�For 19-year-old Karlee Carbert, rugby isn't just a sport, it's a passion.
But the rough and whirl around game can be physically demanding, as Carbert reveals "some games you can hit your head as many as five times."
Carbert has suffered three concussions in her career but after the first 2 her reaction was the same, "usually you hit your head, get a headache and once the headache is gone you go back."
After her last hit in March, she wasn't as quick to head kO'd onto the field because of a new puppet being used at the University of Alberta.
The U of A is the first university in Canada to follow IMPACT (Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing). It's a computerized system that uses a series of memory and motor skills tests to help better decide when the mind is sufficiently recovered from an impact injury.
"It helped me realize the extent of damage that was done," said Carbert wHO was surprised by her test results. "I realised, wow I bruised my brain."
Educational psychology professor Martin Mrazik says he has been using IMPACT to assess university football, hockey game and rugby football players since last fall. Starting this season he's adding soccer and women hockey players. Mrazik has also served as a consultant to the Edmonton Oilers and the Edmonton Eskimos, assisting them in implementing the system.
"This is an important piece of the assessment process for determining when a histrion is ready to render to act," said Mrazik. "It will help reduce the phone number of injuries because if we render a thespian too early, research shows they're at a three times greater risk of receiving another concussion."
Mrazik hopes the use of this tool volition one day be vernacular practice in doctors' offices so athletes of all ages canful be regularly tested.
As for Carbert, she admits players are often stubborn, wanting to incur back into the game as shortly as possible, but adds "this new tool testament likely issue in players sitting out for thirster, so they can amply recover. Which in the long tend is a good thing."
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Wednesday 3 September 2008
Sunday 24 August 2008
Australian Disease Research Boosted By National Alliance
�Nine of the nation's leading scientific research institutions have launched a new partnership to boost Australia's research capacity for tackling major wellness problems including cancer, diabetes, deafness, sterility, autoimmune disease and arthritis.
The Australian Phenomics Network (APN) is providing Australian and International researchers with the latest infrastructure for the study of human disease. The bond brings together facilities, equipment and expertness to accelerate progress in the provision of biological models for medical inquiry. This facilitates Australia devising genuine inroads against all kinds of diseases.
"This is incredibly exciting science - frontier science - and it's slap-up to pick up Australian researchers leading the way," aforementioned Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research.
APN Chief Scientific Officer Professor Chris Goodnow said: "Together we'll be able to access biologic models that have been developed for specific research projects. Combining our proficient resources way we canful spend more time actually doing the research that will stimulate a real difference in our efforts to combat diseases."
APN Convenor Associate Professor Moira O'Bryan from Monash University aforementioned the project is virtually combining efforts and load-bearing all Australian researchers. "Australia has a wealth of talent in medical enquiry, spread across a number of institutions. Each arrangement has its own strengths in different areas," she says. "The APN testament allow our resources to be combined and greatly enhance Australia's research capacity."
The APN is also on the job with the Atlas of Living Australia project to develop a framework for building network resources that capture, annotate and broadcast research information and will enable research outcomes to be translated to clinical outcomes more rapidly.
The APN is funded by the Australian Government's National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), contributions from state governments, and the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).
The network combines the resources of the Australian National University, Monash University, the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research, the University of Melbourne, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, the Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology, Menzies Research Institute and the Animal Resource Centre.
The APN's expertise is complemented by national and external partnerships with the Garvan Institute, the Institute of Molecular Bioscience, the National Institutes of Health (USA), the Wellcome Trust (UK) and the University of Manitoba (Canada).
Source: Simon Couper
Research Australia
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The Australian Phenomics Network (APN) is providing Australian and International researchers with the latest infrastructure for the study of human disease. The bond brings together facilities, equipment and expertness to accelerate progress in the provision of biological models for medical inquiry. This facilitates Australia devising genuine inroads against all kinds of diseases.
"This is incredibly exciting science - frontier science - and it's slap-up to pick up Australian researchers leading the way," aforementioned Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research.
APN Chief Scientific Officer Professor Chris Goodnow said: "Together we'll be able to access biologic models that have been developed for specific research projects. Combining our proficient resources way we canful spend more time actually doing the research that will stimulate a real difference in our efforts to combat diseases."
APN Convenor Associate Professor Moira O'Bryan from Monash University aforementioned the project is virtually combining efforts and load-bearing all Australian researchers. "Australia has a wealth of talent in medical enquiry, spread across a number of institutions. Each arrangement has its own strengths in different areas," she says. "The APN testament allow our resources to be combined and greatly enhance Australia's research capacity."
The APN is also on the job with the Atlas of Living Australia project to develop a framework for building network resources that capture, annotate and broadcast research information and will enable research outcomes to be translated to clinical outcomes more rapidly.
The APN is funded by the Australian Government's National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), contributions from state governments, and the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).
The network combines the resources of the Australian National University, Monash University, the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research, the University of Melbourne, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, the Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology, Menzies Research Institute and the Animal Resource Centre.
The APN's expertise is complemented by national and external partnerships with the Garvan Institute, the Institute of Molecular Bioscience, the National Institutes of Health (USA), the Wellcome Trust (UK) and the University of Manitoba (Canada).
Source: Simon Couper
Research Australia
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Thursday 14 August 2008
iForward, Russia! blame themselves for split
It seems that iForward, Russia! will for the moment get to be renamed Retreat, Retreat, Retreat! The Leeds band have announced "a break ... for the foreseeable future," and blamed their lack of success ... on themselves.
Although the band's other October dates will no thirster take piazza, they stay committed to a net gig at the Brainwash festival in Leeds on October 17.
"We get decided to take a break from doing iForward, Russia! - for a lot of different reasons," the band announced on their web site. "The approximation of doing another tour with nada new to offer was something that enthused none of us, and the idea of rebooting on a productive strand is something we're not quite ready to face barely yet."
"The last few months of inactivity has led us all on paths off from the band. I know that sounds left over, having released an record album only a few months ago, only I don't think whatever of us were connected to the mechanics of its press release. I don't know how it happened, but I want to thank all our direction, the guys and gals at Cooking Vinyl and all the other people who worked on the record for putting all their efforts into the release of Life Processes and apologize for our complete failure to employ in the release of it."
iForward, Russia!'s second base album, Life Processes, was released in April.
Adding to the band's crisis is its geographic drift. Drummer Katie Nicholls is moving to Nottingham to study art, and frontman Tom Woodhead has been working as a producer with the Leicester band Minnaars, the statement said.
Though iForward, Russia! may release a previously announced remix EP, it will not be in physical form. They are, however, looking to collect unrecorded bootlegs, session tracks and rarities for release on their website.
"Till later then," the band wrote, "take forethought."
They effectual a caboodle like Napoleon after a long Russian winter.
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Wednesday 6 August 2008
Ting Tings Bring The Thunder To Brooklyn Concert -- Literally
BROOKLYN, New York ��"It looks like there might be thunder," Ting Tings frontwoman Katie White�said, standing at the edge of McCarren Park Pool. "It would be good � kind of dramatic if there's lightning. And it might fill the pool up!"
There was no total pool � but on that point was slew of thunder, lightning and rain throughout the afternoon at the Jelly NYC Pool Party. Regardless, Sunday's free concert was packed to�capacity ��the line to get in stretched around the block and hundreds were turned away�from�the locale, even after waiting for as long as�three hours in the rain. But that didn't�stop the�Ting Tings�from playing punchy, poppy hits from their debut LP, We Started Nothing, like�"Shut Up and Let Me Go,"�"Great DJ" and�"That's Not My Name" for lyric-chanting fans.
A storybook success�story, (contain out our literal�storybook taradiddle of their journey from "FNMTV"), the British duo�give the Internet and TV a lot of course credit for their #1 album in the U.K.�and growing fanbase in the U.S.
"With stuff like MySpace your music travels so cursorily," White said.�"If somebody likes it they tell their friend. It's a good thing, though, that people actually want to�see�us."
Of trend, the group's popularity owes more than a fiddling to the iPod ad that features them. "We've been playing for, wish, three or four days now here and it's all sold out," said the early half of the Ting Tings, Jules De Martino. "And I guess that's because the ad has been around and it got people to check us out."
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While their single�"Shut Up and Let Me Go" has become a hit and is among the many contenders for a VMA nomination for Best Pop Video, White thinks other songs on their record album are even better.
"We've got just naturally popular songs," he said.�"We haven't regular unleashed our best songs on them�yet, so I can't wait!"
The Ting Tings will proceed their busybodied tour schedule, but they are likewise looking onward to acquiring back into the studio apartment, especially for a new collaboration in the works with rapper Dizzee Rascal.
"He did a�cover of 1 of our tracks on the wireless in the U.K. and then we met him at [the Glastonbury festival] and we talked most it,"�De Martino said.�"We're just looking for some space so we can bugger off into the studio and bang something out."
The Ting Tings say they're hoping to celluloid their following music video in the States after their tour. In the meantime, they're enjoying their growing U.S. popularity.
"People are just starting to reveal us at such a fast charge per unit here," De Martino said. "It's a lovely
Friday 27 June 2008
Generation Dub
Artist: Generation Dub
Genre(s):
Drum & Bass
Discography:
The Deliverence EP EP
Year: 2004
Tracks: 4
PROP001
Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
GRID025
Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
Generation Dub
Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
Generation Dub-MONTHS007
Year: 2003
Tracks: 2
Generation Dub-MONTHS005
Year: 2003
Tracks: 2
SAG Members Divided Over Strike Talks
Thursday 19 June 2008
Faerghail
Artist: Faerghail
Genre(s):
Metal
Metal: Death,Black
Discography:
Where Angels Dwell No More
Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
Blood Will Follow Blood
Year: 2000
Tracks: 4
Horizon's Fall
Year: 1999
Tracks: 12
Spheric Lounge
Wednesday 11 June 2008
Katie Holmes tipped for Broadway role
Katie Holmes is being tipped for a role on Broadway.
Tom Cruise’s wife is reportedly set to make her New York stage debut this autumn, playing Ann Deever in the revival of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons.
Discussions to bring the 29-year-old former ‘Dawson’s Creek’ actress to Broadway were confirmed in March. Producer Eric Falkenstein insisted that the mother of one is perfect for the part.
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