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Oral Contraception Linked to Prostate Deformities in Male Offspring (2005)
by APFLI | Nov 2, 2007 | Contraception - Adverse Effects: Cancer / Stroke / Abortion
Oral contraception Linked to Prostate Deformities in Male Offspring Oestrogen [estrogen]-like chemicals commonly found in oral contraceptives and plastic packaging could deform the prostate gland of human embryos, suggests a new study in mice. Deformities to the prostate gland have been linked to prostate cancer and bladder disease in later life. The finding is significant because up to 3% of women taking oral contraceptive drugs become pregnant without their knowledge, and continue exposing the fetus to the contraceptive drug many months into pregnancy. This is because the risk of pregnancy becomes higher when the drug is not taken diligently, but many women do not realize this, says study author Frederick vom Saal of the University of Missouri in Columbia, US. Among the 60 million women using oral contraceptives in the US and Europe, the average number of missed pills is three per month, he says. This results in up to two million women taking the pill accidentally becoming pregnant each year. Environmental pollutant In order to test the effect of a typical oral contraceptive on the development of the embryo, vom Saal and his team gave pregnant mice the contraceptive ethinylestradiol. The dosage was scaled down to the mouse-equivalent of one-fifth of the normal human dose and was administered for five days. They also exposed a group of mice to low levels of a similar oestrogenic chemical, bisphenol A – a common environmental pollutant found in polycarbonate plastics and the lining of food cans. The researchers found a subsequent increase in the number and size of prostate ducts and a narrowing of the bladder neck in male mouse fetuses...
Woman's Beauty Peaks Monthly & Her Choice of Men is Cyclic
Women's Choice of Men Goes in Cycles Women are attracted to more masculine-looking men at the most fertile time of their menstrual cycle, psychologists have shown. During the less fertile times, they choose men with more feminine-looking faces. These are seen as kinder and more co-operative, but less strong and healthy genetically. More masculine faces have squarer shapes, heavier, straighter eyebrows and thinner lips. The study was carried out by researchers in Scotland and Japan. They asked women to select the one face from a range that they were most attracted to as a partner for a short-term sexual relationship. They found that in the most fertile week of their menstrual cycle, women preferred more masculine faces. However, the choice of face did not vary for women using an oral contraceptive (i.e. not fertile) or those asked to choose the most attractive face for a long-term relationship. Smell of success The results are supported by previous research which showed that a male hormone smells unpleasant to women, except in the week of fertility. Also, the smells of more symmetrical, and therefore more attractive, men are preferred by women but again only in that week. Men who look more masculine have higher levels of male hormones and also show a better ability to fight off disease. This makes them attractive as potential mates because their children will inherit this useful characteristic. A controversial implication of the new research is that, in evolutionary terms, it is "natural" for a woman to be unfaithful in order to secure both the best genes and the best carer for her children. However, the...
Male pheromones and sexual attraction (NEL, 8/02)
Male Pheromones and Sexual Attraction ABSTRACT Previous research has revealed that natural and synthetic pheromones can enhance ratings of opposite sex attractiveness. The present study investigated the effects of exposure to male axillary secretions on female ratings of the sexual attractiveness of male stimuli. Thirty-two female undergraduates, half of whom were contraceptive pill users, rated male vignette characters and photographs of male faces on aspects of attractiveness. On two separate study days, corresponding to different phases of their menstrual cycle, stimuli were presented while exposed to male axillary pheromones and under a control condition (no pheromone). The order of testing was balanced with respect to pheromone/control condition and menstrual cycle phase. Pheromone exposure resulted in significantly higher attractiveness ratings of vignette characters and faces. Use of the contraceptive pill or menstrual cycle phase had equivocal effects on some vignette items and neither had any influence on female ratings of male facial attractiveness. The results of this study suggest that exposure to natural male axillary pheromones can significantly enhance female perceptions of various aspects of male attractiveness. Introduction Pheromones are biologically-active substances released by an individual, and received by another individual of the same species, in whom they activate specific physiological or behavioural responses [1]. Pheromones are therefore referred to as ecto-hormones: chemical messengers that are transported outside the body that have the potential to evoke certain responses in a conspecific. The physiological and behavioural effects of pheromones have been well documented in many invertebrate and vertebrate species (for reviews see [2, 3]) though their putative effects on human behaviour and physiology remain equivocal. Scepticism concerning the existence of human...
Study of Woman's Scent / The Magic of Sexual Attraction
by APFLI | Oct 31, 2007 | Contraception - Adverse Effects: Cancer / Stroke / Abortion
2 STUDIES Scent of a Woman Study: Men Attracted to Women's Scent When She's Fertile By Melanie Axelrod April 5 — Chanel says every woman has her own "Allure." But a new study suggests the female allure isn't bottled, rather, it comes naturally.Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, used already worn T-shirts to determine that men may be able to smell when women are at their most fertile, regardless of the perfumes and cosmetics they may wear. Devendra Singh, a psychology professor at the University of Texas in Austin, asked women to wear one T-shirt at night during the most fertile phase of their menstrual cycle (13-15 days after their previous period), then wear another T-shirt during the infertile phase of their cycle (days 21 to 22). Aside from acquiring two previously unworn cotton T-shirts, the women were also given unscented clothing detergent, soap, and shampoo to use for the duration of the study. They were asked not to wear perfume, and avoid products and foods that would emit a strong odor. They were also asked to refrain from sexual activity and to not share a bed with anyone, not even a pet, during the study. After use, Singh presented the T-shirts to a group of men and asked them to rate the smell of the worn garments. Out of the 21 pairs of T-shirts, the men could detect a more "pleasant" or "sexy" T-shirt in 15 pairs of them. That breaks down to 15 of the 42 shirts were considered pleasing, vs. the rest that were considered not pleasing, or not detectable. The results remained...
The Abortion-Contraception Connection: Comments from the Abortion Providers
by APFLI | Jul 14, 2007 | Contraception - Adverse Effects: Cancer / Stroke / Abortion
ABORTION-CONTRACEPTION CONNECTION – ABORTION INDUSTRY COMMENTS Pro-abortion Alan Guttmacher Institute [research arm of Planned Parenthood] has repeatedly reported on major surveys that show 56%-58% of all women having abortions were using contraception the month they became pregnant. Alan Guttmacher Institute researcher Stanley K. Henshaw– "Contraceptive users appear to have been more motivated to prevent births than were nonusers" Alan Guttmacher Institute researcher Stan E. Weed-"[F]or every 1000 teens between 15-19 years of age enrolled in family planning clinics, we can expect between 50 to 120 more pregnancies" Infamous "sexologist" Alfred Kinsey, 1955- "At the risk of being repetitious, I would remind the group that we have found the highest frequency of induced abortions in the groups which, in general, most frequently uses contraception" Abortionist Judith Bury, 1981- "There is overwhelming evidence that, contrary to what you might expect, the provision of contraception leads to an increase in the abortion rate." National Survey of Family Growth– Contraceptive failure rates show 7% for the pill, 16% for the condom, 22% for the diaphragm, and 30% for spermicide. Figures are even higher for unmarried people. Sociologist Lionel Tiger, 1999- "With effective contraception controlled by women, there are still more abortions than ever…[C]ontraception causes abortion" Abortionist Malcolm Potts, 1976- "As people turn to contraception, there will be a rise, not a fall, in the abortion rate". ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In a study of abortion patients in 1994-95 [Alan Guttmacher Inst.], 58% of patients reported that they 'currently used' contraception during the month of their last menstrual period… [CDC, MMWR, 7June02, "Abortion Surveillance – United States, 1998"] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Two-thirds of unplanned pregnancies occur among women...
Study of Planned Parenthood Own Numbers Show 'Safe-Sex' Not so Safe
[not new, just underreported…] "Contraceptive Failure in the First Two Years of Use: Differences Across Socioeconomic Subgroups," Nalini Ranjit, Akinrinola Bankole, Jacqueline E. Darroch and Susheela Singh. Family Planning Perspectives, Vol 33, No. 1. January/February 2001, pp. 19-27. http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3301901.pdf "Contraceptive Failure Rates: New Estimates From the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth," Haisahn Fu, Jacqueline E. Darroch, Taylor Haas, and Nalini Ranjit, Family Planning Perspectives, Vol 31, No. 2. March/April 1999, pp. 56-63. http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3105699.pdf On Townhall.com today [9July07], Jennifer Roback Morse, author of Smart Sex: Finding True Love in a Hook-Up World, deftly and succinctly demonstrates how futile federally funded comprehensive sex education is for its target audience. The common number that is touted as evidence for the success of contraceptives is close to 90%. Ms. Roback Morse looks deeper and discovers that this number is more representative among married women in their 30's and 40's. Within this [married] group, only 3% of these women became pregnant while using the contraceptive pill. Nearly 50% however, of low-income co-habitating teenage girls become pregnant while using the contraceptive pill and over 70% become pregnant while using condoms. These are the numbers coming from the demographic the federal government is specifically targeting. The percentage of pregnancies that occur from abstinence is 0%. Despite this discrepancy in favor of abstinence, the federal government, Ms. Roback Morse states, spends $12 in contraceptive/condom education for every $1 in abstinence-only education. What is perhaps the most intriguing about this research is that the numbers come from Planned Parenthood. The very organization that aggressively advocates the use of contraceptives admits that their methods are at...
OCs Containing Cyproterone Increase Risk of Deep Vein Thrombosis (10/01)
by APFLI | Apr 19, 2007 | Contraception - Adverse Effects: Cancer / Stroke / Abortion
ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES CONTAINING CYPROTERONE INCREASE RISK OF DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS: four times more likely to develop deep vein thrombosis, or venous blood clots, than those taking OCs that contain levonorgestrel. Deep vein thrombosis can cause potentially fatal pulmonary embolism if blood clots travel through the bloodstream and lodge in the lungs. The retrospective case-control study of 24,401 women ages of 16-39, 1992-1999. Of the 26 cases and 144 controls, 14 cases and 114 controls had taken OCs with levonorgestrel, and 12 cases and 30 controls had taken OCs with cyproterone. The analysis also showed that duration of exposure did not affect risk of venous thromboembolism after cyproterone exposure (Lancet, 10/27). Cyproterone is found in "so-called third-generation" birth control pills, which contain more progestin than older versions, such as those that contain levonorgestrel [Research letter, 27Oct01, Vasilakis-Scaramozza/Jick, (Boston Univ School of Medicine) Lancet Reuters Health, 10/26; Kaiser Daily Reproductive Health Reports,...
Estrogen & Male Feminization (1999-2007)
Contracepting the Environment: Environmentalists Mum on Poisoned Streams When EPA-funded scientists at the University of Colorado studied fish in a pristine mountain stream known as Boulder Creek two years ago, they were shocked. Randomly netting 123 trout and other fish downstream from the city's sewer plant, they found that 101 were female, 12 were male, and 10 were strange "intersex" fish with male and female features. It's "the first thing that I've seen as a scientist that really scared me," said then 59-year-old University of Colorado biologist John Woodling, speaking to the Denver Post in 2005. They studied the fish and decided the main culprits were estrogens and other steroid hormones from birth control pills and patches, excreted in urine into the city's sewage system and then into the creek. Woodling, University of Colorado physiology professor David Norris, and their EPA-study team were among the first scientists in the country to learn that a slurry of hormones, antibiotics, caffeine and steroids is coursing down the nation's waterways, threatening fish and contaminating drinking water. Since their findings, stories have been emerging everywhere. Scientists in western Washington found that synthetic estrogen — a common ingredient in oral contraceptives — drastically reduces the fertility of male rainbow trout. Doug Myers, wetlands and habitat specialist for Washington State's Puget Sound Action Team, told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that in frogs, river otters and fish, scientists are "finding the presence of female hormones making the male species less male." This summer, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and the American Pharmacists Association will begin a major public awareness campaign...
Does Contraception REALLY Reduce the Need for Abortion?
by APFLI | Nov 17, 2006 | Contraception - Adverse Effects: Cancer / Stroke / Abortion
Many columnists are endorsing legislation which calls for even greater contraceptive access and other measures to reduce the "need" for abortion ("Reducing the Need for Abortion and Supporting Parents Act," H.R. 6067). The media generally promote artificial birth control with this type of comment: "To lower the abortion rate, we need more contraception". One columnist recently illustrated his point with an analogy: "[D]enying that contraceptives reduce your risk of pregnancy is as crazy as denying that an umbrella reduces your risk of getting wet." Well, if at the end of a school day you tell teenagers that the thunderstorm outside will soon pass, but they can try their luck with this stack of umbrellas, many will do so. But some of them will get soaked when their umbrellas break or slip from their hands in the wind, and all will get a little wet. The problem is that no one gets only "a little" pregnant. The real problem is not the use of such rhetorical devices, however; it's the failure to research the subject. These media sources continue to fall prey to the Great Contraceptive Fallacy: more contraception reduces unintended pregnancies and abortions. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Consider these studies: In a study of abortion patients in 1994-95 [Alan Guttmacher Institute], 58% of patients reported that they 'currently used' contraception during the month of their last menstrual period… [CDC, MMWR, 7June02, "Abortion Surveillance – United States, 1998"] Two-thirds of unplanned pregnancies occur among women who described themselves as using birth control. Among the women who became pregnant unintentionally, 65% reported using contraception when they conceived. [May 2003, journal Human Reproduction,...
Oral Contraceptive Use as a Risk Factor for Premenopausal Breast Cancer: A Meta-analysis (MCP, 2006)
http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.com/Abstract.asp?AID=4166&Abst=Abstract&UID= Abstract Mayo Clin Proc. 2006;81:1290-1302 Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research ORIGINAL ARTICLE Oral Contraceptive Use as a Risk Factor for Premenopausal Breast Cancer: A Meta-analysis CHRIS KAHLENBORN, MD; FRANCESMARY MODUGNO, PHD, MPH; DOUGLAS M. POTTER, PHD; WALTER B. SEVERS, PHD OBJECTIVE: To perform a meta-analysis of case-control studies that addressed whether prior oral contraceptive (OC) use is associated with premenopausal breast cancer. METHODS: We searched the MEDLINE and PubMed databases and bibliography reviews to identify case-control studies of OCs and premenopausal breast cancer published in or after 1980. Search terms used included breast neoplasms, oral contraceptives, contraceptive agents, and case-control studies. Studies reported in all languages were included… RESULTS: Use of OCs was associated with an increased risk of premenopausal breast cancer in general (OR, 1.19; 95% CI, 1.09-1.29) and across various patterns of OC use. Among studies that provided data on nulliparous and parous women separately, OC use was associated with breast cancer risk in both parous (OR, 1.29; 95% CI, 1.20-1.40) and nulliparous (OR, 1.24; 95% CI, 0.92-1.67) women. Longer duration of use did not substantially alter risk in nulliparous women (OR, 1.29; 95% CI, 0.85-1.96). Among parous women, the association was stronger when OCs were used before first full-term pregnancy (FFTP) (OR, 1.44; 95% CI, 1.28-1.62) than after FFTP (OR, 1.15; 95% CI, 1.06-1.26). The association between OC use and breast cancer risk was greatest for parous women who used OCs 4 or more years before FFTP (OR, 1.52; 95% CI, 1.26-1.82). CONCLUSION: Use of OCs is associated with an increased risk of premenopausal breast cancer, especially with use before...
Sexual Activity, Condoms, Contraceptive Use, STDs: What We Know Now (update 08.09)
by APFLI | Apr 7, 2006 | Contraception - Adverse Effects: Cancer / Stroke / Abortion
CONTRACEPTIVE USE • Fifty-four percent of women who have abortions had used a contraceptive method (usually the condom or the pill) during the month they became pregnant. Among those women, 76% of pill users and 49% of condom users report having used their method inconsistently, while 13% of pill users and 14% of condom users report correct use.[Jones RK, Darroch JE and Henshaw SK, Contraceptive use among U.S. women having abortions in 2000–2001, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2002, 34(6):294–303; Alan Guttmacher Institute, July 2008, http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html] Can STDs/STIs be prevented? Yes, STIs can be prevented. Avoid all sexual activity if you are single or be faithful to one uninfected partner for life. This is the only way to avoid the risk of an infection. Condoms There are also a number of ways to reduce the risk — but NOT eliminate the risk — of infection. The fewer people you have sex with, the lower your risk of getting STIs. Correct and consistent condom use can also reduce (but not eliminate) your risk of getting most STIs. Consistent and Correct condom use (100%) during vaginal sex reduces your risk for: HIV by 85% [18-22] Gonorrhea by about 50% [18,25-28] Chlamydia by about 50% [18,25-28] Herpes by about 50% [18,27-28] Syphilis by about 50% [16,18,25-27] HPV by 50% or less [18,22-24] Few studies have been done to see whether condoms reduce the risk of STIs, including HIV, during oral sex or anal sex. Waiting to have sex until you are in a faithful, lifelong relationship (such as marriage) is the only certain way to avoid being...
Access to Contraceptives Does Not Stop Unplanned Pregnancies, Abortion Statistics (AGI) & Comments
by APFLI | Sep 25, 2005 | Contraception - Adverse Effects: Cancer / Stroke / Abortion
A report form the Alan Guttmacher Institute provides wide ranging statistics and demographic information on women who had abortions. In addition to reporting that abortion numbers continued to drop in 2001 and 2002, the report contains findings that may bolster arguments made by social conservatives on several different issues, including one finding that would indicate contraceptive use may not stop unplanned pregnancies. The Alan Guttmacher Institute is the research arm of Planned Parenthood and openly supports abortion and widespread access to contraceptives. The report placed great emphasis on the fact that 48 percent of pregnancies in the US are unplanned. Of those unplanned pregnancies, 47 percent end in abortion, 40 percent are carried to full term and 13 percent end in miscarriage. Advocates of abortion often argue that to decrease abortions, unintended pregnancies must be reduced through increased access to contraceptives. But the Guttmacher Institute's research indicates that 53 percent of women who have unintended pregnancies used a contraceptive method during the month they got pregnant. The data also indicates that marriage plays a unique role as a protector of the unborn. According to the report, "Married women account for a lower proportion of abortions (17%), in part because they have low rates of unintended pregnancy," but even in cases of unintended pregnancies, married women "are more likely than unmarried women to continue the pregnancy." And cohabitation is not an adequate substitute for marriage. "About 25% of abortions occur among women living with a male partner to whom they are not married, although such women make up only about 10% of all women aged 15-44." The report also reveals...
World Health Org. Declares the Combined Oral Contraceptive to be a Recognized Carcinogen (9/05)
[12/02 — CLASS OF ESTROGENS LABELED CARCINOGENS – U.S. Upgrades Danger Posed by Element in Replacement Therapies, Contraceptives – All estrogens used in replacement therapies & contraceptives were listed by the federal gov't as "known human carcinogens," a significant upgrading of the dangers they pose. However, government scientists said it is not known whether estrogens retain their cancer-causing potential when used in combination with other hormones, as they commonly are in hormone replacement therapy and oral contraceptives. Some estrogen compounds were previously listed by the National Inst of Environmental Health Sciences as likely to cause cancer in humans, but this listing of the entire class of steroidal estrogens was a broad expansion. "Based on our review of the literature, we have now put the entire class of steroidal estrogens in the category of greatest hazard," said Portier, director of the Environmental Toxicology Program for NIEHS. "For us, this is a big step." This summer, a large clinical trial of hormone replacement therapy in post-menopausal women by the Women's Health Initiative was halted early when it showed an increased incidence of breast cancer and heart disease. Many women stopped taking the medications — which had been widely prescribed to prevent hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause, and to protect women against heart disease & osteoporosis. Another part of the study that followed women on estrogen therapy alone — generally women who have had mastectomies — was allowed to continue because the risk of cancer was not higher than expected. Portier said the new federal listing of estrogens was not based on that study, but rather on a review of...
Advanced Provision of Emergency Contraception does Not Reduce Abortion Rates (C,4/04)
by APFLI | Aug 24, 2005 | Contraception - Adverse Effects: Cancer / Stroke / Abortion
Contraception Volume 69, Issue 5 , May 2004, Pages 361-366 Anna Glasier , a, b, Karen Fairhurstc, Sally Wykec, Sue Zieblandd, Peter Seamanc, Jeremy Walkerc and Fatim Lakhaa AbstractA number of small studies have demonstrated increased use of emergency contraception (EC) when women have a supply available at home. It has been suggested that widespread use of EC could reduce abortion rates. We undertook a community intervention study designed to determine whether offering advanced supplies of EC to large numbers of women influenced abortion rates. All women aged between 16 and 29 years living in Lothian, Scotland, were offered, through health services, five courses of EC without cost to keep at home. Of a population of around 85,000 women in this age group, the study showed that an estimated 17,800 women took a supply of EC home and over 4500 of them gave at least one course to a friend. It was found that nearly half (45%) of women who had a supply used at least one course during the 28 months that the study lasted. In total, an estimated 8081 courses of EC were used. EC was used within 24 h after intercourse on 75% of occasions. Abortion rates in Lothian were compared with those from three other health board areas of Scotland. No effect on abortion rates was demonstrated with advanced provision of EC. The results of this study suggest that widespread distribution of advanced supplies of EC through health services may not be an effective way to reduce the incidence of unintended pregnancy in the UK. 1. IntroductionUnintended pregnancy is common and abortion rates are...
Primary Contraceptive Methods Among Women Aged 15-44 Years, USA, 2002
by APFLI | Feb 22, 2005 | Contraception - Adverse Effects: Cancer / Stroke / Abortion
QuickStats: Primary Contraceptive Methods Among Women Aged 15–44 Years — United States, 2002 In 2002, the most frequent contraceptive method among women aged 15–44 years was oral contraception. Other leading methods were female sterilization and the male condom. A smaller, but significant, number of women were using the newer, long-acting hormonal methods, including injectables, implants, and the patch. Additional information is available at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg.htm. [CDC. CDC MMWR Weekly, 18February05 / 54(06);152 Use of contraception and use of family planning services in the United States, 1982–2002. Available at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ad/ad350.pdf] For a look at Natural methods of birth control, visit www.ccli.org, or these pages: The Effectiveness of the Creighton Model Ovulation Method in Avoiding and Achieving Pregnancy"Use Effectiveness of the Creighton Model Ovulation Method of Natural Family Planning"; Fehring, Richard J.; Lawrence, D.; and Philpot, D., Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing Vol. 23, No. 4 . May 1994. pp. 303-309 Click here Natural Family Planning Research...
Social Science Confirms Harmful Effects of Contraception (1/05)
by APFLI | Jan 7, 2005 | Contraception - Adverse Effects: Cancer / Stroke / Abortion
These are the findings of Nobel Prize winning social scientist: Writing in the current issue of Touchstone Magazine, University of Virginia assistant professor of sociology W. Bradford Wilcox cites research by 6 scholars which shows contraception to be responsible for a significant rise in divorce and illegitimacy, both of which lead to other social ills like heightened rates of criminal behavior and increased high school drop out rates. Wilcox also argues that the poor are especially susceptible to the harms caused by the contraceptive culture. Wilcox notes that the research is not partisan: "The leading scholars who have tackled these topics are not Christians, and most of them are not political or social conservatives." Robert Michael, of the University of Chicago, believes that sudden widespread use of artificial contraception and the availability of abortion is responsible for "about half of the increase in divorce from 1965 to 1976." Wilcox cites George Akerlof, a Nobel prize-winning economist, who provides an economic explanation for why widespread use of artificial contraception resulted in an increase in illegitimacy rather than a decrease as many predicted. According to Akerlof, traditional women who wanted to either abstain from sex or at least receive a promise from their boyfriend that he would marry her in the case of pregnancy could no longer compete with "modern" women who embraced contraception. This created an environment in which premarital sex became the norm and women "felt free or obligated to have sex." "Thus, many traditional women ended up having sex and having children out of wedlock, while many of the permissive women ended up having sex and contraception...
Majority of Unplanned Pregnancies Occur When Using Contraception / Aspects of Contraception (Ehmann)
In a study of abortion patients in 1994-95 [Alan Guttmacher Inst.], 58% of patients reported that they 'currently used' contraception during the month of their last menstrual period… In 1995… approximately 29% of sexually active U.S. women who used only [OCs] for birth control reported that they missed a birth-control pill one or more times during the 3 months before…approximately 33% of U.S. women who were using only coitus-dependent contraceptive methods during the 3 months before the interview used these methods inconsistently." [CDC, MMWR, 7June02, "Abortion Surveillance – United States, 1998"] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Two-thirds of unplanned pregnancies occur among women who described themselves as using birth control, according to a study published in the May 2003 issue of the journal Human Reproduction. Researchers from the Hospital de Bicetre in France surveyed 2,863 women ages 18 to 44; 1,034 of the women had had an abortion or an unintended pregnancy within the last five years and 1,829 of the women were randomly selected. Among the women who became pregnant unintentionally, 65 percent reported using contraception. Among those women, 21 percent reported using birth control pills, 9 percent reported using an intrauterine device, 12 percent reported using condoms, and 23 percent reported using some other method of contraception. However, 60 percent of the women who reported using birth control pills said they had missed one or more pills and 30 percent of IUD users said that device was in the wrong position or fell out. In addition, more than 50 percent of women who reported using condoms said that the condom tore or fell off during intercourse and 30 percent of regular...
New HIV-Condom Oversight Has Some Worried…Perhaps They Should Be (7/04)
by APFLI | Mar 30, 2004 | Contraception - Adverse Effects: Cancer / Stroke / Abortion
The Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has proposed a new set of rules that will guard the content of HIV/AIDS education resources, and contraception educators and promiscuity promoters are worried. In essence, they are concerned that the ineffectiveness of condoms will be revealed. Under the proposed guidelines, as published in the June 16 Federal Register, the CDC would demand that all HIV/AIDS prevention resources funded by the CDC must be approved by a review panel for "medically accurate information regarding the effectiveness or lack of effectiveness of condoms in preventing the sexually transmitted disease the materials are designed to address." The truth that condoms do not offer complete protection against dangerous sexually transmitted diseases is not a message that large contraception-pushing "educators," such as Planned Parenthood and Gay Men's Health Crisis, like. Groups like GMHC have called the proposed guidelines equivalent to "moralizing." By the same logic, it would be "moralizing" to put a warning label on cigarettes. The CDC is accepting public comment on the proposed guidelines until August 16, 2004. Final guidelines are expected to be issued four months after that. [Gay City News, 06/30/04; Jessemyn Pekari, National Abstinence Clearinghouse E-mail Update...
Birth Control Use Data for Teen and Young Adult Females, 1995
According to the National Center for Health Statistics, Vital and Health Statistics Division data for 1995: 15-19 year olds 20-24 year olds Condom 10.9% 16.7% Never had intercourse 49.8% 12.1% Of 9.7 million women using "coitis-dependent contraceptives" [i.e. barrier birth control methods such as the condom] in the 3 months prior to the interview, about 33% — over 3 million — used them inconsistently. An even higher percentage of teens using these methods reported inconsistent use — 38%. The highest percentage of any group of women reporting inconsistent use was in the 20-24 year old group — almost 42%. 9% of sexually active teens under age 16 are using the pill; 33.6% of these teens use condoms. Nearly 30% of all women who had intercourse in the 3 months prior to the interview and used the pill as the only contraceptive method, reported missing a pill at least once during the cycle. [Table...
Research on Chemical Methods – The Pill
I. PILL USE TRIPLES CERVICAL CANCER RISK A study by the World Health Organization (WHO), published online (27Mar02) in the prestigious British medical journal, The Lancet, found that women who use the oral contraceptive pill for more than five years could triple their risk of developing cervical cancer. The study examined the history of 3,769 women in 8 countries who had HPV (Human Papilloma Virus), an STD (STI) present in about 99% of all cases of cervical cancer. Since most women who have HPV do not develop cervical cancer, scientists believe there must be co-factors involved. Researchers at the International Agency for Research on Cancer, an arm of WHO, pooled data in 8 control studies to compare 1,853 with HPV and cervical cancer with 1,916 with HPV but no cancer, and asked about their birth control practices. They found that women with HPV who take the pill for less than five years do not significantly increase their risk of developing cervical cancer. However, those who are on the pill for longer than five years are nearly three times as likely to develop the disease. Those who take it for more than 10 years quadruple their risk. Moreover, the increased danger persisted for more than 15 years, even if a woman stopped taking the pill. About one percent of women will develop cervical cancer. Long-term pill use raises the odds to three or four percent, according to the WHO findings. About 13,000 American women will be diagnosed with cervical cancer this year, and it will kill about 4,100. Worldwide, approximately 200,000 women die of cervical cancer. It is the...
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Me: It's frustrating — we're getting the facts out there about television broadcasters being extremely efficient spectrum users but the message just isn't sinking in. Almost every other day somebody criticizes broadcasters for "squatting" on spectrum. It's unsubstantiated rhetoric from the uninformed, but the future of broadcasting is at stake.
Me: Well, the future may be coming pretty fast now for serious consideration of broadcast spectrum reallocation. The selling job for how simple it would be to reallocate spectrum from television broadcasting to mobile broadband ignores a lot of important details, but a lot of people are buying into it.
Einstein: But there are 50 channels between channel 2 and channel 51.
Me: Sorry, I shouldn't have over-simplified. Channel 37 doesn't count — it's reserved for radio astronomy. Anyway, we have to deal with these armchair analysts who will argue that there are 49 broadcast channels available in Washington DC but there are only about a dozen or so television stations, so the rest of the spectrum is being wasted.
Einstein: Oh, I see what you mean. So they ignore the fact that stations that operate on the same channel have to be a certain minimum distance apart so they won't interfere with each other. And in congested areas, like the East Coast, the distance between cities is such that you just can't re-use the same channels in nearby cities, so the total number of channels needed is a lot more than the number of stations in a given city.
Me: You catch on quick. And that's true for operating on adjacent channels too, since television receivers don't have the ability to perfectly filter out station signals in nearby cities that use adjacent channels, although you can use adjacent channels for stations in the same city. But that means, for example, you can't use the same channels or adjacent channels in Baltimore and Washington DC, since they're only about 40 miles apart. And if you add a third city close by, and a fourth, those 49 television channels don't really go very far, not when you're dealing with the over 1700 stations in the country. So this attempt at a common sense theory that broadcasting could get by with far fewer channels without reducing the number of stations or reducing the service areas of those stations just doesn't fit the facts.
Einstein: The adjacent channel angle is interesting. How close adjacent channel stations can be to each other would be determined by the relative ability of receivers to reject those unwanted adjacent channel signals, no? Are the interference rejection characteristics of the receiver population well known and reliable?
Current and former technical FCC officials also talked about the need for receiver standards recently and noted that the topic of receiver standards is one that will be addressed, and recommendations made, by the FCC Technological Advisory Council — hey, I'm a member of that group. The second public meeting of the Technological Advisory Council is on Wednesday of this week.
In addition, NAB President and CEO Gordon Smith just sent a letter to key Congressional leaders pointing out that the FCC is starting to take notice that knowledge of receiver performance for rejecting interfering signals is critical to making the most efficient use of spectrum in designing wireless services. Frankly, all this newfound interest in exploring obligations for receiver manufacturers to meet performance standards for the sake of efficient spectrum planning is a rather refreshing new approach.
Me: I'm not sure whether you're being cynical or ironic, but I certainly agree with the sentiment. And I'm sure you'll appreciate that it's really hard not to be cynical about politicians and regulators insisting that a broadcast spectrum re-allocation process will be all-voluntary for broadcasters. Participating in incentive auctions, assuming that Congress authorizes them, might be voluntary actions. But to clear the significant nationwide spectrum swath desired by the mobile broadband providers, broadcast stations will need to be re-packed, or re-located, into a smaller band of spectrum, and voluntary is not the word to describe that wide-scale operation of forcing stations to change channels.
Re-packing the television channels to create cleared spectrum for mobile broadband without harming the incumbent broadcast service, if it's possible at all, is a computationally intense math problem for really fast computers. The FCC is developing this capability but all they've produced so far was released last June and showed really poor results — only one 6 MHz channel could be cleared nationwide by re-packing the existing broadcasters. We've been waiting to see more refined results, or at least a detailed description of the Allotment Optimization Model's algorithm for re-packing, but nothing has been made available so far. If the computer model has something significant to offer, that would be a basis for further quantitative analysis. Otherwise, this is more of a political debate.
But it essentially means the same thing, if you reduce the words to being as simple as possible, but no simpler.
Me: That's definitely irony, right? Well, it was nice chatting with you today, even though it's just a dream. I am infinitely indebted to you for your time and your insight about spectrum policy.
Me: I'm not touching that one.


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H_AGR_2017A 03/20/2017 Committee Summary
STAFF SUMMARY OF MEETING
HOUSE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, LIVESTOCK, & NATURAL RESOURCES
Time: 01:31 PM to 04:19 PM
Becker J.
Place: HCR 0107
Danielson
Esgar
This Meeting was called to order by
Representative Arndt
Lebsock
This Report was prepared by
Meghan O'Connor
Saine
Willett
Mitsch Bush
X = Present, E = Excused, A = Absent, * = Present after roll call
Bills Addressed: Action Taken:
HB17-1219 Referred to the Committee of the Whole
Referred to House Appropriations
Referred to the Committee of the Whole
01:31 PM -- HB 17-1233
Representative Arndt, sponsor, presented House Bill 17-1233, concerning protection of the historical consumptive use analysis of a water right involved in a water conservation program. Under current law if the owner of a water right brings an action to water court to change the amount of water the owner may use, the amount of water that can be changed is limited to the historical consumptive use of water under the water right. Water usage that results from participation in a government sponsored water conservation program is not considered in determining the historical consumptive use in water divisions 4, 5, or 6. The bill applies this rule statewide to include water divisions 1, 2, 3, and 7. The bill clarifies that water conservation projects include pilot projects, and that the applicable government sponsored program approved by a state agency are limited to those with explicit statutory jurisdiction over water conservation or water rights.
The following persons testified on the bill:
01:36 PM -- Aaron Citron, the Nature Conservancy, testified in support of the bill and responded to questions from the committee.
01:44 PM -- Dr. John Stulp, Special Advisor for Water Policy to the Governor, spoke in support of the bill and stated that the purpose of the legislation is to protect water users from future quantification of their water rights due to participation in a government sponsored program. Dr. Stulp discussed a pilot program in the Gilcrest/LeSalle region to address high groundwater, and how participation in that program could affect the future quantification of a water right. Dr. Stulp responded to questions from the committee regarding the inclusion of Water District 1 in the bill.
01:55 PM -- Zach Smith, Colorado Water Trust, testified in support of the bill and responded to questions from the committee regarding the inclusion of Water Division 1 in the bill.
02:01 PM -- Emily Brummit, Colorado Water Congress, testified in support of the bill.
02:02 PM -- Bill Hancock, representing himself, testified in support of the bill.
The chair closed testimony, and Representative Arndt closed her remarks on the bill.
BILL: HB17-1233
MOVED: Arndt
MOTION: Refer House Bill 17-1233 to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 8-5.
SECONDED: Danielson
Rep Arndt, sponsor, presented House Bill 17-1248, concerning the funding of Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) projects. The bill appropriates funds from the CWCB Construction Fund in the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to the CWCB or the Division of Water Resources (DWR) for specific water related projects in FY 2017-18.
02:12 PM -- James Eklund, Director, CWCB, testified in support of the bill and discussed specific projects in the bill that require financing.
02:21 PM -- Kirk Russel, Deputy Director CWCB, testified in support of the bill.
Mr. Eklund responded to questions from the committee.
02:38 PM -- Jay Winner, Lower Arkansas Water Conservancy District, testified in support of the bill.
02:41 PM -- Julie McKenna, Northern Water Conservancy District, testified in support of the bill.
The chair closed testimony, and Representative Arndt, made closing remarks on the bill. Committee discussion ensued.
MOTION: Refer House Bill 17-1248 to the Committee on Appropriations. The motion passed on a vote of 12-1.
SECONDED: McKean
Final YES: 12 NO: 1 EXC: 0 ABS: 0 FINAL ACTION: PASS
-	The committee came back to order. Representatives McLachlan and Arndt, co-prime sponsors, presented House Bill 17-1219, concerning, an extension of the agricultural water leasing pilot program administered by the Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB). Under current law, the CWCB administers a pilot program to demonstrate the practice of fallowing irrigated agricultural land and temporarily leasing the associated water rights. Fallowing refers to the practice of leaving plowed agricultural land unseeded for one or more growing seasons. The bill makes changes to the program including increasing the number of CWCB authorized projects from 10 to 15; specifying that no more than five pilot projects may be located in any one of the four major river basins; extending the deadline of applications for sponsorship of a project from December 31, 2018 to December 31, 2023; extending completion dates of pilot projects from 2029 to 2034. Representatives Arndt and McLachlan responded to questions from the committee and committee discussion ensued regarding the benefits of lease fallowing and the need for water storage.
03:09 PM -- Jay Winner, Lower Arkansas Water Conservancy District, testified in support of the bill and discussed House Bill 13-1248, which established the pilot program administered by CWCB. Mr. Winner discussed the process of lease fallowing and how it affects water users. Mr. Winner responded to questions regarding the pilot program.
03:22 PM -- John Schweizer, Jr., Arkansas Valley Super Ditch Company, testified in support of the bill and gave background on the development of the Arkansas Valley Super Ditch and the benefits to water users in the Lower Arkansas Valley, particularly in Crowley County. Mr. Schweizer responded to questions from the committee regarding the benefits of the CWCB pilot program.
03:31 PM -- Phillip Chavez, Diamond A Farms, testified in support of the bill and provided the committee with a background of water use on his farm and how the CWCB pilot project has benefited his area.
03:42 PM -- Don Shawcroft, Colorado Farm Bureau, testified in support of the bill and discussed why the pilot program should be extended. Mr. Shawcroft responded to question from the committee.
03:48 PM -- Dr. John Stulp, Water Policy Advisor for the Governor, testified in support of the bill and explained the need for the pilot project program. He discussed the lease fallow tool and described the benefits to water users. Dr. Stulp responded to questions from the committee regarding the pilot program, specifically the approval process for projects in the program.
04:02 PM -- Dianna Orf, Colorado Water Congress, testified in support of the bill.
04:04 PM -- Aaron Citron, the Nature Conservancy, testified in support of the bill.
04:07 PM -- Leah Martinsson, Lower Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy District, testified in support of the bill and explained why the pilot project should be extended.
04:11 PM -- Jack Goble, Lower Arkansas Valley Conservancy District, testified in support of the bill.
The chair closed testimony, and Representatives Arndt and McLachlan made closing remarks on the bill.
The committee adjourned.

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Shell to Buy Biogas Producer in $2 Billion Deal
Shell PLC (-0.27%) has agreed to buy a European producer of biogas for nearly $2 billion, the latest move by a major oil and gas company to push into renewable fuels. The London-based company said Monday it would buy Denmark's Nature Energy Biogas A/S, which produces a renewable fuel called biomethane that can replace conventional natural gas in heavy road and marine transport, industry and heating. Nature Energy is Europe's biggest producer of biomethane from organic waste. The deal emerges as some of the world's largest oil-and-gas companies look to tap into rising demand for renewable natural gas as their customers try to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. Shell and British rival BP PLC are shifting more resources into lower-carbon energy to meet long-term decarbonization targets, even as they continue to make most of their money producing and trading oil and gas. Shell's acquisition comes just six weeks after BP said it agreed to buy U.S. biogas producer Archaea Energy Inc. for $3.3 billion plus debt, for a total of $4.1 billion. And Chevron Corp. earlier this year agreed to pay $3.15 billion for Iowa-based Renewable Energy Group in one of its biggest clean-fuel investments. Biogas can be captured from decomposing landfill and farm waste and made into alternative fuel for heavy trucks and power plants. The decomposition process releases methane, a harmful greenhouse gas. The goal is to cut emissions by processing the biogas into usable, transportable fuel.
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The Swiss stock exchange held up better than its European neighbours at the start of the week. Because the leading SMI index in Zurich is very heavily weighted with Roche, Novartis and Nestle, shares that are less sensitive to the economy, the decline in the SMI was only very moderate. It lost 0.1 per cent to 11,162 points. Among the 20 SMI stocks, there were 12 price losers and 8 price winners. 68.6 (Friday: 60.5) million shares were traded. Roche, Nestle and Novartis all closed with small gains of up to 0.4 per cent, while Swisscom, another stock considered defensive, rose by 0.6 per cent. Richemont (+2.2 per cent) and Swatch (+1.1 per cent) were somewhat surprisingly at the top of the second tier, also outperforming the broad market. Both shares are generally considered to be very sensitive to negative news from China, a very important demand country for the companies. Bringing up the rear in the SMI was clearly Credit Suisse, which actually accelerated Friday's slide with a drop of 9.3 per cent. In order to end an ongoing investigation by the US Federal Reserve into Credit Suisse Bank's involvement in the collapse of the asset management company Archegos Capital Management, the bank is prepared to pay penalties and make corrections in its operating business. Credit Suisse suffered more than $5 billion in losses from Archegos, the worst hit among a number of financial institutions.
European stocks fell to start a new trading week as protests in China over the country's zero-tolerance approach to Covid-19 weighed on investor sentiment. The DAX fell by 1.1 per cent to 14,383 points, the Euro-Stoxx-50 by 0.7 per cent to 3,936 points. Only the Stoxx indices of pharmaceutical stocks as well as food and beverage stocks, which are not dependent on the economy, held up well. Oil shares, reliant on the Chinese economy, and basic resources were under heavy pressure. Brenntag was in focus due to merger talks with US rival Univar Solutions. Airbus fell 5.7 per cent to 107.36 euros. Press reports indicated that scheduled deliveries of medium-haul jets in 2023 could be delayed. The fall below the 112 mark also triggered pressure, as many stop-loss marks had been placed there after the rally since the beginning of October. Casino was down 0.4 per cent in Paris. The French retailer intends to sell parts of its Brazil business to accelerate its debt reduction. Casino initially plans to divest 10.4 per cent of its stake in Assai. "That should bring in at least half a billion dollars," one trader estimated the proceeds for Casino. After a buy recommendation by UBS, Fresenius gained 0.5 per cent. Symrise fell 0.7 per cent following a downgrade by Goldman Sachs.
U.S. stocks pulled back Monday, pushed down by widespread protests across China and hawkish comments from Federal Reserve officials about the path of interest-rate increases. The S&P 500 fell 62.18 points, or 1.5%, to 3963.94. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 497.57 points, or 1.4%, at 33849.46. The Nasdaq Composite declined 176.86 points, or 1.6%, to 11049.50. Stocks opened in the red, but the selloff accelerated in the afternoon after comments from Fed officials indicating interest rates could be higher for longer as inflationary pressure persists. New York Fed President John Williams on Monday said "there is still more work to do" to bring down prices. St. Louis Fed President James Bullard also discussed elevated rates moving forward. Energy companies fell along with oil prices. Every component in the S&P 500 energy sector closed Monday lower. Diamondback Energy dropped $5.59 a share, or 3.7%, to $143.73. Occidental Petroleum and Exxon Mobil also declined. Apple could see a production shortfall of close to 6 million iPhone Pro units this year due to the unrest at the Chinese factory in Zhengzhou where most of the world's latest iPhone models are assembled, Bloomberg News reported. Apple shares declined $3.89 a share, or 2.6%, to $144.22. Walt Disney (-3.2%) will prioritise the creativity of its productions and the profitability of its streaming service over subscriber growth, Robert Iger said on Monday at a conference to mark his return as head of the US entertainment giant. Taboola shares jumped 44 percent after the online advertising specialist announced an exclusive 30-year commercial agreement with internet company Yahoo. Activision gained 1.7% to $74.83 after being hit last week by reports that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was preparing to take legal action to block Microsoft's takeover of the games publisher (-0.8%). Cigarette maker Philip Morris (-1.2%) announced that it held 93.11% of Swedish Match's share capital following its takeover bid and that it would apply to delist the Swedish company.
Asian stocks were mixed on Tuesday. China's benchmark Shanghai Composite edged up 2.3 per cent while Hong Kong's Hang Seng adds 4.3 per cent. In any case, additional aid for the ailing real estate sector is well received in China. Longfor Group Holdings jumped 10 per cent, Country Garden Holdings 9.9 per cent and Country Garden Services 9.5 per cent. Meanwhile, the Nikkei-225 loses 0.4 per cent to 28,039 points. In South Korea, the Kospi gained 0.9 per cent. Asiana Airlines jumps 19 per cent, Korean Air Lines 3.7 per cent. The British regulatory authorities are likely to allow the merger of the two companies.
Long-dated U.S. government debt yields were mostly steady on Monday, amid unrest in China, which sparked some worries about prospects for the global economy. The 10-year Treasury note was yielding 3.67%, down 2 basis points. The 2-year Treasury note lost 3 basis points to 4.448%.
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Magnesium is an essential nutrient and a common ingredient of dietary supplements meant to reduce blood sugar. Studies have shown that magnesium can improve insulin action and reduce insulin resistance but can magnesium supplementation improve glycemic control? Read to find out how magnesium affects blood glucose level and diabetes complications.
According to recent studies, magnesium and blood sugar are linked more than most people realize. In fact, low magnesium might just be one of the main triggers for developing high blood sugar and type 2 diabetes. Read on to discover how magnesium and blood sugar issue are linked, and what you can do to reduce your risks.
Magnesium is an essential mineral in all living things. It is found in all human cells where it is required to bind to and activate adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the chief energy molecule of cells. While all cells need magnesium, its concentration differs from one cell type to another.
Magnesium is also a cofactor for over 300 enzymes involved with the production and utilization of ATP, DNA, and RNA.
The recommended daily intake requirement of magnesium for adults is 300 – 400 mg/day.
Even though almost all food plants contain magnesium, it is present in low concentrations. However, there are still excellent plant sources of the mineral. Important dietary sources of magnesium include green vegetables, seeds, nuts, whole grains, dark chocolate, and bran. It can also be found in halibut, milk, oats, and peanut butter.
Refined, processed foods usually do not contain appreciable amounts of magnesium because the mineral readily dissolves in water and is lost during food processing.
The high solubility of magnesium in water also means that it is easily excreted from the body with urine. Therefore, magnesium deficiency is common among diabetics.
Quite a number of magnesium salts are used in medicine. These include inorganic magnesium preparations as well as organic salts.
The main indication for magnesium supplement is to reverse magnesium deficiency and hypomagnesemia. However, some magnesium salts do have other specific purposes. For example, hydrate magnesium sulfate or Epsom salt is used as a laxative in high doses but it can also be used to relieve heartburn, constipation, eclampsia, hypertension, and seizures.
Magnesium oxide and milk of magnesia (magnesium hydroxide) are poorly absorbed in the gastrointestinal tract. Therefore, their main indication is as antacids to help neutralize stomach acid.
Magnesium deficiency resulting from inadequate intake of the mineral can cause anxiety, migraines, muscles spasms, high blood pressure, cardiovascular problems, osteoporosis, and diabetes.
Because magnesium is readily soluble, magnesium toxicity or hypermagnesemia only affect those with kidney problems. However, excess oral intake of magnesium may cause diarrhea as the body tries to eliminate the excess magnesium before it is absorbed.
Studies have shown that low serum magnesium levels are strongly associated with type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and metabolic syndrome. Therefore, magnesium supplementation provides clear benefits for those suffering from these disorders.
In addition, magnesium supplements have been shown to be especially effective for those suffering from treatment-resistant diabetes.
Lastly, magnesium prevents the calcification of the blood vessels. This is an especially useful outcome for patients suffering from kidney problems and cardiovascular diseases. Magnesium can prevent fatty deposits from accumulating in the walls of major blood vessels.
Epidemiological studies have also confirmed that low intake of dietary and/or supplemental sources of magnesium can increase the risk of stroke, hypertension and other manifestation of atherosclerosis.
There is a consensus among medical researchers that magnesium supplementation is useful in the treatment of type 2 diabetes.
While studies are underway to determine whether increasing magnesium levels in the body directly translates to better blood sugar control, it has been confirmed that magnesium can improve insulin sensitivity and reduce the risks of cardiovascular diseases associated with diabetes.
In addition, magnesium deficiency is more common among people with diabetes (both type 1 and type 2) than non-diabetics.
In fact, experts believe magnesium deficiency is a risk factor for diabetes. For example, the incidence of hypomagnesemia among African Americans is higher (20%) than for the rest of the population. Experts believe that low magnesium level may be one the reasons African Americans also have increased risks of diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and hypertension.
This observation is further strengthened by the clinical data that found a strong correlation between insulin resistance and low magnesium levels even among non-diabetic elderly African Americans.
A number of studies have established that both the plasma level of magnesium and the level of free magnesium inside cells (intracellular) are lower in diabetics than the general population. However, the intracellular magnesium level in red blood cells is a more accurate measure of insulin resistance and diabetes than plasma magnesium level.
Besides increasing the utilization of excess glucose, insulin also drives magnesium into cells along with glucose. This means that insulin increases intracellular magnesium levels while reducing plasma magnesium levels.
Therefore, when the body develops insulin resistance during type 2 diabetes, magnesium is no longer actively pushed into cells. This causes intracellular magnesium levels to fall.
By administering more magnesium, it is possible to increase intracellular magnesium levels and reduce insulin resistance. One group of researchers achieved this by overcoming insulin resistance in skeletal muscles by increasing the intracellular concentration of magnesium in the cells of the muscle.
In fact, most of the drugs used in the treatment of diabetes increase magnesium levels. For example, metformin raises magnesium levels in the liver and pioglitazone was proven to increase magnesium levels in fat cells.
This means that increasing magnesium levels is one of the major means by which anti-diabetic drugs reduce insulin resistance.
A 1999 paper published in the Archives of Internal Medicine took some of the data from The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study to investigate the link between serum and dietary magnesium and the risk of type 2 diabetes.
This study involved over 12,000 non-diabetic, middle-aged adults whose diets were monitored over a period of 6 years.
The study concluded that although low dietary magnesium intake was not linked to type 2 diabetes, low serum magnesium level was a strong predictor of this type of diabetes.
However, some other studies have found that dietary magnesium intake can affect the risk of type 2 diabetes. One of such studies was published in the journal, Diabetes Care, in 2004. In that study, the researchers investigated the association between magnesium intake and the risk of type 2 diabetes.
In this large and long-term study, the magnesium intake of over 120,000 men and women was monitored with food frequency questionnaires. At the beginning of this study, none of the participants had diabetes, cancer or cardiovascular diseases.
These participants were monitored for 12 – 18 years and asked to fill the questionnaires every 2 – 4 years.
After adjusting for body weight, physical activity, diet and family history of diabetes, the study results showed that magnesium intake can reduce the risk of diabetes. The researchers concluded that by increasing dietary (and supplementary) magnesium, the risk of type 2 diabetes can be significantly reduced.
In a second related study published in the same journal in the same year, another group of researchers investigated the link between dietary magnesium intake, plasma insulin levels and the risks of type 2 diabetes.
By gathering data from the Women's Health Study involving almost 40,000 women over the age of 45 and with no previous history of cancer, cardiovascular disease or type 2 diabetes, the authors of this study were able to determine the effect of dietary magnesium intake on the incidence of type 2 diabetes.
From the data collected over 6 years, the researchers concluded that a higher intake of magnesium can significantly reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes in overweight women.
A 2007 paper published in the journal, JAMA Internal Medicine, investigated the effect of dietary fiber and magnesium on the risk of type 2 diabetes.
This paper described a prospective study involving over 24,000 adults aged between 35 and 65 years as well as a meta-analysis of 17 other studies done investigating the effects of fiber or magnesium in the progression of diabetes.
The result of this aggregating study concluded that higher cereal fiber and magnesium intakes can reduce the risk of diabetes.
A 1997 paper published in the American Journal of Diabetes investigated the role of intracellular magnesium in the incidence and progression of hypertension, insulin resistance, and type 2 diabetes.
The authors of this paper noted that in vivo and in vitro studies have confirmed that insulin can help move more magnesium into cells and that intracellular magnesium can, in turn, enhance insulin actions (especially the utilization of glucose).
They also noted that low intracellular magnesium levels are commonly reported in type 2 diabetes and hypertensive patients. This is also closely associated with increased intracellular levels of calcium and defects in the tyrosine-kinase portion of insulin receptors.
The increased calcium levels and defective insulin receptors are believed to be responsible for the increased insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes patients.
Therefore, magnesium supplementation can increase intracellular magnesium levels, reduce insulin resistance, increase glucose uptake by cells and reduce blood pressure in the arteries.
These studies and others indicate that magnesium levels are linked to type 2 diabetes and heart problems. The studies found that low magnesium levels are common in individuals with type 2 diabetes. Magnesium also helps keep calcium levels in check, which is a common trigger for increases in insulin resistance and an increase in risk for high blood pressure and heart problems. Increasing magnesium levels could help prevent some cases of type 2 diabetes when combined with a healthy lifestyle and reduction in sugar intake.
According to previous studies on magnesium and blood sugar, increasing fiber intake and magnesium intake can help reduce the risk of developing diabetes over a lifetime. The easiest way to reduce diabetes risk is to eat a healthy diet, cut back on sugar, increase fiber intake, and increase mineral intake.


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Are you the bottleneck to growth in your organization? Here's how to fix that
Isn't it time to focus your energies on leading the business in the right direction?
By Mark Robinson, Contributor, CIO Feb 14, 2018 5:14 am PST
Having founded and developed several businesses, I am familiar with the issues that can arise when your company starts to grow rapidly. Sometimes you get to a point where there are too many things waiting for your attention and however many hours you put in, you never seem to get to the bottom of the pile. That starts to cause problems quite quickly: issues are not dealt with as soon as they are spotted; decisions are postponed. At some point you realize that you have become the bottleneck to change.
It is tempting at this point to think the answer is just to hire more people to take on some of the tasks that are piling up, but that may prove to be a less straightforward solution than it sounds. You may find you can't hire people immediately with exactly the rights skills, or it takes time to build up confidence in them. You are reluctant to hand over important decisions, because you are keenly aware of the consequences for your business of them being mishandled.
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Rethink the processes
At the foundation stage, many business leaders hire people from their existing networks whom they already know and trust. The team works very closely together, and people can hand over tasks to each other with relative ease and informality. This generally works well when the company is smaller than the "Dunbar number," based on the size of a medieval village, which is 150 people. In a company of this size, everyone knows everyone and the distance between the most senior and the most junior person is small. There is less need for formal processes.
But past this point, the dynamic of the business starts to change. There are too many people for the informal operational practices that worked in the past to be effective. The founders are no longer bringing on board people they already know and trust, the net is cast wider and the new hires are unknown quantities. They may have lots of relevant experience, but it takes time to establish trust and confidence.
At this point a company which was previously agile, and dynamic can start to slow down. The business author Geoffrey Moore talks about high trust networks and low trust networks – at the smaller company stage many things operate on trust, but as it grows the company tends to move to a low-trust situation where there is a lot more control and supervision. More and more decisions tend to get pushed upwards and pile up on the same few people's plates. This threatens the ability of the company to grow successfully.
Unblock the flow
At this point, change is necessary. Just trying to work harder and harder and dig through the pile is not sustainable. The company where the CEO makes all the decisions is the company where the CEO doesn't sleep!
The first thing to do is to review the underlying processes. In "You're probably focused on the wrong metrics – here's how to fix that," I talked about how important it is to set the right metrics for the business. Collecting the right data, keeping it up to date and sharing it across the organization helps to support the right behaviors. If everyone knows what success looks like and what their particular department is supposed to contribute to the overall picture, they can get on with it. Metrics can yield powerful insights into how the business is performing.
Push decision-making downward
Hold people accountable for the performance of their part of the business. As long as they have control of the levers they need to affect the outcomes, they will be able to take responsibility for specific choices. Even a junior member of staff can be given control of the budget for a particular area and held accountable for managing it.
For senior managers to be confident about handing over the important decision, they need to have visibility of what's happening in the different areas. Use data so that they will be alerted if the expected courses of action are not being followed.
Be strategic in how you utilize your most senior and trusted team members. What often happens is that business leaders recruit new people to do new things and move less-experienced people into start up areas – because it is new and/or small it is perceived as low risk. But if it is strategic to grow that new area you should do the reverse and put your most experienced person into it. It will also generally be easier to hire someone with appropriate skills to handle the more mature areas of the business.
Support staff to self-manage
In the last century, bigger companies used to operate in a very hierarchical way, based in one office with everyone under the eye of supervisors. But the digital workplace works better with empowered, autonomous staff who can make decisions and take responsibility.
Technology provides a way to ensure the visibility and accountability which makes this possible. Sharing up to date, real-time information across the company gives the visibility which allows business leaders to feel confident about handing over those vital decisions – because they know that they will be alerted to areas of the business where issues are emerging. Having generally accurate forecasts also means they can immediately see which areas are diverging from prediction.
Pushing decision-making down your organization is vital for maintaining an agile and dynamic company culture as you grow. And once you have stopped being the bottleneck and handed over day to decision making to people throughout the business, you can focus your energies on leading the business in the right direction.
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A serial entrepreneur, Mark Robinson, founder of Kimble Applications, has more than 25 years' experience in the IT consulting industry. In addition to founding the company, he also serves as Chief Marketing Officer where is he is responsible for business development, channel management and market analysis.
Mark started his career in management consulting before working for Oracle Corporation where he was able to witness first hand their rise from start-up to software giant. He started his first IT consultancy company, Fulcrum Solutions, in 1997 with no external investment, and in just under 3 years it had reached 200 staff with offices in Edinburgh, Manchester, London and New York. Two years later it was acquired by Whittman Hart for cash and stock valued at $35 million.
Following the successful sale of Fulcrum, Mark co-founded IT consultancy Edenbrook, this time with external investment, which grew to 400 people by the time it was acquired in 2009 by Hitachi.
The opinions expressed in this blog are those of Mark Robinson and do not necessarily represent those of IDG Communications, Inc., its parent, subsidiary or affiliated companies.
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 Gameumentaire (acquis en 2018)
 Only Single Player (acquis en 2016)
 Gaming Street (fondé en 2019)
 Nintendo Enthusiast (fondé en 2011 par le fondateur d'Enthusiast Gaming)
 Gamnesia (acquis en 2018)
 Opération Sports (acquis en 2018)
 PC Invasion (acquis en 2018)
 Planet Destiny (acquise en 2019)
 PlayStation Enthusiast  (fondé en 2015)
 Steel Media (Pocket Gamer) (acquis en 2019)
 The Sims Resource (acquise en 2019)
 Siliconera (acquis en 2019)
 Passionné de Xbox (fondé en 2015)
 Omnia Media (acquis en 2020)
 Icy Veins (acquis en 2021)
 Upcomer (fondé en 2021)
 Tabstats (acquis en 2021)
 GameKnot (acquis en 2021)

EGLX
Enthusiast Gaming Live Expo (EGLX) est une convention de jeu annuelle organisée au Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Il est présenté comme la plus grande convention de jeux vidéo au Canada, avec un pic signalé de 30 000 participants. En octobre 2018, Enthusiast Gaming a annoncé qu'EGLX accueillera le championnat canadien des jeux de sports électroniques mondiaux.

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Samsung has a design flaw in their LCD TV's . The flaw leads to something called a "whiteout" wherein the screen turns bright white and nothing is displayed. The problem is a PCB situated on the top back of the panel . This PCB is covered by a metal cover with which it eventually shorts. Insulating The metal studs under the metal cover solves this issue! . Use insulating tape (electrical tape ) . Also Insulate under the PCB . Just in case .. Don't stick tape to PCB! .. just under PCB and over the metal studs touching the PCB .
JKturner has an excellent article on the same so I wont repeat the whole thing here . His however is for the 32 '' TV. It's a good read for anyone attempting to solve the 21 inch but remember , on the 21, there is only one PCB at the top back of the panel (after you have removed the chassis housing the motherboard and SMPS).
An open TV chassis can be somewhat intimidating to some, so be brave but be gentle with the internal connectors. BTW, this became my first TV hack partly because I was too lazy to take it to the service center :P and partly because It appears that the service center folks misdiagnose it ( perhaps deliberately !) as a blown panel and charge the consumer for a new one .... and the whole hack worked like a charm !! .


Nothing can be more fragile than when it's purely of the imagination. Just as dreams - if not immediately broken on waking - fade like vampires in the light of day.
Nothing can be more fragile than when it's purely of the imagination.
Just as dreams - if not immediately broken on waking - fade like vampires in the light of day.


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Elon Musk passes Bill Gates to become world's second-richest person in Bloomberg rankings
Tesla founder Elon MuskElon Reeve MuskSpaceX capsule arrives at International Space Station Tesla set to join S&P 500 Twitter hires famous hacker to head security operations MORE surpassed Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to become the second-richest person in the world, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Musk, 49, added $100.3 billion to his net worth in 2020, more than any other person on Bloomberg's ranking of the top 500 richest people in the world, Bloomberg News reported. In the most recent surge, Musk's net worth jumped $7.2 billion, reaching $127.9 billion.
His rise on the index from the 35th-richest person in January is attributed to Tesla, which is nearing $500 billion in market value. About three-fourths of Musk's net worth is made up of Tesla shares.
Musk remains behind Amazon founder Jeff Bezos Jeffrey (Jeff) Preston BezosHow space exploration will help to address climate change Bezos makes first donations from billion Earth Fund Former Amazon worker sues company over COVID-19 conditions MORE, who sits at about $182 billion in net worth. Musk surpassed Gates in 2017.
The Tesla founder's ascent led to the second time in the index's eight-year history that Gates was not considered one of the two richest people in the world.
Gates, who is currently valued at $127.7 billion, has donated billions to charity since his fame, including $27 billion to the Gates Foundation since 2006, according to Bloomberg News.
The Microsoft co-founder has spent lots of money on COVID-19 vaccine research this year and sparred with Musk online after the Tesla founder doubted pandemic data and called COVID-19 tests "extremely bogus."
Bloomberg News noted that members of the index have combined gained 23 percent — or $1.3 trillion — in wealth since the start of 2020, even as the pandemic has led to massive layoffs for workers around the world.
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ACPM's Advocacy and Government Relations Committee (now the National Policy Committee) commissioned this report and a task force established by the AGRC - the Pension Plan Funding Issues Task Force - prepared the report. Task Force members were drawn from the legal and actuarial professions, as well as from both public and private pension plans.
- developed recommendations for improvements.
In addition, the Task Force prepared a response to the Canadian Institute of Actuaries (CIA) Preliminary Report on Public Policy Principles in Pension Plan Funding, released in January 2004.
The Task Force also developed a proposal for the use of letters of credit to meet solvency deficiency contribution requirements for registered pension plans. The Task Force has also met with Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) representatives to discuss funding issues, a dialogue which ACPM hopes will continue.


Peel and chop papaya, banana, oranges and guava into small cubes. Remove the seeds of Pomegranate. Chop apples and mix all the fruits in a large bowl. Add lemon juice immediately to avoid decolorising the fruits like banana and apple. Add honey or sugar syrup to it and refrigerate.
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RENO, NV (KOLO) With the voters approving legalization of marijuana, Nevada's lawmakers were left with the task of setting up the regulatory infrastructure to manage and tax the new industry.
Last session they addressed a problem the state's employers had long seen coming–the potential impact on the work place, specifically pre-employment drug testing.
By that time, a number of employers–likely a majority–who had made testing a part of their hiring policy had already dropped the practice. That still left quite a number wondering how to navigate this new reality.
With the law now taking effect finding those answers takes on a new urgency. A lot of them are turning to the Nevada Employers Association..
"They want to know how they are going to navigate this knowing that they have a variety of positions in their company some with safety concerns, some not," says NEA Membership Services Coordinator Audra Parton.
Essentially the new law prohibits employers from using a positive test for marijuana in an applicant's system as a reason to deny them a job.
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And that's the one that's causing the most confusion and raising the most concern.
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Great to post at DMZ this morning. Lots of new faces, some respected from afar (Chalet, Love Bug), and several I don't get to see nearly enough (Bushwood, Rock, Kirk). A couple of references to DMZ legends of the past, Swiper and Hops, but neither of those jokers showed. Today's DMZ isn't for everyone – we pressed on. Cobains on the lack of familiarity with the AO, but Haverstick served us all really well. Nothing fancy about the drill, got close to 4mi plus some core and upper body. Special thanks to AF and Hamlet on the extended 6in 10-counts. Ouch. Chalet out front all morning with Bushwood (cat-and-mouse), Love Bug and Kirk giving chase. Albatross (WD) at 54 was new to me but definitely contending for #Rifty. 2nd time posting with Hammer in past 4 days, and both times featured a mysterious exit/re-appearance (EPO?). Orlando ran his mouth for the full 45, we all kinda felt sorry for Rock. Nevertheless, all seemed OK…until second wheelbarrows, then despondency crept in among the pax. Within no time, about 5 guys bagged it and headed for the house. Maybe it was start of school jitters, last night's lasagna, threats from the M, or the hills of Mountainbrook. But I'm really hoping it wasn't due to Orlando's yapping. Next time more running, fewer exercises. Thanks again to Aquafresh for the opportunity to lead. Great mix of men, lots of AO options, and plenty more work to do.
Metro convergence – Labor Day, 9/3, 0700 at Latta Park in Dilworth. Thin Slice, Narc, and Pate leading the regulars.
Sunday's QSource topic is CONTENTMENT. Orlando has the lead. It'll be a good one, maybe even a few nuggets to tactfully take home to your wives. Cotswold Brueggers, 0815-0845, after Caffeine run.
Be on lookout for 2nd launch of QSource discussion in Metro in the coming weeks. Targeting Friday AMs in midtown area, facilitated by one of Metro's finest. Trust me, we're in for a treat.
Probably too much running for Hops, who's a bit of a bootcamp purist.
Proud of Bushwood for hanging in on the wheelbarrows, despite his priestly hands.


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Due to bad health or death – This is most likely to affect Practices that have only one qualified person carrying out the work. If you find your firm has closed due to this reason, please contact The CLC who will have made arrangements for the work to be covered by another Practice in the short term. You will have the choice of leaving your file with the CLC nominated Practice or you will be able to move the work to a lawyer of your choice. Again, if you choose the latter option you must expect to pay a proportion of the agreed fee to the closing Practice.
Intervention – If The CLC has intervened and closed the practice themselves, you will need to contact The CLC who will explain the process which will be similar to that described above.
The Land Registry can provide you with the title registration and title plans for most properties for around £20-£30 depending on your request. These are the documents that you are most likely to need from your purchase file so you might find it easier and quicker to speak to the Land Registry before you come to us.
However, if you still wish to request other documents that were held by a CLC regulated practice that has now been closed down, please email filerequest@clc-uk.org and we will be able to confirm whether we hold them.
We make a charge of £50 to cover the costs of retrieving each file. It can take six to eight weeks to retrieve files from deep storage.


Well first its good to know about IP classes , IP address are divided into 4 categories A B C D E. Class A ip address range is from 0 to 127 they are special and very expensive mostly they are purchased by big comapneis like google yahoo ibm microsoft etc and they are very hard to find to be purchased.Class B ip address range is from 128 to 191, they are mostly used by medium size companies. Class C ip address range is from 192 to 233 and they are cheap and used by small comapnies like for webhosting and multiplayer game servers etc. Class D ip address range is from 224 to 239 they are not used in public domain although they are reserved for multicast addressing. Class E ip address range is from 240 to 255 , they are not used in public sector and they are reserved for education scientific studies.
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Useotools Class C IP checker is one click tool that check your class IP address that how many other websites are using it, because sometime when same ip address when shared by multiple website it can effect ranking in search engines, let say there is one bad website which is blacklisted by directories and also badly ranked by search engines so if another good site is using the same ip address then its ranking will be effected. So its better to know who is using the IP address. Usage of this tool is way simple just input your site domain and we will check that its used by how many other sites.


Well it looks like we finally get a peek at what these new character designs look like for the upcoming Sonic Boom cartoon, along with a trailer of a game announce that will be based off of the show.
This is without a doubt a VERY controversial change within the Sonic fanbase, and it boggles my mind as to how they would allow these changes to happen. Even the simplest detail of Sonic's eyes being green instead of black has been complained about. Personally I have no problem with the designs, as long as they stay within the show and within the 1 game based off of the show. If these were the permanent designs, for new games and Sonic comics to come, THEN I would have a huge issue with them. But as long as they stay in the Sonic Boom series alone, I personally think they're pretty decent redesigns.
Let us know in the comments below what you all think of these controversial designs?


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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, right, shake hands after a joint a press conference at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
BERLIN (AP) — Germany's defense minister is calling for the country to spend 2% of gross domestic product on defense by 2031, a target Chancellor Angela Merkel called "realistic but ambitious."
NATO members in 2014 agreed to "aim to move toward" increasing defense spending to 2% of GDP by 2024. The U.S. has criticized Berlin's defense spending, which is rising but now stands at 1.36% of GDP.
Germany aims to reach 1.5% by 2024. Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, who leads Merkel's party, says it should reach 2% by 2031.
Merkel said after meeting Thursday with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg that, in view of what Germany has done in recent years, "it is a realistic but ambitious proposal to reach this (2 in 2031."
The 2% defense spending aim is disputed by the junior partners in Merkel's coalition government.


The last verse of the haftarah was probably meant to be the conclusion to the prophet Hosea's message: "He who is wise will consider these words; He who is prudent will take note of them. For the paths of the Lord are smooth; The righteous can walk on them, while sinners stumble on them." (Hosea 14:10) In other words, those who heed my (Hosea's) message to return to God and serve Him with integrity will merit to travel the "path of the Lord – darche haShem"; those who do not will stumble on that path.
Rabbi David Kimchi, the 12th century Provencal commentator, interprets "darche HaShem" to mean "ways of the Lord", .namely, that God's providential ways in the world are just and that each person will be judged according to their actions. A person endowed with this wisdom will behave accordingly.
The following Talmudic passage (Nazir 23a) adopts the idea that "darche HaShem" refers to Torah or mitzvot but removes the significance of this verse from its original contexts entirely: Rabbah bar bar Channah said in the name of Rabbi Yochanan: "What is the meaning of the verse: 'For the paths of the Lord are smooth, the righteous walk in them, but the wicked stumble in them'?" [This can be understood by means of a] parable about two people who roasted their Passover sacrifice [in preparation to eat it together with matzah and maror (bitter herb) on Passover night]. One ate the sacrifice with the intention of fulfilling the commandment – "l'shom mitzvah". The other ate it gluttonously after he was already full – "achila gasah". The one who ate it for the purposes of fulfilling the commandment exemplifies "the righteous shall walk in them; while the one who ate it gluttonously exemplifies "transgressors shall stumble in them".
This interpretation is ultimately rejected by Resh Lakish who asserts that even the person who performs the commandment in less than an optimal way has nevertheless still performed the commandment. If this is the case, it is difficult for us to understand what about the "glutton"'s behavior would prompt Rabbi Yochanan to call him a transgressor. Rabbi Menachem Meiri, the 13th century Provencal Talmudist explained the difference between the two figures in Rabbi Yochanan's parable. He asserts that the righteous person, in the parable, performed the commandment entirely out of service to God (lshma), while the wicked person performed the commandment out of habit or solely for his/her own benefit. Rabbi Isaac Abrabenel, the 15th century Spanish statesman and commentator put it this way: "the divine commandments require positive intention (kavanah) for without it they have no significance since they are not like other good deeds that have merit in and of themselves. Rather all of their significance flows from the fact that they are the fulfillment of God's will.