�The American Psychological Association urged psychologists today to take a leading role in ending discrimination based on grammatical gender identity, career upon the profession to provide "reserve, nondiscriminatory handling to all transgender and gender-variant individuals" and encouraging more research into all aspects of gender identity element and expression.
The action came at APA's Annual Convention when the association's governing Council of Representatives adopted a resolution supporting full equality for transgender and gender-variant people. The resolution also calls on APA to:
musical accompaniment legal and social realization of transgender individuals consistent with their gender personal identity and formulation;
support the provision of adequate and medically necessary treatment for transgender and gender-variant people;
recognize the benefit and necessity of gender modulation treatments for appropriately evaluated individuals;
squall on public and private insurers to cover these treatments.
In addition to adopting the wide-ranging resolution, the Council of Representatives received a report by APA's Task Force on Gender Identity and Gender Variance. The six-member task force washed-out more than two geezerhood reviewing the scientific literature, as well as APA policies regarding transgender issues. It was also charged with development recommendations for education, professional training and further research into transgenderism, and proposing how APA can best meet the needs of psychologists and students world Health Organization identify as transgender or gender-variant.
Noting that transgender people, their families, friends and employers ar increasingly turning to psychologists for assist, "this course underscores the need for psychologists to acquire greater knowledge and competence in addressing transgendered issues," the report states.
Among the report's recommendations:
APA should encourage training programs and graduate internships to welcome and support transgendered and gender-variant people;
APA should develop separate practice guidelines for transgender clients;
APA should encourage more research into gender indistinguishability and expression, including the reliability and validity of diagnostic criteria for gender identity disorders;
APA should advocate for antidiscrimination protection for transgender people in jurisdictions that lack such laws.
With regard to research, the task force listed a series of recommended areas of focal point, including social stigma and public attitudes toward sex identity; identity development, including prospective studies of children and adolescents; the process and event of transgender-specific health care; and the variables associated with the efficacy of sex reassignment.
As a direct result of the task force's work, APA added gender identity element to its nondiscrimination policy earlier this year. This builds upon prior adoption of grammatical gender identity nondiscrimination language in APA's bylaws, Code of Ethics and its Guidelines and Principles for Accreditation of Professional Programs in Psychology.
In addition, the task force highly-developed a pamphlet, Answers to Your Questions about Transgender Individuals and Gender Identity (http://www.apa.org/topics/transgender.html), which APA promulgated in 2006 and has made available on its Web site.
The task personnel recommended that APA read no stead with respect to the diagnosis of gender identity operator disorder, which is sometimes required for transgender clients to obtain needed upkeep. "Psychologists wHO work with clients with gender identity issues are not of one mind on this issue," task force members wrote. They noted that the psychiatric profession publishes the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, which contains GID, "and hence revision is their responsibility."
The report noted that APA has previously adopted resolutions discouraging psychologists from using diagnoses that are potentially harmful or discriminatory. "Accordingly, if thither were evidence showing the GID diagnosing to be similarly harmful and discriminative against gender-variant, transgender or transsexual people, there would be a precedent for a resolution discouraging psychologists from using this diagnosing," the task force wrote. "However � there is a outstanding deal of disagreement about the GID diagnosis and whether it is helpful or harmful; therefore, the Task Force does not recommend that APA take a lieu on GID at this time."
It is APA's situation that no psychological upset should be stigmatized or used as the basis for discrimination.
Task force members:
Chair: Margaret Schneider, PhD, University of Toronto, Canada;
Walter O. Bockting, PhD, University of Minnesota Medical School;
Randall D. Ehrbar, PsyD; New Leaf Services Our Community, San Francisco;
Anne A. Lawrence, MD, PhD, Seattle; Katherine Rachlin, PhD, New York;
Kenneth J. Zucker, PhD, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada
Full text of the chore force report is uncommitted from the APA Public Affairs Office and at http://www.apa.org/pi/lgbc/transgender/2008TaskForceReport.pdf. The resolution is at http://www.apa.org/pi/lgbc/policy/transgender.pdf.
The American Psychological Association (APA), based in Washington, DC, is the largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States and is the world's largest association of psychologists. APA's membership includes more than 148,000 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants and students. Through its divisions in 54 subfields of psychology and affiliations with 60 state, territorial and Canadian provincial associations, APA works to pass on psychology as a skill, as a profession and as a means of promoting human welfare.
Source: Kim I. Mills
American Psychological Association
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Thursday, 7 August 2008
Snoop Dogg - Snoop Doggs Attorney Clears Up Tour Bus Incident
LATEST: SNOOP DOGG's lawyer has hit back at reports the rapper's circuit bus was stopped by police in Texas for expired tags, insisting all registration documents were in order.
The Drop It Like It's Hot hitmaker's vehicle was pulled over by state troopers in Dallas on Thursday (31Jul08) for what they thought to be a traffic violation.
Two members of Snoop's retinue were by and by arrested for marijuana monomania following a search of the bus. The hip-hop star was not arrested.
However, his lawyer has now spoken out in a bid to clear up inaccurate reports of the incident.
Lawyer Chris Lewis tells AllHipHop.com, "Snoop Dogg and the circle appreciate the professionalism displayed by the Texas troopers (Thursday) afternoon.
"The tour coach was stopped for what was thought to be expired tags. Upon further investigation, it was set the autobus was electric current on its registration and was finally allowed to continue to Snoop Dogg's show in Dallas."
And Lewis is confident the two hands who had been taken into detainment will be let cancelled lightly.
He adds, "The supposed offense, a Class B misdemeanour, was listed as less than two ounces of ganja. The thomas Young men arrested don't appear to get prior criminal records. I expect that once everything has run its form, there will be a favourable resolution to this case.
"The procedure stop was otherwise uneventful. Later in the evening, Snoop Dogg and the band amused a expectant crowd in Dallas as they performed with 311 as part of the Unity Tour."
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Friday, 27 June 2008
Masada
Artist: Masada
Genre(s):
Easy Listening
Pop
Other
Jazz
Avantgarde
Discography:
At The Mountains of Madness (CD2)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 7
At The Mountains of Madness (CD1)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 8
50th Birthday Celebration, Vol. 7
Year: 2004
Tracks: 8
50th Birthday Celebration, Vol. 6
Year: 2004
Tracks: 7
Live At Tonic CD 2
Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
Live At Tonic CD 1
Year: 2001
Tracks: 8
Masada, Vol. 7: Zayin
Year: 1999
Tracks: 11
Masada, Vol. 5: Hei
Year: 1999
Tracks: 9
Masada, Vol. 4: Dalet
Year: 1999
Tracks: 3
Masada, Vol. 3: Gimel
Year: 1999
Tracks: 10
Masada, Vol. 2: Beit
Year: 1999
Tracks: 11
Masada, Vol. 1: Alef
Year: 1999
Tracks: 10
Live In Taipei
Year: 1999
Tracks: 19
Live In Middelheim
Year: 1999
Tracks: 11
Masada, Vol. 10: Yod
Year: 1998
Tracks: 11
Live In N.Y.
Year: 1997
Tracks: 4
Masada, Vol. 9: Tet
Year:
Tracks: 10
Masada, Vol. 8: Het
Year:
Tracks: 10
Masada, Vol. 6: Vav
Year:
Tracks: 9
Live in Sevilla
Year:
Tracks: 9
Live In Jerusalem (CD2)
Year:
Tracks: 9
Live In Jerusalem (CD1)
Year:
Tracks: 9
Live In Belgium
Year:
Tracks: 12
Celebs aren't public property - Theron
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Arab Strap
Artist: Arab Strap
Genre(s):
Indie
Rock
Electronic
Rock: Electronic
Discography:
The Last Romance (U.S. Advance)
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
The Last Romance
Year: 2005
Tracks: 10
Mad For Sadness
Year: 2004
Tracks: 10
The Cunted Circus
Year: 2003
Tracks: 17
Monday at the Hug and Pint
Year: 2003
Tracks: 13
The Week Never Starts Round Here
Year: 2002
Tracks: 14
Turbulence
Year: 2001
Tracks: 3
The Red Thread
Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
Love Detective
Year: 2001
Tracks: 3
Fukd Id #2
Year: 2000
Tracks: 2
Elephant Shoe
Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
Singles By Arab Strap
Year: 1999
Tracks: 10
Cherubs
Year: 1999
Tracks: 4
Philophobia
Year: 1998
Tracks: 13
Here We Go and Trippy EP
Year: 1998
Tracks: 2
(Afternoon) Soaps
Year: 1998
Tracks: 3
Singles
Year:
Tracks: 10
The Scottish post-folk couple Arab Strap were formed in mid-1995 by vocalist Aidan Moffat and multi-instrumentalist Malcolm Middleton, longtime friends wHO subsequently days of exchanging cassettes of their several bands distinct to in the end start collaborating together. Upon sign language to the hip Chemikal Underground label, they issued their debut individual, the utter and low "The First Big Weekend"; the song was a major critical pip, with Britain's Radio One declaring it the best record of the decade. In late 1996, Arab Strap issued their full-length debut, The Week Never Starts Round Here, followed a year afterward by the EP The Girls of Summer. In 1998, after marking a hit with their remix of David Holmes' "Don't Die Just Yet," Arab Strap issued their second LP, Philophobia. Elephant Shoe (2000), The Red Thread (2001), Monday at the Hug and Pint (2003), and The Last Romance (2005) followed. The band felt it had "run its course" by fall 2006, as an official promulgation was made of their disbandment. They issued the farewell, quasi-greatest-hits digest Ten Years of Tears that November and embarked on a concluding U.K. tour before career it a day.
Monday, 9 June 2008
A STIFF indie alternative to SIFF
If you're not too SIFF-ed out this weekend, consider getting STIFF-ed. Seattle's True Independent Film Festival gets under way today and continues through June 15 with 138 feature-length and short films, as well as live music and comedy. A number of locally made films will be showcased at the festival, which takes place at the Jewel Box Theatre at the Rendezvous, Central Cinema and Capitol Hill Arts Center. Single-ticket prices vary; the best deal is to get a $50 all-festival pass. View the full schedule and buy tickets/passes at stiff.bside.com/2008/schedule. (You can also find a full preview of the event at www.seattletimes.com/movies.)
Starting Sunday, Northwest Film Forum presents a 35th anniversary screening of "Wattstax," Mel Stuart's 1973 concert film documenting the evening known as "the Woodstock of black America," in which artists of the recording label Stax Records came together to commemorate the 1965 Watts riots. Isaac Hayes, the Staple Singers, the Emotions and Richard Pryor (doing comedy monologues) are among the performers. Also screening Sunday through Thursday is "Respect Yourself — The Stax Records Story," Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon's documentary celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Memphis soul label. NW Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., Seattle; for more information, see www.nwfilmforum.org or call 206-267-5380.
Never mind the gloomy weather; SAM has a film series in store this summer that should chase anyone's blues away. "Screwball Summer: American Comedy Film Classics" begins with the sublime 1936 William Powell/Carole Lombard comedy "My Man Godfrey" on July 10. (Formerly husband and wife, Powell and Lombard have a dippy on-screen chemistry that's a joy to watch.) Five more films follow on subsequent Thursdays at 7:30 p.m., including two Cary Grant classics ("The Awful Truth," "The Talk of the Town"). Series passes are on sale through the SAM box office at 206-654-3121: $39 for six films ($35 for SAM members). Go and giggle.
Film collector Dennis Nyback is bringing his vast archives to the Grand Illusion this week for the Zero to MTV Music Festival, a week of short music films. The festival includes 14 themed programs, including a history of musical short films from 1914 to 1984; the 1965 Rolling Stones concert documentary "Charlie Is My Darling"; and compilations titled "Hillbillies in Hollywood," "Jazz in the 1920s," "Boogie Woogie Boogie Woogie Boogie Woogie," "The High Lonesome Sound" (films by John Cohen featuring backwoods musicians), "Harlem in the Thirties" and more. Nyback will host the event, which takes place at 7 and 9 nightly through Thursday. 1403 N.E. 50th St., Seattle; for more details, see www.grandillusioncinema.org or call 206-523-3935.
Moira Macdonald: 206-464-2725 or mmacdonald@seattletimes.com
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Sunday, 1 June 2008
Holly Hunter - Hunter Honoured With Hollywood Star
Oscar-winning actress HOLLY HUNTER will be honoured on Friday (30May08) with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The 50-year-old will unveil her star in a ceremony on Hollywood Boulevard to mark her long career as a movie and TV actress.
Longterm pal Steven Spielberg - who directed Hunter in 1989 movie Always - and his wife Kate Capshaw have paid tribute to the actress, with a full-page ad in Hollywood trade paper Daily Variety that reads, "We are so proud of you and your 'fierce heat of living'."
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Saturday, 24 May 2008
Indy on trail of boxoffice grail
Record opening possible, but does it have staying power?
Industry tracking shows Uwe Boll's "Postal" making a late surge in prerelease polling against the recently bowed "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull."
Psych!
Actually, "Postal" appears to be going nowhere. Originally slated by Boll-owned distributor Event Film as a wide release with as many as 1,500 playdates, those plans have been scratched after a deafening chorus of resistance from major exhibitors.
Regal Cinemas and AMC circuits refused to play the farcical and politically driven black comedy, so it's now tagged for distribution starting Friday in just 13-15 theaters in seven markets.
There is one other result from exhibitors' revolt against "Postal," which spins a fantastical yarn featuring President Bush, Osama bin Laden and assorted Sept. 11 references: high prospects of a quick detour to DVD bins.
Meanwhile, Paramount's latest Indiana Jones adventure debuted in about 2,000 locations at a 12:01 a.m. Thursday. Many venues sold out for the earliest showtimes, with playdates set to swell to at least 4,260 by Friday.
Paramount executives make no bones about hoping that "Skull" can outgross in its five-day debut the $151.1 million bow posted by Sony's "Spider-Man 3" over a three-day frame in May 2007. Yet the market impact from the summer's most-anticipated opening will be measured not just this frame but also during the next couple of sessions.
Next Friday, wide openers will include Warner Bros.' high-profile film adaptation of HBO's "Sex and the City," and many have been predicting that lingering Indy mania could prove an obstacle for the film. But though "Sex" likely will pull audiences filled three-fourths with women, there appears little chance that the film will fail to draw deeply among the targeted half of the world's population.
Fandango said this week that advance group sales of tickets have been high for "Sex." A majority of respondents said they planned to attend the movie as part of a group, the online ticketing service said.
Two weekends down the road -- and surely Steven Spielberg's Harrison Ford starrer still will be playing strong -- wide openers include the family-oriented animated feature "Kung Fu Panda" from DreamsWorks/Paramount and the Adam Sandler comedy "You Don't Mess With the Zohan" from Sony. Both films have sufficient audience focus as to sidestep any lingering Indy wake.
But pity the other holdover films at multiplexes this weekend. Disney's family-fantasy sequel "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" bears particularly close watching for signs of whether it will prove leggy enough as to offset its underperformance of the franchise original with last weekend's $55 million bow.
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Sunday, 18 May 2008
TV review: Rocked the Nation: 100 NZ Music Moments
TV review: Rocked the Nation: 100 NZ Music Moments
Goodness creator, hasn't that Karyn Hay aged well. You remember her: the rock-and-roll gal wHO inspired something like breathy enthusiasm - easily, for my genesis anyway - when she fronted the music-clip show
Wednesday, 30 April 2008
Spice Girls play Cupid for Clooney
Spice Girls play Cupid for Clooney
The Spice Girls take urged Hollywood sensation George I Clooney to drive Geri Halliwell on a date later he revealed that she is his deary Spice Miss.
Clooney reportedly described Halliwell as an "inspiration" shoemaker's last workweek, inviting her to link up him on his UN missionary post to Darfur.
Later, Halliwell's bandmates spoke around the comments during an appearance on US television system show 'Good Morning America'.
Mel B asked for a date for Ginger Spice, saying: "She is one, contain her come out."
Victoria Beckham then added: "He should ask in her come out of the closet for dinner. Definitely."
Halliwell said: "It's very flattering knowing I'm George III Clooney's front-runner Spice Girl."
Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
Tuesday, 29 April 2008
Feist is winner of Shortlist Prize
Feist is winner of Shortlist Prize
Canadian singer-songwriter Fice has won the 2007 Short list Prize in the US for her album 'The Reminder'.
Hoarding reports that the judging venire for the prestigious award included Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody and the Killers' Ronnie Vannucci.
Cat Power's 'The Greatest' was the winner finish year; previous winners include TV on the Radio, Damien Rice, NERD and Sigur Ros.
Read the reappraisal of 'The Reminder' here.
Couperin, Francois
Artist: Couperin, Francois
Genre(s):
Classical
Discography:
Troisiime Livre De Piices De Clavecin
Year: 1988
Tracks: 13
Eloy
Artist: Eloy
Genre(s):
Rock: Electronic
Rock
Discography:
Eloy&Colurs
Year: 2004
Tracks: 15
Ocean 2 - The Answer
Year: 1998
Tracks: 8
The Tides Return Forever
Year: 1994
Tracks: 7
Rarites vol.2
Year: 1994
Tracks: 4
Chronicles I
Year: 1993
Tracks: 10
Chronicles 1 vol.2
Year: 1993
Tracks: 6
Destination
Year: 1992
Tracks: 8
Ra
Year: 1988
Tracks: 6
Metromania
Year: 1984
Tracks: 7
Perforomance
Year: 1983
Tracks: 7
Performance
Year: 1983
Tracks: 7
Time to turn
Year: 1982
Tracks: 7
Planets
Year: 1982
Tracks: 8
Colours
Year: 1980
Tracks: 8
Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes
Year: 1979
Tracks: 5
Live
Year: 1978
Tracks: 7
Ocean
Year: 1976
Tracks: 4
Dawn
Year: 1976
Tracks: 12
Power and The Passion
Year: 1975
Tracks: 10
Floating
Year: 1974
Tracks: 5
Inside
Year: 1973
Tracks: 4
Eloy
Year: 1971
Tracks: 7
One of the to the highest degree popular German bands of the '70s, Eloy went through several stages in their long vocation, with the only incessant appendage being guitarist/vocalist Frank Bornemann. Transforming from a political-themed firmly rock confect saltation band to a spacy progressive rock dance orchestra world Health Organisation sounded something like a commix of Jethro Tull and Pink Floyd, the Frank Bornemann (guitar, harp, percussion), Erich Schriever (atomic number 82 vocals, keyboards), Manfred Wieczorke (guitar, basso, vocals), Helmuth Draht (drums), and Wolfgang Stöcker (bass part). Taking their advert from that of a human race in the book Time Car by H.G. Wells, the circuit released their depression geartrain bingle, "Low gear light source," in 1970 and put come out of the closet their eponymic debut record album the followers year. Filled with established surd stone 'n' roll with political statements, the record album is an anomaly in the band's catalog. Schriever, wHO was creditworthy for the band's political lyrics, leftfield the radical subsequently Eloy's debut, as did Draht, world Health Organization was replaced by Fritz Randow.
Indoors, released in 1973, consolidated the grouping as a full-on liberalist rock-styled outfit. After the album, which fared right, Stöcker left field the band, to be replaced by Luitjen Janssen. Natation (1974) and Index and the Passion increased Eloy's reputation and succeeder, and the latter record script was recorded with second guitar player Detley Schwaar. It was as well the group's first class honours level retrace record album. The band then stone-broke up in 1975, with or so members of the group lacking to remain to import spacey progressive king John Stone conception albums, while others wanted a to a greater extent restrained approaching.
Eloy resurfaced in 1976 with Bornemann as the producer and mastermind behind the dance isthmus, globe Health Formation featured new members Klaus-Peter Matziol (bass, vocals), Detlev Schmidtchhen (keyboards, vocals), and Jürgen Rosenthal (drums, vocals). With this batting order, Eloy became the best-selling German represent of their time, with more and more flowery construct albums such as Morning (1976) and the spacey Ocean. 1978 sawing machine the button of Eloy Live and 1979's Unsounded Cries and Mighty Echoes was the band's highest-selling record.
Schmidtchhen and Rosenthal and and then left hand the radical to go solo and were replaced by Hannes Folberth and Jim McGillveray, independently. Eloy likewise added guitar role player Hannes Arkona. The fresh lineup released Colors in 1980, which adage the band start out to forsake their spacy elements to pursue a to a greater extent than hard rock sound. 1981's Planets and 1982's Time to Turn were 2 parts of a scientific discipline fiction conception record album that radix the group's sound more and more dominated by keyboards. The set released Carrying into action and Metromania in 1984 and then split due to musical differences afterward on a series of word of word of farewell concerts in England.
Eloy returned in 1988, this time as a geminate featuring Bornemann and multi-instrumentalist Michael Gerlach. The first-class honours degree Eloy record with this lineup was Ra, which adage a fall to the healthy of Colours. It was followed by Destination (1992). Both records did quite well on the German charts. Several members of Eloy re-formed in 1993 to re-record older tracks for Chronicles I, followed by Chronicles II the next yr. In 1994, the band recorded The Tides Deliver Forever and a day, which featured the return of Klaus-Peter Matziol. 1998 byword the trio firing Ocean 2: The Answer with freshly drummer Bodo Schopf .
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