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The public broadcaster will once again show only 10 live races this year, with highlights of the other 19 grands prix shown on the station, but they will add practice sessions this year.
'There will be around 40 extra hours of network output, with practice generally shown on BBC Two and BBC Two HD,' the BBC F1 website reports.
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As for the television commentary team, they had already confirmed that Suzi Perry will take over from Jake Humphrey as presenter with Ben Edwards and David Coulthard staying on as the commentary team and Eddie Jordan remaining the chief analyst.
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Stephania Feltz hates the color brown. The executive director of Girls Inc. may have dressed from head to toe in the color Monday, June 22, but brown will not see the light of day when it comes to reviving the first floor of the Girls Inc. building.
The once-gray walls are taking on the theme of "Dream Harbor," which interior designer Jason Champion is modeling after Disney World's Main Street and the harbors of San Francisco, Boston and Nantucket.
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Nutritional Facts 1 serving (2 each) equals 363 calories, 16 g fat (8 g saturated fat), 68 mg cholesterol, 822 mg sodium, 35 g carbohydrate, 4 g fiber, 22 g protein.
Originally published as Make-Ahead Spinach Manicotti in Taste of Home February/March 1999, p31
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Reviewed on Mar. 19, 2013 by spunkygirl03
This is my favorite recipe to make when I have too many things to do and company coming next day.
Reviewed on Sep. 17, 2012 by Saybeebisber
I was getting the recipe ready to give to a gal that attends my church and realized just how long I have been making this. This is a good, flavorful and tasty recipe, and because it's meatless it can save a bit on your food bill. I do cut back on the sauce by 1/4 to 1/2 of the amount. This is one recipe you never want to lose.
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Not very flavorful. I was hoping for a better flavor with the cheese, but this didn't have it, which was surprising.
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Been making this for years. I love that you make it in advance. I usually make 3 or 4 trays and yes, I do FREEZE them. I let them sit overnight in the fridge as in the directions, and whatever I don't put in the oven, goes right in to the freezer. I don't add the cheese on top of those. When taking out of the freezer, I counter-top thaw them, then sprinkle the cheese and bake.
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I was disappointed because I found the manicotti to be very bland.
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I liked this recipe enough, but 2 jars of sauce was waaaay too much..it overwhelmed the rest of the dish. I will try to make this again, but with half of the sauce recommended.
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Very simple to make. Love that you don't have to cook the noodles before you stuff them. Next time, I think I'll add some italian sausage into the sauce before I pour it over top the noodles.
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This recipe is very tasty, my entire family loves it.
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Scary movies are usually cheesy, primarily because they're overkill (pun intended). But when Steven Spielberg was reportedly so frightened watching "Paranormal Activity" that he had to stop halfway through, I'm there. From the beginning (no credits) to the terrifying conclusion (also no credits), this incredible movie breaks all the rules of conventional filmmaking.
First, it was made in one week. It cost only $15,000 to produce. Video-game designer turned director/writer Oren Peli shot it in his own home. Paramount provided midnight screenings in 13 college towns and asked audience members to go online and vote if they wanted it shown at their local multiplexes. More than 1 million did, which instigated a unique and highly effective marketing campaign. There are only four cast members — all unknowns. Hollywood should be shaking in their outrageously expensive boots.
"Paranormal Activity" begins on an eerie note, which implies that footage of a homemade film was discovered after the fact — footage shot by day trader Micah Sloat (himself), who lives with his girlfriend/college student, Katie Featherston (herself). Katie has had a history of being harassed by a paranormal presence since childhood. Recently, it has become increasingly menacing during nocturnal activities. Micah decides to videotape the house and leaves the camera running all night, while they sleep. At first, things slowly begin to go bump in the night. But, soon, they crest to a crescendo of pure terror.
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The acoustic kitty was a project launched by the CIA in the 1960s. They attempted to use a cat in spy missions. Some of their targets were the Kremlin and the Soviet embassies.
A battery and a microphone were implanted in the cat along with an antenna in its tail. It would have allowed the cat to record information and sound from its surroundings inconspicuously. The problem was that the cat would get hungry and get distracted because of it. To fix the issue, they put it through another surgery attempting to correct its behavior.
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Herndon's 1866 lecture on Ann Rutledge drew the scorn of many who read the newspaper excerpts. Critics ripped him for going public with Lincoln's alleged buried-heart comment, a statement certain to anguish the widowed Mary Lincoln.
After watching Ann's coffin descend into the grave in 1835, Abraham supposedly declared that his "heart, sad and broken, was buried there." To Herndon, this meant that Lincoln had lived out the rest of his life without truly loving another woman.
In 1866, no one disputed the reliability of the buried-heart remark, supplied to Herndon, he said, by an unnamed "friend." They just blasted Herndon for disclosing it, and claiming that it set the future course of Lincoln's love life. As it turns out, they could have challenged the comment's legitimacy too.
In their edition of Herndon's Lincoln, his 1889 biography of his partner, Douglas Wilson and Rodney Davis assert (p. 429, n. 6) that Herndon's lecture silently reveals William Greene, a Lincoln acquaintance since 1831, as his unnamed source. But the quotation is nowhere to be found, they say, in Greene's communications with Herndon. Nor did any other person pass along the buried-heart comment to Herndon.
So where did Herndon get those words? I suspect that he composed them himself after reading an 1862 newspaper article in the Menard County Axis, a Democratic weekly published in nearby Petersburg. Sent to him by one of his informants, this piece gushed over the president's phenomenal rise from New Salem dry goods clerk to Commander-in-Chief. "What a model of ambition … for the youths of the land," the story exclaimed.
The Axis had picked up the oral tradition of Lincoln's romance with a beautiful young New Salem woman — "the youth had wrapped his heart with hers" — and cited his desolation over her death as one of the many obstacles he'd overcome on his arduous road to national renown.
The article described him standing by her grave, so distraught "as the cold clods fell upon the coffin, he sincerely wished that he too had been enclosed within it." By this account, the stricken Abraham wished he could leave his entire body with Ann, not just his "heart." He was saying he wanted to die. He was not saying he couldn't love another woman. Burying his heart was apparently Herndon's idea, not Lincoln's.
As if to admit that he had no informant's testimony to back up his public withering of Mary Lincoln — a woman who, according to him, had never received her husband's deepest affection in 23 years of marriage — Herndon made a surprising claim in the 1889 biography.
In Herndon's Lincoln, he wrote: "speaking of [Ann's] death and her grave Lincoln once said to me, 'My heart lies buried there.'" Of course, in the 1866 lecture, Herndon said the remark had come to him from a "friend." In 1866, he made no claim that Lincoln had ever mentioned Ann to him at all.
In his lecture, Herndon made one final statement about Ann Rutledge, and this time the New York Times decided not to publish it — the only Herndon comment on Ann that the paper didn't quote. This unused observation may have come from the 1862 Axis story too.
After Ann's death, the Axis article said, Lincoln recovered from his misery by finding "active exercise" for "both mind and body" in his political career. Herndon attributed that notion to the same "friend" who'd come up with the buried-heart remark. Lincoln had "leaped wildly into the political arena," according to the alleged friend, "as a refuge from his despair."
If fate had instead allowed Abraham to settle down with "Ann Rutledge, the sweet, tender and loving girl, he would have gravitated insensibly into a purely domestic man." Though already a state legislator, Lincoln would supposedly have forsaken electoral ambition for the pleasures of the hearth.
Herndon suspected that, for Lincoln, embracing the storm and stress of politics had depended on Ann's dying. It took the jolt of her removal to launch Lincoln on his weary pilgrimage toward the supreme sacrifice: surrendering his life for the people.
In this tragic scenario, Ann's death, like Abraham's, could be taken as an indirect act of devotion to the Republic. Never publicly joined in love, they could be bound together in public service. The loss of her life in 1835 could be tethered to the loss of his life in 1865. Lincoln's entire three-decade public career could be seen as framed by two calamitous events, his fiancée's death and his own martyrdom.
Looking back from the 21st century, we can only wonder what kind of love Ann and Abraham shared. "Love" covers a spectrum of emotions, desires, and promises. There's no way to be sure how far their bond had progressed along the path from intimate friendship to informal betrothal.
Perhaps they themselves didn't know. Anyone who has ever been young and in love can imagine that the devastation Abraham felt at her death may have come, in part, from knowing that they hadn't been given the time to figure out just where they stood.
We do know that Abraham fell in love again. Seven years after Ann's death, Lincoln married the mercurial and passionate Mary Todd. He let himself feel the promise of a lasting tie with a quick-witted, attentive woman whose extensive education, loyalty to the Whig Party, and endorsement of his ambition would help him rise to whatever heights life had in store for him.
With Mary, Abraham could bring love and politics together in a life of companionship, parenting, service, and, for all their domestic discord, moments of tenderness shielded from public view — maybe a reminder to him of moments he'd shared in his youth with Ann Rutledge.


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a.. At 6pm will be an informational meeting to describe BCLG, answer
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come in creating a competitive environment. I plan on waiting and working
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We are extremely busy with our O&G work, including assisting those who signed leases without qualified advice. It sounds like all three of you have a good handle on the situation and have a quality group of landowners. We have no intention of trying to break that up if that is what you are trying to imply. We are also not holding landowner meetings for those who are already committed to a group. As a matter of fact, I have tunred down representation and admission into some of our groups becuase they already are participating in other groups.
I am scheduled to speak at several continuing legal education classes for other attorneys and professionals regarding the issues of mineral rights, water and land preservation, and air quality, so I am extremely confident we an assist others who have questions on these and other issues.
Should you want to know more about us you can call us anytime and we can discuss further. You should not feet like we are antagonistic with any of you.
You "turned down representation and admission into some of [your] groups" because they were contractually obligated to (read: participating in) another group? To be clear Mr. ShaleAdvice; you're disingenuous, evasive answers, waft of new age ambulance chasing. My opinion.
I do like your approach shot of mass marketing. You're aspirations of forming a group of uninformed landowners, that are slitting their own necks with the contract/marketing agreement you will have them sign, will likely come to fruition as a result of this blanket marketing. Law of averages right?
At your informative meetings you should suggest that the best thing a landowner can do is: talk to their neighbors, both signed and unsigned, determine their best company for production, get an informed Oil and Gas Attorney (of course this is more difficult now that every attorney purports to be and about 1 in 100 are, and as you continue to 'educate', I'm sure this ratio will grow), make sure this O&G lawyer doesn't take a % of your Bonus or Royalty, hammer out a Lease/Addendum that makes SENSE to the individual landowner (every property has different uses, my 15 acres isn't going to need the Limestone Mining provision of my neighbors 150 acres does), then sign a lease at financial terms that are acceptable. Would you disagree Mr. ShaleAdvice lawyer?
My buddy Matt asked you to disclose "how you charge people for representation", I think you missed responding to this...oversight I'm sure.
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The differences are likely to have been forged in the womb or in early infancy, says Ivanka Savic, who conducted the study at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.
"This is the most robust measure so far of cerebral differences between homosexual and heterosexual subjects," she says.
Previous studies have also shown differences in brain architecture and activity between gay and straight people, but most relied on people's responses to sexuality driven cues that could have been learned, such as rating the attractiveness of male or female faces.
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To get round this, Savic and her colleague, Per Lindström, chose to measure brain parameters likely to have been fixed at birth.
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First they used MRI scans to find out the overall volume and shapes of brains in a group of 90 volunteers consisting of 25 heterosexuals and 20 homosexuals of each gender.
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They found that the patterns of connectivity in gay men matched those of straight women, and vice versa (see image, above right). In straight women and gay men, the connections were mainly into regions of the brain that manifest fear as intense anxiety.
"The regions involved in phobia, anxiety and depression overlap with the pattern we see from the amygdala," says Savic.
This is significant, she says, and fits with data showing that women are three times as likely as men to suffer from mood disorders or depression. Gay men have higher rates of depression too, she says, but it's difficult to know whether this is down to biology, homophobia or simply feelings of being "different".
In straight men and lesbians, the amygdala fed its signals mainly into the sensorimotor cortex and the striatum, regions of the brain that trigger the "fight or flight" response. "It's a more action-related response than in women," says Savic.
'Striking differences'
"This study demonstrates that homosexuals of both sexes show strong cross-sex shifts in brain symmetry," says Qazi Rahman, a leading researcher on sexual orientation at Queen Mary college, University of London, UK.
"The connectivity differences reported in the amygdala are striking."
"Paradoxically, it's more informative to look at things that have no direct connection with sexual orientation, and that's where this study scores," says Simon LeVay, a prominent US author who in 1991 reported finding differences (pdf) in a part of the brain called the hypothalamus between straight and gay men.
But as Savic herself acknowledges, the study can't say whether the brain differences are inherited, or result from abnormally high or low exposure in the womb to sex hormones such as testosterone.
Journal reference: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0801566105)
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Cross Brain Gender Differences
Mon Jun 16 12:04:00 BST 2008 by Paul Curson
As a " straight" male I am always fascinated by the way rapid women mentally and emotionally pistol whip men when social situations are not going to their liking. With men the respons tends to be more forcefully agressive in posture and voice. The extreme end of this scale in men is physical abuse but us poor men never ever accuse women of psychoogical abuse. Perhaps we are too macho to admit we are easily "pussy whipped" and I do recall the "client" who murdered his wife when - as she was walking out - said he wasn't as good in bed as her new lover.
What am I trying to say? This rapid fire mental, emotional agression of women is said to be due to an increased size of the Corpus Callosum, the bridge between right and left cerebral hemispheres, the emotional and thinking brain. Natures gift that allows them to be the power behind the throne, the woman behind every successful man.
What does it mean to be gay as far as the corpus callosum is concerned? Bigger, smaller or the same across gender preferences. Personally I am phobic, anxious, prone to mood swings but also agressive and quick to act yet in spite of this amorphous emotional bisexuality my Corpus Callosum is most definitely male. Those femme fatales - even the not so bright ones - can pistol whip me every time.
Cross Brain Gender Differences
Mon Jun 16 13:11:54 BST 2008 by Caul Purson
I don't think those words mean what you think they mean...
Cross Brain Gender Differences
Mon Jun 16 19:20:04 BST 2008 by Little Princess
Cross Brain Gender Differences
Mon Jun 16 18:13:29 BST 2008 by Curious
If the brain is wired one way and the body the other, does it not mean there is a genetic defect?
Cross Brain Gender Differences
Mon Jun 16 18:22:48 BST 2008 by Chris
The body isn't "wired" any particular way... Without input and sensory direction from the brain, your body is a sack of meat that has no preference one way or the other. Genetic defects are those which prevent the body from maturing or growing, or those which block the body's access to feed, protect or support itself.
Cross Brain Gender Differences
Mon Jun 16 19:15:36 BST 2008 by Curious
What is not wired in the body. It is wired to make certain genitals over the other. It is wired to grow hair on the face or not. It is wired to grow more fat than not. You are mistaken.
Cross Brain Gender Differences
Tue Jun 17 14:24:05 BST 2008 by Orion
I think we could suggest that the difficulties in reproduction in homosexual relationships would block the genes ability to self-replicate hence to protect itself (as a gene in the long run). This suggests genetic defect as genes are by nature driven to reproduce themselves (telelogical drive of evolution).
Cross Brain Gender Differences
Wed Mar 17 07:29:00 GMT 2010 by Cylux
Genetic defect? No. Genetic abnormality? Perhaps. Genetic abnormalities include such benign items as a third nipple or a pair of 'dents' on your lower back, things which are not usually possessed by the majority but which are common enough to be unremarkable, much like homosexuality.
Although there are statistical studies that imply that there is a genetic component to sexuality (5% chance if you are gay of your siblings also being gay, which rises to 50% if the sibling in question is your identical twin) it isn't the one single factor in determining a person's sexuality, as this study concludes.
Cross Brain Gender Differences
Wed Mar 17 20:25:53 GMT 2010 by Cylux
Whoops! I got Genetic defect and genetic abnormality mixed up with congenital defect and congenital abnormality there
Cross Brain Gender Differences
Wed Jun 18 05:40:35 BST 2008 by Dane
This is completely rediculous. Not what this guy said here but the general idea that there is such a difference between people who have sex with the same sex, and those who dont. For whatever reason some people choose to have sex with the same sex and others dont. Probably because it feels good, for them, however they choose.
This society, globally, is trying to prove a stark difference between people who are "gay" or "straight"
the truth to me is that it's a choice you think through, if your body is compatible with have sex with someone else, that's the instinct i see. I think everyone would have sex with the same sex if they were less worried about social stigmas and the general bias that people hold onto. Basically we should give that up and accept what people do, get married, have sex, whatever. It's not a harmful thing and instead of being stuidied should be celebrated!
Cross Brain Gender Differences
Wed Jun 18 18:10:52 BST 2008 by Anon
Dane, your final paragraph is so confused that one wonders how NS attracts such "thinking". You talk of choice then jump via segue into instinct. So which is it? And your obvious ban on scientific study pertaining to this issue is patently "rediculous [sic]" in your own phrasing. From what I read in your post, I suggest you accept the fact that not everyone is bisexual like yourself. Monosexuals stick to their preferred gender due to profound reactions that would obtain if they ever violated such inherent preferences. This study upholds the idea that there are visible, not merely psychological, differences among the monosexuals -- hetero- and homo-sexual. If anything, this study should be expanded and re-elaborated to answer more questions.
Cross Brain Gender Differences
Thu Jun 19 14:36:10 BST 2008 by Kiran
True, this should definitely be expanded more. It can be useful to help understanding of the differences between people (such as studies that find that male sexual orientation is less flexible than females, is fascinating and can be used constructively). People are different because of their orientation (just like they're different because of the culture they come from) because they face different issues for instance, but they're equal. It helps though, to understand similarities and differences, and studies like this help build an evidence base to suggest that our sexuality is something we're just given from birth, not a choice, and trying to change it is not only a waste of time but it's harmful. And it can be used to say, look it's not a phase, it just is, accept it
Cross Brain Gender Differences
Wed Jun 18 14:58:38 BST 2008 by M0neygod
Im not sure about anything in the brain, but being a gay male i react kind of like a woman would in some situations, I ussaly can kill someone with my words, but wouldn't raise a hand. But this could also just be my personality.
Erm, Tea Darlin?
Mon Jun 16 12:57:33 BST 2008 by Alabaster Polymider-smith
I've long suspected that homosexuality is all in the mind.
Erm, Tea Darlin?
Mon Jun 16 13:20:43 BST 2008 by Alex
Then surely being straight is just as equally in the mind?
Erm, Tea Darlin?
Mon Jun 16 13:27:14 BST 2008 by Shar
"So, young Al, when did you first notice these hetrosexual tendencies? Hmmm?"
Erm, Tea Darlin?
Thu Jun 19 16:17:27 BST 2008 by Tracey
Well said Alex bravo
Erm, Tea Darlin?
Mon Jun 16 16:12:24 BST 2008 by Farpung
What do you mean by "in the mind"?
If you mean homosexuality is in the brain - well yes, where else would it be? (This study gives evidence of that.)
If you mean homosexuality is made up, imaginary, delusional, or a way of thinking that can be changed (as people sometimes mean by "all in the mind"), then this study strongly suggests otherwise.
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Erm, Tea Darlin?
Mon Jun 16 21:12:12 BST 2008 by Curious
I guess the truth is against policy?
Erm, Tea Darlin?
Tue Jun 17 16:32:50 BST 2008 by Garion Goh
While the study would indicate that homosexuality has a "biological explaination". It cannot be conclusivelt said that homosexual brain are such from birth cos all the test subjects are adults (I presume). Is it due to homosexual choice that the brain adapts in such a way? We know for a fact that our muscles adapts to the way we use them. And we also acknowledge now that stress can cause certain adverse physiological effects. Is it too far fetch to say that due to the same mechanism, homosexuality alters the brain physiologically?
Erm, Tea Darlin?
Tue Jun 17 18:34:01 BST 2008 by Anon
Garion, you realise that heterosexuality is in the same boat, don't you? Naturally, with all the common sense in the world, it seems heterosexuals (I am among them, while recognising the superb form of my own sex, against them) find it more in keeping with nature to be heterosexual without "conclusive evidence". We look at other creatures in the world and every indication shows they are opportunists when it comes to matters of sex; homosexual activities are not beyond the norm (however, these are generally explained away as demonstrations of "dominance", absurdly enough). Lastly, your final sentence is the height of irrationality -- the only potential mechanism that can influence the brain physiologically is genetics coupled with some environmental factors (as genetics are always related thereto). Therefore, your contention merely becomes an elaboration of yet another "biological explaination [sic]". And, in fact, all this study merely shows is a firmly grounded neurological correlation with sexuality -- it is not a biological explanation.
Erm, Tea Darlin?
Tue Jun 17 19:29:04 BST 2008 by Aj
I agree, the cognitive can be shaped for many years even after puberty. There was a study on people who played piano and how those who continued to play had brain shape changes vs. Those who stopped.
Erm, Tea Darlin?
Sun Dec 07 14:50:20 GMT 2008 by Bosely
What else would it be? :/
Sexual Dimorphic Nucleus
Mon Jun 16 12:58:01 BST 2008 by Mick Malkemus
It's been known for some time now that at the microscopic level, the sexual dimorphic nucleus is often different in gay and lesbian women, as would be seen in the counterpart of 'normal' men and women. I'm glad to see this additional research augmenting what is known.
About 3 percent of all populations are born this way, and people like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who claims to be an academic, would benefit greatly from seeing such research. Currently he claims there is 'no such thing' as a gay or lesbian in Iran.
Sexual Dimorphic Nucleus
Mon Jun 16 17:59:41 BST 2008 by Franchesca
Hmmm... I always thought he said that because he thinks the government has murdered them all.
Actually, best not to tell him about this research. He might try to use it to "screen" for homosexuality, what a frightening thought!
Sexual Dimorphic Nucleus
Tue Jun 17 08:00:27 BST 2008 by Danny
Maybe you should show this study to an Iranian, but I'd suggest the 'Supreme Leader of Iran', Ali Khamenei.
Maryam Hatoon Molkara wrote to Ayatollah Khomeini about being transgender, and now Iranians have free sex reassignment surgery on demand. Previous to that they were lashed. Such a rapid change in the social status of homosexuals could be feasible as Islam, like Christianity, claims to respect science as a window on creation. If you can prove a physical link to sexuality then there can be no sin in it.
I think the real risk to proving a physical link to sexuality is from parents testing their children in the womb and aborting all but the hetrosexual males, and that risk would be greatest in India and China and other areas with greater population pressures than Iran.
Sexual Dimorphic Nucleus
Tue Jun 17 18:35:19 BST 2008 by Carol
I think you misunderstand the intentions of the Iranians. If you are homosexual, you must undergo sex reassignment surgery whether you want it or not. That is their way of removing the problem of homsexuality from Iranian society, thus making it more acceptable to their supreme diety.
Sexual Dimorphic Nucleus
Tue Jun 17 16:37:38 BST 2008 by Garion Goh
Could you point me to the study/research where it is found that 3% of the population are born as such (I take it to mean, born as homosexual). I would be very interested to know cos for such a study to be made, they would have to start monitoring the test subject the moment they are born and then if/when they do become homosexual later in their life, can the statistics be accurate. If such a study was made by observing adult population statistic and interpolating from there, I cannot say it is 100% accurate.
Sexual Dimorphic Nucleus
Thu Dec 18 08:17:08 GMT 2008 by Thor
Google for the "Kinsey Reports"
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Bombs once exploded on Isla de Vieques during naval exercises. Now that the military range has been turned into a wildlife refuge, the fireworks on this Puerto Rican island are created by glowing microorganisms in its bioluminescent bay.
A satellite burns across a big sky so spangled with stars that even I can pick out Saturn, Orion's Belt, and the Seven Sisters. Fishing bats drop from a dark wall of mangroves and skim the bay's still surface for prey, while night-feeding great blue herons stalk the shallows. Far less gracefully, I cinch a safety flotation belt and lean from a boat ladder to dip a toe into this wondrous Caribbean bay.
The waters off Isla de Vieques feel as warm and comforting as a fleece robe. So I take the plunge and suddenly find myself in a world made of liquid fire, where every movement sets off an eerie, glimmering reaction made by millions of bioluminescent plankton. While thousands of animals and plants, from anglerfish and sea stars to fireflies and fungi, have the ability to sparkle with their own light, the microorganisms of this obscure inlet produce nature's most dramatic aura. With a breaststroke, the special effect makes my limbs look like neon-blue sea-turtle flippers; a slicing sidestroke mutates an arm into a Star Wars–caliber light saber. Nearby, other ebullient swimmers bob on their backs and make phosphorescent water angels. We are stardust; we are glow sticks.
For decades, however, such brilliant explosions weren't so benign or entertaining on Vieques. They were more likely to come from bombs dropped by Navy airplanes or lobbed by warships upon this sunbaked island between Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The military exercises sparked public protests, which grew particularly strident after 1999, when a local man died in an off-target bombing. Islanders lobbied before the United Nations' decolonization committee and human-rights forums around the world; 1,500 people, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Rev. Al Sharpton, and actor Edward James Olmos, were arrested in civil-disobedience actions.
In 2003, after 60-plus years of military target practice, the U.S. Department of Defense finally shut down the Atlantic Fleet Weapons Training Area-Vieques and, in a guns-to-plovers move, completed the transfer of nearly 18,000 acres to the Department of the Interior. The former firing ranges are now part of Vieques National Wildlife Refuge, the largest, most ecologically diverse refuge in the Caribbean—and a potential ecotourism engine to drive the moribund local economy. The Navy's occupation, which caused the relocation of thousands of Viequenses and rendered three-quarters of the 52-square-mile island off-limits to the public, had the unintended consequence of insulating Vieques from the unbridled development and mass-market tourism that has overrun much of the Caribbean, including Puerto Rico. The commonwealth counted nearly 5 million tourists last year; a quarter came from the U.S. mainland, primarily to visit historic Old San Juan, soak up the sun and rum on Condado Beach, or catch a cruise ship. Less than 3 percent made it to sleepy Vieques. "Vieques still has the natural wonders that are already lost on the mainland," says plainspoken refuge manager Oscar Diaz-Marrero. "This is the last place.''
Shaped like a dagger, the island lies just eight miles and a $2 ferry ride off the east coast of Puerto Rico yet remains far removed from the big island's crowds and condos. Only two of Puerto Rico's other 77 municipalities have smaller populations than Vieques (just 9,106 inhabitants, according to the 2000 census). In north-shore Isabel Segunda, the island's commercial hub, many local men and boys still ride into town on horseback. Esperanza, the only other settlement of note, slumbers five miles to the south along the Caribbean coastline, just a few salt shakers shy of "Margaritaville.'' The best map of the island was produced by the U.S. Geological Survey in 1951—the roads haven't changed much since. The narrow, paved sections—often just one and a half lanes wide—turn into broken dirt tracks leading to a variety of untrammeled landscapes, including mangrove-rimmed lagoons, broad white-sand beaches, and subtropical dry forest, a dwindling habitat of drought-resistant broadleaf trees that vanished from much of the Caribbean as land was cleared for settlement, farming, and grazing.
One of Puerto Rico's most important archaeological discoveries, which included the 2,000-year-old jadeite amulet of a male Andean condor—indicating that the original inhabitants had far-reaching trade networks—was unearthed a few miles west of Esperanza. Christopher Columbus reportedly sighted Vieques in November 1493 during his second voyage; a few decades later the Spanish sent an expedition that annihilated the local Taino people. But a corruption of the Indian name for the place—bieke, or "small land''—has endured. Pirates, including Captain Kidd, sheltered in its bays, but Vieques wasn't resettled until the 19th century sugar boom. The Navy appropriated many plantations in the 1940s, when Vieques became part of America's World War II defensive perimeter.
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