Thursday 4 September 2008
Distinguishing A Bad Mood From Depression In Teenagers, From The Harvard Mental Health Letter
Although depression can occur at any age, it affects teens more than younger children. Depressive symptoms may pop appearing around age 13, and much peaks between 16 and 24. Yet depression can be unmanageable to name in lester Willis Young people, because symptoms seldom involve mode alone. One study ended that fewer than half of teenager patients suffered mainly from depressive symptoms. More often, they developed a mix of climate and behavioural problems, for example, agitation, anxiety, attention difficulties, or defiant behaviors.
Many schools have implemented screening programs to name teens at risk as well as programs to prevent depression. These programs generally cultivate staff and students around depression and suicide, furnish advice and practice in challenging negative thinking, and seek to build resiliency and problem solving skills. The most effective programs are those that are enforced consistently and on an ongoing basis.
Dr. Michael Miller, editor in chief of the Harvard Mental Health Letter, says experts have identified the following ways to distinguish mode swings from depression in adolescents:
- Severity: The more marked the symptoms (changes in mood, behaviors, feelings, thoughts), the more likely that the problem is depression and non a passing play mood.
- Duration: Any deterioration in behavior or mood that lasts deuce weeks or longer, without a fail, may betoken depression.
- Domains: Problems noticed in several areas of a teen's functioning-at home, in school, and in interactions with friends-may indicate depression.
Also in this issue:
- Helping psychiatric patients stop smoking
- Losing an adult sib
- Bright lights and dementia
- Happiness from giving money away
- Social networks and memory
The Harvard Mental Health Letter is available from Harvard Health Publications, the publication division of Harvard Medical School, for $24 per year. Subscribe at hypertext transfer protocol://www.health.harvard.edu/mental or by calling 877-649-9457 (toll-free).
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Thursday 7 August 2008
Al Di Meola and Leonid Agutin
Artist: Al Di Meola and Leonid Agutin
Genre(s):
Pop
Discography:
Cosmopolitan Life
Year: 2005
Tracks: 10
 
Friday 27 June 2008
Theory In Practice
Artist: Theory In Practice
Genre(s):
Metal: Death,Black
Discography:
Colonizing The Sun
Year: 2002
Tracks: 9
The Armageddon Theories
Year: 1999
Tracks: 8
Third Eye Function
Year: 1997
Tracks: 9
 
Hariharan
Sunday 22 June 2008
Shane MacGowan
Artist: Shane MacGowan
Genre(s):
Folk
Discography:
The Crock Of Gold
Year: 1997
Tracks: 17
The Snake
Year: 1994
Tracks: 12
A surpassing singer/songwriter and two-fisted gutter poet whose infamous sottish doings, stinky teeth and drug-fueled excesses often threatened to occult his reputation as a performer, Shane MacGowan was born on Christmas Day, 1957 in Kent, England. Within months, his home returned to their native Ireland, where he spent the first base respective eld of his life immersed in the traditional music of the Irish culture. When MacGowan was six, the family touched to London; in that location his talents as a writer gradually blossomed, and he won a number of poetry contests prior to his projection from schoolhouse at the age of 14 for ownership of drugs. In 1976, he attended his first base Sex Pistols concert, and quickly became a regular at local punk shows; he before long formed his possess band, the Nipple Erectors (renamed the Nips later on cathartic their 1978 debut single "King of the Bop"). Despite finding a mentor in the Jam's Paul Weller, the Nips were for the most part unsuccessful, and disbanded in late 1980; MacGowan so took a chore in a record storage, now and then filling in with his admirer Spider Stacy's stripe the Millwall Chainsaws.
When the Chainsaws shortly split up as well, MacGowan and Stacy formed the Pogues -- originally dubbed Pogue Mahone, Gaelic for "osculation my piece of tail" -- along with accordionist James Fearnley, bassist Cait O'Riordan, guitar player Jem Finer, and drummer Andrew Rankin. Hot-wiring traditional Irish music with the energy and passionateness of punk, the Pogues chop-chop developed into ane of the to the highest degree well-thought-of and colourful bands of their epoch, scoring a number of U.K. hits including "A Pair of Brown Eyes" and "Fairy story of New York" and recording such superb LPs as 1985's Elvis Costello-produced Rum, Sodomy and the Lash and 1988's If I Should Fall From Grace With God. However, as stories of MacGowan's voracious appetence for alcoholic drink and drugs swelled to mythological proportions, he grew increasingly undependable, often missing live performances (including a series of 1988 dates hatchway for Bob Dylan). By the fall of 1991, the other Pogues had eventually had enough, and he was dismissed from the band. As MacGowan's imbibition problem worsened, many feared for his life; apart from a 1992 duet with Nick Cave on "What a Wonderful World," he was largely silent for several years, making only the occasional bibulous concert or tv set appearance. In 1994, however, he silenced critics by pulling himself together to form a young band, the Popes; after making a fitting St. Patrick's Day debut carrying into action at a London taphouse, the mathematical group -- which likewise included guitar player Paul McGuinness, bassist Berni France, drummer Danny Pope, tenor banjoist Tom McAnimal, guitar player Kieran 'Mo' O'Hagan and whistle histrion Colm O'Maonlai -- entered the studio to commence recording their first LP, dubbed The Snake. "Haunted," a gorgeous duet with Sinead O'Connor, later became a minor hit; McGowan's followup, Lonesome Highway, appeared in 1997.
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Saturday 14 June 2008
Young Jeezy Releases Free The Prime Minister Mixtape
Young Jeezy is releasing a free mixtape today (Saturday June 14th) called 'The Prime Minister', which will be available to download as of tonight.
The mix will fill the gap before the rapper releases his awaited third studio album 'The Recession' later on this year.
Fans wanting the mix can find it at the recently launched usda2day.com site.
Young Jeezy also features on the Blood Raw debut album 'My Life The True Testimony', which is released next week (June 17th) via CTE / Def Jam. Jeezy appears on the song 'Louie'.
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Sunday 1 June 2008
Florian Meindl
Artist: Florian Meindl
Genre(s):
House
Techno
Electronic
Discography:
My Way Vinyl
Year: 2007
Tracks: 2
Moonchild
Year: 2007
Tracks: 3
Chase The Robot
Year: 2007
Tracks: 2
Weltzeituhr
Year: 2006
Tracks: 3
Sputnik EP
Year: 2006
Tracks: 3
Glitchy Katie
Year: 2006
Tracks: 4
Milk in tea
Year:
Tracks: 1
 
Saturday 24 May 2008
Aphex Twin (Caustic Window)
Artist: Aphex Twin (Caustic Window)
Genre(s):
Industrial
Electronic
Discography:
Compilation
Year: 1998
Tracks: 13
JoyRex J9 EP
Year: 1993
Tracks: 6
JoyRex J5 EP
Year: 1992
Tracks: 4
JoyRex J4 EP
Year: 1992
Tracks: 6
Saturday 10 May 2008
Riverdance
Artist: Riverdance
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
The Magic Of Ireland
Year:
Tracks: 20
 
Moebius, Plank, Neumeier
Oscar winner Crash becomes TV series
Oscar winner Crash becomes TV series
The Oscar-winning motion-picture show 'Crash' is to become a TV series.
The dramatic event will be shown on the Starz net in the US this year and the film's conductor, co-writer and producer, Paul Haggis, and co-writer and producer, Bobby Moresco, are among those involved in the new designate.
This is only if the bit fourth dimension a plastic film which has won the Best Word-painting Oscar has been turned into a TV series: 'In the Heat of the Night' was the low.
Commenting, Haggis said: "I'm very happy that Lionsgate [the show's co-producer] and Starz have decided to build up 'Crash' into a series. Ironically, my initial caprice was to salute the material in a format for television. I am thrilled it's approach full rophy and can't wait to go steady how it expands and transforms."
Production on the 13-episode first series is set to begin in the spring.
Haggis' fresh moving-picture show, 'In the Valley of Elah', is presently in cinemas. Interpret the review here.
Woven Hand
Bollywood Star Kapoor Hits Back At Skinny Claims
Bollywood Star Kapoor Hits Back At Skinny Claims
Bollywood star KAREENA KAPOOR has hit back at critics who have labelled her "too skinny" - insisting her size zero frame is the result of a healthy lifestyle.
The actress has come under fire from the country's press who have accused her of being a bad role model for young girls by flaunting her petite figure - comparing her to super-slender Victoria Beckham.
But Kapoor has denied she is attempting to fit into Western culture by slimming down and dismissed rumours of an eating disorder.
She says, "People are saying I want to be like Victoria Beckham. But honestly, I'm proud of my sculpted body.
"It's a look I needed for my new film. I do yoga religiously and I'm eating like any healthy girl, thank you."
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Lucifer's Hammer
Boozing pals lend a ’Nand
Boozing pals lend a ’Nand
FRANZ Ferdinand returned from a break in recording their third record album to
divulge funk almighty JAMIE LIDDELL, former MOLOKO star ROISIN Tater and
ascent fledgeling Mara Carlyle had entirely drunkenly added championship vocals to an
as-yet-untitled track after a boozy night come out of the closet in frederick North Jack London.
The trio struck after the album’s manufacturer DAN CAREY and
after returning to his Camden rest home studio apartment where they added their special
contribution to the Ferdinand V racetrack.
The Scottish bikers, fronted by ALEX KAPRANOS were chuffed to bits when
they heard what had occurred and will keep the impromptu coaction on
the record album when it’s released after this class.
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Lisa Marie Presley is suing newspaper
Lisa Marie Presley is suing newspaper
Isaac Bashevis Singer Lisa Marie Elvis Aron Presley is suing the Daily Chain mail over an article which alleged that she was "spile on the pounds", which forced her to declare her pregnancy.
The 40-year-old isaac Bashevis Singer, world Health Organization is the daughter of music fable Lucy in the sky with diamonds Presley, claimed that she was deeply derangement by the article.
The Mail, published by Associated Newspapers, reported shoemaker's last workweek that Presley was gaining weight.
Presley's attorney Herb Simon Smith said: "My client is deeply overturn and offended by this clause, specially as it was widely published just as she and her fellowship were meant to be celebrating her happy news program."
In a web log posting on her MySpace webpage, Elvis Aron Presley wrote: "Once they got a glimpse of my expanding build a few days ago, they take in been like a pack of coyotes circling their prey whilst eerily ululation with please."
She besides said that she was forced to "depict my card game and announce under the gun and under vicious personal attack that I am in fact pregnant".
Presley already has an 18-year-old daughter and a 15-year-old word.