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Lana lives on an island in the nation of Vanuatu. [Locate Vanuatu, a string of islands east of Australia and south of the Solomon Islands.] Lana loves to share God's love with others. Every week she, her parents, and her sister and brothers go to her father's home village to share God's love.
There weren't any Adventists in her father's village, so the family decided to start a Branch Sabbath School. Mother led a children's program, and that attracted lots of adults, so Father started a class for the adults, and Mother and Lana led the children's group. They sang and listened to Bible stories. At first Lana helped her mother by leading the singing. Sometimes she told a Bible story. On days when Mother couldn't go to the village with the family, Lana led the entire children's program.
Lana uses the kindergarten Sabbath School lesson for her Bible story. The children range from babies to 12-year-olds, so she plans activities for different ages.
"When we arrive in the village, the children come running to our cousin's house, where we meet," Lana says. "I welcome them, and we start singing. The children like the songs with motions the best. They sing lots of songs while more children arrive.
"After prayer we sometimes have a mission story, then I tell the Bible story," Lana explains." We use the new Bible story flipchart that the past Thirteenth Sabbath Offering helped to buy. The children love the pictures, and the older ones can read the Bible verse printed at the bottom. Many of the children don't have a Bible of their own, so we review the Bible verse several times to help them remember it."
The family prayed for supplies to make the Branch Sabbath School more fun for the children. Then Mother found some Bible felts at a yard sale. She was thrilled! When the woman learned that Mother wanted to use the felts to teach children about Jesus, she gave Mother lots of books, craft items, pictures, and Bible coloring books, too. Lana uses them in the Branch Sabbath School.
Lana has been leading the Branch Sabbath School for a year now, and she enjoys it. "I miss going when we can't be there," she says. "I learn a lot by teaching the children."
Lana's family sponsored some health and friendship-building meetings in this village. "Lots of people came," Lana says. "But many of them wouldn't sit in the pavilion we built. They wanted to stand outside the circle of light from the generator-powered lights. But we knew they were there, and they were listening."
Now the family stays in the village all day on Sabbath. "After the Sabbath School program for kids and adults, my dad preaches for church," Lana says. "Sometimes my cousins and I offer the prayer, read the Scripture lesson, or ask for the offering. Then after church we have a potluck and invite anyone who wishes to come, even if they didn't take part in the worship service. Then the kids hold a youth meeting. They are learning to lead the singing, and sometimes I do a Bible quiz or Bible game. Sometimes I tell a Bible story. After the youth meeting we plan the next week's youth program so that everyone knows what they will do. Then we close the Sabbath with songs and a prayer before we return home. It's a long day, but I love it and love being with my cousins and new friends in the village. I love sharing God's love with my cousins and their friends."
Lana has made lots of friends for Jesus in her Branch Sabbath School. We can make friends for Jesus by sharing God's love with just one other person. Another important way to make friends for Jesus is to give our mission offerings each week. Let's see how many ways we can make friends for Jesus this coming week.


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A new single from G4 Boyz digital album, "Blood Diamonds" available on iTunes March 20th.
Check out Hair Nails Makeup, the latest from G4 Boyz which features a guest appearance from Tory Lanez on the assist. The track was released on Saturday, March 10th, 2012. G4 Boyz's chances in this game are improving with each new release, and Hair Nails Makeup is no exception - quite the opposite, in fact. It's a nice addition to the impressive catalogue G4 Boyz has been building over the years. We're definitely anticipating the next move.
Have you heard G4 Boyz's For The Love Of Money? If you're down, make sure to visit G4 Boyz's profile page for the newest info, news, songs, and mixtapes. Follow G4 Boyz on Twitter, if you aren't already.
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Afghans to Karzai: You failed us.
Perceived as ineffective and corrupt, the Afghan president faces an uphill battle to reelection.
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Kabul, Afghanistan
Hajji Mohammed Aman sits in the half-light of his west Kabul real estate office and makes a demand of his president.
"When you decide to do something, you have to do it, even if it costs you your life," he says, firmly but without bluster.
The comment hints at why the country that once chose President Hamid Karzai to lead it into a new, democratic future is now turning against him. Both at home and abroad, Mr. Karzai is facing mounting criticism that he has lacked the courage to stop the government's descent into corruption and ineffectiveness.
Karzai's international allies are increasingly unwilling to accept inaction, and with presidential elections a year away, the man who once had an 83 percent approval rating now finds himself politically isolated and needing to resuscitate his image.
"Things are out of his control now," says Farooq Mirranay, a member of parliament who supported Karzai in the 2004 elections and remains a part of the Karzai's legislative bloc.
As the West begins to pay more attention to the worsening state of law and order in Afghanistan, pressure on Karzai is growing. His decision on Oct. 11 to reshuffle his cabinet has widely been seen as an effort to placate international allies demanding progress against corruption.
"It's taken him two years to do it," says Ahmed Rashid, author of "Descent into Chaos," a book about US efforts to rebuild Afghanistan.
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Broward Teachers Play Hardball With Scandal-Rocked District
School Board Member Beverly Gallagher faces corruption charges. |
For the next couple of weeks, the Broward Teachers Union is asking its members to stop all unpaid, after-hours work, and instead "work to the rule" of their contracts, pressuring district officials to give them raises.
"The point of 'work to the rule' is to show the community all of the extra things that teachers contribute," says
John Ristow, spokesman for teachers union president Pat Santeramo.
Union officials have used this negotiating tactic before, and are reviving it this year in an effort to wrangle four-percent raises out of a cash-strapped school district.
This may sound like a presumptuous demand, given the economics of the New Depression. But the union may generate more sympathy this year, because it's negotiating with a school district staggering under a federal corruption probe.
Suspended School Board Member Beverly Gallagher has been charged with fraud, extortion and bribery for allegedly accepting a $12,500 bribe to steer school construction work to a favored company. Meanwhile, Board Member Stephanie Kraft helped make sure Vista Healthplan Inc. got the school district's three-year, $1.7 billion health insurance contract, even as her husband was on the payroll of Vista's lobbyist, Neil Sterling.
Broward teachers are now paying for Kraft's decision, since Vista plans to jack up the price of health coverage for employees who want to insure their children by a whopping 45 percent next year.
"Our school district makes a priority out of wasting tax dollars," Ristow says.
Drawing on suggestion from district employees, the union created a list of expenses the school district could cut in order to come up with $32 million to cover employee raises. Some of the proposals, such as consolidation of under-enrolled schools, may be controversial.
But the item at the top of the list should draw cheers from taxpayers everywhere: $100,000 in legal fees for the federal corruption probe.
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Our 4BD beach home is an excellent choice for longer vacations and executive relocations. Our home is located in Waters End, a gated community in Carlsbad, CA near the beach. The community is west of I-5, reachable from the Poinsettia Lane exit. The Poinsettia Coaster Train Station is a 5 minute walk from our house -- a side gate from the community leads directly to the parking lot. The Coaster gets you to downtown San Diego in minutes, and connects with Amtrak. We are also ten minutes from Palomar Airport with direct service to LAX and plenty of space for private planes.
South Carlsbad beach is a short walk, and our community has very large pool and spa. The pool, spa, and playground are about 6 houses down the street from our house -- but you can't hear any pool noise from our house. There is a very good shopping center across Poinsettia Lane about a block down Encinas Avenue, with a large Ralph's, Starbucks, Ames Hardware, Rite Aide, and numerous restaurants and small specialty markets and shops. All of this is a short walk.
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The house has 4 bedrooms and 3 full baths. One bedroom and full bath is on the first floor and three bedrooms and two full baths are on the second floor. The house is centrally air-conditioned. All bedrooms have cross-ventilation (the MB has windows on all four sides), and all bedrooms have new ceiling fans. The master suite has a king bed, huge walk-in closet, and bath with both shower stall and soaking tub and double sinks. The master suite also has a sitting area with a comfortable couch and chair and 32 inch flat-screen TV. A balcony looks over the back patio and has a nice bench and comfortable cushions.
The second bedroom upstairs has a queen bed. The third bedroom upstairs has two twin beds and a Pac 'n' Play portable crib. The hall bathroom has a tub and shower. Also upstairs is a laundry room with a high-efficiency washer and dryer. There is also a small office upstairs in the hall alcove (see pictures). The house is immaculate -- see reviews on this site from past guests. As one reviewer wrote, 'This rental property has given us our best rental experience. As I told the owner, this home is so well appointed, clean and comfortable that we were surprised that it would be rented out to the public. Everything in the home is in perfect condition, including the kitchen with all of the dishes, cooking supplies, etc.'
On the first floor, the bedroom has a desk and can be used as an office. It also has a queen bed that is very high-tech. It is a Frontgate bed that comes out of the closet, and when you plug it in, it unfolds to a complete queen bed on a platform -- it's incredibly comfortable, and nothing like a traditional 'rollaway'. There is a full bath with shower next to the first floor bedroom. Even the bathrooms in our house have granite counter-tops.
As you can see from the pictures, the kitchen is ultra modern with stainless steel appliances, granite counter-tops, and is fully equipped. The fireplace in the living room is only decorative until we find and install a gas burner and glass doors -- the previous owners never got around to that.
The living room has a new 55' flat screen TV, blu-ray DVD player, couches and two comfortable chairs.
There is a two car garage, and outside the kitchen in the play area is a built-in gas barbeque with built-in gas line -- so no canisters to worry about.
No cats, dogs or other pets please. We do not rent to groups of unattached people, weddings, parties, reunions, or anyone else who might disturb this family- and kid-friendly neighborhood. Our homeowner's association assesses severe fines for any disturbances -- we would pass along any such fines to renters if that occurred, although we expect that it will not. There is a limit of two cars per rental. Overnight visitors may park on the street, but only for a few days, due to homeowner association policies.
Why did we buy this house?
We bought this house and furnished it in June and July of 2011 because we could not find a suitable rental in the San Diego area that a short walk to the beach. We found that the beach rentals we experienced in this area left a lot to be desired and were over-priced. So, we created the ideal beach vacation house for ourselves and our family, and for you and your family. We have a local property manager who is available to tenants if anything goes wrong -- although the house is so perfect and well-maintained that we can't imagine that happening. We also have a housekeeper who provides cleaning services. Check out the pictures below -- it truly is a fabulous home.
Jim and Margaret manage their own business near Santa Fe, NM and visit their home in Carlsbad as often as they can. Our home in Carlsbad is full of art we have collected in Santa Fe and around the world in China, Europe, and North America.
Wow!!! Your home is perfect!! It's beautiful Jim!! The pictures don't do it justice!!! We love it!!!
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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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Uzbek Articles
If you're trying to learn Uzbek Articles you will find that there is no articles used in Uzbek. The definite and indefinite articles don't exist in the way we know it in English. But you should still look at the examples below, because they show how Uzbek deals with the absences of articles. Also don't forget to check the rest of our other lessons listed on Learn Uzbek. Enjoy the rest of the lesson!


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Abshier Construction is a NWA General Contractor and Remodeler building custom homes, room additions and performing custom remodeling of homes, kitchens and baths in Northwest Arkansas for three generations.
Knowledge, honesty, a willingness to work with our customers and the fact that we stand behind our work has allowed us to be successful building and remodeling in Northwest Arkansas for nearly 50 years!
While a lot of companies were bought or started during the "boom" by businessmen with little or no building experience who saw a opportunity to make a quick buck, Abshier construction is a family business operated by Steve Abshier who started out as a boy carrying boards and cleaning up job sites. We don't have to depend on someone else to tell us if it is put together correctly, we recognize it.
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The Top 10 Things You Need to Know About Amnesty's Death Penalty Report
Today, Amnesty International released its annual report on the use of the death penalty worldwide. Although 2013 saw more executions than in previous years and several countries resuming executions, there was also progress towards abolition in all regions of the world. Below, see the top 10 things you need to know from our newest report:
5 Death Penalty Myths Debunked
In advance of the release of our 2014 Global Death Penalty Report tomorrow, here are 5 of the most common misconceptions about the death penalty.
The death penalty deters violent crime and makes society safer.
There is no convincing evidence that the death penalty has a unique deterrent effect.
More than three decades after abolishing the death penalty, Canada's murder rate remains over one third lower than it was in 1976.
TAKE ACTION: Tell Iranian Prisoners They Are Not Forgotten During Iranian New Year
The first day of spring is the beginning of a special time for Iranians and for other Persian and Kurdish speakers throughout the world as they celebrate Nowruz, the Iranian New Year. This is the time when families gather to share in ancient Iranian traditions.
But many Iranians will not be able to celebrate this important holiday with their loved ones as they are locked up in crowded and disease-ridden Iranian prisons. They are not locked up because they have committed any crime. They are locked up because of their religious faith, because of their activism to create a better world, or because they have expressed opinions the authorities don't want others to hear.
Imprisoned For Refusing to Work on Military Projects "Harmful to Humanity"
It was the end of January 2011. Young Iranian physics whiz Omid Kokabee had just had a pleasant winter break visiting with his family in Iran and was eagerly anticipating returning to Austin to continue his doctoral studies in the Physics Department at the University of Texas. He was at the airport in Tehran when security agents approached him; instead of boarding his flight as planned, his life suddenly turned into a nightmare from which he has yet to awaken.
It is now three years later and Omid Kokabee sits in Evin Prison in Tehran, serving a ten-year prison sentence after being convicted in a Revolutionary Court of unsubstantiated charges of "communicating with a hostile government" (presumably the U.S.) and "accepting illegal funds" (apparently a reference to the stipend that graduate students at his department typically receive).
While in detention, he was held in solitary confinement, subjected to prolonged interrogations, and pressured to make a confession. His interrogators reportedly threatened that he would be tortured and that professors at Iranian universities with whom he had worked would be arrested. During questioning, he was reportedly made to write down details of individuals he had seen in embassies or at conferences, and was told by those questioning him that some of the people he had met were CIA operatives.
Amnesty International has declared him to be a prisoner of conscience, held solely for his refusal to work on military projects in Iran and as a result of spurious charges related to his legitimate scholarly ties with academic institutions outside of Iran. AI calls for his immediate and unconditional release from prison.
5 Human Rights Victories in Iran You Helped Make Possible
How many human rights activists does it take to achieve human rights victories in Iran?
The answer is a lot and they have to be persistent over a long period of time. But in the end, all the hard work does pay off as we have seen over the past several weeks.
On September 18, Iran released prominent human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh, who had been in prison for three years just for representing her clients – many of them young people sentenced to death and human rights defenders such as Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi.
There are also indications that a man known as "Alireza M" – who had been subjected to a botched execution, had been declared dead and who was then discovered to be alive in the morgue the next day - will not have to face the horrific prospect of a reattempt of his execution.
Other positive signs include an announcement from Iran's Minister of Culture Ali Jannati that censorship of books will be eased and a call from President Hasan Rouhani for the lifting of restrictions on academic freedom and for allowing Iranian scholars more opportunity to take part in international conferences.
Will Rouhani Create Meaningful Reforms or Play Political Games?
The global community recently celebrated the release of Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and what appears to be dozens of others, among them political prisoners. However, we should reserve judgment regarding the future of human rights under the new administration in Iran until all those who remain unjustly imprisoned are freed and Iranians achieve the freedoms they have been demanding for several decades.
Sotoudeh, who had been detained in Iran since September 2010, was originally sentenced to 11 years in jail for "spreading propaganda against the system" and "acting against national security." In reality, she is a lawyer who has defended many high-profile human rights campaigners, political activists, and juvenile offenders on death row. Throughout her career she publicly, but peacefully, challenged the Iranian authorities about the shortcomings of the rule of law and due process in the proceedings against her clients.
2 Historical Traumas That Continue to Cast a Long Shadow Over Iran
One of my favorite writers, William Faulkner, famously said, "The past is never dead. It's not even past."
I've been thinking about how societies wrestle with the profound historical trauma resulting from human rights violations on a massive scale since I saw the powerful new film "The Act of Killing." It takes on the mass killings of hundreds of thousands of supposed "Communists" in Indonesia after an attempted coup in 1965, but not by using typical documentary devices of archival footage and talking heads.
Instead, the director Joshua Oppenheimer opted for a unique and unsettling approach – asking some of the perpetrators of the killings, who have never been held accountable for their abuses, to recreate their crimes, often in staged genre settings inspired by their favorite classic gangster films and fluffy musicals.
The Future of Human Rights in Iran Under President-Elect Hassan Rouhani
Iran's challenges are not few, from job creation and stopping inflation to improving foreign relations. Most presidential candidates in 2013 ran on such platforms. However, there was a key issue that was not directly addressed in their political vernacular: human rights.
While many jubilant Iranians and a hopeful international community are touting president-elect Hassan Rouhani as a reformist because of his promise to ease restrictions at home, free political prisoners, and to offer more transparency for Iran's controversial nuclear program, it should not be ignored that he remains, nevertheless, among those select few candidates approved to run by Iran's Guardian Council.
Cartoon Candidate Only One Addressing Human Rights in Iranian Election
Only one candidate is seriously addressing the issue of human rights in the lead-up to Iran's presidential election on June 14. She is a mother, devoutly religious (albeit with an irreverence for authority), she has a well-thought out platform and a plan to initiate widespread reforms to guarantee human rights in Iran. Her name is Zahra and – oh, by the way – she is not real.
Zahra would not be allowed to run anyway as women are precluded from being the president of Iran. But that minor detail does not discourage Zahra. Undaunted, she is out there on the campaign trail, courageously speaking truth to power and confronting the authorities over their rampant human rights violations, calling for an end to the death penalty and for the release of all political prisoners.


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Shure Microphones Featured On History Channel's "Modern Marvels"
NILES, IL– As part of The History Channel's "Great Inventions Week," Shure was featured on the May 16, 2007, episode of Modern Marvels called 60s Tech. A popular program that celebrates ingenuity, invention, and imagination, Modern Marvels tells the fascinating stories of the doers and the dreamers who created everyday items, technological breakthroughs, and man-made wonders. more


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Back in 1999, two American Enterprise Institute guys, James K. Glassman and Kevin Hassett, wrote a book called Dow 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting from the Coming Rise in the Stock Market
Almost instantly infamous—a stock crash began within months—it would become synonymous with crazed bubble-era thinking. Dow 36,000 became the poster child of the kind of dubious, hyped-up personal-finance journalism that is unfortunately never in short supply. Or as Knight A. Kiplinger, editor of Kiplinger's Personal Finance, put it in a review at the time:
Rock-solid investment advice… Long-term investors can place it on an altar next to the works of Benjamin Graham and Peter Lynch, as well as Warren Buffett's annual homilies to his Berkshire Hathaway investors.
Glassman and Hassett have spent the last 14 years walking back their book, and saying they didn't really mean what everybody thought they meant when Glassman, for instance, wrote in the Washington Post the week Dow 36,000 came out that stocks were intrinsically worth triple their then price— if only investors weren't so unfairly bearish on equities vis-à-vis bonds—and that price-to-earnings ratios should be somewhere around 100. Really!
We say in the book that the Dow should be at 36,000 today, but that realistically the process should take about five years…
We did the arithmetic and found, much to our surprise, that stocks would have to triple or quadruple. P/E ratios could easily be 100…
Now, investors are getting more reasonable. While many market analysts think that investors are currently off their rockers, we think that, to the contrary, they are finally becoming rational—recognizing the true value of stocks for the long term.
This was mainstream stuff, written at the height of the mania in one of the nation's top papers. Three months later The New York Times/IHT let Glassman push the specious line—a big bubble backdrop—that the stock market boom was making everybody rich:
If the Dow rises to 36,000, those holdings will be worth about $40 trillion. Since there are roughly 100 million U.S. households, the average family owned about $110,000 in stocks in 1998. When stocks are properly priced, those stockholdings will be worth about $400,000.
A classic AEI example of misleading with statistics, Glassman used average family rather than median family, which gave the false impression that stock wealth is widely held. More than 53 percent of U.S. households had no stocks at all as of 2010, meaning the median American household had zero dollars in stocks 11 years after Glassman was writing.
Glassman's and Hassett's walking-back of their book began almost immediately since the stock market began to crash so soon after the book came out.
In a preface to a 2000 edition of the book, Glassman and Hassett sniffed at the "delight of the bears" at the incipient downturn and touted the rise in Cisco, GE, and ADP—stocks they had called cheap—since the book launched. Only ADP is up, slightly, since then (and it took 14 years to get into positive territory). If you bought GE and Cisco after reading that updated preface, you've lost about two thirds of your money. Where Glassman and Hassett called Cisco cheap in 1999 when it's price-to-earnings ratio was at an enormous 85, the company's P/E now is at a much more realistic 12.5.
By the next year, 2001, the stock crash was undeniable, and earnings multiples had collapsed. Amidst the carnage of the tech wreck, the Post gave Glassman real estate yet again to write this (emphasis mine):
My co-author, economist Kevin Hassett, and I did not predict when this blessed event would occur, and we warned that outside events could send markets down in shocking ways.
Never mind that he had written, in the same paper two years earlier, that "realistically the process should take about five years" to get to 36,000.
A year later, in 2002, he wrote this in a Wall Street Journal op-ed:
What went wrong? Actually, nothing. Despite its flamboyant title, "Dow 36,000" was a book of sober explanation, not of wild prognostication. We calculated that 36000 was the point at which the 30 stocks that comprise the Dow Industrials would be fully valued, and we warned that "it is impossible to predict how long it will take."
But picking target prices was not what our book was about—nor is it what investing is about.
In other words, never mind the title of my book!
By April of 2007, with credit-default-swap indices already flashing red on a major securitization-market malfunction, Glassman took to the pages of Kiplinger's to write about "Why Stocks Are a Bargain," again, six months before the peak of the market.
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Random BrewDog News
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1) Tokyo Rising Sun
Brewed in May 2008. And then forgotten about. A beautiful accident. An unsuspecting masterpiece. A beery time capsule. This imperial stout has been aged in a Scotch whisky cask for over 4 years. For more than 48 long months this beer lay hidden in oak in the depths of our north east of Scotland warehouse.
When we brewed the first ever batch of Tokyo, we decided to fill three whisky casks, two Highland and one Lowland. Tokyo Rising Sun is the result.
We cannot decide if it is a good or bad thing that we managed to forget about these barrels for 4 years. It is definitely a good thing we found them.
Lowland Edition Tasting Notes: aged in a Lowland whisky cask resulting in decadent chocolate, toasted vanilla, indulgent spiced fruit, a mesmerizingly hypnotic mouth-feel and new layers which emerge on every sip. Drink it now or age it for another 4 years.
Highland Edition Tasting Notes: aged in a Highland whisky cask resulting in a viscous slow motion roller coaster of powdered cacao, hints of burning pirate ships, salted caramel, sharp berries and toasted marshmallow. Best enjoyed with a dose of vagrant optimism.
A headline in the Sun from 2008, when we launched the original Tokyo at 12% abv.
We only have a few hundred bottles and the beer will be available online in mid June and available exclusively to our shareholders first.
2) Latest Hop Propaganda
The latest edition of our newsletter is now ready to rock. You can sign up the Hop Propaganda mailing list here http://www.brewdog.com/newsletter
You can download previous editions here http://www.brewdog.com/downloads/newsletters
3) Whisky Stramash!
BrewDog rocked an awesome outdoor bar at last weekend's whisky stramash in Edinburgh at the beautiful Surgeon's Hall venue. Over 5,000 visitors attended and enjoyed Paradox, Punk & 5am Saint.
4) Bar Managers Meeting
All our bar managers and assistant managers descended on Aberdeen on Monday and Tuesday for some BrewDog Bar Planning (and beer drinking). Here are the hardcore scamps and scampettes (can you spot your favourite?).
5) Awards!
Along with the stellar Manifest Team we picked up some awards for our marketing. We even got the Gran Prix award at the Drum Awards. Contrary to what the name implies, this award was not for driving. It is nice to get an actual award after the Diageo shambles.
6) Caramalt Tea
I have become obsessed with caramalt tea (we have plenty of caramalt here!) - it is like having a mini mash tun on my desk.
7) Birra del Borgo collaboration
Graeme was in Italy over the last few days to brew the Birra del Borgo & BrewDog collaboration. They brewed a peated IPA which is being fermented and aged in wooden vats.
You can read more about the beer on the del Borgo blog here http://birradelborgo.it/blog/collaborazioni/1559/la-reale-si-mette-il-kilt/
They are going to send us some kegs when the beer is ready to rock - look out for in in our bars.
8) New Website
We are working on a brand new BrewDog website which will be live in late June. The current website is now 5 years old, and although still good, we felt we could make it much better. Here are some screen shots.
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- Can't wait for a wee taste of the new/old Tokyo... Highland for me please! Helly01.06.2012
- Love the 'Our Beer is so strong it is Binge Drink Cure' Headline
forgot all about that!
Panda 01.06.2012 - The beer geeks can have the Tokyo in a barrel.....I'm waiting for bottles of Dead Pony Club!!! Fanboy Puppy Lover01.06.2012
- The malt tea sounds amazing... That on my desk at work.... yum... Charlie B01.06.2012
- Malt tea sounds cool.
how about for the bars?Amanda H01.06.2012 - The Tokyo looks epic! Adrian M31.05.2012
- All positive stuff! Can't wait for some tokyo rising sun! AlexEdinregular31.05.2012


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Chapter 12. Sex: Evolutionary, Hormonal, and Neural Bases
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Guys, do you prefer more feminine faces? If so, chances are you grew up in a relatively healthy place. New research suggests that men raised in countries with higher average lifespans and lower child mortality more strongly prefer women with softer features than do men raised in less healthy nations. The finding bolsters the idea that years of human evolution have made men attracted to faces that could help them survive. Previous studies have found that women living in harsher conditions—such as communities with high homicide rates and low income—are more inclined to find more masculine men attractive. Urszula Marcinkowska, a biologist at the University of Turku in Finland, and her colleagues wanted to know whether culture also influenced males' preferences for females, or whether men judged females in a more universal way. Using an online survey conducted in 16 different languages, the researchers presented 1972 heterosexual males between the ages of 18 and 24 from 28 different countries with 20 pairs of Caucasian female faces. Each pair contained one face with more feminine traits—such as larger eyes, fuller lips, and a less angular jaw—as well as a more androgynous face, with thinner lips and a wider chin. Participants were asked to select which face in each pair they found more sexually attractive. While men across all cultures generally preferred a more feminine face, the strength of that preference varied between countries. The difference couldn't be explained by the ratio of men to women in a country, its gross national income, or the race of the participants, but it did correlate with the national health index of the men's countries—a measure of overall well-being. Those from countries like Japan, with high national health index scores, chose the more feminine face more than three-quarters of the time, the authors report online today in Biology Letters. Men from countries such as Nepal, which has a lower health rating, selected the more feminine face in only slightly more than half of the cases, on average. © 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science
Keyword: Sexual Behavior; Hormones & Behavior
Link ID: 19555 - Posted: 04.30.2014
THAT health and beauty are linked is not in doubt. But it comes as something of a surprise that who is perceived as beautiful depends not only on the health of the person in question but also on the average level of health in the place where she lives. This, though, is the conclusion of a study just published in Biology Letters by Urszula Marcinkowska of the University of Turku, in Finland, and her colleagues—for Ms Marcinkowska has found that men in healthy countries think women with the most feminine faces are the prettiest whilst those in unhealthy places prefer more masculine-looking ones. Ms Marcinkowska came to this conclusion by showing nearly 2,000 men from 28 countries various versions of the same female faces, modified to look less or more feminine, and thus reflect the effects of different levels of oestrogen and testosterone. Oestrogen promotes features, such as large eyes and full lips, that are characteristically feminine. Testosterone promotes masculine features, such as wide faces and strong chins. As the chart shows, the correlation is remarkable—and statistical analysis shows it is unconnected with a country's wealth or its ratio of men to women and thus the amount of choice available to men. The cause, though, is unclear. Previous studies have shown that women with feminine features are more fertile. A man's preference for them is thus likely to enhance his reproductive success. Ms Marcinkowska speculates that testosterone-induced behavioural characteristics like dominance, which might be expected to correlate with masculine-looking faces even in women (they certainly do in men), help in the competition for resources needed to sustain children once they are born. But why that should be particularly important in an unhealthy country is unclear.
Keyword: Sexual Behavior; Hormones & Behavior
Link ID: 19554 - Posted: 04.30.2014
Jeffrey Mogil's students suspected there was something fishy going on with their experiments. They were injecting an irritant into the feet of mice to test their pain response, but the rodents didn't seem to feel anything. "We thought there was something wrong with the injection," says Mogil, a neuroscientist at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. The real culprit was far more surprising: The mice that didn't feel pain had been handled by male students. Mogil's group discovered that this gender distinction alone was enough to throw off their whole experiment—and likely influences the work of other researchers as well. "This is very important work with wide-ranging implications," says M. Catherine Bushnell, a neuroscientist and the scientific director of the Division of Intramural Research at the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) in Bethesda, Maryland, who was not involved in the study. "Many people doing research have never thought of this." Mogil has studied pain for 25 years. He's long suspected that lab animals respond differently to the sensation when researchers are present. In 2007, his lab observed that mice spend less time licking a painful injection—a sign that they're hurting—when a person is nearby, even if that "person" is a cardboard cutout of Paris Hilton. Other scientists began to wonder if their own data were biased by the same effect. "There were whisperings at meetings that this was confounding research results," Mogil says. So he decided to take a closer look. In the new study, Mogil told the researchers in his lab to inject an inflammatory agent into the foot of a rat or mouse and then take a seat nearby and read a book. A video camera trained on the rodent's face assessed the animal's pain level, based on a 0- to 2-point "grimace scale" developed by the team. The results were mixed. Sometimes the animals showed pain when an experimenter was present, and sometimes they seemed just fine. So, on a hunch, Mogil and colleagues recrunched the data, this time controlling for whether a male or a female experimenter was present. "We were stunned by the results," he says. © 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Keyword: Stress; Sexual Behavior
Link ID: 19550 - Posted: 04.29.2014
The hormone oxytocin appears to increase social behaviors in newborn rhesus monkeys, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health, the University of Parma in Italy, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The findings indicate that oxytocin is a promising candidate for new treatments for developmental disorders affecting social skills and bonding. Oxytocin, a hormone produced by the pituitary gland, is involved in labor and birth and in the production of breast milk. Studies have shown that oxytocin also plays a role in parental bonding, mating, and in social dynamics. Because of its possible involvement in social encounters, many researchers have suggested that oxytocin might be useful as a treatment for conditions affecting social behaviors, such as autism spectrum disorders. Although oxytocin has been shown to increase certain social behaviors in adults, before the current study it had not been shown to do so in primate infants of any species. Working with infant rhesus monkeys, the NIH researchers found that oxytocin increased two facial gestures associated with social interactions— one used by the monkeys themselves in certain social situations, the other in imitation of their human caregivers. "It was important to test whether oxytocin would promote social behaviors in infants in the same respects as it appears to promote social interaction among adults," said the study's first author, Elizabeth A. Simpson, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow of the University of Parma, conducting research in the Comparative Behavioral Genetics Section of the NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. "Our results indicate that oxytocin is a candidate for further studies on treating developmental disorders of social functioning." The study was published online in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Keyword: Hormones & Behavior; Sexual Behavior
Link ID: 19547 - Posted: 04.29.2014
Epigenetics is one of the hottest fields in the life sciences. It's a phenomenon with wide-ranging, powerful effects on many aspects of biology, and enormous potential in human medicine. As such, its ability to fill in some of the gaps in our scientific knowledge is mentioned everywhere from academic journals to the mainstream media to some of the less scientifically rigorous corners of the Internet. Epigenetics is essentially additional information layered on top of the sequence of letters (strings of molecules called A, C, G, and T) that makes up DNA. If you consider a DNA sequence as the text of an instruction manual that explains how to make a human body, epigenetics is as if someone's taken a pack of highlighters and used different colours to mark up different parts of the text in different ways. For example, someone might use a pink highlighter to mark parts of the text that need to be read the most carefully, and a blue highlighter to mark parts that aren't as important. There are different types of epigenetic marks, and each one tells the proteins in the cell to process those parts of the DNA in certain ways. For example, DNA can be tagged with tiny molecules called methyl groups that stick to some of its C letters. Other tags can be added to proteins called histones that are closely associated with DNA. There are proteins that specifically seek out and bind to these methylated areas, and shut it down so that the genes in that region are inactivated in that cell. So methylation is like a blue highlighter telling the cell "you don't need to know about this section right now." Methyl groups and other small molecular tags can attach to different locations on the histone proteins, each one having a different effect. Some tags in some locations loosen the attachment between the DNA and the histone, making the DNA more accessible to the proteins that are responsible for activating the genes in that region; this is like a pink highlighter telling the cell "hey, this part's important". © 2014 Guardian News and Media Limited
Keyword: Genes & Behavior; Development of the Brain
Link ID: 19541 - Posted: 04.28.2014
by Laura Sanders When a baby cries at night, exhausted parents scramble to figure out why. He's hungry. Wet. Cold. Lonely. But now, a Harvard scientist offers more sinister explanation: The baby who demands to be breastfed in the middle of the night is preventing his mom from getting pregnant again. This devious intention makes perfect sense, says evolutionary biologist David Haig, who describes his idea in Evolution, Medicine and Public Health. Another baby means having to share mom and dad, so babies are programmed to do all they can to thwart the meeting of sperm and egg, the theory goes. Since babies can't force birth control pills on their mothers, they work with what they've got: Nighttime nursing liaisons keep women from other sorts of liaisons that might lead to another child. And beyond libido-killing interruptions and extreme fatigue, frequent night nursing also delays fertility in nursing women. Infant suckling can lead to hormone changes that put the kibosh on ovulation (though not reliably enough to be a fail-safe birth control method, as many gynecologists caution). Of course, babies don't have the wherewithal to be interrupting their mothers' fertility intentionally. It's just that in our past, babies who cried to be nursed at night had a survival edge, Haig proposes. The timing of night crying seems particularly damning, Haig says. Breastfed babies seem to ramp up their nighttime demands around 6 months of age and then slowly improve — precisely the time when a baby would want to double down on its birth control efforts. © Society for Science & the Public 2000 - 2013
Keyword: Sexual Behavior; Evolution
Link ID: 19539 - Posted: 04.26.2014
Here to stay. The Y chromosome is small compared with the X, but is required to keep levels of some genes high enough for mammals to survive. The small, stumpy Y chromosome—possessed by male mammals but not females, and often shrugged off as doing little more than determining the sex of a developing fetus—may impact human biology in a big way. Two independent studies have concluded that the sex chromosome, which shrank millions of years ago, retains the handful of genes that it does not by chance, but because they are key to our survival. The findings may also explain differences in disease susceptibility between men and women. "The old textbook description says that once maleness is determined by a few Y chromosome genes and you have gonads, all other sex differences stem from there," says geneticist Andrew Clark of Cornell University, who was not involved in either study. "These papers open up the door to a much richer and more complex way to think about the Y chromosome." The sex chromosomes of mammals have evolved over millions of years, originating from two identical chromosomes. Now, males possess one X and one Y chromosome and females have two Xs. The presence or absence of the Y chromosome is what determines sex—the Y chromosome contains several genes key to testes formation. But while the X chromosome has remained large throughout evolution, with about 2000 genes, the Y chromosome lost most of its genetic material early in its evolution; it now retains less than 100 of those original genes. That's led some scientists to hypothesize that the chromosome is largely indispensable and could shrink away entirely. © 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Keyword: Sexual Behavior
Link ID: 19531 - Posted: 04.24.2014
It takes a lot to deter a male from wanting sex. A new study has found that male mice keep trying to copulate even when they are in pain, whereas females engage in less sex. But when given drugs that target pleasure centers in the human brain, the females again became interested. The findings could shed light on the nature of libido across various animal species. To assess how pain influences sexual desire, researchers first identified pairs of mice that wanted to have sex. "What we found early on was not all mice will mate with each other," says clinical psychologist Melissa Farmer, who led the study while earning her Ph.D. at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. The team set up the rodents on a series of "dates," during which a male and female were paired together for 30 minutes. Couples that copulated for most of the session were deemed compatible and moved into a cage with separate rooms. A small doorway allowed a female mouse to freely cross over from her chamber, but the male—which is larger—could not. The scientists then induced pain in males or females by applying a small dose of inflammatory compounds to the cheek, tail, foot, or genitals. The sensation would primarily be soreness, like a bad sunburn, says Farmer, who now works at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois. Female mice that were in pain, whether genital or nongenital, spent 50% less time with their male partners, implying a decrease in sexual motivation. Even when they did visit their paramours, females wouldn't allow males to mount them with the same frequency, the team reports online today in The Journal of Neuroscience. © 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Keyword: Sexual Behavior; Pain & Touch
Link ID: 19526 - Posted: 04.23.2014
|By Daisy Yuhas Strange as it may sound, some scientists suspect that the humble armpit could be sending all kinds of signals from casual flirtation to sounding the alarm. That's because the body's secretions, some stinky and others below the threshold your nose can detect, may be rife with chemical messages called pheromones. Yet despite half a century of research into these subtle cues, we have yet to find direct evidence of their existence in humans. Humans and other animals have an olfactory system designed to detect and discriminate between thousands of chemical compounds. For more than 50 years, scientists have been aware of the fact that certain insects and animals can release chemical compounds—often as oils or sweat—and that other creatures can detect and respond to these compounds, which allows for a form of silent, purely chemical communication. Although the exact definition has been debated and redefined several times, pheromones are generally recognized as single or small sets of compounds that transmit signals between organisms of the same species. They are typically just one part of the larger potpourri of odorants emitted from an insect or animal, and some pheromones do not have a discernable scent. Since pheromones were first defined in 1959, scientists have found many examples of pheromonal communication. The most striking of these signals elicits an immediate behavioral response. For example, the female silk moth releases a trail of the molecule bombykol, which unerringly draws males from the moment they encounter it. Slower-acting pheromones can affect the recipient's reproductive physiology, as when the alpha-farnesene molecule in male mouse urine accelerates puberty in young female mice. © 2014 Scientific American
Keyword: Chemical Senses (Smell & Taste); Sexual Behavior
Link ID: 19500 - Posted: 04.17.2014
by Bethany Brookshire Every hipster knows that something is only cool before it becomes popular. There's no point in liking a band once it hits the big time. That shirt is no good once it's no longer ironic. And it's certainly not enough to go clean shaven or grow a short beard — that's much too mainstream. Recent years have seen a resurgence of moustaches, mutton chops and Fu Manchus. A style that really stands out sticks it to conformity. It turns out that when people buck the facial hair trend, they may end up making themselves more attractive. A new study published April 16 in Biology Letters shows that either clean-shaven or fully bearded looks become more attractive when they are rare in the population. The study suggests that humans may practice what's called negative frequency-dependent selection — people rate rare looks as more attractive than they might otherwise. But when we try to figure out why, the interpretations can get pretty hairy. In every population, there is variation, both in genetics and in how individuals look. But at first blush, this variation doesn't make a lot of sense. If one particular look is the most attractive and best for the population, sexual selection should make a species converge on a single, popular look. For example, if the best male guppies have stripes, soon all male guppies will have stripes, as females will only mate with stripey males. But in nature, this is clearly not the case. Guppies come in a wild variety of patterns, and so do humans. In guppies, this variation is a result of negative frequency-dependent selection: Female guppies prefer male guppies that look unusual compared to others, rather than guppies that share common features. This helps keep looks and genes variable, a distinct advantage for the species. So an individual guppy's attractiveness doesn't just depend on his shining character, it depends on how rare his looks are in relation to other guppies. © Society for Science & the Public 2000 - 2013
Keyword: Sexual Behavior; Attention
Link ID: 19493 - Posted: 04.16.2014
Scientists haven't pinpointed a definitive cause for Alzheimer's disease—a fatal brain disorder that robs people of their memory and cognitive abilities. But now researchers have uncovered an intriguing clue about why more women than men develop the condition. A particular gene variant, found in a quarter of the population and long known to raise people's risk for the disease, seems less menacing in men, new research shows. The findings could have implications for potential gender-specific treatments, some Alzheimer's investigators suggest. Though a small percentage of Alzheimer's cases arise from genetic mutations that cause obvious disease before the age of 65, the vast majority of people who develop the condition do so later in life from undefined triggers, some thought to be genetic. In 1993, scientists found that people who inherit a gene variant called apolipoprotein E4 (APOE4) are more prone to the common form of Alzheimer's that strikes in late life. There's also a "risk-neutral" variant (APOE3) and a much rarer version of the gene (APOE2) that decreases a person's risk for Alzheimer's. Shortly thereafter, other research groups replicated the finding and some data hinted that APOE4 raises Alzheimer's risk more in women than in men. Indeed, when scientists combed through a massive data set containing 5930 Alzheimer's patients and 8607 dementia-free elderly from 40 independent studies, they reported in 1997 that females with the APOE4 variant were four times more likely to have Alzheimer's compared with people with the more common, neutral form of the gene. However, in men, APOE4 seemed virtually harmless. "It was a pretty big effect," says Michael Greicius, a neurologist at Stanford University Medical Center in California, of the analysis. Yet the findings didn't create much of a stir at the time. © 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science
Keyword: Alzheimers; Sexual Behavior
Link ID: 19490 - Posted: 04.15.2014
by Agata Blaszczak-Boxe, LiveScience.com Unlike many humans, some monkeys are genuinely faithful to their mates. A species known as Azara's owl monkeys tends to be monogamous, according to a new study of these primates. The research also found that the monkeys' inclination to be faithful was related to the male monkeys' tendency to care for their offspring. "They [Azara's owl monkeys] live in pairs, so, in a group, we have only one adult male and one adult female, and both of them are faithful," study author Maren Huck, a professor at the University of Derby in England, told Live Science. "We found a link between... parental care and having few instances of cheating," Huck said. Researchers had known before this study that members of the Azara's species were socially monogamous, which means that males and females live in pairs. But in animals, including humans, social monogamy is not always equivalent to what researchers call genetic monogamy, where females and males only reproduce with their mates. One way researchers can check for genetic monogamy is to analyze the DNA of mating pairs, and check the paternity of the offspring. In the study, the researchers analyzed field observations of the monkeys' behavior, along with genetic samples from a total of 128 monkeys, including some that lived in groups, and others that were solitary "floaters." The material used by the research team included samples from 35 offspring that were born to 17 reproducing pairs. © 2014 Discovery Communications, LLC
Keyword: Sexual Behavior; Evolution
Link ID: 19484 - Posted: 04.15.2014
By KATRINA KARKAZIS and REBECCA JORDAN-YOUNG In 2009, the South African middle-distance runner Caster Semenya was barred from competition and obliged to undergo intrusive and humiliating "sex testing" after fellow athletes at the Berlin World Championships questioned her sex. Ms. Semenya was eventually allowed to compete again, but the incident opened the world's eyes to the process of sex testing and the distress it could bring to an athlete who had lived her whole life as a girl. When an endocrinologist, a gynecologist and a psychologist were brought in to determine whether the teenager was really a woman, she simply asserted, "I know who I am." From 2011, major sports governing bodies, including the International Olympic Committee, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association and the International Association of Athletics Federations, instituted new eligibility rules that were intended to quell the outrage over the handling of the Semenya case. Instead, as recent cases attest, they may have made things worse. Rather than trying to decide whether an athlete is "really" female, as decades of mandatory sex tests did, the current policy targets women whose bodies produce more testosterone than is typical. If a female athlete's T level is deemed too high, a medical team selected by the sport's governing bodies develops a "therapeutic proposal." This involves either surgery or drugs to lower the hormone level. If doctors can lower the athlete's testosterone to what the governing bodies consider an appropriate level, she may return to competition. If she refuses to cooperate with the investigation or the medical procedures, she is placed under a permanent ban from elite women's sports. © 2014 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Sexual Behavior; Hormones & Behavior
Link ID: 19471 - Posted: 04.12.2014
By Helen Briggs BBC News Young men with an eating disorder are not getting the help and support they need because of a perceptions about a "women's illness", say researchers. Men are underdiagnosed and undertreated for anorexia and other eating disorders, despite making up about a quarter of cases, a UK study suggests. Frontline health workers have a key role in identifying eating disorders in young men, they report in BMJ Open. Men are under pressure to have the "ideal" body image, says a charity. Researchers from the University of Oxford and University of Glasgow interviewed 39 young people aged 16 to 25, including 10 men, about their experiences of diagnosis, treatment and support for eating disorders. They say young men with eating disorders were "underdiagnosed, undertreated and underresearched". This is partly because the men themselves were unaware of the symptoms, despite purging, not eating for days or obsessive calorie counting, they said. "Our findings suggest that men may experience particular problems in recognising that they may have an eating disorder as a result of the continuing cultural construction of eating disorders as uniquely or predominantly a female problem," said Dr Ulla Raisanen and Dr Kate Hunt. One man said he thought eating disorders only affected "fragile teenage girls"; another said he thought eating disorders were "something girls got"; while one was told by his doctor to "man up". Others said they often had to wait a long time for specialist referral and had sometimes been misdiagnosed. GPs and other professionals such as teachers have a key role in improving the outlook for men with eating disorders by challenging misconceptions, the researchers said. BBC © 2014
Keyword: Anorexia & Bulimia; Sexual Behavior
Link ID: 19469 - Posted: 04.10.2014
Julia Baird SYDNEY, Australia — PRETTY much the No. 1 question you are asked when you're pregnant is: "Girl or boy?" If you choose not to find out, but to be deliciously surprised at birth, as I did, then you will be asked to guess: "What do you feel it is?" I used to scrunch up my eyes and try hard to draw on what people told me was an age-old female intuition: Which genitals were sprouting in my round belly? I could never tell, though. It is as though the entire world is trying to guess what, or who, is inside you. One oft-told tale is that girls steal your looks and make you fat, while boys just make your belly stick out straight. When I stood wearily bulging at one friend's baby shower in Manhattan, a stylist confided that she thought our mutual friend was having a boy, because she looked so pretty. Then she looked me up and down: "I think you're having a girl." (I placed her in the same category as the neighbor who yelled, "Morning, Fatty!" over the side fence each day.) Why is whether a baby wears blue or pink the most pressing matter for adult acquaintances of a soon-to-be-born? Green is just fine, or white. But a 2007 Gallup poll found that most young Americans, and women under 50, would like to find out the sex of their baby before it is born. In some American fertility clinics, staff experts check the embryo's sex before they implant it in the womb. So what will it do to our collective minds when forced to grasp that some people are neither gender? Not male, or female, but something else either encompassing, or rejecting, or just adapting from both? Last week, Australia had to grapple with just that after the High Court, in a historic decision, ruled that a person called Norrie May-Welby could register as "nonspecific" on official certificates. Now 52, Norrie was identified, physically, as male when she was born, in Scotland, but was drawn to the world of girls, playing with dolls at age 4 and tying her school tie around her head at night to create the illusion of long hair. She escaped into the library monitors' group at school and made up adventures where she played six characters, five of whom were female: "I didn't think there was any problem with this," she says. "After all, just because I wasn't really from Krypton, didn't mean I couldn't imagine being Supergirl." © 2014 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Sexual Behavior
Link ID: 19462 - Posted: 04.09.2014
By: Larry Cahill, Ph.D. Early in 2013, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ordered the makers of the well-known sleep aid Ambien (zolpidem) to cut their recommended dose in half-but only for women. In essence, the FDA was acknowledging that despite extensive testing prior to the drug's release on the market, millions of women had been overdosing on Ambien for 20 years. On February 9, 2014, CBS's 60 Minutes highlighted this fact-and sex differences in general-by powerfully asking two questions: Why did this happen, and are men and women treated equally in research and medicine?1 The answer to the first question is that the biomedical community has long operated on what is increasingly being viewed as a false assumption: that biological sex matters little, if at all, in most areas of medicine. The answer to the second question is no, today's biomedical research establishment is not treating men and women equally. What are some of the key reasons for the biomedical community's false assumption, and why is this situation now finally changing? What are some of the seemingly endless controversies about sex differences in the brain generated by "anti-sex difference" investigators? And what lies at the root of the resistance to sex differences research in the human brain? For a long time, for most aspects of brain function, sex influences hardly mattered to the neuroscience mainstream. The only sex differences that concerned most neuroscientists involved brain regions (primarily a deep-brain structure called the hypothalamus) that regulate both sex hormones and sexual behaviors.2 Neuroscientists almost completely ignored possible sex influences on other areas of the brain, assuming that the sexes shared anything that was fundamental when it came to brain function. Conversely, the neuroscience mainstream viewed any apparent sex differences in the brain as not fundamental- something to be understood after they grasped the fundamental facts. By this logic, it was not a problem to study males almost exclusively, since doing so supposedly allowed researchers to understand all that was fundamental in females without having to consider the complicating aspects of female hormones. To this day, neuroscientists overwhelmingly study only male animals.3 © 2014 The Dana Foundation
Keyword: Sexual Behavior
Link ID: 19461 - Posted: 04.09.2014
By Paul D. Thacker When the FDA denied Sprout Pharmaceutical's bid last October to begin marketing flibanserin, a drug aimed at treating low sexual desire in women, women's groups responded in anger. In January, representatives from eight different women's groups, including the National Organization of Women, met with Janet Woodcock, the FDA's head of pharmaceuticals, to protest the decision. Congress also got in on the act, with Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Chellie Pingree, Nita Lowey, and Louise Slaughter sending a letter to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg to implore that, when evaluating drugs for female dysfunction (in medical terms Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder, or HSDD), Dr. Hamburg apply "the same standards of consideration given to the approved drugs for men in your risk/benefit evaluation." "We've now got 24 drugs for men for either testosterone replacement or erectile dysfunction," Cindy Whitehead, Sprout's chief operating officer told the Associated Press. "Yet there are zero drugs for the most common form of sexual dysfunction in women." Anita H. Clayton, the interim chair of the department of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, was more explicit, writing in a blistering column for the Huffington Post: "For the millions of women with HSDD, the FDA must overcome the problem of institutionalized sexism—unconscious and perhaps unintended, but damaging nonetheless." The chorus was loud and clear: The FDA is sexist. The federal agency charged with approving drugs to protect and improve our health is now standing in the way of a woman's right to have a satisfying sex life. This framing played out in numerous stories, with similar charges appearing in the American Prospect ("the FDA's kinda sexist"), and the Washington Post ("Some critics say the agency—consciously or not—may be succumbing to society's squeamishness about women's sexual desires compared with those of men"). Not to be outdone with mere institutional sexism, a writer for the Wire mused whether "blatant, medieval sexism is also at play." © 2014 The Slate Group LLC.
Keyword: Sexual Behavior
Link ID: 19458 - Posted: 04.08.2014
By SINDYA N. BHANOO Monogamy is rare in animals. Even among species that pair off, there is often philandering. But a new genetic analysis adds to the evidence that the South American primates called Azara's owl monkeys are remarkably faithful to their partners. The study confirms what one of its authors, Eduardo Fernandez-Duque, an evolutionary anthropologist at the University of Pennsylvania who leads the Owl Monkey Project, had long suspected. For 18 years, he and other Penn researchers have been observing the Azara's owl monkey in the Chaco region of Argentina. Not only have they never witnessed a philanderer, but they have also found that infant owl monkeys get an unusual amount of care from their fathers. "The male plays with the infant and the male shares food with the infant even more than the mother," Dr. Fernandez-Duque said. "The males care because these are their offspring, and this has a direct benefit in terms of reproductive success." In the new study, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the researchers performed genetic analysis on 35 offspring born to 17 owl monkey pairs and confirmed that the parents were monogamous for the mating season. The monkey is the first primate and only the fifth mammal for which monogamy has been verified through genetics. Because paternal care is also seen in other species of owl monkeys, the scientists suspect that they, too, are serially monogamous. © 2014 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Sexual Behavior; Evolution
Link ID: 19422 - Posted: 03.29.2014
by Clare Wilson It's a vicious circle of the cruellest kind. Stress might be causing infertility in women, according to new research. This could explain some cases in which couples are diagnosed as infertile with no apparent cause. Taking longer than usual to conceive can lead to stress, so the problem could become self-perpetuating. A link between everyday life stresses and infertility has long been suspected, but there has been little hard evidence connecting the two. Women receiving fertility treatment are generally advised to avoid stress, but not so the average person trying to conceive. An estimated one in seven couples in the UK have fertility problems and, in about a quarter of those, there is no known medical explanation, and they are given a diagnosis of "unexplained infertility". To explore the role of stress, Courtney Lynch at Ohio State University in Columbus and her colleagues collected saliva samples from 373 women in the US who had just started trying to conceive naturally and measured levels of an enzyme called alpha-amylase, a marker of stress. After one year of regular unprotected sex, about 13 per cent of the couples had failed to get pregnant, the standard definition of infertility. The third of women who had the highest alpha-amylase levels were twice as likely to be in the infertile group as the third with the lowest levels. In a previous study, Lynch's team found that those with higher levels of the stress enzyme were slightly less likely to conceive in their first month of trying. But this is the first time that alpha-amylase has been linked to clinical infertility. © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
Keyword: Stress; Sexual Behavior
Link ID: 19400 - Posted: 03.24.2014
By BENOIT DENIZET-LEWISy The traffic was bad, even by the warped standards of a Southern California commute. We were headed south from Los Angeles to San Diego on an overcast morning last spring, but we hadn't moved in 10 minutes. I was sandwiched in the back seat of the car between John Sylla and Denise Penn, two board members of the Los Angeles-based American Institute of Bisexuality (A.I.B.), a deep-pocketed group partly responsible for a surge of academic and scientific research across the country about bisexuality. We were on our way to an A.I.B. board meeting, where members would decide which studies to fund and also brainstorm ways to increase bisexual visibility "in a world that still isn't convinced that bisexuality — particularly male bisexuality — exists," as Allen Rosenthal, a sex researcher at Northwestern University, told me. When someone suggested that we try another route, Sylla, A.I.B.'s friendly and unassuming 55-year-old president, opened the maps app on his iPhone. I met Sylla the previous day at A.I.B. headquarters, a modest two-room office on the first floor of a quiet courtyard in West Hollywood that's also home to film-production companies and a therapist's office. Tall and pale, with an easy smile, Sylla offered me books from A.I.B.'s bisexual-themed bookshelf and marveled at the unlikelihood of his bisexual activism. "For the longest time, I didn't even realize I was bi," Sylla said. "When I did, I assumed I'd probably just live a supposedly straight life in the suburbs somewhere." In the back seat, Sylla lifted his eyes from his phone and suggested an alternate course. Then he shrugged his shoulders. "We could go either way, really," he told us. He smiled at me. "Get it? Either way?" © 2014 The New York Times Company
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He was born March 13, 1923, in Nutley, N.J., to Adam and Francis Klim.
He married Mary Ann Westhusin on Feb. 23, 1946, in Los Angeles. She preceded him in death. He later married Katherine Tisdall on Feb. 14, 1980, in Plainville. She preceded him in death. He later married Viola Basgall on March 2, 1984, in Hays. She preceded him in death. He was a farmer.
He was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church, Hays, the American Legion, the Knights of Columbus, and the Veteran of Foreign Wars No. 9076, Hays.
Survivors include a son, Charles Klim, Winslow, Ark.; a daughter, Elizabeth Pope, Grand Junction; a stepson, Jim Basgall and wife, Jean, Olathe; six grandchildren, Clifford Klim and wife, Nicole, Fayetteville, Ark., Cody Klim, Hogeye, Ark., Charles Klim Jr., Fayetteville, Shawna Oakes and husband, Tony, Fruita, Colo., Van Bomgardner, Grand Junction, and Christopher Pope and wife, Sumer, Fruita; three step-grandchildren, Jody Basgall, Boulder, Colo., and partner, Lance Locke, Leawood, Jason Basgall, Boulder, and Jill Sulser and husband, Bryan, Denver; five great-grandchildren; and two step-great-grandchildren.
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Because when the patch very first was available, it hadn't auto-updated nor posted the notes yet, but you could get it to do so by starting the program. Didn't realize it was a complex and difficult concept to understand. (P.S. I posted before it automated, but you could still get it.)
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