Blog for Youth

According to the American Cancer Society’s annual report on cancer statistics released on Wednesday, cancer death rates are continuing to fall and have dropped by 1.8 percent per year in men and 1.6 percent per year in women between 2004 and 2008.

The report suggested that cancer screening and treatment advances have prevented more than a million total deaths from cancer since the early 1990s.

“The big news this year is that cancer deaths are still going down,” said Dr. Raymond DuBois, provost and executive vice president at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. “It’s not hitting the ball out of the park, but it had been going up several years prior to that. It’s sign now that it is on the decline,” DuBois said in a telephone interview.

A European poll has shown that a third of doctors working in intensive care units (ICUs) believe one or more of their patients is getting inappropriate care, with slightly fewer nurses sharing the same sentiment.

“What this study shows is that a striking number of ICU physicians and nurses on any given day are providing care they perceive to be inappropriate,” Dr. Scott Halpern, who wrote an editorial about the findings, told Reuters Health.

“What it doesn’t tell us is why they are doing it,” he said. “We live in a society where life-support and aggressive care are provided by default,” said Halpern, who studies critical care at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in Philadelphia.

Results of a new survey has shocked Austrians after it revealed that one in ten young people think Adolf Hitler was not all bad and that he did some ‘good things’.

Despite years of multi-cultural teaching in schools, many are also anti-immigrant and anti-foreigner.

Kurier newspaper of the country called the findings by the Youth Culture Research Institute ‘frightening’ – particularly as it is coupled with the general mistrust and dislike of non-Austrians.

Austria was taken over by Hitler – himself an Austrian by birth – in 1938.

‘Young, open, tolerant? The ideal of an open, socially minded younger generation remains, as a current study shows, an illusion,’ said Austria’s Standard newspaper.

‘Youth are openly hostile to foreigners and are anti-Semitic to an amazingly large degree.’

‘Too many Turks live in this country,’ said 43.6 percent of the respondents.

There seems to be nothing more important for a teenage girl than making a memorable appearance on the prom. In this piece of information, we will be accessing some really cool tips and ideas on prom makeup that will help you decide which style is best for you.

The first and foremost thing that you need to remember is to ensure that you will adore the prom makeup that complements the look you want to create and fits the hairstyle. If you have an uneven skin tone or worried about acne, you should not be applying heavy makeup on the face completely. It is suggested that you use a good quality concealer but do make sure that it is applied only on problematic spots so that foundation that will be coming on top of the concealer would not have not be heavily applied.

As far as getting the cheeks blushed is concerned, you need to apply the blush correctly and on the right areas. It is recommended that you apply them on areas that extend out when you smile. For this, you need to first identify the areas and then apply blush using a large soft brush and move the brush in circular motion.

The lip color should be dialed down if your eye makeup is heavy. If you have pale white skin, it is best to go for color options like green, gray, and pink and colors like plum, yellow, red, and brown if you have dark skin. Color options such as bronze, orange, and yellow are good for girls with olive skin.

Try out these prom makeup tips and ideas and let us know if they worked for you!

If you want to be like Demi Lovato, the famous teen actor and singer, these tips to look like Demi Lovato would surely be useful to you.

Demi Lovato, of the Disney Channel fame, was often seen sporting the dyed jet-black hair, straight teeth and a big & black-bang sweeped to the side of her forehead look. She now has light brown hair with blonde highlights and adores a fresh and light wardrobe. Demi has a habit of always carrying white eyeliner and prefers light eye shadows. However, you should avoid too much makeup.

Prefer to buy dresses and jackets that are bright. Go for fresh colors such as blue, white, green, pink, brown, or tie-dye and opt for denim or weaved jackets. Never be afraid of trying new styles but only if they look good on you. As far as accessories are concerned, try out playful accessories such as big bangles, silver or gold, or hoop earrings, long necklaces, hair bands, etc. that are always admired by Demi Lovato. While choosing shoes, go for vibrant colors like black, yellow, pink, green, or blue and purchase a pair of flats and flip-flops and short ankle boots.

In order to have a gorgeous body as Demi Lovato, do spend quality time pampering yourself with premium beauty and fashion products but only those that can be trusted and good for you. Moreover, exercise daily for at least 30-45 minutes and never go under the sun without sunglasses and apply sunscreen lotion before facing the scorching heat. Follow these tips and the hidden Demi Lovato in you would come out before you even expect.

Dodgers On Way To Bankruptcy Court Auction

The Dodgers Stadium may soon be displaying a “For Sale” sign.

On early Wednesday, the process of finding a new owner for the Los Angeles Dodgers began when current boss Frank McCourt and Major League Baseball released a joint statement saying they had agreed to a court-supervised sale of the once-glamorous and now bankrupt franchise.

From news.yahoo.com:

In the long-term, the deal will allow the Dodgers to move ahead and try to get back to baseball’s elite. But the club’s fans may well have to endure another season adrift as the sale works itself out.

While the sides hope for a quick deal, giving McCourt the money to pay his divorce settlement by April, MLB sales sometimes drag on for six months to 1½ years. Once bidders are identified, the court is likely to conduct an auction.

“Baseball can choose to have their approval process move like molasses in winter or like Castor oil through a baby,” said Marc Ganis, president of Sportscorp, a Chicago-based consulting firm.

“Contrary to questions I got today, we’re not buying the Dodgers,” News Corp. chief operating officer Chase Carey told analysts on a conference call Wednesday.

There is a “shocking” association — if only a statistical one — between violence by teenagers and the amount of soda they drank, according to researchers in the United States.

“What we found was that there was a strong relationship between how many soft drinks that these inner-city kids consumed and how violent they were, not only in violence against peers but also violence in dating relationships, against siblings,” said David Hemenway, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health.

From news.yahoo.com:

Among those who drank one or no cans of soft drink a week, 23 percent carried a gun or a knife; 15 percent perpetrated violence towards a partner; and 35 percent had been violent towards peers.

At the other end of the scale, among those who drank 14 cans a week, 43 percent carried a gun or a knife; 27 percent had been violent towards a partner; and more than 58 percent had been violent towards peers.

Overall, teens who were heavy consumers of sugary fizz were between nine and 15 percentage points likelier to show aggressive behaviour compared with low consumers, even when ethnicity and other confounding factors were taken into account.

The study was published in a British journal, Injury Prevention.

Several wildlife protection groups are suing the federal agency that regulates fishing in U.S. waters and claimed the government isn’t doing enough to protect endangered sea turtles from drowning in shrimp nets.

The lawsuit filed on Thursday in Washington claims the National Marine Fisheries Service violates the Endangered Species Act by letting some shrimpers operate without required turtle excluder devices on their nets and exempting some shrimping from the requirement.

From news.yahoo.com:

The gear is required on many shrimp trawls in federal and state waters, but some kinds of trawls and other nets are exempt under certain conditions. A Louisiana law passed in 1987 makes it illegal for state wildlife agents to enforce turtle excluder device regulations in state waters.

The plaintiffs want a court order requiring all shrimpers to have the devices. The wildlife groups claim that more than 1,400 dead and injured turtles have washed ashore this year.

“Gulf shrimp trawling continues to be a brutal, relentless killer of endangered sea turtles — there’s simply no other way to put it,” said Todd Steiner, executive director of Seaturtles.org. “For generations, industrial shrimping has been the leading cause of sea turtle death — an atrocity that is completely unnecessary, if shrimpers used the low-cost technology that has existed for over two decades.”

“Historically, the shrimp industry has a TED compliance rate of 99 percent. That rate dropped temporary after the BP oil spill,” said a statement from the Southern Shrimp Alliance.

According to the preliminary results of a new US study, the vaccine for whooping cough commonly administered to young children loses its effectiveness after three years.

The results come from a survey of 15,000 children in Marin County, California, where an outbreak of the bacterial disease killed 11 infants and infected more than 8,000 people in 2010.

From news.yahoo.com:

“When we first started having a pertussis outbreak, we assumed that this would be primarily in the unvaccinated population,” Dr David Witt, of Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in San Rafael, California told a conference in Chicago, using the scientific name for the once-common childhood disease.

“What we pretty quickly identify is that the bulk of the outbreak was in fully vaccinated children” in the 8-12 age group, he said.

“Older kids and younger kids seemed to be pretty well protected but the age of eight to 12 was the vast bulk of the cases. And when we examined that, it was correlated to being more than three years from the last vaccine booster dose.”

The preliminary results were presented at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) organized by the American Society of Microbiology.

If you are looking for some of the best personality development quotes, this compilation of inspiring quotations is just meant for you.

You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills. – Jim Rohn

Who likes not his business, his business likes not him. – William Hazlitt

The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many. – John Naisbitt

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. – Henry Ford

It’s through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we’ve always mapped our path at Dell. There’s always an opportunity to make a difference. – Michael Dell

If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours. – Ray Kroc

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating. – Denis Waitley

Management is nothing more than motivating other people. – Le Iacocca

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The truly dangerous thing is asking the wrong question. – Peter Drucker

Why did I want to win? Because I didn’t want to lose! – Max Schmelling