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PASADENA, Calif. ? Comic Kathy Griffin is never shy about offering her opinions. Soon she'll have a weekly outlet for them.
The Bravo network said Saturday that it will premiere "Kathy," a once-a-week talk show hosted by Griffin sometime this spring. The network hasn't decided when it will air regularly.
Bravo promised that "this will be the destination to get Griffin's thoughts on everything pop culture as she rants on the week's biggest headlines and tabloid gossip." The show will also feature stand-up comedy, celebrity interviews and taped segments.
In addition, Griffin will perform two stand-up comedy specials on Bravo this year.
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It would basically be a summer camp RP, where the students have been deemed "needing behavioral improvement" and would be stuck going through the trials and tribulations of trying to change themselves for the better. "Behavioral improvement" could be a wide speculation of things, not necessarily meaning everyone's character is the "delinquent" type. Would anyone be interested?
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Oxytocin, the "love hormone" that builds mother-baby bonds and may help us feel more connected toward one another, can also make surly monkeys treat each other a little more kindly.
Administering the hormone nasally through a kid-sized nebulizer, like a gas mask, a Duke University research team has shown that it can make rhesus macaques pay more attention to each other and make choices that give another monkey a squirt of fruit juice, even when they don't get one themselves.
Two macaques were seated next to each other and trained to select symbols from a screen that represented giving a rewarding squirt of juice to one's self, giving juice to the neighbor, or not handing out any juice at all. In repeated trials, they were faced with a choice between just two of these options at a time: reward to self vs. no reward; reward to self vs. reward to other; and reward to other vs. no reward.
"The inhaled oxytocin enhanced 'prosocial' choices by the monkeys, perhaps by making them pay more attention to the other individual," said neuroscientist Michael Platt, who headed the study and is director of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. "If that's true, it's really cool, because it suggests that oxytocin breaks down normal social barriers."
Earlier work by Platt's group had shown that macaques would rather give a reward to another monkey when the alternative is no reward for anyone, a concept they call "vicarious reinforcement." Their data in the latest study show an apparent improvement in vicarious reinforcement about a half-hour after exposure to oxytocin. Interestingly, for the first half-hour, the monkey was more likely to reward itself.
The researchers also tracked the monkeys' eye movements. Typically after making a prosocial choice, they will shift their gaze to the other monkey. Under the influence of oxytocin, the gaze lingered a bit more when they made other vs. neither choices.
The hormone is currently being evaluated as a therapy for autism, schizophrenia and other disorders that are marked by an apparent lack of interest or caring about others, Platt said. It seems to give patients increased trust and better social skills, but not much is known about how that process works, or whether the effects would be consistent over the long term.
This study may help establish monkeys as a good behavioral and pharmacological model for understanding oxytocin therapy, Platt said.
The nebulizer mask used in these tests is also more pleasant than the sprays now being used on humans, he added. "We were able to make the inhalation very tolerable by using the pediatric nebulizer," Platt said. "This may be much better for treating young children with autism or related disorders than the typical nasal spray, which can be uncomfortable. It may deliver the hormone more effectively, too."
The researchers were also able to determine for the first time that nasally administered oxytocin actually travels into the brain. "Understanding how oxytocin works in the brain, where the site of action is, and the long-term consequences of treatment can't be done in humans," Platt said. "And rodent models are too distant behaviorally and neurologically to provide much insight."
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Following Apple officially announcing that its iPhone 4S will become available in China ? (and 21 further countries) ? starting January 13, Chinese telecoms provider China Unicom has announced that upon the smartphone?s launch across the region it will be offering its customers the chance to get their hands on the iPhone, (for FREE), providing those customers are prepared to sign a new, multi-year wireless contract.
The offer covers both Apple?s 32GB and 16GB iPhone 4S models, with customers looking to get their hands on the 32GB model first required a three-year contract at 286 yuan (~$45) per month. Those in China looking to get their hands on Apple?s 16GB iPhone 4S will be required to sign a new, two-year wireless contract at 386 yuan per month.
While ditching the handset pricing on the iPhone 4S entirely ? from a business perspective ? may seem a little risky, industry analysts now speculate that the move could end up attracting customers to the network who are more willing to pay for Unicom?s expensive data plans.
Did we mention iPhone 4S users use twice as much data as iPhone 4 users? ? Yeah.
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The European Union agreed in principle to enact an embargo on all purchases of Iranian oil, significantly increasing the West's financial war on Tehran at a time of heightened tensions in the Persian Gulf.
The decision followed U.S. measures against Iran's central bank, and the value of the Iranian rial plunged in recent days?forcing Tehran's central bank to consider measures to support the currency?in what U.S. and European officials said was proof that the West's financial campaign was succeeding in draining Tehran's coffers.
Iranian defense officials have intensified threats this week to retaliate against sanctions efforts by targeting Western ships ...
The European Union agreed in principle to enact an embargo on all purchases of Iranian oil, significantly increasing the West's financial war on Tehran at a time of heightened tensions in the Persian Gulf.
The decision followed U.S. measures against Iran's central bank, and the value of the Iranian rial plunged in recent days?forcing Tehran's central bank to consider measures to support the currency?in what U.S. and European officials said was proof that the West's financial campaign was succeeding in draining Tehran's coffers.
Iranian defense officials have intensified threats this week to retaliate against sanctions efforts by targeting Western ships ...
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