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Norton 360: Mobile Security review
Norton 360: Mobile Security is a one-stop shop for securing your Android devices
By Brian Nadel
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Tom's Guide Verdict
Great malware protection and privacy defenses go hand in hand with Norton 360: Mobile Security. It can be expensive and does without anti-theft features, but the app offers a broad array of options.
Great malware detection
App Advisor for checking new software
Fast scanning
Add on LifeLock ID protection
Lacks free version
Does without anti-theft features
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Norton 360: Mobile Security: Specs
URL protection: Yes
PUA and malware scanning: Yes
Ad blocking: Yes
Remote data wipe: No
SIM card lock: No
VPN/Unlimited use: Yes w/ Deluxe, Premium or Ultimate Plus plans
Anti-theft: No
Lost phone locator: No
PW manager: No
Wi-Fi Scanner: Yes
Call blocking: No
Text blocking: Yes
Guest mode: No
App advisor for app stores: Yes
App locking: No
Photo vault for sensitive images: No
Compatibility: Android version/Chromebooks/WearOS Version 8+ (Oreo)/Y/N
Free version/Cost: $30 per year
With the ability to defend a phone or tablet from all sorts of attacks while protecting your online identity, Norton 360: Mobile Security squeezes a lot into a small app. Its malware detection is matched by its fast scans and the ability to work with a wide variety of browsers. It adds warnings to potentially dangerous apps from the Play Store and can help recover from a ransomware attack.
Norton has the most extensive identity protection services as add-on menu items with three different tiers of protection and insurance. On the other hand, the anti-theft features have been stripped from the app and those who want access to a VPN will be disappointed because the company's Secure VPN is not available with the Android app by itself. The only way to get it is through the Norton 360: Deluxe, Premium or Ultimate packages.
In our Norton 360: Mobile Security review, we'll cover the features, protection and pricing of this Android antivirus app to determine whether it's still the king of the Android malware hill.
Norton 360: Mobile Security review: Costs and what's covered
If you're looking for a free version of Norton 360: Mobile security, forget about it. There is a 14-day trial though.
The Android-based Norton 360: Mobile Security app is available on the Play Store and includes malware scanning, Wi-Fi Security and website protection. However, it lacks access to the company's Secure VPN. The app costs $30 a year but doesn't have a monthly payment option.
To get access to the VPN, you need to jump to the $105 Norton 360 Deluxe plan that covers up to five systems. They can be Windows, Macs, Androids, iPhones or iPads. The plan also provides 50GB of online storage. Not enough? The $125 Premium plan ups the number of systems to 10 and the online storage to 100GB.
While the company's LifeLock identity protection service is not available with the Android only plan, it can be added to the Deluxe and Premium subscriptions. The costs add up quickly, with the LifeLock Select plan costing an extra $150 a year (for $1 million of ID insurance and $25,000 for lost funds) while Advantage ups that to $250 per year (with up to $100,000 for recovering money). At the top is the $350 Ultimate Plus plan which combines $1 million for insurance and $1 million for recovering lost funds with up to 500GB of online storage and home title monitoring. It covers an unlimited number of computers but only protects the identity of a single user.
The Norton 360: Mobile Security app needs Android version 8 (aka Oreo) or higher. While the company doesn't officially support Chromebooks, Norton 360: Mobile Security can unofficially protect a Chromebook as if it were an Android device. It won't work with WearOS devices.
The iPhone and iPad version of Norton 360: Mobile Security work with the current and previous two versions of iOS and iPadOS (15, 14 and 13). Its protection mirrors the Android version with one notable exception: Apple doesn't allow malware scanning.
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Norton 360: Mobile Security review: Malware protection
The Norton 360: Mobile Security app offers a lot of protection. Besides guarding against unwanted apps being installed, it also puts up a strong defense against ransomware. At the first sign of an attack, it stops the exploit but if an attack slips through, the app's Ransomware Recovery can help get your data back and uninstall the dangerous software. All you need to do is restart the phone.
The Safe Web browser extensions rate sites based on their reputation for providing malware. The extensions automatically load as you use them and work with a wide variety of sites as well as within Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. It warned of the three malicious sites I tried.
The app's Smart Scan real-time monitoring watches for malware or behavioral anomalies that might indicate a break-in has started. To activate Norton 360: Mobile Security's Smart Scan, I needed to allow the app to have complete control over my phone.
Plus, Norton's App Security can keep the apps you have free of malware. It shows which were recently installed and are being protected.
Meanwhile, the Scan System Apps looks for malware, privacy risks and odd behavior that might indicate a threat.
Norton 360: Mobile Security review: Malware detection
For the past two-and-a-half years, Norton's Android app has scored perfect 100 percent scores with AV-Test, catching everything the organization threw at the app. The January 2022 round of evaluations was no exception with Norton 360: Mobile Security getting a 100 percent score on both the new and widespread malware categories.
As testimony to the accuracy of its scanning, the app had zero false positives. This puts it in a tie with the perfect scores from Avast Mobile Security and Bitdefender Mobile Security. All had zero false positive results. Google Play Protect was further back at 80.7 percent on detecting new threats and 90.0 percent on widespread and popular exploits.
The company doesn't currently participate in AV Comparative's malware scanning tests. In the January 2019 test run, the Norton app scored a perfect 100 percent, putting it in a tie with Bitdefender and McAfee. It was ahead of Lookout's 99.6 percent. Again, Google Play Protect trailed, this time with a dismal 68.8 percent.
Norton 360: Mobile Security review: Security features and tools
Norton 360: Mobile Security offers a two-week trial with no restrictions. After that, you'll have to subscribe or try another app.
Unlike its competitors, Norton 360: Mobile Security has an App Advisor that pre-checks new software for threats. Before any app is loaded, the advisor looks for potential dangers and even excessive data use.
To check an app, all you do is turn on the Google Play Scan. Then, when you tap on any app there, Norton 360 proclaims it safe, dangerous or that it doesn't have info on the app.
Norton 360: Mobile Security can identify phishing attempts and other dangerous links within SMS texts but requires allowing the app to look deeply into your use of the phone.
On the other hand, Norton 360: Mobile Security has been streamlined by eliminating its anti-theft features, leaving a hole compared to many of its competitors. It lacks a remote siren, ability to lock a phone when the SIM card is removed and to take a selfie of anyone looking at the phone – presumably the thief. It does without a simple phone locator that shows its last known location on a map but many of these things are available through Android's Find My Device.
The Norton 360: Mobile Security app has a powerful Wi-Fi Security feature that can ensure your online connections are secure. It runs a continuous scan for Wi-Fi networks while warning of those that are either unencrypted or pose a threat.
While the company has extensive infrastructure for keeping an eye out for your personal information online, you need to subscribe to the Deluxe, Premium or Ultimate Plus plan. By contrast, others, like McAfee Mobile Security include this type of forensic protection with their Android app.
The Android only app doesn't include access to the company's VPN or offer it as an option. To get secure communications and the ability to watch geo-blocked content requires the Deluxe or Premium multi-platform plan. There are connection points in 30 countries and the VPN is well integrated into the app.
Using a Norton 360 Deluxe account, I got online with the VPN in 4.5 seconds. The connection yielded 149Mbps out of my 200Mbps connection.
Norton 360: Mobile Security review: System impact
To gauge how much of the phone's performance the app and its scanning engine took up, I set up a series of tests using my Samsung Galaxy Note 20 running Android 12. With the phone plugged in and before the Norton 360: Mobile Security app was loaded, I ran the GeekBench 5 Compute benchmark to provide a performance baseline of 3,687.
Next, I installed the app from the Play Store and ran the benchmark again. It yielded a score of 3,566 representing a passive performance loss of 3.2 percent. That makes Norton 360: Mobile Security among the hungriest security apps for Android.
While scanning, the benchmark declined by another 1.1 percent to 3,524. In other words, the program's background was more of a resource drain than the scanning engine. Still, Norton 360: Mobile Security was in the middle of the pack when it came to how hungry the scanner was for resources. It was behind Google Play Protect (down 0.3%) and Avast Mobile Security (down 0.3%) while being more efficient than Lookout Mobile Security (3.1%).
It took only 9.2 seconds for Norton 360: Mobile Security to scan the whole phone. Google Play Protect led here with a 5.2 second scan time.
Norton 360: Mobile Security review: Setup and support
Protecting an Android device started at the Play Store and choosing a plan; the company takes credit cards and PayPal. If you have a license code, there's a place to enter it.
After agreeing to the license, I thought I was home free, but the app wanted me to answer an unavoidable marketing question. It then downloaded the needed code and started the automatic process, followed by activation and initialization. Start to finish, it took about 8 minutes to get and load the app.
The tech support you get with all Norton products is world-class with 24-hour service. It's easy to call, use the online chat window or email them. The app has lots of resources, including a direct link to the support staff.
Norton 360: Mobile Security review: Interface
The Norton 360 interface does a good job balancing access to a multitude of tasks without being overwhelming. It can only run in portrait mode and is more complicated than the simplified McAfee Mobile Security app but allows for a lot of customization.
The main screen shows the basics, although the moving rings in the background can be disconcerting. In addition to whether you need to intervene, it has places to learn more about the program's details and warnings. In addition to App Security (real-time malware protection) and Safe Web browser protection (extensions for blocking dangerous sites), there's Wi-Fi Security (a scan of the local networks for safety) and Device Security (monitoring for everything from rootkits to the trusted certificates in use). There's also SMS Security that can block unsavory texts.
There's a large scan bar in the middle that, unlike Avast, goes right to an examination of the system. A hidden gem is at the bottom: slide "Your Protection Report" up to reveal an up-to-date account of the security of your device. It shows things like ransomware, malware and risky apps and really comes into its own after running for a month.
The three-line hamburger link in the upper left leads to items like the subscription status, a link to the Password Manager and Settings. Finally, there's a Help link.
In the upper right is a traditional Settings gear icon. It leads to a similar set of items as the hamburger menu.
Unfortunately, the Activity Log section only has when a scan took place but not the details.
Norton 360: Mobile Security review: Bottom line
With everything from malware scanning and web protection to identity insurance and dark web monitoring, Norton 360: Mobile Security is a one-stop shop for securing an Android device. Unfortunately, its pricing adds up quickly and the VPN is not available with Android only accounts. While the price may make it a difficult sell, the consistency and reliability of Norton Mobile Security should earn it a place on your shortlist. Every feature simply works, and Norton's malware detection has been unwaveringly flawless for years, but it does without anti-theft features.
While they're close, Bitdefender Mobile Security has caught up and surpassed Norton 360: Mobile Security and is now our choice as the best way to protect your phone.
Brian Nadel
Brian Nadel is a freelance writer and editor who specializes in technology reporting and reviewing. He works out of the suburban New York City area and has covered topics from nuclear power plants and Wi-Fi routers to cars and tablets. The former editor-in-chief of Mobile Computing and Communications, Nadel is the recipient of the TransPacific Writing Award.
Norton Mobile Security has the best free plan of all the apps we tested.
Norton Mobile Security for Android Review: Best Free Version : Read more
So as far as I can see, the "fremium" version offered thru Google Play Store consists of a 30-day free trial, after which the subscription is $14.95/year.
I can find no ongoing free version at all.
PaulWagenseil
Vision2020 said:
When you install the Android app, all the premium features are active for 30 days. After that, the premium features are deactivated unless and until you pay the subscription fee. The free features will continue to work either way.
PaulWagenseil said:
And ... hold that response. There definitely was a free tier in Norton Mobile Security when we were editing this review last summer, but we just installed it again to check and you're right -- the app doesn't say anything about a free tier, and it asks for a credit card right away.
We're checking with Norton about this. If they did indeed change the pricing, we'll be doing some serious updating to our review.
We have still received no response from Norton regarding this matter, but we did some digging in the Norton forums and discovered that Norton ended the free tier of Norton Mobile Security in early December 2019:
https://community.norton.com/en/blogs/product-update-announcements/end-availability-free-version-norton-mobile-security-android
We at Tom's Guide were not informed of this by Norton. Nor were we informed that Norton Mobile Security's anti-theft, weblink blocking and contacts-backup features were also disabled in early December:
https://community.norton.com/en/blogs/product-update-announcements/end-availability-anti-theft-contacts-backup-and-linkguard
Needless to say, we will be updating our review, and our rating, of Norton Mobile Security.
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Jagmeet Singh packs Vancouver's Vogue Theatre for rally in final push before election
Jagmeet Singh at a rally in Vancouver on October 19, 2019 (Jagmeet Singh/Twitter)
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh left his political rivals to trade barbs Saturday, focusing instead on housing policy in a key battleground in desperate need of help with the issue.
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Anti-Abortion protesters stand outside the Supreme Court.
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A federal judge refused on Monday to block an Arizona law banning most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, saying it does not impose a "substantial obstacle" to the procedure, and cleared the way for the statute to take effect on Thursday.
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"I recognize that the issue of abortion remains a controversial one. With the Mother's Health and Safety Act, I'm hopeful most Arizonans can find common ground," she said.
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Arizona and two other states - Georgia and Louisiana - have enacted similar bans that have not yet taken effect, the Center for Reproductive Rights said.
The U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973 but allowed states to place restrictions on the procedure from the time when a fetus could potentially survive outside the womb, except when a woman's health was at risk.
(Editing by Steve Gorman, Cynthia Johnston and Will Dunham)
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2. This option vests in equal installments on the first, second, third, and fourth anniversaries of the Original Grant Date, which was March 13, 2019.
3. The Restricted Stock Units granted to the Reporting Person on March 13, 2019 (the "Original Grant Date") vest in equal installments on the first, second, third and fourth anniversaries of the Original Grant Date. Upon each vesting date, each vested RSU shall automatically convert into one (1) share of common stock of the Company.
4. Each Performance-Based Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) represents the right to receive, following vesting, up to 200% of one share of common stock of the Company. The resulting number of shares of common stock of the Company acquired upon vesting of the Performance-Based RSUs is contingent upon the achievement of pre-established performance parameters relating to the Company's relative total shareholder return (TSR) performance against the median TSR of a defined comparator group of companies, as approved by the Company's Compensation Committee, over a three-year performance period beginning on the grant date and ending on the third anniversary of the grant date.
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Five curious ways popes have left their mark on Rome
Papal fingerprints are everywhere, if you know where to look
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The Eternal City is chock full of the Western world's most important treasures, thanks in large part to the Catholic church's 266 popes, who collected and commissioned masterpieces, commanded beautifying building projects and acquired art–sometimes through not-so-holy means.
The Apollo Belvedere and The Laocoön at the Vatican Museums
The papal facelifts started nearly from the get-go: The Middle Ages left Roman ruins plundered and used as pastureland. But Pope Martin V began a restoration of the city as early as AD 140; When Pope Boniface VIII proclaimed the first jubilee in 1300, thousands of pilgrims visited Rome thereby lining the papal coffers with plenty of project funding; Nicholas V began building works at both St. Peter's and the Vatican, where he transferred his residence from the Lateran Palace and tried to slow down the plundering of ancient buildings, which despite his efforts continued well into the 16th century. But it was a member of the influencial Della Rovere family who really got the ball rolling: In 1471 Pope Sixtus IV founded the oldest public collection of art in the world when he donated his sculpture collection to the city, the nucleus of which can still be seen at the Capitoline Museum. (He also rebuilt a chapel you may have heard of that still bears his name.) Another Della Rovere family member–Pope Julius II–continued the beautifation of that chapel when he pulled Michelangelo away (kicking and screaming) from working on Julius's own tomb. In fact, Pope Julius II made Rome the centre of the High Renaissance, by luring the likes of not only Michelangelo but also Raphael and the architect Bramante, to work on papal projects in Rome.
Julius was mad for ancient sculpture, which seemed to be turning up in everybody's back yard during the 16th century, and he displayed his impressive collection–think The Laocoön and the Apollo Belvedere in the Vatican's Belvedere Pavillion–helping to make the Vatican Palace home to the largest collection of ancient scultpures in the world. After a little blip during Pope Clement VII's reign–when Rome was sacked in 1527 by German mercenary trooos–Rome's population fell to around 30,000 inhabitants. But Pope Sixtus V, perhaps more than any other pope, came back will full pistons firing (St. Peter's dome was completed under his watch.) And under Paul V's eyes, the basilica was completed. Popes Urban VIII, Innocent X and Alexander VII turned Rome into the Baroque wonder that is today–think Bernini's colonnade out front of St. Peter's and practically every single fountain in the city's piazzas. And while Scipione Borghese–a major patron of the arts during the 17th century–may have only been a Cardinal, his uncle was Pope Paul V. And he put his art-loving nephew in charge of the papal funds, which conveniently often ended up funding one of the largest and most impressive art collections in Europe. Paul V even went so far as to facilitate the theft of an alterpiece from Peruglia–Raphael's Deposition, whish still hangs, along with early Caravaggios and nearly every single early marble freestanding sculpture by Bernini, in the Scipione's Villa Borghese today.
But mapping out what treasures are where in Rome is no easy feat: For starters, antiquities have been plundered, refashioned, melted down and destroyed for centuries (three hundred tons of iron clamps once held the Colosseum's 100,000 cubic metres of traverstene stone together but after centuries of iron looting, the stadium resembles a piece of Swiss cheese.) And as early as the reign of Emperor Constantine in the 4th century AD, antiquities were mish-mashed together creating collages of art comprised of different styles from various centuries (Think the Arch of Constantine.) There are books dedicated to detailing the minutea of it all, the exterior columns on the Pantheon, for example, come courtesy from both Baths of Nero and Domitian's villa. But here are five off-the-beaten-track gems that you may have walked by, or on, and never realized that their unusual origins are covered in papal fingerprints.
1. Pope Urban VIII commissioned Bernini to craft an elaborate canopy, or baldachin, over the burial site of St. Peter himself inside St. Peter's. But the structure, whose columns rise 20 metres, required a lot of bronze. Legend has it that Urban gave the green light to take it from the portico ceiling of the Pantheon. So, in 1626, 200 tons of bronze were melted down to make not only the baldachin but 80 cannons for Castel Sant'Angelo (Hadrian's mausoleum.)
The Senate house's bronze doors at the Lateran
2. You know how some tourists can get a little persnickety outside the Baptistery in Florence where Brunelleschi's famed bronze 'Gates of Paradise' hang when they remind art-adoring bystanders that the doors are reproductions? Well, same goes for the bronze doors on the facade of the Senate House in the Roman Forum. To see the real deal, make your way to San Giovanni in Laterno, the official cathedral not just of the city of Rome but also of the world. (St. Peter's, although arguably the most grand and imposing church in Christendom, is not actually a cathedral.) The basilica, first built in the 4th century A.D. on Constantine's orders over the site of his rival Maxentius's army barracks–how's that for not-so-passive-aggressive?–has been sacked, burned down, rebuilt and burned down again. But the impressive (re: enormous) set of bronze doors located under the portico are a couple thousand years old. In 1660, Pope Alexander VII decided that they'd be better suited to Rome's first basilica rather than collecting dust in the Roman Forum.
3. Next time you're in St. Peter's, make a pit stop at the very start of the long nave. Then look down. You'll see a somewhat ubiquitous-looking round piece of purple marble. Well guess who knelt down on it and was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III on Christmas day in 800 AD? Just Charlemagne, THE GUY THAT STARTED THE CAROLINGIAN RENAISSANCE AND BASICALLY UNITED ALL OF EUROPE FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE ROMAN EMPIREl. It's a small piece of memorabilia that survived from the original basilica, built on Constantine's orders in the 4th century AD over top of St. Peter's tomb, that made its way into Baroque basilica that stands today.
4. There's a visible passageway, or passetto, that runs on top of the old 9th century AD Vatican wall that connects Vatican City with the Castel Sant'Angelo, an impressive circular structure that started off as Emperor Hadrian's family mausoleum in AD 139. (It's also been a citadel, prison, fortress, castle and now, a museum.) The 800-metre fortified corridor, built in 1277 by Pope Nicholas III, allowed Pope Clement VII to escape from the Vatican to the Castel Sant'Angelo during the Sack of Rome in 1527. He took with him some 1,000 followers, including 18 bishops and 13 cardinals, to escape the mercenary troops of Charles V. As H.V. Morton recounts it in his 1957 A Traveller in Rome, "Clement VII, appalled by the fate his politics had brought upon Rome, was on his knees in St. Peter's. At first he was resolved to dress in full pontificals and meet the enemy seated upon his throne, as Boniface VIII had waited for Sciarra Colonna two hundred years before: but as the cut-throats broke into the Hospital of S. Spirito, slaying all the patients to spread terror, and the cries of the dying and the explosion of cannon were heard on the very steps of St. Peter's, the Pope was persuaded to take flight along the covered corridor to S. Angelo. 'Had he stayed long enough to say three creeds,' wrote an eyewitness, 'he would have been taken.'"
The 'passatto' from the Vatican on the left to Castel Sant'Angelo on the right
5. Chances of any bronze artifact, let alone a bronze equestrian statue of an emperor, surviving the passage of time (and countless sacks and invasions) are slim. The Christians melted down any pagan-looking relic they could get their hands on. That's what makes the very existence of the bronze equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius located in the Capitoline Museum (a replica stands in the piazza, designed by Michelangelo, out front) all the more mind-boggling. It was spared because of a case of mistaken identity: everybody thought it was Constantine, the first emperor to convert to Christianity, albeit on his death bed. It is the only fully surviving bronze statue of a pre-Christian Roman emperor. The nearly two-thousand-year-old massive monument was most likely found on the Lateran Hill in AD 783 but wasn't brought to the Capitoline Hill until Pope Paul III ordered it to happen in 1538.
Bronze equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius at the Capitoline Museum in Rome
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Room Book Review
There was a time when we were infants and with our mothers all of the time, but as we grew older we were alone or with others, which doesn't happen in Room because a five-year-old boy, Jack, and his twenty-seven-year-old mother, Ma, are locked in a room together day in, day out. They spend all of their time together, so much so that Jack, if liberated, might not even know how to
be alone! A man, Old Nick, their captor, comes to Room at night usually after Jack is asleep and brings them food and sometimes Sunday treats, which they ask for via a written list. Why are they here, the mother and the little boy? Is Old Nick a monster who has isolated them?
It's a wonder that the two of them find so much to do in that Room! They watch Dora the Explorer on TV or measure the door frames, listen to music or exercise or play games that Ma has made up. To the boy there's "real" and there's "on TV" (unreal). He talks to himself in his mind (our narration) about Bed and Duvet and Skylight and Wardrobe, and his mother is always there with him, taking care of Stove and making certain that he doesn't watch too much TV because he could "rot his brains"! Jack seems to not realize that there's a world beyond this Room where people really play in the snow or ride around in cars or have friends and pets (he looks forward to seeing Spider, who makes little webs that his mother dislikes, or Mouse, although his Ma clogs up the mousehole). This story is an odd premise (although women have been kidnapped and forced to have children in isolation by social deviants), and we wonder what would happen when Jack reached puberty and maturity.
Once, because of an injury, I had to spend long periods of time in bed (but could still do my writing) and had with me, as my trusty companion, a female dog who was very compassionate and attune to my pain and my moods. I learned every coloring on her body (if ever lost, I could describe her to you perfectly) and I came to know what all of her sounds and positions meant exactly, but I didn't always know what she was thinking! Room is written from the point of view of Jack's thoughts (and also realized through dialogues with his mother) so that we can experience the parameters of his limited but very intense life.
Finally (through a series of incidents I'll leave up to the readers to read by themselves) Jack and Ma are no longer in Room but Outside, Ma for the first time in seven years and Jack for the first time in his life. And everything is so entirely different, so much so that later Jack thinks, about Room, "It's like a crater, a hole where something happened."
Emma Donoghue has the ability to draw you in to these unusual circumstances by referencing familiarities from everyday life and creating an affection for Jack, who sees, because of his past, the world so differently than we do. It is also very easy to identify with the other major character, Ma, as she has tried to protect her young son and teach him how to live, unaided, for so long, but must now re-enter the world with her own post-traumatic stress. Ms. Donoghue builds and builds on the plot until we're entirely at ease with Jack's way of thinking and can only wish for him that he will eventually fit in. Excellent writing, and just about everyone will love this book!
Room, a novel by Emma Donoghue, published in paperback on September 13, 2010, by Little, Brown And Company, 321 pages.
Christina Zawadiwsky is Ukrainian-American, born in New York City, has a degree in Fine Arts, and is a poet, artist, journalist and TV producer. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Award, two Wisconsin Arts Boards Awards, a Co-Ordinating Council of Literary Magazines Writers Award, and an Art Futures Award, among other honors. She was the originator and producer of Where The Waters Meet, a local TV series created to facilitate the voices of artists of all genres in the media, for which she won two national and twenty local awards, including a Commitment to Community Television Award. She is also a contributing editor to the annual Pushcart Prize Anthology, the recipient of an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Wisconsin Library Association, and has published four books of poetry. She currently reviews movies for , music for , and books for http://www.bookroomreviews.com.
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It's almost unimaginable to think of being trapped in a room for a few days, much less for years! I'm very curious about how this topic is treated in this book.
I've read stories like this, and seen clips on TV, of "caves" or strange places where women were abducted and hidden by deviants – in one a woman had two girls by him and taught them everything she knew, until she was found and went back to school – so it's a viable topic, and I wonder how the little boy in Room thinks about being there, since he's known nothing else. Good review that makes me want to read the book.
Any work of fiction seriously written from a child's point of view intrigues me, since it's hard to show that naivete and wonder towards the world. I'll definitely seek out this book.
At the beginning you wonder if Ma and Jack will ever get out, but of course they will. You can only write so much about being locked in a room. It's the transition from being locked up to realizing there's a whole world Jack hasn't seen that makes this book interesting to me.
Even though Room is a heavy subject I liked it because it stuck with me after I finished it. that is the sign of a good book to me. Great review!
Everyone, thank you for your comments! At first I didn't think I'd find Room interesting, but by the end of it I was so attached to Jack (and secondly Ma) that I remembered the book almost as if it were about real people!
The Room sounds interesting – especially as it is from a child's viewpoint and he knows nothing else. You didnt say, but now I am wondering what Jack thinks of Nick… and how long after their release does the book continue- for sure looking for this book!


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Global Health Law: Defining the Field
Brigit Toebes
Transboundary Legal Studies
This Introductory chapter attempts define the scope and normative foundations of global health law as an emerging field in international law. The author perceives global health law as a field consisting of a limited set of binding and non-binding instruments adopted in the framework of the World Health Organization (WHO), in an interaction with both hard and soft law standards recognized in other branches of international law, including human rights law, international humanitarian law, international environmental law, international trade, property and investment law. As such, global health law reflects an intricate patchwork of hard and soft law standards. The author asserts that human rights, given their normative value, have the potential to play an important role in giving expression to the normative foundations of global health law. Furthermore, the author tentatively discusses the emergence of a number of general principles in global health law, including health capability, equity, and solidarity.
Research Handbook on Global Health Law
Gian Luca Burci, Brigit Toebes
Edward Elgar Publishing
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785366543.00007
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There's No Place Like Home: Twin Peaks The Return In Summation
Posted on September 20, 2017 AuthorDavid
In the end, we went right back to the very beginning. Josie Packard at her mirror, Pete Martell off out to fish… This was how the original pilot episode of Twin Peaks began. Only this time, there was no body wrapped in plastic.
Actually, we went back to even before then – to the events of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, to the very night of Laura Palmer's murder. Dale Cooper, now fully himself, navigated a time loop and prevented that from happening. Then, after what seemed like an eternity of driving, he found himself in some other dimension, with a Laura doppelgänger named Carrie Page outside the Palmer residence (except it isn't) and she screams while Cooper asks "What year is this?" And fade to black.
To say the final two episodes of Twin Peaks were violently divisive is a perhaps the understatement of the year. Especially coming hot on the heels of the episode in which Cooper finally – finally! – came to himself again ("I am the FBI!"). It understandably caught a lot of viewers off-guard, and the disappointment of the two-hour denouement was momentously underwhelming.
I should clarify I count myself as one of those such viewers to an extent. As much as I delighted in the unpredictability of the show over the course of its 18 hours, the ending left me feeling rather unsatisfied. Not that I expected everything to be a glowing nostalgia-fest. It was pretty clear that Lynch still had some surprises up his sleeves, but of course I was hoping for some more of the craziness that distinguished the first few episodes. What we got by comparison was a bit of a damp squib. It was dull, monotonous, and tiresome. And then it ended.
And it left me scratching my head. Frustrated that there wasn't more.
It's taken me a while to unpack my thoughts and feelings about it all. My initial impression was that it was quite a downbeat, cynical ending that said something to the effect that life is hopeless, and that darkness and negativity will always prevail. I was perplexed by this. For all the darkness in his films, Lynch has always struck me as a very positive guy. Although he's always been fascinated by the dark underbelly, his work has always been about good triumphing. I couldn't comprehend him giving up on that belief now. So, please understand, my frustration with the ending was that it seemed so at odds with what I had expected to come away with. I didn't want to be left feeling so beat-down and downbeat. There had to be something else there, surely?
Death has been a specter which has haunted the entirety of The Return. The show's origins, of course, are in the grisly murder of a high school sweetheart, and there's been plenty of ruthless violence and death throughout The Return too. But more so, off camera. Nearly every episode has been dedicated to the memory of a key player that is no longer with us. Many of these were frequent collaborators with Lynch throughout his career. Some had sadly passed away over the course of several years: Jack Nance, Frank Silva, Don S. Davis. Others, disappointingly close to The Return being filmed: David Bowie, oh what could have been. Yet more in the interim between production and broadcast: Catherine Coulson, Miguel Ferrer, Warren Frost, Marv Rosand. And then just a few days ago, we got news that Harry Dean Stanton had left us. With all the real-life macabre surrounding The Return, it was only too easy to interpret the show's dour ending as a reflection on death and its inevitability.
But still, that didn't sit right with me and my understanding of Lynch either.
So let's backtrack. I would be amiss, after all, to focus only on the final two episodes of The Return, since there was a lot happened since we last spoke. (On that, I think it's pretty clear by now that I was on the money with regards to Sarah Palmer.)
Also, apologies for this not being the most linear of essays, but that was a running theme in the second half of The Return, wasn't it? We had not just entire scenes structured around sickening repetition ("How are you today, Johnny", Sarah Palmer and the boxing match clip on loop) but also the confusion of the whole incident where a gunshot is discharged through the Double R window, only for it to be completely forgotten about in the next episode, and in fact it seems like the characters are talking about events which as far as we're concerned actually happened a few episodes ago. Needless to say, the script supervisor on this show has probably checked himself into some sort of clinic since shooting wrapped. Of course, this mangled timeline had to have been by design. Right?
We all know that Lynch revels in dualities, and two Twin Peaks takes that idea to its extreme. One could joke that there are certainly two Twin Peaks TV shows, the original series and The Return. But conventional speculation about The Return is that there are, in fact, quite literally two Twin Peaks – at least – and that the blip in time where the gun fires into the Double R diner takes place in one of them. Not the real, real one. Thinking about just how dark that scene is, and especially the woman honking throughout, you know, the one with the sick/zombie child in her passenger seat. That ain't regular Twin Peaks. That must be the one where all the bad stuff happens. Is there a "good" Twin Peaks, or is "regular" Twin Peaks meant to be the good one, and it just got infected with Bob and all his evil-doing Woodsmen cronies? Or is our Twin Peaks the one in the middle that balances everything out? Where there is goodness but also darkness?
I'll come back to that.
Before the July 4 break from The Return, what we had were mainly pieces that we had no clue how to place together. Cooper has descended through several layers of hell, into the persona of Dougie. Meanwhile, things were happening in Twin Peaks – and Vegas, South Dakota, and New York – that somehow, we must believe, were tied to the bigger story here. Whatever that was.
From episode 9 onwards, the show hit its most conventional stride of narrative-focused episodes, even if all those threads didn't quite tie together. Even in the show they didn't. For while Gordon and crew were learning about portals and glass boxes, it was the Twin Peaks Sheriff's Department that sought out messages from the late Garland Briggs. Only we, the audience, had all the pieces. And still, what to make of them?
I should say here, that when it comes to Lynch's work, I'm not the most analytical of fans. To me, it seems far more appropriate to feel my way through his work. I think it is possible to take away a great deal of meaning from how one instinctively and emotionally reacts to it. That's perhaps why my least favorite film of his is Mulholland Drive – more so because people obsess over the jigsaw of it as opposed to letting the emotion of it consume them, rather than because of the film itself. Of course, people have done the same with The Return. But there's been so much going on, that there's room enough for almost everyone to be satisfied. I hope that people who were fans of Twin Peaks, but not necessarily fans of Lynch per se have found plenty to love too. I suspect they're quietly satisfied, even if especially miffed at that ending. But I digress.
What I love about the narrative style of The Return is that you have to figure it out for yourself. But you can dig as deep or as shallow as you want. All the pieces are there and you can connect the dots as you will. For the narrative at least. For what it means? That's something else entirely.
Since the show ended, I've been reluctant to read too much of other people's thoughts on it, with just a few exceptions. The only piece I religiously read throughout the airing of The Return, were the fabulous weekly recaps written by Keith Ulrich on Mubi Notebook. There are two essays I've found quite interesting now that everything is said and done too:
This piece, also published on Mubi Notebook, puts in a lot of effort to explain the prevailing theories about how all those pieces are meant to be connected, to help us understand the basic concept of multiple universes and Major Briggs' very present actions as a key driving force of The Return's events. I particularly like the idea presented in here that Cooper requests a new tulpa of himself to be the one that goes on to save Laura, while the true Dale returns to Las Vegas to live out his life as Dougie. It's an incredibly attractive idea, and one you could certainly argue for quite strongly and plausibly, though I personally don't think it is the case. If you look at the smile on Dougie's face when he embraces Janey-E and Sonny Jim, you can tell that's Dougie, not Dale.
This rather interesting piece, which really fixates on the whole "dreamer within a dream" angle which supposes that one of the multiple Twin Peaks is actually the TV show, while the other is our reality. Why else would Lynch (yes, actual Lynch, it claims, and not Gordon) be at a Paris café with Monica Bellucci, and why else would the real-life owner of the home used for the Palmer residence appear on screen in the final moments of the show? It's certainly an intriguing interpretation, but I don't buy it at all. It's far too on the nose, and reeks of a sense of nostalgia and meta-ness that is very un-Lynchian. But an interesting read, nonetheless. One of those jigsaw obsessives I was warning you about.
So what do I suggest you make of it all? In short, what you will. Go back and rewatch the whole thing in its entirety if you want. I know I will. Ultimately, you should decide for yourself what it means to you.
To me, it means many things. I've touched on a lot of it here and in my previous essay. I think The Return is significantly interested in death and in Lynch's art as a body of work, and in the duality which is a central concept integral to much of it.
While I like to think that Lynch does things for himself and not his audience – and certainly not for the network – part of me is unable to shake the sense that some of the pieces of The Return are nods to what the Twin Peaks audience hoped for. (And so we have bittersweet moments where we catch up with our beloved characters from more than two decades ago to see where they are now: Andy and Lucy together forever, Bobby and Shelley apart but always linked by a child who now repeats their own mistakes, and Ed and Nadine… I've Been Loving You Too Long. Excuse me, I have something in my eyes. Ahem.) And it is this integral piece of The Return, that leads me to my conclusion, and the emotional side of things that resonated most greatly with me.
I mentioned earlier the idea that there are three Twin Peaks – the good, the bad, and one which encompasses both. The truth, of course, is both this and not. Ever since Eraserhead, Lynch has shown us time and time again that the world does not exist in absolutes. "Good" and "bad" (or "evil" if you're so inclined) aren't mathematical equations. They both exist together. Always have, always like. Like male and female (see Dune), public and private (see Blue Velvet), or strength and weakness (see The Straight Story). There might be multiple Twin Peaks, yes, but they each contain an equal share of good and bad. Such is life.
Consider that disruptive moment when a bullet is shot through the window of the Double R. It's a suddenly scary moment that quickly turns nightmarishly ugly. But even without the gun and the honking and the zombie, it's a moment that most people would agree falls into the bad category. Bobby and Shelley, former lovers, are united as they try to comfort their wayward daughter, Becky, who has just admitted to being beaten by her loser husband. And yet, there is joy present too, when Shelley's new lover, Red, arrives, and the two of them slip outside and enjoy a giddy kiss, enthralled by each other and the promise of a new romance. It doesn't matter what Twin Peaks this specific scene takes place in. There's good and bad. Even in the sense of Becky's story. In an earlier episode, there was a lingering shot of her with a huge smile as she and Steven drove down the road together. Theirs was a shitty relationship, but there were good times too.
Likewise, that final destination of Cooper and Laura/Carrie. It's Twin Peaks, but not. Laura Palmer didn't die here, because she never lived here. In this reality, Laura is Carrie. But just because some homecoming queen wasn't brutally murdered, doesn't mean there's no evil in this version of the world. See the festering corpse on Carrie's couch. Regardless of the how's and why's by our jigsaw-loving friends, the takeaway is this: there's no getting away from the fact that life is the sum of good stuff and bad stuff.
It's inescapable.
This seems like a good place to talk about Audrey. Her storyline has been one of the most debated of The Return. I've heard some interesting theories about it: that she's dead, or in a coma, or banished to a different reality after being raped by Mr. C. My thoughts on it are this – her situation speaks to the larger themes and feelings that I take away from the show at large. I believe there's a definite connection between Audrey and Josie. It is no accident that after witnessing that final shot of Audrey looking at her reflection, it is mirrored in the very next episode by the very shot which began the show in the first place: Josie and her reflection. And remember how Josie ended up?
The world spins.
And this is where I think Lynch reflects inwards, about everything he's done before, the people he's loved and worked with, the people he's lost along the way, and the fact that his end is coming too. (Is it better to bemoan the loss of a loved one, or celebrate the life that was?) He's 71, so he's getting on up there, but he hopefully has a lot of stuff still to say and the desire to put in out there in the world. But the fact, as we've already seen, that so many of his collaborators have passed on already must give him some cause to reflect back on life and try to articulate what he's determined its truths are.
Based on The Return, I think it's that life is for living, though death is an inevitable part of life. Bad stuff happens. Bad stuff even happens to good people. And even "bad" people can have hearts of gold. And even strained father-son relationships have their happy memories of private fantasies. You should always strive to be a good person. Be honorable. Don't make the mistake of thinking that you can single-handedly right the wrongs of the world, but know that even small actions can make a big difference. Smaller good deeds are more powerful in a way. They can impact a person, and turn their life around. Know that actions have consequences, and that even when you think you're committing some tremendous act in the service of what you think is right, the consequences can be catastrophic. The path to hell is paved with good intentions. Remember Hiroshima.
And so, after all of that, we come back to one of the greatest joys of the original Twin Peaks: the celebration of everyday life's small pleasures and the sense that being a decent person pays off in the end. The banality of episode 18 and its unexpectedly abrupt and discombobulating finale overshadowed it, but really, it's a Frank Capra ending: It is a far richer man who can look back on his life and see that he was surrounded with loved ones who made him smile, and whom he made smile too. Forget everything else that you have no control over. Be good and make the most of what life gives you. In the end, death comes from us all. At the end of the day, all you really need is a clean room, reasonably priced.
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Rhesus Macaques sit & groom each other on a Monkey temple rooftop overlooking Jaipur. Most of the city's urban monkeys are Rhesus Macaques who live a life of relative luxury since they are believed by local Hindus to personify Hanuman, the cherished 'Monkey God' who banished evil in the Indian epic Ramayana. Location: Monkey temple (Galwar Bagh), Jaipur (The pink city), Rajasthan, India.
Photo by: Timothy Allen
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By: Molly Flood
During the pandemic, these primates in India have taken "Monkey Business" to a whole new level.
On Thursday, a group of red-faced rhesus macaques attacked a lab assistant near Meerut Medical College in Delhi and ran away with test samples from potential COVID-19 patients. The monkeys climbed up into trees and chewed on the samples before throwing them back.
In old part of Delhi you have groups of monkeys on the street.
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Initially people were worried that this would cause an outbreak in the area, but the tests were retrieved, and none had been damaged. Meerut Medical College superintendent, Dheeraj Raj stated that, "They were still intact and we don't think there is any risk of contamination or spread." However, the patients were retested in order to ensure accurate results.
A family of Rhesus Macaques explore a city landscape. Most of Jaipur's urban monkeys are Rhesus Macaques who live a life of relative luxury since they are believed by local Hindus to personify Hanuman, the cherished 'Monkey God' who banished evil in the Indian epic Ramayana.
Monkeying Around During Lockdown
While this may seem like an event out of a movie, monkeys in India have become bolder during the pandemic. With the country under lockdown, many people who would normally stop and give food to the monkeys while out and about are staying home. Officials have asked the public not to feed the animals in order to minimize the risk of having the virus jump into the species. With a food source suddenly gone, people have reported that food and even cell phones have been stolen from them. It seems that the primates have taken matters (and other people's belongings) into their own hands.
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How COVID-19 Revived the World's Addiction to Plastic
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Dez 21, 2017 | Capítulos, Publicações
Paulo Jorge Fernandes
The Politics of Representation. Elections and Parliamentarism in Portugal and Spain, 1875–1926
Pedro Tavares de Almeida e Javier Moreno Luzón (Eds.)
Eastbourne: Sussex Academic Press
pp.99-123
Sobre o livro:
Electoral and parliamentary arenas play a crucial role in the configuration and dynamics of modern polities. This book explores the practices of citizenship and unveils the fabric of representation in the Iberian countries, during a significant period of liberal politics, that is, from its apogee to its collapse (from the 1870s to the 1920s).
Part One examines the evolution of electoral norms and behaviour, as well as the recruitment profile of MPs. Portugal and Spain share fundamental features, such as the extensive clientelistic mobilisation of voters, the dissemination of fraud and corruption, the supremacy of governmental parties and the prevalence of the "politics of notables".
Part Two focuses on Parliament, questioning constitutional models, internal procedures, legislative action and political activity, as well as coetaneous perceptions and images of the institution and its actors as portrayed in novels, newspaper chronicles, cartoons and photographic reports.
This collection of essays offers a detailed and cogent analysis, as well as a vivid picture, of the politics of representation in Portuguese and Spanish liberalism, revealing significant similarities and differences through cross-country comparisons.
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The third word of verse (67:7) is divided into 2 morphological segments. A preposition and object pronoun. The attached object pronoun is third person feminine singular. Together the segments form a preposition phrase known as jār wa majrūr (جار ومجرور).
Sahih International: When they are thrown into it, they hear from it a [dreadful] inhaling while it boils up.


This trick involves a sort of inversion – the ball starts hanging down, flick it up into the big cup and then rotate and twist the Kendama in a loop-the-loop fashion. You'll do a full circle but at the top of the circle, the big cup is on to of the ball but centrifugal force is keeping it in. The trick is illustrated by the Kendama player below who adds a bit of show by finishing with a spike.


Pendle flew to Lisbon with Go-Fly for the bargain price of £120 per person. The cars were hired for a similar amount from Holiday Autos and the villa we stayed in was found on the web at www.casacristovao.com/. Very good, very cheap and well placed for caving adventures. We even had our own pool, guard dogs and bee eaters !!!
April was a very good time to go as it was just starting to get hot, but leave it until the middle of May for the best weather. Going out of season also means cheaper accommodation and car hire !
We found the caves to be mosty dry so a TSA suit was too hot to wear all the time. The rigging was a bit dodgy but we took a bolt kit so got round every crap spit. There is a caving shop in Torres Novas incase you forget anything, but it was expensive.
There are many caving groups in Portugal and a national society. The speleological interpretation centre at the Algar do Peno is well worth a visit and Portugals top beard is located there, Olympio Martins. He is a top bloke and a mine of information.


Why not escape to the Highlands this Christmas or New Year? If you want to enjoy Christmas or Hogmanay with your family we have some larger cottages, and if you just want to spend some time with a loved one away from the festive madness; we're sure you'll find a suitable cottage. If you're lucky it may even snow!
Seal Skerry Lodge sits in an elevated position and enjoys panoramic views over Loch Pooltiel and to the Outer Hebrides. Architecturally striking the house is stylishly furnished and equipped to a high standard.


this morning as i sit down to write, i am pushed for time. at the same time, i feel the need to avoid rushing myself, and i hope that i find that there is ample time to say what i want to say. so often, i discover at times that are the most hectic, slowing down produces abundant time for all that is needful, and that this is my experience this morning.
for the past couple of years we have had our adult son at home with us, living in our little guest house that was originally built for my wife's mother when she was no longer able to live independently. it has been a joy to have him here, because he is one of the kindest, most gentle people i know, and, even if he weren't, we would still love having him with us simply because he is our son.
my wife loves seeing that he has a good breakfast and a good dinner. she fixes him a lunch to take to work most days, and she insists on washing his clothes, even though he has assured her repeatedly that she doesn't need to do all these things for him. this time of having him here has given her the best of the "empty nest" experience while still being able to mother her youngest child. even though he's not in the house with us, she knows that he is only a few steps away whenever she wants to see him.
he plans to move to a lovely area about five hours away from us. he has saved up to be able to afford the move and to support himself for several months, even though he has no job lined up there yet. we have to support what makes him happy, but it is with mixed emotions that we look toward his departure. we will both miss him terribly, but it is his mother that will suffer the most because she won't be able to do all the little things for him that she has enjoyed doing.
as i've thought about our son's imminent departure, i have realized how interconnected we all are. i will miss giving him a hug and wishing him well as he leaves for work each morning. i will miss his table graces at our evening meal. i will miss seeing his smile every day and hearing about his dreams of life in a new and beautiful place. i know, though, that the anticipation of being on his own once more, of being more fully independent, fills his heart with joy, and i understand how he feels. he must follow his own path and we must encourage him, though it pains us to see him leave.
my prayer for him, for my wife and i, and for all of us is that we can do what makes our heart sing, that we grant others the freedom to experience life on their own terms, and that we lovingly give up the desire to control the lives of others. shalom.


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The applied value of collaborative memory research in aging: Behavioral and neural considerations
Helena M. Blumen, Suparna Rajaram, Linda Henkel
Our aim in this paper is to bring attention to the applied value of collaborative memory research in aging. At this time, much collaborative memory research focuses on the negative effects of collaboration in younger adults, and is primarily basic in nature. Here, we highlight the positive effects of collaboration that have received less attention, with a particular emphasis on the applied value of these effects in older adults. We first review studies to show that recalling in a group improves later individual recall and reduces memory errors in older adults. We then outline a four-step approach towards bridging laboratory and applied collaborative memory research, which involves: (1) complementing traditional paradigms with more ecologically valid paradigms, (2) evaluating these paradigms in applied settings, (3) adapting these paradigms for use with cognitively intact and cognitively impaired populations, and (4) modifying these paradigms to examine the neural systems that operate during collaborative recall.
Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2013.03.003
Collaborative memory
Blumen, H. M., Rajaram, S., & Henkel, L. (2013). The applied value of collaborative memory research in aging: Behavioral and neural considerations. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 2(2), 107-117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2013.03.003
The applied value of collaborative memory research in aging : Behavioral and neural considerations. / Blumen, Helena M.; Rajaram, Suparna; Henkel, Linda.
In: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Vol. 2, No. 2, 06.2013, p. 107-117.
Blumen, HM, Rajaram, S & Henkel, L 2013, 'The applied value of collaborative memory research in aging: Behavioral and neural considerations', Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 107-117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2013.03.003
Blumen HM, Rajaram S, Henkel L. The applied value of collaborative memory research in aging: Behavioral and neural considerations. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. 2013 Jun;2(2):107-117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2013.03.003
Blumen, Helena M. ; Rajaram, Suparna ; Henkel, Linda. / The applied value of collaborative memory research in aging : Behavioral and neural considerations. In: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. 2013 ; Vol. 2, No. 2. pp. 107-117.
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Penang is a stunning island in Malaysia. It is also known as Island of the Areca Nut Palm and the Island of Pearls. This is one of the largest islands in the beautifully unspoiled seas of the Andaman area. Whether you are an expat working here or want to stay here for a few years enjoying the beaches and greenery then you have myriads of options to choose from. It goes without saying that being an island it has a wonderful coastline and properties that face the sea in many areas.
George Town is one of the biggest cities and its capital is known as the, where more than half of its population lives. The population of this diverse island constitutes people from all ethnicities and majority but some 46% are from Chinese descent. Rest of the people have come from different nations and it is a melting pot of many regional and international cultures. People feel comfortable living here due to this cosmopolitan culture.
What are the factors that drive the rents?
You can find different types of properties along the coastline and the rent will be different too. Sea view property for rent in Penang is spread across different areas along the coastline and provides an expansive view of the Andaman Sea. The different types of properties are condominiums, villas in gated communities or more reasonably priced apartment suits in multistoried buildings.
The location is important, even though the properties may be located near the sea. The view matters and decides the rent of a property. Bayan Lepas and Timur Laut are some of the sought after areas.
Size of the house/ apartment, the number of bedrooms and bathrooms etc.
The amenities in the house- fully furnished or unfurnished. It may also be different based on the facilities around the house- like a garden, playground for kids, security etc.
You can see that penthouses and infinity pools really attract people to new properties.
The prices also depend on the term of the lease. When the lease is for a longer period then the prices can be bargained and mutually agreed upon.
Families love the ambiance of an apartment with all facilities like swimming pool, Gym and playground etc.
The close access to shopping malls and other amenities like schools and hospitals attract locals and expats alike and will drive the rent higher.
One needs to be familiar with the prevalent rates and compare the different available properties. Do not sign the lease in a hurry. Penang is a much sought after place due to its cosmopolitan culture and proximity to the ocean. The sea view is spellbinding and adds to the cost of rental places. They are ready to pay the asking amount of rent and enjoy the luxurious lifestyle here. Go through a local agent to get the best deal in town and the best view of the sea as well.


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House receives Trump tax docs after 3-year legal fight
01 December 2022 03:10 (UTC +04:00)
The United States House Ways and Means Committee finally received former US President Donald Trump's tax returns from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on Wednesday following a 3-year-long legal battle, APA reports citing Teletrader.
"Treasury, [the parent of the IRS], has complied with last week's court decision," a Treasury Department spokesperson shared with NBC News. Meanwhile, Committee Chairman Richard Neal told NBC that he expects "to see this [case] through."
Last week, the country's Supreme Court approved the action, rejecting Trump's appeal that would prevent the Treasury from sending the tax documents to the Committee.
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Biden Signs $1.7 Trillion Funding Bill That Includes Ukraine Aid
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Everyday, millions of adults color in coloring books designed specifically for them. No longer is this pastime reserved for children. How big a craze is adult coloring, you ask? To give you an idea, around 12 million adult-specific coloring books were sold in 2015. Incredibly, that is 12 times the amount that was sold in 2014. Clearly, adult coloring books are growing rapidly in popularity. But why? There are several reasons why adults are buying coloring books like they are going out of style (which they are not likely to anytime soon). Read on to learn more.
#1 – Coloring is an ideal stress-reliever – Stressed out? Such is the plight of the human race. Most of us have tried many remedies that promised to give us a little stress relief. While not all of them were effective, coloring is a proven stress-squelcher.
#3 – Coloring is both a social AND an introverted activity – Whether you are an introvert or an extrovert, coloring can benefit you. For an introverted adult, coloring provides a respite from the daily grind and interactions with people. On the other hand, it allows extroverts to connect with friends by hosting/attending coloring parties and other related events.
#4 – Coloring improves motor skills and vision – In 7 Reasons Adult Coloring Books Will Make Your Life a Whole Lot Brighter, Kristian Wilson wrote, "Coloring requires the two hemispheres of your brain to communicate, and the activity itself improves your fine motor skills and vision." For those of us who want to ward off the negative effects of aging, this is great news.
Every grown up should own a coloring book. At the very least, all capable adults should give coloring a try. After all, it can't hurt to try out a fun activity — especially one that relieves stress. Some people may feel silly picking up a colored pencil or crayon in adulthood, but the payoff may be well worth the awkwardness of getting started.
Most adults who love coloring also enjoy other art-based, mindfulness-promoting activities. Besides coloring, one is SegPlay PC, a digital paint-by-numbers game. This unique program is compatible with Windows PC and provides hours of intellect-boosting fun. Prefer to download FREE mobile apps that are art-related? If so, check out SegPlay mobile.
What do you think about coloring for adults? In your opinion, is it just a fad that is sure to die out in a few years, or will it endure? Share with us in the section below.