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Doreen
\"If Doreen Gray were to take a selfie upon her arrival at the elite Chandler Academy, it would capture a face marked with acne, a head full of frizz, and eyes looking anywhere but at the lens. What Chandler queen bee Heidi Whelan sees is a desperate hunger for acceptance and the makings of a willing and useful prot?g?. Heidi?s roommate, Biz Gibbons-Brown, works her Photoshop magic to create a stunning profile pic of Doreen?a glossy, digital makeover that Doreen initially rejects ... only to wake up the next morning transformed as the girl in the picture. But Doreen quickly becomes accustomed to her newfound power and lives without considering consequences of her actions. Only the picture knows the truth, and she will do anything to protect her secret. In this sharp, scandal-filled retelling of Oscar Wilde?s The Picture of Dorian Gray, the men of nineteenth-century London become three girls of twenty-first-century New England.\" --Amazon.com.
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Private Life, Personal Data Protection and the Role of Service Providers: The EU e-Evidence Proposal
In April 2018, the Commission adopted a proposal for the collection of electronic evidence in criminal matters (the so-called e-Evidence Proposal). This proposal pursues the ambition to create an EU-wide legal framework for the collection of electronic evidence in the field of criminal procedure and establishes a new criminal justice paradigm at the EU level: direct cooperation between judicial authorities and service providers. This new type of cross-border cooperation raises important issues, two of which will be addressed in this Article. The first issue concerns the impact of this new criminal justice paradigm on the right to protection of personal data and the right to respect for private life. This Article will provide an assessment of the options presented by the EU institutions (Commission, Council and European Parliament) to safeguard these rights. The second issue relates to the role of private actors, i.e., service providers. This Article will discuss the protective functions assigned to service providers in the Commission's proposal and highlight some of the problematic aspects related to it.
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Poppy Harmon investigates
Unexpectedly finding herself a penniless widow with no real skills, Poppy Harmon opens the Desert Flowers Detective Agency with her two best friends, Violet and Iris, and takes on a burglary investigation that quickly becomes a dangerous case of murder.
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Work-Home Interference and Its Prospective Relation to Major Depression and Treatment with Antidepressants
Objectives Few longitudinal studies have investigated if \"work-home interference\" (WHI), conflicts between work and home demands, predicts depressive disorders. We examined if WHI was prospectively associated with indicators of major depression in a nationally representative sample. Methods We used multiple logistic and Cox regression models to examine if self-reported WHI was related to probable major depression [scoring high on a brief self-report scale based on the (Hopkins) Symptom Checklist] and/or any new antidepressant treatment using the prescribed drug register during a 2-year follow-up. The analytic sample comprised 1576 men and 1678 women, working respondents to the Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey of Health (SLOSH), free of major depression and prior purchases of antidepressants at baseline. Results Altogether, 7% experienced high (very often/the whole time) and 32% moderate (sometimes) WHI. Overall, the analyses indicated prospective associations between especially high WHI and major depression and/or antidepressant treatment also when adjusting for work characteristics (demands, control, support, overtime).However, the estimates for major depression differed by sex. Separate analyses indicated that only women with high WHI were significantly more likely to have subsequent major depression. Analyses further indicated an elevated rate of antidepressant treatment for men in particular, partly explained by work characteristics and that major depression was related to subsequent high WHI. Conclusions Based on a two-year follow-up, this study indicated that high WHI prospectively predicted major depression and/or antidepressant treatment, though effects appeared to differ to some extent by sex.
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A conspiracy in Belgravia
\"Being shunned by Society gives Charlotte Holmes the time and freedom to put her extraordinary powers of deduction to good use. As Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective, aided by the capable Mrs. Watson, she's had great success helping with all manner of inquiries, but she's not prepared for the new client who arrives at her Upper Baker Street office: Lady Ingram, wife of Charlotte's dear friend and benefactor, wants Sherlock Holmes to find her first love, who failed to show up at their annual rendezvous\"--Amazon.com.
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Impact of the COVID-19 crisis on work and private life, mental well-being and self-rated health in German and Swiss employees: a cross-sectional online survey
Background
The COVID-19 crisis has radically changed the way people live and work. While most studies have focused on prevailing negative consequences, potential positive shifts in everyday life have received less attention. Thus, we examined the actual and perceived overall impact of the COVID-19 crisis on work and private life, and the consequences for mental well-being (MWB), and self-rated health (SRH) in German and Swiss employees.
Methods
Cross-sectional data were collected via an online questionnaire from 2118 German and Swiss employees recruited through an online panel service (18–65 years, working at least 20 h/week, various occupations). The sample provides a good representation of the working population in both countries. Using logistic regression, we analyzed how sociodemographic factors and self-reported changes in work and private life routines were associated with participants’ perceived overall impact of the COVID-19 crisis on work and private life. Moreover, we explored how the perceived impact and self-reported changes were associated with MWB and SRH.
Results
About 30% of employees reported that their work and private life had worsened, whereas about 10% reported improvements in work and 13% in private life. Mandatory short-time work was strongly associated with perceived negative impact on work life, while work from home, particularly if experienced for the first time, was strongly associated with a perceived positive impact on work life. Concerning private life, younger age, living alone, reduction in leisure time, and changes in quantity of caring duties were strongly associated with perceived negative impact. In contrast, living with a partner or family, short-time work, and increases in leisure time and caring duties were associated with perceived positive impact on private life. Perceived negative impact of the crisis on work and private life and mandatory short-time work were associated with lower MWB and SRH. Moreover, perceived positive impact on private life and an increase in leisure time were associated with higher MWB.
Conclusion
The results of this study show the differential impact of the COVID-19 crisis on people’s work and private life as well as the consequences for MWB and SRH. This may inform target groups and situation-specific interventions to ameliorate the crisis.
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Night and silence
\"Things are not okay. In the aftermath of Amandine's latest betrayal, October \"Toby\" Daye's fragile self-made family is on the verge of coming apart at the seams. Jazz can't sleep, Sylvester doesn't want to see her, and worst of all, Tybalt has withdrawn from her entirely, retreating into the Court of Cats as he tries to recover from his abduction. Toby is floundering, unable to help the people she loves most heal. She needs a distraction. She needs a quest. What she doesn't need is the abduction of her estranged human daughter, Gillian. What she doesn't need is to be accused of kidnapping her own child by her ex-boyfriend and his new wife, who seems to be harboring secrets of her own. There's no question of whether she'll take the case. The only question is whether she's emotionally prepared to survive it. Signs of Faerie's involvement are everywhere, and it's going to take all Toby's nerve and all her allies to get her through this web of old secrets, older hatreds, and new deceits. If she can't find Gillian before time runs out, her own child will pay the price. One question remains: Who in Faerie remembered Gillian existed? And what do they stand to gain? No matter how this ends, Toby's life will never be the same.\" -- (Source of summary not specified)
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Do Private Firms Invest Differently than Public Firms? Taking Cues from the Natural Gas Industry
We study how listing status affects investment behavior. Theory offers competing hypotheses on how listing-related frictions affect investment decisions. We use detailed data on 74,670 individual projects in the U.S. natural gas industry to show that private firms respond less than public firms to changes in investment opportunities. Private firms adjust drilling activity for low capital-intensity investments. However, they do not increase drilling in response to new capital-intensive growth opportunities. Instead, they sell these projects to public firms. Our evidence suggests that differences in access to external capital are important in explaining the investment behavior of public and private firms.
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Heroine worship
Aveda's finally being forced to deal with fallout from her diva behavior, and the fact that she's been a less than stellar friend to Evie. Or that Scott Cameron, the man Aveda's loved for nearly a decade, is suddenly giving her the cold shoulder. Or that the city has been demon-free for three months. Now Aveda is without the one thing she craves most in life: a mission. When Evie gets engaged and drafts Aveda as her maid-of-honor, she sets out on a single-minded mission to make sure Evie has the most epic wedding ever. Despite the supernatural evil that's been attacking brides-to-be.
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Utjecaj usklađivanja privatnog i profesionalnog života na mentalno zdravlje žena radnica u vezi s ostvarivanjem prava na rodiljni dopust
Usklađivanje privatnog života koji uključuje prije svega majčinstvo, brigu o djeci, kući i brojne druge obveze, i profesionalnog života koji obuhvaća obrazovanje, zapošljavanje, usavršavanje i posvećenost poslu, predstavlja iznimno složen problem s kojim se susreću žene na području rada i radnih odnosa. U današnje vrijeme žene su postale dvostruko ili višestruko opterećene. Pred njih se stavlja svojevrstan izbor između privatnog i profesionalnog života te ih se izlaže životnim izborima i izazovima koji nisu svojstveni muškarcima. Stoga žene radnice sve češće koriste minimum rodiljnog dopusta, a brigu o djeci, obitelji i domu prepuštaju drugim osobama ili ustanovama samo kako bi zadržale posao i omogućile profesionalno usavršavanje i napredovanje. Zbog konstantne izloženosti pritiscima i očekivanjima kako na planu privatnog, tako i na planu profesionalnog života istovremeno, kod žena radnica mogu se razviti određeni poremećaji i stanja koja u značajnoj mjeri mogu utjecati na njihovo mentalno zdravlje. Važeći propisi u Bosni i Hercegovini pružaju minimum prava, ali nedovoljno za uspostavljanje adekvatnog balansa između privatnog i profesionalnog života žena radnica. Bringing into harmony the private life, above all motherhood, care of children, home, and numerous other obligations, and professional life which includes education, employment, further training and dedication to work, pose extremely complex demands on employed women. Women today are doubly or triply burdened. Often they are faced with a choice between private and professional life and challenges that are not typical for men. Some of the consequences are that women take a minimum maternity leave and then have to delegate the care for children, family and home to other persons or to institutions just to keep their job, have time for professional development and achieve promotion at work. The constant pressures both in their private and professional life may lead to certain disorders and conditions that can affect their mental health. The current legislature in Bosnia and Herzegovina offer minimum of rights, quite insufficient for attaining a satisfactory balance between private and professional life of employed women.
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