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Rats living stressed lives and taking fluoxetine (a.k.a Prozac or Sarafem) undergo long term increases in body weight. SAN FRANCISCO?- Short-term use of antidepressants, combined with stress and a high-fat diet, is associated with long-term increases in body weight, a new animal study finds. The results were presented Sunday at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco. "Our study suggests that short-term exposure to stress and antidepressants, rather than a high-calorie, high-fat diet alone, leads to long-term body weight gain, accompanied with increased bone and spleen weights," said study lead author Suhyun Lee, a PhD candidate in the medical sciences at the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. What I...

2013 was almost bound to be disappointing given the sky-high standards set by the 2012 World Champion San Francisco Giants. Coming off of a postseason where everything came together—the rotation, bullpen, offense—the 2013 squad had high expectations. And with a lineup returning MVP Buster Posey, ace Matt Cain and two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum, the Giants were bursting with potential. However, struggling starting pitching and periodically anemic offense left the Giants barely over .500 more than a third of the way into the season. The National League West as a whole has not done much better, and the Giants are in third place, 1.5 games behind the division-leading Arizona Diamondbacks. The Giants have managed to stay in contention, despite major disappointments from key players.Begin Slideshow

A confession: reviewing Dagger Beach almost feels like a conflict of interest. Not that Im friends with John Vanderslice beyond the Facebook realm weve spoken only once, a phone interview that carried on well over an hour as the songwriter drove from San Francisco to L.A. in an afternoon. But having followed his output closely since 2004s masterful Cellar Door and the following years politically-charged Pixel Revolt , its hard not to feel like I know the guy more intimately than many of my actual friends. Vanderslices music is nothing if Read MoreBlog: Consequence Of SoundRelated: [Album Review] John K. Samson- ProvincialNOISE POP 2012 // REVIEW: John Vanderslice / Thao at Bottom of the HillAlbum Review: John Blek & The Rats - Leave Your Love at the DoorAlbum Review: John Talabot INAlbum Review: John Talabot fIN

Alonzo King *When you talk to Alonzo King you get the feeling he actually knows the meaning of life. His take on life, love and happiness is like a cool breeze on a hot summer day. When you talk to King, no matter how the conversation begins, it ends with his declaration that life is good. Although he won’t reveal his age, “No never. I think age is another one of those monikers that doesn’t give you any real information on people,” it’s more than obvious that King has lived long enough to gain and share great insight and wisdom. Over the years he has put what he’s learned into the form of dance. The results have been nothing less than awe-inspiring. Thirty years ago he founded LINES Ballet, a stellar dance company based in San Francisco, but lauded worldwide. King, the company’s artistic director, has created works for companies throughout the world including the Royal Swedish Ballet, Frankfurt Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Dance Theater of Harlem, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Hong Kong Ballet, North Carolina Dance Theatre, and the Washington Ballet. On June 21-23, the company brings its magic and movement to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion as part of the 10th anniversary season of Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center.  Hubbard Street Dance Chicago + Alonzo King LINES Ballet features two of the most renowned dance companies in America who will join together in an unprecedented collaboration that combines classical ballet with contemporary styles, highlighting the emotional nuances of movement. Hubbard is currently celebrating its 35th season in 2012 and 2013. (hubbardstreetdance.com and linesballet.org) LINES Ballet Dancers Ricardo Zayas, Michael Montgomery and Keelan Whitmore, from left,in AZIMUTH by Alonzo King. Photo by Margo Moritz. Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Alonzo King LINES Ballet will share the stage to present the Southern California premiere of “AZIMUTH”, a new work by King. Structured in nine sections, “AZIMUTH” is defined by King as “the distance between where you are and where you are headed, erased by absorption.” “AZIMUTH” features 28 world-renowned dancers: all 12 members of LINES Ballet and 16 from Hubbard Street’s ensemble of 18. King also choreographed “Scheherazade.” I recently spoke to King about his career and the upcoming show at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Darlene Donloe: What is the benefit of a shared program with Hubbard Street? Alonzo King: Glenn Edgerton, the head of Hubbard Street, said he wanted his company to experience what my company experiences. He was interested in our ideology. My company is unique in how we approach dance. You want this to be a living thesis. They are looking at you as a communicative tool. It’s about communication skills. With that emphasis, as odd as it seems, you’re trying to get what’s behind the body. That’s a lot of work. It goes against the grain about how most people are educating. The way we work, I’m a thesis of this idea. You have to contemplate whether you see it and understand it. He wanted to get together and create something unique. Managing the crazy schedule and the ideology of both companies, is what the world can do, in terms of pulling resources and coming together to mix chemistry, more than we’d be as separate individuals. Getting together presented some problems, but it was about risk-taking. Glenn Edgerton is one of the kindest and amiable people you can work with. DD: How did this collaboration begin? AK: Glenn brought it up. He flew out with his manager and we had a talk with my manager. He and I are idea-oriented. We talked about the cost and the plan. It took three years. We convened in Irvine at the UC Irvine campus to create the work. We worked with students from both of our schools and worked with dance students there.  It took three rushed, bloody weeks to complete.  Glenn wanted me to work with the company. I worked on materials for his and my company. DD: So, you’ve explained why Edgerton wanted the collaboration. What

Current Series 3 game series vs Padres @ AT&T Park San Diego Padres Gaslamp Ball @ San Francisco Giants McCovey Chronicles Monday, Jun 17, 2013, 7:15 PM PDT AT&T Park Edinson Volquez vs Barry Zito Partly cloudy. Winds blowing out to center field at 10-15 m.p.h. Game time temperature around 55. Complete Coverage > Tue 06/18 7:15 PM PDT Wed 06/19 12:45 PM PDT 1. Gregor Blanco - LF 2. Tony Abreu - 2B 3. Brandon Crawford - SS 4. Hunter Pence - RF 5. Brandon Belt - 1B 6. Joaquin Arias - 3B 7. Hector Sanchez - C 8. Juan Perez - CF 9. Barry Zito - P

This is a sponsored post, in which we were asked to write about the music that plays loudly and proudly inside the Barclays Center. You can find all the NBA music here! When it comes to in-arena music, Nets fans should consider themselves lucky; spoiled, even. In music, Brooklyn has its place as an institution. No, it's not Memphis or Nashville, and it's certainly not San Francisco nor Seattle. But that's perfectly fine. Brooklyn's musical identity can't be defined; not like Seattle's or Nashville's. True, when you do think of Brooklyn you think of its place in hip-hop history. The fact is, Brooklyn gave us Biggie, the Beastie Boys, Pete Rock, the RZA, the GZA, Jeru, Big Daddy Kane and, of course, Jay-Z, among many, many others. But Brooklyn isn't hip-hop, which is a beautifully diverse thing to say. It's all things. It's blues, it's rock, it's soul, it's indie, it's jazz, it's dancehall, it's all things, just not defined. And nothing encapsulates that musical and cultural diversity more than John Forte's ode to Brooklyn, the anthem that plays nightly before, during and after all Nets games. In "Brooklyn: Something to Lean On," diversity lives in its lyrics, its video and even in the song's composition. Listen/watch: A "unifying anthem," as described by the video's director. That's a perfect descriptor. And that's what makes Nets fans among the luckiest in the NBA, in that you can show a unified team- and borough-pride through an anthem and a simple chant. "Brooooooklyn!"

Sept. 9 - 10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale Enterprise cloud backup provider Zetta.netv has raised $8 million in new funding to help it bolster its backup, disaster recovery, and archiving services, the company said today. Zetta.net competes with cloud backup providers such as Carbonite and Mozy, but it differentiates itself by claiming top-tier performance. As an example, it says that it helped its customer Group Photographers Association restore 2.7TB of data in less than 24 hours back in July 2012. “We want to carve out a segment of the market that previously didn’t use cloud services,” Chris Schin, VP of Product at Zetta.net, told VentureBeat. “The dirty little secret in the cloud market is that most [cloud recovery] services can’t backup multiple terabytes and restore it quickly. But we can.” The company has seen substantial customer growth in the past year. From Q1 2012 to Q1 2013, its customers have grown by 243 percent. The company now has 400 small-to-medium sized business customers. Big customers include Yammer, Mint.com, Marketo, and Mazda. Zetta.net promises 99.99% uptime and has 2 data centers — one on the East Coast and one on the West Coast. It says that it’s now backing up 4.3 billion files in the cloud each month. Pricing for Zetta.net’s new flagship DataProtect 4.0 product starts at $225 per month. This includes 500GB of storage, backup and recovery protection, monitoring, and more. The new round of funding was led by new investor Industry Ventures with participation by existing investors Foundation Capital and Sigma Partners. Including the new funding, Zetta.net has raised $39.5 million. The new funds will go toward hiring new sales, marketing, and engineering employees. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Zetta.net was founded in 2008. The company’s focus is on the U.S. market, but it intends to look at international expansion in 2014. Clouds photo via Jeff Kramer/Flickr Filed under: Business, Cloud, Deals .boilerplate-before .event-boilerplate { width:278px; margin:0px 0px 10px 20px; padding:10px; float:right; border:1px solid #e4e4e4; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; color:#000; } .boilerplate-before .event-boilerplate .logo-date-wrap { width:100%; display:block; float:left; margin-bottom:8px; } .boilerplate-before .event-boilerplate img { float:left; } .boilerplate-before .event-boilerplate .date-location { float:right; font-size:12px; line-height:14px; text-align:center; padding-left:7px; padding-top:5px; padding-bottom:3px; border-left:1px solid #e6e6e6; } .boilerplate-before .event-boilerplate .cta { display:block; clear:both; width:100%; border-radius:5px; border:1px solid #1864b1; color:#fff; text-shadow: 0px -1px 0px rgba(0,0,0,0.3); text-align:center; text-decoration:none; font-weight:600; font-size:18px; line-height:17px; padding:4px 0px 6px 0px; background: #1f80e4; background: -moz-linear-gradient(top,  #1f80e4 0%, #1862ae 100%); background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,#1f80e4), color-stop(100%,#1862ae)); background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top,  #1f80e4 0%,#1862ae 100%); background: -o-linear-gradient(top,  #1f80e4 0%,#1862ae 100%); background: -ms-linear-gradient(top,  #1f80e4 0%,#1862ae 100%); background: linear-gradient(to bottom,  #1f80e4 0%,#1862ae 100%); filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#1f80e4', endColorstr='#1862ae',GradientType=0 ); }

AMD is debuting a new lineup of chips for servers, including its first ever ARM-based part. For AMD, which built its business around a license of Intel’s x86 architecture, building an ARM part is both a declaration of independence and a necessary step for the chipmaker struggling to reinvent itself. The chip firm is introducing three new parts for servers. One is a more muscular core combining AMD’s graphics processing prowess with a CPU core (what AMD calls an APU) that will be aimed at the traditional enterprise computing and high-performance-computing market. AMD dubs this chip Warsaw. The other two parts, Seattle and Berlin, are less powerful and designed more for webscale workloads that can be parallelized. Berlin is a smaller, X86 chip that uses an Atom-like core, while Seattle is the 64-bit ARM-based chip that could bring AMD out from Intel’s shadow. The Seattle chip will be in servers in the second half of 2014 and have eight and eventually 16 cores using the ARM Cortex A-57 design that can run at up to 2 GHz per core. Andrew Feldman (pictured above), the corporate vice president and general manager of AMD’s server business unit, and a speaker at the GigaOM Structure event happening this week in San Francisco, says it’s clear that ARM will have a place in the data center, but he understands that he needs to make a case for AMD as a viable builder of ARM-based chips for that market. He thinks that AMD’s experience building server chips will help it, as will his experience building out networking fabrics at SeaMicro, the company AMD purchased last year as part of a bid to get into the more power-efficient and dense server architectures. Feldman and I have discussed the changes in the data center — from small workloads to the need for power efficiency — for the last three years. It’s nice to see this vision closer to playing out in the mass market. It’s too early to say how AMD will stack up against the myriad other vendors trying to build out ARM-based chips for the data center — or even how it will continue to stack up against Intel. But the new chips are a clear attempt to bring AMD into the new era of cloud computing. It’s a welcome step. Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro:Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial.Cloud computing’s impact on chip and hardware designCloud computing infrastructure: 2012 and beyondInfrastructure Q1: IaaS Comes Down to Earth; Big Data Takes Flight