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Science retrace repressed memory through literatures

Scientists and cultural anthropologists debated the possible explanation that could confirm or deny the concept of repressed memory, using historical evidences from literatures. The discourse began when

the researchers offered a $1,000 reward last March to anyone who could document such a case in a healthy, lucid person. They posted the challenge in newspapers and on 30 Web sites where the topic might be discussed. None of the responses were convincing, the authors wrote, suggesting that repressed memory is a “culture-bound syndrome” and not a natural process of human memory.

Case in point: “Les Liaisons Dangereuses” of 1782.

Madame de Tourvel “is the closest we got to a winner,” said Dr. Harrison Pope, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard and the lead author of the paper. But her amnesia, he said, was too brief to qualify.

Researches concluded in a published paper that repressed memory was a cultural concept, rose from the Romantic era circa 1800s, “when novelists began using it as a plot device,” and not prior.

“This is such a graphic phenomenon that you would expect to find many allusions to it, and not merely oblique ones,” Dr. Pope said.

Not quite true, said others.

Euripides’ Heracles, in a fit of madness, murders his wife and children, but forgets the incident after suffering an injury. In Shakespeare, King Lear at first does not recognize his daughter Cordelia when he awakens disoriented in the French camp. In some versions of the Sanskrit epic Ramayana, the immortal monkey Hanuman forgets that he possesses supernatural powers.

But these are not normal people, the researchers countered. The debate continued.

Search Google for Denver furnished apartments, it just took over the number one result for the keyword phrase “Land For Sale’ on Google searches. While we work very hard on our search engine optimization for our clients, we realize that SEO is an inexact science and your search results ranking can change at anytime. This does bring up a bigger point that I wanted to discuss with our clients about what keywords are most important to you. Here is an easy way for you to find out which keywords are searched for the most. It is obviously more important to have your website come up first for a targeted keyword that is searched for 50,000 times a month, than one that is only searched for 5,000 times a month. Here is a link to a Search Engine tool that will tell you how many times each keyword is searched for per month.

Just type in the keyword or phrase that are important to you and you can see how many times those keywords are searched for per month. This tool just shows how many times the keyword or phrase are searched for on Yahoo each month. Because Yahoo currently has about 20% of the search market, you will need to multiply the result by 5 to get the estimated total amount of searches per month for the specific keyword or phrase. For example, “Land For Sale” is searched for an estimated 406,195 times per month, while “Farms For Sale” is searched for 116,045 times per month. The most important search engine to have good results in is Google, who currently controls 55% to 65% of all searches done in the US, depending on who you ask.

If anyone tells you that you should advertise your rural listings on their website, because they are #1 in Google for a certain keyword, make sure you check and see how many times that keyword is searched for per month.

If anyone has a better tool in tracking the importance of keywords, please add a comment below.

LOA has by far the best breakdown of land search capabilities of any real estate search engine. I have been looking at property for over a year, and intend to buy within the next 12 months. With LOA, I don’t waste time wading thru properties I can’t afford or don’t want under any circumstances! I recommend LOA everytime some frustrated person says that they are tired of the RE pages that go on and on and provide them with little or no hard information!

All that said, I am not looking in a definite State, but a region. Is there any way you can regionalize the map search on LOA?
Also, is there any way you can date postings, and show dates updated (like when the post is listed as ’sale pending’ or ‘price lowered’?) I have been seeing property on LOA that has been on for many months without changes – and then I go to the realtor’s home page and it is listed as pending or sold or price reduced – sometimes higher, sometimes lower than on what they have listed on LOA!

All in all, LOA is the most dynamic, best interactive, and least frustrating website on the Web!

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Multi-tasking is something that is well understood in the computer world. Many people started out using multiple monitors on just one computer, and some have switched to using multiple monitors with multiple computers as well. There are actually a few benefits to each type of system and they are also interchangeable for plenty of room to grow.

If you’re thinking about getting your own multi monitor display system, there are many different things you need to consider before making a final decision as to which system you are going to invest in.

First Things First: Capacity

You might be surprised at the difference in capacity capabilities from one system to another. Some multi monitor systems can accommodate only two monitors while others can really push the limits and offer support for up to 10 monitors at a time, some even claim to be able to handle more.

While there is no specific right or wrong answer to how many your system needs to support, it is important to consider the applications and tasks that you will be using. You never want to invest in a multi monitor system that is too small for your needs in anticipation that you’ll upgrade later. In fact, you may want to purchase a system that can accommodate more monitors than you currently use which will give you plenty of room to grow in the future.

It is All About the Clarity

Just because a particular system can support multiple monitors reliably does not mean that it can create the clarity and purity that you are looking for. Some systems produce downright blurry images that are barely even worth looking at. The bottom line is that you need to look for a system with a high pixilation rate in order to avoid the less than satisfactory display on your monitors.

Always Consider the Dimensions

You will notice that the dimensions on different multi monitor display systems can range greatly. For best picture and control, look for dimensions in the range of 20 inches to 25 inches. This will maximize your screen viewing abilities while giving you enough room to run all of your applications. It will also ensure that the screens are not so big that they distort your picture.

Features Can Make or Break Your Investment

If you don’t invest in a system that comes with plenty of features, more than likely you will end up regretting it. There are tons of different features possible in multi monitor systems. Although you don’t need all of the features that might be available with certain systems, you can certainly benefit from a wide number of them. The trick is to make sure that you don’t buy into a system with a bunch of features that you will never use because this will just slow down all of your activities. Instead, make a list of features you need and stick as close to those as you can.

If you are looking for a condominium community near all of the amenities Naples has to offer, The Oasis at Naples has what you are looking for. Located in North Naples, The Oasis at Naples features condos surrounding six lakes, with one- and two-bedroom floor plans available.

The amenities at The Oasis at Naples are endless. Residents can enjoy the day at the community clubhouse, swim in a number of pools, bath in the sun on the sundeck, work out in the state-of-the-art fitness facility or play tennis.

One of the best features about The Oasis at Naples is its location. Located in North Naples, it offers residents convenient access to two of southwestern Florida’s most exciting cities. Naples, the “crown jewel” of southwestern Florida, has an endless supply of dining, shopping and entertainment selections.

The city is also home to The Philharmonic Center for the Arts and Sugden Theater, the historic Olde Naples neighborhood and the famous Naples Pier, all of which are just a short drive from The Oasis at Naples.

Looking to spend some quality time on the beach? The Gulf of Mexico and its many beaches are also a short ride away. If golf is your game, Naples has more than a hundred courses in the area. The Oasis at Naples also offers residents convenient access to travel to Bonita Springs, which also offers many shopping, dining and entertainment options year-round. For residents needed to travel by air, the Oasis at Naples is near the Naples Municipal Airport and the Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers.

Condos at The Oasis at Naples rarely go on the market and range in price from $44,900 to $149,900.

For many of us who work in an office, our idea of a public restroom is a plain room with commercial bathroom partitions, slippery floors, dirty sinks and perpetually empty paper towel dispensers. It isn’t always like that though, as the following seeks to demonstrate.

What constitutes a nice public bathroom? A clean environment, plenty of paper, toilets that flush themselves and a nice fragrance in the air? What would the best bathroom need to have to win the title? All the above, plus heated toilet seats, art on the walls, great views and nice decoration.

First up are the public bathrooms in the Daimaru Department Store in Tokyo. As you would expect in Japan, these bathrooms are full of technology. Sure, you still have commercial bathroom partitions, tiled floors and hand-basins, but you also have interior decoration and toilets that flush themselves.

Dubbed “techno-toilets,” they wash themselves, and you, with an extendable wand, have a heated seat, and best of all, has an optional audio track to disguise the noises. Switch on the Otohime, or “sound princess,” to play recordings of running brooks or ocean waves to cover up the noises made while inside.

Something completely different is the Graben Toilets by Wilhelm Beetz in Vienna. Beetz was an architect who was given the unenviable task of cleaning up the public facilities in the city in the late 19^th century. The result is an underground bathroom that is decorated with marble tiles, pretty patterns, wood paneled booths, individual sinks and brass fixtures and fittings.

Beetz took the standard commercial bathroom partitions and made them elegant in a way only a European could. The surroundings are sumptuous, and scrupulously clean.

The next outstanding public facilities find us in Germany. The underground bathrooms at the Alexanderplatz in Berlin to be precise. The German government spent $1 million in 2007 to renovate them and brought in designer Tobias Wille to do the work. The result is a clean, contemporary space that uses black, white, glass, steel and stone to create a modern convenience that is actually a nice place to be.

Finally, we do actually have a “best bathroom” entry in our very own Wisconsin. The John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan to be precise. The locals say that there are as many people here to visit the bathrooms as there are to visit the center.

Six local artists were given a completely free rein to design and fit bathrooms that demonstrated the connection between art and industry. The result is six very different bathrooms with not a commercial bathroom partition in sight. Each is tiled and decorated in a unique style and are in use, and on display all year round. If you want to view the bathrooms of the opposite sex, as long as you’re escorted, and they aren’t being used, you can!

Bathrooms don’t have to be dull places. While they aren’t designed to be somewhere we want to spend too much of our day, there’s nothing wrong with making them a nice place to be. A little design inspiration and a little cash can go a long way.

Despite the housing market’s strong start to 2010, the latest data from Zillow shows that homes will likely have lost more value by the end of the year than they did in 2009. Using our housing market data from the first 11 months of the year, along with some forecasting for December, our research arm has calculated that U.S. homes are set to lose $1.7 trillion in values during 2010. That’s 63% more than the $1 trillion lost in 2009.

Since the peak of home values in June 2006, more than $9 trillion in values has come out of the housing market. As a comparison, that’s more than the cost of 12 wars in Iraq, according to a study by the Congressional Research Service.

What it means for homeowners

While this may sound like another disheartening statistic for homeowners, it’s important to consider what this really means. It’s a great way to illustrate the big picture: A lot of value has come out of the market, which has implications for the economy as a whole. But for individual homeowners, what it means really depends on where you live and on your current stage of homeownership.

For starters, not every market we analyzed saw a drop in total market value. Places like the Boston and San Diego metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) actually saw an increase in total market value (see the table below for a look at the 20 biggest markets we analyzed). It’s important to point out that most of these gains were made in the first half of the year, before the effect of the homebuyer tax credits wore off, but an increase still represents good news for homeowners.

It’s also important to point out that a big dollar figure doesn’t necessarily mean a big average drop in home values. For example, the total market value in the New York MSA fell $103.7 billion in 2010. That’s a big number, but there are a lot of homes in the New York metro area — 4 million single-family homes, condos and co-ops, to be exact. Median home values there fell only 3.8% year-over-year (as of October), which was a smaller decline that we saw nationally (the national median home value was down 5% year-over-year in October). Even though most homes in the New York area saw smaller-than-average losses in values, there are so many of them that the total market value in the area fell by a big number.

What it means also depends on whether a homeowner is content in their home and planning to stay for several more years, or whether they are hoping to sell or refinance. For those who are planning to stay in the home, any loss in home value is like an unrealized loss in the stock market. Yes, a homeowner may not be happy to have to sell for less than the peak value of their home, but, depending when they bought they home, they still may be able to sell for more than they bought the home. But if a homeowner wants to sell or refinance, the current value of their property becomes more important. Any of those activities may still be possible, as long as the homeowner has positive equity, but in the case of negative equity, all bets are off.

Big picture, seeing the market lose more value in 2010 than it did in 2009 was unfortunate. Government interventions, like the tax credit, did help buoy the market in the first half of 2010, but once those came to an end, the market again began to correct. Thanks to high rates of foreclosure and negative equity, it does not appear that the first half of 2011 will bring much relief. However, the hope is that the market will reach a bottom sometime next year, and that average rates of appreciation will return sometime in the next three to five years.

Early 2010 Housing Stabilization Fizzles; U.S. Homes Set to Lose $1.7 Trillion This Year

NOTE: This month’s analysis by Zillow.com Chief Economist Dr. Stan Humphries was originally published on Zillow Real Estate Research where additional interactive graphics can be found.

U.S. home values continued to tumble in October, falling 0.6% from September levels and 5.0% from levels one year ago (see Figure 1). Home values were down 25.8% from peak levels, just shy of the 25.9% that home values were estimated to have fallen during the Great Depression. October marked 52 consecutive months of declines in home values at the national level.

Foreclosure liquidations receded slightly in October with 1.14 out of every 1,000 homes in the U.S. being liquidated in the month, a likely by-product of the various moratoriums put into place in order to investigate documentation issues in the foreclosure processes in various states. See Figure 2.

A quick overview of the factors continuing to confront the housing market can be broken down into supply- and demand-side factors.

Supply-side:

1. High supply of existing homes for sale. According to NAR, the inventory of homes for sale was 3.86 million in October, up 8.4% from October 2009. Monthly supply of inventory was 10.5 months.
2. High supply of vacant homes. We current have 9.8 million vacant homes that are for sale, for rent or held off the market for reasons other than occasional or temporary use (see Figure 3 for rates). Based on historical levels of frictional vacancy (the normal level of vacancy which exists as people move between homes, new homes are built but not occupied, etc.), we estimate that current levels of vacancy represent 1.7 million excess housing units. See Figure 4.
3. High supply of shadow inventory. LPS Applied Analytics estimates that there are more than 7 million loans delinquent or in foreclosure, and Corelogic estimates that 2.1 million of these will ultimately be liquidated (the Corelogic number actually contains REO properties not yet listed which are not included in the LPS number).

Demand side:

1. Negative equity reduces demand. As of the end of 2010 Q3, Zillow estimates that 23.2% of single-family homes with mortgages are in a negative equity position. These homeowners are typically not in a position to buy new homes.
2. Unemployment reduces demand. With the unemployment rate 9.8% in November, lots of households either have an unemployed worker or continue to worry about the prospect of unemployment, making them unlikely to want to undertake a home purchase right now.
3. Low mortgage rates (4.5% in the Zillow Mortgage Marketplace as of Dec 7) and improved affordability (national home values back to November 2003 levels) are helping the demand picture a bit but not nearly enough to offset other negative factors.

No Surprise: October Home Values Decline

Raggle-taggle of ‘household names’ supplied big sums in the direction of WikiLeaks founder’s failed bail plea

The previously curious situation of Julian Assange took an additional bizarre twist yesterday once the courtroom discovered that a raggle-taggle of “household names” had been ready to stake their popularity in his situation, supplying sureties for the courtroom with a whole worth of £180,000.

Despite claiming to not know Assange, the film-maker Ken Loach as well as the socialite and charity fundraiser Jemima Khan stood before Westminster magistrates and supplied big  sums towards Assange’s bail, however bail was  later refused.

Supplying £20,000, Loach said he didn’t know Assange aside from by popularity, but extra: “I assume the work he has done continues to be a public service. I believe we’re entitled to know the dealings of people that govern us.”

Khan presented a further £20,000, “or far more if want be”.

Inside a statement later, she said: “I make no judgment of Julian Assange as an individual as I’ve in no way met him. I am providing my assist to him as I believe from the universal correct to freedom of knowledge and our correct to become instructed the fact.”

On her Twitter feed last month, Khan asked if Assange was “the new Jason Bourne”, a reference to your fictional motion hero developed by the thriller author Robert Ludlum. The post has given that been deleted.

The journalist and filmmaker John Pilger, who also supplied £20,000, said he knew Assange as being a journalist and personalized buddy and had a “very excessive regard for him”.

The largest donation of £80,000 was offered by an unknown American relation who did not want to be named because of anxiety for his security.

Patricia David, a professor, along with the leading lawyer Geoffrey Sheen every single presented up £20,000 surety on grounds that they’d spent their lives combating for human rights.

Outside courtroom Pilger explained: “This organization in Sweden is a travesty; an harmless man has a proper to be totally free.

“Having his freedom taken absent is outrageous. Sweden really should be ashamed. This is not justice – it is outrageous.”

He added: “Behind this he has created a great deal of enemies, the principal one being the warmonger, the united states.”

Howard Riddle, the decide at the court in Horseferry Street, London, commended four of the sureties for his or her willingness to assist “out of concern for human rights” and without private expertise of Assange.

Heads up, LA buyers and celebrity watchers: John Mayer’s home is a hot, new addition to the real estate market — just three days old!

This tip comes from RealEstalker, whose case of insomnia generated the news that Mr. Mayer’s home in Pacific Palisades, CA is on the market for $1,325,000. According to Zillow’s Price History Chart, we also see that Mayer purchased the property in 2006 for $1,750,000, so he is already taking at least a $425,000 loss right out of the gate.

Located near the end of a cul-de-sac in the lower Palisades Highlands neighborhood, Mayer’s gated two-story home backs onto undeveloped, treed land and measures 3,648 sq ft and contains 4 bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms.

The seven-time Grammy winner has rapidly developed a reputation as a man who has no shortage of opinions or girlfriends. Mayer reportedly moved out of this home last year.

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John Mayer’s List Price $425,000 Less Than Purchase Price