Jason Donovan has proclaimed that he is to release a new album.
Let It Be Me will be the former Neighbours star's first LP in 15 years.
The record, which is inspired by music from the recent 1950s and early sixties, will strike shelves in November. It will include covers of songs including 'Blue Velvet' and 'Love Hurts', as well as a re-working of his number one hit 'Sealed With A Kiss'.
Donovan, world Health Organization has two children with wife Angela Malloch, lately appeared in axed ITV soap Echo Beach.
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Friday 5 September 2008
Sunday 17 August 2008
Public Health Clinic Study Links 'Americanization' And Depression
�A survey of 439 U.S. and Mexican-born Latinas seeking maternity and postnatal services at public wellness clinics in San Antonio uncovered elevated levels of depression among the more "Americanized" women, report researchers from The University of Texas School of Public Health and The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in the most recent online result of the Maternal and Child Health Journal.
"Americanization" or acculturation is the litigate by which immigrants espouse the life style and customs of their host country, and florida key indicators include preferred speech and lieu of birth, lead writer Marivel Davila said. Davila is a graduate pupil at the UT School of Public Health and a quantitative research analyst at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio.
Elevated levels of depression were reported by the women born in the United States, as well as those wHO asked to conduct their interviews in English. Two non-acculturation variables were associated with elevated depression - being unmarried and being pregnant.
"Screening for clinical depression during maternity is authoritative for this population group, given Latinas' high rates of fertility rate and births to individual women, peculiarly among more acculturated U.S.- born Latinas," Davila and her colleagues wrote in the article.
According to the National Center for Health Statistics, single motherhood among Latinas in Texas exceeds the national mean. In Texas in 2005, 43 percentage of all Latina births were to single women. Nationally, the overall medium was 37 percent.
"The sample for this study was a low-income universe," Davila aforesaid. "Our conclusions may or may not be different for women in other socioeconomic status (SES) groups. Hence, more research needs to be conducted among Latinas from differing SES groups, including research centering on the role of social support and cultural values/beliefs related to vaginal birth and pregnancy among Latinas."
The women were interviewed in eight family provision clinics and six antenatal clinics of the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District (SAMHD) 'tween May and August of 2003. Of the participants, 318 were born in Mexico and 121 in the United States. They were granted the choice of conducting the interview in English or Spanish.
"The higher prevalence rate of depression in Americanized Latina women is of concern in our community as the population demographics clearly indicate a significant rate of growth of this group in their childbearing geezerhood," said Fernando A. Guerra, M.D., director of wellness for the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District. "Thus, it is important to more intelligibly understand the circumstances that affect their physical and emotional wellbeing during pregnancy so that preventive measures can be initiated. This is critical for the overall health of both the mother and small fry."
Women in the sketch were percentage of the Perinatal Depression Project for Healthy Start, an opening to put up mental health services to pregnant and postpartum women by SAMHD. They were screened for depressive symptoms using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies - Depression (CES-D) Scale, a 20-item, questionnaire intentional to gauge the level of depressive symptoms over the previous week. Women with a score of 21 or greater were classified as having idealistic depressive symptoms.
"Women wHO were US-born were significantly more likely than Mexican-born women to meet the cutoff score (21 on the CES-D scale)," the authors wrote. "Women wHO conducted their interview in English were significantly more likely to express depressive symptoms compared to women who conducted their interview in Spanish."
Davila said symptoms of depression crataegus laevigata include: emotional stress, helplessness, irritability and anger. Symptoms specific to the maternity and postnatal period can include overly intense worries about the baby, and a deficiency of involvement or fear of harming the baby.
Davila's collaborators included: Stephanie L. McFall, Ph.D., an associate professor at the UT School of Public Health San Antonio Regional Campus, and Diana Cheng, M.D., of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. The UT School of Public Health San Antonio Regional Campus and the UT Health Science Center in San Antonio Department of Family and Community Medicine collaborated on the study.
The study is titled "Acculturation and Depressive Symptoms Among Pregnant and Postpartum Latinas." The Perinatal Depression Project was supported by the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health.
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
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"Americanization" or acculturation is the litigate by which immigrants espouse the life style and customs of their host country, and florida key indicators include preferred speech and lieu of birth, lead writer Marivel Davila said. Davila is a graduate pupil at the UT School of Public Health and a quantitative research analyst at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio.
Elevated levels of depression were reported by the women born in the United States, as well as those wHO asked to conduct their interviews in English. Two non-acculturation variables were associated with elevated depression - being unmarried and being pregnant.
"Screening for clinical depression during maternity is authoritative for this population group, given Latinas' high rates of fertility rate and births to individual women, peculiarly among more acculturated U.S.- born Latinas," Davila and her colleagues wrote in the article.
According to the National Center for Health Statistics, single motherhood among Latinas in Texas exceeds the national mean. In Texas in 2005, 43 percentage of all Latina births were to single women. Nationally, the overall medium was 37 percent.
"The sample for this study was a low-income universe," Davila aforesaid. "Our conclusions may or may not be different for women in other socioeconomic status (SES) groups. Hence, more research needs to be conducted among Latinas from differing SES groups, including research centering on the role of social support and cultural values/beliefs related to vaginal birth and pregnancy among Latinas."
The women were interviewed in eight family provision clinics and six antenatal clinics of the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District (SAMHD) 'tween May and August of 2003. Of the participants, 318 were born in Mexico and 121 in the United States. They were granted the choice of conducting the interview in English or Spanish.
"The higher prevalence rate of depression in Americanized Latina women is of concern in our community as the population demographics clearly indicate a significant rate of growth of this group in their childbearing geezerhood," said Fernando A. Guerra, M.D., director of wellness for the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District. "Thus, it is important to more intelligibly understand the circumstances that affect their physical and emotional wellbeing during pregnancy so that preventive measures can be initiated. This is critical for the overall health of both the mother and small fry."
Women in the sketch were percentage of the Perinatal Depression Project for Healthy Start, an opening to put up mental health services to pregnant and postpartum women by SAMHD. They were screened for depressive symptoms using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies - Depression (CES-D) Scale, a 20-item, questionnaire intentional to gauge the level of depressive symptoms over the previous week. Women with a score of 21 or greater were classified as having idealistic depressive symptoms.
"Women wHO were US-born were significantly more likely than Mexican-born women to meet the cutoff score (21 on the CES-D scale)," the authors wrote. "Women wHO conducted their interview in English were significantly more likely to express depressive symptoms compared to women who conducted their interview in Spanish."
Davila said symptoms of depression crataegus laevigata include: emotional stress, helplessness, irritability and anger. Symptoms specific to the maternity and postnatal period can include overly intense worries about the baby, and a deficiency of involvement or fear of harming the baby.
Davila's collaborators included: Stephanie L. McFall, Ph.D., an associate professor at the UT School of Public Health San Antonio Regional Campus, and Diana Cheng, M.D., of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. The UT School of Public Health San Antonio Regional Campus and the UT Health Science Center in San Antonio Department of Family and Community Medicine collaborated on the study.
The study is titled "Acculturation and Depressive Symptoms Among Pregnant and Postpartum Latinas." The Perinatal Depression Project was supported by the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health.
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
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Thursday 7 August 2008
Olsen 'seeks immunity' for Ledger questioning
Mary-Kate Olsen will not speak to federal investigators about actor Heath Ledger's death unless she is granted exemption from prosecution, a constabulary enforcement seed says.
Olsen, 22, was a friend of Ledger and the first person called by his masseuse, wHO found the 28-year-old Australian dead in his New York apartment in January from an accidental prescription drug overdose.
Olsen, best known for her role in TV series Full House, summoned private security guards, who arrived at Ledger's apartment in Manhattan's SoHo district at the same time as emergency services workers.
The US Drug Enforcement Administration is investigating the source of Ledger's drugs and medicines.
"We have asked to question her (twice) and it has not happened," the law enforcement source said.
The source aforesaid that investigators are in negotiations with Olsen's lawyers and the prosecutor's office.
Olsen lawyer Michael Miller aforesaid that, at her request, he had provided investigators with relevant information, including a chronology of the events surrounding Ledger's death.
"Mary-Kate Olsen had nothing whatever to do with the drugs found in Heath Ledger's home or his body, and she does not know where he obtained them," Miller aforesaid in a statement.
Ledger was nominated for an Oscar for his role as a queer cowboy in 2005's Brokeback Mountain.
His concluding role as the Joker in the Batman sequel The Dark Knight, released last month, is existence critically hailed with internet buzz touting him as an Oscar candidate in 2009.
Ledger has a two year old daughter, Matilda, with his Brokeback Mountain co-star Michelle Williams.
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Monday 30 June 2008
Shania Twain - Shania Speaks Out To Thank Fans
Brokenhearted SHANIA TWAIN has sent a message to her fans thanking them for their support as she attempts to get on with her life after splitting from her husband.
Music mogul Robert 'Mutt' Lange has filed for divorce after 14 years of marriage to the country queen, leaving Twain shattered.
But, in her first reaction to the split, the Canadian star has posted a heartfelt message to her fans on her website.
She writes, "I am going through a rough time personally in my life (and) I wanted you all to know that I could not be getting through this without you.
"Your letters, emails and words of encouragement give me strength. Your overwhelming support reminds me to smile, no matter how deep the pain and to always be grateful for all the beautiful blessings in my life.
"I have so much to say but I know the best way for me to speak is through my music. This is my therapy, my passion, and my love. I look forward to sharing it with all of you as I begin this new journey.
"I need some time to heal this broken heart but make no mistake; I will be back and hopefully stronger than ever. Thank you my friends, from the bottom of my heart."
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Wednesday 25 June 2008
Emiliana Torrini
Artist: Emiliana Torrini
Genre(s):
Dance
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Fisherman's Woman
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Merman
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Croucie D ou La
Year: 1995
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Singer/songwriter Emiliana Torrini composes an exquisite vocalic ravisher, interchangeable to the hums of Beth Hirsch and Kirsty Hawkshaw, fashioning Torrini's ingenuousness a fragile shake off of aglow imagery. She is of Italian and Icelandic decent, just lives in England, and her cultural seascape is ever more inviting when her soft-spoken compositions are heard. She joined forces with Tears for Fears' Roland Orzabal to make her first-class honours degree album Love in the Time of Science, which was released in fall 2000 on Virgin. Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson heard her cool, nonnatural croon and approved Torrini to voice the finis music for 2002's The Two Towers, and she followed up this cinematic achievement by cathartic the soft-spoken merely beautiful Fisherman's Woman in early 2005.
Monday 16 June 2008
Jessica Alba has baby girl: report
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Jessica Alba, who married her long-time boyfriend Cash Warren three weeks ago, has given birth to baby girl, according to US Weekly magazine.
Alba, 27, best-known for her roles in the TV drama "Dark Angel" and the movie "Fantastic Four," announced last December that she was pregnant and engaged to Warren.
Alba met Warren, 29, on the set of "Fantastic Four" in 2004 where he was a director's assistant. Warren has since moved into producing.
US Weekly said Alba gave birth to her daughter at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles over the weekend.
The couple married in a quiet ceremony at the Beverly Hills courthouse on May 19.
Reuters/Nielsen
Alba, 27, best-known for her roles in the TV drama "Dark Angel" and the movie "Fantastic Four," announced last December that she was pregnant and engaged to Warren.
Alba met Warren, 29, on the set of "Fantastic Four" in 2004 where he was a director's assistant. Warren has since moved into producing.
US Weekly said Alba gave birth to her daughter at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles over the weekend.
The couple married in a quiet ceremony at the Beverly Hills courthouse on May 19.
Reuters/Nielsen
Sunday 15 June 2008
Phil Manzanera
Artist: Phil Manzanera
Genre(s):
ROck: Alternative
Rock
Discography:
50 Minutes Later
Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
6Pm
Year: 2004
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