resume an isocaloric diet. The BG jumped up immediately before any fat was regained and I had to fight with the doctors (they are very insulin resistant) to go on insulin.

    So from my narrow viewpoint I think David is reading this correctly. The very low calorie diet which BTW may be very low carb also since it is very low everything does immediately relieve the pancreas and does permit more normal blood sugars.

    A cure hardly.

    I see a lot of comments concerning type 2 diabetes and failure in weight loss attempts. Here is my free advice for what it is worth:

    I exercise pretty regularly walking between 15 to 30 miles per week and was still not losing any significant weight. I still had that pot belly but firm everywhere else (Classic Syndrome X) The solution lies in your lifetime eating habits. The South Beach Diet is such an eating plan. There is a restriction of carbs for the first 2 weeks. But it is definitely not Atkins which can put a diabetic’s already compromised kidneys at greater risk.

    If you can replace most (not all) rice, potatoes, pasta, keep your bread to 1 or 2 slices a day with BEANS as your source of starch you will see results.

    It is happening to me. I eat a tremendous amount of nuts as a snack and after the first 2 weeks eat a moderate amount of fruit (particularly low glycemic ones like blackberries blueberries, oranges, apples and mosty summer fruits (but not too much watermellon). I also try to eat a lot of vegetable and salads with regular, not “diet” dressings. Protein sources are your own choice.

    Weight Watchers is another choice but I find it too difficult to weigh foods or measure portions. Also, with diabetics, it may contain too many carbs.

    SO do some research on South Beach and also look at the many recipies developed for the plan. It is working for me. I have lost my craving, for the most part, of the bad carbs.

  • Beth

    Huh? Why is this being reported as news? Back in the late 1980’s very low calorie diets were a sort of a fad for treating type 2 diabetes (but then it was called Type II). Here is the abstract of an old journal article I found easily by Googling “diabetes very low vcalorie diet”:

    Notice all the articles at the bottom of the page that reference this one!

    So why is this considered news? Don’t the people 50 and older remember this?

  • Natalie Sera

    Sure, starvation cures Type 2! I really doubt there were any Type 2’s in the concentration camps! Of course, they were in very poor condition, and dying regularly, but not of Type 2 diabetes!

    What perturbed me about this study is that it was very short-term, and had a high drop-out rate. In other words, it was not practical for the average person.

    And while it is true that in primitive cultures where no one gets much above starvation rations, there is no Type 2 diabetes, but we just can’t live that way in our modern society.

    I would like to see more research into all the various things that go wrong in order to produce obesity, and efforts made to correct them, rather than simply blame and shame the fat person.

  • Bob

    I ahve been type 2 for about four years now. My sugar went to 8000 and I was put on intensive insulin therapy in the hospital. When I was released I walked 1200 miles in 6 months, ate a strict diet of protein and veggies, and was taken off all diabetic medication (4 shots a day to nothing at all) in 6 months.

    I have continued to eat a lower carb diet (even that has been relaxed a bit over the years, but my number are still less than 100 to 110 three and a half years later.

    I have put weight back on however my numbers have stayed normal.

    I do not consider myself cured, I consider myself as living with a condition that if not monitored will be right back to where it was. However if I keep monitoriing myself and do not increase my weight any further, (I would like to take off weight again), I should be able to stay off medication for a good time to come. But I am not cured.

  • tbdent

    Reply to Gary Cohen – oranges have a very high glycemic index )according to the charts I’ve seen), and watermelon has a low index (much to my surprise).

  • apple japonica

    Societies in which people eat mostly unprocessed
    vegetables, fruits, grains, some nuts & seeds &
    10% or less animal & dairy products tend to have
    very low incidence of type 2 diabetes, heart disease & other chronic diseases, which are common
    in people who eat the standard American diet. I recently saw a PBS TV presentation on nutrition by
    Dr. Joel Fuhrman (Dr.Oz refers patients to him for
    help with nutrition problems). I was impressed by
    his concept of the importance of nutrient density
    per calorie & the use of the Aggregate Nutrient
    Density Index for rating various categories of food.I read his 2 book set “Eat for Health” & watched several of his videos on You Tube – example – “Nutrient density per calorie” & “Disease proof your child”. He explains micronutrient/phytochemical -rich leafy green & multicolored vegetables & suggests eating home made vegetable stews, salads,seeds & nuts, blended smoothies & sorbets. I also suggest book “The China Study” &

  • jim snell

    This all shrinks back to some key factors:

    a) you have old hunter gatheror gene set not the new fangled 35% of population who can eat the super carbonydrates and high fructose sugars.

    b) you need to be on the mediterranean diet and get off the dense carbohydrates.

    c) you needs tons of exercise that folks on this old gene set had to expend getting sufficient calories.

    Starving is not issue when you have leaky liver in make sugar mode all the time dumping in extra glucose. I had horrible time getting weight down even on 1200 to 1500 diet until I got my liver nailed with the metformin drug taken so as to boot liver back to fasting mode.

    I really wish folks would knock off the simplistic one answer solves all.

  • Mike Ellingson

    On Sept. 21, 2011 I went in for my regular check up & blood test. Later that day I got a call telling me I am diabetic and my fasting glucose was 172 and A1c was 8.1. As soon as I got off the phone I googled “Diabetes Cure” and found the UK study. I thought I can do that… so from then on, for the next 8 weeks I starved myself. The first week I lost 10 pounds and my fasting glucose went down to 77! After the 8 weeks I did an A1c and it went down to 5.4 and I am getting normal daily glucose numbers that I was checking before I ate, an hour after I ate and 3 hours after I ate. I lost a total of 36 pounds in 8 weeks and did it all on my own. I have done a few “tests” where I eat high surgar foods such as orange juice with English muffin and Strawberry Jam. After an hour my glucose jumped to 144, but another hour it came down to 98 and another hour after that was back in the 70’s! I keep a paper and pen in my pocket at all times and write down the exact time I eat and exactly what and how much I eat. If anyone would like to see my records and notes, email me and I will email you a copy. My email address is [removed]

  • Margaret

    The above poster is correct about “leaking livers”. This diet may still work if the liver has fatty deposits that can be removed through diet and exercise, however if a liver is damaged through means other than fat deposits, ie. hepatitis, NAFLD, HSV-2, etc. a diet wont cut it. Damaged livers leak sugar into the blood. Thats why “dawn phenomenon” occurs. There is evidence to show that the liver is self-repairing, but depending on the degree of damage or the progression of such viral liver attacks it may be forseeable that regardless of what a diabetic eats they may progress even from oral medications such as metformin to insulin. I have a very difficult time explaining to people that firstly, not everyone with type 2 diabetes is over weight and lastly, that root of a diabetics’ problems can be the liver and not the pancreas.

  • Michael

    I am fed up with your people every time there is hope to get rid of this terrible desease you smash it down. Sufferers want rid of diabetes and they want it now. Every desease has a cure if we did bit know it. Ther seems to be almost glee anytime something doesn’t work. No folks we ahve got you and eventually you will die from it. Don’t fight it don’t try and cure you don’t have a chance. Thanks for nothing. This is a big industry maybe it doesn’t want a cure. Fed up.

  • David Spero RN

    Michael, after you try the starvation cure and see what happens for a couple of years, please get back to us. In the meantime, if you’re looking for a cure, check out my blog entry “Can Type 2 Be Reversed?”

  • jim snell

    The frustration expressed is valid.

    Presently the science and technology used to sort out a multi hormone complex chemical plant is in the dark ages with nobody agreeing on anything aince they do not have technology to capture the detail and provide a clear detailed picture medical science can agree on. Hence the jumble of competing theories and ideas. All partially right and all partially wrong.

    Jumping on Taylor is in appropriate. AT least he is applying some 21st century gear to work on and surface some newer information.

    The numbers of cases and rate of increase all point out WE ARE NOT SOLVING this issue and in fact running on spot or worse.

    provide a list of latest technology that has advanced our knowledge:

    a) single shot – instant in time lab tests for chemical analysis
    b) fingerprick caveman machines
    c) cgms with one week ( 2 for some)sensors delayed interstitial response with assorted gronks.
    d) mri cmenical spectography but limited and very expensive.

    We do not yet have a portable analysis pack that can watch and analyze data from the body for 24/7 for 3 days so we get detailed package of what is actually going wrong/right through multiple digestion cycles/sleep/exercise etc.

    In fact the starvation diet is really a misnomer as these diets are attempting to haul back the claorie input more consistent with minimum needs and getting glucose saturation of the skeletal muscles stopped – hauled back and getting body running again.( which while there is MRI spectography showing the temporay glucose storage in skeletal muscles – not one dam donkey agrees such things exist or its correct impact in causing insulin resistance as body downgrades the insulin receptor sites of the muscles to reduce glucose transfer when no more room to store any more.)

    The problem is that diet, energy burn, liver operation and hormonal issues all factor into the puzzle and it may not be possible to pick 2 factors and work those and be successful. If they are the only offending factors one can have more straightforward success working those.

    In my case my liver completely swamped my 1200 calorie diet and 2 miles walking.

    I never starved on my 1200 calorie diet.

    The hooting and hollering is serving no one at this time as well as the heat seeking missle targeting a single search for simplistic overall cure approaches while ignoring the complexity and operation of the human chemical plant due to lack of sufficient diagnostic gear to facilitate better debugging.

  • harvinder

    my hba1c is 8.2 fbs 230 weight 58 kg june
    with glimped+met fbs 90 august2012
    witout medicine fbs 70 september

  • ladye

    There is a large percentage of the population for whom eating 600 calories a day will indeed reverse diabetes. The drug companies that would prefer to sell you ways to alleviate your symptoms will do everything to make sure you don’t believe that. But we (fat Americans) have created an entire industry for type II diabetes. Poor countries don’t have this disease. And for all you religious zealots out there, this IS THE DEFINITION OF GLUTTONY. When you stop eating more than you need to survive, this will become self evident.

    Imagine that – you eat less, spend less money on food, there is no longer a need for expensive prescriptions.

    I am 130 pounds 5’8″ and I’m starting to try intermittent fasting. We didn’t get here over the last few hundred thousands of years shopping at the grocery store. Your brain makes new neurological connections when you are hungry because it thinks you have to get creative to find food. So on top of everything else you’ll be smarter, too.

    Seriously people get off the couch and stop eating too much.

  • Indira

    Well I am recently diagnosed diabetic and was given 6 weeks to change my lifestyle. I was never an over eater and my body weight was normal.
    But I was asked to loose weight. I ate only minimum of starch prior to diagnosis and the dietician suggested I eat a snack of grapes or a cup of milk which induced G spikes in my blood.
    I bought a BLG self check meter and monitored my postprandial levels to determine what I can eat to maintain normal Fasting levels. I found out I can’t eat any starch, nothing at all and even vegetables supposedly low GI. I have to narrow my food intake to fish, leafy veg, nuts coconuts and a glass of vine. Now the fasting BGL are normal but I doubt that I can go back and eat whatever I was eating prior to the diagnosis. If I am cured from this strict diet I should be go back to what my normal diet was right. But I have noticed even slightest intake of veges increase my BGL. So, the study proves strict diet can bring down the FBG levels, but not a cure. Cure to me is I should be able to go back to my normal diet. So what I am doing is eating as little as possible to accommodate the insulin I have and I have to stick to the diet for the rest of my life. Not just that eventually I might not have enough insulin at all to overcome the problem, and might need to take medication.
    It is apparent that some articles just indicate diabetes can be cured. If diabetes can be cured then the pancreas must go back to normal just like a common cold or any other disease, and secrete normal levels of insulin, muscle glucose uptake should be normal and we will be living happily ever after. Unfortunately, we need to exercise to get rid of glucose in the blood, or to facilitate uptake of glucose by muscles, eat only foods that has minimum GI value to accommodate insulin levels and eat a bit more good fats to increase Glucogen activity. However I am still looking for the cure that people are talking about so I can go back to my normal diet with no medication.

  • David Spero RN

    It certainly sounds like some injected insulin would make your life easier. With your weight and your diet, if you had anywhere near enough insulin, you would not be having these spikes. If you can manage your numbers with the diet you are on, and if you can stay with it, that’s great. But if this is not something you can keep doing for life, ask your doctor to be checked for LADA, and consider insulin.

  • jim snell

    Indira raises some very good questions.

    In my view and experience, whne one goes on the tight diet 600 calories/1200 calories; I believe there is a mistaken view that this is a cure and one can go back on the ole diet afterwords. Nope.

    WHat one is doing from where I sit is to drop energy input to body to drop glucose overload and saturation and then very carefull increase diet but to ensure maintaining energy balance on the body. The old diet was loading in too much energy and now one has to run to keep energy balance and keep from backing in too much glucose that if one is not burning off by sufficient exercise/energy burn, the body ‘s only recoarse is to store the glucose that leads to recreating the problem.

    The work CURE is inappropriatly used. Stopping the diabetes and rot yes. Eating as one used to and surviving it – do not think so.

    Even from Dr. Taylor’s work and even from bariatric surgery work at my local hospital – they start the patient at 600 calories and very carefully prevent the high calorie eat anything mentality or one loses all the benefits.

    Most clearly, once one has the body running again under proper numbers; energy balance MUST be followed with sufficient exercise energy burn.

    I heard from Dr. Taylor’s groups and people who did this diet approach had to maintain tight diet calorie input control, exercise and discipline or the bad numbers returned. That does not mean one stays at 600 calories but also means one does not jump to 2000 calories either.

  • nona

    The author of this article misrepresented the study to make it sound less impressive than it is. Agreed, it was a small sample – but why dismiss out of hand the evidence that a calorie-restricted diet can lead to huge improvements and – yes, in some cases – a cure of type 2 diabetes.
    Why not give it a try? Surely a healthier option than relying on medication!

  • Pranabh Jain

    I have also got rid of diabetes from last 2 years by extreme starvation for 2 months,weight loss of 20% of body weight and then maintaining low weight.
    My diabetes H1BC was 80 and now I am eating sweets and full diet and no diabetes.Thogh I go for a daily walk now for 2 kms.
    The fat on deposits on pancreas and liver help to get normal for a long term.
    The morning blood gulcose levels from 9-10 which should be under 6 are generally beteen 4.5-5.

    I think Dr. Taylor’s groups reseach was very worthwile and f and I also got rid of diabetes based on the this research.

    Though I also drinked lot of green juices while on extreme diet along with Yoga.

  • David Spero RN

    Thanks for sharing your story, Pranabh. It now seems that Dr. Taylor’s very low calorie approach works for some people. He told me that he has received many letters like yours.

    However, for many other people, like Calgary Diabetic who commented above, the benefit doesn’t last.

    I’ve come to think it’s worth a try, if you’re physically and mentally up to it.

  • jim snell

    Missed point about starvation diets.

    The critical issue missed in all this is that starvation/reduced diets are critical and necessary initially to get excess glucose stored in body burn off and exhausted out. It is a rational step in the process of yanking a type 2 body that has been running over saturated/overloaded with glucose for long periods of time.

    My read is that is accomplished, calorie levels can be slowly and safely brought back up to weight maintenance levels.

    The constant niggling over simplistic simple step control approaches hides the science of the issues of getting a body whose glucose levels have been running excess and too high for too long.

    Been there, got it under control and it can take a horrendous effort of meds, diet, exercise and discipline to yank a body back in control.

    For those who only need an exercise increase, some simple diet/portion control to gently reduce numbers, I agree starvation diets do not make any sense or little sense.

  • Alison Bamford

    It’s only starvation if you have no bodily fat reserves. Whilst there are fat reserves on the body eating less food than the body needs, or even drinking just water is Fasting. Fasting and starvation are not the same thing. Fasting helps to clear the body of unwanted fat stores (usually acquired by the conversion of excess carbohydrate), toxins, debris, cellular waste, tumours, etc.

    During Fasting, the body goes into Ketosis, very efficiently burning its own fat reserves for fuel. It is a very ancient and very tried and tested remedy for cleansing and healing the body. When we eat ‘normally’ we are in an Anabolic state. During Fasting (as in during the night when digestion is finished) it enters Catabolism.

    Anabolic is a ‘building up’ of the body, whereas Catabolism is a ‘breaking down’. Unfortunately, in this day and age, very few people get to sleep early enough for the body to be in Catabolism long enough for the cleansing, repair and healing mechanisms to work properly. It is often in an Anabolic state most of the time.

    To go through Fasting regimes several times per year helps to clean the body of stuff that is clogging it up, and get things working far more efficiently. Not cleaning the body is like never getting rid of all the rubbish, leaving it festering in corners in the house…..

    • Eowyn Wundolf

      Fasting,not eating food.starvation,not eating food.No matter how you call them they are still the same thing.The only difference is that fasting can be controlled(sometimes).They are also people who claim they fasted with some “fasting guru’s” and almost died.So here you go.I am not completely against fasting,but I don’t see other benefits other than just weight loss,”cleansing” and many others are just pseudoscience myths.If fasting would be the cure for so many things,everyone would try it already.

  • valeriekeefe

    4 of 11 is 36%, and considering the larger study showed a reversal rate in the low 60%’s, that’s a negligible relapse-from-remission rate. It is true that you may actually need to lose the weight (Taylor says 1/6th was generally acceptable, which for someone with a BMI of 30 means 25, 35 means 2 and keep it off, but more likely, just as with the authors of the Fast Diet, Western eating habits typically don’t produce the kind of medium-term severe caloric deficits we used to have.

    The body draws on organ fat and subcutaneous fat first, which is why Fois Gras ducks have to be constantly overfed to produce the much-sought-after fatty liver. It’s also how regular consumption of beverages that free up fatty acids (the compounds in question processed directly by the… you guessed it, liver) such as coffee and green tea, are associated with reductions in diabetes out of all proportion to their effects on weight.

    This also explains the association between intermittent fasting, fast diet, and other sharp, short, caloric restriction diets and improved insulin sensitivity (widely discussed references to studies showing impaired tolerance measure the first meal after a fast, which is when the body is notoriously bad at processing sugar, not to mention they’re done on non-obese premenopausal cis women, a perfect storm of minimized positive effects of fasting due to the very low subcutaneous fat content)

    Also, the study’s caloric allotment is 800 calories a day, not 600. 600 came from meal replacement shakes (I’m not sure why they didn’t go with protein shakes and up the vegetable content for improved quality of carbohydrates, but whatever, I think it’s because they wanted to show people that they could, as you put it, use the food on the shelves to improve fasting glucose. Replace the protein shakes with chicken breast, rice, and broccoli, and you’ll be doing just that, though ease of compliance is always important in dieting.) and the remaining 200 from soups and green vegetables.


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On series and timing and more killer unicorns

I have been reading with interest the recent flurry of blog posts (in the wake of the release of A Dance with Dragons*) dredging up that old battle of George R. R. Martin’s fans against George R. R. Martin that became internet-famous once Neil Gaiman told everyone to settle on down.

People get very attached to series. A recent sampling of my mail and twitter feed:

“I’m thoroughly confused! Help! The series is clearly a trilogy. Are you working on the last book? Is it done but not published? Oy vey! I need to know what happens!”

“Loved your killer unicorn series! i was just wondering if there would be another one.”

“Will there be a third book in the Unicorn series?”

“Where did you get the idea for both books? Will there possibly be a third book in the series? I was close to weeping when I finished Ascendant.”

“Will we be getting a third Killer Unicorns anytime soon? I want more Astrid in my life.”

And when I’m not getting mail about that, I’m getting mail asking me to write more secret stories, or possibly a fifth Secret Society Girl book. Or both.

Which is all very wonderful, and definitely makes my writerly day. I love that people are so invested in my series and in my work that they would not only read my books, but would take time out of their busy day** to ask me to write more. I thank you, Amy thanks you, Astrid thanks you, and Bonegrinder thanks you.

Fine, fine, fine. But what are the answers?

On Secret Society Girl: Amy’s story is complete. I will never say “never” about writing more about Amy (or more secret stories) but it will only happen when I feel like I have something more to say about her. Right now, I feel like the poor girl had a really tumultuous year and deserves some down time. Where do I think Amy is right now? I think she’s killing it in NYC.

On Killer Unicorns: Astrid’s story is not complete. Anyone who has read Ascendant can glean that. I’ve written before that I envisioned her story as a trilogy. I know what happens to her, and I even know the title of the conclusion.

I just don’t know when I’ll be writing it or publishing it.

I know this is disappointing to fans of that series. I have even gotten flak for it on the internet — some readers have called me “sloppy” or even “irresponsible” for daring to envision a book not under contract.*** There is a growing expectation, I think, that book series must not only appear one after another, with nothing in between, but they must also appear in quick succession — 12 months or less apart.

This is not always the case, however. Megan Whalen Turner’s excellent The Thief was first published in 1996, and the fourth book in that series, A Conspiracy of Kings, only came out in 2010. Lois Lowry’s The Giver was first published in 1993, followed by Gathering Blue in 2000 and Messenger in 2004. Maureen Johnson’s 2006 13 Little Blue Envelopes only saw its sequel published this year, after Maureen wrote heaps more books.

I could go on. The point is, authors do not always write solely in one series and sometimes there are delays between books — they might be due to publishers, or to writers, or to phases of the moon. And it was neither sloppy nor irresponsible of me to write the (fictional) truth of Astrid’s story, in all its elaborate, messy detail. What would have been is if I’d gone back into a completed (and copyedited) manuscript and changed it; cheated Astrid, and the story, and the readers into a rushed, pat, and false ending just so Ascendant could tie itself up in a pretty bow.

There’s a story I heard once about Michelangelo and I think about it often. Sometimes, Michelangelo’s statues would be missing parts — their arms or their feet or etc. When his clients would complain, he’d say it was the fault of the stone cutters back at the mountain. They were the ones who had carved out the blocks of stone he made into statues, and they had left the hands, etc. in the mountainside. Michelangelo believed the figures were already there, inside the stone, and he just freed them. He wasn’t going to change where the hands went just because that was the shape of the stone block that he had no control over.

Now, I’m not Michelangelo! But I can see his point, though, had I known, I probably would have chosen a different stone. For me, while carving, I had every reason in the world to believe that the statue would fit. But, to really pound this metaphor into the ground, the edges cracked off while I was halfway through my carving. And now I’m stuck wondering how best to tack on a new bit of stone.

And I’m aware that the reader doesn’t really care about any of that. For me, I’m thinking, “Wow, I have four short stories and two books out in 2012!” For a reader who is expecting KU3, however, it’s “When is Diana going to write the book I’m waiting for?”**** We both have totally valid reasons for wanting what we want, and I wish to reiterate that your enthusiasm for this series makes me so very, very happy.

I do hope we won’t have to wait for 6 years to see more killer unicorns. The thing is, it hasn’t actually been that long yet (less than a year), and the paperback of Ascendant hasn’t even come out. A lot of people didn’t start reading Rampant until the paperback came out. A lot of people didn’t start reading any of the series until they discovered killer unicorns by reading “Errant” or “The Care and Feeding of Your Baby Killer Unicorn” in the three anthologies those stories appeared in (or by buying Errant online).***** And the paperback of Zombies vs. Unicorns (out this fall!) will hopefully lead even more people to discover the series.

And I do spend a lot of time thinking about the books and strategizing about how to make them happen. I’m actually writing another killer unicorn short story right now, so I’m still very invested in this world and as soon as the right opportunity to finish Astrid’s story presents itself, I’ll be all over it.

I’m just waiting for the right block of stone.

In the meantime, I have a lot of non-killerunicornsthree work going on:

  • For Darkness Shows the Stars, a post-apocalyptic retelling of Persuasion: (Balzer &Bray, summer 2012)
  • “Stray Magic” in Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron, ed. by Jonathan Strahan, (Random House, August 2012)
  • “Foundlings” in Brave New Love, ed. by Paula Guran (Running Press Kids, ~winter 2011)******
  • two other short stories in anthologies whose titles and publication dates are very far from being announced.

I have one other full-length book under contract right now, with Balzer & Bray. It will be a YA novel. That’s all I can say about it right now, mostly because my editor and I haven’t talked about it yet. I have a pretty good idea of what I want it to be, though I want my editor’s input and insight on the matter as well.

So there’s the complete status of my publishing schedule. I am sorry if it disappoints some of you. I was also disappointed when I learned that Astrid’s story would be incomplete for a while, but since that happened in January of 2010, I’ve had time to get used to the idea (plus I was busy with FDSTS and that whole making-a-baby thing).So yeah, Astrid & co. = on hold but not dead; killer unicorns = still going; more fiction by me = gangbusters. All in all, I’m happy.

* Also, I only just now this minute realized that the TV show Game of Thrones is based on this book series, which I guess I hadn’t realized because the book series is called A Song of Ice and Fire and only the title of the first one is A Game of Thrones. Which is so very HBO (Hello, True Blood).

** I’m so behind on answering mail. I should put that on my To Do list, too.

*** This is patently ridiculous, given that 99% of books were envisioned and written not under contract.

**** Can you imagine the folks who wish I’d stop it with the killer unicorns and write more chick lit? They’re really bummed. I get those emails, too. And believe me, I’d love to! As soon as I can sell some.

***** Wow, I really need to update my website, too!

****** This is a tentative release date. This anthology has been through the wringer. (Ringer? I never know which one that is.) Anyway, now there’s an edited line-up, a new editor, and a promise to donate proceeds to a shelter for homeless gay youth, so I’m very happy to be part of this collection!

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  1. Thanks so much for writing this. I have been thinking about adding an entry on this topic to my blog, or addressing it on FB. You are so right and so honest here. The order of books–and the time between, has a thousand variables, some planned, others not.

    See you soon somewhere, I hope.

  2. camille says:

    Hey, first off, just wanted to say that I can\’t wait for FDSTS. It sounds awesome and I really am looking forward to summer 2012. I do have a question: you mention that you have four short stories and two books going out next year (congratulations). Is one of them the YA book for Balzer and Bray?

  3. Diana says:

    Thanks, Camille!. Yes, the books are For Darkness… and the paperback of Ascendant, both from Balzer&Bray. The book I haven’t talked about yet but is under contract at B&B will be out in 2013.

  4. Tiff says:

    Great post, Diana – I’m obviously one of those people who would love to see one more KU book, but I’m not in the habit of bothering authors about this…(although I did bother Maureen for a 13 Little Blue Envelopes sequel for years)…I do know that it’s not really in the author’s hands.

    And while I understand wanting more from a series, I always get a little annoyed at people who want another book out of a series that’s obviously finished. Like Harry Potter. How could you want more out of that? Wasn’t that the perfect ending? Same thing with SSG – I kind of DON’T want more out of it (other than little short stories set within the timeframe of the series) because it ended so wonderfully, and I really, really don’t want to find out that Amy ended up unhappily divorced with two kids in Connecticut, instead of living happily ever after with Poe.

    Then again, I’m torn – Ann Brashares just released another Sisterhood book when the series was obviously done, and it was amazing. I think if the author is interested enough, and the publisher is willing, then why not? But I’m definitely not one of those people who asks for more when the perfect ending is already there. I’m grateful when there’s more…but it’s hard to ask for it, I guess.

  5. Braiden says:

    Thanks Diana for writing this. I didn’t mean to hassle you when I asked you about KU3 (meaning that last quote with wanting Astrid in my life is mine). I was just looking at my shelves and wondering what of my series/trilogies still need to come out.

    I totally understand.

  6. Amy says:

    Okay I am very curious, where did you get your word counters?? I’ve been looking for some for my wordpress and livejournal. (Also I find it very cool that one of your character’s name is Amy).

    Also I would like to say that I love your writing and am excited for your new short stories! (not trying to be pressuring but rather appreciative)

  7. Diana says:

    Braiden, you weren’t hassling me! I wasn’t annoyed at all. I LOVE hearing from readers who love the series!

    Amy, they are plain text. I’ll email you the code and you can make them whatever color/length you want.

  8. Colleen says:

    Thank you for writing this; I appreciate the insights. I’m looking forward to being able to read your series – I’m having quite a bit of difficulty finding it in bricks and mortar in Australia, and haven’t yet got my act together enough to source it on-line. I fell in love with Errant on reading the excerpt, and I love the concept of Darkness. I’m very much looking forward to reading that as well. I now have a list for the next time I visit the bookstore in town :-)

  9. Stephanie says:

    Thanks for writing this Diana. I was just confused because it wasn’t obvious from the website’s original posting that you did potentially plan on writing the book. Seemed more like: no contract=no book. I totally didn’t mean to seem like I demanded that a book be “popped” out. And I thoroughly appreciate that you don’t do that. In fact, series like the Sookie Stackhouse series I feel fall apart when they are written back to back. They never seem like complete novels. I just wanted to know *if* you were writing the final book. Since the last one so clearly wasn’t the end of Astrid. Thanks for writing a thoroughly original series. I look forward to the rest of it.

  10. Levina says:

    So…we can be sure that the book will be out in less than 6 years? That’s comforting.

    …but really, I don’t mind ;) . As you mentioned, Megan Whalen Turner usually has 5-6 year gaps between books, and I’m waiting for her next book too. So I can expect two wonderful sequels published close in time to each other…what could be better? ;)


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Flash and Shockwave also differs largely in popularity due to the availability of their plugins. Flash is thought to be installed in around 95% of computers that are connected to the internet while Shockwave is only installed on 55%. This is because you can get a Flash plugin for just about any browser running on any operating system. For shockwave, it is only available on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. People who are using other operating systems like Linux or Solaris cannot view content with shockwave. Though there are ways to circumvent this on Linux, it is too complex and time consuming for most users. Because of the problems with plugin availability, most sites that offer multimedia content like Youtube and a lot of other sites have chosen Flash to ensure that all site visitors get to see what they have set-up.

In choosing which of the two to use in making certain content on your web site, Flash is still your best bet. Not only because of the greater number of users that can view your content, but also because the capabilities of Flash are steadily evolving and new features are added all the time.

1. Flash became widely used in online videos while Shockwave use developed mainly in online game development
2. Flash was initially intended as a vector animation tool while Shockwave was initially intended as an online multimedia player
3. Support for Flash is more widespread than for Shockwave
4. Flash plugins are available on most operating systems while Shockwave plugins are only available for Windows and Mac OS
5. Flash is the one used in most sites that offer videos like Youtube

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article imageOp-Ed: Luongo to Leafs looms large, or Brian Burke is done like dinner

By Marcus Hondro     Jun 20, 2012 in Sports
Canucks GM Mike Gillis is talking openly to the media about his efforts to trade goalie Roberto Luongo and says he has multiple teams bidding. But the number doesn't matter, in the end it's gotta be the Leafs.
Either that or, to borrow a phrase from the great Tiger Williams, Toronto GM Brian Burke is done like dinner. Mind you, Williams was wrong when he said it about the Philadelphia Flyers in 1977, who came back to eliminate his Leafs, but this time it's Burke who'll be ousted.
Roberto Luongo could lead Leafs to playoffs
Gillis and Burke are doing that thing pro sports team do at trade time, one trying to drive the price up, the other, naturally the buyer, to drive it down. They'll do it a while longer, maybe even beyond the draft. But the Leafs need a veteran goalie to go with James Reimer and with Josh Harding, Tomas Vokoun and Tim Thomas out of the running, notwithstanding Scott Clemmenson, Marty Turco or Dan Ellis, Burke has no where else to turn.
The gold-medal winning Luongo routinely hovers at the top of the league in goals against average and save percentage and while he often starts slowly, by November is stealing his team games night in and night out. At a cap hit of $5.3 million he's a bargain and with him in goal, the playoffs would be a lock for the Leafs.
There is only one other team with the motivation to land Luongo who are able to do it, the Florida Panthers, but given Jose Theodore is still under contract their need is less. Sure the Flyers would love to jettison the erratic Ilya Bryzgalov but a massive contract (Bryzgalov's) is in the way. And there's no indication Luongo is willing to go to Chicago or Columbus, the only other two teams with a serious need.
Leafs will outbid Panthers
Nothing if not proud, Burke badly wants to be the guy to take the floating-in-a-puddle-of-futility Leafs back into being a competitive franchise. The next step obviously has to be a playoff spot. He has young players that need to grow and being demoralized again, and golfing or doing whatever it is non-playoff NHL players do in April, is hardly a prescription for growth.
There is no way Burke can let Florida walk away with his goalie and survive in Toronto. Imagine not getting Luongo and missing the postseason for the 8th straight year while Florida, with Luongo, makes the playoffs again? Burke and his assistant, Dave Nonis, would be looking for their fourth club to work in tandem for, and this time there might not be any offers.
Potential Sideshow: Luongo and Schneider
As for Gillis, imagine Cory Schneider and Luongo in camp in September and together throughout the season. Gillis claims he's comfortable with that but the Vancouver media, Vancouver fans, they'd be all over Luongo, examining his every start, save and utterance. Gillis would create a sideshow that would make a Todd Bertuzzi return to the Canucks seem a cohesive move.
And with the sizable raise the UFA Schneider is due, if he keeps both Gillis will wind up paying in the $9 million range for goalies, a hefty price considering only one plays each night. Further, how happy would Luongo and Schneider be with the same routine they've done the past two years? The 26-year-old Schneider has proven he's ready, the 33-year-old Luongo is no where near ready for a dramatically reduced role.
So while Burke is the more desperate, Gillis, too, has to make a move. Give it another week and you'll either see Roberto Luongo at a press conference in Toronto, or the beginnings of the final chapter in the saga of Brian Burke as the Leafs GM.
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article imageOp-Ed: NFL- Blown call by refs give Seattle wild win over Green Bay

By David Silverberg     Sep 25, 2012 in Sports
Seattle - Green Bay Packers fans, you have every right to be fuming right now. A horrible call by the referees on the last play of Monday Night Football wrongly awarded a touchdown to the Seattle Seahawks while everyone with eyes saw a Packers interception.
The debacle of replacement refs (filling in for the pro refs currently in a lockout) blowing calls reached its climax on tonight's tight match-up between the Packers and the Seahawks. Down 12-7 and down to 8 seconds in the fourth quarter, the Seahawks had one last chance to fling a hail mary to try to win the game. QB Russell Wilson flung a long pass in the endzone towards receiver Golden Tate.
That's when a can't-miss penalty occurred. Against Seattle. Tate pushed the Packers corner Sam Shields in the back, an obvious offensive pass interference penalty. The refs missed it and when the ball landed in a messy pile of Packers defenders and Tate, it looked like Packers safety M.D. Jennings nabbed the interception. Tate was tenacious, though, and tried to haul the ball away from Jennings as they both fell to the ground.
The refs rushed to the wrestling match between Tate and Jennings, and just as one ref called an interception for the Packers, giving Green Bay the win, the other ref raised his arms with the touchdown signal, presenting Seattle with a gift unheard of in professional sports.
The touchdown call seemed to overrule everything else, and the Seahawks and the stadium erupted in cheers. Seattle won 14-12. The Packers looked dazed. Someone must have been crying; the loss was too heartbreaking not to stagger a few Green Bay players who were certain they took home the W tonight.
The real losers are the refs. And I mean that in the most literal sense. The refs truly blew it, and they when they went to check the instant replay, as all touchdown plays have to be reviewed, the call of TD stood. For some inexplicable reason.
It's understandable a few mistakes will be made by amateur refs forced to make quick decisions in seconds. We fans are treated to instant replay on TV broadcasts, so we had the luxury to see how wrong the refs were on this call - Jennings clearly had control of the ball as he was falling, while Tate merely tried to grab it away. It wasn't an easy call but it also wasn't the toughest.
I watch a lot of football and I've seen some terrible calls by refs, this year and in every year previous. But tonight's blatant mistake should be a wake-up call to the NFL, to owners, to every fan, that error-riddled personnel will cripple a pro sport. People who pay good money to see these games deserve better refereeing; the players who risk their health to steamroll each other deserve more qualified staff. Otherwise, this Monday Night Football bizarro incident will end up being a weekly tradition.
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"In the last 25 years, because of the advent of technology, storywriters and all, a lot of people want to be in media and films. The age of conventional jobs is over.

"But I think we have not reached that stage in our country where children can come up and say, 'I want to make sports my job and be a professional sportsperson'," he explained.

"Parents will always be wary of sports as a profession and I don't see why they should not be... Parents will have to see that there is a job opportunity here, Parents should know that it can be a salary job. Your kids will be proud of you."

Khan, who owns the Kolkata Knight Riders Indian Premier League (IPL) team, also said that he loved sport and would like to be the "brand ambassador" for sport in India.

"I actually would like to be the brand ambassador of any sport in the country. I am good at sports. I love sports. I like cricket. Hockey is the best game in the world," he added.

Khan, who has previously expressed a desire to buy a football team, also remarked that the sport was the "cheapest" game yet the most underrepresented in the country, saying: "We are the only nation who are on the threshold of development and we don't have a good football team."

Kolkata Knight Riders' co owner and Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan, center celebrates after his team won their Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket playoff match against Delhi Daredevils in Pune, India, Tuesday, May 22, 2012.

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"We're in a position where we can bring a range of other Bitmap titles to iPhone," he said. "We've made a decision on what we think we are going to do next, though we're not certain. Speedball 2: Evolution will be coming out Q1, and the next Bitmap title will probably be by the end of the year."

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The Ted star has also revealed that he was once in the frame to play Batman's sidekick Robin in Batman Forever.

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"I would like to take over the Iron Man franchise for Robert Downey, [but] it's one of those things where I kind of like playing real people, [so] I've never been asked," he told Yahoo.

"Once I was kind of being talked about for the Robin role in Batman... somebody dodged a bullet!"

Wahlberg recently starred in graphic novel adaptation 2 Guns alongside Denzel Washington, and will play the lead role in next year's Transformers 4.

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Jason Antoon has joined the cast of Downwardly Mobile.

Roseanne Barr and John Goodman will reunite in the new NBC comedy pilot set at a mobile home park, with Barr portraying the park's owner and a surrogate mother to the residents.

Barr and Goodman starred as a married couple in the sitcom Roseanne for nine seasons.

Antoon is set to play a stay-at-home dad named Wendell, who has to take care of his wild child daughter Skar (Kendra Jain) with wife Sheila (Romy Rosemont), reports Deadline.

Antoon was previously attached to the HBO pilot Spring/Fall with Sigourney Weaver, Hope Davis and Tea Leoni. However, HBO decided to drop the comedy.

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"As she's re-started this path toward motherhood, I'm excited for the character. We haven't figured out how it will play out but I think there's a way for it to play out and still have her feel true to her character."

Fey went on to discuss other possibilities in the show's future, and named some characters she would like to see return.

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She explained: "Mostly it's a matter of the kind of bucket lists I have in my head is people that we've had on that we love and want to bring back."

The plot of 30 Rock's upcoming live episode was recently revealed. The episode will feature Kenneth (Jack McBrayer) taking Liz and Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) on a journey through the history of live television, in response to their plan to pre-tape their sketch comedy series TGS.

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I have to admit that I hardly ever make brownies from scratch. I usually make whatever mix is handy, most recently a Betty Crocker version from the local grocery store, bought in a craving-induced after-work stop. They were bad. So now I keep an emergency mix of my favorite variety on hand – Trader Joe’s Truffle Brownies.

When I was invited to bring a dessert to a recent dinner party, I eyed my box of stand-by mix in the cupboard. I knew they were good, but I had a whole Saturday afternoon and a few brownie recipes in my Web site recipe boxes. I decided to go for scratch brownies.

browniesOf course I picked one of the easiest recipes I could. And I decided I wanted them to have a coffee flavor, since that is Geoff’s favorite. (And I wanted to use up some of the espresso powder I bought when I made chocolate cookies for the holidays.)

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  • There’s a light crunchy crust on top, that some reviewers complained about online. I’m not sure why the crust forms, but it didn’t bother me at all. Just make sure to give these brownies time to cool before you need to cut into them. They’re so moist and delicate that they need that time to firm up. The crust settles down a bit, too. Cut them with a very sharp knife and they’ll look perfect.
  • Use a good chocolate. I ran to the store and grabbed some Ghirardelli bittersweet chocolate bars (they’re worth every penny, even at $3.68 a bar).

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Adapted from Bon Appétit, September 1999

Nonstick vegetable oil spray
8 ounces bittersweet (not unsweetened) or semisweet chocolate, chopped
3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter
2 cups sugar
6 large eggs (The secret to the moistness!!)
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (I used Ghiradelli – you can’t go wrong with it.)
1 teaspoon instant espresso powder (This didn’t sound like enough, so I added a little more – maybe 1 1/2 teaspoons. . . But I wouldn’t add any more than that.)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup sour cream
3/4 cup chopped walnuts
Powdered sugar (I used whipped cream instead, but the original recipe recommends dusting these with powdered sugar)

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Then spray a 13×9x2-inch metal baking pan with nonstick spray (I don’t own a 13×9 inch pan, so I used two cake pans instead). Line the pan with parchment paper, letting the ends hang over two sides so you can use them as handles to pull the brownies out. (I didn’t have any parchment or waxed paper, so I used foil. Worked fine. . .) Now, hit the paper with a little nonstick spray.

Stir chocolate and butter in heavy small saucepan over low heat until melted. (Don’t overheat the chocolate! I used the double-boiler method just to be safe – boiling water in a pot and then putting the chocolate and butter in a bowl over it.) Cool to lukewarm.

Using electric mixer, beat 2 cups sugar, eggs and vanilla in medium bowl until fluffy – give it about 5 minutes. Add the chocolate mixture and beat just until blended. Then add the flour and next 3 ingredients, beating until just blended. Stir in sour cream and nuts.

Pour the batter into your prepared pan. Bake until tester inserted into center comes out with moist crumbs attached, about 35 minutes. Cool completely on a cooling rack. Then carefully remove from the pan, using your handles. With a sharp knife, cut the brownies into squares. Serve with whipped cream or a simple dusting of powdered sugar.

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