Posts made by Spintendo

@Gambit1313:

did try to take a look at the page's source code to see if there as a directly accessible link the .MP4 file I wanted.

You want a program that uses RTMPDump. There's a list here:

http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/

New cholesterol guidelines shift away from statins
by Loren Bonner of PharmacyTimes
September 16, 2014

New recommendations about cholesterol were announced by the National Lipid Association (NLA) that focus on patient-centered ways to reduce and prevent cardiovascular events where patients and providers will work more collaboratively.

The recommendations, which were published in the Journal of Clinical Lipidology and grounded in advice from a panel of independent experts, emphasize a more comprehensive measure of cholesterol-related risk based on atherogenic cholesterol, which is known to contribute to most arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) events.

“The primary focus of these guidelines is on the treatment of non-HDL cholesterol and the treatment goals in contrast to the recent American Heart Association [AHA] and American College of Cardiology [ACC] guidelines, which advocate for statins to treat heart disease,” said Scott Grundy, MD, PhD, Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and one of the members of the NLA expert panel that developed the recommendations.

The NLA expert panel concluded that non-HDL-C should be considered a cotarget with LDL-C because “non-HDL-C now looks to be a better primary target for modification than LDL-C.”

The study authors wrote that non-HDL-C comprises the cholesterol carried by all potentially atherogenic particles, including LDL, intermediate density lipoproteins, very low-density lipoproteins (VLDL) and VLDL remnant, chylomicron remnants, and lipoprotein.

Non-HDL-C and LDL-C, both B-containing lipoproteins, also known as atherogenic cholesterol, are considered the root cause of atherosclerosis.

"The new NLA recommendations are targeted at health care providers to help patients better understand their treatment options, reduce cardiovascular risk, and set actionable and attainable goals for treatment," said Terry A. Jacobson, MD, President of the National Lipid Association and Professor of Medicine at Emory University, in an official statement. "The panel emphasizes that patients and providers working in partnership to achieve mutually agreed-upon cholesterol and lifestyle goals will equip patients with the metrics of success needed to prevent and reduce cardiovascular events."

The recommendations are intended to be a “modest refinement” of the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) Adult Treatment Panel III (ATP III) Guidelines, as well as what the AHA and ACC have put forth in efforts to update ATP III.

The cholesterol treatment guideline from AHA and ACC, released last November and endorsed by APhA, focus on identifying which groups of patients need statin therapy and how much. A main criticism of the guideline was that the risk calculator it established overestimated risk and could skew the number of patients who should be receiving statin therapy.

Grundy said the NLA guideline is fundamentally different from the AHA–ACC guideline, not only in what it states, but also because the AHA–ACC guidelines relied solely on information from randomized controlled trials. NLA’s approach was done in a more integrated fashion using clinical trial results, epidemiology, and more.

“I think they allow for more flexibility for lowering cholesterol in contrast to the new AHA–ACC guideline,” said Grundy.

NLA said it hopes the new recommendations will help supplement existing gaps in current guidelines.

@Speedmaster8:

it is NOT illegal in germany, to either leach and/or seed torrents.

Although speedmaster is correct that no one in Germany can be arrested for file sharing, uploading a copyrighted file is unambiguously illegal in Germany, as is downloading (although there are some rare exceptions for downloading copyrighted files for personal use). To find people who are illegally sharing files in Germany, law firms hire companies who monitor torrent traffic for copyrighted items — popular films, music, games, and porn are specifically tracked. These firms find IP addresses that originate in Germany, and then trace them back to an ISP such as Deutsche Telekom or Vodafone, who are then obligated by law to give up the name and address of the person who was using the IP address at the time of the offence.[nb]Michael Filtz, File-sharing in Germany: Could the cost of getting caught be about to come down? The German View, ZDNet, August 9, 2013 http://www.zdnet.com/file-sharing-in-germany-could-the-cost-of-getting-caught-be-about-to-come-down-7000018915/[/nb]

@drsamo:

im going to travel to germany

Your risk is negligible depending on whom you're staying with while in Germany. A ruling published in 2014 by the Bundesgerichtshof concluded a matter dating back to 2006 brought by several leading recording labels against an account holder said to have been sharing a total of 3,749 songs online. The judgment held that when an account holder allows adult family members to use his or her Internet connection, those adults are responsible for their own actions when online and do not have to be ‘educated’ by the person paying the bill. If, however, the account holder is made aware that infringements may have been carried out (after receiving a warning letter for example), he or she is then obliged to take measures to ensure that further infringements are prevented, meaning you could theoretically download at will while the person whose ISP you use would be held harmless.[nb]Andy, Court: ISP Subscribers Not Liable For Pirating Family Members, Torrentfreak.com, January 9, 2014, https://torrentfreak.com/court-isp-subscribers-not-liable-for-pirating-family-140109/[/nb]

@cannonmc:

A solution, perhaps, for you would be to add URL links where you think people might find a picture or pictures of the files you've posted."

An underused feature of most photo editors is the ability to table several pictures into one hi-res photo of them all, simultaneously allowing all the photos you desire while not usurping the non-QTM-uploaded limit of ten.

@Spintendo:

The 2 highest rated antivirus programs for Windows, according to consumerreports.org (2014) were:

Their full ratings:

"Security Software, June 2014," Consumer Reports Volume 79, No. 6 (Yonkers, NY: Consumer's Union of U.S., 2014), 46.

@kazore:

Dolan is a good bishop.

In Era of Humble Pope, Earth Shifts Under Cardinal Dolan
By SHARON OTTERMAN of The New York Times

Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan lives in a 19th-century Madison Avenue mansion that connects to St. Patrick’s Cathedral. A cook and two housekeepers serve him and three other priests. A driver chauffeurs him around, though in a Chrysler minivan. It is a comfortable, if not necessarily extravagant, lifestyle, one in keeping with that of past archbishops of New York. But in the age of Pope Francis, who has captured the world’s imagination by rejecting many luxurious trappings of the papacy, is the cardinal’s lifestyle humble enough?

The question is just one of many that Cardinal Dolan is contending with as he navigates the changes in the Roman Catholic world wrought by the election last year of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the former archbishop of Buenos Aires. Some see the influence of Cardinal Dolan, once considered a possible candidate for pope himself, waning in the era of the new pontiff. With Francis upending conventions not just about the pomp and pageantry of the office but also about the expectations for his priests and bishops, the church has inarguably changed around Cardinal Dolan, even as he maintained last week that he has stayed more or less the same. In a written response to a series of questions from The New York Times about Francis’ effect on him and the diocese, Cardinal Dolan said he did not believe he had altered how he ran the archdiocese, or made any adjustments in his personal habits. But some who study the Catholic Church say that they are beginning to detect subtle differences, at least in his public persona, as he seeks to adapt to the new spirit in Rome.

“He certainly is not doing a massive overhaul of his personality, but he is giving himself a bit of a tuneup,” said Christopher Bellitto, a papal historian at Kean University in New Jersey. In the last years that Benedict XVI served as pope, Cardinal Dolan, 64, was America’s top bishop as the president of the United States Conference for Catholic Bishops. Ever the genial guardian of Catholic orthodoxy, he led the charge against the Obama administration’s efforts to require some religious employers to cover birth control for employees. Some church experts say he was also the go-to cardinal for many in the Vatican when they wanted to know what was going on in the American church. Since then, Cardinal Dolan’s term as the bishops’ leader has ended. Francis is elevating different priorities, such as pastoral outreach to the poor and immigration, over the culture war issues of abortion and same-sex marriage. The new pope has selected as his closest American adviser Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston, a Franciscan in robes and sandals who speaks fluent Spanish and champions the poor, appointing him to a privy council of eight cardinals.

To the powerful commission that selects the world’s bishops, Francis named Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington, widely considered a moderate, to replace Cardinal Raymond Burke, a more conservative prelate who has advocated denying communion to Catholic politicians who support abortion rights. Such moves are shifting the center of gravity of the American church. “It’s not that he’s out of favor or irrelevant,” said John Allen, who wrote a book with Cardinal Dolan and now reports for The Boston Globe. “But both in terms of who Rome listens to in the American church, and setting priorities for the American church, I think there’s no question that Tim Dolan is no longer the prime mover in that regard.” Cardinal Dolan is still on several important Vatican committees, and in the United States, remains the preferred bishop to speak on television. He is a master communicator, pithy and gregarious. But the buzz that followed him into the conclave to select Francis as pope in March 2013 — that he himself could be a papal candidate — has dissipated.

“He’s not out in the cold, but neither is he the rising star anymore,” said Pat McNamara, a church historian and author of a forthcoming book on New York Catholicism. When it comes to lifestyle, the pope is challenging the model of the bishop as royalty of the church and increasing popular expectations that bishops act more like humble parish priests, truly getting to know their people. It is a call that Cardinal Dolan said he had certainly reflected upon. “I hope and pray that I was living a fairly simple life beforehand,” the cardinal said. “But I do have to examine my own conscience and ask: ‘Am I too comfortable? Do I take too much for granted? Are my priorities where they should be?’ ”

Besides reining in excess, however, Francis has asked priests and bishops to limit their travel and focus on ministering to their people — “to be shepherds with the smell of sheep.” “Espouse your community, be profoundly bonded to it!” he told his bishops in September. “Avoid the scandal of being ‘airport bishops.’ ” In the New York archdiocese, which covers the Bronx, Manhattan, Staten Island and seven counties north of the city, Cardinal Dolan is popular among parishioners, but he is known among some priests as a delegator who is often out of town. He relies on a vicar to handle day-to-day priestly problems, and a consultant has been managing the process of deciding which parishes the archdiocese will merge and close. Cardinal Dolan will make the final decisions personally in September.

The post of New York archbishop will always come with national and international responsibilities. But some priests said a silver lining of Cardinal Dolan’s lowered profile would be a more hands-on approach toward running the diocese. Cardinal Dolan said Francis had led him to mull over issues like whether the diocese was too focused on its buildings, institutions and hierarchy at the expense of serving people. “Certainly Francis has inspired me to look for ways that we can be more welcoming, more focused on being with those who feel distant from Jesus and the church, and less focused on structures and institutions,” he said. And he said the pope was also serving as a role model when it came to presenting the church publicly, emphasizing mercy, for example, over judgment in his message. “I do have to realize that what I say, and how I say it, is important, and what I intend to convey is not always what comes across,” Cardinal Dolan said.

On that front, he did seem to acknowledge a tonal shift some church experts had noted. Dr. Bellitto said, “His more bombastic political rhetoric has been dialed down.” An example may be instructive. Two years ago, Cardinal Dolan’s most-quoted comments on the subject of same-sex marriage were ones in which he said he felt “betrayed” and “burned” by the New York Legislature for not giving him more notice before legalizing it. But two months ago, when asked on television how he felt about Michael Sam’s becoming the first openly gay player in the National Football League, he expressed enthusiasm. “Good for him,” Cardinal Dolan told David Gregory on “Meet the Press” on NBC.

“Look, the same Bible that teaches us about the virtue of chastity and fidelity in marriage also teaches us not to judge people,” he added, echoing Francis. “So I would say, ‘Bravo.’ ”

@cannonmc:

the only way I can find of adding anyone to my user list is to click on their user name

As a sidenote to the Q above, the link users like myself have been using is less effective as a workaround, as the last remaining searchable list of user's numbers (found under the forum's "ignore user" function) necessary to make the link really useful was removed 6 months ago. Will that functionality be re-introduced?

https://www.gaytorrent.ru/friends.php?id=XXXXXX&action=add&type=friend&targetid=YYYYYY

The 2 highest rated antivirus programs for Windows, according to consumerreports.org (2014) were:

Free: AVAST

http://www.avast.com/en-us/index

Not Free: ESET NOD32

http://www.eset.com/us/home/products/antivirus/

@otter62:

Crestor, imo, is too dangerous.

There's lots of debate concerning the overuse of HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, particularly in people who might probably get the same effect just from low-cholesterol diets & exercise, had they been given that chance first by their drs.

@Kilo22:

I am tired of people who played Angry Birds calling themselves gamer. It's just an app!

Been console for almost 2 years.

It may be benal with its 2D texture and quaint objective of pig destruction, but it's still one built with the same theory underpinning other "truer" games where withheld objects, activities, and success propel you to acheive proficiency. That makes it a true video game in every sense of the word. 

If the war between the pigs and the birds is not for you, follow Shakespeare's advice and refuse to take up the slingshot.

"He which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made."
Henry V
Act IV, Scene III

@jjcantab:

Could someone post the interview for those of us not based in Australia?

https://www.gaytorrent.ru/details.php?id=f597c856d3a37e42ac52eddd49f86b6b70019440c5d47c0c

Ian Thorpe, Swimming Star for Australia in Olympics, Says He Is Gay
By Karen Crouse of The New York Times
JULY 12, 2014

The Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe, whose five-medal performance at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney captivated his country and served as powerful motivation for a young Michael Phelps, has revealed in an Australian television interview that he is gay. Thorpe, a two-time Olympian and a nine-time Olympic medalist, made the acknowledgment in a sit-down interview to be broadcast Sunday night. He shares a manager with Michael Parkinson, who conducted the interview.

Thorpe, 31, a public figure since he burst onto the international scene at the 1997 Pan Pacific Championships as a 14-year-old, has been treated recently for depression and alcohol abuse. In recent years, Thorpe has reportedly had financial setbacks. In his memoir, “This Is Me,” published in 2012, Thorpe addressed his depression, which dates to his teens, and denied longstanding rumors that he was gay, writing that he dated only women and hoped to marry and have children.

Thorpe retired in 2006, when he was 24. In 2011, Thorpe tried a comeback with an eye toward competing in the 2012 London Olympics, but he failed to make the finals at the Australian trials. He is scheduled to work as a commentator at the Commonwealth Games, which begin this month in Scotland. In 2000, the athletes with a front-row seat for Thorpe’s superstar turn included Phelps, then the youngest male competitor on the United States Olympic swim team.

Watching Thorpe’s ambitious program planted a seed in Phelps’s mind that bloomed in 2008, when he won a record eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics. At the 2004 Athens Games, Phelps won six gold medals but said his most satisfying finish had been his bronze medal in the 200-meter freestyle, a race won by Thorpe, because Phelps had relished the chance to race against him.

As news spread about Thorpe’s interview, many people took to Twitter to offer their support, including Jason Collins, who made headlines last year when he became the first active N.B.A. player to reveal that he is gay.

@Popper:

There was already a topic about this and basically all was said there, unfortunately I can't find it back

I believe that thread was here:

https://forum.gaytorrent.ru/index.php?topic=20751.0

@boy4joy21n:

I don't see why it required such a flashy/utterly stupid title

Headline-hyperbole is the default setting for any news aggregation website of relevance.

Dr. Oz Doubles Down On Bogus Weight Loss Products At Senate Hearing
by Robin Abcarian of The Los Angeles Times
June 18th, 2014

He didn’t even have the grace to squirm.

Dr. Mehmet Oz, who has done more to foist unproven diet products on the American public than any other celebrity pitchman, appeared this week on Capitol Hill at a Senate subcommittee hearing about weight loss scams. If you thought Oz, a heart surgeon with excellent professional bona fides, might apologize to the millions of Americans whose efforts to lose weight he has sabotaged by proclaiming the miracle properties of this or that berry or bean, you would be wrong.

Instead, he managed to make his appearance a statement about how he brings hope to a hopeless world, and how he has been victimized by fraudsters who have used his name to promote their products without permission. (Products, let us not forget, that he has touted on his show.) “I do not endorse any products or receive any money from any products that are sold,” he testified.  “I have never allowed my image to be used in any ad.”

Claire McCaskill, the Democratic Missouri senator who chaired the hearing, was not having any of that. “I know you feel that you’re a victim,” she said. “If you would be more careful, maybe you wouldn’t be victimized as frequently.”

Oz’s disclaimer notwithstanding, a positive mention on his show is the same as an endorsement.  To ignore that is to ignore his enormous influence on consumers – what some have dubbed “the Oz effect.” For instance, after he spoke about Neti pots, an Ayurvedic treatment used to irrigate stuffy sinuses, sales of the product spiked 12,000%. At least that’s what his co-executive producer Amy Chiaro told Forbes.

The problem is that Oz mixes so much good advice with blather that it’s hard to know where the science ends and the hype begins. "I can’t figure this out, Dr. Oz," said McCaskill. "I get that you do a lot of good on your show….You are obviously very bright. You have been trained in science-based medicine. Now here are three statements you have made on your show:

Season II, Ep. 107: "You may think magic is make believe but this little bean has scientists saying they’ve found the magic weight loss cure for every body type–it’s green coffee extract!"

Season II, Ep. 142:"Garcinia Camboja. It may be the simple solution you’ve been looking for to bust your body fat for good!"

Season IV, Ep. 35: "I’ve got the No. 1 miracle in a bottle to burn your fat. It’s raspberry ketones!"

“I don’t get why you need to say this stuff because you know it’s not true," she added. "So why, when you have this amazing megaphone, do you cheapen your show like that?”

He couldn’t really say. Instead, he defended his enthusiasm for unproven weight loss products, explaining that scientific advancement often is the result of challenging orthodoxy. “I don’t think this ought to be a referendum on the use of alternative medical therapies,” he said. “I’ve been criticized for folks coming on my show to talk about the power of prayer.”

McCaskill retorted, “You don’t have to buy prayer. Prayer is free.” The science, she told Oz, “is almost monolithic against you in terms of the efficacy of the three products you called miracles. If it’s something that gives people false hope, I just don’t understand why you have to go there.”

Because, he seemed to imply, false hope is better than no hope. “My job is to be a cheerleader for the audience,” he explained. “When they don’t think they have hope, I want to look everywhere … for any evidence that might be supportive to them.” And, he added, he is still comfortable recommending green coffee extract to his viewers if they can find “a reputable version” of the substance, whatever that means.

(Last month, the Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against one purveyor, Pure Green Coffee, claiming it made bogus weight loss claims on bogus news websites. “Popularized on the syndicated talk show The Dr. Oz Show, green coffee bean extract was touted as a potent weight loss treatment that supposedly burns fat,” the FTC said in a release about the complaint.)

After his Senate testimony on Tuesday, Oz seemed to come to his senses about how defensive he sounded. He told the Hollywood Reporter that he took part in the hearing “because I am accountable for my role in the proliferation of these scams and I recognize that my enthusiastic language has made the problem worse.”

Watch Senator McCaskill question Dr. Oz:
http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4501095/sen-mccaskill-questions-dr-oz-flowery-language-show

@mirko69:

or XXY chromosome mutation :crazy2:

Yes, but people with Klinefelter syndrome (XXY) are usually sterile, and since homosexuality requires two successive generations to have an effect, this would not be a factor.

@Amazonios:

I would like you to tell me your best mouth-shutting arguments regarding its normality.

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their mother's own endocrine system

blunt

enhance

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they can be handed down to offspring

that child

their offspring

parents' own prenatal resistance to hormones of the opposite sex

areas of their children's brains.

Homosexuality as a Consequence of Epigenetically Canalized Sexual Development

http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/668167

@priya:

I DRANK SOME OF MY FRIENDS CUM DOES IT DO SOMETHING BAD

To err on the side of caution in the future, it's best to inquire if something were bad before doing it— not after.

Federal Judge Strikes Down Wisconsin's Ban on Gay Marriage
As reported by REUTERS (Brendan O'Brien; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Sandra Maler)
JUNE 6, 2014

MILWAUKEE — A federal judge deemed Wisconsin's ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional on Friday to the delight of gay couples who immediately began rushing to county offices to wed as word of the ruling spread. The ruling marked the latest in a string of decisions by federal judges who have struck down gay marriage bans in a number of states, although the Wisconsin ruling sparked some confusion over whether such marriages could now legally go ahead. Clerks in two counties were issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples on Friday night, and in response Wisconsin's attorney general filed an emergency motion in the federal court to stay the ruling.

In the ruling, U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb said that a state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, which Wisconsin adopted in 2006, violates gay couples' fundamental right to marry and their equal protection rights under the U.S. Constitution. "Quite simply, this case is about liberty and equality, the two cornerstones of the rights protected by the United States Constitution," Crabb wrote in the 88-page decision. Milwaukee County's executive ordered the courthouse to remain open late on Friday to allow couples to marry. Officials said marriage licenses would also be handed out in Dane County, which includes the state capital, Madison. "We will continue to defend the constitutionality of our traditional marriage laws and the constitutional amendment, which was overwhelmingly approved by voters," State Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen said in a statement.

At the Milwaukee County courthouse, Matt Schreck, 37, and Jose Gutierrez, 35, both from Milwaukee, were the first same-sex couple married on Friday. "It's amazing, I get to be with my best friend for the rest of my life," Schreck said. Dozens of people crowded inside the courthouse awaiting a turn to marry amid clapping and tears, including Pat Cline, 51, and Patty McKenzie, 46, both from Oak Creek, Wisconsin. "We never thought this day would happen. It's overwhelming," Cline said. The pair had planned to go to PrideFest Milwaukee, but decided to get married instead. Circuit court judges could be seen walking around handing out cupcakes with blue and white frosting.

Challenges to state bans on same-sex marriage gathered momentum last June when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down parts of the U.S. Defense of Marriage Act, ruling that legally married same-sex couples were eligible for federal benefits. Not including Wisconsin, same-sex marriage is now legal in 19 states plus the District of Columbia, and the number of states could grow sharply if federal court rulings striking down bans in several states are upheld on appeal. The Wisconsin ruling came hours after seven same-sex couples filed a federal lawsuit seeking to overturn North Dakota's ban on same-sex marriage or the recognition of gay marriages performed in other jurisdictions. North Dakota was the last state where a ban on same-sex marriage still in effect had not been challenged.

@cannonmc:

I'd have paid money to hear a judge say 'porno-trolling collective'

That was Judge Otis Wright II, who called the people working at Prenda Law a "porn-trolling collective."

It's amazing how they got away with getting close to $15 million before Judge Wright peed on their porn-trolling party  :blind:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenda_Law