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ORLAN Resurfacing: Surgery-Performance Photos and Recent Works Exhibition at FAU
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BOCA RATON, FL (November 19, 2010) –Florida Atlantic University's University Galleries presents the ORLAN Resurfacing: Surgery-Performance Photos and Recent Works Exhibition from Wednesday, December 1, 2010 through Saturday, January 22, 2011, in the Schmidt Gallery Open Space on FAU's Boca Raton campus, 777 Glades Road. On Thursday, December 2, ORLAN will give a public lecture at 5 p.m. in the Senate Chambers of the Student Union on the Boca Raton campus. She will then be at the opening reception from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Gallery. The lecture, reception and exhibition are free and open to the public.
ORLAN is an internationally acclaimed French multimedia artist who gained world-wide recognition in the early 1990s for her performances in which she redesigned herself through numerous plastic surgeries. Incredibly shocking and controversial when they were performed, ORLAN's surgery-performances were not only historically valuable for the questions they raised concerning beauty, nature and the body; they also remarkably presaged contemporary popular culture's obsession with plastic surgery. ORLAN's recent work continues to investigate concepts of transfiguration through a variety of media, including photography, sculpture and installation. Her works have been the subject of countless international exhibitions and publications. ORLAN Resurfacing: Surgery-Performance Photos and Recent Works marks the first U.S. solo exhibition of ORLAN's surgery-performance photos.
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Forget Black Friday, forget Christmas Eve. Tommy Lee expects today to be the biggest shopping day of the year.
Lee, owner of The Corner Shoe Store in the West Main Shopping Center in Tupelo, expects a hectic day.
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Mississippi's sales tax holiday begins today and ends Saturday, and retailers throughout the state are gearing up for one of their busiest times of the year.
"Our busiest day used to be the Friday before Christmas, but after last year's sales tax holiday, we expect today to be the busiest," Lee said.
This is the second year Mississippi will have a sales tax holiday, and shoppers can save 7 percent on certain clothes and shoes that cost $100 or less per item.
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Bryan LeBlanc, manager of Turtle Creek Mall in Hattiesburg, describes the tax holiday weekend as Christmas in July or the second Black Friday. The mall is extending its hours.
"It's one thing to have a tax-free weekend, but many (stores) are pairing it up with a lot of discounts," LeBlanc said. "There are a great amount of sales you can take advantage of."
As far as the state-sanctioned tax break, jewelry, handbags, wallets, watches, backpacks, school supplies, computers, cleats and other items worn in conjunction with an athletic or recreational activity are not eligible.
And some municipalities statewide have opted not to participate in the tax holiday, including Guntown and Sherman in Northeast Mississippi.
Still, bargains abound. The tax-free holiday has fallen during national sales events for some retailers, including JCPenney and Dillard's, which will have an additional 30 percent off all permanently reduced items.
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Mark Tarlov, the former owner of Evening Land Vineyards launched this winery in 2012 with 4,200 cases of Willamette Valley Pinot Noir. Tarlov brought on Burgundian vigneron Louis-Michel Liger-Belair as consultant to work with winemaker Mike D. "Mikey" Etzel, the son of Beaux Freres winemaker Michael Etzel. Max Marriott, who worked for Louis-Michel in Burgundy as well as top producers in New Zealand, Tasmania, Germany and the United States (Cristom in 2012), took over as winemaker for the Chapter 24 Vineyards wines. He finished the 2013 vintage wines and crafted the 2014 vintage wines.
Mikey continued to pursue a side project with Mark Tarlov called Double Zero producing vineyard-designated $300 Pinot Noirs, made with meticulous attention and tiny volumes.
Vineyard sources include 29 vineyards in the Willamette Valley in all six appellations including Patricia Green Estate, Hyland Estates, Shea Vineyard, Lachini Vineyard, and Nysa Vineyard. The result is some 70 blocks and separate parcels of fruit. Ryan Hannaford, the former vineyard manager at Seven Springs Vineyard, joined the team as company viticulturist to assist with grower liaison and the biodynamic management of two leased vineyards.
Chapter 24 initially intended to have a marketing partnership with Patricia Green Cellars which never reached completion and the partnership is currently with Old Bridge Cellars who co-own the entry-level label, Maison l'Envoye. The label, Fire+Flood, offers The Fire and The Flood, priced in the $60 range, that explore the two main soil types in the Willamette Valley, Jory (Fire) and Willakenzie (Flood). The highest end release is Last Chapter, priced at $90, is named for the final scene in "The Odyssey."
By 2015, production was 12,000 cases, the majority of which was made for the Maison l'Envoye program, with barrel and lot selections made for the Last Chapter, Fire and Flood bottlings.
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Tarlov plans to build a winery and acquire one or two vineyards in the Willamette Valley while signing long-term contracts with several other vineyards.
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13.3% alc., $60. · Medium reddish purple color in the glass. Demure aromas of black cherry, cranberry and spice. Middleweight flavors of black cherries, raspberries and baking spice with an earthy undertone. Slightly muscular tannins balanced with vibrant acidity make for a very seamless, polished impression. Much more aromatic and flavorful the following day from a previously opened and re-corked bottle suggesting good age ability. Score: 93. Reviewed March 29, 2014 ARTICLE »
2012 Fire + Flood (Chapter 24) The Flood Willamette Valley Pinot Noir
13.3% alc., $60. · Moderately dark reddish purple color in the glass. Penetrating aromas of darker stone and berry fruits flow from the glass and hold up over time. Full-bodied and boisterous flavors of Bing cherries, boysenberries and cassis caress the palate and persist with uncommon intensity on the very long finish. The wine still has an oak sheen which will integrate over time in the cellar. The soft texture is particularly appealing. A very special wine. Score: 94. Reviewed March 29, 2014 ARTICLE »


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SoftBank shares rose 3.7% early Thursday following news on Wednesday that the Chinese e-commerce giant now plans to list in New York after talks with the Hong Kong stock exchange ended.
That's because SoftBank holds a 36.7% stake in Alibaba–making it the biggest shareholder–and the IPO is expected to value Alibaba at as much as $70 billion. That would make SoftBank's stake worth around $25 billion, or equal to nearly a third of SoftBank's current market cap. Not too shabby for a $20 million investment in 2000.
"The only real question [for SoftBank] is how much of the latent value is already priced into its own stock. With a price-to-earnings ratio of under 18 times, shares may yet see significant upside after Alibaba lists," said Tachibana Securities market adviser Kenichi Hirano.
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Parishioners of St. Margaret Mary R.C. Church in Midland Beach likely will see parallels to the devastation they experienced from Hurricane Sandy in a passion play that will be performed at their church on March 20.
The parish, administrated by the Rev. Erno Diaz, is presenting the Manhattan-based Xavier Theatre Company's performance of "No Greater Love" at its Lenten Retreat. The 32-year-old Christian acting troupe performs original works that focus on faith and social justice themes.
While the hurricane isn't part of the plot, the play is symbolic of the struggles that parishioners have experienced both during the superstorm and in the process of rebuilding their homes and lives.
"We have been through so much since Sandy and yet, through our faith, we are still here and continuing to move forward and keeping faithful to God," said Barbara Regan, coordinator of religious education at the parish.
"As we become part of the crowd while we observe the re-enactment, we will remember that Jesus took on human form and knew suffering just as we do.""No Greater Love" is described as "a vibrant musical drama that celebrates the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ" starring Pasqualino Beltempo in the role of Jesus and Nikki Casseri as Mary, the mother of Jesus. The play was written by Janeen Stevens and directed and choreographed by Dr. Carol Ferrone with musical direction by Gerard De Man, Jr.
The Xavier Company is a group of professionally trained actors, singers and dancers. They are in residence at St. Francis Xavier R.C. Church in Manhattan and are performing "No Greater Love" at parishes throughout the tri-state area.The performance at St. Margaret Mary on March 20 begins at 7:30 p.m. Free-will donations will be taken. For information, call the church at 718-351-2612.


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Come dig with us at Tel Kabri this coming summer! When else will you have the opportunity to excavate in a Canaanite palace more than 3,500 years old, decorated with Minoan-style floor and wall paintings?
Located in a quiet rural setting within the western Galilee of Israel, only a ten minute ride from the historical town of Acco, with its Medieval and Ottoman old city, fishing harbor and traditional market, and the modern resort town of Nahariya, the site of Tel Kabri has what may be the earliest-known Western art yet found in the Eastern Mediterranean. Today the Tel and its surroundings are an agricultural land, with lush plantations of bananas and avocados overlying the ancient remains.
Kabri represents one of the only possible opportunities available today in the Eastern Mediterranean to test some of the anthropological theories about the rise of archaic states and the nature of various political economies in the Aegean and the Near East. The readily available palace and settlement, with minimal overburden and with rather limited previous excavations, enables the use of modern methods such as residue analysis, petrographic analysis, detailed zooarchaeological study, neutron activation analysis, stable isotope analysis, and petrography to gain insights into some of the most important topics relevant to the understanding of complex human societies.
During excavations conducted at the site from 1986-1993 by the late Professor Aharon Kempinski and Professor Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier, a floor and wall frescoes painted in an Aegean manner—probably by Cycladic or Minoan artists—were discovered within a building that they identified as a palace.
Our preliminary excavations in 2005 indicated that the palace, which dates to the Middle Bronze (MB) IIB period during the early second millennium BCE, is at least twice as large as previously thought, with much still remaining to be excavated.
During the 2008 season of excavations we were able to retrieve data from the entire history of the MB palace, from a pre-palatial period through to final destruction. We also found approximately 45 more fragments of wall plaster, at least some of which appear to be painted, and additional evidence for red paint on one of the plaster floors in the palace.
Our 2009 season saw the continued excavation of the palace, with the goal of investigating its life cycle, from humble beginnings to its destruction three centuries later. We were successful in doing so, and in the process found approximately 100 additional pieces of wall and floor plaster, including 60 which were painted.
Our 2011 season yielded more painted fresco fragments and a large building adjacent to the palace, perhaps a temple. In this building, the rooms were lined with carved orthostat blocks still in place, so we are calling it the "Orthostat Building."
And, in 2013, we found the oldest and largest wine cellar in the ancient Near East, in the storage rooms of the palace. We will be continuing the excavation of these during the 2015 season.
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Tel Kabri is located in northern Israel, a short distance from Acco and Nahariyya; a longer drive from Haifa. We will be staying at the Western Galilee Field School, by Achziv beach just north of the town of Nahariyya. Rooms are air-conditioned; each has a kitchenette including refrigerator. Free Wi-Fi is available, as is the beach and a nearby swimming pool.
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Andrew J. Koh, Assaf Yasur-Landau, and Eric H. Cline, "Characterizing a Middle Bronze Palatial Wine Cellar from Tel Kabri," PlosOne; Published: August 27, 2014; DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0106406
E.H. Cline and A. Yasur-Landau, "Your Career is in Ruins: How to Start an Excavation in Five Not-So-Easy Steps," Biblical Archaeology Review32/1 (2006) 34-37, 71. (Link: http://digkabri.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/cline-and-yasur-landau-bar-kabri-20063.pdf )
E.H. Cline and A. Yasur-Landau, Poetry in Motion: Canaanite Rulership and Aegean Narrative at Kabri, Aegaeum 28, 157-165, 2007, Liege: Université de Liege. (Link: http://digkabri.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/cline-and-yasur-landau-epos-2007.pdf )
A. Yasur-Landau, E.H. Cline, and G.A. Pierce, Middle Bronze Age Settlement Patterns in the Western Galilee, Israel, Journal of Field Archaeology, 33(1): 59-83, -2008. (Link: http://digkabri.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/jfa-galley-proofs.pdf )
E.H. Cline, A. Yasur-Landau, and N. Goshen, "New Fragments of Aegean-Style Painted Plaster from Tel Kabri, Israel," American Journal of Archaeology115/2: 245-261. (Link: AJA 2011 article)
A. Yasur-Landau, E.H. Cline, N. Goshen, N. Marom, and I. Samet, "An MB II Orthostat Building at Tel Kabri, Israel," BASOR 367 (2012) 1-29. (Link: bullamerschoorie.367.0001)


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In order to assess the effect of gray matter volumes and cortical thickness on antidepressant treatment response in late-life depression, the authors examined the relationship between brain regions identified a priori and Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) scores over the course of an antidepressant treatment trial.
In a nonrandomized prospective trial, 168 patients who were at least 60 years of age and met DSM-IV criteria for major depression underwent MRI and were enrolled in a 12-week treatment study. Exclusion criteria included cognitive impairment or severe medical disorders. The volumes or cortical thicknesses of regions of interest that differed between the depressed group and a comparison group (N=50) were determined. These regions of interest were used in analyses of the depressed group to predict antide-pressant treatment outcome. Mixed-model analyses adjusting for age, education, age at depression onset, race, baseline MADRS score, scanner, and interaction with time examined predictors of MADRS scores over time.
Smaller hippocampal volumes predicted a slower response to treatment. With the inclusion of white matter hyperintensity severity and neuropsychological factor scores, the best model included hippocampal volume and cognitive processing speed to predict rate of response over time. A secondary analysis showed that hippocampal volume and frontal pole thickness differed between patients who achieved remission and those who did not.
These data expand our understanding of the prediction of treatment course in late-life depression. The authors propose that the primary variables of hippocampal volume and cognitive processing speed, subsuming other contributing variables (episodic memory, executive function, language processing) predict antidepressant response.
Late-life depression is a heterogeneous disorder that is associated with many adverse conditions, including decreased cognitive function (1–3) and an elevated risk for comorbid medical disorders such as vascular diseases (4, 5), as well as with an elevated mortality rate (1). The etiological factors contributing to late-life depression are not entirely understood, but the vascular depression hypothesis (6, 7) posits that cerebrovascular disease contributes to the development and severity of depression in older adults by causing ischemic white matter lesions of subcortical limbic structure projections to the frontal cortex or in frontal cortical white matter tracts; these interruptions cause alterations in mood regulation (5, 8) and cognition (9).
Gray matter structural alterations are also implicated in late-life depression, especially the regions comprising the frontolimbic pathway, including the orbitofrontal cortex, anterior cingulate gyrus, basal ganglia, hippocampus, parahippocampus, and amygdala. Smaller volumes of the orbitofrontal cortex (10–13), anterior cingulate (11, 13, 14), and hippocampus (1, 15) have been reported in persons with late-life depression. Some (16, 17) but not all (18) studies have found smaller amygdala volumes as well as smaller parahippocampus and caudate volumes in late-life depression, especially in late-onset late-life depression (16, 19).
Few studies have examined how the structural changes observed in late-life depression affect response to antide-pressant treatment, yet this is an integral part of understanding the disorder's pathophysiology. Gunning et al. (20) reported a correlation of smaller anterior cingulate volumes with poorer treatment response in late-life depression, but other cortical and subcortical structures were not investigated. In a previous study (21), we found that both comprehensive neuropsychological function and the severity of ischemic lesions as measured by white matter hyperintensities predicted prospective Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) (22) scores over time in persons with late-life depression. In addition, we found that white matter hyperintensity severity and cognitive function were highly correlated with vascular risk factors, lending further support to the vascular depression hypothesis. However, in that study we did not examine whether gray matter regions of interest predicted treatment outcome. It is possible that white matter hyperintensities and gray matter volume loss could be independent but complementary routes contributing to treatment response in late-life depression. Alternatively, white matter hyperintensity lesions shown to interrupt tracts such as the uncinate fasciculus, superior and inferior longitudinal fasciculus (23), and cingulum bundle (24) could also have an impact on the volumes of gray matter structures.
In this study, we investigated the effect of gray matter regions of interest, selected a priori because they were shown to differ between individuals with late-life depression and nondepressed comparison subjects, on prediction of treatment response and rate of response over time to antidepressant treatment. While multiple studies have examined differences between patients with late-life depression and comparison subjects, most have compared brain structures between late-life depression patients with a higher vascular risk factor profile and comparison subjects with a lower vascular risk profile. Given significantly higher vascular risk profiles in most late-life depression samples (21), this approach has left vascular risk factors as a potential confounding source of observed differences. In this study, we first examined differences between patients with late-life depression and comparison subjects matched for vascular risk profile in regions comprising emotional circuits involved in emotional dysfunction. After determining which regions of interest differed between the depression and comparison samples, we used those that differed significantly to examine the effect of gray matter deficits on treatment response in late-life depression. We then added to the model previously identified neuropsychological factor scores (2), which along with white matter hyperintensity severity have been shown to be correlated with MADRS scores across time in an antidepressant treatment trial (21). Thus we constructed a more comprehensive model incorporating gray matter structures, white matter hyperintensity severity, and neuropsychological function to predict treatment outcome.
Patients were recruited for the National Institute of Mental Health-sponsored Treatment Outcome in Vascular Depression study through advertisements and physician referral to Washington University Medical Center and Duke University Medical Center. The inclusion criteria for participants with late-life depression, study measures, and study design have been described in detail elsewhere (21). To be eligible for the study, patients had to be at least 60 years of age, meet DSM-IV criteria for major depressive disorder according to the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders, score at least 20 on the MADRS, and score 0 on the Clinical Dementia Rating (25). Patients were excluded if they had MRI contraindications, severe medical disorders, primary neurologic disorders, or psychotropic drug use and if they had depression requiring hospitalization, a risk of suicide, or a history of failure to respond to two or more antidepressants.
Of 736 individuals originally screened by telephone, the exclusionary criteria reduced the patient study group to 217 (120 at Washington University and 97 at Duke University), 190 of whom completed the study. Patients were enrolled in a 12-week treatment trial of sertraline and were restricted from receiving other therapies during participation. The 190 completers were the subjects analyzed in our previous study of neuropsychological factor scores and white matter hyperintensity effects on treatment outcome (21). Problems with MRI scan acquisition or incomplete data reduced the number available for MRI analysis to 168 patients. In the remission analysis, 10 patients who dropped out of the study before completing 12 weeks of treatment further reduced the sample size to 158.
Based on our review of the literature (10–20), we predicted that the following regions of interest would be smaller in the depressed groups relative to a comparison group that was matched on vascular risk factors: volumes of the hippocampus, amygdala, parahippocampus, and caudate and cortical thicknesses of the anterior cingulate gyrus, frontal pole, superior frontal gyrus, orbital frontal gyrus, and middle frontal gyrus cortical gray matter.
To determine which of these regions of interest should be employed in the assessment of treatment response, a sample of comparison subjects (N=57) matched on vascular risk factor profile with no history of depression was recruited from the community. Of these, 50 completed usable MRI scans. Written informed consent approved by the relevant institutional review boards was obtained from all participants.
Evaluations were performed by research staff at each site. Demographic variables included age, education, gender, race, depression symptom severity (scored on the MADRS), age at depression onset, Mini-Mental State Examination score, final daily dose of sertraline, and vascular risk factor score, as defined by the Framingham study (26). The Framingham study uses a stroke risk prediction assessment tool that includes the following vascular risk factors to predict 10-year risk of stroke in both men and women: age, systolic blood pressure, use of antihypertensive therapy, diabetes mellitus, cigarette smoking, cardiovascular disease (coronary heart disease, cardiac failure, or intermittent claudication), atrial fibrillation, and left ventricular hypertrophy by electrocardiogram. When adjusting for vascular risk factor score in the present study, we used the score without age to avoid doubly correcting for age and to have a measure of illness-related factors. We also conducted our analyses with the full vascular risk factor score as a check on this method and obtained virtually identical results.
MADRS scores were obtained at baseline and weekly for 12 weeks by a research psychiatrist. The MADRS is a well-validated 10-item clinician-administered instrument that includes all sources of information (patient report, collateral reports, and clinician observation) and is particularly sensitive to change (22). Remission, which was determined at the end of the 12-week sertraline treatment trial, was defined as a MADRS score ≥7 (21).
The initial sertraline dosage was 25 mg for 1 day to rule out drug sensitivity, then 50 mg/day, with dosage changes at 2 weeks (to 100 mg/day), 4 weeks (to 150 mg/day), and 6 weeks (to 200 mg/day) based on treatment response and adverse effects. Medication adherence was assessed at each visit by self-report. (For further details on dosing, adherence, and adverse effects, see Sheline et al. [21].)
At Washington University, MR images were collected using a MAGNETOM Sonata 1.5-T scanner (Siemens, Munich, Germany). Three-dimensional T1-weighted scans were acquired with magnetization-prepared rapid acquisition gradient echo (TR=1900 ms; TE=4 ms; TI=1100 ms; 222××256×128 pixels [1×1×1.25 mm]). At Duke University, MR images were collected using a 1.5-T GE scanner (General Electric, Schenectady, New York). The equivalent sagittal T1-weighted sequence was conducted using a three-dimensional inversion recovery-prepared spoiled gradient recalled scan (TR=8.3 ms; TE=3.3 ms; TI=300 ms; 256×256×124 pixels). While the parameters describing the pulse sequences appear to be different between the Siemens and GE scanners, they were chosen to produce images that had very similar contrasts and appearance. The different values are due to the different manufacturers' implementation of these sequences. To correct for magnetic field inhomogeneities, a parametric bias field correction was used to correct both T1- and T2-weighted image intensities.
MRI preprocessing and the delineation of cortical and subcortical gray matter regions on structural images were conducted through a pipeline in the Washington University School of Medicine Central Neuroimaging Data Archive, based on the XNAT processing environment, using FreeSurfer 4.0.1 (http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu), an automated segmentation software program (27–29) (see Figure S1 in the data supplement that accompanies the online edition of this article). Briefly, this processing includes motion correction, averaging of multiple volumetric T1-weighted images, removal of nonbrain tissue using a hybrid watershed/surface deformation procedure, automated Talairach transformation, segmentation of the subcortical white matter and deep gray matter volumetric structures, intensity normalization, tessellation of the gray matter-white matter boundary, automated topology correction, and surface deformation following intensity gradients to optimally place the borders between gray and white matter and between gray matter and CSF. Further data processing and analysis includes parcellation of the cerebral cortex into gyral and sulcal structure (29). Procedures for measurement of cortical thickness have been validated against histological analysis and manual measurements. FreeSurfer morphometric procedures have been demonstrated to show good test-retest reliability and good spatial reproducibility across scanners (30, 31).
A subsample of 20 patients was examined to compare FreeSurfer with the gold standard of volume assessment using stereological estimation methods. From three-dimensional MRI cubical subvolumes (0.5×0.5×0.5-mm voxels), coronal slices were sampled every 1.5 mm. A 7×7-mm2 rigid grid of points with random starting position was superimposed on the images using ANALYZE. Mean volumes from two measurements were averaged for each structure (hippocampus, amygdala, caudate nucleus, and total cortical gray matter). All intraclass correlation coefficients were ≥0.90. Correlations between stereology and FreeSurfer measurements ranged from 0.83 to 0.98 for the structures measured.
This domain, which was included in the model to predict outcome, included symbol-digit modality (number completed), the color naming condition of the Stroop test (number completed), and the Trail Making Test, part A (reverse scored time to completion) from a full neurocognitive battery (21).
Linear regression was used to examine brain volume and thickness differences between the depressed and comparison groups, controlling for intracranial volume, age, race, education, vascular risk factor score, and scanner. As noted above, to avoid controlling for age more than once, we subtracted the age component from participants' total vascular risk factor score. Two different analyses examined effects of predictors on outcome. Our primary analysis used mixed models to examine change in MADRS scores over time. A secondary analysis determined variables associated with remission in a confirmatory analysis. The assumptions of linear regression modeling were examined through residual plots and normality tests. Residuals and Student residuals versus predicted values were used to check the constant variance assumption. Residual histograms, qq-plot, and Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests were used to check the normality assumption. Leverage and Cook's D plots were used to identify outliers. In cases where normality assumptions were violated or the variances were not constant, we used robust standard errors. The false discovery rate Benjamini-Hochberg procedure (32) was conducted in SAS to adjust p values for multiple comparisons. Spearman's correlations were conducted between vascular risk factor score (minus age) and the region-of-interest variables, since the data were not normally distributed. A mixed model was used to measure the predictive utility of regions of interest on treatment response. We used 1) a model adjusting for region of interest, age at onset, age, race, gender, education, scanner, time, and depression severity (baseline MADRS score) and 2) a fully adjusted model that included all these variables as well as the interaction of time by regional measure to indicate the effect of region of interest on rate of response over time. In addition, to determine the effect of white matter hyperintensity severity and neuropsychological factor score on rate of response over time, and thus develop a comprehensive model, we added these variables to the model.
A total of 168 patients with late-life depression (108 from Washington University, 60 from Duke University) were included in the mixed model analyses. Because 10 patients did not complete the 12-week study, only 158 were included in the remission analysis. There were no differences on any variables between the overall sample and the 158 patients who completed the trial. The first analysis compared the depressed and comparison groups to generate regions of interest for testing effects on treatment outcome. As shown in Table 1, the two groups were similar in demographic characteristics, although comparison subjects were older and more educated on average. Regions of interest were analyzed using the covariates listed in Table 1.
After covarying for demographic factors and adjusting for multiple comparisons, the mean differences between groups in volumes and cortical thickness (regression coefficient for group) were computed. The volumes of the hippocampus and amygdala and the thicknesses of the frontal pole, superior frontal gyrus, middle frontal gyrus, orbitofrontal gyrus, and anterior cingulate gyrus differed between the depressed and comparison groups. The parahippocampus and caudate did not differ between groups and were not included in our treatment outcome analyses. Total cortical gray matter volume did not differ significantly between groups.
Using the significant regions of interest generated from the group comparisons, we evaluated the effects of regions of interest on prospective treatment outcome using a mixed model. Table 2 presents the results of a model that adjusted for the covariates age, education, age at onset, gender, scanner, and baseline depression severity but not for the interaction with time. Using this model, smaller amygdala and hippocampal volumes significantly predicted worse depression course as measured by MADRS scores. Using a model that adjusted for these covariates and that also adjusted for the interaction of the particular region of interest with time, only smaller hippocampal volume predicted slower rate of response to antidepressant treatment (hippocampal volume-by-time interaction, p=0.03). We then entered white matter hyperintensity severity, which did not significantly add to the prediction, and neuropsychological factor scores (episodic memory, cognitive processing speed, executive function, language, and working memory), one at a time. The Akaike information criterion (AIC), a goodness-of-fit test, was used to determine whether any neuropsychological factor scores improved the prediction of treatment response. While episodic memory, cognitive processing speed, executive function, and language, in combination with the hippocampal volume-by-time interaction, did predict the rate over time of recovery, cognitive processing speed in combination with the hippocampal volume-by-time interaction resulted in the smallest AIC and therefore was chosen in the model. We repeated this process adding in the other neuropsychological factor scores, but no other variable improved the model when added to the combination of hippocampal volume, hippocampal volume-by-time interaction, and processing speed. Thus, our working model for predicting rate of treatment response over time is presented in Figure 1, with hippocampal volume and cognitive processing speed as the predictors.
We previously showed (21) that vascular risk factor scores predicted worse treatment outcome. As shown in Table 3, using Spearman's correlation, the vascular risk factor scores (minus age) were highly correlated with all of the predictor variables except frontal pole thickness and anterior cingulate gyrus thickness. Since we wanted to ascertain whether the hippocampal volume predictor was significant independent of vascular risk factor score, we entered the latter post hoc into the analysis and found that hippocampal volume remained a significant predictor.
Finally, in a confirmatory analysis, we examined which baseline volume and thickness variables differed between depressed patients who achieved remission (MADRS score ≤7) and those who did not. Table 4 shows that patients who did not achieve remission had significantly smaller hippocampal volumes and thinner frontal poles than those who did achieve remission. There were no significant differences in demographic characteristics between those who achieved remission and those who did not. The box plots in Figure 2 for left and right hippocampal volumes and cognitive processing speed show that the median for both measures was highest in depressed patients who achieved remission, next highest in comparison subjects, and lowest in depressed patients who did not achieve remission.
The primary outcome of this prospective antidepressant treatment study using mixed models in late-life depression was that smaller pretreatment hippocampal volumes significantly predicted a slower rate of change in MADRS scores, from baseline through end of treatment, adjusted for demographic variables, including baseline depression severity and interaction with time. In addition, lower cognitive processing speed significantly added to the model predicting rate of change in depression scores. In a secondary confirmatory analysis, depressed patients who did not achieve remission (a subgroup that did not differ demographically from the subgroup that achieved remission) had smaller hippocampal volumes and thinner frontal pole cortical thicknesses. Thus, mixed models examining rate of change in depression severity and a model examining patients who achieved remission both identified hippocampal volume as a predictor of treatment response.
The findings that gray matter structures as well as white matter integrity (23, 24, 33) and presence of white matter hyperintensities (7, 8, 21, 34) and neuropsychological deficits (21, 35) contribute to depression outcome in late-life depression adds to our understanding of the pathophysiology of the disorder. However, of the brain variables we examined in this study, only hippocampal and amygdala volumes predicted treatment response over and above baseline depression severity. Analogously, in our previous study (21), only cognitive processing speed, executive function, episodic memory, and language factor scores predicted MADRS scores over time, independent of base-line depression severity, whereas working memory factor score and white matter hyperintensity severity did not, since their effect did not survive correction for baseline depression severity.
Based on our data, we propose a model for rate of antidepressant treatment response over time in late-life depression. The model that best fits the data includes hippocampal volume and the interaction between hippocampal volume and time, augmented by cognitive processing speed, to predict rate of improvement with antidepressant treatment. While executive function, language, and episodic memory also significantly predicted rate of response over time to antidepressant treatment in combination with hippocampal volume, when these variables were modeled separately, only cognitive processing speed improved the overall model. Cognitive processing speed is a fundamental aspect of both aging (36) and late-life depression (2, 37). The clinical implication of this study is that patients with late-life depression who have small hippocampal volumes and slow cognitive processing speed are likely to have a slower as well as a less complete recovery. While occult dementing illness can also affect hippocampal volume, we used rigorous criteria to exclude cognitive decline, and thus the smaller hippocampal volume and slower processing speed described here appear to be part of late-life depression per se.
There have been few studies with a healthy comparison group examining brain volumes or cortical thickness as a predictor of antidepressant treatment response in late-life depression. One study found that smaller hippocampal volumes predicted response (38), and another found that patients with nonremitting late-life depression had smaller dorsal and rostral anterior cingulate cortex volumes (20). In contrast, one late-life depression study found no differences between responders and nonresponders (39) in any brain region of interest. These divergent results may be due to methodological differences, such as sample size and differences in population characteristics. In the present study, the brain predictor variables were highly correlated with vascular risk factor score (Table 3). In post hoc analyses, we examined the effect of adding vascular risk factor score to the analysis and found that hippocampal volume remained a significant predictor of antidepressant response, suggesting that the effect was not subsumed under vascular risk factor score. We note that caudate volume did not differ between depressed patients and comparison subjects and therefore was not used in the current analysis. Because basal ganglia are vulnerable to ischemia and stroke, it may be that the discrepancy with prior studies is explained by their not controlling for vascular risk factor score.
The finding that smaller hippocampal volumes predicted slower rate of response after controlling for demographic variables and baseline depression severity appears to be a new finding based on the literature reviewed. It returns to the intriguing debate regarding the interrelationship among hippocampal plasticity, neurogenesis, depression, and treatment outcome. This interrelationship (40) involves interaction between hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis dysfunction, depression, and hippocampal volume. A recent review of the evidence regarding the neurogenesis hypothesis of depression (41) concluded that while there is strong evidence supporting an important role for neurogenesis in the efficacy of antidepressant treatment, a deficiency in neurogenesis does not necessarily create the phenotype of depression. Our study adds to previous findings demonstrating that hippocampal volume is not only a determining factor in treatment outcome and rate of treatment response over time in late-life depression, but also a key indicator of underlying depression pathophysiology. Furthermore, using both hippocampal volume and cognitive processing speed as risk markers may improve our ability to predict which patients with late-life depression will likely have slow and incomplete antide-pressant treatment response.
Dr. D'Angelo has received support from the National Institute on Aging. Dr. Welsh-Bohmer has served on an advisory panel for Takeda and has received grant funding from Takeda and Zinfandel. Dr. Krishnan holds equity in Orexigen and has indirect holdings in CeneRx, and he is a coinventor on a patent that is licensed to Cypress Biosciences. Dr. Doraiswamy has received research support or honoraria from Angelini, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Janssen, Lilly, Lundbeck, NIH, and Pfizer.
Supported by a Collaborative R01 for Clinical Studies of Mental Disorders grant MH60697 to Dr. Sheline and grant MH62158 to Dr. Doraiswamy; by grant RR00036 to the Washington University School of Medicine's General Clinical Research Center; and by a grant from Pfizer to cover drug costs. Dr. Sheline also receives support from NIMH grant K24 MH79510-09.
The other authors report no financial relationships with commercial interests.
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Were you one of the 6.1 million viewers to watch the MTV Video Music Awards last night? If not, fear not, we have the Mobile Roadie scoop on what went down yesterday at the VMAs held for the first time ever at the STAPLES Center in Los Angeles.
Hosted by comedian Kevin Hart, the VMAs kicked off with a sizzling performance by Rihanna. Other hot performances followed, including Pink, Green Day, the stars of the night One Direction, Frank Ocean, and Alicia Keys. Taylor Swift closed the night out with her latest single "We are Never Ever Getting Back Together".
In between these memorable performances, Moonmen landed in the hands of the VMA winners, some of whom are Mobile Roadie artists!
Best Hip-Hop Video was awarded to Drake (feat. Lil Wayne) for "HYFR".
Chris Brown won Best Male Video and Best Choreography for "Turn Up the Music".
Demi Lovato received a Moonman for Best Video with a Message for "Skyscraper".
For the Best Art Direction category, Katy Perry won with "Wide Awake"
Other artists who took home awards include Rihanna (Video of the Year), Nicki Minaj (Best Female Video), One Direction, Coldplay, Calvin Harris, Beyonce, M.I.A., and Skrillex.
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The Somerset County Board of Freeholders have announced a public-private partnership that will bring creative-arts therapy to abused children from Somerset County starting this fall.
An official announcement will be made on Thursday, Sept. 27, at 2:30 p.m. in the east wing of Richard Hall Community Mental Health Center, located at the corner of North Bridge Street and Vogt Drive.
Under an agreement approved recently by the freeholders, the Richard Hall Center will provide up to 1,500 square feet of space and in exchange, Creative Heartwork Inc., a North Jersey-based nonprofit corporation, will provide therapeutic programming for up to 80 children a year without charge to Somerset County for the next two years.
Funding for the programming is being raised by the Children's Hope Initiative, a committee of Friends of Somerset County Youth spearheaded by retired Family Court Judge Thomas H. Dilts.


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Make Being a State of the Union Wonk a Family TraditionDeb Rox
I was just talking to my 19-year-old son about the upcoming State of the Union address. Politics have always been a part of our family life. Casual dinner table conversation, serious advocacy, humor — all threads of political discourse have been welcome and encouraged, from early on.
When at all possible, we vote together and watch events like the State of the Union together. It's a family tradition that might not be a jolly as decorating the Christmas tree or fireworks on the 4th of July, but it's our little tradition, and one I'd highly endorse other families cultivating.
My first memory of watching civics on television with my family was when my dad called me in from playing outside so that we could all watch Nixon resign. I didn't have context for what was happening, but I knew it was important.
Watching the SOFU isn't going to be dramatic, but that's the point, it's a planned pulsebeat. It's context. And watching the address has become a thing. We'll have snacks. We'll see if Vice President Biden naps or winks at the camera. We might multi-task, with me on Twitter and him on Facebook. And we'll pay great attention to the substance of what is said and isn't said. We'll consider our country and President Obama's leadership, his progress on his promises, his success or struggles with bi-partisan support.
We don't care if that's wonky. If fact, we hope every family is wonky like that.
I once worried if my children would grow up to rebel like Alex P. Keaton, as GOP conservatives in reaction to the liberal viewpoints they cut their teeth on in our home. But it hasn't gone that way. They haven't replicated my stances whole cloth, one has fiscal bent towards Libertarianism, and they are both affected by the coming-of-age generational forces that include 9/11, technology and the recession. Each challenges me plenty, either overtly or simply by asking questions.
Parenting didn't radicalize me–I was politically aware and engaged long before I had children. Being a mother certainly shaped my interests and concerns, and some of that focus has changed over time. Not being from a military family, for example, I was awakened in a new way to foreign policy when my older son registered for the draft and was targeted by recruiters. This economy affects me, I worry about how it affects others, and I also have direct experience with how it is affecting the morale, career/education goals and job prospects for young adults.
I think educating your children about civics and weaving political discussions into your daily life is the best way to ensure hope for your future. I know that at the very least, I've set loose two very thoughtful voters and active citizens. And I very happily have someone to get wonky with during the State of the Union Address tonight. Maybe he'll even wash the popcorn pot and bowls afterwards. It might be too much to hope for, but that's when you really know you've done your job right.
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LONDON, Ontario (AP) -- Henrik Samuelsson scored two goals and had three assists to help the Edmonton Oil Kings win Canada's Memorial Cup, 6-3 over the Guelph Storm on Sunday.
Edgars Kulda added a goal and two assists, Cody Corbett, Tyler Robertson and Mitch Moroz also scored, and Tristan Jarry made 32 saves for the Western Hockey League champion Oil Kings.
Robby Fabbri, Stephen Pierog and Zach Mitchell scored for the Ontario Hockey League champion Storm.
The Oil Kings advanced to the final Friday with a triple-overtime victory over the Quebec Major Hockey League champion Val-d'Or Foreurs in the longest game in tournament history.
The Oil Kings went 1-2 round-robin play, including a 5-2 loss to the Storm. Guelph was 3-0 in round-robin play in the four-team tournament.


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The fire started about 9 a.m. The driver is reported to be OK.
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CompTIA certs blaze career path for Defense Department contractor
There are lots of ways to get a foot on the bottom rung of the career ladder in IT and start climbing. Education, whether in college or high school, is what leads a lot of young professionals to settle into an IT groove. Many IT lifers' first exposure to computers and technology is from playing video …Read Article
Study finds networking, information security on leading edge of IT
There is a fair-to-decent chance that most of us don't still have the same job title that we did in 1999, whether that title was sales manager or burger flipper. Especially in the realm of IT — where advances in technology open up new areas of specialization with a regularity approaching that more typically attributed to the …Read Article
Microsoft Certified Professionals have mixed view of certification
Here's a non-IT tidbit that you probably didn't know: The Carnation food brand originally famed for its evaporated milk from "contented cows," was founded in 1899 in Washington state, in the same general vicinity where Microsoft now has its world headquarters. In a related vein, the most recent annual survey of Microsoft Certified Professionals revealed that many …Read Article
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Probably the foremost IT networking firm in the world, Cisco Systems, Inc., has been a leader in the IT landscape for decades. In addition to being a leading developer of networking products and technology, Cisco is also one of the premier entities in the realm of IT education and training — Cisco certifications are a bedrock layer in many …Read Article
Pearson brings digital badging to Adobe certification
Certification verification has been a hot topic in the industry for a while now, and digital badging has gained a lot of traction as a potential solution to the ongoing problem of sorting our who really is a CCNA, or CISSP, or MCSA, etc. Employers want a simple means of verifying that job candidates actually hold …Read Article
ISACA online conference to address mobile security issues
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If I had an ID card, I would feel like a second-class citizen too, as it would have been forced upon me on pain of death.
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If I had an ID card, I would feel like a second-class citizen too, as it would have been forced upon me on pain of death.
fair enough, but seeing as most people never bothered with vista, wouldn't a comparison of Windows 7 and XP make more sense? If Windows 7 is just as annoying to use as Vista, compared to XP, then people still won't move from XP. Especially as they will have had 3 or 4 service packs by then, and by nice and stable.
that's like postage, right?
oh, *touchpad*, for a second I thought it was the screen, must be something to do with the spin in that headline!
I know what gesture I'll be giving this then..
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Have non removable by sheeple batteries on the mother board, so I think this is a problem for more companies then apple.
uhh, what? pretty damn simple to remove any motherboard battery that I've ever seen.
Err, no. How about, as I really don't want a new OS that is 'just a little different', you instead take as long as you like to ensure ALL the features are in, and work, and only release it when they are. I don't care how long it takes! I might be ready in a few years for a new OS with lots of new features that work. I certainly won't be ready any time sooner for a new OS with some new features, most of which are just eye candy or don't work.
Not sure how useful a phone that will only ever get charged when lying on a desk will be? Give it a windy-up handle too :)
So, when using hydrogen, there is so little power that an overtaking manoeuvre that was previously safe would now render you dead? You'd better be damn sure there's a big warning sign somewhere to tell you that you are now driving on hydrogen!
Can't wait to see what happens in a front-end collision with the sports car. SQUISH!
I bought this camera last year, and a great camera it is too. I don't remember the details but we did have one problem in sourcing it. It seems that Currys, PC World, etc., do not sell it with the 'correct' lens pack, they ave swapped it for some other, inferior, lens (or two, can't remember if it's both). Strangely, Argos had the camera with the right lenses so I bought from there. So, make sure and do your research before buying.
If AVG is working properly and so can pick up incoming viruses from downloads, then why would it need to pre-scan search results to stop such files being downloaded? Is there a different virus database for this pre-scanning or something? This search nonsense seems a complete waste of bandwidth, cpu and everybody's time and effort to me.
..it would be exactly what I am looking for to replace mine.
Shame really.
until at least service pack 2 before getting on either of them!
"claims it can undercut the database approach by up to a fifth"
Might as well stop there and read something more worthwhile then eh?
What a joke. That's like sticking yugo wheels on your ferrari. If you're going high-end then 4gb should be the starter, with room for 8 at least. When will PC manufacturers get it into their heads that the one thing that can drastically improve performance is RAM and people are sick of buying machines with paltry amounts of the stuff in them?
So is it only scart and hdmi it supports or does it also do split a/v stuff too? And is there an optical out for audio at all?


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The Highland Regional High School girls soccer team wasn't going to let a 4-0 halftime deficit stop it. The Tartans exploded for five goals in the second half and completed a miraculous 5-4 comeback win over GCIT in Tri-County Conference Royal Division play Wednesday.
Erin Looby led the Tartans with a pair of goals, while Sydney Coleman and Taylor Favinger each had a goal and assist in the loss.
Schalick (6-1) dealt Woodstown its first loss of the season with a 2-1 win in Tri-County Conference Diamond Division action Wednesday.
Taylor Wilmore and Tiernny Wiltshire each scored a goal and Courtney Miller made a dozen saves to earn the win, while Astasia Williams-Bertles scored for the Wolverines (6-1).
Pitman's Rebecca Williams celebrated her birthday with a three-goal performance to lead the Panthers to a 5-0 win against Penns Grove. Williams added an assist in the win, and Julie Gillespie and Kailee Banks each scored a goal.
Pennsville boasted six different goal scorers in a 6-0 win over Salem. Lexi Poeta scored and added an assist in the win, while Dani Cornman made three saves in the shutout. Colleen Paris was able to make 30 saves in the loss and kept the Eagles to just one goal in the first half before an explosive second.
Williamstown's Logen Craig took a pass from Mary Kate Ulmer in the second half and beat Delsea's Hannah Seabert to give the Braves a 1-0 win. Seabert had seven saves in the loss and Taylor Bynoe made three saves to preserve the shutout.
Taylor Reed scored twice and tallied an assist to lead Clayton past Wildwood, 3-0. Maxie New scored and assisted on both of Reed's goals to help along the win.
Carla Mancini had a part in five of Glassboro's six goals as the Bulldogs dumped Deptford, 6-0. Mancini scored twice and had three assists, while Shannon Reardigan posted a pair of goals and an assist.
Kerri Burns and Lindsey Thomas each netted a goal as Kingsway escaped Triton with a 2-0 shutout. Maria Kirby made eight saves in the win.
Woodbury got out to a 1-0 halftime lead before outscoring Paulsboro 3-1 in the second half for a 4-1 win. Geena DiRugeris led the Thundering Herd attack with a pair of goals.
Tina Furfari scored twice in the second half after Megan Sullivan and Megan Knoblock netted first-half goals and West Deptford coasted to a 4-0 win against Overbrook. Anna Kipp recorded her fourth shutout of the season.
Kelly Diehle scored twice and Angel Villari had a goal and two assists as Gateway routed Lindenwold, 6-0. Lions keeper Shola Karimu Onissema made 14 saves in the loss.


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