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Human Touching a Report.

ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich., USA (April 8, 2009). There has been much controversy about touching in various cultures. The debate started when US President Barack Obama extended his hand to England's Queen Elizabeth and was further fueled when the First Lady was photographed touching the Queen on the back.Throughout the world the act of touching has cultural meaning. In Asia it is considered disrespectful to touch an older person on the head, back, or shoulders. Even if the intent is to show respect or to comfort the person the act of touching these areas conveys insult.

Touching a business card in many oriental cultures, especially Japan, is the same as touching the individual. Great care should be given to the business card by grasping the card with both hands, admiring it, and then placing it in your pocket closest to your heart. Also remember it is extremely rude to write on the business card, fold it, or to place it in your back pocket.General TouchingIn the Middle East it is rude to not hold the hand of a friend of the same gender while walking down the street. However it is rude, and could violate local law, to publically hold hands with a friend of the opposite gender. Publically touching in France is normal. It is normal to touch while greeting someone, if you agree with them, or to make a point. The touching is not violent of considered an invasion of personal space as it is expected.

In a study done by Jourard (1966) in Paris recorded an average of 110 touches by friends or parents in cafes as compared to 2 touches at coffee shops in Miami. Interestingly observers found that touching in Miami was more aggressive 37 percent of the time. Italy and Greece had high rates of touching while Australia, New Zealand, and England were more aligned with the Miami touch rates. Additional studies in later years found similar results.Mediterranean cultures are also very touching. Handshakes are not as common as a hug and cheek kiss among people of the same gender. This cultural norm typically is retained by Mediterranean travelers or immigrants.Shaking HandsShaking hands has some cultural implications:

In Russia and Poland shaking hands is okay provided it is not done in a doorway or over a threshold. It is considered to be unlucky for both people. Hand shaking should occur before one gets to the door or after they have already entered.In Europe it is considered impolite to shake hands while wearing gloves. Even on the coldest days it is expected the other person is important enough for you to remove your gloves. Fashion gloves worn by women are an exception as these gloves can remain on the woman's hands – however only if the gloves are designed specifically to be worn indoors.

In sub-Sahara Africa a handshake typically involves both hands. The right hands clasp while left hands are laid over the right hands during the shake.In most Western cultures, such as the United States it is rude for a man to shake extend his hand to a woman unless she first extends her hand. Although this cultural courtesy is dying it is still expected to be followed in the elite and those in the Builder Generation.Never attempt to shake the hand of a German man if he is with his wife unless you first shake her hand. It is disrespectful and belittling to the woman if you seek to first shake her husband's hand.

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Another Poem:

I love you enough to fight for you,
compromise for you, and
Sacrifice myself for you if need be.
Enough to miss you incredibly when we’re apart,
no matter what the length of time it’s
for and regardless of the distance.
Enough to believe in our relationship,
to stand by it through the worst of times,
to have faith in our strength as a couple,
and to never give up on us.
Enough to spend the rest of my life,
be there for you when you need or want me,
and never, ever want to leave you or live without you.
I love you this much.

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Arranged’ Marriage, Co-Residence And Female Schooling, India

Arranged’ Marriage, Co-Residence and Female Schooling: A Model with Evidence from India
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Issued February 13, 2008
Institute for the Study of Labor
We model the consequences of parental control over choice of wives for sons, for parental incentives to educate daughters, when the marriage market exhibits competitive dowry payments and altruistic but paternalistic parents benefit from having married sons live with them. By choosing uneducated brides, some parents can prevent costly household partition. Paternalistic self-interest consequently generates low levels of female schooling in the steady state equilibrium. State payments to parents for educating daughters fail to raise female schooling levels. Policies (such as housing subsidies) that promote nuclear families, interventions against early marriages, and state support to couples who marry against parental wishes, are however all likely to improve female schooling. We offer evidence from India consistent with our theoretical analysis.
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The Arts of Kissing

From the Blogger.

The Art of Kissing (revised 2005). "Get it and expand your puckering portfolio." --Seventeen. This book contains a whole section (36 pages) on the french kiss. If I was buying only one book on kissing, it would be The Art of Kissing. It was the first book I wrote (in 1991), it was totally revised and brought up-to-date in 1995 and again in 2005, and you won't be disappointed. If you're a visual person, you'll be delighted to learn that we just made the book into a 90-minute DVD, which will actually show you all the kisses.

The Birth Order Book of Love: How the #1 Personality Predictor Can Help You Find The One. The first book to present a comprehensive examination of romantic compatibility. Based on groundbreaking sibling research, this book will help you find out who you should be kissing. (Forthcoming 2008.)

The Art of Kissing Book of Questions and Answers. This book contains a whole chapter (28 pages) on the french kiss.

Kiss Like a Star: Smooching Secrets from the Silver Screen. This book will teach you to kiss like a movie star.

The Art of Hugging.

The Book of Kisses, quotations about kissing from the likes of Kevin Costner, Madonna, and 500 others.

The Kiss in Culture: The Artists

Rodin's The Kiss (1901-14)

Masterpieces from the Tate Collection, including Rodin’s The Kiss (1901-14), Degas’ Little Dancer Aged Fourteen (1880-1), Picasso’s Weeping Woman (1937) and Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Diptych (1962), will come to Liverpool, some for the first time, as part of a major rehang of the Collection at Tate Liverpool sponsored by DLA Piper. The new displays, over three floors of the gallery, have been arranged to celebrate Liverpool European Capital of Culture 2008.


A key feature of the new displays will be a special focus on the work of two celebrated British artists: Bridget Riley and Stanley Spencer, including some of their best-known works.
Tate holds the national collection of modern and contemporary art; DLA Piper Series: The Twentieth Century offers visitors to Tate Liverpool the opportunity to see more of the Tate Collection than ever before. Presenting important historic, modern and contemporary works, the displays will explore the history of the past one hundred years of art in a radical new way, by offering a parallel history of abstract and figurative art. DLA Piper Series: The Twentieth Century will include a rich variety of approaches to representational and non-representational art, highlighting key moments and developments, as well as continuities through the 20th and into the 21st century. The displays will follow a chronological framework, but will accommodate some ‘moments’ that juxtapose artists from across the history of Modern and contemporary art.
The first and second floors will be divided thematically: on the first floor a series of titled rooms will look at the various manifestations of representational art and the continuation of figuration within Modern and contemporary art, while the second floor will trace the journey towards abstraction, and examine the complexity and diversity of abstract art. This opposition, one of the most familiar and widespread of approaches to Modern art, is given a more complex reading through these displays, showing that, throughout the history of Modernism, the one responds to, or is informed by, the other.


Among the works included in the displays will be masterpieces by Whistler, Degas, Bonnard, Picasso, Matisse, Brancusi, Modigliani, Kirchner, Mondrian, Spencer, Magritte, Ernst, Moore, Pollock, Giacometti, Bacon, Warhol, Judd, Stella, Kelly, Oiticica, Boetti, Nauman, Riley, Hatoum, Whiteread and others.

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Why We Read

Why We Read Erotic Romance source

Now that I've gotten your attention with the hot, sexy, half-nekkid bod, tell me what you REALLY like about erotic romance. Although I think most women enjoy a good visual, they prefer the words, imaginings, and emotions beneath the skin. That's why erotic romance is enjoying a huge surge in popularity. Women have discovered their own Playboy magazine, but instead of looking at hot men, we're reading about them. It's not just the hot sex, it's the story, stupid.

I think that's one of the reasons why Deep Throat was such a popular X-rated movie. Although I saw the movie many years ago (on the UCLA campus to be exact), I remember it as having an actual story and lots of humor. Otherwise, I have no interest in watching explicit sex scenes in a film. Ahhh, but give me a sensual read.

The best of erotic romance should be able to stand on its own without the sex. The sex scenes are heightened and hotter when we have insights into the traits, strengths, and insecurities that drive the characters.

What are some of the reasons you read (or write) erotic romance? What needs and desires does it fulfill or exorcise for you?

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New Readings in Female Anatomy included three book works on The Reading Table- two of which were collaboratively authored. The first- HYSTORIES, added to the voices in Hall's first film about hysterectomy, and the second A Female Handbook engaged 36 women Hall invited to complete a sentence for her. During all the exhibitions of NRFA, Hall left blank books on The Writing Table- inviting women to add their knowledge and experience so she could continue to "build a library" of female knowledge.



While contributions to these blank binders were significant, Hall initiated a series of writing workshops with girls and women hoping to "make authors" to contribute to the project. During installations or residencies in Vancouver, Montreal and Providence, RI, Hall worked with almost 200 women who contibuted their writing to the project following the workshops. While she is still transcribing some of this writing, the first suite of ten books on body image, are close to completion. They will be posted here as they are finished, and those in progress can be seen here.

National African American Parent Involvement

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — National African American Parent Involvement Day (NAAPID) will be observed Monday, February 11, 2008. Parents will be taking their children to school/visiting theirchildren in school in support of this national endeavor to encourage parents to come together in a single setting to promote educational excellence for today’s youths. “Of all the civil rights for which the world has struggled and fought for five thousand years, the right to learn is undoubtedly the most fundamental.” (W.E.B.DuBois). This day is an excellentopportunity for improving home, school and community relations. Ann Arbor (MI) Public Schools principal, Joseph Dulin, founded NAAPID, a nonprofit 501(C) (3), volunteer, national initiative. He conceived the idea of a National African American Parent Involvement Day after accepting the challenge made of them at the Million Man March to return to their individual homes and do more to build, involve and increase their commitment to improving the quality of life in their community, particularly for African Americans. Without question, he credits parent involvement for much of the success that he has experienced as an educator. Further, research supports parental involvement as a viable means of enhancing children’s academic successes. Dulin believes that, “Every parent wants their child to have a better quality of life than they themselves have had. It is the American dream, and for many African Americans, this dream has not been realized as a result of their child’s failure in school. Education is the key to success and parents are educators’ greatest allies.”

While the focus of the day (during Black History month) is primarily focused on African Americans, the purpose and intent of NAAPID is not mutually exclusive. ALL parents are encouraged to participate. This national observation provides a vehicle to open up dialogue among teachers, parents and students that will lead to a more conducive learning environment for every student from kindergarten through college. School districts across the nation are requested to make a special effort to make this day “parent friendly”.

Events and activities for the day are at the discretion of the schools. Things to do can range from classroom visitations to luncheons/dinners to national speakers to weeklong celebrations. Some districts have even formed a coalition to work together to present “NAAPID @ Night” in order to further expand the school day and to allow parents an opportunity to be involved who are unable to attend during regular school hours.

We ask that public and parochial institutions of learning plan to participate in this win/win endeavor. NAAPID needs not only the academic community, but also the “village” as a whole.

PARTICIPATE IN YOUR CIVIL RIGHT TAKE YOUR CHILD TO SCHOOL/VISIT YOUR CHILD IN SCHOOL MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2008

For more information or an interview contact: Joseph Dulin at 734.997.1236 or Barbara James at 800.351.4097; FAX 734.997.1903; Web site–www.naapid.org; mailto:E-Mail--info@NAAPID.org

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The word love appears in many contexts: there's maternal love, familial love, romantic love, sexual love, a wider love for fellow humans and religious love for God, to name but a few. Some cultures have ten or more words for different forms of love, and poets and songwriters always find myriad aspects of love to celebrate.
The science of love is still in its infancy. Yet scientists are beginning to get early insights into the nature and origin of love. We can now look inside human brains to view changing patterns of activity and biochemical changes that take place during love, explore diverse human experiences of love, study how we select mates and woo lovers, and look for the evolutionary roots of love.more...

Finally he found love.

British man finds love on Internet after bedding over 1000 women.

Clive Worth from Wales, UK, who's news went out all over the world with Reuters after being band from a dating site for dating to many women, has finally found love...

Belgium, Kingdom of (Press Release) November 27, 2007 -- Clive Worth, has become well known all over the world for his online dating, Type his name into any search engine like Google, Yahoo, AOL or MSN and you will be able to read amore about him, Clive is addiction for women came about when he gave up his addiction for alcohol and started Internet dating, the switch over did Clive a world of good and in no time he started dating women by the hundreds, getting them all to travel to his Den in Wales from all over the world, with one women going out in the morning and another coming in afternoon but has now finally found love with 61 years old Angela England from Birmingham and Retired from Internet dating but has written a book about his conquests called, (A Serial Shaggers guide to Internet dating, My 1001 lovers).

LOVE ACROSS BORDERS

Publishing REOPENS LOVEACROSSBORDERS.COM TO PUBLICPoetry and Poets Get New Channel to Publish Work

Love Across Borders Publishing has reopened their web site to the general public. "Love Across Borders Community Publishing" is an online social networking poet community. Poetry book "Eons In A Moment - 2007" released. Forthcoming poetry book release.

LOVE ACROSS BORDERS PUBLISHING has reopened their web site to the general public. After a short hiatus, poets are now welcome to take part in community that emphases sharing of poetry. "Love Across Borders Community Publishing" is a collection of forums in which people can publish their poems in nodes for free.

News regarding the reopening of loveacrossborders.com comes as Love Across Borders Publishing releases it's first major poetry book release of 2007, entitled: "Eons In A Moment - 2007" by Shaun Apple. This new book is a major step forward in the world of online poetry publishing. The book includes 39 poems of experimental, free-form, and contemporary poetry written over 10 years from 1996 - 2006. Critics have recently said regarding "Eons In A Moment - 2007": "Very impressive, simultaneously appealing to the eye, the ear, the mind, the heart...Photography and poems are arresting, especially when considered side by side...Phrasings really sparkle with playfulness and unconventional insight. A deep calm and happiness runs through...Love is ever-present (cannot be ignored), brought into sharper relief thanks to your fractured ways of seeing".

E-book is available for free by download from this link:http://www.loveacrossborders.com/eons-moment-2007

Next major book release slated for later this year is "The Thirteen Original Sins Jaded". "The Thirteen Original Sins Jaded" is a previously unreleased themed book consisting of 13 poems, plus one bonus poem, written during one day in 1998. According to the author, Shaun Apple, these poems are meant to give more insightful into the meaning(s) of life. Read more about "The

Thirteen Original Sins Jaded" at the following link:http://www.loveacrossborders.com/thirteen-original-sins-jaded-2007

With poetry forums on Love Across Borders Publishing alive once more, this looks like a sign that 2007 will be a very productive year for social networking in the world of online poetry and online poetry forums. Love Across Borders Publishing is wistful that poetry, can indeed, be a social experience for all.

About Love Across Borders PublishingLove Across Borders Publishing, a non-profit organization since 2003, which hosts forums of community publishing centered around poetry, is an online resource and community for writers; featuring the works of amateur and professional poets, tagging, and books. Love Across Borders Publishing empowers poets to publish, organize, and get recognition for their work. Sharing is encouraged.

For more information about Love Across Borders Publishing and to take part, please visit the web site at http://www.loveacrossborders.com/.

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If you would like more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview with Shaun Apple, editor of Love Across Borders Publishing, please call Betty Thompson at (+1) 503/343-5051 or e-mail Shaun at shaun (at) loveacrossborders (dot) com

American Romanticism

American Romanticism is depicted in The Josephine Hawks Report on. I email her, as can you at josephine_hawks@hotmail.com on whay she is going to write on. She stated, "first and fore most it will be clean, and enhancing." Thus in addition to The Love Report of Ithaca, New York, there is now a partner American Romanticism .

Please add your comments at any time on this, or on her blog at the bottom of each post.

RMC
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Poems Wanted:

The Love Report Ithaca solicits your poems.

For those who have love poems and want them published immediately goto Students Notes web site and fill out the interactive form there . Moreover, essays will soon be included also.

So impress your loving partner today, as well as asign the quality of your relationship in so doing so.

Pride has always been partnered with humility when it comes to LOVE. As validation comes from both the heart and the work needed to make it happen. A poem is just one little bit in an entire list of needed actions; for beneath each advocation each partner makes to the other is both fear of rejection, and anxieties of personal confidence and thus the true quality of work is understood-to overcome.

I wish you both continue success in the further personal discovery ahead of you in your relationship. May find the real flow of happiness, and the real huma strength of courage which loving relationshops promotes.

Yours,

Mr. Roger M. Christian

Editor,

The Ithaca Love Report.

Just three little words.

Love Poetry

I Love You

Just three little words

don't seem like enough

for someone whose smile

still brightens my day,

whose touch can make me forgetthe rest of the world.

They don't seem like enough

for someone who's always been there

to celebrate with me

when everything goes my way

and to hold my handwhen my whole world seems to fall apart.

But even though

"I Love You"

can't express the depthof my feelings for you.

I hope you know what's in my heart.

Because loving youmeans more to methan anything in the worldand it always will.

- Brynne

Love Poetry

Love Poetry

My LoveMy love is like an ocean

It goes down so deep

My love is like a rose

Whose beauty you want to keep

.My love is like a river

That will never end

My love is like a dove

With a beautiful message to send.

My love is like a song

That goes on and on forever

My love is like a prisonerIt's to you that I surrender.

- Tasha Shores