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The tragic demise of Millie Mackintosh: From Made In Chelsea's Prettiest Princess to slumming it on Celebrity Masterchef, by JIM SHELLEY
She may not win this year's Celebrity Masterchef but Millie Mackintosh will surely be the poshest, prettiest, richest contestant the tacky little cooking competition ever has.
After all, she is invariably described as 'the Quality Street heiress,' which doesn't mean she will inherit all the uneaten Montelimar we leave behind when we croak but her great-grandfather's fortune. Never mind that it may not really be true.
Then there is all the money Millie currently makes as 'the face of the Nip + Fab clothing range', plus the tally of payments she received for the five series and fifty episodes of Made In Chelsea (a figure believed to be well over eighty quid).
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With her long lashes and doe-eyed expression, Millie Mackintosh looked like a petite, ginger deer: a human, rich version of Bambi
Some people have suggested her presence on Celebrity Masterchef signifies that the elegant, fragrant, Ms Mackintosh may be on her uppers, although it clearly goes without saying such Class War-loving critics are obviously jealous - of her lifestyle, her looks, and above all, her Lovely Hair.
Her supporters contend she is simply slumming it - in order to put the other sad celebs and grubby plebs so desperate to win it in their place.
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Here we provide a forensic, totally unbiased, record of the lovely lady's contribution to the show so that you can judge for yourself whether her appearance was a triumph, or a cry for help.
1. A cursory glance at a swift montage of the five celebrities in this heat suggests that since she left MIC, Millie really has not only changed her Look, but lost her looks.
Her famous mane of Lovely Hair is Not Lovely. She is now wearing it in a short, scruffy, cut, and disastrously, it's blonde.
Even the previously impeccable cut crystal tones of her diction sound a bit...bog. Thankfully though, on closer inspection, it turns out that this is Leslie Ash.
2. Enter
Millie Mackintosh. As it were. We see her gliding down the street in
inhumanely skinny jeans and a Game Of Thrones fur. With her russet locks
arranged across her head like a crown, she looks the spitting image of Sansa Stark.
When she smiles, even her dimples have dimples. She is so sweet, so composed and elegant, she looks like someone who has been photo-shopped – permanently. You would never know her father was a humble dustman.
'You can act, you can sing, but can you cook ?!' Masterchef judge Gregg
Wallace bellows, knowing full well that, unlike her opponents (Leslie
Ash, Wayne Sleep, Tania Bryer and Alex Something Incomprehensible from
EastEnders), poor Millie CAN'T act, sing, dance, interview Bill Clinton,
or do anything when it comes to it.
The caption calls her 'Millie Mackintosh, Chelsea socialite', which basically translates as 'unemployed.'
4. Wallace continues shouting: 'We don't CARE what it is you do outside. What we care about is how you cook in here!' Yeah, that's why it's called CELEBRITY Masterchef.
5. 'My friends are rilly, rilly nice about my cooking,' Milly says nervously. 'But they may just be being nice.'
That's what friends are meant to be!
Besides, which of us wouldn't be nice about the beatific stylish, (rich) young Millie's cooking if it meant we could be her friend? Even if she is a Chelsea socialist?
Showing her true, princely, pedigree, Millie had arranged her long russet locks into a look that resembled a modern day Sansa Stark from Game Of Thrones
Millie is rarely seen without a bottle of champagne with her, but as she was slumming it on Celebrity Masterchef, had to make do with Prosecco
Graceful, composed and aloof, unlike the sad celebs who usually gush their appreciation - or cry - Millie simply allowed the slightest smile to play on her lips, our very own Mona Lisa. But ginger
6. Millie is so inherently chic, she even manages to look Fabulous in her apron, which could be by Chanel.
7. Millie reveals that, unlike most of the dummies that go on Celebrity Masterchef trying dishes they've never made before, she consulted her mother for a two-day crash course of 'prep-arrr-a-shun.' Obviously even this involved oysters.
'And she made me cook a kidney,' says Millie, whose mum is known as 'Hannibal' to her friends.
8. When she hears that their first challenge is to make a pizza, using pre-made dough, Millie gives a fetching giggle in case the camera is on her, fluttering her eyelashes and casually making her deep doe-eyed expression even wider. She looks like a petite, ginger deer. Like a human, rich, version of Bambi.
9. 'The pizza has thr-ohhh-wn me off guard a little bit,' Millie trembles. Presumably it has thrown her off guard because it is not expensive enough. As she makes her topping, she stands well back from the work top, leaning forward tentatively, as if she can hardly bear to touch the pizza - in case by doing so, she becomes common.
10. Her next problem is how to get her pizza off the tray and into the oven. This might make her sound quite vacant compared to mere mortals like ourselves, but Millie is clearly handicapped by the fact she would usually have several servants to do manual work like this for her.
Three of this week's contestants from Celebrity Masterchef: Millie Mackintosh (right), Wayne Sleep (short) and Alex Something-Incomprehensible from EastEnders (Scottish)
'I think pressure can make you panic,' Millie said, finally explaining the strange thing she had put in her Lovely Hair
11. Thankfully, the judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace enjoy Millie's pizza enormously, although to be honest they would enjoy any pizza enormously. Unlike most celebrity contestants who respond to the slightest piece of praise by gasping with (fake) amazement, gushing their gratitude, or crying, Millie does not condescend to react at all. Throughout the show, as usual, she says very little, occasionally allowing the slightest smile to play on the corner of her lips, like a modern, posh (rich) Mona Lisa.
'I feel quite rel-ieeeee-ved that they like my pizz-ar,' she concedes eventually.
12. The narrator informs us: 'the celebrities are heading out to experience their first service in a professional kitchen', or in Millie's case, experience her first day of actual work. Along with the bloke from EastEnders, she has been sent to East London, poor thing. Not in Chelsea at all. She will be making lentil soup, coconut chutney and dosas.
'Pick up a spoonful, put it on the griddle just like that. Then from the middle, we start to spread the batter out like that,' the chef demonstrates.
'OK,' Millie mutters, twitching like a very elegant pretty ostrich obviously struggling to follow and uncomfortable at doing so much work. Basically, it was like making pancakes; child's play. But she couldn't even smear the mixture into a circle.
'I'm disappointed in myself. They're not all coming out purrr-fect at the moment,' she sighed, not so much frustrated as just bored.
In fact, strictly speaking, none were.
'Fingers crossed the next one is a good one.'
That's the spirit.
Millie had a lovely frangipane. At least that's what Gregg Wallace said. She had beautiful scallops too - presenting on a mini tower of what she seductively called 'riz-ott-ohhhhh'
No-one wanted to hear the words 'Millie Mackintosh' and 'tart' in the same sentence but there it was - when she walked in with this pudding. 'Luvverly !' salivated Gregg. And the peach tart wasn't bad either
'Do you want some?!' There were fears that Gregg (right) had drunk too much Prosecco and become a bit leery
13. When Millie falls behind with the orders, the chef suggests it is not because of Millie's chronic ineptitude but 'I think what's happening is the dosa popularity has shot up.'
Diners clearly just wanted to EAT Millie Macintosh, a tiny, tiny piece of her DNA - transferred on to her dosas. Never mind that they were inedible.
'You've both done a very, very good job,' the chef tells them at the end of the shift. 'If you ever fancy a career outside your fancy career, you can come here!'
Alex from EastEnders laughs secretly chuffed, but Millie looks blank, perplexed. She has no idea what a career is.
14. For the final round, Millie is making scallop and Prosecco risotto with a pea and mint foam, or as she pronounces it 'scal-lopp and Proh-secc-oh riz-ott-ohhhhh & foh-mmmmmh.'
This is followed by a tart with peaches and amaretti biscuits and 'a mar-scar-pone-ay cre-eeea-mmh.'
Predictably, Gregg Wallace lowers the tone: 'I'm looking forward to this mate!' I would love a taste of Millie's frangipane and Millie's scallops looked beautiful.
'Look at that! That is luvverly. That is really, really luvverly,' Wallace salivated when she brought over the plates. And the food looked good too.
It seemed a bit suspicious. She couldn't spread a bit of dosa mixture in to a circle but suddenly she could do all this. She even made her own pastry but didn't exactly look like a confident cook.
To be honest, the thing she did most expertly was pop open the Prosecco, which she did with a casual flourish that showed it was clearly as natural to her as breathing.
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Le Jean-Sebastien Bach, Bas-Rhin (department)
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- 89 guestrooms
- Bar/lounge
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Pet-friendly rooms can be requested by contacting the property at the number on the booking confirmation.
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- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 2.45 per person, per night. This tax does not apply to children under 13 years of age.
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Self parking costs EUR 17 per day
Pets are allowed for an extra charge of EUR 10 per pet, per night
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
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Excellent 4.1 /5 from 138 reviews
4 star European hotels are a far cry from 4 star US hotels, and Strasbourg only has one 5 star hotel -- but the staff at this hotel is MEAN, punitive, and goes out of their way to be unfriendly. The front desk staff is continually huffing and puffing at any question you ask. We tried to get info about the surrounding area, how to take the tram, where to go to dinner, how to get to the airport : all of this was met with disdain and we were literally told to go figure it out ourselves. The wifi connection only works in the lobby so the place is jammed with lap tops, and ipads as people perch on any surface they can find. The room had stains in the carpets, the towels are thin, the amenities in the bath are pitiful. The beds are like cots. The breakfast staff is also unkind. They seem to be annoyed that you eat, and use the dishes. You are certainly not greeted with a BONJOUR! in the AM. The hotel is in a nice neighborhood, but the staff makes you feel like you are under siege and in the way.
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Very good location. Room was very large and bed extremely comfortable. All very good - only slight exception was that the breakfast was a bit basic and DIY - only one member of staff on hand to assist occasionally.
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"Whether he is measuring neural activity in the laboratory or climbing the Himalayas to meet the Dalai Lama, Davidson is an inveterate explorer who has spent a lifetime probing the deep mystery of human feeling. Don't miss this smart and lively book by the world's foremost expert on emotion and the brain." -Daniel Gilbert, Ph.D., author of Stumbling on Happiness
"The Emotional Life of Your Brain is an eye-opener, replete with breakthrough research that will change the way you see yourself and everyone you know. Richard Davidson and Sharon Begley make a star team: cutting-edge findings formulated in a delightful, can't-put-it-down read. I loved this book." -Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., author of Emotional Intelligence
"What a gift from the world's leading neuroscientist who works on what makes life worth living. This is a must-read for everyone who is interested in positive psychology." -Martin E. P. Seligman, Ph.D., author of Learned Optimism — Martin E. P. Seligman, Ph.D., author of Learned Optimism
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Richard J. Davidson, PhD, is the William James and Vilas Research Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry and director of the W. M. Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior and the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin- Madison.
Sharon Begley has been the science editor and science columnist at Newsweek as well as science columnist at The Wall Street Journal.
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To begin with, the book tells the story of Davidson's career as it is punctuated by highlights of research. It does not follow chronological order though. Rather, it follows the main themes that Davidson researchers. Most importantly are the six dimensions of emotion. Davidson makes the rather dramatic claim that these supersede both temperament and personality. The latter is certain to be hotly debated by personality researchers, but Davidson argues that his constructs have a firm(er) neurological bases, unlike say the Big Five. The six emotional dimensions underlie personality and temperament, which are simply reflections of one's underlying emotional states. The six states are:
Resilience: how quickly one emotionally recovers from negative life events.
Outlook: how optimistic/positive one generally is.
Social Intuition: how well one can read emotions in social situations.
Self-Awareness: how well one is aware of one's own feelings and emotions.
Sensitivity to Context: how one's emotions are influenced by contextual factors, and how aware one is of these external influences.
Attention: how well one can maintain one's focus, in particular emotional focus.
The first half of the book describes the scientific evidence for these dimensions, which is in my opinion the strongest part of the book. Davidson does present enough evidence to make it likely that there is significant validity behind his categories. There are some missing details.Read more ›
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The 6 categories of Emotional Style are:
- Resilience: How slowly or quickly you recover from adversity.
- Outlook: How long you are able to sustain positive emotion.
- Social Intuition: How adept you are at picking up social signals from the people around you.
- Self-Awareness: How well you perceive bodily feelings that reflect emotions.
- Sensitivity to Context: How good you are at regulating your emotional responses to take into account the context you find yourself in.
- Attention: How sharp and clear your focus is.
At first I was wary of this approach, as there are numerous classification systems for emotions that strike me as somewhat arbitrary. After a while though, it sunk in and I realized how fundamentally these functions affect the contours (ups and downs) and contexts of our emotional states, and how we perceive and react to our social world. It is also extremely interesting to understand the basis for these characteristics in terms of brain function, something which is rarely tackled in a satisfactory way. Sometimes he seems to paint with too broad of a brush, probably a reflection of how much has yet to be learned, but overall it is very illuminating stuff.
In addition to helping readers understand the workings of the brain, readers are encouraged by the author to evaluate their own particular Emotional Style and consider how they might change it. He discusses many ways that the extreme ends of certain emotional style categories give rise to serious difficulties in life for some people (depression, anxiety, OCD, ADHD, social ineptitude, etc). The plasticity of the brain is emphasized, and the author gives very specific suggestions of ways to change if the reader so desires. I don't want to give the impression that this is merely a "self-help" type of book, as that would seriously underestimate the content here.
A very significant contribution the author makes is his evaluation of the effects of meditation on the brain. Richard Davidson is perhaps the foremost researcher in the world investigating the connection between meditation and brain function, and has worked closely with the Dalai Lama to recruit experienced monk meditators for brain scans (fMRI & EEG), in addition to studying how novice meditators' brains change over shorter periods of time. I have read other books on meditation and the brain (Buddha's Brain, The Blissful Brain) and this book has the strongest scientific basis by far.
In the course of the book, the author describes numerous experiments throughout his career that gave rise to these findings. It was interesting to learn how these discoveries came about, and to consider the efficacy of his methods. In fact, a good deal of time is spent on the narrative of the author's career and research methods. This might be off-putting for some people, but I found it to be a good framework to understand the methods used for this research, and to learn of the author's personal trajectory towards studying positive emotion, the brain, and meditation, though sometimes the author seems to take a tad too much credit (or perhaps he really is that important).
I have no doubt there is a great deal more we don't know about emotion regulation, but the neural circuits described here will inevitably play a foundational role for what is discovered in the future.
This book traces the author's history in psychological and neuroscience research. At first that bugged me as it seemed to be all about him. Most of the research in this book is his own and/or that of his students. However, in the end I think that turned out to be a good thing both because he quite obviously is a preeminent expert in the field and he goes pretty deep into the implications of his own findings. In other words he knows what he is talking about and not just speculating about the meaning of someone else's work. In any case you see the history and the evidence in favor of the author's ideas build over time and he does an excellent job putting it all together. He definitely believes you can alter to some degree your emotional profile and he ends the book with suggestions for exercises on how do to that for any of the six dimensions he describes.
You will come away from reading this book with a much deeper understanding of the dimensions of your emotional style and their underlying neural correlates. This book is definitely for the general reader and while it is densely packed with information it is not overly technical or academic.
I highly recommend this to readers who are curious about the brain in general or emotions in particular.
I'm disappointed that this book does not have Amazon's "Search Inside" feature so I will include the contents below and hope that helps you get a better feel for its contents:
Introduction: A Scientific Quest
Chapter 1: One Brain Does Not Fit All
Chapter 2: The Discovery of Emotional Style
Chapter 3: Assessing Your Emotional Style
Chapter 4: The Brain Basis of Emotional Style
Chapter 5: How Emotional Style Develops
Chapter 6: The Mind-Brain-Body Connection, or How Emotional Style Influences Health
Chapter 7: Normal and Abnormal, and When "Different" Becomes Pathological
Chapter 8: The Plastic Brain
Chapter 9: Coming Out of the Closet
Chapter 10: The Monk in the Machine
Chapter 11: Rewired, or Neurally Inspired Exercises to Change Your Emotional Style
Maybe looking for "ahas" is a lot to ask of any book--and certainly I don't expect that of everything I read--but there wasn't enough payback in the overall reading pleasure of The Emotional Life of Your Brain to overcome some awkwardness and unrewarding parts to call this "must reading"--at least not for a general audience (for those interested in research on our emotions and the brain, you will definitely find it worthwhile).
Information Gained
I think the heart of my issues with this book were with the research of the six emotional styles. It's not that doubted the validity of what Davidson discovered, but the discoveries didn't feel that exactly translated into actionable behaviors. In small part, my problem was I didn't truly get the distinction of the difference between some of the styles. That is, we're told there are six emotional components that are crucial (or at least measurable) to how we react emotionally: Resilience, Outlook, Self-Awareness, Social Intuition, Context Sensitivity, and Attention. The differences between Resilience and Outlook seem pretty subtle and especially so for Social Intuition and Context Sensitivity (which is about relating to people in an appropriate way given the context). Yes, Davidson shows us the brain mechanisms for each of these are different--and one of the book's strengths is the clear way they explain what happens in the brain--but the effect and "remedies" to correct for emotional style deficiency weren't that different from one another.
The overall effect of the self-help sections of this book relating to emotional styles felt a bit lame. It was almost as if they didn't feel confident enough in the reader to trust the inherent interest in what Davidson's emotional research and felt compelled to try and add a self-help elements as a marketing tool.
The strongest parts of the book were the science writing and discoveries explained. Some of it I'd heard before, but Davidson's been a pioneer in the area of grounding the study of emotions in hard science and there are lots of good information on that account. Most important are the way he's proven emotions are critical to our brain's proper functioning and how he establishes a continuum of functioning to bring greater nuance and remedies to disorders such as autism, depression, and ADHD. This is where the book shines and is worthy of being considered important.
Writing Style
Call me nitpicky, but for a decent amount of the book I didn't enjoy the writing so much. I wonder if part of the problem is that it was a team effort and the ghost writer wasn't clearly in charge. Richard Davidson has written a number of books and is a clear writer, but he's doesn't have the je-ne-c'est-quoi of a top-notch magazine-quality writer that knows how to really draw you in. I presume Sharon Begley does (I haven't read her other work). And there are sections of the book that read really smoothly and are totally absorbing. But especially toward the beginning, the book is a bit clunky and in several places Davidson reveals a pride in his accomplishments that I found slightly embarrassing. For example on page 68 Davidson writes: "Wisconsin has a winning strategy for recruiting faculty, recruiting those whose star is still rising rather than going after full blown supernovas as a place like Harvard typically does." Davidson was recruited and taught at Wisconsin and a bit earlier had told us he was later recruited by Harvard; in other words, he let us know he is a supernova professor. It's not that he isn't a superstar professor/researcher and I truly believe humanity is better off for the valuable research he's done, but combined with some other horn-touting sprinkled through out the book, it was a bit distracting from the content. This was a minor issue and more toward the beginning. In the acknowledgments at the end of the book, it sounds like Davidson struggled to get this book done and his agent got Begley onboard, making me wonder (after I finished it) if that might have accounted for the unevenness. Perhaps I'm just spoiled by the plethora of exquisitely written science books I've read in recent years.
Summing Up
Please don't take the criticism above as discouragement from reading The Emotional Life of the Brain; it does have value and if I hadn't read a lot on the topic, including other books that have cited Davidson's work elsewhere, I probably would have enjoyed it even more. Maybe my expectations were too high. My main discouragement would be around expectations for the self-help aspect of the book which didn't work for me, but if you're happy to read it for the science, then I think you'll be rewarded.
If you were to read this and combine it with a book on "Emotional IQ" such as [[asin:05538049 Emotional Intelligence]], it could be a breakthrough in living your life and accomplishing what you want to do more effectively.
So, what are some of the aspects of the "emotional life" of the brain, or let's say, the characteristics of a healthy emotional life? They are Resilience, Outlook, Social Intuition, Self-Awareness, Sensitivity to Context and Attention.
Let's look at each:
We all take blows from life, I can attest to that. And lately, there has been a lot of natural adversity, look around, how many of your friends have lost jobs or even their homes in the economic turmoil we've seen? I'll bet you can point all around you, even to yourself. Overcoming what happens to us takes resilience or the ability to function despite taking hits. The better your brain is at handling screaming messages of "OH NO! ...or worse) while you attempt to extricate yourself, the better. And the better for your family. The author characterizes people on a spectrum. At one end, FAST to RECOVER (bouncing back, working with energy to overcome adversity.) On the other end, SLOW to RECOVER, those who sadly are crippled by a downturn in their lives. If you are at the less advantageous end, what can you do to bulk up the resilience? The author suggests a number of activities, from meditation (because we become what we think--mere thinking can sometimes even bulk up a muscle, why not the emotional strength of the brain) to cognitive therapy if you need help to escape thought patterns. I can heartily recommend good cognitive therapy for escaping those patterns formed in childhood that we all can't seem to overcome and which in some cases, we aren't even aware that we have.
Springing off the idea from the first chapters, that we are what we think, that the now almost-cliche "power of positive thinking" is truly powerful, your outlook is how long you can keep up a positive attitude. Again, we fit on a spectrum, those who have a naturally sunny outlook (the proverbial Optimist) and those who naturally sink into pessimism by nature. If you are naturally a pessimist, what can you do to shift to more consistent positive outlook? It seems stupid--hey, the world stinks, why should I try to think otherwise, but again, your MINDSET actually determines what you see. If you have a cloudy outlook, you will literally miss opportunities you may be seeking, and if you are depressed, you telegraph a sense of sadness, anger and failure to those around you. Again the suggestions to improve outlook are mental training to re-route your thought to a more positive tenor.
I would add here, and something that is missing from the book, possibly due to its scientific bent, is PRAYER. I imagine that prayer is not mentioned often in this book due to the fact the author takes a scientific tack, but prayer helps outlook, and though there is no way to use science to prove or disprove belief, for those who do believe in God, this is a way to support a healthful outlook.
Social Intuition
Again, a spectrum, from those who are almost able to read minds from silent and obliquely verbal social signals to those who are oblivious (and sometimes, this is an aspect of conditions such as autism, where a person can be born literally blind to the subtle signs we learn to pick up.) One interesting and powerful suggestion to improve on social intuition is to listen with non-critical awareness. Simply OBSERVE and do not edit the social conversation around you with an internal commentary about the relative merits of the conversation's content or the person commenting. You'll miss things. So if someone is giving you an opinion that is probably something you disagree with, it may be challenging but try simply turning off the part of the brain that is judging and watch and listen. The exercise will wake up parts of the brain that see other things happening in the social milieu.
This again, a spectrum. I had a conversation with a licensed clinical social worker some years ago who told me that there are people who feel things but are UNABLE to connect those feeling to something that had happened in their life. This astonished me, but sad to say, not everyone is hard-wired to make those connections. When people eat out of emotion, for example, they may not recognize that an upsetting phone call led to an uneasy feeling in the pit of their stomach, that propelled them to raid the fridge. The spectrum runs from highly Self Aware to Puzzled. If you listen to any of the radio or television pop therapy programs, try cataloging the person who is working on their issue. Are they aware or are they deep in puzzlement and need to have someone connect the dots for them? It's an interesting exercise. And where do we fit on that spectrum? If you are more Puzzled than Aware, that's fine--it's how you are at the moment, but what can you do to move you along the spectrum to a more helpful place? This is another area where cognitive therapy (the thought, the feeling, the actions all get connected, then new ways to think and react are worked on.)
How well do you focus on what is around you and what is happening? This is similar to the "being in the moment. It is one of the reasons that it is a problem to see your kids texting during a family gathering or dinner. They are not paying attention to what's happening. They are missing social cues. (See social intuition.) They are not in the moment. They are not really there. If you have the same issue, or simply find you drift in and out of the moment due to many distractions, what can you do to improve focus?
Now, despite the spectrum of these five characteristics, the author warns us not to judge ourselves and others and say "you need to be more socially intuitive", "You need a better outlook." The book is designed to have you measure where you fit on this map, and then to see if there is an area you would like to alter in order to move past something that is hindering you. In other words, if your style is to one end of each of the spectra, you are not "bad" but you might choose to play with an aspect of your Emotional Style to see if you can get new results that make you feel better. This is the take-home message; we all have an emotional style, we cannot judge it as "good" or "bad"--it's up to each of us to know ourselves and then, if we desire, to find a way to adapt our style to make our lives better. Fascinating reading, and I could almost recommend that if you read one "self-help" style book this year, this ought to be the one. It is very enlightening and combines a lot of the information that is circulating on helping ourselves live a better emotional life, but in a way that makes a system that can illuminate your interior landscape.


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Linking the terrestrial carbon (C) cycle to climate and to potential climatic change feedbacks has become a central focus of much C-cycle research across the globe. Both, actual field C-flux measurements and modeling of such data are pivotal to advancing our understanding of this fundamental biogeochemical cycle. Current model predictions suggest that the land surface will cease to be a net C sink by 2050, with large uncertainties in the biotic feedbacks (IPCC 2007); the largest uncertainty relates to the responses of soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks (Friedlingstein et al. 2006).
Soils represent the major reservoir of terrestrial organic C, but there are large uncertainties and difficulties in detecting soil C stock changes. Global SOC maps (e.g., ISLSCP II; ORNL DAAC, obtainable from http://daac.ornl.gov/) show particularly high SOC stocks in organic soils of short boreal (e.g., Northern Canada) and tropical (e.g., South-East Asia) vegetation and in peatlands, albeit with large uncertainties in the estimates (see Heinemeyer et al. 2010). Remarkably, total SOC stocks (particularly considering organic soils) are not being modeled accurately by existing global C-cycle models (Heinemeyer et al. 2010) nor are soil respiration fluxes (Trumbore 2006). Whereas about one-third of SOC occurs in forests, another third occurs in grasslands and savannas, and the remainder in wetlands, croplands and other mostly short vegetation biomes (Janzen 2004). Understanding the potential of, and uncertainties in, any terrestrial climatic change feedback from such biomes is important, as even small changes in these large SOC pools, due to climatic change or human activity, might have large impacts upon the global C cycle (Garten and Wullschleger 1999; Vance 2003). Thus, it becomes essential to assess accurately both C balance and SOC stock change in short vegetation biomes such as mires, fens, and grasslands that have large SOC stocks. However, as a result of the large background soil C content and the inherently high spatial and temporal heterogeneity (Niklaus et al. 2000), C stock changes (e.g., by sequential coring) are mostly below detection limits and large-scale measurements, for example from eddy covariance towers, do not capture the considerable spatial variability of such systems; a clear priority thus is making available small-scale chamber technology enabling detecting accurately any short-term changes in fluxes rather than stocks also capturing any spatial variability in ecosystem net C-flux balance.
Chamber-based methods are now widely used for short vegetation C-flux measurements, with examples including Hirota et al. (2010; alpine meadows), Stocker et al. (1997; grasslands), Huemmrich et al. (2010; tundra), Laine et al. (2007), Laine et al. (2009; peatlands). Importantly, such chamber systems potentially overcome the problems of detecting short-term changes in C stock inventories, being based on more precise detection of C-flux changes that should correspond to overall C-pool changes (Niklaus et al. 2000). Clearly, this chamber approach requires the use of accurate automated chamber equipment; although this is now available commercially (e.g., Li-Cor, USA or ADC, U.K.), it has never been strictly validated against C stock estimates based on mass balance. One concern is that flux measurement artifacts may result in calculation of misleading C stock changes.
Chamber fluxes further offer an important addition to eddy covariance and aircraft fluxes (see Myklebust et al. (2008) and Oechel et al. (1998)) as they address small-scale spatial variability. However, the level of accuracy of a flux approach is often assessed simply by comparison of different flux system approaches (e.g., Myklebust et al. 2008) or of automated versus manual sampling (e.g., Burrows et al. 2005) but, to date, never against absolute C stock changes. Although one manual chamber C-flux balance validation study has been reported for soil respiration (Nay and Bormann 2000), crucially, to the best of our knowledge, continuous NEE flux-based C-balance estimates have never been critically validated under field conditions against a mesocosm C stock balance inventory.
Although global C-cycle models have advanced over the past decade, not least because of computing power, some C-cycle process representations are still very uncertain. This is particularly true for SOC turnover and its environmental responses (Friedlingstein et al. 2006). Models require process-level uncertainties to be reduced further in order to improve predictions of future C sink vs. source relationships within ecosystems. Specifically, net primary productivity (NPP) modeling approaches are based on generalizations of GPP to NPP ratios, mostly empirically allocating assimilated C to either respiratory loss or biomass gain and thus determining turnover rates of C in ecosystems (Gifford 2003; Trumbore 2006). Moreover, in modeling ecosystems, environmental responses have mostly been treated uniformly (Williams et al. 2001; Shaver et al. 2007), ignoring responses of vegetation patches. Separating and explaining variability in measured chamber NEE flux components is key to overcoming these current measurement and model limitations.
The NEE flux is composed of two major components: C uptake through photosynthesis and C release as ecosystem respiration (Reco) through plant and soil respiration. Whereas much is known about photosynthetic responses to future elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations, and the resulting climatic changes, much still needs to be discovered with respect to the drivers and environmental responses of the respiratory components (e.g., Heinemeyer et al. 2007, 2012). This can be addressed effectively through modeling chamber-based fluxes (Laine et al. 2009). In particular, the temperature sensitivity of soil respiration and its link to canopy activity and C supply is currently intensively debated and researched (e.g., Davidson et al. 2006; Heinemeyer et al. 2007, 2012; Bahn et al. 2008).
Combining automated and multiplexed chamber-based flux approaches with translucent (i.e. Perspex) and opaque chamber types offers a unique opportunity to measure both processes in real time in situ and at high frequency. To date, any such combination of translucent and opaque chamber measurements has been performed manually (e.g., Laine et al. 2007, 2009), lacking the necessary high monitoring frequency. Automated systems will ultimately deliver higher temporal flux resolution and thus better parameterization of model process representation, for example, the temperature sensitivity and diurnal changes of respiration and C-flux component contributions. However, chamber artifacts have to be considered, such as lower light levels due to the chamber hood and increases in chamber water vapor and temperatures that will affect photosynthesis, particularly in large chambers (Hooper et al. 2002).
The aims of this study were to (i) field deploy an adapted automated and combined transparent NEE flux and opaque respiration Li-Cor 8100 system in an experimental grass mesocosm study; (ii) use a nutrient fertilization treatment aimed at manipulating NEE fluxes and subsequent mesocosm C balance; (iii) validate the resulting C-balance estimates based on NEE fluxes using measured C stock inventory changes; (iv) assess any chamber artifacts in calculating system C balance; and consequently (v) provide a sound validation for estimating C storage changes using flux chamber approaches. This required the growing of defined vegetation mesocosms on a heterogeneous low C-content soil matrix, monitored using automated translucent and dark chambers, with additional quantification of all C inputs (e.g. as seeds) and outputs (e.g. in drainage water).


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The 13th meeting if the. RBM HWG is taking place I. Dakar, Senegal this week. Some thoughts about the. Current status of malaria programs emerged from member experiencees and are shared here.
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Abu Dhabi's ADX General Index dropped 0.4 percent and
Arab National Bank (ARNB AB): Saudi Arabia's sixth-largest publicly traded lender by assets said second-quarter profit rose to 696.7 million riyals ($185.8 million) from 629.4 million riyals a year earlier. The shares declined 0.7 percent to 29 riyals.
Banque Saudi Fransi (BSFR AB): The Saudi Arabian lender part-owned by Credit Agricole SA said second-quarter profit increased to 773 million riyals from 757 million riyals a year earlier. The shares fell 1.9 percent to 42.5 riyals.
Dubai Islamic Bank PJSC (DIB UH): Credit Suisse Group AG cut its share-price estimate for the United Arab Emirates' biggest bank complying with Shariah rules to 2.32 dirhams from 3.17 dirhams. The shares retreated 1.5 percent to 2.02 dirhams.
Emirates NBD PJSC (EMIRATES UH): The U.A.E.'s biggest bank by assets had its price estimate raised to 4.8 dirhams from 3.8 dirhams at Credit Suisse. The shares dropped 0.5 percent to 4.22 dirhams.
Emirates Telecommunications Corp. (ETISALAT UH): The U.A.E.'s biggest phone company said the proceedings served on Etisalat DB are "wholly baseless." The shares rose 0.5 percent to 10.9 dirhams.
First Gulf Bank PJSC (FGB UH): The U.A.E. lender controlled by Abu Dhabi's ruling family had its price estimate cut to 25 dirhams from 28 dirhams at Credit Suisse. The shares declined 1.4 percent to 17.75 dirhams.
Saudi British Bank (SABB AB): The lender 40 percent owned by HSBC Holdings Plc said second-quarter profit climbed to 852 million riyals from 447 million riyals a year earlier. The shares slumped 1.2 percent to 41.5 riyals.
Union National Bank PJSC (UNB UH): The company whose shareholders include the governments of Abu Dhabi and Dubai had its price estimate cut to 4.5 dirhams from 5.15 dirhams at Credit Suisse. The shares were unchanged at 3.6 dirhams.
Yamamah Saudi Cement Co. (YACCO AB): The Saudi Arabian maker of building material said second-quarter profit rose to 220 million riyals from 192 million in the year-ago period. The shares slipped 0.4 percent to 61 riyals.


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The Rheinaue Leisure Park was completed on time for the Federal Horticultural Show 1979. After that event of 178 days´ duration, the park was handed over as a recreation area to the Bonners and their guests. Bonn´s green heart with its surface of 160 hectares (of which 35 hectares on the right bank of the Rhine) is almost the size of downtown Bonn.
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