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Thursday, 28 August 2008

8 Of Every 10 Spanish Adolescents Who Play A Sport Do Not Smoke, And More Than 40% Do Not Practice Any Physical Activity

�Sports and tobacco white plague are straight related, according to a study carried out by researchers of the University of Granada, the Spanish National Research Council- CSIC, the Universities of Murcia, Zaragoza and Cantabria, and the Nuestra Se�ora de la Consolaci�n School of Granada. This work has proved that those Spanish adolescents world Health Organization play a sport do not hummer usually (8 of every 10), and more than 40% of the adolescents aged betwixt 13 and 18 do not pattern any physical activity.

The article Increase of tobacco using up and reduction of the physical activeness practice level in Spanish adolescents: AVENA Study, published in the journal Nutrici�n Hospitalaria, has analysed the relationship 'tween tobacco and sports in a sample of about 3,000 students from Granada, Madrid, Murcia, Santander and Zaragoza, who were applied a questionnaire to get to know their habits on this matter.

According to this research play, with the participation of the UGR Professors Pablo Tercedor, Palma Chill�n, and Manuel Delgado, 59.2% of the adolescents ar physically active, although there are significant differences according to sex (71.1% of the boys as against 46.7% of the girls). These percentages coincide with other like studies carried out in the USA, although the results ar below those obtained in France (where 75% of men play a sport, as against 58% of women).

Girls smoke more

As regards tobacco economic consumption the appraise has revealed that 15% adolescents ar regular smokers, slightly more girls than boys. There is a clear correlativity between the practice of physical activity and tobacco plant consumption, as 80.9 per cent of the active subjects say they do not smoke, as against 71.4% of the non-active.

In the scientists' opinion, these results show the importance of adopting measures to promote the practice of physical activity and root out tobacco ingestion, as it has been proved how physical activity, diet and tobacco and alcohol ingestion are related to obesity, diabetes, coronary disease, osteoporosis and genus Cancer. Whereas the practice levels of physical activity in adolescents step-down as they get elder, tobacco consumption increase, which reveals the importance of adopting interposition strategies on both conducts.

This work has also analysed the attitudes and motivations that boost to baccy consumption among the young, such as the use of this toxic substance as a mechanism to control body weight, a method to calm down in the mouth, a curiosity or a with to feel elderly, among others.

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Monday, 18 August 2008

Researchers Examine Safety Of Internet Prescriber Service Providing Erectile Dysfunction Medications

� Online Internet shopping today offers many benefits. You privy research a product in the privateness of your own nursing home and purchase most anything by clicking a black eye. But should we be allowed to buy prescription drugs via the Internet, bypassing a traditional spot visit or conversation with a physician? In the August event of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, researchers from Utah and several colleagues compare the relative rubber of two systems -- an on-line prescribing service versus traditional physician consultation -- for patients seeking medication to treat erectile dysfunction.

Online prescribing, likewise called e-medicine prescribing, is relatively new in the United States. Patient demand for these services appears to be growing, merely the researchers acknowledge that the health care industriousness "has fitly raised serious concerns about the safety of prescribing over the Internet." In 2002, the state of Utah sign a contract with an Internet prescribing service to prescribe erectile dysfunction drugs called PDE-5 inhibitors. Erectile dysfunction (ED) is the inability of a piece to maintain a fast erection long enough to have gender.

The researchers randomly selected 1,000 patient medical records from patients quest ED intervention from Jan. 1, 2001 to Dec. 31, 2005. Half (five hundred) of these patients secondhand the on-line prescriber (the e-medicine grouping), and 500 consulted a physician (the traditional medicine group) for treatment.

Using statistical analyses, the researchers compared the safety of both approaches -- e-medicine versus traditional medicine -- in treating patients wHO have ED. The safety comparisons looked at a number of criteria, including prescription appropriateness, how often the prescribers used a diagnostic tool called the International Index of Erectile Questions (IIEQs) and the level of patient education provided by prescribers.

Evaluating both systems for these safety criteria, the researchers concluded that the e-medicine system "outperformed the traditional system in most of the safety variables tested." One area the e-medicine system appeared to stand out was patient role education. The authors noted that hundred percent of the e-medicine clients standard written maker product data, and 75.2 per centum of e-medicine clients standard tailored electronic messages. In comparison, study data showed that no medication instructions were recorded for 51.8 per centum of patients who received prescriptions via a traditional physician interview.

"Innovation, engineering and stream medical practice all broker into the outcome of this study," note the authors. "Application of an expert interview system specifically targeted to erectile disfunction along with a continuous platform for patient client-physician communications throw this fussy Internet system comparable to traditional medical practice."

The researchers recognize that additional research is needed to confirm these results. They also recommend that state of matter regulatory agencies "consider using the regulative model of oversight protections implemented by the province of Utah to licence Internet prescribing companies."

Authors include: Mark Munger, Pharm.D., and Gregory Stoddard, from the University of Utah - Salt Lake City; Allen Wenner, M.D., West Columbia's Doctor Family Medicine, Lexington, SC; John Bachman, M.D., Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.; John Jurige, M.D., University of Louisville in Kentucky; and Laura Poe and Diana Baker, Utah State Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing, Salt Lake City.

A referee journal, Mayo Clinic Proceedings publishes original articles and reviews transaction with clinical and laboratory medicine, clinical research, basic science research and clinical epidemiology. Mayo Clinic Proceedings is published monthly by Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research as part of its dedication to the medical education of physicians. The journal has been published for more than 80 days and has a circulation of cxxx,000 nationally and internationally. Articles are available on-line at hypertext transfer protocol://www.mayoclinicproceedings.com.

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Friday, 8 August 2008

Ex-Eurythmic Stewart tours again as "band leader"

LOS ANGELES () - Dave Stewart was half the musical duo Eurythmics in the 1980s, just when his partnership with singer Annie Lennox washed-out the British artist institute other outlets for his creativity.

The guitarist, singer and music manufacturer released a new album, "The Dave Stewart Songbook, Volume 1" on Tuesday and will tour with a "john Rock fabulous orchestra" later this month.

"I'm not the new big anything. I've been around for ages, and I've been doing all this stuff behind the scenes, and I want to put it in the spotlight a bit," Stewart told .

Stewart, 55, sold more than 75 meg albums with Eurythmics. He and Lennox disbanded the band in 1990 only reunited for the 1999 album "Peace."

He described his persona on "Dave Stewart Songbook" as kindred to a big band leader from the forties or fifties, bringing

Tuesday, 1 July 2008

Cyd Charisse - Cyd Charisse Dead At 86

Beloved actress/dancer CYD CHARISSE has died in a Los Angeles hospital.

The 86-year-old reportedly suffered a heart attack on Monday (16Jun08) and was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she died on Tuesday (17Jun08).

Born Tula Ellice Finklea in Texas in 1921, Charisse studied ballet in Los Angeles and performed as Siderova in the Bellet

Russes up until World War Two, when she returned to California to embark on a movie career.

She became a staple in movie musicals throughout the 1940s and 1950s, appearing alongside Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly in films like Ziegfeld Follies, The Band Wagon, Silk Stockings and Brigadoon.

She retired from dancing in the late 1950s to become a straight actress.

Charisse took her surname from her first husband Nico Charisse, who she wed in 1939. She was married to singer Tony Martin for 60 years up until her death.

The actress/dancer was presented with America's highest artistic honour, the National Medal of the Arts + Humanties, by President George W. Bush in 2006.

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Friday, 27 June 2008

Kitt Kittredge

There are as many young actors on screen in Kitt Kittredge: An American Girl, as there are luminary adults � Stanley Tucci, Joan Cusack, Wallace Shawn and Julia Ormond among them � which is appropriate since this is the film that will be competing with Wall-E for family movie dollars this summer.

Based on one of the immensely popular American Girl dolls, it�s features Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) as the title character, an inquisitive little girl whose family is suffering from the economic ravages of the Great Depression. The cast also includes movie veterans such as 12-year-old Zach Mills and freshly-minted heartthrob Max Thieriot (Jumper, Nancy Drew), as well as newcomers like Madison Davenport, all of whom suffered a whirlwind press weekend in Los Angeles recently with an entourage of mothers, minders and puppies in tow.

�My grandma grew up in the Great Depression,� Breslin tells us, �so I talked to her about that, and she told me things like they put sugar on their tongues and would drink their tea over it, and everybody was in the same situation back then, and she told me that the clothes (in the movie) looked really authentic and everything, so that was good.�

�Abby was so sweet," Davenport recalls, when asked about the movie�s Toronto shoot.

"Abigail is so nice and down to earth," agrees Mills.

"She's a professional,� Thieriot says. �She's truly like a professional. She's a great person and then she can completely become the character, and then go back to being a 12-year old kid."

Davenport changed her hair colour for her role as Ruthie, Kitt�s best friend. �I was there when she died her hair," adds Mills, who plays a boarder in the Kittredge house.

"I cut off his circulation," laughs Davenport

"I very nearly lost an arm," Mills deadpans.

For his role as a young hobo, Thieriot recalls director Patricia Rozema asking if he�d be willing to live the part a bit. �She said 'What do you think about not eating as much?' And so I literally changed my entire diet on the film, and it doesn't really look like it, but before filming started I was 160 pounds, and I went down to, like, 140. I lost 20 pounds in less than a month by just drinking juice and eating soup.�

Breslin mostly remembers working with other kids as being liberating. �It was really fun to get to work with other kids, but everybody on the movie was really nice and we had fun - me and Madison and Zach would go out every night to a mall or a movie and everything, so it was really fun.�

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Anggun

Artist: Anggun

   Genre(s):
Pop
   Rock
   Dance
   New Age

Discography:

Best of Anggun

Year: 2007
Tracks: 17

Best Of (Italian Retail)

Year: 2007
Tracks: 17

Luminescence

Year: 2005
Tracks: 15

Open Hearts

Year: 2002
Tracks: 9

Anggun

Year: 2002
Tracks: 16

Desirs Contraires

Year: 2000
Tracks: 15

Chrysalis

Year: 2000
Tracks: 14

Snow On The Sahara

Year: 1999
Tracks: 16

Au Nom De La Lune

Year: 1997
Tracks: 16

An Indonesian pop princess wHO later affected to Europe to seize the Western charts as well, Anggun was born in Jakarta and listened to native Javanese music as well as john Rock icons care Elvis Presley. She began playacting at the age of seven, and recorded her first record album just deuce years later. By the metre Anggun was 17, she had become the almost popular creative person in the country during the former '90s.

Not satisfied with her succeeder, Anggun stirred to London and by and by Paris to begin recording for a breakthrough into the European charts. With the avail of producer Erick Benzi (whose credits extend from Celine Dion to Jean-Jacque Goldman and Johnny Hallyday), the soulstress recorded the record album Snowfall on the Sahara for a 1998 waiver on Epic Records.

Ion Ludwig

Artist: Ion Ludwig

   Genre(s):
Techno
   Electronic

Discography:

The Ace EP (Vinyl)

Year: 2007
Tracks: 2

Romantics

Year: 2007
Tracks: 3

Impression Express

Year: 2007
Tracks: 5

Spielberg looks to direct film of '39 Clues'

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The DreamWorks studio on Wednesday said it has acquired movie rights to the book, Internet and card game series "The 39 Clues," with Steven Spielberg looking to direct a film version.

"The 39 Clues" is a multimedia product set to be launched in September by U.S. publisher Scholastic Corp., which is the same company that published the wildly popular "Harry Potter" books about the British boy wizard.

The new series includes 10 books, more than 350 collectible cards and an online game in which kids compete for prices by unraveling a mystery that delves into the global power behind a family named the Cahills. The first book in the series, "The Maze of Bones," was written by Rick Riordan.

"'The 39 Clues' takes creative leaps to expand the story experience from the pages of the books to multiple stages of discovery and imagination," Spielberg said in a statement. "We have the opportunity to develop this property that says 'film,' 'family,' 'fun' and 'franchise.'"

DreamWorks is currently owned by Paramount Pictures, a unit of Viacom Inc.

(Reporting by Bob Tourtellotte; editing by Steve Gorman)

Thursday, 26 June 2008

Duffy gets her Mojo

Duffy's smash hit single 'Mercy' was named Song of the Year at last night's Mojo Awards 2008.
Nominated in three categories, more than any other artist, Duffy joined fellow Mojo Honours List winners Led Zeppelin, Paul Weller, Sex Pistols, Genesis, Neil Diamond and The Specials.
The musician was beaten as 'Best Breakthrough Act' by Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner's side project The Last Shadow Puppets.
The Welsh singer-songwriter also lost out on the 'Best Album Award' to Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds for their offering 'Dig, Lazarus Dig!!!'

Talitha Mackenzie and Martin Swan

Artist: Talitha Mackenzie and Martin Swan

   Genre(s):
Ethnic

Discography:

Mouth Music

Year: 1991
Tracks: 10

Amy Winehouse rushed to hospital (+video)

LONDON - Troubled British soul singer Amy Winehouse fainted at home today and her father rushed her to hospital for tests, her publicist said."Amy was at home this afternoon when she briefly fainted. Fortunately, her manager's assistant was there to stop her falling," publicist Tracey Miller said."She quickly recovered and her father Mitch took her to hospital as a precaution. Doctors are unsure of the cause of the incident and Amy is currently undergoing tests. She may be kept in overnight for observation."The Grammy-winning singer and songwriter, 24, has publicly battled drug problems and her personal life has frequently attracted media attention.Her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, pleaded guilty this month to beating up a bar tender and conspiring to pervert the course of justice by trying to pay him not to testify.- REUTERS

Joseph Nothing

Artist: Joseph Nothing

   Genre(s):
Industrial

Discography:

Just One Fix / Spanking / LoveHate Co.

Year: 2001
Tracks: 2

Perzonal War

Clubbervision

Artist: Clubbervision

   Genre(s):
Dance

Discography:

Changing Places (Remixes)

Year: 2007
Tracks: 3

Fletcher Henderson

Artist: Fletcher Henderson

   Genre(s):
Jazz
   Blues
   Retro

Discography:

1924-1938

Year: 1938
Tracks: 22

1936-37

Year: 1937
Tracks: 9

1927-34

Year: 1934
Tracks: 16

Ken Burns Jazz

Year:
Tracks: 25

Fletcher Henderson was very important to early jazz as leader of the low gear smashing jazz vainglorious banding, as an arranger and composer in the thirties, and as a masterly endowment scout. Between 1923-1939, rather an all-star draw of summit pres Young pitch-dark jazz musicians passed through his orchestra, including trumpeters Louis Armstrong, Joe Smith, Tommy Ladnier, Rex Stewart, Bobby Stark, Cootie Williams, Red Allen, and Roy Eldridge; trombonists Charlie Green, Benny Morton, Jimmy Harrison, Sandy Williams, J.C. Higginbottham, and Dickie Wells; clarinettist Buster Bailey; tenors Coleman Hawkins (1924-1934), Ben Webster, Lester Young (whose brief stint was non recorded), and Chu Berry; altoists Benny Carter, Russell Procope, and Hilton Jefferson; bassists John Kirby and Israel Crosby; drummers Kaiser Marshall, Walter Johnson, and Sid Catlett; invitee pianist Fats Waller; and such arrangers as Don Redman, Benny Carter, Edgar Sampson, and Fletcher's jr. brother Horace Henderson. And yet, at the height of the swing geological era, Henderson's band was little-known.

John Fletcher Henderson had a degree in alchemy and maths, merely when he came to New York in 1920 with hopes of decent a chemist, the only job he could detect (due to the racial discrimination of the times) was as a sung demonstrator with the Pace-Handy music company. Harry Pace before long founded the Black Swan label, and Henderson, a various only jolly canonic pianist, became an important contributor behind the scenes, organizing bands and funding vapors vocalists. Although he started transcription as a leader in 1921, it was non until January 1924 that he set up together his first permanent bad band. Using Don Redman's innovative arrangements, he was presently at the top of his field. His early recordings (Henderson made many records during 1923-1924) tend to be both futuristic and awkward, with strong musicianship merely disconnected diction. However, after Louis Armstrong coupled up in late 1924 and Don Redman started contributing more swinging arrangements, the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra had no close competitors artistically until the move up of Duke Ellington in 1927. By then, Henderson's band (after a period at the Club Alabam) was playing regularly at the Roseland Ballroom simply, due to the bandleader organism a very deaf businessman, the all-star kit recorded comparatively little during its tip (1927-1930).

With the departure of Redman in 1927, and the end of meanwhile periods when Benny Carter and Horace Henderson wrote the bulk of the arrangements, Fletcher himself developed into a teetotum adapter by the early '30s. However, the Depression took its toll on the band, and the increased contest from other orchestras (along with some high-risk business decisions and the loss of Coleman Hawkins) resulted in Henderson breakage up the bighearted band in early 1935. Starting in 1934, he began contributing versions of his better arrangements to Benny Goodman's new orchestra (including "Queen Porter Stomp," "Sometimes I'm Happy," and "Dispirited South Camp Meeting"), and ironically Goodman's recordings were immense hits at a clock time when Fletcher Henderson's name was not known to the general world. In 1936, he set up together a young orchestra and immediately had a hit in "Saint Christopher Columbus," simply after three years he had to disband again in 1939. Henderson worked as a stave organiser for Goodman and tied played in B.G.'s Sextet for a few months (although his skills on the pianoforte never did develop a good deal). He struggled through the forties, preeminent episodic bands (including one in the mid-'40s that utilized some arrangements by the whitney Young Sun Ra). In 1950, Henderson had a fine sextuplet with Lucky Thompson, simply a stroke concluded his career and light-emitting diode to his death in 1952. Virtually all of Fletcher Henderson's recordings as a drawing card (and many ar quite exciting) are presently usable on the Classics label and in more bit-by-bit fashion domestically.