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Wednesday, 6 August 2008

APA Explores Mental Health Disparities And Substance Abuse Through OMNA On Tour

� Many Americans in minority communities remain at a disadvantage in learning about and receiving mental health services, including substance abuse treatment, even as the carry Nation becomes more than aware of mental health concerns and effective treatments.
In the ongoing endeavor to educate communities and close the gap of mental health disparities, the American Psychiatric Association Office of Minority and National Affairs (OMNA) will hold a daylong workshop, OMNA on Tour: Co-Occurring Disorders-No Longer Double Jeopardy, in Los Angeles on Tuesday, July 22, featuring mental health experts who will discuss improving mental wellness outcomes for underserved populations in the Los Angeles area with co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders.

OMNA on Tour is a traveling education program intentional to inform communities or so the nation about the significance and impact on community upbeat of ethnic and racial disparities in mental health. The go aims to foster coaction among a variety of stakeholders with the goal to develop local activity plans to eliminate mental health disparities.

OMNA Director, Annelle Primm, M.D., M.P.H., APA extremity experts and other mental health professionals will wage constituencies from a wide-eyed variety of disciplines, such as merely not circumscribed to psychiatrists, primary care physicians, meaning abuse treatment providers, community leaders, and local mental health organisation administrators.

"We are pleased to carry our fifth OMNA on Tour in Los Angeles, focusing for the first time on co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders with a call to action for prevention and recovery in diverse populations," aforesaid Dr. Primm. "Our sincere hope is that this program volition enlighten the Los Angeles community nigh the impact of co-occurrent disorders on overall wellness."

"In addition, we need to encourage strategic collaboration among a variety of stakeholders including consumers and families, wellness professionals of all types, the religious belief community, the correctional system of rules, the social service system, and legislators and policymakers," Primm said. "Through such action, concerned citizens pot make a difference by ensuring that people in need of treatment for mental illness and substance abuse in communities of color receive high character, culturally relevant care and experience recovery in order to lead enriching, healthy lives."

The Los Angeles tour stopover will feature many honored speakers, including Annelle Primm, M.D., M.P.H., director, Office of Minority and National Affairs, American Psychiatric Association; Marcia Goin, M.D., clinical professor, Keck School of Medicine of USC; Carl C. Bell, M.D., president and CEO, Community and Mental Health Council & Foundation, Inc. and clinical professor, Psychiatry and Public Health at the University of Illinois at
Chicago; Donald R. Vereen, M.D., M.P.H., theater director, Community-Based Public Health, University of Michigan, School of Public Health; Nancy Carter, executive director, National Alliance on Mental Illness of Urban Los Angeles; and, Michelle Clark, M.D., chief psychiatrist, South Central Health and Rehabilitation Program.

The daylong event will cover topics from the prevalence, impact and prevention of co-occurring disorders for the practitioner and consumer to discussions on what is working in the communities.

About the American Psychiatric Association

The American Psychiatric Association is the nation's leading medical strength society whose more than 38,000 physician members specialize in diagnosis, discourse, prevention and research of mental illnesses including heart and soul use disorders. Visit the APA at http://www.psych.org and http://www.HealthyMinds.org.

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Thursday, 26 June 2008

Gio Red

Artist: Gio Red

   Genre(s):
Trance: Psychedelic

Discography:

Risk O Electro

Year: 2006
Tracks: 10

Wednesday, 18 June 2008

Berlin breaks ground on new art space in downtown for local artists

BERLIN - Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit broke ground Friday for a new art space in the heart of the city dedicated to showcasing works by local contemporary artists.

The venue, which will be built on the Schlossplatz, or Palace Square, in the heart of what was once East Berlin, will offer some 600 square metres of exhibition space.

It will stand only until 2010, giving it the name "Temporary Art Hall Berlin," or in German "Temporaere Kunsthalle Berlin."

"We want to exhibit artists with a connection to Berlin who are on their way to worldwide renown but up until now haven't had the opportunity to be presented in Berlin," Wowereit said.

During its brief life span, the temporary structure will play host to 10 exhibitions, eight in the indoor space and two on the building's facade - all from artists based in the German capital.

Curator Angela Rosenberg presented the exhibition program, which includes shows by Gerwald Rockenschaub, Katharina Grosse and art duo Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla.

"The Kunsthalle will be a living exhibition space where Berlin can reflect on the art that is being produced here," Rosenberg said.

Also known as the "White Cube," the hall was design by Vienna-based architect Adolf Krischanitz to stand at the home of the former East German parliament, the Palace of the Republic, which is being dismantled.

Plans call for the reconstruction of the facade of a Prussian royal palace that stood at the site until it was dynamited by the East German government in 1950. Behind the facade, exhibition space is expected.

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Monday, 9 June 2008

Gigi

Artist: Gigi

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Illuminated Audio

Year: 2003
Tracks: 10

Ejigayehu Shibabaw, punter known as Gigi, is one of the few singers from the Horn of Africa -- the number 1 since countrywoman Aster Aweke, in fact -- to break up through with a major-label release. Gigi grew up in rural Ethiopia, hearing to traditional and church music, earlier moving to the washington, Addis Ababa, when she was 14. There, her musical horizons broadened, hearing the local pop music "and all kinds of American music we could get on the radio. After that I went to Kenya, and on that point I was uncovered to a mass of different African music, a different kind of tucker." Returning house, she became a isaac Merrit Singer with the National Theatre before making her debut record, following which she worked with a marionette company, whose touring took her to France. It was on that point her real breakthrough occurred, playing a world medicine fete called Imagineer which resulted in a live transcription that made her known in Europe. After reversive to Ethiopia in 1997, she was granted a U.S. visa. The New World offered mass of challenges and she grasped them all eagerly, discovering malarky in Oakland and striking the route with countrywoman Aweke, "my ducky isaac Merrit Singer." She made some other album, One Ethiopia, before coming to the attention of Palm Pictures gaffer Chris Blackwell. She was paired with prolific producer Bill Laswell, wHO victimised talent like jazzmen Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter behind her on Gigi, her debut for the label. However, for all the electronic feel of the saucer, no loops or samples were employed -- everything was played, and as live as possible. Gigi began promoting the platter by coming into court at the 2001 WOMEX domain music conference in Holland, prior to a U.S. turn.

Tribute To Marilyn Manson

Sunday, 1 June 2008

Whitney Houston - Houston To Get Career Boost From Lewis

Legendary diva WHITNEY HOUSTON is planning to duet with British singer LEONA LEWIS in a bid to boost her comeback, according to reports.

Houston is back on stage this year (08) after a lengthy break to battle alleged drug addictions, and a new album is being planned for release later in 2008.

Now her mentor, music mogul Clive Davis, wants to give her a helping hand - by teaming her with Bleeding Love pop sensation Lewis, reports the New York Post.

Since winning British talent show The X Factor in 2006, Lewis has stormed the charts in both Britain and the U.S. and drawn numerous comparisons to Houston and Mariah Carey.

But the 23-year-old will have to overcome her nervous disposition if she wants to perform with her idol - she suffers from stress-related chronic throat problems, which doctors have confirmed can only be cured permanently by surgery.

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