Barbara & other: 2008

Wednesday, 10 September 2008

Low Birth-Weight Associated With Psychiatric Problems In Children

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There appears to be a higher risk for psychiatric disturbance in the
childhood and young adult years in babies with low birth-weight, in
comparing with those of normal birth-weight, according to a report
released on September 1, 2008 in the Archives of General
Psychiatry, unitary of the JAMA/Archives
journals. This correlation appeared to be greater for children in urban
communities than those in suburbia.

Advances in medical care have allowed lower weighing newborns to
survive into childhood. According to the article: "Advances in neonatal
medicine take
raised the survivorship of low-birth-weight infants (2,500 grams [about
5.5 pounds] or less), specially very low-birth-weight infants (1,500
grams [about 3.3 pounds] or less) and highly low-birth-weight
infants (1,000 grams [2.2 pounds] or less)." Previously, studies have
shown that lower birth-weight children have an increased danger of
internalizing, externalizing, and attention problems.

To investigate this connection further in a long-run study, Kipling
M.
Bohnert, and Naomi Breslau, PhD, of Michigan State University,
East Lansing, examined 823 children in the Detroit area. Of these, 413
children came from a socially disadvantaged community of interests while 410 lived
in a middle class suburb. Each child was evaluated by mothers and
teachers at 6, 11, and 17 years old. Any psychiatric disturbances were
classified in one of three ways: externalizing (including delinquent
and aggressive behavior), internalizing (including acting indrawn or
signs of anxiety/depression), and attention (including symptoms of
ADHD, like an inability to pay attention or to follow directions).

Externalizing and internalizing problems were more likely in scurvy
birth-weight children than in normal birth-weight children in the like
community. The authors note: "An
increased risk of attention problems was associated with low birth
weight only when in the urban community of interests and was greater among very
low-birth-weight children (advisement 1,D grams or less) than heavier
low-birth-weight children (weighing 1,501 grams to 2,500 grams)." They
continue, commenting on the other exposures: "In the suburban
community, there was no increased risk
for attention problems associated with miserable birth weight. Psychiatric
outcomes of low birth weight did not vary across ages of assessments."

The authors conclude, with hopes that identification of this risk
factor could impact children's early lives. "Attention
problems at the start of schooling predict lower pedantic achievement
later, controlling for key factors that lead to academic test
dozens, which in turn predicts termination of schooling and curtailed
educational attainment," they say. "Attention problems
influence academic performance by reduction the time that students
devote to class acquisition and preparation assignments and hinder
organization and process habits."

They finally indicate a need for intervention:�"Early
interventions to improve attention skills in urban low-birth-weight
children mightiness yield better outcomes later."

Stability of Psychiatric Outcomes of Low Birth Weight: A
Longitudinal Investigation

Kipling M. Bohnert, BA; Naomi Breslau, PhD
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2008;65(9):1080-1086.
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Sunday, 31 August 2008

Men�s sexuality or terra incognita

The sexual lives of men full of lies and deception. The truth is that we hot in a patriarchal club. With some natyazhkoy, one could argue that the world ruled by hands. But when it comes to sexual urge, men suffer out on all the articles. This area of human relationships beyond them, they lav not control it. Incredible and amazing statement, is not it? Only at first glance.

Eventually, the full multi-sexual amusement industry is built on unsteady foundations of male sexual fantasies. Popular polls, issues of sex, prove that in bed, men receive much more than preference. Men typically hold more sexual satisfaction than women. So what’s the problem of male sexuality to explain?

In a nutshell, this male gender remains terra incognita, altogether unexplored phenomenon, which the court based on numerous scientific and obyvatelskih assumptions and perceptions (often erroneous). The job is that if the men themselves do not start to ask yourself simple (and difficult) questions about his own gender, this position will ne'er change for the better.

So the to the highest degree basic myths about male sexuality:

Men’s gender is the norm

Men’s sexuality for many serves as a measure of sex and a means of determining it. The problem is that everyone is confident that knows what exactly is the measuring rod of sex and cypher utruzhdaet to find themselves closer look. We should note that this notion too by recent places, and places - virgin pure. The definition of male gender, we should not bank on the appearance, growth and build, and internal criteria.

Because male sexuality is considered the norm, it will never be questioned. That is the job, because men’s gender - the same complex phenomenon, like women’s sexuality, and it stiff to be overcome.

Symptoms of male gender more recognized in society

In Western culture manifestations of male gender is much more welcome than distaff sexuality. From an former age inspire us to distinguish betwixt a man and a woman and repeat apprehend oskominu priskazku “boys have boys”, which gives young people the chance to freely explore their own sex secret, just a well-known way. This “collusion” partially removes obstacles to the development of male sexuality.

However, the phenomenon coupled and certain problems, because obstacles stimulate growth and development. We live in a smart set where the negative posture towards sex and all forms of sexual, so the absence seizure of barriers does not mean freedom and raskovannost, but only when choose the path of least resistance. As a result, manpower are non able to make informed sexual choices, they sustain to take that imposes society, and consider it the best choice.

Men’s sex is obvious, visible at first ken, means a priori

So allege when want to say that male sexuality is its fallose. This may be peerless of the most widespread and lasting misconceptions around male sexuality, moreover, the most harmful and serious. The truth is that fallos personifies male gender - no one does not indicate with that! Men’s private parts are outside, so almost men hear their own body (masturbiruyut are experiencing erection and semyaizverzhenie) is already at an early age without any aid or intervention, so that sexual arousal gives men easily.

Because workforce easily brought, considered that there is nothing in particular, and therefore absolutely necessary to know more about the phenomenon. As we cognize, Freud once said that in male sexuality is nothing extraordinary, while the nature of female sexuality has remained for him unsolvable whodunit. But there Freud was wrong. Men’s sexuality seems to us a simple, because we traktuem it as the Laity.

Men’s gender is heterosexual person in nature

Another classic myth of male sexuality, “proven” to the fact that workforce choose women - as we have already identified, subject to impose on society option. Unfortunately, modern sexology naproch ignore the great theory of Socrates and conceive that for women epicene experience - something “natural”, patch for work force - quite the contrary, as “male heterosexuals in nature”.

Of course, it is impossible to disregard the existence of homosexuals, but they are “different from other” and make up only 2 - 10% of the male population. So when we talk about the culture of male sexuality, we about always miserly heterosexual male sexuality, which in itself is evenhandedly narrow notion (here means a sexual act with vaginal insight, which precedes the minimum prelude and oral sex).

The problem is that this is non true. In fact, manpower (and pioneers experimenter by nature) ar seeking to try everything in sex, and often it is “all” simply impossible to go through with a woman. If you look closely on the sides, without work can be seen as a growth number of men seeking to enrich their sexual experience at the expense of communication with representatives of their gender, number of latent homosexual couples and homosexuals, are not yet cognisant of their choice, a variety of male gender becomes plain. The diversity of forms of male sexual demeanour does not fit into the common framework that leads us to the legitimate need to expand this framework.

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Thursday, 21 August 2008

New Study Reveals Non-Drug Model Reduces Stress In War-Traumatized Children

�Highly traumatized children surviving in war-torn Kosovo experient significant reductions in posttraumatic stress disorderliness (PTSD) when treated with a comprehensive, non-drug model developed by The Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM), according to a new study published online in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. The new study, "Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Post-War Kosovar Adolescents Using Mind-Body Skills Groups: A Randomized Controlled Trial," is the first base randomized controlled trial of any intervention with state of war traumatized children.

The study demonstrates that CMBM's mind-body techniques, including biofeedback, meditation, guided imaging and self-expression (in dustup, drawings, and movement) bring about lasting changes in levels of focus, flashbacks, nightmares and symptoms of withdrawal and numbing in adolescents living in a region of conflict.

Eighty-two Kosovo high school students participated in the study, all of whom met PTSD criteria as measured by the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire. Teachers trained in the CMBM mind-body model offered the 12-session program in small, supportive educational settings.

After participating in the three-month prospicient program, the number of students having symptoms was dramatically rock-bottom from 100% to 18%. The simplification was retained at a three-month followup. The improvement was significantly greater than a mastery group of non-participating students. CMBM's founder and theatre director, and the study's atomic number 82 author, James S. Gordon, MD, describes the approach in his new account book, Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven Stage Journey Out of Depression.

"This study provides scientific evidence for the efficacy of a example taught to almost 3,000 health and mental health professionals and educators worldwide," aforementioned Dr. Gordon. "CMBM's approach shot is educational and potently effective and can be taught and used by people of all ages on their own. We've used this small chemical group model to give tens of thousands of children and adults practical tools that help them feel better promptly, and we've taught them to use their hunch and imaging to figure out problems. Our approach is proving highly acceptable to populations which do non want to be tending medication, and have no access to a doctor or therapist."

This mind-body model is being secondhand to treat war-traumatized populations in Israel and Gaza as intimately as in post-Katrina southern Louisiana. It is as well widely used with depressed people and those with chronic sickness in the US, and has been incorporated as a stress reduction programme for students in a dozen US medical schools.

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Wednesday, 6 August 2008

Morrissey album pushed back to 2009

'Years of Refusal' is his first Polydor studio album

NEW YORK -- Originally due in September, Morrissey's next record album, "Years of Refusal," has been postponed until early 2009, according to the artist's publicizer. No extra information was given about the date change.

The 12-track "Refusal" was produced by Jerry Finn, who helmed Morrissey's 2004 album "You are the Quarry." Last month, Finn suffered a severe head hemorrhage and remains hospitalized in Los Angeles.

"Years of Refusal" will be Morrissey's first studio apartment album since signing with Polydor last year. It's the followup to 2006's "Ringleader of the Tormentors," which has sold 98,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Plans ar still in the kit and boodle for Sony BMG to reissue Morrissey's 1995 record album "Southpaw Grammar" with remastered audio, three previously unreleased tracks and new art, but no date has been sic.

Thursday, 19 June 2008

Andy Street and Mach Krys and Jo Azusa and Jerome

Artist: Andy Street and Mach Krys and Jo Azusa and Jerome

   Genre(s):
New Age

Discography:

Elements-Desert Light

Year: 2003
Tracks: 12

Spirit Of The Wind

Year: 1999
Tracks: 12

Wednesday, 11 June 2008

Pier Bucci

Artist: Pier Bucci

   Genre(s):
Electronic
   Other

Discography:

Chiloe EP CDM

Year: 2007
Tracks: 4

Hay Consuelo

Year: 2006
Tracks: 1

Familia Remix EP2 (CDS)

Year: 2006
Tracks: 3

Cinetico Andino EP

Year:
Tracks: 4

Wednesday, 4 June 2008

Wogan accuses Eurovision of racism

Terry Wogan has claimed that Andy Abraham was a victim of racism in this year's Eurovision Song Contest.

The Radio 2 DJ argued that the British entrant never had a chance of winning the competition because Eastern European nations refused to vote for a black singer.

He described Abraham's colour as the "elephant in the room", commenting: "East of the Danube, they won't be voting for a black singer any day soon."

Abraham came joint last in this year's contest, scoring only 14 points. None of the 22 Eastern European entrants voted for him.

Wogan told the Daily Telegraph that the only way Britain could win the music contest again would be if a major recording artist such as Take That, Elton John or Robbie Williams got involved.

"If the British music industry can't swing even one of our major acts to represent the country at the Eurovision, we're really wasting our time," he added.

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Saturday, 31 May 2008

Jacks Of All Trades

Artist: Jacks Of All Trades

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Superior

Year: 2002
Tracks: 13

Panic! At the Disco

Artist: Panic! At the Disco

   Genre(s):
Rock: Punk-Rock

Discography:

A Fever You Can't Sweat Out

Year: 2006
Tracks: 13

Robin Williams - Williams Thanks His Wife For Easy Divorce

Funnyman ROBIN WILLIAMS has paid tribute to his estranged wife MARSHA, thanking her for not turning their divorce battle into a messy and expensive affair.

Williams and his soon-to-be ex filed for divorce in March (08), citing irreconcilable differences.

And now the actor has gone public with his thoughts about the upcoming divorce battle.

Speaking on Ellen DeGeneres' U.S. TV talk show on Tuesday (06May08), Williams said, "I'm lucky... with someone like Marsha, and we have amazing kids and it's not a slash and burn.

"I think a lot of times divorce can be like circumcision with a weed whacker."

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Freestyle Project

Artist: Freestyle Project

   Genre(s):
Breakbeat
   Electronic

Discography:

Welcome 2 Electric City

Year: 2003
Tracks: 14

Spinning da Wheels

Year: 2001
Tracks: 18

Britney Spears to return home for Jamie Lynn’s baby shower

Britney Spears is heading home for her pregnant sister Jamie Lynn’s baby shower.
The ‘Toxic’ star is reportedly leaving Los Angeles later today to arrive in Kentwood, La., in time for tomorrow�s bash at mom Lynne Spears� house, Serenity. Britney was last seen in Kentwood in November 2006.
An insider tells Life & Style magazine: “The shower�s on Saturday at Lynne�s house.
“At first, Jamie [Britney’s dad] didn�t think it was a good idea for Brit to go. He thought it might create chaos in Kentwood, and he wasn�t sure he wanted to put Jamie Lynn � or Britney � in the middle of that.

Ifans Denies Summer Wedding To Miller

Welsh actor Rhys Ifans has denied rumors he is set to marry his fiancee Sienna Miller in a summer ceremony this year. The couple was reportedly preparing to wed in August - a year after Miller rejected his first proposal, when the Notting Hill star asked for her hand in marriage by sending her a cryptic message in Welsh, which read: "Marry The Misfit." The Factory Girl star said no for the second time when Ifans asked again at her 26th birthday party in December - but she finally agreed to marry him on his third attempt in March. Reports have since been rife that the couple is planning a low-key celebration in the coming months, but Ifans has dismissed the claims. He tells Britain's Closer magazine, "I'm not marrying Sienna this summer. I'm taking a break at the moment and just want to chill out." And, despite recent speculation of a split, Miller insists they are happier than ever: "I am in love - Rhys and I are the best of mates and life is going great."

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Banks not leaving her Top Model

American talk show host Tyra Banks has denied reports that she's quitting the hit TV show 'America's Next Top Model', which she created, produces and presents.
The retired supermodel was rumoured to be leaving the show amid speculation she was arguing with one of her fellow presenters.
According to OK! Magazine she was "...not getting along with Jay Manuel. She thinks he has become a diva. The way she sees it, it's thanks to her that he now has a makeup line, a show on Style Network and hosts Canada's version of 'Top Model'."
It was also alleged that the 34-year-old's time on 'America's Next Top Model' was "detracting" her from her "big plans" to focus on her chat show, 'The Tyra Banks Show'.
However Banks' spokesperson insists the reports are inaccurate.
The representative told Usmagazine.com: "The rumours about Tyra leaving and the fight with Jay are not true!"