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The female orgasm is the focus of much research because it appears to have no reproductive purpose.
Well, men and women are formed from basically the same genetic code except for the X vs. Y chromosome and some mitochondrial DNA. I think it would take an extraordinary bit of experimentation on nature's part to figure out how to deny this to women and allow it for men.
As for the scientists who are working on this, why don't they just ask their wives if they have any use for their husbands were there no such thing as the female orgasm. Suppose females would have affairs were there no such thing as a female orgasm? Might go do a little research in some African countries regarding that idea.
Duh.
On second thought, maybe I ought to start doing a bit of research myself. Maybe those guys aren't so dumb to be researching this after all. :-)
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OK attack at will,
Seems that when a woman enjoys sex, she'll do it more, hence more children,
Sounds like a racial (Human) survival tactic. don't enjoy it, have fewer or no children.
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When I was a student I wasn't rich.
Somehow that didn't seem to matter
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Obviously your pheromones knew you were going to be successful, European Conservative. Or perhaps you were just had better pheromones than your student peers.
A MAN whose family was told he would die without waking has spoken his first words after almost three years in a coma. "I am better," Ilija Marinovic told his wife, Margaret. Mrs Marinovic said: "I didn't believe it because all the doctors said it would never happen."
While Mr Marinovic has been "away", his daughter has celebrated her 18th birthday, his son has had a second child, his sister has died and the whole world has changed, the Sunday Herald Sun reports. The 57-year-old was unaware his only son, Dinko, flew from Croatia twice to see him - once expecting to collect his body.
Her husband fell and hit his head on October 26, 2006, and had part of his skull removed to relieve pressure on the brain. Doctors told the Preston family that when he was taken off life support in November 2006, he would die.
He didn't. The family was then told Mr Marinovic was in a vegetative state and would never recover.
"Every day for almost three years I have come to visit him at the Amity nursing home in South Morang and he has just laid there," Mrs Marinovic said. "A few weeks ago I was washing his face and, as I always do, I asked him how he was and he said, 'I'm better'.
"I couldn't believe it."
Mr Marinovic was assessed by a specialist on Friday. Rehabilitation will be arranged. His lawyer Lee Flanagan, of Thomas Arnold and Becker, was amazed by Mr Marinovic's progress. 'I've never heard of anything like it before," he said. "It was a magic moment for Margaret when he spoke. He lost the simple pleasure of enjoying life."
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After he's updated on the US presidential election, he'll likely go back to sleep.
An alleged robber was killed and three others were wounded including a police official during a gun battle between police and armed robbers at Nitaishah village in Ghoraghat upazila of Dinajpur Friday midnight. The dead was identified as Alfaz Ali Sarker, 30, son of Aftab Sarker of Dholbhanga village under Shadullahpur upazila of Gaibandha.
Ghoraghat police said that a group of robbers were robbing on at a rice-laden truck at 11.30 pm at Nitaishah village blocking the Dinajpur-Gobindaganj highway.
On information, highway patrol police of Ghoraghat rushed to the spot. Sensing the presence of police, the robbers swooped on them with sharp weapons and wounded Assistant Sub-inspector (ASI) Shadequl Islam, truck driver Sazzad, 40 and its helper Monglu, 50.
Alas, the robbers brought sharp weapons to what turned out to be a gunfight ...
Police retaliated by firing bullets, in which Alfaz was mortally wounded while his cohorts managed to escape.
The injured were rushed to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) while Alfaz succumbed to his injuries at Ghoraghat Upazila Health Complex.
Not a level 1 trauma center ...
Sazzad and Monglu left hospital after receiving treatment while ASI Shadequl had a surgery in his abdomen, DMCH sources said.
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Ticked-off prisoners have finally won the right to have alarm clocks in their cells.
The privilege was previously given only to Muslim lags who had to wake up for pre-dawn prayers during Ramadan. But Home Office chiefs have now ruled the whole of the UKs prison population can order in clocks from catalogues and keep them in their cells but only if they behave themselves.
The move comes after dozens of complaints, including one last month from inmate John Wales, who had an alarm clock banned at HMP Maidstone in Kent. Wales, writing a letter of complaint from his cell, said: I suffer from insomnia and decided to have an alarm clock posted in. When it arrived I was not allowed to have it in my possession. But if I had been a Muslim it would have been permitted.
Is this some kind of religious discrimination?
The change was made as part of a review of the Incentives and Earned Privileges list in which lags get treats for good behaviour. Alarm clocks have now been added to the list, which includes the chance to wear your own clothes, access to private cash and the opportunity to buy cell furnishings.
A spokesman for the National Offender Management Service said: Muslim prisoners are allowed an alarm clock to aid with waking for prayers before dawn and during Ramadan. Until recently the facilities list at Maidstone made no reference to alarm clocks. This has been updated and refreshed following the relaunch of the Incentives and Earned Privileges scheme. It is now policy to allow prisoners of all denominations to have access to an alarm clock.
A source at Maidstone jail said: Were a bit stumped as to why most of the offenders in here would want an alarm clock. Its not like theyve normally got anything out of the ordinary to wake up for.
I hope there will be some kind of restrictions over the alarm sounds.
Plastic was one of the great innovations of the 20th century, but German scientists believe a new invention, liquid wood, could soon supplant the chemical in terms of everyday usefulness.
Though it has proven to be extremely useful in the modern world, plastic still has a number of negative selling points. It is non-biodegradable and can contain carcinogens and other toxic substances that can cause cancer. It is also based on petroleum, a non-renewable resource that will soon be harder to come by. Increases in the price of crude oil leads to parallel rises in the price of plastics.
But there is a new chemical invention that could do away with these long-standing concerns. Norbert Eisenreich, a senior researcher and deputy of directors at the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology (ICT) in Pfinztal, Germany, said his team of scientists have come up with a substance that could replace plastic: Arboform -- basically, liquid wood.
It is derived from wood pulp-based lignin and can be mixed with a number of other materials to create a strong, non-toxic alternative to petroleum-based plastics, Eisenreich said, as reported by DPA news agency.
This begs the question: What exactly is liquid wood? "The cellulose industry separates wood into its three main components -- lignin, cellulose and hemicellulose," ICT team leader Emilia Regina Inone-Kauffmann told DPA.
"The lignin is not needed in papermaking, however. Our colleagues mix that lignin with fine natural fibers made of wood, hemp or flax and natural additives such as wax. From this, they produce plastic granulate that can be melted and injection-moulded."
Thanks to the wax ...
The final product can resemble highly polished wood or have a more matted finish and look like the plastic used in most household items. Car parts and other durable items made of this bio-plastic already exist, but the chemical hadn't been suitable for household use until now, due to the high content of sulphurous substances used in separating the lignin from the cell fibers.
The German researchers were able to reduce the sulphur content in Arborform by about 90 percent, making it much safer for use in everyday items.
Bolstering Arboform's environmental credentials, Eisenreich's team also discovered that the substance was highly recyclable. "To find that out, we produced components, broke them up into small pieces, and re-processed the broken pieces -- 10 times in all. We did not detect any change in the material properties of the low-sulphur bio-plastic, so that means it can be recycled," said Inone-Kauffmann.
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Plastic has been made out of wood in the US for some time in experimental quantities. The logistics of gathering the wood is a problem.
The more interesting related question is making plastic from coal as part of a coal gasification process. If this technology could be significantly advanced, it would offset some of the gasification costs or the costs associated with carbon sequestration.
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liquid wood? another name for alcohol in a pick-up bar?
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Of course, even though wood is a renewable resource, some people object to cutting down trees for any purpose ( I guess they live in caves or something).
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Only some synthetics are petroleum based. Nylon is made from coal, air and water; some polyesters are made from plant material. Toxicity is usually far less an issue than strength, durability, transparency and many other issues.
A highly valuable synthetic wood would replicate rare hardwoods such as teak, which are both slow growing and in high demand, reducing their natural availability.
Other, composite synthetic woods of high value would be in synthetic ironwoods, of various types, that would incorporate silicon, making them extremely strong and durable materials.
A Palestinian Authority Arab who stoned cars in Samaria was killed by one of his own rocks, police have concluded. A Jewish man held in connection with the death has been released.
The Arab teenager hurled heavy stones at Israeli-owned vehicles along a Samaria highway last Tuesday evening. He managed to hit one car, which was driven by a resident of the nearby town of Emmanuel.
Fearing further attacks, the driver fired a single shot in the air to frighten away the stone-thrower. He then contacted local security officers to report both the attack and his own response.
A short time later, Israeli paramedics received a report of an Arab teen found unconscious and badly wounded next to a highway. The teen suffered a serious head injury that appeared to be a bullet wound. Medical personnel rushed to the scene but were unable to save the young Arab, who died a short time later.
Police originally believed that the resident of Emmanuel who reported firing in the air had in fact fired at his attacker, killing him. The man was arrested and questioned. However, an initial forensic report showed that the attacker had not been killed by a bullet, and the detainee was released.
A final forensic report, released over the weekend, showed that the attacker was killed when a stone he threw hit the car driven by the man from Emmanuel. The stone hit the car's tire and bounced back at high speed, hitting the attacker and leaving him with a fatal head injury.
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Bridgestone?
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The difference between a rock and a bullet is mass and velocity. All the rest is a bunch of 'proportionality' inane rationalization. Both kill. If the dead could talk, there are many females in muzzie countries who could offer testimony to the point.
Steve Kerr feels a rush of joy when watching his oldest son play basketball, making him think how special it would have been for his father, Malcolm, to have seen his games with the University of Arizona and in the NBA. Today, Kerr's dad would see his son becoming more like him. Kerr's personality emanated from his father, but the job of Suns general manager has put him in a leadership role for the first time, and he has drawn on his father's life lessons in human relations.
Kerr's goals are the same ones his father had as president of American University in Beirut, Lebanon - galvanize people, motivate them and aid their ability to succeed. "There are a million things that would've been great," Kerr said.
Twenty-five years ago today, Kerr's world was tragically altered. He received a 3 a.m. call in his UA freshman dormitory room from a family friend at American University in Beirut. Malcolm Kerr had been murdered for doing the job he once said was the only thing that could make him happier than watching Steve play basketball. Angry with the U.S. military's presence in Lebanon, two Islamic Jihad militants staked out Kerr's office and assassinated him by shooting him outside the building. Malcolm Kerr was raised on that campus, and had met his wife in that building. He spoke Arabic and had a passion for Middle East politics. He was killed by the terrorism and tension he knew too well.
"You can't describe it," Kerr said of his feelings about losing his father as an 18-year-old. "Anybody who has been through something similar can share the emotion. I don't think anybody can really explain it, but people who have gone through it will know what I mean."
Kerr, who was born in Beirut, often has had a basketball game scheduled on Sunday's date since his father's murder. This Sunday is no different, as he has traveled with the Suns to Toronto for their matchup with the Raptors.
He said he is amazed at how quickly the 25 years have passed, but the memories of the day his father was murdered are clear. UA booster George Kalil, who had heard the news on the radio, and UA assistant Scott Thompson picked up Kerr and drove him around Tucson that day. Unsure about what to do next, Kerr went to class. "I was just in a total daze," he said.
He then went to coach Lute Olson's office, where he laid on a couch for hours until practice. Kerr spent the night at Olson's home, coping with a tragedy he had not anticipated despite recent area bombings and professor kidnappings. "You just don't believe it can happen to you," Kerr said. "You think there's a protective shield."
He grew up aware of the world that took his father. The family took sabbaticals to the Middle East and lived in Egypt for three years, where they had friends in Jerusalem and the West Bank who were Palestinian and Israeli. Dinner topics often focused on the quest for peace in the Middle East. "Things are worse than ever," Kerr said. "He'd be extremely disheartened."
The pain did not end with the murder. In his first UA game after the assassination, some Arizona State students targeted Kerr with uninformed, sickening chants of "PLO, PLO." Last season, twisted minds still were at it after he had traded for center Shaquille O'Neal. Two e-mailers made death threats that included references to Kerr's father.
That is the work of an ugly American, not the type his dad represented before being murdered. Malcolm Kerr did great work in education and his home. "People who knew him will remember what a great person he was," Kerr said. "I just remember what a great father he was and how lucky I am to have had him as a dad."
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"That is the work of an ugly American".
That phrase has bothered me ever since I read the book. In the book, the Ugly American is a hero - the antithesis of what people consider to be the stereotype of Americans abroad.
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In his first UA game after the assassination, some Arizona State students targeted Kerr with uninformed, sickening chants of "PLO, PLO."
And Kerr responded by draining 3-pointers all night long and destroying the scum devils. One of the Greatest Wildcats Ever.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Ticked-off prisoners have finally won the right to have alarm clocks in their cells. 
A Palestinian Authority Arab who stoned cars in Samaria was killed by one of his own rocks, police have concluded. A Jewish man held in connection with the death has been released.
Steve Kerr feels a rush of joy when watching his oldest son play basketball, making him think how special it would have been for his father, Malcolm, to have seen his games with the University of Arizona and in the NBA. Today, Kerr's dad would see his son becoming more like him. Kerr's personality emanated from his father, but the job of Suns general manager has put him in a leadership role for the first time, and he has drawn on his father's life lessons in human relations.
