NaturalNews seeks cartoon animator for video projects

(NaturalNews) NaturalNews is hiring! We’re looking for a talented animator who can contribute to some new music videos we are producing. I recently spent time in the studio recording three new songs for my album Beyond All Reason (http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Music.html), and now we’re looking for a talented animator to contribute to these upcoming music videos. We’re asking NaturalNews readers first because I would personally really enjoy working with someone who is aligned with our mission about nutrition, healing and natural remedies. Plus, I’d rather see the money we’ll be spending on this go to one of our readers rather than some other studio that isn’t really into natural health. These are some fairly large projects, and we’re ready to start right away if we can find the right animator. We’re looking for an animation style similar to South Park, or even something a little more edgy. These animations will involve the depiction of a lot of animated characters in funny scenes involving a fair amount of physical comedy. Another style of animation we like is from Free Range Studios (http://www.freerangestudios.com), which produced The Meatrix . They have a really nice black-and-white animation called The Story of Bottled Water (http://storyofstuff.org/bottledwater/), which also depicts an animation style we really like. Please note that we are looking for an experienced animator who already has a portfolio we can review. For the right person, we have multiple projects ready to go, even beyond the music videos mentioned above. This can be a fun and rewarding working relationship for the right person (or team), and you or your studio will be fully credited for the animation work! (Lots of good P.R. for your talents…) Our three upcoming songs are inspiring, educational and sometimes satirical hip-hop songs that have been studio recorded with professional vocalists. The songs will be released simultaneously with the music videos, and we expect to see very high viewership of all three of these projects throughout 2010. So if you’re an animator (or you know someone who is), please contact us using our feedback form (www.NaturalNews.com/feedback.html) and send us your name and a URL where we can see some of your animation samples. We’re looking to get started right away!

Music exposure helps premature babies gain weight and strength naturally, study finds

(NaturalNews) Babies born prematurely are at increased risk for a host of health problems. But now research by Israeli scientists has uncovered a non-drug way to help preemies gain weight and grow stronger quickly. A new study by Dr. Dror Mandel and Dr. Ronit Lubetzky of the Tel Aviv Medical Center, which is affiliated with Tel Aviv University’s Sackler School of Medicine, found premature infants exposed to thirty minutes of Mozart’s music daily grew far more rapidly than premature babies not exposed to the classical music. “It’s not exactly clear how the music is affecting them, but it makes them calmer and less likely to be agitated,” Dr. Mandel said in a statement to the media. “The repetitive melodies in Mozart’s music may be affecting the organizational centers of the brain’s cortex. Unlike Beethoven, Bach or Bartok, Mozart’s music is composed with a melody that is highly repetitive. This might be the musical explanation. For the scientific one, more investigation is needed.” By measuring the physiological effects of music by Mozart played to pre-term newborns for 30 minutes, Dr. Mandel and Dr. Lubetzky and colleagues documented that when the babies were exposed to the music, they expended less energy — a process that can lead to faster weight gain and growth. That’s important because the sooner preemies attain an acceptable body weight, the sooner they can go home. The longer they have to stay in the hospital, the more they are exposed to possible infections. What’s more, a healthy body weight is believed to strengthen their immune systems so the babies are more likely to avoid illness in the future. The researchers pointed out that several other environmental effects, such as tactile stimulation (whether the baby is held and stroked adequately) and room lighting, are already known to affect the survival and benefit the health of fragile premature infants. The new study, however, is the first to directly study the effect of music on these newborns. “Medical practitioners are aware that by changing the environment, we can create a whole new treatment paradigm for babies in neonatal care,” Dr. Mandel stated. “The point of our research is to quantify these effects so that standards and care-guides can be developed. We still don’t know the long-term effects of the music, or if other kinds of music will work just as well.” For more information: http://www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=11369 http://www.naturalnews.com/026668_the_brain_MSN_blood.html About the author Sherry Baker is a widely published writer whose work has appeared in Newsweek, Health, the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Yoga Journal, Optometry, Atlanta, Arthritis Today, Natural Healing Newsletter, OMNI, UCLA’s “Healthy Years” newsletter, Mount Sinai School of Medicine’s “Focus on Health Aging” newsletter, the Cleveland Clinic’s “Men’s Health Advisor” newsletter and many others.

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