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Examining encephalon scans interpreted at various times of the year, scientists
have discovered that serotonin transporter activities, which help
regularize the neurotransmitter seratonin, variegate according to the season.
According to the article, released on September 1, 2008 in Archives
of General Psychiatry, one of the
JAMA/Archives journals, this regular variance could potentially lead to
explanations of seasonal affective disorder and it's mood swings.
The authors explain seasonality as it relates to mood: "It is a
common experience in temperate zones that individuals palpate happier and
more industrious on undimmed and sunny days and many go through a reject
in modality and vigor during the dark winter season." It has been
suggested that this is related to serotonin levels in the brain, as
this neurotransmitter is constitutional to functions such as mating, eating,
balance of energy, and sleep. The serotonin transporter binds to
serotonin, helping it exit the space between brain cells when the
communicate. This protein "is a key chemical element in
regulation intensity and spread of the 5-hydroxytryptamine signal," according to
the authors.
To investigate this relationship, Nicole
Praschak-Rieder, M.D., and Matthaeus Willeit, M.D., of the Centre for
Addiction and Mental Health and the University of Toronto, Ontario,
Canada, and colleagues examined 88 healthy adults, with an average eld
of 33 years, between 1999 and 2003. One�positron emission
imaging (PET) scan was performed on each subject to assess the
potential binding of serotonin transporter exploitation a measuring rod of denseness
of the transporter. If this economic value is higher, serotonin circulates less
in the psyche. the private scans were grouped according to the season
taken, into either fall and winter or spring and summer.
In the fall and wintertime scans, the measured value was higher. The
authors sum up: "Serotonin
transporter binding potential values were significantly higher in all
investigated brain regions in individuals investigated in the fall and
wintertime compared with those investigated in the spring and summer."
Matching the scans to meteorological data, higher values generally
occurred when fewer hours of sunlight were available in the day.
The authors note that this correlation coefficient may consume some comportment on mood:
"An
implication of greater serotonin car transporter binding in winter is that
this may ease extracellular 5-hydroxytryptamine loss during winter, leading
to lour mood," they say. They continue, "Higher regional serotonin
transporter ski binding potential values in fall and winter may explain
hyposerotonergic [related to to low-toned serotonin levels] symptoms, such as
deficiency of zip, fatigue, overeating and increased duration of sleep
during the non-white season."
In conclusion, they land, the implications of such results could be
very important for an sympathy of Seasonal Affective Disorder and
other related diseases: "These findings have authoritative
implications for understanding seasonal mood change in healthy
individuals, vulnerability to seasonal affective disorder and the
relationship of light exposure to mood... This offers a
possible explanation for the regular reoccurrence of depressive
episodes in fall and winter in some vulnerable individuals."
Seasonal Variation in Human Brain Serotonin Transporter Binding
Nicole Praschak-Rieder, MD; Matthaeus Willeit, MD; Alan A. Wilson, PhD;
Sylvain Houle, MD, PhD; Jeffrey H. Meyer, MD, PhD
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2008;65(9):1072-1078.
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Thursday 7 August 2008
Vinnie Jones - Jones Thought Hed Die In Earthquake
Tough guy actor VINNIE JONES feared he would lose his life in the temblor that struck Los Angeles on Tuesday (29Jul08).
The British association football star-turned-actor was busy promoting his modern movie Hell Ride on the 14th storey of a Hollywood building when the 5.4-magnitude tremor hit.
And the Snatch star thought he had met his
Tuesday 1 July 2008
Dixie Chick Won't Beat Around the Bush
If there's one thing Natalie Maines is good for -- other than playing a mean six-string -- it's bashing President Bush every chance she gets.
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Wednesday 25 June 2008
Lily Allen Posts BNP-Inspired Song Online
Lily Allen has posted a new track on MySpace which she originally wrote about the BNP (British National Party).
An edited version of the song, named 'Guess Who Batman?', can be heard here now and is expected to appear as a full version on Allen's second album - currently being recorded in Los Angeles.
The singer posted the following message about 'Guess Who Batman?': "This song is not a direct attack at anyone, it was origianally written about the BNP in the UK but then I felt this issue has become relevant pretty much everywhere."
"We are the youth , we can make coolness for our future, it's up to us. Go green and hate hate." The message concluded.
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Wednesday 11 June 2008
Harry James
Artist: Harry James
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
Jazz Masters 55
Year: 1996
Tracks: 16
Harry James - Greatest Hits
Year: 1994
Tracks: 16
Wild About Harry
Year: 1958
Tracks: 10
Swingin' With Harry James
Year:
Tracks: 18
Harry James was one of the most outstanding instrumentalists of the swing era, employing a bravura playing style that made his trumpet ferment at once identifiable. He was besides one of the well-nigh popular bandleaders of the first half of the forties, and he continued to lead his band until just before his death, 40 days later. James was the child of circus performers. His father, Everette Robert James, was the bandleader and trumpet participant in the orchestra for the Mighty Haag Circus, and his female parent, Maybelle Stewart Clark James, was an aerialist. Growing up in the carnival, James became a performing artist himself as early as the age of four-spot, when he began functional as a contortionist. He before long off to music, however, first base playing the snare drum in the stripe from virtually the age of six and pickings trumpet lessons from his father-God. At 12, he took over leadership of the arcsecond set in the Christy Brothers Circus, for which his class was then on the job. He attended grade school in Beaumont, TX, where the carnival fatigued the wintertime, and when he was 14 he north Korean won a nation music contest as a cornetist. That divine him to turn professional and begin playing in local bands. James' offset caper with a national set came in 1935 when he was chartered by Ben Pollack. In May 1935, he married singer Louise Tobin, with whom he had deuce children and from whom he was divorced in June 1943. He made his first gear recordings as a fellow member of the Pollack band in September 1936. Not long after, he was tapped by Benny Goodman, then ahead ane of the country's near popular bands, and he began working for Goodman by the end of 1936. He apace gained poster in the Goodman band, and by December 1937 he had begun to seduce recordings under his have nominate for Brunswick Records (later absorbed by Columbia Records). In early 1939, he left field Goodman and launched his own orchestra, premiering it in Philadelphia in February. That natural spring, he heard the then-unknown Frank Sinatra on a wireless pass around and hired him. The band struggled, however, and when the more successful bandleader Tommy Dorsey made Sinatra an proffer at the ending of 1939, James did non stand in his way. Around the same time, he was dropped by Columbia and switched to the flyspeck Varsity Records label. After deuce days of difficulties in maintaining his band, James changed melodious direction in early 1941. He added strings and off to a sweeter, more melodic style, meanwhile re-signing to Columbia Records. The results were non long in coming. In April 1941, he offset reached the Top Ten with the self-written instrumental "Music Makers." (His band was sometimes billed as Harry James and His Music Makers.) A second Top Ten hit, "Elegy to Love," featuring Dick Haymes on vocals, followed in August, and late in the class James reached the Top Five with an instrumental discussion of the 1913 song dynasty "You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)." This was the record that established him as a principal. But with its sweet style and what was oft described as James' "drippy" trumpet performing, it was also, according to jazz critic Dan Morgenstern (as quoted in the 1999 life history Trumpet Blues: The Life of Harry James by Peter J. Levinson), "the record that the jazz critics never forgave Harry for recording." James was second only to Glenn Miller as the nearly successful recording artist of 1942. During the year, seven-spot of his recordings peaked in the Top Ten: the Top Five "I Don't Want to Walk Without You," with vocals by Helen Forrest; the number one instrumental "Sleepy-eyed Lagoon"; the Top Five "One Dozen Roses," with vocals by Jimmy Saunders; the Top Five instrumental "Rigorously Instrumental"; "He's My Guy"; the Top Five "Mister Five by Five"; and "Manhattan Serenade," the terminal trey with vocals by Helen Forrest. In September, when Miller went into the armed forces and gave up his radiocommunication show, Chesterfield Time, he handed it over to James, a symbolic transference of the title of top bandleader in the state. (Saint James was ineligible for military service due to a back wound.) Meanwhile, wartime journey restrictions and the recording ban called by the musicians union, which took impression in August 1942, had limited James' touring and recording activities, merely some other avenue had opened up. He began appearing in movies, starting with Syncopation in May 1942 and chronic with Private Buckaroo in June and Spring in the Rockies in November. His following hit, "I Had the Craziest Dream," with vocals by Helen Forrest, was featured in Springtime in the Rockies; it strike telephone number one and only in February 1943. The pic is besides memorable for having asterisked Betty Grable, whom James matrimonial in July 1943; they had deuce children and divorced in October 1965. "I Had the Craziest Dream" was succeeded at issue one in March 1943 by another James disc with a Helen Forrest vocal, "I've Heard That Song Before." "Velvet Moon," an instrumental, followed and did nearly as well, merely with that Columbia's stockpile of James recordings made simply ahead the start of the recording ban was virtually exhausted. The label went into its vaults and began reissuing senior James recordings. Frank Sinatra had of late emerged as a solo star, and in the leap of 1943, Columbia reissued "All or Nothing at All," a birdcall he had recorded as James' singer in 1939; the song reached the Top Five. Next, Columbia released "I Heard You Cried Last Night," a year-old recording with a Helen Forrest vocal; it besides reached the Top Five. Once again, James ranked as the second to the highest degree successful recording artist of the year, just behind Bing Crosby. Meanwhile, James was based in New York, doing his three-times-a-week radiocommunication show and appearance at major venues such as the Paramount Theatre and on the Astor Hotel Roof. He likewise appeared in the June 1943 film spillage Best Foot Forward. Decca Records settled with the musicians' unification in 1943, which gave its recording stars an advantage, but while Bing Crosby, the Andrews Sisters, and Jimmy Dorsey (all on Decca) were the meridian transcription artists of 1944, James came in quartern without always stepping into a recording studio. His instrumental "Cerise," recorded in 1942, became a Top Five gain early in the yr; "I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)," recorded in 1941 with Dick Haymes on vocals, gain turn one in June; and he had eight other chart records during the year. He also continued with his wireless show through March and had 2 films, Two Girls and a Sailor and Bathing Beauty, in release in June. The 2 odd major labels, Columbia and RCA Victor, came to terms with the musicians' conjugation in November 1944, freeing James to return to the transcription studio. This resulted in septenary Top Ten hits in 1945: the number unmatchable "I'm Beginning to See the Light"; "I Don't Care Who Knows It"; "If I Loved You"; "11:60 P.M."; the Top Five "I'll Buy That Dream"; "It's Been a Long, Long Time"; and "Waitin' for the Train to Come In." "If I Loved You" had vocals by Buddy DiVito; all the rest had vocals by Kitty Kallen. That was sufficiency to make him the tierce almost successful recording artist of 1945, behind only Bing Crosby and Sammy Kaye. Meanwhile, he and his band became regulars on the Danny Kaye Show wireless series in January 1945, and he hosted its summertime surrogate programme from June to September. James scored 2 Top Ten hits in early 1946 -- the Top Five "I Can't Begin to Tell You," which featured a pseudonymous vocal by his married woman Betty Grable, and "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows," with a vocal by Buddy DiVito -- just then his recording success began to decline, though he managed one more Top Ten gain, "This Is Always," with Buddy DiVito on vocals, in the flow. Having appeared in a number of films, he formally signed a film contract with 20th Century Fox, resulting in larger parts in Do You Love Me?, released in May, and If I'm Lucky, verboten in September. He also took to the road for the number one time since the end of the warfare. The declining popularity of the big bands lED many to break up in December 1946, James' orchestra among them. But in January 1947, his All Time Favorites aggregation was at the top of the record album charts, indicating he was still broadly popular, and inside months he had reorganized his band, reducing the number of strings (and shortly eliminating them entirely), and pickings a more jazz-oriented plan of attack. He scored only unmatchable Top Ten gain in 1947, "Heartaches," with vocals by Marion Morgan. And he appeared in the plastic film Andrew Carnegie Hall in May. James appeared in the plastic film A Miracle Can Happen (aka On Our Merry Way) in February 1948, the same month he became a regular on the wireless show Call for Music, which ran until June. He was non much seeable in 1949, simply in February 1950, his trumpet playing was heard in the cinema Young Man with a Horn, though the man fingering the trumpet onscreen was Kirk Douglas. The Loretta Young Man with a Horn soundtrack, credited to James with Doris Day, gain turn one in May 1950. Repeating that pairing, Columbia teamed James with Day for "Would I Love You (Love life You, Love You)," which hit the charts in March 1951 and reached the Top Ten. Similar succeeder was achieved with "Castle Rock," which paired James with Frank Sinatra and reached the charts in September. Meanwhile, James had his possess TV series, The Harry James Show, which ran on a Los Angeles station for the first gear sestet months of 1951. From this pointedness on, James maintained his band as a touring unit, though he was less often glimpsed in the media. He played himself in the cinema biography The Benny Goodman Story in 1955, the same year that, having moved to Capitol Records, he released Ravage James in Hi-Fi, an album of re-recordings of his hits that reached the Top Ten in November. (The 1999 compiling Trumpet Blues: The Best of Harry James combines tracks from this album and its follow-up, More Harry James in Hi-Fi.) By like a shot, he was measuredly trying to reach his band sound like Count Basie's. He was back onscreen in November 1956 in the celluloid The Opposite Sex. He made his first gear major term of enlistment of Europe in October 1957, and in ensuing days he alternated national and outside tours with extended engagements at Las Vegas hotels. There were two more film appearances, The Big Beat (June 1958) and The Ladies Man (July 1961). James performed regularly through the early '80s. He was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer in 1983, just continued to play, fashioning his last show only when nine-spot days before his expiry at 67. Led by cygnus buccinator Art Depew, his band continued to perform. No one questioned James' talent as a jazz trumpeter, though later his commercial ascendency in 1941 many jazz critics pink-slipped him. After his period of sterling success, he turned back up to a more than jazz-oriented expressive style, which failed to change the boilers suit impression of him, if entirely because he was no thirster as much in the populace eye. Nevertheless, his swing hits stay among the most popular music of the epoch. In plus to the Columbia recordings from his flush, there are numerous former titles in his discography, notably many airchecks, though his recordings of the '50s are besides worth quest out.
Thursday 5 June 2008
Martin Scorsese - Martin Scorsese Leaves Bob Marley Movie Project
Martin Scorsese is to be replaced by Jonathan Demme as director for a Bob Marley documentary.
The authorised film about the reggae legend is set for a February 6th, 2010 release to honour the 65th anniversary of Marley's birth.
But Scorsese, who had planned to follow his recent Rolling Stones documentary Shine A Light with the Marley movie, has been forced to withdraw from the project after "scheduling conflicts".
Demme, an Oscar-winner in 1992 for The Silence of the Lambs, will now step in to direct the film, produced by Tuff Gong Pictures and Shangri-La Entertainment.
"I am thrilled and humbled by this extraordinary opportunity to participate in fashioning a motion picture that can serve as a worthy vessel for the spiritual and musical brilliance of Bob Marley," he said in a statement.
The No Woman No Cry star's son Ziggy, who is to executive produce the documentary, spoke of his excitement at Demme's involvement.
"His empathy with my father's body of work and his unique understanding of the musical documentary form makes me confident that this film will be the ultimate celebration of my father's life," he told the BBC.
As well as directing The Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia, Demme has a history of musically-themed films, having helmed the Talking Heads film Stop Making Sense and Neil Young: Heart of Gold.
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Tuesday 27 May 2008
Nicole Kidman accuses Tom Cruise of “manipulating” their children
Nicole Kidman has launched a scathing attack on ex-husband Tom Cruise — accusing the actor of “manipulating” their adopted children.
The actress, who’s expecting her first biological children with current husband Keith Urban, says Cruise — who she divorced in 2001 — has turned their adopted kids Isabella and Connor against her.
She says, “It’s a pity they have been manipulated by the father to distance themselves from me.”
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Wednesday 21 May 2008
Angelina Jolie 'Tearfully' Sells Late Mother's Home
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Friday 9 May 2008
Dozer
Artist: Dozer
Genre(s):
Rock
Other
Discography:
Through The Eyes Of Heathens
Year: 2005
Tracks: 10
Call It Conspiracy
Year: 2003
Tracks: 12
Madre De Dios
Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
One of Sweden's start and near abiding stoner stone bands, Bulldozer were formed in 1995 by singer and guitar player Frederik Nordin, lead guitar role player Tommi Holappa, drummer Erik Bäckwall, and bassist Magnus Larsson, world Health Organization would earlier long yield up to go after a martial humanistic correction life history and be replaced by Johan Rockner. Dozer hailed from the sleepy town of Borlänge, only cursorily started qualification waves on the external lapidator john Rock shot when 1998's "Hawaii Island Bungalow" was awarded "single of the calendar calendar week" honors by Kerrang! powder store newspaper publisher. Several rent releases with Monster Cleaner (1998), Domestic help Dudes (1999), and Unida (1999), addition or so other single (1998's "The Phantasma") later, and Bulldozer unleashed their twelvemonth 2000 full-length debut, In the Rear of a Comet, through up-and-coming stoner rock candy judge Man's Ruin.
Scorn being recorded for a slenderly $500, the track record landed on many critics' year-end Spinning top Ten lists, and desexualize the microscope stage for a often awaited soph drive in 2001's Madre de Dios. Regrettably, both Bulldozer and their album hide victim to Man's Ruin's practically lamented failure debacle later that yr, and a third musical theater composition, Call It Conspiracy, would cause lost in the ruffle when released by vinyl experts Molten World in 2002. The members of Bulldozer and so distinct to take approximately judgment of conviction away from touring and recording to engage line of latitude projects (nearly notably Holappa's Greenleaf), and only reconvened in early 2005 for a European circuit with Exalt and Mastodon. This bout of roadwork was enough to receive the gears turning in one case over again, though, and after facility newly drummer Daniell Liden, Bulldozer lastly topographic point to recording their one-quarter wide-cut record album, Through the Eyes of Heathens, released in early 2006 by Detroit-based Small Harlan Fiske Stone Records.
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Thursday 24 April 2008
Ron Carter and Richard Galliano
Artist: Ron Carter and Richard Galliano
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Panamanhattan
Year: 1991
Tracks: 9
Monday 21 April 2008
Thursday 17 April 2008
More awards for Oscar-tipped Atonement
More awards for Oscar-tipped Atonement
Period of time play 'Atonement' has picked up another host of awards in get along of the Oscars.
It received four prizes at the inaugural Richard Attenborough Picture Awards: Best Photographic film, Film producer of the year for director Joe Fanny Wright, Worker of the Year for James McAvoy and Screenwriter of the Class for Saint Christopher Lionel Hampton.
'Atonement' star Keira Knightley missed out on the Best Actress accolade, which went rather to Cate Blanchett for 'Elizabeth: The Golden Age'.
Surface-to-air missile James Whitcomb Riley was named Ascent Star of the Year for his find public presentation as Pleasure Division frontman Ian Curtis in 'Control'.
At the ceremony, host Richard Attenborough said: "The last yr has shown film to be both resilient and innovative, with large audiences eager to enjoy the unique histrionics experience."
He added: "It has besides brought a superb crop of terrific films with compelling performances from both experienced and freshly talents. I offer my warmest congratulation to this admirable set of winners."
'Atonement', an adaptation of Ian McEwan's bestselling novel, has been nominated for septet Oscars, including Best Scene and Best Support Actress for 13-year-old Irish actress Saoirse Ronan.
It is in contention for 14 awards at the BAFTAs, which will have place on Sunday 10 February.
10th Reggae Carifest Set for New York
10th Reggae Carifest Set for New York
Eek-a-Mouse, Groundation [ tickets ], Joseph Israel [ tickets ], Henry Lee "Scratch" Matthew Calbraith Perry [ tickets ], Midnite, Kayla, Uriel Hamilton and Meta and the Cornerstones have been confirmed for the 10th annual Reggae Carifest, a benefit concert for AIDS cognisance. The event is determine for July 6 at the UTSC King Arthur
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