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Nature, Nurture Play Role in Mental Ills -Studies
Variations in a gene helped shield adults who had endured child abuse from becoming depressed as adults, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a study that helps explain how nature and nurture give rise to mental illness. And a British team has found that pregnant women who have a major emotional loss in the early months of pregnancy give birth to babies with a higher risk of schizophrenia. The studies, published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, add to a growing understanding of how genetics and environmental distress sometimes act together to produce mental illness. "It is not a question of genes versus environment. It is a question of how genes interact with whatever the environmental factors might be. And that is probably true of all of the disorders that we call mental illness," said Dr.
Compelling Leaders in a Party Impaired by Assassins and Bores
The median age in the United States is 36. That means half the people in the country were born before 1972, and well over half didn't have their first memory until 1968. Add to that the very large proportion of the politically illiterate or the politically indifferent, and it's fair to say that less than a quarter of the population today can remember the last time the words "Democrats" and "leadership" could go together without triggering laughter or embarrassment. That's what's made the past few months of primary campaigns and elections seem so foreign to many of us who'd gotten used to Democrats as shoot-me-now bores (Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis), impotents (Jimmy Carter, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid), suicidal smug-bombs (Gary Hart, Bill Clinton, Al Gore) and, in every case, political cowards frightened of their own liberal shadow.
MICAH launches Health and Spirituality Program
The Minnesota Institute of Contemplation and Healing (MICAH) is now offering a unique Health and Spirituality Program individually tailored to help people find a sense of wholeness and healing in their lives through telephone or in-person consultations.Focused on comprehensive healing, this affordable year-long program is designed to help participants make serious and lasting life changes physically, mentally and spiritually through reflection and examination of all aspects of their life.The Health and Spirituality Program components include: .
Are Designers The Enemy Of Design?
Does a great movie on global warming but does he walk the talk with a 20-room mansion and private jets? What is his real carbon footprint? Yes, he buys all kinds of carbon offsets, you know pay peasants in the Amazon to grow trees. But is that living a sustainable life. Can you buy your way to a carbon-free life there if you are rich? Both Davos and the Oscars were full of rich folks flying in on private jets leaving a big fat carbon footprint. Yet both conferences were allegedly CARBON-FREE. What's up with that? OK, enough. Now that I've insulted designers, allow me to insult myself. In the 90's, I was the editorial page editor of Business Week. I was the VOICE OF AUTHORITY. Truly, they had an ad campaign revolving around the voice of authority. I did design as a journalistic afterthought, at nights or the weekend.
South Africa: Training to Limpopo's Small Scale Miners
About 50 people who are engaged in small scale mining activities in Limpopo have been provided with skills that will help them run their projects more effectively. The beneficiaries, most of whom are women, were awarded certificates of competence in Tzaneen on Friday. "We want to see people in rural communities using natural resources to create a better life for themselves. They must share in the mineral wealth of our land," said project coordinator Keith Charles. He said the two-week long course was supported by the national Departments of Minerals and Energy, Economic Affairs and the provincial Department of Economic Development, Environment and Tourism.The certificates are endorsed by the Mining Qualification Authority. .
Bangor-area punk bands rock out for good cause
Sometimes, the personal is political. In the case of local punk bands Clinic Bomb and USA Waste, it always is. "When I write songs, I write from personal experience," said Joanne Bolduc, vocalist for Clinic Bomb, who are based out of the Bangor area. "A song will come to me when I'm having personal problems, or my friends are, or when I'm thinking about different social issues. I try to make everything personal. Anger is a big motivating factor." Anger is also a weapon, and both Clinic Bomb and USA Waste use it to their full advantage, making straight up, hardcore-influenced political punk — the five-member Clinic Bomb since 2004, and power trio USA Waste since 1999, making the latter one of the area's longest-standing local bands. The two groups refer to each other as "brother and sister" bands, since they share most of the same politics, and at different points have shared the same musicians, like when USA Waste drummer Dub Waste joined Clinic Bomb for a year.
Mother to sue over agony of swab left inside her
A mother is to sue a London hospital after doctors left a surgical swab inside her body during a Caesarean section. Asma Sarfraz, 27, underwent emergency surgery on Friday to remove the piece of cotton that had left her in agony. Mrs Sarfraz and her husband Shaz today told the Standard they were planning to sue Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust, which has begun an investigation into the botched operation. Mrs Sarfraz, from Bromley, gave birth to the couple's first child, Sabrina, last Tuesday. Doctors had decided to deliver the baby by Caesarean section, 10 days early, when it emerged that the child was in a breach position. But shortly after the procedure, Mrs Sarfraz began to feel unwell. Speaking from her hospital bed, Mrs Sarfraz said: "I felt a real burning sensation inside me.
Iran dominates Republican presidential debate in conservative South ...
There was a history lesson in the beginning, maybe first 15 minutes, where it was mentioned. But anyway, the mighty dollar has lost about 60% of its value against THE euro in about 5 years on GWB's watch and nobody seems to care.. That is ODD... .
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