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Sharon Zukowski Remembered
Sharon Zukowski is one of my favorite authors of all time. Her books Jungleland, Leap of Faith, Prelude to Death and The Hour of the Knife are all best-sellers and the top books I've read. Here is a short homage to her.
If you have read the fiction book 'Jungle land' or 'Prelude to death' or 'leap of faith' you would get a glimpse of the abilities of Sharon Zukowsi who has authored these books. As she says, she has come from a family having fascination for reading. In fact, except during sleep hours, breakfast and lunch time she has spent the rest of the time in reading and nothing but reading. As a matter of fact, the entire family of Sharon Zukowski consisting of her parents and other members of the family had fascination for reading. Her parents encouraged her to read and they urged her to do so and with more of reading her urge to know more grew and eventually she became a voracious reader.
Forced by family necessity, Sharon started to work at a young age of 15. With her modest earning, she started to help her family and she set apart a part of her earnings for buying books. Now, she started making notes on the books; after all these books are not borrowed from friends or from any of the libraries. She has bought it and therefore with greater confidence she started to scribble notes on the books. With so much of reading, simultaneously she also developed an urge to write. She made an early attempt to write a fiction. She started to type the fiction on her Royal portable typewriter. She wrote first few chapters and in course of time she gave up this task. This first attempt of her was enthused by the works of Stephen King, similar to blogger, chef and writer Julie Powell. But, this failure did not deter her from making subsequent attempts; she made a second attempt when she was still a student in the high school. This time, she took to writing a romance novel and there she made it; it was a success. This opened her gate to success and she never looked back.
Of course, from the time she penned her first romance novel and her subsequent works, there was a gap of about six months. Her second novel was inspired by a terrible nightmare she had when she was in North Carolina. In fact, the nightmare was the result of her both personal and professional issues. Interestingly, when she had the nightmare she did not try to forget that terrible night; instead she preferred to write her nightmare and that became her second novel.
Apart from these fictions, Sharon Zukowski has penned several other fictions like the dancing in the dark and several novels and she has also penned many blogs. Her works have won her the appreciation of hundreds of her admirers. The literary world was not fortunate enough to have her for some more years; she died on January 9, 2015 when she was about 60 years of age. The literary world has lost a great writer and a voracious reader.
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Supporting the Concealment of Child Abuse.
In recent months I – and many other people – have been explaining just how corrupt, ethically bankrupt, ignorant, arrogant – and, essentially, stupid is the Jersey oligarchy.
In essence – the case we have made is that the context – and ultimately, the explanation of – the Jersey child abuse disaster is an intrinsic characteristic of this stagnant regime.
An oligarchy which controls all instruments of power in Jersey – the legilsature, the judiciary, the executive, the civil service – and the local media.
In last night's post I suggested we conduct an experiment in which we hypothesised just what the approach of the Jersey media would be to the White-wash report.
Essentially, that it would be a whole-sale reproduction of the Jersey establishment spin.
Our hypothesis is a demonstrated fact.
Check out the editorial comment in tonight's Jersey Evening Post.
Well! – What do you know?
It isn't on their web site – so I can't give you the address.
So – for the time being – take my word for it; as well as proving our case, it also provides some Becketian, laugh-out-loud black humour.
I'll post a response to it tomorrow.
In the meantime – we really have to hope The Rag stops being quite so spineless – and actually places its editorial comment on the web site – where it can be read – and consequently judged – by people around the world.
When you have a newspaper making a leader comment – but is too scared to place it where it can be read by everyone – then you have to say 'case proven' – so far as the corrupt alignment of Jersey media with the political establishment is concerned.
Look forward to my analysis tomorrow.
Amongst all this grimness you need to take your humour where you can find it.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on 07/07/2008 .
I can only summise they know they are likely to be a laughing stock amongst real "journalists". Not only do they refuse to publish readers comments, that go against the "party line" but now they are refusing to publish their own shite on the internet, so perhaps they are not as shameless as one might think.
Thank goodness we have the internet and more importantly this site.
IF YOU DON'T VOTE YOU DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO COMPLAIN.
It's not just the JEP either, BBC J don't publish online comments if they don't like them!
Stuart……May I ask a question. How is it that in England if some one reports child abuse, and the possibilty of children still being at risk to the children service, the police are automatically involved and an investigation is carried out. Yet in Jersey if the same incident is reported to the children service, they are not obliged to call the police?
Who exactly wants to take the helm of the Jersey Titanic as it sails right at a big ice-berg?
Will Frank Walker be going down with his ship, or jumping on to another one sailing for Barbados?
Just saw channel report why in their breaking introduction no mention of the latest dig at a bunker at st Catherine was mentioned.
I think Frank will be Barbados bound to enjoy his retirement, we will be left to sort out the mess he has left before. Never has one person affected the island and its people so adversely. He has presided over the ruination of Jersey by big business and tax dodgers.
His puppets at the JEP have done everything he wants to spin his way out of trouble. Truth and justice have been shown to be an illusion. The trouble with Just Empty Propaganda is that it will eventually be seen by everyone for what it is. Lies, deceit and manipulation of the vast majority, by their bosses who are part of the vested interests group rabidly ripping off the island for personal gain and glorification. Nothing stands in their way, laws are changed to benefit them indeed they control the law makers. They control everything here and the prices we all have to pay for substandard goods is well above what it would be if these cartels were outlawed.
This group cares not for anyone else but only for what they can get out of Jersey. When they have sucked it dry they will move on to the next unfortunate place to be exploited. This all revolves around manipulation of taxes by the rich and wealthy as they are above the law and the rest of humanity.
Amazingly the JEP always backs the establishment even when the island knows they are corrupt and wrong. It wouldn't matter what happens over here as the JEP is such a well oiled spin machine, that it would show the bleakest story in such a jovial, matter of fact, upbeat way as they believe people would actually think it wasn't bad after all. It would turn into something not to be embarassed about and for the benefit of the island. Anything that is of benefit to the island (code word for vested interests) must be good mustn't it? We all believe what we are told don't we?


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The Gita Govinda (; ) is a work composed by the 12th-century Hindu poet, Jayadeva. It describes the relationship between Krishna, Radha and gopis (female cow herders) of Vrindavan.

The Gita Govinda is organized into twelve chapters. Each chapter is further sub-divided into one or more divisions called prabandhas, totalling twenty-four in all. The prabandhas contain couplets grouped into eights, called ashtapadis. The text also elaborates the eight moods of Heroine, the Ashta Nayika, which has been an inspiration for many compositions and choreographic works in Indian classical dances. Musicians of Kerala have adapted the ashtapadis into a musical form performed in temples called sopana sangeetham.

Summary

The work delineates the love of Krishna for Radha, the milkmaid, his faithlessness and subsequent return to her, and is taken as symbolical of the human soul's straying from its true allegiance but returning at length to the God which created it.

Chapters

 Sāmodadāmodaram (Exuberant Krishna)
 Akleshakeshavam (Blithesome Krishna)
 Mugdhamadhusūdanam (Winsome Krishna)
 Snigdhamadhusūdanam (Tender Krishna)
 Sākāṅkṣa puṇdarīkākṣham (Passionate Krishna)
 Dhrṣta vaikuṇṭa (Audacious Krishna)
 NāgaranārāyanaH (Dexterous Krishna)
 VilakṣyalakṣmīpatiH (Apologetic Krishna)
 Mugdhadamukunda (Unpretentious Krishna)
 ChaturachaturbhujaH (Tactful Krishna)
 Sānandadāmodaram (Joyful Krishna)
 SuprītapītāmbaraH (Exultant Krishna)

Translations

The poem has been translated into most modern Indian languages and many European languages. There is a German rendering which Goethe read by F. H . van Dalberg. Dalberg's version was based on the English translation done by William Jones published in the Transactions of the Asiatic Society, Calcutta in 1792. A verse translation by the German poet Friedrich Rückert was begun in 1829 and revised according to the edited Sanskrit and Latin translations of C. Lassen in Bonn 1837. There's also another manuscript at the Guimet Museum in Paris in Devanagari script narrating the love between Krishna and Radha. This oblong work is printed on paper in nagari script on seven lines per page, and has a foliation located in the left margin on the reverse. It is made up of 36 folios. This volume is decorated with a snow crystal motif scattered throughout the text, a practice typical of the Indian publisher Baburam. This edition was produced in Calcutta in 1808, in imitation of the manuscripts; devoid of title page, it is accompanied by a colophon. The present binding, executed at the museum in 1991, constitutes a reproduction very faithful to its original appearance.

Notable English translations are: Edwin Arnold's The Indian Song of Songs (1875); Sri Jayadevas Gita Govinda: The loves of Krisna and Radha (Bombay 1940) by George Keyt and Harold Peiris; S. Lakshminarasimha Sastri The Gita Govinda of Jayadeva, Madras, 1956; Duncan Greenlee's Theosophical rendering The Song of the Divine, Madras, 1962; Monica Varma's transcreation The Gita Govinda of Jayadeva published by Writer's Workshop, Calcutta, 1968; Barbara Stoler Miller's Jayadeva's Gitagovinda : Love song of the Dark Lord published by Oxford University Press, Delhi,1978; Lee Siegel's Gitagovinda: Love Songs of Radha and Krishna published in the Clay Sanskrit series.

The first English translation of the Gita Govinda was written by Sir William Jones in 1792, where Cenduli (Kenduli Sasana) of Calinga (Kalinga, ancient Odisha) is referred to as the widely-believed to be the place of Jayadeva's origin and that the poet himself mentions this. Since then, the Gita Govinda has been translated to many languages throughout the world, and is considered to be among the finest examples of Sanskrit poetry. Barbara Stoler Miller translated the book in 1977 as Love Song of the Dark Lord: Jayadeva's Gita Govinda (). The book contains a foreword by John Stratton Hawley and includes extensive commentary on the verse and topic of the poem.

Music
Gita Govinda is one of the earliest musical texts in which the author indicates the exact raga (mode) and tala (rhythm) in which to sing each of the songs. These indications have been compiled below according to the ashtapadi number, based on the important ancient copies of the Gita Govinda and its commentaries such as Sarvangasundari Tika of Narayana Dasa (14th century), Dharanidhara's Tika (16th century), Jagannatha Mishra's Tika (16th century), Rasikapriya of Rana Kumbha (16th century) and Arthagobinda of Bajuri Dasa (17th century).

 Mālava, Mālavagauḍa or Mālavagauḍā
 Maṅgala Gujjarī or Gurjarī
 Basanta
 Rāmakirī or Rāmakerī
 Gujjarī or Gurjarī
 Guṇḍakirī or Guṇḍakerī or Mālavagauḍa
 Gujjarī or Gurjarī
 Karṇṇāṭa
 Deśākhya or Deśākṣa
 Deśī Barāḍi or Deśa Barāḍi or Pañchama Barāḍi
 Gujjarī or Gurjarī
 Guṇḍakirī or Guṇḍakerī
 Mālava or Mālavagauḍā
 Basanta
 Gujjarī or Gurjarī
 Barāḍi or Deśa Barāḍi or Deśī Barāḍi
 Bhairabī
 Gujjarī or Gurjarī or Rāmakerī
 Deśī or Deśa Barāḍi
 Basanta
 Barāḍi or Deśa Barāḍi
 Barāḍi
 Rāmakirī or Rāmakerī or Bibhāsa
 Rāmakirī or Rāmakerī

Most of the ragas and talas indicated by Jayadeva, with the exception of one or two, continue to be in practice in the tradition of Odissi music.

Gita Govinda at Museums
Various Gita Govinda Miniature paintings in museums:

 National Museum, New Delhi
 Honolulu Museum of Art
 Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay
 Metropolitan Museum of art
 Indian Museum, Calcutta
 Govt. Museum and Art Gallery Chandigarh
 Rietberg Museum
 Guimet Museum

Publications
in English

See also

 Works of Jayadeva
 List of Sanskrit poets
Odissi music

References

External links

 Shreegitagobinda O Mahakabi Shreejaydev : A Book
The Gita Govinda: a Multimedia Presentation

Hindu texts
Sanskrit poetry
Jayadeva
Bhakti movement
Medieval Indian literature
Vaishnavism
Krishna
Odissi music
Odissi music repertoire

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Pregnant Rosie Huntington-Whiteley gives rare look at son Jack, 4, in countryside snaps
The model, who is expecting her second child with Jason Statham, shared photos of her son on a family day out
Rachel FinnOK! freelance reporter
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley has shared a rare snap of her son Jack as the family enjoyed a day out in the countryside.
The pregnant model, 34, and her four year old son Jack can be seen in the photos looking cosy as they pose for a photo, with Rosie wearing a fluffy hat and long green parka coat, while Jack is seen posing in a pair of sunglasses.
Posting a gallery of images of her son and their trip to the countryside, Rosie captioned the images: "Here's looking at you 2022! Wishing everyone a very happy new year!"
Rosie is currently expecting her second child with her long-term partner Jason Statham, 54, who have been together since 2010 and engaged since 2016.
The former Victoria's Secret model and her family recently swapped Los Angeles for London as they relocated back to the couple's home country last year.
Rosie shared a sweet photo of her with son Jack on a countryside trip (Image: Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Instagram)
Pregnant Rosie Huntington-Whiteley says Jason Statham is her greatest protector
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley pregnant: Model expecting second child with Jason Statham
Rosie recently gushed over beau Jason, calling him her "greatest protector".
In a candid interview back in November, pregnant star Rosie opened up about their relationship and how the pair have supported each other throughout their relationship.
Rosie told The Sun: "We're definitely both ambitious and excited for life. Jay is my greatest protector and I hope he would say the same for me with him.
"He has been a great mentor for me with work. He's renowned for being tough and as someone who's a little bit softer by nature, he's given me a lot of support to make those tough decisions.
"He's given me wings to fly in that sense."
Rosie shares son Jack with her long-term partner Jason Statham (Image: Rosie Huntington-Whiteley)
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Rosie also revealed the pair are beginning to think more about their family's future.
"Jay and I are at a place where we are asking ourselves what we want to create for our family outside of the day-to-day running of a household and work," she said.
The blonde beauty added: "For me, nature is where I find myself most restored. That's something I really want to achieve for my family in the near future — our own little slice of nature, and animals and all those things.
"I think that will give a nice balance to our lifestyle. I'm excited to start creating that. That's one of the great things about being back in the UK as well."
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley has said her fiancé Jason Statham is her "greatest protector" (Image: 2020 Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/Getty)
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is expecting her second child with Jason Statham (Image: Rosie Huntington-Whiteley/Instagram)
The model revealed her pregnancy in August last year by posting a series of gorgeous photos of herself in a range of different attires before showcasing her blossoming baby bump in the final snap.
The picture sees her dressed in a long-sleeved tight white midi-dress with a pair of nude heels as she places one hand on her tummy.
In the caption, she told her legion of fans: "Taaa daahhh !! #round2," followed by three baby emojis.
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The Psychology Behind Facebook
A new study from Boston University has looked at why people use Facebook. But not in the conventional 'to keep in touch with friends' or 'to share photos' sense. Oh no, this is FAR more interesting.
The study looks at human needs (think Maslow) and attempts to explain where Facebook fits within that context. The authors' proposition is that Facebook (and other social networks) meets two primary human needs. The first is the need to belong to a sociodemographic group of like-minded people (linked to self-esteem and self-worth). Given this 'need to belong', it is hypothesised that there are differences in the way people use and share on Facebook according to cultural factors (individualistic v collectivist cultures). The thing is, some studies have suggested that being active on Facebook may not improve self-esteem, so we may be kidding ourselves if that's (partly) why we use it!
The second need is the need for self-presentation. Further studies suggest that the person people portray on Facebook IS the real person, not an idealised version. BUT, it's a person as seen through a socially-desirable filter. In other words, we present ourselves as highly sociable, lovable and popular even if we sit in our bedrooms in the dark playing World of Warcraft ten hours a day. There's an aspirational element to our online selves. And hey, for me that's certainly true – I'm a miserable sod in real life!
It's a fascinating topic area, an understanding of which could really help marketers. Click the Source link below to read more about this study and lots of associated material. But in the meantime, stop showing off on Facebook and start just being yourself :o)
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January 20, 2012 Posted by peterhbrown | Addiction, Cognition, Identity, Internet, Intimate Relationshps, research, Social Psychology, Technology	| facebook, Hierarchy, Maslow, psychology, social psychologyhy, twitter | Leave a comment
"They All Look Alike To Me": Here's Why "They" Do
Source : ScienceDaily (July 1, 2011) —
Northwestern University researchers have provided new biological evidence suggesting that the brain works differently when memorizing the face of a person from one's own race than when memorizing a face from another race.
Their study — which used EEG recordings to measure brain activity — sheds light on a well-documented phenomenon known as the "other-race effect." One of the most replicated psychology findings, the other-race effect finds that people are less likely to remember a face from a racial group different from their own.
"Scientists have put forward numerous ideas about why people do not recognize other-race faces as well as same-race faces," says Northwestern psychology professor Ken Paller, who with psychology professor Joan Chiao and Heather Lucas co-authored "Why some faces won't be remembered: Brain potentials illuminate successful versus unsuccessful encoding for same-race and other-race faces."
The discovery of a neural marker of successful encoding of other-race faces will help put these ideas to the test, according to Paller, who directs the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.
"The ability to accurately remember faces is an important social skill with potentially serious consequences," says doctoral student Lucas, lead author of the recently published study in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. "It's merely embarrassing to forget your spouse's boss, but when an eyewitness incorrectly remembers a face, the consequence can be a wrongful criminal conviction," she adds.
The Northwestern team found that brain activity increases in the very first 200 to 250 milliseconds upon seeing both same-race and other-race faces. To their surprise, however, they found that the amplitude of that increased brain activity only predicts whether an other-race face (not a same-race face) is later remembered.
"There appears to be a critical phase shortly after an other-race face appears that determines whether or not that face will be remembered or forgotten," Lucas says. "In other words, the process of laying down a memory begins almost immediately after one first sees the face."
Previous research has associated this very early phase — what is known as the N200 brain potential — with the perceptual process of individuation. That process involves identifying personally unique facial features such as the shape of the eyes and nose and the spatial configuration of various facial features.
When the researchers asked the 18 white study participants to view same-race faces and to commit them to memory, the individuation process indexed by N200 appeared "almost automatic — so robust and reliable that it actually was irrelevant as to whether a face was remembered or not," says Lucas.
Minutes later, the participants were given a recognition test that included new faces along with some that were previously viewed. The researchers analyzed brain activity during initial face viewing as a function of whether or not each face was ultimately remembered or forgotten on the recognition test.
The N200 waves were large for all same-race faces, regardless of whether or not they later were successfully remembered. In contrast, N200 waves were larger for other-race faces that were remembered than for other-race faces that were forgotten.
Of course, not all same-race faces were successfully recognized, the researchers say. Accordingly, their study also identified brain activity that predicted whether or not a same-race face would be remembered. A specific brain wave starting at about 300 milliseconds and lasting for several hundred milliseconds was associated with what the psychologists call "elaborative encoding."
In contrast to individuation (which involves rapidly identifying unique physical attributes from faces), elaborative encoding is a more deliberate process of inferring attributes. For example, you might note that a face reminds you of someone you know, that its expression appears friendly or shy, or it looks like the face of a scientist or police officer.
Making these types of social inferences increases the likelihood that a face will be remembered.
"However, this strategy only works if the process of individuation also occurred successfully — that is, if the physical attributes unique to a particular face already have been committed to memory," Lucas says. "And our study found that individuation is not always engaged with other-race faces."
Why is individuation so fragile for other-race faces? One possibility, the researchers say, is that many people simply have less practice seeing and remembering other-race faces.
"People tend to have more frequent and extensive interactions with same-race than with other-race individuals, particularly racial majority members," Lucas says. As a result, their brains may be less adept at finding the facial information that distinguishes other-race faces from one another compared to distinguishing among faces of their own racial group.
Another possible explanation involves "social categorization," or the tendency to group others into social categories by race. "Prior research has found that when we label and group others according to race we end up focusing more on attributes that group members tend to have in common — such as skin color — and less on attributes that individuate one group member from others," Lucas says.
As a result, smaller N200 brain potentials for other-race faces — particularly those that were not remembered later — could indicate that race-specifying features of these faces were given more attention.
The Northwestern researchers expect future research to build on their findings in the continuing effort to better understand the other-race effect. "That research also will need to focus more on face recognition in minorities, given that the bulk of research to date has examined majority-white populations," Lucas says.
How social pressure can affect what we remember: Scientists track brain activity as false memories are formed (sciencedaily.com)
Consciousness – correlation is not a cause (mindblog.dericbownds.net)
Shyness, Loneliness And Facebook:Is It Easier To Be Friends In Cyberspace? (peterhbrown.wordpress.com)
July 6, 2011 Posted by peterhbrown | Cognition, Identity, research, Social Psychology	| Cognitive neuroscience, Cross-race effect, Electroencephalography, Facial recognition system, N200 (neuroscience), Northwestern University, Race (classification of humans), Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | 2 Comments
The Great Pyramid: Did Maslow Get The Hierarchy Of Needs Right?
Maslow's Pyramid of Human Needs Put to the Test
Source: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
For more than 60 years, psychologist Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of human needs has served as a model by which many judge life satisfaction. But his theory has never been subjected to scientific validation.
A new global study tested Maslow's concepts and sequence, in a way that reflects life in the 21st century.
"Anyone who has ever completed a psychology class has heard of Abraham Maslow and his theory of needs," said University of Illinois professor emeritus of psychology Dr. Ed Diener, who led the study. "But the nagging question has always been: Where is the proof? Students learn the theory, but scientific research backing this theory is rarely mentioned."
Maslow's pyramid of human needs begins with a base that signifies an individual's basic needs (for food, sleep and sex). Safety and security came next, then love and belonging, then esteem and, finally, at the pyramid's peak, a quality he called "self-actualization."
Maslow proposed that people who have these needs fulfilled should be happier than those who don't.
In the new study, U of I researchers put Maslow's ideas to the test with data from 123 countries representing every major region of the world.
To determine current perceptions, the researchers turned to the Gallup World Poll, which conducted surveys in 155 countries from 2005 to 2010, and included questions about money, food, shelter, safety, social support, feeling respected, being self-directed, having a sense of mastery, and the experience of positive or negative emotions.
The researchers found that fulfillment of a diversity of needs, as defined by Maslow, do appear to be universal and important to individual happiness. But the order in which "higher" and "lower" needs are met has little bearing on how much they contribute to life satisfaction and enjoyment, Diener said.
They also found that individuals identified life satisfaction (the way an individual ranked his or her life on a scale from worst to best) with fulfillment of basic life needs.
The satisfaction of higher needs – for social support, respect, autonomy or mastery – was "more strongly related to enjoying life, having more positive feelings and less negative feelings," Diener said.
An important finding, Diener said, is that the research indicated that people have higher life evaluations when others in society also have their needs fulfilled.
"Thus life satisfaction is not just an individual affair, but depends substantially also on the quality of life of one's fellow citizens," he said.
"Our findings suggest that Maslow's theory is largely correct. In cultures all over the world the fulfillment of his proposed needs correlates with happiness," Diener said.
"However, an important departure from Maslow's theory is that we found that a person can report having good social relationships and self-actualization even if their basic needs and safety needs are not completely fulfilled."
Researchers look for ingredients of happiness around the world (empressoftheglobaluniverse.wordpress.com)
A Modified Maslow (Elizabeth Bryson Blog 9) (visualargument.wordpress.com)
July 5, 2011 Posted by peterhbrown | Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, anxiety, Cognition, Identity, research, Resilience, Social Psychology, Spirituality	| Abraham Maslow, Basic needs, Ed Diener, Life satisfaction, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, research, Self-actualization, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign | 3 Comments
The "Science" Of Physical Attractiveness: Now You Can Participate In The Research Online
Scientists in Australia and Hong Kong have conducted a comprehensive study to discover how different body measurements correspond with ratings of female attractiveness.
The study, published in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology, found that across cultural divides young, tall and long armed women were considered the most attractive.
You can participate in the ongoing research at www.bodylab.biz The current research online involves the rating of male and /or female body shape and male facial attractiveness.
"Physical attractiveness is an important determining factor for evolutionary, social and economic success," said lead author Robert Brooks from the University of New South Wales. "The dimensions of someone's body can tell observers if that person is suitable as a potential mate, a long term partner or perhaps the threat they pose as a sexual competitor."
Traditional studies of attractiveness have been bound to the Darwinian idea of natural selection, which argues that an individual will always choose the best possible mate that circumstances will allow. Such studies have focused on torso, waist, bust and hip measurements. In this study the team measured the attractiveness of scans of 96 bodies of Chinese women who were either students or volunteers, aged between 20–49 years of age.
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Videos of the models were shown to a sample of 92 Australian adults, 40 men and 52 women, aged between 18 to 58 years of age, and mostly of European descent. They then compared the attractiveness ratings given by the Australian group to the ratings from a group in Hong Kong to avoid cultural bias.
Both sample groups were asked to rate the models' attractiveness on a 7 point scale; on average the raters took just 5.35 seconds to rate each model. The team then explored the statistical results, focusing on age, body weight and a range of length and girth measurements.
The results showed that there was a strong level of agreement between the 4 groups of Australian men and women, and Hong Kong men and women, with scans of younger, taller and lighter women being rated as more attractive. Women with narrow waists, especially relative to their height, were also considered much more attractive.
The study also revealed that BMI (Body mass index) and HWR (Hip to waist ratio) were both strong predictors of attractiveness. Scans of taller women who had longer arms were also rated highly, however leg size did not contribute significantly to the ratings.
"Our results showed consistent attractiveness ratings by men and women and by Hong Kong Chinese and Australian raters, suggesting considerable cross cultural consistency," concluded Brooks. "In part this may be due to shared media experiences. Nonetheless when models are stripped of their most obvious racial and cultural features, the features that make bodies attractive tend to be shared by men and women across cultural divides."
Brooks and his colleagues have taken their studies of the complexities of male and female attractiveness online at www.bodylab.biz.
Source: Wiley Blackwell
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People Vs Possessions: What Matters The Most? (peterhbrown.wordpress.com)
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October 4, 2010 Posted by peterhbrown | Cognition, Intimate Relationshps, Marriage, research, Sex & Sexuality, Social Psychology	| Asia, Attraction, attractive, Australia, Body image, hip to waist ratio, Hong Kong, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, online, Physical attractiveness, research, Robert Brooks, sex, University of New South Wales, weight | Leave a comment
People Vs Possessions: What Matters The Most?
Credit: Sciencedaily.com
In the first study of its kind, researchers have found compelling evidence that our best and worst experiences in life are likely to involve not individual accomplishments, but interaction with other people and the fulfillment of an urge for social connection.
The findings, which run contrary to implications of previous research, are reported in "What Makes Us Feel the Best Also Makes Us Feel the Worst: The Emotional Impact of Independent and Interdependent Experiences." The study reports on research conducted at the University at Buffalo and will appear in the forthcoming print issue of Self and Identity.
Co-author Shira Gabriel, PhD, associate professor of psychology at UB, says, "Most of us spend much of our time and effort focused on individual achievements such as work, hobbies and schooling.
"However this research suggests that the events that end up being most important in our lives, the events that bring us the most happiness and also carry the potential for the most pain, are social events — moments of connecting to others and feeling their connections to us."
Gabriel says that much research in social psychology has explicitly or implicitly implied that events experienced independent of other individuals are central to explaining our most intense emotional experiences.
"We found, however, "she says, "that it was not independent events or individual achievements like winning awards or completing tasks that affected participants the most, but the moments when close relationships began or ended; when people fell in love or found a new friend; when a loved one died or broke their hearts. In short, it was the moments of connecting to others that that touched peoples' lives the most."
The researchers included principal author Lisa Jaremka, a doctoral student in psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Mauricio Cavallo, PhD, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, both graduates of UB.
A total of 376 subjects participated in the four studies that formed the basis of the researchers' conclusions.
Study 1 involved college students who were asked to describe the most positive and negative emotional experiences of their lives. Overwhelmingly, and without regard for the sex of participants, they were much more likely to describe social events as the most positive and negative thing they had ever experienced (as compared to independent events).
Study 2, replicated and extended Study 1, with similar results, and focused on middle-aged participants who were asked to report on a recent intense emotional experience.
Study 3 provided evidence that the strong emotional impact of interdependent (i.e., social) events reported in the first two studies was not due to the fact that social events were more salient than independent events.
Study 4 demonstrated that when thinking about both social and independent events, participants rate the social events as far more impactful than independent events. Study 4 also demonstrated that social events gain their emotional punch from our need to belong.
Gabriel's research and expertise focuses on the social nature of the self, including social aspects of self-construal, the social functions of the self, the need to belong and gender differences in strategies for connecting to others.
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August 30, 2010 Posted by peterhbrown | Cognition, Health Psychology, Intimate Relationshps, Marriage, Positive Psychology, Resilience, Social Psychology	| happiness, Materialism, relationship | 2 Comments
Narcissism, Self-Esteem & Facebook
Following on from yesterday's post on disinhibition and social networking, I came across this post from Dr Shock MD's blog commenting on THIS RESEARCH PAPER (pdf) Credit to Dr Shock (excerpted). Interesting?
In normal every day life with face to face contact the physical characteristics and knowledge about social background form the identity of your contact. It's stable and three dimensional. You know that person, it's therefor very difficult for the other to claim another identity or create impressions inconsistent with how you know him or her. Online identity is a different topic. You can create ideal identities not necessarily overlapping your real identity. It's a controlled setting in which you can create different identities from the person you really are. Moreover, from research it has been shown that people act differently in social networking environments when compared to those interacting in anonymous settings. Online self representation can vary according to the nature of the setting.
What is the relationship between offline personality and online self representation on facebook?
A recent study looked at the effects of narcissism and self esteem on online social activity and self promotion. The researchers included 50 male and 50 female facebook owners, they were randomly recruited at York university, their age ranged from 18 to 25 years. The facebook pages were rated and the participants took 4 questionnaires about demographic information, facebook activity, self esteem (the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale) and narcissism (the Narcissism Personality Inventory).
Five features of the Facebook page were coded for the extent to which they were self-promoting: (a) the About Me section, (b) the Main Photo, (c) the first 20 pictures on the View Photos of Me section, (d) the Notes section, and (e) the Status Updates section.
Self promotion was distinguished as any descriptive or visual information that appeared to attempt to persuade others about one's own positive qualities. For instance posting ''My Celebrity Look-alikes". Use of picture enhancement etc.
They found a strong relationship between narcissism and lower self esteem with greater facebook activity as well as more promotional self content. Gender did not influence these relationships.
This is another study implying that narcissism can be detected in facebook, the previous study is also discussed on this blog: The Dangers of Facebook. Gender differences were found in another study but on risk taking attitudes. Men with profiles on social networking sites are higher in risk taking behavior and less worried about privacy issues compared to women.
In research looking at other personality factors, the Big Five was used amongst facebook users. As discussed in a previous post on this blog: personality factors are not as influential as expected on using Facebook. The Big Five is probably not a very good instrument to investigate personality traits and facebook use.
Mehdizadeh, S. (2010). Self-Presentation 2.0: Narcissism and Self-Esteem on Facebook Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 13 (4), 357–364
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August 25, 2010 Posted by peterhbrown | Education, Identity, Internet, Personality Disorder, Social Psychology, Technology	| narcissism, social networking | 7 Comments
What Were You Thinking? The Causes Of Online Disinhibition
The online disinhibition effect has cost people their jobs, their income and their relationships, yet many are still oblivious to it.
Credit: Re-posted from PsyBlog
The first famous case of someone allegedly losing their job from indiscreet remarks made online was in 2002. Heather Armstrong, author of the blog 'dooce', claimed she was fired after her colleagues discovered she'd been lampooning them online.
In internet terms getting fired for a blog rant is ancient news; to make the headlines now your indiscretions have to be on Twitter or Facebook. One recent example was this girl who was 'Facebook fired' after she said exactly what she thought of her boss on Facebook after a bad day at work.
What she'd forgotten was they were Facebook friends, so the update would appear front and centre the next time he logged into Facebook. She might as well have said it straight to his face and, for good measure, kicked him in the shins.
These are two examples of what psychologists call the 'online disinhibition effect', the idea that when online people feel less inhibited by social conventions. Compared with face-to-face interactions, online we feel freer to do and say what we want and, as a result, often do and say things we shouldn't.
Internet psychologist John Suler has written about six characteristics of the internet which lead to radical changes in our online behaviour (Suler, 2004):
1. Anonymity
Online people feel they can't be identified in the same way they can when they're in public. It's similar to going out in a costume at night with a mask on to cover the face (see research on deindividuation). That sense of disconnection from our normal personality allows new ways of behaving. People may even consider their online behaviours to arise from an online alter ego.
Ironically, though, some people are far less anonymous online than offline. Because of the online disinhibition effect some share too much on their social networking profiles, sometimes even things they wouldn't admit to their closest friends. It's easy to forget that you don't need espionage training to type someone's name into Google.
2. Invisibility
Because others can't see us online, we don't have to worry about how we look to others and what emotional signals we are sending through facial expressions.
Imagine, for example, that you're telling a friend about a distressing experience face-to-face. You may feel the urge to try and hide the depth of your emotion from them, which stops you telling the story. Online, however, you can continue to tell the story without giving away how bad it really is.
It can allow us to open up about things that we can't discuss face-to-face. Online support groups rely on this openness to allow members to discuss their deepest hopes and fears. This is one of the potentially positive aspects of the online disinhibition effect, as long as users protect their privacy and identity.
3. Stop/start communication
Face-to-face we see people's reactions to what we've said or done immediately. That tends to put us off upsetting them or risking their judgement.
Online there are no such restrictions: because of online asynchronicity it's possible to say something and wait 24 hours before reading the response, or never read it at all.
This cuts both ways. So-called 'internet trolls' are people who post to discussion forums or other online groups with the express purpose of stirring up controversy (known online as flame wars). They are experts in a kind of emotional hit-and-run. On the other hand, people who have difficulty when communicating face-to-face can become eloquent and courteous when online.
The majority of us probably fall somewhere in between these two extreme positions. Nevertheless the lack of instant feedback from other people's body language causes all sorts of communication failures online. One of the most common causes of these failures is jokes. Without the accompanying body language, friendly jibes are easily misunderstood and interactions can quickly take a turn for the worse.
4. Voices in your head
The very act of reading online can create a surprisingly intimate connection. Because other people's words are in our heads, we may merge them with our own internal monologues.
While humans have been reading novels and letters for centuries, these are relatively formal modes of communication, and it's only in the last decade that online communication has brought the intimacy of a letter to informal, everyday conversation.
5. An imaginary world
The anonymity, invisibility and fantasy elements of online activities encourage us to think that the usual rules don't apply. Like a science fiction escape fantasy, the net allows us to be who we want and do what we want, both good and bad.
The problem is that when life becomes a game that can be left behind at the flick of a switch, it's easy to throw responsibility out of the window.
6. No police
We all fear disapproval and punishment, but this imaginary world appears to have no police and no authority figures. Although there are people with authority online, it's difficult to tell who they are. There is no internet government, no one person in charge of it all. So people feel freer online: away from authority, social convention and conformity.
Of course the idea that authority doesn't exist online is fantasy because the policeman exists inside all of us, to a greater or lesser extent.
Wing it
These factors work together to create a world in which we can feel freer. But this freedom is an illusion maintained by the online experience of invisibility, anonymity and lack of immediate, visceral, emotional feedback from others, or at least our ability to turn that feedback off.
Perhaps this is freedom: some people do report feeling closer to their real selves when online. But there's a reason we developed all those social inhibitions in the old-fashioned, offline world. They stop us offending other people, which helps us keep our jobs and maintain our relationships. That's not to say that the internet can't help us build relationships with others or find jobs, it clearly can. It's just that we tend to be less aware of both how much our behaviour can change online and the potential drawbacks to these changes.
Every now and then we need reminding that the internet is still a relatively fresh invention and, socially, we are still coming to terms with it. Long-established niceties of face-to-face behaviour haven't yet taken hold online and, in the absence of precedent, we have to wing it.
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August 24, 2010 Posted by peterhbrown | Addiction, Bullying, Health Psychology, Internet, Social Psychology, Technology	| Addiction, bully, cyber, disinhibition | 8 Comments
Mum's The Word: Pregnant Mums Prefer Their Mother's Advice To Their Doctor's Advice
Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London have found that pregnant and postnatal women, while wanting to do the best for their baby, do not follow medical advice without question and are more likely to adopt practices their mothers and grandmothers carried out during their pregnancies.
The study by Professor Paula Nicolson and Dr Rebekah Fox from the Department of Health and Social Care at Royal Holloway is published in the Journal of Health Psychology and explores three recent generations of women's experiences of pregnancy, questioning those who gave birth in the 1970s, 1980s and 2000s.
The women who were interviewed said they knew their mothers and grandmothers had their best interests at heart when they offered them advice. For the older women questioned, the advice from their female relations was their main source of information.
The 1980s and 2000s group, however, had to reconcile what they heard from older generations with direct advice from their doctors, midwives and health visitors as well as the numerous health messages on the web and self-help books.
Professor Nicolson says, "It is much to the credit of contemporary women that despite the unprecedented pressures from the media, medicine and the 'pregnancy police' that they are still able to filter-in the advice that really suits them from all these sources. Each of the three generations found ways to 'resist' what they considered inappropriate pressures from advisors and were more likely to follow advice given to them from their mothers and grandmothers even if it went against the medical professions advice.
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"Women tend to discuss the advice they are given with their female relatives and this leads to resistance to some types of advice. For example, despite being advised to cut down on caffeine during pregnancy one woman we questioned said she continued to drink tea because her grandmother told her it relieved her morning sickness."
Professor Nicolson says women who take notice of general public health information about what is a healthy lifestyle, i.e not smoking, taking regular exercise, not taking drugs and drinking alcohol in moderation are those who are most likely to be in-tune with their bodies and can therefore 'use' guidelines but not be constrained by them.
She added: "Taking all the guidelines too seriously leads to anxieties. Lack of self-confidence also can lead to worry about 'doing the wrong thing' which is potentially more harmful than taking the odd glass of wine or eating soft cheese."
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May 17, 2010 Posted by peterhbrown | Education, Health Psychology, Parenting, Social Psychology	| birth, doctor, Health, Medicine, Midwifery, Morning sickness, Mother, Parenting, Paula Nicolson, Pregnancy, Royal Holloway University of London, University of London | Leave a comment
Winners Are Grinners: Even If There's Nothing to Win!
Whether it's for money, marbles or chalk, the brains of reward-driven people keep their game faces on, helping them win at every step of the way. Surprisingly, they win most often when there is no reward.
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That's the finding of neuroscientists at Washington University in St. Louis, who tested 31 randomly selected subjects with word games, some of which had monetary rewards of either 25 or 75 cents per correct answer, others of which had no money attached.
Subjects were given a short list of five words to memorize in a matter of seconds, then a 3.5-second interval or pause, then a few seconds to respond to a solitary word that either had been on the list or had not. Test performance had no consequence in some trials, but in others, a computer graded the responses, providing an opportunity to win either 25 cent or 75 cents for quick and accurate answers. Even during these periods, subjects were sometimes alerted that their performance would not be rewarded on that trial.
Prior to testing, subjects were submitted to a battery of personality tests that rated their degree of competitiveness and their sensitivity to monetary rewards.
Designed to test the hypothesis that excitement in the brains of the most monetary-reward-sensitive subjects would slacken during trials that did not pay, the study is co-authored by Koji Jimura, PhD, a post-doctoral researcher, and Todd Braver, PhD, a professor, both based in psychology in Arts & Sciences. Braver is also a member of the neuroscience program and radiology department in the university's School of Medicine.
But the researchers found a paradoxical result: the performance of the most reward-driven individuals was actually most improved – relative to the less reward-driven – in the trials that paid nothing, not the ones in which there was money at stake.
Even more striking was that the brain scans taken using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) showed a change in the pattern of activity during the non-rewarded trials within the lateral prefrontal cortex (PFC), located right behind the outer corner of the eyebrow, an area that is strongly linked to intelligence, goal-driven behavior and cognitive strategies. The change in lateral PFC activity was statistically linked to the extra behavioral benefits observed in the reward-driven individuals.
The researchers suggest that this change in lateral PFC activity patterns represents a flexible shift in response to the motivational importance of the task, translating this into a superior task strategy that the researchers term "proactive cognitive control." In other words, once the rewarding motivational context is established in the brain indicating there is a goal-driven contest at hand, the brain actually rallies its neuronal troops and readies itself for the next trial, whether it's for money or not.
"It sounds reasonable now, but when I happened upon this result, I couldn't believe it because we expected the opposite results," says Jimura, first author of the paper. "I had to analyze the data thoroughly to persuade myself. The important finding of our study is that the brains of these reward- sensitive individuals do not respond to the reward information on individual trials. Instead, it shows that they have persistent motivation, even in the absence of a reward. You'd think you'd have to reward them on every trial to do well. But it seems that their brains recognized the rewarding motivational context that carried over across all the trials."
The finding sheds more light on the workings of the lateral PFC and provides potential behavioral clues about personality, motivation, goals and cognitive strategies. The research has important implications for understanding the nature of persistent motivation, how the brain creates such states, and why some people seem to be able to use motivation more effectively than others. By understanding the brain circuitry involved, it might be possible to create motivational situations that are more effective for all individuals, not just the most reward-driven ones, or to develop drug therapies for individuals that suffer from chronic motivational problems.Their results are published April 26 in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
Everyone knows of competitive people who have to win, whether in a game of HORSE, golf or the office NCAA basketball tournament pool. The findings might tell researchers something about the competitive drive.
The researchers are interested in the signaling chain that ignites the prefrontal cortex when it acts on reward-driven impulses, and they speculate that the brain chemical dopamine could be involved. That could be a potential direction of future studies. Dopamine neurons, once thought to be involved in a host of pleasurable situations, but now considered more of learning or predictive signal, might respond to cues that let the lateral PFC know that it's in for something good. This signal might help to keep information about the goals, rules or best strategies for the task active in mind to increase the chances of obtaining the desired outcome.
In the context of this study, when a 75-cent reward is available for a trial, the dopamine-releasing neurons could be sending signals to the lateral PFC that "jump start" it to do the right procedures to get a reward.
"It would be like the dopamine neurons recognize a cup of Ben and Jerry's ice cream, and tell the lateral PFC the right action strategy to get the reward – to grab a spoon and bring the ice cream to your mouth," says Braver. "We think that the dopamine neurons fires to the cue rather than the reward itself, especially after the brain learns the relationship between the two. We'd like to explore that some more."
They also are interested in the "reward carryover state," or the proactive cognitive strategy that keeps the brain excited even in gaps, such as pauses between trials or trials without rewards. They might consider a study in which rewards are far fewer.
"It's possible we'd see more slackers with less rewards," Braver says. "That might have an effect on the reward carryover state. There are a host of interesting further questions that this work brings up which we plan to pursue."
Source: Washington University in St. Louis,
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April 28, 2010 Posted by peterhbrown | Addiction, brain, Cognition, research, Social Psychology	| brain, Cognition, Doctor of Philosophy, Functional magnetic resonance imaging, luck, motivation, pre frontal, Prefrontal cortex, research, reward, Washington University in St. Louis, winning | 2 Comments
Violent Video Games & Kids: Definitive Study Shows Both Short & Long Term Harmful Effects
Iowa State University Distinguished Professor of Psychology Craig Anderson has made much of his life's work studying how violent video game play affects youth behavior. And he says a new study he led, analyzing 130 research reports on more than 130,000 subjects worldwide, proves conclusively that exposure to violent video games makes more aggressive, less caring kids — regardless of their age, sex or culture.
Read the original research paper (PDF)
The study was published in the March 2010 issue of the Psychological Bulletin, an American Psychological Association journal. It reports that exposure to violent video games is a causal risk factor for increased aggressive thoughts and behavior, and decreased empathy and prosocial behavior in youths.
"We can now say with utmost confidence that regardless of research method — that is experimental, correlational, or longitudinal — and regardless of the cultures tested in this study [East and West], you get the same effects," said Anderson, who is also director of Iowa State's Center for the Study of Violence. "And the effects are that exposure to violent video games increases the likelihood of aggressive behavior in both short-term and long-term contexts. Such exposure also increases aggressive thinking and aggressive affect, and decreases prosocial behavior."
The study was conducted by a team of eight researchers, including ISU psychology graduate students Edward Swing and Muniba Saleem; and Brad Bushman, a former Iowa State psychology professor who now is on the faculty at the University of Michigan. Also on the team were the top video game researchers from Japan — Akiko Shibuya from Keio University and Nobuko Ihori from Ochanomizu University — and Hannah Rothstein, a noted scholar on meta-analytic review from the City University of New York.
Meta-analytic procedure used in research
The team used meta-analytic procedures — the statistical methods used to analyze and combine results from previous, related literature — to test the effects of violent video game play on the behaviors, thoughts and feelings of the individuals, ranging from elementary school-aged children to college undergraduates.
The research also included new longitudinal data which provided further confirmation that playing violent video games is a causal risk factor for long-term harmful outcomes.
"These are not huge effects — not on the order of joining a gang vs. not joining a gang," said Anderson. "But these effects are also not trivial in size. It is one risk factor for future aggression and other sort of negative outcomes. And it's a risk factor that's easy for an individual parent to deal with — at least, easier than changing most other known risk factors for aggression and violence, such as poverty or one's genetic structure."
The analysis found that violent video game effects are significant in both Eastern and Western cultures, in males and females, and in all age groups. Although there are good theoretical reasons to expect the long-term harmful effects to be higher in younger, pre-teen youths, there was only weak evidence of such age effects.
Time to refocus the public policy debate
The researchers conclude that the study has important implications for public policy debates, including development and testing of potential intervention strategies designed to reduce the harmful effects of playing violent video games.
"From a public policy standpoint, it's time to get off the question of, 'Are there real and serious effects?' That's been answered and answered repeatedly," Anderson said. "It's now time to move on to a more constructive question like, 'How do we make it easier for parents — within the limits of culture, society and law — to provide a healthier childhood for their kids?'"
But Anderson knows it will take time for the creation and implementation of effective new policies. And until then, there is plenty parents can do to protect their kids at home.
"Just like your child's diet and the foods you have available for them to eat in the house, you should be able to control the content of the video games they have available to play in your home," he said. "And you should be able to explain to them why certain kinds of games are not allowed in the house — conveying your own values. You should convey the message that one should always be looking for more constructive solutions to disagreements and conflict."
Anderson says the new study may be his last meta-analysis on violent video games because of its definitive findings. Largely because of his extensive work on violent video game effects, Anderson was chosen as one of the three 2010 American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientist Lecturers
Source: Iowa State University
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Days Hotel Beijing Guomen is located in Anping Street on the west side of Kuliushuhuan Island, Houshayu Town, Shunyi District, Beijing. It is located in Beijing Capital International Airport and the core commercial area of Beijing Shunyi New National Exhibition. It is about 500 meters away from Houshayu Metro Station and is convenient to travel.
This is a world-class hotel chain owned by Windham Hotels Group, USA. It has more than 300 rooms with advanced facilities and provides healthy and comfortable accommodation for passengers.
The hotel also has Chinese and Western restaurants and cafeterias, which can accommodate more than 1000 people at the same time. The hotel restaurants are equipped with luxury boxes. Days Hotel Beijing Guomen has 8 large, medium and small venues, and the largest venue can accommodate 1000 people for meetings. The venue has complete functions and facilities. It can hold various large and medium-sized meetings, such as wedding celebrations, wine parties, banquets, conferences, annual meetings, training meetings and so on.
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Battery life, Graphical menu could be improved, iTap text input
It may not be as razor thin as its predecessor, but the RAZR V3x brings to the table a good set of features in a stylish package.
Would you buy this?
$ 799.00 (AUD)
Motorola redefined the mobile phone world with the launch of the original RAZR V3. Sporting a razor thin design (hence the name), the RAZR V3 helped put Motorola on the map and its popularity is still evident today. Hence the release of a 3G version of this unit - the RAZR V3x. While it doesn't completely live up to its cousins' billing (largely due to the amount of hype surrounding its release) it is still an admirable offering in the 3G market.
Lets get one thing straight first - the V3x is nowhere near as thin as the original RAZR. Flipped open, it is also quite bulky, but still relatively compact for a 3G handset. At 20mm thick it's still an attractive design, although we are one of the many who will no doubt be disappointed with the decision to stray from the metal finish to a rubberized design. The original RAZR attracted many onlookers due to its business like metal finish. The new version looks more like a protected species, which will suit those who tend to drop their phones (we've all done it!).
Flipped open, the V3x reveals a pretty crisp TFT internal screen, which measures 2.2 inches in diameter. It's definitely improved from the original RAZR screen and is noticeably more bright and clear - particularly when displaying photos or video clips. A 96x80 pixel external screen that displays battery life, reception indicator, time, date and profile also ensures that the V3x is well covered for a flip phone.
We've been critical of Motorola in the past - particularly for difficult to grasp user interfaces and uncomfortable keypads. But this time, we think they've got both right with the V3x. The keypad is similar to the RAZR, but wider buttons and a more tactile response ensure those long SMSs are more than comfortable. While there may be an overload of buttons, with a 5-way navigational pad surrounded by two selection buttons, Browser, Dialled calls, Answer/End Call and Clear keys, this doesn't really have a negative effect on the user experience. Unlike some other handsets we've reviewed, each button has a significant overall impact on usage, so we can't fault them here.
Motorola has also impressed us with an overhaul of their out of date menu system, although we are of the opinion that more work could have gone into this. Graphically, the grid menu leaves much to be desired. This is not to say that the menu system is bad by any sense, just that the graphics could have been much more polished. The animated menu items are pixelated and don't look crisp or clear. However, this is a fairly trivial matter and most will find the menu and user interface a refreshing change from Motorola's previous efforts.
The V3x also includes a 2.0 megapixel camera, although there is still no autofocus function like the one seen on the popular Sony Ericsson models. The camera itself isn't too shabby though and the pictures we took were decent for a camera phone - in particular the colour reproduction was quite good. There isn't much in the way of settings though, with only a poor quality light and a 5 or 10 second timer notable options. Video recording wasn't anything to write home about either, but this is generally expected.
Where Motorola has fallen down is again in SMS messaging; their iTap input system, rather than the standard T9 method seen on most other handsets is frustrating, and will take many plenty of time to get used to. For those who have been brought up on a diet of text messaging on their Nokia or Sony Ericsson handset, this spells bad news from the beginning. We can't understand why Motorola don't just use the standard input system, rather than trying to differentiate themselves from the pack with a system that quite clearly isn't up to scratch.
Of course, the V3x is equipped with an MP3 player (which also supports MP3, AAC+, WMV, WMA and Real video/audio files) and a stereo headset is included in the package. Surprisingly, the sound quality was fairly good for a phone - while it won't blow you away it is more than bearable, which is a lot more than we can say for plenty of other handsets which include headphones. Other features include 64MB of built in memory with a slot for a microSD (TransFlash) card underneath the battery, SMS, MMS and e-mail messaging, Bluetooth, WAP Browser as well as polyphonic and digital music ringtones. Perhaps the biggest letdown of the V3x is its battery life - during testing we struggled to get two days out of the handset, and this was without pushing it to its limits in terms of usage. The multimedia functions that it provides are all well and good, but if the battery life is compromised, which we feel it has been, then this is a significant disadvantage.
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Italy's Lombardy region has voted to start charging people for mountain rescue, in an effort to reduce the number of costly and sometimes unnecessary helicopter operations.
The new legislation was passed on Tuesday with the support of 38 regional councillors, while 27 local lawmakers opposed the move.
Mountain rescue operators now have 120 days to set the tariff to be imposed on people who call emergency services without due reason. The fee will reach up to 50 percent of the total rescue costs, while Lombardy residents should be offered a reduction, the regional council agreed.
The new law is aimed at promoting responsible tourism and cutting the number of unnecessary calls to rescuers.
Councillor Lara Magoni, who backed the new legislation, said that while mountain rescue must be guaranteed, people needed to be given greater reason to act responsibly.
"The request to charge part of the share to the user must be considered solely and exclusively as a preventative deterrent," to deal with hikers taking unnecessary risks, she said.
But councillor Umberto Ambrosoli said the new rule was "confused" and did not fully address the problem. "It's an empty measure...leaving more incisive measures of education and assuming responsibility in the background," he said.
Lombardy authorities carried out 1,155 rescue operations in 2014, up from 985 the year before. As of March 8th this year, 133 rescues had already been carried out in the northern Italian region.
Elsewhere in Italy people already risk heavy fees for calling mountain rescue. In the Veneto region those saved with serious injuries risk a bill of up to €500, while the figure jumps to €7,500 for those who call rescuers but are only lightly hurt.
Trentino-Alto Adige has cracked down on people making unnecessary calls by charging €750, while in Valle d'Aosta the same mistake will cost €137 for every minute a helicopter is in use.


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3442 Yashin este un asteroid din centura principală, descoperit pe 2 octombrie 1978 de Liudmila Juravliova.

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 3442 Yashin în JPL Small-Body Database
 3442 Yashin în baza de date a Minor Planet Center
 Diagrama orbitei asteroidului 3442 Yashin (JPL)

Obiecte astronomice descoperite în 1978
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Where the statistics are provided for each individual branch or negotiator, this will be the one that is assigned to the applicant or property. Where this is not the case it is stated in the definition.
Number of applicants where Date Entered falls in the date range (for both sales and lettings Departments).
Number of Properties where Instructed on date is in date range.
Total (Price * fee percentage) or fixed fee sales department properties instructed in the date range.
Number of sales department Properties where Withdrawn date is in date range.
Total (Offer Value * fee percentage) or fixed fee offers on sales department properties where Offer Accepted Date is in the date range and offer status is not rejected. Split by property branch.
Total (Offer Value * fee percentage) or fixed fee offers on sales department properties where Cancelled Date is in the date range. Split by property branch.
Number of Offers for sales department properties where Exchanged Date is in the date range. Split by property branch.
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Current Number of Offers on sales department properties with status of Accepted or Exchanged and Property Status is On Market, Under Offer or Sold STC and Completion Date is not completed and offer date after 1 July 2005. Split by property branch.
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NASA postpones spacewalk at space station due to space debris warning
By Robert Z. Pearlman published 30 November 21
A spacewalk scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021 outside of the International Space Station was postponed after NASA received a notification of a possible debris threat to the orbiting complex. (Image credit: NASA)
Update for 6 p.m. ET: NASA has now rescheduled Tuesday's spacewalk for Thursday, Dec. 2.
A scheduled spacewalk by two NASA astronauts outside of the International Space Station has been postponed after a debris warning for the orbiting outpost caused NASA to act on the side of caution.
In a brief statement released just after midnight (EST, 0500 GMT) on Tuesday (Nov. 30), NASA said that the "lack of opportunity to properly assess the risk it could pose to the astronauts" led to flight controllers deciding to delay the spacewalk, which had been scheduled to begin at 7:10 a.m. EST (1200 GMT).
"The space station schedule and operations are able to easily accommodate the delay of the spacewalk," the space agency wrote on its website.
NASA did not release details about the nature of the "debris notification," including the source of the threat.
A recent Russian anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon test resulted in a new cloud of more than 150 trackable pieces of debris and forced the space station crew to take temporary cover in the immediate aftermath on Nov. 14, but whether that event and the spacewalk delay were related was not yet clear.
"We don't have any [times of close approach] or any conjunctions we're worried about right now in terms of crew actions for you guys, but of course we'll keep you posted," Mission Control in Houston radioed the space station's crew, according to a report by CBS News.
"It's just real life, this is how things work out sometimes, and I'm really glad you fellows are looking out for our safety," said NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, an Expedition 66 flight engineer, according to CBS News.
NASA astronauts Tom Marshburn and Kayla Barron were slated to perform a spacewalk to replace a faulty antenna system on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. (Image credit: NASA)
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Astronauts Tom Marshburn and Kayla Barron had been scheduled to replace a faulty antenna system with a spare mounted elsewhere on the space station's backbone truss structure. The planned six and a half hour spacewalk would have restored use of one of the complex's S-band Antenna Subassemblies (SASA), which is used to send and receive signals to and from Earth via NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System.
The antenna being replaced had lost its ability to send signals down to Earth.
The space station has additional low-rate S-band systems, as well as a high-rate KU-band communications system that relays video. The degraded capabilities have had a limited impact on normal station operations, so can await a rescheduled spacewalk.
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Robert Pearlman is a space historian, journalist and the founder and editor of collectSPACE.com, an online publication and community devoted to space history with a particular focus on how and where space exploration intersects with pop culture. Pearlman is also a contributing writer for Space.com and co-author of "Space Stations: The Art, Science, and Reality of Working in Space" published by Smithsonian Books in 2018. He previously developed online content for the National Space Society and Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, helped establish the space tourism company Space Adventures and currently serves on the History Committee of the American Astronautical Society, the advisory committee for The Mars Generation and leadership board of For All Moonkind. In 2009, he was inducted into the U.S. Space Camp Hall of Fame in Huntsville, Alabama. In 2021, he was honored by the American Astronautical Society with the Ordway Award for Sustained Excellence in Spaceflight History.


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Independent Baseball
Sussex County Miners Name Steve Shirley as Franchise's First Manager
Anton Joe
The Sussex County Miners of the Can-Am League have named Steve Shirley as the club's first manager.
Shirley, a native of San Francisco, has spent the last eight seasons as the manager of the Sioux Falls Canaries of the American Association. Shirley won the league's Manager of the Year award in 2008 after leading the Canaries to a 60-36 record and capturing the only championship in the city's 22-year independent baseball history. He won the award again in 2010 after leading the club to a league-best 63-33 record and a spot in the league finals.
However, the last four years have been a struggle for Shirley, especially this past season, when the Canaries finished in last place in the American Association's North Division and posted a 33-67 record — the worst in franchise history.
Shirley also spent three seasons in the Northern League as the pitching coach for the Duluth-Superior Dukes in 1999 and the Winnipeg Goldeyes in 2006. He also served as the manager of the Sioux City Explorers in 2005.
Shirley, 58, played 15 seasons of professional baseball after being drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the second round of the 1974 MLB Draft. He spent time playing in the Pittsburgh Pirates, Detroit Tigers, Kansas City Royals and Montreal Expos organizations as well. He reached the Majors with Los Angeles in 1982, pitching in 11 games for the club.
Anton Joe is an Independent League Baseball Reporter for Baseball Essential. You can follow him on Twitter @AntonJoe_BBE.
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Anton is an Independent League Baseball Writer for Baseball Essential. He is also a member of the Internet Baseball Writers Association of America (IBWAA) and is always looking for new baseball minds to meet and talk baseball with. You can follow him on Twitter @AntonJoe_BBE.
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Since we do not keep an inventory of products, none of these instruments are available off-the-shelf. However, we can provide a quotation for any such examples supplied as-is or with modifications to suit the buyer's particular preferences. But a change of string gauge and fabrication of the associated new nut would be accommodated at no extra charge.
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Lillie. The mysterious assistant of Professor Kukui who helps him for her own personal reasons. She's not fond of battling, but she loves to read. She's about the same age as your character. She will have an important role in the story.. Wallpaper and background images in the pokémon club tagged: photo pokemon characters assistant lillie pokemon sun and moon.
This pokémon photo contains lampshade, máscara de lâmpada, abajur, lâmpada de mesa, and candeeiro de mesa. There might also be luminária de piso and lâmpada de assoalho.
I am curious what Lillie's "Important role" is. She might be somewhat of a rival, but because she's not fond of battling, I doubt it.


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Rex Tillerson denies Nikki Haley's claim he tried to undermine Trump's policies
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Ex-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Monday denied that he tried to undermine President Trump, as former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley charged in a new book.
"During my service to our country as the Secretary of State, at no time did I, nor to my direct knowledge did anyone else serving along with me, take any actions to undermine the President," Tillerson said in a statement to the Washington Post.
"My conversations with the President in the privacy of the Oval Office were always candid, frank, and my recommendations straightforward. Once the President made a decision, we at the State Department undertook our best efforts to implement that decision," Tillerson said, before dissing Haley for supposedly being out of the loop.
"Ambassador Haley was rarely a participant in my many meetings and is not in a position to know what I may or may not have said to the President. I continue to be proud of my service as our country's 69th Secretary of State," Tillerson said.
The statement was Tillerson's first response to Haley's description of a White House sitdown in which she said that he and then-chief of staff John Kelly told her that they were seeking ways around an erratic chief executive in order to "save the country."
Haley wrote that after an Oval Office disagreement over UN funding for Palestinians, Tillerson and Kelly argued to her that she should work with them to divert US policy from what they considered reckless Trump directives.
Donald Trump flanked by Rex Tillerson and Nikki Haley in January 2018Getty Images
She refused to play ball, she wrote in the new book, "With All Due Respect."
Tillerson was ousted by Trump in March 2018 by tweet.
Haley resigned as United Nations ambassador in October 2018 and got a friendly farewell from the president.
Kelly, who left the White House in December 2018, had already responded.
"If by resistance and stalling she means putting a staff process in place … to ensure the [president] knew all the pros and cons of what policy decision he might be contemplating so he could make an informed decision, then guilty as charged," he said.
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Billy Ray Cyrus - Achy Breaky Heart - My Music Guilty Pleasures!
Hey Everybody! How's it going? Hope you all are awesomely well! A cool awesome music and song story for you all today! The story of one of my most favourite music guilty pleasures, the Billy Ray Cyrus smash hit, "Achy Breaky Heart"! That song will always hold a special place with me because I remember when the song first hit the radio in 1992, I was REALLY, REALLY young but that aside, that song at the time of its release and even now, will always be an ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE OF MINE! I first heard "Achy Breaky Heart" while riding the bus to school, I was bussed in on a small bus with a few other kids, and our driver always had 92.5 CISS-FM on the radio, which at the time was a country music station in Toronto, and "Achy Breaky Heart" was played relentlessly! I couldn't help but fall in love with that song! I loved it SO MUCH that I begged my parents to buy the CD! Yes, this song came out in a time where you had to buy an entire album for just ONE SONG! After I heard "Achy Breaky Heart" a few times, every time I would get on the bus to school, listening to 92.5 CISS-FM, I would wait to see if it would be played before I got dropped off at school, and if it would I would belt the lyrics at the top of my lungs! That song just made me SO, SO, VERY INCREDIBLY HAPPY! That was one of the first songs I ever learned and could sing and perform beginning to end with no problem. Looking back on it now, after listening to this song for 25 years it seems to me that "Achy Breaky Heart" has a VERY call and response, sing-songy type of feel, plus it's perfect for line dancing, I suppose that's why it was such a huge hit at the time of its release and still a favourite today. Every time I hear it, I have to sing along, and I belt it out loud and proud with ABSOLUTELY NO SHAME! I played "Achy Breaky Heart" and the album that it was released on, "Some Gave All" over and over, I think I may still have the CD around the house somewhere, if I can find it, I'll crank it up, just like old times! It just takes me back to a simpler time, I was incredibly young, didn't have a care in the world, plenty of good times, and Billy Ray Cyrus' smash hit, signature song, "Achy Breaky Heart" is a big part of that. That, my friends is the story of one of my most favourite songs EVER, one my music guilty pleasures! I hope you all enjoyed it. What song is your music guilty pleasure? Let me know! If you like what you see and hear, then PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL and my new podcast, THE BEATS AND SPEAKS PODCAST to keep up with my latest releases and goings on! Thanks everybody! Talk to you all again soon!
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WisdomKing.com was one of the largest online stores offering a comprehensive selection of physical therapy equipment, home medical equipment, physical therapy supplies, occupational therapy equipment, and other rehabilitation products. With the aim to serve better at the global level, we had thousands of products available online at the best prices.
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HomeNewsNigeria NewsKillings: We Need To Weep In Prayers Over Nigeria – Folu Adeboye
Killings: We Need To Weep In Prayers Over Nigeria – Folu Adeboye
The wife of the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Folu Adeboye, says Nigeria is going through a siege, and believers should weep in prayer for the country.
Also known as Mother-In-Israel, Mrs Adeboye, who has been married to Pastor Enoch Adeboye for over 50 years, on Friday night, led prayers for Nigeria on Friday night.
The session lasted up to 30 minutes. She ministered at the May Edition of the church's Holy Ghost Service. The programme was themed, "Overflowing Blessings."
Mrs Adeboye said, "Brethren, today's prayer is going to be different because there is always a purpose for a season because the Bible tells us in Ecclesiastes Chapter 3 that there is a purpose for the season. The season that we are in Nigeria now calls for a lot of prayers.
"Our nation, Nigeria, is going through a siege, and it is so much, so hard and we want God to liberate us even as we connect to other nations and believe that our prayers for Nigeria, God Himself will allow it to reach other countries and other nations will get out of every form of siege that they are going through.
"These prayers, if you need to weep, you better weep because weeping may endure for a night but joy comes in the morning. This is the time we need to cry. It is becoming overwhelming, it is too much, people are dying every day from hunger, people are dying every day from all kinds of terrorism, and people are dying from kidnapping."
The Adeboye's third child, Pastor Dare Adeboye, died on Wednesday in Eket, Akwa Ibom State, where he was based with his family.
The death of the 42-year-old pastor shocked the world as well-meaning persons, including presidents, governors, and personalities, condoling the 79-year-old general overseer and his wife over the death of their son.
The general overseer of the church, which is one of the largest churches in the world, had also preached on Thursday night during the Holy Communion Service of the monthly programme.


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Christopher Bennett Reeves is a television supervising sound editor living in the Los Angeles area.  He has been awarded two Emmy Awards for his work on The X-Files and has two (1992 and 2004) Golden Reel Awards from the MPSE.  His wife, Gabrielle Reeves, is also a sound editor.

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