1 Eat Pray Love Elizabeth Gilbert

This book strictly speaking is not a self help book, but read it and I dare you not to feel differently or want to make some changes in your life. Since its publication it has swept the cocktails bars and makeup counters of the world, Oprah loves it, it has a huge following of women and men of all backgrounds, to put it quite simply it has become the Manolo Blahniks of books.

The book, was borne out of a decision, by the author, to take a year out, after a very acrimonious divorce and heartbreaking love affair. The plan was to spend three months in each of her chosen destinations, Italy where she learned how eat; she ate with wild abandonment, anything and everything and at anytime of the day or night. India, where she learned how to Pray, how to quiet, her mind and listen to her inner voice and Indonesia, where she learned how to love, and I will let you read the book to find out the end to that story.

The reason why I love this book and why I would and have recommended it to many of my friends, in fact I purchased many as stocking fillers this year, is not only because the author writes with such honesty and incredible humor; there a many laugh out loud moments in this book; but normally, an autobiographical book of this nature is because someone has suffered a life of abuse and degradation, but this is about a normal situation. Whilst it is devastating, and heartbreaking at the time it is happening, you feel as if your world is falling apart and that you will never feel normal again and that you are alone, but it is something, in some form or another, we have all been through and will probably go through again.

It is about normal, you can fit yourself in Elizabeth's world and because you can see and feel through her pain, you can also see and feel yourself through her recovery and self discovery.

A quote from the book that really struck me, was at a point where during her stay in Rome, she was doing really well but then she had a bit of wobble and she was sat on her apartment floor trying to talk herself through it. She recalled a time when she got into a elevator, in New York, as she turned to face the front she thought she saw someone she knew and was about to step forward and say hello when she realized it was a mirror and that person she recognized was herself, in her hour of need on her bathroom floor she wrote, "just remember at one time you recognized yourself as a friend". This resonated with me, woman can be the most special friends to others but rarely to themselves.

The other thing, I love about this book, is through her self discovery, she suffers the same problems as everyone else. I rejoice in the fact that she struggles to meditate, because I really did believe that I was the only person who could not quiet their mind, and I was surrounded by all these other people who could sit crossed legged, shush their thoughts and reach Nivarna, but as a result of reading Elizabeth's fight to reach her inner self she has given me renewed motivation to reach mine and not to give up after two minutes because my mind keeps reminding me I forgot to put the dishwasher on and I still have not picked up that bit of fluff from the floor that I have been looking at for days.

This book is a must for anyone who is on a journey of self discovery, and even if you are not and you want a good read with many laughs and few tears then this is the book.

I have given you some links to the book, and to please my friends in the UK who always feel left out, the US Amazon option is on the left hand side of this blog and UK option is below.

USClick on the links on the left hand side of the page.

UK

ENJOY

0 Seattle

This past weekend my boyfriend and I went to Seattle to visit my son and his girl. Even though it rained the entire time it was a fabulous trip! My son is so happy and his girlfriend and her family are gracious, warm and friendly. They love my kiddo and it shows in how they talk to him and in the way they treat him. It is so nice to know that my son is surrounded by people who love him.

While we were there we did the touristy stuff, we visited the Space Needle, Pike's market (above), and the Experience Music Project (below).

Experience Music Project

I also hit as many thrift stores as I could. I make spell bottles out of antique salt and pepper shakers and I found a wonderful set of 6 crystal shakers at Goodwill while in Seattle.

I can't wait to get to work on those. By the end of March the spell bottles I make with those babies will start to show up in my ETSY shop Beneath the Witch's Moon, opening on March 1st - only a few items will be available on opening day due to my travels but I am working on quite a bit more and should have a very nice selection of gifts and supplies by the end of March.

I am heading out to see my daughter in Orlando tomorrow. What a busy month this has been! I can't believe that March will be here in a matter of days!

Have a lovely week

Autumnwind

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0 Baby Boomer Dating Where To Find Mr Right

If you are a Baby Boomer and wanting to find love then the only thing that will stop you today is your mind. You can meet a fellow Boomer now easier than ever. If you are wanting to start dating again and aren't really sure where to look, then here are some great starters for you.?

CHURCH.

If you are a church goer then I suggest asking your local parish if there are any single nights available. If they aren't available at your church then you may find that there are many singles events held throughout the wide range of religious faiths. Asking around will lead you to one that is suitable for you?

ONLINE.

Certainly, this method has seen a rise in popularity over the past few years. I think online dating has come from being something quite seedy and embarrassing to now being a very well accepted platform for mingling with other and meeting potential partners. No longer are you "stuck" sorting through the masses of members online trying to find someone in your age group or area. You can now join Baby Boomer singles websites that will already have filtered the best matches for you and the qualities in a person that you want. The more descriptive you are in your profile and matches then the better able you will be to meet people that suit you specifically.

UNISEX INTEREST GROUPS.

If you can list all the hobbies and activities that you enjoy partaking in or watching then I am almost certain you will be able to find a group that you can do it with. Find a hobby that you love, join the group and already you know you have something in common with anyone that takes your fancy within the group. It doesn't have to be singles only, joining groups that are open to marital status is just as effective as people know people...you may be introduced to a brother,friend, cousin, neighbor.

Make sure you keep your mind open to new possibilities. You are a Baby Boomer and therefore are well aware that Mr. Right isn't going to suddenly pull over out the front of your house and march up to the door. You will have to seek him out. Once you do, then there are some great tips and strategies to make sure that he is captivated by you and wants to spend more time with you. If you want to know how you can achieve this then check out my links below.

0 Paul Gauguin Self Publicist Twister Of Truth

Is this an extreme case of twisting the truth to present an unreal situation? And for what purpose?

"Paul Gauguin exhibition reveals artist as self-publicist and truth manipulator"

Tate Modern to shed new light on sensual and sensationalist painter in UK's first major Paul Gauguin exhibition in 50 years

by

Charlotte Higgins

April 19th, 2010

guardian.co.uk

He was a fabulist and shameless manipulator of the truth as well as a canny self-publicist, the sort of self-conscious user of shock tactics we might associate with a modern generation of artists.

That is the Paul Gauguin who will be revealed to visitors to Tate Modern this autumn, as the museum mounts the first major exhibition devoted to him in the UK for 50 years. A third of the more than 100 works in the show will be seen in London for the first time when the exhibition opens in September.

His most famous works are, of course, his sensual, prelapsarian visions of Tahiti. The curators will show how his Tahiti paintings weave their own kind of mythology, sometimes rather sensationally referring to "primitive" Oceanian manners and morals that were, by the 1890s, distant memories or indeed simply fantasy.

For instance, his beautiful semi-naked young women proffering platters of fruit were, argue the curators, largely a product of Gauguin's imagination. By the 1890s, Tahiti, a French colony, had been comprehensively worked over by missionaries.

"They were wearing smocks and going to church on Sundays," says Belinda Thomson, curator of the exhibition. She called his relationships with his Tahitian models-mistresses "fairly exploitative". They were not, she says "equal relationships, nor could you call them properly professional relationships".

In Parahi te Marae (1892), a landscape in which a glowering idol looms over a yellow field circled with elaborate fencing (its form gleaned not from observation on the ground, but rather from looking at objects in Parisian museums), Gauguin hints at cannibalistic ritual - a feature of Tahiti's very distant past. "He is reinventing the scene, playing on his audience's prejudices," says Thomson.

In his book about Tahiti, Noa Noa, Gauguin claimed to have been told ancient myths and legends about the island's past by his Tahitian lover, Teha'amana. In fact he read them in the 1837 book Voyages aux Iles du Grand Oc'ean, by JA Moerenhout.

In his fascination with the "primitive" Gauguin was nothing out of the ordinary in 19th-century Europe. But in his employment of shock tactics - his deliberate sensationalising of Tahitian life - says Thomson, "he was ahead of the game".

If the Tahitian pictures are among his most recognisable works, the exhibition, Gauguin: Maker of Myth, will also examine his output beyond this colourful period in his artistic life.

Four paintings made in the late 1880s in Brittany will be brought together for the first time. These works - Yellow Christ, Green Christ, Self-portrait as Christ in the Garden of Olives and Vision of the Sermon - see the painter, in an earlier period, already in the business of drawing on myth, fable and a large dose of his own prejudices about the Breton people to create works with an intriguing narrative content.

In his La Perte de Pucelage - or "loss of virginity" - he layered motifs, allusions and symbols to hint at a kind of narrative. A woman lies in the foreground, naked, with a fox. In the background is seen a Breton wedding procession. "On the one hand it is a kind of Breton version of Manet's famous painting Olympia," says Thomson. "On the other there is a layering of symbolism and elements of Breton folklore, with the fox as the malign seducer."

According to Thomson, "he played up certain aspects of Breton life: a superstitious intensity of faith, for instance". Co-curator Christine Riding says: "He paints them in a decorative and childlike way. You certainly don't get a sense of the harshness of Breton life." Yellow Christ, for instance, shows Jesus crucified in a Brittany landscape; beneath the cross kneel three praying women dressed in traditional Breton headdresses.

Gauguin was also an adept self-mythologiser: the Self-portrait as Christ in the Garden of Olives sees him paint himself as if Jesus before the crucifixion: isolated, betrayed. According to Thomson, "it is the ultimate bombastic or overblown statement of the artist as creator". Riding says: "He was an arch-manipulator of his own artistic identity and wove elaborate myths around himself."

Gauguin had been a stockbroker and what Riding called "a Sunday painter" before taking up art full-time after an economic downturn in the early 1880s, as a result of the collapse of a French bank. He was largely self-taught, using the art he had collected when a stockbroker, including Pissarros and C'ezannes, as a study aid.

Paul Gauguin [Wikipedia]

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0 Meeting Mr Not So Bad

There are some women who define themselves by their relationship--so they always have one. There are some women who just happen to be dealt really good cards in life and find their partner early. They marry. Have children. And ride into retirement sunsetville together. And then there are the rest of you, who have picked apart piece by piece every male suitor you ever had and so now you don't have any or you are currently involved in one of "those" relationships.

I'm here to tell you, that you are not a teenager anymore. At least you shouldn't be reading my column:) You will always have the luxury of having standards, but you will not always have the luxury of having a myriad of men that will fit that criteria. So you have two choices. Either you are forced to make it work with the man who fits the criteria to a tee. If you find him. If he's available. If he even wants to be bothered with you. Or you try things out with Mr. Not-So-Bad.

Mr. Not-So-Bad isn't who you envisioned you would be with for the long haul. He isn't drop dead gorgeous or filthy rich. But he has great character and he treats with you respect. He is well groomed and quite stylish. He has a respectable job and gets to work on time. He loves sports, hates picnics, but doesn't mind a candlelit dinner now and then. He might have a child from a previous marriage or relationship - but you know what - he pays his child support and he sees the kid every other weekend. He isn't a big telephone person but lights up when he sees you in person. All and all - he's really not that bad after all. In fact, he's a catch. And with the right attitude on your part - you just might see all the potential that a relationship between the two of you could seriously have.

If you have a Mr. Not-So Bad in your life - call him tonight. If you don't - think about some of the men in your life. Co-workers. Friends of friends. The guy on the train. Or at the post office. Is he right under your nose and you just don't know it?

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0 3 Online Dating Tips To Find Your Perfect Woman

Trying to find a woman if you're a busy guy can be a difficult challenge. If you work long hours and don't have a chance to get out much, then many of the normal dating avenues are not readily available.

That is why online dating has become an incredible resource for many busy guys.

But the one problem with online dating is there are too many choices. It seems like every day there are a number of new online dating sites. As a result, it's important to know what you're doing when using an online dating resource.

Online dating is not a scientific process. Instead of following a specific formula, you have to keep trying different things till you find something that works for you. Once you find a service and type of profile which brings a lot of successful dates, you know your actions are working.

In order to help you get started with online dating, here are three easy steps to follow:

Your first step is to choose the right dating service which will help you find the right kind of woman. No matter what type of woman you're looking for, you can find her on an online dating service.

The best part of online dating is there are websites which fulfill all sorts of tastes and interests. For instance, there are sites professionals, religion, ethnic dating services, age and sexual preference. By going to a site which caters to your specific interest, you can easily find that special woman.

When you find the right online dating service, it's important to create an interesting profile. Now when you have an online profile, you should make sure to include a great picture of yourself. Since pictures are the first thing a woman sees, you need to take the time to select one which shows you in the best light. You might want to have a professional picture taken of you.

In addition to having a quality picture, you have to create a profile which is interesting and also demonstrates a humorous nature. You can increase your chance of success by crafting an online dating profile which demonstrates a unique profile.

Your final step is to start making connections with women who find interesting. All you have to do is send them introductory emails and find out if there might be a connection.

My advice is to be yourself and not worry too much about making a good impression. Just remember to be polite but also work at getting to know each woman.

If you follow these three tips, you'll discover it's pretty easy to find interesting women from an online dating service.

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0 Avoid Marriage Separation Because Of A Controlling Spouse

by Nancy Wasson, Ph.D.

"brought to you by Women Love"

Have you ever been miffed because your partner does things differently than you do?Do you get upset if she or he has different opinions and consequently makes different choices than you would? If so, you have encountered some of your own personal control issues and hot buttons in your marriage. Control dynamics cause marital problems in thousands of relationships and is a leading contributor to marriage separation.

If you want to minimize the risk of an unhappy marriage, here are three important points to consider:

1. FEAR IS AT THE ROOT OF CONTROL ISSUES.CONTROL ISSUES provoke many a marriage crisis. The emotions you experience at those times can be very strong and may include intense anger at the other person. Most people feel more secure when others around them share their beliefs, opinions, and choices. Your fears and safety needs contribute to your wanting others to be just like you. The old adage, "There's safety in numbers," refers to this instinctive fear of standing alone.

Also, many people feel in control more when others meet their expectations and when they can predict the behavior of others. Then they don't have to experience the discomfort of changing, growing, or stretching themselves. Instead, they can pretend that their world is logical, predictable, orderly, and safe.

2. THINKING YOUR SPOUSE SHOULD BE JUST LIKE YOU HURTS YOUR MARRIAGE.Your control issues can also be triggered by viewing your spouse as an extension of yourself. This perception may result in trying to dictate which clothes your partner wears, who she is friends with, how she wears her hair, what political views she holds, and what she can or cannot do. While your mate may initially make some changes trying to keep the peace, you are in fact creating a parent-child dynamic in your relationship that will eventually foster resentment and rebellion. This is a direct path to marriage problems.

3. USING NAME CALLING AND INSULTS ARE ATTEMPTS TO REGAIN CONTROL.While nothing sinister is usually involved in control issues in relationships, pathological behavior can be triggered in some cases. For example, a spouse who is angry that the spouse did not follow his directions could become emotionally and physically abusive. The partner might think he has the right to "punish" the other person. Marriage counselors report that derogatory put-downs and name calling, such as "What a stupid thing to do," are frequently used to re-establish control over the other person.

It's easy to point a finger at your mate and to say that he or she needs to change. It's much harder to face your own unresolved issues face-to-face and take responsibility for how you need to change. But avoiding change instead of nurturing your relationship can be a sure path to relationship crisis,marriage counseling and marital separation.

As you become more aware of control issues in your relationship, the starting place for change is always with yourself and your response to what is happening in your marriage.

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"Copyright (c) Nancy Wasson. All rights reserved. Nancy Wasson is co-author of KEEP YOUR MARRIAGE: WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR SPOUSE SAYS I don't love you anymore!" This is available at http://www.KeepYourMarriage.com, where you can also sign up for the free weekly "KEEP YOUR MARRIAGE INTERNET MAGAZINE" to get ideas and support for dealing with marriage separation.

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0 Girlie Scientist Role Models Could Do More Harm Than Good

The lack of women in science, maths and engineering (STEM) careers continues to raise concerns. One cause of the anomaly is thought to be beliefs among schoolchildren that these subjects are somehow inherently "masculine" and not for girls.

So what's needed to inspire schoolgirls, you might think, is sciencey female role models who show that you can be successful in STEM subjects and at the same time be feminine. Some attempts have already been made in that direction - the toy company Mattel brought out a "Computer Engineer Barbie" (complete with pink laptop) and mathematician Danica McKellar (pictured, right) has written a book aimed at inspiring girls: "Math Doesn't Suck: How To Survive Middle School Math Without Losing Your Mind Or Breaking A Nail". (UPDATE: And the EU have just launched a new initiative "Science: it's a girl thing").

The trouble, according to a pair of new studies by Diana Betz and Denise Sekaquaptewa at the University of Michigan, is that girlie science role models can backfire, actually putting off girls who have little existing interest in science and maths subjects.

The first study involved 144 girls (average age 11.5 years) reading about female undergrad role models in a magazine-style interview. Some of the girls read about three female students who were successful in STEM subjects and were also overtly "girlie" (e.g. they wore make up and pink clothes, and liked reading fashion magazines). For schoolgirls who said they had little interest in science subjects, reading about these kind of role models actually diminished their plans to study maths in the future, reduced their maths interest, and lowered their belief in their own abilities and their chances of short-term success (as compared with outcomes for their like-minded peers who read about three successful STEM role-models who weren't overtly girlie - for example, they wore dark-coloured clothes).

Betz and Sekaquaptewa think this ironic effect could be because girlie female scientists seem extra-difficult to emulate. To test this, 42 more schoolgirls (average age 11.4 years) read interviews with more role models. Afterwards, girls who were uninterested in science subjects rated the success of girlie female scientists as less attainable than the success of female scientists who weren't overtly girlie. Girls not interested in science also tended to say that being good at maths and being girlie don't go together.

What does all this mean? Although there's plenty of evidence that stereotype-busting role models can be beneficial, these new results suggest that role models that take on too many stereotypic beliefs at once can actually backfire. "Young girls may see [the success of such role models] as particularly difficult to emulate," the researchers said, "given their rigid stereotypes about gender and scientists."

This research focused on girls at middle-school and it's important to note that the same findings may not apply to older teens or college students. No doubt some readers will also smart at the way femininity or girlieness was conceived in this study, potentially perpetuating unhelpful gender stereotypes. For now, Betz and Sekaquaptewa cautioned: "Submitting STEM role models to Pygmalion-style feminine makeovers may do more harm than good."

"Betz, D., and Sekaquaptewa, D. (2012). My Fair Physicist? Feminine Math and Science Role Models Demotivate Young Girls. Social Psychological and Personality Science DOI: 10.1177/1948550612440735

Post written by Christian Jarrett for the BPS Research Digest.

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0 Comedy Of Errors Part I

An item in the local newspaper caught my attention and I read with amusement the news of 35 kilograms of sweets being distributed among the poor and needy by a certain Pappu Sardar to celebrate the 35th birthday of Madhuri Dikshit. He was an ardent fan of the actress and it was his way of announcing his affection for her. In a way I was glad that he opted to feed the poor instead of hosting a party for his affluent friends. Being drawn to actors and actresses and carrying one's fancy to abnormal levels is nothing new. I had a friend in college who almost committed suicide when a famous actor, for whom she nursed a secret crush, announced his decision to marry his childhood sweetheart. My paternal grandmother who was otherwise a very religious woman found information about screen personalities very interesting. She knew details of their umpteen marriages and affairs, their shooting schedules as well as their personal likes and dislikes. She had no favorites but was generally in awe of their lifestyle. Upon her death she had bequeathed to her grand children the contents of a steel trunk that contained along with gold jewelry and silverware 2 signed photographs of the Hindi film actress Suraiyya, which made us recall the events that led to their acquisition.

Way back in the early sixties we happened to stay in Suraiyya Mansion, which as the name implies belonged to Suraiyya the then famous actress and the undisputed queen of Hindi films. A part of the building happened to be leased out to the army and my father being a doctor in the Army Medical Corps was allotted a flat in the Mansion. My mother who was then in her early thirties had her hands full with three school going children and it hardly mattered to her whether the apartment belonged to Suraiyya or anyone else. But not so my grand mother who had all the time in the world. She was so excited to be sharing the roof with a renowned actress that she started offering special prayers to the gods to enable my father's posting in Bombay to last long enough for all our relatives to be able to pay us a visit and be blessed with at least a passing glimpse of the lady. She wrote to as many of them as possible and urged them plan a trip to Bombay without delay. " Vishu may get transfer orders anytime." She'd conclude " so don't blame me if you don't get to meet her. I'm doing my best. The rest is up to you." Luckily those were days when telephones were considered a luxury and we did not have one. If my grand mother had access to this modern communicating tool she would have given an hourly account of Surayya's activities to any one who was willing to listen.

My grand mother was an orthodox south Indian Brahmin lady who followed all the rules applicable to a widow's existence in keeping with our community's tradition. She had shaved off her long luxuriant hair after my grandfather's death and ate only one meal a day. Not that she'd starve the rest of the day. She would have for her evening meal items manufactured in God's own factory viz. at least four varieties of the season's fruits, a whole lot of dry fruits and a liter of cow's milk simmered till it attained a pinkish hue and flavored with cardamoms and kesar along with some sweet dish. How much we'd long to be able to exchange our supper consisting of dal, sabzi and roti for her evening meal but my mother would hear none of it.

Coming back to my grand mother's growing interest in Suraiyya there was a small problem. My grand mother would have loved to talk to her but she knew no Hindi and Suraiyya hardly knew Tamil or Telgu the two languages that my grandmother was proficient in. Therefore chances of getting acquainted with the actress were limited. My grandmother was not the one to be put down so easily. She first coaxed my mother to act as her interpreter but my mother politely refused claiming to be busy with her housework. She tried calling us but we being in our pre - teens and too busy playing were never available. Finally she decided to try on her own.

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0 Why The Secret Is Bad Hypnosis And What To Do Instead That Will Work Part 1

To begin with, I have seen the movie, but I have never read the book The Secret. So the basis for my thinking that The Secret is promoting bad hypnosis is based on the movie, and on my observations of my friends who have tried to put the secret of The Secret into action.

I recently ran across a report of current research that shows that visualizing the end result is much less effective than using a different method of visualization. And, the reasons that the small difference between the two methods that makes all the difference in a successful outcome will become clear in my next blog post, Part 2 of "Why The Secret is Bad Hypnosis, and What to Do Instead That Will Work".

The Secret emphasizes that just intensely visualizing oneself as already have one's desires will somehow make them appear. One man in the movie visualized a house in great detail for a while, and then some years later he realizes that he has bought the house that he had visualized, and was actually living in it. That story is offered as proof that the techniques of The Secret work.

The man was said to have "manifested" the house for himself according to the narrators of the movie. When people use the word "manifested" I get the impression that they mean that the desired item magically appeared out of thin air because someone visualized it intensely and clearly for a few minutes or hours.

Of course, what we do not find out from the movie is whether the "perfect house" that the man visualized was built before or after he visualized it. If it was built before, we have to conclude that "manifesting" is not subject to the normal restrictions of time and space. Or, perhaps the man experiences the paranormal phenomena called remote viewing, and intensely visualized an existing house that he had never physically seen.

It is certainly no surprise that someone would buy a house that was similar to one that he or she had passionately visualized some years before. In the movie the man claimed that he had no conscious awareness of how similar the house that he had visualized years earlier was to the one he bought until some months or even years after he had been living it.

Perhaps the more plausible explanation is that the man was unconsciously attracted to a house that was similar to the one that he had visualized. There is no way of telling.

Perhaps I am misinterpreting the message of The Secret. However, I am sure that others have bought the "visualize it and it will happen" line completely. One of my more metaphysically inclined friends, let's call her Frannie, told me that she was frustrated with a woman at her work who was being unfriendly. Frannie, then let me know that she didn't understand why the woman was not treating her better. After all, Franny had been using The Secret's visualizations to make her coworker be more pleasant!

Another friend told me that she had "manifested" the parking space for us in the full parking lot in front of the bookstore that we went to by visualizing it for a few minutes before we arrived. And, she was serious.

So, The Secret seems to hypnotize people into believing that they can "manifest" whatever they visualize through mind power alone. What makes it bad hypnosis, is that it creates a false belief that tends to be immune to critical thinking. According to The Secret if the person visualizes and does not get their desired results, it is simply because that they did not visualize long enough, with enough desire, or enough clarity. And, that is bad hypnosis.

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SIGNS THAT A LEO MAN LIKES YOU

The Leo man is perhaps the most romantic star sign of the western zodiac. He just loves the thrill of it all and learns how to romance a woman from slushy books and movies that many guys would be too embarrassed to admit to reading or watching. Look at it this way, he is the style of guy who would love to be out kissing you on a windswept moor in England. Lets's take a look at the signs that a Leo man likes you or even loves you.

Right at the start he's very forward and not at all embarrased when it comes to letting you know that he loves you and won't avoid dramatic gestures of adoration and passion. He'll make sure that almost every day you have a delivery of roses and all kinds of other treats, he's letting you know that you're always on his mind and that he wants to be with you forever.

Don't be shocked to hear music outside your window in the middle of the night. It'll be him singing you a song about love and about how special you are to him. It's the kind of thing that you've seen in the movies, but it's happening to you right outside of your bedroom window.

Don't be surprised if you receive large amounts of poetry, either his favourite poems and quotes or something that he has written himself to express how amazing he thinks you are. He's not embarrased in the slightest about doing this, even though his poetry might not be the finest you've ever read (it could be totally awful, but in a cute way). These kind of romantic gestures could make a woman run and hide and it depends if you appreciate this type of thing or start to get concerned that you might have a crazy stalker. The choice is yours.

When he has fallen in love with you he'll be desperate to spend all of his time with you and and expect that you are going to want to do the same with him. If you like your own space and enjoy spending some time alone then this could cause some problems. Sometimes his need to be with you so much can feel rather suffocating. But if you share his overwhelming need to spend time together then it's going to turn out great for both of you.

Sometimes he'll seem to be very controlling and jealous, he might even want you to stop seeing your friends. If any of your friends are guys then the Leo man is is not going to cope with this well at all. He'll insist that you cut off contact with them, because he expects you to think that he is all you need. Always.

Despite this, as soon as the Leo man is sure he's in love with you then he's yours forever. A marriage proposal is pretty much guaranteed sooner than you might think. He won't have eyes for any other girl and is very faithful. If you can tolerate his his attacks of jealously and his desperate need to be with you so much then it could turn out to be almost perfect romance, like like something out of one of those romantic movies that seem to be nothing more than a pipe dream.

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0 Why Advertising Sucks

Two ads, currently running, demonstrate why Advertising today is just miserable, and a symptom of a creative class in terminal decline. One pushes agendas and messages the audience knows is just not true, and the other is determined to push hipness and edginess to an audience supremely uninterested, and indeed hostile, to those particular attributes.First, the Circuit City Back to School Ad, seen here:Next, the Reebok and NFL Commercial, seen here:The Circuit City Ad, in case you don't want to watch it (I don't blame you either), opens with a nerdy High School age Circuit City salesman dreaming and drooling over Rihanna. He's interrupted in his reverie by a cute High School girl shopping for a computer, with her parents, who semi-flirts with him. It ends, jarringly, with the low price and features of the computer on sale.This ad is a disaster. It pushes the agenda of ad agencies that seem to think that whites and blacks closely associate with each other, like the tedious ads where the dorky, nerdy white guy desperately seeks the tough masculine black guy's approval. This ad pushes two things the audience knows are not true.First, nerdy white High School guys don't care for or even know about the existence or R&B singer Rihanna. Female singers who interest those guys are obscure, invariably waifish, girlish, "sensitive" singers in foreign or College Radio bands. They are invariably white and present a shy, "innocent" image.Second, the Ad is likely to provoke negative reactions by men. The patronizing attitude towards the nerdy guy is palpable, and it shows the lack of understanding by a largely female-oriented advertising group, used to lazy advertising oriented to women by showing men as clueless idiots. It's true, advertisers lost the ability to sell to men. For too long, advertisers focused almost exclusively on women, and lost any ability to sell things without gratuitous insults towards men to appeal to women. You've seen the Home Depot, or other ads depicting the clueless "Dad" with the Mom and kids rolling their eyes.It's Marketing 101 that women make most household purchasing decisions. Oddly, for hipster-oriented marketing and advertising people, one would think that current demographic realities would intrude on that myth, since they'd observe the truth enough in their own lives. Single mothers imply men outside that household, on their own. Presumably, buying goods and services. Later marriages and more divorces mean men live alone longer, as presumably, consumers and buying decision makers and not in suspended animation. While it is probably still true that men in two-parent households don't do much of the shopping, that hardly describes the vast majority of the population. Advertisers simply lost the ability to sell to men. That might have been sustainable in a good economy, not in a recession. Next time you're watching TV, look at the ads. You'll probably only see the loathesome Viagra ads and the Football-related ads directed towards men. Nearly everything else will be directed mainly towards women consumers. Because it's "cool." Or simply lazy force of habit.This ad by Apple Computer featuring Feist, is what nerdy white guys like:Now, the disappearance of the shared Black-White culture of popular music may be mourned. Perhaps there should be attempts to revive it. But depicting a nerdy white guy enthralled by Rihanna, when everyone knows that nerdy white guys don't even know she exists, is just dumb. Particularly if your goal is to sell the idea of shopping at Circuit City for a computer. You've just told one lie. A lie everyone knows is a lie. To what end, what advantage?Certainly, ads far over-represent demographic reality of the racial makeup of the United States. Blacks make up 13% of the population, yet appear about half the time humans in ads are shown. Blacks and whites are shown as friends/acquaintances, often with a nerdy white guy desperately seeking a "cool" black guy's approval. Yet survey after survey confirms, that blacks and whites rarely socialize and are self-segregated. A recent Wall Street Journal article noted that white and black Obama College-age volunteers did not socialize after rallies, and organized in segregated groups, all black or all white. This reflects social reality: blacks and whites don't (outside of Rap and some sports) share many interests and interact socially. Why then insist in Ads in saying the opposite?That's the mark of an insular, removed, and ultimately declining creative class.But there's more lies to come. A cute girl flirts with a nerdy guy? In what universe, exactly? That again is another lie. One everyone, young and old, knows is a lie. Why tell that lie? Again, it's because the ad creators are simply removed from direct, social experience, that would tell them cute girls only flirt with "hot" guys, none of whom work at Circuit City. Or shop there, for that matter.Ask yourself these questions: Is the ad effective in reaching a particular demographic about the relative advantage in shopping at Circuit City for a new computer? Is the Ad even trustworthy? Or does it tell the viewers things they know are false, and thus undermine the entire message (of shopping at Circuit City for a new computer)? Are nerdy guys (there's a lot of them) likely to resent this commercial?As far as I can tell, the ad means to invoke a mild contempt for the young men (he's foolish, daydreaming, geeky, the girl leads him around) to mildly appeal to women and nothing more. I don't seem much else as the ad's objective. How did this ad get approved? Credentials I suppose. The ad's creator and agency no doubt have impressive credentials, client lists, etc. Advertisers reflexively make men and boys into fools thinking it's an easy appeal to women. Women with sons or husbands or brothers or fathers oddly enough resent them being made into fools. Yet that trend continues.Too many in our creative class are just resting on their credentials and past laurels. It's why nearly everything they create has declined in quality over the last fifteen years. There is little new blood, very few new and hungry creative people, and a lot of message pushing.Sometimes it's just dang stupid! Consider the Reebok "Migrate" commercial. Now, quick, what is the commercial selling? Achy, emotional female folk singers? NFL players? Nope. Believe it or not, the ad is supposed to sell Reebok's new performance wicking T-shirt. Designed to wick the sweat away during hard work outs. It's like the mutant spawn of a Calvin Klein perfume ad mixed with Direct-TV ads featuring Peyton Manning touting the NFL package.Would you have any idea that was the purpose of the Ad? No of course not. Because the ad is not about selling things. It's about how cool and hip the ad's creators really are. Compared to just dumb proletariat you, of course. And everyone else in the intended audience.There's the various NFL players, the overly-breathy voice of Vashti Bunyan, an obscure 1960's folk singer reputed to be a descendant of "Pilgrim's Progress" author John Bunyan. The "hip" idea of NFL players "migrating" like geese, in V-formation, to football stadiums. That's the ad. It ends with the Giants in V-formation in the parking lot of the Meadowlands stadium, with a quick flash of the wording for the T shirt.Now, how many NFL fans sit around thinking, dang, I need to be really cool and hip. Let's put on some achingly hip folk tunes! While NFL fans like watching their favorite players, the ad is confusing and silly, and doesn't feature any... football. It's made, obviously, by people who don't know or like the NFL. Or understand their fans. The contempt and ignorance is obvious and is likely to be returned with interest by the NFL audience watching the commercial. Again, advertisers don't understand the largely male NFL audience. Who are not, to put it mildly, Madison Avenue hipsters. The reflexive dismissal of the male consumer by advertiser is likely to hurt them as the economy hits bad times and sponsors need to reach male consumers.You can tell a lot about how healthy an industry or trade group is, by the attention to detail and craftsmanship. These two commercials, in miniature, present an advertising industry that can't even get the basics right, and have no commitment to quality. One commercial tells outright social lies, in service of mild contempt for the geeky young man. The other attempts to target NFL fans by not showing any... football. Which is the reason for the NFL in the first place.Advertising may not be the pinnacle for modern creative achievement, but it's not difficult either. That ad creators cannot even get the basics right, bodes ill for creative people in more demanding endeavors: film, music, television, and literature.

0 Break Up Busting 101 How Appearance Affects Attraction

It's a busy day! Lots of exciting stuff happening everywhere, lots of phone calls, some great testimonials and compliments in the e-mail today - I live for these kinds of days. They're the kind of day that I can reach the end of feeling not just productive, but downright heroic.

Speaking of which, I caught an article in the Wall Street Journal a few days ago that I just can't get out of my head. It's relevance and timeliness are as perfect as it's message, that being that women are turned on by men who act and look like men, not boys (slackers), wusses (needy little whiners who can't survive without someone to cook and clean for them), girlfriends (metrosexuals who are fun to shop with and fun to be seen with on a date as a trophy but who, without alpha male behavior, are treated like girlfriends and kept around to network, share, and dramatize with instead of having an intimate male-female relationship), etc.

To help you get a mental picture of what women want and the kind of images they respond both positively and negatively to, I'm going to post that article in it's entirety before we discuss it.

A Lady's Lament

Where have all

the Hollywood hunks gone?

BY KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL

Friday, March 3, 2006 12:01 a.m. EST

This year I plan to conduct my own Academy Awards. And in my newly created category of "Best Red-Blooded Male," I regret to say that I can offer up only one nominee: King Kong.

Where have all the tough guys gone? Really, it's enough to make you cry--that is, if all our leading men weren't already doing it for me. From its earliest days Hollywood has had a glorious tradition of punch-throwing, gun-toting, testosterone-oozing leading men, and the world has loved every one of them. James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Steve McQueen, Sly Stallone, Mel Gibson, these were men. Some were strong and silent, some artisans of broken noses and busted rib cages, some villains, some heroes. But there was no doubt that they had a reason to walk with bowed legs.

And today? These marvelous males have given way to a new generation of Hollywood consumptives, metrosexuals if you will, the most solid thing about whom are their perky cheekbones. Jude Law, Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Leo DiCaprio, Adrien Brody, Ashton (Ashton!) Kutcher. I make it a general rule to withhold my regard from any man I could bench-press on a feeble day, much less those who've never had need of a razor. If producers are wondering why box-office sales keep falling, they might consider that America wants something more from its men than pouty lips and foot-long eyelashes.

Early cinema specialized in the supermasculine sort, providers and achievers and gangsters who were always in control. They were cool ("Here's looking at you, kid"), daring ("Made it, Ma! Top of the

world!") and cocky ("Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn"). Some were tough through their moral rectitude; think Jimmy Stewart.

Others, like Cary Grant, made up for a lack of outright macho with wit, class and unbelievable suits.

The 1950s brought about yet a new type of tough guy, heroes who specialized in fighting wars, protecting the innocent and getting the job done. They weren't "hunks" in today's sense of that word, but they didn't need to be. They had such presence that they didn't even need to speak. James Coburn had precisely 11 lines in "The Magnificent Seven," including such masterpieces as "You lost" and "Three." But if ever a Western has produced a tougher, more deadly gun-slinger and knife-hucker than "Britt," I'd like to know. By the 1960s and '70s, these tough guys had also discovered the value of props. Clint had his.44 Magnum. Steve had his Mustang GT 390. Sean had his martini.

Starting about 1980, tough guys changed again. This was the beefcake era, and the guys were maniacs. Arnold Schwarzenegger terminated everything in sight. As near as I can figure, Mel Gibson, via "Braveheart" and "The Patriot," single-handedly killed off the entire English population. Sylvester Stallone sealed his career with characters named "Rocky, Rambo" and "Cobra," for goodness' sake. None of this was highbrow film, but there was something wonderful about the brute strength. Even women came to appreciate the, ahem, upside to testosterone-flicks. I know girls who will admit that they own "Top Gun" for the sole purpose of watching the volleyball scene over and over.

Sadly, reruns are about all we babe-loving women have these days.

The new Hollywood man isn't noble or daring or silent or even beefy. He emotes. He is fragile and flawed. He is a 40-year-old virgin. He is a hobbit. Take a look at the guys who are up for Oscar nominations, and let's go immediately to the elephant in the room. Three -- count 'em, three -- are there for playing men who bat for the other team. Yes, yes, I loved both "Brokeback Mountain" and "Capote," but that's not the point.

Some of the older toughies are still knocking around, but it's getting to be a bit of a geriatric ward. Stallone will be 60 this summer. Even Denzel Washington is past 50. Eastwood is clocking in at 76 and has (wisely) taken to playing senior citizens. My hat goes off to Bruce Willis, who continues to churn out reliable hard-man flicks, even if the tank tops are now gone. As for the younger generation, I find myself grateful to Matt Damon, who had the courage to make two old-fashioned spy thrillers (as Jason Bourne), the first of which revitalized the concept of a car chase.

Oh, and Vin Diesel rocks.

Where is the next generation of tough guys? They're out there. They just happen to go by the names Michelle Yeoh and Angelina Jolie.

These are our new bad boys: cool, clever and deadly with a six-foot samurai sword. Still, call me a traditionalist; I like my heroes with facial hair, a deep voice and bulging biceps. Which is why, when it comes to this year's nominees for truly manly men, I'm sticking with the ape.

"MS. STRASSEL IS A MEMBER OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL'S EDITORIAL BOARD."

What does this tell you? Is the tone of boredom and frustration in this woman's writing not painfully obvious to you? And it's no secret that most men take their cues from the silver screen on how to dress, talk, and act. I'm not going to say or think that Hollywood and the media are behind some huge conspiracy to wussify the entire male gender as part of some liberal or gay pride political sentiment like some of the conspiracy theorists. I don't know, and frankly don't care. What's important isn't the reason that it's happening, it's the FACT that it's happening, and the outcome.

Men are looking less like Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart, and John Wayne and more like Hugh Grant every day, and if you know that women tolerate boredom and frustration even less than men do, that it is indeed torturous to them, you know that this is contributing to today's divorce statistics.

A woman who is bored and frustrated will try to tell you she's bored and frustrated, but it won't come across in language you can understand if you are in the vast majority of men. Questions like, "Are you wearing that tonight?" that sound to us like a general query are actually statements that read like, "Please don't embarrass me to death by wearing that out tonight!" (Consequently, we're going to break away from attraction for a couple of days and talk about communications in our next editions!) In the end, not knowing that we don't interpret what they say to mean what they want us to understand, they think that we are insensitive and don't care that we are embarrassing them, ignoring them, etc., and frustration is added to their boredom. Would you care to guess what happens next?

"Well, if he's going to just ignore me after I told him what I need, I'll just find somebody who won't ignore me!"

It might be an affair, or it might be "the papers," but either way, you're now in deep manure. Is this ringing any bells? It should be, because this is the root of virtually all divorce that occurs between partners that were well-matched in the beginning. She gets bored, gets frustrated, disengages, he gets bored, and then it's pretty much a race to see who steps out or wants permanently out first.

This doesn't have to happen, and if it's already started, it doesn't have to continue to spiral out-of-control until your relationship ends in a bitter war. What you need to know to negotiate these obstacles and get your relationship back on track quickly - and a whole lot more - is included in "How to Be Attractive to the Woman You Love." Men who have read it have pulled their marriage out of the jaws of the divorce monster in as little as a week; others have found that they've spent many years in a bad marriage that made them unhappy and made with confidence the decision to cooperate with their soon-to-be-ex spouse to correct the mistake they had made years ago and move on to have a happy life.

Join them! There's not one thing in the world that sitting around worrying is going to accomplish for you, except stressing you out, making you old, and letting the problems get worse. Take action now while it's still possible to have some influence on the outcome. Go to http://www.makingherhappy.com and get your copy of this truly amazing book, find out where you stand, make a decision about where you are going, and then use the rest of the book to get there, just like all those who came before you. Life's too short as it is; don't waste any more of it worrying - ACT! And do it now.

In the meantime, live well, be well, and have a wonderful day!

David Cunningham"Being a man is something to which one should aspire, not something for which he should apologize." --David Cunningham

0 Be Proud Of Your Womanhood

A Woman Is A Strong And Powerful Person. She Is Thoughtful, Intuitive, Resourceful, Sensitive, And Creative. When A Woman Succeeds In Bringing All These Beautiful Qualities Together, She Feels Confident, Alive, Energetic, Assertive And Empowered. This Is All What Womanhood Are About. You Are Woman!

But, a woman is also made up of more than her physical body. She is a highly developed spiritual, emotional and mental qualities and she experiences every moment of her life with her MIND, BODY, SPIRIT AND EMOTIONS:

Mind: Observe Your Beautiful, Positive Thoughts

Body: Observe You're Your Beautiful Physical Appearance

Spirit: Be Aware Of Your Spiritual Well-being

Emotions: Acknowledge Your Inner, Womanly Feelings

Every event in your live is responded to by your mind, body, spirit and emotions. Remember the times in your life when your self-esteem was on a high? Your energy was flowing freely, your mind was thinking positively, you were in touch with your own feelings, you acted assertively and you were aware of your own spirituality.But, any high self-esteem can change in the wink of an eye into a very low-self-esteem. One minute you are balanced, centred, in control of everything, feeling good about yourself and life! Then down you go, feeling worthless, useless and uncomfortable with yourself. Your energies are out of balance. Whenever you feel worthless, you are allowing a negative pattern to run your life. A negative pattern is something which creates a low self-esteem by blocking your energy which results in you not feeling balanced and in control. You can change all the patterns that do not work for you into positive patterns which will support and empower you. But, then you must first become aware of yourself - of your mind, body, spirit and emotions. Self-awareness is the key to self-change and is the mother of self-esteem - self-awareness creates self-esteem. Building self-esteem is a very personal issue which involves the overcoming of individual obstacles hindering you to believe in yourself. All this can be done, not spite of being a woman, but because of being a woman!You are woman, become self-aware, and change your critical negative patterns for others which will offer support and self-esteem. Embrace your power of being a woman by learning to trust yourself. Learn to develop and balance your female energies so that your body, spirit, mind and emotions work in harmony with each other.

You Are Woman!

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0 From Men To Women Dating Tips You Can Trust

Dating is the next best move when it comes to having a relationship. Men think that dating is the easiest approach since it's their nature to take the first move in getting to know women. Although women nowadays have the liberty also to make moves. But men have the strongest views when it comes to dating. Women do not need to overdo their actions just to please men. Men most likely want women to be their own selves than pretending to be someone. During the first date, men tend to be observant, from women's hairstyle to outfits and fingernails. The first impression, although it literally does not last, is the initial step in getting to know the personality of a person. Women must show an effort to make the most out of their looks, from clothes to make up. Men are easily impressed if they know that their date is making an effort to show something. Attractive women are more likely to draw more attention from men and ends up having the next series of date. Although physical attraction does not last, it's a good start to draw someone on your side. Men like women to be less shy but not too confident. Women who portray confidence over men, shun away their dates. Men can't be men if they can't manoeuvre the date. They want to show their masculinity by showing women that they have the control of the action. And women, although intellectually wise and independent must be submissive on their first date. But it does not mean that they can't share their views and opinions over issues during conversation, because men are more impressed in knowing that their dates can speak for themselves. Read between actions. And because men are observant, they watch their dates every action. Men can be bold enough to show their attraction to women if women have initiated the move. If a woman is physically attractive to men and probably felt the man's attraction as well, it's not bad to initiate the flirtation. A little flirtation like toying your hair while listening to your man talk can be a good start. But do not overdo the flirtation because it turns the men off. Remember that men want to manoeuvre the date. Making the next move for a relationship after the date is a man's work. But women have the liberty to take actions as well if they think that it's a mutual feeling and feels that men have hesitations. But women can't be daring enough as to mention about the future because men have a little problem when it comes to commitment. But it's still best to let the men do the initial actions after the first date. About the Author Angela Selfridge is a relationship expert in the UK and offers advice and opinions on love and online dating as well as tips. For information on relationships, dating advice and tips particularly concerning dating in Singapore please visit Lovestruck who are a professional dating site and also offer speed dating.

0 Ads 55 Happy Couples And Their Booze

You don't exercise to work on Madison Drain to be familiar with that an alcohol point basic never assurance a guy intake lone. That has the influence to just look sad. Provable, it's credibly leader graphic, but promotion isn't about propriety - it's about heaven (i.e. smear).If conceivably, you do feel the need to show a guy lone with his pitcher, he better damn well look studly and strident - as if, any marked, a mass of nubile women will enter the picture throwing themselves at his feet. But that's a competition exploit to take out off. The safe means is to exercise the guy flanked by a chick(s). Erstwhile options: (1) a solitary sexy female beckoning you to exercise a drink or (2) no people at all - just the booze. In our time, in spite of that, we're just lookin' at the male+female venture. Consumption.Entrancing. Silent, questions still need answers. Is it right to boodle with your socks on? Is it right to boodle on the first date? Is it right to boodle by yourself? Is it right to boodle from behind? Probing minds want to be familiar with.In the function of I first saw this, I meditation "boot ad". But no. Not a boot ad.Righteous what you need for a carefree arrange of tennis - a cooler full of rum! Entrancing dynamic going on more or less. I think the authenticate translates to "Would you exercise a drink with me?"In the role of about the chick with the newspaper? Chopped liver?It's just like a drying out, except without the convulsions and resultant coma!For leader boozing men and the women that love them, see the Booze Dudes rostrum.

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0 Autos

From an item by Peter Ling on 'sex and the automobile in 39(11) "History Today" (2012) -

By combining mobility and privacy, the automobile offered young Americans in the 1920s a 'getaway' vehicle from parental supervision. Consequently, students of American courtship attributed the rise of dating to the automobile's arrival. Dr Evelyn Duvall in a 1956 textbook for teenagers, for instance, declared simply that the car had changed courtship.To understand the automobile's contribution to this change, however, one should first clarify the nature of earlier courtship practices. The convention of calling was not universal practice in late nineteenth-century America. It was a bourgeois custom based on the concerns and capabilities of the middle classes. As a courtship ritual, calling involved three of the pillars of bourgeois life: the family, respectability, and in particular, privacy. The focal point of calling was gaining admittance into the private family sphere of the home which was the central expression of bourgeois status. Although privacy itself had only become a realistic possibility in the eighteenth century, thereafter it had rapidly established itself as a necessity for the affluent and an aspiration for the poor. A badge of respectability, privacy was profoundly important to the nineteenth-century bourgeois family whose individual members each pined for rooms of their own. Only affluence afforded such spaciousness and so the separate parlour in which callers applied for admission into the bosom of the family was itself a status symbol. As guardians of the home, women were the chief arbiters of who could call and who would never be invited. Daughters could invite male suitors to call but there remained a parental veto on who would be received. In this way, family honour and essential privacy could be preserved. However, parental oversight always threatened to infringe the maturing offspring's right to privacy. To uphold their own notions of honour and ethics, Peter Gay points out, parents went to extraordinary lengths. They would 'open their children's letters, oversee their reading, chaperone their visitors, (even) inspect their underwear'. To the dismay of the younger generation, bourgeois parents failed to respect the principle of privacy they preached.For the mass of working-class Americans, such privacy was very remote from the daily reality of overcrowding. Cramped lodging houses made the social niceties of 'calling' ludicrously impractical. Of course, a large proportion of the American working class was either immigrant or the children of immigrants and so tried to continue in the New World their traditional practices of chaperonage and female seclusion. However, as social workers like Jane Addams noted, the need for everyone to earn money in impoverished working-class households made such customs hard to maintain, while crowded living conditions, simultaneously prevented the adoption of bourgeois habits. The working classes consequently pioneered dating as an expedient born of the opportunities offered and the comforts denied to them. Forced out onto the streets, Addams warned, working-class youth was highly susceptible to the enticements of commercialised entertainment.

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