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#1 24th Dec 2018 at 7:02 PM Last edited by Vulrien : 28th Feb 2019 at 12:44 AM.
Apparently I don't understand how to finish one project before beginning another. I uploaded my Daenerys sim and got 4 stars so I thought I may as well post her here and see if anybody has any comments on how to improve, as for Kit I really need some help pointing out what is wrong and needs fixing. Thanks very much!
Daenerys looks great, the only thing I really see that could even be tweaked a tiny bit more is to make her nose a bit less pronounced, especially at the bridge. Not really needed though, honestly. You can clearly see who she is even just at a glance.
For Jon, I do have a few suggestions- the first thing I notice is his eyes- your Sim has much larger and rounder eyes than Jon/Kit, and the eyes change the vibe you get from the person more than just about anything else (that's part of why Dany looks so good, IMHO). I'd tweak that, and the hair and beard both need to be expanded some... especially in the lefthand picture of Jon, his beard is more a BEARD, where I think your Sim still just has stubble. The hair needs to be all around the head too, rather than just on top of it- assuming you're trying for Jon Snow and not Kit Harrington. I'd also go for different clothing if you have the time/skill/whatever to do that (I know I don't, so I don't really know how much your skills from Sim-making translate over into clothes-making)- what he's wearing right now would be a recipe for really quick frostbite north of the Wall! I might make his face a bit more pointed, but it doesn't need much- both Dany and Jon's face shapes are almost spot-on, and if that's not the case, that is what I usually think makes celebrity/character Sims look wrong... I'm impressed!
Really amazing work on these! You've obviously been working on them for a while. I totally agree that the face shapes are looking really, really good. Zarathustra already mentioned what I'd say about Jon's eyes and beard (his hairline looks great).
For her, I wonder if you might try her eyes just a teeny bit wider apart? Even just a notch or two? I agree that the end of her nose is a little more pronounced than it should be, and the tip should tilt up a touch. Her eyes are a little open/rounded compared to the character, and I suggest toning down her makeup a bit (and choosing a more natural/pink shade for blush and lipstick). You can afford to make her upper lip a little fluffier. Wonderful work on her chin and jawline.
For both I suggest having another go at the eyebrows. Both are a little wide (extending farther than the characters' do) and look a bit bushy/tall. Daenerys' eyebrows definitely stand out because of their difference in colour, but they're also more groomed than your sim's are. Jon's/Kit's aren't that groomed-looking, but they're not as thick and lush as your sim's.
Thanks so much for the feedback guys! It's been super helpful. I've tried to do everything you said and hope I've been successful!
Daenerys: I tried to do what you said. I don't think I managed to make the nose less prominent, I assume you meant on the profile? Do you have any idea which sliders could be used? I also made some custom brows for her, which I think match a lot better, but I might need a hand with their placement (does it look about right?).
Jon: I changed the eyes he's using, made new brows (which I likely need to make darker). I changed the nosemask he's using and also found a hair I think will work. I may need to readjust the hairline to make it match the hair better though! Is this the sort of beard you were talking about? I may need to edit it a tad to make it match Kit's beard better.
As for the outfits, I've made custom outfits for them both. The Night Watch uniform I just need to recolour to make it black rather than brown, I also did a mesh edit on this skyrim cloak to fit better and add a clasp to it.
Definite improvements on both! Yay! The eyes on both look so much better, I think, as well as the eyebrows. He, especially, looks -vastly- improved with these changes. Really great! You've gotten her a lot closer too, and I love the toned-down makeup on her.
For her nose, there's a slider in the nose section that will let you control how much the tip of the nose sticks out (yes, the profile view). I think you could bring that back down towards the face a couple of notches, and there's another slider that lets you control the tip of the nose and whether it curls under or tilts up. Hers might benefit from tilting up just a tiny bit. It's actually curling under a touch at the moment, which is giving it a rounded slope that hers doesn't actually have, and ticking it back up a couple should help knock that back.
There's also a slider that allows you to make the eyebrows taller or thinner, and I think you might bump hers just a little thinner. Placement is good, but maybe a notch or two higher? The new brows are a huge improvement, though -- good work there!
I'm not far enough into the show to comment on their outfits (husband is -begging- me to catch up before the last season airs!), I think her dress coule be improved with a little more detail and colour variation.
One last thing, I might suggest reconsidering her eyes? They're a bit rich, kinda bright and super blue, if you know what I mean? If you're using custom eyes for them, she might benefit from a little less cobalt. Especially with the bright blue dress, they're kinda more powerfully blue than I think they need to be.
Had a great Christmas, thanks, and I hope you have as well. Good luck with these awesome sims!
I fully agree Jon is better in version 2, but I actually think Dany looked better in version 1... it seems to have more of the feel of her somehow. Can't be more specific, so I know that's not very helpful, sorry!
I'd be hesitant about going more than a single notch in any direction on any of the sliders for either of them, but the one I was thinking of as potentially helping Dany is the option to narrow the bridge of the nose (the top part, between the eyes)- again, probably just a single click!
I really like the changes to Jon's hair and beard- much more in keeping with his real-life and in-universe appearances! Looking again at the minor details, I would probably narrow his eyes vertically (make him squint a bit more) and narrow his mouth and turn the corners down a bit more... Jon is not exactly a 'smiling' person most of the time, after all! I love the outfit you've got him in now too- that's exactly the one I was thinking of, and I think once you've got it shifted to Night's Watch colors (read: Black and very dark grey, in your best Lego Batman voice), it'll look perfect!
#7 26th Dec 2018 at 5:15 PM Last edited by Vulrien : 26th Dec 2018 at 8:43 PM.
Right, so for Dany I tried to get a balance between the first and second versions I posted here. So I opened her eyes up some more, and I hope it has a better balance between the two. So how do we feel about these versions of the sims?
Daenerys: I toned down her eyes, do you feel they need less blue in them still?
Jon: I've created a new eyeblend for him because I was struggling to find eyes which suited him, repositions the brows a bit, made him more "squinty", made a new beard which matches better and did his lips as you said. Is it just me or is something still off with him?
To me, I think your Jon Snow needs a longer head. The head seems squished compared to the reference pictures. The jaw needs to be moved down and his forehead needs to be bigger. I also think his chin sticks out a little too far. For Daenerys, I think her cheeks are a little too pudgy.
I think you could go a bit squintier on Jon's eyes. He has very narrow eyes. Maybe you could achieve this by lowering the forehead a little? I'm not sure. But take note of his eyeballs and how much of the iris is visible. Hardly any. The top is barely past 9 and 3 o'clock, while the bottom is nearly 8 and 4. If you look at Jon's face straight on, it's very round and somewhat flat. The last set of pictures are a major step up from where you started (which wasn't bad to begin with!). Celebrity sims are very difficult to capture, so I applaud your work.
As for the Mother of Dragons, maybe tilt the corners of her mouth down a little? I'd have to agree with Lylesnake about the cheeks, as well. But she is remarkably recognizable, which ought to be the standard for any look-alike sim.
Major improvements, for sure! I hope you find this feedback constructive and helpful.
#10 9th Jan 2019 at 12:36 AM Last edited by Vulrien : 9th Jan 2019 at 1:24 AM.
Thanks again for the feedback, there is slowly less of it coming, so I figure we might be nearly finished with these two!
Daenerys: I tried to make her cheeks less "pudgy" but found that when I went more than a couple of clicks less on their fullness it messed up her face shape, so this is what we're left with. I think she's pretty much done, unless anybody else can see something that needs changing!
Jon: I am very happy with this update, thanks so much for the feedback so far. He's improved so much since the first version I posted here.
I actually find your first Daenerys Stormborn (First of Her Name) to be quite pretty, though not very much like the actual person. Your final Mother of Dragons, Breaker of Chains, Heir to the Iron Throne, Protector of the Realm, Queen of the Andals and the First Men, the Unburnt, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, and rightful Ruler of the Seven Kingdoms looks spot on, and is easily identifiable... far moreso than your first attempt. However, i just thought that I'd mention that the first one has a separate and unique beauty unto herself.
She looks great! I agree with you, I think she's just about finished, and really you could submit her as-is and be well off, but there are a few final touches I might make. Her hairline is clipped kind of strangely- rather than looking like it's growing from her head, it looks like it disappears into it, if that makes sense.
Also a couple points that I think would make her seem a bit more Melisandre-like (instead of Carice van Houten) are that while her eyes now are a dead ringer for van Houten's, most depictions of Melisandre have a darker quality to her eyes... might be worth seeing if that works (though I can easily see your current choice working better). Also, a must for the lady Melisandre is her ruby necklace! While Melisandre obviously has innate powers, it seems pretty clear that some of her powers (like her Glamour and resistance to poison) come from the necklace... I would highly encourage adding that to her clothing pattern!
Hmmm... this one is quite a bit tougher to analyze. I think maybe her entire face is shorter and rounder. Like, the bottom of the lip to the bottom of the chin might be shorter, as well as the top of the eyebrows to the bottom of her hairline. Also, her cheek bones may be more protruding(?). It's hard to say without tweaking it and looking at the results. I think Zarathustra's onto something with the darkness in the character's eyes. Also, her eyes might be wider /rounder... Possibly a little closer together? Maybe the mouth is slightly less wide? Maybe try an ever so slight up-turn to the corners of her mouth, too? She always looks like she's got a little bit of devilishness in there... like she is on the brink of pulling off a prank.
I dunno... this is a tough one. It's very hard to say what changes might work. Kind of a guess-and-check situation at this point. But your version somehow looks "younger" ...maybe more "innocent" than Melisandre? I dont know how you go about addressing that.
It surprises me, how different the actress appears from the character. You've got a good base down, so far!
#15 13th Feb 2019 at 1:41 AM Last edited by Vulrien : 13th Feb 2019 at 3:47 AM.
The dress is still very much a WIP, as the texture is looking a bit crunchy here and there. The main thing that stands out for me is that I need to edit the brow alpha to move the arch further inwards.
I have also been working on a Longclaw mesh for Jon, however I'm having some trouble getting it into game. So if anybody has any experience making accessory meshes and would like to help then feel try to shoot a PM my way!
I also think I'm gonna get started on a Brienne sim, so watch out for updates where she's concerned!
Okay... this is a tough one!! SHEESH! ...Her mouth is just about perfect, both in width and in distance from the chin. So leave her mouth be! But widen her jaw a little bit. Her face is more round, while yours seems to be a little bit thinner. Not a lot, though... just a little bit. So raise her jaw up a couple ticks. Then widen the distance between her eyes. Let her mouth move up, but keep her eyes and nose right where they are. And narrow the nose a little bit.
Excellent work! You've gotten some good feedback but maybe a few more things to consider. The model's eyes are more oval shaped while the sim has a bit of a squared off bottom eyelid. Perhaps raise the nostrils a little so the sim has the u shaped septum (between nostrils) like the model. Narrow the nasal bridge a bit and increase the nasolabial crease. Eyebrows, lips, and chin look spot on to me. Looking forward to an update!
#19 27th Feb 2019 at 11:52 PM Last edited by Vulrien : 28th Feb 2019 at 12:43 AM.
Thanks again for the feedback, I feel as though I'm pretty much done with her. But see what you guys think! I honestly would never have been able to noticed some of the finer details you guys are able to spot, so you've been an absolutely massive help.
emodarkwolf, I will be uploading Jon once I can figure out why the longclaw accessory mesh I made keeps crashing bodyshop. I'll likely have to post in the meshing forums to see if anybody can help.
In the end I decided to start a Cersei Lannister sim instead of Brienne, since Cersei (particularly in seasons 1-4) is by far my favourite character. I think she's pretty solid as is at the moment, but would love to hear some feedback. Also I am having a huge problem trying to find a suitable longer hair to use on her, as I want to make 2 versions (pre and post haircut), does anybody have any suggestions, somehow all of them look a bit weird on her, do you see what I mean?


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More US lawmakers line up to derail Trump's $110bn arms deal with Saudi
US President Donald Trump (background R) and First Lady Melania Trump waving as they board Air Force One before leaving Riyadh to Israel, May 22, 2017. (Photo by AFP)
Riyadh(ANN)-US President Donald Trump's massive $110 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia faces a bleak future in Congress as more lawmakers raise questions about the regime's atrocities in Yemen.
Trump signed the multi-billion dollar deal with Saudis during his maiden overseas trip to Riyadh last week, boasting that it was going to make and save "billions of dollars and millions of jobs" in the US.
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Journal: British Journal of Political Science , First View
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 August 2022, pp. 1-19
This article investigates how class of origin and intergenerational social mobility impact left-wing party support among new and old core left-wing electorates in the context of post-industrial electoral realignment and occupational transformation. We investigate the remaining legacy of political socialization in class of origin across generations of voters in the UK, Germany and Switzerland. We demonstrate that part of the contemporary middle-class left-wing support is a legacy of socialization under industrial class–party alignments, as many individuals from working-class backgrounds – traditional left-wing constituencies – have a different (post-industrial) class location than their parents. These enduring effects of production worker roots are weaker among younger generations and in more realigned contexts. Our findings imply that exclusively considering respondents' destination class underestimates the relevance of political socialization in class of origin, thereby overestimating electoral realignment. However, these past industrial alignments are currently unparalleled, as newer left-wing constituencies do not (yet) demonstrate similar legacies.
Early-Adulthood Economic Experiences and the Formation of Democratic Support
Suthan Krishnarajan, Jonathan Doucette, David Andersen
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 July 2022, pp. 1-20
Do economic experiences early in life affect regime support later in life? Effects of recent economic performance on regime support are extensively studied, but lasting effects of individual-level economic experiences across the lifespan remain unexplored. We argue that in democracies and autocracies alike, economic experiences in early adulthood (that is, age eighteen to twenty-eight) are wired into people's memories and become important cues for their democratic support later in life. Having lived in a well-performing economy in a democracy increases democratic support throughout most of people's lives, whereas having lived in a well-performing economy in an autocracy decreases democratic support throughout most of people's lives. Using extensive survey data on support for democracy covering ninety-seven countries from 1994 to 2015, we find support for these propositions, demonstrating that economic experiences in early adulthood, conditional on the regime in place at the time, have strong, robust and lasting effects on democratic support.
The Role of Child Perception and Motivation in Political Socialization – ERRATUM
Peter K. Hatemi, Christopher Ojeda
Journal: British Journal of Political Science / Volume 52 / Issue 4 / October 2022
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 June 2022, pp. 1994-1995
Print publication: October 2022
Explaining the Relationship Between Class Position and Political Preferences: A Long-Term Panel Analysis of Intra-Generational Class Mobility
Peter Egge Langsæther, Geoffrey Evans, Tom O'Grady
Journal: British Journal of Political Science / Volume 52 / Issue 2 / April 2022
Print publication: April 2022
Past findings on the connection between class position and political preferences are overwhelmingly derived from cross-sectional studies, which provided a limited basis for inferring causality. This study uses long-term panel data on thousands of British respondents to measure the impact of intra-generational class mobility across a range of political identities and preferences. Upward class mobility leads to small increases in economic conservatism, but party choice, class identity and attitudes to non-economic issues do not change. This updating of economic values is much smaller than cross-sectional differences between classes. These results are consistent with the short-run effects of class mobility operating primarily through a limited economic self-interest mechanism. Beliefs that are plausibly unconnected to economics are unaffected. The overall association between class and a range of identities, opinions and preferences is therefore more likely to be caused by early life experiences and longer-term socialization than by the immediate material interests associated with jobs.
Birth Order and Voter Turnout
Bernt Bratsberg, Christopher T. Dawes, Andreas Kotsadam, Karl-Oskar Lindgren, Richard Öhrvall, Sven Oskarsson, Oddbjørn Raaum
Journal: British Journal of Political Science / Volume 52 / Issue 1 / January 2022
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 July 2020, pp. 475-482
Print publication: January 2022
Previous studies have stressed the role of a child's family environment for future political participation. This field of research has, however, overlooked that children within the same family have different experiences depending on their birth order. First-borns spend their first years of life without having to compete over their parents' attention and resources, while their younger siblings are born into potential rivalry. We examine differences in turnout depending on birth order, using unique population-wide individual level register data from Sweden and Norway that enables precise within-family estimates. We consistently find that higher birth order entails lower turnout, and that the turnout differential with respect to birth order is stronger when turnout is lower. The link between birth order and turnout holds when we use data from four other, non-Nordic countries. This birth order effect appears to be partly mediated by socio-economic position and attitudinal predispositions.
The Role of Child Perception and Motivation in Political Socialization
Journal: British Journal of Political Science / Volume 51 / Issue 3 / July 2021
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2020, pp. 1097-1118
Print publication: July 2021
Most of what is known regarding political socialization treats parent–child concordance as evidence of transmission. This direct-transmission approach remains agnostic regarding how socialization occurs, whether traits have a role in a child's ability to identify and understand their parent's values or their motivation to adopt their parents' values. This article advances a perception-adoption approach to unpack these microprocesses of socialization. The authors test their model using three independent studies in the United States that together comprise 4,852 parent–child dyads. They find that the transmission of partisan orientations from parent to child occurs less than half the time, which is qualitatively different from the generally held view. More importantly, the findings provide a greater understanding of how key predictors facilitate the political socialization process. Specifically, politicization improves child perception, but has no role in the child's motivation to adopt parental values. Closeness and parental value strength influence children to want to be like their parents, but do nothing to improve children's ability to recognize their parents' values. And education, previously thought to have little role in transmission, does not influence a child's ability to understand their parent's affiliation, but appears to make children more likely to reject whatever they believe it to be.
The Political Legacy of Violence During China's Cultural Revolution
Autocrats use repression to deter opposition. Are they successful in the long run? The author argues that state repression can have long-lasting alienating effects on citizens' political attitudes and coercive effects on their political behavior. The article evaluates this proposition by studying the long-term effects of state terror during China's Cultural Revolution. It shows that individuals who grew up in localities that were exposed to more state-sponsored violence in the late 1960s are less trusting of national political leaders and more critical of the country's political system today. These anti-regime attitudes are more likely to be passed down to the younger generation if family members discuss politics frequently than if they do not. Yet while state repression has created anti-regime attitudes, it has decreased citizens' contentious behavior. These findings highlight the dilemma that authoritarian rulers face when they seek to consolidate their rule through repression.
Constructing an identity scale to analyze changes in One China identity: evidence from Taiwanese student delegations visiting Mainland China
Chia-Chou Wang
Journal: Japanese Journal of Political Science / Volume 20 / Issue 4 / December 2019
It is both academically and practically valuable to construct a multi-dimensional scale to assess the effectiveness of the Communist Party of China's (CPC) policy toward Taiwan. The author constructed a One China identity scale based on national identity theory and the CPC's political advocacy and actions toward Taiwan. Using panel data from 271 members of Taiwanese student delegations to Mainland China from 2016 to 2017, this study explored the changes in their sense of a One China identity. The results showed a significant increase (0.11, 5.19%) in the average ratings of the investigated students' One China identity. The regression equation constructed by the current study was able to explain 10.94% of the total variance of the One China identity scale, and all three hypotheses were supported. Following the exchange program, Taiwanese students appeared to have a greater sense of a One China identity. Their impression of Mainland China had improved, their acceptance of the CPC's regime had increased, and their preference for authoritarianism had increased.
TIME for Kids to Learn Gender Stereotypes: Analysis of Gender and Political Leadership in a Common Social Studies Resource for Children
J. Celeste Lay, Mirya R. Holman, Angela L. Bos, Jill S. Greenlee, Zoe M. Oxley, Allison Buffett
Journal: Politics & Gender / Volume 17 / Issue 1 / March 2021
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 September 2019, pp. 1-22
While early gendered messages mold children's expectations about the world, we know relatively little about the depictions of women in politics and exposure to gender stereotypes in elementary social studies curricula. In this article, we examine the coverage of political leaders in the children's magazine TIME for Kids, a source commonly found in elementary school classrooms. Coding all political content from this source over six years, we evaluate the presence of women political leaders and rate whether the leaders are described as possessing gender-stereotypic traits. Our results show that although TIME for Kids covers women leaders in greater proportion than their overall representation in politics, the content of the coverage contains gendered messages that portray politics as a stereotypically masculine field. We show that gendered traits are applied differently to men and to women in politics: feminine and communal traits are more likely to be applied to women leaders, while men and women are equally described as having masculine and agentic traits. Portrayals of women political leaders in stereotype-congruent ways is problematic because early messages influence children's views of gender roles.
Pack Your Politics! Assessing the Vote Choice of Latino Interstate Migrants
Robert R. Preuhs
Journal: Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Politics / Volume 5 / Issue 1 / March 2020
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2019, pp. 130-165
While popular narratives regarding the destiny of demographics assume Latino interstate migrants will alter destination state politics as Latinos disperse across the states, no studies directly assess the empirical validity of the underlying assumption of migrant's political preferences. Moreover, established theories of domestic migrant preferences suggest a variety of potential individual-level behaviors that often diverge from the underlying assumption of a uniform introduction of more liberal voters. Employing data from the 2016 Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey, this study presents an analysis on Latino interstate migrant voting behavior, while also overcoming a variety of data limitations in existing studies. Countering some previous findings that homophily, adaptation, or even a static liberal orientation describes migrant voting behavior, the results suggest that Latino interstate migrant preferences vary by the political context of their previous state of residence. The results imply that the destiny of demographics will be conditioned, to some extent, by the migratory patterns of Latinos and the dyad of departure and destination states. When Latinos leave liberal (conservative) states, they bring more liberal (conservative) policies. In short, Latinos seem to pack their politics when moving across state lines.
The Development of Students' Engagement in School, Community and Democracy
John B. Holbein, D. Sunshine Hillygus, Matthew A. Lenard, Christina Gibson-Davis, Darryl V. Hill
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 October 2018, pp. 1439-1457
This article explores the origins of youth engagement in school, community and democracy. Specifically, it considers the role of psychosocial or non-cognitive abilities, like grit or perseverance. Using a novel original large-scale longitudinal survey of students linked to school administrative records and a variety of modeling techniques – including sibling, twin and individual fixed effects – the study finds that psychosocial abilities are a strong predictor of youth civic engagement. Gritty students miss less class time and are more engaged in their schools, are more politically efficacious, are more likely to intend to vote when they become eligible, and volunteer more. Our work highlights the value of psychosocial attributes in the political socialization of young people.
Effects of physical attractiveness on political beliefs
Rolfe Daus Peterson, Carl L. Palmer
Journal: Politics and the Life Sciences / Volume 36 / Issue 2 / Fall 2017
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 December 2017, pp. 3-16
Physical attractiveness is an important social factor in our daily interactions. Scholars in social psychology provide evidence that attractiveness stereotypes and the "halo effect" are prominent in affecting the traits we attribute to others. However, the interest in attractiveness has not directly filtered down to questions of political behavior beyond candidates and elites. Utilizing measures of attractiveness across multiple surveys, we examine the relationship between attractiveness and political beliefs. Controlling for socioeconomic status, we find that more attractive individuals are more likely to report higher levels of political efficacy, identify as conservative, and identify as Republican. These findings suggest an additional mechanism for political socialization that has further implications for understanding how the body intertwines with the social nature of politics.
Thatcher's Children, Blair's Babies, Political Socialization and Trickle-down Value Change: An Age, Period and Cohort Analysis
Maria Teresa Grasso, Stephen Farrall, Emily Gray, Colin Hay, Will Jennings
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 January 2017, pp. 17-36
To what extent are new generations 'Thatcherite'? Using British Social Attitudes data for 1985–2012 and applying age-period-cohort analysis and generalized additive models, this article investigates whether Thatcher's Children hold more right-authoritarian political values compared to other political generations. The study further examines the extent to which the generation that came of age under New Labour – Blair's Babies – shares these values. The findings for generation effects indicate that the later political generation is even more right-authoritarian, including with respect to attitudes to redistribution, welfare and crime. This view is supported by evidence of cohort effects. These results show that the legacy of Thatcherism for left-right and libertarian-authoritarian values is its long-term shaping of public opinion through political socialization.
Pre-emigration Socialization, Transnational Ties, and Political Participation Across the Pacific: A Comparison Among Immigrants from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong
Pei-te Lien
Journal: Journal of East Asian Studies / Volume 10 / Issue 3 / December 2010
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 March 2016, pp. 453-482
Print publication: December 2010
Extant research on immigrant incorporation pays little attention to variations among immigrants from the same ethnic origin. A main purpose of this study is to address this research void by exploring how differences in the pre-emigration socialization context for immigrants from a politically divided homeland may affect their participation in mainstream-oriented and homeland-regarded politics. I posit that experiences Asian immigrants have in different political systems before crossing the Pacific may result in different relationships they maintain with their homeland as well as different attitudes toward homeland government and policies they develop after the crossing; and this, in turn, may affect how much they participate in politics on both sides of the Pacific. However, through the process of resocialization, I also suggest immigrants' political behavior may be influenced by their degree of exposure to the host society as well as by their connectedness with its institutions. Using data from the 2007 Chinese American Homeland Politics survey, I focus on the experiences of US immigrants of Chinese descent from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong to test these hypotheses.


In retirement, you don't have to rise at the crack of dawn, fight traffic, and report to a job that stresses you out.
So you might think that retirement would present opportunities to improve your overall health. But researchers say that often isn't the case.
Writing in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, health researchers at West Virginia University attempted to compare the rate of living a healthy lifestyle among retired people to those who were still reporting to work each day.
The researchers at the West Virginia University School of Medicine's Department of Family Medicine looked at whether retired late-middle-aged adults have a different level of healthy lifestyle and metabolic risk factors, including diet, exercise, smoking, weight, glucose levels, blood pressure, and cholesterol, when compared to adults of the same age who are still working.
Taking advantage of the free time?
"We know that full-time work keeps people busy and often unable to find the time for healthy eating and exercise," said Dr. Dana King, who led the study. "We decided to investigate whether people who were retiring took advantage of their additional free time to lead a healthier lifestyle."
Retirement offers many opportunities to improve your health. You have more time to exercise and to plan a healthy meal menu. But the researchers found that to be the exception, not the rule.
They said chronic disease, the use of several medications, and a busier than expected schedule in retirement meant many people were not using their life change to improve their health.
In fact, the researchers concluded that retirement doesn't necessarily have a strong association with improvements in healthy lifestyle habits or other cardiovascular risk factors.
It found that retired Baby Boomers more often than not are obese, have elevated blood pressure, and other health complications. They are no more likely than anyone else to be eating a healthy diet.
It's true that physical activity increased after retirement, but researchers say that, in and of itself, is not enough to make up for other unhealthy behaviors.


If we want to know what sorts of creatures will survive the next mass extinction, the best place to look is the fossil record. After examining the bones of Lystrosaurus, a vertebrate that famously thrived during the worst apocalypse in the history of life on Earth, a team of paleontologists think they know how it managed to adapt.
Lystrosaurus is a lineage of mammalian ancestors that flourished some 250 million years ago. If you know your Earth history, you'll know that timeframe coincides with the end Permian extinction, wherein a series of volcanic eruptions sent billions of tons of carbon into Earth's atmosphere, triggering runaway climate change and the largest extinction event of all time. Some 70 percent of all terrestrial species and 80 to 96 percent of all marine life perished as our planet transformed into a noxious hellscape.
A study published today in Scientific Reports sheds light on how Lystrosaurus defied death, earning itself the nickname "disaster taxon." Analyzing the bone microstructure and body size distribution of Lystrosaurus fossils both before and after the Permo-Triassic boundary, paleontologists at the Field Museum learned that these ancient animals survived radical climate change by radically altering their life history strategy. Their lifespans shortened, and they shrank hundreds of pounds, from the size of a pygmy hippo to that of a large dog.
These changes seem to have paid off. Combining their fossil findings with ecological simulations, the study's authors showed that by breeding younger, Lystrosaurus may have increased its chance of survival by up to 40 percent. As Earth's land masses emptied of biodiversity, Lystrosaurus spread far and wide, becoming the most abundant vertebrate on the planet.
This mammalian forerunner's ancient evolutionary win is relevant in light of our current global predicament. Almost a year ago, scientists confirmed that we're definitely in the early stages of a sixth mass extinction event—a very rapid die-off of species that could lead to ecological collapse. Hopefully, the transition from the Holocene to the Anthropocene won't be as catastrophic as the end Permian, but one does have to wonder if the survivors will learn to live fast and die young.


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This last video (32 the passaggio END EDIT) of the vol 1 ("how to sing better then everyone else") made absolutely no sense to me. someone please explain it to me.
I would be more than happy to explain in detail, but first you have to contact the people at KTVA, and get your status changed from member to a student status. Contact them, and they will ask for a copy of your receipt, and then you can post your question in the students area to get detailed information on how it all works.
There is no video 32 in volume 1. Nothing with END EDIT in the title.
Is this a DVD? Download? Stream? This doesn't match the title of anything in the actual KTVA program.
It would be easier to explain to you if we know exactly what it is that you have, and where it came from.
Where did you get this copy of the KTVA program?
Welcome, make sure you update your status so you get all the access to the forum!
Following instructions on how to upgrade your forum status.
So the course my mom got has "VOLUME 1" 2 and 3. It'a called vocal academy "how to sing better then everyone else" . She bought it and then later downloaded it from a link sent through her email. She got it about three years ago.
Is this a good enough description?
Do you know the right name for this course subject for the forums?


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Affordability a national, not just provincial, issue – analysis
by Ephraim Vecina 19 May 2016
Various quarters have said that the lack of sufficient information regarding foreign money's influence on Canada's most overheated housing markets is stifling an appropriate response to the out-of-control affordability issue, but a recent analysis argued that the current discussion does not address the fundamental reason for the crisis.
"Missing from the [discourse] is any mention of the fundamental flaw in Canada's regulatory system that allows the debate about Vancouver's housing market to persist without resolution," Kevin Carmichael wrote in a breakdown piece for Canadian Business.
Carmichael noted that the absence of a regulatory body on the federal level—which has been pointed out by the International Monetary Fund earlier this month—essentially leaves provincial governments on their own to deal with the problem of affordability, which is now starting to spread outward from the leading markets of Vancouver and Toronto.
"It is a national issue: everyone knows who will be called on to clean up the mess if it bursts," the long-time industry observer warned.
"The banks would feel it and likely would curb lending. CMHC would feel it because it has insured most of the mortgages Vancouverites have used to buy their inflated assets. The only ones who wouldn't feel it would be the rich Chinese whose goal simply was to collect assets outside the reach of their government," he added.
But while bodies such as CIBC are already hard at work in devising strategies (such as more taxes) against the more deleterious effects of overseas investment on the country's real estate markets, Canada is still far behind the game when it comes to dealing with foreign money.
"What is unique about Vancouver's real-estate bubble is the unwillingness of the authorities to do anything about it. Governments in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom all are trying to slow the rush of international capital into local housing markets."
The predicament only further highlights the need for a "macroprudential regulator", Carmichael said.
"Ideally, it would have the power to defuse risks without first having to seek permission from a politician, just as the Bank of Canada sets the benchmark interest rate without input from finance minister," he explained.
"But if that is too much power for governments to yield, then a neutral body could at least identify threats and offer neutral advice on what to do about them."


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Stanisław Bułajewski (ur. 11 lipca 1972 w Piszu) – polski prawnik i samorządowiec, doktor habilitowany nauk prawnych, burmistrz Mrągowa od 2018.

Życiorys
Absolwent Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku. W 2005 został radcą prawnym. W 2007 obronił pracę doktorską na Wydziale Prawa UwB. Został adiunktem na Wydziale Prawa i Administracji Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie. Od 2010 do 2011 prowadził obsługę prawną gminy Mrągowo. W 2019 na UWM w Olsztynie uzyskał stopień doktora habilitowanego nauk prawnych. Jest specjalistą z zakresu prawa konstytucyjnego, prawa samorządowego, a w największym stopniu w problematyce prawa miejscowego i kontroli w jednostkach samorządu terytorialnego. Autor kilkudziesięciu publikacji, a także współautor licznych podręczników akademickich. Autor monografii Rada powiatu – pozycja ustrojowa, stanowienie prawa i kontrola. Jest prowadzącym szkoleń na temat legislacji w jednostkach samorządu terytorialnego.

W latach 1998–2002 pełnił mandat radnego miasta Mrągowo, przez pewien czas zasiadając także w zarządzie miasta. W 2002 z listy lokalnego komitetu został wybrany na radnego powiatu mrągowskiego. Mandat odnawiał w kolejnych wyborach w 2006, 2010 i 2014. W wyborach samorządowych w 2014 został wybrany na radnego sejmiku województwa warmińsko-mazurskiego z listy Polskiego Stronnictwa Ludowego. W 2018 wystartował jako kandydat na burmistrza Mrągowa z własnego komitetu. W pierwszej turze zdobył miejsce z wynikiem 33,58%, przechodząc do drugiej tury z Waldemarem Cybulem. W drugiej turze zdobył 55,11%, wygrywając wybory.

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Bibliografia
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Absolwenci Wydziału Prawa Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Ludzie urodzeni w Piszu
Ludzie związani z Mrągowem
Politycy Polskiego Stronnictwa Ludowego
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Our Parinirvana celebration marks the final passing away of the Buddha. His death came when he was eighty years old and had spent some forty years teaching after his Enlightenment. As we acknowledge his passing some 2500 years ago, we draw inspiration from his example, and affirm our own potential to follow in his footprints. In our unfolding and growing we honour his final words 'With Mindfulness strive on', and make our own footsteps, find our own unique path, to Awakening.
What is more, the notion that all things are impermanent is central to Buddhist teaching and, for Buddhists, loss and impermanence are things to be accepted rather than causes of pain and grief. Someone's death is also an opportunity to celebrate a life. We will have space through a led reflection as part of the puja to connect with gratitude to someone who has passed on, and whose creative qualities we admire. Bring a photo of this person, and they will be included in the puja.


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Princess Alice of the United Kingdom
British princess, the third child and second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert (1843-1878)
The Princess Alice (Alice Maud Mary: Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine by marriage; April 25, 1843 – December 14, 1878).
Photograph by Franz Backofen, 1871
Grand Duchess consort of Hesse and by Rhine
13 June 1877 – 14 December 1878
(1843-04-25)25 April 1843
Buckingham Palace, London, England
14 December 1878(1878-12-14) (aged 35)
New Palace, Darmstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse, German Empire
Rosenhöhe, Darmstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse, German Empire
Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse (m. 1862)
Princess Victoria, Marchioness of Milford Haven
Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia
Irene, Princess Henry of Prussia
Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine
Prince Friedrich
Alix, Empress of Russia
Princess Marie
Alice Maud Mary
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
She was the second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. In 1861, she acted as the nurse to her dying father, and became interested in nursing.
In 1862, she married Prince Louis of Hesse and moved to Hesse, where she had several children including Princess Elisabeth of Hesse, Alice Romanov Chaytow and Alexandra, future Russian Empress and wife of Tsar Nicholas II.
After an unhappy marriage and a number of family deaths, the royal family of Hesse caught diphtheria. Alice's younger son died, and after kissing the elder one, she caught the disease and died on the anniversary of her father's death, 14 December 1878. She is buried in Hesse.
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25 April 1843 – 1 July 1862: Her Royal Highness The Princess Alice
1 July 1862 – 13 June 1877: Her Royal Highness Princess Louis of Hesse and by Rhine
13 June 1877 – 14 December 1878: Her Royal Highness The Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine
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Van der Kiste, John (1986). Queen Victoria's Children. Gloucestershire, England: Sutton Publishing. ISBN 0-7509-3476-X.
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