ARTICLE OF CODY SIMPSON

       

Cody Simpson is a 13 year old singer from Queensland Australia. Currently he is represented by the United States record company, Atlantic Records.

Cody began his music career by recording his own music videos in his bedroom and publishing them online to Youtube. It was there that his unique talent and great singing voice was discovered by the Grammy nominated producer Shawn Campbell, whom you may know represents Jay Z.

Cody finally got noticed when he was booked to sing on the popular Australian current affairs program The 7:20 report. His first single iYiYi was then released which featured the famous American rapper Flo Rider.

Simpson currently resides in Los Angeles where he works on producing new songs. Currently however he is touring the United states with the Camplifted 2010 Tour, along with many other well known artists. This tour began in early July and is set to finish on the 13th of August.

Cody has two younger siblings called Tom and Ali, and competes in activities outside of music. Cody is a gifted swimmer whom under Ken Nixon at the Miami Swim Club (Australia), he has won two gold medals at the prestigious Queensland Swim Championships. His mother is also a volunteer at the same club in which he trains and competes with.

With his young age and unique singing voice Cody is very well setup to do well in the music business. Other teen singers his age have proven it's possible and there is a large market for singers like this.


PS: oh yeah i'm just somebody, but there's nothing wrong doing this, he's just so cute and i cant help it ^^ goin to read my notes after this 9.45PM advance goodnight and thanks for the effort of reading this


MY INSPIRATION TO STRIVE HARDER :) GOODLUCK TO BOTH OF US

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Teen girls' brains hit hard by binge-drinking: study

Binge-drinking can have a long-lasting negative effect on the brains of teenaged girls, hitting them harder than it does young boys, a study released Friday shows.

Researchers from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and Stanford University found that girls who binge-drink -- defined as having four or more drinks for women and five or more for men -- showed less activity in several brain regions than teetotal teenagers, both girl and boy, the study said.

"These differences in brain activity were linked to worse performance on other measures of attention and working memory ability," Stanford University psychiatry professor Susan Tapert, a co-author of the study, said.

Male teenage binge-drinkers also showed some differences in brain activity to their non-drinking counterparts, but less abnormality than was seen in the girls, the study says.

"This suggests that female teens may be particularly vulnerable to the negative effects of heavy alcohol use," Tapert said.

Alcohol could affect teen girls' brains more than it does their male counterparts' for a number of reasons, including that girls' brains develop one to two years earlier than males', said Tapert.

"So alcohol use during a different developmental stage -- despite the same age -- could account for the gender differences," she said.

Other reasons include hormonal differences between girls and boys, and girls' slower rates of metabolism, higher body fat ratios, and lower body weight.

The findings are "similar to what generally has been found in adult alcoholics: while both men and women are adversely affected, women are often more vulnerable than men to deleterious effects on the brain," Tapert said.

Ninety-five teens took part in the study, including 40 who said they had binge-drunk.

The teens self-reported how much and how often they had had a tipple in their lifetime, and how much alcohol they had consumed in the three months prior to the study.

They then underwent medical resonance imaging while carrying out a task that activated the parts of the brain responsible for spatial working memory, which allows a person to perceive the space around them and work with the information taken in from that space.

Impairment of spatial working memory could lead to difficulties driving -- Americans as young as 15 can get their driving license -- figural reasoning, such as that used in geometry class, remembering and enacting complex sports plays, using a map, or remembering how to get to places.

Previous studies have shown that spatial working memory is impaired through heavy drinking.

None of the teens who took part in the study had a drink problem. The ones who had binge-drunk did so at a social gathering but then did not drink again for weeks.

And yet, warned Edith Sullivan, a professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine, the negative effects of excessive drinking lingered long after the buzz from the booze was gone.

"Long after a young person -- middle school to college -- enjoys recovery from a hang-over, this study shows that risk to cognitive and brain functions endures," Sullivan said.

The study, which will be published in the October edition of "Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research" and was available online Friday, says nearly three in 10 American teens in the final year of high school reported binge drinking in the past month.