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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Breaks One Day Sales Record, Hauls In Over $400Mby Amman Sood on 11/14/2011 2:38 PM EST
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Black1969ta - Monday, November 14, 2011 - linkGood for the original article but bad for Amman, I realize that English is probably not your first language, but without the original article this post make little sense. Reply
emilemil1 - Monday, November 14, 2011 - linkWhat part didn't make sense to you? Because it all made sense to me. Reply
Amman Sood - Monday, November 14, 2011 - linkEnglish is indeed my first language, I'll reevaluate my life now. Reply
inighthawki - Monday, November 14, 2011 - linkActually I saw only a single mistake in the entire article, which should be "Day one sale of course don't (not doesn't)" since sales is plural.
I think you may need to re-learn English if you had ANY difficulty understanding what the article is trying to say. Reply
Anonymous Blowhard - Monday, November 14, 2011 - linkFor the privilege of being called "gay" by 12-year-olds. Reply
retrospooty - Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - link"For the privilege of being called "gay" by 12-year-olds. "
Awe, come on. Not everyone that play COD fits that mold. For example me. I play COD, and I am in my 30's and I think your gay ;) Reply
InterClaw - Monday, November 14, 2011 - linkAnyone know how these figures compare to BF3? Reply
Amman Sood - Monday, November 14, 2011 - linkBF3 I believe sold 5 million in the first week. So, CoD did better. But that's not really surprising, there's a horde of CoD fans. Reply
inighthawki - Monday, November 14, 2011 - linkNot to mention, how many lost sales were there due to Origin? I for one was ready and willing to buy it. Then they announced it was Origin only. On top of that, I'm sorry if anyone thinks this is stupid, but I refuse to also buy it until they let me play without battlelog. I don't really want my web browser to be my game's menu, it's SO un-immersive. Reply
Omega215D - Monday, November 14, 2011 - linkI bought MW 3 to finish up the story and for the faster pace of multiplayer. It was also on sale for a few days during the release week.
I will most likely get Battlefield 3 in a month or so but I'm a bit iffy on having to use origin, surely bug fixes, and the retailers are being asses about the PC version. It's on sale at Best Buy for the console versions but PC still hovers in at $60.
I also have plans to get Batman, NFS: Run and maybe Skyrim. Reply
TSS - Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - linkI'm a BF3 player, with about 50h ingame time. IMO, battlelog and origin are a pain, but a workable pain.
Yes origin needs to be running to launch the game. Pretty much like steam needs to be running to launch a steamworks game. Other then that, origin won't bother you. Well, that and adding friends to origin because you can import friends from origin in BF3 and i imagine it'll be like that for other origin games. Which is kinda a hassle.
Battlelog has a few major cons. For one, it takes much longer to load up a game. The game loads fast - as they said. But they left out that battlelog also has: Logging in....Connecting.... Joining Server.... Loading... Then it pops into the game, loads some more... Then a black screen with a blue flashing square... and then the deploy screen.
Also, the server browser doesn't load all servers. You have to scroll to the bottom of the page, it'll load some more, repeat 4x, then go back to the top of the page since the newly loaded servers won't be sorted in any way, so you have to sort for players/ping etc. This has basically deteriorated to buttonmashing End untill it loads no more, then press Home to get back to the top. The resulting time spent often means you can forget about joining 63/64 player servers. By the time your able to click on the server in the list somebody will have magically taken that spot. It does refresh the server instantly when you click on it, but honestly ingame browsers did that too.
All in all i just end up playing longer on the same server. In which case the game does load fast and i'm not bothered by origin or battlelog at all.
The biggest problems of BF3 aren't origin or battlelog. It's the fact that i can get very few kills in jets, because when they get disabled the pilots tend to jump out, getting me points for destroying the vehicle but not killing the driver(s). Or the fact that i've got the MBT autoloader upgrade, spent a slugging match with another tank putting 7 (!) rounds directly into him at full-auto, and still not killing him because there are just 2 repair guys behind him which i can't hit from that angle, and i lose because i've only got 1 repair guy behind me and could take only 6 hits (lol).
Or the fact that Infantry, mobile AA, MBT's, attack heli, scout heli and jets *all* get stingers and aircraft get 1 flare every 10 seconds. Or the fact that you can laser paint a chopper and shoot a guided missle at it (which jets, scout and attack heli, IFV's, engineers, MBT's also all get) which ignore flares. Reply
ananduser - Monday, November 14, 2011 - link...that COD has room to grow. Not all of the purchasers are previous gamers of the franchise. Of course the game is boring ever since the first MW. But for a fresh player that has no clue of the history of the game, it represents a marvel. We are too spoiled by great games(from a technical standpoint) that we are bored of "rehashes". When I was young the nascent FPS genre was pretty slim in representations. I had Q1,Hexen,Blood...but besides the Q1 frag fest there were not many choices. Now you can grab MW1, hell one of those tactical Ubisoft shooters, and marvel at the quality of the visuals and gameplay. If those reviewers somehow could reset their previous COD experience they would appreciate what they have in front of them. Reply
mymomentummedia - Monday, November 14, 2011 - linkHere is a very cute girl giving a funny review by a bikini model on Call of Duty MW 3 Enjoy!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_eTlyCR8Nk Reply
ie5x - Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - linkSadly, they broke the solid matchmaking code from previous COD titles while doing MW3. There are hordes of players outside US which are facing issues while trying to get a match going. The game tries to pair people from one country together, which is not a bad thing but then it does not pair them in worldwide games. This leaves players stranded if not enough matches are going on in their country. So far, I have had only been able to play online three four times even when there are a million online! This issue has been there since about a week now, without any fix in the news. This can be a significant deal breaker for this title. Reply
retrospooty - Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - link"There are hordes of players outside US which are facing issues while trying to get a match going"
I always thought it just polled for ping time. Obviously, the better ping times are by people in your getneral region, but if none are available, it finds the next best thing... Unless your ping outside of your region is so bad, that its not letting you join as to not muck it up for the rest of the players on that server.
Maybe its your ISP and/or region's internet infrastructure that is the issue. Reply
ol1bit - Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - linkI'm still boycotting the series... BF3 for me. Reply


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Usually when the surgeons(liver specialist) perform resections,they will use intra-operative ultrasound to detect the CC they cannot see in the liver (those deep inside the liver) and do ablations (RFA) to burn the tumors dead with1cm or more margins unless the tumors are too close to vital organs..So you should not worry too much about the clear margin .
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Postby gabrielle260 » Sun Jan 01, 2012 9:08 pm
I commute 17km each way and the difference between a hard effort and a cruisy ride is exactly 4 mins 40 secs. I've now proved this many times over but it never ceases to amaze me!
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After 15 years of roughly the same route, things like speed & effort, seem to plateau out to an extent…
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Effort increases exponentially with higher speed. In other words, speed gain with marked effort increase can be minimal.
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Postby ejayt » Mon Jan 02, 2012 8:26 am
When I cycled to uni earlier this year the 10km route would take me about 28 minutes if I pushed it, then only wet days I would take it easy and cruise along and found out that it took only 30-31 minutes..... It's not much of a difference in time considering when you push yourself you're probably exhausted and/or sweaty at the same time which is crucial to not be on a small commute
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I'm only saving a few minutes in travel time but those minutes saved are lost (and then some) by the cool down when I arrive.
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gabrielle260 wrote:I commute 17km each way and the difference between a hard effort and a cruisy ride is exactly 4 mins 40 secs. I've now proved this many times over but it never ceases to amaze me!
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on my short commute route to work (13km) the difference between smashing it and cruising is about 7 minutes - 31/38 minutes - when I'm really smashing it there's a set of about 8 traffic lights (I go pretty much right through the middle of town) that line up pretty well. Go a little bit slower and you get stuck at a few of them so it really blows out the time.
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Postby Blackrock » Mon Jan 09, 2012 9:36 pm
I find I have tonnes of effort on Monday, but know that after the 150km's banked before Friday that I am spent on the last ride home. Cummulative effort drains the twigs!!! Ready again on Monday to do it all again.
As far as sweating at work, I have commonderred (?) a fan and this now sits next to the locker and dries me plenty after the ride/shower to be able to put a shirt on and not look like I've been swimming.....
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Not going on, but back from. Last week the Chicken Family headed to northern Wisconsin for our annual getaway, and that always means a fair amount of grilling. And even though it's mostly simple stuff it always tastes extra-good up there.
Saturday night was a skillet of forgettable ground beef and mushrooms because things hadn't thawed yet, but by Sunday the sirloin was soft enough to use. I'd planned on just grilling it whole but my older daughter had put together some menus for the week and first up were steak-and-shrimp skewers, so I cut up the sirloin.
The shrimp marinade involved olive oil, garlic, and I think a little bit of vinegar.
We threaded the beef, shrimp, and some mushrooms onto the skewers and she made a salad of peppers, tomatoes, black olives, and feta cheese.
The trick to getting everything to cook reasonably evenly was to put the beef part of the skewers directly over the coals while having nothing under the shrimp so they would cook indirectly and not be rubber by the time the steak pieces were done. We lost a few mushrooms along the way.
Monday was burger night and since my younger daughter's boyfriend had never had a Jucy Lucy that's what I decided to make. I started by grilling some ears of corn for a pasta salad.
Then it was time to make the burgers and put them on the grill. The orange tint is from Weber seasoned salt, and because the grill was outside it made it easy to get some action shots.
When they were getting close to done (I actually temp-checked them this time) I put a slice of American cheese on the top of each.
I used a 2-year aged cheddar and some of Steven's Black Forest rub for the burger filling and was very happy with how it turned out, and the burgers tasted very good. In fact, Alex ate one cold for lunch a couple of days later...
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SAINT LEO, Fla. – Coming off a season in which Saint Leo Men's Tennis collected more regular season wins (14) than any men's squad since 1988 (16), the No.27-ranked Lions earned their first-ever team berth into the NCAA Tournament, it was announced Tuesday evening by the NCAA.
The Lions, who will take on the No.5 ranked Lynn University Fighting Knights on Sunday, are playing as the seventh-seed and out of the second south region bracket. Action is set to take place from the Perper Tennis Complex located in Boca Raton, Fla. with first serve coming at 12:00 p.m. (Note time change. Originally scheduled for 3:00 p.m.)
The four-team bracket also features defending national champion Barry, and the Gulf South's Ouachita Baptist.
It is a single elimination format with the winner of Saint Leo/Lynn taking on the Barry/Ouachita Baptist victor at a to be determined time on Monday.
In competing with the Fighting Knights earlier this season, the Lions dropped an 8-1 decision but did manage to test the 2011 SSC Tournament Champions at each spot in the lineup.
The Lions are led by the No.24 ranked doubles tandem of Matt Nicholson-Lewis and Victor Lozier while the Fighting Knights see three individual players and two teams ranked in the ITA top-50.
Charging hard at the end of the 2011 campaign, the Lions clipped archrival Florida Southern in the quarterfinals of the SSC Tournament before being edged by No.9 Rollins, 5-3.
The tournament features 14 preliminary brackets with the winner of each group advancing onto the round of 16 which is scheduled from May 11-14 from Sanlando Park in Altamonte Springs, Fla.
15 conference winners received automatic bids while 33 teams were selected as at-large bids which were voted on by a regional committee.
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Hello Andrew
thanks for sharing your story. The bumblebees there are so lucky to have you looking out for them.
On the continent you will have more species of bumblebees than we have here in the UK (only 24 species) so it may not always be possible to identify your bumbles.
But the one you have photographed looks very much like a Bombus pratorum (in English they are called 'Early bumblebees').
They are almost the smallest of the bumblebees. They have short red/orange tails and a bright yellow collar (the band behind the head). The queens often have a second yellow band on the first segment of the abdomen and this second band can be present or missing in the worker caste. It looks to be missing in the bee in your photo.
I hope this ID is correct and it's not a european bumblebee that I'm not familiar with,
All the best for a great bumblebee season, elaine
Hi Andrew , welcome to the forum.
You beat me to it Elaine - A Bombus lapidarius drone might also have a yellow band on its thorax, however it is a bit early for male B. laps to be around, and in any case, the bumble in your pic has a pollen load on its back legs and therefore is female not male. So I think it is a Bombus pratorum worker foraging the borage.
Hi thanks
for your help.
The strange thing is that in that same nest, there are also much larger workers that are completely black with an orange tail. For that reason, I thought these were all bombus lapidarius. I'll try to make a picture of one of these larger workers.
Hi Andrew again,
Please do try to get a pic of the larger workers for us to see. Intriguing! As Elaine mentioned, maybe your bumble is a different continental species after all. Perhaps someone else from Belgium might give us a better answer?


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Paws-itive Partners started its third Love My Cat campaign April 1 and reported a good response thus far, the organization said Saturday.
Paws-itive Partners wants to help as many low- and moderate-income pets as possible, so clinics have reduced spay and neuter fees to $25 during the Love My Cat prgram, with Paws-itive Partners paying the balance of the cost.
Paws-itive Partners mission is to help domestic cats, but the project has expanded further to help colony cats in the Love My Cat program, which continues through April.
In recent months, Ive become increasing aware and saddened with the problem of cat colonies around North Platte," Paws-itive Partners member Pat Dannatt said. "Most of these homeless cats were domestic and ran away from, or were abandoned by, their human families.
Dannatt said that to reduce the number of homeless cats and kittens, they must be spayed or neutered.
North Platte and Lincoln County residents can help.
The first thing that must be done is to humanely trap colony cats and have them spayed or neutered in order to stem the breeding cycles," Dannatt said. "Professionals experienced with colony cats recommend that cats be returned to their colony location after spaying and neutering. Returning the cat to its colony will prevent other cats from establishing colonies in those locations."
That program - Trap-Neuter-Return (TRN), is a huge undertaking, Dannatt said. "It takes getting involved and Paws-itive Partners needs the communitys help to successfully impact the homeless cat population.
Dannatt said taking feral cats to shelters isnt a solution and they dont belong in shelters. True feral and colony cats are un-socialized and considered unadoptable. If the can be humanely trapped and sterilized, a cat can be returned to the area that has become their familiar habitat and can live peaceful lives.
Dannatt said that colony cats qualify for Love My Cat. If you can help a colony cat by intervening, but cant afford the Love My Cat fees, please call Paws-itive Partners at 650-PAWS to discuss it.
If you can TNR, please call your veterinary clinic in North Platte or Sutherland to make arrangements for the date of TNR.
Veterinary clinics will continue with Love My Cat through April.
To schedule a cats surgery, pet owners are asked to contact their veterinary clinic as soon as possible for an appointment. Pet owners with questions can call Jo Mayber at 308-532-8814.
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Celia was a 12-year RN and a busy
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In Celia's case, she may not have done a few things that would bolster her case and perhaps keep her from being terminated. The first is to document what happened.
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Hi All,I really hope someone can help as I'm having a tough time trying to sort this.I've the following script in my header.php file:
var post_id = $(this).attr("rel");
$.post("footer.php", {"locationID": post_id});
return false;
It passes the value I need into this div in my footer.php file:

However, I really need to get the value and pass it into a php variable so I can use it in a mysql query. So I've got this:
$locID = $_POST['locationID'];
echo 'Result: '.$locID;
But it simply wont get the value. Any help is much appreciated!
Sorry for a dumb question, but how do you know it won't get the value? From the code you presented, it doesn't look like there's any way to confirm or deny.
Thanks for the reply. Surely, if the code worked, I would be able to see the value when I print the php variable:
$locID = $_POST['locationID'];
echo 'Result: '.$locID;
As $locID should contain the value from the jquery code
$.post("footer.php", {"locationID": post_id});
Or have I miss understood? Thanks
You may want to instead var_dump of the $_POST variable, so that you can determine whether the information you need is there or not and then troubleshoot from there.
Also, keep in mind that you're sending an AJAX request without specifying a "success" function, so there still wouldn't be any way to check what your PHP echos/dumps. You'd have to do something like this:
$.post("footer.php", {"locationID": post_id}, function (txt) {
Thanks for the replies.
I tried var_dump and it just shows an empty array.
If I add:
It doesn't do anything. I'm astounded it's not so simple to just pass a value into PHP's
<?php $locID = $_POST['locationID']; echo 'Result: '.$locID;?>
A simple test shows that your scripting code works works without any problems.

var post_id = 20;
$.post("footer.php", {"locationID": post_id}, function (txt) {
$location_id = filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'locationID', FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT);
echo 'Footer with location id of ' . htmlentities($location_id);
The footer would have worked too with only:
echo 'Footer with location id of ' . $_POST['locationID'];
but it's best to make good use of input filtering and output protection as a normal way of doing things.
Given that the above JavaScript code works fine, this points the finger at something else other than the $.post() code being the problem.
Thanks paul_wilkins.
With that, I can see the result in the pop up/alert but the php statement doesn't print the value? Is there a way to print it out in the php and not the alert?Thanks again
Ahh, this may be something that you need to learn more about,
When jQuery's posts to the php file, the output of that PHP file is sent back to the function in the txt variable.
Oh I see.:-( hmmm, this is proving tricky.
Please can I ask you to advise how i get it from the text variable to the php variable as in:
<?php echo 'Footer with location id of ' . $_POST['locationID']; ?>
Thanks again, your help really is very much appreciated!
That all depends on how the needed value appears in the HTML code.
Hi,I'm simply trying to get the ID of a link so I can pass it to a query. So for example, if can do this:
<?php $locationID = $_POST['locationID']; echo 'Location Id is: '.$locationID; ?>
to ensure that it's working.
As I'm trying to load a list of properties on a site and by clicking each one, will load them on the page you're currently on. So I figure, get the ID of the property onclick and pass it to the query. I therefore assume, if the above code works, I can pass the $locationID value to the query to load the info needed. If that helps?
Yes that does indeed. The code in post #7 demonstrates how to achieve that type of communication, where jQuery is used to post an ajax message to a .php file, and the successful output of that php file is passed back to the function, whereupon you can do something with it.
Ok. I've been playing around but am still none-the-wiser! So if I post my code, it may help.I've got header.php with this:
var post_id = $(this).attr("rel");
$.post("test.php", {"locationID": post_id}, function (txt) {
return false;
I then have footer.php which lists all the dynamic links:
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'locations',
'order' => 'DESC'
$loop = new WP_Query( $args );
while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post();

<a href="#" rel="<?php the_ID(); ?>" class="locationID"><?php the_title(); ?>

In footer.php, I also include a call to a file:
<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH."/test.php"); ?>
In test.php I want to show the result of the selected link:
echo 'Footer with location id of ' . $_POST['locationID'];
$the_location_id = $_POST['locationID'];
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'locations',
'posts_per_page' => 1,
'p' => $the_location_id ,
$loop = new WP_Query( $args );
while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post();
<?php the_title(); ?>
So As you can see, I'm trying to get the id of the clicked link, pass it to a php variable which I can then use in a query. From what's shown above, surely that's correct? But if I echo the variable
echo $the_location_id;
nothing is shown
Sorry to keep posting but I really would like to get to grips with it and see what I've done wrong.
Thanks again
So when the page loads, header.php, footer.php and test.php all get included at the same time, and are used to create the page.
If you perform the echo from that test.php page, there naturally won't be any post data for it to use.It's only when you click a link and the jQuery post occurs on a second access of test.php that the post data will be available, and the output will be sent back to the function as the txt string.
Yes, they all load at the same time. It's a wordpress site and this is how the pages are constructed.
So does this mean I can't achieve what I'm after? As I say, if I add
to test.php, whenever I click a link, this shows the right value. So I just need to somehow do something as daft as
<?php $this_id = '

'; ?>
although I know that doesn't assign the value but I think you know what I mean?
Would you mind listing down step-by-step what you want to achieve and why?Perhaps that will help us to understand what you need to achieve, and how to help you achieve it.
Sure, no problem.I have a wordpress template. This consists of a header.php, page.php and footer.php
page.phpThis shows the information from wordpress for standard pages: Home, About, Contact etc
page.php calls header.php and footer.php in
footer.php contains a loop which pulls in a list of properties from a custom post type. Each propoerty has a unique ID.
I'm trying to show the details of any of the properties on the page you're currently on. The site does not need to load a seperate page for each property. So like having an iframe I guess. Therefore, if you're on About Us. You will see the list of properties. If I click the first property, it will load the details into test.php. I therefore assumed jquery/ajax would best suit as it refreshes page content without reloading the page
Does that help?
Yes, that does help.
You can use the jQuery's .load() method instead, to more easily achieve that for you.
For example:[highlight=-"javascript"]$("#objectID").load("test.php", { 'choices[]': ["Jon", "Susan"] } );
Or as you might want to use it:
$("#single-home-container").load("test.php", { 'locationID': $(this).attr("rel") } );
Ok thanks, so if I add
$("#single-home-container").load("test.php", { 'locationID': $(this).attr("rel") } );
to the header.How do I get that in the test.php file to be linked as I've tried:
echo 'Footer with location id of ' . $_POST['locationID'];
$the_location_id = $_POST['locationID'];
echo '
Loc ID '. $the_location_id;
$this_id = '

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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 30/11/2012 (1725 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
America does love a good sex scandal, almost as much as the British do, and the David Petraeus, um, affair has been an especially juicy one. It's been so complicated, in that reality-show kind of way, that we need charts depicting who's connected to whom.
As always happens when a powerful married man is revealed to have been hiking the Appalachian Trail, finding Freudian uses for cigars, or supporting his maid's child, there's been a lot of speculation about the psychology of honcho guys. What is it about the powerful?
This noodling is off-base on several counts. First, it neglects the fact that roughly one-quarter of married people -- approximately equal numbers of men and women -- report having had an extramarital affair. They aren't all powerful. It's true the successful may indeed be more likely to commit adultery, but not for the reasons usually cited, such as their supposed sense of entitlement.
It also conflates social monogamy with sexual monogamy, assuming these complicated sets of behaviours are one and the same. But Petraeus's experience shows this is not necessarily true. By all accounts, Petraeus highly values his relationship with his wife. Yet he was not sexually monogamous, and because he wasn't, he placed his social relationship with his wife, not to mention his job and reputation, at risk.
The difference between social and sexual monogamy is partly chemical, as was illustrated recently in a fascinating experiment. You may have missed it while being steeped in Jill Kelley news, but the Journal of Neuroscience released a study earlier this month about the effects of the neurochemical oxytocin on the behaviour of monogamous males.
Oxytocin has gotten a lot of publicity during the past few years, not all of it entirely accurate. It's been called the "cuddle" hormone, a "love drug," even "the moral molecule." But it turns out the effects of oxytocin depend on social context.
In the study, the scientists squirted oxytocin (or an inert spray) up the noses of male test subjects, some of whom were involved in a monogamous relationship with a woman and some of whom were not. Then they introduced the men to an attractive woman.
Rather than approach the attractive woman, as one might anticipate given oxytocin's reputation, the men in monogamous relationships who received oxytocin tended to keep her at a distance compared with men who received placebo squirts. Oxytocin had no effect on single guys.
In other words, giving a shot of oxytocin up the nose of bonded men tended to reinforce monogamy. This finding supports work by Dutch scientist Carsten de Dreu, who has shown oxytocin tends to increase trust toward members of a group, but not toward outsiders. In this case, the pretty woman is the outsider.
This is an interesting finding, but not so much because it tells us that oxytocin will forever prevent a man from stepping out. Rather, it shows us that chemicals in our heads can influence our social behaviour just as they influence the behaviour of animals, to the point that we do not have complete rational control over our actions.
A large body of evidence gathered during the past 15 years or so shows how chemical communication between neurons can bias our behaviour. Oxytocin is only one of the chemicals involved. Stress hormones, dopamine, vasopressin, opioids (the brain's heroin) all have their say. And the science tells us that "monogamous" individuals -- whether birds, rodents, or people -- can be driven to have sex with those outside their socially exclusive pair bond.
One of us, Larry Young, conducts studies of bonding in a monogamous rodent called a prairie vole. His work has often been cited by social conservatives who have used the prairie vole as a kind of furry paragon of morality because the critters are stubbornly loyal to their mates. Socially, that is. Sexually, it's another story. Many bonded males are happy to have sex with another female if they happen to run across one that's in heat and willing. But they come home to their partner at the end of the day.
In fact, prairie voles are miserable when they are separated from their bonded partner for very long. A stress-related chemical called corticotropin releasing factor (CRF) acts in males separated from their female mates just the way it does in drug addicts who are separated from their supply. "Divorce" a male vole from his mate and you get a very miserable vole whose CRF system has been fired like a gun, triggering yearning and depression. The chemical is helping enforce social monogamy.
The neurochemical dopamine is motivational. It drives us to act to appease a desire, such as for food or sex, and when we do, we get a reward, typically a burst of endogenous opioids. With experience, we learn just how pleasurable it can be to tickle this reward system.
So our brains are organized according to chemically controlled circuits, each whispering to us about what it wants. When we see an attractive man or woman, reward circuits tell us how incredibly hot sex with that person would be. But oxytocin- and vasopressin-related circuits are telling us we love our partner, and CRF is helping us picture how miserable we'd be without our mate. The rational part of our brain, primarily the prefrontal cortex, is weighing these possible costs of cheating, and reminding us the sexy person is married to our boss.
Which system shouts the loudest may depend partly on our genes. But one person's genome is not exactly like another's. We have variation. As we explain in our book, The Chemistry Between Us: Love, Sex, and the Science of Attraction, this variation can make a lot of difference. When a European team studied monogamous birds called great tits, they found that 13 per cent of chicks resulted from extra-pair mating. The birds, both male and female, most likely to fly off to find a paramour tended have "bold" personalities. This gregarious, novelty-seeking personality has been linked to a variation in a gene that holds the recipe for a dopamine receptor called D4, or DRD4 in humans.
A version of that gene known as 7R+ has been implicated in drug addiction, impulsive behaviour, risk taking and gambling. But it's also been found to be prevalent in people who are migrants, innovators, the ambitious -- people who have key traits for success. (There has been no study so far of its prevalence in four-star generals or political leaders.) In one sample of 181 young adults, those who had at least one copy of 7R+ had 50 per cent more instances of sexual infidelity than non-carriers.
In other words, sexual and social monogamy are driven by different brain circuits. The recent oxytocin study showed that exposing a man's brain to a surge of the chemical immediately before he meets an attractive woman can drive him to keep his distance, but short of carrying a bottle of oxytocin spray in a purse for use just before every cocktail party, what else can we take away from the new study? For one, have more sex. As the study's authors wrote, "the most obvious physiological stimulus for promoting endogenous (oxytocin) release in men would be having sex with their mate." Larry Young believes kissing, hugging, caressing and intimate small talk can all help to keep a man's oxytocin high, too.
But there's a problem with this takeaway message. The longer we're with our social partner, the less intimacy and sex we have. When new mates are first introduced, they have sex like crazy. After a time -- in marmosets, for example, it's about 80 days -- they won't be having much sex at all.
Less sex does not mean we're less devoted. We have other powerful reasons to maintain the social relationship, not least CRF. But depending at least partly on our genetic makeup, our motivation to seek erotic reward can be more or less powerfully awakened by a new potential partner. If the circuit shouts loudly enough, we'll risk the committed relationship, our careers, and our reputations to satisfy fleeting desire.
We're not automatons. We are responsible for our actions. But our baked-in biases can make us susceptible to infidelity. Our brains can be a battlefield of competing interests and sometimes desire wins. It may win more often in people such as Petraeus whose bold, creative thinking we so admire can come with a bias toward behaviour we don't. This doesn't make him special, it makes him human.
-- Slate
Brian Alexander is a journalist and author whose books include "Rapture: How Biotech Became the New Religion" and "America Unzipped: The Search for Sex and Satisfaction." He and Larry Young are co-authors of "The Chemistry Between Us: Love, Sex, and the Science of Attraction."


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I watch this thread every time I log on. Meredith - you've given me the bug again. I had backed off a bit on my dream of an eclectus, but you've resurrected that dream! I'm even looking into local breeders... hubby will thank you. LOL


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• bivouac •
Pronunciation: bi-vu-wæk • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun, Verb, intransitive
Meaning: 1. Temporary quarters or campsite for a short stay, usually for soldiers, hikers, or mountain climbers. 2. A temporary campsite offering little shelter for a short stay.
Notes: Today's Good Word may be used 'as is' for a verb meaning to set up a bivouac, as to bivouac in the school gym during a storm. When suffixes beginning with a vowel are added to this stem, the root is extended by a K: bivouacs but bivouacked and bivouacking. Someone who bivouacs would be a bivouacker.
In Play: Today's Good Word is still used more in military contexts than in any other: "That night our outfit bivouacked in what we thought was an open field only to wake up in the morning surrounded by a herd of cows." However, it has long since escaped the exclusive domain of soldiering: "Kelly's brother bivouacked on the couch in our living room for three weeks before he found a job."
Word History: The spelling of today's word gives away its French origin: bivouac. This word seems to have arisen during the Thirty Years War from bivac, a dialectal variant of Swiss German Beiwacht "night watch", a supplementary night patrol carried out by civilians during that war. The Swiss German word is made up of bei "by, at" + Wacht "watch, vigil", the noun from wachen "to wake, watch, guard". The root here is clearly akin to English wake but also to witch, Wicca and wicked. How? Well, wickedness was associated with the activities of witches, but witches were originally seen as necromancers, people capable of waking the dead. (We would like to thank Larry Brady now for keeping a watch for curious words like this one, which he suggested for today's Good Word.)[/b]
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Dutch international and Champions League winner Edgar Davids has joined Barnet as joint head coach alongside Mark Robson.
The 39-year-old, who has played for several top European clubs including Juventus, Barcelona, AC Milan and Spurs will work in partnership with Robson but has also expressed a desire to make a return to first team football with the Bees.
Davids stated he was 'very excited' about signing a deal at Underhill.
"I'm happy to explore my possibilities and share my knowledge and experience with Barnet Football Club. I am very excited about the challenge ahead," he told the Barnet website.
The Bees are yet to win a game this season but Robson believes Davids' experience will benefit his players.
"I am delighted to welcome Edgar to our club. His experience as a player throughout his illustrious career will be a massive benefit to all our players and I look forward to forming a strong partnership with him."
Davids began his career in Holland with Ajax. After progressing through the club's youth system he made 106 league appearances before moving to Italy.
After a brief stint with AC Milan, the combative midfielder joined Juventus and claimed the Serie A title on three occasions.
A loan spell at Spanish giants Barcelona followed in 2004 before short stays at Inter Milan and Tottenham Hotspur.
He returned to Ajax for the 2007/2008 campaign before retiring at the end of that season. He made a comeback with English side Crystal Palace in 2010 but made only seven appearances for the club.


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Vandalism wrote:You've given a perfect example; passion, guts, pride, gusto, humour and comedy are difficult to define succinctly. I have some notion that these things could be related but no clear idea of how. That's probably because we don't have a direct translation of 'hwyl' so I'm not used to the thought. Presumebly a Welsh speaker is happy enough to hurl this word around confidently. Great stuff. How would you use it in a sentence?
Because hwyl fills a gap, many Welsh people would use the word in an English sentence. In a bookshop in Wales one might see the bilingual sign Humour/Hwyl. A strong, skillful and determined rugby player would be said to play with hwyl. A passionately sung hymn would be said to be sung with hwyl.
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Sugru, a Versatile Glue From Ireland, Gets Help From Web
After many hurdles in the downturn, an Irish entrepreneur used social media to drum up interest, and she expects sales to reach $60 million by 2020.
March 3, 2016, Thursday
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With New Nonstick Coating, the Wait, and Waste, Is Over
LiquiGlide has found a way to make the interiors of some bottles permanently wet and slippery. That keeps substances like ketchup from sticking inside.
March 24, 2015, Tuesday
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The lizard and, well, Spider-Man, have ideal tools for scaling slippery surfaces. Engineers have copied the gecko's clingy foot pads.
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A 25-year-old woman was sexually assaulted as she walked through an underpass in Yeovil.
At about 1.20am on Sunday (January 26), the victim was walking along Princes Street and went into an underpass leading towards Yeovil District Hospital, when she heard footsteps behind her.
A man then forced her to the ground and sexually assaulted her. She was punched several times and suffered injuries to her face.
The victim managed to escape and the man ran off towards Reckleford.
Investigating officer Det Sgt Jon Hooper, of Yeovil CID, said: "I would firstly like to praise the victim who bravely fought the man off and managed to raise the alarm by hailing down a taxi driver.
"As a result of her resistance, the man may have suffered injuries to his face, so I would ask the public to think about whether they know someone who has suffered unexplained injuries to their face since Saturday night?
"The victim has given us a description of the man - he is white, in his mid-twenties, of average build, about 5ft 6ins, with blond hair. He was wearing a grey long-sleeved top and blue jeans.
"This was a horrific incident for the victim and she was taken to The Bridge, a sexual assault referral centre, where she was looked after by specially trained professionals, who will continue to give her all the help and support she needs.
"I would like to stress that incidents like this are rare. We have a team of officers dedicated to this inquiry and we will be doing everything we can to find the person responsible.
"We are now appealing for any witnesses to come forward. Were you in the area of the underpass or Reckleford in the early hours of Sunday morning? Did you see or hear anything suspicious, or see a man matching the description given? If you did, please come forward."
If you can help, please call Yeovil CID via the 24-hour non-emergency number 101.


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Chest of Drawers #100 by Tejo Remy
In 1991 Tejo Remy designed Chest of drawers: a dresser made of waste material as a comment on our consumer society. It became an icon of the nineties and is now a true collector's piece. The chest of drawers reached an extended goal by going from recycling to immortalisation.


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The Good, The Bad, & The WTF: New Year's Eve Edition
New Year's Eve is considered one of the biggest party nights of the year, which is why it's also generally considered one of the most annoying nights of the year. So as you can imagine, only the most irritating celebrities turned out for very public New Year's parties in Las Vegas and New York. (We're looking right at you, Kim and Kanye.)
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CASH was stolen during a robbery at a convenience store in Barnt Green.
The incident happened at the Tesco Express in Hewell Road, just after 9pm yesterday, (March 10).
Three men with their faces covered by tights entered the store.
Two of the men approached the assistant who was cashing up at self service tills. They demanded money and threatened to shoot her, although no weapons were seen, A quantity of cash was taken out of her hand, and the pair ran out of the store.
The third man took a member of staff upstairs to where another member of staff was working. He asked them to open the safe, but they were unable to do so.
He came back downstairs with a bag of coins, which he threw on the floor, then escaped.
The men left in the direction of Sandhills Road, where they got into a red Skoda Fabia, registration X556 FEH.
One was about 5ft 8ins, slim, and was wearing a Superdry-style waist-length black jacket, and black trousers.
The second man was about 5ft and appeared to be stockier. He was wearing a black bomber style jacket with elasticated waist and cuffs, possibly made of a shiny material, black trousers and black woolly gloves which had a red Spiderman patch on the back.
The third offender was also dressed all in black, and possibly had curly or bushy hair.
Detective Sergeant Steve Cook of West Mercia Police said: "The three female assistants were not injured, although they were extremely shaken.
"We would like to hear from anyone who saw the incident or who saw the vehicle in the area, or knows where it is now."
Anyone with information is asked to call DS Cook on the non-emergency number 0300 333 3000, quoting incident 759-s-100314.
Alternatively contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111, or visit crimestoppers-uk.org.


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Police want to speak to this man in connection with counterfeit notes being used in shops in the Chippenham area.
The community shop in Kington St Michael fell foul to the scam when a fake £50 was offered as payment for a few low value items including sweets.
The fraudster also used counterfeit £50 and Scottish £20 notes in Emery Gate shopping centre between January 31 and February 5, at Clintons, Card factory, CEX, Sports Direct and Peacocks.
But staff at the Co-op at Corsham were suspicious and refused to accept the note, which smelt of hairspray.
Police say all the fake notes shared the same serial number.
Officers have leafleted shops informing how to identify the counterfeits and are urging retailers to be vigilant.
Anyone who recognises the man in this CCTV image is asked to call police on 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.


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LANSING, Mich. - Lawmakers in the state House have passed bills aimed at restoring light to huge swaths of Detroit.
One part of Thursday's legislation will allow Detroit and some other cities to establish public authorities to run their lighting systems while another would allow part of a utility users' tax to fund public lighting repairs.
The bills now go to Gov. Rick Snyder for his signature.
MORE: Mich. Senate passes bill on public lighting authority
Fewer than half of Detroit's 88,000 streetlights work. Mayor Dave Bing has called for spending up to $160 million on repairs and improvements.
Bing had hoped the lighting legislation would have been passed and signed into law by the end of the summer, but the package of bills was stalled for months until extensive negotiations led to state Senate approval last week.
RELATED: Snyder: "I've been a big proponent of the Detroit lighting proposal."
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