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Low Blood Levels Of Vitamin D May Be Associated With Depression In Older Adults ScienceDaily (May 6, 2008) — Older adults with low blood levels of vitamin D and high blood levels of a hormone secreted by the parathyroid glands may have a higher risk of depression, according to a new report . About 13 percent of older individuals have symptoms of depression, and other researchers have speculated that vitamin D may be linked to depression and other psychiatric illnesses, according to background information in the article. "Underlying causes of vitamin D deficiency such as less sun exposure as a...

Lack Of Imagination In Older Adults Linked To Declining Memory ScienceDaily (Jan. 8, 2008) — Most children are able to imagine their future selves as astronauts, politicians or even superheroes; however, many older adults find it difficult to recollect past events, let alone generate new ones. A new Harvard University study reveals that the ability of older adults to form imaginary scenarios is linked to their ability to recall detailed memories. According to the study, episodic memory, which represents our personal memories of past experiences, "allows individuals to project themselves both backward and forward in subjective time." Therefore, in order...

Speech...The Death of the Grown-Up...Heritage Foundation This is one book I'd like to buy. I had trouble finding it at the bookstore. For all you insomniaks (sp?) Ann Coulter is on CSPAN at 1:18 AM.

Source: University of Alberta Date: March 17, 2007 Why Computers Frustrate Older Adults Science Daily — A number of evolving social changes highlight the importance of making computer technology accessible and usable for older adults. For instance, older adults are using email increasingly to keep up their social contact with others and are using the Internet to look up health information. An innovative research study was conducted at the University of Alberta which analyzed the performance outcomes of older adults when being tested on the computer and Internet. What researchers found can be applied as a 'best practice' when teaching...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - No charges will be filed in the case of a 9-year-old boy who fatally stabbed a 2-year-old girl in a Texas home where a teen-ager was babysitting 12 children, Dallas police said on Tuesday after an investigation. The stabbing occurred on December 22 in a home in southeast Dallas where a 15-year-old was left to supervise at least 10 siblings and 2 other children, including the victim. The toddler, Damya Jefferson, was stabbed twice in the chest by a 9-year-old boy who lived at the house, according to published reports. No charges will be filed against the...

We're all big babies Last Updated: 12:01am BST 22/10/2006 How to be an adult Bombarded by petty rules, bossy advice and celebrity tittle-tattle, we have forgotton how to be adults. It's time we grew up, says Michael Bywater I imagine myself to be a grown-up, as, presumably, do you. You think that because you negotiated puberty and developed secondary sexual characteristics, and got qualifications and opened a bank account and subjected yourself to the scrutiny of anti-terrorism laws and anti-money-laundering laws and learned to drive and got a job and perhaps a spouse and maybe children, and quite possibly even pay...

"Slippage." That was by far my favorite word in the letter Andover's West Middle School Principal Denise Holmes e-mailed to parents regarding their children's attire, or lack thereof, at school. Her note was prompted by the outfits a group of girls was wearing on Valentine's Day, with skirts so short that ... well, let Ms. Holmes explain. "This one girl had the cutest pink underwear on," she said. "I shouldn't have known that." Well, no. But she's not the problem. The problem is that all the boys knew it as well. So Holmes sent out a gentle reminder. Very gentle....

Dear Texas Home Schooler, THSC PAC today (January 31, 2006) releases its initial round of endorsements for the 2006 Republican Primary. Texas home schoolers face a potential crisis in this election the likes of which we have not seen since the TEA ruled that home schools were not private schools and encouraged local school districts to prosecute parents who were teaching their children at home in the early 1980s. Let me explain.

I have a Scout District that is 6,215 square miles, Cochise is as big as Rhode Island and Connecticut combined. I'm in the process of spliting up the Assistant District Commissioner Duties by population area (5) and will end up doing a bit of driving to meet on a regular basis with each of them. Adding to this I have to build up the Commissioner Staff from almost ZERO to cover 85 units (1 commissioner for every 3 units) plus Roundtable staff for each area. In the process of building How-To books for each commssioner regardless of the level. Any...

ATLANTA, Oct. 26 - Every toddler in the country should be immunized against hepatitis A, and every adult should receive booster doses of whooping cough vaccine, a panel advising the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention unanimously recommended Wednesday. Shots for hepatitis A, a liver disease that is rarely fatal but is easily spread, "should be integrated into the routine childhood vaccination schedule" and given between 1 and 2 years, the panel said. It also urged that adults ages 19 to 65 have the booster against whooping cough, also called pertussis, 10 years after their last shot against the...

BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) - More details are emerging about a shooting in a St. Louis suburb that has left four dead, including a baby. A police officer says the man arrested early today is the former boyfriend of one of the victims. Investigators in Belleville, Ill., found the bodies of a two-month-old boy, two young women and a young man in an apartment, last night, after neighbors reported a burglary. Several people say they heard gunshots both before and after seeing someone enter the basement apartment. Commander Norman Venable of the St. Louis Major Case Squad says the two women...

Blame throwing There's plenty wrong with America, since you asked. (Everybody's asking.) I'm tempted to say, the only difference from Canada, is that they have a few things right. That would be unfair, of course -- I am often pleased to discover things we still get right. But one of them would not be disaster preparation. If something happened up here, on the scale of Katrina, we wouldn't even have the resources to arrive late. We would be waiting for the Americans to come save us, the same way the government in Louisiana just waved and pointed at Washington, D.C....

The transition to adulthood used to be one of the main goals of the young. Adulthood was seen to be a status worth achieving and was understood to be a set of responsibilities worth fulfilling. At least, that's the way it used to be. Now, an entire generation seems to be finding itself locked in the grip of eternal youth, unwilling or unable to grow up. Concern about this phenomenon has been building for some time. Baby-boomer parents are perplexed when their adult-age children move back home, fail to find a job, and appear to be in no hurry to...

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

A million adults 'never eat veg' By Celia Hall, Medical Editor (Filed: 15/01/2004) Nearly a million adults never eat any fruit or green vegetables and more than 3.5 million eat them only once or twice a month, according to a survey published today. Despite government campaigns to encourage people to eat at least five portions of fruit and vegetables a day, a small percentage of the adult population resolutely refuses to do so. The poll among 1,000 adults for the charity, Cholesterol UK, found that while 90 per cent said they always or generally ate a healthy diet, 2.5 million...

More than 40 times this year, police have been called to investigate incidents at an establishment, but it's not your ordinary problem-plagued gin mill. It's Chuck E. Cheese, the pizza, games, and birthday party paradise adored by children. But Chuck E. Cheese has become, at least for some adults, a place where the frenzy of Skee Ball, pizza, alcohol, and manic children translates into emotional overload. "The majority of the problems come from the adults, family members and friends who are there for the birthday parties", town police SGT Imley said. "It's not the kids".

Here is the situation in question. I believe I am smart enough to handle it, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to see what other Conservatives thought of the situation. I go to a local 4 year college here in town. I'm moving to an out of town college in about a month. I take classes at night at the local college for right now. In my Management class we were assigned groups for a project. We were to give a Powerpoint presentation. The professor first gave us a personality exam. She gave us the Myers Briggs exam. Then the...

<p>Ladan and Laleh Bijani, 29, were wheeled into an operating room at Raffles Hospital at 10 a.m. (10 p.m. Saturday ET) after undergoing MRI and CT scans.</p> <p>Once the women were anesthetized, doctors removed two sections of veins from Ladan's right thigh for use in a bypass procedure. The surgery began shortly after noon and ended at 4 p.m., the hospital said.</p>

LONDON (Reuters Health) - Many apparently healthy adults may be dying unexpectedly in a grown-up version of the "cot death" phenomenon, British researchers said on Friday. In Yahoo! Health Colon Cancer:Katie Couric supports Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month More from Yahoo! Health: • Get the Facts • Early Detection • Catch it Early • Email A Friend The British Heart Foundation said a study showed that the number of adults who collapse and die suddenly without explanation could be "much greater than is recorded in official statistics." Like sudden infant death syndrome, such deaths should be labeled "sudden adult death syndrome,"...

Surge in childhood obesity stirs action in clinics, courts Like most mothers, Noelle Punzone was happy that her preschooler was a good eater. Little Christina enjoyed her eggs, bagels and apple juice for breakfast, baloney with mayonnaise or macaroni and cheese for lunch, and generous portions of her grandmother's chicken parmigiana for dinner. But about two years ago, when Christina was in kindergarten, Punzone became alarmed. "Every time we went to the pediatrician, I would be surprised to see the scale went up 2 pounds here, another 5 pounds there," said Punzone, a Brooklyn mother of three girls. "During...

Living out in the sticks has its advantages. For one thing, there's at least a slim chance that the wildly incompetent person screwing up your life behind the counter may get fired. For another, we're not stunned by election results that demonstrate Americans can think. When Republicans swept the elections last Tuesday, official punditry fell into paroxysms of self-doubt. How did so many get it so wrong? What did we miss? With hindsight, the answer seemed clear and went something like this: Democrats criticized Republicans but offered no substantive alternatives. Seems simple enough, but the truer answer may be even...

Living out in the sticks has its advantages. For one thing, there's at least a slim chance that the wildly incompetent person screwing up your life behind the counter may get fired. For another, we're not stunned by election results that demonstrate Americans can think.When Republicans swept the elections Tuesday, official punditry fell into paroxysms of self-doubt. How did so many get it so wrong? What did we miss?With hindsight, the answer seemed clear and went something like this: Democrats criticized Republicans but offered no substantive alternatives.Seems simple enough, but the truer answer may be even simpler.It's the grown-ups, silly.Even...

Technology: Nintendo develops games geared for adults By ALEX PHAM, Tribune Media Service(March 17, 2002 10:02 a.m. EST) - Nintendo Co. has always danced to its own tune, spinning out home-grown characters and spurning the ultra-violent games that have proliferated in the industry. That insistence on making family-based games has fostered the perception that Nintendo is a kid-oriented company. This year, Nintendo is out to change that with a more mature lineup of games and an aggressive advertising campaign aimed at older gamers, the demographic that rivals Sony Corp. and Microsoft Corp. are aiming to carve up. Sony touts its...