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The concert will be preceded at 5:30 P.M. with Celebrate Brooklyn’s first Green Gala, which includes cocktails, dinner and reserved seats for Byrne’s performance. Read the rest of this entry »

Meet the fastest, most powerful iPhone yet. iPhone 3G S features video recording, Voice Control, up to 32GB of storage, and more. The first thing you’ll notice about iPhone 3G S is how quickly you can launch applications. Read the rest of this entry »

“It’s a pretty goofy thing that happened,” Peters said. “It’s not the injury, it’s the incident. Just the fact that  happened it’s unfortunate. It’s not good for the game of hockey.” Read the rest of this entry »

One of the most popular applications on Facebook is the application Photos, where users can download albums and photos. Facebook allows users to download an unlimited number of photos, compared to other image hosting such as Flickr and Photobucket, which apply limits the number of photos that the user is authorized to transfer. However, users are limited to 60 photos per album. Read the rest of this entry »

Walking four times a week, 50 minutes each time, the average person can lose 18 pounds in a year without regime change. Walking can help you trim fat and tone your muscles. Read the rest of this entry »

During his first season on SNL, Poehler was promoted from star player full cast member, making it the third person ever to have won this distinction (after Harry Shearer and Eddie Murphy). From the 2004-05 season, she co-anchored “Weekend Update” with Tina Fey, replacing the new Jimmy Fallon left. In an interview with TV Guide, Fey said that Poehler co-anchor, it is now “double the sexual tension.” When Fey left after the 2005-06 season to devote time to the sitcom she created, 30 Rock, Seth Meyers joined Poehler at the anchor desk. Read the rest of this entry »

Dimebon (Dimebolin) is an antihistamine drugs that has been used clinically in Russia since 1983.

Recently Dimebolin has sparked renewed interest after being shown to have positive effects on people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Animal studies showing the potential beneficial effects on Alzheimer’s disease models were presented in Russian research in 2000. Preliminary results of human trials were also promising. In an initial period of six months phase II trial results showed only 12 months, has been significant improvement compared with placebo.

Dimebolin is orally active small molecule that has been shown to prevent brain cell death in preclinical studies of Alzheimer’s disease and Huntington’s disease, making it a potential treatment for these and other neurodegenerative diseases. Research suggests that Dimebon May also improve cognition-effects in healthy individuals, in the absence of pathology of neurodegenerative diseases.

Dimebon appears to work through multiple mechanisms of action, blocking the action of neurotoxic beta-amyloid protein and inhibiting L-type calcium channels, modulating the action of the AMPA receptors and NMDA glutamate, May and have a neuroprotective effect by blocking a new target that mitochondrial pores, which are expected to play a role in cell death, which is linked to neurodegenerative diseases and the aging process. The search continues in Russia and Western countries in the potential applications of Dimebon as a potential neuroprotective and nootropic.

The full moon rises impressively from the east horizon at around 8 p.m. on July 17, very close to the time of sunset. Some folk names for the July full moon include “hay moon,” “wort moon,” “moon of blood” (in reference to mosquitoes), “fallow moon,” and “thunder moon.” Read the rest of this entry »

Abby Wambach, the top scorer for the U.S. Women’s National Team broke her leg in the final game before the Olympics against Brazil Wednesday in San Diego, and will miss the games in China. Read the rest of this entry »

R1: for Rodriguez: They spend a lot of the first half of the round round range finding. The next half, they’ve got it already. Delvin’s jab looks better and he’s more willing to double up it looks like. Delvin gets some good counter hooks in. Oscar finds a few shots but loses the round. Read the rest of this entry »