Autonomy

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• A sense of autonomy is a primary reward or threat for the brain

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  This is the fourth in a series of five posts about the big drivers of threat and reward in the brain. So far I have posted about status , certainty and relatedness . This week lets explore the issue of autonomy. Autonomy is a feeling of having choices. This feeling turns out to be deeply upsetting when taken away ...
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• It’s all about you

  
  Marine Snow — Authority: 118
  My first word, according to my Mum, was “No”, and my second word was “Mine”. For someone who made such a promising start at asserting themselves, it seems to have frittered out over the years.  I’ve been thinking a lot about boundaries today. Not just because of the number of arguments I’ve had with ...
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• 403. Le droit, cest moi

  
  Judging Crimes — Authority: 116
  From The Slovak Spectator , news of an open letter from 15 judges protesting disciplinary proceedings against one of their number.  Well, of course they dont like it, right?  But this story comes with a twist: The letter by the 15 judges cites cases of disciplinary proceedings against Judges Anna Benešová, ...
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• Feminism and Brit Milah: Reconciling Faith and Personal Politics

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 160
  For the vast majority of my life, I never even considered questioning the ethics of male circumcision. When something is so ingrained in one’s culture, it seems strange to question it. And I’m not referring to the fact that the United States has a circumcision rate of 75%. Growing up in a Jewish community, in [...]
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• Helicopter Parenting Wrong for All Cultures

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 562
  Parenting is an incredibly rewarding albeit frequently challenging experience. Unfortunately issues from ‘over-parenting’ — where parents dominate their children’s life with the meddling often extending into adolescence and continuing until college entry — transcend geographic boundaries. Parents exert ...
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• The Ethics of Neonatal Circumcision

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 160
  The last couple months have seen a flurry of reports in the media (particularly American media) regarding male circumcision and its potential health benefits. However, most of the coverage in the U.S. of male circumcision fails to discuss what I think is the most important issue, the ethics.Before continuing, though, ...
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• Security beefed up for Guwahati ODI

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Guwahati (Assam), Nov.6 (ANI): Security has been tightened for the sixth one-day international between India and Australia to be played here on Sunday.Police and sources said that a three-tier security blanket has been thrown in and around the Nehru Stadium, the venue of the match.Both teams will arrive in the city on ...
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• US Senate: Move Quickly on Sexual Assault Bill

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 686
  (New York) - The introduction in the Senate today of the Justice for Survivors of Sexual Assault Act of 2009 is a significant step toward eliminating the backlog of evidence in rape cases, Human Rights Watch said today.   read more
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• Option 1: Work more; Option 2: Work less; Option 3 ...

  
  Pause — Authority: 110
  Kris at The HR Capitalist caught my attention with his post, "Being a Star - Either Put In More Hours Than Others, or Start Eliminating Stuff (But Stop Whining)...." He says: Work/life balance is a choice.  You wont be able to be your version of Bono with work/life balance as your goal.  More and more, I run ...
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• Political autonomy at risk with Hydro Quebec deal

  
  NJN Network — Authority: 490
  Being a poor province, PEI has no real autonomy. Autonomy follows economic wealth. PEI has little of both. When the Joe Ghiz Liberals were first elected in 1986, then Agriculture Minister Tim Carroll said the only job for PEI politicians was to go to Ottawa and get more money. The cavalier view of PEI’s economic ...
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• ICAI and audit firms against the power given to public sector banks to choose there own statutory auditor

  
  LEGAL & FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM TAX GURU — Authority: 444
  The extra freedom given to the 26 public sector banks from this year to choose their statutory auditors has auditing companies — both those chosen and those left out — restive. They have approached the Union finance ministry and the Prime Minister’s... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ...
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• Loss-making Blinkx in £5m share placement

  
  Broadband TV News — Authority: 518
  Autonomy is to underwrite a £5 million (€5.56 million) share placement by Blinkx, the company it demerged in April 2007, as the video search company announced it had doubled pre-tax losses to $7.3 million (€4.9 million) for the six months to September 30. Although revenues had risen from $6.4 million to $13.1 ...
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• India: Reveal Truth about Childbirth Deaths

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 686
  (New York) - India is falling behind other countries in meeting international commitments to improve obstetric care because it does not adequately monitor deaths and injuries in the critical period following childbirth and fix gaps in its health system and programs, Human Rights Watch said today. read more
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• Policing Disability

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 645
  There are some things which people need to be aware of, both about policing identity, and about our community specifically. Policing Identity: Policing identity is not acceptable. People who self-identify as disabled may come to this from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives, and it is not appropriate for an ...
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• Semantics and Enterprises

  
  Cogito — Authority: 91
  When you search for something on the Internet, you always know which search engine you are using (Yahoo!, Bing and Google are the most popular), but when you search for something at work, sometimes you have no idea where the information comes from. You really don’t know which system you’re using, you just limit ...
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• Where does a wise man hide a leaf?

  
  Chris Dale Lawyer Support — Authority: 421
  What connects Father Brown’s deduction that a trusted old soldier had been a villain with Autonomy’s tracing of Jérôme Kerviel’s activities at Société Générale? Both stories involved not just hiding leaves in forests but making a forest in which to hide the leaves. Companies need to get a grip on their ...
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• 400. How its done

  
  Judging Crimes — Authority: 116
  This blog has periodically asked what it takes to fire a judge.  (See post 60 and post 185 .)  Its also frequently pointed out the extremes many judges have to go to before attracting the attention of disciplinary commissions.  (See post 326 and post 343 .)  A couple items recently have spelled out the way ...
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• Seven separatists killed in Manipur encounter

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Imphal, Nov 1 (IANS) Seven separatists were killed in a pre-dawn encounter with security forces Sunday in the northeastern state of Manipur, police said.A police spokesperson said the encounter took place between a group of heavily armed militants and a column of the paramilitary Assam Rifles near village Sanapat in ...
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• Questions over Autonomys growth raise concerns

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  Cash flow is king. Or so it should be for IT companies. This is a sector defined by spectacular blowups where ephemeral profits never quite turn into pounds and pence.
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• Mel Gibson believes Braveheart paved way for devolution in Scotland

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  London, October 31 (ANI): Mel Gibson believes that his 1995 film ‘Braveheart’ led to political upheaval in Scotland, as the country was granted autonomy by the U.K government in 1998.The actor insisted that the mood for devolution in Scotland was set by the historical movie about legendary Scot, William ...
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