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Traveling with pets can create havoc for everyone including the staff of an airline company and a coach hire company. The simplest way to travel with your pets is to ask about pet travels before you book with any airline or coach hire company. If you will ask particularly about traveling with pets, you'll often find out straight whether you are allowed to travel with pets or not.
Often, you'll feel bad while traveling with pets even after you have confirmed about the pet travel facilities. The company may have permitted the pets but their services might be poor. Since most travel corporations do not have any exclusive arrangements for pets, you have got to be certain that your airline or coach hire company in particular arranges for the pet travel.
If you need to be certain about pet?s care on the way, you have to look for firms that specifically talk of traveling with pet. You have got to avoid searching for quotes by only looking with the town name- usually, something similar to coach hire Glasgow or London. This will only give you results for regular coach hire firms. Nevertheless what you want is special services. search for them specifically.
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You need to also ensure that you are only journeying to destinations that are pet friendly. Sometimes, you may not find a single shopping area around your destination where you can take your pets together with you while shopping. This could force you to leave the pet at hotel and shop alone. If you are not ready for this, look just for destinations that have special arrangements for folk traveling pets.
You must read about traveling with pets if this is your first time. You may come to grasp some minor issues with pet travels. If you will not read anything, you will only know these issues once you face them.
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Traumatic experiences may make you toughPublic release date: 16-Dec-2011 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Divya Menon dmenon@psychologicalscience.org 202-293-9300 Association for Psychological Science
Your parents were right: Hard experiences may indeed make you tough. Psychological scientists have found that, while going through many experiences like assault, hurricanes, and bereavement can be psychologically damaging, small amounts of trauma may help people develop resilience.
"Of course, everybody's heard the aphorism, 'Whatever does not kill you makes you stronger,'" says Mark D. Seery of the University at Buffalo. His paper on adversity and resilience appears in the December issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. But in psychology, he says, a lot of ideas that seem like common sense aren't supported by scientific evidence.
Indeed, a lot of solid psychology research shows that having miserable life experiences is bad for you. Serious events, like the death of a child or parent, a natural disaster, being physically attacked, experiencing sexual abuse, or being forcibly separated from your family, can cause psychological problems. In fact, some research has suggested that the best way to go through life is having nothing ever happen to you. But not only is that unrealistic, it's not necessarily healthy, Seery says.
In one study, Seery and his colleagues found that people who experienced many traumatic life events were more distressed in generalbut they also found that people who had experienced no negative life events had similar problems. The people with the best outcomes were those who had experienced some negative events. Another study found that people with chronic back pain were able to get around better if they had experienced some serious adversity, whereas people with either a lot of adversity or none at all were more impaired.
One possibility for this pattern is that people who have been through difficult experiences have had a chance to develop their ability to cope. "The idea is that negative life experiences can toughen people, making them better able to manage subsequent difficulties," Seery says. In addition, people who get through bad events may have tested out their social network, learning how to get help when they need it.
This research isn't telling parents to abuse their kids so they'll grow up to be well-adjusted adults, Seery says. "Negative events have negative effects," he says. "I really look at this as being a silver lining. Just because something bad has happened to someone doesn't mean they're doomed to be damaged from that point on."
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For more information about this study, please contact: Mark Seery at mdseery@buffalo.edu.
Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, publishes concise reviews on the latest advances in theory and research spanning all of scientific psychology and its applications. For a copy of "Resilience: A Silver Lining to Experiencing Adverse Life Events?" and access to other Current Directions in Psychological Science research findings, please contact Divya Menon at 202-293-9300 or dmenon@psychologicalscience.org.
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Traumatic experiences may make you toughPublic release date: 16-Dec-2011 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Divya Menon dmenon@psychologicalscience.org 202-293-9300 Association for Psychological Science
Your parents were right: Hard experiences may indeed make you tough. Psychological scientists have found that, while going through many experiences like assault, hurricanes, and bereavement can be psychologically damaging, small amounts of trauma may help people develop resilience.
"Of course, everybody's heard the aphorism, 'Whatever does not kill you makes you stronger,'" says Mark D. Seery of the University at Buffalo. His paper on adversity and resilience appears in the December issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. But in psychology, he says, a lot of ideas that seem like common sense aren't supported by scientific evidence.
Indeed, a lot of solid psychology research shows that having miserable life experiences is bad for you. Serious events, like the death of a child or parent, a natural disaster, being physically attacked, experiencing sexual abuse, or being forcibly separated from your family, can cause psychological problems. In fact, some research has suggested that the best way to go through life is having nothing ever happen to you. But not only is that unrealistic, it's not necessarily healthy, Seery says.
In one study, Seery and his colleagues found that people who experienced many traumatic life events were more distressed in generalbut they also found that people who had experienced no negative life events had similar problems. The people with the best outcomes were those who had experienced some negative events. Another study found that people with chronic back pain were able to get around better if they had experienced some serious adversity, whereas people with either a lot of adversity or none at all were more impaired.
One possibility for this pattern is that people who have been through difficult experiences have had a chance to develop their ability to cope. "The idea is that negative life experiences can toughen people, making them better able to manage subsequent difficulties," Seery says. In addition, people who get through bad events may have tested out their social network, learning how to get help when they need it.
This research isn't telling parents to abuse their kids so they'll grow up to be well-adjusted adults, Seery says. "Negative events have negative effects," he says. "I really look at this as being a silver lining. Just because something bad has happened to someone doesn't mean they're doomed to be damaged from that point on."
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For more information about this study, please contact: Mark Seery at mdseery@buffalo.edu.
Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, publishes concise reviews on the latest advances in theory and research spanning all of scientific psychology and its applications. For a copy of "Resilience: A Silver Lining to Experiencing Adverse Life Events?" and access to other Current Directions in Psychological Science research findings, please contact Divya Menon at 202-293-9300 or dmenon@psychologicalscience.org.
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(Reuters) ? Enforcement staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission may request the commissioners leading the agency that they appeal last month's rejection by a U.S. district judge of a proposed $285 million settlement with Citigroup, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.
In November, Judge Jed Rakoff angrily threw out Citigroup's proposed settlement over the sale of toxic mortgage debt, excoriating the SEC over how it reaches corporate fraud settlements.
Talks aimed at hammering out several other agreements between the agency and financial firms it has accused of misconduct before or during the financial crisis have stalled, people told the Journal.
"Everything's come to a halt because the SEC doesn't know what to ask for anymore in the settlements," one of the people told the newspaper.
If SEC commissioners approve, the agency could appeal the November 28 ruling to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, people familiar with the situation told the newspaper.
An SEC spokesman declined to comment to the Journal on the agency's plans. Officials at the SEC could not immediately be reached for comment by Reuters outside regular U.S. business hours.
(Reporting by Sakthi Prasad in Bangalore; Editing by Matt Driskill)
Pretender to the Instagram throne, EyeEm, a camera and photo discovery app startup, has launched a big update across its Android and iOS apps and the supporting web platform. It's now even even more about visual, location-based search and has also introduced more social features. For the last couple of years one of the main battles around smartphone apps has been around photo apps. One of the main ones to beat in this reach has been Instagram which recently reached around 14 million users, but there's a battle going on in Europe for users which is perhaps less known but equally as fierce.
KINSHASA (Reuters) ? The African Union has urged politicians in the Democratic Republic of Congo to show restraint after the main opposition parties rejected partial election results that showed President Joseph Kabila in the lead.
With fears growing that the publication of preliminary election results in two days could lead to unrest, the continental body said candidates should make any challenges to the outcome through legal channels.
Results from around a third of polling stations give Kabila a clear lead over his main rival, veteran opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi, who has strong support in the capital Kinshasa where outbreaks of violence occurred ahead of the poll.
The opposition says those preliminary results are skewed and were released early to prepare the country for a fraudulent final outcome. The election commission says it was obliged to publish the early figures because hackers put bogus results on its website showing Tshisekedi in the lead.
"(AU Commission President Jean) Ping strongly calls on the entire political class to show restraint and responsibility so that the announcement of the ... results represent a moment of political maturity and reinforce democracy," the AU said in a statement.
Both Kabila's and Tshisekedi's camps say they are confident of victory.
The partial tally released by the electoral commission so far shows Kabila leading with 3,275,125 votes, while Tshisekedi trails with 2,233,447 votes, based on 33.3 percent of polling stations counted.
But the count includes virtually no results from Kinshasa and the percentage varied widely by province. Geographical trends will likely have a strong influence on the overall figure as voting is often on ethnic lines in much of the country.
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The largely Christian country's influential bishops' conference CENCO, which fielded some 30,000 election observers, called in a statement for election authorities to publish more information, including the number of spoiled ballots.
"We ask the Congolese people, political actors and the electoral commission to stick to the truth of the ballot box as expressed and published in the polling stations," it said.
Bishop Nicolas Djomo, president of CENCO, appealed for calm and warned that the country could see protracted civilian unrest similar to 1991 when locals in Kinshasa joined riots led by unpaid soldiers.
"We feel today as if there is a high-speed train heading straight for a wall, and no one wants to put on the brakes," he said, urging political leaders to act responsibly.
Congo's government has beefed up security in anticipation of the announcement of the results. Overnight, U.N. peacekeepers, Congolese riot police and heavily armed presidential guard soldiers patrolled the streets of Kinshasa.
Opposition parties on Saturday rejected the partial results and called on African leaders to intervene to prevent violence. Tshisekedi's party has ruled out a unity government, such as those put in place to calm post-election disputes of recent years in countries such as Kenya and Zimbabwe.
The presidential and parliamentary elections have been marred by chaotic organization, fraud allegations and violence in which at least 18 people have died, according to a toll provided by U.S.-based Human Rights Watch.
Three candidates called last week for the election to be annulled. African election observer groups said the poll was broadly credible despite cases of irregularities.
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