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Use of bench-top NMR to measure the density, composition and desorption isotherm of C-S-H in cement paste
Muller, ACA, Scrivener, KL, Gajewicz, AM and McDonald, PJ (2013) Use of bench-top NMR to measure the density, composition and desorption isotherm of C-S-H in cement paste Microporous and Mesoporous Materials.
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H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), supported by a measurement of the degree of hydration using X-ray diffraction, has been used to fully characterise the nano-scale porosity and composition of calcium-silicate-hydrate (C-S-H), the active component of cement. The resultant "solid" density and composition are ρ = 2.68 g/cm; (Ca). (Si,Al)O. (HO) for an underwater cured, never-dried cement paste with an initial mix water-to-cement ratio of 0.4 after 28 days of hydration. In addition, the first pore-type resolved desorption isotherm of cement that shows the location of water as a function of relative humidity has been measured. Critical to our results is verification of the assignment of the different NMR spin-spin relaxation time components. These have been corroborated with conventional analyses. The new methodology is key to enabling design of cement pastes with lower environmental impact. © 2013.
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I do, a lot. I really don't like being a guy. I'm almost nothing like a guy and I follow very few male stereotypes. I'd much rather have tea time with the ladies than go drinking with the guys (bear with me, it's very crude analogy to prove a point)
Now I don't cross dress, wear makeup or anything like that, and I am straight and like girls a lot (mainly because I like their mannerisms better) but if I had enough money to get a perfect sex change and look 100% like a girl I'd do it. I don't care how creepy that sounds, it'd be better than feeling trapped in the wrong body.
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I don't feel trapped in the wrong body, but I do want to be a boy sometimes. Like that time of the month. But I wish I were a boy especially when summer comes. My female friends are so not sporty, and I am sporty, but since puberty hit, I have gotten shy to ask any boy to play sports with me. The times where the boys help a teacher lift something heavy that I could lift too if given the chance. When I want to just get up in the morning and throw on whatever I want, but I can't. When I go outside to walk and be by myself, but my parents get suspicious of me even though I have never given them a reason not to trust me. When we are at family-friends' place and the boys are not forced to chat with the uncles/aunts but the girls have to say something to them or their family reputation will be ruined. When I am checking out boys but my friends think I am "weird." When I am taking a shower, because being a girl, I have to clean myself using more bath products which wastes more time. When I am online, if I was a boy, I could talk to anyone and nobody will think that I am doing something inappropriate. When I am in my room and my little sister just comes into the room without knocking, because if I was a boy I would get my own room. When a guy breaks my heart and gets away with it easily. When people ask me about marriage, I want to answer that I want to have a stable career first, not have annoying kids. When I just want to take my t-shirt off and lay in my balcony bare-chested on hot summer nights but I can't. Also, I want to know how it feels like to love a girl, if a male is truly capable of being in real love with a female because of who she is.
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Slightly over half of the new MacBook Airs being produced this month are expected to be the 11.6-inch model, which has proven to be a bit more popular than its 13.3-inch sibling due to the $999 price for the entry-level device.
The new ultra-low-voltage Core i5 and Core i7 chips contain between 3 and 4 MB of Smart Cache and can support a theoretical 8 GB of RAM. The present MacBook Air models use two-year-old Core 2 Duo chips that can only support a maximum of 4 GB of DDR3 SDRAM. It's unknown, but likely, that the new MacBook Airs will also support the new Thunderbolt I/O technology.


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I've been playing guitar most of my life and gig all over the bay area. I don't watch TV so I can usually be found at nights practicing or noodling songs. I usually do the jam band sound though I love to play jazz. And I'm just as much of a fan, so I go to a lot of shows.
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Movies: I love going to the movies and just as well much of a pleasure is going myself. I can't go more than a week without at least one movie night, sometimes even if it means renting something sub 50% on rotten tomatoes. iTunes is kind of like the fridge, I keep regularly opening it up thinking there will be something new to eat.
Music: I have a music composition degree, so I like to think this is my wheel house. I appreciate all music - good is good. I love the local music scene here. I have my staple favorites and get most of my new release info from KCRW out of LA. I love jam bands as much as I love Ryan Adams, Massive Attack, Debussy, and Coltrane.
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This pastor's dedication to his NFL team is even greater than his dedication to the lord.
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You crave fresh air, relaxation, silence, and water -- anything to escape the suffering found in the Bikram yoga room.
Last week I explored the First Noble Truth, which says that life is made up of challenges, dissatisfaction, or suffering. The Second Noble Truth taught by the Buddha states that the origin of suffering comes from craving: We desire pleasurable experiences, consistency, control, particular objects, people, etc.
Hey, that sounds simple! Eliminate all craving and then suffering will completely vanish. Haha!! I wonder how many people can really make this happen. The mind is a wild beast and feeds heavily on craving something all the time. Either something to alleviate pain or something that brings extra pleasure.
I've stopped thinking that my cravings will end. Instead I see them like a circus act that I get to sit back and watch, become curious about, laugh over, and possibly see them gently fade.
I don't know if this is what the Buddha had intended with Second Noble Truth, but instead of trying to fix my cravings, I see challenges in the Bikram yoga room as an opportunity to connect with the origin of my suffering. This is a time where I get to juggle my cravings up in the air to see that they're just that -- things to play with and choose.
Once I play with my cravings, tossing them up in the air, I can begin letting them fall to the ground to see that I don't really need cool air on my body or a cold drink of water for I am fully alive in the moment despite the intensity of my wandering desires.
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Justice comes slowly, but it does appear to be coming.
Lee Franklin Booth, the convicted felon in Greensboro, NC that has outstanding warrants out for his arrest and alleged involvement in three gun companies despite a kidnapping conviction, has now been outed as a confidential informant (CI) for the federal government.
The decision to reveal Mr. Booth's status did not come lightly or without deliberation. I've known of his status for several weeks, and have given thoughtful consideration to what outing an informant may mean. At the end of the day, however, it kept coming back to one thing.
Booth appears to have made a pattern of abusing his protected status as a federal CI.
He has threatened people (which is why he has warrants out for his arrest). He has allegedly ruined the lives of hundreds if you believe as some do that he played a role in the demise of Pace Airlines. I have witnessed his attempts to ruin the lives of other people, apparently purely out of spite.
And he has allegedly done all this, using his status as a CI to halt investigations into his allegedly criminal activity.
Well, he is of no use to the feds now, and so his protected status should soon be revoked. When that happens, one can only assume that the various investigators that have wanted a piece of Mr. Booth's hide nailed to the wall will descend upon him with search warrants in-hand.
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This is the first book to cover the history, structure, and application of atomic force microscopy in cell biology. Presented in the clear, well-illustrated style of the Methods in Cell Biology series, it introduces the AFM to its readers and enables them to tap the power and scope of this technology to further their own research. A practical laboratory guide for use of the atomic force and photonic force microscopes, it provides updated technology and methods in force spectroscopy. It is also a comprehensive and easy-to-follow practical laboratory guide for the use of the AFM and PFM in biological research.
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I remember it clearly: the day I realized I could no longer lead kids' ministry the way I had in the past. On Saturday, August 9, 2008 we had just finished our big training event, designed to kick off the new year of kids' ministry with a bang. I sent each leader a "Save the Date" four months in advance and had cast vision throughout the previous year of how we needed to raise the bar on how we minister to the kids and families of our community. I truly believed my team was committed and excited about this new season of ministry, but after a dozen emails, reminders in pre-service prayer huddles, and even a few stage announcements in "Big Church" (plus some mild begging) only 65% of our volunteer force showed up for what had clearly been communicated as our most important gathering of the year.
After the final bag of trash had been thrown out, I took some time alone to sulk and think about how awful my volunteer leaders were. In my hurt and anger, I concluded that my team simply lacked commitment. As I began to strategize how I was going to guilt them into being more committed, I was hit with a major dose of conviction. God spoke in such a direct way in saying that, "These people are committed; they're just busy." After I lost the argument with God that my 6-hour training marathon was more important than their Saturday with their families, I knew my next step was to use technology to bridge the gap between busy schedules and the needs of the ministry.
Prior to the mega-church and multi-site movements, gathering volunteers for equipping and team-building events was much easier. However, many volunteers currently attend and serve at different services, or different campuses altogether, making a short meeting after church nearly impossible. Effective leaders must be more creative and use available technology to bridge this gap. Technology is driving team management in the secular world today with scores of web tools and smart device apps to connect team members that are rarely in the same room together. This is the world your volunteer teams live in, making the time ripe for leaders to use online resources to build great volunteer teams.
Any ministry can uniquely benefit from utilizing web-based tools, but there are three ways it helps build great kids' church teams.
- Honoring volunteers' time
- Building a spirit of collaboration
- Creating a culture of equipping and excellence
Honoring Time
There are few members of a volunteer team who have a significant amount of free time on their hands. They want to serve, but they need leaders to understand volunteer ministry is not the center of their universe. When a volunteer believes the team leader honors his time and creatively connects with him without requiring dozens of hours in team meetings, he will respond by serving with enthusiasm. The criticism of this technique is that it damages the relational culture of the ministry and removes the personal contact leaders have with their team. However, the exact opposite is true.
When applied well, using online tools does not take the place of personal relationships; it actually creates the space for them. There are only a limited number of hours in a year that a volunteer can dedicate to a ministry. Online tools simply provide the leader with an opportunity to maximize their limited hours by removing the activities that previously were done in a live group context. Immediately, several hours are freed up for relationship building, praying together, and having fun as a team. Make no mistake—great ministry teams do those three things well. Utilizing online tools gives teams a realistic chance.
Using online resources, like RallyZoo.com, allows a leader to communicate, collaborate, schedule and equip in ways that eliminate the extra meetings, phone calls and emails. It is not honoring to a volunteer to call a 3-hour meeting on a Saturday when the same result could have been achieved online. No doubt the content is vital, but the leader can communicate to the team just as well (or better) by recording a simple webcast at his/her desk and post it to an online gathering spot for that team. Then, volunteers will feel like their time is honored as they participate in the training using their tablet, phone, or computer while on their lunch hour or after putting the kids to bed.
Build a Spirit of Collaboration
Great leaders give their volunteers a voice, which creates a culture of collaboration. Volunteers who feel heard and take ownership raise their level of involvement, and seek to be stronger small group leaders, large group teachers, etc. This is risky for ministry leaders since some of those voices disagree with their philosophy of ministry, and this opportunity to be heard may open the door for conflict. It is tempting for a leader to create a culture where his/her voice is the only one that matters. While easier for the leader, this is shortsighted and only builds a mediocre kids' ministry.
On RallyZoo.com, a space has been created for team members to gather online on their own time and collaborate through group discussion. Since meeting with each team member individually to allow their voice to be heard is not realistic (and let's be honest, having more meetings doesn't help either), this space allows a volunteer the chance to hop on the team page and share his opinion, make suggestions, ask questions, and share stories. Will some of what is posted be out in left field? Yes, but the reward is much greater than the risk when amazing ideas are allowed to be processed by volunteers who know the ministry is also theirs, not just the ministry head's.
Create a Culture of Equipping and Excellence
In Ephesians 4:11-12, the apostle Paul states that the call of a ministry leader is "for equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ." If a ministry leader does not have this first and foremost in his mind, then he has created a culture with major cracks in the foundation. "Equipping of the saints" is not a suggestion; it is a clear description of the primary role of a ministry leader. God has called each of these volunteers to serve, but He's placed the leader there to prepare them to do well what they have been called to do. Without a doubt, this is hard work; it's simply not enough to teach volunteers how to use the curriculum and about safety policies and procedures. Volunteer leaders need to be equipped to connect with kids and parents, grow deeper in their walk with Jesus, and become mentors to new leaders. Today's ministry leaders are over and again faced with the daunting question: When?
Utilizing online resources gives a space for basic levels of equipping to take place online, so that time is freed up for deeper levels of equipping to take place in live settings. Most kids' ministry leaders are staring down the weekend and know that the experience has to be great, so the idea of taking the time to equip leaders to a deeper level makes their heart rate double. The solution is not to pass over the need, but to utilize resources available to maximize time. Creating this culture builds up leaders, attracts other high capacity leaders, and most importantly, gives our kids a better chance of connecting with Jesus.


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Think it would be back to just hang it from the tower on the boat so its ready for next time?
Once a year I wax the zipper and twice a year I apply the silicone latex conditioner to the seals. I'm pretty sure the silicone seal conditioner is the same silicone "latex conditioner" used for other "household purposes"
Just got my Oneill Boost today, of course put cold water in the bathtub to try it out and didn't feel a thing. Absolutely going to try it this weekend.
I have three Oneill Boost's dry suits. One Small, one Medium and one Large. Great customer service. I had the zipper and one of the seals start coming apart after 4 years. Sent it back to them with my receipt (Yes I keep my receipts on items like this) and two weeks later I had a new one at my door step.
Anyway to zip them up easier? I put the lubricant on a few times and it's still a little rough. Is it always like this
That said, I have had an O'neill farmer john and jacket wetsuit forever. It actually had a front half zip on the "john" and zips on the back of the ankles. Makes it super easy to get on. The jacket is a front zip. I haven't seen a wetsuit like mine in ages. Mine was made for water skiing and most are made for ocean surfing. So the zippers I have aren't practical for ocean surfing. I wore my wetsuit down to water temps in the low 50's. I also have a pair of water socks that I believe are made out of neoprene or something like that. They are thin enough that I can totally wear them in my wakeboard bindings. They don't provide a ton of insulation, but every bit helps.
Now the above pic was taken on November 1 and the water temp was 52 if I remember right. It felt COLD and I wasn't all that comfortable. It sucked when my set was done and I had to deal with getting wet gear off. Brr.
Like I said, I got my drysuit and went out on Jan 1 for a NYD run in I believe 42 degree water. I wore my neopreme socks (on the outside of my ankles) and also wore a mountain hardwear tight fitting beanie. I also had some neoprene gloves from a kayak expedition I once did.
This is me on the NYD run:
After that run I bought myself some real neopreme booties for surfing and a neoprene cap that covers my ears with a chin strap.
I'm a wimp when it comes to cold water, so I'm sure I'll enjoy my drysuit. I know I have always worn my wetsuit when many others would just wear shorts. I don't care, I've got nothing to prove!


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My family slave - Chapter 4 – My family's dirt.
You can have a look at my non-erotic novel for free in either: www.lightsoftheearth.blogspot.com.es in English or in: www.luces-delatierra.blogspot.com.es in Spanish.
All my stories are intended just for real pigs. If you don't like dirty sex, please do not read it. But if you are pig enough, read and enjoy.
Nat told me I had blown him first yesterday and now I should start blowing Dad. My father then told me.
-But first, you must take your clothes off, slave.
So I undressed before them and took my clothes to my room. When I came back, with no single word and no hesitation, I knelt before my father and started licking his balls. I was like this for a couple of minutes cause I knew he liked it and it made him really hard. Then I was pleasing his entire dick slowly before I started sucking. Now Seb knew how I liked having a dick in my mouth and enjoyed the fact that I really enjoyed being his slave. I was as horny as I had been the day before. Then he spoke.
-Have you thought, slave, that I am now your boyfriend's father so I had also become your father-in-law?
-My father, my father-in-law, my master and my lover, Dad. I like all that.
-Good, go on, slave, you are wonderful.
Yesterday I had learnt to drive men crazy with blowjobs and I knew how to move my tongue to please him and have him in a continuous state of arousal. He told me later that I was so good that I made him cum in just four minutes. He told me now to please my boyfriend's cock.
Nat was now my brother, my master and my boyfriend. I still hadn't had any opportunity to blow the man I loved after I knew I loved him, but now I wanted to please his three personalities and be at the same time his incestuous brother, his slave and his boyfriend. So I had to be really good at blowing him. That dick was very special for me and I had to increase my power of pleasing. He moaned once and again. Of course I moved to his balls to lick them every so often and then I returned to his delicious rod. I even said "I love you" from time to time and later Nat would tell me I had given him his best blowjob ever. He unexpectedly pissed in my mouth and of course I drank and said nothing. I wanted drinking piss to be usual. I loved that flavour. Nat knew how to make me on fire as I was pleasing him. He even started to slap my ass now. Incredibly this made me be even better. I would never get tired of working his pleasure. This time he could hold his orgasm for twenty minutes, twenty minutes I had been in the most scented corner of the universe, formerly savouring his piss and finally his cum, which were my nephews and of course the children my boyfriend could never give me. His face was luminous and just then my father spoke:
-Of course it should be your boyfriend the first man you take to g-spot. Now lick his ass and drive that man crazy. Last night you knew that pleasure and now you can return it.
I started at once groping his glorious buttocks. In that moment he was lying on the couch. I took some time just touching him but I finally dared to sniff his crack. Nat assured me he had washed it and even lathered it up for he knew this moment would come. I started to lick and immediately I had to tell him I loved the taste and I could be hours pleasing him now if necessary. He said "good" and asked me to continue. Though nobody had told me I was good enough to reach his prostate and I stayed there. There was no shit, of course, but it had a somewhat pungent odour. I loved it and decided to remain there, pleasing the most private area of his hot body. Minutes were passing and I never got tired. His moans were now louder, clearly showing I was driving him crazy. He also told me "oh, my love, you are so good. I love you." This encouragement was all I needed to become a real sex machine for my brother's pleasure. Finally I was pleasing his arse for three quarters of an hour and at last he told me he was cumming. Seeing his face in that moment even increased the love I felt for him. I told him I could do that every day but he said "only once a month, my love, and I also have to please you with it once a month." "As you want, my love."I answered. Then he reminded me now I had to do the same to my father.
-It is your turn now, Seb –I told him-. I am so happy I can please you once and again. Now it is my other master's ass that I must please
It was even better than yesterday. Since I came home I had not stopped pleasing both my masters. I had been the first to be given that wonderful pleasure and now all my family should know. My father told me he already knew that pleasure but it was new and splendid to have his incestuous son's tongue now pleasing his entire body. I still hadn't pleased that part, and now I could say when I saw him cumming I had satisfied his entire gorgeous body. My father's newly washed and lathered ass also drove me crazy and of course I was soon in his prostate where I decided to stay. An ass always smells like an ass, even when recently washed and there was a lasting smell of shit there that I also enjoyed. It took me longer to make him cum, about an hour and ten minutes but I was in no hurry to end. I only wished they had planned more things so his slave could be working their pleasure all day. I didn't want to miss my father's face as he was cumming. Seb became a cuter man in those moments too. After cumming, both of them kissed my mouth and I remained in the living room with Nat as my father said he needed to take a dump and went to the toilet.
I was alone with my master boyfriend but he told me now he only wished to show me his love and embraced me strongly and kissed me. It was an endless kiss that we also spent touching each other everywhere. We were like this for ten minutes when we saw my father coming back. He had something to say:
-Well, slave. Your brother and I have been talking a lot before you came home. Maybe we could give you some instructions for this weekend, but first we need to know how you would like certain things. I have just taken a dump, and I had wiped my ass, but I haven't flushed. My shit is now on the toilet. I know Nat wants to eat your shit and he has told me that also mine. And you can try and see if you would like it too. I suggest you –but I interrupted.
-Order me, Dad. You needn't suggest me.
-First your other master and me have to see what you like. We won't force you to do anything. I suggest both of you come now to the toilet and see and smell what I have shat. I must admit I have tasted my own shit a couple of times, cause I wanted to know the taste of something I was feeding some girls, and I am sure I can taste it again. So you will come, see and smell my shit and then, in case either of you wants to taste it, you will tell me. I will be the first to taste my shit before you. And then if you really want, you can eat all the shit you want. So, come with me to the toilet.
We went to the toilet as excited as if we were going to an excursion to the country. Finally we were in the bathroom. I noticed that Nat was hard as soon as he saw and smelt my father's crap. And I could not believe I was so aroused at the sight of all the wonderful brown heap of shit. I knew immediately I wanted to eat. My father saw we both had a boner and asked if we really wanted to eat. We answered in unison we did want, and he took one of his fingers to his poop, stained it with that mess, took the crap to his mouth and ate that shit with no show of disgust. Nat suggested we both could try that shit together, knelt on the floor, stuck his mouth in the toilet and started to eat and said he would eat all the crap he saw there unless I wanted to eat with him. I said nothing, knelt too, stuck my face in there and shared the poop with my brother. The moment my father's shit was in my mouth I couldn't help it and blasted my load. My brother congratulated me and said he and I could eat all the crap together. So we became two real pigs who ate it all as we saw my father was jacking off seeing what both his pig children were doing. When we were about to eat the last morsel of that wonderful shit, we saw my father was cumming. Of course I ate that cum. Then my father asked us whether we felt like shitting too. Both of us said we had to. Then he said now I should be the one who shat and he and Nat would eat all my shit, and then it would be Nat's turn. He flushed then so as not to mix the flavours. He mentioned then that they had intended to give me a toilet weekend and previously I had to taste it all. This idea drove me crazy and after Seb had flushed, I started to shit and wasn't shy knowing that my father and my brother wanted to eat my crap next. Of course Nat ordered me to piss in his mouth. I did and started taking a dump at the same time. I could see both of them started wanking at the smell of my shit. When I finished my master father asked me to taste my shit first. I did and I also found it delicious. Then I had to see, me the slave, how both my masters knelt and shared my whole crap together, neither shy nor disgusted, and I saw they didn't leave a morsel of my shit and ate it all. I was told to wipe my ass and they flushed again. Next I was told to wash my arse first, and my father reminded me he was gonna lick my ass for a long time tonight. I washed my ass thoroughly then and I saw my father even stuck his tongue in my crack and licked it for half a minute and he assured me he would be for hours if necessary with his tongue in my ass tonight. Now it would be Nat's turn. It was so hot to see him there squatting as he pissed my stomach, shitting carelessly for he knew perfectly well I would like the taste. It was an orgy of shit. Of course when he finished, he stood up, and straight away my father knelt to savour his eldest son's shit. I did the same, and shared Nat's poop with Seb. As the first previous two moments, none of Nat's shit remained in the toilet. All of it was either in my stomach or in my father's. He wiped his ass and my father flushed later.
-Now, if you really want a toilet weekend, you must try puke. I suggest all of us can puke in the same order.
We both agreed and then my father started to puke. I could not believe it but seeing him puke was so sexy. I was immediately attracted by his stream of vomit and the smell and had no doubt I would eat it too. It had shit in it, and it was a dark brown. Nat was in heaven. When he finished Seb was first to taste his puke, got a boner out of it, and told us to eat all we wanted. My brother and I became two real pigs and never hesitated. Of course, all that wonderful stream of puke ended up in our stomachs. New flush and now it was my turn.
Well, I did not want my masters to eat my excrements but I knew I had no chance. Those two hot men wouldn't allow me to be their toilet unless they could eat my things too. I started to puke, without even taking my fingers to my mouth. I could perceive the boners those two pig men had. They wanted to become swine and of course I tasted my puke, a lighter brown now and with shit in it. I loved the taste and later I could see how they both knelt down and with no hesitation started to eat my whole vomit. They ate it as if they were drinking milk. I knew Nat had done that sometimes but not my father and I was astonished seeing him enjoying all those pig moments. When my whole puke was in their stomachs Seb flushed. We were awaiting Nat's puke now.
It was surprising but my brother's puke preserved some of its yellow colour, despite all the shit he had previously eaten. This new colour told me my master brother's puke would have a different taste. After he had finished puking and had tasted his own vomit, my father and I knelt at once and started to enjoy that wonderful heap of vomit, it was the largest amount of us three, and of course we ate it all. After it was all eaten, last flush and Seb, Nat and I kissed the three together with very dirty mouths but none seemed to care.
-There are more things. Now both my children will fart in my mouth, next we would fart in yours, and last you and I will fart in Nat's mouth.
It was an orgy of three very pig men. None felt any disgust at the taste of farts and all of us farted all of us.
-Now it is time to spit. Open your mouths –my father told both his children and he was a long time spitting in both our mouths. The more pig things we swallowed, the more we wanted. Finally he said Nat would be next and he had no shame in spitting in his father's mouth or in that of his brother. I knew now it was my turn and was with no shyness now spitting both their pig's mouths for five minutes, knowing well the three of us had degraded and enjoyed that pig orgy we were having.
-There's one more thing we want you to taste. Only your brother has snot. We will both pick his nostrils now and eat some and if we happen to like it he will finally blow his nose in our mouths.
It was said and done. My father said the same I said after tasting for the first time some snot. It was delicious and of course both of us told Nat to wipe his nose in our mouths later. His left nostril was for me and his right one for Seb. Later Nat and I picked my father's nose. I was luckier and found a booger inside and ate it. Delicious too. And last I had to see how both of them picked my nostrils. I had neither snot nor boogers, but they tasted my nose too. Later my father told us we should brush our teeth now and later return to the living room. We did and later, in that room my master father said he would fuck me now for later in bed it would be him who would be fucked.
-And as I am fucking you, I will explain what we mean by having a toilet weekend, but of course you can say no, or even say yes but having your own limits.
Then my father thrust his wonderful cock again in my ass and Nat started to touch me and kiss me. It was heaven. Finally Seb Friars spoke.
-Tomorrow it is Friday. Remember that I will go to bed with you tonight and I want to take your boyfriend to bed on Friday night and Saturday night. If you agree in what we have planned, tomorrow when you come back home, you will take all your clothes off and enter the bathtub. You will spend all the weekend there, even to sleep, till Sunday at 8 p.m. when you will have a shower and go to bed again with your boyfriend. You will even have your meals in the bathroom and we will take in there what you will eat. As this house has two bathrooms, if we had any visit and wanted to use the toilet, we will take them to the other one. The whole weekend your master boyfriend and I will enter the bathroom once and again, and we will do everything on your body, and if you want, also in your mouth. You will be covered in all our excrements the whole weekend and if you want, you can also eat. But you will have to brush your teeth a lot of times if you do, for any moment you will have to blow us, lick our asses, pits or feet or we will order you to go on all fours and we will fuck you. This weekend at least, we won't blow you or you won't fuck us: you will just be all the time our sex toy and toilet and only that.
I asked Nat to stop kissing me then, for I wanted to talk.
-What you have planned is wonderful for me. I can't believe I will be so happy this weekend. It is perfect for a slave. Oh, please, Nat; please Seb, I want to be your sex toy and toilet this weekend and spend the hours in the bathtub full of excrements and pleasing you. It is an incestuous slave's dream.
-Then we will give you an incestuous toilet slave weekend. And now I am finally cumming in your arse.
He did and then my father told me.
-I know you can hardly cook. I will teach you. For tonight you can prepare pizza for us three and remember that when all of us have finished dinner, I will take you to bed and please you.
Once the pizzas were ready we sat again naked to dinner, but my brother said he would eat later, for he was hungry for a quite different thing and said now he would blow me again, or else he would have no chance today of blowing the man he loved.
-Ok, Nat, my love. You know I will never tell you not to. You love me and my cock is yours forever.
He licked my balls and I felt again how good my brother was when sucking and I was sure he had never been so good, because my cock was very special for him. It is a wonderful experience to be blown as you are eating, and I ate moaning all the time and saying thank you or I love you Nat. When after ten minutes I finally came in his mouth, he started to eat and my father and I waited for him. Then I stood up to do the washing up and finally I heard that hot man, my father saying.
-Now come with me to my bedroom. It is your time for pleasure and believe I really want to be gay with both my children. I kissed Nat's mouth and went to my father's room. I hoped he liked gay sex.
He did not hesitate and once I was in my father's bed he started to kiss me for minutes, covering my naked body with his naked body and touching me all over. After ten minutes of gay heaven, he told me to turn. He would start pleasing my ass. Once I turned, as he saw I was still shy he reminded me he had already tasted my shit and my farts and now my ass was clean and he really wanted to please me. So I said nothing and allowed him. It took him shorter than last night to my brother but even so it was half an hour of pleasure and I felt increasingly calmed seeing it was not only me who moaned. He was really enjoying the taste of his youngest son's arse and moaned too. So I let him continue and he was also driving me crazy. Finally I told him I had to cum and he was delighted seeing my face and I was delighted seeing how a non gay man enjoyed pleasing one of his male children. Now he told me he was going to please my pits.
He was in my pits for about a quarter of an hour. I had to tell him my brother had asked me to smell a lot and to go to the shower only once a week but my father moaned and repeated he was starting to enjoy man scent, at least mine, and said he was really glad he could taste my flavours. Then he went to my feet and was five minutes in each. I could see he was as aroused as Nat had been the night before. I allowed him to be there as long as he wished for I knew now would come the most difficult moments with my cock and I couldn't help but being really scared. But my father surprised me unexpectedly when not saying a single word he started to lick his son's balls, and soon he had my dick in his mouth and I saw he was enjoying it. He told me now he wanted to suck cocks but so far he had enough with both his children's dicks. He was so good that I told him I was cumming soon and he told me I could cum whenever I pleased, but in his mouth. He wanted to taste his grandchildren. That thought made me cum and soon I was filling my father's mouth and stomach with grandchildren. Next he told me I had just cum and he could wait for me to recover a little and then I had to fuck him. I said "oh, Dad, are you sure?" and his answer was turning so I could see his gorgeous buttocks and told me to fuck him when I were ready. Well, I did not want to, but I knew I had to, and watching my father's wonderful ass exposed there awaiting me to fuck him, made me on fire and soon I was rock hard and had to try. I told him to please tell me what he was feeling or I could take my cock out at once.
So I was fucking my father just as I had fucked my brother last night. My father said it hurt him a bit but less than he had expected and told me to go on. I was looking forward for a minute to come when it didn't hurt him, but I continued. In just five minutes he told me it was a wonderful sensation and he wanted my dick in his arse every so often. I told him I still wanted to be his slave and then he told me about frequency.
-Then, Rob, we can do this: your brother and you will fuck me once a week and both of us will fuck our pleasing slave every day, do you like it?
-Yes, Dad. It's wonderful. This way I will feel I am still my family slave.
-Now it has to be Nat who tells you his frequency but he loves you and I suspect he would like you to fuck him every day.
My father was almost yelling now and I was enjoying the sensation so much that I came suddenly in Seb's ass. He asked me if I had enjoyed his pleasing father and he assured me again he would please Nat just the same tomorrow night and allow Nat to please him on Saturday night. He told me now he knew he wanted to have incestuous gay sex every day and hugged me. Soon we were kissing passionately. I was so grateful to that man who far from getting shocked about incest had given me the best moments of my life and thanks to him I had even fallen in love with my brother. When I asked him whether he would allow me now to please him a while, he told me.
-Today you have blown me, taken me to g-spot, I have fucked you, you have eaten my piss, my shit, my puke and everything. So I think you cannot complain, Rob. Now I don't want anything else than sleeping with you.
So I understood and though it took us both a couple of hours to fall asleep, finally we were able.
Next morning I could feel my father's sweat next to mine and I really enjoyed again that first morning kiss. He told me to get out of the bed and said he would piss again, and I had to also taste his first morning piss. I opened my mouth and was really surprised by the taste. When he finally finished pissing my mouth I told him it had a pigger taste, but after now, the pigger the better.
Of course it had become a habit in this family to have breakfast all three together totally nude. I was expecting it, but I was moved again. My boyfriend finished his coffee first and next started to blow me. Seb was jacking off, enjoying again the fact that both his children loved each other and were having sex together again. When I came in Nat's mouth, Seb came on the floor and of course asked me to drink his cum. I did and soon all of us put our clothes back on and went to our respective duties.
I was all the morning awaiting this afternoon when I would become my family's toilet. So much I desired it that there came a moment when unexpectedly I creamed my pants. Classes finished after all and I started to return home knowing very well I would have now a toilet weekend and the bathtub of the largest bathroom would be my room, even to eat and sleep.


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Lopez, Sanderson, Gamble, Campbell, Young, Vadas: Recombinant human interleukin 5 is a selective activator of human eosinophil function. in The Journal of experimental medicine 1988
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Mouse (Murine) IL5 Protein expressed in Escherichia coli (E. coli) - ABIN1305123
Kinashi, Harada, Severinson, Tanabe, Sideras, Konishi, Azuma, Tominaga, Bergstedt-Lindqvist, Takahashi: Cloning of complementary DNA encoding T-cell replacing factor and identity with B-cell growth factor II. in Nature 1986
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Human IL5 Protein expressed in Escherichia coli (E. coli) - ABIN2666483
Takatsu: Interleukin 5 (IL-5) and its receptor. in Microbiology and immunology 1992
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Human IL5 Protein expressed in Escherichia coli (E. coli) - ABIN1305122
Kitamura, Takaku, Miyajima: IL-1 up-regulates the expression of cytokine receptors on a factor-dependent human hemopoietic cell line, TF-1. in International immunology 1991
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Human IL5 Protein expressed in Escherichia coli (E. coli) - ABIN1112346
Xin, Mizukami, Urabe, Toda, Shinoda, Yoshida, Oomura, Kojima, Ichino, Klinman, Ozawa, Okuda: Induction of robust immune responses against human immunodeficiency virus is supported by the inherent tropism of adeno-associated virus type 5 for dendritic cells. in Journal of virology 2006
Increased production of IL-5 from Peyer's patch cells and the restored Th1-type immune response might cause the production of abnormal IgA and might induce the glomerular deposition of IgA in IGA nephropathy.
E. granulosus infection remarkably reduces the severity of OVA-induced airway inflammation likely through enhancing IL-10 (show IL10 Proteins) and down-regulation of IL-5 and IL-17A (show IL17A Proteins).
selective proliferation of IgM (show CD40LG Proteins) rheumatoid factor-secreting B-1a cells is induced by co-stimulation by the specific pathogen antigen and IL-5 in the development of MC in Capillaria hepatica-infected mice
IL5, a cytokine involved in allergic and infectious diseases, facilitates metastatic colonization through recruitment of sentinel eosinophils and regulation of other inflammatory/immune cells in the microenvironment of the distal lung.
In mice, low-dose IL-2 (show IL2 Proteins)-anti-IL-2 (show IL2 Proteins) antibody complexes drove group 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2) to produce IL-5 and proliferate.
Data (including data from knockout mice) suggest that up-regulation of IL5 production in lungs during influenza virus infection is due to infiltration of natural killer cells and alveolar macrophages into infected lung tissue.
A decrease in the levels of IL-5, IL-9 (show IL9 Proteins), and IL-6R in the BALF.
eosinophils express CAR4 (show CA4 Proteins) following IL-5 or allergen exposure, and that CAR4 (show CA4 Proteins) is involved in regulating the lung transcriptome associated with allergic airway inflammation
Loa loa (show DYNC1H1 Proteins) exhibits a differential survival and development in different strains of cytokine or cytokine receptor (show LEPR Proteins) gene knockout mice with IL-4R and IL-5 playing critical roles in the host resistance to L. loa (show DYNC1H1 Proteins) infection.
In mice 8 hours afterthe single administration of Immunovac-VP-4 the levels of IL-1beta (show IL1B Proteins), IL-6 (show IL6 Proteins), IL- 12 (show IL12A Proteins), IL-5 increased significantly. However their concentration differed depending on the method of administration.
Interleukin-5/-targeted treatments offer promises to patients with eosinophilic respiratory disorders; review
Data indicate that interleukin 5 (IL-5)-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were not associated with carotid intima-media thickness.
Post-liver transplant patients with food allergy showed a unique cytokine profile in response to various stimuli, with extremely elevated IL-5, low IL-10 (show IL10 Proteins) secretion.
high levels of IL-33 (show IL33 Proteins) and a high IL-33 (show IL33 Proteins)/soluble ST2 (show SULT2A1 Proteins) ratio correlates with elevated levels of IFN-gamma (show IFNG Proteins), TNF-alpha (show TNF Proteins) and IL-17alpha as well as IL-5, demonstrating that IL-33 (show IL33 Proteins) has pleiotropic effects.
Production of IL-5 in response to both extract and the Bet v1-derived peptide mix strongly suggested that T cells were a major source of IL-5.
TRPV1 (show TRPV1 Proteins) expression level, IL-4 (show IL4 Proteins) level, and rs4790522 site mutation are the main risk factors inducing bronchial asthma in children
It has been shown in this study that the level of IL-5, one of the markers of eosinophilic inflammation, is higher in EBC of children with atopic asthma than in those with nonatopic asthma.
IL-5 may be part of protective mechanisms operating in early atherosclerosis, at least in women
TRH (show TRH Proteins) rs13097335 may have a protective role toward the development of breast cancer.
Results showed that PAX2 (show PAX2 Proteins) expression is significantly overexpressed in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma tissues and IL-5 is identified as PAX2 (show PAX2 Proteins)'s effector for metastasis.
This study showed that pronounced lung eosinophilia in horses can be transient, abate without specific treatment, and in this instance, lack correlation to upregulation of expression of either IL-4 (show IL4 Proteins) or IL-5.
This hormone is responsible for the regulation and release of thyroid-stimulating hormone, as well as prolactin. Deficiency of this hormone has been associated with hypothalamic hypothyroidism.
interleukin 5
, B-cell growth factor II
, T-cell replacing factor
, cytotoxic T-lymphocyte inducer
, eosinophil differentiation factor
, interleukin-5
, Interleukin 5 (colony-stimulating factor eosinophil)
, Interleukin 5 (colony-stimulating factor, eosinophil)
, B-cell differentiation factor I
, colony-stimulating factor, eosinophil
, TSH-releasing factor
, pro-thyrotropin-releasing hormone
, prothyroliberin
, protirelin
, thyrotropin releasing hormone
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With only a day left before one of them wins the title of Superstar, the judges mentor the contestants on how they can improve their performances for the grand finale while Sukhwinder Singh cheers them with his encouraging comments. Unable to hold themselves back, host, Mandira Bedi and judges, Farah Khan, Vishal and Shekhar find themselves pulled onto the stage the minute Sukhwinder starts singing his chartbuster, 'Beedi Jalyle' only to be joined by the three finalists in no time!
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Hey, Forerunner here. Today I'd like to talk about the often held belief that Resident Evil CODE:Veronica was the 'real' third game, which I feel should be addressed after an incident on Reddit the other day led to a few of our users getting flamed.
The claim
The basic story is that Capcom was under a contractural obligation to Sony to have three numbered titles on the PlayStation. With the console's reign on the market about to end with the PlayStation 2's approach, Capcom decided that "Resident Evil 3", a game in development for the Dreamcast, would be renamed "Resident Evil CODE:Veronica" and a smaller game in development for the PlayStation be renamed with the '3'.
The misunderstanding
The belief is the result of a few of misunderstandings about the series:
- There was no Sony deal. People are mistaking it for Shinji Mikami's deal with Nintendo in 2001 over GameCube exclusivity of the remake and numbered titles.
- Hideki Kamiya has been cited before talking about working on a "BIOHAZARD 3", but he's talking about Devil May Cry and not CODE:Veronica, which he wasn't involved in.
The truth
There was indeed a name change, but it isn't what a lot of people think. Hideki Kamiya's "BIOHAZARD 3" title (starring HUNK on a cruise liner) was predicted to be released after the PlayStation 2, so in mid-1998 Capcom ordered him to move the project to a PS2 SDK to avoid losing serious money (this was the era where SEGA could have all games for a console cancelled the day the replacement is released - developers were very worrisome about outdated hardware). This meant re-starting the project on an unfamiliar software, so Capcom was left without any big titles for the older PlayStation console.
The reason for the name change, therefore, was all about money. Knowing that numbered sequels are very attractive to customers (who see it as being superior to numberless titles), Capcom decided that Kazuhiro Aoyama's Resident Evil 2 side-story "BIOHAZARD 1.9" should have the '3' number instead. This was a very controversial decision, as 1.9's small budget nature risked it looking rushed in comparison to Resident Evil 2 - Shinji Mikami threatened to quit Capcom over it and Hideki Kamiya to this day calls the game "a piece of shit" due to its unworthy number.
In brief: Capcom wanted to end the PlayStation with a '3' game so it would have a profitable ending on the console, and knew "Resident Evil Survivor" wouldn't do it. CODE:Veronica was always CODE:Veronica, however.


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Skopje, the capital of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, is situated about 70 miles (113 kilometers) northeast of Struga.
Exploring the villages, towns and cities in the area of Struga will give you a true feel of the diverse people and landscapes of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. You'll find Lazaropole, 25 miles (40 kilometers) to the south, and Kicevo 30 miles (48 kilometers) to the southwest.
Around 8 miles (13 kilometers) to the southeast of Struga is Ohrid, an important regional center where you'll find Cyril and Methodius Statue, Church of Saint Sophia and Church of Saint Kliment. Samuil's Fortress, Saint Panteleimon and Ohrid Ampitheater are also good places to visit.
Immerse yourself in Struga's religious side by visiting the area's mosques and other holy sites. Take a trip to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia's historic historic bridges, it's a great way to get to know the region's colorful history.
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#MyRockingSummer -Andrew Robb
I spent all of this summer working. Now you may say, did you do anything fun? Truth be told I did have fun. Just I didn't go anywhere. I spent my summer hanging out with my brother. Watching TV with him, going rock climbing with him, celebrating events with him. But the thing I did most was work. I have even gotten up to working over 24 hours a week.
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For the first time in his professional career, Colton Smith had an opportunity to attend a training camp before a fight. But unfortunately for the III Corps staff sergeant, the fight result was similar to his previous two.
Smith lost via submission 39 seconds into the bout against Carlos Diego Ferreira during the Ultimate Fighting Championship's Fight Night on Saturday at the AT&T Center in San Antonio.
"Had an amazing first training camp, felt better than ever," Smith wrote on Twitter after the fight. "No excuses, it was his night. Thanks. everyone!"
Smith did not return calls for comment. The loss dropped Smith's record to 6-4. Smith trained for more than a month at Jackson's MMA in Albuquerque, N.M., his first training camp for a professional fight.
In the fight, Smith came out as the aggressor, going for the first blow with a kick to Ferreira's upper torso that missed its mark.
After that, the two grapplers were in close proximity, with Ferreira's back against one of the octagon's sides. But Ferreira, a Pharr native, soon turned the tables by sliding his right leg behind Smith's right knee for a judo takedown.
Ferreira was on top of Smith and when Smith attempted to turn around for a reversal, Ferreira quickly put his arms around Smith's neck in a rear naked chokehold.


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Primer pheromones are thought to act in a variety of vertebrates and invertebrates but only a few have been chemically identified. We report that a blend of ten fatty–acid esters found on the cuticles of honeybee larvae, already known as a kairomone, releaser pheromone and primer pheromone, also act as a primer pheromone in the regulation of division of labour among adult workers. Bees in colonies receiving brood pheromone initiated foraging at significantly older ages than did bees in control colonies in five out of five trials. Laboratory and additional field tests also showed that exposure to brood pheromone significantly depressed blood titres of juvenile hormone. Brood pheromone exerted more consistent effects on age at first foraging than on juvenile hormone, suggesting that the primer effects of this pheromone may occur via other, unknown, mechanisms besides juvenile hormone. These results bring the number of social factors known to influence honeybee division of labour to three: worker–worker interactions, queen mandibular pheromone and brood pheromone.
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FOOD; Easy Does It
By CRAIG CLAIBORNE with PIERRE FRANEY
Published: May 22, 1988
THERE ARE TIMES WHEN even the most devoted cook looks for a way out of the kitchen. Clearly, plenty of shortcuts exist today, but these have more to do with getting a meal on the table in a hurry than creating pleasurable dishes. Fast food, however, doesn't have to look or taste that way. It can be as simple as grilled fish, poultry or meat, or it can give the illusion of complexity.
It may come as no surprise, but a good many dishes are quick to prepare because they rely on a bit of advance planning. In fact, I can think of almost no meal for summer dining that can't be facilitated with a brief amount of forethought. It may be an irresistible breakfast bread, a sauce for fish or a meat stew that can be made even weeks in advance, provided it is frozen properly.
Pierre Franey and I recently discussed various foods, the bases of which may actually benefit from advance preparation. A multipurpose onion ''preserve'' is one of these. This is the culinary equivalent of the magician's sleight of hand. Rather than serving a piece of grilled fish with a squeeze of lemon, for instance, the relish adds flavor, and gives the impression of extra effort. Guests at the dinner table have the feeling of getting something extra, something delightfully unexpected.
The idea for this preserve was conceived some years ago by Michel Guerard, the famed originator of cuisine minceur, or slimming cuisine, in France. He proposed several versions of the relish, both made with Sherry wine vinegar and sweetened with sugar and/or grenadine syrup. It is, of course, a sweet-and-sour conserve, which can be used as a side dish, as a topping for grilled fish or as a filling for an omelet. The preserve gathers flavor if it is allowed to mature a while before using. We made the relish using honey and red-wine or malt vinegar. It will keep for an unlimited time in the refrigerator.
Almost any fish soup base - the basic cooking liquid to be used for simmering fish and shellfish - can be made in advance, and may even gain character when left to stand a few hours in the refrigerator. A dish we recently contrived was much like a pot au feu, a delicate but hearty blend of vegetables such as carrots and cabbage, which are married at the last minute with cubed fish and crustaceans, such as mussels, and cooked until done. The dish is perfectly suited to the cool evenings of early summer.
In an effort to save time, busy cooks usually either eliminate dessert, or present a store-bought pastry. Psychologically, this may not be the best strategy. Cholesterol levels and exercise programs aside, guests usually feel cheated without dessert. A homemade pastry is one unshakable sign of gracious entertaining.
One of the finest, most easily made pastries we know is a recipe from our friend Maida Heatter. It is a crisp, sweet Jewish delicacy called rugelach, also known as walnut horns. The basic dough is made with cream cheese and butter. What may cheer the time-pressed is the requirement that this dough be made at least several hours, and preferably the previous evening, before it is rolled out. It is sprinkled with a blend of sugar and cinnamon and filled with walnuts and currants. The dough is then cut into wedges and wrapped, croissant style, into horns. And while this pastry is ideally suited to someone with little time to cook, it is a perfectly delectable dessert, to be consumed at leisure with coffee or tea. MAIDA HEATTER'S RUGELACH (Walnut horns) The pastry: 1/2 pound unsalted butter at room temperature 1/2 pound cream cheese at room temperature 1/2 teaspoon salt, optional 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour The filling: 1/2 cup, plus 2 tablespoons, granulated sugar 3 teaspoons cinnamon 3 tablespoons melted butter 3/4 cup currants or raisins 1 1/4 cups walnuts, finely chopped The glaze: 1 egg yolk 1 teaspoon water.
1. Prepare the pastry the night before you are ready to cook.
2. To make the pastry, put the butter, cream cheese and salt into the large bowl of an electric mixer. Beat on medium, then high speed, until the mixture is creamy and smooth. Then beat on low speed while gradually adding the flour. If the dough starts to overly coat the beaters, scrape the dough off the beaters and continue adding flour, stirring it in with the hands until thoroughly and evenly blended. The dough will be extremely sticky.
3. Scrape the dough off the hands and fingers. Rinse, wash and dry the hands. Turn the dough out onto a well-floured board. Flour the hands and gather the dough into a short sausage shape. Cut this into three pieces of equal size. Flatten each piece slightly and wrap each piece in clear plastic wrap. Refrigerate overnight.
4. When ready to cook, preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line two cookie sheets with aluminum foil and set aside.
5. Combine the sugar and cinnamon for the filling and set aside.
6. Place one ball of dough on a floured pastry cloth. Hammer the dough firmly to soften it slightly. Do not let it become warm. Quickly roll out the dough, turning it occasionally, with a floured rolling pin into a circle about 12 inches in diameter. Don't worry about a slighly uneven edge.


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New Delhi, Feb. 18: In a blatant admission of how poorly it assesses its own news services team, Doordarshan today announced that it has contracted a private company of professional journalists to cover a possible war in Iraq.
Doordarshan director-general S.Y. Quraishi said Saeed Naqvis Third Eye Television (TET) has been contracted for Rs 5 lakh a day for 20 days to despatch a team of reporters to the Gulf.
Our journalists do not have the experience and the access for such an eventuality, Quraishi told a press conference. We are not in a position to take all the risks.
Doordarshan sources said the management of the public broadcaster had taken the flak from the ministry because it did not cover the war in Afghanistan on its own and relied on footage from foreign news agencies.
Afghanistan is in Indias backyard and we could do nothing. So this time we did not take chances, the sources said. They said that DDs news presentation from March 3 would be slicker.
Doordarshan has regional news units spread across the country. Each regional news unit has at least two assistant news editors and a news editor apart from a correspondent. In Delhi alone, it has 45 full-time reporters, many of them with more than 10 years in journalism. Doordarshan news also relies on 300 All India Radio correspondents.


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