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\"Sent on assignment to L.A., U.S. Navy SEAL chief Wes Kelly agrees to go on a blind date with beautiful single mother Brittany Evans, sister-in-law of a fellow SEAL. After all the woman he's been secretly in love with for years belongs to another man. When Brittany is put at risk, because of Wes, he knows he can keep her safe. But, where Brittany is concerned, could Wes be the one in real danger?\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Workshop on Rebuilding Abalone Stocks in British Columbia
An international Workshop on Rebuilding Abalone Stocks in British Columbia was held during February 23-26, 1999, in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. The main goal of the workshop was to develop a realistic strategy to rehabilitate depleted northern (pinto) abalone, Haliotis kamtschatkana, stocks in British Columbia.
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The mediation of matchmaking: a comparative study of gender and generational preference in online dating websites and offline blind date markets in Chengdu
Online dating has modernized traditional partner search methods, allowing individuals to seek a partner that aligns with their preferences for attributes such as age, height, location, or education. Yet traditional forms of partner selection still exist, with continued parental involvement in the matching process. In this paper, we exploit different matchmaking methods with varying degrees of youth autonomy versus parental involvement. We use a unique dataset collected in Chengdu, China, where profiles from the blind date market (
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= 158) capture parental preferences and profiles from an online dating website (
n
= 500) capture individual preferences. Regarding gender, we find that men generally display a desire for women younger, shorter, and less educated than themselves, while women desire older and taller men of the same education as themselves. With regards to parental influences, we find parents specify a narrower range of accepted partner attributes. Further, we find an interaction effect between gender and generational influences: the preferences of parents advertising their daughters on the blind date market show a greater discrepancy in attribute preferences to the online daters than parents advertising their sons.
Journal Article
URBAN PARK AND AGING PEOPLE IN CHINA: A NEW CHALLENGE FROM OLD PEOPLE’S “PARENTS BLIND DATE”
Older people are the fastest-growing age group in the world. What accompanies the trend of rapid population ageing is a sustained increase in urban population. To improve urban older people’s quality of life (QoL), World Health Organization (WHO) [1] proposed a framework of “Age-friendly Cities” and green space has been identified as one of the most important age-friendly features. The park is an important element in green space, and it provides a place for the older people of this specific group. However, a unique cultural phenomenon in China named “Parents blind date”, which means parents attend to the blind date like a marriage interview instead of their children who are single, has appeared in the social networking and activities of elderly in the park. This gradually evolved into a new form of activity setting up the place in the main area of park and has become the main purpose of part of the elderly going to the park. In this content, the park management and strategies are facing a dilemma: on one hand, the park becomes more age-friendly by providing spaces for older people’s “parents blind date”, but it may lead the potential risk of park management for assuring this group of older people’s “security”. On the other hand, the emerging activity is taking up public space increasingly in the park, most of the urban parks in China have been built. Therefore, urban planners need to reflect on how to transform and update the needs of the elderly to help existing Chinese urban parks to serve the elderly better.
Journal Article
Random 1. Permission to Grow
The Random 1 team meets Kevin, a shy, young man with special needs. He has a simple request: help him find his first date. While not in the match-making business, when Christina steps out of her car, they realize they have the opportunity to help Kevin experience what we all want ... to feel accepted.
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Hiding in Plain Sight
All of us live on multiple mattering maps along with physical ones. On mattering maps the terrain looks different in the eyes of each person because it matters differently to each of them. A mattering map is based on the complex cultural and personal values and experiences of each person. This concept, in different guises, is at the core of many psychological theories, including my own (Kaschak 1993, 2010, 2013.) Accordingly, coming to know another person evolves from coming to understand her or his perspectives and meanings—that is, what matters to the person. A relationship thus involves managing two
Book Chapter
When perfect strangers find a perfect match
Speaks to three couples who met each other through a radio competition, through friends, and through a newspaper advertisement. Asks why they opted for the unusual matchmaking methods and how their relationships have fared. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
Newspaper Article
CULTURE MONSTER; Meeting her match; The unscripted 'Blind Date Project' mirrors reality
The show has attracted a diverse group of talent in the date role, including Patrick J. Adams (\"Suits,\" \"Luck\"), Jason Ritter (\"Parenthood\"), Jeremy Sisto (\"Law & Order,\" \"Suburgatory\"), Jon Huertas (\"Castle\"), actress Troian Bellisario (\"Pretty Little Liars\") and Edi Gathegi, (\"Justified,\" \"X-Men: First Class\").
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