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Positive illusions
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Positive illusions are unrealistically favorable attitudes that people have towards themselves or to people that are close to them. Positive illusions are a form of self-deception or self-enhancement that feel good, maintain self-esteem or stave off discomfort at least in the short term. There are three broad kinds: inflated assessment of one's own abilities, unrealistic optimism about the future and an illusion of control.[1] The term "positive illusions" originates in a 1988 paper by Taylor and Brown.[1] "Taylor and Brown's (1988) model of mental health maintains that certain positive illusions are highly prevalent in normal thought and predictive of criteria traditionally associated with mental health."[2]
There are controversies about the extent to which people reliably demonstrate positive illusions, and also about whether these illusions are beneficial to the people who have them.[1][3][4][5]
In the above-average effect, people regard themselves more positively than they regard others and less negatively than others regard them. Moreover, positive attributes are judged to be more descriptive of themselves than of an average person, whereas negative ones are judged to be less descriptive of themselves than of an average person.[6] Despite the fact that it is statistically impossible for most people to be superior to their peers, rather than being equally aware of ones strengths and weaknesses, people are more aware of their strengths and not very aware of their weaknesses. In short, people tend to believe they are much more competent than they are. This effect has been widely recognized across traits[7] and abilities[8] including the realm of driving ability,[9] parenting,[10] leadership ability, teaching ability, ethics, and health. This effect is also evident in memory; most people also tend to perceive their ability to remember as better than it actually is.[11]
The illusion of control is an exaggerated assessment of the individual's personal control over environmental circumstances such as the roll of dice or flip of coin.[12]
Optimism bias is a tendency for people to overestimate their likelihood of experiencing a wide variety of pleasant events, such as enjoying their first job or having a gifted child, and somewhat underestimate their risk of succumbing to negative events, such as getting divorced or falling victim to a chronic disease. This illusory nature of optimism is also evident in peoples' under-estimation of the time taken for a variety of tasks.[13]
Like many forms of human perception, self-perception is prone to illusion. Positive illusions have been commonly understood as one of the apparent effects of self-enhancement, a desire to maximize the positivity of one's self-views[14] and a function of boosting self-esteem. It might be due to the desire to see oneself more favorably relative to one's peers.[15] These kinds of self-serving attributions seemed to be displayed by positive self-viewers only. In fact, the negative-viewers were found to display the opposite pattern.[16] Research suggests that there may be modest genetic contributions to the ability to develop positive illusions[17][vague] Early environment also plays an important role: people are more able to develop these positive beliefs in nurturing environments than in harsh ones.[citation needed]
Alternative explanations involve dimensions like the easiness and commonness of the tasks. In addition, tasks that shifted attention from the self to the comparative target would stop people overly optimising.[18]
The cultural prevalence also has a significant role in positive illusions. Although it is easy to document positive illusions in individualistic Western cultures, people in collectivist East Asian cultures are much less likely to self-enhance and, indeed, are often self-effacing instead.[19]
Most studies find that people tend to have inflated views of themselves. The research indicates that the relationship between people's self-evaluations and objective assessments is relatively weak. One explanation for this is that most people only have mild positive illusions.[20]
However, according to recent studies there is evidence that there are significant individual differences between the strength of positive illusions people have. Therefore, some people may have extremely inflated self-views, some mild and some very little and when examined across a population this effect appears weak.[21]
Benefits and liabilities[edit]
Positive illusions can have advantages and disadvantages for the individual, and there is a controversy over whether they are evolutionarily adaptive.[3] The illusions may have direct health benefits by helping the person cope with stress, or by promoting work towards success.[3] On the other hand, unrealistically positive expectations may prevent people from taking sensible preventative action for medical risks.[22] Recent research in fact provides evidence that people who have positive illusions may have both short term benefits and long term costs. Specifically, self-enhancement is not correlated with academic success or graduation rates in college.[21]
Mental health[edit]
Taylor and Brown's Social Psychological Model of mental health has assumed that positive beliefs would be tied to psychological well-being, and that positive self-evaluations, even unrealistic, would promote good mental health. The reference to well-being here means the ability to feel good about oneself, to be creative and/or productive in one's work, to form satisfying relationships with other people and to effectively combat stress when necessary.[23] Positive illusions are particularly useful for helping people to get through major stressful events or traumas, such as life-threatening illnesses or serious accidents. People who are able to develop or maintain their positive beliefs in the face of these potential setbacks tend to cope more successfully with them, and show less psychological distress than those less able. For example, psychological research shows that cancer survivors often report a higher quality of life than people who have never had cancer at all.[24] This could be physiologically protective because they have been able to use the traumatic experience to evoke an increased sense of meaning and purpose.[25] This relates to the concept of psychological resilience or an individual's ability to cope with challenges and stress. Self-enhancing was found to be correlated with resilience in the face of the 9/11 tragedy among participants either in or near the towers.[26]
People also hold positive illusions because such beliefs often enhance their productivity and persistence with tasks on which they might otherwise give up.[27] When people believe they can achieve a difficult goal, this expectation often creates a sense of energy and excitement, resulting in more progress than would otherwise have been the case.
Positive illusions can be argued to be adaptive because they enable people to feel hopeful in the face of uncontrollable risks.[28]
In addition, there seems to be a relationship between illusions and positive mood. Studies have found that the direction of this relationship is that positive illusions cause positive mood states.[29]
However, more recent findings found that all forms of illusion, positive or not, were associated with more depressive symptoms[30] and various other studies reject the link between positive illusions and mental health, well-being or life satisfaction, maintaining that accurate perception of reality is compatible with happiness.[5][31]
When studying the link between self-esteem and positive illusions, Compton (1992) identified a group which possessed high self-esteem without positive illusions, and that these individuals weren't depressed, neurotic, psychotic, maladjusted nor personality disordered, thus concluding that positive illusions aren't necessary for high self-esteem. Compared to the group with positive illusions and high self-esteem, the nonillusional group with high self-esteem was higher on self-criticism and personality integration and lower on psychoticism.[32]
A meta-analysis of 118 studies including 7013 subjects found that slightly more studies supported the idea of depressive realism, but these studies were poorer in quality, used non-clinical samples, were more readily generalized, used self-reports instead of interviews and used attentional bias or judgment of contingency as a method of measuring depressive realism, as methods such as recall of feedback and evaluation of performance showed results counter to depressive realism.[33]
Physical health[edit]
Apart from having better psychological adjustment with more active coping,[34] the ability to develop and sustain positive beliefs in the face of setbacks has its health benefits. Research with men who had the HIV virus, or already diagnosed with AIDS has shown that those who hold unrealistically positive assessments of their abilities to control their health conditions take longer to develop symptoms, experience a slower course of illness, as well as other positive cognitive outcomes, such as acceptance of the loss.[35]
Potential liabilities[edit]
There are several potential risks that may arise if people hold positive illusions about their personal qualities and likely outcomes. First of all, they might set themselves up for unpleasant surprises for which they are ill-prepared when their overly optimistic beliefs are disconfirmed. They may also have to tackle the consequences thereafter. However, research suggests that, for the most part, these adverse outcomes do not occur. People's beliefs are more realistic at times when realism serves them particularly well: for example, when initially making plans; when accountability is likely or following negative feedback from the environment. Following a setback or failure, all is still not lost, as people's overly positive beliefs may be used again in a new undertaking.[36]
A second risk is that people who hold positive illusions will set goals, or undertake courses of actions which are more likely to produce failure than success. This concern appears to be largely without basis. Research shows that when people are deliberating future courses of actions for themselves, such as whether to take a particular job or go to graduate school, their perceptions are fairly realistic, but they can become overly optimistic when they turn to implementing their plans. Although there is no guarantee that one's realistic prediction would turn out to be accurate,[36] the shift from realism to optimism may provide the fuel needed to bring potentially difficult tasks from conception to fruition.[37]
A third risk is that positive self-perceptions may have social costs. A specific source of evidence of the self-serving pattern in ability assessment examined the use of idiosyncratic definitions of traits and abilities.[38] The authors suggested that the social costs occur when one's definition of ability is perceived to be the only one relevant to achievement outcomes. In other words, wherever people fail to recognise when other plausible definitions of ability are relevant for success, estimates of their future well-being will be overstated.
A fourth risk is that it may be harmful to realize that one's actual competence does not match up to their illusions. This can be harmful to the ego and result in actually performing worse in situations such as college.[21]
Although positive illusions may have short-term benefits, they come with long-term costs. Positive illusions have been linked with decreasing levels of self-esteem and well-being, as well as narcissism and lower academic achievement among students.[39]
Negative counterparts[edit]
Although more academic attention has focused on positive illusions, there are systematic negative illusions that are revealed under slightly different circumstances.[1] For example, while college students rate themselves as more likely than average to live to 70, they believe they are less likely than average to live to 100. People regard themselves as above average on easy tasks such as riding a bicycle but below average on difficult tasks like riding a unicycle (Kruger, 1999, as cited in Sedikides and Gregg, 2008). The latter effect has been recently named the "Worse-than-average effect".[40] In general, people overestimate their relative standing when their absolute standing is high and underestimate it when their absolute standing is low.[1]
Depressive realism suggests that depressed people actually have a more realistic view of themselves and the world than mentally healthy people. The nature of depression seems to have its role in diminishing positive illusions. For example, individuals who are low in self-esteem, slightly depressed, or both, are more balanced in self-perceptions.[41] Likewise, these mildly depressed individuals are found to be less vulnerable to overestimations of (their) control over events (Golin et al., 1979) and to assess future circumstances in biased fashion (Ruehlman, West, & Pasahow, 1985). However, these findings may not be because depressed people have less illusions than nondepressed. Studies such as Dykman et al. (1989) show that depressed people believe they have no control in situations where they actually do, so their perspection is not more accurate overall. It might also be that the pessimistic bias of depressives results in "depressive realism" when, for example, measuring estimation of control when there is none, as proposed by Allan et al. (2007). Also, Msetfi et al. (2005, 2007) found that when replicating Alloy and Abramson's findings the overestimation of control in nondepressed people only showed up when the interval was long enough, implying that this is because they take more aspects of a situation into account than their depressed counterparts.
Two hypotheses have been stated in the literature with regard to avoiding the drawbacks of positive illusions: firstly by minimising the illusions in order to take the full advantage of the benefits,[42] and secondly through making important decisions (Gollwitzer & Kinney, 1989). According to Roy Baumeister, a small amount of positive distortion may be optimal. He hypothesizes that those who fall within this optimal margin of illusion may provide for the best mental health.[42]
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External links[edit]
- "You are what you expect" New York Times article by Jim Holt
- "Just how positive are positive illusions?" by Positive Psychology UK
- "Optimism and Positive Illusions" by Positive Psychology UK


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The Hungarian Central Bank belongs to the Hungarian Citizens and not to the western totalitarian governments - whoever doesn't agree with this statement it is just a brainwashed western, who never understood the East and has no clue about the crimes of its own governments.
I'd like to see those market forces that can "prevent the"... (Orban) " government from doing even more harm," really act soon! Until they can and they may still have some effect. When this happens markets will also be regulated in Hngary, as in ... when was it last time we tried??
do you really want to go East, like to live in Russia, e.g.? Or do you happen to live in an Eastern country? Or live in a Western one and appraise Eastern governments?? That is quite easy, try it the other way around.
U should know something Hungary is not the East, we have ever been the WEST, we are the west, and we will be the west.
"inflation is a way of taxing the poorest layers of society, they pay the most when inflation increases.Fidesz surely doesn't want that."
What gives you that idea? The gvt will introduce a flat tax on january 1, which will be detrimental especially to the poor, and anyone else earning below 230.000 Fts /month, i.e., most of the population. The flat tax is surprising, as when most countries are cutting costs and raising taxes to deal with the crisis, Hungary is doing the exact opposite: it is decreasing taxes and increasing expenditure. There is no Keynesian logic behind this to stimulate the economy. The increased expenses, on for instance, an extra year (!) of child care leave for women, now increasing the total up to three years, keeps women out of productivity while increasing costs to the state. The government is funding its spending spree by making a grab in the savings of private citizens: just two weeks ago, it nationalised private pension accounts of citizens (i.e., not pension reserve funds such as in Ireland, but actual private accounts). The hope that this Argentinian nationalisation would reduce debt has already failed: any reduction of interest rate on national debt causedby this sudden influx of capital has already been cancelled out by increased cost of borrowing on government bonds. The other measure to increase income has been a 'temporary" tax on foreign businesses, which will destroy business confidence in Hungary in the medium term. I am surprised 'the markets' have been taking it as calmly as they have up to now. Presumably Ireland, Portugal and Spain have overshadowed Hungarian events. I doubt though, the present gvt will respond rationally to market developments.
Today Hungary got downgraded again, this time by Moody's (Baa3 with negative outlook). One more, and sovereign debt is junk grade. CDSs are going up a lot for Hungary, which was so foreward looking as to cancel to cooperation with the IMF. So the market forces soon will have their say!
Why don't you just go ahead and take a break? All this "klingonians" try to put Hungary into deep trouble! They manipulate the ignorant people from the western Europe and from the United States who have never tried to understand how things work here. All these journalists writing for a population which virtually speak no other language than English know for sure they can be easily manipulated. Even those Hungarians from Index.hu are manipulating since they know that this sort of private pension experiment only happened in Hungary and Poland!!
All those little frustrated liberals that have seen themselves without a party in Hungarian parliament are talking non-sense just to manipulate. I would like to say something about the EXPATS rather exPATHOLOGICAL...just gotta go know...stay tuned!
It is so obvious and easy to reckon that those forces that loved, literally loved ex-governments of Hungary are now doing all they can to cause problems to the actual Hungarian government, which is more interested in the destiny of it`s own people, rather than what a bunch of so-called western analysts loyal to the old left wing and liberal governments. It is known these people will never change as it is known that their moral authority to give lessons and point out is as close to ZERO as it is Paul Lendvai`s who just turned out to be a close friend of the Hungarian communist regime before `89. So it is a shame that people like you get credit for these aberrations. Of course it is a free world but do we really have to keep our mouth closed while enemies are using all their weapons against us? They want to tell us what to do, when and with who. They are pissed off if you don't sign agreements with IMF and so on. Democracy is when people vote for a party that "western journalists" like! When people would like to vote for a party or a coalition to do things our own way that is "an attempt against democracy". I simply don't get it how can somebody read and article like this and tho PRO comments and not say....yeak...
We'll see how Orban dances once the refinancing costs go through the roof. I'm afraid that a "csardas" won't be enough to pay the bills.
@margareta_alba If anybody was curious, what kind of mental machinery drives all those people voting for the new führer: thank you margareta for giving a good example. Surplus of sentiments with lack of knowledge does the trick. This, unfortunatly, qualitfies 52% of the Hungarian population (which I used to kep in high regards when I originally came to the country).
I believe GM ihibints the will to live. It disrupts the natural process.Scientists who practise GM in this form have a short term vision: profit' or direct gain', they do not understand what has made the genes to exist in its complexity.Essentially it is very easy to understand: the physical can't be the source for the physical. These scientists are like athiests, they only believe in what we can see / measure. They think Gene X has result Y and it is nothing more then that.But how could this logically be? The source of life and the comple genetic coherence is more then the building blocks. It is more than we can possibly measure/see.I don't believe in God, but I think it is more stupid to believe there is nothing more then we can see.If you would mess with the genes, you actually create something that should be as it is and therefor inhibit the will to live.
The state of the health of many Hungarians is not a brggniag point ! They eat far too much American-influenced, fast foods, for that!They should stick to langos, and home-grown vegetables,free range chickens, and good wine, juicy water melons, and aromatic spices etc etc.Certainly they should avoid McDucks and Trashco at all costs!Walk and cycle and exercise to shed the spare tyrethat is so ugly and a trade mark of modern living and all the atrocious bad habits that go with it.Convenience is not always the best policy when your health is at stake!
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When anime fades...Journal Entry: Thu Jan 2, 2014, 8:31 PM
Hello frosted, frippery, flings!
Ah, transitions!
I've been quietly lurking for this past year, without a lot of action. Why? I was very, very fortunate to land my dream job right out of grad school! I have never felt so satisfied and at peace. When you finally start making a living doing what you love, you enter into another realm of being, a more complete state of happiness. I've been busy!
Having been working for some months now, my ability to draw more freely is starting to come back. As I have been putting pencil to paper, what ends up being produced is not surprising, but certainly different.
I've been transitioning out of anime for a while now. I feel that nearly every anime-styled piece that I've tried in the last year has turned out poorly. Wonky and "off". Despite so many years of slavish devotion, my artwork continues to pull me into different directions. So, at last, I'm letting it take me where it wants. I think my last illustration of Tarkin from "Star Wars" is a good representation of where I'm heading.
I love skinny boys with cheekbones. Oh gawd, I do. While I will still have a well-carved spot in my heart for shojo, my own life has taken on a distinct tone of sepia with numerous vintage events and dances, silk stockings and jazz music. While I may return to it later, I have chosen to invest in vintage rather than cosplay. I haven't watched an anime in...years! I offer a gentle apology to any of my watchers who have been following me primarily for my anime stuff - Sorry lovelies, I've gone to the dark side. They have smaller eyeballs.
Despite saying goodbye to childhood, I'm excited and ready for the future, with all the dandies it might bring.
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Congrats on your dream job!
Glad you're doing well and very happy.
Also, congrats on surviving grad school
this is exciting an i'm so glad your enjoying your job, that is always the best feeling. And it is funny how as you grow an mature anime is well..it is still cool, and i always think fondly of my favorites, but stepping away from it seems good an natural.
Thank you!
I'll still draw Sebastian and Ciel every now and again.
I'll still draw Sebastian and Ciel every now and again.
Congrats on finding your dream job. What is it, may I ask?
Farewell to Anime? Yes, I know exactly what you mean. It seems in Middle and High School it was such a fun thing to get into. But, unfortunately, for an aspiring artist it's also a bit of a downfall. Your hand gets so used to drawing those big anime eyes and heart-shaped faces that we don't realize we're falling into a dangerous pattern: the inability to find our own "voice" in the world of art. Many years ago, I started to come to that scary conclusion and forced myself to steer away from the anime look.
I still love anime. Still watch it on occasion and read some manga, but it's not the center of my artistic universe anymore- thank god!
Much luck to you!
Thank you! It's nothing personal, but I prefer to maintain some level of privacy when it comes to "real life" professions.
Yes, that's exactly why I'm finally accepting my new transition - I feel that anime can be very limiting. My own preferences for beauty are becoming more fully cemented, and anime just isn't letting me express myself fully. I'll still enjoy drawing some crazy animoo every now and again.
Yes, that's exactly why I'm finally accepting my new transition - I feel that anime can be very limiting. My own preferences for beauty are becoming more fully cemented, and anime just isn't letting me express myself fully. I'll still enjoy drawing some crazy animoo every now and again.
I'm still going to follow you no matter what. Your art will still be really cool to look at even if the anime style that you use to have fades away. You're experimenting styles and I think that's a good thing for anyone! <3


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Prattville schools - which is part of the Autauga County School District. The Autauga County School District has an average GreatSchools rating of 7 out of 10.While perhaps not raised and educated in Prattville, more than 54 percent hold high school diplomas, with 19 percent having graduated from college and 10 percent completing a post-graduate degree program.
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HOUMA — Southeast Louisiana fishermen have had their eyes on one prize in recent days — redfish.
With colder temperatures settling into the area in recent days, many anglers have to go into the deeper waters to find fish. One of the catches in those locations are redfish.
"With the extreme cold that we got right now, the redfish is fantastic," Capt. Bill Lake of Bayou Guide Service said. "The past few days we've caught redfish galore. They are just stacking up right now in the deep water and they are biting real good."
Lake said speckled-trout fishing cooled off significantly once a cold front passed through southeast Louisiana. It cooled the water temperatures into the lower 40, which is a change from the mid 50 range needed to catch speckled trout.
Serena Gaspard of TYDs in Leeville said she is also receiving reports of fishermen finding redfish in the deeper holes.
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The cold weather is expected to continue tonight and Friday with the temperatures to gradually increase for the weekend.
Good fishing.
Lake said he is hopeful that the speckled-trout fishing will improve as the temperatures rise for the weekend.
Prior to Sunday's cold front, Lake said he caught his limit of speckled trout.
Best spots: Deer Bayou, Bayou Seveur and Bayou Decade.
Best baits: LSU chub minnow with a 1/4-ounce jig head and Tsunami twin baits (bunker, glow with a chartreuse back and glowback).
Good fishing.
If you are willing to brave the cold weather, Gaspard said the fish are there, but it may take some time find them since many have moved to deeper waters. But that could by the weekend as the temperatures start to warm up.
Best spots: Deep holes, Bayou Lafourche and water emptying out of area marshes into canals and bayous.
Best baits: Any plastic baits with sparkles and florescent yellow plastic bait.
Good fishing.
Anglers also have reverted to looking for fish in deeper holes because of the colder temperatures. Redfish are the most popular catch, and speckled trout has been sporadic.
Best spots: Sulfur mines in the Bayou Blue area and Catfish Lake.
Best baits: Plastic baits and bait shrimp.
Average fishing.
After weeks of waiting, things are finally picking up for freshwater fishermen.
Bobby Breaux of Bob's Bayou Black Marina in Gibson said he has received reports of people catching bass, sac-au-lait, redfish and speckled trout. It is expected to continue improving as the bass spawning season starts in February.
Best spots: Brady Canal and dead-end canals.
Best baits: Tube jigs, worms and gold spoons.
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This is a very easy way to delete all the white from a pencil sketch in photoshop and also make all the grey tones transparent. It works fantastic.
Hey, man - thanks for this. After extensive searches on the net, yours is the only tutorial I've found. I had to use a less than perfect altenative up til now. I'd left off doing old school line art 'coz I couldn't edit the scanned line art layer how I wanted too. Nice one.
What exactly should the shortcut in step2 do? Id doesent seem to work on my keyboard.
It selects all the white and greys, then when you hit delete it clears all the white of your layer and makes the greys go transparent so when you add colour underneath your sketch layer the greys shade your colour instead of having white in the grey. Are you holding all 3 keys at the same time like i'm asking?)
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"If the ECB tries to use what leeway it has to reduce this large amount of liquidity somewhat I would welcome that," he said.
But he added that "we in Germany should not forget that many European countries are still in a precarious economic situation."
Nevertheless, pumping liquidity into their economies without far-reaching structural reforms would not create the conditions for sustainable growth, the minister argued.
As well as cutting its key interest rates to historic lows in response to the long-running debt crisis, the ECB has also pumped unprecedented amounts of liquidity into banks to avert a disastrous credit crunch.
Schaeuble praised the ECB's efforts to contain inflation, which eased further to 1.7 percent in March.
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Actually it was 154 yards in 45-26 Golden Bears victory at the Rose Bowl.
While Cal coach Jeff Tedford and the Bears, 52-31 losers to Nevada earlier this season, try and figure out the Pistol offense, UCLA has its own defensive issues heading into Saturday's game in Berkeley.
The Bruins have given up 521 yards rushing to Cal the past two seasons and Tedford's two back offense has been every bit the mystery in Westwood that the Pistol is in Strawberry Canyon.
"Jeff over the years has been as good as any in the two back running game, scheming it," Neuheisel said. "They hit us with an option last year for a touchdown. They've got some great ideas offensively and it's one of the great challenges we face every year matching wits with the Cal offensive coaches."
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Jason Gray will be in concert Friday, July 12 at 7 p.m. at the Lykens Valley Campmeeting, Elizabethville. The night will be a benefit for WGRC Christian Radio Station. 717-365-3168


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The extension is required to facilitate the finalization of the documentation to renew the facility.
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Dubai Holding Commercial Operations Group LLC (DHCOG) confirms that all parties have agreed to extend the existing Revolving Credit Facility (RCF) of $555 million under commercial terms for an additional 2 months.
The extension is required to facilitate the finalization of the documentation to renew the facility.