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Long product name Sony LCD flat panel SDM-X75K Silver 17" Silver computer monitor:
The short editorial description of Sony LCD flat panel SDM-X75K Silver 17" Silver computer monitorSDM-X75K - 17" LCD flat panel monitor with SXGA (1280x1024) resolution & built in speakers
Marketing text Sony LCD flat panel SDM-X75K Silver 17" Silver computer monitor:
The official marketing text of Sony LCD flat panel SDM-X75K Silver 17" Silver computer monitor as supplied by the manufacturer-KVM technology - Connect a USB keyboard and mouse to the SDM-X75K and control 2 USB connected PCs. Work better, work faster, remove clutter.
-Fast refresh rates, colour accuracy & built in speakers make this an ideal display for most business activities - office applications, digital imaging, web design, video viewing, etc.
-Headphone Jack. PC sound is routed to a heaphone Jack on the display.
-Integrated speakers (2 x 1W) - no need for external speakers means less desk clutter & less power sockets used.
-Are you sitting comfortably? The SDM-X75K is easily adjustable to your ideal viewing angle.
-12 millisecond response time for high quality video playback.
-High brightness (300cd/m²), high contrast & fast screen refresh - for superior image quality and precision.
-SXGA (1280x1024) screen resolution.
-Simple setup - Plug & play and the Sony automatic image adjustment feature gives hassle-free configuration.
-Gamma control - for colour matching of the display with digital cameras and printers to ensure the colours shown on screen match those on the other devices. Supports sRGB colour space matching.
-Wide viewing angle - the screen can be viewed clearly & comfortably from the side, top or bottom (160 degree horizontal, 140 degree vertical).
-Intelligent ECO mode - auto-adjusts screen settings to give best picture quality in varying lighting conditions.
-Allows simultaneous connection of 2 PC's (1 analog & 1 digital input) - easily switch from one to the other.
-HD15 signal input - for analog video card connection.
-DVI-D direct digital signal input - for higher quality imaging with compatible graphics cards.
-Cable management system - hides cable clutter for a tidier desk.
-Available in silver (TCO'03) or black (TCO'99)
-DDC-Ci allows you to control the settings of your display via software. (external software required)
Short summary description Sony LCD flat panel SDM-X75K Silver 17" Silver computer monitor:
This short summary of the Sony LCD flat panel SDM-X75K Silver 17" Silver computer monitor data-sheet is auto-generated and uses the product title and the first six key specs.Sony LCD flat panel SDM-X75K Silver, 1280 x 1024 pixels, LCD, 500:1, 16.78 million colours, 0.264 x 0.264 mm, 28 - 80 kHz
Long summary description Sony LCD flat panel SDM-X75K Silver 17" Silver computer monitor:
This is an auto-generated long summary of Sony LCD flat panel SDM-X75K Silver 17" Silver computer monitor based on the first three specs of the first five spec groups.Sony LCD flat panel SDM-X75K Silver. Display resolution: 1280 x 1024 pixels, Display: LCD, Contrast ratio (typical): 500:1. Colour of product: Silver. Tilt angle: -5 - 20°. Compliance industry standards: CE, CSA C22.2, cUL, EMKOs, FCC Class B, GOST, IC Class B, International Energy Star Program, ISO-924. Cables included: AC, USB
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Display diagonal*
Size of the display for this product, measured diagonally, usually in inches.
43.2 cm (17")
Display brightness*
Brightness is the amount of radiating light emitted from the screen. The brightness rating is measured in candellas per square meter, commonly known as 'nits'.
300 cd/m²
Display resolution*
The number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed. It is usually quoted as width × height, with the units in pixels: for example, "1024 × 768" means the width is 1024 pixels and the height is 768 pixels. The higher the number of pixels, the sharper the image.
1280 x 1024 pixels
Response time*
The response time is the time difference between the moment that a source (for example a video card) sends a signal and that equipment (for example a monitor) receives or display the signal. (Used abbreviations: R/F = Rise and Fall.)
12 ms
The description of display that can includes display type, resolution, size etc.
Contrast ratio (typical)*
The difference in light intensity between the brightest white and the darkest black.
Viewing angle, horizontal*
Maximum horizontal angle at which a display can be viewed with acceptable visual performance.
Viewing angle, vertical*
Maximum vertical angle at which a display can be viewed with acceptable visual performance.
Display number of colours*
16.78 million colours
Pixel pitch
This is the parameter of a picture tube, which specifies the shortest distance between two dots of the same colour. The principle is: the smaller the dot pitch, the better sharpness of image.
0.264 x 0.264 mm
Horizontal scan range
28 - 80 kHz
Vertical scan range
48 - 75 Hz
Viewable size, horizontal
The viewable size is often somewhat smaller than the actual size of a monitor, because there is a border around the image.
33.8 cm
Viewable size, vertical
27 cm
Digital horizontal frequency
28 - 64 kHz
Digital vertical frequency
60 Hz
Ports & interfaces
VGA (D-Sub) ports quantity*
Number of VGA (D-Sub) ports (connecting interfaces) in the device. The VGA (D-Sub) connector is a 15 pin connector between a computer and a monitor. It was first introduced in 1987 by IBM.
DVI-D ports quantity
This is the amount of DVI-I interfaces. Digital Visual Interface (DVI) is a video display interface developed by the Digital Display Working Group (DDWG). The digital interface is used to connect a video source to a display device, such as a computer monitor. DVI-D means DVI digital, which means it can only support digital, but not analog.
RMS rated power
RMS (Root mean square) is a measure of the continuous power required by a device, in particular audio amplfiers and loudspeakers.
Colour of product *
The colour e.g. red, blue, green, black, white.
Swivel angle range
Tilt angle
-5 - 20°
Plug and Play
Indicates whether this product supports is "plug and play". Plug and play is hardware or software that, after being installed ("plugged in"), can immediately be used ("played with"), as opposed to hardware or software which requires configuration.
Compliance industry standards
List of characteristics that describe methods of compliance to industry-defined standards for the product
CE, CSA C22.2, cUL, EMKOs, FCC Class B, GOST, IC Class B, International Energy Star Program, ISO-9241-3, -8, PC2001 "Designed for Windows", PC99 "Designed for Windows", TÜV Rheinland Ergonomie, TÜV Rheinland GS, UL
Weight & dimensions
Width *
The measurement or extent of something from side to side.
369 mm
Depth *
The distance from the front to the back of something.
66 mm
Height *
The measurement of the product from head to foot or from base to top.
337 mm
Weight *
Weight of the product without packaging (net weight). If possible, the net weight is given including standard accessories and supplies. Please note that sometimes the manufacturer leaves out the weight of accessories and/or supplies.
4.4 kg
Width (with stand)
369 mm
Depth (with stand)
253 mm
Height (with stand)
393.5 mm
Stand weight
3.2 kg
Packaging content
Cables included
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You'll be comfy and cozy in this shearling lined boot from Blondo! The Malak has features to keep you warm and dry on the coldest of days!
- Waterproof leather upper
- Back corset lacing
- Faux fur cuff and insulated faux fur lining
- 12" shaft height, pull on
- 15" calf circumference
- 1" molded heel
- Treaded synthetic sole
- Imported
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Location: New York, NY
January 28, 2013
Warm and Cute
"These shoes are very warm and dry. I live in NYC and spend a lot of time walking and my feet are never cold. The leather and fur are pretty soft and there is a surprising amount of ankle support. The soles are nice and thick with plenty of traction, but if i had one complaint it would be that there isn't much arch support and the the footbed is pretty firm. I wear them with thick arch support socks though, and I'm fine on my feet all day. For the warmth, durability, and utility, they are very cute and I wear them to work all the time. The lacing up the back gives them a fun look and is fully adjustable so you can really fit them to your leg and ankle. I would recommend these to a friend (and buy another pair when I've finished with these!)."
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Location: Boston
January 03, 2013
"love the boot but unfortunately it runs large so will be returning... Recommend ordering a half size smaller"
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Location: Austin
December 12, 2012
Beautiful boots
"Love my new Blondo Malak boots. They look great, very well made and so comfortable. I am taking them on my Christmas trip to snow and below 0 temps. I know they will keep my feet warm the inner wool is so soft and warm. I usually wear an 11 but ordered a 12 because of the wool shearling inside. Glad I did, they will fit great with my wool socks. The 11 would have been too snug."
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Location: New York
November 27, 2012
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"My husband bought these for me as an early Christmas present. I need a pair of waterproof boots for two reasons: to walk in rain, snow and slush, and to wear when I snowshoe. I can't wait to try them for both. As soon as I found them, I knew I had to have them. Thanks, Ed! They are stylish and comfortable. Love the laces in the back."
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Interest Rates and The Credit Crunch: New Formulas and Market Models
Fabio Mercurio
Bloomberg L.P.
February 5, 2009
Bloomberg Portfolio Research Paper No. 2010-01-FRONTIERS
We start by describing the major changes that occurred in the quotes of market rates after the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis. We comment on their lost analogies and consistencies, and hint on a possible, simple way to formally reconcile them. We then show how to price interest rate swaps under the new market practice of using different curves for generating future LIBOR rates and for discounting cash flows. Straightforward modifications of the market formulas for caps and swaptions will also be derived.
Finally, we will introduce a new LIBOR market model, which will be based on modeling the joint evolution of FRA rates and forward rates belonging to the discount curve. We will start by analyzing the basic lognormal case and then add stochastic volatility. The dynamics of FRA rates under different measures will be obtained and closed form formulas for caplets and swaptions derived in the lognormal and Heston (1993) cases.
Alternative, and more recent, formulations of multi-curve LIBOR market models can be downloaded at:
Number of Pages in PDF File: 39
Keywords: credit crunch, credit, liquidity, market rates, forward curve, discount curve, bootstrapping, FRAs, swaps, caps, swaptions, LIBOR market models, measure changes, stochastic volatility, Heston volatility, closed form formulas
JEL Classification: E45, G13
Date posted: January 24, 2009 ; Last revised: May 11, 2010
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Josephine Halvorson (b. 1981, Brewster, Massachusetts) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She attended the Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art (2002), and earned a BFA from The Cooper Union (2003) and an MFA from Columbia University (2007). Honors include a Fulbright Fellowship in Painting to Vienna, Austria (2003-4); awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts (2010) and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation (2010); and residencies at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program (2009); Harriet Hale Woolley Artist Residency, Fondation des Etats-Unis, Paris (2007-08), and the Weir Farm National Historic Site, Wilton, Connecticut (2005). Her work has been included in the exhibitions STILL, Frith Street Gallery, London (2012); What Looks Back, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York (2011); Paper A-Z, Sue Scott Gallery, New York (2011); Precarity and the Butter Tower, CTRL, Houston (2010); Americanana, Hunter College Art Galleries, New York (2010); Between the Picture and Viewer: The Image in Contemporary Painting, School of Visual Arts, New York (2010); Perceiving Place, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University (2010); Clockwise from Window, Monya Rowe, New York (2009); The Open, Deitch Projects, Long Island City (2009); Subverted Genres, Sue Scott Gallery, New York (2009); Close To Home, Cuchifritos, New York (2009); Party At Chris's House, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn (2009); Peintures de Patience, Fondation des États-Unis, Paris (2008); A Friend Indeed: Contemporary Art And The Academy, Katzen Arts Center, American University, Washington D.C. (2008), and Special Collection, The New York Public Library (2005).
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Canada loses opening match at Pan Am Championships in women's sitting volleyball
September 28, 2011
SAO PAULO, Brazil- Canada lost to the U.S., 25-9, 25-20, 25-22 on Wednesday in its opening match at the Pan Am women's sitting volleyball championships. The tournament winner earns a ticket to the 2012 Paralympic Games in London.
Danielle Ellis of Surrey, B.C., and Leah Hickman of Lashburn, Sask., were the top Canadian scorers with 12 points each. ¸
"Despite a slow start we had one of our most consistent matches to date,'' said Canada's head coach Dusty Freimark of Edmonton. ''The U.S., is the number-two team in the world and we were able to compete with them for the second and third sets. That type of match has prepared us well for our match tomorrow (Thursday) against Brazil".
While this is Canada's last chance to qualify for the Paralympics, Freimark wants to see Canada close the gap on the other top nations.
''This is a great opportunity for us to evaluate if all of the training we have been doing was enough,'' Freimark said. ''Obviously there is a Paralympic birth available but we need to focus on the process and not get too fixated on the potential outcome".
Brazil and Colombia are the other two countries entered in the tournament.
Canada is fielding a 10-member team with three members from Alberta: Allison Lang, Amber Skyrpan and Jolan Brunner, all of Edmonton. Danielle Ellis and Jordan Funnell are both from Surrey, B.C.; Karen McKoy and Chantal Beauchesne, both of Ottawa.
Manitoba has two players: Emerald Kehler of MacGregor and Leanne Muldrew of Winnipeg. Leaha Hickman of Lashburn, Sask., rounds out the squad.
Dusty Freimark of Edmonton is the head coach and Janna Dubyk of Edmonton, the assistant.
Cadian team schedule:
Wednesday, September 28th
2:00 PM – Opening Ceremonies
5:00 PM – Canada Vs. USA
Thursday, September 29th
11:00 AM – Canada Vs. Brazil
6:00 PM – Canada Vs. Columbia
Friday, September 30th
6:00 PM – Semi Final #1
8:00 PM – Semi Final #2
Saturday, October 1st
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM – Practice
1:00 PM – Bronze Medal Match
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Al Kellock will make his 50th Heineken Cup appearance for Glasgow Warriors against Cardiff Blues at the Arms Park on Friday.
Al Kellock will make his 50th Heineken Cup appearance for Glasgow Warriors against Cardiff Blues at the Arms Park on Friday.
The Warriors' skipper will have featured 30 times in the Heineken Cup for Glasgow and he made 20 appearances in the competition for Edinburgh.
Following last week's 28-16 win over Ospreys, Stuart Hogg continues at full-back and DTH van der Merwe keeps his place on the left wing, with Sean Maitland coming in on the right side to replace Tommy Seymour.
Alex Dunbar makes a welcome return at inside centre, following a seven-week spell on the sidelines with a neck/shoulder injury and he'll partner Argentina international Gabriel Ascarate in a new centre pairing.
Duncan Weir replaces Ruaridh Jackson at fly-half and Niko Matawalu comes in for Chris Cusiter at scrum-half. Both Jackson and Cusiter are named amongst the replacements.
In the front row Ryan Grant continues at loosehead, while Dougie Hall is at hooker and Moray Low comes in at tighthead.
Tom Ryder partners Kellock in the second row, while Josh Strauss and Rob Harley continue at number 8 and blindside flanker, with Chris Fusaro replacing Tyrone Holmes at open-side.
After coming off the bench to score a try last weekend Ryan Wilson is once again named amongst the replacements, along with Leone Nakarawa, who could make his first appearance in the competition.
A minute's silence will be observed prior to kick-off tomorrow as a mark of respect for those who died in last week's helicopter crash in Glasgow, while the Warriors will also wear black armbands during the game.
"We're really looking forward to this double header with Cardiff Blues and we know the outcome of these game will be pivotal to our hopes of progressing in the tournament," said Warriors head coach Gregor Townsend.
"The Blues had a fantastic result against Toulon in the last round and we know we'll need to start the game well and put pressure on Cardiff throughout the contest.
"There have been a few difficult selection decisions to make this week, with more players back available for this game and also after the team showed great character to record an away win against Ospreys last weekend.
"I'd like to congratulate Al Kellock on his 50th Heineken Cup appearance tomorrow night. This is a fantastic achievement for someone who gives his all for Glasgow and we're expecting him to lead by example once again."
Meanwhile, second-row giant Chris Dicomidis, a recent recruit from Pontypridd, is one of eight changes made by Cardiff Blues Director of Rugby Phil Davies from the side that drew with Benetton Treviso last weekend in Italy.
Returning Wales stars Leigh Halfpenny, Alex Cuthbert and Lloyd Williams are recalled to the backline while fit-again duo Rhys Patchell and Harry Robinson are also named in the starting line-up.
Prop Sam Hobbs will captain the side and is joined in the front row by hooker Kristian Dacey.
Rory Watts-Jones will make his first start of the season and appearance in Europe for Blues at openside flanker.
"Chris Dicomidis will start for us which is very exciting for him. From Sardis Road to the Arms Park and the Heineken Cup," said Davies.
"He is an experienced Premiership player and what a challenge and opportunity for him to show he is a top player.
"We are missing some players through injury, but we also welcome back players like Alex Cuthbert, Leigh Halfpenny, Rhys Patchell and Lloyd Williams.
"The last few weeks have been a positive for us. There have been some good periods when we have been consistent and it's an exciting challenge for us with some players coming back.
"The boys who have played the last few weeks are battle hardened and people like Alex (Cuthbert) and Leigh (Halfpenny) come in on the back of a huge Test game. We feel we are ready, we have a good cohesion and we want to win the game.
"Glasgow are a team full of quality and it is a big challenge for us. But hopefully we can have the same kind of atmosphere as we had for Toulon at home and reproduce that level of performance."
The teams:
Cardiff Blues: 15 Leigh Halfpenny, 14 Alex Cuthbert, 13 Richard Smith, 12 Dafydd Hewitt, 11 Harry Robinson, 10 Rhys Patchell, 9 Lloyd Williams, 8 Robin Copeland, 7 Rory Watts-Jones, 6 Macauley Cook, 5 Filo Paulo, 4 Chris Dicomidis, 3 Taufa'ao Filise, 2 Kristian Dacey, 1 Sam Hobbs (c).
Glasgow Warriors: 15 Stuart Hogg, 14 Sean Maitland, 13 Gabriel Ascarate, 12 Alex Dunbar, 11 DTH van der Merwe, 10 Duncan Weir, 9 Niko Matawalu, 8 Josh Strauss, 7 Chris Fusaro, 6 Rob Harley, 5 Al Kellock (c), 4 Tom Ryder, 3 Moray Low, 2 Dougie Hall, 1 Ryan Grant
Replacements: 16 Pat MacArthur, 17 Jon Welsh, 18 Ed Kalman, 19 Leone Nakarawa, 20 Tyrone Holmes, 21 Ryan Wilson, 22 Chris Cusiter, 23 Ruaridh Jackson
Date: Friday, December 6
Venue: Cardiff Arms Park, Cardiff
Kick-off: 20:00 (local and GMT)
Referee: George Clancy (Ireland)
Assistant referees: Leo Colgan (Ireland), Eanna O'Dowd (Ireland)
TMO: Simon McDowell (Ireland)


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By GARY ARRINGTON Sports Writer
The Emery Spartans knew before the season ever started that the tough part of the season would be region play and sure enough region play started last week and that is pretty much the way that it was.
Emery traveled last week on Tuesday to Richfield to play the number two ranked and the defending state champion Wildcats. Richfield showed that they are still a dominant team with a 26-24, 25-16, 25-12 sweep of the Spartans.
Richfield has a season record of 10-4 and is clearly a favorite to challenge for the 2-A title again this season. Enterprise is the number one ranked team in 2-A and has defeated the Wildcats 3-2 earlier this year after the Wildcats led 2-1.
Emery showed in the first game that they could play with Richfield but the Spartans faded quickly in the second and third game of the match, as nothing seemed to go the Spartans way.
In the first game, Emery led 8-6 and then 11-8 before the Wildcats scored seven straight points to lead 15-11. Emery battled back to tie the game at 24-24 but Richfield then quickly ended the game and then the match.
In games two and three, the Spartans were able to only once string three straight points together and both times it was with senior Hailee Rogers serving.
In game two, the score was tied at 10-10 before Richfield ran away with it. In game three, Emery found themselves behind early at 4-1, at 9-3 and at 12-7 before Richfield ended it.
On Thursday night, Emery came home to host the fourth ranked Grand Red Devils team. On this night, Emery came out on fire and defeated Grand 3-1.
Emery opened the night with a great performance in the first game of the match and the opener 25-18. Grand won game two 25-22 before Emery would sweep games three and four. The scores were 25-21 and 25-23.
In game one, the score was tied at 7-7 when the Spartans would slowly start to pull away. With Emery leading 9-8, Jessica Guymon would get a pair of serves in and the Spartans extended their lead to 12-8. Ashlynn Allred then got three serves in to extend the lead to 16-9. Shelby Allred then also had three serves in and Emery led 22-14 before wining.
In game two, the score was tied at 10-10, at 15-15, at 20-20. Grand went up 23-20 but Emery got to 23-22 before Grand put the game away.
In game three, Emery was behind early at 9-6 and at 15-10 and then tied the score at 15-15. The score was tied at 20-20 when the Spartans scored four points to lead 24-20 and then won at 25-21.
In game four, Emery got out to the lead at 16-10 and 19-13. After Grand won the point at 19-14, Grand would go on a run of six more points to take the lead. Emery fans suddenly were a little nervous. But fortunately, the Spartans righted the ship and scored the points they needed to win the game and the match.
This week, Emery will have only a single match, a game at number five ranked South Sevier on Tuesday night.


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but if i did got cut off i hope he dies because i dont whant the super pervert to live on with 1 arm so i hope it aint true to :(
Go Jman you can do this
Made By Hagane, the Ice NomadNAruto's next Rasengan powerup(where he uses his new Fuuton RS while in Fox Xage mode) will accidentally make a tear in dimensions and suck Aizen and everyone else into Narutoverse, which will result in Madara and Aizen fusing, and Naruto will borrow Ichigo's enormous Zanpakuto and charge it with Wind Chakra and cut Madaraizen(if you steal this term I will hunt you down and disembowel you) in half, and then the world explodes from the awesomeness of the scene.
ill believe it when i see it on a confirmed spoiler pic
just like in any big death scene (of course if we're going to see one) ero is probably going to have one last request that pain can deliver to jman before he dies. and it'll probably be some question as to the true power of the rinegan imo or something to do with the progress akatsuki has made. but if the spoiler is true, that probably wont get to happen until next week at the earliest. :\
I still do't believe, he's in Sennin mode, if He realy loose a arm, he's a frog, probably can grow another one, wait and see.
jiriaya gg? pwnt much?
Jiraiya hate much? The man may or may not be owned by his own student, who in turn may or may not be killed by another one of Jiraiya's students. Think much? I think not.
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Be the Ultimate Ninja! Play Billy Vs. SNAKEMAN today!
Meh, I will, but I don't particularly like all them burying the character before he's actually dead.
No way!!! I refuse to believe Jiraiya would get his arm cut off so easily. Come on, he's in Hermit Mode - his strongest form, don't care how strong Pein is, its gonna take a lot of effort to take jiraiya down


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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt on PC will look better than games on the PS4 and Xbox 720, according to its developers.
A Witcher fan asked developer CD Projekt Red via Twitter which next-gen system would see the game look best. The developers replied with PC as the answer.
For those without a gaming PC, CD Projekt added: "We hope that you will enjoy the console version, then."
The Witcher 3 is pegged for a 2014 release, which in all likelihood means it will be turning up on next-generation platforms.
The previous game, the Witcher 2, was graphically stunning and pushed all but the best of PCs to their limits.
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Arvind Parthasarathi is president of YarcData, a Cray company. In this interview, Parthasarathi describes emerging use cases for in-memory graph analytics appliances, which analyze relationships between people, places and things in large graph data sets.
Arvind Parthasarathi of YarcData describes the emerging field of relationship analytics.
Interview conducted by Alan Morrison and Bo Parker
PwC: What kinds of questions can graph analytics appliances help answer?
AP: Graph appliances offer the ability to explore patterns by traversing relationships you couldn't find or follow before. Take, for example, a counterterrorism analyst who suspects a terrorist plot. He says, "Find me two people who have some geographical relationship to each other, but are not in the same house." One of them has rented a truck; the other has bought some fertilizer. And they are somehow both related to the same landmark. Any one of these relationships is innocuous, but if you put them all together, the user sees indications of a plot.
The user may start with that query, but then may say, "Well, what if there was a third guy in between? What if they didn't live on the same street, but they lived in the same city? What if their association was to a website?" Once you find the pattern, you want to be able to look for extensions to the pattern. Frankly, you can't come up with all the extensions yourself, so you want the system to start extending the pattern for you.
Those are the two major use cases we see with our customers: pattern-based queries and interactive queries. The terrorist plot example above is a type of pattern-based query. An example of an interactive query would be a doctor querying the graph analytics appliance about a patient's puzzling condition. The appliance may propose competing hypotheses about the patient's problem and suggest questions or tests to help differentiate which it may be. Some back and forth between the appliance and the doctor leads to a diagnosis on the condition and best treatment option.
PwC: Why use data graphs instead of some other approach for this?
AP: Recently we spoke to a customer that has a large analytical environment, a large data warehouse. They're getting many queries now that the system wasn't designed for. If you think of that query challenge in graph terms, the queries are not about the nodes in the graph; they're about the edges in the graph, the relationships. Those relationships are very important because in one way or another, they characterize the similarities and differences between nodes or groups of nodes. Those relationships, in other words, provide a rich web of contextual information.
This customer finds that they have two choices. They can restrict users from running the forbidden queries. Or, they can try to figure out a way to allow those queries.
Graph appliances are able to articulate the relationships. With a graph, filling out the relationship between A and B is just a question of drawing a line between the two of them. If we can focus on graph-style analytics, instead of just building a data warehouse, we can help our customers build a relationship warehouse.
PwC: What is the user experience like when it comes to this kind of analytics?
AP: Users have two choices. They can start to explore that graph in real time, visualizing and walking the graph. Or alternatively, they can use a partially specified or pattern-based query, or what we call query by example.
PwC: Graphs can represent networked behaviors of people, places, and things. Isn't that one of the key factors behind their utility?
AP: That's right. Every computer science student spends time thinking about graph theory, and most of the world's problems can be represented as graphs. For example, a lot of supply chain problems are essentially graph problems. In areas such as proteins, genetics, telecommunications, financial services, and finance theory, many problems are most easily expressed as graphs. Relationships by their very nature are graph oriented.
In spite of that, it's been common practice to take a problem that's easily represented in graph form and convert it into a tabular form and store the entire thing in a relational database. Enterprises found this conversion necessary, because the only means they had for persistence and data management was a tabular data representation and relational databases.
With the advent of big data, that kind of conversion doesn't work anymore, because the data sets are too large to keep converting back and forth between graphs and tabular data structures. Customers require more real time results. To speed up the analytic process, customers are looking for ways to analyze data directly in its graph form without this conversion step.
PwC: What have been the challenges with processing data in graph form?
AP: It's one thing to operate just on one node. On a single node you can change information such as your address, name, and picture. But now imagine asking a question about the relationships between many different people. Relationships are expansive. It's very hard to ask those relationship questions because the most interesting, real-life example graphs, in general, cannot be partitioned. There's no clean way to say, "I'm going to take all these relationships and put them in machines, exit the cluster, and then put these relationships in one machine, and these others in the next machine."
The other problem with graphs is that they're not predictable. Techniques such as caching and pre-fetching are built upon the assumption that we can predict where the data is going to be. Graphs, and a lot of graph relationships, are completely ad hoc. I'll be at one end, and I'll need to traverse all the way to the other end of the graph. It's not about adding nodes—instead, I'm constantly adding new relationships between nodes by taking out old relationships between nodes.
A third issue is that graphs are dynamic—the data is constantly changing. We needed to establish a quick way of bringing in a new data set, finding the relationships, and then throwing out the set if it doesn't make sense and bringing in a new one. For example, if you have a very large soda and you want to consume it quickly, you can't have a extremely narrow straw. With a large amount of shared, multi-threaded memory, you can walk each part of the graph. It's possible to bring in about 350TB an hour, crunch it, and send it out again.
Most real problems don't fit themselves into nice small data sets. At the scale of real problems, to get a real-time response, you must marry the hardware and the software together. To get four to five orders of magnitude of performance improvement, you really need to change the paradigm.
PwC: This approach would seem to lend itself to different kinds of cluster analysis, for example.
AP: Correct. Let's say I'm developing a real-time fraud detection application. With a conventional cluster analysis approach, you're looking for a guy on the watch list whose name is John. Do I have somebody called Johnny, John John, or others? You're looking for attribute-based clusters, nodes by themselves, or in simple combinations.
Connecting nodes and edges and then inferring even more connections to other nodes provides a different kind of querying power. Imagine asking a fraud detection question that said, "I think I see a fraud pattern where there's a doctor who has a family relationship with some salesperson who's a member of a particular life sciences committee. Are there people like that in my data set?" That approach allows you to ask a lot more questions around fraud, and the more you explore the different edges between nodes, the more you can discover and ponder other relationships that might be relevant also.
It's not a replacement for other kinds of queries, but an additional method that helps in certain ways. We're not trying to be everything for everybody; we're basically saying, "Listen, there's a portion of what you do that you can do much better."
PwC: Hasn't the data you're working with lost a lot of its graph structure in the process of being normalized and captured? What do you do about that?
AP: Customers have their data in all sorts of formats. It's often structured and semi-structured—XML, relational tables, flat files, and the like. It's necessary to take in their data, rebuild the graph, and identify explicit relationships. Then we apply graph reasoning to flesh out the graph more—inferring additional relationships, in other words. Then customers, depending on the vertical, will pick an intelligence analyst, a drug researcher, a data scientist, or a quant and put them in front of our system to ask questions. That's when they can ask the new kinds of questions we discussed earlier.
PwC: What's another example of the kinds of queries that are possible with a relationship analytics approach?
AP: Think about what constitutes a typical weapon—a gun, for instance. A gun basically has a control mechanism—I can pick it up and aim it. It has a targeting mechanism to facilitate the aiming. It has a guidance mechanism—I can pull the trigger, and it can project something in a particular direction. And it has a delivery mechanism—the ability to hit a target. So we know intuitively that general description of a gun also fits a rocket-propelled grenade or bazooka or missile.
But if you think about it from a different perspective, a plane actually has all those characteristics, too. It has a control mechanism—a pilot sitting in a plane. It has the ability to propel itself and to target because it can be guided. And it has detonation capability. So if you take the gun's characteristics, relationship analytics will help you find things such as planes that could be used as weapons, things you hadn't thought about before in that context.
If our customers know exactly what they're looking for, they will be specific about it and get an answer back. That's the needle in a haystack challenge. But if they know only certain attributes and want help filling out the picture, then we take a general clue like a guidance system and say, "This is what it could look like." It's like searching for a different kind of needle in a needle stack.


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For the second time in as many weeks Australia needed a late penalty to edge past Wales, winning 20-19 in an engrossing clash.
For the second time in as many weeks Australia needed a late penalty to edge past Wales, winning 20-19 in an engrossing clash in Sydney.
Berrick Barnes landed a penalty five minutes from full-time to break Welsh hearts after yet another spirited display from the visitors.
The result leaves Wales winless against the Wallabies on Australia soil since 1969.
When the dust settles, the Welsh will have some long analysis to do, both on themselves and on Craig Joubert, who had a big influence on the game. He attempted to lay down the law as strictly as possible, but ended up breaking the rhythm and causing frustration a little too much, while also failing to deal with a lot of unwillingness to scrum properly from both sides. Australia responded slightly better overall but both teams looked scared to attempt things at times, too desperate at others.
They'll also reflect on the bounce of the ball which took James Hook's long hack downfield into touch milliseconds before the chasing Hook, 10 metres ahead of his nearest opponent arrived to gather it. Sometimes you just can't buy a break.
But there's little point in the Welsh screaming at Joubert or Lady Luck. They could also look to the number of restarts they failed to deal with and the two clear penalties in the 73rd and 74th minutes, of which first cost them good attacking position and the second the winning three points.
There was nothing to choose between the teams at half time in rugby terms but Barnes' fourth penalty just before the interval gave Australia a 12-9 lead – the four penalty to three scoreline an indication both of the broken rhythm of the game and the incessant stream of penalties. The second half was better as the teams tired and the game broke up naturally.
It took 61 minutes for the first try to be scored, but when Ryan Jones crashed over under the posts on a pick-and-go after Alex Cuthbert's run Wales took the lead for the first time and were good value for it. More precise on attack and threatening with ball in hand, the scrum was beginning to turn the screw as well.
The try drew an immediate response though – again from one of those spilled restarts – and the defence, panicked, folded in and left Rob Horne oodles of space outside. Even then, Horne almost butchered it, ending up controlling the ball between forearm and leg as he touched down. the TMO deemed that enough downward pressure and Australia had the lead back.
Leigh Halfpenny's fourth penalty – his second from 50 metres – with ten minutes left on the clock put the Six Nations champions back in front to set up a grandstand finish.
Barnes held his nerve, however, to split the uprights in the 75th minute to give Australia a one-point win and a 3-0 series clean sweep.
Man of the match: Try-scorer Ryan Jones and Jonathan Davies had strong games for the Welsh. A mention too for Barnes, who was near faultless from the kicking tee and landed the winning points with a cool swing of the leg. But we'll go for Wallaby skipper David Pocock who was a constant thorn in the side of the Welshman at the breakdown.
Moment of the match: The TMO made big call when he awarded Rob Horne's try. At first glance it looked like the centre lost control in act of going over. It would have ben extremely harsh to deny the try and, in the end, it turned out be a game-changing decision…
Villain of the match: No nasty stuff to report…
The scorers:
For Australia:
Try: Horne
Pens: Barnes 5
For Wales:
Try: R. Jones
Con: Halfpenny
Pens: Halfpenny 4
Australia: 15 Kurtley Beale, 14 Adam Ashley-Cooper, 13 Rob Horne, 12 Pat McCabe, 11 Digby Ioane, 10 Berrick Barnes, 9 Will Genia, 8 Wycliff Palu, 7 David Pocock (c), 6 Scott Higginbotham, 5 Nathan Sharpe, 4 Sitaleki Timani, 3 Sekope Kepu, 2 Tatafu Polota Nau, 1 Benn Robinson.
Replacements: 16 Stephen Moore, 17 Ben Alexander, 18 Rob Simmons, 19 Dave Dennis, 20 Michael Hooper, 21 Nic White, 22 Anthony Fainga'a.
Wales: 15 Leigh Halfpenny, 14 Alex Cuthbert, 13 Jonathan Davies, 12 Ashley Beck, 11 George North, 10 Rhys Priestland, 9 Mike Phillips, 8 Ryan Jones, 7 Sam Warburton (c), 6 Dan Lydiate, 5 Alun Wyn Jones, 4 Bradley Davies, 3 Adam Jones, 2 Matthew Rees, 1 Gethin Jenkins.
Replacements: 16 Ken Owens, 17 Paul James, 18 Luke Charteris, 19 Justin Tipuric, 20 Rhys Webb, 21 James Hook, 22 Scott Williams.
Referee: Craig Joubert (South Africa)
Assistant referees: Jaco Peyper (South Africa), Jonathon White (New Zealand)
Television match official: Vinny Munro (New Zealand)


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by gwilson on Feb.28, 2010, under Uncategorized
The vision of the Biomedical Science program at McMurry is to teach biology from the perspective of molecules, cells, and human health. It is often easy to see the emphasis on molecules and cells. We have courses like Genetics, Microbiology, Human Physiology. However, we are never far from a discussion of how these elements of biomedical science influence human health and wellness. To say one does not go without the other would be a fair statement.
I believe our focus on human health really contributes well to understanding the concept of public health. Public health can be seen in a variety of ways. Most obvious would be the emphasis on healing the sick or preventing illness. Our courses focus on these elements as we study how life works, what happens when it doesn't work well, and how man has contributed to rectifying the problems to restore health. Less obvious, but no less important, is the need for us to consider exercise and wellness and health policy and administration and education when we consider health and wellness of individuals AND communities. When expanded in these ways, such things as promoting active lifestyles, dietary awareness, food safety, veterinary health care, and mental health all contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of what constitutes public health. Limiting ourselves to consideration of DNA and drugs and cells and microbes severely restricts and underestimates the concept of health in all its dimensions.
McMurry's BIMS program represents one of the keystones for a comprehensive approach to teaching public health and safety on our campus. The Department of Kinesiology's Exercise Science & Human Performance program is an excellent partner, along with the Department of Psychology's focus on mental health. Who knows – maybe one day we will borrow from these and other areas of campus to build a bona fide Bachelor's degree in Public Health!


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Skip to comments.Science Shows That Homosexuals Are Not "Born That Way."
Posted on 12/13/2004 9:51:59 AM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
1.)Dr. Dean Hamer who failed to find a "gay gene":
"Homosexuality is not purely genetic. Environmental factors play a role. There is not a single master gene that makes people gay. I don't think that we will ever be able to predict who will be gay."
2.) Dr. Dean Hamer was asked by Scientific American if homosexuality was rooted solely in biology. He replied:
"Absolutely not. From twin studies we already know that half or more of the variability in sexual orientation is not inherited. Our studies try to pinpoint the genetic factors, not negate the psychosocial factors."
("New Evidence of a "Gay Gene," by Anastasia Toufexis, Time, November 13, 1995, Vol. 146. Issue 20, p.95)
3.) British researchers generated comparable results in an identical-twin study. Their conclusion? The suprisingly low odds that both twins were homosexual.
The study by them: "confirmed that genetic factors are insufficient explanation for the development of sexual orientation."
(King, M and McDonald, E. Homosexuals Who Are Twins: A Study of 46 Probands. British Journal of Psychiatry. 160: 407-409 (1992).
4a.)Homosexual researcher Simon Levay, who studied the hypothalamic differences between the brains of heterosexuals and homosexuals:
"I didn't show that gay men are born that way the msot common mistake people make in interpreting my work. Nor did I locate a gay center in the brain."
4b.)Dr. Simon Levay: The most widely held opinion [on causation of homosexuality] is that multiple factors play a role.
Levay, Simon (1996). Queer Science, MIT Press.
5.) Dr. J. Satinover:
"Research studies on homosexuality by Dr's Dean Hamer, Michael Bailey, Richard Dillard, Simon Levay. Laura Allen and Roger Gorski have failed to show proof of a gay gene. There is no scientific evidence that shows that homosexuality is genetic. The media has sensationalized and perpetuated the myth of a homosexual gene."
Satinover, J. M.D. (1996) Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth. Grand Rapids. Baker Books
6.) Another of Dr. Jeffery Satinover's conclusions in "The Gay Gene":
"There is no evidence that shows that homosexuality is genetic--and none of the resaerch itself claims there is. Only the press and certain researchers do when speaking in sound bites to the public."
(Jeffery Satinover, M.D. The Journal of Human Sexuality, 1996, p.8)
7.) The American Psychological Association:
"Many scientists share the view that sexual orientation is shaped for many people at an early age through complex interactions of biology, psychological and social factors."
(The American Psychological Association's pamphlet "Answers to Your Questions About Sexual Orientation and Homosexuality."
8.) The American Psychiatric Association (2000):
"no replicated scientific studies showing any specific biological etiology for homosexuality."
9.) Sociologist Steven Goldberg:
"I know of no one in the field who argues that homosexuality can be explained without reference to environmental factors."
(Goldberg, Steven (1994) When Wish Replaces Thought: Why So Much of What You Believe is False. Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books.
10a.) Science, 1994:
"Time and time again, scientists have claimed that particular genes or chromosomal regions are associated with behavioral traits only to withdraw their findings when they were not replicated. "Unfortunately," says Yale's [Dr. Joel] Gelernter: "It's hard to come up with many findings linking specific genes to complex human behaviors that have been replicated...all were announced with great fanfare, all were greeted unskeptically in the popular press; all are now in disrepute."
(Mann, C. "Genes and Behavior." Science 264: 1687 (1994), pp. 1686-1689.)
10b.) "The interactions of genes and environment is much more complex than the simple "violence genes" and "intelligence genes" touted in the popular press."
Mann, C. op. cit. pp. 1686-1689
11.) Two genetics researchers, one at Harvard, commented in Technology Review, July 1993 p. 60 concerning twin study's.
"While the authors interpreted their findings as evidence for a genetic basis for homosexuality, we think that the data, in fact, provide strong evidence for the influence of the environment."
(Billings, P. and Beckwith, J. Technology Review, July 1993. p.60)
12.) P. Scott Richards:
"Some environmental and psychological factors that may play a causal role in the development of homosexuality include: (1) cross-gender effiminate behavior in childhood. (2) gender-identity deficits (3) hostile, dteached or absent fathers (which leads to "defensive detachment" from the father and other males) and (4) overly close, controlling or dominating mothers.
(P. Scott Richards, "The Treatment of Homosexuality: Some Historical, Contemporary and Personal Perspectives," AMCAP Journal. Vol 19, No. 1, 1993, pg. 36)
13.) Lesbian biologist Dr. Anne Fausto-Sterling of Brown University, responding to the "born that way" argument:
"It provides a legal argument that is, at the moment actually having some sawy in court. For me, it's a very shaky palce. It's bad science and bad politics. It seems to me that the way we consider homosexuality in our culture is an ethical and a moral one."
14.) Camille Paglia, lesbiam activist: "Homosexuality is 'not normal'. On the contrary it is a challenge to the norm. Nature exists whether academics like it or not. And in nature, procreation is the single, relentless rule. That is the norm. Our sexual bodies were designed for reproduction. No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous. Homosexuality is an adaptation, not an inborn trait."
Camille Paglia: " Is the gay identity so fragile that it cannot bear the thought that some people may not wish to be gay? Sexuality is highly fluid, and reversals are theoretically possible. However, habit is highly refractory, and once the sensory pathways have been blazed -- a phenmenon obvious in the struggle with obesity, smoking, alcoholism or drug addiction...helping to learn how to function heterosexually, if they wish, is a perferctly worthy aim."
Camille Paglia: " We should be honest enough to consider whether homosexuality may not indeed be a pausing at the prepubscent stage where children anxiously band together bt gender...current gay cant insists that homosexuality is 'not a choice'; that no one would choose to be gay in a homophobic society. But there is an element of choice in all behavior, sexual or otherwise. It takes an effort to deal with the opposite sex; it is safer to deal with your own kind. The issue is one of challenge versus comfort."
Boys victimized by older men are far more likely to be homosexual as adults, and the cycle often repeats itself. More environmental factors.
15.) Noted child sex-abuse expert David Finkelhor found that "boys victimized by older men were over four times more likley to be currently engaged in homosexual activity than were non-victims. The finding applied to nearly half the boys who had such an experience. Further, the adolescents themselves often linked their homosexuality to their victimization experiences."
(Bill Watkins & Aaron Bentovim, "The Sexual Bause of Male Adolescents: A Review of Current Research, " Journal of Child Psychiatry 33, (1992); in Byren Finkelman, Sexual Abuse(New York: Garland Publishing, 1995), p. 316
16.) The Archives of Sexual Behavior:
"One of the most salient findings of this study is that 46% of homosexual men and 22% of homosexual women reported having been molested by a person of the same gender."
(Marie, E. Tomeo "Comparative Data of Childhood and Adolescent Molestation in Heterosexual and Homosexual Persons." Archives of Sexual Behavior 30 (2001): 539)
17.) A study of 279 homosexual and bisexual men with Aids and control patients reported:
"More than half of both case and control patients reported a sexual act with a male by age 16 years, approximately 20% by age 10 years."
(Harry W. Haverkos, "The Initiation of Male Homosexual Behavior," The Journal of the American Medical Association 262 (July 28, 1989): 501)
18.) A stduy of 229 convicted child molesters found that:
"86% of offenders against males described themselves as homosexual or bisexual."
(W.D. Erickson, Behavior Patterns of Child Molesters, Archives of Sexual Behavior 17 (1988): 83)
19.) A National Institue of Justice report states that:
"the odds that a childhood sexual abuse victim will be arrested as an adult for any sex crime is 4.7 times higher than for people...who experienced no victimization as children."
(Cathy Spatz Widom, "Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse - Later Criminal Consequences, Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse Series: NIJ Research in Brief (March 1995): 6)
20.) A Child Abuse and Neglect study found that 59% of male child sex offenders had beenvictims of contact sexual abuse as a child.
(Michelle Elliott, "Child Sexual Abuse Prevention: What offenders Tell Us" Child Abuse and Neglect 19, (1995): 582)
If they are "born that way", then how does that explain the 'LUG' (Lesbian Until Graduation) crowd? :-)
Big time wrong on one of your points my friend. God cares very deeply about your sex life. If you think otherwise, you are reading the Bible with a very big eraser in your hand.
>> As far celibacy goes, this is not something that is mandated for priest in scripture at all. <<
Well, actually Paul DOES recommend chastity for those who are capable of controlling their passions and wish to devote their lives to the service of Christ. The Roman Catholic Church's Western (Latin) Patriarchy, in its prudence, decided that it would be best to choose such people for the priesthood. The matter is strictly prudential, and is not doctrine. But it is a prudence which adheres to the advice of St. Paul.
At the same time, the Catholic Church has emphasized that one need not be a priest to demonstarte devotion to God. Men and women who chose parenthood over the "religious life" have been made canonical saints (a recognition that they have placed service God above all else in their lives). But a father must place the needs of those whom God has entrusted to him through parenthood and the sacrament of marriage above the needs of everyone else, and so the Western Church deems it best to select those who have placed parochial ministry above all else.
What IS truly tragic is the notion, which was apparently commonly held among religious Catholic homophiles in America that being a priest is a fall-back position for those who are incapable of marriage.
From the time my younger brother was about 6, we knew he was a fruiter. He didn't disappoint. That boy is queerer than Liberace. And he would tell you that he was always ALWAYS a fag, and that it was never a choice.
I've gone through one analysis of studies from Colombia & Yale and another from Cambridge. The latter concludes that, " it seems reasonable to conclude that male homosexuality, or, at least, some 'types' of male homosexuality, are under some degree of genetic control, although various problems with this data prevent more precise conclusions from being drawn.
The former goes a step or two further toward environment and says that the data is inconstant with a simple genetic influence model", that "there's substantial support for the role of social influences ", and that "its consistent with a general model that allows for genetic expression of same-sex attraction under specific, highly circumscribed, social conditions." "
Since they weren't born that way, were they sucked into it? :^D
I have a relative who has said the same thing. He says that he has known from a very early age.
You mean the ones observed in zoo's or in the wild? See any parallels from prison inmates in long term incarceration? You've been had.
Ummmm... what else do you expect them to say?
If a thief tells you that he just knew that he was meant to steal since the age of 4 do we then accept what they say as truth and help them lead their "genetically forced lifestyle" of stealing?
What about the people who have sex with farm animals and claim that they wanted to do Porky Pig since they were three? Should we accept and endorse their behavior? It certainly "does no harm" to others, as the homosexual lobby would say.
Oh yes..The only thing that heterosexual guys envy about homosexuals is the ability for Queers to come on like gang busters straight to the point when there looking for some extra curricular activity....
No beating around the fluff and stuff bush with them...
Baby raping pedophiles believe that they are born that way
So does hog and horse lovers, simply madness, these people once worked in the circus...
And you just accept that at face value? What did you do to help your brother turn away from his perversion? Nothing? I suggest your were either too lazy or too indifferent to help him, it must be easier to believe homosexual propaganda than to investigate the root cause. Too bad for him.
What behavior did you observe a 6-year old kid do that convinced you he was gay? Did he install track lighting in Star Wars Death Star action set? I can't help thing of the Saturday Night Live ads for "Homocil."
There is a birth defect in some Spanish peoples where a male's genitalia do not descend until the child is several years old. As a result, little boys are mistaken for being little girls, and are often raised as girls for several years. Homosexuality is fairly prevalent among children with disorder, even though there is no apparent linkage to hormonal levels. When I had most recently read about it, it was thought that the homosexuality was a result of literal gender confusion.
I have been concerned that the homosexual fixation Western society now has results in sexually ambigous, effeminate children assuming homosexual identities. I would, however, presume that most such children would tend towards bisexuality, not strict homosexuality. So I ask this to be informed, and not to make a rhetorical point: Is he bisexual, or strictly homosexual?
"Caged, Lesbian Bunnies In Heat."
Hate to rain on anyone's parade, but studies indicate there are both genetic and environmental factors involved in sexual orientation. This would mean that for some inividuals, genetic factors might be predominant. Why does it matter?
Hate to rain on anyone's parade, but studies indicate there are both genetic and environmental factors involved in sexual orientation. This would mean that for some inividuals, genetic factors might be predominant. Why does it matter?
I don't know, there was this kid I went to grade school with who is gay. It was pretty obvious from day 1. the same can be said for my wife's 8 year old cousin - That kid is GAY!
LOL!!! I was wondering the same thing. Since six year olds are NOT sexual at ALL, how do they **know** that they are homosexuals at that age?
Now we have the homosexual lobby trying to force this stuff into six year old brains that don't know what to do with it. Of course the come out "confused."
Children do not naturally label their experiences in sexual terms. I have encountered many homosexuals who insist they were always homosexual, and yet their first sexual experience was horrific abuse. They simply insist that the two facts are unrelated. But are they? Or have they, once they have gained sexual experience, attributed homosexual inclinations to behaviors they may have otherwise have dismissed. For instance, some little kids get emotional gratification from wrestling. While not unrelated to sexuality, this is plainly not a sexual activity. But I had one lesbian housemate assert as evidence she was "always" lesbian the fact that when she was five she enjoyed wrestling with her sisters more than with her brothers. (She also claimed to have always had a fascination with Daisy Dukes' "Daisy Dukes," and with Wonderwoman; she is now exlcusively heterosexual, without even having received any therapy or having made a decision homosexuality was immoral.)
Although the kid is 8 years old, consider:
His own family will treat him as he is gay.
He will be tormented by classmates for being gay.
He will be picked, one out of a thousand, by pedophilic predators.
He will be pressured by other gays to acknowledge he is gay.
He will be welcomed by gays, while ostrasized by many straight people.
He will find he has much in common with gays.
(Think of the little girl who believed herself to be a bee, in the video "No Rain.")
Yeah, I bet there's a good chance that kid ends up gay.
He has NEVER shown any interest towards women whatsoever. He was ALWAYS delicate and effeminate in his manner. When others his age were outside playing he preferred to be inside playing the piano or doing something with his female cousins like playing with dolls or sewing. He confided in me at age 14 that he was attracted to males and always had been. At 16, he had his first sexual relations with a priest. And the rest as they say is history.Today he is 51 and suffering with aids.
You are talking about intersex disorder, I believe, and you're wrong, homosexuality is no more prevalent there then the 2% nationally as a whole.
I am sorry that your brother is ill. I have a number of gay friends, male and female and they have all felt that why from a very young age.
In general they are all wonderful people who happen to be gay.
That is without a doubt THE DUMBEST thing I have ever seen anyone post on a thread EVER! Do you really think that an adolescent has the education and wherewithall to CURE his sibling from homosexuality? How DARE you accuse anyone in that situation of being irresponsible. You're a fucking moron!
I had crushes on girls since at least 4. I still remember an older woman I liked down the block, a full 9 years old;^) So I could say that I knew that I was hetero since age 4!
Six year old kids don't have interest in girls. They are even often repulsed by them, especially prior to our modern culture of premature sexualization of adolescents.
Now, I asserted in post #67 that every telling of first sexual encounters I have ever heard or read describes horrific abuse. You say that at 16 years old, he had his first sexual relations with a priest. Yes, that is the sort of sexual abuse I was referring to.
Now for the speculation (and yes, of course, this is mere speculation): he tells you that at 16, he had sexual relations with a priest. That is the age where most people feel in control sexually, so he is probably comfortable acknowledging an event at that age. But the priest was a very sick pervert. Such perverts almost unanimously prey on adolescents somehwat older than 16.
Since he was physically an adult and you do not categorize it as rape, I'll presume it was somewhat voluntary (although it certa. So here we have a kid who at 16 and in 1967 does not believe that having sex with priests is out of the question. We're not talking peers, but grown men. Sorry, but this was not a kid who was normal in every way, except for his homosexual tendencies.
Perhaps he has always been too ashamed to describe an earlier sexual encounter, so acknowledged one that took place when he had some sense of being in control. Perhaps he does not consider an earlier instance of sexual abuse to be a significant "sexual experience." But something was probably very wrong with that picture before that priest came along
"... studies indicate there are both genetic and environmental factors involved in sexual orientation..."
Please cite the studies you've read that make this claim.
Uh, oh... The self righteous, holier-than-thou, indignation card has been put into play!
Will a comparable "how dare you" now be thrown back for a checkmate/game over attempt or not?
Maybe an "Oh, YEAH!!!" should be used. It is a very comparable counter argument...
Ugh! Please... sigh...
Nice words Susan. You assume BikerNYC found out about his brother's disorder as an adolescent? Hmmm...how did I know it was "his brother" when he was referring to "his relative"??? Maybe because we've had this conversation before? You must be mind reader or something...defensive about your own brother's perversion more like it.
But I do want to say that I am very sorry to hear of his present state. It does sicken me when "Christians" talk about AIDS as if it were God's judge punishment. We all justly die because of our sins; no-one deserves extra suffering such as AIDS patients experience because of whatever sins they may or may not have committed.
Notice MAWG ducks your born attracted to animals argument?
Ever since he was 6 he always knew he liked dogs in a special kind of way. He never liked to go outside and play with th other kids, he always stayed in and played fetch with Fido.
What is this , Idiot Day at FR. I'm his brother, remember? I was THERE before the priest came along. He was not abused by my father or any other family member. Got it. Forget your political agenda for a second and listen. HE was ALWAYS gay, always.
You are way too stupid to be posting here.
You're mean...now I'm going to cry.
Youre over-generalizing. I had several crushes by age 6. I admired pretty girls that werent too prissy. I played show me yours and Ill show you mine with a couple of them. I didnt really know what sex was for another year or two, but knew what relationships and dating were and wanted go out with girls like then once I was a teenager. I dont think that I was that unusual.
Thank you for the kind words.
OK Captain Queeg, I can hear you rolling those ball-bearings around in your pocket as we speak.
Whoa, I never said he was abused by any family member! Where did THAT come from? My first hunch would be that the priest (maybe even a previous priest) had established an inappropriate relationship with him over time.
But the fact that you were there for him does not preclude that something bad did not happen. Like I said, he may have been able to talk about the priest because he felt enough control.
What about Gene Gene The Dancing Machine?
(Gong Show...)
(1970's TV...)
Oh, never mind.
Yes, let me state myself clearer: Six year olds COMMONLY do not have interest in girls.
I myself have had to listen about embarrassing stories about me and a certain girl I liked when I was five.
It's plain this is an emotional issue for you (as it should be!), and I shouldn't be poking around in it. I don't say that you're emotional to say that that in any way nullifies your objectivity, just to say that its not a good subject for me to be debating with you, since it is a rightfully upsetting subject. So, I'm going to shut up now.
It's plain this is an emotional issue for you (as it should be!), and I shouldn't be poking around in it. I don't say that you're emotional to say that that in any way nullifies your objectivity, just to say that its not a good subject for me to be debating with you, since it is a rightfully upsetting subject. So, I'm going to shut up now. I pray your brother has peace.
Clint is a noble freeper and many of us appreciate his presence and input on FR.
Couldn't care less how queers are born, all I care is to keep boys away from them fags.
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I've got a closet full of black dresses. They're classics, and I'm of the mindset that I can never have too many. Does that make me boring? Maybe, but the other day I was perusing Style.com and found a feature by Candy Pratts Price highlighting playful accessories. Light bulb moment: the season's whimsical accents play perfectly on my wardrobe's black canvas.
I recently added a Vanessa Bruno frock to my cache of black dresses, and I plan to make it my go-to for summer's series of weddings. With the Style.com feature in mind, I set out on a little accessories hunt. Being a footwear girl, I started with the shoes. A silver pair with a sweet curl by Eileen Shields makes my toes twinkle and hints at fall's feminine footwear trend. For a pop of color, I'll carry a fuchsia Elie Tahari clutch named after a certain plastic icon, and I'll don some look-at-me earrings with a hint of pink tint to match. And as the finishing touch, I'll mirror my kicks with a tiny bow bracelet from Bing Bang.
Tell me ladies, will you accent your LBDs with whimsy, or do you prefer to play it straight?


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Lowell Lamond Gardner, 78, resident of Cleveland, passed away suddenly Sept. 27, 2010 at Castleview Hospital. He was born on March 6, 1932 in Huntington to George Albert and Irene Johnson Gardner. He served in the US Air Force during the Korean Conflict and married Sherma Lee Larsen on March 21, 1953. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Manti Temple on June 22, 1954.
Lamond had a great gift and ability in horsemanship. He loved horses and trained them right up until the day he died. He has been a long time member of the Huntington Glee Club and enjoyed rebuilding antique tractors. He was a member of the Cleveland 2nd Ward. His great love in life was his family and he spent countless hours playing with his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Lamond is survived by his wife of 57 years; Sherma Gardner, his daughter Pattie (Chris) Hansen, and son Blake (Becky) Gardner all of Cleveland, seven grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by six brothers, two sisters, his parents, and an infant daughter.
Friends may call for a visitation at the Heritage Funeral Home at 620 N. Main Street in Huntington on Wednesday. Sept. 29, 2010 from 6-8 PM. Funeral Services will be held in the Cleveland 2nd Ward Chapel on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010 at 11 AM with a viewing held from 10:00-10:45 AM prior to the services. Services are under the trusted care of the Heritage Funeral Home. Friends may sign the guestbook at www.heritagefuneralhomeutah.com.


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This past weekend, I headed to Westchester to celebrate my boyfriend and his brother's birthday with their family outside the city. From their home in Yorktown (think mountain trails, crickets chirping, and the crisp feel of autumn in the air) we took a drive up to the CIA. While lie detector tests, and information on past secret operatives may have been more appealing to the boys, we were not headed to the Central Intelligence Agency. Where we were headed, was the Culinary Institute of America.
Alma Mater to famous epicurean alumni such as David Burke, Anthony Bourdain, Rocco DiSpirito, and even Lonnie and Karen Kane's own niece, the CIA is known for it's rigorous training in technique, taste, and creative culinary endeavors. The beautiful campus, idyllic in the New York countryside, boasts several student restaurants where family and foodies alike can go to sample their executions of five-star delicacies.
We ate in the famed french outpost, Escoffier and the menu and wine list did not dissapoint. Our server, a little green for an impending graduate, made a few mistakes along the way but more than made up for it with his flaming flambe.