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The Bancorp Bank Announces Strategic Alliance with Franchise America Finance to Create a National SBA Guaranteed Lending Program for Franchisees

April 6, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

WILMINGTON, Del.–(Business Wire)–
The Bancorp Bank (“Bancorp”), a wholly owned subsidiary of The Bancorp, Inc.
(NASDAQ: TBBK), today announced a strategic alliance with Franchise America
Finance to create and implement a national SBA guaranteed lending program for
start-up and expanding franchise businesses. Bancorp will make funding available
to new and existing franchisees who meet predetermined standards set by Bancorp.
The program will be limited to approximately 30 franchise systems with measured
performance and experience within their operations. Bancorp expects to create a
significant SBA lending program through this strategic alliance.

Diane Gallion, Senior Vice President of The Bancorp Bank, who recently joined
the Bancorp to establish Bancorp`s Government Guaranteed Lending Program said,
“The Bancorp Bank is very excited to enter the national franchise lending arena.
We are focused on lending to only the best of the best in franchising, while
helping the economy by stimulating job creation through a proven business
model.” Diane brings more than 30 years of SBA and Banking expertise to Bancorp
and actively participates in The National Association for Government Guaranteed
Lenders (NAGGL) as a National Instructor.

“This program is the first of its kind, providing a collaborative effort between
lender and franchisor to set up a predictable model for franchise financing,”
said Ronald Feldman, CEO of Franchise America Finance. “Franchise America
Finance has been designed with the best practices in franchise development, SBA
lending, and franchisee selection.”

Matthew Shay, President and CEO of the International Franchise Association (IFA)
said, “It is lending programs like this that can help move the country towards
economic recovery. The IFA study on capital access shows that for every $1
million of lending into the franchise business model, 34 sustainable jobs are
created. Innovative ventures such as Franchise America Finance will help
franchise businesses grow and create millions of jobs and greatly contribute to
the country`s economic health.”

Darrell Johnson, President of FRANdata said, “Capital access has become the
number one issue in franchising, impacting new unit growth, ownership transfers,
and even unit renovations. FRANdata has identified a recent trend in loan
decision-making where franchisor and franchise system performance matter more.
Bancorp`s disciplined approach that considers details about brand performance is
further evidence that better performing brands are being rewarded.”

For further information regarding The Bancorp Bank`s national franchise lending
program please contact Diane Gallion at dgallion@thebancorp.com.

About Franchise America Finance

Franchise America Finance (“FAF”) was formed by a group of franchising
professionals to address the void in the capital markets for franchising. FAF`s
services are in addition to the core franchise finance services that are
performed by Siegel Financial Group. FAF can provide senior and subordinated
debt, mezzanine financing and place equity for franchisors and franchisees.

About Bancorp

The Bancorp Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: TBBK)
is an FDIC-insured commercial bank that delivers a full array of financial
services and products both directly and through private-label affinity programs
nationwide. The Bancorp Bank’s regional community bank division serves the needs
of small and mid-size businesses and their principals in the
Philadelphia-Wilmington region.

Franchise America Finance
Ronald Feldman or Nate Greenberg, 610-668-9780
or
The Bancorp Bank
Andres Viroslav, 215-861-7990
andres.viroslav@thebancorp.com

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Army hosts yacht training camp for school children

September 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Nainital, Sep 18 (ANI): With an aim to revive yacht sailing in the country, a 15-day camp is being organised in Nainital district of Uttarakhand where in school children are being trained in yacht sailing.

Over 40 school students from the various parts of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh are taking part in the camp, which is being conducted under the aegis of Indian Army’s Central Command.

The Lucknow based Central Command is conducting such adventure camps for school children from over a decade.

The participants are receiving guidance in the yacht sailing by a team of 11 Army instructors.

“This yacht sailing is a great sport because these days it’s becoming extinct. Most of the people do not want to take part and people of Nainital are also not taking so much interest in yacht sailing. But I feel it’s a very adventurous sport and a great sport,” said Karel Caprini, a participant.

Many of the participants also feel that the training would open up new job opportunities for them.

“We have come here to revive this sport and as far as I can say it’s a very good sport and there is a lot of job opportunity in it. If we do well and learn the technique, we can make our career in the sports,” said Deep, another participant.

According to the Chief instructor of the camp, Mahip Singh the main motive behind the camp is to popularise the dying sport among youth.

“Basic purpose is that sailing is an international sport and the facilities available in Uttaranchal especially, which comes under the central command. We have got our sailors, who have participated in international levels and we got the expertise. So to give the young building up generation a chance to gain knowledge and finally if they have the interest, so excel in the sport. That’s why we have organised the camp,” said Singh.

Despite being considered as a sport at the international level, yacht sailing in India is still at its nascent stage. (ANI)

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Popular diabetes drug may help fight breast cancer

September 15, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Sept 15 (ANI): A popular diabetes drug called metformin has been found to be effective in fighting breast cancer.

The findings of the study from Harvard Medical School showed that metformin, along with conventional chemotherapy, shows promise for treating and delaying recurrence of breast cancer.

“We have found a compound selective for cancer stem cells,” said senior author Kevin Struhl, the David Wesley Gaiser professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology at HMS.

“What’s different is that ours is a first-line diabetes drug,” he added.

The drug seemed to work independently of its ability to improve insulin sensitivity and lower blood sugar and insulin levels, all of which are also associated with better breast cancer outcomes.

“There is a big desire to find drugs specific to cancer stem cells,” said Struhl.

“The cancer stem cell hypothesis says you cannot cure cancer unless you also get rid of the cancer stem cells. From a purely practical point of view, this could be tested in humans. It’s already used as a first-line diabetes drug,” he added.

Lead researchers Heather Hirsch and Dimitrios Iliopoulos found that the combination of metformin and the cancer drug doxorubicin killed human cancer stem cells and non-stem cancer cells in culture.

In mice, pre-treatment with the diabetes drug prevented the otherwise dramatic ability of human breast cancer stem cells to form tumours.

In cases where tumours were allowed to take hold for 10 days, the dual therapy also reduced tumour mass more quickly and prevented relapse for longer than doxorubicin alone.

“This is an exciting study,” said Jennifer Ligibel, a medical oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and an HMS instructor in medicine, who was not involved in the study.

“There is a lot of interest in studying metformin in breast cancer, but so far we do not have direct evidence that metformin will improve outcomes in patients,” Ligibel said. “That’s what this trial is for.”

The findings appear online in the journal Cancer Research. (ANI)

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Nicotine plays “tricks” on the brain

September 10, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Sept 10 (ANI): Nicotine, the addictive component in cigarettes, “tricks” the brain into creating memory associations between environmental cues and smoking behavior, say researchers at Baylor College of Medicine.

The study has been published in the journal Neuron.

“Our brains normally make these associations between things that support our existence and environmental cues so that we conduct behaviors leading to successful lives. The brain sends a reward signal when we act in a way that contributes to our well being,” said Dr. John A. Dani, professor of neuroscience at BCM and co-author of the study.

“However, nicotine commandeers this subconscious learning process in the brain so we begin to behave as though smoking is a positive action,” the expert added.

Dani said that environmental events linked with smoking can become cues that prompt the smoking urge. Those cues could include alcohol, a meal with friends, or even the drive home from work.

To understand why the associations are so strong, Dani and Dr. Jianrong Tang, instructor of neuroscience at BCM and co-author of the report, decided to record brain activity of mice as they were exposed to nicotine, the addictive component of tobacco.

The mice were allowed to roam through an apparatus with two separate compartments. In one compartment, they received nicotine. In the other, they got a benign saline solution. Later, the researchers recorded how long the mice spent in each compartment. They also recorded brain activity within the hippocampus, an area of the brain that creates new memories.

“The brain activity change was just amazing. Compared to injections of saline, nicotine strengthened neuronal connections – sometimes up to 200 percent. This strengthening of connections underlies new memory formation,” Dani said.

Consequently, mice learned to spent more time in the compartment where the nicotine was administered compared to the one where saline was given to them.

“We found that nicotine could strengthen neuronal synaptic connections only when the so called reward centers sent a dopamine signal. That was a critical process in creating the memory associations even with bad behavior like smoking,” the expert said. (ANI)

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George Clooney’s ex Sara Larson turns private yoga instructor

September 8, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Sep 8 (ANI): Former Las Vegas cocktail waitress Sara Larson, who dated actor George Clooney in 2007, has turned into a private yoga instructor in Los Angeles.

There had been rumours earlier this year of Larson having her own Vegas-based reality show in the works, but it seems she has opted for a more spiritually satisfying lifestyle.

“I do yoga pretty much every day. I am a certified yoga instructor, so I actually teach yoga,” Fox News quoted Larson as saying at the recent Reality Cares’ Sizzles Charity Benefit in Los Angeles.

She also revealed that “all of a sudden” guys have started calling out of nowhere for private classes, and she’s now in talks to design her own yoga-inspired clothing line.

Larson, who has found herself a new love, says she doesn’t give a hoot about her ex’s romantic relations.

“Dating has its challenges and either two people connect or they don’t,” she said.

“There’s a lot of other factors that are involved as to whether it will be a long-term relationship or not, but everything for me right now is new.

“I’m not in touch with George at all. I don’t have any regrets,” she added. (ANI)

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‘The American’ leading al Qaeda in Somalia awaits terrorism charges back home

September 5, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Sep 5 (ANI): The man who grew up in Daphne, Alabama, as Omar Hammami, but is now reported to be a member of al Qaeda-linked Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab under the name Abu Mansour al-Amriki, told a school newspaper after 9/11 attacks that it was “difficult to believe a Muslim could have done this”.

According to FOX News, eight years later he is professing to launch attacks himself and calling on others to join the fight, as terror-related charges await him at home in Alabama.

Abu Mansour al-Amriki or “The American” has become one of the most recognizable and outspoken voices of terrorist propaganda, the report said.

He has been in war-torn Somalia for several years, fighting the secular government there with a group known as al-Shabaab, which has ties to Al Qaeda and was labeled a terrorist organization by the US Government last year, but only recently has he taken on a starring and jarring role in al-Shabaab’s outreach efforts the report added.

The FBI has been looking into him for several years. In fact, a grand jury in Mobile, Alabama., has already indicted him on charges of providing material support to terrorists, a source said.

Al-Amriki first surfaced in October 2007, when Al-Jazeera TV aired a report about the “common goal” of al Qaeda and hard-line militants in Somalia. The report described al-Amriki as a fighter and military instructor, but he concealed his face with a cloth wrap throughout the report.

In April, he showed his face for the first time, during a highly polished, 30-minute recruitment video posted online. It featured anti-American hip-hop and sporadic images of Osama bin Laden.

In the video, he purportedly led a group of al-Shabaab militants in an ambush of pro-government forces in Somalia.

Speaking about one man killed in the fight, he said: “We need more like him, so if you can encourage more of your children and more of your neighbors, anyone around, to send people like him to this jihad, it would be a great asset for us.” (ANI)

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Popular sculpting statue in Sikkim

September 3, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Gangtok, Sep 3 (ANI): An art school is preserving the oldest form of traditional and religious art of statue making, influenced by Buddhist teaching in Sikkim.

The Traditional Arts School for Thangka Painting at 5th mile, a half an hour drive from state capital Gangtok, is under the supervision of Ecclesiastical Affairs Department, Government of Sikkim. The school is exclusively for the monks (boys).

Monks from different monasteries located throughout the state come to the institute and learn the art free of cost.

The school was started as a separate branch of Enchey School, which was a monk school then in 1909 for teaching the art of statue making to monks at the time of Chogyal (King).

However during 1950s, the school came under the Ecclesiastic Affairs Department.

Ndar Lama, an instructor at the Vocational Arts School, Gangtok, revealed that the art of making the statues came from Bhutan.

However, to popularise the art among local monks, the state government felt the need to set up one institute in Sikkim, Lama said.

“The art of making this mud statue came from Bhutan. Earlier, Chogyal (King) used to call the instructors from Bhutan and they used to make the statues. In fact, most of the statue in big monasteries here was made by the Bhutanese. Even I learnt the art from one Bhutanese person. But now the government of Sikkim felt the need to open one such vocational training institute even in Sikkim,” Lama added.

Students at the school said that they hope to teach the art to the future generation so as to keep the Buddhist culture alive.

“After learning the art of statue making, I will go to the monastery and teach the art to our future generation so as to keep our Buddhist culture and art of statue making alive,” said Dawa, a student.

Besides teaching the art, the school also helps the monks in becoming self-reliant. (ANI)

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Army trains its personnel to avoid collateral damage during in Kashmir

August 25, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Rajouri, Aug 24 (ANI): The Indian Army is training its personnel to avoid collateral damage during combat situations in Kashmir.

The security personnel are being trained about how to avoid casualties and collateral damage during the operations.

Rajouri district of the state hosted the army camp in a Corps Battle School.

“In the school, we have lot of classes being held on human rights violation what all the guiding principals are for us to operate in these areas. As regards to confidence building in the civilians, we do not react on general information, only hardcore information is reacted upon.

Then we carry police raps along with our operational troops. We do all activities in presence of police, lady police, village heads and the owner of the house,” said Colonel Anil Rana, training instructor.

Troops are trained through mock drills of encounters and how to defuse IEDs planted by the ultras, in symmetrical warfare and how to minimise damage to life and property.

“By all these things , we avoid collateral damage. We avoid loss to civilians, we avoid loss to their property and we avoid all sorts of harassment to civilians,” Rana added.

During training, soldiers are trained to deal with abandoned objects like pressure cooker, doll, radio set, tiffin and suitcase can be used as lethal explosives and how troops need to detect and neutralize. (ANI)

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Antibodies in blood may help prevent Alzheimer’s

July 8, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, July 7 (ANI): Stanford University Medical Centre scientists have identified certain antibodies in the blood and cerebrospinal fluid of healthy people that may help prevent Alzheimer’s disease.

They say that the levels of the antibodies found in healthy people decline with age and, in Alzheimer’s patients, with increasing progression of the disease.

Alzheimer’s disease is characterized by the build-up of amyloid plaques in the brain.

These are large aggregations of a protein breakdown product, or peptide, called A-beta. Many experiments have shown that immunization with A-beta can reduce the formation of amyloid plaques.

It is believed that more than the plaques themselves (which are also found in the brains of people with no Alzheimer’s symptoms), it is smaller aggregations of a few A-beta molecules, called oligomers, which are most toxic to neurons.

During the study, the researchers found that the antibodies target many forms and aggregation-states of A-beta in both healthy and diseased subjects’ blood, with antibodies to oligomers showing the most immunoreactivity.

A follow-on experiment showed that the same antibodies, whether isolated from plasma of either Alzheimer’s patients or healthy controls, were able to protect freshly cultured mouse neurons in a dish from destruction by A-beta, which is typically highly toxic to these neurons.

Previous studies conducted on vervet monkeys showed that immunizing with A-beta substantially cleared their plaques.

In this new study, the Stanford team obtained blood samples extracted from those monkeys before and after immunization, and compared levels and diversity of relevant antibodies in pre- and post-inoculation samples

They observed several such antibodies in the pre-immunized samples, as well as significant post-immunization increases in levels of several different antibodies.

“Other studies have found antibodies against A-beta, but nobody has ever done a large-scale analysis using hundreds of different samples and almost a hundred different peptides to look for what’s already in people’s bodies,” said the paper’s first author, Markus Britschgi, PhD, an instructor working as a researcher in the laboratory of Tony Wyss-Coray, PhD.

The study appears in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (ANI)

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Gemma Arterton ‘engaged’ to Daniel Craig’s body double

July 6, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, July 06 (ANI): Bond babe Gemma Arterton has got engaged to Daniel Craig’s body double in ‘Quantum Of Solace’, it has emerged.

The bombshell reportedly fell in love with an Italian known only as Stefano, during the filming of the James Bond movie, the Sun reports.

The 23-year-old beauty had accepted her man’s proposal at the Download Festival but not made it public.

However, now they seem to care less as they celebrated their engagement with a night out with friends and family at a London restaurant.

They were also snapped leaving the same eatery, though they tried not to be clicked together.

A sparkling diamond engagement ring was seen on her finger.

Gemma had recently broken up with 19-year-old Spanish stuntman Eduardo Muqoz, her horse-riding instructor on the set of the Disney production, ‘Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time’. (ANI)

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Jordan to spill the beans on her broken marriage on ITV

July 2, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, July 2 (ANI): Katie Price a.k.a Jordan is set to spill the beans on her broken marriage Peter Andre on ITV.

This will be the first time that she has spoken officially in public since the split.

The glamour model is going to tell-all in an exclusive interview with her old pal Piers Morgan.

Jordan sealed the deal on Monday with the Britain’s Got Talent judge at London’s Dorchester Hotel.

Morgan will ask her about the reasons that led to the break-up of her four-year marriage.

Jordan would be asked about her antics during her now-famous meltdown holiday on Ibiza, when she cavorted near-naked in nightclubs with a clutch of hunky fellas.

The 31-year-old also faces awkward questions about her friendships with other men. She is expected to be asked about hunky riding instructor Andrew Gould, whom she raced to see when she got home from the wild island.

“Piers is over the moon to get the Jordan exclusive. Jonathan Ross will be green with envy that she turned him down and went with his biggest rival,” the Daily Star quoted an insider as saying. (ANI)

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Heather Graham finds stripping ‘inspiring’

May 29, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, May 29 (ANI): Actress Heather Graham finds stripping “inspiring”, and wants women to do the sexy act so that they feel good about themselves.

The stunner, who plays an exotic dancer in new comedy The Hangover, has confessed that her pole dancing preparation was easy because she’s had lessons before.

Graham hooked up with actress and stripper teacher Sheila Kelley for pole dancing classes, reports The Daily Express.

She reveals, “I had taken this female empowerment class and Sheila Kelley came in and talked about her classes. I had actually taken her classes because my friend taught one of them. She worked at the Mayor’s office and quit her job to become a pole-dancing instructor.

“For this film I went back and took some refresher courses. It’s a dance class but they teach you pole dancing moves and it reminded me how great it is… It’s for any kind of woman, women of all different ages and sizes.

“As a woman, it’s inspiring because any woman can feel sexy and you’re cheering each other on. You’re not doing it for like, ‘Oh, just give me a tip.’ Usually people wear shorts and a tank top or a bra and you just cheer each other on. You’re doing it to feel good about yourself and see other women feel good about themselves.” (ANI)

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Gulmarg’s special museum exhibits gears used in high altitude warfare

May 24, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Gulmarg, May 24 (ANI): A museum has been set up inside the High Altitude Warfare School (HAWS) in Gulmarg to display old and modern warfare equipment and gears used by the Indian Army during high altitude warfare or by mountaineers during expeditions.

The Kanchenjunga Museum in Gulmarg has war-related climbing and mountaineering equipment used by Indian army from 1947 till date.

Initially started as a 19 Infantry Division Ski School in 1948, the High-Altitude Warfare School has over the years become the Army’s nodal agency for “specialised training and dissemination of doctrines” in high-altitude, mountain and snow warfare.

According to HAWS instructor Major S.S Negi, the museum was established to commemorate 1997′s first summit of Indian Army to Kanchenjunga.

Thereafter, other expeditions like first successful Everest expedition of 2001 were given a due place in the museum.

“In this portion of the museum, we have got two sand models which are related to the Kanchenjunga museum of 1977 and 2001 Everest expedition. Thereafter second position is dedicated to the equipment which is being used presently and which was used earlier by the mountaineering fraternity of Indian Army,” said Major S.S Negi.

The High Altitude Warfare School housing Kanchenjunga Museum draws young breed of soldiers, who are eager to see the equipments used by Indian army in high altitude warfare including Siachen Glacier, the world’s highest battlefield in the earlier days.

The soldiers undergoing training at the school are fascinated having watched some of the age-old equipments and the eminent mountaineers who used them.

“When I first visited this museum in 1998, I learnt the history about which I never had any idea. A thought came to my mind that what I could do for this history. During that procedure, I did a mountaineering course in 2001. I learnt about all the mountaineering equipments. I also came to know about all the eminent expedition mountaineers of India,” said Karma Singh, an Indian Army soldier.

The High-Altitude Warfare School was initially set up at Gulmarg, as a Formation Sickly School. The training imparted consisted mainly of skiing techniques, mountain lore and patrolling on skis.

On April 8, 1962, the School was designated a Category A Training establishment and renamed High Altitude Warfare School (HAWS).

The training instils confidence and stamina. The men are taught to integrate with the environment so that they can guard the Himalayan frontiers effectively. By Bilal Butt (ANI)

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Is Jordan in love with another man?

May 17, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, May 17 (ANI): Katie Price a.k.a Jordan has reportedly admitted that she’s in love with another man.

TV’s The Apprentice star Mona Lewis says Katie, 30, revealed the bombshell to her on a boozy night out.

Mum-of-three Katie is being linked to her handsome married dressage instructor Andrew Gould, 28.

“Katie said she wanted this new man, but also her family life with Peter Andre. She said her children meant the world to her, but she didn’t love Peter and was totally dismissive of him,” the Mirror quoted Mona as saying.

“Katie told me she wasn’t enjoying their sex life. She said to me ‘Pete’s become really boring in bed. I don’t find sex with him exciting any more’,” she added.

According to Mona, Katie also wants to keep her marriage going for the sake of the kids.

She said: “She told me ‘I want out because I am in love with someone else but I’m trying to keep it together for the children’. Then she took her wedding ring off and put it in my hand. She said ‘Have it. It means f*** all to me’.’ (ANI)

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When ‘hot’ Chelsea Clinton stripped down to her sports bra!

May 16, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New York, May 16 (ANI): Chelsea Clinton sure has a taut body and she’s leaving no stone unturned to flaunt it.

The former first daughter was recently spotted in the front row at Soul Cycle on West 72nd Street on May 15.

Soul Cycle hosts the toughest spin class in Manhattan, reports the New York Post.

Clinton stripped down to her sports bra and bike pants and gave a good view of her six-pack.

Then, she let out an excited whoop when the instructor blasted Guns N’ Roses’ classic ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’. (ANI)

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Lazy Ronaldo loves to be dominated in bed, says ex flame

May 11, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, May 10 (ANI): Soccer ace Cristiano Ronaldo likes to be dominated in bed, according to his ex girlfriend, Brazilian model Gabriela Endringer.

The 28-year-old stunning fitness instructor has revealed that Ronaldo is a passive lover who lets the girl dictate all the play during sex.

“Ronaldo lets himself be dominated in bed. He’s very affectionate in bed. He’s not aggressive at all. He lets things flow,” News of the World quoted her, as saying.

Gabriela, who works at a gym in Sintra, near Lisbon, dated the 24-year-old Portuguese superstar for a whole six weeks after meeting him in a Lisbon nightclub.

Ronaldo has had a string or short romances including former Hollyoaks star Gemma Atkinson, model Nereida Gallardo, swimwear model Niki Ghazian and hookers Tyese Cunningham and Gemma Storey. (ANI)

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Teens need to learn about safe use of pain medications, say researchers

May 5, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, May 5 (ANI): A survey conducted by researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center suggests that most teens, who have started to make more decisions about their own health care, may not know enough about the over-the-counter pain medications to avoid complications or inadvertent misuse.

During the study, the researchers surveyed almost 100 youngsters between 14 and 20 years old, and found that the average score on series of questions about knowledge of over-the-counter medication was 44 percent.

The survey revealed that more than 75 percent of the subjects had taken over-the-counter medications in the previous month.

“This tells health professionals that we need to teach our young people about safe use of over-the-counter pain medications,” said Dr. Karen Wilson, senior instructor of Pediatrics and author of the abstract at the Pediatric Academic Society meeting in Baltimore.

The teens surveyed also reported that they most often took Tylenol and ibuprofen.

While 35 percent of the teens knew what acetaminophen was, 37 percent of them did not correctly identify acetaminophen and Tylenol as the same medication.

“Taken properly, acetaminophen is a safe and effective medication, but chronic misuse and overdoses can cause liver damage. Plus, they are in a lot of compound medications that include acetaminophen and ibuprofen, so it’s easy to accidentally take a more than you should,” Wilson said. (ANI)

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Uttarakhand becomes the rock climber’s dream destination

May 4, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Dehradun, May. 3 (ANI): With rock climbing gaining the stature of the state’s top outdoor activity, Uttarakhand is fast becoming the adventure sport enthusiast’s dream destination.

The Himalayas and the Shivalik ranges in Uttarakhand provide a wide opportunity of adventure sports like rock climbing.

Recently, a camp was organized by the Snot Adventure sports to motivate students in adventure sports, and also boost their confidence level.

“We have learnt many things like rappling and climbing. This helps me boost my confidence and also participated for enjoyment. I want to pursue it as my career,” said Anshuman, student.

A number of students from various states including India’s western Gujarat, Mumbai and northern Delhi participated in the seven-day camp.

“Students of the Birla School of Ranikhet and from Mumbai, Gujarat, Delhi and even from South India have come here. The youngsters are curious to know what is it all about. They have come here to participate in all the activities. It will not only help them learn rock climbing but also develop their personality and confidence,” said Pravin Upreti, instructor.

Besides rock climbing, training is also being imparted in bouldering, rappling and long pitch climbing. They are also being trained in map reading.

Uttarakhand also boasts of many other options for adventure sports like para gliding and river rafting. (ANI)

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Rachel McAdams, Josh Lucas signing up for Yoga classes

May 2, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New York, Apr 28 (ANI): Canadian actress Rachel McAdams and her boyfriend actor Josh Lucas were spotted having an earnest conversation with a Yoga instructor.

McAdams, 30, and Lucas, 37, went to the Golden Bridge Yoga NYC in NoLIta to take a class and set up private sessions.

“They were in pretty serious talks with the teacher afterward,” the New York Post quoted an onlooker as saying.

The week before, Lucas was spotted helping McAdams look for an apartment in the East Village. (ANI)

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Kids who feel racial discrimination more prone to mental health problems

May 2, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, April 28 (ANI): Kids who feel racial or ethnic discrimination are more likely to suffer from mental health problems, according to a new study.

Racial and ethnic discrimination and their effect on mental health have been studied in adults and adolescents, but less is known about the effects of perceived discrimination on children’s mental health.
The new study involving UCLA and the RAND Corp. has shown that 15 percent of children surveyed reported experiencing what they perceived as discrimination and that the vast majority of these encounters occurred at school.

The study also found that children who reported feeling discrimination were more likely to have symptoms of one or more of four different mental health disorders: depression, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder.
“It was surprising to see positive associations between perceived racial and ethnic discrimination in the children and symptoms of all four examined mental health conditions,” said lead author Dr. Tumani R. Coker, clinical instructor of pediatrics at Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA and an associate natural scientist at RAND.

“Parents, clinicians and teachers should be aware that children may experience racial and ethnic discrimination in and out of school and that there may be detrimental effects on their mental health,” Coker added.
For the study, researchers analyzed data from a 2004-06 study of 5,147 fifth-graders and their parents from public schools in Los Angeles, Houston and Birmingham, Ala.
They found that a greater percentage of African American children (20 percent), Hispanic children (15 percent) and children identified as “other” (15 percent) reported perceived racial or ethnic discrimination than white children (7 percent).
The strongest and most consistent association of discrimination with mental health symptoms involved symptoms of depression in African American, Hispanic and “other” children reporting discrimination. This association was not significant for whites.
The study will be published in the May issue of the American Journal of Public Health and is currently available online by subscription. (ANI)

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