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Born Under a Bead Sign: Introduction & Welcome (new entries added below)

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Wednesday, December 30, 2009. Introduction and Welcome (new entries added below). This blog serves as an online gallery of my work and, hopefully, a place to connect with the similarly obsessed. Clicking "archives" or "older posts" or "photos and opinions" links on the right hand side will bring up more photos. I welcome comments and email. Please make yourself at home. (New entries below). I love the collage photo! Is the radiant photo yours or the photographers? Saturday, August 26, 2006. Hi LB I read ...

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Television Addiction: The Tube

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Dealing with the only form of addiction that society condones and encourages. Monday, February 26, 2007. How Television Affects The Mind: Review of Le Tube. Le Tube is a documentary film. Journalist Peter Entell and actor Luc Mariot travel to three continents to uncover the history of television and its effects on the human brain. The focus of their research is to study the effect of television regardless of the content. Schenectady, New York. The movie then moves to the Research and Development section ...

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Television Addiction: Fighting television addiction - Part 6 - The Family

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Dealing with the only form of addiction that society condones and encourages. Tuesday, February 6, 2007. Fighting television addiction - Part 6 - The Family. In an experiment conducted a few years ago 25 families (all with young children) were asked to go without television for 1 month. Not all of them managed but the ones that did reported that after the initial adjustment (withdrawal from television addiction):. Their home felt more peaceful and relaxed. Children were more helpful with chores. The prob...

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Television Addiction: Television Addiction Is No Mere Metaphor

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Dealing with the only form of addiction that society condones and encourages. Wednesday, January 31, 2007. Television Addiction Is No Mere Metaphor. By Robert Kubey and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Most of the criteria of substance dependence can apply to people who watch a lot of TV. A Body at Rest Tends to Stay at Rest. Within moments of sitting or lying down and pushing the "power" button, viewers report feeling more relaxed. Because the relaxation occurs quickly, people are conditioned to associate v...

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Television Addiction: Fighting television addiction - Part 8

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Dealing with the only form of addiction that society condones and encourages. Tuesday, February 20, 2007. Fighting television addiction - Part 8. If you see the advertisements and the manufacturers of products like tobacco, alcohol, antidepressants then you will get a picture full of smiling people who would like you. People do not accept the fact that television is just like any other drug even though they watch it for an average of more than 3 hours per day. Most importantly, television is not merely a...

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Television Addiction: 13 years is a long time

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Dealing with the only form of addiction that society condones and encourages. Tuesday, February 13, 2007. 13 years is a long time. The average person watches 5 hours of television per day. 35 hours per week. 140 hours per month. 1680 hours per year. All of that translates into 70 days per year. The average child today spends more time in front of the television than being educated at school (or home for that matter). Job that is not paying and actually destroying the body and mind. What is more, if you c...

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Television Addiction: Television Addiction and Children - Part 2

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Dealing with the only form of addiction that society condones and encourages. Saturday, April 7, 2007. Television Addiction and Children - Part 2. Children have varying attention spans at different ages and their way of watching and understanding television changes with age. From birth to 18 months. Though the precise nature of such viewing has not yet been researched it is known that even infants begin modeling their behavior based on what they see. 2- 2 1/2 years. The biggest concern here is that the v...

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Television Addiction: Attention Span in Children

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Dealing with the only form of addiction that society condones and encourages. Saturday, June 16, 2007. Attention Span in Children. Kids today face immense pressure to succeed at school and in other activities as well. This pressure is further intensified by the fact that their minds and bodies are ruined due to excessive television viewing. Their mind wanders just like that of a child suffering from ADHD except that the problem is television. Within that period any act of studying is just a placebo for t...

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Television Addiction: June 2007

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Dealing with the only form of addiction that society condones and encourages. Sunday, June 17, 2007. In his book, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television. Jerry Mander described how many avid TV watchers described the experience of sitting in front of the tube:. I feel hypnotized when I watch television.". Television sucks my energy.". I feel like it's brainwashing me.". I feel like a vegetable when I'm stuck there at the tube.". Television spaces me out.". I feel mesmerized by it.". The most co...