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Commit to Conservation Tillage Before You Harvest This Fall Given the cost-price squeeze of current farm economics, many farmers across the South are seriously considering a transition to some form of conservation tillage in 2001. And, it's a good bet that those farmers already benefiting from a reduction in tillage trips will continue doing so next year.
But conservation tillage is not something you jump into without some careful, calculated thought and planning. Weaning yourself from the plow is a big step that shouldn't be taken lightly. You've got to have a plan. You need to have a mentor. You need to have an open mind and the right attitude. If you cover all of these bases, the transition will be much easier than you expect.
After all, farmers have plowed the soil for centuries. It's a tradition-a habit that's hard to break. But given new equipment and crop technology, plowing on a large, repetitive scale just isn't necessary anymore. And, thanks to the current farm economy, its high production costs and low commodity prices, plowing is certainly no longer desirable, either.
Right now, before harvest gets into full swing, is the right time to do the planning that will be necessary to ensure success with conservation tillage in 2001. You need to take a hard look at your farm and determine what fields might be best suited to give con-till a try.
A field that doesn't yield well under conventional tillage is not a good candidate for reducing or eliminating tillage. Instead, target some of your best-producing fields. Look at field history, weed spectrum, yield potential, soil type, compaction, and drainage. Don't pick a field with historically heavy weed pressure, or one that drains poorly.
As you put your plan together, you need to look out over the upcoming season and make some decisions. How will you manage crop residue, and what can you do while harvesting this fall to facilitate that management? What combine, picker, or stripper attachments will you need to use during harvest to ensure that residue cover is adequate, evenly distributed and in the best possible shape once you put a planter or drill into it next spring?
You'll also need a field-by-field analysis of weed spectrum and pressure. Which weeds or grasses give you the most problems? What herbicide programs can you use to keep these problems manageable? Is a cover crop feasible and desirable on your farm? If so, should it be wheat, rye, barley, or some type of annual grass? What seeding rates should you use, and what's the best method for terminating that cover crop in the spring? And, what is the best timing for planting and terminating a cover crop?
Another important consideration: what can you do in the fall following harvest that will lighten your load in the spring and give you extra time for the tighter management that conservation tillage demands? Applications of P and K fertilizer can be made in the fall. And, if you have to do any tillage at all, it's probably best to do it in the fall following harvest, then allow the ground to sit over the winter and soak up moisture.
What about your planter or drill? Is it equipped to handle planting through a good residue cover? Will you need a new unit, or can you retrofit your existing equipment at minimal cost?
You also need to give serious thought to what you'll plant in the spring of 2001, and where you'll plant it. If you use a conservation tillage system, or plan to adopt one, you'll want to consider Roundup Ready(r) cotton or soybeans. These biotech crops are well suited for con-till systems, allowing effective and economical weed control, and less reliance on residual herbicides and tillage. These crops work very well with conservation tillage systems, both agronomically and economically.
I also strongly recommend that you find a "mentor" to help guide you through the transition. Look around you - chances are you have neighbors that have already decreased their reliance on the plow. Lean on your experienced, local county Extension agent, Monsanto representative, crop consultant, or retailer. University agricultural specialists are also usually well versed in conservation tillage, and you should lean on these people as well.
The purpose of a mentor is to help you keep your cool and your commitment. Just like a smoker who's trying to shake the habit, there'll be times when you'll get nervous and want to run for the plow. A mentor can help you maintain your resolve by providing support, direction and technical advice. He or she can raise your comfort level and keep it up there.
Above all, keep an open mind and understanding about what you're trying to do. Literally thousands of farmers across the nation have successfully converted to reduced- and no-till production systems. They've done so without sacrificing yield. They've done it in areas of the country where they were told it would never work. You can do it, too.
In the coming weeks and months, I will use this column to help guide you through the transition to conservation tillage. We'll look at every aspect of production, what you'll need and won't need, and what you can expect. On behalf of Monsanto Company, I look forward to working with you.


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2009-02-11 / Opinion
Outrage over steroids in baseball is a curve ball
The ongoing legal battle over the use of steroids by major league baseball players, or lack thereof, is a case of absolute absurdity. We think it's time that the charade stop and that Congress and Major League baseball acknowledge the truth and put their time, energy and money into a legitimate program to eliminate this practice and clean up baseball.
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"Now and Hereafter" (ここに、そしてこれから, Koko ni, Soshite Kore Kara, Viz: Here and Now, and Hereafter) is chapter 628 of the original Naruto manga.
As the situation on the battlefield gets dire, with attacks coming at all ends from Obito, Madara, and the Ten-Tails, Chōji notes that Naruto's chakra cloaks were protecting them from the worst of the attacks. As Sakura's cloak deflects the giant kunai and magatama respectively, she wondered if keeping up a feat like this would not harm Naruto in the end. Evading an attack from Obito thanks to Kakashi's warning, Naruto once again decries Obito's ideals, noting that a loner like him could never understand his euphoria to have all his comrades around him. As Obito finds a flaw in Naruto's sentiments, Kakashi looks on wondering why Obito was testing Naruto in that manner. While Kurama wonders how Naruto was doing as he controls its distributed chakra simultaneously, Madara — his face contorted into a maniacal smile — senses Hashirama's chakra on the battlefield. With the Ten-Tails letting out a shriek on the battlefield, it undergoes yet another, albeit slight transformation. Kurama warns Naruto of the impending danger as the atmosphere begins to change on the battlefield; Obito muses that this was the consequence of the Alliance separating him and Madara from the beast and wonders if he should just become the beast's jinchūriki. The situation prompts Kakashi to attempt to warp the beast away. However, he is intercepted by Obito and as Kakashi calls out to Naruto to handle there, he and Obito warp each other away to Kamui's dimension. Elsewhere, Madara notes the fun was about to begin, and cloaks himself with his Susanoo's ribcage. The Ten-Tails' power creates earthquakes, thunderstorms, and tornadoes all over the battlefield.


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"I come from a home where gravy is a beverage."---Erma Bombeck
Me? I come from a home where nobody ever made dinner. They made reservations.
We joke that our entire family lacks the genetic ability to boil water but I'm not kidding when I say that, one Thanksgiving, my mother served us boiled turkey and stuffing. My father's idea of cooking can best be summed up by his signature dish, ghetto fried rice. Even the dog won't go near it.
The sad reality is that none of us are very good cooks. However, the ironic part is that we're all obsessed with food. Hence, our family memories surrounding food are quite unusual.
Those wonderful smells that conjure up childhood memories of your mother's homemade pot roast? The mental image of your family gathered around a giant feast whipped up by three generations of your family? The thrill of grandpa cooking up his famous five-alarm chili while grandma bakes homemade apple pies?
Yeah, I got none of that.
Our family's shared memories of food revolve around great meals we've had at restaurants together. Like when we discovered that little restaurant in Harlem that made the best Chinese dumplings. Or when, twenty years ago, we knew Tom Colicchio was destined for future greatness when we tried his braised rabbit. Then, there was that time in Italy when we said "screw the Sistine Chapel" because we found a place that made the world's greatest hot-pressed spinach and mozzarella paninis.
Friends of mine consider our family's dining habits to be weird. However, as a wise man once said, "it ain't weird if it's the only thing you know."
"In Mexico we have a word for sushi: bait."---José Simons
Of all the foods about which I'm passionate, sushi holds a special place in my heart.
I eat it at least 4 times per week. I love the quiet precision required to handle the fish. I love the subtle flavors. I love the artful presentation. And I love sitting at the sushi bar, drinking a few beers, and talking to the chef about his craft.
I've always had this fantasy of quitting my job and opening a tiny sushi restaurant in Manhattan with myself as the chef. The restaurant would only seat 8 people at a time and would allow me to create high-quality sushi in a serene and peaceful setting. It's a dream that I think about all the time.
Unfortunately, there's only one real sushi school in the United States and it's in California. Real sushi chefs apprentice for years in Japan under a master. Top sushi chefs have been known to spend several years learning solely how to properly prepare rice. Many don't even touch a knife until they've been apprenticing for at least five years.
I'm no spring chicken but, at the same time, better late than never. Don't be surprised if someday you come to this site and there's a post saying, "Sayonara! Gone fishing."
"There is no love sincerer than the love of food."---George Bernard Shaw
On the other hand, I know that a passion for food isn't enough. Hell, I've worked my ass off in enough restaurants in Manhattan to know how difficult it is to survive in the restaurant business. That's why I'm always amazed by chefs who are so passionate about their cooking that they couldn't imagine doing anything else.
Living in New York, I've been fortunate to hang out with a lot of these amazing chefs. During the summers, I've barbecued with Rocco DiSpirito at The Doctor's house. I've downed shots with Mario Batali. I've played hoops with Bobby Flay. And I've broken bread with Jean-Georges Vongrichten. They're all normal guys who just tend to be exceptionally passionate about what they do. I always love hearing what they have to say about food.
It's also why I'm hopelessly addicted to food shows on television. Between all the shows on the Food Network, BBC America's "Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares," and the Travel Channel's "Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations," I find myself watching an enormous number of television shows that revolve around food.
How bad have things gotten for me?
Well, last night, I had a dream that Paula Deen was my best friend; Giada De Laurentiis was my second wife; Bourdain was my drinking buddy; Bobby Flay was my next-door neighbor; and Gordon Ramsay was my personal chef.
Thankfully, in my dreams, I still hated Rachel Ray.
"Life expectancy would grow enormously if vegetables smelled as good as bacon." ---Doug Larson
Two months ago, I had my annual physical. I discovered that I had abnormally high LDL cholesterol, blood pressure, and triglycerides. Now, I generally eat pretty healthily and I work out on a regular basis so it was pretty clear to my doctor that these are genetic traits. However, he's fairly conservative and doesn't like the idea of putting patients on statins (like Lipitor) unless it's a measure of last resort; his rationale is that once you're on them, you're on them for life.
Instead, he proposed that I work with a nutritionist and together we would conduct a three-month experiment to determine whether a change in diet could significantly improve my blood health.
I'm currently subsisting on a diet of egg whites, spinach salads, fish, almonds, whole-grain bread, flax seed, and steamed vegetables. I'm allowed to cheat off the diet for one meal a week. I know this sounds limiting but my cheat meal last week was General Tso's chicken wrapped in two slices of pizza.
In all seriousness, I feel great. Without even trying, I've lost 10 pounds. I've never crapped so well in my entire life. And I've discovered that jogging 5 miles while watching the Food Network doesn't make me want to kill myself.
My blood is getting tested again in two weeks but I don't know if I can hold out any longer. Today on the subway, I almost licked someone's face because she smelled like butter. Yesterday, I saw a short guy in the elevator wearing all brown and I thought he looked like the cutest piece of foie gras I'd ever seen.
I know this diet is healthier for me but this is really no way to live. In the grand scheme of things, I drive way too fucking fast to be worrying about my cholesterol.
"How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?"---Charles De Gaulle
Despite my love of food, I'm no food snob.
The French? Those cheese-eating surrender monkeys are food snobs. Every time I go to Paris, I end up getting in an argument over my belief that the only new contributions of French cuisine in the past 50 years have been Au Bon Pain and the Croissanwich.
Screw them!
As much as I love food, I hate eating pretentious food that has no personality behind it. Give me good old-fashioned American road food any day of the week. Serve me some ribs from Dreamland BBQ or The Salt Lick. Throw me a couple of lobster rolls from Red's Eats. Order me buffalo wings from The Anchor Bar. Or what about cheesesteaks from Gino's? Pizza from Grimaldis? Burgers from the Shake Shack? The curry chicken puffs from Yank Sing? The chili dogs from Pink's? The fried chicken from The Horny Toad?
Good Lord, is it any wonder my cholesterol is through the roof? Damn!
"We are the only culture that can stand in front of a microwave with a burrito in it and scream 'FASTER! FASTER!'"---Ross Brown.
Since BossLady works longer hours than I do, I pick the Peanut up from daycare every day. When it's warm out, we'll go to the playground for a few hours. Otherwise, we'll come home and read or play imaginary games together.
One activity that we like to do is make dinner together. When she was younger, I'd let her nuke things in the microwave. She would put some mac-and-cheese in the oven and I'd lift her up so she could press all the buttons. While it cooked, she would squeal with delight.
Now that she's almost 3.5-years-old and has a little more patience, I've been teaching her how to cook. We started off making some homemade tomato sauce. Then, we moved on to making sandwiches together. Now she even knows how to cook fish and steam vegetables.
However, I think I've created a monster.
Last week in daycare, the teachers cooked pasta with the class. My little 3-foot gourmand was so shocked that she felt compelled to tell the teachers that they were doing it all wrong! When I asked her what her teachers were doing wrong, the Peanut gave me a look of disgust and said, "Daddy, they put Ketchup on their noodles! Isn't that gross?"
Ladies and gentlemen, I now bring you the first in a recurring new series of videos called "How To Cook Like a Three-Year-Old." Today's lesson is "Pasta"
Cooking Pasta with the Peanut from Pierre Kim on Vimeo.
Recently, I've been reading a slew of food-related books. In the past few weeks, I've finished Anthony Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidential," Bill Buford's "Heat," and Michael Pollard's "In Defense of Food." Lately, I've just started reading "My Last Supper: 50 Great Chefs and Their Final Meals."
It's fascinating to read what 50 of the world's greatest living chefs would want to eat for their final meal on the planet. Laurent Tourondel wants nothing more than a BLT sandwich made in his own kitchen. Alain Ducasse would have a simple roasted quail in Madiran wine sauce, then smooth celeriac puree with nutmeg, and a finish with apple slices. Thomas Keller says he would begin with half a kilo of osetra caviar, followed by some otoro, a quesadilla and a roast chicken, Brie with truffles, and for dessert either profiteroles or a lemon tart.
Some chefs pick the food of their youth, the simple dishes that remind them not only of home but also of why they became chefs in the first place. Others are less sentimental and simply pick their favorite dishes from their favorite chefs. Everyone has a choice and it seems to verify the old adage that you can tell a lot about a person from what they eat.
Personally, I think my last meal on this planet would be a Peter Luger's porterhouse steak with sides of creamed spinach, bacon, and German-style potatoes. I'd finish with some Junior's cheesecake. And I'd wash it all down with a bottle of first-growth Bordeaux. I'm not quite sure what that says about me.
What about you? What would be your last meal on the planet? Give me all the juicy details.


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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam
The so-called "419" scam (aka "Nigeria scam" or "West African" scam) is a type of fraud named after an article of the Nigerian penal code under which it is prosecuted. It is also known as "Advance Fee Fraud" because the common principle of all the scam format is to get the victim to send cash (or other items of value) upfront by promising them a large amount of money that they would receive later if they cooperate. In almost all cases, the criminals receive money using Western Union and MoneyGram, instant wire transfer services with which the recipient can't be traced once the money has been picked up. These services should never be used with people you only know by email or telephone!
Typically, victims of the scam are promised a lottery win (example) or a large sum of money sitting in a bank account or in a deposit box at a security company. Often the storyline involves a family member of a former member of government of an African country, a ministerial official, an orphan or widow of a rich businessman, etc. Here is an example. Variants of the plot involving the Philippines, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Korea, Iraq, Kuwait, UAE, Mauritius, etc. are also known. Some emails include pictures of boxes stuffed with dollar bills, scans of fake passports, bank or government documents and pictures of supposedly the sender.
Though most of these scams use emails sent in English, we also come across emails translated into French, German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Polish and Czech, Indonesian, as well as English and French letters by postal mail, usually mailed from Spain.
Back in the 1980s and 1990s (for this is nothing new!) the main vehicle for this scam were fax machines.
The victims are promised a fortune for providing a bank account to transfer the money to. Then - if they fall for the scam - they are made to part with thousands and sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars in "bribes" for local officials or other "fees" (taxes, insurance, legal fees, etc) before the "partners" finally disappear without trace. Here are some typical examples of advance fee demands.
Sometimes fraudulent cashier's checks are issued to the victims, who are asked to wire funds for various charges after the bank says funds are "available" from the check, but before the check has actually cleared. Any transaction that involves cashing a check for a third party and then forwarding funds from it to another person you don't know is almost guaranteed to be a scam.
Here are some of the fake reasons given to victims why they should send money:
The people who receive the scam emails and fall for them often are not the only victims of the scam. We have come across a few cases where people who lacked the funds to cover the advance fee demands committed crimes to get money. They misappropriated often huge amounts from their employers, from charitable organizations they worked for or from other acquaintances they defrauded, hoping they would be able to repay them from the promised millions before anybody would notice. In this way one crime begets another.
Spam emails for advance fee fraud differ from "normal" spam in several ways:
How to report 419 spam to us
scamwarners.com - Anti-scam online forum
"Artists Against 419" - fighting 419 scams
"419" scam email sample archives:
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The following is a list of senders and domains received over the last couple of months. In some cases there are duplicates because we received more than one copy in our mailboxes.


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Jay's difficult night bailed out by Beltran
ST. LOUIS -- At the plate, on the bases and in the field, it was not a pleasant night at the office for Cardinals center fielder Jon Jay. Thanks to Carlos Beltran, Jay clocked out with a big smile on his face.
"Today wasn't a good day for me, personally," said Jay, "but we got a big win, and I have to thank Carlos for that."View Full Game Coverage
ST. LOUIS -- At the plate, on the bases and in the field, it was not a pleasant night at the office for Cardinals center fielder Jon Jay. Thanks to Carlos Beltran, Jay clocked out with a big smile on his face.
"Today wasn't a good day for me, personally," said Jay, "but we got a big win, and I have to thank Carlos for that."View Full Game Coverage
Beltran's terrific throw home bailed out Jay after a defensive mistake in the 10th inning, and three innings later, Beltan delivered the double that sealed the Cards' 3-2 win over the Dodgers in Game 1 of the National League Championship Series on Friday night.
From a personal standpoint, Jay will not remember the longest NL playoff game in nearly a decade very fondly. He went 0-for-5, stranded four men on base and was already having a hard time before the teams pushed deep into extra innings.
Jay's trouble began in the top of the seventh against Dodgers starter Zack Greinke, with Yadier Molina at first base after a single and the teams tied at 2. Jay was instructed to bunt, but he squared late and struck the baseball too firmly, allowing Greinke to gather it up and throw to second base to retire the lead runner.
Jay was safe at first base, and he broke for second on a pitch that David Freese lined to right field, where rookie Yasiel Puig made a running catch. Without breaking his stride, Puig fired an off-balance throw back to first to double up Jay and end the inning.
"We all know he has a good arm," Jay said with a shrug. "It was just one of those plays where I was out."
There was more trouble for Jay in the top of the 10th, when Dodgers second baseman Mark Ellis hit a one-out drive to right-center field. Jay admittedly took a "bad angle," and he chased the ball all the way to the wall while Ellis ran to third.
The Cardinals opted to have closer Trevor Rosenthal, pitching his second inning, intentionally walk Hanley Ramirez to instead face Michael Young, who was batting in the cleanup spot because Dodgers manager Don Mattingly had opted to pinch-run for Adrian Gonzalez two innings earlier.
Young sent a fly ball to the outfield. Jay and Beltran both converged.
"I heard him coming, and he obviously has a 'plus' arm out there, so it was all his," Jay said.
Beltran made the catch and threw home with the game on the line. Ellis lowered a shoulder, but Molina held on and the inning was over.
"I had a little bit of relief," Jay said. "I could finally smile out there after that play."
Typically, the center fielder has priority. Jay did not mind giving way.
"Just watching the game, seeing that play right there, I kind of understood, 'Hey, if he's got a chance to get to the ball, he's going to take it here,'" Jay said. "It was one of those balls where either of us could have caught it, but knowing the situation right there, that's definitely a ball meant for him.'"
"[Beltran] did a good job, [Jay] and him communicating, letting Carlos take that throw," Cardinals second baseman Matt Carpenter said. "He has the stronger arm. He called it, got in front of it and made a great throw, and it ended up as the play of the game, really."
The schedule left little time to celebrate. After a four-hour, 47-minute Game 1, the series is scheduled to continue Saturday afternoon (4 ET/3 CT on TBS).
"You're into the game the whole time, and as soon as it's over, you can let it all out," Jay said. "Especially after a big win today. That was a big one for us."
Adam McCalvy is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brew Beat, and follow him on Twitter at @AdamMcCalvy.


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In early 2003, Grammy Award-winning singer Harry Connick Jr. was sitting on an airplane, doing what he usually does — "just thinking of stuff."
"I don't know where it came from; just the idea of this little elf [who] is really cool, but he's a little bit over the top," Connick says. "A lot over the top."


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Asiana Rescue Video Shows Girl Killed by Fire Truck
Video from the helmet camera of a firefighter responding to the crash landing of an Asiana Airlines flight in San Francisco last July shows at least one rescuer was aware a girl was on the ground outside the aircraft and warned a colleague, but she was later run over by the same fire truck. Photo: AP.
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MacKinnon takes first Stanley Cup Playoffs in strideby Rick Sadowski
CENTENNIAL, Colo. -- Patrick Roy has been watching the Nathan MacKinnon show for three years, two in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and as Colorado Avalanche coach since training camp, and it never gets old.
"I've been impressed with him from the first time I saw him play a game," Roy said Friday. "From there to now, his game goes up. He's been so receptive to teaching, he's been working hard and he's always level. I know who's going to show up tomorrow, he's going to be the same guy."
MacKinnon had three assists Thursday in his Stanley Cup Playoffs debut, when the Avalanche opened the best-of-7 Western Conference First Round with a 5-4 overtime win against the Minnesota Wild. Game 2 is Saturday at Pepsi Center (9:30 p.m. ET; NBCSN, RDS, TSN, FS-N, ALT).
"Pretty amazing for his first game, three assists," Roy said. "He just showed the type of player he is. It's pretty impressive."
According to the Elias Sports Bureau, MacKinnon became the second-youngest player, 18 years, 228 days, to collect three points in his first playoff game. Pierre Turgeon was six days younger when he had two goals and an assist for the Buffalo Sabres on April 6, 1988.
MacKinnon, the first player chosen in the 2013 NHL Draft, was the sixth 18-year-old to get a point in a playoff game since 1979-80, joining Brian Bellows, Martin Lapointe, Patrick Marleau, Jordan Staal and Turgeon.
As MacKinnon has all season, he took the accomplishment in stride. He didn't set any expectations for himself before the season and isn't about to now, other than doing what he can to help the Avalanche advance.
"I don't care if I get a point, I just want to be consistent," said MacKinnon, who led NHL rookies in scoring with 63 points (24 goals, 39 assists) playing all 82 games, most of them as a right wing rather than at center, his natural position.
MacKinnon played the first two periods Thursday centering a line with Ryan O'Reilly and PA Parenteau because of injuries to centers Matt Duchene and John Mitchell, but Roy moved him back to right wing on a unit with Gabriel Landeskog and Paul Stastny for much of the third period after the Avalanche fell behind 4-2.
MacKinnon picked up an assist when Stastny tied the game with 13.4 seconds left in regulation, and he set up Stastny's game-winning shot against goalie Ilya Bryzgalov at 7:27 of overtime.
"For me, both times I was using the net to my advantage to shield the puck," MacKinnon said. "Obviously it was a nice rebound shot to Paulie's stick to tie it up. When I spun off in OT I heard him screaming. I know he's not missing from there."
Stastny called MacKinnon's overtime pass "a heads-up play," after Avalanche defenseman Tyson Barrie "took out a couple guys or he got taken out. Once the [defense] committed to Nate, I just tried to yell as quick as I could and just try to get a quick shot off."
MacKinnon proved to be a big-game player when he earned MVP honors at the Memorial Cup last spring by helping the Halifax Mooseheads win the championship, and his ability to come through in the clutch has continued. He had five game-winning goals this season.
"He doesn't change his game," Stastny said. "It doesn't matter how big the game is or who we're playing against; that's what makes him the player he is. He goes out there and competes all the time, wants to win, wants the puck."
MacKinnon did acknowledge being nervous before making his NHL postseason debut.
"I had some goose bumps early on, but it was exciting," he said. "I had some butterflies, but they went away pretty quickly and you focus on winning. When we focus on winning, everything else goes away. It's the NHL, it's really different. This is a new experience for sure. It's obviously faster, more intense. We're in this together; a lot of the guys haven't been to the playoffs before. At the same time, have some vets who have won Cups. Hockey is hockey."
Defenseman Erik Johnson has gained an appreciation for what young forwards MacKinnon and Duchene are capable of while watching from the bench between shifts during games and in practices.
"We have 1-on-1 drills and you really see how other teams' defensemen get put on their heels as they're coming down on you full bore," Johnson said. "We're pretty lucky to go against Nate and [Matt] in practice because they're so fast. That helps us for games. Nate is 18 years old and in three years he's going to be 21 and he's already one of our best players. It's just scary to think what a guy like him can become and what he is already. It's a lot of fun to watch. He does something new every game, has different tricks to the trade."
Avalanche executive vice president of hockey operations Joe Sakic was 19 when he began what would become a Hall of Fame career with the Quebec Nordiques and said MacKinnon is already more advanced than he was as a rookie.
"I think Patrick did a good job with him, not giving him too much right away, started him without that pressure. He's really grown and learned the game," Sakic said. "What I'm most impressed of is we all knew what he could do with the puck and his speed. What he's learned away from the puck has been very impressive to me. Having Patrick and this coaching staff and some of the older veterans, he's listened and learned."


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Gaming news this week began with a bang—our famed Mole revealed that price drops on both the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 consoles are coming this fall, along with some tasty new bundles.
A huge rush of news about StarCraft 2 has hit the gaming blogs this week. We break down the news reports and bring you the surprises, the oddities, and the pleasant surprises. The takeaway? The game looks great.
As rhythm games continue their march to worldwide dominance, we take a step back and look at what separates the Michael Jacksons of the genre from the Milli Vanillis. Ars presents the Five Commandments of Rhythm Gaming.
How should parents handle their kids' video gaming? We talked to experts in the field to compile this helpful guide to staying engaged and in control when it comes to gaming in the home.
Rounding out the top five gaming stories was our review of The Conduit. It may not break the FPS mold, but it does treat the Wii like a big-boy system. There's a lot to like in this strong, moldable title that features a too-fast single-player game but stronger than expected multiplayer offerings.
Battlefield Heroes offers the ability to pay for faster XP and ability points, but there is a fun, light-hearted game hidden in the rubble of the game's online experience—which barely works. Let's start getting this fixed, EA.
Backwards compatibility is a feature long-missed in the PS3 hardware, but a newly discovered patent hints that Sony wants to bring it back. Is this coming to the PS3 Slim? Doubtful, but stranger things have happened.
This week's gaming poll asked a simple question: have the new StarCraft 2 announcements put a stop to your plans to buy the game... or, should we say, games? How important is LAN play to you?
id Software co-founder John Carmack is speaking out about the acquisition of his company by Zenimax and why it's a much better fit than joining with some of the other big publishers out there.
World of Warcraft players are in for a major treat in the future, as Blizzard is working on a feature that will let them switch their characters' factions.


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On the php|architect blog today Bill Karwin looks at a new library - Crystal - a database library to help make it simpler to work with SQL (and make it more human-readable).
Martin [Rusev]'s project is called Crystal. It's an object-oriented wrapper for the venerable mysql and pg extensions, with the goals of making SQL more human-readable, and providing a library that is lightweight and easy to learn.
There's code examples on the site of how to use the library. Bill also mentions some of the things the project does well and a few things it doesn't - like leaving out some of the advanced SQL functionality in favor of simplicity. He also mentions concerns about SQL injection handling, code not shared between database handlers and the unfinished nature of some features.


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Football is back! As per tradition, our Madden season simulation is full of surprises and suspense as we figure out who will clash in Super Bowl LIII.
The NFL regular season is finally back and honestly, it couldn't come soon enough. It's a new year full of hope and new aspirations for all 32 teams (except Atlanta, who starts out 0-1 after Thursday's loss in Philly.)
It also means that a new Madden NFL season simulation is in order. This year, we're trying something a little different. Instead of slides for every team, we'll just be glazing over all eight divisions on the path to the postseason. However, our guidelines will be mostly the same, which you can read below:
- Absolutely no user games were played. The simulation was done in the game's franchise mode.
- Rosters used were up to date as of September 8, 2018, after the official 53-man roster update.
- All of the screenshots were taken from unrelated exhibition games.
By the way, our Week 1 simulation is also available for your reading pleasure. We'll have weekly simulations all throughout the season, so stay tuned for those each Thursday.
With that all out of the way, it's time for some football!
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R.I.P Lil Carlos: 3-Year-Old Baby Loses His Life To Gun Violence In Oakland CA! (Hella Sad Footage Taken Right After The Shots)
"Well I was ordering a pizza when shots rang out. 30 seconds later I began this footage only to find out that there was a 3yr old child's life taken." - Richlybent.. just sad. put them guns away! Rip
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Week 1 was a wish we had it back game, wasn't it? But lets not forget the ass kicking the Cardinals directed at our rookie. To date, it is by far the most hits he has taken in a game. We have pinned that loss on a dropped TD so much that it is easy to forget that a rookie guard gave up gap pressure all game. Our line was a sieve that day.
Baldwin's teeth got knocked out by a cheap shot. Wilson got late hit, both flagged and unflagged, several times.
The Hawks owe them one. Payback time.


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Careful What You Wish For: Greater IP Enforcement In China Being Used Against Foreign Companies...
from the you-asked-for-it... dept
First, a few years back, we wrote about a high profile counterfeit DVD bust in China, where the "culprit" was actually a rich American. Then, we noticed in 2008 that China was starting to talk about China cracking down on video game piracy, but only when it concerned others copying China's video games. Finally, late last year, we noted that a French company had lost a patent lawsuit in China.
It turns out that was just the beginning. Joe Mullin points us to a story about how there have been a series of recent patent and trademark rulings in Chinese courts all of which appear to be going against large multinational companies and in favor of Chinese companies.
Of course, this isn't a surprise at all. Various studies have shown that greater copyright, patent and trademark protections tend to follow a period of great innovation, when the companies that did that innovation look to protect their position from upstarts elsewhere. In other words, it acts in the exact opposite manner as it's supposed to. It's not an incentive to innovate, but a tool used to stop competition and innovation from others. The situation in China is playing out exactly according to that formula. The country is growing into a bigger believer in intellectual property laws -- but only for the sake of using it to protect against foreigners -- which, we assume, is not what US companies wanted, but which they should have expected if they ever bothered to look at the actual history of stronger intellectual property laws.


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Ah Joo – Vintage Steel Bicycle Collector from Singapore
The Collector from RAPHA on Vimeo.
his is pretty amazing. Ah Joo is a collector fron Singapore who has an incredible stable of steel racing bicycles, including everything from Colnago and Cinelli's to Hetchins and vintage Richarc Sachs bicycles. Now I know what you're thinking, "this guy probably never rides any of those". Well you're wrong, Ah Joo tries to ride as many of his bicycles as possible and is working up to regularly riding distances of 200-300k. "You should not avoid conditions and rain; hot sun, night or cold. You should still continue to ride, it makes you tougher. Why are you worried that your bike will get wet and dirty? you come back, clean your bike and it's ready to ride again. To me worry doesn't exist and the bike is actually meant for riding. That's it."
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Medewi Beach
Earth : Asia : Southeast Asia : Indonesia : Bali : West Bali : Medewi Beach
Medewi is a beach village in West Bali.
This is a tiny, remote village in one of the least visited areas of Bali. It is very much a surfing hot spot, and most visitors who do stay here stay for that reason alone. For non-surfers, it does offer a glimpse of what so much of Bali was like before the growth of mass tourism in the 1970s, and is a great place to relax.
Get in
Medewi is located about 75 kilometres west of Denpasar on the main south coast road, about 34 kilometres further west than the town of Tabanan. Anyone who travelling from the south of Bali by road to the west coast port town of Gilimanuk will pass by here.
Get around
This is a great place for walking. If you want to hire a motorbike your hotel should be able to oblige and expect to pay around Rp 70,000-100,000 per day.
The beach is very rocky with some large flat grey stone boulders interspersed with pebbles and black sand. Not the best beach for sunbathing or lounging, but good for long quiet strolls.
Sunset over the Indian Ocean here is quite magnificent.
Surf. The long left hand wave at Medewi Beach rolls all year and is popular with surfers for that reason. The largest waves tend to be in July and August. There is also right-hand break less than 100 metres away around the northern point. When the surf is small there is also a beach break, working mid-tide, over the river mouth about 250 metres to the south south. There are several other surf breaks nearb, including Balian Beach (30 minute drive east). For updates on conditions is is worth checking Medewi Surf Information [4].
Relax. This is a very quiet coastal village with nothing really going on bar the surfing, and the local fisherman doing their business.
Understand the origin of Medewi as a place name. This area was a forest with many Ketket or thorny trees. In Balinese, thorny forest is Alas Meduwi hence the place was named Meduwi which then became Medewi.
All of the local bungalows and hotels have restaurants.
A beer on the beach for sunset is very much the order of the day.
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Revolutionary vanguard
Origins of term
Lenin's ideological contribution was to make the Communist party itself the exclusive "vanguard of the proletariat" and thus the final arbiter of what was proletarian or bourgeois.[1] In Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder[2] written in 1920, Lenin discovered his earlier account of the workers' consciousness was too optimistic. Workers are not only indifferent to revolution, they oppose it. To some extent the workers are positively "reactionary." Two stubborn obstacles remain: "force of habit," the powerful attachment to "the forces and traditions of the old society," and "small-scale production," which continues "spontaneously and on a mass scale." Lenin calls "habit", using a Marxian term, "bourgeois passions," the inclination of people to acquire, love, and defend what is their own to the exclusion of others in the community. Springing from and reinforcing this "force of habit in millions and tens of millions" are "millions upon millions of petty proprietors" and "small commodity producers" whose private mode of production continues to foster the non-socialist habits that stand in the way of transition to communism. Since the workers and the rest of the people "can (and must) be remodeled and re-educated only by very prolonged, slow, cautious organizational work" the party must continue to rule dictatorially on behalf of the workers just as it earlier took the lead in making the revolution. This process will take "very many years." The "proletarian vanguard," Lenin admits, is the Politburo of the party, consisting of Lenin and a handful of close colleagues.[3]
- ↑ Revelations from the Russian Archives, Attacks on Intelligentsia: Suppressing Dissidents, Library of Congress Exhibit. Retrieved March 18, 2010.
- ↑ V. I. Lenin, "Left-Wing" Communism, An Infantile Disorder (1920) V. I. Lenin, Selected Works, English edition, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1952, Vol. II, Part 2.
- ↑ Marx and Lenin, Thomas G. West, The Claremont Institute, Posted on October 10, 2006. Retrieved March 18, 2010.


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Fantasizing about Tamil Actress Simran Sex Story
One fine day morning,simran was giving milk to her daughter.While giving milk she was thinking about previous night. The previous night after seeing a BF simran drove to peek mood. That simran started massaging her small petite boobs and milk started coming out from her boobs and her nity was getting wetThen simran went for bath and went to Deepak,her husband.He was in deep sleep.Simran came nude with water droplets all over her body and bend down towards the face of deepak,when some droplets of water from nipple fall on his face,deepak got disturbed from sleep.When he opened his mouth to shout,simran pressed her boob very hardly,such that milk flooded from her nipple towards deepak's mouth..It was falling all over his face. Now simran kept her boobs inside deepak's mouth and started pinching his nipple. Now deepak felt very angry because she always disturb him for sex during sleep..now he holded her and throwed her on floor and woke up from bed.He shouted "ENDI THEVIDIYAAA.... ORU NAALAIKKU ETHNA THADAVA DI UNAKKU SEX VENUM". Then simran cried and slept. Now in morning deepak left to airport in flight for business work.
Now she kept her child in the bed and went near the window and looked at garden.She found the gardner,digging for rose.He was 17years old boy.He was black but well built boy.He had a gym body weighting around 75kg at this age. When simran saw him,he was wearing just a shorts,due to hotness his body was fully sweating.Simran was getting mood to see his sweating body. Suddenly he ran towards his room hearing a song. When simran paid attention to that song,it was her song in movie "VAALI",one of her item song. So simrran got eager whats his next action,so she went near his room and stood near window and looked inside.
Simran saw that gardner boy was moaning with sound "AYYOOOO....ENNAMMA IRUKKA.,... INTHA THEVIDIYA.... IVA MATTUM ENGA VEETULA IRUNTHA,,,,, NAAAN, EN APPA,,, EN THATHA ELLARUM OLUTHUEDUPOM.... HHAAAAAAAAAA ... AA...AAAAA" and he was masturbating very fastly. when simran saw his dick,she gasped,because it was 10 inch size. actually her husband deepak's size is just 5 inch.. Even she has fucked by many producers,directorand even sometimes by foreigner's... But the maximum size of dick she handled is 8-9 inch. But his dick is not only 10 inch,it was so shining,hard and had good breadth.. It looked better than her dildo.As he was moving his dick to and fro, pre-cum started oozing out.now he went near to TV and rubbed his dick on simran's navel displayed on TV and told "UN THOPPUL OTTAYIL VITTU KUTHANUM DI...."
Now he did fastly and flodded with sperm. Simran was shocked,because,it was not normal,,,lots of sperm came.. It was like 300ml sperm..Simran was aroused to see that. Now she returned back to her room.
Now simran got very high mood thinking of his dick.Now simran went for bath,,whili bathing she inserted the 6inch pipe inside her pussy and flushed the water.,feeling the water as sperm,she climaxed with multiple orgasms.Now simran wore sleveless low neck black blouse with black saree.. Remember same dress in vaali movie.
Now simran came out of house and saw the gardner boy working in garden.She called him. He came. he saw his most favourite sex goddess in the world in sleveless black blouse with matching saree.Heis dick got risen inside his shorts.Simran looked at his prick part and understood his tension and smiled. While having chatting,she purposely held her hands up and shown her sweating hairless armpites to him. He was gazing at her armpits and talking to simran.Now simran went to garden and saw the pots,she bent down to take a pot,her side view was completely visible to that garden boy. He was teased by her much.. That sleevless blouse was transparent such that her fancy balck bra which she wored was visible to him. and her whitesh stomach was visible to him.Now she rose up and told "it's so heavy.i hope u can lift this".he obeyed his mastress order and lifted it up. simran saw his muscles and amazed and told "WOW ENNA UDAMBU DA... INTHA MAARI UDAMBU VACHIRUKKURA ALA THAAN ENTHA PONNUKKUM PIDIKKUM.."and after saying she licked around her lips.
Now simran told "ULLA ORU VELAI IRUKKU VARIYA".He told "Ethukku ulla madam".. She replied "Naughty.. VEETUKULLA... VADA"He went inside by following her. while following he saw her shaking ass. It was very sexy... You guys want to see how her ass looks.
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RE: Fantasizing about Tamil Actress Simran Sex Story
Then they both reached the store room.There no fan was there. siomran askede the servant to arrange those areas. he did everything. While working simran saw his body getting sweat,she could'nt control her mood.,simran became violent. She went near him and touched his body.,suddenly she heard a car sound and left the room and she went it was her husband,she was very upset that she could only seduce the servant but couldn't fuck. Then that day night as usual after a fuck,deepak slept. Simran woke up from bed and went to garden.She saw her servant.She asked "wat u r doing here?".He Immediately removed his lungi and showed his tempered cock. simran couldnt believe what's happening. he holded her and pushed her back towards mango tree and removed her sleeping dresss. Now simran is nude infront of him.
Simran looked down at the boy devouring her and felt shots of electricity race to her cunt from her nipples. simran reached up for the lower branches of the mango tree and pulled herself up. The servant felt his large powerful hands lose control of her as her weight rose off him. simran hovered over his cock now, completely in charge of her own body, ready to resolve sex hunger by conquering him.
The new raised position of her body allowed him to suck in ( yurprava.ru ) more of her breasts and simran was wet now with his saliva. His fingers, free from holding up her weight, pulled at her cuntlips from either direction. The moment simran felt the cockhead at her gateway, simran let her body down and impaled the waiting monstrosity that his cock was.
It was a brave thing to do, for her cunt to slam down on such a weapon of a cock. But ignorance is bliss and the deed was done. The pain was unbearable as her cunt seared open to the hot cock plunging up.And simran let out a cry "AAAAAAAAAA.....RGH...RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.GGGGHHH... .AAMMMMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA... Her weight carried her on and simran could not stop herself. The cunt sank fully and he was up in her womb, twitching and pulsating before simran could even register the fuck.
The servant howled with pleasure as he felt the velvet sleeve of actress simran cunt grip his cock. Now more of her weight transferred to his hands and he held her as simran quivered and shuddered on her crucifix. The insides of her thighs tensed to an unbearable point of pain in reflex. simran let her body settle and relax, shivering and shuddering and moaned "SSSSSSSS ...SSHHHH,,,,,,,AAAAA ...AAAAAA, ....AAAAAA AAAHUHUHUH...........AAAAAA"
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RE: Fantasizing about Tamil Actress Simran Sex Story
As simran whimpered "HUH...HUH..MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM" he held her steady, knowing simran must be in pain. Tears welled up in her eyes and as the sensations gave way to pleasure, simran actually wanted to feel all of that again. It seemed impossible, why would anyone want to feel that brutal pain and stretching again? But nature took over and her instincts made her want more. Once again, her weight transferred to her hands and his hands were freer now to manipulate her body again. As simran lifted herself up, her body stretched out magnificently. He saw the ripple of well toned arms as her hands stretched upward. The arms led to the round of her shoulders. Her muscles were taut with the stress of lifting up her body and flowed into her breasts which were stretched and pouting upward as her body was one long stretch of flesh from torso to fingertips.Light played games on the curves, the hills and valleys of her breasts, shoulder, stomach and thighs. Her body glistened due to heavy sweats and servant marveled at the well known actress taut and flexible body.
simran sank down on his cock for the second time, this time with more assurance and simran felt a surge of fluid flow out of her. The servant felt his own pubic hair soak and the fluid race down his balls and thighs. It could have been blood or it could have been her juices. He did not have any way of knowing and he did not care.
His hands cupped her ass and gratefully accepted her weight, while her flesh opened out fully once again and settled down around his aching cock.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa........aaaaaaaa....aaaaaaaah !" simran hissed as her cunt distended and filled up to the neck of her womb. simran laughed and threw her head back, her eyes closed, savoring the massaging of flesh on flesh.
Now simran lifted and dropped herself again. And again, and again. "AAH KUTHUDA DEI KUTHU...NAAN THAANDA UN THEVIDIYA...EVLO MUDIYOMO AVLO KUTHU...AAAAAAAAAH!" simran repeated over and over again with every thrust and parry of her body down on his waiting cock.As simran lifted and dropped herself, the branches of the mango tree sagged and bowed. Her thrusts were met by the rustle of leaves as simran humped him. His cock was broad and head round and was well gripped by most of the pussies he had encountered. But this was a near-first and the tightness was maddening.
He gripped her asscheeks and decided that he must drive the pleasure process for a few thrusts. He lifted her up, higher, aided by her own efforts, and when simran least expected it, let her down with no support on her way down. The thrusting of the cock into her cunt was more powerful than ever and simran started to sob in pleasure AND GRUNTES "AAAAAAHHH INTHA MAARI SUGAM EVANUM KUDUTHA THILLAI.......... AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH".
Her back was raw from the abrasions from the tree trunk. Her thighs aching from the impossibly wide stretch. Her muscles were sore from the sudden and brutal exercise. But her cunt wanted more. And more simran took. And gave. The fucking became more and more violent as each tried to undo the other. Soon the grunts and cries, and the rustling of leaves was joined by the thumping sound of mangoes hitting the ground. Young mangoes were being dislodged by the vigorous shaking of branches and the fruit were landing on the bed of leaves below with thumps.The wild couple tried to slow down their tempo and bring some rhythm to try save the mangoes, and more importantly, to avoid attracting attention. But the sexual chemistry was too violent to tame.And soon they had attention.
"Who is that stealing our mangoes?" called out Simran's husband. He was searching for simran and came out..
Both of them froze. simran let go of the branches and put her arms around servant's shoulders and hoisted herself on, but in the process simran was almost entirely off his cock. Her legs were no longer spread out as simran had managed before. Therefore simran clung on to his shoulder and tried to avoid slipping down on his cock. simran was sure she would be torn apart if simran did not spread herself out and she didn't want to risk that.He gripped her thighs hard and kept her around his hips. There was a struggle of him wanting to plunge back into her hut throbbing pussy and simran wanting to avoid getting plundered open.
Post: #4
RE: Fantasizing about Tamil Actress Simran Sex Story
As simran tried to keep off and he tried to thrust up into her, he looked towards the house only to see his master (deepak) peering towards the mango tree. He walked with simran wrapped around him away from the house, beyond the mango tree, towards the cowshed at the back. With each step was a shuffle of feet and leaves gave away his movements. With each step was the bouncing of her body and the cunt nosed, rode, or sank, to varying extents at varying times on his bobbing cock.
The deepak walked towards the mango trees, "Who is there?"
"HAAAAA.....AAA.....AAAAH.. MMMMMMMMMMMMMM....!" came a low scream from simran as in one his steps servant speared her fully. He felt good when he sank in fully, for he could hardly bear the waiting. For the next few steps he was nestled in her and the progress to the simrand was slower. But it was more pleasurable as they jiggled and fucked with every move. simran's eyes were on the moving form of her husband and simran quickly whispered to her servant, "DAI EN PURUSHAN VANTHUTTAN,,,APPURAMA KUTHUDA... IPPA VERA ENGAYAVATHU PODA...!"
The urgency in her voice was not lost on servant, he lifted her off his cock and staggered towards the cowshed. As soon as they were in, he rested his aching arms by letting her lean on a buffalo. simran let her arms rest and spread herself back on the buffalo, her ass still in servants hands. Immediately, the servant fucked her hard and fast giving himself relief from the build up caused by the interruption at the mango grove.
The squelching sounds and the whimpering from the fucking filled the shed and the buffalo shuffled its feet under the powerful thrusts from servant. simran grabbed servant's shoulders as she lost balance. Once again simran was wrapped around his hips fucking him hard.Nothing, it seemed nothing, could hold them back from fucking. They just had to try to tame one another and intense lust had gripped them.
Now they heard footsteps outside the cowshed. There was only one way for simran to prevent her husband from entering the shed. She asked him to carry herself to the door of the shed so that she leaned on the door, making it difficult, if not impossible for anyone to push it in and enter.It also allowed him to continue to fucking her, for he felt he would go mad if the thrusting were to stop. He just had to have that hot, wet, bubbling cunt ride him. Now, as he thrust, the thump of her body against the metal door became the drumbeat of their lust. Their fucking tapped its rhythm on the metal. simran's fingers were over the top of the door as simran reached up and behind to steady herself.
"NEE MANUSUNA ILLA MIRUGAMA DA....AAAAAAA....IVLO VEGAMA KUTTHURA!" simran hissed.
"ENDI THEVIDIYA,,,UNNAN NINAICHU EVLO KAYADICHIRUPAEN,,INNAIKKU NEE SETHA DI..!" he snarled at her, fucking her up twice harder for good measure.
"Who is that?" came up a voice from real close.
"It's me! Go away from here!" replied the Simran gruffly.
Deepak recognized the voice of the his wife simran who no one dared defy and stopped short. Those fingers which deepak spotted on the side of the door were not a woman's. The feet which deepak could see at the foot of the door were pointing towards the door and were male leg.
The door itself was bending as if pressure were being applied on it and with each bend, came a thump. The thumps came in a rhythm deepak had once been accustomed to, though not lately, leaving him in no doubt as to what was going on. What deepak did not, and could not know, was who.But that was not such a big matter for deepak knew her wife simran fucked at will. Discreet, and resigned over the years to the ways of his feudal lordship deepak moved off, and maintained a watch from afar.
As the footsteps receded, both servant and simran needed to rest their limbs and he allowed her to slide down, all along the metal door. Her descending body yanked his cock downwards till it eventually slid out, and sprang up when released, smearing itself on her belly. Then as simran slid further, it nestled against her breasts. servant held her by her armpits, luxuriating in the warmth of the valley of her breasts. And then her face was in his groin.
simran stared in fascination at the magnificent specimen of maleness. "NEE THAANDA EN PURUSHAN...ENNAMA KUTHURA... SUPERDA....," simran thought to herself. And simran did something simran had seen the porn movies that she had once brought. simran kissed the cock, tasting herself and him, but of course, not knowing which flavor was male and which female. simran opened her lips and allowed him to sink into the wet warm recess of her mouth. Thakur put his hand on her pretty head of beautiful hair and fucked her face. "KADAVULEY....AAAAHHH ENNAMA OOMBURA INTHA THEVIDIYA!" he thought to himself.
simran's hand closed over the cylinder of flesh as simran pumped in and out of her mouth and then suddenly she let go. simran sank to the straw on the floor of the cowshed and now was kneeling to make a thick enough bed of hay for them to lie on and fuck. As simran knelt and went about this task, simran could see from the gap at the foot of the door her husband deepak standing at the rear veranda of the house looking towards the cowshed.
Servant was meanwhile transfixed by the sight of simran on all fours in front of him. Her hips were provocatively wiggling and her knees were sufficiently apart. He knelt behind her and raised her skirt, exposing her once again. A hand went under her and he held her soft stomach. With his other hand he guided his cock, slathering the valley between her legs. It touched her anus, her perineum and her coarse haired pussy. The slit was gaping open and wet and took but a moment to absorb his cock simran gasped as new spots in her pussy were now caressed by that knobby monster. simran braced herself on all fours allowing servant to ride her. Soon his hands came up to grip her breasts. He held her hard, pinching her nipples. Then he raised himself on one knee. From this position of strength, he fucked her hard.
With each thrust, simran sobbed out her pleasure. Her eyes were closed as simran concentrated on the hot pillar pounding her. Waves of orgasms poured out of her cunt. When her eyes were open they naturally wandered to the husband standing on the veranda. simran's eyes opened with shock with servant changed the angle and the rearing cock head touched her g-spot. simran blabbered out loud and wildly, " OTHA GOMMALA. ..KUTHUDA. ...NEE KUTHURA KUTHULA, EN KOOTHI KILINJU,,NAAAAN SETHURANUM,,,,Yah, yah, yah!"
simran started to buck and thrash back at him. His cock twisted and turned and he felt her pussy walls contracting and ravaging his cock. The throes of her orgasm had her bucking like a cow mounted by a bull and he gripped her breasts hard to hang on to her. His fingers were surely making their mark on her tender skin but those breasts were so ripe, and so asking to be eaten!
simran noticed the servants shuddering and loss of control when she moved and twisted on that cock. Now was the time for her to drive her point. simran leaned forward and allowed his cock to slide almost entirely out.Servant wildly lunged forward to find the hot wet nesting place again. simran skillfully avoided him. As simran leaned further forward, the angle of cunt to cock changed and the servant risked losing her pussy completely. He stopped so that at least he wouldn't lose the positioning.simran now gently rode back, the pussy only gliding over the exposed and raging head. Servant shuddered. He thrust his hips forward, allowing his cock to project outward, fully exposed, ready to take the gripping cunt's caress on his cock. But it never came.
simran had turned her head and was looking back at him. Her lustrous black hair was undone and framed her face, her shoulders, and her breasts. simran smiled at him. He groaned and caressed her buttocks, kneading them and running his fingernails all the way up to her shoulders. simran shuddered and shivered from the touch.
But her hips stayed perfectly still. "ITHU," simran said with a quick backward jab of her pussy, "ITHU ITHUTHANEY UNAKKU VENUM?"
Thakur shuddered and his neck and head went into spasms. "Y…ye…… yessssssssss!" he hissed.
"Then," simran continued with a harder jab, "DAILY VENUMA" - and here simran fucked him really hard- "KANDIPPA"and in conclusion simran rotated her cunt pulling his cock in all directions." Aaaaaaaaaaaaah! DEVIDIYA MUNDA!" shouted servant as his nails dug into the fleshy ass.
Pushed on simran, holding her cunt away from him and leaning forward to the edge of a 'slip-out'.his hands gripping her hips as simran lowered her head and presented her ass upward to him. simran was giving him control once again."AMAM DA UNAKKU NAAN ENNAIKKUM DEVIDIYA THAAAN ENNAI OTHU THAALLLUDA!" begged the woman who was at least 10 years elder than her servant.
Servant needed to spill his seed and cum and fill her now. He just had to. This simran's tight and gripping cunt, her gymnastics, her sauciness and the sheer illicitness of their mating was all too much for this poor boy.He moved into the mating rhythm and started to pound in and out mercilessly. simran was reduced to a whimpering and quivering mass of exploding flesh as orgasm after orgasm wrenched out of her poor, ravaged pussy.A 3 hour (or more?) long fuck in one night was a bit too much.
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The title suggests a competition (I just liked the homophone!), but our first verse-writing give-away was really a way for my readers to have an outlet to express their Inner Poet! Heartfelt, genuine, ethereal, clever, brilliant, inspiring, poignant, personal, funny, bold, and expressive. Thank you to the FOUR who submitted a verse for me to post on this fine Saturday morning -- we all win as we are graced by your creative striving, but alas, only ONE receives the syrendell snail.
The snail is given to Diana. Congratulations! You can find Diana on her blogsite My Artemis Moon. Here is Diana's verse entry:
My dearest little one
so fiercely growing
willing yourself your brother's equal
and yet the years between you remain.
Constantly striving to reach out beyond
the footsteps that have gone before you
There will come a time
when you forge out on new paths
spaces and places where none before trod
but for now feel the joy and the wonder of childhood
our love here will hold you and carry you on
till it's time for your own paths
and destiny's journey
and your love here from family
will light the path home.
Beautiful, wonderful all, here are the other verses.
From Hallie, she wrote about her verse entry titled Summer Rain, "I originally wrote this for MY best friend but now often think back to it when I see my daughter with her best friend...ironically playing in the rain!"
I remember hot summer rains
When I played with my very best friend
Under umbrellas and pretended
We were sisters
We played dolls on her porch
And it rained all around us
So puddles grew great
Just waiting to be jumped in
We had our favorite lunch
Of macaroni and cheese
And we pretended we were in
The nicest restaurant ever
When we grew tired of our game
We took our socks and shoes off
And ran around in the rain
Still wishing we were sisters!
From Angela (and Ruth and Bea), she writes, "I love my children - a quick poem about my three little ones and how they've been instructing me in savoring the moment and learning to be silly once again."
I see in you
the parts of me I had let fade away
but am rediscovering, rekindling -
drawing back to myself -
by being in your presence.
Mothering you
is a second chance -
to see things as you see them -
to find joy in simple moments.
"Oh, and my 6 year-old Ruth's contribution - she chose to write a poem about her sister, Bea, who is 4."
Bea is sweet
Bea is kind
Bea is more gentle
than anyone you can find.
"Okay, and now Bea says she wants to make up a poem about Ruth."
Ruth is nice
Ruth is sweet
She's sweeter than a sugar beet.
From Suzane, her verse titled The Unfolding, is about Rudolf Steiner, "his philosophy speaks to us as parents and I could not think of anyone who has made such a difference to our living. My verse is about how my life with my children has grown through the Waldorf way."
As the Seasons of learning unfold before me,
I am taken by its splendor.
As I am guided through my human life,
I awaken to the needs of my children.
Rudolf Steiner spiritually inspired by masterful thinking
has taken hold of my mind.
Like the dawn awakens my soul from slumber.
Something wonderful has begun.
I am Like a watered seed
emerging towards the light.
I have been given a tool, a treasure to share.
I must use it wisely.
To see my boy when ready,
with burning desire to read
is warming.
I am glad we waited.
Little hands that touch and mould
exploring with nature.
Fingers that paint and fiddle with instruments.
The gift of a picture and heavenly music.
Minds that expand , knowledge yet untold.
No limits to learning here with my fold.
Knowledge has given power to the learner here.
Our philosophy a road worth the travel.
To Hallie, Angela, and Suzane, who did not receive the give-away snail, I am offering a syrendell snail at a 20% discount from the listed price on the Syrendell.Etsy shop. To all the verse entrants, again Thank You!


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Free Agency Thread
Discuss anything related to Golden State Warriors basketball here
Moderators: Mr. Crackerz, JREED, Guybrush, 32
Guybrush wrote:I can't see any reason why would Bucks want Zaza back, let alone giving him that much money. And then they go and sign Delfino again. Why bringing back players that didn't provide anything valuable in their first stint with the club?
The Bucks have also picked up another ex-player in Luke Ridnour. I wonder if they'll soon try a sign and trade with Monta Ellis for Andrew Bogut.


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Where are you from?
I was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This is my first visit to L.A. and I'm very pleased to be here.
Why did you come to LACMA today?
I had heard about the museum and the richness of the collections and I wanted to see them.
Have you been inspired by art?
I write, and on many occasions my source of inspiration is a piece of art. In fact, I am here in this building to look at the Rothko painting that you have. So yes. Definitely, yes.
Why did you come to the museum today?
Piaget: We are here to see modern art, I came down from San Francisco, I had a show and I'm leaving tomorrow.
If you were a piece of artwork, which one would you be?
Piaget: I like Calder sculptures. They're free, they're playful…
Do you have plans to travel?
If I can get a job or sell some of my art, I will go to Spain…It's beautiful, relaxing, and I've always gone there as a child…hopefully I will travel around and go to Bilbao.


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I lost my Domaine de la Romane virginity this past December at the Zachy's pre-DRC auction dinner held at Restaurant Daniel. Yes, it was an orgy. Yes, it was worth it. Yes. Yes. Yes.
Seated at my table were Forbes' 'inimitable' Alan Farnham, Zachy's irascible Ned Benedict and adorable Christin Wingo. The wise Paul Roberts from the French Laundry attended as did Mr. Burgundy himself, Daniel Johness and dapper Robert Bohr, Wine director of Cru—who by the end of the night got my vote for MVP.
At these kinds of bacchanals the faster wines come at me, the tipsier I get, the more regressive my wine notes, the more incomprehensible my penmanship. While I rarely get sloshed, at an event as precious as this, slosh is forgivable though still embarrassing.
The night kicked off auspiciously with DRC's Le Montrachet, 1987, one of the giddiest white Burgundies ever to slide down the gullet. It had a riveting element of deep, blushed apricot, toffeed butterscotch and finish that just kept on going on and on with intact lilting acidity. The '91 DRC Montrachet which appeared out of nowhere (hm, I think supplied by Johness?) was a neurotically nervous wine, and not near ready to drink. Ms. Wingo offered up a 1971 Grange as an off-beat palate cleanser. I have had the misfortune to taste the newer Granges made after wine manipulation was brought to a high art in Australia. I now understand the reverence the wine gets, or used to get. Here is depth and character Aussie style. There is a cabernet-ish earth and twig with a nice dose of old nag horse from the syrah.
Robert Bohr, bless his heart, lugged a magnum of 1989 DRC Grands chzeaux . However he made me beg for it, scolding me to have patience. Waiting was easier than I expected when Daniel Boulud, big smile on his face, plomped down next to me and offered me a taste of the 1966 Romane Conti in his glass, which came from the prestigious table where Robert M. Parker, Jr., was sitting. Pretty fascinating stuff: a dash of Tabasco and red pepper as well. Then it was all a tumble and jumble of spice box of allspice, nutmeg, like sticking my tongue inside a cinnamon stick. A west coast young man with a big cellar, pretty famous with this bunch, unknown to me and I to him, came around holding a '99 DRC chzeaux by the neck. Yes, this is the least grand holding of DRC, but still, why would any one be so cavalier as to open this bottle with only five years of age? Only a guy with more to burn in their cellar, and this thought does bring out envy in me and makes me wonder how I get to be his new best friend. I admit it was drinking gorgeously but it was such a shame the bottle was too young to die.
I finally prevailed upon Mr. Bohr to pour me a small sample from his big magnum. Thank you Robert. I was and am very appreciative. Shortly thereafter, something odd happened. Mr. Farnham, with no compunction about leaving wines behind he never tasted and probably will never again taste in his lifetime, sprinted for a train. In classic greener grass syndrome, everyone except for Ned went in search of other wines they could sneak tastes of—the La Tches, Richebourgs, St. Vivants, Grands chzeaux out there as well as the Roumiers and Ponsots, the 1947 Lafleurs and the 1971 Haut Brions—I was suddenly alone with Ned and the magnum which hung out on the table lonely as a girl in search of a waltz partner. I continued to torture Ned with questions and nurse my private bottle.
I've gotten a little wiser about some things in my life, one of them is that when the mag of 1989 Grands chzeaux appears on your table in need of attention, give it to her. And when you spill your second glass of wine of the night, quickly teeter off in your heels to the coat check before you're in danger of not walking a straight line.


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by Mark Underwood
Have you ever wondered where novelists, actors or writers find inspiration for their work?
Creativity is not a predetermined way of looking at the world—you can get inspired by almost anything, anywhere, anytime. All you have to do is be receptive to inspiration.
Some people inherit a highly developed sense of creativity or come to it naturally because they were raised in a creative environment. But most of us need some form of inspiration if we want to look at the world with a different perspective.
Whatever you call it–creativity, thinking outside the box or thinking sideways, creative thinking is all about looking at the world with a different twist, in a slightly different way than you usually do.
The good news is that inspiration is all around us.
Nurturing creativity
Creativity can be used in many endeavors. In World War II it was used to save lives.
J.P. Guilford, a psychologist and father of modern creativity, came up with a game plan to test the creative thinking of bomber pilots in the U.S. Air Force in World War II. He designed a personality test to select the most creative pilots who were most likely to survive being shot down by using their creativity .
His question, "What would you do with a brick?" helped weed out pilots who weren't good at thinking sideways or differently in dire circumstances. Try it yourself. Can you come up with 50 uses for a brick in 15 minutes or less?
Most of us fine-tune our creative side when we are exposed to new things around us. All of us are influenced by our experiences–whether they are theatrical productions, symphonies, films, TV or travel.
Look for something new to explore or learn. Then hold on to those experiences and use them to inspire you.
How did you feel when you listened to a magnificent choir or attended a concert in a park on a summer evening? Unleash those feelings to inspire your creative juices.
A mysterious process
Creativity is a complex neurological process. It's not as easy to quantify. There's no such thing as a light bulb over your head announcing a good idea.
But scientists have found that they can "see ideas" with a brain scanner. A few seconds before a person gets an idea, the area of the brain called the superior anterior temporal lights up.
No one path inspires creativity, but scientists have found that different parts of the creative process require different types of creative thinking. They have also learned that when we are resting, the superior anterior temporal (behind the ear) tries to send us messages of inspiration.
Albert Einstein may have summed up long naps and walks on the beach best when he said, "Creativity is the residue of wasted time."
Tips for getting inspired
Most of us are creatures of habit, but you can ramp up your creativity if you try new things. Get in tune with these random influences:
- Change your TV watching habits. Most of us enjoy watching the same TV shows, but if you changed things up you might get new ideas. Use your remote to randomly watch programs that aren't on your 'favorites' list.
- Change your Internet activity. Adults spend an average of 29 hours, 15 minutes browsing the Internet each month. Are you using the same web browsers, going to the same shopping or news sites? Try new sites that aren't typically on your radar. You may get new ideas that unlock your creativity.
- Read differently. Push your comfort zone. If you read memoirs or biographies, try reading an historical novel, poetry, science and health or classic literature. Move around the house. Read in a different room or chair.
- Take a nap. Inner thoughts can give you intriguing new ideas.
- Get unstuck. Do something simple like taking a walk around the block at a different time of day. You may meet someone new or see nature differently when you change your routine. New things inspire new ideas. And that's an inspiration worth taking a walk for any day.
Mark Underwood is a neuroscience researcher, president and co-founder of Quincy Bioscience, a biotech company located in Madison, Wisconsin focused on the discovery and development of medicines to treat age related memory loss and the diseases of aging. Mark has been taped as an expert in the field of neuroscience for The Wall Street Journal Morning Radio, CBS and CNN Radio among others. Mark is also a contributor to the "Brain Health Guide" which highlights the research at Quincy Bioscience and offers practical tips to help keep health brain function in aging. More articles and tips for healthy aging can be found at: www.TheGoodNewsAboutAging.com.
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Influenza, also called flu or grippe, an acute viral infection of the upper or lower respiratory tract that is marked by fever, chills, and a generalized feeling of weakness and pain in the muscles, together with varying degrees of soreness in the head and abdomen.
The manufacture of influenza vaccine is complicated by the many influenza viruses and by the major changes in antigenic composition that these viruses continually undergo. Routine immunization against influenza viruses is recommended for all healthy individuals before the respiratory disease season commences (in…
Classification of influenza viruses
Influenza is caused by any of several closely related viruses in the family Orthomyxoviridae (a group of RNA viruses). Influenza viruses are categorized as types A, B, and C. The three major types generally produce similar symptoms but are completely unrelated antigenically, so that infection with one type confers no immunity against the others. The A viruses cause the great influenza epidemics, and the B viruses cause smaller localized outbreaks; the C viruses are not important causes of disease in humans. Influenza A viruses are classified into subtypes, and both influenza B and subtypes of influenza A are further divided into strains. Subtypes of influenza A are differentiated mainly on the basis of two surface antigens (foreign proteins)—hemagglutinin (H) and neuraminidase (N). Examples of influenza A subtypes include H1N1, H5N1, and H3N2. Strains of influenza B and strains of influenza A subtypes are further distinguished by variations in genetic sequence.
Evolution and virulence of influenza viruses
Between worldwide outbreaks, known as pandemics, influenza viruses undergo constant, rapid evolution (a process called antigenic drift), which is driven by mutations in the genes encoding antigen proteins. Periodically, the viruses undergo major evolutionary change by acquiring a new genome segment from another influenza virus (antigenic shift), effectively becoming a new subtype. Viral evolution is facilitated by animals such as pigs and birds, which serve as reservoirs of influenza viruses. When a pig is simultaneously infected with different influenza A viruses, such as human, swine, and avian strains, genetic reassortment can occur. This process gives rise to new strains of influenza A.
Newly emerged influenza viruses tend to be initially highly infectious and virulent in humans because they possess novel antigens to which the human body has no prepared immune defense (i.e., existing antibodies). Once a significant proportion of a population develops immunity through the production of antibodies capable of neutralizing the new virus, the infectiousness and virulence of the virus decreases. Although outbreaks of influenza viruses are generally most fatal to young children and the elderly, the fatality rate in people between ages 20 and 40 is sometimes unexpectedly high, even though the patients receive treatment. This phenomenon is believed to be due to hyper-reaction of the immune system to new strains of influenza virus. Such reaction results from the overproduction of inflammatory substances called cytokines. The release of excessive amounts of these molecules causes severe inflammation, particularly in the epithelial cells of the lungs. Individuals whose immune systems are not fully developed (such as infants) or are weakened (such as the elderly) cannot generate such a lethal immune response.
Pandemics and epidemics
Influenza pandemics are estimated to occur on average once every 50 years. Epidemics happen much more frequently, and seasonal influenza appears annually in most parts of the world, sometimes in epidemic proportions. Influenza type A virus is the most frequent cause of seasonal influenza. When an influenza A virus undergoes an antigenic shift, a pandemic affecting most of the world can occur within a matter of months. The influenza pandemic of 1918–19, the most destructive influenza outbreak in history and one of the most severe disease pandemics ever encountered, was caused by a subtype of influenza A known as H1N1. During this pandemic an estimated 25 million persons throughout the world died of the so-called Spanish flu, which was first widely reported in Spain but originated in the U.S. state of Kansas.
Subsequent pandemics of influenza have been less severe. For example, influenza A subtype H2N2, or Asian flu, apparently began in East Asia early in 1957, and by midyear it had circled the globe. The outbreak lasted on a pandemic level until about the middle of 1958 and caused an estimated one million to two million deaths worldwide. After 10 years of evolution that produced annual epidemics, the Asian flu disappeared in 1968, only to be replaced by a new influenza A subtype, H3N2. This virus, also known as Hong Kong flu, is still in circulation. The Hong Kong flu outbreak of 1968 was the third influenza pandemic of the 20th century and resulted in an estimated one million to four million deaths.
In 1997 a type of avian influenza, or bird flu, virus broke out among domesticated poultry in Hong Kong and then infected a small number of people, killing some of them. This same virus, H5N1, reappeared among chicken flocks in Southeast Asia during the winter of 2003–04, again infecting some people fatally, and it has reappeared periodically since, primarily in wild birds, domestic poultry, and humans. Several other subtypes of bird flu viruses are known, including H7N2, H7N3, and H9N2. Though these subtypes rarely cause infection in humans, they are recognized as having epidemic and pandemic potential.
An outbreak of a previously unknown strain of H1N1 occurred in 2009. Originally called swine flu because the virus was suspected to have been transmitted to humans from pigs, the illness first broke out in Mexico and then spread to the United States. The H1N1 virus that caused the outbreak was discovered to possess genetic material from human, avian, and two different swine influenza viruses. The 2009 H1N1 outbreak was not nearly as deadly as the Spanish flu. However, the virus was highly contagious and spread rapidly. The pandemic potential of the new H1N1 virus was made clear to the international community by the World Health Organization (WHO), which declared a level 5 pandemic alert on April 29, 2009. This prompted the rapid implementation of mitigation procedures, including the distribution of drugs to treatment facilities, in countries worldwide. Despite these measures, the virus continued to spread globally. On June 11, 2009, following an increase in cases in Chile, Australia, and the United Kingdom, WHO raised the H1N1 alert level from 5 to 6, meaning that the outbreak was officially declared a pandemic. By mid-January 2010 the outbreak had affected people in more than 209 countries worldwide. It was the first influenza pandemic of the 21st century. In the United States the high levels of flu-like illness observed during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic were not observed again until 2018.
Research has indicated that each of the four historic influenza pandemics was preceded by a La Niña event—a change in global weather conditions associated with cool sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean—which, some scientists speculate, may have altered the migratory patterns of birds, possibly increasing their interactions with domestic animals and enabling genetic reassortment and the rise of new pandemic strains of influenza viruses.
Influenza pandemic preparedness
Because influenza epidemics and pandemics can devastate large regions of the world very quickly, WHO constantly monitors influenza disease activity on a global scale. This monitoring is useful for gathering information that can be used to prepare vaccines and that can be disseminated to health centres in countries where seasonal influenza outbreaks are likely to occur. Monitoring by WHO also plays an important role in preventing and preparing for potential epidemics and pandemics.
In the event that a potentially pandemic influenza virus emerges, WHO adheres to its influenza pandemic preparedness plan. This plan consists of six phases of pandemic alert. Phases 1–3, which are the early stages in pandemic preparedness, are designed to prevent or contain small outbreaks. In these early phases, isolated incidences of animal-to-human transmission of an influenza virus are observed and provide warning that a virus has pandemic potential. Later, small outbreaks of disease may occur, generally resulting from multiple cases of animal-to-human transmission. Phase 3 signals to affected countries that the implementation of efforts to control the outbreak is needed to prevent a pandemic. Phases 4 and 5 are characterized by increasing urgency in mitigating the outbreak. Confirmed human-to-human viral transmission, with sustained disease in human communities which subsequently spread so that disease transmission between humans occurred in two countries, indicates that a pandemic is imminent. Phase 6, the highest level of pandemic alert, is characterized by widespread disease and sustained transmission of the virus between humans. Influenza pandemics sometimes occur in waves. Thus, a post-pandemic phase, when disease activity decreases, may be followed by another period of high prevalence of disease. As a result, influenza pandemics may last for a period of months (see pandemic).
Transmission and symptoms
The flu may affect individuals of all ages, though the highest incidence of the disease is among children and young adults. Influenza is generally more frequent during the colder months of the year. Infection is transmitted from person to person through the respiratory tract, by such means as inhalation of infected droplets resulting from coughing and sneezing. As the virus particles gain entrance to the body, they selectively attack and destroy the ciliated epithelial cells that line the upper respiratory tract, bronchial tubes, and trachea. The incubation period of the disease is one to two days, after which the onset of symptoms is abrupt, with sudden and distinct chills, fatigue, and muscle aches. The temperature rises rapidly to 38–40 °C (101–104 °F). A diffuse headache and severe muscular aches throughout the body are experienced, often accompanied by irritation or a sense of rawness in the throat. In three to four days the temperature begins to fall, and the person begins to recover. Symptoms associated with respiratory tract infection, such as coughing and nasal discharge, become more prominent and may be accompanied by lingering feelings of weakness. Death may occur, usually among older people already weakened by other debilitating disorders, and is caused in most of those cases by complications such as pneumonia or bronchitis.
Treatment and prevention
The antiviral drugs amantadine and rimantadine have beneficial effects on cases of influenza involving the type A virus. However, viral resistance to these agents has been observed, thereby reducing their effectiveness. A newer category of drugs, the neuraminidase inhibitors, which includes oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and zanamivir (Relenza), was introduced in the late 1990s; these drugs inhibit both the influenza A and B viruses. Other than this, the standard treatment remains bed rest, ingestion of fluids, and the use of analgesics to control fever. It is recommended that children and teenagers with the flu not be given aspirin, as treatment of viral infections with aspirin is associated with Reye syndrome, a very serious illness.
Individual protection against the flu may be bolstered by injection of a vaccine containing two or more circulating influenza viruses. These viruses are produced in chick embryos and rendered noninfective; standard commercial preparations ordinarily include the type B influenza virus and several of the A subtypes. Protection from one vaccination seldom lasts more than a year, and yearly vaccination may be recommended, particularly for those individuals who are unusually susceptible to influenza or whose weak condition could lead to serious complications in case of infection. However, routine immunization in healthy people is also recommended. In order to prevent human-infecting bird flu viruses from mutating into more dangerous subtypes, public health authorities try to limit the viral "reservoir" where antigenic shift may take place by ordering the destruction of infected poultry flocks.


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Grouper fish...
Today is the last day of the MasterChef Malaysia audition. I just want to say sorry to those who encouraged me on to take part. I just didn't feel like attending it this year. If there's a Season Two next year, I might be up to it maybe? My apology once again!
Last weekend, I dropped by the Gardens Mid Valley mall. Whichever mall I go to, I must look for its bookstore. I always spend the longest time at the food and travel sections. I would flip through the pages of every magazine, in search of beautiful photographs of places and food. And every time I see something that is worthy of my liking, I would buy. I found this particular recipe while flipping through a magazine recently. It looked simple yet delicate to prepare.
The following day I woke up extra early to get the freshest fish from my neighbourhood market. Here it is my own version of Roast Whole Grouper fish, served with salsa romesco & buttered potatoes.
Inside the fish; add 1 garlic, basil leaf, and 2 slices of lemon.
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The follow-link works too, I wonder how that will look in the changelists...
Follow my own repositories
The link to follow a repository is present even on the users own repositories.
Does that make sense?
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You don't automatically follow your own repos, so this is the way to get notifications that someone has done something to it. Yourself included. Some people might want that.
Maybe it makes sense to automatically follow your own repos? I have a gut feeling that is what people expect....
I did assume I would get notified about changes to my own repos, and I'm somewhat surprised that is not the case.
Some people might not be totally self absorbed and want to get flooded with their own changes. Or maybe they do, I dunno.
That being said, I follow my own repos as well. Need to give this one some thought.
Personally I'd prefer to follow my own repos ... If you're working with others on them, then you'd like to know what's up.
If it's a problem you can always unfollow.
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Point taken. As of 920:cc84748d8627 this is implemented.
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Although connectivity is nothing new to automotive, business opportunities are growing rapidly. As the automotive ecosystem is opening to powerful non-traditional players, connectivity is truly a disruptive trend. Automakers need to determine their role and identify where they can generate value from this technology and put the pedal to the metal when it comes to deploying new operating models and capabilities. If they don't, they risk being overtaken by tech companies looking to exploit connected cars for their own growth plays.
Yet, as original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) wade more deeply into connectivity, they are facing several challenges. For starters, while consumers want their vehicles to be connected, there is some evidence they won't necessarily be willing to pay extra. Also, they expect their smartphones, tablets, and other devices to work seamlessly within their vehicles.
To deliver superior solutions in an efficient way within this ecosystem, OEMs should focus on vehicle-related functionality bundles related to areas such as assistance, remote access or navigation. At the same time, they need to integrate non-vehicle related services hosted on handheld devices. Earning a chunk of the connected car pie requires OEMs to make significant investments.
Certainly, the potential is available: Accenture believes the total business value of connected car services will reach €100 billion by 2020, and €500 billion by 2025. On a per-vehicle basis, a fully-fledged connected car, assuming heavy usage, could deliver more than €5,000 in additional value over lifetime, in our view.


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