Geoff Jones

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Childhood Experiences and Adult Lives

Just received this invitation from Suzanne. One of her post-doc students needs help with a survey on the way we experienced our childhood and the impact it can have on our current adult lives.:-

Hello my name is Wendy and I am a trainee clinical psychologist currently in my third year at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the UK. As part of my final Doctorate qualification, it is necessary to undertake a piece of relevant and original psychological research. As such I am looking at the link between the way we experience our childhood and the impact it can have on our current adult lives. The study has been given full ethical approval by the UEA Ethics Committee.

You are being invited to take part in this research study. The aim of this email is to open up the study to as many people as possible, and you would have received it because you either know the researcher or someone connected with them or alternatively because permission has been granted by your employer or student body.

The research is being conducted online (the attached link below takes you directly to the study) and will involve filling in a range of short questionnaires, which will take around 20 minutes to complete altogether. We need to capture a wide range of childhood experience; therefore the study is relevant to you whether you had a very happy childhood with no problems or whether you had a very difficult and unhappy childhood. However you do need to be 25 years and older to participate. The study is totally anonymous and confidential.

Finally in order to gather meaningful results we need to get as many people as possible to take part in the study. Therefore we are also asking everyone to forward this email on to other people who you think would be interested in helping with this project. Please feel free to email me at childhood.experience at uea.ac.uk if you have any further questions or queries.

Thank you for your time over this, it really is appreciated. Please click on the attached link below now if you would like to continue further with the study.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=45171746622

Wendy

So come on blogosphere lets get her the couple of thousand replies she needs.

MP communications..

Apparently I’m the 162nd person, according to Hear from your MP ,who is wanting David Howarth to have a “more genuine sort of interaction than just being sent newsletters.”

What we really need is a bulletin board like Grant Shapps MP runs here for his constituents in Welwyn Hatfield. They have had 1564 posts by 351 members. Interesting also that the software that runsthe board is free, supplied by simple machines
So David no exuses!

Thanks to Ellee for the Grant Shapps link

Do you like living in a democracy?

Well, enjoy it while you can, because it might not last much longer if the UK government get their way according to an article here.

The “Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill” is going through Parliament virtually on the nod.

This bill gives Ministers and their lackeys the ability to amend, replace, or repeal existing legislation without reference to Parliament and even worse can create new new criminal offenses as long as the sentence is not more than 2 years.

“More worryingly, the minister involved can amend any existing legislation; nothing is protected. So, as was pointed out in The Times by 6 law professors from Cambridge, a minister could abolish trial by jury, suspend habeas corpus (your right not to be arbitrarily arrested), or change any of the legislation governing the legal system.”

Never mind Jim Murphy MP says “I give the House clear undertakings, which I shall
repeat in Committee, that the orders will not be used to implement
highly controversial reforms.” so thats all right then!

Join the campaign here

Thanks to Rend for link.

Young entrepreneurs required (must be over 13)…

Just visited the Helio webside. Helio is another 3G virtual mobile operator. However, these guys are teaming up with Myspace so you can post content directly to your Myspace account.

Just love this, in their section “become a partner”
“Helio is looking for Agent Partners to be part of our new brand.
If you are interested in joining our world-class team,
click here to tell us more about your company.
You must be 13 years of age or older in order to apply. For details, please see our Privacy Policy.
“

So any budding Branson’s or Sugar’s out there. here is your opportunity.

Thanks to Linksecret for the Helio Link