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Both men and women view someone with a larger number of past sexual partners as a less attractive option for a relationship, according to a study published in the Journal of Sex Research.
Using an Internet survey, the researchers asked 188 participants about their willingness to engage in a long-term relationship or short-term relationship with with a hypothetical individual who had a varying number of past sexual partners.
They found that the hypothetical individual's number of past sexual partners had a large impact on the participants' willingness to engage in a relationship with them. Having a few sexual partners was seen as more attractive than having only one or none. However, the participants grew progressively less willing to get involved in a relationship as the number of past partners increased beyond a few.
In addition, the researchers found no difference between men and women's willingness to get involved in a long-term relationship with a hypothetical individual who had more than two past sexual partners.
PsyPost interviewed the study's corresponding author, Steve Stewart-Williams of the University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus. Read his explanation of the research below:
Why were you interested in this topic?
Stewart-Williams: There are a few reasons why we were interested in the topic. ("We" is myself and my colleagues Andrew Thomas and Caroline Butler, by the way.) One was that it provided a way to look at how cultural and evolutionary forces interact. On the one hand, evolutionary principles suggest that people will tend to be a little wary about getting involved with someone who has a large number of past sexual partners. It's a potential health risk, for one thing, but it's also a sign that the person in question might not be a reliable long-term partner (if that's what you want). So an overly extensive sexual history might be expected set off alarm bells. On the other hand, cultures vary a lot in their attitudes to premarital sex, serial monogamy, and the like. In a culture where these things are acceptable, someone who doesn't have any past sexual partners at all might set off a different set of alarm bells. Why don't they? Our prediction, then, was that in liberal Western cultures, people would typically want someone with a bit of a past, but not too much – which is exactly what we found (and is also the name of our paper).
A second reason we were interested in the topic was that it provided a way to test a very general hypothesis in evolutionary psychology – namely, that the sexes differ more when it comes to short-term, low-commitment relationships than they do when it comes to long-term, high-commitment ones. Again, that's what we found. For long-term relationships, there were essentially no sex differences: Men and women were equally reluctant to get involved with someone with a very high number of notches on their bedpost. For short-term relationships, in contrast, men were less reluctant than women.
Finally, we were interested in individual differences in this area. People differ a lot in how comfortable they are with casual sex. Our thinking was that people who are more comfortable with it would be less wary about getting involved with someone with a high number of past partners. They'd be less concerned that such a person would be a poor prospect for a long-term mate, because they're less interested in snagging a long-term mate in the first place. Sure enough, the data seemed to bear out this prediction.
What should the average person take away from your study?
One takeaway is that we can't always trust widespread views about men and women. A lot of people are convinced that the sexual double standard is alive and well in the Western world. But our study and many others suggest that it's a lot less common than it used to be. It's not that no one cares about a potential mate's sexual history; most people do care. But people seem to be about as reluctant to get involved with a man with an extensive sexual history as they are a woman.
Certainly, there are still some people out there who hold to the old double standard. But they seem to be a dwindling minority. One recent study found that only about 12% of students held the traditional double standard, but also that around 13% held a reverse double standard – in other words, they thought it was worse for men to sleep around a lot. The traditional double standard was more common among men; the reverse double standard was more common among women. In other words, underlying the different double standards there was actually just a single double standard: It's OK for me but not for you! To be clear, though, most people didn't have a double standard at all: They judged men and women in the same way. (You can read this study here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X13000665)
This, of course, raises another question: Why do people think there's a widespread double standard when there's not? The answer is that it's probably a hangover from an earlier time when there really was a double standard. We human beings are pretty sluggish when it comes to updating our ideas about the world. Part of this is confirmation bias. If we happen to bump into one of the 12% of people who hold the traditional double standard, we think "I knew it – the double standard is alive and well!" Meanwhile, we may overlook any evidence to the contrary. We might not notice the fact that there's also a reverse double standard, for instance, or the fact that men are generally judged by the same standard as women.
Other than that, the biggest takeaway of the study for me is that people are different and that different relationships work for different people. Some people are interested in long-term relationships, and they tend to prefer to get involved with people who don't have an extensive sexual history. Fair enough. Others aren't so interested in long-term relationships, and they tend to be less worried about a mate's sexual history. That's fair enough, too. As a general rule, things probably work out best when people get involved with people who are similar to them in terms of their attitudes to casual sex.
Are there any major caveats? What questions still need to be addressed?
There are two main caveats. The first is that the participants in our study were quite young. The average age was only 21. We suspect that, as people get older, they come to tolerate higher numbers of past partners in a prospective mate. There's a big difference between having, say, fifteen past partners at age twenty vs. having fifteen past partners at age 35. So, although the optimal number of past partners for our sample was around three, this wouldn't apply across the board, to all age groups. The key finding, I think, is not the absolute numbers but the general pattern: the fact that attractiveness ratings rise for a while as the number of past partners rises, but then start to nosedive.
The second caveat is that we only conducted our study in one type of culture – a modern Western one – and thus we don't really know how the data would come out in other cultures or times. Our hunch, though, is that some of our findings would transcend cultural boundaries whereas others would be more variable. We suspect, for instance, that in most cultures, people would be reluctant to get involved with someone with a high number of sexual partners. But our finding that a few past partners is better than none may be more culture-specific. In cultures where people – women especially – are expected to be virgins on their wedding nights, any past partners at all would probably be a deal breaker. The cross-cultural question is probably the main question that still needs to be addressed.
The study, "Sexual History and Present Attractiveness: People Want a Mate With a Bit of a Past, But Not Too Much", was also co-authored by Caroline A. Butler & Andrew G. Thomas.


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Tashkent: Shiva Thapa (60kg) and Sumit Sangwan (91kg) stunned higher rated opponents to enter the final of their respective weight categories at the Asian Boxing Championships here on Friday.
The fourth seeded Thapa upset Olympic bronze medallist and top seed Dorjnyambuug Otgondalai of Mongolia 3-2 in the semi-finals of the Lightweight (60kg) category.
The Assam lad will fight Elnur Abduraimov of Uzbekistan for the gold medal. Abduraimov defeated China's Jun Shan in his semi-final bout.
Sumit on the other hand, clinched a comprehensive 5-0 victory over second seed Jakhon Qurbonov of Tajikistan in the last four stage of the Heavyweight (91kg) division.
However, top seed Vikas Krishan settled for a bronze medal in the middleweight (75kg) category after he gave a walkover in the semi-finals to fourth seed Lee Dongyun of South Korea.
With two silver medals assured, Indian boxers surpassed their performance from the last edition of the continental event in 2015 when they had taken three medals including a silver and two bronze.


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Playing with the form he created in his trailblazing debut novel, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick once again sails into uncharted territory and takes readers on an awe-inspiring journey.
Ben and Rose secretly wish their lives were different. Ben longs for the father he has never known. Rose dreams of a mysterious actress whose life she chronicles in a scrapbook. When Ben discovers a puzzling clue in his mother's room and Rose reads an enticing headline in the newspaper, both children set out alone on desperate quests to find what they are missing.
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If you bought health insurance at an Affordable Care Act marketplace this year, it really pays to look around before renewing your coverage for next year.
The system is set up to encourage people to renew the policies that they bought last year — and there are clear advantages to doing so, such as being able to keep your current doctors. But an Upshot analysis of data from the McKinsey Center for U.S. Health System Reform shows that in many places premiums are going up by double-digit percentages within many of the most popular plans. But other plans, hoping to attract customers, are increasing their prices substantially less. In some markets, plans are even cutting prices.
The combination will create a dilemma for many people and highlights both a benefit and drawback of the new insurance marketplaces created by the health law. As the law's designers intended, plans are competing for customers, which often holds cost down. But all the jostling around in the market means that consumers are stuck with tough choices — swallow a big premium increase or switch to a cheaper plan that may cover different doctors and hospitals.
"It's a nuanced story," said Larry Levitt, a senior vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation, a health research group that is also tracking premium changes. "You can still be protected, but it means you have to change plans."
The McKinsey data is based on preliminary information about rates in 18 states and the District of Columbia.
Many of the cheapest marketplace plans provide access to a limited groups of doctors and hospitals. That means that, in a lot of places, switching plans will also mean switching doctors. Plans also differ in their benefit designs, meaning they may have different deductibles or co-payment structures.
The subsidies the federal government pays to low- and moderate-income households will decrease, on average, in 2015. But because of the way the Obama administration is processing renewals, many customers who don't shop may end up paying the wrong amount each month and getting a big bill (or refund) for the difference when they pay their federal income taxes.
You may have read what's happening with average premiums. But individual consumers don't buy the average plan. And the federal government doesn't pay for the average plan. Instead of looking at averages, we looked at three sets of numbers to give a clearer picture of what's happening in the marketplaces where data is currently available.
All of our numbers come from a category of plan called "silver." To qualify as silver, a plan has to cover 70 percent of the average patient's medical costs. The marketplaces contain richer and skimpier categories, but silver plans were the most popular this year.
First we looked at the cheapest silver plan in each geographical market, to give a sense of the best price an insurance shopper could get. Since last year, the price of the cheapest silver plans has barely risen; it's actually going down in seven states. The average increase was just 1 percent. That's pretty remarkable considering that health insurance premiums nearly always go up. If you're the kind of customer who cares only about premiums, it pays in almost every market to go back to the marketplace this year and switch to the cheapest plan.
If you stayed with the cheapest silver plan from 2014 — according to the Department of Health and Human Services, it was the most popular choice around the country — those prices are going up almost everywhere. In some cases, they have increased by more than 10 percent. The average increase is 8.4 percent.
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A year after it was fully in place, the Affordable Care Act has largely succeeded in delivering on President Obama's main promises, even as it fell short in some ways and gave birth to a new and powerful conservative movement.
Here is an example of how those changes are playing out: In New York City, the cheapest 2014 silver plan was offered by MetroPlus and cost $359 a month, before tax credits, for a 40-year-old single nonsmoker. Renew that plan and the premium will increase by 17.3 percent. But switch to the cheapest plan now listed, offered by Health Republic, and the premium will go up by only 1 percent. The Health Republic network is broad, and includes providers who were in the MetroPlus plan. But consumers in other markets may need to be willing to jettison providers if they want the best price.
The third number we examined is important, too. For people with incomes between 138 percent and 400 percent of the federal poverty level — about $33,000 to $95,000 for a family of three — the federal government will kick in money to help pay for the insurance. Those subsidies are calculated based on the cost of the second-cheapest silver plan and the purchaser's income. What's happening in these plans can tell us how much the federal government's bill for subsidizing health insurance is going to go up. On average, the prices for the second-cheapest plans, called "benchmark plans," are actually going down by 1.4 percent, and in most places where they are increasing, they are increasing modestly. That's good news for the federal budget.
The small increases in the cheapest silver plan and the decreases in benchmark plans are a sign the marketplace is working as intended, said Jonathan Gruber, an M.I.T. economist who helped design the marketplace structure in the Affordable Care Act. "The main feature was that competition would bring rates down, and it did," he said.
A few important caveats about this data: We still don't know the rates in every state. The McKinsey database includes rates the company has collected from the 18 states and the District of Columbia, which have publicly posted the prices that insurers plan to charge consumers. About 43 percent of Americans eligible to sign up live in those states, which include New York, California, Michigan and Ohio. In many of the states included in this analysis, the rates are still being reviewed by regulators. Even in states where regulators have approved the rates, prices could go down before the marketplaces open on Nov. 15. As more state data becomes available, we plan to update our map.
But to keep premiums from rising, consumers will have to fight inertia. The Obama administration is trying to make it as easy as possible for people to preserve their coverage next year by simply renewing their current health plans. People who don't choose to shop again on Healthcare.gov will be automatically renewed in the plans they bought in 2014. That's not true for every state. Some states running their own marketplaces, including Colorado and Rhode Island, are either requiring consumers to log in and update their information before they can renew or recalculating tax credits before sending renewal notices. But the federal rule applies in a majority of states.
Historical evidence suggests that few customers will return to the marketplace to shop for a new health plan. Customers in the Affordable Care Act marketplace may be more price-sensitive than those in previous government insurance markets. But in those other plans, inertia has tended to set in.
Fewer than 10 percent of seniors change their Medicare Part D drug plans each year, and only 12 percent of federal employees switch plans on the federal benefit exchange. Studies have shown that, in the Medicare Part D market in particular, many more seniors would be better off if they changed plans more frequently.
In the marketplaces, it's not yet clear why rates on the most popular plans are increasing so much more than their competitors. It's possible insurers are charging more for these plans to take advantage of inertia and increase profits. It's also possible that some priced their initial policies unsustainably low, given the new nature of this market, and are now correcting.
Brendan Buck, a spokesman for America's Health Insurance Plans, an industry group, said the main factor driving premium increases was "who signed up." Many of the new lowest cost plans are new market entrants, according to McKinsey, which means they may have less data on how expensive these new customers will be to cover. We're likely to get more insight into the forces driving premiums changes in coming years.
Automatically renewing marketplace plans will be a mistake for many people, but it is an especially risky one for the 85 percent of people who qualified for some sort of subsidy. The Obama administration has chosen not to recalculate the value of tax credits for people who don't return to the Healthcare.gov site.
If your subsidy should go down — either because you have received a raise since last year or because the benchmark plan in the market became cheaper — you could end up owing the government a lot more money than you think, and you won't find out until tax time. Sam Baker at National Journal has a good article walking through the mechanics of how this works.
Not everyone has to worry about these invisible price changes, especially if incomes haven't changed. But in markets where federal rules apply and the benchmark is going down a lot, it pays to return to the marketplace before renewing. Places where that will be an issue include parts of Georgia, Indiana and Ohio — where benchmark prices are declining by more than 15 percent. For people in those areas, returning to the marketplace could prevent a surprise tax bill.
"The structure makes for a very competitive environment among the insurance carriers," said Paul Houchens, an actuary at Milliman, who estimates that, in some cases, what looks like a 5 percent premium rise could actually mean an increase of more than 30 percent. "But," he said, "I can see how it would create more confusion for consumers."


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Frank J. Palella Jr., MD; Carl Armon, MSPH; Kate Buchacz, PhD, MPH; Stephen R. Cole, PhD; Joan S. Chmiel, PhD; Richard M. Novak, MD; Kathleen Wood, BSN; Anne C. Moorman, BSN; John T. Brooks, MD; for the HOPS (HIV Outpatient Study) Investigators *
Disclaimer: The findings and conclusions in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Grant Support: By the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (contract no. 200-2006-18797).
Potential Financial Conflicts of Interest: None disclosed.
Reproducible Research Statement:Study protocol and statistical code: Available from the authors. Data set: The HOPS is a public-use data set and is available to readers. However, confidentiality protections that govern the HOPS data require authors to strip record identifiers; it will therefore take some time to make these data available. In addition, the CDC's heightened security procedures require persons who want to analyze HOPS data to 1) prepare a written proposal for CDC review and approval, 2) sign confidentiality and data use agreements, 3) conduct analyses in Atlanta, and 4) go through CDC security clearance for access to facilities. The authors would be happy to facilitate these procedures for persons interested in conducting analyses with HOPS project data and welcome these requests.
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Drs. Buchacz and Brooks: Epidemiology Branch, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, MS E-45, Atlanta, GA 30333.
Dr. Cole: Campus Box 7435, Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7435.
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Author Contributions: Conception and design: F.J. Palella, K. Buchacz, S.R. Cole, J.S. Chmiel, R.M. Novak, A.C. Moorman, J.T. Brooks.
Analysis and interpretation of the data: F.J. Palella, C. Armon, K. Buchacz, S.R. Cole, J.S. Chmiel, R.M. Novak, J.T. Brooks.
Drafting of the article: F.J. Palella, C. Armon, S.R. Cole, J.S. Chmiel, J.T. Brooks.
Critical revision of the article for important intellectual content: F.J. Palella, C. Armon, K. Buchacz, S.R. Cole, J.S. Chmiel, R.M. Novak, J.T. Brooks.
Final approval of the article: F.J. Palella, C. Armon, K. Buchacz, S.R. Cole, J.S. Chmiel, R.M. Novak, K. Wood, A.C. Moorman, J.T. Brooks.
Statistical expertise: C. Armon, K. Buchacz, S.R. Cole, J.S. Chmiel.
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HIV-1 genotypic and phenotypic susceptibility testing (GPT) optimizes antiretroviral selection, but its effect on survival is unknown.
To evaluate the association between GPT and survival.
Cohort study.
10 U.S. HIV clinics.
2699 HIV-infected patients eligible for GPT (plasma HIV RNA level >1000 copies/mL) seen from 1999 through 2005.
Demographic characteristics, clinical factors, GPT use, all-cause mortality, and crude and adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) for the association of GPT with survival.
Patients were followed for a median of 3.3 years; 915 (34%) had GPT. Patients who had GPT had lower mortality rates than those who did not (2.0 vs. 2.7 deaths per 100 person-years). In standard Cox models, GPT was associated with improved survival (adjusted HR, 0.69 [95% CI, 0.51 to 0.94]; P = 0.017) after controlling for demographic characteristics, CD4+ cell count, HIV RNA level, and intensity of clinical follow-up. In subgroup analyses, GPT was associated with improved survival for the 2107 highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART)–experienced patients (2.2 vs. 3.2 deaths per 100 person-years for patients who had GPT vs. those who did not have GPT; adjusted HR, 0.60 [CI, 0.43 to 0.82]; P = 0.002) and for the 921 triple antiretroviral class–experienced patients (2.1 vs. 3.1 deaths per 100 person-years; adjusted HR, 0.61 [CI 0.40 to 0.93]; P = 0.022). Marginal structural models supported associations between GPT and improved survival in the overall cohort (adjusted HR, 0.54; P = 0.001) and in the HAART-experienced group (adjusted HR, 0.56; P = 0.003).
Use of GPT was not randomized. Residual confounding may exist.
Use of GPT was independently associated with improved survival among HAART-experienced patients.
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Palella FJ, Armon C, Buchacz K, et al, for the HOPS (HIV Outpatient Study) Investigators. The Association of HIV Susceptibility Testing With Survival Among HIV-Infected Patients Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy: A Cohort Study. Ann Intern Med. 2009;151:73–84. doi: https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-151-2-200907210-00003
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Ask an internet business owner what would they desire the most in the world, and they'll possibly tell you 'more visitors'. Lack of traffic is the number one challenge faced by most online business owners.
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The Lover is represented by turn-of-the century Cuban coffee-planter, Luis Vargas (Antonio Banderas). Handsome, rich and noble, Luis is hard put to find in Cuba a wife "who looks to the future". He advertises for a wife in a Baltimore paper. The ad is answered by beautiful, seemingly demure, Julia Russell (Angelina Jolie.) Julia knows how to become the object of love/lust for just about any man. She knows just how to play with the emotions of the smitten Luis. While the audience can see through this woman, Luis is blind. And before you can say, "Watch out!" Luis is being set up. it's about this time that the movie begins its slow spiral downward. I won't tell you about the plot twists because I don't want to deprive you of the pleasure you might get at guessing them.
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These flourless pumpkin bars are the perfect combination of pumpkin, spices, and chocolate. They are also made without flour, oil, or refined sugar. You'll never guess what I use instead of flour to make these gluten-free pumpkin bars with chocolate chips!
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Flourless Pumpkin Bars with Chocolate Chips {Gluten-Free, Clean Eating, Dairy-Free}
These flourless pumpkin bars are the perfect combination of pumpkin, spices, and chocolate. They are also made without flour, oil, or refined sugar. You'll never guess what I use instead of flour to make these gluten-free pumpkin bars with chocolate chips *!
- Prep Time: 15 min
- Cook Time: 40 min
- Total Time: 55 minutes
- Yield: 12 bars 1x
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- 1 (15 oz.) can garbanzo beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 cup raw cashews, soaked in warm water for 1 hour (use just enough water to cover the cashews and drain the water before using)
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I hope this project is still going, it looks like it has been slow lately.
Anyway I was messing around with the game and noticed that when the chameleon race was set to the civilian appearance, it still needed a real inventory portrait for the civilian. So i went ahead and wipped one together with photoshop. I figure it could be used until a better one is made.
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Although your intentions are good, unfortunately we cannot include such artwork in the game, as it is not yours. All artwork from X-com is from the game itself, not UFO2000.
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The Queen celebrates her 90th birthday on April 21st, although her official birthday will be celebrated on June 11th – the perfect time to raise a toast to a much-loved monarch, especially when the country's pubs are marking the June event with extended opening hours. In the meantime, we've rounded up the world's most spectacular royal palaces, ranging from medieval Bavarian fortresses to Swedish castles filled with over a thousand rooms.
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The Queen's official London residence was built in 1703 by Captain William Winde, an English architect and former military man. Today, it's not just home to the Queen but to 800 members of staff, whose roles cover everything from clock making to horticulture. It's not an easy property to maintain either – the 760 windows are cleaned every six weeks and there are 775 rooms to clean. And, with over 40,000 light bulbs we reckon keeping the palace illuminated is a full time affair.
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Fredensborg Palace, Zealand, Denmark
This beautiful palace was built as a hunting lodge for King Frederik IV in 1719 and it's been used by Denmark's royal family ever since. The country's current monarch, Queen Margrethe II, uses the palace as a venue for royal weddings, anniversaries and birthdays and it's also a base for visiting heads of state who, according to tradition, must scratch their names onto a pane of glass with a diamond. Queen Margrethe has always allowed the Danes to enjoy the property – the rambling gardens are open to the public and locals can attend the weekly church service held in the estate's chapel.
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Pena National Palace, Sintra, Portugal
One of the more colourful royal residences, the UNESCO-listed Pena National Palace was built on the orders of King Manuel I in the 16th century. It was used as a monastery until 1838, when the king transformed it into a summer residence for the royal family. King Ferdinand was incredibly well-travelled and insisted that the building incorporated Islamic, Moorish and medieval elements. The last monarch to live there was Queen Amelie, who spent her last night in Portugal at Pena, before being exiled to France after the revolution of 1910. Today, visitors can go on guided tours of the palace and its gardens, which are home to several exotic plant species, some dating back to the nineteenth century.
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Bangalore Palace, Bangalore, India
You'd be forgiven for mistaking this ivy-clad, turreted fortress for Windsor Castle but it's actually Bangalore Castle in the Indian state of Karnataka. It was built in 1862 by Bostonian clergyman Rev. J. Garrett on the orders of Maharaja Sri Sir Chamarajendra Wadiyar X, the ruling Maharaja of Mysore between 1868 and 1894. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Maharaja was inspired by England's Windsor Castle; inside there are vast expanses of wood panelling and priceless works of art. However, there are also several items we can't quite picture at Windsor. The Maharaja was a keen hunter and items of furniture on display include foot stools made from elephants' feet.
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Mysore Palace, Karnataka, India
Regarded as one of India's finest royal residences, Mysore Palace was the former residence of the Wadiyars (otherwise known as the Maharajas of Mysore), the royal family which ruled the kingdom between 1399 and 1950. The enormous fortress is famous for its numerous courtyards, gardens and outbuildings, which include 12 temples. Beneath the building is a network of tunnels which lead to nearby palaces and religious sites. One of the most ornate rooms is the Kalyana Mantapa, or marriage hall – the enormous stained glass window was shipped to Mysore from Glasgow, where it was made. Equally breathtaking (and slightly eerie) is the Gombe Thotti, or Doll's Pavilion, which houses a collection of antique dolls and ceremonial objects, including an elephant howdah (passenger seat) decorated with 84 kilograms of gold.
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Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna, Austria
The Schönbrunn Palace is the former imperial summer residence of Austria's Habsburg rulers. It's Austria's most important cultural landmark, and its design was inspired by the baroque extravagance of Versailles. There are 1,441 rooms in the main building, some of which can be viewed on guided tours (and let's face it – who really has time to inspect all 1,441?). Highlights include the parlour, where Mozart once played music for Empress Maria Theresia. The palace also had a starring role in the Bond film The Living Daylights, when 007 and his female accomplice passed through the gardens in a horse and carriage.
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Neuschwanstein, Bavaria, Germany
Neuschwanstein was the inspiration for Disneyland's famous castle. It's one of Germany's most popular attractions, with over 6,000 visitors a day – rather a lot when you consider it was built to be the home of just one person. Ludwig II ruled Bavaria in the late 19th century, but when the notoriously shy king decided to retire from public life, he commissioned this huge castle. Construction spanned two decades, during which time the project was the region's biggest employer. Ludvig's nineteenth century shopping list hints at the scale of the project; purchased materials included 465 tonnes of Salzburg marble, 1,550 tonnes of sandstone and 400,000 bricks.
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Palace Of Versailles, Ile-de-France, France
The sheer size of this royal palace is mind-blowing. Built for King Louis XIV in the late 1600s, 3,000 people were employed to construct the main building and to design the magnificent grounds. Inside, there over 700 rooms, 1,200 fireplaces and 60 staircases. The gardens once contained 400 sculptures and 1,400 fountains. It's hardly surprising that when King Louis XIV lived there, he would regularly complain to one of his 200 servants that his food was cold, due to the fact that the enormous kitchens were so far away from his dining room.
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Château de Chambord, Loir-et-Cher, France
This beautiful castle was built on the orders of King Francis I of France. It's the largest chateau in the Loire valley, and was constructed as a hunting lodge. It took years to build, with construction starting in 1519 and finishing in 1547. Château de Chambord was built in the renaissance style, with a central keep and four enormous bastion towers encasing its 440 rooms, 84 staircases and 282 fireplaces. The most admired part of the castle is the spectacular double helix staircase which ascends three floors. It's just one example of King Francis's penchant for extravagance – he even diverted the Loire so that the famous river would surround his home.
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Imperial Palace, Tokyo, Japan
The Tokyo Imperial Palace has been the primary residence of the Imperial family (Japan's equivalent of the royal family) since the nineteenth century. It can be found on a piece of land which covers 3.4 square kilometres, making it the largest private estate in the city. The palace is famous for it sprawling gardens, which are home to 3,600 animal and insect species and 1,366 species of plant. The late Emperor Hirohito, one of the palace's former residents, was against the use of pesticides and encouraged staff to create insect habitats on the property.
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Royal Palace, Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm Palace is the official residence of the Swedish royal family, and can be found in the heart of the old town, where it looms over the river Norrström. The royal residence has been located at this site since the thirteenth century, when King Gustav Vasa built a castle here. It was later destroyed in a fire, and in the early eighteenth century, a new building was commissioned, although it was only completed in 1770s. Today, the basic structure remains unchanged and the building contains 600 rooms spread over seven floors.
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Microsoft's 'Halo' effect: Hunting for the next game hit
In the Xbox universe, there's "Halo" —and there's everything else. The venerable franchise has sold more than 60 million copies to date and shows no signs of slowing down.
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i guess CUEK is over. had a good run, thanks for giving me something to look forwards to on bad days.
this comic isnt emo anymore big rip
i just finished reading it all, and in my way i found that apparently everyone who did the same left a comment about finishing it... so... this is mine, it took me around eight hours
So cool i love these
Enzo you've lost your touch. How could you put Frank in a comic and not put in a hidden penis
Great to see Frank land on his feet.
Aw crap, I just made my first comment here and I didn't even post it right.
Who do you think is selling Onion Rings at that price?
Free Advice booth not doin all that good Frank
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In the course of the six months (6…omg!) (no really, it's now almost 9 months), some big changes happened. I fried yet another motherboard (which made it look like a power supply issue back in July) and I spent a fortune to upgrade my computer, in August. I played a lot of other things for a few months and then deleted my mods folder and now we are starting over. Therefore, a lot of CC went missing and I need to gather the daddy CC up and the kids will need makeovers.


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Ever wonder why some videos you posted on YouTube get lower ranking despite having more page views than those on top of the heap?
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YouTube's official blog explains that it has incorporated a new ranking factor which looks more on how long videos have been watched rather than the perceived page views as described in the first paragraph. It is a common notion that a popular video has much higher chance of landing on top of search results for a relevant query.
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What YouTube wants to do is reward videos that are not only watched in full, but also lead to visitors clicking on suggested videos, since the more people got engaged (translated as people continuously viewing videos on YouTube) the happier they are with content presented to them.
This Time Watched change is now reflected in YouTube Analytics.
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I was unlucky enough to have one drive in a four-drive volume set (no parity or error correcting) crash on me. I was in the middle of transferring about 15GB of data off the set onto another drive for backup when the drive stopped responding. All four drives were different makes and models of IDE hard disks that I had set up under Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 3 (SP3). From what I understand about a volume set, it will continue to fill up the first disk until that drive is full and then proceed to the next disk until it is full and so on.
The drive that failed was the second in the chain. Sending the drive to data recovery specialists that recover the data directly off the platters was out of the question because of the cost involved. Even the data recovery specialists said they doubted there was anything I could do because of the file system. My situation would have been different if that data resided on one NTFS drive. Unfortunately, I was dealing with an NTFS volume set spanning multiple drives.
The drive that failed was under warranty, so I got a replacement. The new drive was blank of course, but everything about the drive was exactly the same as the failed drive. When I discovered the failure, I took all the other drives out and kept track of what order they were in and what controller they were connected to. I didn't back up the disk configuration from Disk Administrator, so restoring the volume set that way was not an option.
As if my situation wasn't bad enough, the original load of NT that I had used to create the volume set had passed to NT heaven. As a result, the configuration in the Registry was gone. Fortunately, the Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Resource Kit, Supplement Two provides a valuable utility, FT Edit, that lets you manually configure a special set of disks in the NT Registry (e.g., volume set, striped set, striped with parity). When I created a new load of NT, I installed the drives in the same order as before. I went into Disk Administrator and let NT register the drives in the Registry. NT will see the drives as separate drives of unknown format. I then used FT Edit and manually made the drives show up as a volume set. If NT still only sees the drive as an unknown format, you can use the Disk Probe utility from the Resource Kit CD-ROM to check out the physical drives and the volume itself to make sure each has a proper ID (e.g., NTFS FT vs. just NTFS).
I rebooted NT, and the OS saw the new volume set and ran Scandisk (NT runs Scandisk whenever it sees a new NTFS drive in the system). At this point, things got interesting. The OS saw the middle drive as being blank, but the first drive contained the contents of what was on the volume set, so NT added all the files I had lost on the second drive, even with correct file size. All the files that the software restored were useless, but I did get all the files on the other three drives intact. If NT still only sees the drive as an unknown format, use the Disk Probe utility again. Most likely one of the drives in the set does not have a correct ID.


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Paula Fellingham checking in! Do you remember holding an infant for the first time? Were you struck, almost immediately, with an acute awareness of the infant's helplessness? As a mother, I remember feeling incredibly humbled, and a little overwhelmed, by