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2010年8月12日星期四
NSUI, ABVP gear up for polls [
JAIPUR: The student bodies have intensified their campaign for the union polls and party (NSUI & ABVP) offices are bustling with activities. Senior leaders of both the parties are working overtime to chalk out their strategy.
vacheron constantin watchesABVP will start its membership drive from Monday. Manchali Thakur, national secretary, said party will kick-start the membership drive at Maharani's College. "Our party has always given equal importance to women. Our membership campaign from Maharani's Girls College will en-courage girls to come forward and contest elections," said Thakur.
They have almost shortlisted the issues for elections. The party will bank upon issues like recent corruption cases at central bodies like AICTE and MCI. "These issues have affected the higher education scenario in the country. It is our duty and responsibility to make students aware on these issues," said Sunil Khateek, spokesperson, ABVP.
cheap coach handbagsThey will also highlight national issues like delay in hanging Afzal Guru. Thakur, in a press conference, slammed the UPA government's reported bid to appease Muslims at the cost of Hindus. He said this move was divisive.
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New Mobile Internet Device and Service Platform to Power Digital Signage Network
CONCORD, Mass. -- Nu Graphics, a full service print innovations company, and Isabella Products, a mobile Internet device and services company based in Concord, Massachusetts, announced today an agreement that will enable Nu Graphics to become the first commercial reseller of Vizit鈩?for the digital signage and advertising management marketplace. Isabella Products鈥?Vizit is a new mobile Internet device that allows users to deliver digital content seamlessly over its VizitMe.com content management platform via the cellular network.
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2010年8月10日星期二
Modern-day Audubon uses art an
By Pam Sohn
Like a modern-day John James Audubon, C.E. Blevins uses art to celebrate what he sees as nature's wonder -- bird eggs.
"I have loved bird eggs since I was 4 years old," said the 84-year-old retired minister, missionary and art teacher. "Now I'm the only man in the world who lays eggs, so far as I know."
In the past 20 years, Mr. Blevins, of Apison, has sculpted and painted 25,000 to 35,000 clay eggs -- perfect replicas of the real eggs of more than 1,200 bird species.
Creating the likenesses of everything from pea-sized hummingbird eggs to 13-inch-long elephant bird eggs, Mr. Blevins has become very good at his hobby-turned-craft. His eggs and his teaching skills have been used by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in teaching programs, said UTC's Dr. David Aborn.
"The eggs are extremely accurate," said Dr. Aborn, ornithologist of the department of biological and environmental sciences at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and a board member of the C.E. Blevins Avian Learning Center.
The center is a museum for the massive folk-art egg collection. Mr. Blevins' chanel new bags family opened the Cohutta, Ga., facility to honor the educator and his one-of-a-kind craft and to help visitors learn about birds and art. The museum is open by reservation to group tours, said Joel Blevins, son of the artist.
Elementary and middle school students receive a biology lesson, tour the museum and participate in an art project, the younger Mr. Blevins said.
"It sounds goofy when you call somebody and say, 'I have an egg museum,'" he said, adding that people often brush him off when he tries to tout the unique effort or solicit help. "There's a virtual egg museum in Canada, but they don't have real replicas, and they don't have 1,200 species."
He said the study of eggs, called oology, has a speckled past thanks to early researchers and collectors whose zeal to take eggs contributed even to the extinction of at least one bird: the great auk.
Now it is illegal to collect either the real eggs or the real nests of wild birds without a federal permit.
The difficulty of real egg collection and their fragility in displays all added to the elder Mr. Blevins' drive to re-create nature, his son said. And what began for his father as a hobby art project soon became something more.
"Dad wanted to make eggs out of clay so kids could hold them," the younger Mr. Blevins said. "You can tell a lot about the species just by looking at the eggs."
Coach Oblate BagCavity nesters' eggs are always white because inside the holes in trees the eggs don't need camouflage and the parent bird needs to be able to find them in the dark, he said. On the other hand, field birds' eggs are colored like their nesting areas or their nests, and coastal birds' eggs are shaped differently to roll around a circle if they are disturbed or windblown, so they won't get away from the parent.
Often at the museum, the artist's grandson, Zachary Reynolds, of Atlanta, is the presenter, and the elder Mr. Blevins said he has taught Mr. Reynolds, 34, and also an artist, all he knows about making the eggs and understanding them.
"I think it's wonderful how he's taken all these resources and become a master at this," Mr. Reynolds said of his grandfather. "We want to share this collection with children to help t
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PATNA: Deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi on Friday criticised the central government for raising the prices of petrol, diesel, kerosene and LPG. He said that this would hit the life of every sections of society, particularly the poor and the middle-class.
The BJP would burn the effigy of the UPA government at all the district headquarters in the state on Saturday to protest the rise in prices of petro products. State BJP vice-president Sanjay Mayukh said that the decision with regard to the burning of the effigy of the UPA was Anaheim Mighty Ducks taken on Friday.
Modi said that the Congress-led UPA government had maintained its anti-poor stance from the outset. The hike in the prices of petroleum products had further aggravated the problem of the people suffering from skyrocketing prices of different commodities.
Increase in the price of kerosene by Rs 3 per litre is unjust and inhuman to the poor, Modi said, adding that an increase of Rs 35 per cylinder in the price of LPG would affect the kitchen budget of the middle-class.
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President of the Bihar Chamber of Commerce P K Agrawal said the increase in prices of diesel and petrol has put a question mark on the efforts of the central government to control the prices of commodities. The petroleum price hike would have a spiralling effect on the economy increasing the inflation further, he said. For Reprint Rights: timescontent.com
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2010年8月6日星期五
No Southern hospitality
NASHUA - The ball had popped into the mitt - and the mitt had hardly moved - so Alex Orsini's reaction was rather natural.
When the ball had left the hand of Travis Landry, there were two strikes, and two outs, and the cheap Strap Ceinture Granite State Big Blue held a one- run lead in the state's Senior Babe Ruth championship game, so as soon as it was squeezed in his glove, the catcher thrust both hands skyward, came out of his crouch and started sprinting toward his pitcher. He thought he was holding strike three.
"It was right down the middle, at his knees," Orsini said. "It was down the middle. Down the pipe. At his knees."
It wasn't until he'd reached the infield grass that he realized the umpire didn't see it the same way.
And it wasn't until an inning later - when Southern walked off with a 5-4 win - that everyone in Holman Stadium ultimately came to understand the significance of that discrepancy.
The call in question came during the seventh inning in the second game of a humid afternoon that had by then become as heated on the field as in the air. One coach had already been ejected, another was about to be, and rare was the pitch that passed the plate without reaction from either side.
This one came on a two-ball, two-strike count, with two outs and the tying run at second base. Had it been called a strike, Big Blue would've celebrated a fourth straight state title, and the program's 10th since 1997. But instead, as a ball, it breathed new life into the Southern bats.
Orsini was so bothered by the ruling he called time out not to relax his pitcher, but to calm himself - "That's probably the second time I've ever done that," he said - although from there the situation only became more infuriating.
As soon as Orsini was back behind the dish, Paul Trabucco took the next pitch to complete his walk, and bring red-hot cleanup hitter Brandon Cox to the plate. Already with four hits for the doubleheader, he ripped a fifth to left on a line. Outfielder Colin Lisk got to it on a hop, and came up gunning, but his throw was too late to get Jason Russo. The game was tied at four.
"I," said Blue Coach Sean Wheeler, "am going to remember that pitch for a while."
There was still the possibility "that pitch" could've been just a footnote, if Big Blue could rally to retake a lead in the eighth, but instead it stranded a pair - and then Southern made sure the day went no longer. A walk, a single and an intentional pass loaded the bases with one away in the eighth, and although Landry kept his team alive for one more out, Trabucco eventually worked a less- controversial walk to force home the winning run, and send his team to next week's New Jacksonville-Jaguars England championships as New Hampshire's representative.
"They just made one more play than we did," Wheeler said. "We didn't take advantage of the opportunities that were presented to us, and that kept the game close. At the end, it was anybody's ballgame, it was back and forth, and we didn't get the one hit we needed to break things open."
The opportunities were there throughout the afternoon for Big Blue - which, out of the winners' bracket, entered with two shots at winning the tournament. In the first game, it rallied back from five runs down in the sixth inning, but left the bases loaded after evening the score, and lost 9-7 when Southern's Matt Schagrin launched a two-run homer in the seventh.
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VETERAN Keith Senior uses his spare time to coach the next generation of potential Leeds Rhinos' Grand Final winners.
But Headingley's 'old timer' isn't ready to step aside for the young guns just yet.
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One of only four players to contest every top flight campaign since 1996, the 32-year-old will definitely play it again in 2011.
And with Keiron Cunningham due to retire and uncertainty over the future of Wakefield's Paul Johnson, Senior is seeing off all the competition.
Hull's Sean Long appears his most serious threat for the "title".
The former England centre has been the one constant this year during Leeds' injuryravaged campaign.
"I still feel I have got a lot to offer this club and it looks as though they feel that as well," he said ahead of tonight's testing trip to Hull KR. "It's great to get the contract sorted out so I can focus on the end of the year.
"I may be 34 but I am not feeling it.
"I've always said while I'm feeling good and that I can do a job I will carry on.
watches-n"I know it could all end in a couple of weeks - but it could end in two, three years. Steve Menzies (at Bradford) has shown you can still do it at 36. Brad Davis was 37. It's possible to play at the highest level."
Leeds kick-off at Craven Park trailing leaders Wigan Warriors by nine points.
But they're four points and two places better off than hosts Rovers.
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"First and second have gone for us," agrees Senior.
"Realistically, we could get third but definitely fourth and that's the target.
"Teams like Hull and Huddersfield are looking to climb the table. But I think we can win the Grand Final again from third or fourth."
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2010年7月29日星期四
Addex drug candidate effective
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Geneva, Switzerland, 13 July 2010 - Allosteric modulation companyAddexPharmaceuticals Ltd. (SWISS: ADXN) announced today that itspreclinical drugcandidate ADX71943 was effective in a model of osteoarthritis pain.ADX71943 isa makeup brush potent and selective positive allosteric modulator of gamma-aminobutyricacidsubtype B (GABA-B) receptors. GABA-B receptors mediate the slow,prolongedphysiological effects of the inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA and areimplicatedin pain processing. Phase I clinical testing is scheduled to start bythe endof 2010.
"We believe the allosteric mechanism of ADX71943 is the key factorin thedifferentiated tolerability and lack of tolerance development observed inthesepreclinical studies. We look forward to testing this compound in humans,wherewe hypothesize that this product could provide not only a noveltreatment forosteoarthritis pain, but also an important opioid-sparing therapy forotherchronic pain indications," Addex CEO Vincent Mutel said.
The effects of ADX71943 on mechanical hyperalgesia (increased painsensitivity)and mechanical allodynia (pain produced by a normally innocuous stimulus)wereassessed in the monosodium iodoacetate (MIA) model of osteoarthritis, amodel ofchronic nociceptive pain. ADX71943 significantly reduced mechanicalhyperalgesiaand showed a trend toward reducing mechanical allodynia after bothacute andsub-chronic (8 days) dosing. Statistically significant antihyperalgesicactivitywas observed on the first day and was maintained on day 8, despiteincreasedpain severity.
A maximal effect of ADX71943 was already achieved with the lowest dosetested (1mg/kg). The efficacious plasma concentration (corresponding to 1mg/kg) wasapproximately 30-50 ng/mL. Importantly, no development of tolerance wasobservedduring the eight day treatment period.
Addex reported previously that ADX71943 is orally efficacious in rodentmodelsof inflammatory pain (formalin test and Complete Freund's Adjuvant-inducedhypersensitivity) and visceral pain (acetic acid-induced writhing).ADX71943also displays an improved tolerability profile with reduced sideeffectscompared to baclofen.
Baclofen, a marketed generic orthosteric GABA-B receptor agonist, hasshownanalgesic effects in animal models of inflammatory and neuropathic pain.Therealso is some evidence of analgesic activity of baclofen in patientswithneuropathic and cancer pain, although its use in patients is limited by CNSsideeffects.
Addex Pharmaceuticals ( ) discovers and developsallostericmodulators for human health and is focused on validated therapeutictargets fordiseases of the central nervous system, metabolic disorders andinflammation.Subject to the completion of Phase I testing and regulatory approvals,Phase IIclinical trials are expected to start in 2010 in four indications for twoleadproducts: ADX48621, an mGluR5 negative allosteric modulator (NAM), indystoniaand Parkinson's disease levodopa-induced dyskinesia (PD-LID); andADX71149, anmGluR2 positive allosteric modulator (PAM), in schizophrenia andanxiety.ADX71149 is licensed to Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. Inaddition,Merck & Co., Inc. has licensed rights to two preclinical products:mGluR4 PAMfor Parkinson's disease and mGluR5 PAM for schizophrenia. Additionalpreclinicaldiscovery stage programs include: mGluR2 NAM, GLP1R PAM, IL1R1 NAM andTNFR1NAM. Roche Venture Fund and SR-One,
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Add some sparkle to your day
Byline: Sarah Howden
EMBELLISHMENT, in the form of sequins, jewels and crystals has become the latest trend to hit the fashion world. And where once we were told that less is more, the new byword in style is now excess.
According to fashion expert Bonnie Rakhit of Elle Magazine, there are many ways to get the look.
"Embellishment has taken a variety of forms this season, from craft inspired pieces at Chloe and delicate foil dresses at Prada, to Christopher Kane's sporty yet ribbon and jewel emblazoned body conscious dresses and full-on crystal overload at Burberry," she says.
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2010年7月27日星期二
Backing OPEC instead of ANWR i
HOUSE SPEAKER Nancy Pelosi opposes lifting the moratorium on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and on the Outer Continental Shelf. She won't even allow it to come to a vote. With $4 gas having massively shifted public opinion in favor of domestic production, she wants to protect her Democratic members from having to cast an anti-drilling, election-year vote. Moreover, given the public mood, she might even lose.
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A lovely sentiment. But has she actually thought through the moratorium's actual effects on the planet?
Consider: Twenty-five years ago, nearly 60 percent of U.S. petroleum was produced domestically. Today it's 25 percent. From its peak in 1970, U.S. production has declined a staggering 47 percent. The world consumes 86 million barrels a day; the United States, roughly 20 million. We need the stuff to run our cars and planes and economy. Where does it come from?
Places like Nigeria where chronic corruption, environmental neglect and resulting unrest and instability lead to pipeline explosions, oil spills and illegal siphoning by the poverty- stricken population . Just this week, two Royal Dutch Shell pipelines had to be shut down because bombings by local militants were causing leaks into the ground.
Compare the Niger Delta to the Gulf of Mexico, where deep-sea U.S. oil rigs withstood Hurricanes Katrina and Rita without a single undersea well suffering a significant spill.
The United States has the highest technology to ensure the safest drilling. Today, directional drilling - essentially drilling down, then sideways - allows access to oil that in 1970 would have required a surface footprint more than three times as large. Additionally, the U.S. has one of the most extensive and least corrupt regulatory systems on the planet.
Does Pelosi imagine that with so much of America declared off- limits, the planet is less injured as drilling shifts to Kazakhstan and Venezuela and Equatorial Guinea? That Russia will be more environmentally scrupulous than we in drilling in its Arctic?
Outsourcing U.S. oil production does nothing to lessen worldwide environmental despoliation. It simply exports it to more corrupt, less efficient, more unstable parts of the world - thereby increasing net planetary damage.
ghd iv stylerDemocrats want no oil from the American OCS or ANWR. But of course they want more oil. From OPEC. From where Americans don't vote. On May 13, Sen. Chuck Schumer - deeply committed to saving just those pieces of the planet that might have huge reserves of American oil - demanded that the Saudis increase production by a million barrels a day. It doesn't occur to him that by eschewing the slightest disturbance of the mating habits of the Arctic caribou, he is calling for the further exploitation of the pristine deserts of Arabia.
The other panacea, yesterday's rage, is biofuels: We can't drill our way out of the crisis, it seems, but we can greenly grow our way out. By now, however, it is blindingly obvious even to Democrats that biofuels are a devastating force for environmental degradation. It has led to the rape of rainforests in Indonesia and Brazil as huge tracts have been destroyed to make room for palm oil and sugar plantations.
There are a dizzying number of economic and national security arguments for drilling at home: a $700 billion oil balance-
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Backing for Nigeria
Phoenix football skipper Andrew Durante remains confident of taking the TAB's money after the first round of World Cup pool matches.
The Phoenix placed two separate $250 multibets, with both returning a possible $20,000.
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Arsene feels the big chill
HAD a chat with Arsene Wenger at Cape Town airport last week.
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Art and power in the Central A
Art and power in the Central African savanna; Luba, Songye, Chokwe, Luluwa.
Petridis, Constantijn.
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This generously illustrated oversize (10x12") catalogue was published to accompany an eponymous exhibition organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art and held in various venues during 2008-2009. Petridis, the Museum's African art curator, provides the text, describing and comparing the four cultures. The term fetish has Juicy Couture Bags Replica given way to the more respectful power object to refer to objects carved of wood, in human or animal shape, associated with religious beliefs and the mediation of spirit and human worlds. These objects are conventionally distinguished from art that serves political purposes, but Petridis argues that in Piaget Watches the meticulously made, relatively large-size figures presented here, the two purposes merged. Distributed in North America by Cornell University Press.
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2010年7月26日星期一
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BRAD HINTZ, ANALYST AT SANFORD BERNSTEIN, TALKS TO TOM KEENE AND KEN PREWITT ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS
APRIL 22, 2010
SPEAKERS: BRAD HINTZ, ANALYST, SANFORD BERNSTEIN TOM KEENE, EDITOR-AT-LARGE, BLOOMBERG NEWS KEN PREWITT, HOST, BLOOMBERG NEWS
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TOM KEENE, EDITOR-AT-LARGE, BLOOMBERG NEWS: Right now, we have the drama kind of securities research, Brad Hintz with us from Sanford Bernstein. Good morning, sir.
BRAD HINTZ, ANALYST, SANFORD BERNSTEIN: Good morning.
KEENE: Buried in your note, wow, on Goldman Sachs. Did the Spitzer Research Analyst Scandal destroy the retail brokerage franchises of Merrill City and Morgan Stanley? No. Did the IPO laddering or spinning cases destroy equity capital franchises like Morgan or Credit Suisse? No. And you suggest Goldman Sachs will survive. Why will they survive?
HINTZ: Well, one, what you're seeing right now is the pullback - the pullback are the discretionary trades. So, yes, do I have to do an equity trade with Goldman? No. Do I have to do an underwriting with Goldman? Do I want to do prime brokerage with Goldman? Absolutely. Do I want to do M&A with Goldman? No question. Do I want an equity underwriting? Yes. So the key, the core businesses, you're not seeing that loss. And so you know are we going to have an impact in terms of clients being nervous? Yes, but it's not going to be long-term impact on a Goldman.
KEENE: Will they get the Ute brain drain? There are people at Goldman not making a kajillion dollars a year. Do they get picked off by the other firms?
HINTZ: There's never any shortage of talent on Wall Street and the NBA's lining up to come into Goldman Sachs. The model of Goldman holds together as long as the partnership holds together. On this one, Replica Breguet we've seen problems before on Wall Street. I don't view this as the end of Goldman.
KEENE: You mentioned equity trading needs a pop here. Is equity trading ready to take the baton? Give us a briefing on that, we don't talk about that now. First, define equity trading.
HINTZ: Equity trading is institutional equity execution and the derivative side. What did surprise us this quarter was that derivatives were so strong at Goldman. Typically, the derivatives books are long volatility and it's in volatility drop this time. It was really a surprise to us that Goldman's derivatives book held up so well. We're going to be going into a slowdown in terms of trade volume, that always happen during the summertime. But we're -
KEENE: I thought Goldman Sachs just worked until like May 1 and then everybody shows up the second week of September. No? No, wait that's Sanford Bernstein that does that. Go ahead, Ken.
Other Watch ReplicaKEN PREWITT, HOST, BLOOMBERG NEWS: Brad, when you look into Goldman's trading for its own account, what did you find out about leverage?
HINTZ: Leverage stayed constant this time. That was actually one of the big surprises that leverage did not go up. VAR went down, which means their performance, their return on risk went up. This was pretty astounding, because Goldman has plenty of room to move their balance sheet up, take leverage up and take performance up. They got 20 percent without having to do that in terms of an ROE.
PREWITT: Did everybody take leverage down after September of '08?
HINTZ: Oh, yes, no question about that
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Objective: The Val66Met polymorphism of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) gene is associated with geriatric depression. In studies of younger adults without depression, met allele carriers exhibit smaller hippocampal volumes and have poorer performance on neuropsychological tests. The authors examined the relationship between the BDNF gene and hippocampal volumes in depressed and nondepressed older individuals and its relationship with memory functions mediated by the hippocampus. Design: One hundred seventy-six elderly depressed white participants and 88 nondepressed participants completed clinical assessments, neuropsychological testing, and provided blood samples for genotyping. One hundred seventy-three participants also underwent brain magnetic resonance imaging. Statistical modeling tested the relationship between genotype and hippocampal volume and function while controlling for diagnosis and other covariates. Results: BDNF genotype was not associated with a difference in performance on tests mediated by the hippocampus, including word list learning, prose recall, nonverbal memory, or digit span. After controlling for covariates, BDNF genotype was not significantly associated with hippocampal volume (F^sub [1, 171]^ = 1.10, p = 0.30). Conclusion: Despite different findings in younger populations, the BDNF Val66Met polymorphism is not significantly associated with hippocampal volume or function in a geriatric population. The authors hypothesize that other factors may have a stronger effect on hippocampal structure in older individuals and that the association between the Val66Met polymorphism and geriatric depression is mediated through other mechanisms. (Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2010; 18:323-331)
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The etiology of depression remains unexplained. In general, depression may be driven by altered neural and emotional response to environmental stimuli, coupled with decreased ability to regulate that emotional response. Neuroimaging studies have revealed structural1 and functional2 differences between depressed and normal populations. This work is accompanied by studies investigating contributing factors at the molecular level, such as the neurotrophic model of depression,3 and research at the genetic level that has identified single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that may be linked with vulnerability to depression.3,4 Because none of these elements on their own has provided a comprehensive understanding of the pathophysiology of depression, exploration of the interplay among neuroanatomic, molecular, and genetic factors might be a more productive approach.
Depressed individuals exhibit smaller hippocampal volumes, when compared with nondepressed individuals,5 a finding also observed in elderly populations,6 although not always replicated.7,8 Smaller hippocampal volumes in depressed subjects are associated as adverse antidepressant outcomes including a failure to remit9'10 and greater likelihood of relapse.11 It is possible that genetic differences may explain part of the discrepancy in results of studies exarrtining hippocampal volume in depression. One potentially important contributor is the valine (val) to methionine (met) substitution in the 5' proregion of the human brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) protein, a result of a functional SNP (Val66Met). The met allele is more common in late-life depression (LLD)12,13 and is associated with smaller hippocampal volumes in healthy adults.14 Studies that have examined the association between the BDNF genotype and hippocampal volumes in major depression among younger adult
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I'm a real bear of a dancer
I did an extremely manly thing Thursday morning.
Replica watchesI bought new shoes. Not just any shoes. I bought dancing shoes. Ballroom dancing shoes.
It was a new experience for me. Over the years, as a typical Canadian guy, I've bought all kinds of shoes -- football shoes, basketball shoes, running shoes -- but dancing shoes are a little out of my comfort zone.
When I was growing up, owning a pair of dancing shoes would have caused older kids at my high school to hold you upside-down and stick your head in the toilet.
But that was then. On Thursday, Pete Larsen, the wholesale manager at Mallabar who sizes me up for an extra-large Santa suit every Christmas, helped me pick out these size 12 1/2 beauties.
I asked Pete whether he gets many middle-aged, six-foot-four, 288-pound guys coming in looking for professional-quality dancing footwear.
"No," is what he said before a brief pause, adding: "We don't do a lot of ballroom stuff, but we decided to carry it as soon as Dancing With The Stars came on TV. People look for ballroom shoes now; before that (show), no one did."
In a couple of hours, I'm going to give these spiffy new shoes their first trial run. I have to meet my dance partner, a beautiful Russian-born dancer named Anna Rudman, to put the finishing touches on our rumba routine.
It will be one of our final practices before we hit the floor May 1 for Dancing With Celebrities, in which local personalities are teamed up with actual dancers in a ballroom competition. Twice Replica watches a week for the last three months, Anna has been struggling to transform me from a 288-pound sandbag into a 288-pound sandbag with expensive new shoes.
Like I said earlier, I'm a little out of my comfort zone. But that's OK. In fact, that's the point! Dancing With Celebrities raises funds for the Society for Manitobans with Disabilities/Easter Seals. As I stumbled through my first practice three months ago, Andrew Terhoch, the society's special events manager, explained being out of your comfort zone is an everyday thing for someone with a disability.
"We do this event to showcase our philosophy that, with the right support, anything is possible," Andrew said. "It's not always easy to step out in the world and try something new. To get out on the dance floor for the first time is more about how the music moves you than how you move to the music."
I'm pretty sure he said that to make me feel better, and it did. I think I understand what he meant.
I understand because learning to do the rumba is one of the hardest things I've ever tried. On a sliding scale of difficulty, it's somewhere between nuclear physics and NASCAR.
There's a video of Anna and me on the Free Press website. My buddy, Bob watched it and -- I'm sure this came from his heart -- said it was like watching a huge clumsy bear escape from a zoo, stumble on a beautiful young girl and, in super slow motion, attack her on a dance floor.
The Replica watches other day, a little frustrated, I asked Margaret Motyka, co-owner of the dance studio, what my problem was. She flashed a brilliant smile and laughed: "You don't have a problem, Doug! Look at you, you're dancing!"
Whenever I go to a charity dinner, like last Saturday, every guy in the room will come up to me. And do you know what we talk about? Y
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I'm shocked at this police ove
I read, with despair in the Chronicle of October 22, of the antics of the police at Rosewarn Replica watches Close on the night of October 17. I suppose they thought a show of force would demonstrate to the residents they "meant business". Unfortunately the average response was disrespectful: "Look, they're scared to come in twos and threes".
As to the wholesale misuse of CS sprays, this was a totally unwarranted reaction. It was a Replica watches brutal knee-jerk response to a situation perceived to be something far removed from the truth.
Later in the same paper we saw how the police have got together with local businesses to promote Bath as a safe venue for a night Replica watches out. I'm afraid I shall not be tempted if, at the first sign of trouble, the riot squad turn up, staggering under the weight of bulk purchases of CS gas cannisters.I shall continue to avoid the city- centre at night, just as I have done for decades.
If I want to watch the Keystone Cops, I have a DVD player.
M J McGINTY, Bath
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Undertone Networks Names New P
Undertone Networks, an online advertising network that provides advertisers with placements on top Web sites, announced that Patrick Schoonveld, a former product operations manager with Google, Inc., has joined Undertone as product manager.
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Best Kid Shoes OnlineAs product operations manager at Google, Schoonveld led the strategy, development and launch of the DoubleClick Network Builder, while also contributing to the success of the Google Exchange. Previously, he was general manager of development and ad operations director at Sourceforge, Inc., where he managed the development of the internal ad server and launched new ad products, including RSS advertising and microsites.
"This hire is the latest evidence of our commitment to building products and technology that meet marketer and publisher needs both today and in the future," said Alan Schanzer, Chief Strategy Officer at Undertone. "We see the opportunity to use technology, combined with human power to further revolutionize the way the media marketplace works during the next 24 months. Patrick's previous experience at Google and DoubleClick will be invaluable in continuing to establish technology as yet another point of marketplace differentiation for Undertone and another competitive advantage for its customers."
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Unicast Issues Q1 2010 Analyti
Unicast , a leader in online interactive rich media and video advertising management and services solutions, today announced the results of its Q1 2010 Analytics Benchmark Report.
Key findings from the report include:
Beverage/Spirits produced the highest average interaction rate (8.62%) for all ads served across verticals, followed by Retail (8.24%) and TV Entertainment (5.06%). Consumer Packaged Goods produced the longest average interaction time (56 seconds) across verticals, followed by Sporting Goods (50 seconds) and Technology (36 seconds). Unicast Messenger Units, which are served in instant messaging platforms, ranked the highest in both interaction rate and average exposure time. Branded Canvas ad formats, which are fully custom interactive LED spotlight units positioned within full episode video players, produced very high interaction rates and average video view times.
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"At Unicast, we launched our benchmark analysis program to provide publishers, agencies and advertisers with valuable online campaign insights on ad formats and creative executions," said Dan Berra, VP of Business Intelligence for Unicast. "We are seeing trends in specific industry verticals and interactive formats and features leading the way with strong interaction rates and engagement times."
The full Unicast Q1 2010 Analytics Benchmark Report is available here:
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