�One of the few studies to look at the personal effects of religious participation on the mental health of minorities suggests that for some of them, faith may really be contributive to teenaged depression.
Previous research has shown that teens who are active in religious services are depressed less oft because it provides these adolescents with social support and a sense of belonging.
But new research has found that this does not confine true for all adolescents, particularly for minorities and some females. The study found that white and African-American adolescents generally had fewer symptoms of depressive at high levels of religious participation. But for some Latino and Asian-American adolescents, attention church more often was actually touching their climate in a negative way.
Asian-American adolescents world Health Organization reported high levels of participation in their church had the highest erate levels may benefit from the social support of the religious residential area, while avoiding the patriarchal tensions experient by those who go to services weekly.
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Source: Richard Petts
Ohio State University
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Friday, 29 August 2008
New 'American Idol' Judge Kara DioGuardi Promises She'll 'Say It Like I See It' In Season Eight
As a Grammy-nominated songster, Kara DioGuardi has worked with the likes of Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, the Jonas Brothers, David Cook, Britney Spears and even Celine Dion. But as a judge on the forthcoming season of "American Idol," how will she fare with the likes of Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson and Paula Abdul? Well, she'll discover out Tuesday (August 26), when she meets up with her new co-workers for the first time during the New York round of "Idol" auditions.
In a conference call with reporters on Monday, just hours after she was announced as the reality show's fourth judge, DioGuardi admitted that she's "a little spooky" about her new gig � only that doesn't mean she's going to be a pushover.
"I'm going to be a straight shooter and say it care I see it and maintain that philosophy," she said, according to People.com. "I'm mortal who's truly honest and gives an opinion. If I feel I need to be hard, I will be. And if I feel I need to be more nurturing, I will be."
DioGuardi aforesaid she "about fell off the death chair" when the show's producers contacted her about the job, and expressed fervour about working next to Abdul, with whom she collaborated on Kylie Minogue's 2000 track "Spinning Around." Asked if she view Abdul felt up threatened by her plus, DioGuardi aforementioned that, though she hadn't spoken to her colleague, "I would think she'd be excited."
The songwriter added that she hopes to inject "a new chemistry" into the panel, but she's non entirely sure how the judges testament break ties during the auditions. While most viewers won't acknowledge her when the following season of "Idol" gets under elbow room this climax January, DioGuardi said she hopes fans will live with her.
"I'm non a household name," she said. "I'm putting some money into buying some makeup."
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Tuesday, 19 August 2008
Cheryl Cole Denies Dannii Minogue X Factor Feud
Cheryl Cole has spoken out to quash rumors of an X Factor feud betwixt herself and fellow judge Dannii Minogue.
"I wouldn't tell me and Dannii are good friends," said the 25-year-old Girls Aloud singer. "But I didn't come on the show to make friends, we ar still getting to know each other.
"At the end of the day you're sitting there doing a job."
And fans hoping to see Dannii and Cheryl sing a duet ar in for a disappointment.
Boss Simon Cowell insisted at that place was "zero" chance of that happening.
Simon has confessed he finds the X Factor tryout process "tedious".
He said, "Filming the auditions is like going to the dental practitioner without anaesthetic. It's non fun. I don't like it."
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Saturday, 9 August 2008
John Cale
Artist: John Cale
Genre(s):
Rock
Soundtrack
Rock: Punk-Rock
Discography:
Circus Live
Year: 2007
Tracks: 23
Black Acetate
Year: 2005
Tracks: 13
Fear
Year: 2004
Tracks: 9
Slow Dazzle
Year: 2003
Tracks: 10
Sabotage-Live
Year: 2002
Tracks: 9
Antartida
Year: 2000
Tracks: 20
Music for a New Society
Year: 1994
Tracks: 11
Paris 1919
Year: 1993
Tracks: 9
Church of Anthrax
Year: 1993
Tracks: 5
The Academy in Peril
Year: 1989
Tracks: 8
Caribbean Sunset
Year: 1983
Tracks: 9
Vintage Violence
Year: 1970
Tracks: 11
While John Cale is one of the nigh illustrious and, in his have way, influential immunity john Rock musicians, he is besides one of the hardest to pin low stylistically. Much has been made of his schooling in classical and new wave euphony, yet very much of what he's recorded has been unquestionably song-oriented, dovetailing close to the mainstream at times. Terming him a forefather of kindling and raw wave isn't on the nose accurate either. Those investigation his make for the first clock time under that introduce may be surprised at how consciously accessible much of his outfit is, at times approach (merely non quite attaining) a sanely "normal" rock sound. There is always a tensity between the data-based and the accessible in Cale's solo recordings, meaning that he ordinarily finds himself (non unwillingly) caught 'tween the cracks: too weird for commercial success, and however non really weird or dare sufficiency to place him among the top rank of rock's innovators.
Whatsoever assessment of Cale's solo contributions besides tends to be overshadowed by his early considerable achievements. Before launching his solo career, he was, with Lou Reed, a primary creative force behind the Velvet Underground, as bassist, viola role player, keyboardist, and occasional co-songwriter (the claim nature of his compositional contributions is soundless a matter of heated deliberate among the grouping). He was without question one of the most influential producers of pre-punk, punk, and new wafture, overseeing important recordings by the Stooges, Nico, Patti Smith, the Modern Lovers, and Squeeze. Ultimately he may be better remembered for his run in the Velvets, and as a producer, than for his possess great discography.
The boy of a Welsh coal miner (his founder) and school teacher (his mother), Cale was a child prodigy of sorts, acting an original composition on the BBC before he entered his teens. In the early '60s, he drifted toward the van, gaining a scholarship (with help from Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein) to study music in the United States. Moving to New York in 1963, he participated in an 18-hour piano reading with John Cage (pictures of Cale acting at the outcome made the New York Times). More authoritative, he became a member of LaMonte Young's minimalist corps de ballet, the Dream Syndicate, whose habit of repetitive drones would influence the arrangements of his next radical, the Velvet Underground.
Cale founded the Velvets with Reed and guitarist Sterling Morrison in the mid-'60s. John met Lou when the latter was a struggling songwriter for the stone & roll using judge Pickwick Records. He tested the rock candy waters as part of the Primitives (with Reed and fellow Dream Syndicate member Tony Conrad), world Health Organization did a few live shows to encourage a ridiculous gewgaw that Reed had written and recorded at Pickwick, "The Ostrich." What Cale and Reed shared was an ambition to bring the sensibilities of the vanguard to john Rock music.
They succeeded in doing so over the future iII days with the Velvet Underground. While Reed was the most authoritative fellow member of the ring as the leading isaac Merrit Singer and primary songwriter, Cale was but as crucial in fashioning the band's reasoned. It was Cale world Health Organization was responsible for the to the highest degree experimental elements of their number 1 2 albums, The Velvet Underground & Nico and Elwyn Brooks White Light/White Heat (1967), especially with his drone viola parts on "Genus Venus in Furs," "Heroin," and "Fatal Angel's Death Song"; his pounding piano on "I'm Waiting for the Man" and "All Tomorrow's Parties"; his unexpressive recital of "The Gift"; and the white noise organ of "Sister Ray."
Yet Cale was ousted from the stripe in an ostensible mightiness recreate by Lou Reed in the summer of 1968. Accounts static deviate as to whether he was pink-slipped and/or give up, just it's been suggested that Reed's self-importance constitute Cale's talents sinister to his leadership of the band. Sterling Morrison has said that Reed told him and Velvets drummer Maureen Tucker that if Cale didn't get out, he would leave instead; the pair off reluctantly opted to side with Reed. The Velvets would keep to make dandy music for a couple of years, just their experimental edge was considerably dulled by Cale's absence.
Cale in whatever case was shortly meddlesome producing ex-Velvets isaac Merrit Singer Nico's baroque-gothic The Marble Index (1969) and the Stooges' self-titled debut album (as well 1969). Though about as dissimilar as two projects could be, both were extremely influential (though ab initio highly low-selling) cult items that helped lay the ground for touchwood and new undulation about basketball team years later.
In 1970, Cale began his proper solo life history with one of his c. H. Best albums, Vintage Violence. Those expecting a slab of radicalism were in for a surprise; the material was the act of a subdued, accessible singer/songwriter, operative in the mould of the Band rather than the Velvets. Listeners wouldn't have to hold off long for something a bit more than free radical; his next record album, Church of Anthrax, was a collaboration with minimalist composer Terry Riley that was virtually alone instrumental.
In some respects, these deuce records defined the poles of Cale's solo career. Even at his most accessible, his music had a helen Wills Moody, even ghoulish edge that precluded practically radio airplay. Even at its most data-based, it was never as vanguard as, say, LaMonte Young. Cale would reservation his most experimental outings for collaborations with Riley, Brian Eno, and, much further down the route, Lou Reed.
On his possess, he was more concerned with crafting songs, delivered in his swinging if thin Welsh bur, and inventively ordered. It was in his arrangements that his musical training and vanguard background were nigh observable, in its eclectic method (even drafting from country-rock and edgar Guest shots from Lowell George at times) and touches of classical music. Sometimes he'd take out his viola, but loosely he focused on the more than traditional instruments of guitar and keyboards.
Cale has covered a all-inclusive territory on his solo albums without ever quite qualification his mark as a major creative person. His songs and concepts ar interesting, simply ultimately he does non take the hit traditional rock talents of someone like, say, his former rival Lou Reed. The hooks aren't that sharp, the lyrics -- often dealing with the psychological and social dilemmas of late 20th-century life, in slightly arty terms -- non as absorbing.
Toward the remnant of the recent '70s specially, his attack became harder-rocking and a bit vicious, especially in concert, where he would adopt a figure of splashy costumes and theatrical poses that verged on the confrontational (specially in a ill-famed incident in which he killed a volaille onstage). Generally he was most successful in a more than subdued and incubation mode, as on Time of origin Violence or, a great deal later, Music for a New Society (1982). His discography is so with child and variable that the two-CD career retrospective, Seducing Down the Door, might be the charles Herbert Best position to begin for those with sufficiency st to buy more than unrivalled or two Cale records.
Cale never abandoned his output activities, and indeed a few of the albums with his credits ar bound to wear as more important statements than anything he's done on his have. His sessions with Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers (from the early '70s, but non released until a few geezerhood subsequently) anticipated hood and new wave. Patti Smith's Horses (1975) was one of the charles Herbert Best and to the highest degree influential recordings of the 1970s. There were likewise other albums with Nico, and records with Squeeze, Sham 69, and others; for a couple years in the early '70s, he was even a staff manufacturer at Warners, manipulation unlikely clients like Jennifer Warnes.
After the mid-'80s, Cale slowed (only did non curtail) work on his have releases. His most high profile outings since so hold been collaborations. Wrong Way Up (1990) matched him with Brian Eno. Songs for Drella (1990), which got a lot more media ink, reunited him at long last with Reed, with whom he had feuded on and cancelled for a couple of decades; the record album was a song-cycle tribute to their latterly dead person wise man and ex-Velvet Underground coach, Andy Warhol. Well-received both on track record and in performance, it whitethorn have been one of the factors that eventually caused the pair to bury the hatchet and reform the Velvet Underground for a 1993 live European turn (and live record album). These events were non as successful with the critics; more than disturbingly, Reed and Cale were on the outs yet over again by the end of the tour, with feuds over counsel, leadership, and songwriting credits on the face of it resurfacing with a payback.
Prospects for an American Velvet Underground turn never came to realization, Cale and Reed vowing never to work out with each other over again. The death of Sterling Morrison in 1995 over whatsoever reunion hopes, although it did apparently serve to accommodate Reed and Cale, wHO played together when the Velvet Underground were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. Cale in any vitrine didn't demand Reed to keep in use (or vice versa). In the 1990s, he continued to record as a soloist and a soundtrack composer. One of his most challenging coaction was The Last Day on Earth (1994), a song cycle and theatrical production written and performed with cult singer/songwriter Bobby Neuwirth. In 1998, Cale released Nico, a tribute to his Velvet Underground bandmate.
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
Wednesday, 25 June 2008
Timbaland marries in lavish ceremony
Music producer Timbaland has married publicist Monique Idlett in lavish ceremony in Aruba.
According to People magazine, the couple, who have been dating for two-and-a-half years, married on Sunday in front of hundreds of guests.
Other reports claimed that 37-year-old producer had already married 32-year-old Idlett in a casual secret ceremony last week.
The couple have a 7-month-old baby daughter called Reign.
According to People magazine, the couple, who have been dating for two-and-a-half years, married on Sunday in front of hundreds of guests.
Other reports claimed that 37-year-old producer had already married 32-year-old Idlett in a casual secret ceremony last week.
The couple have a 7-month-old baby daughter called Reign.
Monday, 16 June 2008
BGMC does ABBA, Hub proud
Last night at Emerson’s elegant Cutler Majestic Theater, more than 150 guys revisited the catalogue of Sweden’s most profitable export in what’s being called the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus “ExtrABBAganza.”
Witnessing this show is already surreal - and then there were the glow sticks. The opening-night performance on this, the eve of Boston’s annual Pride Weekend, brimmed with spirit and enthusiasm.
And the singing was pretty damn good too.
With Chad Weirick leading off on the piano and hips gently swaying, the chorus burst into the familiar melody of “Take a Chance on Me” before letting soloist Bryan Clark steal the spotlight for a tightly enunciated “Super Trooper.”
During “Mamma Mia,” six caroling dancers ripped off their white tux shirts to reveal sequined tops. The stop-motion routine they dipped into during the tune’s chorus dripped with hilariously self-deprecating faux-macho moves.
And there were a few moments of believable drama.
The dark edge in “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)” came across with intended seriousness - the dark lighting helped - as did “Fernando,” featuring beautiful harmonies from John Buckingham and Paul Consoli.
And Bill Spera handled the peaks and valleys of “The Winner Takes It All” with becoming restraint.
Act II included a skit that loosely tied the songs together.
Some parts definitely worked better than others, but Courtney Furno’s performance as ABBA vocalist Agnetha Faltskog was particularly entertaining, and likewise, Matt Deos is a natural in drag.
Equally natural was the way the material’s inherent theatrical flair lent itself to the choral treatment.
The BGMC made “When I Kissed the Teacher” and “Does Your Mother Know” sound as if they’d been unabashedly belted from auditoriums throughout the universe for years.
And while that might not be the case, gay men have certainly been crooning ABBA tunes from the privacy of their bedrooms since the group burst on the scene in the early ’70s.
If singing is one of life’s most liberating experiences, then the BGMC more than earned its freedom last night.
Witnessing this show is already surreal - and then there were the glow sticks. The opening-night performance on this, the eve of Boston’s annual Pride Weekend, brimmed with spirit and enthusiasm.
And the singing was pretty damn good too.
With Chad Weirick leading off on the piano and hips gently swaying, the chorus burst into the familiar melody of “Take a Chance on Me” before letting soloist Bryan Clark steal the spotlight for a tightly enunciated “Super Trooper.”
During “Mamma Mia,” six caroling dancers ripped off their white tux shirts to reveal sequined tops. The stop-motion routine they dipped into during the tune’s chorus dripped with hilariously self-deprecating faux-macho moves.
And there were a few moments of believable drama.
The dark edge in “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)” came across with intended seriousness - the dark lighting helped - as did “Fernando,” featuring beautiful harmonies from John Buckingham and Paul Consoli.
And Bill Spera handled the peaks and valleys of “The Winner Takes It All” with becoming restraint.
Act II included a skit that loosely tied the songs together.
Some parts definitely worked better than others, but Courtney Furno’s performance as ABBA vocalist Agnetha Faltskog was particularly entertaining, and likewise, Matt Deos is a natural in drag.
Equally natural was the way the material’s inherent theatrical flair lent itself to the choral treatment.
The BGMC made “When I Kissed the Teacher” and “Does Your Mother Know” sound as if they’d been unabashedly belted from auditoriums throughout the universe for years.
And while that might not be the case, gay men have certainly been crooning ABBA tunes from the privacy of their bedrooms since the group burst on the scene in the early ’70s.
If singing is one of life’s most liberating experiences, then the BGMC more than earned its freedom last night.
Sunday, 1 June 2008
Dana Delany - Delany Returns To Wisteria Lane
Actress DANA DELANY has confirmed she will feature in the next series of hit TV show DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES.
Delany joined Terri Hatcher and Eva Longoria Parker for the fourth season of the ABC show last summer (Aug07).
And the 52-year-old has confirmed she will be returning to Wisteria Lane as dark housewife Katherine Mayfair for season five.
She tells Entertainment Tonight, "I'm coming back, yes.
"My whole mystery story will be wrapped up and everything will be revealed, and it's rather dramatic."
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Sunday, 18 May 2008
Meet Hadouken! and see live gig
Meet Hadouken! and see live gig
'BAND of the moment' tags are precondition out totally overly pronto - only if there's
mortal that deserves it, it's HADOUKEN!
They may rock the 'I hatred my parents teenage angst' await, just they
Monday, 5 May 2008
Pete Wentz Denies Ashlee Simpson Is Pregnant: Exclusive
Pete Wentz Denies Ashlee Simpson Is Pregnant: Exclusive
Is Ashlee Sir James Young Simpson pregnant? And, if so, is that the reason she and Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz announced their participation death week?
Well, according to a pair off of well-known chit-chat publications, the resolve to both questions is a resounding "yes."
Of course, Wentz would beg to disagree.
In an e-mail to MTV News, he denied reports that that surfaced Mon (Apr 14) on the Network sites of OK! cartridge holder and Us Weekly that he and Duchess of Windsor, 23, and Wentz, 28, ar expecting their first-class honours degree child.
"On that point is a witch hunt for people to be pregnant whenever they get engaged in Hollywood," he wrote. "This is altogether news program to me. I can't expect for the taradiddle around how I'm truly in a homophile family relationship and this is totally just now a cover. ... I entail truly, this is looney. ... I think were engaged, that's true, and happy well-nigh it."
OK! and Us Weekly both cited unnamed sources close to the couple in their stories. OK!, which reports that the baby is due in October, offered as "proof" an chronicle of Ashlee dealings with a "fierce bout of what appeared to be dayspring sickness" during a lunch at Malibu's Chart House eating place.
"Ashlee would like to walk down the gangway earlier she's screening," a source told OK! "Although she's very cute the way she's always checking come out her abdomen now and request everyone, 'Am I screening yet?' "
The reputation then goes on to articulate that the couple ar presently living in Simpson's Hollywood Hills household, merely that "they ar already talk around finding something more kid-friendly."
Us had reported that a source told them Sir James Young Simpson was pregnant presently afterward her engagement to Wentz was first announced cobbler's last week. When asked more or less the write up by MTV News, Simpson's rep replied: "Engaged."
On Mon, a spokesperson for the mates added fuel to the surmise by declining to confirm nor deny this week's rumors. "We ar thrilled to confirm their engagement and congratulate this happy couple," the rep told MTV News. "Beyond that in that location is zero to add."
Wednesday, 30 April 2008
Celebrity chef Keith Floyd collapses
Celebrity chef Keith Floyd collapses
Boob tube chef Keith Floyd has reportedly been hospitalised afterwards collapsing at his friend's gin mill.
According to reports, the chef became ill originally this workweek patch staying at The Chesters taphouse, operate by his ally Glenn Geldard.
The movement of his collapse is not nonetheless known only the chef's agent Stan Green told BBC Radio Stoke: "It's belike exhaustion. He was in hospital a yr ago with a similar charge."
"He recovered from that, so let's hope he recovers from this. We understand he's stalls," he said.
Floyd's champion Geldard said: "He is not doing very intimately. I've exactly been down to the hospital now."
The chef recently returned from a trip to Kingdom of Thailand.
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Monday, 28 April 2008
Emily Blunt to play The Wolf Man's lover
Emily Blunt to play The Wolf Man's lover
'The Beelzebub Wears Prada' actress Emily Blunt has confirmed that she's set to spiel the love stake of Benicio del Toro in 'The Wolf Man'.
The film will be directed by Mark Romanek, world Health Organization will adjust the classic Lon Chaney Jr horror plastic film from a script by 'Seven' author St. Andrew Kevin Go-cart.
Speaking to Premier at the Sundance Film Fete in Utah, Blunt expressed her enthusiasm for the project.
"I don't really dearest horror, but I love those two guys [Sign Romanek and Benicio del Toro] and that's why I want to do it," she explained.
She continued: "It's a great script, as easily as really smart and shadow, it's gonna be scary. I think it will sustain rather a gothic boundary and I hope people like it."
The actress is presently showcasing her two very different films playing at the festival: 'Sunshine Cleaning', in which she's teamed with Amy President Adams as sisters wHO become criminal offence scene cleaners, and 'The Great Buck Howard', in which she plays a fiery publiciser hired to stage the riposte of a life.
'The Beast Man' is due for loss in 2009.
Sunday, 27 April 2008
Jordan recovering after stairs fall
Jordan recovering after stairs fall
Model Jordan is reportedly recovering in a Los Angeles hospital after falling down a flight of stairs.
According to Digital Spy, Jordan, real name Katie Price, was in the US to have a breast reduction operation.
Her husband Peter Andre was with her when she took the tumble.
A message posted on her MySpace page said: "Lots of messages have come in asking if Katie is alright after falling down a flight of stairs in LA.
"From what we hear, she is walking, although at the time, she thought she had broken both legs.
"Peter is back in England to be with the little ones and Katie will be home soon."
The Like
Artist: The Like
Genre(s):
Alternative
Discography:
Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking
Year: 2005
Tracks: 13
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Corrie star Haworth expecting first child
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