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Wednesday, 10 September 2008

Fall films: Bond, Bush, high school divas

LOS ANGELES �

Hollywood's heavy batsman, Harry Potter, has been sidelined for fall, with the sixth adventure about the son wizard transported from its original November release into next summer's schedule.

Good thing the season has a deep bench, with Harry's backup players including James Bond, a heartthrob vampire, those carefree kids from "High School Musical," the yammering menagerie animals from "Madagascar" and a party boy sour president.

A peep at five of fall's must-see flicks:

- "Quantum of Solace": James Bond picks up where he left off in "Casino Royale," in a revengeful mood over the demise of his great love and taking arms against a big guy trying to corner the market place on water. "It literally takes place 20 transactions after `Casino Royale' ends," says Daniel Craig, wHO returns for his second gig as Bond. "We pick the story up obviously with James Bond out for revenge, on a personal vendetta. It then gets more complicated than that."

- "Twilight": Based on the first installment in Stephenie Meyer's best-selling series, this vampire romance centers on a teen (Kristen Stewart) in a love affair with a dazzling bloodsucker (Robert Pattinson) with a just-say-no policy on feeding off humans. "He doesn't want to be a teras, he doesn't want to kill hoi polloi," says director Catherine Hardwicke. "He loves her, but if he gets likewise passionate, he will want her blood. He will want to kill her."

- "High School Musical 3: Senior Year": The Disney Channel sensation comes to the big-screen, reuniting basketball athlete Troy (Zac Efron) and brainiac Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens), along with stage rivals Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale) and Ryan (Lucas Grabeel). "The set decoration is insane and beautiful. To think, in the first flick, we only had a ladder," Tisdale says. "Everything's bigger, from details like the closet, because of how large the screen is, and the musical numbers ar so much bigger."

- "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa": Voice stars Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett Smith and David Schwimmer reunite for the farther adventures of zoo animals getting back to nature. The sequel sets up a weird romance between Schwimmer's camelopard and Pinkett Smith's river horse. "He has this crush on her and finally confesses," Schwimmer says. "He believes he's only got a short time to live and that he's come downward with this disease, so he's kind of convinced he's got to arrive up the nerve to tell her how he feels earlier he dies."

- "W.": Oliver Stone has done presidents ahead, No. 37 with "Nixon," No. 35 (or at least the aftermath of his assassination) with "JFK." But with George W. Bush (Josh Brolin), he's having a go at a electric current commander in chief. "We're telling it while he's still in office, which has never been through," says Elizabeth Banks, world Health Organization plays Laura Bush. "The Bush family is a political dynasty. In America, it's the closest thing we have to a political dynasty."

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Sunday, 31 August 2008

Trends In Prescription Medication Sharing Among Reproductive-Aged Women

�Borrowing and sharing of prescription medications is a serious medical and public health vexation. A survey of most 7,five hundred women of reproductive age found that this is common practice among more than tierce of this population, according to a report published online in advance of print in Journal of Women's Health, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. The paper is available free on-line at http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1089/jwh.2007.0769

A study intentional to trace patterns of prescription medicine borrowing and sharing among various groups of adults revealed that women of reproductive long time (18-44 days) are more likely to report this practice (36.5%) than are former aged women (19.5%). In the overall surveil of more than 25,000 women and workforce, 28.8% of women and 26.5% of men reported ever borrowing or sharing prescription medications.

In a paper entitled "Prescription Medication Borrowing and Sharing among Women of Reproductive Age," Emily Petersen, Sonja Rasmussen, Katherine Daniel, Mahsa Yazdy, and Margaret Honein, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, Atlanta, Georgia) and Oak Ridge Institute for Science & Education (Oak Ridge, Tennessee), report that allergy medications (43.8%) and pain medications (42.6%) were the types of drugs most normally borrowed or shared by reproductive-aged women.

The authors punctuate some of the risks involved in using some other person's prescription drugs, including unanticipated side of meat effects, complications of wrong use, drug-drug interactions, antibiotic drug resistance, and risk of addiction. Of great importance for reproductive-aged women is the risk of infection of teratogenic effects on a development embryo or fetus if the women were to become pregnant while pickings the medication.

"This study confirms what many health precaution providers suspect," says Susan G. Kornstein, MD, Editor-in-Chief and Executive Director of the Virginia Commonwealth University Institute for Women's Health, in Richmond, VA. "It is clear that patients need to be counseled about the potential risks of sharing and adoption medications, especially if they are women of reproductive age."

Journal of Women's Health is a core multidisciplinary journal consecrate to the diseases and conditions that hold greater risk for or ar more predominant among women, as well as diseases that present differently in women. The Journal covers the modish advances and clinical applications of new diagnostic procedures and curative protocols for the bar and management of women's healthcare issues. Journal of Women's Health is the Official Journal of the American Medical Women's Association (AMWA; http://www.amwa-doc.org/).

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers is a privately held, fully integrated media company known for establishing authorised peer-reviewed journals in many promising areas of science and biomedical research including Obesity Management, Breastfeeding Medicine, Thyroid, Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders, and Diabetes Technology and Therapeutics. Its biotechnology patronage magazine, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN), was the first in its field and is today the industry's most widely read publication worldwide. A complete lean of the firm's 60 journals, books, and newsmagazines is available at http://www.liebertpub.com/

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Source: Vicki Cohn

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News

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Thursday, 21 August 2008

Trae And Jones Refuse To Make Peace

Texas rappers TRAE and MIKE JONES have apologised for combat backstage at Monday night's (11Aug08) Ozone Awards - but non to each other.

Jones was punched and Trae was escorted from the Houston case after the fracas stony-broke out behind the point.

The fight started spell the rappers were having a conversation, and Trae threw the first punch, Jones revealed.

Both stars have since apologised for the incident - simply refuse to make public security with each other.

Jones says, "First off before I point any fingers, I personally do want to apologise for the incident that happened at the Ozone Awards. I hope you all don't get the wrong impression of me or my city.

"I apologise once again for everything that happened only I cannot apologise for having to defend myself from somebody bringing unexpected or un-called violence to me and my family at whatsoever time."

And Trae has also offered apologies to his fans.

He says, "I receive to learn the time out to apologise to the kids, and to anyone wHO follows and supports my career for what happened at the Ozone Awards.

"I told myself that I was gonna do my topper for the new earned run average of the streets non to go through the experiences that I go through in life. For a split second, I almost entertained the little girl tactics of a person who is really irrelevant nowadays.

"I would like the world to recount Mr. Jones that he can thank me later for his split second of renown."

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Monday, 11 August 2008

Cristian Varela

Artist: Cristian Varela

   Genre(s):
Techno

Discography:

Pains Remixes

Year: 2001
Tracks: 4

Channel 4 - Richard Whiteleys Ex Appalled At Vorderman Treatment

Wednesday, 6 August 2008

Brian Scott Bennet and Silvia Nakkach

Artist: Brian Scott Bennet and Silvia Nakkach

   Genre(s):
New Age

Discography:

Music Meditation Cd2 Unwind

Year: 2001
Tracks: 4

Thursday, 26 June 2008

"Three Hotels": New troupe shines with corporate marriage drama

The new troupe Our American Theatre has what's required for a fine liftoff in its first full production, "Three Hotels." A literate, provocative script by playwright-screenwriter Jon Robin Baitz. A strong lead portrayal by Todd Licea. And bargain ticket prices — as in, pay-what-you-will for every performance.

Now all the troupe needs is more of an audience for this bracing, deserving show, which runs through June 28 at Theatre Off Jackson.

A 1991 public TV drama, which Baitz adapted for the stage in 1993, "Three Hotels" gauges the moral and emotional toll on the family of Ken Hoyle (Licea), a top executive with an international baby-formula company.

We first meet Hoyle in a hotel room in Morocco, as he mixes and quaffs several stiff martinis while preparing to fire some of his co-workers.

In a caustic monologue, this sleek, globe-trotting "hatchet man" contemplates the task at hand and the devil's bargain he has made to rise in the ranks of a multinational company — one reviled by activists for its aggressive marketing of infant formula to the Third World poor. (Breast milk is not only free but much more healthful.)

One casualty could be his marriage to conscience-stricken wife Barbara (Lisa Carswell) — who later, in a Virgin Islands hotel room, reflects on their life together in her own searching monologue.

Barbara has just done her "duty" and addressed a group of other executive spouses. But haunted by grief and regret, she is far from the ideal corporate wife.

In the third scene, set in a modest inn in Mexico, Ken considers just how far the couple has traveled — and how much they have lost on the way.

Baitz knows whereof he speaks. His father was an executive of Carnation Company — a maker of baby formula, among other products — so the writer spent part of his youth abroad.

"Three Hotels" comes down squarely on the anti-corporate side, striking similar chords of moral dismay as John le Carré's later work "The Constant Gardener." It is wholly critical of Ken's choices and throws in a family tragedy for good measure.

But Baitz makes matters less cut and dried by endowing his characters with intelligence, eloquence and self-awareness. And in Licea's well-shaded performance, Ken is no cardboard villain, but a man trapped in the power and perks of a global workplace — at the price of self-loathing, and other scourges.

Like Licea, Carswell seems a few years young for her middle-age role. And her work as Barbara is a bit more tentative, without the tinge of bitterness the writing suggests.

But director Susanna Burney's cogent mounting of "Three Hotels" is a fine start for a new company dedicated to thoughtful American plays — like this one.

Misha Berson: mberson@seattletimes.com

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Monday, 16 June 2008

Joan Jett - Joan Jett To Appear In Law Order

Rocker JOAN JETT is set to make a cameo appearance in hit U.S. TV show LAW + ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT.

The singer is currently in New York to shoot the episode, in which she will play a "boss from hell" who is murdered, with her personal assistant the prime suspect, reports the New York Post.

The I Love Rock N' Roll hitmaker made her acting debut alongside Michael J. Fox in the 1987 film Light Of Day.