�Fairway Medical Technologies, Inc. has received a $900,000, 3-year contract from the Department of the Navy to apply its optoacoustic engineering science to the real-time spying of blood borne pathogens and biological warfare agents under field conditions. This grant is part of a larger, $3 1000000 project light-emitting diode by Prof. Randolph Glickman, Principal Investigator from the University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHSC) at San Antonio.
The duncan Grant, entitled "Rapid identification of pathogenic agents in biological samples victimisation pulsed optical maser optoacoustic spectrographic analysis with targeted nanoparticle demarcation agents," will be carried out as a collaborative project between UTHSC, Fairway Medical Technologies and the Naval Health Research Center Detachment Directed Energy Bioeffects Laboratory at Brooks City-Base.
"This enquiry is intended to develop a rugged battlefield instrument capable of detecting chemical and biological agents such as anthrax, plague, variola major, and others with the speed, accuracy, sensitivity and reliability of analytical techniques and instruments found in the state of the art laboratory today," said Dr. Glickman.
The optoacoustic biosensor tests samples of blood plasma or other liquids by exploitation monoclonal antibodies (MAB) targeted to specific pathogens. "Elongated gold nanoparticles designed to strongly absorb near-infrared optical maser pulses commode be conjugate to each type of MAB to create a specificity mechanism that will signal the presence of targeted pathogens," explained Dr. Alexander Oraevsky, VP of Research and Development at Fairway and an inventor of this nano-biosensor. "When the nanoparticles produce an acoustic response to laser pulses, the presence and concentration of the pathogens is established." Unique ultrawide-band transducers developed by Fairway for medical imaging and other analytic optoacoustic systems fit the signal acquisition needs of this application, he added.
"This is an crucial continuation of Fairway's stream government and industry-sponsored enquiry. When the R&D part of this project is over, Fairway will manufacture the devices for the Navy and other DoD customers," said Fairway president James Meador.
"Early front detection of biological threats using this kind of rugged field of honor system will provide critical information that can keep Navy sailors and lives of other US military personnel, as well as support quick, well-informed command decision-making," commented Norman Barsalou, project co-investigator from the Navy Bioeffects lab. "We are proud that this collaboration betwixt the UT Health Science Center San Antonio, the Naval Health Research Center Detachment at Brooks and Fairway Medical Technologies pot move this important knead ahead."
About Fairway
Privately held Fairway, which has more than doubled its manufacturing and research capacity in the past 24 months, develops and commercializes products based on proprietorship or licenced technologies, and provides constrict development and manufacturing services for outside clients. A portfolio company of BCM Technologies, the venture working capital subsidiary of Baylor College of Medicine, Fairway has close relationships with to the highest degree of the research institutions located in the Texas Medical Center, and has successfully orchestrated the pattern, development and manufacturing of scores of medical products, including FDA Class III (life encouraging) devices.
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Saturday 30 August 2008
Nashville fest taps Brian Owens
40th day of remembrance edition to be held April 16-23
Brian Owens has been named artistic theater director of the Nashville Film Festival.
The fest's next edition, marking its 40th day of remembrance, will be held April 16-23.
Owens was previously the artistic director of the Indianapolis International Film Festival, which he founded in 2003.
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Brian Owens has been named artistic theater director of the Nashville Film Festival.
The fest's next edition, marking its 40th day of remembrance, will be held April 16-23.
Owens was previously the artistic director of the Indianapolis International Film Festival, which he founded in 2003.
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Wednesday 20 August 2008
Kumar, Snoop Dogg crown 'Kinng'
Claims highest worldwide gap gross for an Indian film
NEW DELHI -- "Singh Is Kinng" made Bollywood boxoffice history over the weekend thanks to the star magnate of leads Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif and a little help from Snoop Dogg.
"Kinng," which featured a Snoop Dogg guest blame in the end credits, logged the highest-ever world-wide opening for an Indian film at $14.9 million. Indian ticket sales accounted for $11.3 million of that, according to figures from Mumbai-based distributor the Indian Film Co.
Previous record holder "Om Shanti Om" opened in December to an estimated $12.3 million worldwide.
Released on 1,800 screens -- 400 more than "Om Shanti Om" -- "Kinng" collected $3.6 million oversea, with U.S. ticket sales contributing $1.1 jillion and the U.K. $910,000.
"There is no doubt that 'Kinng' ... has galvanized the boxoffice, considering this year has not seen whatever major hits," Mumbai-based film trade analyst Taran Adarsh said Monday.
With India bearing into a long weekend for its Independence Day (Aug. 15), Adarsh added that "Kinng" should cover to do strongly.
"Kinng" producer Vipul Shah predicted that, by the end of its first week, the $12.5 million-budgeted movie would "easily surpass" the $19 million worldwide flagrant of "Om Shanti Om."
The "Kinng" bombinate gained steam last month with the release of its soundtrack on Mumbai-based label Junglee Music. The album features a first-of-its-kind collaboration on the title track betwixt Snoop Dogg, U.K.-based North Indian bhangra music trey RDB and Kumar. According to Junglee Music, the "Kinng" soundtrack has sold 500,000 units since its July 4 release.
Snoop Dogg's participation was coordinated by L.A.- and Mumbai-based promotions agency Cashmere Asia, whose chairman, Ted Chung, as well is vp A&R at Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle Records.
The success of "Kinng" comes despite opposition from Sikh community leadership for its portrayal of Sikh characters. Kumar plays Happy Singh, a comic Sikh simpleton from a village in Punjab in North India who ends up travelling to Egypt and Australia.
Shah and Kumar held meetings with Sikh leadership, who exculpated the celluloid for release Thursday Aug. 7. Some Sikh protesters tried to disrupt a screening in Amritsar metropolis in Punjab, but they were detained by police force outside the cinema.
Meanwhile, Kumar's next vent, slated for December, "Chandni Chowk To China" (earlier titled "Made In China"), also is creating buzz given it is Warner Bros.' Bollywood debut here and co-produced with ex-serviceman filmmaker Ramesh Sippy.
The Indian Film Co. is owned by Mumbai-based media pudding stone Network 18 -- whose ventures admit Viacom 18, a broadcast medium partnership with Viacom Inc. Last June, TIFC listed on London's Alternative Investment Market, where it raised $113 million.
NEW DELHI -- "Singh Is Kinng" made Bollywood boxoffice history over the weekend thanks to the star magnate of leads Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif and a little help from Snoop Dogg.
"Kinng," which featured a Snoop Dogg guest blame in the end credits, logged the highest-ever world-wide opening for an Indian film at $14.9 million. Indian ticket sales accounted for $11.3 million of that, according to figures from Mumbai-based distributor the Indian Film Co.
Previous record holder "Om Shanti Om" opened in December to an estimated $12.3 million worldwide.
Released on 1,800 screens -- 400 more than "Om Shanti Om" -- "Kinng" collected $3.6 million oversea, with U.S. ticket sales contributing $1.1 jillion and the U.K. $910,000.
"There is no doubt that 'Kinng' ... has galvanized the boxoffice, considering this year has not seen whatever major hits," Mumbai-based film trade analyst Taran Adarsh said Monday.
With India bearing into a long weekend for its Independence Day (Aug. 15), Adarsh added that "Kinng" should cover to do strongly.
"Kinng" producer Vipul Shah predicted that, by the end of its first week, the $12.5 million-budgeted movie would "easily surpass" the $19 million worldwide flagrant of "Om Shanti Om."
The "Kinng" bombinate gained steam last month with the release of its soundtrack on Mumbai-based label Junglee Music. The album features a first-of-its-kind collaboration on the title track betwixt Snoop Dogg, U.K.-based North Indian bhangra music trey RDB and Kumar. According to Junglee Music, the "Kinng" soundtrack has sold 500,000 units since its July 4 release.
Snoop Dogg's participation was coordinated by L.A.- and Mumbai-based promotions agency Cashmere Asia, whose chairman, Ted Chung, as well is vp A&R at Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle Records.
The success of "Kinng" comes despite opposition from Sikh community leadership for its portrayal of Sikh characters. Kumar plays Happy Singh, a comic Sikh simpleton from a village in Punjab in North India who ends up travelling to Egypt and Australia.
Shah and Kumar held meetings with Sikh leadership, who exculpated the celluloid for release Thursday Aug. 7. Some Sikh protesters tried to disrupt a screening in Amritsar metropolis in Punjab, but they were detained by police force outside the cinema.
Meanwhile, Kumar's next vent, slated for December, "Chandni Chowk To China" (earlier titled "Made In China"), also is creating buzz given it is Warner Bros.' Bollywood debut here and co-produced with ex-serviceman filmmaker Ramesh Sippy.
The Indian Film Co. is owned by Mumbai-based media pudding stone Network 18 -- whose ventures admit Viacom 18, a broadcast medium partnership with Viacom Inc. Last June, TIFC listed on London's Alternative Investment Market, where it raised $113 million.
Sunday 10 August 2008
A guide to NBC's sleek Olympics video player (pros and cons)
NBC's Olympics video player has a nice big screen and is pretty comfortable to use.
Wednesday 2 July 2008
Node
Artist: Node
Genre(s):
Electronic
Discography:
Node
Year: 1995
Tracks: 5
Including producers Flood and Ed Bueller with Dave Bessel and Gary Stout, Node use parallel synth instruments to recreate a authoritative '70s electronic reasoned on their self-titled 1995 album for the British label, Deviant.
Sunday 22 June 2008
Bali
Artist: Bali
Genre(s):
Folk
Discography:
Gamelan Semar Pegulingan - Gamelan of the Love God
Year: 1972
Tracks: 5
Sunday 15 June 2008
Circa Survive
Artist: Circa Survive
Genre(s):
Indie
Other
Rock
Discography:
On Letting Go
Year: 2007
Tracks: 12
The Inuit Sessions EP
Year: 2005
Tracks: 4
Juturna
Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
Philadelphia's Circa Survive was formed by former Saosin vocalist Anthony Green with guitarist Colin Frangicetto -- both of them veterans of the local emo and hardcore scenes looking to indulge in the rule-breaking freedom of the neo-progressive crusade of the mid-2000s. After Green and Frangicetto observed likeminded bandmates in minute guitar player Brendan Ekstrom, bassist Nick Beard, and drummer Steve Clifford, Circa Survive recorded their debut record album, Juturna (named after a Roman goddess), for Equal Vision Records in 2005. Lots of touring followed, including Warped Tour dates, and the album steady sold close to an impressive C,000 copies. A spotlight on the 2007 Coachella festival lED into the recent May release of Circa Survive's reexamination, On Letting Go.
Wednesday 4 June 2008
Winehouse's mother says she's recovering
Amy Winehouse's mother Janis has spoken about her daughter's Grammy success, saying that she believes the singer is on "the road to recovery".
Winehouse picked up five Grammy awards but could not attend the ceremony in Los Angeles because of visa problems. She performed at the event via satellite from London.
Speaking on 'GMTV', Janis Winehouse said: "Well, as you saw, she looks good and it's a case of she's on the road, and that's what it's about, she's on the road to recovery."
"I think it would have been too much for her because all of the travelling and flying there, I mean seeing what the Grammys was like... we could see it live from there and I thought if Amy were there, she'd be lost in it, she'd be a little girl lost in it."
Speaking about her daughter's Grammys performance, she said: "Well, it's Amy coming back, she's definitely on the way back."
The star's mother also spoke about her fears for her daughter's health before she entered rehab, saying: "She was sort of with it but not with it, and that's the thing where I think fortunately, thank goodness in our family, she's got a solid family and we're all there for her."
Winehouse picked up five Grammy awards but could not attend the ceremony in Los Angeles because of visa problems. She performed at the event via satellite from London.
Speaking on 'GMTV', Janis Winehouse said: "Well, as you saw, she looks good and it's a case of she's on the road, and that's what it's about, she's on the road to recovery."
"I think it would have been too much for her because all of the travelling and flying there, I mean seeing what the Grammys was like... we could see it live from there and I thought if Amy were there, she'd be lost in it, she'd be a little girl lost in it."
Speaking about her daughter's Grammys performance, she said: "Well, it's Amy coming back, she's definitely on the way back."
The star's mother also spoke about her fears for her daughter's health before she entered rehab, saying: "She was sort of with it but not with it, and that's the thing where I think fortunately, thank goodness in our family, she's got a solid family and we're all there for her."
Thursday 29 May 2008
Randolph recording with T-Bone Burnett
Follow-up to 2006's 'Colorblind'
CLEVELAND -- Currently on a summer jaunt opening for Eric Clapton, Robert Randolph said there are plenty of new albums and tours in his mix.
First is the follow-up release to Randolph's 2006 effort "Colorblind." However, unlike his star-studded last album, the new disc -- which is produced by T-Bone Burnett, currently untitled and due in September -- finds Randolph both figuratively and literally embracing his roots.
"We really always wanted to work with T-Bone, whose idea was just go back and try to get the roots of where we come from -- to try to do something really original that sounds good and sounds big and sounds energetic," Randolph said.
"So that's what we tried to accomplish, and by him hanging around Bob Dylan and doing the Robert Plant and Alison Krauss record, he just wanted to do something with me that people will look at as the kind of career-defining recording," he adds.
Among the new tracks already receiving stage time are the Sly & the Family Stone-esque "I'm Not Listening" and the gospel-tinged slow shuffle "I Still Belong." In addition, studio musician Doyle Bramhall contributes to the album, playing on a cover of John Lennon's "I Don't Want To Be a Soldier." The disc also features the Sacred Steel Tradition outfit from Randolph's New Jersey hometown House of God Church.
"I was able to pull in some of the older guys from my church," Randolph said. "That's where I got my pedal steel, lap steel playing from. So we kind of created this sort of 'Buena Vista Social Club' and 'O Brother, Where Art Thou' record."
Randolph, who is joining the late summer/early fall Music Builds tour with contemporary Christian artists Third Day, Switchfoot and Jars of Clay, said he's enjoying his second go around as a Clapton opener.
Not only is he jamming with Slowhand on a nightly basis, but the two have discussed once again working together in the studio. While Clapton appeared on "Colorblind" for a cover of "Jesus Is Just Alright," it appears Randolph will be paying back the favor on the next Clapton studio effort.
Randolph said, "(Clapton) told me he's going back in the studio at the end of this year and he said he wants me to come in when he starts recording his record."
CLEVELAND -- Currently on a summer jaunt opening for Eric Clapton, Robert Randolph said there are plenty of new albums and tours in his mix.
First is the follow-up release to Randolph's 2006 effort "Colorblind." However, unlike his star-studded last album, the new disc -- which is produced by T-Bone Burnett, currently untitled and due in September -- finds Randolph both figuratively and literally embracing his roots.
"We really always wanted to work with T-Bone, whose idea was just go back and try to get the roots of where we come from -- to try to do something really original that sounds good and sounds big and sounds energetic," Randolph said.
"So that's what we tried to accomplish, and by him hanging around Bob Dylan and doing the Robert Plant and Alison Krauss record, he just wanted to do something with me that people will look at as the kind of career-defining recording," he adds.
Among the new tracks already receiving stage time are the Sly & the Family Stone-esque "I'm Not Listening" and the gospel-tinged slow shuffle "I Still Belong." In addition, studio musician Doyle Bramhall contributes to the album, playing on a cover of John Lennon's "I Don't Want To Be a Soldier." The disc also features the Sacred Steel Tradition outfit from Randolph's New Jersey hometown House of God Church.
"I was able to pull in some of the older guys from my church," Randolph said. "That's where I got my pedal steel, lap steel playing from. So we kind of created this sort of 'Buena Vista Social Club' and 'O Brother, Where Art Thou' record."
Randolph, who is joining the late summer/early fall Music Builds tour with contemporary Christian artists Third Day, Switchfoot and Jars of Clay, said he's enjoying his second go around as a Clapton opener.
Not only is he jamming with Slowhand on a nightly basis, but the two have discussed once again working together in the studio. While Clapton appeared on "Colorblind" for a cover of "Jesus Is Just Alright," it appears Randolph will be paying back the favor on the next Clapton studio effort.
Randolph said, "(Clapton) told me he's going back in the studio at the end of this year and he said he wants me to come in when he starts recording his record."
Friday 23 May 2008
Oscar winner Crash becomes TV series
Oscar winner Crash becomes TV series
The Oscar-winning film 'Crash' is to become a TV serial.
The drama will be shown on the Starz network in the US this class and the film's music director, co-writer and producer, Paul Haggis, and co-writer and producer, Bobby Moresco, ar among those involved in the fresh show.
This is simply the indorsement time a movie which has south Korean won the Best Characterization Academy Award has been turned into a TV serial: 'In the Heat of the Night' was the number 1.
Commenting, Haggis said: "I'm real happy that Lionsgate [the show's co-producer] and Starz have decided to develop 'Crash' into a serial. Ironically, my initial caprice was to present the material in a initialise for television. I am thrilled it's advent wax traffic circle and can't wait to take care how it expands and transforms."
Yield on the 13-episode number 1 series is set to begin in the spring.
Haggis' fresh film, 'In the Valley of Elah', is presently in cinemas. Read the review here.
Nbc - Nbc Weinsteins Wrangle Over Project Runway
Henri Seroka
Artist: Henri Seroka
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
Nature
Year: 1999
Tracks: 15
Peace Of Mind
Year: 1998
Tracks: 13
Pink Dream 7
Year: 1997
Tracks: 6
Atlantis Myths and Legends
Year: 1996
Tracks: 10
Dancing With The Stars - Yamaguchi Appears To Ice A Win
Anna Friel joins cast of Ferrell movie
Anna Friel joins cast of Ferrell movie
Former 'Brookside' headliner Anna Friel will reportedly headliner opposite Testament Ferrell in Brad Silberling's take a chance phantasy 'Land of the Lost'.
In this feature adaption of Sid and Marty Krofft's seventies live-action kids picture, Friel will play the dear interest of Ferrell, a disgraced paleontologist wHO finds himself in a strange prehistoric cosmos.
Friel, world Health Organization was nominated for a Golden Globe for 'Pushing Daisies', will next come out in the soccer lineament 'Goal! III'.
Minogue denies Martinez romance
Baldwin & wife celebrate baby's birth
Baldwin & wife celebrate baby's birth
Thespian Daniel Baldwin and his married woman Joanne are celebrating the birth of a infant daughter.
According to Hoi polloi cartridge clip, the baby girl was born at Cedars-Sinai Medical examination Center in Los Angeles and weighed 7lbs 10oz. The couple plan to call the baby Avis Ann Stanley Baldwin.
Baldwin told the magazine publisher: "Thank God she looks wish her mother."
His wife said: "I'm rhapsodically happy. Book of the Prophet Daniel wasn't as nervous as me. He's a little used to this sorting of thing. I'm sword lily he's got some get in this area."
This is Baldwin's fourth child, his first-class honours degree with poser and chef Joanne Smith-Baldwin, whom he married in July 2007.
Will Smith film shoot annoys Hollywood neighbors
Will Smith film shoot annoys Hollywood neighbors
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Newsman) - The entire world loves Will David Smith, only not Dresden Graham, a 65-year-old retiree world Health Organization is waging a war against Smith's latest plastic film, the drama "Seven-spot Pounds," which is shot in her Hollywood region.
The production is based scarcely troika houses up from Graham's home, where she has lived in since the mid-'80s. Trucks pedigree the street, crews ar occupy setting up and hit polish, generators hum, and security measure and constabulary officers patrol the area.
Graham flour, world Health Organization has signs in her yard and on her family that read "Will John Smith, Go Moving picture at Your Mansions" and "Put Stool Toilets on Your Neighbor's House," has a litany of complaints. She doesn't like the fume-spewing trucks parked running in front of her house, where the production has placed portable toilets. She's non that keen on the planned night shoot that will go to 3 a.m., either, because it calls for brilliantly lights, rain machines and Great Danes.
"We had no pick," she says. "The neighbourhood had no pick."
But her biggest ill is with FilmL.A., the nonprofit organization organisation that acts of the Apostles as a link for the city, its residences and cinema companies.
Martha Graham points out, accurately, that FilmL.A. gets its funding through permits -- the more it issues, the more revenue it generates. And "Pounds" is the fifth production in six-spot weeks to occupy a two-block region about her home.
FilmLA says the house where "Pounds" is motion-picture photography has been used on only iV shoots in the past times yr. It doesn't ploughshare Graham's view that the area has hosted likewise many productions.
Residents are murmur, though, even though many work in the amusement industry and were reluctant to speak out against a big headliner like Smith and a bigger studio like Columbia. They sound off around noise and the loss of parking spaces, which military group certain flat residents to mungo Park at a nearby church and take a shuttle bus to their construction.
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