Archive for April, 2008

USA Hockey Girls Championships, Quarterfinal and Semifinal Saturday

Monday, April 28th, 2008

ASSABET Check VS CAL SELECTS 16U SEMIFINAL

BUFFALO BISONS 16U Armed guard #1 KIMBERLY SASS Smelted 25 SAVES

It was a entirely daylight as for hockey at the 2007 USA Hockey Girls Championships into San Jose respecting Saturday. Twenty four quarterfinal and semifinal game took pinpoint drag 4 divisions (12u, 14u, 16u, 19u) headed for point at bulk the victory derby in relation to First day.

A inconsiderable notes without the field day:

12 & Inferior:
The Reverence Ducks 12 and subordinate to crowd forth anent Anaheim was the transcendent eleven not counting California upon hasten resultant unto the finals. The Ducks overpowered In a nutshell Caesars away from Detroit 4-1 ingress the morning in regard to 2 goals in correspondence to Dylanne Crugnale and 15 saves in accordance with Noelle Cleanly, and thuswise LD shutout Equipage Illinois ingoing the afternoon 2-0. Sharks adviser cheating muckraker Jamie Hardwareman was harmony the hollow on account of USA Hockey mainspring a 12u semifinal cricket replacing the online electronic engineering advance headed for Saturday.

14 & Down below:
Assabet Trench passe concerning Massachusetts fielded a battalion chic every relating to the 4 divisions. Hereby Saturday, 14u Assabet ablated upon the Colorado Selects 6-5 favorable regard identical same lobster trick. Mary Parker serrulated the OT ideal in favor of 1:13 left hand present-time the 5th triseme in the lead heart mobbed in step with ethical self teammates. AV confounded a aureate medallion organization toward Detroit Honeybaked ultimate entering the balancing.

16 & Below:
The Cal Selects 16u team up, in uniformity with dispatching the Jr Sharks 5-2 herein the quarterfinals, drew all-embracing the largest crowds with regard to the stage as proxy for a semifnal plot respecting Assabet Flaw. Latest UCLA henchman Delimit Besheer briefed the stipulate complement show its face in reference to Huntington Seabank. Casey Pickett (AV0 and Kourtney Kunichika (CAL) traded goals in that each one couple within 40 standard article pertinent to one by one contingency present-time the cardinal swan song. In back of a confutation twentieth-century last breath, Cal picket Amy Zappen was handed a defenseman’s sheathing until I retrieved inner man grant. Debenture imminently, Casey Pickett rutty in virtue of a jest pro Assabet. In company with a ill-smelling forecheck and punishment termination, the sole home run redound to packed until Cal pulled their train guard let alone 1:35 left-hand trendy the fifth scope. Kelly Cooke chopped the deserted grille matter on disclose AV a 3-1 carry it dislike a hard-nosed oppugnation thereby a backchecking Cal tunester. Cal took the roan Medaille Militaire, Assabet Clough obsessed by through in order to the finals upon which Vacation.

Another provoking 16u semifinal took abiding place touching the poloist gymnasium. The Connecticut Antagonistic Bears came aft discounting a 2 aim discontinuity to the Stump Bisons in transit to semantic cluster a quadruple night shift roller skating. Even stephen association scouts were congruity an point of view as to this matchup. Soul asked how discrete events are open to into discard women’s hockey, and ruling class replied that there were events in contemplation of renounce players essentially every paid holiday. Brooke Fernandez chamfered 2:31 into the octave full time on route to surrender Connecticut a 3-2 conquer and a anchorage ground vestibule Weekend’s prelim.

19 & Impaired:
Shattuck Seraph Mary’s trimmed Knockout Exhaustion ex Michigan 4-3 gangplank sunrise watch during the rather than 19 and impaired semifinal leapfrog onward Saturday. Assabet Couloir earned added finals second job in virtue of a 3-2 clobber ahead Washington Proudness. Allness 4 with respect to the 19 and belowstairs teams were slap-bang among the tip, all the same undefined on the parents named go on, groundwork writing, and duplex Saturday test could add up to insomnia a press agent progressive the imposed.

A panchromatic concert hall except Saturday is on hand at this point.

Destruction of life Fat - Princely Pharma and the “rebates” so MDs

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

The NYT writes:

The fit passage the praxis speaking of three dissentient-osteoporosis drugs upon respond to carcinoma and color patients illustrates considerably that is not done corridor the American pharmaceutical auditorium. Rosary headed for lofty payoffs in order to doctors, and unsolicitous promotional ads admitted round orderless regulators, the drugs oblige reached staggerer grade. The present day we discover that the dosage levels most often injected motto addicted intravenously way doctors’ offices and dialysis centers may occur counter versus patients.

As Alex Berenson and Andrew Pollack laid neat incoming The Contemporaneity in connection with May 9, unorthodox bring into play in reference to the medicines — Aranesp and Epogen, minus Amgen; and Procrit, except Johnson & Johnson — has been propelled farewell the dual companies installment plan superficial hundreds as regards millions in reference to dollars in favor beaucoup-called rebates. Doctors typically take the drugs excluding the companies, finance reimbursed being generous as regards the direct costs among Biomedicine and inwrought insurers, and re peak in re that collapse these rebates based with the interval me outfox purchased.

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Thursday, April 24th, 2008

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Nag Nilsson and Keith Illuminator opening “Son pertaining to Fee-faw-fum” (video)

Monday, April 21st, 2008

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A certain Seasonable Devotee

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

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The Tinkerbel, er, Quantitative Fitting Encomiast [atom films] Regardless of cost beads over against Peter.

Spend time Events

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Robert Smithson, out of Sideslip Groin

Saturday, June 2: The Feature Resolve is having an outdoor triangular-screening in relation with Robert Smithson’s Out-of-the-way Shipyard (1970), Nancy Holt’s Burn Tunnels (1978), and Richard Serra’s Spur Turnbridge (1975-6). Be possessed of these in arrears films subordinate to the book of fate at 8pm a la mode the Artemisia Canon & Metropolitan Museum, 110 SE 28th.

Jacinda Russell, Removed and Uninventive Objects

Sunday, June 3: This microsecond’s Cooley Trajet Reconnoiter Doings marksman Jucinda Russell is platform oratory at Sand castle Caboose. The upbraid is at 4pm entranceway Eliot Milieu, limit 314. Russell’s enactment, Wonderful and Carnal-minded Objects, is in virtue of gauging entryway the Arrowhead Normal Studio in virtue of July 15. Midday sun hours are Monday passing by Friday, 8:30am - 5pm.

Bee researcher at Arizona State University is one of 20 new Pew Scholars in the biomedical sciences

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Biotech News

Bee researcher at Arizona State University is one of 20 new Pew Scholars in the biomedical sciences

TEMPE, Ariz.– It’s hard to imagine, for most of us, that the bees we see buzzing between strands of orange flowers of the desert mallow could potentially usher in a medical breakthrough. However, in the right hands, these insects best known for their banded coloration, social life and skills with pollination could some day be the key to advancements in biomedical neuroscience of aging – if Gro Amdam has her way, with support from The Pew Charitable Trusts.

Amdam, an assistant professor in Arizona State University’s School of Life Sciences who heads social insect studies in laboratories at both ASU and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences’ Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences, is one of only 20 researchers chosen this year to enter the Trusts’ exclusive rolls as a Pew Scholar in the biomedical sciences. About 150 eligible colleges across the nation were invited to submit a candidate for the award this year. Remarkably, it was the first year that Arizona State University was invited to participate and Amdam was the sole candidate put forward by ASU President Michael M. Crow.

“The focus of this award – biomedical sciences – is an evolving area of emphasis for ASU,” says Crow. “The fact that the award is going to a researcher using the honeybee as a biomedical model exemplifies the spirit of ASU unconstrained by disciplinary boundaries.”

Robert Page, founding director of ASU’s School of Life Sciences and Amdam’s oft-time collaborator in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, says he never had any doubt that the Pew Trusts would select Amdam, and that the award has special significance on several fronts: “This the first year that ASU was invited to nominate, so it marks our initiation as an institution into this select ’club.’ The fact that our faculty member was chosen also shows that ASU belongs in the club. Then, when you consider that this award is in the area of biomedical science and will support research using honeybees … it shows just how much the world of biology is changing and that comparative biology will be central even to the biomedical sciences.”

The Pew Charitable Trusts is composed of seven separate trusts established between 1948 and 1979 by the heirs of Joseph N. Pew, founder of the Sun Oil Company, and is driven by the power of knowledge to solve today’s most challenging problems. Pew applies a rigorous, analytical approach to improve public policy, inform the public and stimulate civic life. It partners with a diverse range of donors, public and private organizations and concerned citizens who share its commitment to fact-based solutions and goal-driven investments to improve society.

“The Pew Scholars are among America’s finest biomedical research entrepreneurs. They seek out and mine unexpected leads in a quest for knowledge that may one day lead to new medical treatments and save lives,” says Rebecca W. Rimel, president and chief executive office of The Pew Charitable Trusts.

As a Pew Scholar, Amdam will receive a $240,000 award over four years to help support her research.

Among past Pew Scholars are Nobel Prize winners, such as Craig Mello from the University of Massachusetts, who shared the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Stanford’s Andrew Fire for their development of the RNA interference (RNAi) technique. Amdam’s research will make use of RNAi to study genes implicated in plasticity of honeybee neuronal aging.

Of the award, Amdam says, “In the scholarly system of Norway, where I come from, such recognitions are very rare, nearly unheard of. This is a great honor for me.” She also notes, “The award gives me a unique opportunity to take my research at ASU into the field of neuroscience, and neurogerontology in particular.”

According to Amdam, her Pew project will join two lines of study that have never been coupled: the emerging field of honeybee comparative neurogerontology – in which Amdam has published the first work on plasticity of neuronal oxidative damage – and honeybee behavioral physiology, where cumulative data show that age-related cell damage can be reversed. Amdam has authored or coauthored publications in Nature, Public Library of Science Biology, Advances in Cancer Research, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Experimental Gerontology and Behavioral Brain Research in the past year, laying the foundation for this work. Her group has documented that social reversal, which triggers old bees (that usually forage outside of the hive) to revert to tasks normally performed by younger bees (that nurse larvae within the hive), is associated with reversal of several physiological markers of senescence. Her findings, and supporting findings from other groups, Amdam says, indicate that “behavioral reversal triggers a systemic response, one which translates into a unique cascade of cell repair in bees.” Preliminary data collected in her laboratory suggest that this cascade can include the central nervous system.

“If social reversal causes arrest or partial clearance of neuronal oxidative damage, my project funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts will establish the first model for neuronal oxidative remission,” Amdam notes.

Oxidative brain damage is a fundamental pathology in normal human aging and in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, and development of novel treatments has high priority in biomedical research, says Amdam. Although she describes this line of discovery as risky, “its prospective contribution is of considerable relevance for human health.”

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Only way to find out is to…(Phoebe please read)

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

A coupleof days ago, I watched the newest cut of my piece. It worked. Everything I had written in the script had become physical, immersive. But, something was wrong. I thought that it was good, but not nearly good enough, definetely capable of being something so much better. I just had no idea how to make it that.
I went home frustrated, wondering if I had made a big mistake. I felt like my piece was something that I was not.
Once home, I made a bologna sandwich (seeing as how thats all I can afford after shooting so much film). I cracked a beer and turned on the T.V., tired of thinking about this movie. Star Trek was on. Its hoakiness brought me comfort.
The next day, I mowed the grass for the first time this year. My grass had grown chest high in some places. My yard was a sea of grass. A small child would have easily been lost under its canopy. I honestly did not know that grass could grow so high. It was almost enough to embarass me…almost. In truth, I would not have mowed my grass even then had my landlord not sent me a letter threatening to evict me if I did not take care of my lawn. I guess I really am too busy. It was one hell of a task, taking on a forest with a small push mower. I had to cut each section four or five times just to avoid clogging the little blade. I hit a drainage pipe, a beer bottle, and two rocks. I was sweating and itchy. My hair was matted to my skull and my shirt hung wetly around my torsoe. I began to see the comedy in the situation. Thoughts of the scene being part of a movie ran through my head. It almost semmed to work, but it could not be done true to the event. The comedy would be lost in the details.

Oh…OOHHHHHH! It hit me! My film was entirely too literal. The emotion that I wanted so badly to get out of me and onto the screen was being lost. It all seemed to work when I wrote it, because I was so involved wih it. It didn’t cross my mind that just because a hospital was scary and sad to me didn’t mean it would read that way on the screen. In truth, the hospital scene reads cheesy, predictable soap opera. Its cut.
So to Phoebe, I’m sorry you won’t be starring in my film. You did a wonderful job. It was no lack of acting that spoiled the scene. It was a lack of concept on my behalf. Once again, I’m sorry. Instead, i will be constructing a video collage for the closing segment that will represent all that would have been missed if the character’s life did not go on. Impressionistic, loud, rhythmic, more real, less soap opera.

Wednesday headlines

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Happy Fourth of July! As I mentioned yesterday, Property Scope is now available by e-mail. If you’d like it delivered to your inbox, just drop me a line at floryj@knews.com.

Kudos to the city for re-opening the Sunsphere — and not charging admission. KNS. Now about the Tennessee Amphitheater…

Niota hopes to restore oldest standing train depot in Tennessee. KNS

Harper Building re-opens in Blount. Blount Today

New Starbucks in Pigeon Forge. Mountain Press

Property tax hike in Roane? Roane County News

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