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Dr Sam Huang
|Senior Lecturer in Tourism Management
|University of South Australia Business School
|School of Management
|City West Campus
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Dr. Songshan (Sam) Huang is currently a senior lecturer in Tourism Management in the School of Management, University of South Australia Business School. He obtained his PhD degree from the School of Hotel and Tourism Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Sam has extensive industry and administrative experiences in the tourism industry in China. Before pursuing his PhD in Hong Kong, he had been working for seven years as a government official in the Human Resources Department of the China National Tourism Administration (CNTA). He was also among the first group of selected young outstanding ministerial and local government officials receiving elite training from the National School of Administration of the Central Government. While in the CNTA, he was mainly in charge of human resources development issues in China's tourism industry, such as the national tour guide selection examination and travel agent qualification training; he also worked from time to time for other CNTA departments in various marketing and policy-making projects. Due to his knowledge and experience in China's tourism industry, Sam had the privilege of working with a World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) expert panel for the criteria formulation of the China Best Tourism City Project. His previous job in CNTA enabled him to gain a thorough understanding of the tourism industry and political system in China.
Dr. Huang has been actively involved in tourism research and policy activities in China. He worked as an invited research fellow for the Policy Research Center of the People's Government of Anhui Province. As a native Mandarin speaker, he has frequently spoken about research at universites in China.
Since boarding on an academic career, Sam has been working as a devoted researcher. He has published in a wide range of major tourism and hospitality journals. He is now a PhD supervisor and is recruiting Honours and PhD students interested in tourism research.
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Journal of China Tourism Research Special Issue "Domestic Tourism in China: Emerging trends and Issues"----Out Online Now!!! Click here to view articles
Book Link: Economy Hotels in China: A glocalised innovative hospitality sector (S. Huang and X. Sun)
Book Link: Tourism in China: Destinations, Planning and Experiences (Eds: C. Ryan, S. Huang)
Centre for Tourism and Leisure Management
The Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE)
School of Hotel and Tourism Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Teaching interests
- Research Methods in Tourism and Hospitality
- Tourism Marketing
- Tourism Planning and Policy
- Consumer Behavior in Travel and Tourism
I teach the following courses
|Tourism and Hospitality Marketing
|Critical Issues in Tourism in the Asia Pacific Region
Professional associations
Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE)
The International Council of Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education (I-CHRIE)
The Asia Pacific Council of Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education (APacCHRIE)
Editorial Board Membership:
Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing
Journal of Teaching in Travel and Tourism
Journal of China Tourism Research
Guest Editor: Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing Special Issue "Chinese Outbound Travel: Emerging Issues and Implications"
Guest Editor: Journal of China Tourism Research Special Issue "Domestic Tourism in China: Emerging Trends and Issues"
Refereed Journals for which I work as an Ad Hoc Reviewer include the following:
Annals of Tourism Research
Cornell Hospitality Quarterly
International Journal of Hospitality Management
International Journal of Tourism Research
Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research
Journal of Sustainable Tourism
Tourism Management
Top Mid Career Researcher Award in 2014
UniSA 5-Year Supported Researcher Award in 2013
ECR Research Excellence Award in 2011
The Gary Crilley Researcher of the Year Award for 2010
UniSA Early Career Researcher International Travel Award 2010
PhD Tourism Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR.
Master of Education, Beijing Normal University, China.
Graduate Certificate in Public Administration, National School of Administration, China.
BA in Education, Henan University, China
Research interests
- Consumer Behavior in Tourism and Hospitality
- Tourism Destination Marketing
- Tourism Education
- China Tourism Studies
- Tour Guide studies
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- Recent Research Grants
- 1. "Modern Chinese culture value structure: A precursor to cross-cultural tourist behaviour research", external grant funded by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University; 2013-2014.
- 2. "Chinese urban residents' perceptions of Australia as an outbound tourist destination", LCB-UniSA small grant; 2013-2014.
- 3. "A Multilevel Investigation of Factors Influencing Employees' Service Performance"; Business Division Samll Research Grant; 2012-2013
- 4. "Australian Residents' Perceptions of China as a Tourism Detination"; External industry-based research project, 2010-2011.
- 5. "Revalidation of a tour guide interpretation evaluation instrument", co-funded by School of Management at UniSA and Sovereign Hill Museums Association, 2010-2011.
Research publications
Research Books
Huang,S. & Sun, X. (2014). Economy Hotels in China: A Glocalized Innovative Hospitality Sector. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-62656-9. View or order this book via Publisher link
Ryan, C., & Huang, S. (Eds). (2013). Tourism in China: Destinations, Planning and Experiences. Bristol, UK: Channel View Publications. ISBN: 978-1-84541-400-9. View or order this book via Publisher link
Huang, S. & Hsu, C.H.C. (2009). Structural analysis of tourist behavior: A study on past mainland Chinese visitors to Hong Kong. Lambert Academic Publishing. ISBN: 978-3-8383-0808-1.
Refereed Journal Articles:
Huang, S.& Lee. I.S. (2014 Online First). Motivations for attending a multicultural festival: visitor ethnicity matters. Anatolia. DOI: 10.1080/13032917.2014.949806 (ABDC: B). View this article via Publisher link
Su, L., Huang, S. & Chen X. (in press). Effects of Service Fairness and Service Quality on Tourist Behavioral Intentions and Subjective Well-being. Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing. (ABDC rank: A; SSCI) (accepted on 24 January 2014).
Su, L., Huang, S., van der Veen, R., & Chen, X. (2014). Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Reputation, Customer Emotions and Behavioral Intentions: A Structural Equation Modelling Analysis. Journal of China Tourism Research, 10(4), 511-529. (ABDC: B). View this article via Publisher link
Lee, I. S. & Huang, S (in press) Understanding motivations and benefits of attending a multicultural festival. Tourism Analysis (ABDC: A)
Li, G., Yang, X., & Huang, S. (2014). Effects of social capital and community support on online community members' intention to create user-generated content. Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, 15(3), 190-199. (SSCI; ADBC rank: B) View this article via Publisher link
Huang, S., Weiler, B., & Assaker, G. (2014 Online First). Effects of interpretive guiding outcomes on tourist satisfaction and behavioral intention. Journal of Travel Research. (ABDC rank: A*; SSCI; FoR: 1506) DOI: 10.1177/0047287513517426. View this article via Publisher link
Luo, X., Huang, S., & Brown, G. (2014 Online First). Backpacking in China: A netnographic analysis of Donkey Friends' travel behaviour. Journal of China Tourism Research.DOI: DOI: 10.1002/jtr.1994 (ABDC rank: B; FoR: 1506). View this article via Publisher link
Brown, G. & Huang, S. (2014 Online First). Interpreting tourism at Olympic sites: a cross-cultural analysis of the Beijing Olympic Green. International Journal of Tourism Research. (ABDC rank: A; SSCI; FoR: 1506) ). View this article via Publisher link
Hsu, C.H.C., Liu, Z., & Huang, S. (2014 Online First) Acquiring Intangible Resources through Entrepreneurs' Network Ties: A Study of Chinese Economy Hotel Chains. Cornell Hospitality Quarterly. (ABDC rank: A; SSCI; FoR: 1506) DOI: 10.1177/1938965513518659. View this article via Publisher link
Chen, G., Bao, J., Huang, S. (2014). Segmenting Chinese backpackers by travel motivations. International Journal of Tourism Research, 16(4), 355-367. DOI: 10.1002/jtr.1928. View this article via Publisher link (ABDC: A; SSCI)
Chen, G., Bao, J., Huang, S. (2014) Developing a scale to measure backpackers' personal development. Journal of Travel Research, 53(4), 522-536. (ABDC rank: A*; SSCI FoR1506). View this article via Publisher link
Zou, T., Huang, S. & Ding, P. (2014). Towards a community-driven development model of rural tourism: The Chinese experience. International Journal of Tourism Research, 16(3), 261-271.DOI: 10.1002/jtr.1925. View this article via Publisher link (ABDC: A; SSCI)
Huang, S., Liu, Z, & Hsu, C. (2014). Customer experiences with economy hotels in China: Evidence from mystery guests. Journal of Hospitality Marketing and Management, 23(3), 266-293. (ABDC: A). View this article via Publisher link
Gross, M., & Huang, S. (2013). The domestic development experience of a hotel firm 'with Chinese characteristics': the case of Jin Jiang. Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, 54(2), 211-224. (ABDC rank: A; SSCI) View this articel via Publisher link
Gross, M. J., Gao, H., & Huang, S. (2013) China hotel research: A systematic review of the English language academic literature. Tourism Management Perspectives, 6, 68-78. View this article via Publisher link
Assaker, G., Huang, S., Hallak, R. (2012). Applications of Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling in tourism research: A methodological review. Tourism Analysis, 17(5). 679-686. (ABDC rank: A).
Hsu, C. H. C., & Huang, S. (2012). An extension of the TPB model for tourists. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research, 36(3),390-417. DOI: 10.1177/1096348010390817 (ABDC rank: A; SSCI).
Hsu, C.H.C., Liu, Z., & Huang, S. (2012). Manageiral ties in economy hotel chains in China: Comparison of different ownership types during entrepreneurial processes. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 24(3), 477-495 (ABDC rank: A; SSCI)
Huang, S. (2012). Similar exercises, different consequences: An examination of tourism research in national research assessment frameworks. Tourism Management Perspectives, 2-3, 13-18. (New sister journal to Tourism Management).
Wang, X., Huang, S., Zou, T., & Yan H. (2012). Effects of the high speed rail network on China's regional tourism development. Tourism Management Perspectives, 1(1), 34-38. (New sister journal to Tourism Management)
Hu, R. & Huang, S. (2011).A review of doctoral thesis research in tourism management in China. Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism Education, 10(2), 121-125. DOI: 10.3794/johlste.102.382 (ABDC rank: C; SSCI)
Huang, S. (2011). "CHINA,FOREVER": Orientalism Revisited. Annals of Tourism Research, 38(3), 1188-1192. doi:10.1016/j.annals.2011.01.001 (ABDC Rank: A*; SSCI)
Gross, MJ & Huang, S (2011). Exploring the internationalisation prospects of a Chinese domestic hotel firm. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 23(2), 261-274. DOI: 10.1108/09596111111119365. (ABDC rank: A; SSCI)
Huang, S. (2011). Tourism as the subject of China's doctoral dissertations. Annals of Tourism Research, 38(1), 316-319. DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2010.08.005 (ABDC Rank: A*; SSCI)
Huang, S. & Weiler, B. (2010). A review and evaluation of China's quality assurance system for tour guiding. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 18(7), 845-860. DOI: 10.1080/09669582.2010.484492 (ABDC rank: A*; SSCI)
Huang, S. (2010). A revised importance-performance analysis of tour guide performance in China. Tourism Analysis, 15(2), 227-241. DOI: 10.3727/108354210X12724863327803 (ABDC rank: A)
Huang, S. & Gross, M. J. (2010). Australia's destination image among Mainland Chinese travellers: an exploratory study. Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing, 27(1), 63-81. DOI: 10.1080/105400903534923 (ABDC rank: A; SSCI)
Huang, S., Hsu, C.H.C., & Chan, A. (2010). Tour guide performance and tourist satisfaction: A study of the package tours in Shanghai. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research, 34 (1), 3-33. DOI: 10.1177/1096348009349815 (ABDC rank: A; SSCI)
Huang, S. (2010). Post-Olympic Tourist Experience: An Autoethnographic Perspective. Journal of China tourism Research, 6(2), 104-122. (ABDC rank: B)
Huang, S. (2010). Evolution of China's tourism policies. International Journal of Tourism Policy, 3(1), 78-84. (ABDC rank: C)
Huang, S. (2010). Measuring tourist motivation: Do scales matter? Tourismos: An international Multidisciplinary Journal of Tourism, 5(1), 153-162.
Huang, S., Hsu C.H.C. (2009). Effects of travel motivation, past experience, perceived constraint, and attitude on revisit intention. Journal of Travel Research, 48(1), 29-44. DOI:10.1177/0047287508328793 (ABDC rank: A*; SSCI)
Gao, S., Huang, S., Huang, Y. (2009). Rural Tourism Development in China. International Journal of Tourism Research, 11(5), 439-450. DOI: 10.1002/jtr.712. (ABDC rank: A; SSCI)
Huang, S., & Hsu, C.H.C. (2009). Travel motivation: linking theory to practice. International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research, 3(4), 287-295. DOI:10.1108/17506180910994505 (ABDC rank: B).
Huang, S., & Hsu, C.H.C. (2008). Recent tourism and hospitality research in China. International Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Administration, 9(3), 267-287. (ABDC rank: B)
Hsu, C.H.C., & Huang, S. (2006). Purification of a travel motivation instrument. International Journal of Business Research, 6(2), 156-165.( ABDC rank: C)
Huang, S., & Hsu, C.H.C. (2005). Mainland Chinese residents¡¯ perceptions and motivations of visiting Hong Kong: Evidence from focus group interviews. Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, 10(2), 191-205. (ABDC rank: B; SSCI)
Journal Articles in Chinese:
Huang, S. (2001). Problems and solutions on tourism higher education development in China. Journal of Guilin Institute of Tourism, 12(2), 66-69.
Ding, P, Craig-Smith, S, Huang, S. (2001). An overview of current tourism research situation and development in Australia. Tourism Tribune, 16(2), 72-77.
Huang, S. (2000). Current human resource situation of travel business managers in China, Journal of China Association of Travel Services, 33, 8-11.
Huang, S. (1999). A report on tour guiding worldwide. CNTA Tourism Study, 195, 35-38.
Jin, X, & Huang, S. (1997). Analysis and recommendations on resources allocation of higher education in China. Liaoning Higher Education Research, 95, 17-27.
Huang, S. (1994). External environment of higher education under market economy system. Liaoning Higher Education Research, 73, 35-38.
Academic Textbooks
Hsu, C.H.C., Killion, L., Brown, G., Gross, M., & Huang, S. (2008).Tourism marketing: An Asia-Pacific perspective. Milton, Australia: John Wiley & Sons Australia. ISBN: 978-0-470-81490-1.
Tao, H., & Huang, S. (2005). Tour guiding business, Nankai University Press. (IN CHINESE) ISBN:978-7-310-02317-2.
Tao, H., & Huang, S. (2003). An introduction to tour guiding service. China Tourism Press. (IN CHINESE) ISBN: 978-7-503-21367-0.
Book Chapters
Ryan, C. & Huang, S. (2013). The role of tourism in China's transition- An introduction. In C. Ryan, & S. Huang (Eds.) Tourism in China: Destinations, Planning and Experiences.(pp. 1-8). Bristol, UK: Channel View.
Ryan, C., & Huang, S. (2013). Experiences in developing places. In C. Ryan, & S. Huang (Eds.) Tourism in China: Destinations, Planning and Experiences. (pp.11-21). Bristol, UK: Channel View.
Huang, S., & Ryan, C. (2013). Policy implementation, destination evolution, and resident perceptions of MICE tourism. In In C. Ryan, & S. Huang (Eds.) Tourism in China: Destinations, Planning and Experiences. (pp. 115-128). Bristol, UK: Channel View.
Huang, S., Ryan, C., & Yang, C. (2013). Local Governments' roles in tourism institutional evolution. In C. Ryan, & S. Huang (Eds.) Tourism in China: Destinations, Planning and Experiences. (pp.190-207) Bristol, UK: Channel View.
Ryan, C. & Huang, S.(2013). Planning for tourism places. In In C. Ryan, & S. Huang (Eds.) Tourism in China: Destinations, Planning and Experiences. (227-236). Bristol, UK: Channel View.
Ryan, C., & Huang, S. (2013). Chinese tourism research: an international perspective. In In C. Ryan, & S. Huang (Eds.) Tourism in China: Destinations, Planning and Experiences. (pp. 304-315). Bristol, UK: Channel View.
Huang, S. (2010). Toward a behavioral theory of government-firm relationship behavior: "thick-description" of the dynamics of government's role in shaping China's domestic, inbound, and outbound tourism industry. In Arch Woodside (Ed.), Advances in culture, tourism and hospitality research (Volume 4)(pp. 149-163). Bingley, UK: Emerald. ISBN 978-1-84950-900-8.
Hsu, C.H.C., Huang, J, & Huang, S. (2010). Tourism and hospitality research in Mainland China: trends from 2000 to 2008. In D. Pearce & R. Butler (Eds.), Tourism research: a 20:20 vision (pp. 147-160) Oxford, UK: Goodfellow Publishers. ISBN: 978-1-906884-10-9.
Hsu, C.H.C and Huang, S. (2008). Travel motivation: A critical review of the concept's development. In A.G., Woodside, & D., Martin (Eds.), Tourism Management: Analysis, Behaviour and Strategy (pp. 14-27). Cambridge MA: CABI Publishing.
Huang, S. (1998). Market Economy and Higher Education Reform. In X. Jin (Ed.), Education Reform Propelled by the Market Economy Trend (pp.157-213) Guangzhou, China: Guangdong Education Press. (IN CHINESE)
Ding, P., Cooper, C., Huang, S., Chen, Z., & Qiao, L. (2002). Review of Legislation and Administration Controls on the Environmental Management of Tourism Development in China. Brad Cox, Australia: CRC for Sustainable Tourism Pty Ltd.
Selected Refereed Conference Proceedings Articles in the Past Three Years:
Huang, S., Afsharifar, A. & van der Veen, R. (2014). Testing the moderating effects of prior destination knowledge on the relationship between destination experiences and tourist satisfaction: an Iranian case. 24th Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education conference, February 10–14. Queensland University.
Sun, M., Huang, S., & Brown, G. (2013). An exploratory study on Chinese outbound tourists' affective experiences. Proceedings of CAUTHE 2013 Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, 11-14 Feb. 2013. pp. 767-779.
Huang, S., Sun, X. (2012). Australian residents' perceptions of China as a tourist destination. Proceedings of CAUTHE 2012 National Conference, Melbourne, Australia 6-9 February 2012. pp. 303-317.
Selected Book Reviews
Huang, S. (2009). [Review of the book Cultural heritage management in China: Preserving the cities of Pearl River Delta]. Journal of Heritage Tourism, 4(2), 173-174.
Huang, S. (2008). Review of the book Thailand tourism authored by Arthur Asa Berger, Haworth Hospitality & Tourism, TOURISMOS: AN INTERNATIONAL MULTIDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF TOURISM, 3(2), 157-159.
Huang, S. (2006). [Review of the book Tourist behavior: Themes and conceptual schemes]. Tourism Analysis, 11(3), 219-220.
Other publications
Huang, S., van der Veen, R., Zhang, G. (2014). Editorial Essay: New era of China tourism research. Journal of China Tourism Research, 10(4), 379-387. DOI: 10.1080/19388160.2014.952909. View this article via Publisher link
Huang, S. (2014). Horizons and view-angles of China tourism research.(invited written discussion article). Tourism Tribune, 29(1), 8-10. View this article via Publisher link
Huang, S. (2013). Entering the dragon: Is your business China ready? UniSABusiness, Issue 5, pp.12-16. View this article here
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|3 - 7 nights
We include FREE with our pricing the pool and whirlpool/spa heat, as well as the use of a brand new Stainless Steel Weber Natural Gas BBQ outside. With a minimum one week stay, the price also includes the cleaning fee!! It's one price for everything, no extra costs.
The pool is heated by Natural Gas, which most properties in Orlando are not, thus it will heat the pool and whirlpool/spa up to temperature(102 F for the spa). Keep this in mind when booking a Villa as Electricity can NOT heat pools up when it is too cold outside, usually at 50 F or less electricity will not be able to heat up pools and whirlpool/spas properly.
We have recently renovated the house with the following upgrades:
* PS3 Super Slim with 15 games, including Madden 15, NHL 14, MLB 13 The Show, NBA2K13, FIFA Soccer 13, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13, Grand Slam Tennis 2, WWE2K14, and various first person shooters
* Flat screen High Definition TV's in all 5 bedrooms
* A 60' High Definition Smart TV in the Living Room with 5.1 surround sound system that is bluetooth enabled
* Netflix available on 4 of the 6 TV's
* A new Apple Mac desktop computer with an HP Laser printer
* A programmable safe to store all of your important documents
* New laminate flooring in all of the bedrooms
* New Upgraded bedroom furniture
* New Lighting fixtures
* 2 new commercial grade sun loungers on the pool deck
* 6 new pool deck reclining chairs
* A new stainless steel Weber natural gas BBQ (no more running out of propane)
* New Bone China Dishes for 12
* New small appliances
* Brand new Whirlpool S/S Dishwasher
* New Professional Tornado Foosball table!!!
* 10 New Oversized Beach Towels
Please contact us for last minute travel deals, if travel is within 4 weeks of arrival!!!
This is a true multi-family retreat with five spacious bedrooms, three of which have their own full ensuite bathroom. The master bedroom has a King size bed and plenty of space. The main master ensuite has a separate stand up shower, large soaker tub and double vanity, along with direct access to the pool area. There is even a programmable safe (like the ones found at resorts) to store your valuables and documents, located in the walk in closet. The second master bedroom also has a king size bed and the ensuite has a bathtub/shower combination along with direct access to the pool area. Both master bedrooms have lots of storage space to put your belongings away. The third master bedroom is located in the front of the house and has a queen size bed. The other 2 bedrooms have been recently updated with 2 new twin beds and furniture, one in a Mickey Mouse theme and the other in a Toy Story theme. All of the bedrooms have their own flat screen High Definition televisions. Three of the televisions are Smart TVs with the capability of connecting to the internet and Netflix!!
The living room/great room is furnished with new luxurious furniture as well as a brand new 60' High Definition Smart with the capability of connecting to the internet and Netflix. Also attached to the Smart TV is 5.1 surround sound that you can connect your bluetooth device (smart phone, tablet, laptop, etc) to listen to your own music. There is a brand new Apple Mac desktop computer with a 21' screen. We have also included a printer with paper so that you can print off maps, directions, or boarding passes. There are three large skylights which fill the room with lots of natural light, along with 2 ceiling fans to assist with circulating the air.
The kitchen is fully equipped right down to a built-in ice maker in the refrigerator, and service for twelve in both china and plastic for the pool area.
There are 2 dining areas that are able to handle large groups. The kitchen has a dining table and the separate dining room also has a matching table so that 12 guests can eat in comfort.
Outside is the large pool which is heated to 85 degrees F and is attached to the whirlpool/spa. The whirlpool/spa, which has its own waterfall, is heated to 102 degrees F. Throw some steaks on the brand new stainless steel Weber natural gas grill and relax in the spa and while sipping some wine. Never worry about running out of propane and switching gas tanks as it is always connected to the natural gas line. This is included in the price of the rental (most other properties charge anywhere from $50-$75 extra plus the cost of gas).
There is a Brand New Professional Tornado Foosball and a Ping Pong table located in the garage. Along with a basketball for the local court and 2 Tennis rackets for use as well.
Also available for use at no additional cost is a pack and play, 2 high chairs for the little ones. There is a full sized Graco stroller, great for taking to the theme parks and 2 walking strollers for walks in the community neighbourhood. As well as a Step 2 Wagon.
The Villa also is equip with Air Conditioning to keep the house at a comfortable level, especially during the hot summer months, along with numerous ceiling fans.
We are private owners -- not a management company and our biggest thrill is to hear what a great time our guests have had at our vacation home.
There is also a local company available that we have partnered with that will provide 24/7 coverage of any issues that may arise while staying at Autumn Creek Villa.
My brother and I purchased this Villa in 2012 from the original owner when the house was build in 2000. As kids we used to vacation in and around Orlando and thought it would be a great opportunity to continue that with our children. We use the Villa at least twice a year and when we are down there we want to make sure it is maintained up to our standards as well as yours. We are constantly adding and updating to ensure guests have an amazing and memorable vacation, and all the amenities of home.
Hunter Smith and Derek Smith purchased this villa in 2012
We love the house and the City of Orlando FL, there's just so much to do there, so much fun and so many memories to be made.
Of all of the properties we looked at, and believe me we looked at a lot, this is the one that felt most like home. The pool and spa area are so relaxing and the waterfall between the two is a nice touch. There is a door on either side of the covered patio that leads into the bathroom so you're not tracking your wet bathing suits through out the house. There is also lots of natural light that comes into the Villa as a result of 3 skylights in the livingroom. We like to hear from guests and use their suggestions to help improve the Villa itself for future guests.
Indian Creek neighborhood is located very close to the Disney World Complex. Depending on traffic you can get there in approximately10 minutes. It is located close to lots of restaurants, shopping and grocery stores.
We also love everything the Villa has to offer to our family's and guests that stay there. We liked how the previous owner treated the Villa like his own and we have continued on with that. It was the only Villa that has 3 master suits, so everyone feels like they have their own personal space while staying that the Villa.
Everything is included in the price (pool heat, whirlpool heat, cleaning fee, use of BBQ). There is even a new stainless steel Weber Natural Gas BBQ for grilling outside. It has all the comforts of home so it doesn't feel like you're cramped into a 1 room hotel with only 1 bathroom. There is so much space to relax and unwind after a long day of hitting the parks or shopping. Taking a day off and spending the day cooling off in the pool followed by relaxing in the spa in the evening, is a nice way to end the day. The pool area is breathtaking as between the spa and the pool there is a waterfall feature.
The neighborhood of Indian Creek is surprisingly quite and peaceful. There is a park with a playground as well as a tennis court and basketball court.
Close to all of the Disney Theme Parks with the Main Gate only 9 miles away. Epcot is 7 miles away, Hollywood Studios is 6 miles away and Animal Kingdom is only 4 miles away. There is also SeaWorld, and Universal Studios which also has Adventure Island located with in a 10-15 minute drive.
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Summer Rates 2015
Jun 27 2015 - Aug 28 2015
3 night minimum stay
September 2015 Special
Aug 29 2015 - Oct 2 2015
3 night minimum stay
Christmas Holiday Season
Dec 19 2015 - Jan 1 2016
7 night minimum stay
My Standard Rate
3 night minimum stay
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For stays of less than 7 nights, a cleaning fee of $100US will be applied.
Requests for stays less than 7 days will only be accepted on a 'last minute' reservation (less than 60 days prior to arrival) or if the requested days will complete a previously booked week.
Pool and Spa heat is included in Quoted Price. Use of Weber Natural Gas BBQ included in Quoted Price.
Payment is usually accepted in the quoted currency (USD) unless the currency and the amount is specifically agreed in advance with the owner / advertiser.


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Definitions for affecter
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word affecter
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
af•fect*əˈfɛkt; ˈæf ɛkt(v.; n.; v.t.)
to produce an effect or change in:
Cold weather affected the crops.
to impress the mind or move the feelings of:
The music affected him deeply.
(of pain, disease, etc.) to attack or lay hold of.
Category: Pathology
(n.)feeling or emotion.
Category: Psychiatry
Psychiatry. an expressed or observed emotional response.
Category: Psychiatry
Obs. inward disposition or feeling.
* Usage: Because of similarity in pronunciation, affect and effect are sometimes confused in writing. The spelling affect is used of two different words. The verb affect1 means "to act on" or "to move" (His words affected the crowd so deeply that many wept); the noun affect1, pronounced with the stress on the first syllable, refers to emotion or, in psychiatry, emotional response. affect2 is not used as a noun; as a verb it means "to pretend" or "to assume" (new students affecting a nonchalance they didn't feel). The verb effect means "to bring about, accomplish": Her administration effected radical changes. The noun effect means "result, consequence": the serious effects of the oil spill.
Origin of affect:
1350–1400; ME, < L affectus
to pretend or feign:
to affect knowledge of history.
to assume artificially, pretentiously, or for effect:
to affect a British accent.
to use, wear, or adopt by preference:
to affect an outrageous costume.
to assume the character or attitude of:
to affect the freethinker.
(of substances) to tend toward habitually or naturally:
to affect colloidal form.
Archaic. to have affection for. to aspire to.
(v.i.)Obs. to incline:
She affects to the old ways.
* Syn: See pretend.Usage: See affect1.
Origin of affect:
1400–50; late ME < MF affecter < L affectāre
A person who affects to know something or to be something.
Webster Dictionary
one who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after
The Affecter was an Attic black-figure vase painter, active in Athens around 550 to 530 BCE. His conventional name is derived from his artificial affected style of figural painting, on the basis of which about 135 vases can be ascribed to him. He was active as both potter and painter. His speciality were amphorae. He mainly painted ovoid amphorae and belly amphorae, of the then newly introduced type C. Most of the 132 vases associated with him were found in Etruscan tombs and as such are usually well preserved. He was interested particularly in the decorative effect of his images, composed of stylised figures in long cloaks or with affected gestures; narrative content was secondary. In his tendency to formulaic figures and multiple details, the Affecter is a successor to the Amasis Painter, from whom he may have learnt his trade, but whose artistic talent he did not however reach. Together with the painter Elbows Out, he is considered to be a mannerist of the black-figure style. His images often seem to reflect a surreal world. His figures usually have small heads and seemingly upholstered bodies, when clothed, or angular pointed ones, when naked. His ornaments are very carefully drawn. He often decorated garments with coloured dots. His ornaments seem closely related to those of East Greek workshops, such as the Klazomenai Group or the Northampton Group, indicating regular cultural exchange between Attica and Ionia. A special feature of his amphorae is the replacement of the usual figural decoration on the neck by vegetal ornaments.
Translations for affecter
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary
to act or have an effect on
Rain affects the grass; His kidneys have been affected by the disease.
- raak, affekteerAfrikaans
- يُؤَثِّر عَلَىArabic
- действамBulgarian
- afetarPortuguese (BR)
- ovlivnit, působit (na)Czech
- sich auswirken aufGerman
- påvirkeDanish
- επηρεάζωGreek
- afectarSpanish
- mõjutama, kahjustamaEstonian
- تحت تأثیر قرار دادنFarsi
- vaikuttaaFinnish
- affecterFrench
- לְהַשְׁפִיע עַלHebrew
- प्रभाव डालनाHindi
- utjecatiCroatian
- hat vmireHungarian
- mempengaruhiIndonesian
- hafaáhrif á, orka áIcelandic
- avere effetto suItalian
- ~に影響を与えるJapanese
- ...에 영향을 미치다Korean
- (pa)veiktiLithuanian
- ietekmēt; iespaidotLatvian
- menberi kesanMalay
- van invloed zijn opDutch
- påvirke, angripeNorwegian
- oddziaływać na, mieć wpływ naPolish
- تحت تأثیر قرار دادنPersian
- تر اغیزی لاندی نیولPashto
- afectarPortuguese
- a afectaRomanian
- воздействоватьRussian
- ovplyvniť, pôsobiť (na)Slovak
- prizadetiSlovenian
- uticatiSerbian
- påverkaSwedish
- กระทบ; มีผลต่อThai
- etkilemekTurkish
- 影響Chinese (Trad.)
- впливати; уражатиUkrainian
- اثر ڈالناUrdu
- ảnh hưởngVietnamese
- 影响Chinese (Simp.)
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EAU CLAIRE — Dr. James Boulter, associate professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, will discuss sustainability and what people across campus are doing to reduce the university's climate footprint at 7 p.m. Dec. 8 in the commons area of Towers North residence hall on the university's upper campus.
Boulter will present "Sustainability on Campus: What, Why and How — and Who?" as part of Trash Talks, a lecture series hosted by Housing and Residence Life's office of sustainability. Boulter will discuss how UW-Eau Claire can be more sustainable as a campus and what individuals within the campus community can do to reduce waste. He also will discuss the necessity of understanding climate change to be able to be progressive with sustainability.
At UW-Eau Claire Boulter teaches courses in general, analytical and environmental chemistry. He also serves as the sustainability fellow for the Chancellor's Office and interim coordinator of the university's Watershed Institute for Collaborative Environmental Studies, as well as the faculty adviser for the Student Office of Sustainability. Boulter received an undergraduate degree in chemistry and a certificate in environmental studies from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Wash. He received a doctorate in analytical chemistry and a certificate in oceanic and atmospheric studies from the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Trash Talks are free and open to all students, faculty, staff and community members. Housing and Residence Life will host Trash Talks on various environmental sustainability issues from 7-8 p.m. the second Thursday of each month through April 2012. All talks will be held in the commons area of Towers North residence hall. Visit Housing and Residence Life's sustainability website for a complete list of Trash Talks.
For more information about this event or sustainability initiatives in Housing and Residence Life at UW-Eau Claire, contact Kate Hartsel, housing sustainability coordinator, at 715-836-2505 or email@example.com.
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Opening an account for an online bank requires the account holder to either sign up at a local branch, send in a paper application or apply directly using the online banking website. Typically, the applicant will be required to supply a full name (including a middle name), date of birth, personal address and telephone contact information. He will also need to provide a Social Security number (or government identification), work telephone and a driver's license number or military identification with issuing state and expiration date. Several days are required to load the information and set up the account to ensure the online security checks are working properly. Most banks have the option of accessing the account by cell phone, computer or PDA.
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Once the general account has been set up, the user is able to select features. Users enter by logging onto the main site and entering a password. Access is then available to checking and savings accounts. Banks allow account holders to transfer money between savings and checking or checking to checking. This can also be done between accounts at different banking institutions. If the account is used for online and paper, many banks offer online scans of paper checks. Most banks also offer bill-paying services. Integrated budgeting and copyrighted services, such as Wells Fargo's service called "My Savings Plan," are available from many banks. This service allows a set amount of funds to be removed each month. Many banks, including Merchants & Southern Bank, allow the account holder to integrate files from Quick Books, Microsoft Money and Quicken into their online account.
Banks require security information to verify the user. The mother's maiden name or the last home address is usually used. Many banks allow users to also record a security word. This information is used if the bank believes that account security has been breached. A telephone call from an individual banker will substantiate identity and the account will then be reopened for online access. Passwords are typically issued using a combination of letters and numerals, but these may be changed once the information arrives via snail mail at the physical address listed in the contact information. Many banks also allow the user to select an online security image (called a security or site key) as a form of online bank identification. The site key is one way to quickly identify an authentic banking site. Another way online banks incorporate security is with the use of secure websites, which use special security programming to block others' viewing information and are easily identified by the use of an "s" in front of the web address.
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Definitions for creedkrid
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word creed
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
an authoritative formulated statement of the chief articles of Christian belief.
Category: Religion
an accepted system of religious or other belief.
Category: Religion
Origin of creed:
bef. 1000; ME crede, OE crēda < L crēdō I believe; see credo
Princeton's WordNet
creed, credo(noun)
any system of principles or beliefs
religious doctrine, church doctrine, gospel, creed(noun)
the written body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group
That which is believed; accepted doctrine, especially religious; a particular set of beliefs; any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to.
A reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents; a definite summary of what is believed; a confession of faith for public use; esp., one which is brief and comprehensive.
The fact of believing; belief, faith.
To believe; to credit.
Origin: From credo, crede, creda, from credo, from credere; akin to Old Irish cretim, and Sanskrit रद्दध्मि; crat + dh.
Webster Dictionary
a definite summary of what is believed; esp., a summary of the articles of Christian faith; a confession of faith for public use; esp., one which is brief and comprehensive
any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to
to believe; to credit
A creed is a statement of belief, in particular a statement of faith that describes the beliefs shared by a religious community. Religious creeds are not intended to be comprehensive, but to be a summary of core beliefs. The term "creed" can also refer to a person's political or social beliefs, or is sometimes used to mean religious affiliation. One of the most widely used creeds in Christianity is the Nicene Creed, first formulated in AD 325 at the First Council of Nicaea. It was based on Christian understanding of the Canonical Gospels, the letters of the New Testament and to a lesser extent the Old Testament. Affirmation of this creed, which describes the Trinity, is generally taken as a fundamental test of orthodoxy for most Christian denominations. The Apostles' Creed is also broadly accepted. Some Christian denominations and other groups have rejected the authority of those creeds. Muslims declare the shahada, or testimony: "I bear witness that there is no god but God, and I bear witness that Muhammad is God's messenger." Whether Judaism is creedal has been a point of some controversy. Although some say Judaism is noncreedal in nature, others say it recognizes a single creed, the Shema Yisrael, which begins: "Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God, the LORD is one."
The Roycroft Dictionary
A metaphor with ankylosis--a figure of speech frozen stiff with fright.
Translations for creed
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary
(a short statement of) one's (especially religious) beliefs.
- geloof, geloofsbelydenis, geloofsformulierAfrikaans
- عَقيدَه، مَذْهَبArabic
- вероизповеданиеBulgarian
- credoPortuguese (BR)
- víra, vyznání víryCzech
- das GlaubensbekenntnisGerman
- tro; overbevisning; livsopfattelseDanish
- πίστηGreek
- credoSpanish
- usutunnistusEstonian
- اعتقاداتFarsi
- uskontunnustusFinnish
- credoFrench
- עִיקָרֵי אֱמוּנָהHebrew
- धर्म मत, स्वीकृत मतHindi
- vjerovanjeCroatian
- (apostoli) hitvallásHungarian
- kredoIndonesian
- trúarjátningIcelandic
- credoItalian
- 信条Japanese
- 교리, 신조Korean
- tikėjimas, pažiūrosLithuanian
- ticība; pārliecība; kredoLatvian
- fahamanMalay
- geloofsbelijdenisDutch
- trosbekjennelseNorwegian
- wyznanie wiaryPolish
- اعتقاداتPersian
- اعتقاداتPashto
- credoPortuguese
- crezRomanian
- кредоRussian
- vyznanie vierySlovak
- veraSlovenian
- veroispovestSerbian
- trosbekännelseSwedish
- ข้อบัญญัติทางศาสนา; หลักความเชื่อThai
- dinsel inançlar, itikatTurkish
- 信條,教條Chinese (Trad.)
- переконання, віровченняUkrainian
- عقائد، مذهب، مسلکUrdu
- tín ngưỡngVietnamese
- 信条,教义Chinese (Simp.)
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Ta Gigi Farmhouse Gozo
Official Contact Details - Ta GigiPhone: 00356 9925 5304
A recently converted farmhouse located in the oldest part of a fishing village.
- Price from 55 EUR / Day
- Capacity up to 6 people
- 3 bedrooms & 4 bathrooms
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Last updated: 07/27/2006
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This recently converted farmhouse is located in the oldest part of the fishing village of Ghajnsielem, a few minutes' walk from Mgarr Harbour. Entrance is into a pretty courtyard leading into a hall and then a cosy lounge with cable TV and a fireplace. Overlooking the courtyard is an arched, fully equipped kitchen. The second floor comprises 3 bedrooms all with ensuite facilities, and 2 of them with balconies. Amenities include a dishwasher, washing machine, telephone and internet connection. A large pool with a sundeck area, an adjacent BBQ and outdoor dining facilities are located at the back of the house.
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Gozo is an island that is largely unknown to the outside world. The scenery and lifestyle provides a tranquil retreat from the frantic pace of modern life. Thought to be the mythical Isle of Calypso of Homer's Odyssey, the charm of Gozo is apparent on arrival. The countryside is characterised by its rubble walls and prickly pear hedges bordering terraced fields. Nearly a quarter of the population of Gozo inhabit the capital Victoria, more commonly known as Rabat by the local inhabitants is the main commercial centre of the island. The rest live in the other villages that surround Victoria. Although small, Gozo can offer the tourist an exciting experience. The island boasts a rich history with its medieval architecture, forts and prehistoric temples. Its rural environment provides an ideal backdrop for the majestic Baroque churches and farmhouses that dot the countryside. Gozo also comes complete with a spectacular landscape where one can enjoy magnificent country walks and appreciate the serenity that the island has to offer. Last, but not least is a coastline that possesses lovely sandy beaches and some of the best dive sites in the Mediterranean.
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- Ghajnsielem, GSM100, Gozo, Malta
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- near cultural interest, near fishing area, near historical interest, near restaurants & bars, near shopping area, near the beach, old town, village!
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Q&A: What's the municipal bond market outlook for 2014?
As if the threat of tapering and rate increases weren't enough of a challenge in 2013, the municipal bond market confronted added concerns generated by a small number of high-profile distressed cases and broadening awareness of the challenges presented by underfunded pension obligations. Will 2014 offer some clarity and opportunity for investors? We asked R.J. Gallo, senior portfolio manager, for his views.
Q: What's your outlook for the municipal bond market this year? Given the challenges of the past year, we are more optimistic than might be expected. Of course, concerns over rising interest rates hurt most fixed-income sectors over the last year, munis included. The Detroit and Puerto Rico dynamic gave investors one more reason to move away from municipal bonds. On the plus side, that has put into place the opportunity for more attractive relative valuation for munis. As we move into 2014, we anticipate market interest rates, Treasury and municipal, will face upward pressure, but to a lesser degree than in 2013. In addition, we don't anticipate municipal yields will increase at a basis-point by-basis-point level with Treasuries, so the relative performance of municipal bonds versus Treasuries should fare better.
Generally, if we are right, and Treasury and municipal yields rise more slowly and to a lesser degree than they did in 2013, we believe there is a fairly compelling opportunity for risk-averse fixed-income investors to garner favorable after-tax returns in a variety of areas within the municipal bond market.
Q: Outside the headline cases of Puerto Rico and Detroit, how are state and local finances now faring? Municipal credit fundamentals across the board are steadily improving and state revenues have been on an upward trajectory for 14 straight quarters. Consider the state general obligation bonds of California, Texas and New York, the country's three largest and most populous states. Each of these state governments has been upgraded and/or received positive ratings outlooks by at least one rating agency in the last year, largely thanks to sharply rising income and sales tax revenues and discipline on their expenditures. Municipal bonds from these three large states comprise almost 40% of the S&P Municipal Bond Index. By comparison, Puerto Rico and Detroit represent just 2.74% and 0.17%, respectively, within the index. Unfortunately, steady financial improvements aren't as news worthy as exceptional crises.
Nonetheless, strengthening state government finances is key to improving overall municipal finances within that state. For example, financially improving states can become more generous in supporting local governments; they are in better position to fund Medicaid expenditures, benefitting health care providers. There's a positive and widespread trickledown effect. As for the local governments, they have been slower to come around because they are primarily supported by property taxes, which due to the housing crisis, haven't rebounded as quickly. But steady improvements in the housing market will eventually lead to higher property valuations and, ultimately, more tax revenue for local governments.
Q: What about other areas of the municipal market? In general, we are positive about segments of the revenue bond space that are linked to improving economic activity. This would include sales tax revenfue bonds, bonds linked to real estate values and transportation revenue bonds, both flight- and vehicle-related. We also expect positive performance from industrial revenue bonds, which are the municipal variety of corporate credit exposure, and thus benefit from strong corporate balance sheets and better economic growth. These bonds have potential to provide attractive diversification and are reasonably valued.
Q: Is the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, a positive or negative for municipal finances? The biggest impact is related to the law's Medicaid expansion. This expansion will be overwhelmingly funded by the federal government, at least for the next several years, so it was anticipated to be mostly budget-neutral for the states in the near term. A complicating factor arose when the Supreme Court ruled to allow states to choose whether they wanted to expand their Medicaid coverage, and many states have opted out. Because the costs of the ACA are partially funded by cutting Medicare reimbursements to hospitals, those hospitals in states that opted out of expanding Medicaid will face lower Medicare reimbursement without the expected benefit from greater Medicaid coverage for serving indigent patients.
The large health complexes, for the most part, are financially sound and equipped to work through implementation of the ACA and its various consequences. We are cautious about the credit trajectory of the small- and mid-sized hospitals that don't have the deep financial resources and flexibility to do so. Hospitals not receiving the compensating revenue from the law's Medicaid expansion are confronted with providing care to low-income, non-Medicaid-covered patients all while receiving less in Medicare reimbursements. From an investment standpoint, the valuations of the lower-quality hospitals may not compensate for the greater risks, and we are being much more selective in this space as a result. Long-term, there remains some concern that federal funding for the Medicaid expansion may fade, leaving states holding more of the burden, but that remains to be seen over time.
Q: Are states and local pension obligations likely to remain a major obstacle? It is a material factor that investors must consider when evaluating the credit quality of both state and local governments,and the degree of funding varies widely. Illinois and Chicago, for example, each has pension funding levels of less than 50% and face escalating demands on their current budgets to address the underfunding. (The State of Illinois finally enacted some meafningful pension reform in late 2013 to help meet this challenge at both the state and local level). Meanwhile, states like Tennessee and cities like San Antonio, Texas report funding ratios of 90% or higher.
The pension funding problem at the state and local levels was created over decades and it will take time to correct. The good news is that both state and local governments are beginning to reform their programs, with many making material and necessary changes. These include reducing cost-of-living adjustments, increasing employee contributions, raising retirement ages, revising formulas for determining pension payouts and closing defined benefit plans to new hires. It is a contentious and high-visibility issue, but the magnitude and urgency of the problem, combined with a decline in union influence, is translating into growing public and political support for reforms.
Another positive is that the Government Accounting Standards Board, which governs municipal and state financial disclosure standards nationwide, has strengthened its pension accounting rules, to be implemented over the next two years. Previously, underfunding of pension obligations would only be documented in the notes of financial statements. Now, a portion of this underfunding must be accounted for on state and local government balance sheets. The result will be greater transparency related to pension funding levels. In the short-term, there will be concern about the short-falls and effects on budgets, but this is exactly what is needed to encourage continued reforms.
At the state level, underfunded pension obligations are likely to be more manageable over time given the broader financial flexibility of state governments and their ability to implement legislative reform. Local governments have more limited financial resources than states, in general, and more limited legislative authority to adjust pension rules. Thus, those local governments that do face high levels of underfunded pensions may experience greater downward credit pressure as they struggle to find resources to make escalating payments.
Q: What are you watching? Three factors have potential to cloud our outlook. One that I referred to earlier would be rapidly rising interest rates, which would weigh on total returns for the muni sector. Another would be if the economy stumbles to any significant degree, which would cause market yields to fall. That would increase total returns on high quality municipal bonds but havd a secondary negative impact on economically sensitive credit factors in various municipal sectors. We do not expect either of these outcomes. A final risk we are monitoring would be distress of a major municipal borrower, such as Puerto Rico. For example, if Puerto Rico would enter into default, this could further drive investors from the municipal market. But Puerto Rico seems apt to muddle through in the near term, and even if it did default in some manner, the growing awareness among investors that Puerto Rico is an exceptional case compared to the improving credit and budgetary conditions across the states and most American cities may mitigate the market reaction somewhat.
Thank you, R.J.


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2009 Research News
department of psychology
Thalia Goldstein has published The Pleasure of Unadulturated Sadness: Experiencing Sorrow in Fiction, NonFiction and "In Person" in the journal Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity, and the Arts. The data published suggest the paradoxical fact that we avoid sadness in real life, but seek it out in films. Participants judged their sadness and anxiety in response to fictional films, and a remembered autobiographical event.
Participants experienced equivalent levels of sadness in response to films and in response to a sad personal event. Anxiety levels, however, were significantly higher in response to personally experienced events. The fact that sadness elicited by films is unadulterated by the anxiety that accompanies the sadness of personal experience may explain, in part, the pleasure we derive from watching sad films.
Fear-Induced Reduction of Eating
Gorica Petrovich published a paper in the December 2nd issue of the Journal of Neuroscience. The paper was among four selected manuscripts featured in This Week in The Journal. The study used a novel behavioral paradigm for inhibition of eating by an aversive cue. A tone previously paired with shocks inhibited eating in food-deprived states. The effect was abolished with bilateral lesions of the central amygdala, but not with bilateral lesions of the basolateral amygdala. Lesions of each structure abolished freezing, another fear-related behavior induced by the same cue. The findings highlight an amygdalar subsystem critical for short-term anorexia triggered by an impending aversive event. The findings from the animal model are relevant to regulation of eating in humans, and provide a framework for defining the critical brain substrates underlying anorexia.
Drug of Choice
Boston College Magazine has published this article by Gene Heyman, a highly abridged and altered version of one of the chapters from his book: Addiction: A Disorder of Choice.
"Autistic" Local Processing Bias Also Found in Children Gifted in Realistic Drawing
Jennifer Drake's paper entitled "'Autistic' Local Processing Bias Also Found in Children Gifted in Realistic Drawing" will be published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, the leading journal on autism. The paper shows that precocious realists have the same kind of visual and spatial abilities reported in autistic children. Co-authors on the paper include Amanda Redash, Katelyn Coleman, Jennifer Haimson, and Ellen Winner.
Eyes on the Prize
Brett Ford will have a paper published in Psychological Science. The paper, titled "Keeping Your Eyes on the Prize: Anger and Visual Attention to Threats and Rewards" demonstrates that anger biases visual attention towards rewards, but not threats. Such findings suggest that the effects of emotions on visual attention may be driven by motivation, rather than valence.
Could Your Kid Really Have Painted That?
Angelina Hawley presented her poster, "Could Your Kid Really Have Painted That? Distinguishing Between Paintings by Abstract Expressionist Masters and Paintings by Children, Chimps, Monkeys and Elephants," at the First Copenhagen Neuroaesthetics Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark from September 24-26th.
Angelina will be giving a 30-minute oral presentation on this research at the 5th International Conference On The Arts In Society in Sydney, Australia, to be held July 22-25, 2010. To view the abstract, click here.
The Effect of Valence on Younger and Older Adults' Attention in a Rapid Serial Visual Presentation Task
Katherine Mickley Steinmetz, Keely Muscatell, and Elizabeth Kensinger will have an article published in the journal Psychology and Aging. The data published in this article suggests that emotion influences attention in a similar fashion for younger and older adults. This result was significant as older adults can sometimes show a "positivity effect" in memory. However, this study revealed that the positivity effect does not extend to increased detection of positive words for older adults.
Young infants show remarkable numerical abilities that mimic those of adults, although there is one surprising discrepancy—infants consistently fail to discriminate small sets (3 or fewer) from large ones (4 or more). For example, they do not notice the difference between 2 and 4 items. This study reveals that 7-month old infants require a 4-fold change in number to succeed in these small-large discriminations, suggesting that infants represent small values in a distinctly different fashion than large values.
Sara Cordes has published these findings in Developmental Psychology this November in an article titled "Crossing the Divide: Infants Discriminate Small From Large Numerosities."
Music training shapes structural brain development
Fifteen months of instrumental music training begun at age 6 leads to structural brain changes that diverge from typical brain development. Brain growth correlated with improvements in musically relevant motor and auditory skills. These findings demonstrate training-induced structural brain plasticity in childhood. Journal of Neuroscience, 29(10):3019-3025.
Sean MacEvoy's recent fMRI work sheds light on how the human visual system avoids confusion when faced with the complex environments we encounter every day. Patterns of brain activity evoked when participants viewed multiple objects simultaneously were predicted by the average of patterns evoked by each object viewed alone, ensuring that information about each object was preserved. This relationship was strong enough that researchers could "read" participant's brains to reveal which pair was being viewed at a given point in time. An article documenting these findings appeared in the June 9, 2009 issue of the journal Current Biology.
Addiction: A Disorder of Choice
Gene Heyman's new book, Addiction: A Disorder
of Choice, was published in June 2009 by Harvard University Press. From the publisher's website:
"In a book sure to inspire controversy, Gene Heyman argues that conventional wisdom about addiction—that it is a disease, a compulsion beyond conscious control—is wrong.
Drawing on psychiatric epidemiology, addicts' autobiographies, treatment studies, and advances in behavioral economics, Heyman makes a powerful case that addiction is voluntary."
This is an important book. In clear and compelling prose Heyman lays out evidence from real-world observation and psychological and pharmacological laboratories that addiction is a choice not a disease. He shows that the causes of addiction, its control, and its potential reduction are the same as the causes, control, and reduction of all voluntary behavior. The book has the potential to revolutionize the behavior of anyone involved in the control of addiction including, most importantly, addicts themselves.
—Howard Rachlin, author of The Science of Self-Control
Most medical practitioners believe that addiction is a disease. By showing that self-destructive drug consumption actually responds to information and incentives, Gene Heyman's path breaking book should make us rethink our conventional, and inadequate, drug policies.
—David Laibson, Harvard University
A Functional MRI Study of the Circumplex Model of Affect
A paper co-authored by Jim Russell, titled "Neural Systems Subserving Valence and Arousal during the Experience of Induced Emotions: A Functional MRI Study of the Circumplex Model of Affect," was accepted for publication in the journal Emotion.
Author(s): Colibazzi, Tiziano; Posner, Jonathan; Wang, Zhishun; Gorman, Daniel; Gerber, Andrew; Yu, Shan; Zhu, Hongtu; Kangarlu, Alayar; Duan, Yunsuo; Russell, James; Peterson, Bradley.
Christina Leclerc's paper in APA manual
Christina Leclerc's 2008 paper entitled Effects of Age on Detection of Emotional Information, which was originally published in Psychology and Aging, was included in the newly revised "Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association" that was published in its 6th edition this summer. The manuscript is presented in its entirety as a sample paper on which the new formatting guidelines have been applied.
Aging and memory
Jill Waring and Elizabeth Kensinger have an abstract for their recent publication, "Effects of emotional valence and arousal upon memory trade-offs with aging," here.
Scott Slotnick's article "Does the hippocampus mediate objective binding or subjective remembering?" will appear in NeuroImage. Previous studies have confounded context memory with "remembering" (memory with specific detail), and item memory with "knowing" (memory without specific detail). This functional MRI (fMRI) study is the first to independently test the binding hypothesis and remembering hypothesis of hippocampal function. The results only provided strong support for the binding hypothesis. These findings challenge the widely held assumption that the hippocampus is preferentially associated with subjective remembering, and highlight the role of this region in the binding of feature and context information during memory construction.
Psychological states must be studied scientifically
The future of psychology depends upon recognizing that complex psychological states are constructed and that their study cannot be entirely replaced by the study of brain states, argues Lisa Feldman Barrett in the lead article in Perspectives in Psychological Science's special issue devoted to the "Next Big Questions in Psychology." To read the article, click here.
Elizabeth Kensinger's book published
Elizabeth Kensinger's new book, Emotional Memory Across the Adult Lifespan, about how we remember emotional experiences better than unemotional ones, was published December 10th by Psychology Press.
"Pleasure and Utility in Emotion Regulation"
Maya Tamir has published a paper in Current Directions in Psychological Science. "In short," she says, "the paper presents an instrumental approach to emotion regulation, according to which people want to feel even unpleasant emotions, when these emotions promote the attainment of long-term goals."
It is typically assumed that people always want to feel good. Recent evidence, however, demonstrates that people want to feel unpleasant emotions, such as anger or fear, when these emotions promote the attainment of their long-term goals. According to an instrumental approach to emotion regulation, when immediate benefits outweigh future benefits, people should want to feel pleasant emotions. However, when future benefits outweigh immediate benefits, people may want to feel useful emotions, even if they are unpleasant. The article describes this instrumental approach, reviews relevant empirical evidence, and discusses the implications of this approach to promoting adaptive emotional experiences.
Springer Early Career Achievement Award
Elizabeth Kensinger is the 2009 recipient of the Springer Early Career Achievement Award in Research on Adult Development and Aging. This award is given annually by the American Psychological Association Division of Adult Development and Aging to "an individual whose work has made significant early career contributions to understanding critical issues in the psychology of adult development and aging."
Local Processing Bias in Children Gifted in Drawing
Some autistic individuals have a talent for realistic drawing and show a local processing bias, which could explain the astonishing precision in their drawings. Appearing in May's issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, an article by Jennifer Drake and Ellen Winner ("Precocious realists: Perceptual and cognitive characteristics associated with drawing talent in non-autistic children") reports that children with a precocious ability to draw realistically show this same bias. This study provides the first evidence that a local processing bias may be a continuous trait found in both autism and in non-autistic individuals with drawing talent.
On the Transition to College
Appearing in the April issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Maya Tamir's new article, titled "The Social Costs of Emotional Suppression: A Prospective Study of the Transition to College," reports that suppressing emotion causes "lower social support, less closeness to others, and lower social satisfaction."
New Theory on Play
Professor Peter Gray's new article, "Play as a Foundation for Hunter-Gatherer Social Existence," presents a new theory about early human adaptation to a highly cooperative way of life. It suggests that our ancestors capitalized on our capacities for play as a primary means of overcoming our inherited primate tendencies toward aggression and dominance, which would have made such cooperation impossible. The article will appear in April's American Journal of Play.
The thesis here is that hunter-gatherers promoted, through cultural means, the playful side of their human nature, and that this made possible their egalitarian, non-autocratic, intensely cooperative ways of living. Hunter-gather bands, with their fluid membership, are likened to social play groups, which people could freely join or leave. Freedom to leave the band set the stage for the individual autonomy, sharing, and consensual decision-making within the band. Hunter-gatherers used humor, deliberately, to maintain equality and stop quarrels. Their means of sharing had game-like qualities. Their religious beliefs and ceremonies were playful, founded on assumptions of equality, humor, and capriciousness among the deities. They maintained playful attitudes in their hunting, gathering, and other sustenance activities, partly by allowing each person to choose when, how, and how much they would engage in such activities. Children were continuously free to play and explore, and through these activities they acquired the skills, knowledge, and values of their culture. Play, in other mammals as well as in humans, counteracts tendencies toward dominance, and hunter-gatherers appear to have promoted play quite deliberately for that purpose.
Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
Appearing in February's Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, Thalia Goldstein's article titled "Psychological Perspectives on Acting" outlines the links between acting training, Theory of Mind, Empathy, and Emotion Regulation, and discusses the implications of acting training on malleability of these skills. As a "New Scholar in the Field," she was asked to write an article on a topic she found important to the Psychology of the Arts.
The Value of Psychology 101
"Psychology has replaced philosophy as the discipline at the core of liberal arts education," says Peter Gray, whose article, titled "The Value of Psychology 101 in Liberal Arts Education: A Psychocentric Theory of the University," was recently published in the American Psychological Society's Observer (Oct. 2008, Vol. 21, #9, pp 29-32).
The Thin Ideal
Graduate student Shannon Snapp has found that adolescent girls who strongly internalize the thin ideal have more negative self-evaluations of competence and body image. This finding appeared in the September 2009 issue of Body Image: An International Journal of Research in an article titled "Internalization of the Thin Ideal Among Low-Income Ethnic Minority Adolescent Girls.
Negative Ads
Professor Elizabeth Kensinger was recently interviewed for an article in Seed Magazine on negative advertising in political campaigns: "The Double Negative."
Emotional Valence
Katherine Mickley conducted an fMRI study that examined whether emotional valence modulates the neural processes engaged during the encoding of information that is later vividly remembered versus only known to be familiar. The results suggested that memories for negative items may be vividly recollected due to increased sensory processing during encoding, while enhanced gist-based processing of positive information may lead to increased feelings of familiarity. Her results are published in her paper for Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience titled "Emotional Valence Influences the Neural Correlates Associated with Remembering and Knowing."
Constructing Fear
Common sense tells us that emotions like anger, fear, sadness and joy are each discrete, biologically given reactions to our surroundings. You feel fear when the "fear center" in your brain is triggered, causing your body to react in a certain way. Boston College researchers Lisa Feldman Barrett and Kristen Lindquist have recently called this view into question, however, suggesting that emotions are experiences composed of more basic ingredients: the information that people know about emotions (like fear, sadness, anger, joy, etc) and fundamental "gut" feelings like pleasure or displeasure. In this view, the emotion a person experiences in a given instance depends on how that person makes meaning of his or her "gut" feelings. To explore this idea, Lindquist and Barrett separately manipulated the different ingredients of emotion in the lab to "construct" different emotional experience in a group of volunteers. The results, which appear in the September issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, indicate that what we experience as fear is actually made up of two more basic components: our concept of the emotion (what we "know" about fear) and unpleasant "gut" feelings. A better understanding of what causes emotions like fear and how to regulate them has implications for clinical therapy and emotional education. How you make meaning of what you feel can change how you experience the world.
Sleep and Memory
A study by Elizabeth Kensinger on sleep and memory, featured in ScienceDaily this August, "offers new insights into the specific components of emotional memories, suggesting that sleep plays a key role in determining what we remember – and what we forget." Described in "Sleep Selectively Preserves Emotional Memories," the study explains how sleep helps the brain remember emotionally important details and ignore everything else.
Maya Tamir in APS Observer
Maya Tamir's research on the value of negative emotions is described in the current issue of the APS Observer in the article "The Upside of Anger." Manipulating your emotions by electing to feel anger is a good way to prepare for an aggressive task, according to Maya, whose research shows that listening to angry music before playing an aggressive computer game like Soldier of Fortune improves game performance, whereas it does not help with a game like Diner Dash, about waiting tables.
Doctoral student Katherine Mickley Steinmetz has found that valence (positive or negative) most readily affects the qualities of young and older adults' emotional memories when those memories are low in arousal. Older adults reported remembering more subjective memories about positive low arousal images, while younger adults reported remembering more subjective memories about negative low arousal images. This finding appeared in the May 2009 issue of Memory in an article titled "Phenomenological characteristics of emotional memories in younger and older adults."


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BB does not position himself for Gronk in the 2010 draft without trading out of the garbage 2009 1st rd.
Clay Matthews is not a good run defenders. BB knew that, hence why we has never on BB's 1st rd board to begin with.
Mike Vrabel never had more than like 4 or 5 sacks in a year in BB's 3-4.
Man you sure do live up to your reputation as obnoxious and confrontational at all times here bro. Your silly assaults on me, a monster Belichick supporter, are pretty pathetic. Just a lonley guy posting hundreds of times a day who has to find a fight for the sake of finding a fight I guess.
Even though I am a giant fan of Bill, I have every right to question one particularly horrible draft. Especially when it easily cost us a super bowl or two.
Here is where your attacks against my posts fall short and are baseless:
1. Gronk
I clearly stated this in my post:
The only saving grace about not having Matthews was that in a round about way that trade got us Gronk. But the Pats had the ammunition a year later to move up and get him
So you acting like you are 'educating' me as to how we got Gronk after that post of mine shows you are simply not concentrating.
A. Belichick could have drafted Gronk in the 1st rd over McCourty. Bonus points if it came after an offseason where he doesn't repeat his Wheatley, Wilhite, Butler errors and actually spent some $ on a veteran strating CB. But CB was a priority in the draft. That being said, Gronk could have been the rd 1 choice, and a later pick used on a DB. With Matthews monster pass-rush here, the secondary would have been less exposed anyhow.
B. In the adjusted Matthews being picked '09 hypothetical the other McCourty bro Devin was picked and Butler, the player we used the GB 2nd on, was not.
C. The best draft move would have been this one: The Pats held the 47th pick from a seperate trade in the draft that they picked Gronk at 42 (a pick obtained by trading down from 44, the pick we got by trading out of Matthews spot). Oakland traded down with us to 44 to let us get ahead of the Ravens and take Gronk. The cost, a 6th rd pick, if the cost of 3 extra spaces was a 6th AND 7th (the immortal Thomas Welch) or a future 5th or 6th (the Ocho/Haynsworth picks perhaps?) then it is no issue at all. Yes this all means no Spikes, but if we didn't end up with a MLB in rd 2 the way it worked, NaVorro Bowman is sitting there 1 pick after we took Taylor Price. Boom! A different style but equal (or more) talented LB'er is there to cover up for ANOTHER BB mistake, all simply b/c Matthews was picked in '09.
2. You said: 'BB doesn't pay his 3-4 OLBs for sacks and big free agent money'.
when I proved you WRONG with an EXAMPLE (called facts) of Rosie Colvin, a guy who spent the entire middle SIX years of Bill's tenure as coach here and was a top 5 BIG MONEY free agent paid simply to add 10+ sacks a year when he hit the market, you moved the goalposts and tried to claim that because that was 2003 it doesn't matter anymore.
Oh I'm sorry, but your statement didn't say '2009 Bill Belichick was no longer paying OLB's big money like he did in 2003 for Rosie Colvin' your nonspecific statement was wrong.
3. You said:
'Mike Vrabel never had more than like 4 or 5 sacks in a year in BB's 3-4.'
Are you really that ignorant?
Vrabel had 9.5 sacks during a Super Bowl season and 12.5 sacks during a 16-0 regular season. He also had 'more than 4-5' (5.5) in another Super Bowl year. In short, the 3 best Patriots teams OF ALL TIME featured Vrabel averaging 9 sacks a season.
Colvin had 7 sacks and 8.5 sacks in '05 and '06 after obliterating his hip in '03 and becoming a 2 down player.
You don't think Bill wanted to get any of that rush back in '09? So he must have passed on Matthews to start Vrabel type players at OLB then right? WRONG! He paid for rush specialists Tully Banta-Cain (9.5 sacks in '09) and Derrick Burgess (almost a 10 sack avg the 4 years before we traded for him to come here) to man the corners. Not much run stopping there! But I'm sure the 2m and 3rd/4th rd picks in '11 were worth it for that 1 year of Burgess. Tully got himself a 13.5m 3 year deal he didn't live up to after one decent '09 season.
Or, ya know, we coulda just had Clay Matthews...
Also, Bill had no clue at the '09 draft what Ninkovich was to become here, since he was a Dolphin in '08 and a camp invite cut from a worse team. The Patriots were looking for a pass rush in less conventional ways in '09 rather than just drafting a future all-pro. It was a BAD decision, no way around it.
Wiped the floor with you on this one bro


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A key advocate for approving casino gambling in Texas calls the chances of his bill passing "very slim."
Texas Sen. John Carona, a Dallas Republican, decided not to have the business and commerce committee vote on his bill.
The bill would allow voters to decide on a constitutional amendment to allow casinos.
Carona said Tuesday his colleagues told him they didn't want vote on a controversial bill with little chance of success. He says the best chance for gambling might be if a special session is called for lawmakers to pass more school funding in the wake of a statewide lawsuit.
Gambling supporters say casinos would create jobs and keep gambling revenue from leaving the state. Conservative and religious groups have opposed the bill.
Key senator: Texas casino bill's odds 'very slim'
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A key advocate for approving casino gambling in Texas calls the chances of his bill passing "very slim."
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The man who arrowed the runner-up to the Pope and Young Club's Illinois state record in 2009 is now facing multiple misdemeanor charges of violating the state's wildlife code, according to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.
Christopher Kiernan, 45, of Minooka, Ill., is among three individuals charged in the wake of an 11-month-long joint investigation by the Illinois DNR, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Wyoming Game and Fish Department, Alberta Sustainable Resources Department, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Missouri Department of Conservation, and the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks agency.
The three cases involve the taking of 24 deer in Illinois and Canada over a 10-year period.
Kiernan made headlines in 2009 after arrowing an enormous, wide-racked whitetail that later netted 261 5/8 inches when scored by a panel of measurers.
The buck has never been taped for the BTR.
He's now facing 11 counts of hunting without landowner's permission and being an accessory to the charge; 19 counts of unlawful possession of illegally taken deer; five counts of hunting with invalidated permits; five counts of unlawfully taking of deer; two counts of falsifying harvest records; and single counts of failing to report a harvest on the same day as killed and of failing to tag a deer as required.
The others facing similar charges are Garret Armstrong, 31, of Avon, N.Y., and 49-year-old Larry Smith of Williamsburg, Ontario. As of Nov. 4, none of the men had entered pleas. None have been tried or convicted.
The Illinois DNR released a statement saying the charges against Kiernan – filed through the Grundy County State's Attorney's office -- include the "illegal" taking of the 36-pointer they've valued at $35,000.
The Morris Daily Herald has reported that the alleged poaching took place on lands owned by Material Service Corporation.
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Silver Alert canceled for missing man
Updated On: Feb 26 2013 10:49:49 PM EST
The Baltimore County Police Department canceled the Silver Alert for an 83-year-old man.
Tony Louis Vitilio was found unharmed on Tuesday.
Vitilio had been reported missing earlier in the day from Elinor Avenue in Perry Hall.
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In the midst of the go-go eighties and nineties, a group of overachieving, anarchistic MIT students joined a decades-old underground blackjack club dedicated to counting cards and beating the system at major casinos around the world. While their classmates were working long hours in labs and libraries, the blackjack team traveled weekly to Las Vegas and other glamorous gambling locales, with hundreds of thousands of dollars duct-taped to their bodies. Underwritten by shady investors they would never meet, these kids bet fifty thousand dollars a hand, enjoyed VIP suites and other upscale treats, and partied with showgirls and celebrities.
Handpicked by an eccentric mastermind -- a former MIT professor and an obsessive player who had developed a unique system of verbal cues, body signals, and role-playing -- this one ring of card savants earned more than three million dollars from corporate Vegas, making them the object of the casinos' wrath and eventually targets of revenge. Here is their inside story, revealing their secrets for the first time.
Master storyteller Ben Mezrich takes you from the ivory towers of academia to the Technicolor world of Las Vegas, where anything can happen -- and often does. Bringing Down the House launches you into the seedy underworld of corporate Vegas -- deep into the realm of back rooms, ever-present video cameras, private investigators, and the threats and tactics of pit bosses and violent heavies. Equipped with twenty different aliases and disguises, the group of young card counters struggles around these roadblocks to live the high life -- until one fateful day when Vegas violently follows them home to Boston. Suddenly, there can be no more hiding behind false identities; the high life folds like a bad hand of cards.
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