A new study from the Journal of Gender Studies suggests an explanation for the rise of the "spornosexual" man, a trend in which men become obsessed with trying to look like athletes or porn stars. The study suggests a poor economy and men's feelings of disenfranchisement may drive them to spend hours at the gym and to post countless thirst traps online.
Dr. Jamie Hakim, the author of the study and lecturer in Media Studies at the University of East Anglia, based his research on qualitative interviews with a small sample of young white men in Britain, who spoke to the relationship between the fixation on their appearance and the fallout from Britain's 2008 financial crisis.
The recession led the country to instate austerity measures aimed at cutting Britain's deficit. These measures have reduced the amount of benefits the country's citizens receive from the government, and, as a result, young people in Britain who didn't have accumulated wealth before these measure were set forth have struggled in recent years to secure jobs and own homes.
Hakim explains that while these austerity measures affected women and ethnic minorities much more than white men, it has had the unique effect of "taking away certain privileges" that white men in Britain have relied on historically.
"The traditional breadwinner role that they could fall back on has become more or less obsolete in the austerity economy. The increase in going to the gym and producing and consuming media can be explained by the fact that bodies are the only thing they own any more," says Hakim.
But it's not primarily about health, says Hakim. "It does make them feel good and strong, but none of them are doing it to compete in sports. It's about how you look in a picture." He says that instead of gaining feelings of self-worth from monetary value, "social and cultural value, and the erotic value of feeling sexy, are becoming increasingly important ." Social media allows men to create an image of themselves that has achieved the ideal, and tools like Instagram can help men create images that replicate glossy fashion spreads, Men's Health shoots, or pornography.
Though being "swole" and sexy doesn't typically solve the economic problems these men may face—except, perhaps, for a few fitness professionals—they do get something in return from posting pictures of their abs online: a thrill.
"The people I spoke to say they get a buzz from compliments or the number of likes on a photo. There's a digital value they can get from counting likes," says Hakim. "However, there is also a self-awareness, and the way they describe these moments was as intense, but fleeting. Even fitness professionals were dubious of the actual value of these social media posts. It's not an enduring satisfaction like a man may have had as a breadwinner."
Valuing oneself according to appearance is nothing new; Hakim points out that women have been socially conditioned to do this for a long time. "What's significant now is that it's also middle class men using bodies the way women and minorities have had to historically. There's an expectation for men to appear a certain way now that there wasn't in the past."
A study published by Brunel University confirmed what most of us think as we scroll our Facebook newsfeeds: People who share what they eat and how much they've worked out are more likely to be narcissistic, and the people who post frequently about their significant others tend to have low self-esteem.
More than 500 Facebook users in the US participated in the study, published last October. Psychologists were interested in understanding why people post what they do. They asked subjects about the amount of time spent on the social network, their motives for posting, and what kind of feedback they received on average. Of the group, 57 percent checked Facebook on a daily basis, spending an average of 107.95 minutes per day on the site.
In terms of method, researchers used the "Big Five" model of personality, which states that individuals vary in terms of five notable traits: openness to new experiences, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. After completing a survey to determine which of the Big Five traits they possessed, participants were asked which subjects they typically post about and how frequently.
The results were fairly unsurprising: Extraverts tended to publish more about their social activities and everyday life; people who were more open were more likely to write about intellectual topics; and conscientious people shared more about their children.
Narcissists, the study found, were more likely to post about the ways they take care of their physical appearance in order to reveal how important it is to them, not necessarily to seek validation. They also were not ashamed of bragging about their accomplishments, which was reinforced by a greater number of likes and comments. One caveat, researchers point out, is that "people may like and comment on a friend's achievement-related updates to show support, but may secretly dislike such displays of hubris."
In another predictable finding, people with low self-esteem were more likely to post about their significant others. While they typically use Facebook for self-expression, when they posted about their relationships, it was instead for communication purposes. "Considering that people with low self-esteem tend to be more chronically fearful of losing their romantic partner, and that people are more likely to post relationship-relevant information on Facebook on days when they feel insecure," the study's authors note, "it is reasonable to surmise that people with low self-esteem update about their partner as a way of laying claim to their relationship when it feels threatened."
Regina Tuma is a professor in the media psychology department at Fielding Graduate University. She tells Broadly she wasn't surprised by the study's findings. "What we're seeing in social media is a reflection of our everyday and interpersonal relations and communications," she says. Some people are narcissistic online and offline, just as there are others who aren't. Moreover, Tuma says, the study acknowledges that social media have become integrated into our lives.
Ultimately, the study's authors write, it's important to understand why we publish what we do so that we can avoid making our friends hate us. "Greater awareness of how one's status updates might be perceived by friends could help people to avoid topics that annoy more than they entertain," they conclude.
Tuma agrees, saying people need to "grow up a little in terms of the kinds of interactions we have on social media." She suggests people move past writing whatever they want on their wall, pointing out that doing so is a little selfish. "If we want to be good communicators and want to have meaningful relationships, we need to be aware of the other, and we need to be aware of our relationships with them."
A new study reveals that millennials' hands are not as strong as their parents', and men's grip strength has shown the most notable decline.
The study, conducted by researchers at Winston–Salem University, measured the grip strength and pinch strength of 237 "healthy" millennials between the ages of 20 and 34 and compared the findings to similar data from 1985. The comparisons indicated that male millennials have a significantly weaker grip than their 1985 counterparts, while most women also showed a decline in strength.
The one exception was modern women ages 30 to 34, who did not have a weaker grip strength. However, 30- to 34-year-old women were among the only two groups—the other being women aged 20 to 24—whose pinch was weaker than it was in 1985. Other groups did not show a large decline in the thumb's pinch strength, which may be connected to the fact that thumbs are still used regularly for texting and gaming.
The findings appear to show that grip strength may be changing as a result of extensive technology use in modern life, as well as the increase in more sedentary jobs at the expense of physically active ones. Research has shown the strength of one's grip is affected by the kinds of daily activities one participates in; a 2015 study even showed grip strength could be a good indicator of mortality, with weaker hands being associated with a higher likelihood of death.
"Hand activity is totally different than is was in 1985," Elizabeth Fain, an author of the new study, tells Broadly. "People of all age groups, mostly, are not doing as much physical work because we're outsourcing manufacturing, and we don't have as many farms. So people are not performing as many physically demanding tasks. What's unique about millennials, though, is that while grip strength is going down, their texting and gaming uses a lot of thumb motion, so thumb pinch strength has not gone down the same way. This helps make the connection between the change and how we're doing different hand patterns."
Fain says that though it's not certain, the larger decline in men's strength is likely due to the fact that, in years past, men were doing more physical labor than women. Now, though, long-term hand health is a big concern for all genders.
"We tested individuals' thumbs and looked at if they were having any repetitive syndromes. There's something called Finkelstein's test that indicates whether someone is at risk for de Quervain's"—an inflammatory disease that causes pain in the tendons in your thumb that extend down to the wrist—"and using that, we found a high number of positives."
"We are going to need to educate computer users and the public to do stretches and exercises to prevents de Quervain's," says Fain. "What really needs to happen is that individuals who regularly use technology should stop to take breaks and do gentle tendon-gliding movements to stretch the thumb in the opposite direction of where they're constantly bending it. There are a wide variety of preventative measures. Really, people just need to take more frequent breaks."
It is generally not good to make generalizations about social groups, but it's probably true that young people are more interested in themselves than their elders. This is exemplified by self-centered acts like selfie photography—whether they take the form of overexposed, Myspace bathroom poses or haute, contoured Instagram shots—and by other behaviors, such as selfish spending. A recent study confirmed that such selfish behavior is correlated with age; it found that older people are more likely to act altruistically.
In "A General Benevolence Dimension That Links Neural, Psychological, Economic, and Life-Span Data on Altruistic Tendencies," the researchers, led by psychology professor Ulrich Mayr, examined 80 male and female subjects between the ages of 18 and 67 years old. Using a functional MRI (fMRI), Mayr and his team examined the brain waves of 80 test subjects as they made decisions about charitable financial giving. Altruism was identified in three ways: self-reported responses about charitable giving, observed charitable actions, and brain response.
The researchers found that older people were more generous, giving money to charity instead of using it for themselves, and their brains seemed to light up in positive ways when they gave away their money. Not so for young people. According to the study, it didn't matter whether the actions of the participant were anonymous or not; old people were still more charitable and young people still weren't. The researchers observed altruistic behavior that is linked to a "general benevolence dimension," which increases with age and transcends factors like gender or wealth.
In an interview with Broadly, Mayr said that people who are selfish can become altruistic, but that change is probably cultivated over time. "The mere fact that it increases with age suggests an experiential factor," Mayr said. Young people probably won't give up their self-interest for nothing, though; rewards for good behavior go a long way in creating the shift. "As reward is experienced with altruistic behavior, such behavior may be strengthened in the future," Mayr explained.
Benevolence may be wide-reaching, and Mayr believes these findings should make the cynics of the world feel optimistic about our future. "Our results speak against a fatalistic view about the nature altruism—namely, that it does not exist and people only do good things for self-serving motives and not to actually help," he said.
Altruism does exist, the study says—it's just not very prevalent among younger people. One (unsurprisingly generous) explanation for why young people are more interested in spending money on themselves than other people is that for younger people, it is more important "to gather resources for the future," Mayr said. Older people don't have that worry so much. "The less future left, the more one can refocus on what is meaningful in the moment."
Everyone knows that life is objectively unpleasant, that people are all shit, and that hell is—more than a Biblical literary device or a fantastic otherworld of eternal suffering—every day on earth. Yet it is dangerous, Mayr said, to think this way—to imagine the world as a place where general benevolence does not exist. "Such a worldview can have important consequences for how one interacts with others, and one's own happiness," he said. This research could help open people's minds to a more optimistic reality in which some humans are actually good by nature.
"Our work does suggest that, for many acts of giving, the increase in the wellbeing of the recipient is in fact the primary motive, not the secondary consequences that might come for the giver—such as prestige, trust points, etc.," Mayr said. There's good reason to believe that such generosity has positive effects on both those around us as well as on ourselves. Mayr pointed to prior research which showed that people are happier when they give their money away.
Certain populations live longer than others: Women tend to outlive men and Hispanics have lower mortality rates than other ethnic groups. But the mystery is why. There are many social and health theories that have tried to explain it, but in an attempt to offer a definitive answer to the question, Steve Horvath, a professor of human genetics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, went straight to the source: our DNA.
I called up Horvath after he graciously agreed to explain his very complicated study on what he previously termed the "epigenetic clock" like I was four years old. Horvath is German, and over the phone, his thick accent made his recent findings about how genetic markers in our blood and cell tissues can measure our age—and how those markers can differ across sex and ethnicity—sound even more like mad science.
"It was understood that different ethnic and racial groups have different risks of mortality, or that some people have a longer lifespan than others," he told me. "But how do you really measure that aging? Before our study, there were very, very few studies that looked at the aging rate. There was a technical reason for this: There were very few measures of aging."
That's where Horvath's epigenetic clock, a molecular measure of aging, comes in. Horvath found that our DNA, while it doesn't change, can tell us our age through the epigenetic modifications that it undergoes over time. "There's something called DNA methylation, which is a chemical modification of the DNA molecules. That's what we're looking at. As we age, some parts of our DNA gain methylation, and some parts lose methylation. By looking at all of these changes over time, one can actually very accurately measure somebody's age. This is the first study that uses this highly accurate measure of biologic age," Horvath explained. "If you sent me your blood I could tell you your age," he added.
There's no doubt that men are worse off than women.
The study analyzed two blood measures that are markers of age in 6,000 people from various ethnic groups—intrinsic epigenetic age acceleration (IEAA), which can't be influenced by lifestyle factors (like smoking or drinking) and extrinsic epigenetic age acceleration (EEAA)—which were further subdivided by sex. What Horvath found was that Latinos have lower IEAA than other groups, meaning they fundamentally age more slowly. Latina women in the study, for example, were 2.4 years younger than non-Latino women of the same age when measured by the epigenetic clock.
"We can show that Hispanics age more slowly independent of changes in the blood cell," he said. However, Latino men and women are at higher risk for diseases like obesity, chronic liver disease, and diabetes—or, in other words, their EEAA is high. Horvath hypothesizes that the slower aging rate of Hispanics helps neutralize their higher health risks.
The study also found that, on average, women of all ethnicities aged more slowly than men. "There's no doubt that men are worse off than women. That is in every ethnic and racial group. We looked at several tissue groups and blood and their saliva. Being a man is really bad news."
Horvath is planning to further study the molecular mechanism that protects Latinos from aging and causes women to age slower than men.
I asked Horvath if this research could set the stage for aging interventions. I thought about those experiments with mice, where an old mouse gets strapped to a young mouse and becomes more youthful using its blood, and imagined a strange future: Would people be lining up to get Hispanic blood infusions, with Peter Thiel leading the way?
Luckily, Horvath thinks we're pretty far off from that, though he was amused by the thought. "Theoretically that might be possible, but I just don't have any idea," he laughed. "The great hope is that maybe we will find certain drugs that affect the epigenetic aging rate. But we don't have any interventions at this point."
A butcher's case of beef is made up of more than just a few recognizable cuts, so we teamed up with the Beef Checkoff to chart every section, identify cuts, and share how to use them in everyday cooking.
What's the first cut of beef that you usually go for on a visit to the butcher? Is it Skirt or Flank Steak, to put on the grill and have dinner in minutes, or is it a big, swaggering, wow-factor T-bone? A roast you've made more times than you care to admit, or a staple burger blend?
On average, there is little meat that a butcher can't use once they've received a side of beef for breaking down. That yields a lot of cuts—some popular ones that are picked off quickly, and some that might easily be passed over in a case if you aren't familiar with them—the Tri-Tips, Blade Steaks, and the even more obscure, like Denver or Bavette cuts. When I'm standing in front of a gleaming, chilly counter, I want to get in and out with the thing I know how to cook best. I think that's normal—but if you're willing to learn, you'll be rewarded with insider knowledge, a better eye for the right cut for the recipe you're making, and—maybe, if you're there on the regular—the butcher's favor.
There are many ways to cut it—a cut chart, that is—and this is the way we're breaking it down for you. Illustration by Adriana Gallo
You probably know the ubiquitous cut chart that's at every counter—like the one above! Every chart that illustrates cuts is different, just as butchers approach their craft differently. And I'm breaking things down into the nine sections shown, clockwise from the Round, with recommendations and helpful little tidbits you can tuck away for next time you're looking to cook with beef.
A general rule of thumb when you're looking for the best way to cook a cut, as shared by our iOS developer (and grilling aficionado) Mike Simons: If you're closer to hoof or horn, that generally means more connective tissue—and more connective tissue means tougher meat. Mike says that this meat needs low and slow heat to break it down (think barbecue, braising, roasting). Less connective tissue means hot and fast—a quick sear will do it.
ROUND
The Round section comes from, unsurprisingly from its name, the rump and the hind legs. It's where you'll find a wealth of roast-type cuts (though you can cook them lots of different ways). This and the Chuck, which we'll get to later, are full of hardworking muscles, and have many lean and tough cuts; as a result, several of them are ground instead of used as is. But there are a few cuts that are worth asking for specifically:
Top Round is a king of roasts, but also takes well to tartare and jerky preparations. Cuts like Bottom Round and Eye of Round also take well to roasting slowly and slicing thinly for sandwiches or just to serve with something creamy. Sirloin Tip can be cubed up and tossed in soup.
Other cuts you might ask for are Oyster Steak (a great tiny steak for quick grilling) and Hind Shank (bring on the braise), but your butcher may not stock them regularly. A note on availability: Often butcher counters don't stock an unlimited amount of cuts at any one time. The Meat Hook's General Manager, Mike White, says they only get so much meat in a week, which means that when they're out of a cut, they're out! So, if you're looking for an interesting or less common cut, it's a good idea to call ahead.
SIRLOIN AND SHORT LOIN
Hey, hey, Tenderloin.
Photo by James Ransom
The Sirloin section of beef is sandwiched between the top part of the Round and the Short Loin. It's one of the most well-known parts, and the meat from this section of beef lands right in the middle of the tender-to-tough spectrum. Sirloin itself works like a charm in recipes like Steak for a Brooklyn Backyard Barbeque and Nigel Slater's Miso Soup with Beef and Kale. You can pan-fry, grill, or broil Top Sirloin, and lesser-known cuts you should be trying out can be found here, too: Have you ever heard of Coulotte, or French-cut Steak? Season it liberally with salt and freshly ground black pepper, sear in butter and vegetable oil until medium-rare, let rest, and serve with Braised Onion Sauce. Or Sirloin Flap, otherwise called Bavette? It works like a dream when marinated; try it in this Steak and Bean Torta. Our California contingent swears by Tri-Tip; our Creative Director Kristen Miglore even served it at her wedding.
(Skirt Steak is sometimes grouped in the rib section of a cow, but for our diagram, we're categorizing in the plate section.)
CHUCK
Old reliable chuck.
Photo by James Ransom
The Chuck section of beef is right under the head, encompassing the shoulder and pretty much the entire front portion of the animal other than the neck and Brisket—and it produces several steaks. "The Shoulder is by far the heaviest part of the primal we bring in," Mike explains, referring to the four main sections they receive at The Meat Hook. He adds that, yes, this is why this section has more cuts than others, but there's also the fact that the shoulder is a hard-working muscle—think about if you bent down to nibble on grass all day—and that's why it tends to be so well-developed. Chuck Roast or Steak and Chuck Eye take well to long cooks and soups and stews, like in Yakamein (New Orleans Noodle Soup).
All the Shoulder cuts—Pot Roast, Steak, Center, Petite—take well to slow-cooking, too. Betty Wason's Basic Pot Roast simmers for 3 1/2 to 5 hours.
Flat Iron Steak is tender, second only to the Tenderloin and half its cost. Be careful of its membrane, though, which can be tough unless removed (your butcher should do this for you). You might also find Flat Iron referred to as Top Blade Steak, which is what you'd call it before the membrane has been removed. Try it in this steak sandwich with a garlicky aioli. Denver Steak is the new kid on the block that everyone wants to meet—it's happy to take just a little salt and be grilled up.
BRIKSET AND FORE SHANK
Shank Steak. Photo by James Ransome
Some butchers refer to Brisket and Fore shank as part of the Chuck section, but we're breaking them out here since they're considered lesser cuts and because they sing with similar styles of cooking. Brisket takes to many preparations as long as it's getting softened up—think smoking, stewing, barbecuing, roasting. Fore shank, from the leg, is another slow cooker. Give it overnight or a full workday to break down, and it will fall into a ragu (substitute short ribs in this recipe for Shanks and adjust the cook time as necessary until tender) very nicely. You could also try it, ground, in a chili like this one, which has a little bit of cocoa powder and coffee.
PLATE AND FLANK
Skirt steak. Photo by James Ransome
Two lean cuts, Skirt Steak and Flank Steak, are weeknight go-tos; they love a marinade and are quick to sear over a grill or in a grill pan. Skirt is at the very bottom of the ribs so is often considered part of the rib section; Flank is very low on the bottom of the cow next to the back legs, and can be grouped in with cuts from the middle of the cow like Sirloin and Short Loin. Try them in a Bloody Mary Steak Salad, as Vietnamese Sugar Steak, grilled and served with Greek salsa, with chimichurri, as a sandwich on Texas Toast or with herbed feta, with bourbon, or with green sauce. Hanger Steak has its place here, too; it's sometimes referred to as one of the best steaks out of all the cuts.
All of this said, different butchers in different cultures or places cut beef in a variety of ways—but this gives you a foundation on asking for the basics (plus a few weird, wild options) and feeling confident knowing what you'll get. And when you're ready to go even deeper, to try a new steak you've heard of, delve into offal or bone marrow, or grind your own hamburgers, just ask your butcher for a recommendation—treat him or her like your own personal Virgil, even if just for grilling season.
What's your favorite cut of beef? Care to share how you make it? Tell us in the comments below!
We teamed up the Beef Checkoff to share recipes, tips, and videos all season long, showing you how to prep and cook beef at home like you've been doing it forever.
Chinese culinary expert Carolyn Phillips (All Under Heaven) has written the ultimate guide to enjoying Cantonese teahouse treats, The Dim Sum Field Guide. We got her to spill the beans on her secrets to getting the most out of this experience.
1. The Wise Way to Pick the Restaurant
Go to places that are filled with loud tables full of happy Chinese people. If there are lots of elderly people with their entire families in tow, the place gets extra points. When it comes to quality and value, you can’t fool the old folks.
2. Pick Your Tea Before Anything Else
You are in a teahouse, so of course there is going to be tea. Decide what you want to drink before you get to your table, because that is the first thing your waitperson will ask, sometimes even before you’ve sat down. Jasmine? Green? Oolong? Black? Maybe try the author’s go-to brew: pu’er with chrysanthemums. Don’t order wine or beer or anything else. Dim sum goes with tea. Period.
3. Check Out Your Neighbors
If you haven’t dined in this place before, peruse the tables as you walk in—as well as the ones that are sited near you—to see what others are ordering and devouring most rapidly. You can always unobtrusively point to things that appear tasty, ask what they are, and request an order for your table.
4. Peruse the Menu
The best teahouses will have listings of their dim sum, often with pictures, and you can order from that. Translations will vary from place to place, which is where the Dim Sum Field Guide comes in handy, as you will find illustrations in there, as well as the names of each dish in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese, along with the Chinese characters. Easy peasy.
5. Scan the Carts
Not every dim sum restaurant has carts being pushed through the aisles, but if they do, carts are a good way to get an idea of what looks particularly delicious. They will generally offer specific types of foods, such as deep-fried items, roast meats and braised poultry, steamer baskets, and sweets. Steamed dishes in particular are best when they are freshly made as the texture in the wrappers and fillings will be perfect. So when you order things like siu mai and fun gor from your waitperson, ask that they be steamed to order.
6. Graze
It’s easy to go crazy and fill up your table within five minutes, but don’t. Get one or two items at a time so that they are still hot when you eat them; this will also give you time to revel in their individual flavors and textures. Strive for variety in the ingredients, cooking methods, temperatures, and types of dim sum, as this makes each round exciting. Then, when you start to get full, ask for new plates and begin to order a couple of your favorite sweets.
7. Be Adventurous
Patronize a number of different places until you find that lovely handful of restaurants that really pleases you. Try something new with every visit so that you don’t fall into a rut. Once you’ve mastered the basic repertoire, become daring. Jellyfish, chicken feet, duck tongues, goose intestines, and suckling pig are all mighty tasty, but you won’t know that as a fact until you have given them a fair chance.
8. Take a Stab at Chinese Manners
Dining with Chinese people is easy, as they tend to be some of the nicest people in the world. But you’ll make them more comfortable if you know a few ground rules:
Serve others tea before yourself
Never lay claim to any one dish, but share
Finish a dish only if everyone else declines the last piece
Take only a bit at a time
Use a serving spoon or the top ends of your chopsticks to serve yourself or others; no one likes cooties
9. Eat Like the Chinese
Once you have the food on your plate, this is the way to look like your mom raised you well:
Use chopsticks or forks as required; a few items can be picked up with your hands, like large buns, but not many
Never leave your chopsticks stuck in your food
Make sure your utensils don’t have food glued to them
Remove any bones or shells with your chopsticks and arrange them in a tidy pile on your plate
Rest your non-dominant hand on the edge of the table, not in your lap
Signal that you are full by setting your chopsticks parallel to you across the top of your plate
10. Fight to Pay the Bill
Unless you’re out with good friends who have agreed to go Dutch, be aware that Chinese courtesy requires you at least try to pay for the meal. Chinese friends who are not cheapskates will almost invariably be generous and attempt to foot the bill, but you can gain great face if you manage to snatch the check away from them. Be gracious if you succeed, and of course expect to be treated the next time around. Even then, offer to pay—it’s all part of the experience. And if your friends are tightfisted, find yourself some new dining partners.
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La localidad registró conatos de incendio esta semana (foto: Concello de Cerdido)
FERROL360 | Lunes 15 agosto 2016 | 10:35
El Concello de Cerdido solicita la colaboración de los vecinos ante sendos intentos de provocar incendios este fin de semana en la localidad. Así, lugares de Os Casás y Pontellas se vieron afectados por estos hechos tanto el viernes como el sábado, llegando a necesitarse el apoyo de la motobomba municipal.
El Ayuntamiento señala que «os incendiarios non descansan e estamos en máxima alerta e vixilancia». A su entender, «o éxito está en apagar o lume no inicio», por lo que pide «a colaboración de todos os veciños nestes días tan complicados porque seguimos en situación de grave risco». Junto a la entidad Promacer, reclama el apoyo de voluntarios para vigilar una noche por semana.
Los interesados pueden llamar al 981411000 (Concello de Cerdido) y al 981411398 (Promacer). Además, recuerda el consistorio que aquellos que vean fuego pueden llamar al 085 y al número municipal 649603215; si ven a los que han prendido fuego, al 062. El 112 sirve también como vía para alertar sobre estos sucesos.
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Hollywood hoped that it would never happen, but this week The Pirate Bay quietly turned thirteen years old.
The site was founded in 2003 by Swedish pro-culture organization Piratbyrån (Piracy Bureau). The idea was to create the first public file-sharing network in Sweden, but the site soon turned into the global file-sharing icon it is today.
Over the years there have been numerous attempts to shut the site down. Following pressure from the United States, Swedish authorities raided the site in 2006, only to see it come back stronger.
The criminal convictions of the site’s founders didn’t kill the site either, nor did any of the subsequent attempts to take it offline.
The Pirate Bay is still very much ‘alive’ today.
That’s quite an achievement by itself, looking at all the other sites that have fallen over the years. Just last month KickassTorrents shut down, followed by Torrentz a few days ago.
Many KickassTorrents and Torrentz users are now turning to TPB to get their daily dose of torrents. As a result, The Pirate Bay is now the most visited torrent site, once again.
TorrentFreak spoke to several members of the TPB-crew. While they are not happy with the circumstances, they do say that the site has an important role to fulfil in the torrent community.
“TPB is as important today as it was yesterday, and its role in being the galaxy’s most resilient torrent site will continue for the foreseeable future,” Spud17 says.
“Sure, TPB has its flaws and glitches but it’s still the go-to site for all our media needs, and I can see TPB still being around in 20 or 30 years time, even if the technology changes,” she adds.
Veteran TPB-crew member Xe agrees that TPB isn’t perfect but points to the site’s resilience as a crucial factor that’s particularly important today.
“TPB ain’t perfect. There are plenty of things wrong with it, but it is simple, steadfast and true,” Xe tells TorrentFreak.
“So it’s no real surprise that it is once more the destination of choice or that it has survived for so long in spite of the inevitable turnover of crew.”
And resilient it is. Thirteen years after the site came online, The Pirate Bay is the “King of Torrents” once again.
Finally, we close with a yearly overview of the top five torrent sites of the last decade. Notably, the Pirate Bay is the only site that appears in the list every year, which is perhaps the best illustration of the impact it had, and still has today.
2007
1. TorrentSpy
2. Mininova
3. The Pirate Bay
4. isoHunt
5. Demonoid
2008
1. Mininova
2. isoHunt
3. The Pirate Bay
4. Torrentz
5. BTJunkie
2009
1. The Pirate Bay
2. Mininova
3. isoHunt
4. Torrentz
5. Torrentreactor
2010
1. The Pirate Bay
2. Torrentz
3. isoHunt
4. Mininova
5. BTJunkie
2011
1. The Pirate Bay
2. Torrentz
3. isoHunt
4. KickassTorrents
5. BTJunkie
2012
1. The Pirate Bay
2. Torrentz.com
3. KickassTorrents
4. isoHunt
5. BTJunkie
2013
1. The Pirate Bay
2. KickassTorrents
3. Torrentz
4. ExtraTorrent
5. 1337X
2014
1. The Pirate Bay
2. KickassTorrents
3. Torrentz
4. ExtraTorrent
5. YIFY-Torrents
2015
1. KickassTorrents
2. Torrentz.com
3. ExtraTorrent
4. The Pirate Bay
5. YTS
2016
1. KickassTorrents
2. The Pirate Bay
3. ExtraTorrent
4. Torrentz
4. RARBG
If you give a mouse a cookie, as the children’s book goes, it will ask for a glass of milk. If you give a small child a cookie, as the conventional parenting wisdom goes, it will turn into a wild-eyed, wall-climbing monster, fearsome and uncontrollable until the sugar high has...More »
I do not remember a time when I did not love spicy food. I grew up eating Sichuan food and I can almost imagine my mom introducing me to solids with a healthy dose of chilies. The brazen heat that is so enticing and exotic to so many people is my comfort food. When I crave something familiar, it's not mac-and-cheese that I reach for, but red oil wontons and mapo tofu. It's these dishes that tempt my taste buds, tease my sense of smell, and evoke a powerful feeling of nostalgia.
No os dejéis engañar por su inocente nombre, pues tras el se encuentra un bocado contundente. Por eso decimos que la Francesinha o Francesiña es un sándwich para hambrientos y es que hay que tener un buen agujero en el estómago para dar cuenta de él sin dejar nada en el plato. Aunque es tan sabroso que lo mismo os resulta un paseo.
Típico de la cocina portuguesa, concretamente de la zona de Oporto, la Francesinha es un sándwich de carnes varias y queso que se baña en una salsa picante a base de tomate y cerveza.
Nuestra francesinha es una versión algo más ligera que la original. Lleva menos capas de relleno y una salsa española tuneada. Nos ha quedado la mar de aparente, tanto que nos lo hemos comido sin pestañear. Y es que está de muerte lenta.
Ingredientes
Para 1 unidades
Pan de molde rústico rebanadas
2
Queso en lonchas
4
Ternera asada en lonchas
2
Jamón cocido en lonchas
1
salchichas de carne de cerdo
2
Salsa española
150 g
Harissa , tabasco, cayena o pimentón picante
Aceite de oliva virgen extra
Cómo hacer Francesinha o Francesiña
Dificultad: Fácil
Tiempo total
30 m
Elaboración
10 m
Cocción
20 m
Comenzamos por la salsa que requiere de muy poca elaboración, sobre todo si tenemos la salsa española lista. Añadimos una pequeña cantidad de tabasco, harissa o pimentón picante a la salsa española. Al gusto, dependiendo del punto picante que le queramos dar. Removemos bien y reservamos.
En una sartén, sin nada de aceite pues su propia grasa es suficiente, cocemos las salchichas a fuego suave. Las volteamos de vez en cuando para que no se quemen. Una vez listas y atemperadas, las cortamos por la mitad a lo largo.
Tostamos las rebanadas de pan ligeramente y montamos el sándwich alternando los distintos ingredientes: rebanada de pan, loncha de queso, ternera asada, loncha de queso, loncha de jamón, loncha de queso, salchichas, loncha de queso y, por último, rebanada de pan.
Los ingredientes se puede variar al gusto. En vez de ternera se puede usar cinta de lomo, incorporar chorizo, beicon u otras carnes de cerdo, añadir una rebanada de pan intercalada entre las capas de carne y queso, cubrir con queso antes de salsear, etc.
Una vez montado el sandwich lo cubrimos con la salsa picante que tenemos reservada y lo introducimos en el horno, pre-calentado a 180, durante cinco minutos. Lo suficiente para que tome temperatura y se funda el queso.
Con qué acompañar la Francesinha o Francesiña
Aunque habrá quien se tome una Francesinha o Francesiña por la noche y se quede tan pancho, consideramos que es mejor disfrutarlo a la hora de la comida. Es un bocado contundente, sobre todo si lo rematamos con un huevo frito y lo acompañamos con patatas fritas y una cerveza, como manda la tradición lusa.
Esta semana desde Directo al paladar os queremos acercar un poquito más, con motivo de las Olimpiadas en Río, a la gastronomía brasileña. Hoy nos toca un clásico de los ricos y dulces, los brigadieros brasileños o negrinhos, un bocadito adictivo que os va a conquistar.
Cuenta la historio que los brigadeiros deben su nombre al general de brigada en las Fuerzas Aéreas brasileñas, Eduardo Gomes, personaje que se hizo famoso por poner fin a una revuelta comunista en Río. Lo cierto es que ahora los brigadeiros son unos dulces imprescindibles en todas aquellas fiestas infantiles y cumpleaños, y no es para menos, pues son una especie de trufas tan sencillas de preparar, que seguro vosotros también os engancharéis a ellos.
Ingredientes para una docena y media de brigadeiros
370 g de leche condensada, 30 g de cacao puro en polvo, 40 g de mantequilla, 150 g de virutas de chocolate, 15 g de mantequilla para engrasar el molde
Cómo hacer brigadeiros brasileños
Comenzaremos por poner todos los ingredientes en un cazo excepto los fideos de chocolate. Calentamos la mezcla y cocemos todo durante 10 minutos, removiendo frecuentemente con una espátula para evitar que se pegue.
Preparamos una bandeja pequeña o un molde y lo engrasamos con los 15 gramos de mantequilla. Una vez que haya pasado el tiempo de cocción, volcamos la masa de brigadeiros en el molde, tapamos con papel film y dejamos enfriar en la nevera toda la noche o bien podemos acelerar el proceso poniéndola durante tres horas en el congelador.
Una vez sólida la masa, hacemos unas bolitas como de 15 a 20 gramos y las rebozamos con los fideos de chocolate. Las volvemos a la nevera hasta la hora de tomarlas.
Tiempo de elaboración | 20 minutos + enfriado
Dificultad | Muy fácil
Degustación
Los brigadeiros brasileños os durarán una o dos semanas en la nevera, pero creo que esta es una recomendación innecesaria, pues son tan ricos, que me temo que solo los veréis rondando por vuestro frigorífico durante un día.
On Thursday, President Barack Obama dropped a 39-track, genre-spanning summer playlist. It's divided between daytime and nighttime songs, and includes songs by Fiona Apple, D'Angelo, and Chance the Rapper. Clearly, the president's tastes are wide-ranging and he (or his staff, anyway) keep relatively up-to-date on new musical trends. Good for him!
Still, there was one genre of music notably absent from both the "day" and "night" playlists: There's nothing that could be called punk, or even post-punk or new wave, on there. What gives?
Why should the president be into punk? you ask. Well, why not? Obama is 55 years old and was 18 in 1979, right smack dab in the middle of the post-punk era. He grew up in Hawaii, which is not known for its 70s punk scene, but was in LA for college, which means he could have caught a show by the Germs, or Black Flag, or the Circle Jerks, or a host of other bands while he was studying at Occidental College.
Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Kaine is an avowed fan of the the Replacements, which is sick, and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has said that Sandanista! is his favorite record, which is kind of like saying Finnegan's Wake is your favorite book, but whatever. Meanwhile, this is the eighth summer playlist that Obama has released, and not a single one has contained a track that could be considered "punk." That should pretty clearly suggest that the answer is no, Obama does not like punk. But it also seems impossible that he would not?
To for-real figure out if the president has ever listened to punk, I got in touch with Ebs Burnough, the former deputy social secretary to the Obama administration and someone who is very familiar with the POTUS's taste in music. Upon introducing himself, he described synching iPods with Michelle Obama and how the first lady used to mercilessly mock someone on staff who loved Barry Manilow. An edited version of our conversation is below:
VICE: Does Obama listen to punk? Ebs Burnough: You know what, I think in terms of punk specifically, nothing is coming to mind.
In the age of the smartphone, the ability to recall facts seems fairly outdated. You can google everything from baseball statistics to the date of every historical event to "Is it safe if I use a wool sock as a condom?" So what good is it to have all that stuff clogging up your brain? Why learn how a pearl forms when the web is your oyster?
According to author William Poundstone's new book, Head in the Cloud: Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts Are so Easy to Look Up (out now via Little, Brown), possession of seemingly random tidbits of knowledge is correlated with increased income and even happiness. Using his own trivia-style questionnaires and findings from previously-existing polls and studies, Poundstone makes the data-driven case that the more facts you know, the more successful you are.
In the book's final section, Poundstone explains the ramifications of our seemingly increasing ignorance, and offers up solutions for the internet's shrinking of both our knowledge banks and attention spans. "What an amazing age," he writes, "in which cosmic mysteries can be revealed to all and ignored by almost all!"
VICE recently spoke with Poundstone about his findings, their ramifications, and the most obvious current example of willful obliviousness in our country.
VICE: Your studies find a lot of shocking correlations between seemingly trivial subsets of knowledge and increased income. I was most surprised that among college-educated 35-year-olds, those who scored 100 percent on a sports trivia quiz earned an average of around $50,000 a year more than those who scored 0 percent. William Poundstone: That's certainly something that's gotten a lot of attention because you just wouldn't expect it. Obviously, it doesn't have to do with anything you learned in school, so it's good example of something that would seem irrelevant to put on a resume, but really has this effect. Part of the reason is that it applies to relatively easy sports questions. If you ask really hard ones that only a real sports fan is going to know, the correlation disappears. But with questions like Where does a shortstop play? or How many players are on a soccer team? You do get that correlation between knowing that stuff and higher income.
Why does this correlation exist? I suspect that the explanation at its base is that this is something you can obtain by osmosis. If you just listen to the conversations at the water cooler, you're going to learn a lot about sports, even if you're not a sports fan. I think there is a real value in being interested in what people around you are saying, and taking an interest in whatever interests them. So if you can do that, it probably helps you in a lot of different areas of your career.
You can have very superficial knowledge, but there does still seem to be value in having that, just in being connected to the general culture. Just in having conversations with your coworkers, they'll know if you're the kind of person who has many interests and knows a lot of things, or else just someone who seems to have very narrow interests. If they peg you as the latter, maybe you won't be thought of someone who's management material. A good example of that is pronunciations. People who don't know how to pronounce segue or niche, that tends to correlate with lower income. I tend to think it's just a measure of how socially connected you are, although I'm ostensibly asking about dictionary pronunciations.
You pin lots of this seemingly random correlations between knowing facts and success on the benefit of simply "paying attention." Does being on the internet all the time hurt this? There's what's known as the "Google effect," which has been the subject of a great deal of research. obviously reminds them of Trump. He's one person, and there's examples of this all around us, but I think he did play on a lot of these misconceptions that the American public has.
The idea that there's this war against white male Christians, you can see that when you do the interviews and ask people to estimate minority populations, and they come up with ridiculously large figures. They just don't have a sense of what the reality is. Although this might seem like a very small thing, if you have the wrong idea about what percentage of the American public is Latino, this does tend to affect some of your political views. I think that's a reason why you can't say, Oh, I don't need to know this, I don't need to know that, because even what you don't know or what wrong ideas you have plays big role in your political views and whole philosophy of life.
'Head in the Cloud: Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts Are So Easy to Look Up' is out now through Little, Brown and Company. Order it here.
I've always been confused about my strongest hand. When I was knee-high to a grasshopper, I used to switch hands when writing or coloring in, when one or the other hand got tired. As a grew older I realized I was left-handed when I was writing but had an ambidextrous hangover because my stronger side was always my right.
But, I hear you ask, what does this mean for your preferred wanking hand of choice? Yes, a pertinent question. A little personal, as I barely know you, but it means in reality that I've always used both hands, and never really thought too much about it either way, you weirdo. After doing a bit of research I found that left-handed wanking, or "non-dominant hand masturbation," is a thing.
"I wank with my left hand so I can browse porn using my mouse easier with the right," is one excuse trotted out a lot by wankers. Others say the "orgasm is more intense and lasts longer when I wank with the left hand." Finally, a lot of wankers seem to say that "wanking with the opposite hand makes it feel like someone else is doing it." All good and valid reasons from people of an 'ambisextrous' nature (ZING). But to find out the real reasons why we may choose to bash off with our non-dominant hands I spoke to counselor, psychosexual, and sex addiction therapist Michael Stock, a member of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity (ATSAC).
VICE: Why might you think guys might want to masturbate in different ways? What reasons have you heard so far? Michael Stock: The key thing with internet porn is that the person, or teenager, watching it and masturbating separates sex from emotion. They're short-circuiting—going straight to strong sexual arousal using porn, rather than putting in the effort from being with a man or woman. When they switch on their computer, they have more porn than they can shake a stick at their command—with anonymity and accessibility.
So you think people end up wanking in different ways because it's become so easy to be aroused? Yes. A typical guy will orgasm within about two minutes of starting to masturbate. Some people will say, 'no that's not me' but most men masturbate roughly to porn, completely focused on the idea that they have to get to the orgasm—nothing pleasurable about it. Some of my clients play around for several hours and might sit there watching porn, stimulating but not allowing themselves to come, but most come quite quickly.
What mental or physical difference can non-dominant masturbation make, then? I imagine it's about variety, because the human brain craves excitement. If I were looking at porn, I'd start on the reasonably soft stuff and then I'd want more and more, which all has to do with dopamine. That's when people get addicted. I've worked with clients who the only way they could come is masturbation—they couldn't even do couple sex anymore. So I can imagine that non-dominant hand masturbation is another way to get some excitement and make wanking feel different.
I see a lot of stuff on the internet about the shape of people's penises and how it affects things differently when masturbating. Have you come across anything like that? I would say that's unlikely to be true. I think there are a lot of rumours but, first of all, most of us are boringly normal, and secondly the size and shape shouldn't matter. The only issue is if a man has been circumcised or not: circumcised men may find the head of the penis, filled with nerves, feels very sensitive. Unless the shape of the penis was absolutely extreme, it's not relevant.
Have you seen any experiments or research done on the right and left hemispheres of the brain and how that impacts on masturbation? I think that's a red herring. Neuroscience says the right and left hemispheres talk to each other all the time—this idea is very overdone. You're right in the sense that as someone right-handed, the left hemisphere of my cerebral cortex controls my right hand and the right side of my brain controls my left hand. But I wouldn't think using one side of the brain or the other would be particularly important in masturbation. It would be different probably more realistically, if you think about it—and I'm going to assume you masturbate...
Assume away. ... If you were masturbating with one hand, your thumb and finger would be in a particular position, rubbing up and down the shaft of the penis. If you used your other hand, you'd stimulate other areas of the penis.
I'm ambidextrous, so this idea of right-handed people masturbating left-handed is a new thing for me. You've made the case for me! You can be ambidextrous, able to do it either way around, and we can certainly learn to change. I'm strongly right-handed. I can write with my left but it's extremely difficult; it feels like I'd get brain-ache after a while. I would say that for someone imasturbating with their non-dominant hand, the main effect would a different, and somehow novel physical stimulation of the penis.
Earlier you mentioned how porn may be desensitising us when it comes to our pleasure from masturbation. I've had young men as clients, 18-year-olds, so hooked on porn that they've become uninterested in couple sex. We train our brain all the time, and I believe most of our behavior is learned. Young guys in particular—say 16-year-olds—who masturbate a lot are in the middle of a crucial time when their brains are growing in complexity, in neuropathological ways.
At 16, your brain did something called 'pruning.' It went in and got rid of lots of neural pathways it didn't need, like a railway network over the UK that's gone mad laying tracks everywhere until you say, 'This is crazy I don't need this track.' And your brain rips up a track. Your brain goes from an overgrown weed at 16 to a nice tree structure two years later—you've pruned your brain. Today's youngster are being exposed to more extreme porn when they're young, in this pruning stage, and that's where things have grown really interesting for someone in my line of work.
Yes mate, absolutely just go for it. Photo by Jake Lewis.
This article originally appeared on VICE UK
For years, single people have been painted as failures. Hollywood has managed to make three Bridget Jones films on that loose premise alone. But as it turns out, most research on single people is carried out through the lens of marriage, which isn't exactly the best way to draw accurate conclusions on single life. Basically, being forever alone may not be so awful after all.
Frustrated by the gaps in research on how fulfilling life without a partner can be, psychologist and author of Singled Out, Dr. Bella DePaulo, decided to investigate singledom about a decade ago. Her latest work suggests embracing solitude can leave us open to more psychological growth and development than married people, who are actually more likely to become insular and withdrawn than their single counterparts.
I tracked down Dr. DePaulo, who's also a researcher and professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, to speak about society's obsession with marriage, and what we should be doing to stop thinking about loneliness as something without potential benefits.
VICE: Why are we so afraid of being lonely? Dr Bella DePaulo: The idea that everyone wants to get married seems to be an organizing concept of society. If people get married they think they'll be happier, healthier, live longer. So, if you get married you feel like you've done the right thing, and that just by finding this one person all the pieces of your life have fallen into place. And if you buy into this way of thinking, seeing single people is threatening, especially if you see people enjoying single life. This becomes a direct threat—or challenge—to your own assumption that getting married is the only path to real happiness.
That's weird, because so often being single seems to invite pity. We're afraid of being single because single life is stereotyped and stigmatized in society; people think that if you're single, there must be something wrong with you, and no one wants to feel that way about themselves. Because there isn't a positive, respectful space for single people, we stay in bad relationships longer. The irony is, less discrimination against single people would also be good for people who want to be coupled, because they could approach that desire from a position of strength—something they want, rather than running to coupling or staying in a bad relationship because they're afraid of being single.
What are the benefits of solitude? There's so much research on loneliness—psychologists are really obsessed with it, and while loneliness can be painful and have negative effects, we miss out on the benefits of solitude when we focus only on the perils of loneliness. Single people—especially those who love living their single lives—really embrace their time alone. When they think about spending time alone, they savor the thought rather than worrying they might be lonely. And the research that's starting to be done on solitude is very encouraging—it suggests it's really good for creativity, restoration, personal growth, spirituality, and for relaxation.
What sorts of characteristics do you come across in people who embrace their single life? Single people tend to experience more personal growth and contribute to society in meaningful ways. One of the stereotypes of single people is that they lead lives of unfettered pleasure-seeking, but in fact they do a lot of volunteering and a lot of the important work of caring.
People think that if you're single, there must be something wrong with you—and no one wants to feel that way about themselves
Another thing that distinguishes people who embrace the single life is that they're not so focused on The One being their everything. There's research showing that when people get married, they become more insular even if they don't have kids, because it's part of our marital mentality—that couples are supposed to be this tight unit who look mostly to each other. On the other hand, the people who are single are more connected to their friends, siblings, parents, neighbors, and co-workers.
Is there any way to stop this, or are married people doomed to disappear into themselves? They just have to get over this idea that they're one inseparable unit, and feel more free to attend to the people and passions that are important to them.
What can people do to stop fears of loneliness obscuring the benefits of solitude? Recognize the good things about spending time alone! If you aren't familiar with it, embrace it and see if you can find positivity in solitude, and start viewing time alone as an opportunity rather than a threat.
Why is research on single people so lacking? We haven't caught up with the ways things are changing; in the United States, the proportion of people 25 and older who'd never married by 2012 had more than doubled since 1960. People spend more years of their adult lives unmarried, so it makes no sense at all to continue focusing almost exclusively on married people. What really shocked me when I first started studying all this more than a decade ago was that all the claims of huge benefits—health, long life, happiness are either grossly exaggerated, or plain wrong.
What's the next step for this research and your work? We really need to take the lives of single people seriously, and to try and understand what makes their lives meaningful rather than trying to view single people through the lens of marriage. In terms of my own work, I want to learn more about people who are single at heart; the people for whom living single is the way they live their best, most authentic, most fulfilled and meaningful life. That means living your life fully, pursuing the passions that you care about most, and deciding for yourself who the important people in your life are, rather than saying it's all going to be about one person. It's about embracing your solitude if that's important to you, but it's really about creating your own script for your own life.
The Story of Feminist Punk in 33 Songs: From Patti Smith to Bikini Kill, the songs that have crushed stereotypes and steered progress (Pitchfork). More than a list of songs, it's an overview of feminist expression through raw music, from 1975 to 2015, with an introduction by Vivien Goldman. "Because nothing beats jamming and singing with your sisters. That is punk. Punk freed female musicians. It is yours. Sing it, play it, live it now."
To understand some of the selection process of the Pitchfork staff, here's the intro to the piece:
"Feminism," "punk," and "feminist punk" can have many definitions, culturally and personally. In attempting to capture the spirit and story of this lineage, we had to narrow down these enormous fields. We looked for songs that make their feminist messages clear—not just songs by punks who are feminists, and not songs that were "punk" or "feminist" in spirit alone. In this context, we defined punk as some kind of raw expression, not only an attitude. We looked for rallying cries that have questioned, explored, and destroyed stereotypes, in which the form of the music has mirrored the message. We believe they are classics that cross canons, set precedents, and uphold virtues for the idea of feminism in punk, and the artists who wrote them have moved punk forward.
We'll let a true punk vanguard take it from here....
1983 - Vulpes "Me Gusta Ser una Zorra" ("I Like Being a Slut," performed live in 1983 on the Spanish program "Caja de Ritmos" ("Drum Machine" or "Rhythm Box")
Hollywood hoped that it would never happen, but this week The Pirate Bay quietly turned thirteen years old.
