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After months of waiting, we are finally just hours away from the first Saturday of college football. The Pac-12 has six teams ranked in the preseason Top 25 and five of those teams play on Saturday. Glancing at the schedule, it's hard to not expect the Pac-12 to come out still standing strong on Sunday. Let's take a look at the games being played by ranked teams:
UCLA @ Virginia – 9:00 AM (PST), ESPN
First up on Saturday will be the UCLA Bruins playing the Virginia Cavaliers at Scoot Stadium in Charlottesville, Virginia. The two teams had opposite seasons last year as the Bruins ended at 10-3, while the Cavaliers had nine losses in a row to close out the season 2-10.
As a result of their success last year plus the return of a lot of talent including quarterback Brett Hundley, the Bruins are ranked 7th in the preseason poll. Virginia returns seven starters from last season, only one of whom is a receiver in Keeon Johnson but will have a new quarterback in sophomore Greyson Lambert.
Defensively, Virginia returns nine starters, while the Bruins return eight. Meanwhile, the Cavaliers' defense wasn't the worst in the ACC last season, it was not the best either. Having a year's experience under their belts will definitely help. The Bruins defense was almost as good as their offense last year and ranked 35th in the nation in scoring, allowing only 23.3 points per game.
Objectively looking at this game, it is one that the Bruins can and should win easily. The Cavaliers might eventually become a good team but they need time and game experience for that to happen.
UC Davis @ Stanford – 1:00 PM (PST), Pac-12 Network
The last time these two teams met in 2005, UC Davis shocked Stanford with a touchdown pass with only eight seconds left in the game, ending the game 20-17. Stanford wasn't ranked in 2005 but is this year with a preseason No. 11 ranking and are expected to be fighting Oregon for the top spot in the Pac-12 North, as well as an eventual berth in the first ever College Football Playoffs. A loss to the Aggies would effectively extinguish all those hopes.
One of the advantages for the Cardinal is that they play UCD at home where they are on a 16-game winning streak. (The last Cardinal home loss was to the Ducks on November 12, 2011.) Another big advantage for Stanford is the return of QB Kevin Hogan and WR Ty Montgomery.
Montgomery's importance can't be stressed enough but together with Hogan, the two become nearly unstoppable. They, along with the rest of the very talented offensive line for Stanford, should give UC Davis' defensive coordinator plenty of things to worry about.
Fresno State @ USC – 4:30 PM (PST), Fox
USC is ranked #15 heading into their first season under new coach Steve Sarkisian, who brought a Washington program from the bottom of the Pac-12 barrel to within striking distance of the North Division top, takes over a USC team who went 9-4 last season under interim head coach Ed Oregeron.
Fresno State would love to upset the Trojans in a game that is a rematch of last year's Las Vegas Bowl, which the Trojans won 45-20. While USC would love a repeat of last year's game, the Bulldogs are a good team in their own right and will likely give USC a good fight. Though the Trojans return only 13 starters, most of those starters are in key positions.
The offense, which started the 2013 season slowly, quickly came into their own after Lane Kiffin was fired. Returning starters include QB Cody Kessler who passed for 2,977 yards and 20 touchdowns, throwing only seven interceptions. Receiver Nelson Agholor, a junior who is almost guaranteed a spot in the NFL, and RB Javorius Allen also return giving Kessler plenty of choices.
FSU lost Derek Carr, undoubtedly one of the best quarterbacks in the country and Davante Adams, one of the nation's best receivers. Having to replace both of them at once isn't going to be easy, but the 'Dogs do have good talent to choose from. There is a quarterback battle raging between Brandon Connette, a transfer from Duke, and Brain Burrell. No matter who wins the job, Fresno State will still have experienced talent in the receiving corps such as Josh Harper, who was one of the best wideouts in their conference last season.
On the defensive side of the ball, the Trojans will likely give Fresno State a very hard time as their returning defense, while not the best in the conference, definitely needs improvement. For the Bulldogs to even have a chance of winning, they must figure out how to stop the Trojans from scoring, which they were obviously unable to do last season.
Washington @ Hawaii – 7:30 PM (PST), CBSSN
The second team on the list to be starting the season under a new coach, the Washington Huskies face Hawaii under new head coach Chris Petersen. After USC hired Sarkisian away form the Huskies, Washington went out and snared one of the most sought after coaches out there from Boise State, where Petersen was 92-12. The Huskies went 9-4 last season (4-5 Pac-12) and are expected to do better than that this season — as well as fight for the top spot in the Pac-12 North. As a result they are ranked No. 25 in the preseason poll.
Hawaii, on the other hand, had one of the worst seasons possible, going 1-11 under second year coach Norm Chow. This year, the Warriors return some important starters on both sides of the ball but will have a new quarterback in Ikaika Woosley, a sophomore who has almost zero experience. Receivers Keith Kirkwood and Scott Harding return, giving Woosley two dependable targets, while Joey Iosefa returns to help with the running game.
Washington didn't escape losing some important players during the off season. The Huskies will be missing their starting QB Keith Price as well as TE Austin Seferian-Jenkins and RB Bishop Sankey, all to the NFL. Sophomore Jeff Lindquist has been tapped to replace Price and will head into this game without having thrown a single pass in his college career. Wideout Kasen Williams and RB Dwayne Washington will try to replace the other two departed starters.
In all honesty, this game should not be close by the end of the first half. Expect the Huskies to come out on top and use this game to build confidence for their new quarterback.
South Dakota @ Oregon – 7:30 PM (PST), Pac-12 Network
Finally we reach the Oregon Ducks, the highest ranked Pac-12 team at No. 3 in the preseason poll. The expectations for the Ducks this year are off-the-charts high. It could be argued that they are higher then they've ever been as Oregon is expected to earn a place in the first ever College Football Playoffs. A loss to South Dakota (as unlikely as that is to happen) would be devastating and unrecoverable.
One of Oregon's biggest stars and major weapon is QB Marcus Mariota who is probably the best quarterback in the nation. Adding to that, the Ducks return two talented and experienced running backs in Thomas Tyner and Byron Marshall, as well as all five starters on the offensive line. While the Ducks did lose both their top wide receivers, one to the NFL and the other to injury, they still have a lot of talent to fill this position.
The Ducks' defense, which is under new defensive coordinator Don Pellum, returns the nation's best CB in Ifo Ekpre-Olomu. A defense that wasn't bad last year should only get better this year as most of the starters have another year of seasoning. It will be interesting to see the changes that Pellum has made in the off-season.
South Dakota, an FCS program, sits right in the middle. They aren't the best team in the FCS but they aren't the worst either, so keeping an eye on them would be advised. And while the Ducks have a much stronger opponent to look forward to next week (Michigan State), the Coyotes' biggest game is Saturday. You should never underestimate the importance of motivation – the Coyotes would love to kill the Ducks' chances at the playoffs.
After watching all of these games, we're going to have a lot to talk about. I can't wait to get knee deep into college football once again.
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I always answer that I´m Libertarian - a Constitutional purist. If it´s not explicitly stated in the U.S. Constitution, the federal government has no business sticking their nose in it.
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The Federal Government of the United States, all three branches included, is largely operating outside the framework laid down by the Constitution that brought them into existence. All I want is to put that government back where it belongs. That will take care of ALL the points made in the article and more.
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Shortly after the original 9/11, I put up the Vanity Fair cover of the Bush adminstration team in my cubicle. I did it because I liked the photo and what it said to me. 9/11 was the third nail in the political coffin for me (the first 2 being Bill Clinton and the 2000 election), and it pushed me off the fence into declaring I was a conservative, and registering as a Republican. My coming out moment, so to speak. Well, my very liberal boss saw the photo and shrieked, "Oh my God, YOU´RE a Republican?? We´ll talk." The next business trip we took, she demanded (not asked) to know why I was a Republican. I told her that I believed in smaller government and individual responsibility, and she actually agreed with me. Until she got to the subject of abortion. Then, she went postal. I´ve had that conversation many, many times in my life. It starts out relatively calmly, but eventually, most libs go postal...usually when you get to abortion.
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As I stated in another post, we need some Conservative Organization to start running commercials about Conservatives/Republicans.The Lofo´s only know that we are supposed to be BAD, but they don´t know why?A Commercial along the lines of the Mormon Church ones, that starts out with a person talking about having a good "JOB", getting good "Medical Care", a good "School", etc. and then ends by saying, "I´m a Conservative/Republican" !!!!!This would show that we are just like normal people, and are not like what Reid/Pelosi wants you to think Conservatives or Republicans are.THIS needs to happen BEFORE this November !!!!
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I´m old and have been a conservative all my life since Goldwater. After the military it didn´t take me long to see the liberalism on college campuses. I saw the movement for what it was now those dancing pot smoking hippies and hip newbies like the president are in charge in Washington. We, the Tea Party, are the radicals and weirdos. I feel I have two more elections to vote in and a loss in 2014 will give us Hillary in 2016 because fraud will get her in with help from a dud Republican candidate run by the elites. I voted for Dole, McCain and Romney but the scare tissue from glass cuts on my knees from crawling keeps me from repeating the same mistake in 2016. Always Tea Party at heart.
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Tuesday's Money Talk$ Web chat was about tech gifts for the holidays.
Our guest was Mike Zitz, the Tech Toys columnist and occasional reporter at The Free Lance-Star, where he worked full time for many years. Zitz is director of media and community relations at Germanna Community College and author of "Giving It All Away: The Doris Buffett Story."
Below are some of the questions and answers from Tuesday's session. The full text of the chat is archived on fredericksburg.com. Zitz also answered any questions he didn't get around to on Tuesday on his blog on fredericksburg.com.
I'm thinking about getting my 80-year-old mom some kind of e-book reader. What's the best thing I can get for someone who is not very tech-savvy?
My stepmother just asked me that question about a gift for my dad, who's 78. Oops! I wasn't supposed to say that. I'd recommend the basic Kindle at $79. Very easy to read and she can adjust the print size to grannynormous, so she doesn't need her reading glasses. The Kindle is pretty easy to use, but you may want to give her a walk-through on Christmas or Hanukkah or Kwanzaa morning. Otherwise, it'll probably end up collecting dust on a shelf, next to all the other gifts you've given her since preschool.
Doesn't she know how much that kind of rejection hurts?! My mom used to open my gifts and say "Is this supposed to be funny?" Anyway, since I'm not very tech savvy myself and even I can use a Kindle, I'm fairly confident it's a good choice for your mom. However, if you're jockeying for position with siblings to get the house in the will, I'd advise an iPad 2 and a Chippendale to train her to use it.
My honey is a gadget guy. What's the latest hot gadget under $50 that I can put under the tree for him?
Is this my wife, Lisa, throwing me a softball? My girlfriend??? HA-HA-HA-HA. That's a joke, Lisa. Heh heh. Mmm Heh. Oh, boy. I'd suggest the Roku LT. It streams Web content including Netflix and Amazon Prime movies to your TV. Only $49.99.
What Kindle would you recommend for a 15-year-old boy who loves reading?
I'd suggest the Kindle Fire at $199 because he can use it as an e-reader and it's an affordable tablet he can also use for gaming, watching movies, Facebook and surfing the Internet for research for his homework (yeah, right). Your basic, Wi-Fi iPad 2 goes for $499, so the Fire is reasonably priced in comparison. However, if you also want this to be a life lesson on being frugal, get the basic Kindle reader I mentioned above for granny at $79. Life lessons are usually pretty boring, though, unless they involve stitches or explosions.
What do you think about the Kindle Fire
The Fire is good if you want a 7-inch tablet that's a great e-reader and also can be used for media and searching he Web. However, I believe Verizon Wireless is selling its 7-inch Galaxy tablet for $149 now--$50 cheaper than the already relatively cheap Fire (Amazon is absorbing a $50 loss on each one because the Fire is set up to be a portal for Amazon.com shopping.) It's not quite as good a reader, but the 7-inch Galaxy Tab also shoots good photos and video. The Fire doesn't have a camera.
I'm debating between a Galaxy tablet and iPad. I'm leaning towards the smaller Galaxy because it fits in a purse, is lots less expensive, and has lots of apps. I thought it would be a good idea to invest less at first and see how much I use it, then down the road upgrade. Does that sound like a good strategy?
It's a great strategy, because it sounds like size doesn't matter to you.. Again, the 7-inch Galaxy Tab is one of the best bargains out there now. I used one to take pictures and shoot video at [the International Consumer Electronics Show] in Vegas in January and it was just the right size for that. A 9.7-inch iPad 2 and the Galaxy Tab 10.1 are both great for watching movies and streaming video, but are too big and unwieldy for shooting photos and videos, in my opinion. It really depends on personal taste and what functions are most important to you. But again, it's $149 for the 7-inch Galaxy and $499 for the low-end iPad 2.
What can I get for less than $200 that won't be old news in a couple of months, for a techno-savvy husband?
Unfortunately, most techno-savvy types tend to want to be first-adopters and show off the latest thing to their friends. ("Look I have the new FILL IN THE BLANK and you don't. You still have that old, tired FILL IN THE BLANK.") And, just as you say, two months later, it looks like a Ford Pinto. My guess is that your husband is probably very particular about his gadgets and won't even be happy for two months unless you know for sure he wants something in particular. And when he has iPad 3- or iPhone 5-envy he could even end up blaming you, especially if it's a device that locks him (or you) into a two-year service contract like the iPhone 4S, which is great now, and will still be cool six or seven months from now, but will be awful when the iPhone 5 comes out.
His friends will be mocking him and he'll be lying awake at night gnashing his teeth. It could end in divorce. I know this is horribly boring to you as a gift-giver, but your best bet is to take him out and let him pick out his own present. Unless he's dropping very clear hints that he wants something in particular.
Do you think Microsoft has any chance to gain any momentum in the tablet or mobile market?
No. Absolutely not.
What gaming system would you suggest for my grandkids--Xbox or Wii? Or a different one?
Depends. Do your kids like to shoot people on the battlefield? Then the Xbox 360. Do they like to play video game sports? Wii. Are graphics important? Xbox 360. Not so much? Wii.
I want to get a big-screen TV but am torn between LCD, plasma and LED. Which is the best choice?
Plasma is most durable and delivers a great picture.
Is the iPhone 4S REALLY that big of an advantage over the 4?
Yes it is. Siri, the talking personal assistant, is wonderful. That alone makes it light-years better. Also, the AT&T version is much faster than the 4S.
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Could Brett really become a Jet?
Just when you thought the Favre to the Jets rumors were over, ESPN's Chris Mortensen reported today that the Jets have received permission from the Packers to speak to Favre about a trade. I have to give it to Gang Green, win or lose this team is always filled with drama.
For Green Bay, it's a perfect situation. Favre leaves and is out of the division and they can move on with their youngster Aaron Rodgers at QB.
For the Jets it's much more uncertain.
There are reports that the team would need to restructure Favre's hefty contract which is in excess of $39MM over the next three years, all counting directly against the cap. Second, they would need a commitment from the 16 year veteran that he will be a Jet for more than just one season.
If they can negotiate these terms with Favre, it could make sense to pull the trigger if the trade price isn't too high. The Jets committed $140MM to free agent contracts this past off-season and on paper is a team built to win now. The only question mark is the QB position where both Chad Pennington and Kellen Clemens haven't done anything lately to give fans confidence that either of them are the field general who will bring the team to the big show.
Pennington is coming off a horrible year where he got benched and revealed yesterday he played all of last season on a right ankle with two torn ligaments. Clemens, who has a strong arm, could improve but showed nothing last season that would convince anyone that he's anything more than another Browning Nagle.
Keep in mind…If they trade for Favre, the team is basically telling both of their current quarterbacks that they have no confidence in either one. Pennington, with a $6MM base salary this season will be surely gone and Clemens will stick around for now but the move would be a major message to him as to what the team thinks about him as their future QB. Likely he would be gone too after this season and the Jets would either draft another young QB to groom or look to get one from another team to succeed Favre.
From the owner's perspective, he needs to sell upcoming PSL's for the new stadium in a bad economy as season ticket holders are turning in their seats at a record pace. To RWJ III, could you think of a better salesman than Brett Favre…especiallyif he comes in and wins?
I'm torn regarding my feelings on this. I don't question Favre's resume. The guy is a legend and the Cal Ripken of the NFL regarding his durability. He's also coming off a terrific season where he almost led the Packers to the Superbowl and he would bring a gun slinger to the team that they haven't seen since Vinny Testaverde's first year as a Jet in 1998.
However, if you look at Favre's numbers in the half a dozen or so years before last season, he was average at best. He also has a tendency to throw costly INT's in big situations which worries me. I also fear that if this move backfires and the team does not win this season it will set the franchise back tremendously.
I believe this team can win with one of the two QB's on the roster (most likely Pennington) and based on this team's history two words come to mind if Favre is acquired:
Maybe I shouldn't be such a pessimist and perhaps this team is due for a change of luck. I guess it's just what I'm used to as a long time Jets fan. So stay tuned, my Jets brethren….as I said earlier, win or lose, the drama is always high at Weeb Ewbank Hall.


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A COLONY of badgers is making a pensioner's life a misery.
Edna Wedley, 73, of Briars Wood, Rhosrobin says her garden has been ruined by badgers and their tunnelling over a period of two years.
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I Can Help You Become Very Feminized Breasts And All!Hi my name is Ranya and I have been married to Bill for 15 years now. I love my husband dearly but our sex life was never that great due to his really small penis which would slip out constantly whenever we tried to have sex.
For years I secretly had lovers on the side who would be able to cater to my physical needs - I slowly became known as what is referred to as a size queen - which is no good for my hubbie who is less then 5 inches at best. The bigger the better and small ********* were always welcomed.
One day I caught hubbie looking at pictures of sissies on his computer and it kind of turned me on so we began to talk. He asked me if I ever thought of being with other guys and I played along as if I never did but was interested. To make a long story short we went from him finding me a lover to him becoming my EXTREMELY feminized sissy who only gets to cleanup the *** from my lovers.
I put him on the strongest feminizing herbs there are which are actually bio-identical to estriol a real estrogen. It's been a year now and his breast have blossomed and his little clitcock has gotten even smaller and remains soft now. He loves his new role as cleanup man for my bulls now.
I am looking for other sissies now to feminize permanently as this was so much fun watching his manhood disintigrate. If any sissies are serious about becoming feminized for me please contact me at email@example.com and I will help you eradicate your manhood. You will grow perky cute sissy breasts for me and worship and obey me in return!
Love Always,
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Hm, would love to be feminized by a loving woman into something less of a man, on natural hormones, 36a,34,38
I would love you to feminize me please
Wish i could find a woman to transform me intoa huge breasted sissy
I want to be a sissy. I want to become a woman in every way except to keep my little limp shameful manclit... Which I hope will become nothing more than a boiclit. I want to service and be forced into the only world in which I belong. My email is email@example.com and I live in the southeast Houston, Texas area.
I would love to be permanently feminine :)
Hello this Is Jenny and I have a sissy ex-boy friend that would love to have bigger breast's. So what is the best that actually works.
have him go to an endoconoligest to get a prescription for enderal and a testrone blocker
please feminize me, i will worship and obey you Mistress Ranya
Greetings Mystress Ranya. if your offer is still valid please, by all means let me know.
please Mistress Ranya help me i would surrender to you fully for this all of it
Could someone suggest how to feminize myself without becoming impotent ?
Hi there! After some digging on the internet I have found out that isoflavones may do the trick. Isoflavones are phytoestrogens. The most potent phytoestrogens. They are almost as potent as estradiol the most powerful human estrogen. Red clover is so rich in isoflavones that the bulls that ate high amounts of isoflavones were less fertile but not impotent, The decreased fertility is also reversible, You just have to reduce your intake of isoflavones for a month or two and your ***** count will increase again. You can find red clover pills in pharmacies as pills for women who experience hot flashes. You may also want to block testosterone. The herbs that do that are mint and licorice. Also green tea can block testosterone. Licorice both blocks testosterone and gives you phytoestrogens, While these estrogens compete to hormonal receptors with testosterone they. testosterone blockers can help you even more, Last but not least a high intake of soy, especially soy milk may help you develop breasts and feminize yourself while still being able to have an errection, but you will need to drink lots and I mean lots of soy milk for that. You can also massage progesterone cream on your chest to help you with breasts. However if youtake drug estrogens and drug testosterone inhibitors you may want to avois herbs as they are counter productive in this case. And finally plant estrogens also have antioxidant abilities. That is why asians and native americans look so feminine, younger and have so few bodyhair and weak beards compared to white males. They only take small amounts of plant estrogens in the form of spices. Monks take higher amounts of plant estrogens in the form of tea in order to lower their sex drives and they are even healthier. So I recommend mother nature medicine instead of steroids but it is your choice. Hope it will help you and happy feminizing. I am new to this natural approach myself and I hope it will work for me too. Best wishes!
Hi, maybe my answer comes in late, but i would love to become a feminized sissy... firstname.lastname@example.com , of course i expect my member to become tiny and limp forever, on the other hand id love to grow a gigantic pair of breasts, this of course if you agree, as a sissy i wont have the right to ask too much, but only to listen and obey ..
thanks for reading my message
would love you to feminize me
That sounds great for you, but whats in it for me?
I would love to become a girl with huge boobs!
i would love to find a woman to feminze me
Oooh this sounds great. My name is Jenny and I would luv to have my sissy grow his own breasts.
I envy your husband. I would love to be feminized like that
I love the idea of being feminized by you. In me you would have a very devoted servant, as well as an interesting conversationalist and musician.
I'd very much love full feminaztion see my man hood diminish for good
i have had thoughts about trying http://www.puerariamirifica.com/videos/male-breast-care/male-breast-care.htmhttp://www.natureday.com/breast-cream.phpany thoughts on these. if i do go through and try to grow my breasts more i don't want to mess up things down stairs im a good size and i would prefer to keep it that way or get even bigger. i guess thoughts about trying products like this come from role playing as a busty endowed herm on second life a lot.
another thought i had had was trying to use a breast pump. you know something like this http://www.amazon.com/Philips-Avent-Double-Electric-Comfort/dp/B009YSYCZI/ref=sr_1_2?s=baby-products&ie=UTF8&qid=1390067685&sr=1-2&keywords=breast+pump my under standing is if one uses a breast pump like this regularly they would eventually start producing milk which would lead to growth
I've posted a story about my breast pump fetish. Other than relatively miniscule nipple puffing and temporary, very slight, limited breast enlargement, the main thing I like about it is the stimulation. My nipples are sensitive.
I've had fluid discharge only from PM, not from my breast pump. But now that I have real mammary glands thanks to PM, I suppose it might be possible to start lactation. Hmmm. Sounds like a fun project...
PM has given me definite gynecomastia where there was nothing before. I did cut back my dosage when I noticed "downstairs" changes, but you would need a much stronger dosage to really shrink genitals. (My dose was about 1000 mg/day; I've seen up to 5,000 mg/day recommended for transition. I cut back from a peak of 1,800 mg/day. Now trying to find a magic "stable" dose circa 100-250 mg/day because I'm not ready to have them be obvious. Fwiw, I use Ainterol brand, and I believe it's now available at Amazon.)
Why not. If your really a transgender person, I would think u would want to show off a rack of breasts.
Bobbylee: Ouch. I feel a little hurt by your challenge to my sincere statement about how I feel. Gender and body identity is a spectrum, not always constant from one moment to the next, and not always best described by labels, even the most modern ones, like "trans". At least that's the way it seems to me.
(Fwiw, psychologists say that when we guess other people's intentions, we're wrong about 80-90% of the time.)
I'm happy that you seem happy as you are. May I ask the same from you?
im in my 20s i don't think of my self as a sissy but im more than little interested in growing breasts and i think i have already started to grow some
Congrats on your new beginnings. Breast wishes.
If you search on line for herbs that grow breasts, you will find several. Saw palmetto,
Black Cohurst and Wild yam ore the best ones. If you can find herbs in the liquid form, they will absorb into the body faster and you wont have to take so many pills.
i would love to have boobs and be feminized
I am open to almost anything. Been wanting some big breasts for some time now---think about it all the time and am almost getting desperate now. Willing to give a try to most anything---this is becoming a burning desire for me!
Thanks for any help!
Below is herbs that work well & also get a breast pump to make them bigger.
If you search on line for herbs that grow breasts, you will find several. Saw palmetto,
Black Cohurst and Wild yam ore the best ones. If you can find herbs in the liquid form, they will absorb into the body faster and you wont have to take so many pills.
i have been looking for you all my life.. donald
I would so luv to be turned into a cuckold, crossdressed, chaste, sissy
Always had weird dreams being with dominant female. Who secretly turning me into a shemale . Then go further to get complete sex change
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How can I grow my boobs bigger in few months pl suggest iam just 26 years n going to get married... he love big boobs as I knew this b y talking to him one day since then I wana grow them real big
Try fenugeek orally and as a cream to rum on brest
I also want increase husband breast size up to cc cup size. Can you help me for this. He is 40 years old and flat chest. You can email me firstname.lastname@example.com
I'd like to get something to help me grow mine.I'm an older gent that wants to become sissified and would love to have to wear a bra all the time.Can you help???Please????Thanks in advance!
I can help you.
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Last year I wrote about how FIFA and Brazil's Ministry of Sport introduced the caxirola, a toy made from recycled plastic that rattles and can be banged together.
I wondered at the time, how is this better than the annoying "hummmmm" of the plastic vuvuzelas that we had to put up with at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa?
Now I'm a die-hard soccer fan, so the noise didn't stop me from watching the games in 2010. And it won't stop me from enjoying the World Cup this year.
But I much prefer the sound of fans chanting and singing, celebrating their favorite players, and roaring approval for great plays. Adding plastic noisemakers to the cacophony is not an improvement.
So I was happy to see the Wall Street Journal report today that federal officials in Brazil have decided to ban the caxirola from all 12 of the soccer stadiums that will host World Cup matches.
The problem isn't the noise. Officials are worried that angry fans will launch the $14 toys on the pitch.
So "tchau" to the caxirola, and hello to a few rounds of "Yanks go marching." Go team USA.
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New Jersey rapper Joe Budden is giving Slaughterhouse fans a reason to get excited by revealing plans to hook up with his rap crew to work on their sophomore Shady Records effort.
With his latest solo project finally on store shelves, Budden said he can now focus on the pending collective project.
It can't be easy balancing a solo career and a role in a high-powered rap group, but Joe Budden embraces it all. In February, the Jersey City MC dropped his No Love Lost solo LP, and now he's ready to reconnect with Crooked I, Joell Ortiz and Royce da 5'9″ to record their third Slaughterhouse LP. "We're locking in this month. It's time," Budden said when he appeared on "RapFix Live" on Wednesday. Budden has been balancing rap with his role on the VH1 reality series "Love & Hip Hop: New York" and says that these days he feels like a brand-new artist despite dropping his first LP back in 2003. "I feel like a new artist, I'm that passionate about the craft and the culture," he said. (MTV)
Back in February, Joey hinted at some Slaughterhouse goodness stirring up.
"Slaughterhouse is coming in the next six months," Joe said in an interview before going into an in-studio performance. "Yeah, that was an exclusive. That kinda was an exclusive. Well, not that we coming in six months, but another concert series from us, that wouldn't be so unexpected in the next six months. No Love Lost, in stores." (Sway's Universe)
Last summer, Slaughterhouse's Shady Records debut opened at No. 2 on the Top 200 music chart.
Leading the way this week is Slaughterhouse's Welcome to: Our House at No. 2 behind Toby Mac's Eye On It (69,000). With seven days in the books, the group's long-awaited sophomore album has shelled out 51,800 units. (SOHH Sales Wrap)
Recently, Mobb Deep's Havoc spoke to SOHH about his admiration toward Slaughterhouse member Royce Da 5'9.
"His lyrical wordplay is just crazy, you know what I'm saying? It's like no matter how many times I try to do that, it's like, it's hard," Hav told SOHH, referring to his admiration for "Tell Me To My Face collaborator Royce Da 5'9. "He makes it sound easy. It wasn't even really a hard decision to want to get Royce for a feature because I also produced a track on [2011's] Bad Meets Evil, that was a record Eminem and Royce Da 5'9 did. So, you know, I already kind of had a feel for him and then with the Slaughterhouse, he was one of my favorite artists out of the group, even though I like all of them equally, he just kind of stands out to me." (SOHH)


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If I could get to Copenhagen right now I would definitely head for Best Behaviour to gawp at their lovely clothes. YELLOW. Everything in their autumn/winter collection looks so comfy and well made. (via shiny squirrel)
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OMG LOVE these clothes. Good scout out!
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I covet that stripey cardy something chronic. Miam miam.
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yes very cool. and lucky me; I live in copenhagen and have just bought the yellow trousers ;-)
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I thought of bringing something different and new into Fan Fictions Forum (ff). I told my idea to preeti (Shahidlover24) and she liked it. We're going to have a 'Member of the Month' (MOTM). I think you might want to know how we choose the MOTM. Me or Preeti will open a topic Called RTTAMU (recognizing the talent amongst us), all you writers post one or two of your ff's (names of ur ff's) in there and preeti will make it sticky so all the nominations go on the first page then we all vote for one ff. Me and Preeti will count the number of votes then I'll post the top ten ff's and then we'll vote for 1 ff from the top ten. The writer of the ff with the highest votes will be named Member of the Month. The MOTM will be on the 'hot seat' for the month.
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Stuart emailed me to draw my attention to his local game group. The Underground Gamers are a fun board games club from Worthing, West Susssex. The website contains information about the club as well as game reviews and a forum.
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Wasting money on HIT computyerization of the ordering of medical care is the biggest waste I have ever seen in medicine, aside from it causing deaths and injuries.
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QUESTION: What do all four of these political 'care' programs Obama National Care, Romney Massachusetts Care, Ryan's House of Representatives Care, and Governor Scott's Florida Care….have in common???? ANSWER: They all plan to broker larger portions of Medicare and Medicaid health insurance through private corporations. Our nation is the only nation in the industrialized developed free world to maintain a private for profit corporate middle man rationing system inhibiting the health and well being of our citizens.
What all the Republicans and Democrats all fail to realize is that for 40 years, in America, private health insurance corporations have failed in almost every medical measure to deliver….
1) Failed to spread risk enabling the delivery of quality affordable health care for all. 2) Failed to prevent personal bankruptcies due to medical illness (1.5 million /year) 3) Failed to lower the corporate insurance company overhead costs paid for by taxpayers and citizens. 4) Failed to improve medical outcomes and lower morbidity and mortality for all Americans regardless of income, sex or geographic area. 5) Failed to exist profitably without massive government cash subsidies. 6) Failed to exist profitably without a ban on collective bargaining by physicians. 7) Failed to exist profitably without an exemption from Federal Antitrust monopoly and collusion laws. 8) Failed to exist profitably without a federal exemption from malpractice suits (ERISSA). 9) Failed to lower the cost of care per capita and improve morbidity (sickness) and mortality (death) rates for all Americans. 10 )Failed to lower health care premiums for businesses. 11) Failed to prevent the lowering of reimbursements for physicians 12) Failed to develop integrated EMR's and billing systems. 13) Failed to compete capitalistically based on medical, surgical or preventative outcomes (the only product available from health care insurance companies). 14) Failed to operate profitably without massive diagnostic, treatment and reimbursement rationing of patient care and physicians decisions by non physician private health corporate actuaries and bureaucrats 15) Failed to deliver low cost medicines and drugs via competitive bidding even with massive Federal Subsidies.
Health insurance success: Profits and payoffs for their bondholders, shareholders, executives and political benefactors. If this was any other industry which failed to deliver a product for 40 years, it would either be outsourced to an emerging nation, or brought before a court and sentenced for fraudulently ripping off the taxpayer citizens of this Nation.
All we can say is…..WE TOLD YOU SO! http://www.pnhp.org
With all respect to the anonymous and persistent spokesperson for pnhp.org, you are certainly asking for a lot from health insurers, aren't you?
Let's see if we can sort of group your complains into some buckets. Then I'll try to give some balance to suggest your government run single-payor solution may not be perfect either.
Some of your concerns are about the scope of their insurance mission (that's 1). But we don't ask life insurers, to take all comers and make coverage affordable for all, so that may be a bit unfair.
Your other concerns are about their operations' internal efficiency (that's 3 and maybe 5). We could argue about that too, and point out their fairly small profit margins, but the level'd probably have to go up if you want them to do all the other things they do. And your point is not whether they can get a bit better at the margin, but whether they're completely wrong in their business model.
So your biggest concerns are their failure to lower the costs of transacted business in the provider markets (that's 2,6,7,8,10) and supplier markets (that's 15) despite your belief (in 11) that they have lowered physician reimbursement.
Worse, you feel that insurers have let quality slide (that's 4, 9, and 13) and are also reducing access and rationing care (that's 1 again, and 14).
As you say, this seems a pretty damning indictment of both for profit and not-for-profit health insurers.
But what if simultaneously achieving low prices, high quality and high access/service is just too big an ask for anyone? Even Bubba of Bubba Gump restaurant fame says "price, quality or service: pick any two!"
So we don't have space to get into a lot of it, but here's my attempt at some balance:
To hold them accountable for distortions in access seems unfair (after all the feds could stop pre-tax treatment of employer-sponsored health plans, and could provide block grants to allow states to provide Medicaid in 50 different ways).
To hold them responsible for healthcare price inflation in the provider and supplier markets seems a little unfair too (did the feds do bargaining in Part D or achieve purchasing economies in other settings?).
To hold private insurers accountable for fee-for-service incentive structures seems unfair (after all the feds are happy to do that in caring for Medicare beneficiaries).
To hold them completely responsible for disease burden also seems unfair (after all the feds set reimbursement schedules that reward intervention over prevention, and allow dietary influences on obesity to remain less than perfectly regulated).
Finally, to hold them accountable for lower quality also seems unfair (after all the feds set the bar for approvals of new devices and new pharma products, and regulate hospital quality in general and delivery of care to Medicare beneficiaries in particular).
Point is, this is tough. Achieving the price, quality and service or access trifecta is hard and may even be impossible in the industry as it stands for the foreseeable future.
So it strikes me that complaining about private insurers while raising the 'nirvana fallacy' of an omniscient central government solution feels unfair and maybe just a little naive?
1) Life insurance isn't a necessary instrument for the health and wellbeing of this nation or the economy. However, Auto and homeowners insurance seems to be quite able to spread risk based on capitalistic competition be nice to get the same from health insurers.
2) Insurance Co's business model is not wrong as a business model they've diverted hundreds of billions of dollars from the government, individuals and businesses for their bondholders, shareholders and executives.
3) No doubt insurance companies have lowered reimbursement levels across the country (see medical economics magazine and websites for epidemiologic studies)
4) Of course they've let quality slide, we have fallen behind other nations in almost all measures of morbidity and mortality, especially if you examine cost per capita.
5) Low price, high quality and high access is totally possible via private physicans, hospitals and clinics and therapists with a single payer national health insruance based on Medicare. Of course the CEO of this non profit will have to be happy with $250 K salary as opposed to…
6) Agree that if insurers are to make more, then medical rationing is necessary thereby affecting quality of outcomes.
7) Part D was a gift to the insurance and drug co's…instead of having Medicare establish a formulary and use its economy of scale to lower prices of drugs to that of which the rest of the world pays, we have 1500 government subsidized non competitive formularies and the highest priced drugs in the world.
8) Insurance companies have never revealed outcomes or results of their ratioing of doctors, hospitals, clinics, therapists and pharmaceuticals. My bet is that all that bureaucratic rationing for profit effects quality.
In addition, there's no quality of competition capitalistically based on outcomes, so who knows!!!
I agree with Harriet. But I am afraid in the end patient care will be affected….because if you don't pay the providers for a service, the service can't get done. Unfortunately, Obamacare cuts 500 Billion out of Medicare to pay for Obamacare. So the additional 480 that was proposed will make further cuts without. really reforming the system so that it can be saved. In fact, Obama's deficit plan calls for strengthening a nameless, faceless, panel of bureaucrats who are unelected ( and thus not accountable) to make big decisions about what will and won't be paid for. This panel is called the Independent Advisory Panel. Under Obama's plan, they will be give a great deal of power. Seniors Beware! Obama is NOT your friend !
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Transient tachypnea of the newborn (TTN) is a mild breathing problem that affects babies soon after birth and lasts about three days:
"Transient" means temporary
"Tachypnea" means fast breathing rate
Before your baby is born, he or she has fluid in the lungs. That fluid is absorbed into the lungs after they are born and start breathing on their own. If the fluid isn't absorbed fast enough, your baby can't take in oxygen very well and her or she breathes faster to try to get more air. This is TTN.
Only a small number of all newborns get TTN. Although premature babies can have TTN, most babies with this problem are full-term. Babies delivered by cesarean section are more likely to get TTN because the fluid in the lungs does not get squeezed out as it does during a vaginal birth.
Each baby may experience symptoms differently. Some symptoms of TTN are:
Rapid breathing rate (over 60 breaths per minute)
Grunting sounds with breathing
Flaring of the nostrils
Pulling in at the ribs with breathing (retractions)
The symptoms of TTN sometimes look like other conditions or medical problems. Always see your baby's health care provider for a diagnosis.
Chest X-rays are often used to help diagnose TTN. On X-ray, the lungs show a streaked appearance and appear overinflated. However, it may be difficult to if the problem is TTN or another kind of respiratory problem, such as respiratory distress syndrome (also known as hyaline membrane disease). Often, TTN is diagnosed when symptoms suddenly resolve by the third day of life.
Specific treatment for transient tachypnea of the newborn will be determined by your baby's doctor based on:
How old your baby is
His or her overall health and medical history
How sick your baby is
How well your baby can handle specific medications, procedures, or therapies
How long the condition is expected to last
Your opinion or preference
Treatment may include:
Supplemental oxygen. Oxygen is given to your baby by placing mask on his or her face or by putting your baby under an oxygen hood.
Blood tests. These tests measure the amount of oxygen in your baby's blood.
Continuous positive airway pressure. This treatment uses a mechanical breathing machine that pushes a continuous flow of air or oxygen to your baby's airways to help keep tiny air passages in the lungs open.
Tube feedings may also be necessary if the baby's breathing rate is too high. This will help keep your baby from breathing in food from the mouth into the lungs.
Once TTN goes away, your baby should get better quickly. He or she should not have increased risk for other breathing or long-term problems.
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