Jasmine

Inspired by the true-life tale of 11-year-old Jasmine Plummer, the first female quarterback to compete in the Pop Warner Super Bowl, The Longshots is a gentle, audience-friendly drama that's sometimes too safe for its own good. Given the edgy pedigrees of its chief architects - star-producer Ice Cube, director (and Limp Bizkit frontman) Fred Durst and writer Nick Santora (The Sopranos, Prison Break) - it's surprising the movie, despite its goal as family entertainment, doesn't exude more tension and pizazz (let's start with that generic score)

To Navy coach Cindy Timchal, it was only fitting that senior Jasmine DePompeo broke the all-time Patriot League scoring record on Saturday with an assist. "It just comes from Jas very genuinely being an unselfish player," Timchal said. DePompeo's feed to Aimee Gennaro 13:10 into the game -- one of five assists on the day for the attacker -- broke the 17-year-old record, helping stake the No. 12 Midshipmen to an early lead in a 12-6 win over visiting Colgate. It marked the seventh straight win for Navy, which improved to 14-1 (5-0 league)

On April 18, 2008, JASMINE PEARLA MAE JONES. On Wednesday, Memorial Services will beheld at Vaughn C. Greene Funeral Chapel, 4905 York Road, where the family will receive friends from 11-11:30 A.M., with services to follow. Inquiries to 410-433-7500.

The junior had a personal best in the high jump and helped the Lions 1,600-meter relay team break a school record in an Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland league indoor track meet last week. Brown won the high jump at 5 feet, 2 1/2 inches which is the third best height in the Baltimore area this season and qualified her for the New Balance Nationals Indoor meet in New York in March. She joined teammates Morgan Ferrans, Parker Gray and Olivia Tauypen to run 1 minute, 53.35 seconds in the relay to finish second in the meet but set a new Lions record.

Jasmine Asian Bistro (2592 Quarry Lake Drive, 410-484-5170) opened a couple of weeks ago in the Shops at Quarry Lake off Greenspring Avenue. Yes, it's the same Jasmine that used to be in Towson, only it has a liquor license in its new incarnation, which it didn't when I reviewed it. The menu is a mixed bag. It's not fusion, but there are sushi and Chinese, Thai and Vietnamese dishes. These are served in a contemporary setting with handsome hard woods, pretty little light fixtures and an Oriental rug or two. Lunch and dinner are served Monday through Friday, with dinner all day on the weekends.

We're brought our jasmine plant inside. Will fertilizing make it flower? My wife loves the fragrance of the white blooms. The majority of houseplants should be fertilized when they are actively growing, that is, putting out new growth. The white-flowered species of houseplant jasmine, Jasminum officinale or poet's or Spanish jasmine, blooms from midsummer to mid-fall. Fertilizing it now will not make it change its normal life cycle. For midwinter fragrance, your wife might like Stephanotis.

Jasmine L. Gunthorpe, a community activist in Harlem Park, one of the city's poorest neighborhoods, died Tuesday of an aneurysm at University of Maryland Medical Center. She was 43 and lived in Rosemont in West Baltimore.At her death, the former welfare recipient was executive assistant at Harlem Park Revitalization Corp., where she had worked since 1995.Ms. Gunthorpe was a driving force behind Harlem Park Academy, a community-based school that was created in 1997 by the school system's New Schools Initiative.

IT'S BEEN A WEEK of sadness and joy.Jasmine, our aged, rotund retriever, passed on Tuesday. We adopted her four years ago, after her lifelong companion, Eastport yacht broker Jim Mann, left her an orphan.During the last few months of Jim's illness, Jazzy had been passed around from household to household, as her mangy skin condition and aromatic presence kept most of Jim's family and friends from appreciating her innate loveliness.Her shortcomings didn't discourage my family from giving her a home.

Last summer the space at 510 York Road was a new little Japanese steak house. This year it's a new little pan-Asian restaurant. You can appreciate the optimism and still wonder: What were they thinking? Towson has always been hard on restaurants, for reasons that totally escape me. Asian restaurants that don't have a liquor license have a strike against them from the get-go, because there are so many Asian restaurants in Towson, and so many of them do serve alcohol. The lack of convenient parking probably hurts, too. The new Jasmine can't do much about its BYOB status, but it has solved the parking problem.

On October 17, 2004; JONATHAN L., beloved son of Kim S. Smith. Also, survived by one brother Jason Smith and three sisters Jasmine, Chanelle and Kimberly Colbert. Friends may call at the Wylie Funeral Home, 638 N. Gilmore Street on Friday from 5 to 8 PM. Family will receive friends on Saturday 10:00 AM. Funeral 10:30 AM at Church of Christ in East Baltimore, 9420 Belair Road. Internment following. Inquiries at www.wyliefuneralhome.com.

As the youngest of three athletic sisters, Jasmine Hill picked up a lot of pointers along the way to her stellar high school basketball career. Her first two seasons at Oakland Mills, she played with Nicole, now 19 and playing at East Stroudsburg, while Vanessa, 22, graduated before she arrived. She started playing in the Columbia Basketball Association recreation league at 5. Voted the Howard County Player of the Year last season by the coaches, Hill scored her 1,000 t h career point in December.

Each week, The Baltimore Sun will publish a Q&A with an area college lacrosse player or coach to get you more acquainted with him or her. Today's guest is Navy sophomore attacker Jasmine DePompeo, the Patriot League Offensive Player of the Year. The Long Island, N.Y., native leads the league champion Midshipmen into Saturday's NCAA tournament game at No. 1 Maryland with 56 goals and a single-season schoo- record 42 assists. How did lacrosse play into your decision to attend the Naval Academy?

There might be a day, perhaps even this season, when the Maryland women's basketball team can withstand the severe demands of playing one of the country's finest teams in an uncommonly hostile environment and emerge a winner. Until then, the 14th-ranked Terrapins must settle for nights such as these, when a 71-64 loss to No. 3 Duke on Thursday revealed both the possibilities and pitfalls associated with such a youthful group. In the Atlantic Coast Conference opener for both schools before an announced 5,214 at Cameron Indoor Stadium, Maryland looked every bit the match for its adversary through 37-plus minutes, when it led, 60-58.

When Jasmine Cadavid's parents took her to the emergency room near their Abingdon home nearly two weeks ago, the normally playful 2-year-old was lethargic, feverish and struggling to breathe. She not only had swine flu, but her right lung was so filled with fluid from pneumonia that it was getting no air. Soon she was headed to an intensive-care unit at the University of Maryland Hospital for Children, where doctors scrambled to halt the damage; she's still in the hospital, recovering, today.

We're brought our jasmine plant inside. Will fertilizing make it flower? My wife loves the fragrance of the white blooms. The majority of houseplants should be fertilized when they are actively growing, that is, putting out new growth. The white-flowered species of houseplant jasmine, Jasminum officinale or poet's or Spanish jasmine, blooms from midsummer to mid-fall. Fertilizing it now will not make it change its normal life cycle. For midwinter fragrance, your wife might like Stephanotis.

Inspired by the true-life tale of 11-year-old Jasmine Plummer, the first female quarterback to compete in the Pop Warner Super Bowl, The Longshots is a gentle, audience-friendly drama that's sometimes too safe for its own good. Given the edgy pedigrees of its chief architects - star-producer Ice Cube, director (and Limp Bizkit frontman) Fred Durst and writer Nick Santora (The Sopranos, Prison Break) - it's surprising the movie, despite its goal as family entertainment, doesn't exude more tension and pizazz (let's start with that generic score)

"I read Disney's 'Aladdin' and he had a monkey named Abu. Aladdin wanted to marry Jasmine and Jafar wanted to marry her, too. Aladdin broke Jafar's staff and made him become a genie. Aladdin got to marry Jasmine. Aladdin freed his genie and they lived happily ever after."-- Ricky RuszinOur Lady of Hope/St. Luke's School"'The Cat in the Cage and Other Great Stories for Kids' by Jerry D. Thomas is a collection of stories. One of my favorite stories in this book is 'Cat in a Cage' when the little girl was going to get food for her bird.

Scientists have discovered a variety of commonly consumed herbs and spices contain high amounts of health-promoting antioxidants that relieve inflammation and ward off heart disease and some types of cancer. The McCormick Web site is already busy getting the word out: One teaspoon of curry powder contains nearly the same amount of antioxidants as 1/2 cup of red grapes. This recipe for Curried Chicken With Jasmine Rice is a delicious way to add this blend of pungent spices to the American diet.

On April 20, 2008,ALBERT RITCHIE of Edgewater, MD. Beloved husband of the late Helen Toft. Loving father of Stephen R., and Michael J. Toft. Dear brother of Vernon Toft, Jessie Hughes, Cutesy Flegal and Millie Grason. Also survived by two grandchildren. Preceded in death by his parents, Grover and Jasmine Herndon Toft. Friends may call on Wednesday, April 23, 2008, from 5-7 P.M., at the Hardesty Funeral Home, P.A., 12 Ridgely Avenue, Annapolis, MD. Funeral services will begin at 7 P.M. Interment private.