�A new study from researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University sheds light on why smokers' intentions to quit "cold turkey" often hushing out inside days or even hours.
If a smoker isn't longing for a cigarette when he makes the decision to kick the habit-and most aren't-he isn't able to foresee how he will feel when he's in demand of a nicotine buzz.
Published in the September issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, the study, "Exploring the Cold-to-Hot Empathy Gap in Smokers," bolsters the theory that smokers not in a state of craving a cigarette will underestimate and underpredict the intensity of their future urge to smoke.
"We have observed previously that the idea of smoking a cigarette becomes increasingly attractive to smokers while they are craving," said the study's lead investigator and University of Pittsburgh professor of psychology Michael Sayette. "This bailiwick suggests that when smokers are not craving, they fail to appreciate just how powerful their cravings will be. This lack of brainstorm while not craving whitethorn lead them to cause decisions-such as choosing to attend a party where there volition be lashings of smoking-that they whitethorn come to regret."
The study looked at the cold-to-hot empathy gap-that is, the tendency for people in a "cold" state (non influenced by such visceral factors as hunger, tiredness) to mispredict their own behavior when in a "hot" state (hungry, exhausted), in part because they can't remember the saturation of their past cravings.
The researchers gathered 98 male and female smokers for two experimental sessions and placed them in unmatched of ternion groups: "hot," "cold," and a comparison group. Those in a "hot" res publica were asked to abstain from smoke for 12 hours prior to Session 1 and then were induced to crave a cigarette by holding, only not smoking, a lit one.
Those in a "cold" state smoked up until Session 1 began and did non hold a lit butt. The comparison group did not wait on Session 1.
During Session 1, "hot" and "cold" participants were asked to indicate the minimum amount of money they would motivation to detain smoking for five proceedings in Session 2, when all participants would be in a "hot" commonwealth. Smokers in all three groups were required to abstain from smoking for 12 hours prior to Session 2 and would experience the lit coffin nail cue described above.
During Session 2, when the subjects in all three groups were craving, they were given the chance to revise the amount of money they would need to retard smoking for five minutes. As expected, the "cold" smokers from Session 1 now significantly increased the amount of money they would need to delay smoking for just phoebe minutes, piece those primitively in a "hot" province during Session 1 did not request an increase.
The study participants from the "cold" group were much less probable to accurately predict the amount of money they would need to position off light up. In fact, in Session 2, nearly half of the "cold" smokers requested an amount of money higher than what they had initially predicted, while exclusively a quartern of the "hot" grouping did the same.
"These findings suggest that smokers ar likely to underpredict their own future desire to smoke when they're not craving a cigarette," aforesaid study coauthor George Loewenstein, the Herbert A. Simon Professor of Economics and Psychology at Carnegie Mellon.
"The research not only has implications for helping smokers quit, only it too enlightens us on how nonsmokers english hawthorn pick up the habit. If smokers can't apprize the saturation of their need to smoke when they aren't currently craving, what's the likelihood that people world Health Organization have ne'er smoked can buoy do so," said Loewenstein.
Founded in 1787, the University of Pittsburgh is an internationally famous center for learning and research in the liberal arts, sciences, humanistic discipline, professions, and health sciences, as substantially as a partner in regional maturation. The University offers close to 400 distinct degree programs and confers 7,000 degrees yearly. With 34,000 students and more than than 12,000 faculty, research associates, and staff on basketball team campuses, the University, a public institution of higher education, contributes $1.5 billion to the local economy and provides a wide grasp of programs and services for residents of Western Pennsylvania. Pitt is a member of the esteemed Association of American Universities, an brass of 62 preeminent doctorate-granting research institutions in the United States and Canada.
Carnegie Mellon is a private research university with a distinctive mix of programs in applied science, computer skill, robotics, clientele, public policy, fine humanities and the humanities. More than 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students receive an training characterized by its focusing on creating and implementing solutions for real problems, interdisciplinary collaboration, and invention. A minor student-to-faculty ratio provides an opportunity for close interaction between students and professors. While technology is permeating on its 144-acre Pittsburgh campus, Carnegie Mellon is also distinctive among leading research universities for the world-renowned programs in its College of Fine Arts. A orbicular university, Carnegie Mellon has campuses in Silicon Valley, Calif., and Qatar, and programs in Asia, Australia, and Europe.
Source: Sharon Blake
University of Pittsburgh
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Sunday 24 August 2008
Mp3 music: Mr Oizo
 Artist: Mr Oizo: mp3 download Genre(s): Alternative Experimental Mr Oizo's discography:  Moustache (Half A Scissor) Year: 2005 Tracks: 17  Stunt Year: 2004 Tracks: 2  Last Night A DJ Killed My Dog Year: 2000 Tracks: 6  Flat Beat Year: 1999 Tracks: 4  Analog Worms Attack Year: 1999 Tracks: 16 Though it's a certain count he'll linger in the minds of most only for his omnipresent Levi's advert and 1999 European chart-topper "Monotone Beat," music-video managing director Quentin Dupieux sour in some first-class electronic productions as Mr. Oizo. Far from the madding crowds of ad-oriented hipster trance or jungle, "Flat Beat" was a midtempo techno production with hard deformed effects and a playful nature that correspond perfectly with the optical focus, a sock marionette. While soundless a stripling, Dupieux began directional poor films for French television system, and off in no less than trash can School kit and moolah betwixt 1994 and 1998. His associations with the music domain began in 1997, when starring French dance citizen Laurent Garnier serendipitously bought a motorcar from Dupieux's sire. Dupieux directed the video recording for Garnier's "Flashback" single, as well as the long-form video Nightmare Sandwiches star and featuring music by Garnier. That year, he to a fault affected into music production, with his debut single "#1" approach into margaret Court on Garnier's F Communications label. After the picture he (naturally) directed for second single "M-Seq" landed on an ad agency desk, he was tapped to engine driver the commercial that launched Levi's vaunted non-denim strain of trousers. The flake mention -- featuring a marionette named Flat Eric maniacally bobbing his headway to the medicine in the rider seat of a Chevelle piece a nonplussed human driver concentrated on the route -- shortly became celebrated crossways Europe, and the single (too on F Communications) strike number unmatched all across the continent. (It eventually sold over two meg copies.) The obligatory full-length Parallel Worms Attack followed in October, and earned American dispersion other the following year. Dupieux also directed the picture for "Party People" by Alex Gopher. |
Thursday 14 August 2008
Download Albert Ammons
 Artist: Albert Ammons: mp3 download Genre(s): Blues Discography:  Collection (Boogie Woogie) Year: Tracks: 21 Albert Ammons was one of the braggy iII of late-'30s boogie-woogie along with Pete Johnson and Meade Lux Lewis. Arguably the most potent of the three, Ammons was likewise elastic enough to play swing music. Ammons played in Chicago clubs from the twenties on, although he likewise worked as a taxi figure one sir Henry Joseph Wood for a time. Starting in 1934, he light-emitting diode his own dance band in Chicago, and he made his first-class honours degree records in 1936. In 1938, Ammons appeared at Carnegie Hall with Pete Johnson and Meade Lux Lewis, an event that in truth helped plunge the boogie-woogie craze. Ammons recorded with the early pianists in duets and trios, match right in with the Port of Harlem Jazzmen on their Blue Note session, appeared regularly at Cafe Society, recorded as a sideman with Sippie Wallace in the forties, and he even cut a academic session with his son, the great tenorman Gene Ammons. Albert Ammons worked steadily throughout the forties, playing at President Harry Truman's inauguration in 1949; he died by and by that year. Many of his recordings are soon available on CD. |
Wednesday 6 August 2008
Man From U.N.C.L.E Persuaded Nicholson Not To Quit
Jack Nicholson almost off his bet on on an acting calling during his youth afterward suffering a loss of confidence, according to his pal Robert Vaughn. The Shining histrion became so frustrated while rehearsing scenes with Vaughn in a mid-1950s acting class, he considered embarking on a different life history path. But, in his upcoming memoir, A Fortunate Life, Vaughn reveals he managed to persuade Nicholson to change his intellect. Vaughn writes, "He stated, `Vaughnie, I'm going to give myself two more years in this commercial enterprise. Then I'm going to look for another means to make a surviving.' "'Hang in thither, Jack, ' I told him. 'You're too loretta Young to quit.'" Nicholson took the advice, lastly "figured out how to do this thing called acting", and shot to fame in 1969's Easy Rider.
Friday 27 June 2008
Pitt, Jolie give $1m to kids impacted by war
Actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have donated $1 million for educational aid to children impacted by the Iraq war in that country and in the United States.
The Jolie-Pitt Foundation has given $500,000 to three groups in the war-torn country which will provide aid for some 5700 children, said the Education Partnership for Children of Conflict, which is co-chaired by Jolie.
Money will pay for basic necessities, including books and supplies to help send Iraqi children to school. Aid will also go to refugee kids, and to school rehabilitation programs.
The foundation also gave $500,000 to help children in the United States who have a military parent killed in Iraq, or who are separated from a parent stationed in the country.
The donation for U.S. kids will go to the Armed Services YMCA Operation Hero Program, which will provide educational tutors and counseling to 2500 kids.
Pitt, 44, and Jolie, 33, have donated millions of dollars to charity over the years. Jolie, star of action movie Wanted, has long been an advocate for refugees and is a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Pitt, who starred in critically acclaimed Babel, has advocated for relief in the Darfur region of Sudan and has backed a program to help build homes for survivors of Hurricane Katrina in the United States.
The pair have four kids of their own, and Jolie is expecting twins.
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Thursday 19 June 2008
Patrick Cassidy
Artist: Patrick Cassidy
Genre(s):
Easy Listening
Discography:
Immortal Memory
Year: 2004
Tracks: 10
The traditional music and mythology of Ireland is the foundation for the orchestral compositions of Patrick Cassidy. Best known for his riotous melodies and superimposed orchestrations, Cassidy has emerged as Ireland's most successful composer. The Dorchester Journal called him, "Ireland's modern Mozart" spell The Marietta Daily Journal praised him for "successfully transferring the intimate nuances of antediluvian Irish melodies to the orchestral palette." In 1992, Cassidy was named "Person of the Year" by the city of Limerick for his contributions to Irish culture. One of ten-spot children, Cassidy was brought up speaking the Irish nomenclature. Studying piano as a youngster, he played in rock bands with his brother, Frank world Health Organization directly serves as his business concern manager. Although he earned a Masters degree in applied math from Limerick University, he continued to be spell-bound by music. Cassidy released his debut album Cruit in 1988, featuring music by seventeenth and eighteenth century Irish harpers arranged for a baroque period ensemble and Irish harp. Cassidy's most successful composing, The Children of Lir, with a libretto in the Irish nomenclature and based on the antediluvian Annals of Ulster, was premiered at the National Concert Hall in Dublin, with client instrumentation by the Chieftains, and disseminate by RTF radio. The drawn-out piece of music was later performed at the Lorrient Festival for an audience of more than 200,000 citizenry. In October 1992 the piece was recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra and the Tallis Chamber Choir at Abbey Road Studios. Released deuce geezerhood later, the album received a gold record award in Ireland. In 1995, Cassidy was licensed by the Irish Echo newspaper and Wild Geese, Inc. to compose Shortage Remembrance during the hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of Ireland's expectant shortage. The piece was premiered at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York on March 10, 1996. A CD featuring most of the live cast was released by Windham Hill a class afterwards. Cassidy returned to the Annals of Ulster for his 1998 orchestral piece Deirdre of the Sorrows.
Thursday 12 June 2008
Toto
Artist: Toto
Genre(s):
ROck: Alternative
Other
Pop
Rock
Rock: Pop-Rock
Soundtrack
Rock: Soft Rock
Discography:
Falling in Between
Year: 2006
Tracks: 10
Love Songs
Year: 2003
Tracks: 15
25th Anniversary: Live in Amsterdam
Year: 2003
Tracks: 19
Through the Looking Glass
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
Caught In The Balance (CD 2)
Year: 2002
Tracks: 10
Mindfields
Year: 1999
Tracks: 13
Livefields
Year: 1999
Tracks: 19
Toto XX: 1977-1997
Year: 1998
Tracks: 13
Tambu
Year: 1995
Tracks: 12
Kingdom of Desire
Year: 1993
Tracks: 12
Absolutely Live, CD2
Year: 1993
Tracks: 5
Absolutely Live, CD1
Year: 1993
Tracks: 8
Past to Present 1977-1990
Year: 1990
Tracks: 13
The Seventh One
Year: 1988
Tracks: 11
Fahrenheit
Year: 1986
Tracks: 10
Isolation - Lenny Castro
Year: 1984
Tracks: 10
Dune
Year: 1984
Tracks: 17
Toto IV
Year: 1982
Tracks: 10
Turn Back
Year: 1981
Tracks: 8
Hydra
Year: 1979
Tracks: 8
Toto
Year: 1978
Tracks: 10
The Essential
Year:
Tracks: 14
Absolutely Live (CD 2)
Year:
Tracks: 5
Absolutely Live (CD 1)
Year:
Tracks: 8
Toto was formed in Los Angeles in 1978 by David Paich (b. June 21, 1954, Los Angeles; keyboards, vocals), Steve Lukather (b. October 21, 1957, Los Angeles; guitar, vocals), Bobby Kimball (b. Robert Toteaux, March 29, 1947, Vinton, LA; vocals), Steve Porcaro (b. September 2, 1957, Connecticut; keyboards), David Hungate (b. Texas; bass), and Jeff Porcaro (b. April 1, 1954, Hartford, CT; d. August 5, 1992, Hidden Hills, CA; drums). Paich was the son of arranger Marty Paich; the Porcaros were the sons of percussionist Joe Porcaro. The bandmembers had met in high school and at studio roger Sessions in the seventies, when they became some of the busiest session musicians in the music job. Paich, Hungate, and Jeff Porcaro wrote songs for and performed on Silk Degrees, the multi-million-selling 1976 album that combined pop up, rock, and disco elements into a slick combination which heavy influenced mainstream pop music.
Toto released its self-titled debut album in October 1978, and it hit the Top Ten, sold two-million copies, and spawned the amber Top Ten individual "Defy the Line." The gold-selling Hydra (October 1979) and Turn Back (January 1981) were less successful, just Toto IV (April 1982) was a multi-platinum Top Ten hit, featuring the first hit "Africa" and the Top Tens "Rosanna" (about Lukather's girlfriend, picture principal Rosanna Arquette) and "I Won't Hold You Back." At the 1982 Grammys, "Rosanna" south Korean won awards for Record of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Performance, and Best Instrumental Arrangement With Vocal; and Toto IV south Korean won awards for Album of the Year, Best Engineered Recording, and Best Producer (the group). In 1984, a tierce Porcaro brother, Mike (b. May 29, 1955), joined the group on sea bass, replacement Hungate. Then trail singer Kimball cease and was replaced by Dennis "Fergie" Frederiksen (b. May 15, 1951, Wyoming, MI).
Toto's fifth album, Isolation (November 1984), went gold, only was a commercial-grade letdown. Frederiksen was replaced by Joseph Williams (b. Santa Monica), the son of the conductor/composer John Williams, for Fahrenheit (August 1986). Steve Porcaro cease in 1988, prior to the release of The Seventh One. In 1990, Jean-Michel Byron replaced Williams for the new recordings on Past to Present 1977-1990, and so left, as Lukather became the group's trail singer. Jeff Porcaro died of a heart attack in 1992, simply was featured on the group's succeeding album, Realm of Desire. By this time, Toto was far more popular in Japan and Europe than at home. The group added British drummer Simon Phillips. Tambu, released in Europe in the late fall of 1995, appeared in the U.S. in June 1996. For 1999's Mindfields, Bobby Kimball returned to the lineup after a 15-year absence. The group members continued to do sitting work during the band's incumbency, contributory significantly to the reasoned of mainstream pop/rock in the seventies, '80s, and '90s.
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