Sunday, August 4, 2013

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The benefits of Internet porn | The Daily Caller

Editor?s note: The author of this piece was recently fired from the?Chattanooga Times Free Press for running a headline harshly critical of President Obama?s economic policies during his recent visit to the city. The paper has defended its decision, saying the only other time Mr. Johnson has been denied the opportunity to freely state his views was last week, when they declined to run a piece on pornography.?The following is that editorial:

A miracle product exists that is responsible for dramatically reducing the number of rapes and sexual assaults in America. This invention has even contributed to lower divorce and teen pregnancy rates.

Even though this invention has proven so beneficial, millions of Americans want to moderate and even eliminate it. Why? Because the thing reducing rape and sexual assault, and producing a safer, more family-friendly society, is really, really offensive to a lot of Americans: low or no-cost, high quality online pornography.

That?s right, Internet porn.

Some consider porn a gateway to rape and sexual abuse. Many claim that it objectifies women and riles men sexually in a way that makes society less safe. (As if only men view pornography.) Certain anecdotes may even serve to reinforce that notion. The numbers, however, tell a different story. Internet pornography has served as a firewall, satiating would-be rapists and protecting their potential victims.

This link between an increase in web porn and a decrease in rape was first noted in 2006 by Clemson economist Todd Kendall. Kendall?s study, which was supported by the National Bureau of Economic Research, concluded that ?Internet access appears to be a substitute for rape; in particular, the results suggest that a 10 percentage point increase in Internet access is associated with a decline in reported rape victimization of around 7.3 percent.?

Recent statistics indicate that Kendall?s research was no fluke. In fact, as Internet access ? as well as the amount of cheap or free online porn ? has further increased, incidences of rape and sexual assault have continued to plummet.

According to the National Crime Victimization survey, an annual report published by the Department of Justice?s Bureau of Justice Statistics, the rape/sexual assault rate fell from 5 per 1,000 American women over age 12 in 1995 to 1.8 per 1,000 in 2011.

?Over the past two decades, as pornography has become much more easily accessible over the Internet, the rate of rape and sexual assault has declined by about 60 percent,? according to Ronald Bailey, a science correspondent at Reason magazine.

Even one 2009 Texas A&M study that began with an assumption that easy access to porn led to more rapes found that the opposite was true. The study?s authors admitted that ?the increasing availability of pornography appears to be associated with a decline in rape.?

While crime rates are on the decline for all types of offenses, ?it?s only rape (and sexual assault) that appears to be pegged to online connectivity,? Bailey reports.

Besides reducing the horrendous crimes of rape and sexual assault, online porn also appears to reduce several societal ills, as well. Over the last dozen years, since Internet pornography use first became widespread in the U.S., rates of divorce and teen pregnancy have also fallen.

It might seem strange at first blush that porn, something that so many of us on the right side of the political spectrum have worked so hard to restrict, is responsible for preventing so many crimes and even appears helpful in supporting family values. But it makes sense when you think about it.

The numbers indicate that many would-be rapists are satisfied engaging in porn-assisted solitary sexual activity and are no longer as motivated to forcibly take a sexual partner. Further, some individuals who may have broken up their marriages by cheating on their spouses in the past now find sexual gratification through porn, rather than searching for intimate relationships outside their marriages.

Source: http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/03/the-benefits-of-internet-porn/

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How 'junk DNA' can control cell development

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Researchers have confirmed that, far from being "junk," the 97 percent of human DNA that does not encode instructions for making proteins can play a significant role in controlling cell development. And in doing so, the researchers have unraveled a previously unknown mechanism for regulating the activity of genes, increasing our understanding of the way cells develop and opening the way to new possibilities for therapy.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/Nl4Q1Sm5SCo/130802101900.htm

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Saturday, August 3, 2013

Stocks end slightly higher after tepid jobs report

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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange at the end of the trading day on August 1, 2013 in New York City.

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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange at the end of the trading day on August 1, 2013 in New York City.

Stocks closed modestly higher in thin volume on Friday despite a tepid jobs report. While the data was disappointing, it still showed job growth and may also make the Federal Reserve a bit more hesitant about curtailing its stimulus policies in September.

The U.S. economy created just 162,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in July after a downwardly revised 188,000 in June. The unemployment rate fell to 7.4 percent.

The quality of the jobs being created is also an issue. Burt White of LPL Financial pointed out, "Over the last four months we've created 4.2 part-time jobs for every one full-time job. That trend is not going in a good direction."

After spending the session clawing back morning losses, the Dow Jones Industrial Average?finished 30 points higher at 15,658.36. The?S&P 500 and Nasdaq ended with slight gains, while both the S&P and Dow set new closing highs.

The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), widely considered the best gauge of fear in the market, fell to 12.1.

Among S&P sectors, consumer discretionary and materials stocks led the gainers. Energy fell after disappointing earnings from oil giant Chevron.

"I think the market grinds higher," Bob Doll, chief equity strategist at Nuveen Asset Management, said. "We're not going to go up another 18 percent as we have since the first of the year in my opinion. But I think the market ends higher than where it is today."

The jobs data may push back the timing, or at least scale, of a potential Fed tapering of its bond-buying program.

St. Louis Fed president James Bullard said in a speech Friday that the central bank "needs to see more data" before it makes a decision about slowing the pace of its $85 billion-a-month bond-buying program.

(Read more: So-so summer: Job growth disappoints; rate drops)

Some economists, meanwhile, see just a small reduction in bond purchases next month.

"I think they'll only do $15 billion because the evidence will be still somewhat ambiguous," BNY Mellon economist Richard Hoey told CNBC of the potential cutback in bond purchases. "I don't think they'll do $25 billion. That's too strong a measure."

In other data, U.S. consumer spending increased 0.5 percent in June, lifted by automobile purchases and higher gasoline prices. Personal incomes rose 0.3 percent. June factory orders, meanwhile, rose 1.5 percent after an upwardly revised 3 percent in May.

(Read more: Escape velocity hopes give way to law of gravity)

Cable stocks rose on reports that Cox Communications and Charter Communications held merger talks. Cablevision was up sharply as well.

Viacom, meanwhile, reported a 14 percent rise in revenue helped by strong advertising and CBS affiliate fees at its cable networks. The media giant also doubled its stock buyback program to $20 billion.

LinkedIn shares surged following better-than-expected earnings and after a number of brokers hiked their price targets on the social networking firm.

AIG stock rose after the company posted strong earnings and said it would return capital to shareholders.

But oil giant?Chevron posted a 26 percent decline in net income?due to lower oil prices and maintenance work at its U.S. refineries.

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Friday, August 2, 2013

U.S. says will give equal treatment to visas from gay spouses

(Reuters) - The United States will immediately begin considering visa applications of gay and lesbian spouses in the same manner as heterosexual couples, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday.

Kerry made the announcement at the U.S. Embassy in London.

(Reporting by Lesley Wroughton; Editing by Vicki Allen)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-says-equal-treatment-visas-gay-spouses-135211394.html

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Hamstrung: Preventing Injury ? The Health Journal: Fitness, Nutrition ...

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The foundation of most hamstring injury prevention is warm-up.?Typical hamstring strains come during high-intensity efforts, not during a jog around the block. Be sure you?re fully warmed up before launching into a hard effort or race. In doing so, you?ll be ahead of the game by easing into your efforts.

Prevention Tips

Put it in reverse. No, I don?t mean your car?I?m referring to your body. If your run involves a track, consider reversing directions periodically. This may be an issue on a crowded track where counterclockwise is the norm, but when I do a lot of repeats on a track or course I prefer to run some of them in the reverse ?This balances out some of the stresses on the legs, especially around the curves where leaning in to fight angular momentum is normal. If you have a weaker or less coordinated direction, save your hardest efforts for the side better suited to handle the stress.

?Get strong. Weak muscles won?t serve you well in any sport. Are your extensor muscles strong enough??Try this:?lie with your thighs and legs on a bench or table, your upper torso off the table, with a partner holding your ankles. Hold your body perfectly straight. You should feel your back extensor muscles, and quite likely your glutes and hamstrings. Can you hold this position for a full minute without fatiguing your hamstrings or spinal muscles??Can you hold it for three minutes??A basically competent athlete should be able to hold this position for a full minute without excess strain. A highly fit one should be able to go up to three minutes. If you find yourself struggling, consider working your extensor muscles, both back extensors and hamstrings along with the gluteus maximus. You may also decrease your risk for back pain.

Get coordinated. Hamstrings don?t always strain because they?re weak. They may strain because the right dominates the left, or because the lateral set is weak compared to the medial pair, or because they are weak compared to the quadriceps. They may also strain because they don?t turn on when they?re supposed to, or don?t turn off enough when they need to. Hamstrings do something called ?paradoxical extension,? actively contracting along with the quads while the foot is on the ground-based portion of the running gait. Training hamstring, quads and related muscles to function efficiently and together may be called ?neurological patterning.?? Think of it as teaching the instruments of your body?s ?orchestra? to play together under the supervision of your ?conductor??your central nervous system. I especially like to train this through three exercises:? the 1-legged squat, the lunge and hip flexion exercises. The first two teach the hamstrings to function even as their antagonists are active. The last one teaches the hip flexor muscles to activate, reflexively telling the hamstrings to take a back seat as their antagonists take over. [See images under ?Hamstring-Friendly Warmups?]

Get aligned. The low back and hips relate directly to the hamstrings. A fixated or ?stuck? sacroiliac joint, for example, can inhibit normal pelvic and hip extension, causing hamstrings to have to work overtime or inhibiting them due to subtle pain signals. Dysfunction of joints in the low back, or even disc problems, can also wreak similar havoc. Get structurally aligned before launching into an exercise program that might ingrain your problems. Remember, practice doesn?t make perfect?perfect practice makes perfect.?

Hamstring-Friendly Warmups

I mentioned warm-ups earlier. No, I don?t mean do anything that takes hours, or anything too complicated. Here?s my warm-up routine, for example:

1. Move. If you?ve been off your legs before your run (in a car, or in your bed), start by just walking about or literally shaking a leg or two. Get used to the movement.

2. Neuro mobilizations. Perform some gentle neuro mobilizations of your hamstrings and the sciatic nerves (the large nerve trunks down the backs of your thighs). Sit on a step or bench and straighten out one leg, then the other a couple times. Do the same with your head and trunk slightly flexed, which will tension the nerve and hamstring a tad more. Don?t do this to excess, just enough to wake up the area and give it signals that it needs to move, freely.

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3. Lunge. In a forward-facing stance, feet at shoulder width, step out with one leg in a gentle lunge stance. Then, maintaining balance and control, reach forward and brush the ground by your forward foot, followed by raising both arms overhead in an arc (it?s a nice stretch for a stiff neck and back, too). Feel the quads, the glutes, the core and the hamstrings all active throughout the motion. Then do the same on the other side. Do a little sideways movement, gently waking up the full range of muscles around hips, thighs, and ankles.

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4. Begin running?gently. ?Don?t worry about your pace for the first couple of minutes, however embarrassingly slow it may be. In fact, it may be a couple miles before you?ve hit stride and rhythm.

You?ll note that there?s not a lot of static stretching in this warm-up. The goal is to seek overall flexibility and exquisite control, not to become a stretching legend or yogi.1 Easy motion is the majority of warm-up;?and inherent in motion is some stretching. If you want to work on flexibility, do so after your run, or take a yoga class (or better yet, both).

Do what feels right for you. If what works for me doesn?t suit you, create your own routine. ?And if nothing seems to work, seek professional help?(see prior column under ?Treatment Options?).

I?ll see you on the roads and trails, my friends.

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1? Committed to flexibility work, to the point of excess??Consider that certain forms of INflexibility (no, that?s not a typo) are correlated to improve running performance. Perhaps I?ll visit that topic in a future column.

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Lindsay Lohan Lets Loose On Harry Styles' Sexuality: Watch Now!

'Canyons' actress pokes fun at herself and One Direction's Harry during her guest-host gig on 'Chelsea Lately.'
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Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1711724/lindsay-lohan-harry-styles-sexuality-chelsea-lately.jhtml

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