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Public Enemy Raises money for a D.C. youth shelter

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BOY IN AGONY AFTER H1N1 NASAL FLU MIST

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Afghanistan is world's worst place to be born - UN

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I am unicorn, destroyer of ponies

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www.bobseyes.com » Blog Archive » Parenting: Give Respect To Get Respect

Great advice, anyone with children should read.

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Bullitt County school children vaccinated against H1N1 - WAVE 3 TV Louisville, KY |

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10 classical recordings to start your kid with

When we start children out on reading, we don't hand them a copy of "Moby Dick" or "Finnegan's Wake" and say, OK, dive in. No, we start with picture books, with simple texts in monosyllables, with stories about other children and animals. We start by reading to them, and with them. We show them how.

A lot of the great masterpieces of classical music are the equivalent in depth and difficulty to "Moby Dick" and "Finnegan's Wake." So, we don't want to start there. We want to start out with short, mostly simple pieces and we want to listen with them.

Kids need two things, more or less, in a piece of classical music. They need a regular beat or they need some sort of story or picture (in the mind's eye) to go along with the music. (They don't need both in every piece.) The regular beats appear mostly in dance, or dance-like, pieces, such as "The Nutcracker Suite" or much of Baroque music. The stories or pictures appear in programmatic works such as "The Flight of the Bumblebee" or "The Carnival of the Animals."

Make it a regular habit to listen with your child, just as you did (or were supposed to) when they started out reading. When my own son was still in diapers, we'd have a short listening session every night just before his reading and bedtime. We'd play a lot of the same things night after night, but pretty soon he had a fairly big repertoire. And you'd be surprised what worked. I still remember him rocking up and down in front of the speakers to Schubert's song "Das Wandern" (from "Die schöne Müllerin") as sung, in German, by the incomparable Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. But then again, it has a powerful, regular beat.

So, establish a listening time. Then listen. That is, don't chat, or watch television, or read, or eat dinner. Give your full attention to the music. Sure, have fun, dance around, conduct the orchestra, crash cymbals or beat on drums. But make the music the thing, the only thing.

10 classical recordings to start your kid with:

1. Bernstein Favorites "Children's Classics"
2. Listen, Learn And Grow "Playtime Imagination"
3. Vivaldi: "The Four Seasons."
4. Classics From The Crypt
5. Tchaikovsky: "The Nutcracker" Bernstein Century
6. John Philip Sousa : Marches
7. Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 and 7
8. Walter Carlos "Switched on Bach"
9. Franz Suppe "Light Cavalry" Overture
10. Carlos Kleiber "New Year's Concert 1992"When we start children out on reading, we don't hand them a copy of "Moby Dick" or... more

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Events: singles; author talk; meet artist; Ugandan Jews; musical; Maccabi Film Festival

NY Jewish cultural events in the coming weeks include singles events; an author talk;... more

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Coburn to Holder: The #1 Risk to Kids? Marijuana!

Senator Coburn November 18, 2009 C-SPAN. Coburn's seen Reefer Madness too many times.

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Pfizer Vaccine Halted After Baby Deaths

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Health & Safety Snoops to Enter Family Homes

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New kids' comics for November 18, 2009

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UK children 'trafficked for sex'

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Segregation Island?

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Big Pharma Spends Billions on Marketing!

Pharma’s Drug Ads: From Million Dollar TV Ads to $1.7 Billion Internet Marketing Campaign

On November 13th, 2009, Pharmaceutical companies flocked to a two-day FDA hearing into online drug advertising, which could influence their use of social media on the net. 1 Already, the explosive growth in online advertising has intensified public concerns: the pharmaceutical industry spent more than $1 billion on Internet ads last year and is projected to spend $1.7 billion on such marketing efforts in 2012, according to the Direct Marketing Association.2

Both Eli Lilly and Merck have received warning letters this year from the FDA accusing them of misleading online advertisements.3 But while the FDA scrambles to monitor online ads, who monitors the psychiatric-pharmaceutical industry’s use of front groups to indirectly market their products?

A Washington Post article of June 16, 2009 reported that an increasing number of pharmaceutical firms are turning to social media tools, such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and MySpace, to market their products. It cites how a community site sponsored by drugmaker McNeil called “ADHD Allies”—aimed at adults with ADHD—was established and offered an online podcast on financial advice and an “ADHD self-assessment tool.”4

British psychiatrist Joanne Moncrieff explains how this ultimately increases drug sales because only a biomedical approach is promoted: “Drug companies…provide funds for pro drug patient and carer groups and address advertising or disease promotion campaigns to the general public…This influence has helped to create and reinforce a narrow biological approach to the explanation and treatment of mental disorders and has led to the exclusion of alternative” treatments.5

Such websites do not mention company’s product but rather market the “disease.” In advertising, it can be accomplished through a strategy known as “condition branding,” where “mental illness” can be pitched just like cars, beer or laundry detergent. Witness the brand name “bipolar” and “social anxiety disorder” that drug companies marketed at a fever pitch.

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http://www.cchrint.org/2009/11/16/pharmas-1-7-billion-internet-marketing-pipeline/Pharma’s Drug Ads: From Million Dollar TV Ads to $1.7 Billion Internet Marketing... more