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Monday 1 September 2008

Chewing Gum May Help Reduce Stress According To New Research

�Study presented at the 2008 tenth International Congress of Behavioral Medicine

WHAT: "An investigation into the effects of chewing gum chewing on mood and cortisol levels during psychological stress," presented at the 2008 10th International Congress of Behavioral Medicine, ground that chewing gum helped relieve anxiety, improve vigilance and reduce stress among individuals in a lab setting.* The sketch examined whether chewing gum is capable of reducing induced anxiety and/or acute psychological focus while participants performed a battery of 'multi-tasking' activities. The use of chew gum was associated with higher alerting, reduced anxiety and emphasis, and betterment in overall performance on multi-tasking activities.

WHO: Andrew Scholey, Ph.D., prof of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia led the research study and potty discuss the effect of chewing gum on stress relief and focus and concentration.

Gilbert Leveille, Ph.D., executive director director, Wrigley Science Institute, will besides be available to discuss research on the benefits of chew gum related to stress relief and alertness and concentration in addition to other areas including weight management and oral health.

WHEN: Study was presented by word of mouth on Saturday, August 30 at Rissho University in Tokyo, Japan at the 10th International Congress of Behavioral Medicine.

STUDY BACKGROUND:

In the 40-person study of gum chewers averaging an eld of 22 years old, performed on the Defined Intensity Stressor Simulation (DISS), a multi-tasking platform which reliably induces stress and also includes performance measures, while mastication and non chewing gumwood. Anxiety, alertness and tenseness levels were measured earlier and after participants completed the DISS.
Relieved Anxiety: When chewing gum, participants reported lour levels of anxiety.

Gum chewers showed a reduction in anxiety as compared to non-gum chewers by nearly 17 percentage during mild stress and nearly 10 percent in moderate strain.

Increased Alertness: Participants experienced greater levels of vigilance when they chewed gum.

Gum chewers showed improvement in alertness over non-gum chewers by intimately 19 percent during balmy stress and 8 pct in temper stress.

Reduced Stress: Stress levels were lower in participants wHO chewed gum.

Levels of salivary cortisol (a physiological accent marker) in gum chewers were lower than those of non-gum chewers by 16 per centum during mild stress and nearly 12 percent in moderate stress.

Improved Performance: Chewing chewing gum resulted in a substantial improvement in overall performance on multi-tasking activities. Both gum-chewers and non-chewers showed improvement from their baseline scores; however, chewing chewing gum improved mean performance stacks over non-gum chewers by 67 per centum during chair stress and 109 pct in mild stress.

WRIGLEY SCIENCE INSTITUTE:

Wrigley is committed to advancing and sharing scientific research that explores the benefits of chewing gum tree. The Chicago-based Wrigley Science Institute kit and caboodle with independent researchers at leading institutions to learn more about the potency health and wellness benefits of chewing gum. The Wrigley Science Institute's current work is focused on four key scientific areas: how gum can help reduce situational stress; help manage weight; help gain focus, alertness and concentration; and meliorate oral health.

*Scholey, Andrew. An investigation into the effects of gum chewing on mood and cortisol levels during psychological stress. tenth International Congress of Behavioral Medicine. Tokyo, Japan. August 2008.

Source: Denise Young

Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company

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Friday 22 August 2008

Download Kelly Clarkson mp3

Artist: Kelly Clarkson: mp3 download

   Genre(s):

Pop
Rock
House
Vocal
Rock: Pop-Rock

Discography:

Never Again

Year: 2007

Tracks: 2

My December

Year: 2007

Tracks: 13

Breakaway

Year: 2005

Tracks: 12

Behind These Hazel Eyes

Year: 2005

Tracks: 1

Because of You CDM

Year: 2005

Tracks: 8

Thankful

Year:

Tracks: 12

The winner of Fox TV's first American Idol: The Search for a Superstar competition during the summertime of 2002, Kelly Clarkson went from an anonymous gift to a nationwide known isaac Bashevis Singer, playing for an audience of millions of viewers. One of the show's nigh by nature gifted singers, the 20-year-old Burleson, TX, native's vocal talents were observed when she was in seventh degree, when her school's choir teacher heard her telling and urged Clarkson to bring together the choir. After heights schoolhouse, Clarkson civilised her voice and went to Hollywood to score her describe; she appeared as an duplicate on an episode of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch only no other opportunities materialized.

Upon reversive to Burleson, Clarkson worked at a moving picture house, promoted Red Bull vim drinks, and at last worked as a cocktail waitress at a comedy club ahead ingress the American Idol contest. One of 10,000 aspiring singers, Clarkson grand herself non only with her big, surprisingly mature representative, only as well with her earthy charm and signified of humour; at one of her auditions, she switched places with pass judgment Randy Jackson, wHO did an impromptu version of R. Kelly's "I Believe I Can Fly." Over the form of the 13-week point, her consistently warm performances of songs like "Respect," "Natural Woman," "Stuff Like That There," and "Without You" earned Clarkson sufficiency audience votes to claim unmatchable of the contest's 2 finalist positions. After singing "A Moment Like This" and "In front Your Love," both of which were written for the show, Clarkson won the American Idol contest with 58 percent of the audience's votes. In addition to the show's award of one meg dollars and a recording contract with RCA, Clarkson secured a deal with Creative Artists Agency and several bookings, including the national American Idol tour and a performance of the national anthem at the September 11 memorialisation at Washington, D.C.'s Lincoln Memorial.

Scorn her newfound fame, Clarkson opted to rest in Texas rather than strike to New York or Los Angeles. Her first single, "A Moment Like This," was released just deuce weeks afterward she south Korean won the contest and speedily earned pt gross sales. Clarkson's debut full-length, Thankful, was released in spring of 2003, exactly in time to cooccur with the sec season of American Idol and right before the American Idol picture, From Justin to Kelly. Breakaway followed in recent 2004 and was a immense success, merchandising over pentad 1000000 copies (making it the third best-selling record album of 2005) and spawning the hit singles "Because of You," "Behind These Hazel Eyes," and "Since U Been Gone." That song and Breaking away earned Grammys for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and Best Pop Vocal Album, respectively, at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards in early 2006. Clarkson continued her busy touring agenda that spring and summer and announced plans for her tierce record album.

In 2007, Clarkson released My December the studio followup to Breaking away. Notable as Clarkson's first raid into authorship or co-writing most of the songs, My December had a darker, even more than rock-oriented edge than its predecessor and fifty-fifty featured a guest appearance by hood ikon bassist Mike Watt.

Tuesday 12 August 2008

Christina Milian Suing Former Producer

Christina Milian is suing a former producer, expression that he lied roughly using a sample in one of her old singles.

It is claimed in the suit that Poli Paul, wHO made her 2003 hit 'Dip It Low', told the vocalizer that the song contained no samples.

However, Milian has since been involved in a legal battle with songwriters Thomas Turino, Larry Crook and Dan Dickey, world Health Organization say a section of 'Dip It Low' was allegedly taken from their 1983 track 'La Sirena'.

The papers filed by Christina ask Paul to pay her legal fees and damages for defending herself in the case defined above - which amounts to around $300,000 (�150,000).

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Wednesday 6 August 2008

Dettinger

Artist: Dettinger

   Genre(s):
Electronic
   Other

Discography:

Prospect (Chain Reaction 029, 2002)

Year: 2002
Tracks: 3

Oasis

Year: 2000
Tracks: 7

Intershop

Year: 1999
Tracks: 7

Blond

Year: 1998
Tracks: 4

Olaf Dettinger is i of the top-shelf producers on the Cologne, Germany-based Kompakt roll. Often bathing his ambient tracks in analogue synths and

Monday 30 June 2008

Crack In The USSR

So you're a Russian billionaire looking for the perfect musical accompaniment to your sophisticated art gallery opening? A string quartet, perhaps?

Or a recovering crack addict who appeared at her last show an hour late, covered in bruises and bandages with a highly contagious condition that makes the skin fall off her face.

Oligarch Roman Abramovich and his girlfriend Daria Zhukova have gone for the latter, and booked Amy Winehouse to entertain their uber rich friends, celebrities and art-world bigwigs at the gala opening of their new Moscow gallery tonight.

Amy, who is struggling to beat an addiction to crack cocaine, is due to play to 300 guests at the couple's brand new Center for Contemporary Culture just outside the city.

Amy, 24, made a disappointing comeback show in Portugal last month, after calling off an arena tour, getting on stage an hour late, then admitting she should have canceled the show before stumbling through a severely shortened set.

There was speculation that the nasty looking bruise on her neck was a love bite from her husband, Blake Fielder Civil, who she had visited in prison shortly before flying to the show.�

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Train Kept A-Rollin'

Artist: Train Kept A-Rollin'

   Genre(s):
Rock

Discography:

Train Kept A-Rollin' - Memphis to Hollywood: The Complete Recordings 1955-1964 Disc 9

Year: 2003
Tracks: 36

Train Kept A-Rollin' - Memphis to Hollywood: The Complete Recordings 1955-1964 Disc 8

Year: 2003
Tracks: 35

Train Kept A-Rollin' - Memphis to Hollywood: The Complete Recordings 1955-1964 Disc 7

Year: 2003
Tracks: 38

Train Kept A-Rollin' - Memphis to Hollywood: The Complete Recordings 1955-1964 (6 of 9)

Year: 1964
Tracks: 28

Train Kept A-Rollin' - Memphis to Hollywood: The Complete Recordings 1955-1964 (1 of 9)

Year: 1964
Tracks: 32

Sunday 29 June 2008

Fat Freddy's Drop

Artist: Fat Freddy's Drop

   Genre(s):
Easy Listening
   Drum & Bass
   funk
   Reggae
   Techno
   Industrial

Discography:

Live at the Matterhorn

Year: 2006
Tracks: 4

Kartel Music (KART011)

Year: 2006
Tracks: 2

Friendly Beats

Year: 2006
Tracks: 1

Cay's Crays Remixes Pt. 2

Year: 2006
Tracks: 3

Based on a True Story

Year: 2006
Tracks: 10

Live in Paris

Year: 2005
Tracks: 4

Hope for a generation EP

Year: 2004
Tracks: 5

Sonar Kollektiv

Year: 2002
Tracks: 1

SK084

Year:
Tracks: 2

Sierra Maestra

Artist: Sierra Maestra

   Genre(s):
Latin

Discography:

Dundunbanza

Year: 1994
Tracks: 9

Havana-based radical Sierra Maestra is i of the foremost bands playacting the Cuban word style, which enjoyed its height of popularity in the '20s and '30s. Though word experienced significant revival and renewed international interest thanks to the late-'90s Buena Vista Social Club phenomenon, Sierra Maestra gave the music a new rent on life as other as the late '70s. Headed by Juan d'Marcos GonzÃ¡lez, the nine-piece rig came in concert in 1976 for a performance at the University of Havana, the musicians' alma mater. Utilizing traditional instrumentation including tres, guitar, bongo, guiro, trumpet, and voice, united by congas, maracas, and galvanic base, the musicians named their mathematical group subsequently the mountain range where word was innate. Band loss leader GonzÃ¡lez was joined by Daniel Ramos Alayo (trumpet), Carlos GonzÃ¡lez (tragelaphus eurycerus), Carlos Pisseaux (guiro), Alberto ValdÃ©s (maracas and voice), Luis BÃ¡rgaza (voice), JosÃ© Antonio RodrÃguez (guitar and voice), Eduardo Himely (sea bass and conga), and Alejandro SuÃ¡rez (clave and voice). Through regular performance and tV appearances, Sierra Maestra became a national front-runner, victorious national awards in their kickoff troika long time in military operation. The band's debut recording, Sierra Maestra LlegÃ³ yardbird el Guanajo Relleno, earned silver status in the yr of its release, 1981. Popular critical reception and widespread popularity open doors for international touring in the early '80s. Following their sophomore departure, Y Son AsÃ (1982), Sierra Maestra toured all over Europe, appearing at significant festivals in Sweden, France, Germany, and Spain. Starting with their 1994 release Dundunbanza!, Sierra Maestra's recordings presently became available to international audiences. Their discography grew importantly throughout the '90s and 2000s, including better than a xII titles by 2006's Boy: Soul of a Nation. The musicians' commitment to the repertory of artists such as Arsenio RodrÃguez and the compositions of their have members earned them a reputation as both artful custodians of a tradition and vivid innovators as well.

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Bugz In The Attic

Artist: Bugz In The Attic

   Genre(s):
R&B: Soul
   Trance

Discography:

Back in the Doghouse

Year: 2006
Tracks: 16

Fabriclive.12

Year: 2003
Tracks: 14

Present Family Factory

Year:
Tracks: 4

Bugz in the Attic is an all-star broken thump gang of DJs and producers based in West London -- a corporate that includes (merely isn't special to) Afronaught, Seiji, Daz-I-Kue, Kaidi Tatham, Mark Force, and Alex Phountzi. Whether lonely, together, or involved in their many sliver projects and one-offs, the members of Bugz in the Attic have likely played a role in well all over half (if non a higher portion) of the releases that can be categorised as broken beat. The group has besides run its possess Co-Op club night and the Bitasweet label as well, which has been an electrical outlet for some of their involvements and interests, including the Phuturistic Dancin' anthologies, Seiji's Remixes compilation, and Dego McFarlane's releases as Cousin Cockroach. In late 2003, they made their contribution to the Fabriclive serial of mix discs.

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Jonathan Livingstone

Artist: Jonathan Livingstone

   Genre(s):
Retro

Discography:

Mistiq suite

Year:
Tracks: 7

Chesterfield Kings

Artist: Chesterfield Kings

   Genre(s):
Rock

Discography:

The Mindbending Sounds of the Chesterfield Kings

Year: 2003
Tracks: 14

I Ain't No Miracle Worker (7'')

Year: 1979
Tracks: 2

Upstate New York's Chesterfield Kings landed upon the ontogenesis punk/new undulation scene in the former '70s with an improbably raw '60s rhythm & megrims intelligent that borrowed hard from pre-1966 Rolling Stones. The chemical group, so different any other metro sensations of the period, arguably kickstarted the entire '80s service department careen revitalisation, which flourished in modest circles until the last of the decade.

After releasing two scene-defining LPs, Here Are the Chesterfield Kings and Stop!, the combo changed its card and sound. With only isaac Bashevis Singer Greg Prevost and bassist Andy Babiuk unexpended from the Kings' 1979 incarnation, the band rescinded its assure ne'er to sound like anything from rock's post-1966 history, and began to generate a '70s Rolling Stones/Flamin' Groovies hard stone image and sheen, which culminated in its 1994 LP, Let's Go Get Stoned, a sendup/tribute of postBackwash Rolling Stones. Still, the Kings have ne'er drifted overly far from their garage band roots, and the group's subsequent albums, which include Don't Open Til Doomsday (1997), Where the Action Is (1999), The Mindbending Sounds of the Chesterfield Kings (2003), and Psychedelic Sunrise (2007), have all been cut from the same framework.

Mephista

Artist: Mephista

   Genre(s):
Easy Listening

Discography:

Entomological Reflections

Year: 2004
Tracks: 15

Amy Winehouse 'does not have emphysema'

Amy Winehouse's spokesperson has said that the singer has not been diagnosed as suffering from lung disease emphysema, despite her father Mitch Winehouse saying she had.

The spokesperson told Associated Press that Winehouse's condition was not serious, and that she had in fact been told she had early signs that could lead to her suffering from the lung disease in the future.

He went on to say that Mitch Winehouse had "muddied the water" because he is "not a medical man".

He also said that Winehouse was rehearsing for her scheduled performances at both the Nelson Mandela tribute concert set for Friday (June 26) and her appearance at Glastonbury on Saturday (June 27).