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Kylie Minogue Makes Her Shimmering Return With The Dance Floor-Ready 'Say Something'
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Not only is Australian icon Kylie Minogue affectionately know as the "Princess of Pop," but she's also the highest-selling female Australian artist of all time and has been awarded a number of accolades. While she's known for her disco-adjacent pop, the singer won't let shuttered clubs keep her from sharing dancefloor-ready bangers. Kylie made a shimmering return Thursday with the effervescent lead single "Say Something," which heralds her upcoming album Disco.
Disco impressively marks Kylie's 15th studio record and follows her 2018 effort Golden, which rose to No. 1 in both Australia and the UK. With "Say Something," Kylie continues her signature electro-pop sound while refining the single's intricately-layered textures. The song was recorded with longtime-producer Biff Stannard, who is known for co-writing the Spice Girls hit "Wannabe."
The single opens with diluted synths, which drop into a funky, bass-forward hook. While the song was written months ago, its message takes on a whole new meaning in light of the pandemic. Kylie sings of the ways in which love can cross all boundaries, even if the distance seems insurmountable. "We're a million miles apart in a thousand ways / Love is love it never ends, can we all be as one again?" Kylie sings.
Listen to "Say Something" above.
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Изнасилование в браке — принуждение одним супругом другого к совершению полового акта. С середины 1970-х гг. в некоторых странах признаётся судами уголовно наказуемым деянием. Изнасилование в браке также известно под названием супружеское изнасилование, в котором преступником является супруг (супруга) жертвы, и оно не является сексом по обоюдному согласию. Как таковое, оно является одной из форм домашнего насилия или сексуального злоупотребления. Ранее игнорируемое законом, изнасилование в браке в настоящее время возбраняется международными конвенциями, и виновники усиленно призываются к уголовной ответственности. Тем не менее, во многих странах изнасилование в браке либо остается законным, либо незаконным, но зачастую рассматривается чаще как прерогатива мужа.

Восприятие
Некоторые страны Восточной Европы и Скандинавии объявили изнасилование в браке незаконным до 1970 года, но большинство стран Западной Европы и англо-говорящего мира признали его преступлением гораздо позже, в основном в 1980-х и 1990-х годах. В развивающихся странах это произошло ещё позже, в 1990-х и 2000-х. К 2006 году изнасилование в браке являлось уголовно наказуемым по крайней мере в 104 странах, но с того момента это число увеличилось.

Литература, подробно изучающая данный вопрос, особенно его охват и возымевший эффект, распространяется дальше обычного использования термина «супружеское изнасилование» и включает в себя также случаи с разведёнными бывшими супругами и даже не состоящими в браке сожителями. Действующие законы государства, однако, часто относят изнасилование экс-супругами или сожителями к отличающимся от изнасилования в браке, и, следовательно, юридически оно эквивалентно изнасилованию незнакомцем.

Полемика
В истории уголовного права спорным являлся вопрос о возможности изнасилования собственной жены (реже мужа). Так, И. Я. Фойницкий в 1916 году писал, что изнасилована не может быть жена, и даже просто женщина, с которой виновное лицо состоит в длительной связи; по его мнению, ответственность в данном случае может наступать за применение насилия само по себе, но не за изнасилование. А. В. Лохвицкий обосновывает данную позицию тем, что «если бы жена и сопротивлялась его [мужа] желанию и он употребил насилие для удовлетворения, он всё-таки не может быть наказан как изнасилователь на том основании, что совокупление есть конечная цель брака, и женщина, вступая в супружество, тем самым отрекается в отношении мужа от права  [половой] неприкосновенности». С данным высказыванием солидаризуются и некоторые современные учёные (правда, признавая право женщины на несогласие с необходимостью выполнять извращённые половые потребности, а также учитывая возможность фактического прекращения брачных отношений).

Большая часть юристов в СССР и России придерживалась и придерживается противоположной точки зрения. Возможность изнасилования жены обосновывается тем, что брачный союз, хотя и предполагает наличие «супружеского долга», под которым понимаются обещания взаимной физической близости, является равноправным, не допускающим принуждения со стороны одного из субъектов. Ни закон, ни современная общественная мораль не связывают вступление в брак с отказом от права на половую свободу, не признают обязанности женщины в любой удобный для мужа момент удовлетворять его половую потребность. Напротив, брачные отношения связываются с взаимным уважением потребностей и чувств друг друга, так что муж должен согласовывать свои потребности и желания с потребностями и желаниями жены.

Имеет специфику уголовно-правовая оценка полового сношения, осуществляемого постоянным половым партнёром в отношении женщины, находящейся в беспомощном состоянии вследствие опьянения. Указывается, что, как правило, в такой ситуации у мужчины обычно (если ему не известно обратное) имеются все основания предполагать наличие согласия на вступление в половые отношения. Ввиду этого в литературе предлагается не квалифицировать данное деяние как изнасилование, если потерпевшая заранее не высказала нежелание на вступление в такой половой контакт.

См. также
 Закон о согласии в Швеции
 Законопроект «О профилактике семейно-бытового насилия в Российской Федерации»
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Frontiers in Psychology
Overeating and Decision Making Vulnerabilities View all 11 Articles
Jasmin Vassileva
Virginia Commonwealth University, United States
Valentina Ivezaj
School of Medicine, Yale University, United States
Elsa F. Fouragnan
School of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom
Front. Psychol., 26 April 2018 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00609
Questionnaire-Based Maladaptive Decision-Coping Patterns Involved in Binge Eating Among 1013 College Students
Wan-Sen Yan1,2*, Ran-Ran Zhang1, Yan Lan1, Zhi-Ming Li1 and Yong-Hui Li2
1Department of Psychology, School of Medical Humanitarians, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, China
2Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Binge Eating Disorder (BED), considered a public health problem because of its impact on psychiatric, physical, and social functioning, merits much attention given its elevation to an independent diagnosis in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5). Similar with substance use disorders, some neuropsychological and personality constructs are potentially implicated in the onset and development of BED, in which poor decision-making has been suggested to facilitate overeating and BED. The objective of this study was to investigate the associations between decision-coping patterns, monetary decision-making, and binge-eating behavior in young adults. A sample of 1013 college students, equally divided into binge-eating and non-binge-eating groups according to the scores on the Binge Eating Scale (BES), were administered multiple measures of decision-making including the Melbourne Decision-Making Questionnaire (MDMQ), the Delay-discounting Test (DDT), and the Probability Discounting Test (PDT). Compared with the non-binge-eating group, the binge-eating group displayed elevated scores on maladaptive decision-making patterns including Procrastination, Buck-passing, and Hypervigilance. Logistic regression model revealed that only Procrastination positively predicted binge eating. These findings suggest that different dimensions of decision-making may be distinctly linked to binge eating among young adults, with Procrastination putatively identified as a risk trait in the development of overeating behavior, which might promote a better understanding of this disorder.
Compulsive overeating, formally named binge eating disorder (BED) as an independent diagnosis in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (i.e., DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association, 2013), is characterized by consuming large amounts of (mostly highly palatable) food with an overwhelming desire and the associated sense of loss of control (Peat et al., 2017). The lifetime prevalence estimates of DSM-IV BED among adults were 2.8% (3.5% for women and 2.0% for men) in the United States (Hudson et al., 2007) and 1.9% (2.6% for women and 1.1% for men) across 14 WHO World Mental Health (WMH) countries (Kessler et al., 2013). BED is considered a public health problem because it is associated with significant psychiatric and medical complications (Mitchell and Crow, 2010) as well as an increased risk for weight gain and obesity (Stice et al., 2002).
Binge eating disorder has multiple clinical similarities with substance use disorders in some cases, such as the intense cravings for certain foods and a feeling of loss of control even in the face of negative consequences (Davis and Carter, 2009). Besides, BED and addictive disorders share a number of proposed mechanisms including impulsivity and a hyper-reward response to relevant cues (Schulte et al., 2016). There is also substantial overlap between BED and food addiction (Davis, 2017), though the latter topic remains controversial. Akin to addictive disorders, poor decision-making might facilitate overeating. It has been suggested that addictive behaviors are associated with complex cognitive and emotional deficits in the process of decision-making (Redish et al., 2008), thus it is important to acknowledge the possible pathways of decision-making in the onset and development of binge-eating behavior.
Decision making is a complex process involving different choices (e.g., everyday food choices among individuals with BED). There are various decision-making measurements in cognitive neuroscience and behavioral economics. Laboratory cognitive tasks such as the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT; Bechara et al., 1994) mainly test the decision-making abilities of subjects in ambiguity conditions. The Delay-discounting Test (DDT; Kirby et al., 1999) and the Probability Discounting Test (PDT; Madden et al., 2009) primarily measure the individual choice propensity in risk conditions. There are also some self-report personality questionnaires, such as the Melbourne Decision-Making Questionnaire (MDMQ; Mann et al., 1997). The MDMQ characterizes competent decision-making or vigilance as an adaptive appraisal prior to decision-making, while avoiding decisions (i.e., procrastination and buck-passing) or quickly making a choice to escape the uncomfortable feeling of decision making (i.e., hypervigilance) are considered maladaptive traits (Gorodetzky et al., 2011).
Despite scarce evidence, several previous studies have investigated the cognitive profile including decision-making in patients with BED. In one study (Svaldi et al., 2010), women with obesity and BED displayed impaired decision-making in comparison with overweight women without BED on the Game of Dice Task (GDT; Brand et al., 2005), which assesses decision-making under risk with explicit rules for gains and losses. In another study, though female individuals with obesity and BED had worse decision-making performance on the IGT and a Delay Discounting measure compared with normal-weight females, these group differences vanished when education level was taken into account, and there were no task differences between overweight women with and without BED (Davis et al., 2010). Nevertheless, women patients with BED displayed decision-making deficits on the IGT compared to healthy women, which seemed comparable with the poor decision-making performance of women with obesity in this study (Danner et al., 2012). More recently, Aloi et al. (2015) compared decision-making, central coherence and set-shifting functions between women BED patients, Anorexia Nervosa (AN) patients, and healthy controls with a large sample. The results revealed that both BED and AN patients had significantly lower IGT scores compared with healthy controls, showing impaired capacities to advantageously utilize feedback processing in decision making. A functional neuroimaging study of reward-based decision-making in BED has further observed impaired behavioral adaptation in BED patients compared to healthy individuals, accompanied by diminished activation in the anterior insula/ventro-lateral prefrontal cortex (related to exploratory decisions) and reduced representation of ventro-medial prefrontal learning signatures (associated with successful decision-making) (Reiter et al., 2017). Albeit these limited studies and discrepant results, targeting a more precise profile of decision-making in BED may provide a better understanding of the pathogenesis.
The present study thus employed the MDMQ that describes individual decision-coping patterns in daily life at the personality-trait level, as well as the DDT and the PDT that evaluate personal preference in hypothetical money reward choices at the behavioral level, aiming to further investigate the relationships between different dimensions of decision-making and BED with a relatively large sample of general population. It was hypothesized that individuals with binge eating would be more likely to show a steeper delay discounting and a trend toward decreased discounting of probabilistic rewards than individuals without binge eating, and exhibit more maladaptive decision-making patterns on the MDMQ.
Participants and Procedure
The data were collected in November 2016. Participants included 1050 young adult students, recruited from 12 randomly selected 1st-year courses at a local university in Guiyang, China. All of them were invited to carry out a battery of self-report questionnaires including the demographic information in a 45-min psychology class. The inclusion criteria were: (1) ≥18 years of age, and (2) willingness to participate in this study. The exclusion criteria included current/past major psychiatric disorders (e.g., schizophrenia, major depressive disorder), a history of brain injury/trauma, current/past neurological diseases or mental disorders, and current/past use of psychoactive drugs (e.g., cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine) by self-report. Thirty-seven students were excluded according to one or more of these exclusion criteria. Finally, 1013 students (average age = 18.85, ranging from 18 to 24 years) were included in data analyses. All subjects provided written informed consent and were compensated with a gift equal to RMB ¥50. This study was approved by the Human Research Ethics Committee at the Guizhou Medical University. Our proposed recruitment process, study design, and plans to compensate participants were consistent with the Declaration of Helsinki.
Binge Eating Classification
Binge-eating status was classified by employing the Binge Eating Scale (BES; Gormally et al., 1982), which is used to identify individuals with binge-eating behavior, to evaluate binge-eating severity and also as a parameter of treatment outcome (Freitas et al., 2006). BES is a 16-item self-report questionnaire, with a total score ranging from 0 to 46. Subjects scoring 17 and less on the BES are considered individuals without binge eating, and those with a score ≥18 are considered individuals with binge eating (Marcus et al., 1988; Greeno et al., 1995; Ricca et al., 2000). In our study, the Chinese version of the BES (He et al., 2014; Wu et al., 2015) was used. Cronbach's α for the scale was 0.77. There were 85 persons in the binge-eating group (MBES = 21.49) and 928 persons in the non-binge-eating group (MBES = 7.28) according to BES scores.
Decision-Coping Patterns
The MDMQ (Mann et al., 1997) was used to assess adaptive and maladaptive decision-making traits in the binge-eating and non-binge-eating groups. MDMQ is a 22-item self-report inventory measuring four major coping patterns based on the conflict theory of decision-making (Janis and Mann, 1977). It consists of four subscales (i.e., vigilance, procrastination, buck-passing, and hypervigilance) scoring on a three-point scale: "not true for me" = 0, "sometimes true" = 1, "true for me" = 2. According to Mann et al. (1997), the adaptive or competent decision-making pattern might be characterized by higher scores on the vigilance scale (e.g., I like to consider all of the alternatives when making decisions), and avoidant patterns could be indicated by higher scores on the procrastination scale (e.g., Even after I have made a decision I delay acting upon it) and buck-passing scale (e.g., I prefer to leave decisions to others), while impulsivity and defective decision-making might be indicated by higher hypervigilance scores (e.g., I cannot think straight if I have to make a decision in a hurry). In the current study, the Chinese version of the MDMQ (Mann et al., 1998; Zhou et al., 2014) was adopted, and Cronbach's α for the four subscales was 0.73 (vigilance), 0.66 (procrastination), 0.75 (buck-passing), and 0.63 (hypervigilance), respectively.
Reward Discounting Measures
The DDT (Kirby et al., 1999) and PDT (Madden et al., 2009) were employed to assess the discounting degree of delayed or probabilistic rewards in the context of monetary decision-making. The DDT is a 27-item choice questionnaire between immediate but smaller and delayed but larger monetary rewards. Delay discounting implies a trend that subjects prefer a smaller immediate reward to a larger delayed reward, defined as impulsivity in opposition to self-control (Dixon et al., 2003). The hyperbolic equation V = A/(1+kD) was used to calculate the degree of delay discounting. In this equation, V is the subjective value of the delayed reward, A is the nominal amount of the delayed reward, D is the length of the delay, and k is a free parameter of delay discounting (i.e., discounting rate). A larger k-value describes a higher degree of delay discounting. In this study, we used an adapted version among Chinese students (Sun and Li, 2011). Examples for this version are "A: receiving ¥9000 now; B: receiving ¥10000 one year later" and "A: receiving ¥1000 now; B: receiving ¥10000 one year later." Consistent with previous literature, k-values were calculated and log-transformed. The PDT is a three-part monetary-choice questionnaire with 10 questions in each part. Participants were instructed to circle their preferred outcome. One outcome was a smaller amount of money delivered "for sure" and the other was a larger amount of money delivered probabilistically (e.g., "$40 for sure" vs. "a 5-in-10 chance (50%) of winning $100"). The degree of probability discounting was calculated by the equation V = A/(1+hΘ), which uses the parameter Θ = (1-p)/p to substitute the odds against winning for the delay, describing hyperbolically declining subjective values of probabilistic outcomes (Rachlin et al., 1991). In this equation, the free parameter h refers to the degree of probability discounting. Lower h implies that probabilistic rewards is less steeply discounted, suggesting a reduction in risk aversion. The PDT has been appropriately used among Chinese college students (Yan et al., 2016). In our study, the degree of probability discounting (h) is obtained and analyzed using the similar methods as in previous study (Madden et al., 2009). The h scores were also log-transformed to approximate a normal distribution.
Data were analyzed with the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences for Windows, Version 15.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, United States). Chi-square tests were used to test between-group differences on categorical variables (i.e., gender, ethnicity, home locality, smoking, and drinking status), and T-tests were used to test group differences on age and Body Mass Index (BMI). MDMQ, DDT and PDT scores were compared between the groups using a 2 (group: binge-eating, non-binge-eating) × 2 (gender: male, female) multivariate analysis of variance (mANOVA) model. Partial correlations were tested between the MDMQ, DDT, PDT, and BES scores with age, gender, ethnicity, and home locality as the control variables. Complementally, a multivariable linear regression model was also conducted to test the effects of MDMQ, DDT and PDT scores on BES scores. Logistic regression was employed to examine the effects of MDMQ, DDT, and PDT scores on binge eating behavior, with gender as the control variable, given that the group difference on gender was significant. Multicollinearity was not a problem for any variable in theses regression models according to the variance inflation factor (VIF < 10). Statistical significance was set at p < 0.05, two-tailed.
Group Differences on Demographics and Decision-Making Measures
Table 1 describes the demographics and decision-making scores of the groups. In keeping with the literature (Dingemans et al., 2002), females were more likely than males to be involved in binge eating (χ2 = 20.547, p < 0.001), thus in further analyses gender was controlled as a between-group variable. No significant between-group differences were observed for age (t = -0.157, p = 0.875), ethnicity (χ2= 0.001, p = 0.998), home locality (χ2= 0.259, p = 0.611), BMI (t = 0.80, p = 0.424), smoking (χ2= 0.015, p = 0.902) or drinking (χ2= 1.750, p = 0.626) status.
TABLE 1. Demographic characteristics and scale scores of the sample (N = 1013).
On the MDMQ, the 2 (group: binge-eating, non-binge-eating) × 2 (gender: male, female) mANOVA model revealed significant group differences on Procrastination [F(1,1009) = 13.338, p < 0.001, ηp2 = 0.013], Buck-passing [F(1,1009) = 6.141, p = 0.013, ηp2 = 0.006], and Hypervigilance [F(1,1009) = 4.403, p = 0.036, ηp2 = 0.004] except Vigilance [F(1,1009) = 3.035, p = 0.082]. Simple comparisons displayed that the binge-eating group had higher scores than the non-binge-eating group on Procrastination (Md = 1.197, p < 0.001, Cohen's d = 0.52), Buck-passing (Md = 0.999, p = 0.013, Cohen's d = 0.35), and Hypervigilance (Md = 0.640, p = 0.036, Cohen's d = 0.30). The mANOVA model also showed significant gender differences on Buck-passing [F(1,1009) = 4.749, p = 0.030, ηp2 = 0.005] and Hypervigilance [F(1,1009) = 10.995, p = 0.001, ηp2 = 0.011] but not on Vigilance [F(1,1009) = 0.807, p = 0.369] or Procrastination [F(1,1009) = 1.255, p = 0.263]. Simple comparisons found that females scored higher than males on Buck-passing (Md = 0.878, p = 0.030, Cohen's d = 0.31] and Hypervigilance (Md = 1.011, p = 0.001, Cohen's d = 0.47). There were no significant interaction effects of group × gender on Vigilance [F(1,1009) = 1.611, p = 0.205], Procrastination [F(1,1009) = 0.606, p = 0.436], Buck-passing [F(1,1009) = 2.930, p = 0.087], or Hypervigilance [F(1,1009) = 1.984, p = 0.159].
On the DDT, the 2 (group: binge-eating, non-binge-eating) × 2 (gender: male, female) mANOVA model did not find significant group differences on the k-values (log-transformed) [F(1,1009) = 0.050, p = 0.823]. There were also no significant gender differences or interaction effects of group × gender on the k-values (log-transformed) [F(1,1009) = 3.725, p = 0.054; F(1,1009) = 0.109, p = 0.741, respectively]. On the PDT, the 2 (group: binge-eating, non-binge-eating) × 2 (gender: male, female) mANOVA model revealed no significant group differences on the h-values (log-transformed) of Part A ($20 vs. $80), Part B ($40 vs. $100), or Part C ($40 vs. $60) [F(1,1009) = 0.002, p = 0.965; F(1,1009) = 3.018, p = 0.083; F(1,1009) = 0.495, p = 0.482, respectively]. There were also no significant gender differences on the h-values (log-transformed) of Part A, Part B, or Part C [F(1,1009) = 1.966, p = 0.161; F(1,1009) = 0.599, p = 0.439; F(1,1009) = 0.006, p = 0.936, respectively]. The interaction effects of group × gender on the h-values (log-transformed) of the three parts were not significant [F(1,1009) = 0.910, p = 0.340; F(1,1009) = 0.317, p = 0.574; F(1,1009) = 0.079, p = 0.779, respectively].
Partial Correlations and Multivariable Linear Regression
Table 2 displayed the partial correlations between decision-making measures and BES scores, with age, gender, ethnicity, and home locality as the control variables. Data revealed significant positive correlations between BES scores and MDMQ Procrastination, Buck-passing as well as Hypervigilance (rp = 0.189–0.264, ps < 0.001). However, no significant associations were detected between BES scores and MDMQ Vigilance, DDT k-values (log-transformed), and PDT h-values (log-transformed) of Part A, Part B, and Part C (ps > 0.05).
TABLE 2. Partial correlations (rp) between decision-making measures and BES scores (N = 1013).
A multivariable linear regression model was further used to test the effects of MDMQ, DDT, and PDT scores on BES scores with a 2-step design (i.e., gender was entered in step 1 as the control variable, and the decision-making variables were entered in step 2 as the predictors). Table 3 displayed that MDMQ Procrastination, Buck-passing, and Hypervigilance were the positive predictors for BES scores after excluding the effects of gender [F(9,1003) = 23.808, p < 0.001; ΔR2 = 0.092, p < 0.001].
TABLE 3. Multivariable linear regression analyses of decision-making measures on BES scores (N = 1013).
Logistic Regression Outcomes
A binary logistic regression model was conducted fundamentally to test the effects of decision-making measures on binge eating behavior comparing the two groups (i.e., binge eating vs. non-binge eating). A 2-step design was used: gender was entered in step 1 as the control variable, and the four MDMQ dimensions (Vigilance, Procrastination, Buck-passing, and Hypervigilance), DDT k-values (log-transformed) and PDT h-values (log-transformed) of Part A, Part B, and Part C were entered in step 2. Table 4 revealed that only MDMQ Procrastination positively predicted binge eating (OR = 1.191, p < 0.01; Nagelkerke R2 = 0.130 for the model). However, none of the MDMQ Vigilance, Buck-passing and Hypervigilance, DDT k-values (log-transformed), and PDT h-values (log-transformed) of three parts displayed a significant predictive effect on binge eating behavior.
TABLE 4. Logistic regression analyses of decision-making scores on binge eating controlling for gender.
This study compared different measures of decision-making in young adults with and without binge eating behavior. Our data revealed elevated scores on maladaptive decision-coping patterns of the MDMQ including Procrastination, Buck-passing, and Hypervigilance in the binge-eating group in comparison to the non-binge-eating group. Significant positive associations were found between BES scores and Procrastination, Buck-passing as well as Hypervigilance scores, and Procrastination, Buck-passing, and Hypervigilance were positive predictors of BES scores. More interesting, logistic regression model revealed that only Procrastination positively predicted binge eating. These findings support the hypothesis that diverse dimensions of decision-making are distinctly linked to binge eating and specific decision-making trait (i.e., Procrastination) may characterize individuals with binge eating, putatively representing an important vulnerability trait for the development of BED.
Decision-making deficit is considered an important neurocognitive characteristic of addictive behaviors (Redish et al., 2008; Leeman and Potenza, 2012; Yan et al., 2014), and poor decision-making might facilitate overeating since the remarkable clinical parallels between BED and addictions. Though several previous studies have investigated decision-making performance on cognitive tasks (mainly the IGT) among BED patients (Davis et al., 2010; Svaldi et al., 2010; Danner et al., 2012; Aloi et al., 2015), little work has paid close attention to other facets of decision making such as decision-coping traits and reward discounting. To our knowledge, this is the first study to contrast individuals with and without binge eating on a battery of decision-making measurements (i.e., decision-coping styles, delay discounting, and probability discounting). Our data demonstrated that non-clinical individuals with binge eating had more maladaptive decision-coping traits (i.e., Procrastination, Buck-passing, and Hypervigilance) than individuals without binge eating, suggesting a defective decision-making model at the personality level (Gorodetzky et al., 2011). This result is similar with the present findings of maladaptive decision-making styles in other addictions including stimulant and opiate addicts, problem drinking and gambling individuals as well as nicotine and caffeine dependents (Gorodetzky et al., 2011; Phillips and Ogeil, 2011; Phillips and Ogeil, 2015). It is noteworthy that in our study, though the binge-eating group did show higher scores on Buck-passing and Hypervigilance than the non-binge-eating group with medium to small effect sizes (Cohen's d = 0.35, 0.30, respectively), and the partial correlations between Buck-passing, Hypervigilance and BES scores were significantly positive, Buck-passing and Hypervigilance did not display any main effects as a predictor on distinguishing binge eating from non-binge eating behaviors in the logistic regression model. This issue might be partly accounted for by the results that females scored significantly higher than males on both Buck-passing and Hypervigilance, and the proportion of females was significantly higher in the binge-eating group than in the non-binge-eating group (Table 1). In addition, the data of DDT and PDT did not reveal significant between-group differences, inconsistent with previous research data showing increased discounting of delayed rewards in women with obesity and BED compared to normal-weight women (Davis et al., 2010) and decreased discounting of probabilistic rewards in pathological gamblers compared with matched controls (Miedl et al., 2012), which might be due to the different methodologies and samples, therefore universal measurements should be adopted in further studies to clarify on the divergence of results. Furthermore, previous research has displayed diminished bilateral ventral striatal activity during monetary reward/loss processing in individuals with BED and obesity relative to non-BED individuals with obesity (Balodis et al., 2013a), suggesting that potential heterogeneity and neural differences of reward processing in these disorders should be taken into consideration in future.
More importantly, this study found that the binge-eating group scored higher on Procrastination than the non-binge-eating group with a medium to large effect size (Cohen's d = 0.52), and only Procrastination positively predicted binge-eating behavior in the logistic regression model controlling for gender. Procrastination refers to a tendency of defensive avoidance that the decision maker escapes conflict by procrastinating decisions to bolster the least objectionable alternative, leading in turn to faulty decisions (Mann et al., 1997). Our study presented the first direct evidence in non-treatment seeking populations showing that specific trait of decision-making (Procrastination) is overtly increased in binge eating as a predictive indicator. The data, together with previous preliminary evidence in drug addiction (Gorodetzky et al., 2011; Phillips and Ogeil, 2011), suggest that Procrastination as a personality trait of decision-making probably characterizes individuals with BED. These findings support the hypothesis that Procrastination is a specific decision-coping trait involved in BED, putatively representing an important vulnerability for this disorder. Nevertheless, it remains unclear whether Procrastination predates BED or is a consequence of the pathology, considering the cross-sectional design of our study. Therefore, longitudinal designs should be adopted in future studies. Moreover, in consideration of the clinical similarity between BED and substance use disorders, the current findings also call into future studies on the potential neurobiological mechanisms of Procrastination in both disorders. Especially, individuals with BED and obesity were partly differentiated by hypoactivity in brain areas involved in inhibitory control (i.e., ventromedial prefrontal cortex, inferior frontal gyrus, and insula) compared to non-BED individuals with obesity and lean comparison participants (Balodis et al., 2013b). Thus further studies employing neuroimaging methods (e.g., functional magnetic resonance imaging, fMRI) should be of help to elucidate the neural basis of Procrastination in BED.
There were several limitations in this study. First of all, the cross-sectional study design was not able to determine causal relationships between the decision-making measures and binge eating behavior. Although the data suggest that Procrastination might increase risk for BED, further longitudinal studies are warranted. Secondly, BED conditions and decision-making dimensions were evaluated by self-report questionnaires, which could be liable to bring bias into the data analyses. Thus, the results should be explained carefully. Thirdly, the participants consisted of university students, and especially, current and lifetime psychiatric and mental disorders that have been exhibited to be mostly comorbid with BED were excluded in this study (primarily for the purpose of directly portraying a "pure" decision-making patterns in binge-eating behavior itself), so the findings cannot be generalized to the whole population of BED, and the differences on decision-making models between different BED samples (e.g., college students, community populations, clinical patients) should be examined in future research. Besides, the current findings mainly focused on the decision-coping aspects in binge eating, but actually, other cognitive mechanisms such as planning abilities and cue-induced risky decision-making could also play an important role underlying BED (Neveu et al., 2014, 2016), which should be encompassed more comprehensively in future studies.
Despite these limitations, our results indicate that Procrastination, Buck-passing, and Hypervigilance are increased among individuals with binge eating compared to those without binge eating, and moreover, Procrastination is a risk factor in predicting binge eating behavior, putatively identified as a vulnerability trait of BED. The findings may be conducive to further absorbing the mechanisms of specific decision-making traits implicated in the development of BED, and facilitating the exploitation of effective prevention and early interventions of compulsive overeating.
The procedures reported in this study were reviewed and approved by the Human Research Ethics Committee at the Guizhou Medical University, and the proposed recruitment process, study design, and plans to compensate participants were carried out in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
W-SY designed the study, wrote the protocols, directed the study, and wrote the first draft of the manuscript. R-RZ performed the assessments and data collection. YL and Z-ML assisted with main data analysis. Y-HL as well as the other authors contributed to the writing and all authors approved the final manuscript.
This study was provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31560284), Humanity and Social Science Research Project (Youth Foundation) of Ministry of Education of China (14YJC190022), and Science and Technology Foundation of Guizhou Province (QKH-J-2014-2022).
We thank Mr. R. Tossell for his proof-reading on our manuscript.
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Keywords: binge eating, decision making, reward discounting, personality, young adults
Citation: Yan W-S, Zhang R-R, Lan Y, Li Z-M and Li Y-H (2018) Questionnaire-Based Maladaptive Decision-Coping Patterns Involved in Binge Eating Among 1013 College Students. Front. Psychol. 9:609. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00609
Received: 08 August 2017; Accepted: 10 April 2018;
Published: 26 April 2018.
Jasmin Vassileva, Virginia Commonwealth University, United States
Elsa Fouragnan, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Valentina Ivezaj, Yale University, United States
Copyright © 2018 Yan, Zhang, Lan, Li and Li. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
*Correspondence: Wan-Sen Yan, yanwansen@163.com

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And another recent new album release...Amon Amarth's Deceiver of the Gods! Given it two listens so far, as my brother and I recently exchanged music, so catching up a bit there. But yeah, definitely enjoying this one so far, but still need to give it more spins.
6+ hours of music. Let's see how it goes for this afternoon, as I had podcasts this morning.
I've been listening to regular ol' pop (adult contemporary?) tunes lately. Great summer music.
Upbeat song about... young love and finding your way in the world? I don't know. It's hipster music. But good.
I failed my challenge yesterday, as I was only able to get through Deadwing before other things started happening and I couldn't keep listening to music for much of the evening.
On the other hand, L'Enfant sauvage is a good way to start one's day!
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3:40 to the end turns my brain into pudding.
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I have never heard this song but it stirs my interest. I will have to try and find it somewhere and listen to it. For some odd reason I never thought about a rock group such as Queen making or singing a Christmas song, but I am delighted to find out about this. Does anyone know if they (or any groups like them) do any other Christmas type music or songs?


Poet Muriel Miller Dressler (July 4, 1918-February 27, 2000) was born in Kanawha County. Both sides of her family went back several generations in the Kanawha Valley. She married Lester Dressler (whose family was from Cabin Creek) in 1936.
Dressler did not complete high school. Her love for literature came, as she was fond of saying, ''at the heels of my mother as we planted or hoed the garden.'' She could quote long passages of Shakespeare and Chaucer before she learned to read the texts and could not remember when she first began to write poetry. Her first published poem, ''Appalachia'' (1970), quickly became her signature piece.
Dressler published two collections of poetry. The first, Appalachia, My Land, was published in 1973, and the second, Appalachia, in 1977. Both books gained popularity quickly, and she was invited to read her work at universities throughout the region and beyond, including Harvard, where she was in residence for several days in 1977. In 1975, she met Earl Hamner, creator of the television series The Waltons. He used one of her poems, ''Elegy for Jody,'' as the centerpiece for a television special, ''Morning Star, Evening Star,'' in 1986.
Short, curvy, vain, and hyperactive, Dressler remained a popular speaker on the college circuit until the mid-1980s when she suffered a massive heart attack. She spent much of the rest of her life away from the public spotlight.
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Behold the Land. Documentary. Beckley: WSWP-TV, 1974.
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Of passion; and, stranger, you don't know me!
To partake of human sacrifice?
Nor dangled you feet in a lazy creek?
And hunters shouting with joy, "he's treed!"
Bring easement of pain to those below?
To tranquilize the sorrow and joy of living.
Though you've studied me, you still don't know.
Source: Muriel Miller Dressler, Morris Harvey College (1973).


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FarmStrong Celebrates 1st Anniversary with Community Concert in Gardiner
As FarmStrong completes the band's first trip around the sun together, celebrating its 1st anniversary in April, it has a lot to be excited about and proud of. In the first year, the band recorded a live album, sold out every concert that they organized and presented to the public, and just recently completed their first tour, to Oregon. This year, the band looks forward to a bright future together, with concerts and festivals in western and eastern Washington, and plans for a tour of the west coast in the fall, including a presence at the Folk Alliance Western Region Music Conference in Oakland, CA.
To celebrate how far they've come, and where they're going, they'll put on a concert in a local venue they haven't played at yet, in Gardiner. The Gardiner Community Center has a beautiful hall which overlooks Sequim Bay and the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and which has excellent acoustics… perfect for the band's trademark vocal harmonies and extremely tasteful instrumentation. FarmStrong is totally committed to making their songs breathe and come to life, and they do that by "making space" for all of the notes, both sung and played. While the typical bluegrass band sound showers the listener with notes, sometimes playing around, though and over the singing, FarmStrong is always framing the singers with music that props them up for the listener. There is a reason that the band's songs often elicit tears from listeners.
Fresh off of their Oregon tour, the band has never sounded better, and the Gardiner concert will undoubtedly be the best concert they've presented. An extra bonus of this concert is that the tickets will be a little less expensive than the regular $15 the band generally charges. The band wants folks to show up and celebrate with them! If you purchase tickets in advance through BrownPaperTickets.com, they are only $8. They will be available at the door for $10. Spread the word, and get yourself to this show!
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MDOC: Tele-reporting to continue with...
MDOC: Tele-reporting to continue with inmates in May
By: Sarah Ulmer - April 30, 2020
Telephone reporting will continue in May for individuals on probation, parole, house arrest, or any other form of community supervision.
Recognizing that the COVID-19 pandemic is not over, the Mississippi Department of Corrections continues to deploy strategies to prevent the spread of the virus and protect public health.
Reports will be handled as they were in April. Individuals on supervision should call between Friday, May 1, and Friday, May 15, 2020. The person answering the call may not be the assigned agent.
Office hours will be from 7 a.m. until 6 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Individuals also can email their agent or use technology portals, such as Skype and FaceTime, to communicate.
Community supervision also includes earned release supervision (ERS), conditional medical release (CMR), and interstate compact.
Aside from basic reporting information, this time individuals will be asked additional questions related to employment and other issues specifically as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Deputy Commissioner Christy Gutherz stressed that individuals must call or otherwise make contact with probation and parole offices to avoid being considered as non-reporting. "Supervision with purpose is still our focus under this 'new normal,'" Gutherz said.
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Q: Shared HDD completely wiped after booting to Windows I have a Ubuntu 20.04/Windows 10 setup. Both OS'es boot from - and store application settings etc in - their own partition on my SSD, while most of my personal data is stored on a separate HDD (physically inside the laptop casing, but for all intents and purposes an external hard drive).
I almost never use Windows. Today, I opened it to test something for what (I think) was the first time since I bought the computer 6 months ago. In Windows, I found I could not access any files on the shared HDD - it was listed as empty, and the 'Properties' tab confirmed that all its space was free. I did not do anything else to the directory in Windows.
Concerned, I booted back into Ubuntu, and found that there too the HDD was blank (it contained only an empty recycle bin and a 'System Volume Information' directory). I unmounted and remounted, ran ntfsffix, tried mounting other partitions... but everything came up empty. Curiously, gparted did list that the HDD had about 170 GB in use (which sounds about right for what I know should be on there). But this still gave me no way to actually access the files.
I am now restoring from an external backup with Duplicati, so all my files should be alright, but I am very concerned. How could this possibly have happened? How can I keep it from happening again if I ever need to use Windows again?

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AARAV Suisse SA, active in the research and manufacturing of food flavourings, owns its premises. The 3'000 sqm plot, owned in freehold, is located in the ZIMEYSA (Meyrin-Satigny industrial area), in an area of industrial and artisanal development (ZDIA). SPG Intercity was commissioned to valuate the good, then sell it, and relocate AARAV Suisse SA's new offices.
We thus put in place a teamwork project, with all the departments of SPG Intercity (Valuations, Investments, and Tenant & Landlord Representation), supervised by the specialised division for industrial surfaces. The first phase of valuation presented 2 scenarios: on one hand, the sale value for the vacant building based on the intrinsic value of the developed plot, valued at CHF 3'100'000.-; on the other hand, a valuation based on the "yield" methodology of CHF 4'600'000.
Since it is a sale in a ZDIA, there was a risk that the State of Geneva, through the FTI (Foundation for industrial grounds), decided to pre-empt the sale if they considered the price to be speculative. The real estate agent's role is then fundamental to negotiate with the local authorities and to avoid that risk. The minimum price of CHF 3'600'000 was required by the seller. We also had to deal with an additional constraint of time (maximum 8 months, for fiscal reasons); thus, the sale process was put in place in record time. A marketing campaign and invitations to tender targeting industrial users were done in less than a month time, which generated many visits.
They were exposed to the same rules concerning the price offer (the sale price not being communicated); a proposition had to be made quite quickly.
The process was a success; 3 offers were made in the short given period of time. Then started a phase of negotiations going a quick pace, given the very short period of time imposed for the presentation of counter-offers. The site was sold to the highest bidder for CHF 4'100'000, and it will be refurbished for the activities of a foundation which provides help for the poor. The State of Geneva will not pre-empt. Our client, benefitting from all the services of SPG Intercity, finally found new premises to relocate the AARAV Suisse SA company in new offices on rental.


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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 111110
Feature type: Nunatak
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
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rising to c. 1,200m at northern end of Milky Way, W of Lunar Crag, Alexander Island. Named in association with Lunar Crag, named after the Greek goddess of the Moon.
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"""Script updating local taxonomy database.

Script allows to update local taxonomy database using new taxonomy dumps from
NCBI taxonomy database.

Requirements:
    Names file - path to NCBI taxonomy dmp file containing mapping of s
                 scientific names onto Taxonomy ID's. Default is 'names.dmp'.
    Nodes file - path to NCBI taxonomy dmp file containing node definitions with
                 tax id being mapped to a higher hierarchy node.
                 The default is 'nodes.dmp'.
    Links file - path to a file containing protein id - taxonomy id mapping.
                 The default is - 'protein_taxonomy.lnk'

"""

# External libraries imports
from os import sys

# Internal modules import
import ncbi_taxonomies as ncbi
from taxonomydb import TaxDb
from own_objects import Node, ProteinLink

# Directory where all files from NCBI have been downloaded and extracted
ncbi_download = sys.argv[1]

def update_nodes(names_file=None, nodes_file=None):
    """Updates nodes collection of the database."""

    # Paths to all required files.
    print('Reading nodes...')

    if not names_file:
        names_file = '%s/names.dmp' % ncbi_download
    if not nodes_file:
        nodes_file = '%s/nodes.dmp' % ncbi_download

    print('Updating nodes collection in the database...')
    names = ncbi.read_names_dump(names_file)
    nodes = ncbi.read_nodes_dump(nodes_file)

    # Initialize connection with a database
    database = TaxDb()

    # Go through NCBI taxonomy dump records, update if record
    # doesn't exist
    for taxid, parent_taxid in nodes.iteritems():

        # If given taxid record does not exist
        # in a local database, create Node object
        # and create document in a database
        new_node = Node(taxid=taxid,
                        scientific_name=names[taxid],
                        upper_hierarchy=parent_taxid,)

        database.add_record(node=new_node)

    # Always disconnect the database!
    database.disconnect()

    print('Done!')

def update_links(links_file=None):
    """Light version of update links method"""

    print('Reading links and updating local database...')

    if not links_file:
        links_file = '%s/prot.accession2taxid' % ncbi_download

    database = TaxDb()

    for link in ncbi.protein_taxid_links(file_path=links_file):
        database.add_protein_link(link)

    database.disconnect()

    print('Done!')

if __name__ == "__main__":
    update_links(links_file=sys.argv[1])
    update_nodes()

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"King of cods" was the Name given by fishermen to Atlantic cods (Gabus morhua) with a rare cranial malformation of the head which results into a pug-face-like shape. This specimen was caught in the waters of Eckernförde in 1869 and was part of the ichthyological collection of zoologist Karl August Möbius.
This kind of malformation is not just found in cods but also known from many other fish species. You can see another example of a small king of cod specimen here. In salmonids this can be for example the result of an infection with Myxobolus cerebralis, a myxosporean parasite which can affect the skeletal development in young fish. But there are of course also other factors which can lead to cranial deformations, so it is often quite hard, if not impossible, to trace back the original cause.
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Hong Kong Forcing UK, US Arrivals Into Quarantine Camps After Single Asymptomatic Omicron Case
Tuesday, Dec 14, 2021 - 10:44 AM
Hong Kong residents returning from the United States are being forced to spend one week in a 'spartain' quarantine camp, after which they must serve out two weeks in a hotel room that they pay for themselves, according to the South China Morning Post.
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The new measures which were announced on Friday come after the city's health authorities elevated the country to the highest Covid-19 risk level, prompted by one confirmed case of the Omicron variant in a traveler from the US - an asymptomatic 37-year-old man who had received two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and traveled from Los Angeles on Dec. 7.
In a press release, the city said that those arriving from the US would be subject to the "most stringent quarantine and testing requirements," which would take effect on Monday.
"Hong Kong has in place the most stringent inbound prevention and control measures in the world that enabled the successful prevention of the omicron variant from entering the community," reads a statement announcing the new policy for returnees from the US.
Travelers from the UK face the same prospect, according to the report.
"It's stressful and frustrating to travel," said Hong Kong businessman, 60-year-old Sam Wong in a statement to Bloomberg. "My children will have to spend Christmas on their own."
Given the growing number of omicron cases, more countries could well be shifted to the same system, sparking chaos during the busiest travel season as families try to reunite for the holidays.
At a time when the world is progressing in reopening efforts, Hong Kong is pushing in the other direction. The strategy, which has choked off travel to a city once known for its connectedness, is adding to concern in the business community that a Covid-Zero policy even stricter than in parts of mainland China is causing long-term damage to Hong Kong's status as a financial center. -Bloomberg
"It isolates Hong Kong even further as the rest of the world is getting back to business," said Tara Joseph, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong.
"Hong Kong had been known as a connected city - it advertised being Asia's World City," she continued, adding "That is clearly no longer the case."
Of note, Hong Kong has virtually no Covid, while approximately 80% of residents aged 80 and above are unvaccinated in the city of 7.4 million people.
Penny's Bay
The quarantine camp, located at Penny's Bay near Hong Kong Disneyland, offers basic rooms that feature plastic sheets covering mattresses on two single beds - causing some travelers to push them together according to the report. Travelers receive three meals per day and can opt for Chinese or Western food. There is no internet access.
City residents returning from the US will soon have to spend their first seven days of quarantine at the government's camp at Penny's Bay. Photo: May Tse
Travelers from the US and UK will be joining those from South Africa and approximately 10 other African nations on a list for government quarantine at the facility. Travelers won't need to book a room at the camp, nor will they be charged for the one-week stay (just the hotel room for the next two weeks).
The camp has a total of 1,926 units - of which more than 1,550 are currently empty.
"As the border control is the key defense line in Hong Kong against omicron, we cannot take any chance," said former chairman of the Hong Kong Medical Association's advisory committee on communicable diseases, Leung Chi-chiu.
"There is much lower risk of within-facility transmission in Penny's Bay than in the Designated Quarantine Hotels," said Benjamin Cowling, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Hong Kong. "It would be even more ideal if Penny's Bay could be expanded or a similar facility could be constructed with 30,000 or more rooms, and then we could reduce quarantine for all arrivals to a maximum of 14 days with perhaps a shorter quarantine for very low risk arrivals."


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La Aurora International Airport is located approximately 2.4 miles / 3.8 kilometers northwest of Santa Catarina Pinula and about 4.1 miles / 6.6 kilometers south of Guatemala City. IATA airport code is GUA.
Distance from San José Airport to Guatemala City is 53.3 miles / 85.8 kilometers. San José Airport is located approximately 1.1 miles / 1.8 kilometers northwest of Puerto San José and about 17.6 miles / 28.3 kilometers southeast of La Gomera. IATA airport code is GSJ.
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The design of windows can say a lot about a home. They are usually the overlooked part of a space, but they are pretty easy to design. Plus, the options you have are tremendous. Having that balance between getting some natural light and at the same time having a simple artistic touch on your window, puts you into a relaxing mode whenever you are at home.
Window designs can come through simple add-ons like flowing drapes with custom made designs to match your themed-home. With window designing, you have a lot of options to make your home stand out from the others and the ability to bring out style to it without spending a huge fortune on a complete renovation.
How Artistic Can You Get In Window Treatment Designs?
Do you need this window to project natural light all day?
Will the window need to open easily on a regular basis?
Does this window overly expose the privacy of the house?
Does the window have a view you like?
Is it a hard-to-reach window or easily accessible?
Is it the focal point in the space?
What room is this window in?
Knowing the answer to a lot of these questions will help you choose the appropriate design you need. So after you get answers, you should start choosing from all those options you have to cater the window in a right manner.
The pro about blinds is that it controls the strong light that could be sometimes irritating, making the space it is in from completely light to completely dark. They're really good for tall windows and skylights. Shutter blinds come in shapes, sizes and textures. Vertical or horizontal. Wood, vinyl, composite or fabric and each coming in a lot of different colors as well; depending on your choice and taste. A good place to start looking for shutters and blinds is Shuttercraft shutter blinds. The only consequences blinds have, is that they don't really have room for artistic minds to be creative with. They'd go just perfect in a minimalistic house.
Blinds with an artistic touch: if you aren't too sensitive by the natural sunlight, matchstick blinds are perfect if you've got a creative eye and want blinds different from the ordinary. They are organically made and can let natural light in so you'll be feeling very light when they're added. Another creative idea to add an artistic touch is by combining both curtains and blinds to benefit from a multifunctional purpose of them both. Matchstick blinds slightly darken the room while curtains add a burst of color to it.
With vertical blinds, you should be having a very creative look at the window, you are less likely to collect dust because your blinds are standing vertically and they basically operate better. They're also much easier to use, basically requires less muscle strength than the horizontal blinds. If you're looking for a solution for a wide window or for patio doors, vertical blinds is the answer. Sometimes, these types of blinds are used to keep the warmth inside the room in warmer climates to discourage flies and other insects from entering your space!
Shutters are customizable so they can fit whatever size your window is. They also match any decor you have in your home and comes in different designs of blackout arches, slat-burst, sunburst or in horizontal slats to either block light or redirect it to a differe0nt direction. If you have too much sunlight directed in the wrong place, consider adding shutters and properly placing it the way it could complement the natural light direction into your home.
Shutters with an artistic touch: if you already have shutters and want to create an artistic upgrade to them, add a coat of paint with the color of your choice. A light blue shade goes well on shutters as it brings out this English country feel to your home.
The most diverse of them all are shades, which comes in different looks and types. These are the types that you can be really artistic with. Plus, you have so many different options, so you will not have to be stuck with a certain style or pattern. For circular windows, skylights or arches; the best type of shades would be pleated shades or cellular. Other design possibilities come to mind when talking about shades like bamboo shades, roller shades, roman shades or woven wood shades. Your choice would depend on the type of light exposure you want, a total blackout or a faded light filter.
Shades with an artistic touch: add patterns to your room using roman shades, preferably on a neutral tone wall.
Drapes create a more elegant look than usual curtains. They can be used in several rooms in the house, not just the bedroom. It also comes in different shapes and sizes so you can get artistic all you want. With an irregular-shaped window, you can get valances or cornices to alter that shape and slightly hide it. If you have too much sunlight in your bedroom, blackout drapes would be a good catch because they have a heavy lining that blocks any sort of light that might come through. If you live in either an extremely cold or hot place, drapes also block cold or heat from leaking through.
Drapes with an artistic touch: want to feel like you're always on a vacation? Add a coral valance to create this tropical cabana feel.
This option is super creative to benefit from, usually used in Japanese decorating. They are made in a variety of designs and materials. It doesn't have to come in a form of a window covering only, it can be used as a door or a divider. They're usually made of wood or bamboo and have a translucent rice paper that allows light into the room so it doesn't completely block light from it. Shoji panels have several frames that are connected by hinges (usually).
A unique window treatment that is not widely used are swags and cascades. They add this touch of serious elegance. Looking very similar to valences, swags are shown draped over a horizontal rod in folds. While cascades are lengths of fabric drapes down the sides of the window in a zigzag form, paddled across the top. Cascades don't have to come over swags, they can be used for curtains or shades too.
Swags with an artistic touch: add an artistic touch to swags by adding a contrast dose of color or a pattern to lighten up the room. This would be perfect if the pattern or color goes well with the cascades and room color.
A window treatment design that has been around since the medieval times. Lambrequins are a vintage accessory used around windows, usually suited for smaller windows. Some people prefer to add curtains or valances to lambrequins and others leave lambrequins just as they are without anything underneath. If you're a simple type, you'd probably prefer lambrequins without anything to complement it. However, if you'll need some shade from strong natural light, you'll definitely need to have drapes added.
Not an actual window design, but complements a window design. Cornices are usually made of wood and is shaped like a box. It's added right over the top of the window frame to hide the hardware used for the window treatment. Cornices can be left in their natural wood, painted with fabric and covered with wallpaper or just slightly padded for extra texture. There are diverse shapes to how the bottom of a cornice can be shaped like, but some have their cornices custom made to match the patterns of their furniture. So if you have a more vintage furniture set, you can still match your unique patterns to your cornices.
These curtains are straight curtains hung from rings, sometimes covering the lower portion of the window rather than the window as a whole. It looks slightly weird, but it is very handy when you need to allow a lot of sunlight into the room, but also have some privacy and blocked the sun in some parts. They are very suitable for the living room, kitchen or bathroom.
How Important Are Window Shapes?
Taking a step back, the origin of the window shapes actually matter a lot to the house, window accessory and natural lighting you look to get. Windows can come in shapes, sizes, architectural designs and even nature. You don't need to buy or rent a house to understand window shapes. You need to know this information, especially if you already have a house with its windows. Simply knowing how to accessorize your window correctly to have its function is just what you need to make it perfect. You can magnify the impact of a window by enhancing its uniqueness.
Shapes: Windows come in round, oval, arched, angled, eyebrow, hexagon, trapezoid, octagon shapes.
Architectural design: Hard-to-reach windows, sloped ceilings, corner windows, french doors, oversized windows, skylights, bay windows and sliding glass doors are forms of architectural designs.
Nature: Here, nature is meant by the stance of the sun towards the window. Is it a sun-facing window or a commanding-view window?
A beautiful form of window corner that gives more interior space. They come out from the exterior or a side of the house. A combination of windows of often four or five and sometimes comes with a stationary window in the middle by either double-hung windows or casements. If you're looking for a vintage or cozy look, this one is great to go!
These windows can be custom built in any shape or size. This style truly gives the artistic look anyone needs, and it can be fully customized to fit the nature of your personality. It can blend perfectly to any window or door. It is usually made from dense composite material and is moisture resistant so it could be used indoors and outdoors. A true gem that doesn't even need window treatments to hide it!
Another beautiful way to show the art of renovating windows is making it into, glass-painted windows! Glass painting has existed way back since the hype of gothic architecture during the 27th century. It was the most dominant form of painting in Europe and artworks were created with numerous forms of techniques to decorate windows and walls in medieval religious buildings. Nowadays, glass-painted windows are custom made with portraits of whatever you like, or just a splash of mixed colors to brighten up your space. Glass-painted windows give the perfect balance of natural light in and shade as well. However, we wouldn't recommend creating a glass-painted window in a bedroom.
Not exactly the artistic type you'd expect. However, energy efficient windows have started to gain popularity recently. It's important to consider choosing them even if you're already settled in a home with chosen windows. Heat loss and heat gain through windows are responsible for over 25% of the heating energy use. Look over your climate and then try to know whether having energy efficient windows will be useful or not. Improve your efficiency.
Choosing the right window design and window treatment usually depends on what you will be doing in that room so make sure you allocate properly. Then choose the style, pattern or shade of the design depending on the color palette of the space and overall house. Unique windows add a huge value to the house as a whole and bring out the character you want to bring out in your home. Do not forget to thoroughly think about that aspect in your house, you never know what your next guest will compliment you for adding those painted glass windows!


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The sale or purchase of Summit County Colorado real estate often involves the assistance of several professionals in a broad variety of real estate related fields. The following is provided for your convenience and is not intended to be comprehensive of all such service providers in the Breckenridge, Keystone, Frisco, Silverthorne or Dillon areas.
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Efficiency: Are your energy bills consistently going up? Having an efficient air conditioner means that you're not only preserving energy and earning green, but you're able to be a little more environmentally friendly. Air conditioning systems today are more efficient than older technology and that can make a big difference in your energy usage which can lower your bills. Airflow: are you not perfectly satisfied? Maintaining consistently comfortable airflow throughout your house means you need an air conditioner and indoor unit (typically a furnace) that can keep the cool air properly flowing through your home.
The team at Assured Appliance and Heating & Air recommends that homeowners invest in an air conditioner replacement if the repairs add up to over 50 percent of the price of a new air conditioning system. Here's a few things you can look for when you suspect it may be time to think about replacing your air conditioner.
Filters: replacing your air conditioner filter is essential to the performance of your air conditioner and it's quick to take care of. When your air conditioner starts it draws in outdoor particles and ultimately clogs up. Switching them out at least every three months is an industry best practice.
Age: most air conditioners stop working after 10 to 12 years on average. When it's apparent that your system is running sporadically and acting up, you will probably want to have it serviced. Older air conditioners typically don't operate as smoothly as newer systems as well.
Wiring: over its lifespan it's not rare for your air conditioner's wiring to be slowly damaged by the weather in Genoa. Depending on the age of your air conditioner, the condition of the wiring can be different, but could potentially lead to corroding wires that need to be replaced.
If an air conditioner replacement is imminent, keep relevant qualities like reliability, efficiency, sound, consistency and airflow in consideration throughout your search for the perfect system. These characteristics create a well-built, dependable air conditioner that every homeowner would be willing to have in their house.
Call the experts at Assured Appliance and Heating & Air at 847-306-8990 to see why your comfort is our top priority. Our mission is to save everyone in Genoa from the scorching heat with a comfortably cool home. For more questions on air conditioner replacement, schedule an appointment online or call us.


At Goodwill-Easter Seals Minnesota we believe that everyone should experience the power of work. Devoting ourselves to jobs we're passionate about can make our best qualities shine. In the case of one program participant, Laura, working at GESMN helped her gain leadership skills and inspiration to follow her dreams.
Laura grew up in Jordan, MN. Jordan is a typical rural town in middle America, where everyone knows everyone. Like many small towns, it did not have immediate access to alternative learning opportunities. When Laura was sixteen, her parents decided to move to Victoria, where Laura could benefit from increased resources and attend the STAR Program.
The transition was hard, but Laura's teachers and staff at the STAR Program made it a successful one. It was at the STAR Program where Laura was first connected with Karen, one of GESMN's transitional employment specialists. Karen assisted Laura in retail skills training at the Chanhassen Goodwill store. "I really loved organizing the shoes," Laura recalls, "and working in back processing donations. But the store isn't only about clothes. The beautiful thing about Goodwill is that they save items from going to the landfills." Laura found her work fulfilling, but she also had to overcome some challenges on the job.
Laura lives with the after effects of a car accident — dizziness, migraines and chronic back pain. Laura says, "I would work for an hour or so on the floor and get dizzy. My manager Veronica was great at accommodating me with breaks when I needed them." Even though the work was challenging at times, Laura showed considerable strength. Her program coordinator Karen adds, "She showed great leadership skills and was excellent at setting goals for herself."
Laura is now taking those skills into her future career. She is currently a full-time student and explains, "My goal is to be a special education preschool teacher. I want to impact kids' lives."
"I would like to thank Karen, Veronica and everyone at GESMN for their help," Laura says. "I know I will take all the lessons I have learned from them with me."