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E-Mobile Technologies ( EMTK ) 4-for-1 Forward-Split Monday
DALLAS, Sep 16, 2004 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
E-Mobile Technologies, Inc. (Pink Sheets:EMTK) announced today that a 4-for-1 forward split of the Company's common stock has been approved with the official record date of September 24, 2004 and a payment date of September 27, 2004. More information about E-Mobile Technologies Inc. is available at their website www.chltec.com .
E-Mobile Technologies ( EMTK ) 4-for-1 Forward-Split Monday
DALLAS, Sep 16, 2004 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
E-Mobile Technologies, Inc. (Pink Sheets:EMTK) announced today that a 4-for-1 forward split of the Company's common stock has been approved with the official record date of September 24, 2004 and a payment date of September 27, 2004. More information about E-Mobile Technologies Inc. is available at their website www.chltec.com .
E-Mobile Technologies ( EMTK ) 4-for-1 Forward-Split Monday
DALLAS, Sep 16, 2004 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
E-Mobile Technologies, Inc. (Pink Sheets:EMTK) announced today that a 4-for-1 forward split of the Company's common stock has been approved with the official record date of September 24, 2004 and a payment date of September 27, 2004. More information about E-Mobile Technologies Inc. is available at their website www.chltec.com .
I picked it up last fri @ .61 and had a sell order in for .70 for the past week. Now I think Ill hold till next week.
Any thoughts on EMTK, hold till after the 4 for 1?
thanks,
Al
Any thoughts on EMTK, hold till after the 4 for 1?
flota, is this the same car as the red and black one in your posts?
is it a GM?
This is a
Cadillac V16 1000 hp
I have to live with bad gas mileage, I can only drive big cars.
Would love to buy a Z06 but can fit in it lol
I guess you are right, my insurance agent is a buddy of mine and is trying to get me to buy the H2 but I keep telling him its the same truck as my Tahoe. We priced them both, the Tahoe is a class 12 and the H2 is a class 22 my Tahoe is $890 a year and the H2 is $1350. I told him, I refuse to get the H2 just for that reason. He said don't worry Ill get you under $1000.
I might get the H2, if I fit in it better then my Tahoe.
You must live in a place where there are more cows than people lol
Had one of these in MA cost $1200 a year to insure.
http://www.pickuptruck.com/html/totw/totw_20031203.html
The front bumper on my truck is $3,500
1/4" mirror finish stainless steel
guys take a look at MNTA and tell me what is going on.
Level2 was going nuts @ around 3:55 and it looks like it is still going.
Bid 8.03
Ask 9.73
any ideas?
Thanks
E-Mobile Information Technologies wholly owned CHL Technologies releases Mobile Publishing Systems for use on all ``SMART'' Phones Used in China
PLANO, Texas, Sep 21, 2004 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
CHL launched the first Mobile Book website in China. Mbook, a mobile publishing model, is a new innovative manner to publish and distribute written materials such as books, magazines and newspapers to readers in a proprietary format. CHL has created Universal Mobile Document (UMD) that allows users read and choose from hundreds of thousands of book titles and other periodicals on the 3G intelligent handsets. This technology also creates a new channel for publishers and writers to deliver their products to customers, promising higher sales volumes and a new source of profits. The Mbook model consists of a UMD Reader, Writer and encrypted materials that are stored in a central server. The UMD Reader can be easily downloaded and installed on a "SMART" phone.
Around 140,000 different kinds of books are published in China every year, more than any other country in the world. Prior state controlled restrictions have been mitigated and now permit a more competitive market of both domestic and international publishers who need to expand distribution to generate revenues. All these trends provide an excellent opportunity for the company to expand its business.
Mbooks have already been adopted by Nokia, Microsoft, Ericsson and several Chinese "SMART" phones and is available for all 3G systems in operation. Key features include the aforementioned UMD; high compression standard that only takes a 100 K of storage for 100,000 words; Platform diversity that can be run on Brew, KJAVA and Symbian systems; encryption to prevent illegal sharing entire download before reading; a dictionary enabling readers to simply highlight words and clicking the dictionary option when desired; convenient billing system whereby users can pay by credit cards or through their phone bills.
The conveniences to customers on the go are many. No need to carry a heavy parcel of books, download from anyplace, reduced download time reduces cell phone costs and saves money, browse categories of books and obtaining recommendation and ratings , and most important the company believes customers can save up to 75% of their spending on books per year. Publishers save on printing costs while generating higher levels of sales, concentrate ads for greater effectiveness and enable new writers to publish at lower cost. The digital format can revolutionize how books are written. With, color and video capabilities, the company is planning to sign comic book writers to design product for use on "Smart" phones.
SOURCE: CHL Technologies Inc.
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Aggressive investors and traders will be watching E-Mobile Information Technologies (Pink Sheets:EMTK) this morning! Yesterday after the markets closed, the company issued a press release announcing that RF Tune, Inc. believes its new chipset designs for Wi-Fi applications in laptop computers and PDA's will participate significantly in the positive industry growth trends.
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I think it may be best to hold on till after the split IMHO.
(EMTK) Someone help me out here, Im stuck in this stock. I got a sell order in for 8000 shares @ .70 and it don't look like its going to get there today lol
Long term it looks like a winner but I just want to day trade for now, I already hold some long term winners lol
Thanks,
al
Endless Summer?
The man gets no respect!
(NVEI) 'Step Into Liquid' A DVD Triumph; Over $12 Million in Sales and Rentals
SAN DIEGO, Sep 21, 2004 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- New Visual Corporation, (OTCBB: NVEI)
a 50 percent owner of Top Secret Productions LLC, announces that since the
release of the DVD for "Step Into Liquid" in April 2004, over $12 million have
been spent by the North American public on purchases and rentals. The film's
distributor has sold over 230,000 units to stores and DVD rental outlets in
North America.
IMDB.com reported on July 11, 2004 DVD rental gross of $8.3 million, propelling
the movie into the top ranks of rentals in the US. IMDB extrapolates the rental
gross number from rental figures submitted by Blockbuster, Hollywood, and other
major rental chains. Based on the run-rate of the rentals when imdb.com stopped
reporting, rental revenues are likely to now be in excess of $9 million.
With the success of the DVD release, the North American gross revenues for Step
Into Liquid are now estimated to be in excess of $17 million by New Visual's
distributor. Foreign revenues are not included in this amount, and are not
currently estimated by New Visual.
A two disc set, the feature-rich DVD offers something for surfer and non-surfer
alike including a surfing glossary for the uninitiated, interviews with
filmmakers and surfers, deleted scenes, a 3-D satellite flight through surf
locations, virtual surfing lessons, the making of a surfboard, and a full-length
video game. Step into Liquid is historically the first DVD to include a
full-length video game. The video game retails independently of the DVD for a
suggested retail price of $29.99.
DVD viewers can watch Step into Liquid in a widescreen format or the theatrical
version playable on the PC in Windows, high-definition Media 9 with Dolby
digital sound. The DVD retails on Amazon for $24.95. Surfdog Records has also
released the sound track CD for a suggested retail price of $15.98.
"We are still early in the release schedule for the DVD; however, based on the
theatrical success of Step Into Liquid and initial figures on the DVD, we expect
ongoing revenue and longevity comparable to Endless Summer," Ray Willenberg,
President of NV Entertainment commented. "The film will ultimately help build
New Visual Corporation in the future by contributing a positive cash flow."
About Step Into Liquid
By using up-to-the-minute technology, sharp editing and awards-caliber
cinematography to present extraordinary subjects in mind-boggling locations,
"Step Into Liquid" embraces and celebrates the global surfing culture while
managing to also deliver moments of real intimacy. The film takes viewers from
the truly terrifying monstrous waves of Oahu's North Shore to the Texas waters
of the Gulf of Mexico (where waves are created by massive oil supertankers) to
the shores of Ireland and Rapa Nui. Along the way, viewers discover
unforgettable human stories, from a man who's surfed every single day for the
last 27 years to a young, inspirational surfer just getting back in the water in
spite of a surfing accident that's left him paralyzed from the neck down. A true
audience-pleaser, "Step Into Liquid" is at once profoundly moving and profoundly
entertaining.
For more information about the film and the North American DVD release:
www.stepintoliquid.com.
About New Visual Corporation
Based in San Diego, New Visual is a late-development-stage fabless
communications semiconductor company. It is developing an advanced technology
that allows data to be transmitted at greater speed and across extended
distances over existing copper wire. For more information, visit
www.newvisual.com.
With the exception of historical information contained in this press release,
this press release includes forward-looking statements made under the "Safe
Harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
These statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results
to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, including but
not limited to the following: product development difficulties; market demand
and acceptance of products; the impact of changing economic conditions; business
conditions in the Internet and telecommunications industries; reliance on third
parties, including potential suppliers, licensors, and licensees; the impact of
competitors and their products; risks concerning future technology; and other
factors detailed in this press release and in the company's Securities and
Exchange Commission filings.
SOURCE: New Visual Corporation
CONTACT: New Visual Corporation
From .60 to 3.53 in 3 days (UGHO) and who says NV can't do the same with the right news?
OT: What a joke, that is way too much truck. I would look into this one tho.
And how can we forget this truck
http://www.pickuptruck.com/html/totw/totw_20031203.html
OT: Banc of America starts Momenta Pharma. with "buy"
BANGALORE, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Banc of America Securities on Friday initiated coverage of Momenta Pharmaceuticals Inc. with a "buy" and set a price target of $12.
09/17/04 13:06 ET
sorry guys I think I may have to start a message board, Its getting so exciting I can't keep my mouth shut! lol
OT:Momenta Pharmaceuticals To Be Included in Russell 3000(R) Index
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: MNTA) announced today that it will be included in the Russell 3000 Index when the Index is reconstituted effective October 1, 2004 to reflect companies who have recently completed successful initial public offerings (IPOs). Momenta completed its IPO on June 25, 2004 and is one of 48 companies that have recently completed IPOs to be added to the reconstituted Russell U.S. indexes. Membership in the Russell 3000 means automatic inclusion in either the large-cap Russell 1000(R) Index or small-cap Russell 2000(R) Index.
"We are pleased to be included in the Russell 3000 index, as it is another step highlighting Momenta's growing visibility in the investment community," commented Alan Crane, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Momenta. "We feel privileged to be included amongst this selection of the leading growth companies in the U.S."
Russell is a multi-manager investment strategies firm which offers a full range of tailored solutions to goal-oriented investors. According to Russell, its indexes are widely used by managers for index funds and as benchmarks for both passive and active investment strategies, more than $360 billion is invested in index funds based on Russell's indexes, and an additional $850 billion is benchmarked to them. Investment managers who oversee these funds typically purchase shares of member stocks according to that company's weighting in the particular index. Membership in Russell's U.S. equity indexes is determined primarily by market capitalization rankings and style attributes.
Russell announced in August that its family of U.S. indexes will selectively add IPOs on a quarterly basis, beginning September 30, 2004, in order to enhance how well each index reflects its segment of the U.S. equity market and to complement its annual reconstitution efforts. Annual reconstitution of the Russell indexes captures the 3,000 largest U.S. stocks as of the end of May, ranking them by total market capitalization to create the Russell 3000. The largest 1,000 companies in the ranking comprise the Russell 1000 Index while the remaining 2,000 companies become the widely used Russell 2000 Index.
About Momenta
Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biotechnology company specializing in the sequencing and engineering of complex sugars for the development of improved versions of existing drugs, the development of novel drugs and the discovery of new biological processes. Momenta is also utilizing its ability to sequence sugars to create technology-enabled generic products. The Company's most advanced product candidate is M-Enoxaparin, a technology- enabled generic version of Lovenox(R). Based on its understanding of complex sugars, Momenta has created a diversified pipeline of novel discovery and development candidates. Momenta was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.
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OT: I had some time to think about what username I was going to go with and I came to a conclusion that it would be best to stick with this one.
thanks,
Al
I don't believe this! I had a sell order for 655000 of JRVR @ .0041 the thing don't move from .0035 all day, I was thinking of canceling my sell order maybe the bid would move up but decide the heck with it, I go to do some work around the house and it takes off to .0050! lol I got my fill @ .0041 oh well
Al
OT: play this till we wait for the filing to be approved.
http://thecrowshow.com/swf/squoosh.htm
Dateline: 10 August 2004
Both CNN and the Fox News network are reporting that Lance Armstrong maybe stripped of his 6th Tour de France title. In a random check for banned substances, 3 were found in Armstrong's hotel room.
The 3 substances banned by the French were as follows:
(1) Toothpaste (2) Deodorant (3) Soap
The French officials also found several other items which they had never seen before including a set of testicles and a backbone...
OT: Tornado Watch 753
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 753
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
1130 AM EDT SAT AUG 14 2004
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA
COASTAL WATERS
EFFECTIVE THIS SATURDAY MORNING AND EVENING FROM 1130 AM UNTIL 900
PM EDT.
TORNADOES...HAIL TO 0.5 INCH IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS
TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.
THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 60 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST
OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES SOUTH OF WILMINGTON NORTH CAROLINA TO 30
MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF NORFOLK VIRGINIA.
REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.
OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...THIS TORNADO WATCH REPLACES TORNADO
WATCH NUMBER 752. WATCH NUMBER 752 WILL NOT BE IN EFFECT AFTER
1130 AM EDT.
DISCUSSION...HURRICANE CHARLEY IS MOVING ONSHORE NEAR THE NC/SC
BORDER...AND WILL CONTINUE NNEWD ACROSS ERN NC TODAY /SEE LATEST NHC
ADVISORIES FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS/. WIDESPREAD CLOUDS/RAIN ARE
RESULTING IN RELATIVELY STABLE PROFILES ACROSS CENTRAL NC...WHEREAS
RICHER LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE AND MORE CELLULAR CONVECTIVE BANDS ARE
OVERSPREADING THE NC COASTAL PLAIN. PRESENT INDICATIONS ARE THAT
THE MOST FAVORABLE COMBINATION OF LOW-LEVEL SHEAR AND INSTABILITY
FOR SUPERCELLS/TORNADOES WILL REMAIN OVER THE NC COASTAL PLAIN
THROUGH THE AFTERNOON TO THE NE OF THE CENTER OF CIRCULATION. LATER
THIS AFTERNOON...THE THREAT FOR AN ISOLATED TORNADO OR TWO MAY ALSO
SPREAD NWD INTO SE VA.
AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 0.5 INCH. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND
GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 500.
MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 18030.
...THOMPSON
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/watch/ww0753.html
Well, thank you very much I got thru and she is doing well, the storm passed on the west side and they just got some wind gusts.
As for your daughter, I hope you thought her a new word, "typo" because that was an honest typing mistake ;)
Julia Child, Grande Dame of Television Cooking, Dies at 91
LOS ANGELES (Aug. 13) - Julia Child, whose chirping words of encouragement and unpretentious style brought French cuisine to American homes through her television series and books, died Friday. She was 91.
A 6-foot-2 American folk hero, "The French Chef" was known to her public as Julia. She showed a delight not only in preparing good food but in sharing it, and ended her landmark public television lessons at a set table with the wish, "Bon appetit."
'A True National Treasure'
Child died at her home in an assisted-living center in Montecito, about 90 miles northwest of Los Angeles, said her niece, Philadelphia Cousins.
"She passed away in her sleep," Cousins said. "She was with family and friends and her kitten, Minou. She had cookbooks and many paintings by her husband Paul around the house."
Child, who died two days before her 92nd birthday, had been suffering from kidney failure, Cousins said.
"America has lost a true national treasure," Nicholas Latimer, director of publicity for Child's publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, said in a statement. "She will be missed terribly."
Child was a skillful - and sometimes messy - chef, beckoning everyone to have no fear and give exquisite cuisine a try.
"Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal," she said in the introduction to her seventh book, "The Way to Cook." "In spite of food fads, fitness programs, and health concerns, we must never lose sight of a beautifully conceived meal."
Her gourmet philosophy also included drinking. In one TV program, chef and friend Jacques Pepin asked what kind of wine she preferred with picnics - red or white.
"I like beer," Child said enthusiastically, pulling out a cold bottle and two glasses.
Pepin recalled a friendship that began in 1960.
"We'd go to the market, and she'd buy Wonder Bread," he told The Associated Press. "She had no snobbism about food whatsoever. She loved iceberg lettuce."
Child also expressed a fondness for hamburgers, which she ate while recovering from 2002 knee-replacement surgery.
Like the rest of us, she sometimes dropped things or had trouble getting a cake out of its mold.
"She just kind of opened the doors ... to the idea that cooking could be a pleasure and it wasn't drudgery in the kitchen," said Alice Waters, executive chef and owner of Chez Panisse, the celebrated Berkeley, Calif., restaurant. "It wasn't just for fancy French chefs."
In an A-line skirt and blouse, and an apron with a dish towel tucked into the waist, Child grew familiar enough to be parodied by Dan Aykroyd on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" and was the subject of Jean Stapleton's musical revue, "Bon Appetit." She also was on the cover of Time magazine in 1966.
Decades of popularity prompted President Bush last year to give her a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. Her custom-designed kitchen - including small utensils, personal cookbooks and six-burner Garland commercial range - has been on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
"She was more than a pioneer, a legend or a giant. She's the rock that started the avalanche that changed the way America eats," said Brooke Johnson, president of the Food Network. The food and cooking channel on Aug. 22 will air a recently completed documentary on Child, Johnson said.
Born in Pasadena, Calif., Child once said she was raised on so-so cooking by hired cooks.
She graduated from Smith College in 1934 with a history degree and aspirations to be a novelist or a writer for The New Yorker magazine. Instead, she ended up in the publicity department of a New York City furniture and rug chain.
When World War II began, she joined the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA. She was sent off to do clerical chores in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), where she met Paul Child, a career diplomat who later became a photographer and painter, on the porch of a tea planter's bungalow in 1943.
They married in 1946 and two years later were sent to Paris.
Child enrolled in the famed Cordon Bleu cooking school, motivated at least in part by a desire to cook for her epicure husband.
"I'd been looking for my life's work all along," she once told the AP. "And when I got into cooking I found it. I was inspired by the tremendous seriousness with which they took it."
In France, she also met Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, with whom she collaborated on "Mastering the Art of French Cooking." The book was nine years in the making and became mandatory for anyone who took cooking seriously.
It was published in 1961 and was followed by "The French Chef Cookbook"; "Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Vol. II," with Beck; "From Julia Child's Kitchen"; "Julia Child & Company"; "Julia Child & More Company"; and "The Way to Cook," in October 1989.
She was 51 when she made her television debut as "The French Chef." The series began in 1963 and continued for 206 episodes. Child won a Peabody award in 1965 and an Emmy in 1966, and went on to star in several more series for Boston's WGBH-TV.
Russell Morash, who produced "The French Chef" and other public television shows featuring Child as recently as the mid-1990s, said she was a consummate optimist with a razor-sharp intellect and voracious appetite for learning.
"She was incredibly smart, and if she wanted to learn something, she set about learning it. Whether it was how to make French bread, or how to prepare the perfect omelet, she would take the trouble to learn about something, and then she mastered it in a way that I never saw anyone else do."
Since the 1980s, she devoted attention to promoting the serious study of food and cooking. She co-founded the American Institute of Wine and Food in San Francisco in 1981 and co-founded the James Beard Foundation in New York City in 1986.
More recently, she teamed with fellow television chef Jacques Pepin for the 1994 PBS special, "Julia Child & Jacques Pepin: Cooking in Concert" and a 1996 sequel, "More Cooking in Concert."
Child also had been collaborating on a memoir with a grandnephew, Alex Prud'homme, and had completed two chapters, said her longtime editor at Knopf, Judith Jones. Work on the memoir likely will continue, she said.
Paul Child died in 1994, and in late 2001, Julia Child, a longtime resident of Cambridge, Mass., moved to Santa Barbara. The couple had no children.
A private memorial service was planned, but Child asked that no funeral be held.
08-13-04 16:24 EDT
You still hold shares in NVEI?
Charly just past my sister's house in West Palm Beach FLA.
Trying to call but its busy
check it out
http://weather.gov/radar/loop/DS.p19r0/si.kmlb.shtml
Heck, My wife was a starving grad student and I was just bringing in under $40,000 a year for the both of us. Thats when I bought most of my shares. Never sold one share.
$70,000 worth since 7/2000 brotha. $12. to .32¢ EOM
Could today be the day? EOM
But just think about all that extra content you are missing on the DVD.
My SIL DVD is sitting above my computer nest to my SIL light up mug and autographed move poster.
OT: Gene blocking turns monkeys into workaholics
Wednesday, August 11, 2004 Posted: 2257 GMT (0657 HKT)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Procrastinating monkeys were turned into workaholics using a gene treatment to block a key brain compound, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.
Blocking cells from receiving dopamine made the monkeys work harder at a task -- and they were better at it, too, the U.S. government researchers found.
Dr. Barry Richmond and colleagues at the National Institute of Mental Health used a new genetic technique to block the D2 gene.
"The gene makes a receptor for a key brain messenger chemical, dopamine," Richmond said in a statement. Dopamine is a message carrying chemical associated with rewards, movement and a variety of other important functions.
"The gene knockdown triggered a remarkable transformation in the simian work ethic. Like many of us, monkeys normally slack off initially in working toward a distant goal," he added.
For their study, Richmond and colleague used seven rhesus monkeys. They had to push a lever in response to visual cues on a projection screen, and got a drop of water as a reward.
"They work more efficiently -- make fewer errors -- as they get closer to being rewarded. But without the dopamine receptor, they consistently stayed on-task and made few errors, because they could no longer learn to use visual cues to predict how their work was going to get them a reward."
Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Richmond and colleagues said they were trying to figure out how D2 is involved in a type of learning.
Humans and monkeys both use this learning, which involves looking at how much work there is, visually, and deciding how long it will take to complete it.
Monkeys and humans both tend to wait until the last possible minute to finish up the work, and become very adept at estimating how long they have.
Molecular geneticist Edward Ginns created a DNA antisense agent that tricked brain cells into turning off their D2 receptors -- which are molecular doorways used by dopamine to get into cells.
Antisense involves making a kind of mirror image molecule that looks like a strand of DNA and works to block a gene's action.
Although some employers might take a distinct interest in the work, the NIMH team said they are hoping to understand mental illness.
"In this case, it's worth noting that the ability to associate work with reward is disturbed in mental disorders, including schizophrenia, mood disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder, so our finding of the pivotal role played by this gene and circuit may be of clinical interest," Richmond said.
"For example, people who are depressed often feel nothing is worth the work. People with obsessive-compulsive disorder work incessantly; even when they get rewarded they feel they must repeat the task. In mania, people will work feverishly for rewards that aren't worth the trouble to most of us."
Greece's leading athlete Costas Kenteris misses a scheduled dope test on eve of Olympics, officials say.
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