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Yanks' run of close games continues in loss to Tigers
Daley allows decisive homer in 12th; Kuroda strong for seven innings
NEW YORK -- The Yankees' one-run victory over the Tigers on Monday marked the team's 15th straight game decided by two runs or fewer. Manager Joe Girardi said afterward that he didn't mind the consecutive close games so long as they won them.
But Tuesday night, after seeing a two-run lead disappear, and ultimately dropping the second game of the series to Detroit, 4-3, it appeared as though preserving the win in their 16th straight close game had begun to finally wear on them.
Locked in a 3-3 game in the 12th inning, Alex Avila crushed his eighth home run of the season to deep right-center field off Matt Daley in the Yankees reliever's second inning of work.
"When it's all on the line, that's when I want to be in there, so that's part of what's frustrating," said Daley. "I wanted to come up big and put up some zeros for the guys today."
The loss spoiled a superb night from Hiroki Kuroda, who spun one of his most efficient games this season, lasting seven innings and surrendering three runs over just 91 pitches.
Kuroda only had 74 pitches after six innings of work, but his labors late in the seventh inning proved to be costly, ending his chances for a victory. Victor Martinez singled to start the inning, and Kuroda allowed back-to-back singles with two outs that pushed across the tying run, which wouldn't be broken until five innings later.
"It was a tight game toward the seventh inning, so maybe my pitch count was low, but in a sense, it was a tough day for me," said Kuroda, who was pulled after the seventh. "Our bullpen has been taxed lately, so for me … I wanted to go as long as I could."
The bullpen ended up still being taxed, but the Yankees saw a superb combined effort from relievers Dellin Betances, Shawn Kelley, David Huff, Esmil Rogers, and newly signed Rich Hill, all of whom the Yankees will look to more after Matt Thornton was let go on waivers earlier in the day. The group preserved the tie from the eighth inning on until Avila's decisive blast off Daley.
"Those guys did a heck of a job," said Girardi of his bullpen. "You had an opportunity to win that game, and it's tough. They're playing a very good team, and it's going to happen sometimes."
Before the series began Monday, Girardi explained that, "all pitchers are human," rationalizing the daunting task of facing the Tigers' string of the last three AL Cy Young Award winners. After escaping Max Scherzer, the Yankees made Price -- who threw 8 2/3 innings while striking out 10 in his Tigers debut -- human enough again Tuesday, but couldn't do the same to the Tigers' bullpen.
That included 1 1/3 hitless innings from former Yankee Joba Chamberlain, who entered to boos and heard more of them when he plunked Derek Jeter in the back, one of three hit batsmen the teams totaled on the night.
"You understand you're going to run into guys that have helped you win," said Girardi. "It's just his personality. He's going to show some emotion."
"It's tough to go 12 innings and lose," said Brian McCann, who hit his 12th home run of the season to right for the Yankees' first run. "These are the tough ones to swallow. Anytime you lose, it's the same feeling."
Martin Prado extended the Yankees' lead to two when he clobbered his first Yankees long ball, a solo shot to left in the fifth. Even Brendan Ryan, in a spot start for second baseman Stephen Drew, got into the action, doubling and later scoring in the third inning.
The Tigers struck in the first inning, when Rajai Davis scored on a Martinez sacrifice fly. Andrew Romine chipped away at the Yankees' two-run lead in the sixth inning, launching a solo homer to right field, just his second of the season.
Kuroda retired 14 in a row between those two hits, striking out five altogether and putting his defense to work, which included numerous pulled, hard-hit balls to Chase Headley, who made easy work of them at third base.
"You want to win every game that you play," said Headley, who nearly missed a game-tying home run off closer Joe Nathan to keep the Yankees alive in the 12th. "That's a good team over there. We didn't give them the game. They fought for it and they took it, so that's going to happen."
The loss, which snapped the Yankees' three-game winning streak, felt more like a missed opportunity, squandering a two-run lead against Price as well as the ability to tie the Blue Jays -- who had lost to the Orioles -- for the second AL Wild Card spot.
"It's a tough loss," said Girardi. "But we'll bounce back. Guys understand that they go through games like this, and they'll bounce back."


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37 thoughts on "Women Get Blue Balls Too. I Know Because I Have Them."
Never? Are you sure? An orgasm feels similar to the sensation when you desperately need a wee, but slightly more intense. The histrionics and thrashing about in TV and in porn are wildly inaccurate. My advice would be to experiment on your own more so that when you do find someone less selfish you can show them what works for you. Less than 30% of women orgasm through virginal penetration, so you're not alone with your 'blue tubes'! Don't be disheartened, you'll get there.
This is depressing in so many ways.
Too true
Reading this was all too familiar. Can't help you with the men side of it, but my advice for orgasms is buy a vibrator.
I don't know about anyone else, but I've always noticed whether or not I've had an orgasm. So I think she would know if she has, or hasn't. I don't think you should second guess someone about something they have shared, and would obviously know.
I also suffered from anorgasmia until I was 19, so I definitely feel your pain. I agree with Katya's advice about buying a toy, but make sure you go for a clitoral vibrator. Apologies if I'm getting too personal, but the one that eventually worked for me was http://www.sh-womenstore.com/Sex+Toys/Vibrators/Clitoral+Vibrators/Esprit_D_Amour_Vibe.html
Ouch… this was a painful read. Honestly, if he had blue balls he can take care of himself can't he ? It's not your responsability to ensure anyone who happens to get horny around you to finish them all off is it ? I mean hell, this is the internet – *someone* is bound to get horny just reading the article – are you responsible to finish them off too ?
Might I suggest the following steps ?
1) Don't buy one vibrator, buy several. They are not all alike, some you may find are not so great, some bloody useless but there will hopefully be at least one that is fantastic. Forget fashionable ones, just because "the rabbit" is probably the most well known doesn't mean it is good for YOU.
2) When you feel in the mood, like Dods and Ross suggest, invest time into what really gets you going, since if you don't know – how will your partner ? When you know, insist your partner helps out.
3) If it helps, consider sex in a different way. Sex, when not baby making or perhaps even when it is, is more like a co-operative sport, if you only play until the other person scores a goal – where is the fun for you ? If they can't be bothered after they finish and you are yet to orgasm, then in my ignorant opinion they are not worth it. Insist they help you finish too, using your vibrator on you if needs be.
I'm just part of the commentariat on the internet, opinions like mine are ten a penny and more than likely you have thought of all this yourself already. It's just after reading this sad tale, even though it's none of my business, I wanted to offer some unsolicited advice.
I think you should move to Germany.
Very sad…
I agree with the advice given before about vibrators, because if you can't feel comfortable with yourself, then it isn't likely that you'll feel comfortable (to be able to "let go" as you said yourself) with someone else, however sensitive to your needs they may be. And be sure to let their get balls go blue until you feel ready to be intimate. Intimacy, not mechanical advice, might just be the real missing ingredient, I think. But you have to learn your body and your pleasure first….
….or try girls…. even if they treat you as a sex object, I'm sure they'll know better than that appalling 50 second thing you described….
I had a friend when I was a virgin. who was a great "conquistador", but privately told me he never went down on them because he hated the smell.
When I lost my virginity, I realized what he had meant… Unlike him with his serial conquests, I was in love and in a relationship with the same person… within a week my opinion regarding her smell was completely diferent… it turned me on… a lot…
I told my friend that he never liked it because he was never with the same woman more than twice, so that even if there's something common about the scent of a woman, each has her own distinct perfume… because he never engaged with a single one enough to learnt to love it, all would be repulsive to him…
To sum it up: he doesn't go south, then nor will you (it's not like our junk smells of lilacs either). You're not repulsive and I'm sure there's nothing wrong with you.
Good luck
Second guessing? Isn't that what you do when you decide to become offended on behalf of someone else? I'm certain that the writer knows an orgasm does not turn you into a quivering jelly, so lost in sensation that you shred the flesh from your partner's back (despite what literature and screen throws at us). If she finds my post condescending then she's perfectly capable of telling me so herself.
Never had one either. I feel your pain.
Perhaps I'm in the same boat. I can't fully let go or perhaps I just need to be more assertive when it comes to foreplay.
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I was 21 when I first managed to orgasm through masturbating, and I couldn't do it with a partner (touching myself with him watching, him touching me, oral or intercourse) until I was 26.
I tried to tell one boyfriend about the problem, that I couldn't orgasm with a man in the room, and he offered to stand outside. He was extremely sarcastic and completely shut the conversation down. After that experience, I stopped masturbating for about a year. I lost all desire to do it, it felt stressful, frustrating and annoying.
My current partner tried to tell me that sex was about intimacy. It is, but there is something very psychologically damaging about always giving without receiving, it makes you feel used, unwanted and unloved, stressed and frustrated. I think this is what you're describing as 'blue balls'? To me, it felt more like mild depression – all the bad things you feel about yourself, about sex and men, become tangled up with the frustration. Thinking about sex makes you angry and frustrated, so you're caught in a cycle where you can't orgasm, because the stress is stopping you, but not being able to orgasm is the source of your stress. It makes you feel miserable in your relationship, and in my experience, it's almost impossible to sustain love through a feeling like this.
I would second the suggestion to buy a vibe, but don't put too much pressure on yourself. Run a hot bath and focus on touching non-sexual places so that you calm down as much as you possibly can before you start to masturbate. Try to fantasize, it clears your head. You might find even that difficult at first if you're really stressed – even touching yourself feels like a nasty chore and too much effort.
I very much doubt that it will work straight away even with a vibe, for me it took a long time before I got over feeling like I didn't want to touch myself. I literally had to give myself time to forget; don't feel like you have to fix things overnight and a period on your own/celibate might help, if you think it would give you space.
When my current boyfriend told me sex was about intimacy, I felt he was being dismissive. I left it a few months, and then raised the problem again. Finally, I dumped him for it and in the ensuing hysterical argument it turned out that because I hadn't badgered him constantly, he assumed things were getting better. He didn't bother with all the foreplay stuff because I didn't seem to like it much, he was very confused, he would do whatever I wanted if I would try again.
The worst part is that it's very difficult to communicate clearly when you're in a mental space like this. Even if you can talk to a friend really easily, talking to a partner is much harder; they listen but don't understand, they don't seem to have listened because they need telling three times, you feel like they aren't trying or that they must be inept and you just have the worst lover in the world.
You're stressed, you're angry, you feel like you can't talk about it with him, you feel like you don't have the right to ask for anything, you send out mixed signals. My friends were convinced I should leave because my mate sounded like a selfish bastard, in practice even though I was doing my best, my communication skills were shit, because I was angry and sad.
Yelling at him and crying at everyone I knew through a nasty break up did get everything out in the open. What worked in the end, was I decided that I wanted a Chinese laundry style sexual relationship: either he gave me an orgasm or I would refuse to give him one, if I really couldn't orgasm still after a month or so, but he seemed like he was really trying, we could renegotiate.
He isn't a selfish man, but telling him I wasn't going to do something made me feel like I was in control of my own body and gave me space to ask for things for myself. Having asserted myself and found nothing bad happened as a result, I trusted him a lot more and could talk more easily.
Find a forgiving way of saying it, but please don't worry about telling a man 'no penetrative sex' or fussing about blue balls, particularly with a boyfriend. Men are human too, they are the sum of more than just their sexual organs and his ego will not be so battered that he never recovers. You need to stop thinking about pleasure as a fixed sum, he doesn't get less because he did something good for you.
When I could talk about sex more easily, I felt ok to touch myself in front of him, and when I could get myself there ok, he could manage it too. He was never doing anything wrong, he just couldn't mind read and I was too stressed and strung out to get myself there.
Basically, this is a long way of saying I understand the feeling. That the slightly bat shit insane, stressed, frustrated, angry, unhappy, low self-esteem feeling, is probably the cause of the problem and that you would be better off to give yourself space to help that, than trying to find a guy who will magically fix it by being 'better' in bed.
I hope some of that helped, it's just I recognize so much in this post:(
After I bought my first vibe it took me 3 years to "learn" to orgasm. At first it was too intense a feeling, then I felt too self conscious thinking everyone could hear it….. but boy once I did…..!
It was another 2 years after that that I eventually orgasmed with a partner. Your descriptions above were painfully familiar to me. It took a while but thankfully I met some one that was prepared to take the time, to try different things, and to stop if I made it clear it was becoming a chore rather than a pleasure. I've never managed to orgasm through penetrative sex yet but I'm not going to give up trying! I'm sure it will come…..(pun intended!)
The exact reason that dodsonandross tells us to have a love affair with ourselves is because the way orgasms are portrayed in TV and porn is totally accurate in my experience.
I have the same problem with the whole 'letting go' thing… couldn't do it myself when I was a teenager, it took someone initially doing it for me for me to be able to do it myself… but it's not quite as good! Have been with my current partner for almost 4 years now and I have real trouble having an orgasm with him… similar to your experiences he's not particularly forthcoming with the foreplay, but it's also down to me as I sometimes discourage him from doing it as it gets a bit awkward and offputting if it's not really doing the job, and sometimes I find it too intimate.
My advice would definitely be to get a vibrator – but take it really slowly. By all accounts there are guys out there who are good at and like doing foreplay as well but it's a bit hit and miss, so I would start by trying to get there yourself!
I read this three times and could continue to re read. It's very similar to what I experienced during my late teens and sadly I doubt we're particularly unique.
The harrowing reflection 'I'm loaning out my vagina, as a favour, and it's ridiculous' is a concept I found unbelievably overwhelming (and in one case traumatic) on the two occasions when something similar occurred to me. This may have been exasperated by the fact that I was very young and felt unable to voice these feelings to guys who were each older and bigger and more worldly than I was, but whatever, it's never going to be a nice thought, is it?
Besides unpleasant memories, and technical details of the female orgasm, this article really brought home that I have been far too passive each time male friends have tried to educate me on the lament of 'starting' without 'completing'. I've always been sympathetic, why haven't I been saying, 'I know, right? It sounds pretty similar the five long years between losing my virginity and having an orgasm with another person present, or the seven long years between said loss and my first penetrative orgasm, although, yeah, that one time she didn't finish a blowjob when you were drunk must have been simply awful for you!'?
I used to say 'I don't 'think' I've had an orgasm and I was always told that 'trust me, you'll know!!' And then I had one and my first thought was 'oh! yeah. They were right. There is no way you can miss that'. I've never been able to do it on my own either, I get horribly bored within 2 minutes and most of the time I don't even think to try! But the right guy will know how to get you there and once you know how he does it, you can tell the next one! how I've been doing it fool proof!
You don't appear to be suited to the casual sex hook-up culture. Good for you, seriously. Not everyone is and now you know that you are not.
So don't put yourself in / allow yourself to be put in – the situation that you feel you have to give out obligation-fucks or handjobs.
Wait for Mr. Right, by all means go and find him, but don't go against your own values. In the meantime, sure, buy a vibrator and learn what turns you on.
In my teens, I worried about frustrating my boyfriend, and thought I was mistreating him if I didn't put out enough. It took a man, that boyfriend, to tell me "you're never obliged to have sex. Never. If things are getting sexy but you change your mind, it's ok. If we're having sex and you want to stop, it's ok. Maybe I'll feel frustrated, but I'd rather feel frustrated than have sex with a woman who doesn't really want to have sex."
It still feels crappy to me, to turn my lover down, and I expect many people feel the same way. But as long as we can talk and cuddle and be close, it's ok. Shit happens.
Different women have different bodies, and it's possible that the classic fast, gentle clitoral stimulation will never feel good to you. Just because it works for most doesn't mean it works for all. There are sex partners out there who will take great pleasure in finding out what works for you. And don't neglect your most powerful erogenous zone – your mind! Indulge in fantasies. Try reading Nancy Friday's "My Secret Garden," a collection of female sexual fantasies. Some people like their porn in prose form – I gather something called "Fifty Shades of Grey" is popular! It's not the only dirty book though, not by a long way.
Desparately needing to wee? Thrashing about is innaccurate?
Man, I've been doing it all wrong apparently because when I come it's a struggle to stay quiet let along dig my nails in hard. I would say my experiences are actually quite close to a lot of porn…in a good way.
Sheets usually need changed. We'll put it that way.
I love the Vagenda for the comments as well as the articles.
Are you crazy? He tells you his shit story, and then you go and repeat it to him to the last detail? How cruel are you??? You show people no respect, you show yourself no respect, you realize all of this (hence all of your self-confessed "gabbling excuses"), and to top it all off by being insolent enough to claim that "you're doing him a favour" (i.e. giving him a "sympathy fuch"), even though a few sentences earlier you admitted that you're the one that started the kissing… After all of that, where do you get off (no pun intended) presenting yourself as some sort of poor little ditty here? The only thing you're suffering the negative consequences of is your own hubris. I get that you may have self-confidence issues, but the only way to sort them is by first dealing with your own lack of self-RESPECT. Maybe they never treated you well in bed cause you never INSISTED they did. And I don't mean that you should start treating em like dirt – you're doing that already, even though you clearly don't want to. What's worse is that you don't actually realize you are. Yeah, you acknowledge that the guy felt like shit at the end, but you don't get that it's your general attitude to relationships that did that, as opposed to some one-off slip-up on your part.
Nothing personal, mind, just using your own, self-written black-and-white text as the documentary evidence backing up every single one of my points, so no need to feel insulted…though you probably will anyway, since you clearly don't really care about others' opinions or feelings but only the twisted logic in your own mind. Peace out.
I had female 'blue balls' for a while. It came about after 2 failed relationships. In my first, I was young and new to the ways of sex and boys. I thought I was supposed to scream and moan and writhe. So I did. No matter how much I was, or wasn't, enjoying myself I made sure he thought I was. In the almost 3 years we spent together, I never once came. In his defence, he had premature ejaculation; it was only a year into the relationship I realised sex usually lasted more than 3 minutes after penetration.
After my 2nd relationship I realised my (thankfully now) ex-boyfriend had pretty much used me to get himself off. When I suggested he had a hand and was perfectly capable of jerking himself off, he countered with "Why should I use my hand when I have you in my bed?". Apparently, "I'm tired" or "I don't want to right now" were 'woman-speak' for "just keep trying to turn me on, I'll come around eventually".
The first time we slept together, I told him how I'd never orgasmed before; I could enjoy sex, but I'd never been launched over the proverbial cliff. We got on with it and after a few minutes of repetitive, if enthusiastic, clit rubbing he turned to me and said "oh wow… you are a lot harder to make cum than other girls". Perfectly charming.
His genius plan to make me orgasm for the first time was to get me drunk. YAY. (that was sarcasm coming from a girl who doesn't particularly like alcohol and who especially hates to get drunk).
At the end of that fiasco, feeling a little like an overused blow up doll I decided I'd had enough of relationships; at least for the time being. I was happy and confident and care free. A while later I started getting horny. But I'd rather set all my bodily hairs on fire than let anyone touch me sexually. Rather unfortunately, I couldn't please myself; at all. I somehow turned myself off and watching a snail munch on a leaf was more exciting than what I could do to myself.
As I got hornier and hornier, I considered getting with a man. But I was under no circumstances getting into a relationship and I figured if someone I had strong feelings for couldn't make me cum, how could a stranger? So my blue balls got heavier and heavier and started turning purple. One day I woke up to find they were gone. They'd just… fallen off. I was no longer horny. I basically forgot I had a vagina and carried on with life without any sexual frustration. It was freaking awesome, although I did start to question if I'd somehow managed to turn myself A-sexual.
After about a year of no-balls, I felt emotionally ready to accept the possibility of a relationship. And as a knock-on effect, my 'balls' started growing back. They were small, but they were there. And thus began my sex-life anew. I still couldn't turn myself on for chocolate sprinkled chocolate dipped in chocolate sauce, but I was fantasising about being with someone again.
Recently I've had hands-down the best sex I've ever had. This man was/is awesome. I actually felt wanted. He focussed all his attention on me and in turn I was far more dedicated to making sure he enjoyed himself. It was a snowball effect that lead me to the edge of the cliff. And there I stayed. Completely unable to push myself forward or to calm myself down, he had me balanced precariously on the edge of orgasm. I tried to relax, to let my body just take me into the euphoria I've heard so much about. Relaxing did nothing. And then I was tense. And then I tried to relax. And then I tried tensing. I couldn't move from this ledge and I had no idea how to help it and dear god! It was starting to scare me. I needed to pee; badly. And suddenly I didn't feel too sexy… Peeing on the bed may work for some people, but I was absolutely certain I was going to embarrass the fuck out of the situation (literally). And so I asked for him to stop; things were too intense, I couldn't understand what my body wanted and I just wanted to stop and calm down and regain control of myself. He asked why and I explained I felt like I needed to pee. He smirked (kinda sexy I might add) and told me not to worry, I wasn't going to pee and to just let go of myself.
For the next minute or so, I tried. But how can one consciously lose control… and again I told him to stop. He didn't seem fully convinced, but respected my wishes and stopped his ministrations. I flopped down for all of two seconds before grabbing him around the shoulders, shoving my face into his neck and crying like a baby. Oh, how sexy was I? But he calmed me down, talked about the possibility of me being a squirter and after a while I felt ready to give it another go. This time it was painful. We'd spent so long messing around between the sheets that I was more sensitive than a cat's whisker.
Thinking about it now, this wasn't a repeat of blue balls. This was an imaginary female equivalent of a cock ring. One I've somehow put on myself and never bothered to learn how to take it off. And at that point I totally forgave myself for crying. I'm sure men much stronger than I would have been begging and pleading for the damned cock-ring to come off long before I caved.
I'm about to start doing what a lot of people have suggested. I'm going to chill out with a book or a movie of a sexually nature. I'm gonna let my mind drift away and hopefully, I'll learn to arouse myself. I'll make use of a towel to keep the bed clean and try out a new 'personal massager' I picked up. We're gonna see where that takes me. The thing about doing it yourself, is there's absolutely no pressure. If you're not enjoying it at any point, you don't have to worry about letting someone down or hurting their feelings. You can be completely relaxed and at-ease with yourself and take the time to find out what exactly gets you going.
There is a trick to unlocking your female-cock-ring, and it's not going to undo itself. It'll take time, a lot of exploration and the confidence to feel content and safe in your own body and mind. If it's a physical problem then you should learn the ins and outs of what does make you tick (what toys, what type of physical stimulation, what fantasies or imagery). If it's mental, self-stimulation should help you feel more comfortable and in control with absolutely no pressure.
I'm going to find a way to take my …uh… vagina band? off, but I'm not going to set a deadline for myself. I just want to learn to enjoy masturbation. And once I get there and fit more practice in, I have confidence I'll reach my own personal bubble of bliss.
And also, don't ever feel bad about giving a guy 'blue balls'. Chances are he's used his hand to bring himself to orgasm before, I'm sure he's quite capable of doing it again. Besides, if he doesn't put in the effort to pay attention to you and at the very least make a half-decent attempt to get you to orgasm, why the hell you should you waste your energy on paying a favour that will remain unpaid?
Some medications such as anti-depressants can cause this. I'm not saying your experience is wrong, or that you should come off any meds. For me the pros of them outweigh the cons. Also, have you tried political lesbianism? If you found a fellow political lesbian who doesn't follow the BDSM porn trend encouraged in some circles, you at least wouldn't experience the rape (arguably that's what all unwanted sex is) you can experience at the hands of men. The focus isn't on intercourse and foreplay/attention to the clit is sex. Who knows, you might stand more of a chance of orgasm, and definitely be happier.
I don't want to contradict you Amanda, but your description of an orgasm sounds like a lot like the way I used to describe it. I used to think that the build-up of sexual tension and pleasure, and then the fading away of it, must have been my orgasm! Then I finally had a real orgasm – you cannot mistake it for anything else!
Idk about you but I prefer to have sex on an empty house because I have a lot of trouble staying quiet when I have an orgasm. And when I have one and we flip around with him on top there are definitely claw marks on his back.
Did you ever reach a climax? Have you orgasmed? If so what did you have to do because i am always frustrated. I can not seem to orgasm at all and I start to think that maybe its me. That maybe something is wrong with me.
FINALLY! Someone told it like it is. Take it from someone who also struggled with achieving the big O in her teens and early 20′s, it really is ALL in your mind. Sex is 'ASSISTED' pleasure, not given. Probably the reason why you can't even do it for yourself. Stop being so mechanical about it. Let things happen naturally within yourself. For me, it was the rush to keep up with him, the embarrassment of explaining why I didn't orgasm, and mostly, I was afraid he wouldn't like the true dirty girl in me. Something about that last part really ruined my younger years of enjoying sex. I think stereo types of how a woman should conduct herself still lingered in the back of my head. Guys – referring to women as whores, bitches, or other degrading comments that are directly tied to that old way of thinking, plays a huge role as to why we struggle to open up sexually with you. The slow evolution behind female orgasms is due to, in my opinion, the many many years of sexual oppression. It wasn't until just recently that women are slowly being accepted as equals to men in that we're just as sexually privileged as you are. So while I do believe its 100% within our own power to overcome orgasm-barriers, I cannot say we are 100% to blame for having these issues in the first place. That being said and out of the way, the way to orgasms is to let go, to let go means to not care, to not care means to RELAX! He absolutely WILL enjoy your journey over his body. And for the sake of argument, lets say he doesn't, then you'll walk away knowing its because you're much more sexually advanced than he is.
Read a harlequin, but only the good parts, while you vibe. Although my main suggest, is to not hold back and ensure you get what the point of sex is. Don't worry about putting the guy down by telling him to do what's getting you off, guys like making you come. It heightens theirs and your end. Plus if a guy is getting any of me, bet that I'm going to get mine first. Never expect them to make you come, you have to do the work by getting into it instead of clamping down due to insecurities. Never regret, it'll be a life wasted. It's a great way of also knowing whether a guy is willing to compromise or is fully selfish.
Maybe you should try watching porn… that's what did it for me. I cannot reach an orgasm just by touching myself. Actually I only did it once, and it took me 30 minutes. One day I tried again and I couldn't reach the orgasm so I gave up and experienced the feminine equivalent of blue balls. It's AWFUL. In the end I watched porn and finished what I had started earlier but even afterwards I still felt pain. Anyways back to the main point, if you can't find a man who's willing to make you experience an orgasm, and if you can't reach it by yourself with your hands alone, it seems like you need something to really stimulate you. So yeah vibrators work too but if you don't wanna buy one, you could try porn
Wat? I've had orgasms so intense that I've nearly scarred my SO's face from biting it (complete loss of control!). Claw marks have been left on backs. I've also been left in tears because the emotional experience was so profound. It's not always like that of course. The intensity of orgasms can vary and is probably different from person to person as well.


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PHOENIX, Ariz.— The Center for Biological Diversity today delivered a letter signed by over 2,600 people calling on Coconino County Sheriff Bill Pribil to enforce laws that protect wildlife and the environment on U.S. Forest Service land. The letter is a response to the sheriff's tirade against Forest Service regulations that protect wildlife such as the Mexican spotted owl and native fish. Calling it "wilderness by fiat" and claiming it will make "criminals out of families," Pribil has attacked the Forest Service's "travel-management plans" meant to protect Arizona's national forest lands from irresponsible ORV use. National forests across the country have been developing the plans since 2005 to protect water, air and wildlife on millions of acres.
Citing ongoing and extensive damage from off-road vehicles to forest lands in Coconino County, the Coconino and Kaibab national forests finalized travel-management plans in 2010 and late 2011 that limit vehicle travel to designated routes and areas.
Signers to the letter tell the sheriff: "I'm appalled by your recent attempt to get the Arizona state government to undermine more than six years of public input in the travel-management planning process. Your letter to the Arizona speaker of the House demonstrates your lack of understanding of how the people of Arizona feel about our wild lands. It also demonstrates your lack of respect for nature and the public will. Your statement that the Forest Service is making 'criminals out of families' and 'converting hundreds of square miles of forest land to wilderness by fiat' is inaccurate, irresponsible and inflammatory."
Unmanaged ORV use has degraded Arizona's watersheds and pushed already-threatened and endangered wildlife closer to extinction. Forest visitors who try to find quiet places to camp or picnic have been driven out. The new forest rules would offer protection for both the wildlife and visitors seeking a quiet forest experience.
"The public wants protection for the Forest Service lands where they bring their families to hike and camp. They also clearly want those lands to be managed responsibly and for law-enforcement officers to enforce the laws that protect us all," said Cyndi Tuell of the Center for Biological Diversity. "Sheriff Pribil should be using our tax dollars to ensure our public lands are safe and visitors are following the rules, not lobbing criticism long after the rules have been put in place."
Under the new plans in Arizona and New Mexico forests, the public will still be allowed to camp anywhere they like; they may just have to walk a few hundred feet to their favorite spots, leaving nearly 21 million acres of land available for camping. There are also more than 25,000 miles of roads open to cars and high-clearance vehicles.
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The "Little House books," as they have come to be known, have endeared themselves to countless readers since the time of the Great Depression. At the heart of the series is Laura, a plucky character based on the childhood experiences of its author, Laura Ingalls Wilder.
So the opportunity to peer into the author's adult life has long drawn the curiosity of her fans. Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer's Life by Pamela Smith Hill is an insightful visit with the woman who first captured what it meant to be an early young American.
While a handful of biographical books have already explored the "real" story of the pioneering Ingalls, and Hill does spend some time comparing fact with storytelling, what stands out in this book is Wilder's relationship with her daughter Rose Wilder Lane. Without plainly stating so, Hill explores claims of earlier biographers that Lane (most readers will remember her as Almanzo's and Laura's tiny tot) was the key to her mother's writing success.
Wilder's declarations amid her rising fame that she was simply an old farm woman setting down on paper her childhood stories wasn't the full picture. By all accounts, Wilder labored extensively with her writing. In her struggle to find her voice and audience she wrote continuously for newspapers and magazines. And it took her daughter's keen ear to help Wilder shape her novels. (For example, it was Lane who convinced Wilder to move away from storytelling in first person.)
Only 19 years between them, Lane and Wilder at times seemed as close as competitive sisters. Both were serious and accomplished writers. But Hill presents Wilder as the better storyteller and Lane as the broad-thinking editor. Their lifestyles reflected this. Where Wilder stayed close to the family's final homestead in the Missouri Ozarks, Lane cut her journalistic teeth in San Francisco and traveled extensively throughout Europe and the Middle East. It was with this same vigor that Lane took up editing and rewriting her mother's manuscripts for "the big market."
But these heavy rewriting sessions bothered Wilder and the frankness in the letters between mother and daughter reflect this.
"It really wasn't my work," writes Lane after one of Wilder's essays was published in a magazine. "Please don't run off with that idea. Dearest Mama Bess, in some ways you are like a frolicsome dog that won't stand still to listen.... All I did on your story was an ordinary rewrite job."
Periodically, Lane took up residence with her parents. Even then, creative tension threatened to overwhelm their relationship. With Lane's financial success (which waxed and waned) she orchestrated the building of an English-style cottage on the Ozarks farm. Lane insisted her parents move into the new house while she lived in the original farmhouse. The arrangement didn't last. When Lane eventually moved away, the Wilders resettled in the farmhouse.
Perhaps this kind of entitlement explains what only can be described as an act of plagiarism by Lane. After the unexpected success of "Little House in the Big Woods," and as Wilder settled in to write "Farmer Boy," Lane used characters and plots from her mother's unpublished manuscript, "Pioneer Girl," to create the bestselling "Let the Hurricane Roar," an adult novel based on two pioneering characters, Charles and Caroline.
"For the first time," writes Hill "Wilder was deeply distressed by her daughter's success. And she felt betrayed."
Lane had grand ambitions for her own writing and it can be said that without her savvy and connections in the publishing world the "Little House books" never would have achieved the wide acclaim that they did.
But Hill remains sympathetic to Wilder as the genius behind the warm characters that have long won the young at heart. Truly, the near misses and trials of Wilder's writing life reflect the simple pleasures and sturdy discipline learned on the American frontier.
Overall, this biography is less about the efforts of one woman than it is about a family learning to forge creative ground together. And when familiar scenes from that long-ago prairie sparkle through Hill's historic review readers will undoubtedly grin as if catching a glimpse of an old friend.
[Editor's note: The original version misspelled the name of the book's author.]
• Kendra Nordin is a Monitor staff editor.


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The company said its request for manual processing "comparable" to that of the movie rental services was denied, which puts GameFly at a disadvantage as its "larger and longer established" rival Blockbuster plans to rent games by mail.
"Because of the preferential treatment given by the Postal Service, [Blockbuster] enjoys a substantial cost advantage in the distribution of its DVDs," added GameFly.
The company noted its numerous efforts to reduce in-transit disc breakage, including standard protectors and tests with larger mailers, but said that breakage still occurred, even though the Postal Service charged higher rates for First-Class Mail.
GameFly claims it currently experiences a "breakage rate" of approximately 1%.
Another issue, GameFly explained, are the "substantial rates" of discs lost in transit. However, the company added that the USPS has "made vigorous efforts to control the problem," including the arrests of 19 USPS employees alleged of theft.
GameFly had no comment about the complaint when contacted by Shacknews, with the United States Postal Service yet to respond to our inquiry.
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- The cooling towers were demolished following the de-commissioning of the coal-fired power station last year.
- Thousands of people ignored warnings and found vantage spots to watch the iconic towers, which have dominated the Didcot skyline across six decades, come down.
- A plume of dust rose over the site but there have been no reports of it causing problems to either the spectators or the transport links.
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"O Allah, I seek your forgiveness for every sin for which I presented my repentance before You; and regarding which I stood before You swearing an oath in Your name and called Your friends from among Your servants to be my witnesses – that I would never return to disobeying You.
But when Satan with his cunning tempted me to return to it; and Your forsaking me [due to Your anger over my impiety] caused me to [despairingly] waver toward it; and my lower self invited me to disobey You once more; I hid myself in shame from Your servants, but openly and daringly committed sins before You, though I knew full well that no covering nor any closed door could conceal me from You and no veil could hide me from Your sight.
I still defied You by disobediently doing what You had prohibited to me; but [despite my iniquity], You did not remove Your covering from me, but rather treated me equal to Your pious servants, as though I had always been an obedient servant and swift to fulfill Your every command and fearful of Your warnings.
I remained obscure in front of Your servants, and none besides You knew my secret. You did not single me out from Your servants with a mark of disgrace, but instead showered upon me blessings like theirs; and with this You distinguished me over them as though I were, in Your sight, of a status like theirs. All this was owing only of Your forbearance and abundant blessings – generous grace from You to me. For You then, O my Lord, belongs all praise.
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September 12, 2011 by via_web
Filed under App DB, Healthcare & Fitness, Lifestyle, iPad Apps, iPhone Apps
Interweaving soothing original music and guided narration from our professional therapist, this music therapy app will help you focus your wandering mind on the present moment. And gently, it will help you to release the tension in your body and mind.
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text: Larry Brogan: Scheduling Appointments and Taking Deposits By Larry Brogan Courtesy of Tattoo Road Trip: How many times have you gotten excited about doing a big cool tattoo where you spend all kinds of time designing, hunting for reference images and hours of drawing a piece that you just know it's going to be one of your best ever? You even get to the shop early and set up your station, and the next thing you realize, your appointment is 20 minutes late. After waiting around, losing your excitement minute by minute, you call the client's number only to get voicemail. It's then that you realize you have been stood up. At first, you are bummed, because you have been itching to do the piece, and then you realize that you just spent hours drawing, and all for nothing. Then you get pissed, because you will quite possibly have to sit on your thumb all day, doing nothing and making no money. Well, at least you took that $20-dollar deposit. Maybe you can buy lunch with it... My solution to this problem is to start taking BIG DEPOSITS. The rule that I use is: $250 for a half-day appointment and $500 for a full-day booking. For smaller tattoos, a $100 minimum deposit is required. And if the total cost is under $100, I make them pay in full when scheduling. In my shop, appointments are non-refundable but transferable one time, provided that you give the artist notice at least seventy-two hours in advance, so that we have enough time to book something else for that spot. This is more money than most people will want to walk away from, unlike the client who would rather lose the $20-dollar deposit than face the embarrassment of calling to say that, "Mommy threatened to kick me out of the house if I got tattooed." Taking large deposits helps to weed out the kind of people who will leave you high and dry. The result is, you end up with more sincere, honest clients. I deal with most of my appointments via email. When someone inquires about getting tattooed, I have an appointment letter already typed up and saved on my computer. I send it to them with any minor adjustments, like how soon I can get them in. I tell them the days and hours that I work, that I require a deposit and how much is needed to hold the appointment. They are made aware that the deposit is not refundable and why. I explain that I will work with them to get the best possible artwork for their body and to realize that there are issues such as size, detail, placement and making sure it fits and flows with the body properly, issues that I must have ample control of in order to create the most awesome tattoo possible. They are told about the hourly rate or a flat rate, if that is the case, and I explain that, in the event of a multi session tattoo, the deposit rolls over to each following appointment and is applied toward the last session. If the potential client is sincere about getting tattooed by you they will not have a problem putting down a large deposit and will understand that the work and time you will be putting into their body art (even before they actually come into the shop) is worth the money. (Larry can be found at Tattoo City Skin Art Studio in Lockport, IL.)


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When Innovation Meets the Old Guard
from the don't-let-them-learn-too-much deptYou've probably heard of Khan Academy, the online lessons that have been praised so highly. Wired recently put up an article on how it's a complete game changer, and how children have been able to advance at a blistering pace using their materials. So what does the public school system think of it?
So what happens when, using Khan Academy, you wind up with a kid in fifth grade who has mastered high school trigonometry and physics—but is still functioning like a regular 10-year-old when it comes to writing, history, and social studies? Khan's programmer, Ben Kamens, has heard from teachers who've seen Khan Academy presentations and loved the idea but wondered whether they could modify it "to stop students from becoming this advanced."I'll just let that sink in for a moment.
It's not an uncommon phenomenon. People get so caught up in "the way things are done" that they can't possibly comprehend any other way of doing things. Therefore, when you show them a child learning faster than his or her peers, the focus is not on how fantastic it is, but on how we'll be able to keep that child in the same class as other kids their age. Why is it necessary to group kids by age? Because it's just what we do. When a child is bumped up a grade, why do we do it for all subjects at once, instead of each subject separately? Because it's just what we do. The educational system was created to teach children; now it exists to perpetuate the current educational system.
It's hard not to equate this same thinking with the current dreadful state of copyright. You can show how an artist is making more money than they ever had before by encouraging sharing rather than sending in the lawyers, and your average maximalist will say, "It's great that they are making more money, but how do we keep control of the content?" In doing so, they put maintaining the status quo ahead of attaining the result that the system was designed to encourage. The copyright system was created to promote the progress of the arts; now it exists to perpetuate the copyright system.
Even our justice system is not immune to this kind of thinking. Laws against child pornography were created to prevent the victimization of children, now we use them to try to ruin the lives of children. We threaten vegetable growers, arrest DIY roofers, and send SWAT teams after orchid importers and raw milk sellers. Our system of law was created to promote justice; now it exists to make criminals.
Does teaching every child the exact same lesson at the same age serve our educational needs? Will arresting people who merely link to infringing videos give artists an incentive to create? Is the patent thicket around mobile phones to the benefit of consumers? Do we all sleep easier at night knowing that a 66-year-old man is locked away in federal prison because some of his orchid paperwork was missing?
If we ever want our institutions to serve us rather than serve themselves, it's time to focus on what we had hoped to gain from them in the first place, and to question every assumption that underlies them.
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Her astounding life story sounds like a classic Hollywood movie as she meets famous comics, singers, strippers, is befriended by mob bosses, champion boxers, politicians (including Jack Kennedy) and held captive by the Chicago Mafia.
Welcome to Banned In Boston! This site tells the true story of the life of author Lillian Kiernan Brown. Her book Banned In Boston recounts her journey as Lily Ann Rose, who at the age of just fourteen followed her mother and three aunts into the world of a fading Vaudeville and ended up in burgeoning Burlesque.


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The Rhythm & Roots Performance Company (R&R) is an ensemble of talented students dedicated to exploring the use of performance art as an expression of social complexities and as a catalyst for social change. Founded in the fall of 1994, Rhythm & Roots creates its own powerful artistic works that celebrate struggle, transformation and survival.
The group performs its own original choreography and drama pieces. R&R is an avenue for Vanderbilt students to use their theatrical and musical gifts. The Company combines the history, culture and spiritual traditions of African Americans and our African brothers and sisters with contemporary dance, music, and drama. Each voice, each musical note, each precise movement of the body represents the liberty and freedom that can only be truly expressed as art. The dance, music and energy of the students draw us closer to an understanding of the world and of ourselves.
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Businessman fatally shot after opening door
Gunman kills him during children's sleepover in Montrose area
Houston's tight-knit craft-beer community was coming to grips Saturday with news that a well-liked distributor was gunned down at his Montrose home.Ashley "Ash" Rowell was fatally shot about 7:45 p.m. Friday when he answered his front door in the 1800 block of Portsmouth, police said.
Rowell, 35, was home with his wife, three children and two other children who were sleeping over at the time of the attack, police said.
"He opened up the door and was shot in the doorway," said Sgt. Brian Harris, of HPD's homicide division. "Some of the children may have seen the victim on the ground."
There is no indication the slaying was a random act. The house was not ransacked, police said.
"We believe the assailant knew the victim," Harris said. "We'll put together his business dealings and friendships. Who would want to hurt this man?" Usually, the suspect will appear as being that missing piece."
While police had not identified a suspect Saturday, witnesses told investigators a dark-colored sedan was seen speeding away from the home.
The former owner of Duff Beer Distribution was described by customers and friends as a jovial man who was passionate about his business.
"He cared," said Jake Rainey, Houston regional manager for Flying Saucer bar. "Even when he was upset, he was always smiling. He was a fun, happy person. He had a big heart."
Rainey met Rowell 10 years ago when The Flying Saucer became Duff's first bar account for beer. Rowell took good care of the specialty beers he sold and also promoted them, Rainey said.
"He introduced them to people who had never heard of them before and got them drinking good beers," he said.
Rowell got into distributing beer through his family's business, Noble Union Imports, which imports beer from Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom, said friend and customer Dave Fougeron.
The two met about five years ago, when Fougeron's Conroe brewery, Southern Star Brewing Co., was starting to solicit for distributors.
"He was one of four distributors we interviewed and we instantly clicked with him," Fougeron said. "He was very passionate about what he was doing, trying to build his brand up."
Rowell's enthusiasm helped small breweries take off as his distributorship grew, Fougeron said.
"He played such a critical part in growing the Houston beer scene," Fougeron said. "It seemed like his modus operandi was to bring on these small new fledgling craft breweries and help them get their product out to market."
Initially based in Pasadena, Duff moved its headquarters and warehouse to Houston's Garden Oaks neighborhood about a year ago, Fougeron said.
In early January, he said, the company was acquired by Favorite Brands Houston, also known as L and F Distributors.
Fougeron described the business deal as a "friendly merger."
Rowell's death was a big shock, said Ben Fullelove, owner of the Petrol Station bar and cafe.
"My phone's been ringing all morning," Fullelove said Saturday. "The craft-beer community is pretty tight-knit."
Fullelove, who met Rowell about seven years ago, said he was one of the nicest people he knew.
"Sometimes you'd need favors, equipment or things like that, and he was always willing to help out," he said. "Anybody who knew him knew he was incredibly generous."
Mike Glenn contributed to this report


text: Snowflakes are stunning examples of natural beauty and testaments to the exacting laws of physics. Thankfully, almost anyone can rapidly grow delicate ice crystals with a soda bottle, some string, a block of dry ice and a little luck. But reproducing the same crystalline growth of a snowflake, time after time after time, is a challenge typically reserved for scientists with a laboratory full of expensive equipment. Biochemist Linden Gledhill, who works for GlaxoSmithKline by day and experiments in his photography workshop by night, has made a hobby of tackling tough natural subjects with do-it-yourself engineering. Lately he's been toying with manufacturing snowflakes in his basement. In 2010 the Downingtown, Pennsylvania-based photographer posted his photos of natural snowflakes to Flickr, attracting the attention of Jason Tozer, a professional photographer in the UK. When Tozer asked Gledhill if he could build a snowflake-growing machine for an electronic music video, Gledhill couldn't resist. "I'd already stalked an ice crystal research group for years when he asked, so it was an easy decision," Gledhill said. "It's incredible to see these things grow, and I wanted to pull it off myself." Gledhill said he's not wealthy person, nor does the electronic music artist -- Ryan Teague -- have much money sitting around. So Gledhill rigged a device using tossed-out parts from work and junk from his basement, including an old electric camping cooler. In this gallery, take a tour inside Gledhill's custom-designed icebox. Above: Time-Lapse Ice Crystal Growth Gledhill said his snowflake grower could always use a few improvements, but his early time-lapse photography tests shown here are nonetheless captivating. Each second represents about 20 minutes of elapsed time.Ice Cold Creating snowflakes requires a stable warm-to-freezing shift in temperature. A hot plate sits atop Gledhill's snowflake grower, while underneath the grower a cold plate -- made from a laboratory-grade chiller and hacked Coleman electric camping cooler (below)-- drops temperatures to -47 degrees Fahrenheit. Ten years ago Gledhill's employer threw out the chiller, so he picked it up and stashed it in his basement. "That would have been a financial hurdle. These normally cost $3,000 to $4,000," Gledhill said. Do-It-Yourself Snowflake Lab Supported by cinder blocks, shielded by a tattered plastic tarp and surrounding a plexiglass-covered block of styrofoam (below), Gledhill's contraption doesn't look like much. Yet it's a highly refined piece of do-it-yourself engineering inspired by the work of a research group at CalTech and another at Purdue University, led by atmospheric chemist Paul Shepson. "It's easy to grow ice crystals. The hard and expensive part is maintaining stable conditions to control how they're growing," said Travis Knepp, a former Ph.D. student in Shepson's lab who shared advice with Gledhill when he called him up earlier this year. "If the temperature changes by just one degree, the crystal will take on a whole other shape," he said. "He has some very nice crystals growing, and I'm really impressed with the photos." Beautiful Failures Gledhill initially started growing ice crystals on a damp cloth string and nylon fishing line. His chamber worked, but produced the wrong kinds of crystals. As he tweaked and improved his machine, Gledhill began growing thick dendritic crystals, which formed both on the string (above) and the cold plate (below). Still, they weren't the prized snowflakes Gledhill was after. Amped-Up Snowmaker Water is a conductive medium, so adding electricity can radically change the formation of water's crystalline forms. Gledhill's solution: a $30 power supply intended for electrified fences (above), which gave him 2,000 volts of electric potential. The crystals he subsequently created took on spire-like shapes (below) with the beginnings of snowflakes on the ends. Electric Ice Crystals Armed with 2,000 volts, Gledhill improved his snowflake-maker further by tweaking its moisture supply with acetic acid and a warm water bubbler similar to equipment used in fishtanks. The spindly structure below, which is about an inch long, grew in 30 seconds. After several hours they build crystals like the one above. Tubular Growth When Gledhill left his snowflake grower on overnight, it formed many of these hollow ice cones and needles. "In biopharmaceuticals, it takes probably 10 years to develop and test a compound, and your probability of success is very low," Gledhill said. "I began growing ice crystals in a couple of weeks and saw the rewards immediately, even when I failed," he said. "It's a welcome mental distraction from laborious work."Snowflakes at Last? After a few weeks of toying with temperature gradients, moisture levels, electricity and other aspects of his snowflake grower, Gledhill finally achieved snowflake-like growth at the tips of ice spikes. While not the ideal shape Gledhill originally envisioned, he said the forms were good enough to proceed with shooting Ryan Teague's music video (for the song "Cascades"). "As long as I can grow beautiful crystals, it really doesn't matter," Gledhill said. This past weekend Gledhill and Tozer took thousands of photos of growing ice crystals. Gledhill thinks the footage will take a couple months to edit into a finished time-lapse music video, which Craig Ward is directing. "It's a lot of fun to record this process, which is invisible to the average person," Gledhill said. "The ability to show that to people in an artistic way brings me a lot of joy."All video and images copyright of Linden Gledhill


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Your address: Octagon Building, Parramatta
About Suite F, Level 1, Octagon Building
Octagon Building is a prime A Grade building in the centre of Parramatta's financial and legal precinct.
Enjoying a prominent location on the northern side of George Street with additional frontage to Phillip Street, this 6 level building dominates the area with its truly unique octagonal structures.
Octagon Building's environmentally sustainable design has achieved a 4.5 star NABERS Energy rating. Recent upgrades to the building included improvements in energy efficiency, glass façade refurbishments, courtyard beautification, paving and landscaping and a lobby upgrade.
The building features two high quality onsite cafes and food court area with outdoor seating. In-house amenities include bicycle racks, shower facilities, two basement levels of security car parking for approximately 362 cars.
Octagon building looks out onto George Street; many of Parramatta's key landmarks and attractions are just a stroll away, including Church Street mall, Westfield shopping centre, and Old Government House.
Building occupants include Michael Page, Emergency Patient Transport, Police Bank, eHealth and the NSW Departments of Justice, and Roads and Maritime Services.
Offering both an enviable and practical address in one of Sydney's major business and commercial centres, the Octagon Building offers excellent transport connections for both vehicle and public transport commuters.
Moments away from Parramatta Local Court, Family Court of Australia, Parramatta District and Children's Courts, tenants also amongst other prominent corporations such as The Commonwealth Bank of Australia, IAG, St.George Bank, HSBC, Telstra, Westpac and Suncorp – as well as retail outlets, entertainment venues, and banking facilities.
How to get to Octagon Building
How to get to Octagon Building
50-minute drive from Sydney Airport and 45-minute train service from Sydney Airport.
45-minute train service to Sydney CBD.
5-minute walk to Parramatta Rivercat.
7-minute walk to Parramatta Railway Station and bus interchange.
About the area
Octagon Building is located in the Parramatta CBD. Parramatta is a major business district located 35 minutes west of the Sydney CBD.
Parramatta is easily accessible by car, serviced by the main arterial links of Victoria and Parramatta Roads. The M2 and M4 motorways are also each within a five minute drive.
Within 5 minutes walking distance:
- Parramatta Local Court, Family Court of Australia, Parramatta District and Children's Courts
- Westfield shopping centre and Church Street mall
- Parramatta Town Hall and City Council Chambers Building
- Parramatta River and Valley Cycleway
- Premium hotels and serviced apartments
- Popular restaurants, cafes and bars
- Childcare Services and schools
- Pharmacies and Medical Centre
- Post office and Newsagents
- Major Banks – Commonwealth, NAB, ANZ, Westpac, St George, Bank of Sydney, Arab Bank Australia, Bendigo Bank, RediATM
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana, like most states, is in the midst of one of its worst flu seasons in recent years, and health officials said Friday that it's too early to tell whether the season has peaked.
The season's 40 flu deaths make it Indiana's deadliest in five years, and with several months of cold weather still in store, that figure is almost certain to rise. Flu season typically runs from October through mid-May.
Last flu season, only three Indiana residents died of the disease. In the flu season that ended in spring 2008, however, 73 people died, and four seasons before that, there were 91 Indiana flu deaths.
Flu virus strains change every year, making it difficult to predict how severe each new season will be and accounting for the big swings in the death count, said Pam Pontones, an epidemiologist for the state health department.
"What we really have to do is work very diligently to conduct surveillance ... to monitor influenza activity and look for signs that the virus may be changing or if there is a particular virus that appears to dominate," she said.
This year, the H3N2 strain seems most prevalent, and it's a strain that the flu vaccine protects against.
Those 65 and older are the most vulnerable to suffering severe consequences as a result of the flu, particularly those who live in long-term care facilities, where the disease easily spreads. In Indiana this flu season, 33 of the 40 people who died were 65 or older and all but two of the 40 had a pre-existing medical condition such as heart disease, diabetes, asthma or a renal disease.
"As age goes up, immunity drops," said Arif Nazir, a geriatrician at the Indiana University School of Medicine. "As we age, we sometimes have diseases that lead to decreased ability to fight against infections. ... Our immunity is weaker."
Symptoms typically include fever, cough, runny nose, head and body aches and fatigue. Some people also have vomiting and diarrhea, and some develop pneumonia or other severe complications.
Older people also recover more slowly.
"Once a crisis like a flu-like illness hits, they run out of their energy quickly, which makes them weak and appear to be sicker than other people," Nazir said.
Some residents of long-term care facilities can also be reluctant to get the vaccine, Nazir said. But it could be the difference between life and death. Vaccines are about 65 percent effective at preventing the flu, and they also lessen the severity of symptoms for those who still end up getting sick.


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