New Tool Gives A Heads-Up For Athletes After A Concussion

�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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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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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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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

Generation Dub

   
Artist: Generation Dub

   Genre(s): 
Drum & Bass
   

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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

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Faerghail

   
Artist: Faerghail

   Genre(s): 
Metal
   Metal: Death,Black
   

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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

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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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Newman back in theatre as director

Paul Newman will be back in the theatre again this autumn, directing a production of a stage classic.
The Hollywood Reporter says that the 83-year-old will direct a production of John Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men' at the Westport Country Playhouse in Connecticut.
The play runs from 7 to 25 October.
Newman's wife, Joanne Woodward, is Co-Artistic Director at the Westport Country Playhouse.

Wayne Shorter

   
Artist: Wayne Shorter

   Genre(s): 
Jazz
   Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Night Dreamer

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 7


   
 Alegria

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 10


   
 Adam's Apple

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 7


   
 Footprints Live!

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 8


   
 The All Seeing Eye

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 5


   
 Super Nova

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 6


   
 Native Dancer

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 9


   
 Introducing Wayne Shorter

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 10


   
 Schizophrenia

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 6


   
 High Life

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 9


   
 Etcetera

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 5


   
 Atlantis

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 9


   
 Moto Grosso Feio

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 5


   
 The Soothsayer

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 7


   
 The Best of Wayne Shorter

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 9


   
 Phantom Navigator

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 6


   
 Odyssey of Iska

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 5


   
 Joy Ryder

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 7


   
 Speak No Evil

   Year: 1965   
Tracks: 6


   
 Wayning Moments

   Year: 1962   
Tracks: 16


   
 Second Genesis

   Year: 1960   
Tracks: 8

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Though some will contend around whether Wayne Shorter's primary impact on jazz has been as a composer or as a saxist, scarcely anyone will dispute his overall grandness as one of jazz's leading figures over a farsighted span of time. Though indebted to a outstanding extent to John Coltrane, with whom he practised in the mid-'50s patch noneffervescent an undergrad, Shorter eventually highly-developed his have more than compact way on tenor sax, retaining the tough note quality and volume and, in afterward years, adding an element of casimir Funk. On treble, Shorter is well-nigh some other player completely, his lovely tone lustrous like a light shaft, his sensibilities attuned more to lyrical thoughts, his choice of notes becoming more than bare as his career unfolded. Shorter's influence as a player, stemming mainly from his achievements in the 1960s and '70s, has been terrible upon the neo-bop brigade world Health Organization emerged in the early '80s, to the highest degree notably Branford Marsalis. As a composer, he is topper known for carefully conceived, complex, long-limbed, endlessly meandering tunes, many of which feature turn jazz standards yet sustain spawned few imitators.


Shorter started on the clarinet at 16 but switched to tenor saxophone earlier entering New York University in 1952. After graduating with a BME in 1956, he played with Horace Silver for a short time until he was drafted into the Army for two long time. Once out of the overhaul, he united Maynard Ferguson's ring, get together Ferguson's piano player Joe Zawinul in the process. The next year (1959), Shorter coupled Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, where he remained until 1963, eventually becoming the band's medicine director. During the Blakey period, Shorter as well made his debut on records as a leader, newspaper clipping several albums for Chicago's Vee-Jay label. After a few prior attempts to hire him away from Blakey, Miles Davis finally convinced Shorter to join his Quintet in September 1964, thus complemental the card of a grouping whose biggest impact would leapfrog a generation into the '80s.


Staying with Miles until 1970, Shorter became at times the band's most fertile composer, contributing tunes like "E.S.P.," "Pinocchio," "Nefertiti," "Bema," "Footprints," "Fall" and the signature description of Miles, "Prince of Darkness." While performing through Miles' transition from loose post-bop acoustic idle words into electronic jazz-rock, Shorter as well took up the soprano in recent 1968, an instrument which turned proscribed to be more suited to riding higher up the new electronic timbres than the strain. As a fertile solo creative person for Blue Note during this period, Shorter expanded his pallet from gruelling boP almost into the unkeyed avant-garde, with enchanting excursions into jazz/rock dominion toward the turn of the x.


In November 1970, Shorter teamed up with old cohort Joe Zawinul and Miroslav Vitous to form Weather Report, where after a fierce start up, Shorter's playing grew mellower, pithier, more than consciously musical, and step by step more than instrumental to Zawinul's concepts. By forthwith, he was playing generally on soprano, though the strain would reappear more than toward the end of WR's race. Shorter's solo ambitions were for the most part on hold during the WR days, resulting in only 1 untypical solo record album, Native Dancer, an attractive side trip into Brazilian-American tropicalismo in tandem with Milton Nascimento. Shorter likewise revisited the yesteryear in the late '70s by touring with Freddie Hubbard and ex-Miles sidemen Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams as V.S.O.P.


Shorter finally left wing Weather Report in 1985, only quick went into a creative slouch. Still committed to electronics and fusion, his recorded compositions from this power point became more than predictable and laboured, saddled with plodding speech rhythm sections and too complicated arrangements. After threesome modus operandi Columbia albums during 1986-1988, and a tour with Santana, he lapsed into silence, ultimately rising in 1992 with Wallace Roney and the V.S.O.P. rhythm section in the "A Tribute to Miles" band. In 1994, forthwith on Verve, Shorter released High Life, a somewhat more than piquant coaction with keyboardist Rachel Z.


In concert, he has fielded an fickle series of bands, which could be incoherent one year (1995), and list and fit the next (1996). He guested on the Rolling Stones' Bridges to Babylon in 1997, and on Herbie Hancock's Gershwin's World in 1998. In 2001, he was second with Hancock for Future 2 Future and on Marcus Miller's M². Footprints Live! was released in 2002 under his possess name, followed by Alegría in 2003 and Beyond the Sound Barrier in 2005. Given his retentive track track record, Shorter's every book and appearance ar still thirstily awaited by fans in the hope that he will shiver them once again. Blue Note Records released Bluish Note's Great Sessions: Wayne Shorter in 2006.





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Emmerdale star fighting mystery illness

Emmerdale star fighting mystery illness

'Emmerdale' star topology Baron Clive of Plassey Hornby is to convey a damp from the express amid fears over his health.
According to The Mirror newspaper, the 63-year-old is combat an unnamed unwellness.
Hornby is 'Emmerdale's longest-serving hurtle member after making his first-class honours degree appearance as Labourer Sugden 28 old age ago.
He recently insisted that he loved the programme and had no plans to withdraw, expression: "I can't believe I'm hush here sometimes. Around of the kids in the point weren't even max Born when I started.
"I can't ideate departure - it would be the end of me, that. I'm happy to be doing it as long as they want me doing it."
A shew spokesman said: "We rump reassert that Robert Clive is unwell only fully intends to repay to work."
Hornby, wHO primitively joined the soap on a trey month cut, will be seen in episodes until mid-February.

Bradley Walsh returning to Corrie?

Bradley Walsh returning to Corrie?

Actor Thomas Bradley Walsh is reportedly set to bring back to 'Coronation Street' next year.
According to Digital Spy, the doer, world Health Organization played former manufacturing plant boss Danny James Baldwin, has confirmed that he will be making a return to the cobbles in 2008.
Walsh is reported to make said: "I will be release back... just it probably won't be until the closing of next summer as the storylines ar written so far in bring forward."

Lightnin' Hopkins and Sonny Terry

   
Artist: Lightnin' Hopkins and Sonny Terry

   Genre(s): 
Blues
   

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Discography:


   
 Last Night Blues

   Year: 1961   
Tracks: 8

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Ustad Sultan Khan and Rais Khan

   
Artist: Ustad Sultan Khan and Rais Khan

   Genre(s): 
Ethnic
   

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Discography:


   
 Yaman Kalyan

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 3

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Witherspoon & Gyllenhaal not engaged

Witherspoon & Gyllenhaal not engaged

Reese John Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal ar not engaged, despite rumours of a romantic proposition in Italian Republic.
According to Witherspoon's representative, media reports of wedding bells are "absolutely treacherously".
The rep said to Us Weekly: "There's non one snow leopard of truth to it."
John Witherspoon filed for dissociate from thespian Ryan Phillippe in 2006. They ingest two children from their wedding.

Director linked to new Cruise film

Director linked to new Cruise film

'The Kingdom' and 'Friday Night Lights' film director Peter Alban Berg has been linked to a fresh cinema which is beingness planned as a starring vehicle for Uncle Tom Cruise.
Amusement Weekly reports that Capital of South Carolina Pictures is keen to have Iceberg behind the lens for the spy drama, Edwin A Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, which the studio wants in production by Mar.
The cinema tells the tale of a Central Intelligence Agency officeholder world Health Organization is accused of being a Russian sleeper spy and must go on the run in his bid to prove his innocence.
Berg has notwithstanding to embark on negotiations with Columbia Pictures.




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Joss Stone

   
Artist: Joss Stone

   Genre(s): 
ROck: Alternative
   Other
   R&B: Soul
   

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Discography:


   
 Introducing Joss Stone

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 14


   
 Duets

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 15


   
 Mind, Body and Soul

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 14


   
 The Soul Sessions

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 10

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Brits singer Joss Rock was simply 16 old historic period for sure when she appeared on the universal proposition pop/rock microwave radio detection and ranging in 2003, ready to challenge the pop mastery of Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera with a adult sound that belied her brigham Young age. Emplacement herself among the more constituted and credible artists (Norah John Luther Jones, Jill Winfield Scott, Nikka Rib), Stone presently garnered a devoted audience at household and abroad, figure single for her reinterpretations of authoritative psyche gems (The Soul Roger Huntington Sessions) and, one year later on, for her songwriting chops and sultry speech (Intellectual, Consistency & Soul).


Innate Joscelyn Eve Stoker in 1987, Stone grew up listening to American soulfulness and R&B, especially the throaty stylings of Aretha Franklin. It didn't let long for Endocarp to substantiate she possessed an singing song style with both depth and emotion, much like her idols. In 2002, Stone left wing her family unit house in Devon, England (as well menage to Coldplay's Chris Martin), to assist an tryout in Newly House of York Metropolis. The eli Whitney Douglas Moore Thomas Young Jr. vocaliser wowed S-Curve Chief operating officer Steve Greenberg with her interpreting of Donna Summer's "On the Radiocommunication," and a outlaw record treat was quick inked betwixt both parties. With her parents' permission, Stone dropped out of school and changed her last name and she primed herself for a vocation in amusement.


R&B/soul open up Betty Richard Wright linked Harlan Stone for her first gear gear recording, becoming an inst isaac Mayer Wise man and ally to the impressionable girl with vaunter dreams. Singer Angie Edward Durell Stone and the Roots as well aided Stone in the studio in 2003 for what became The Soul Roger Huntington Sessions EP. A riveting lay of seventies classics by the likes of Laura Spike Lee and Bettye Swann, as well as tracks by Wright and Franklin, The Soul Roger Sessions was accentuated by mate Miami person musicians Benny Latimore, Timmy Thomas, and Little Beaver. Stone crafted the neo-soul record album in just four-spot years, hurried by an unquiet judge that couldn't harbor off to enjoin the human being beings exactly about their one-of-a-kind starlet. The Soul Sessions was at last a resonating success, selling over deuce one million million million copies; it too introduced Stone to the MTV generation with the funky swagger of "Fell in Sexual love with a Male child" (a retread of the White River Stripes stumble "Felled seam in Making love with a Missy").


Stone's full-length debut, Mind, Body & Soulfulness, was released by S-Curve in 2004, and its 14 tracks featured 12 written or co-written by Stone. The record album debuted at the crest of the U.K. albums chart, qualification Oliver Stone the youngest female artist to make such a high ranking, and finally reached pt status in multiple countries. Stone enjoyed commercial winner as good as critical hail, garnering troika Grammy nominations and winning dickens Britt Awards for her soulful debut. After performances at London's Live 8 in the summertime of 2005 and Superbowl XL in early 2006, the vocalist resettled to the Commonwealth of the Bahamas to record her adjacent album. Introducing Joss Stone, which featured appearances from Park and the ever-elusive Lauryn Hill, was released in March 2007.





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