Powerful antioxidant resveratrol prevents metabolic syndrome in lab tests, study finds

ScienceDaily (Sep. 2, 2011) ? Researchers in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Alberta have discovered that resveratrol, a powerful antioxidant found in common foods, prevents a syndrome in some offspring that could lead to later health issues such as diabetes.

Resveratrol is found in fruits, nuts and red wine, and has been shown to extend the lifespan of many species.

Human offspring that have trouble growing in the womb have an increased risk of developing metabolic problems later in life. But U of A medical researchers Jason Dyck and Sandra Davidge and their teams found that administering resveratrol to the young offspring of lab rats after weaning actually prevented the development of a metabolic syndrome, which is characterized by glucose intolerance, insulin resistance and higher deposits of abdominal fat.

Dyck and Davidge published their findings in a recent edition of the peer-reviewed journal Diabetes. Dyck is a researcher in the departments of Pediatrics and Pharmacology, while Davidge is a researcher in the departments of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Physiology. Both are also members of the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, as well as the Women and Children's Health Research Institute. Dyck and Davidge were co-senior authors of the study.

The study took advantage of the fact that "infancy is a potential window of opportunity to intervene and prevent the future development of metabolic diseases." The researchers noted this is the first potential pharmacological treatment that may help babies that developed in a growth-restricted environment in the womb.

"There is a concept that in utero, there are genetic shifts that are occurring -- reprogramming is occurring because of this strenuous environment babies are in, that allows them to recover very quickly after birth," says Dyck.

"When babies are growth-restricted, they usually have a catch-up period after they are born where they catch up to non-growth-restricted groups. It might be that reprogramming that creates this kind of 'thrifty' phenotype, where they want to consume and store and get caught up.

"That reprogramming appears to make them more vulnerable to developing a host of metabolic problems."

Earlier this year, Dyck and Davidge published another paper in Diabetes demonstrating that rat offspring not growing well in the womb had noticeable side effects from high-fat diets after birth -- the rats deposited more fat in the abdominal area, developed glucose intolerance, more dramatic cases of insulin resistance and insulin resistance at earlier stages of life.

Dyck and Davidge are continuing their research in this area, examining whether treating the mother during pregnancy can prevent metabolic problems in rat offspring affected by intrauterine growth restriction.

Davidge is an Alberta Innovates-Health Solutions (AIHS) Scientist and a Canada Research Chair in Women's Cardiovascular Health. Dyck is an AIHS Senior Scholar and the Director of the Cardiovascular Research Centre at the U of A.

Their research was funded by: the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada, and the Women and Children's Health Research Institute.

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1. V. W. Dolinsky, C. F. Rueda-Clausen, J. S. Morton, S. T. Davidge, J. R. B. Dyck. Continued Postnatal Administration of Resveratrol Prevents Diet-Induced Metabolic Syndrome in Rat Offspring Born Growth Restricted. Diabetes, 2011; 60 (9): 2274 DOI: 10.2337/db11-0374

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Queen's versus RMC game more then just hockey - Gananoque ...

By Amanda Smith

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A hockey rivalry that spans over 100 years is a great opportunity for Brett Gibson to bring quality hockey to his hometown.

"It allows people to see CIS (Canadian Interuniversity Sport) hockey without having to travel to Kingston," said Gibson, coach of the Queen's Gaels men's hockey team.

The Gaels will be facing off against the Royal Military College Paladins on Sept. 16 at 7 p.m. at the Gananoque and District Recreation Centre.

Gibson, who is in his seventh year with Queen's, says this is a great event.

"It doesn't matter if it is an ice hockey game or a road hockey game," he said. "It is a real intense game."

The game also allows Gibson to present a deserving freshman of the Queen's team with a scholarship in the name of Lou Jefferies.

"I was always close to Lou and this is a great way to honour and promote qualities he had," said Gibson.

He said this scholarship goes to the player in most financial need. The recipient must maintain an 80 per cent average prior to university and must maintain a 75 per cent average in order to receive the funding each year. The scholarship is worth $3,500.

"We try to raise that amount at this event," said Gibson. This is the sixth year the Queen's and RMC game has been held here in Gananoque.

"It's a way to give back to the community," he said. "We want kids to come out. It's a family event."

This year's scholarship went to Patrick McEachen of Stouffville, ON. McEachen played last year for the Mississauga St. Michael's Majors team of the Ontario Hockey League.

"He is a hard worker," said Gibson of the 20 year-old defenceman. "He takes school very seriously. He was looking at a few schools and what really sold him on Queen's was the quality of the hockey program and secondly the academics. These are traits Lou, and the other scholarship recipients, had."

Doors open at 5:30 p.m. to this event. Admission is $2. There will be a cash bar and silent auction during the game upstairs. After the game there will be entertainment.

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HP resurrects TouchPad for one last go at the iPad (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) ? Hewlett Packard Co plans to crank out "one last run" of TouchPads, days after declaring it will kill off a line of tablets that failed to challenge Apple Inc's command of the booming market.

A day after the chief of HP's personal devices division told Reuters the TouchPad might get a second lease on life, HP announced a temporary about-face on the gadget after being "pleasantly surprised" by the outsized demand generated by a weekend fire-sale.

HP slashed the price of its tablet to $99 from $399 and $499 the weekend after announcing the TouchPad's demise on August 18, part of a raft of decisions intended to move HP away from the consumer and focus on enterprise clientele.

That ignited an online frenzy and long lines at retailers as bargain-hunters chased down a gadget that had been on store shelves just six weeks.

"The speed at which it disappeared from inventory has been stunning," the company said. "We have decided to produce one last run of TouchPads to meet unfulfilled demand."

HP may lose money on every TouchPad in its final production run. According to IHS iSuppli's preliminary estimates, the 32GB version carries a bill of materials of $318.

"We don't know exactly when these units will be available or how many we'll get, and we can't promise we'll have enough for everyone. We do know that it will be at least a few weeks before you can purchase," HP said in a blogpost.

Critics have blasted HP for wavering on pivotal decisions, such as its original stated intention to integrate its webOS software into every device it makes, followed by a decision to stop making webOS gadgets, including the TouchPad.

The storied Silicon Valley giant is struggling to shore up margins as smartphones and tablets eat away at its core PC business, the world's largest. On August 18, HP said it was also considering spinning off the PC division.

CEO Leo Apotheker is under immense pressure from investors unhappy with HP's back-and-forth on strategy. The former SAP chief has also been forced to slash HP's sales estimates three times since he took over last November.

In a resounding rejection of his grand vision, shareholders sent HP shares down almost 20 percent the day it announced its sweeping moves, which included a pricey acquisition of software player Autonomy. That wiped out $16 billion of value from HP in the stock's worst single-day fall since the Black Monday stock market crash of October 1987.

HP declined to comment beyond the blogpost. Shares in the company were down marginally in after-hours trade on Tuesday.

(Reporting by Poornima Gupta, Bill Rigby and Edwin Chan; Editing by Richard Chang)

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United Nations' Plans for Libya Clarified | Morocco World News

By Benjamin Villanti

Morocco World News

New York, August 31, 2011

In a story that was carried by Morocco World News, Al Jazeera English reported on Monday about a leaked UN planning document revealing possible deployment of 200 unarmed military observers, along with UN police as well as other activities in post-conflict Libya. The ten page document, first obtained by Inner City Press, a United Nations based news website, was made available on Al Jazeera?s website.

Today at the United Nations media stakeout, the Special Adviser to the Secretary General, Ian Martin, tasked these past few months for planning a UN role in post-conflict Libya, made clear that this document did not represent the UN?s current plans.

When questioned by Inner City Press on UN plans for military observers as well as a continued NATO role, Martin explained that the document referred to in the Al Jazeera story was a contingency plan that had been drawn up in the case a cease-fire between the two sides had been negotiated. ?Clearly in that context it was responsible to plan for the rapid deployment of unarmed military observers if necessary. We also told the [Security] Council that depending on the security situation, deployment of unarmed military observers might only be possible if there was some kind of protection that would have to be provided other than by the United Nations.? The latter point was a response to concerns that had been raised about a recommendation in the document for continued NATO involvement.

Martin stressed than the UN no longer has any intentions of deploying military observers. He stated, ?So that contingency plan has been there, but it was developed for a context which is not the context that has actually occurred. In our discussions with the NTC it is very clear that the Libyans want to avoid any military deployment by the UN or others.?

Martin noted that that United Nations had only recently started intensive planning beyond contingency plans when he, along with the Secretary-General?s Special Envoy to Libya, Abdel-Elah Al-Khatib, met with National Transitional Council authorities in Doha, as the intention is that a UN role will be based on ?Libyan requests?.

So far these areas where the NTC authorities have expressed an interest in UN assistance include for electoral assistance, national reconciliation and transitional justice. He also noted that the Libyan authorities have expressed interest in assistance for capacity building in policing. According to Martin, it was, however, not yet clear the form that such assistance might take, though he did not rule out the possibility it could include UN police as mentors or trainers.

The UN Special Adviser stated that the United Nations would present an initial proposal for a role in Libya to the Security Council after next week?s Paris meeting, when the Secretary-General will meet with NTC authorities on Thursday.

Asked how he would characterize the UN Mission being planned and whether it was a peacekeeping operation or not, Martin responded that, ?It is not at the moment being envisioned as a peacekeeping operation on the assumption that there would not be a kind of operational deployment. It would be an integrated politically lead mission.?

Meanwhile the Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, briefed the Security Council on Libya earlier in the day. UN support to Libya is to be based on ?three fundamental principles,? said the Secretary General.? He outlined these principles as Libyan national ownership, the rapid delivery and response to requests for support and effective coordination among the different governments and organizations providing aid.

Editing by Adnane Bennis.

Picture: AlJazeera.

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Source: http://moroccoworldnews.com/2011/08/united-nations%E2%80%99-plans-for-libya-clarified/

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Modern Technology Destroys Classic Movie Plot Points

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Sorry, Alfred Hitchcock, that script needs a tweak.

Impressive structure, Frank Capra, but about the premise?.

Crackling good dialogue, Billy Wilder, but there?s been a technical glitch. Actually, a technology glitch.

Some of the greatest films of all time probably wouldn?t be greenlighted today without some serious script doctoring because the advent of modern technology has removed the feasibility of the plot points that so many of them turn on.

Consider the opening scene of Hitchcock?s ?North by Northwest? (1959). Roger (a never-better Cary Grant) realizes during a business lunch at the Plaza Hotel that he must relay a message to his mother, and therefore must send her a telegram. (For readers born after the Clinton impeachment, Google ?Western Union.?) With unfortunate timing, he flags down a bellboy who is paging someone else, leading to an identity mix-up and his kidnapping by foreign spies.

A very Hitchcockian device, mistaken identity. It sets the entire plot in motion. But Hitch couldn?t have made that movie today. Not set in 2011, at least, because what successful businessman leaves the office without his 4G smartphone?

Take Capra's multiple Oscar winner ?It Happened One Night? (1934). In it, Peter (Clark Gable) is a recently fired newspaper reporter (OK, change that to ?recently laid off? and that does still ring true in 2011) who meets heiress Ellie (Claudette Colbert), who is on the lam after a fight with her father. Set and filmed during the Depression, the road comedy features Ellie bribing Peter to keep her whereabouts secret.

How quaint. In 2011, Ellie Andrews would be a cottage industry for TMZ, National Enquirer photographers and Nancy Grace. Her photo would be all over CNN and the national news. But come to think of it, nowadays, rich girls who have fights with Dad don?t try to hide, they merely post it on Facebook or blog about it, then let the court of public opinion render a verdict.

?Double Indemnity? (1944): With cellphone records and embedded GPS, it would take Edward G. Robinson?s claims adjuster all of 10 minutes to figure out that Walter (Fred MacMurray) and Phyllis (Barbara Stanwyck) were having an affair in Wilder?s film noir about a life insurance scam. And the plot to make it look like hubby fell from the train? I?m betting that once Amtrak?s Pacific Surfliner builds up enough speed to break your neck in a fall between San Diego and Los Angeles, its doors can?t be opened for that fatal shove.

?Body Heat? (1981): This steamy thriller from Lawrence Kasdan is another take on the faked-death scheme. But with all the forensic science advances, it wouldn?t take long for Abby from ?NCIS? and Dr. Warner from ?Law & Order: Special Victims Unit? to deduce that Matty (Kathleen Turner) had assumed another woman?s identity and that body isn?t hers. Probably a Facebook search of her high school site and a simple DNA test would clear her poor besotted lover Ned (William Hurt) in less than a week.

?Sorry, Wrong Number? (1948): Bedridden Mrs. Stevenson (Stanwyck) is somehow connected to an ongoing phone call between two men planning a murder. Turns out, they?re talking about her murder. So, quick, call 911, right? No, she spends much of the movie on the line to an operator. She has no call waiting. And, of course, she?s in an upstairs bedroom, so when the killer knocks the phone downstairs off the hook, she?s out of luck. Give her a cellphone plan with anytime minutes and unlimited texting, and there?s no movie.

?The Terminator? (1984): One of the first things the futuristic machine (Arnold Schwarzenegger) does after warping back in time (after stealing clothes and those iconic shades off some bikers) is go to a phone booth and tear the Sarah Connor listings out of the white pages. Good luck finding a phone booth in L.A. today ?? especially one with a current phone book.

Classic period films, obviously, aren?t affected by technology advances ? a western is set in the Old West?regardless of what year it is made, same with 19th century English dramas and the like. And fantasies are set in an alternate reality so don?t have to adhere to modern rules. And science fiction? Well, yes, many older sci-fi films can be comical in retrospect (you don?t shoot a rocket into space by putting it on tracks that run up a hillside, boys), but they get credit at least for thinking outside the box.

Contemporary movies, though, are a trickier lot. It?s totally possible that future technology would date ? perhaps hilariously ? some more recent technology-dependent films, such as? ?Eagle Eye? (2008), ?Enemy of the State? (1998), ?Disclosure? (1994), ?The Matrix? trilogy (1999-2003), etc. Actually, it?s already happened ? the AOL modem dial-up in 1998?s romantic comedy ?You?ve Got Mail,? anyone?

When you consider all the changes in medical technology, computer technology, social technology in the past couple decades, there are probably plenty of other films out there that would be tripped up by today?s online, linked-in capabilities. Let us know if you can think of others and how you?d write around the outdated plot points.

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Photo: Cary Grant, left, James Mason and Eva Marie Saint in Alfred Hitchcock's "North by Northwest." Credit: MGM

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	Administrative Specialist Job Code: 100320 POSTED: Aug 30 Salary: Open Location: Washington, D.C. Employer: Government Contract Solutions, Inc. (GCS) Type: Full Time - Entry Level Category: Business Management Preferred Education: 4 Year Degree About Government Contract Solutions, Inc. (GCS) Founded in 1995 and located in McLean, Virginia, GCS is a professional services and solutions provider to federal government and industry clients nationwide. With a staff of more than 250 consulting professionals, we deliver responsive expertise and impressive results in the areas of acquisition life cycle management, contract support services, performance improvement consulting, and program management services. The GCS team is passionate about helping government and industry solve both strai....more info View all our jobs The Administrative?Specialist support?will include but are not limited to: ? providing telephone and receptionist services maintaining records of leave and attendance requisitioning office supplies, repairs on office equipment, and printing services reserving rooms for meetings filing material and maintaining office filing systems receiving and controlling incoming correspondence reviewing outgoing correspondence, reports, etc., for format, grammar, and punctuation, and removing typographical errors writing simple or repetitive, non-technical correspondence such as letters of acknowledgment in accordance with a given format performing typing, stenographic, or transcribing duties keeping abreast of various procedural requirements, for example, procedures required to process travel vouchers maintaining information needed for budget purposes making extensive travel arrangements making complete arrangements for large conferences composing complex, but non-technical correspondence performing a variety of secretarial, clerical and administrative duties. NOTES: Additional Salary Information: Depends on Experience The Administrative Specialist shall have the following knowledge and expertise, but are not limited to: Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite applications General office experience Government Contract Solutions, Inc. (GCS) Washington DC http://www.gcsinfo.com/index.htm

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Irene Causes Widespread Flooding In Northeast

Irene had lost a lot of power when it hit New England as a tropical storm, but that didn't keep it from packing a punch. Roads and bridges were destroyed in Vermont. And in neighboring New York, a dam gave way, flooding homes and businesses downstream.

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Hurricane Irene made her way up to Canada last night, leaving behind blue skies and blackouts. Millions of people from North Carolina to Maine are without power. Irene struck New England as a tropical storm, but still caused widespread flooding, especially in New York state and Vermont.

Vermont public radio's John Dillon reports that many of that state's most important roads have been washed out.

JOHN DILLON: Goldie Watson called 911 yesterday because she couldn't get out of her flooded home in Northfield, Vermont.

GOLDIE WATSON: The road became a river. It jumped the curb. It flooded - I have double cellars, flooded both cellars, moved up to the first floor and was climbing when they came in their scuba gear and walked us across yards trying to get to higher ground.

DILLON: Like dozens of other streams around Vermont, the Dog River in Northfield jumped its banks when the remnants of Hurricane Irene dumped up to 7 inches of rain across the state. Five miles downstream, the river swept through a trailer park.

FRED CHURCHILL: That's why all the trailers look like, just like that. Muddy water.

DILLON: Fred Churchill surveyed the damage. Mud reeking of spilled fuel oil coated his trailer.

CHURCHILL: Every place down here, you're talking a foot of water inside your trailer anyways.

DILLON: Hundreds spent the night in emergency shelters. Two died in the flood waters in southern Vermont and two more are feared dead. Both the missing are workers for the city of Rutland who were checking out the municipal water system when they were swept away.

Vermont's roads follow the river valleys, so the heaviest damage was to roadways and bridges. Transportation Secretary Brian Searles says the state is just beginning to assess the destruction.

BRIAN SEARLES: And the list that I've been presented of closures on the state and local system looks to be about 260. I don't think we've ever experienced anything quite like that.

DILLON: Several of the state's iconic wooden covered bridges were washed away and entire sections of highway were destroyed. About a dozen towns were isolated because main highways were closed.

(SOUNDBITE OF TRUCK BACKING)

DILLON: On Route 100, which runs the length of Vermont, a state crew hurried to block the road with jersey barriers in Moretown. Highway worker Eric Austin said the Mad River cut under the bridge abutments.

ERIC AUSTIN: Right here, right where he's standing, all the way underneath that whole concrete section, there's nothing underneath it. So...

DILLON: Upstate New York saw similar damage. Bruce Reed is highway superintendent in the town of Keene in the outer Adirondacks. He looked exhausted and said it was hard to know where to start with the cleanup.

BRUCE REED: I believe five bridges are totally gone. Keene firehouse, half the house is gone, totally gone, gone down to rubble. Unbelievable. Never seen it so bad.

DILLON: Forecasters originally had expected the storm to track up the Connecticut River valley to the east, which would have meant less rain for Vermont and New York. Instead, the storm and its soaking rain went west and tracked slowly north, hitting almost every one of the region's river valleys.

Scott Whittier at the National Weather Service calls this a once-in-a-generation event.

SCOTT WHITTIER: You usually - I mean, '73 was a significant flood across the state. Before that was '27. Now, you're talking 2011. So I mean, we get these maybe every 40, 50 years.

DILLON: The storm is already drawing comparisons to the great flood of 1927. President Barack Obama has ordered federal disaster assistance to help in Vermont with the state and local response.

For NPR News, I'm John Dillon in Montpelier.

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