CENTRAL SAANICH, B.C. – When Tsawout First Nation Chief Harvey Underwood looks up at the stars, he knows his community has a place among them.That’s because floating in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is a newly discovered minor planet that bears his community’s name.“Our name means, ‘houses on the hill.’ Now our planet is ‘houses in the universe,’ I guess,” said Underwood from his home on Vancouver Island.“It’s mixed in there with all the stars.”Astronomer David Balam presented a plaque to the First Nation marking the official naming of the asteroid Tsawout at a meeting of the International Astronomical Union in Victoria, B.C., last week.Balam said he discovered the two-kilometre wide astronomical object in 2007.But he said the official process for naming takes between five and 20 years, and involves intricate mapping of the minor planet’s orbit. It also requires approval from both the union and the Minor Planet Centre, a worldwide organization in charge of collecting and publishing observational data for minor planets.Minor planets, or asteroids, are chunks of rock left over from the formation of the solar system, Balam said. Tsawout is one among millions orbiting in the asteroid belt.Balam said he spends a lot of his time looking up through a telescope at the observatory on Little Saanich Mountain, documenting small planets.“I’m trying to answer a scientific question. This isn’t, how old is the universe and where do we come from. It’s a bit more fundamental. It is: Is that thing going to hit the Earth?” Balam said.Balam said Tsawout is the 49th minor planet he has named. Others bear the names of Canadian astronomers, institutions — including his alma mater, the University of Victoria — and people in his life.“This is about the only feasible way I can see in the near future that we’re going to populate the solar system with Canadians, eh?” he said.He chose the Tsawout because of a personal connection — his family homestead was on a nearby island and he says his family has links to both the Tsawout and Haida First Nations. He said he also respects the First Nation for the way it has been able to preserve its traditions.“I’m directly related to many of these people out here, so I got interested in their history and traditions,” he said.“If you look back at the history of these people, there’s been famine and floods and European invasion and near genocide. So they’ve gone through a lot and they have managed to resurrect and maintain their traditions and pass them on to their young people. I very much admire that,” he said.Balam said he sees naming a minor planet as another way to preserve history.“It’s very much like immortality,” he said. “This planet will have your name forever and for as long as the human race exists.”Underwood said beyond the novelty of having a minor planet in his community’s name, it has sparked an interest in astronomy among some of its youth.He said Balam has offered to take some of the young people up to the observatory, and has shared some images of the asteroid that bears the Tsawout name via Facebook.“It looks neat, zooming around out there in the universe,” Underwood said.
Astronomer names minor planet after Vancouver Island First Nation
October 17, 2019
The first meeting, organised by the German Engineering Federation (VDMA), between representatives of universities, academies and companies was held in Aachen recently, with the emphasis on securing and fostering the position of the country’s mining equipment manufacturers in the global market. The meeting presented the latest developments, research projects and future requirements for the industry, under the motto ‘Future mining – what will the next generation mine look like?’ Evaluating the success of the event, Klaus Stöckmann, Deputy Managing Director of the VDMA Mining Equipment Association, said “In the development of new mining equipment one can hardly expect quantum leaps. Progress in fact takes place in many little steps” – possible details of which were outlined by high-level representatives of universities and academies from Aachen, Clausthal, Freiberg and Hanover.Professor Dr Karl Nienhaus from the hosting Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Machine Engineering of RWTH Aachen appealed to manufacturers to overcome the ‘inhibitions’ that impede collaborations with universities, assuring them that know-how will be protected by co-operation agreements. Dr Paul Rheinländer, Director of the VDMA Mining Equipment Association said “I hope today’s event will strengthen the industry’s collaboration with universities and colleges.”The VDMA said it is essential to draw the manufacturers’ attention to the dormant potential that lies in the universities and colleges. This event, the first in a row of conventions to follow, is meant to build on the German mining industry’s manufacturing position. Innovations are the key, with representatives of the four universities having lots to offer.The main research fields are maintenance, diagnostics, monitoring and material identification. In the process, sensor technology plays a pre-eminent role, enabling real-time assessment of materials and conditions. Professor Nienhaus sees this technology “as the key to all ambitions to construct machinery and for plants to be autonomous”. At present, attempts are being made to establish a special cross-institute field of research on this subject. A wireless sensor to determine operating loads on conveyors is also being developed and should be ready for production in two to three years time.Online analyser developedAn online analyser for deposit and quality detection based on laser technology was developed at Clausthal University of Technology’s Mining Institute after about ten years of research and has already passed the practical test. Professor Dr Hossein Tudeshki of the institute says it removes the need for expensive and time-consuming test drilling and subsequent analysis of material. It also helps continuous grade monitoring of the deposit and mine area.At Clausthal, the effects of various sprinkling systems on dust adhesion, climate and the content of water in underground coal mining are also being analysed. According to graduate engineer John-Glenn Swanson from the university, the crucial criteria here, i.e. size and consistency of water droplets, are determined by lasers.Scientists from the Mining and Special Underground Mining Institute at the Technical University (TU) Bergakademie Freiberg work in the fields of material identification and optimisation of blasting techniques and digging tools. Graduate engineer Martin Pfütze explained that to enable optimal equipment planning suited to the most diverse geological and technical conditions they simulate machine part wear.The institute has also been studying the disastrous coal seam fires in China for some time now. It is estimated that around 20 Mt of coal fall victim to the fires every year. In addition, up to another 200 Mt cannot be mined due to the fires.The Institute of Transport and Automation Technology (ITA) at the University of Hanover focuses on the development of conveying systems, specifically conveyor belts. According to graduate engineer Sascha Falkenberg, it evaluates energy consumption, maintenance costs and operational life span, aimed at developing practical test methods. Presently, the emphasis is on determining the rolling resistance caused by varying stress distribution in conveyor belts moving on idlers. The kinetic resistance is measured with the aid of simulated loads, with Falkenberg saying “the test methods we have developed are very close to reality.”Graduate engineer Dr Bruno van den Heuvel of RWE Power, representing the largest producer of lignite in the world (91 Mt/y), provided an insight into the future requirements of open-pit mining. He said there is a particular need to reduce maintenance costs: for RWE, these expenses amounted to around one-third of total production costs. Additionally, techniques should be automated and more reliable and energy consumption, specifically in belt conveyors, should be limited. He also said the technical availability of equipment should be improved and that there is strong demand for accurate state information and optimised maintenance concepts.The next event is scheduled to take place at Clausthal University of Technology in the autumn.
Slate : HP abandonne la commercialisation de sa tabletteÉtats-Unis – HP aurait mis un terme au projet de commercialisation de sa tablette Slate, présentée en janvier 2010 lors du dernier Consumer electronics show (CES).La raison de cet abandon : le système d’exploitation Windows 7, qui ne serait pas assez performant et limiterait la durée d’autonomie de la tablette. En outre, le rachat du fabricant d’ordinateurs de poche et de smartphones Palm par HP aurait précipité le remplacement de Windows 7 par WebOS pour équiper potentiellement la tablette. Le modèle avait pourtant été présenté par Steve Ballmer, le PDG de Microsoft, lors de l’ouverture du Consumer electronics show (CES) de Las Vegas au mois de janvier dernier. Le 3 mai 2010 à 15:17 • Emmanuel Perrin
I’m so happy about the deluge of ports the Switch is getting. Yes, they’re games that came out before. Yes, I already played many of them. But putting them on the Switch means I can play them at home or on the subway, and that’s really convenient. If the ports have new content, that’s a bonus! While I wait with ‘bated breath for Bayo 1/2 (and eventually Bayo 3), I’ve been revisiting a fantastic run-and-gun shooter/hunting game that largely passed under the radar when it was released for PC. Mercenary Kings Reloaded is the new enhanced edition of Tribute Games’ Mercenary Kings, and Tribute Games sent me a code to try it out (and, since I enjoyed it so much on Steam a few years ago, I did).Mercenary Kings is about a group of mercenaries who set up camp at a mysterious island to thwart the biological experimentation plans of Evil group C.L.A.W. It’s a paper-thin and incredibly self-aware premise that exists to give you reasons to go into different parts of the island and kill tons of enemies. You choose one of four characters: action guy King, action woman Empress, hunter/resistance-styled action woman Frigg, or C-ZAR the robot. Frigg and C-ZAR are new to Mercenary Kings Reloaded. There aren’t any mechanical differences between the characters, and you can unlock lots of palette swaps for them as you play. You’re then assisted by old eyepatch guy Colonel Tasker, handler Miss Zero, pilot Bobby (and his sentient helicopter Choppy), blacksmith Ironside, gunsmith Fearless, and a half dozen other fun and helpful NPCs who provide services at the camp.AdChoices广告Visually, this is one Metal Slug-ass game. The sprites are a bit more 8-bit than 16-bit in their structure and palettes, but the bouncy, personality-filled characters with lots of expressions and copious amounts of blood feel like they could be straight out of a Megal Slug game. That’s thanks to animator Paul Lawrence Robinson, who you might know as the creator of Pirate Baby’s Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006, a short film made with sprite art that depicts an increasingly insane arcade brawler playthrough. He also worked on Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World and Gravity Falls.Every character and enemy looks active and interesting, with loads of animation frames. Tanks and mechs look massive and cartoonish, like G.I. Joe vehicles. Enemy soldiers wear constant grimaces and smirks. Cute little animals run away from gunfire (and drop items if you murder them). Explosions are big and bright, and blood splatters are hilariously massive as enemies crumble into piles of gore. Paul Robinson is one of the most talented pixel artists out there, and Mercenary Kings drips with his style.At first glance Mercenary Kings looks like a Contra or Metal Slug game, mechanically. That isn’t exactly the case. It’s a run-and-gun game, but there’s a lot of mechanical depth underneath the flying bullets and bleeding sprites. You have a Mega Man-like health bar and have access to a variety of items that let you heal, destroy obstacles, and even capture enemies. You can also make a lot of guns. I mean hundreds, if not thousands.The big mechanic in Mercenary Kings is gun customization. Fearless can craft gun parts from the items you collect and money you make completing missions. You can build guns from different receivers, barrels, stocks, magazines, sights, and ammo types, and each component affects how the gun behaves. Handguns are light and reload quickly, but aren’t very powerful and can’t hold many bullets. Shotguns can hold even fewer shells and are slow to reload, but can fire spread shots with the right ammo. Submachine guns can spray small, weak bullets quickly. Machine guns can spray big, powerful bullets quickly, but are so heavy they limit your speed and jumping ability and take a long time to reload. Consider all of those factors, then consider how you can mix and match different parts to make your ideal gun.Most gun parts add to an ammo type percentage. You can build any gun with any combination of parts as long as it includes a receiver, but you’ll only fire regular, small bullets unless you bring an ammo type stat to 100% or higher. The stat is usually dictated by the receiver, but you can mix and match different parts to bring any ammo type to 100% even if the receiver doesn’t seem like it would work. We’re talking sniper rifles that can fire shotgun shells, machine guns that fire magnum bullets, and even pistols that can fire missiles. Finding the right balance means making compromises like firing speed, weight, and ammo capacity, but it offers lots of options. Oh, and you can also use elemental ammo that can freeze, electrocute, or burn your targets (I like caustic ammo, since it eats through shields).Your weapon choices trickle steadily out as you play through the game and rank up by completing missions. You’re also limited by your budget and the materials at hand, because you need to go out and collect those materials on each mission, earning money in the process. Missions can include reaching a certain part of the level, killing a certain number of enemies, capturing an enemy with a shock bomb, rescuing hostages, or destroying equipment. Or, in terms that might be more familiar, quests to kill bosses, kill a certain number of smaller enemies, or collect a certain number of raw materials. So you can get new weapons (and upgrade your armor, which increases your life bar).Yes, underneath the Metal Slug exterior and gameplay, Mercenary Kings is actually a hunting game. This is 2D, sprite-based, military-themed Monster Hunter. And that’s pretty great. It’s a reason to keep coming back to different missions to unlock as many different weapon parts as you can and try out new things. It adds an addictive sense of progression to a genre that is usually just about running through levels and completing objectives. There’s more to do because there’s so much to collect, including rare materials and extra money by completing extra objectives in each mission, along with finding secret objectives and beating the fastest clear time to get even more rare materials.Add excellent controls that feel responsive, with a dodge roll and melee attacks (and you can craft different knives) and active reloading that makes your bullets more powerful if you press the R button when the meter is over a green area. It might feel strange if you just build the biggest gun you can and then find yourself with a short, floaty jump, but that’s the point. You actually move differently depending on how heavy your gun is. With a fairly generous amount of mercy invincibility when you get hit and the tendency of enemy fire to take Dark Souls amounts of life bar chunks and you get a very satisfying 2D gameplay experience that provides just enough challenge to feel worthwhile.I’ve been having fun playing through Mercenary Kings Reloaded on my Switch, and considering how much content and variety it offers in a genre that is usually reserved for short, direct playthroughs and speedruns, its $20 price tag is pretty reasonable.It’s real good you guys. Stay on target Real There You Guys: Ready Player One and Nostalgia as Generational PoisonReal Good You Guys: ThinkGeek’s Bags of Holding (Fast Travel and M… 
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Inside, she has a ton of reusable items, from a metal straw to a foldable water cup. She takes recycling and reusing very seriously. “I thought it was an important topic, so how can I translate the scientific data into visual images,” Din said. In her work as a University of Alaska Anchorage art professor, Din expressed her passion for conservation first in a project called Junk to Funk — an effort to make functional items out of what you’d otherwise throw away. However, that’s not where the book ends. Flipping the pop-up book to the other side reveals, Our Clean Ocean, showing a beautiful blue marine ecosystem. “It’s the beautiful ocean. You can see birds flying,” Din said. “But before we get there, the first thing we have to do is to stop using plastic. Bring your own bags for shopping and then continue recycling.” At the end of the day, Din wants kids to understand that the ocean is heavily polluted, but by being advocates for the environment, they can help fix it. The end of the first half ends with a fish on a dinner plate. A fish that has eaten microplastics, being served with sea salt that has been polluted with microplastics. It’s a pretty stark image. Our Plastic Ocean, Our Clean Ocean is set to come out later this winter. Herminia Din’s purse is made of grocery bags. “I just want to show people, we have this beautiful environment, beautiful ocean, this beautiful Earth. Keep it that way,” Din said. Our Plastic Ocean, Our Clean Ocean is split into two halves. One details the pollution in the ocean. The second details how kids can solve the problem. (Photo by Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage) “We do a lot of aluminum cans, turn that into candle-holders,” Din said. “We do scarves. Old T-shirts, like one you would wear, we can just shred it and turn it into a beautiful scarf.” Explaining that fact to kids might come off as off-putting or depressing, but while the book shows the hard truth about pollution, it also shows kids what they can do to change it. To be clear, Din doesn’t think we need to stop using all plastics. A new art exhibit at the University of Alaska Anchorage highlights Our Plastic Ocean, Our Clean Ocean. (Photo by Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage) There’s a lot of plastic in the ocean. As it floats around, it breaks down into tiny particles that get into everything from fish to sea salt. If you eat seafood caught near Alaska, there’s a good chance you’ve ingested tiny bits of plastic. “So, the storyline continues, and you can see the plastics. They never dissolve. They just break, from the visible to a microplastic,” Din said. “So continuing now, the fish eat what’s coming from the ocean. You can see the whales eating it. A lot of trash on the shores. And then we caught the fish, and the fish becomes our food, and it comes with a lot of plastic.” “I’m not a plastic-free or zero waste person,” Din said. “But I do advocate to reduce and stop using single-use plastic. That’s the first step.” Herminia Din stands with Our Plastic Ocean, Our Clean Ocean. An exhibit on the project debuts in September. (Photo by Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage) The book is split into two parts. The first half, Our Plastic Ocean, shows the journey that plastic makes as it moves from the cities to the oceans. It starts in the city and as readers turn the pages, the plastic begins to move into ocean ecosystems. Din says different pop-ups on the pages reveal all the places that plastic gets into. Din says she’s previewed the book to kids around the state and is already getting promising reactions. Her latest project: Our Plastic Ocean, Our Clean Ocean. It’s a pop-up book that walks kids through what happens to the junk that doesn’t become funk. An art exhibit highlighting the project opens Tuesday, Sept. 3 until Friday, Oct. 4 at UAA’s Kimura Gallery in the Fine Arts Building.
Patancheru: MLA Gudem Mahipal Reddy on Tuesday visited ICRISAT. Interacting with HR Manager Vani and PRO Murali Sharma, he sought jobs in the institute for local residents. He also urged the officials to organise tours for the benefit of local farmers. He held discussions with them on employment opportunities for youth, status of agriculture and water conservation.
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi pays his respects in front of the body of former chief minister of Goa and former defence minister Manohar Parrikar during his funeral in Panaji on 19 March 2019. Photo: AFPIndian prime minister Narendra Modi will fight to retain his Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh (UP) seat while BJP president Amit Shah will make his debut in Lok Sabha polls from Gandhinagar, Gujarat, BJP leader JP Nadda announced on Thursday.The Gandhinagar seat is currently held by veteran Bharatiya Janata Party leader LK Advani, who has been winning the seat consecutively from 1998.Among the prominent leaders announced in BJP’s first list, which had 184 names across 20 states, were union ministers Rajnath Singh, who will contest again from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, Nitin Gadkari from Nagpur, Maharshtra, V K Singh from Ghaziabad, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (Jaipur Rural), Satyapal Singh from Baghpat, UP, and DV Sadananda Gowda from Bengaluru North.All are sitting MPs from these seats.Textiles minister Smriti Irani will again face Congress president Rahul Gandhi in Amethi, while film actress-turned politician Hema Malini will contest from her Mathura seat.Union minister Babul Supriyo will fight to retain his Asanol seat of West Bengal, where he will face Trinamool Congress’s Moon Moon Sen. The BJP has also fielded Bengali film actress Locket Chatterjee from Hooghly, West Bengal.BJP’s Kerala strongman Kummanam Rajasekharan, who recently quit as Mizoram governor, will fight against Congress leader Shashi Tharoor in Thiruvanthapuram, while Union minister KJ Alphons will contest from Ernakulam.The BJP also fielded its Tamil Nadu unit chief Tamilisai Soundararajan from Thoothukudi from where DMK’s K Kanimozhi is contesting.Nadda, who had announced that India’s state minister for home affairs Kiren Rijiju will contest from Arunanchal East, later corrected himself, saying he would be contesting from Arunachal West.The BJP also fielded Baijayant ‘Jay’ Panda, who had quit Odisha’s ruling Biju Janata Dal to join it, from Kendrapara.Nadda also announced that candidates for all the 17 seats it will contest in Bihar have been cleared by the party’s Central Election Committee and sent to the state election panel.
Stay on target Technically released in its home country last year and making the U.S. film-festival rounds now (with a limited release in early May), Shadow marks a return to the “wuxia” historical martial-arts genre for Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou; whose unique career arc took him from downbeat dramas (Red Sorghum, Raise the Red Lantern) occasionally criticized as feeling made more for Western acclaim than Chinese sensibilities to big-budget high-grossing wuxia spectacles like Hero and House of Flying Daggers to state-backed mega-budget multilingual “global message” blockbusters like Flowers of War (an over-the-top “Rape of Nanking” melodrama sort-of starring a lost-looking Christian Bale) and The Great Wall (yes, the one with the aliens lizard-wolves and Matt Damon) and even the Olympic opening ceremonies.Now he’s back on the wuxia kick (pardon the pun) but aiming to shake up the genre visually by eschewing the vibrant permanent-springtime pastoralism and gaudy treasure-chest color scheme that’s characterized it ever since Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Yimou’s own subsequent stabs at the venerable swords-and-silk-robes romance atmosphere took the genre to the international mainstream in favor of a near-monochromatic desaturation where every costume, set, prop and landscape is cast in inky streaks of black, white and grey mirroring the look of Chinese calligraphy and it’s almost always raining — seriously, always.The result is one of the most beautifully depressing-looking worlds you’ll ever see a melodramatic action film take place in; an imagining of feudal China sometime in the early 200 A.D.’s (that’s “200 A.D.” as in THREE digits, so quite a way back) that nonetheless feels like a waterlogged apocalypse whose characters are all in the midst of perpetual drowning. When the fighting begins and blood finally starts to spill, it’s less horrifying at first than it is refreshing — if only to finally see a change of vibrancy suddenly streak across the palette, even for a moment.Loosely based on episodes from the Three Kingdoms Saga (which in turn is a loose record of actual early Chinese historical events featuring characters who are mostly presumed to have existed or composites thereof), this is essentially a palace-intrigue melodrama stirred together with a feudal spy-thriller and a gothic romance complete with secret passages and lurid identity-swap twists; nominally centered around the strategic dick-measuring competition at play between a scheming, unpopular King (Zheng Kai) and Deng Chao his legendary-badass of an army commander. As the story opens, after a lengthy period of war the nation’s army and citizenry are impatient to take back a city that’s still occupied post-ceasefire (an uneasy one, seemingly) by the enemy kingdom, but the King is a wimp who’d rather sue for peace and if that won’t work maybe try to marry his sister off to the enemy general in exchange – whether she’s into it or not. The honorable Commander disagrees, and has gone over the King’s head by challenging the enemy General (a legendary hand-to-hand combatant wielding a famous lance said to be blessed by sorcery because it’s that kind of story) to a one-on-one duel of his own accord — creating even greater tensions in the royal court that cause further defections and political strain.However! In an additional wrinkle, “The Commander” isn’t actually The Commander — the real Commander, having suffered a mortal wound that’s left him slowly dying and succumbing to megalomaniacal madness — has been living out of sight in a series of secret passages within the palace, directing the actions of a man raised from birth as his emergency body double (“The Shadow” of the title, with Chao in both roles) who’s now been sent out to play the role full time as he, the real Commander and his wife set in motion a complex plan of revenge and political gamesmanship ultimately designed to depose the unfit King from power and retake the occupied city in an elaborate coup.To give away how the mechanics of this work out would be to deprive an audience the fun of watching Yimou meticulously set up what at first feels like a sombre arthouse historical deconstruction and the inevitable crossed-up romantic business involving the Commander’s long-suffering wife and the heroic, not-a-crazed-scheming-attic-creature version of her husband she’s now spending so much time with… only to then see him reveal that the payoff is (while every bit as sombre) more like a gonzo wuxia swashbuckler hybrid: Act 3 comes complete with double-crosses, secret guerrilla armies, retro high-tech spy gadgets and the push to develop a secret new kung-fu technique based around tricked-out razor-edged steel umbrellas… all of which ends up playing out shockingly more cool-looking and less “silly” than it sounds, honestly.It’s a gorgeous-looking and very well-acted film, maybe not to all tastes as despite the early signs of restraint it ends up feeling much closer in tone to the Elizabethan theatrical hysterics of Curse of The Golden Flower than any of the more serious historical turns Yimouh previously produced under the “wuxia” banner. But the hard turn to over-the-top bloodletting by the finale really did it for me and the big setpiece battle involving a physics-defying secondary function of the already preposterous war-umbrella weapons is easily one of the more iconic action beats of recent memory. You won’t see anything else like it this year. MovieBob Reviews: ‘The Curse of La Llorona’MovieBob Reviews: ‘Hellboy’ 
eTN Chatroom for Readers (join us) Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:Like Loading… Got a news tip? Want to share your story? Email us . There’s a belief out there that gay men are having anal sex every single day.It turns out that isn’t the case whatsoever.New research by Bespoke Surgical interviewed 300 gay men of different ages about their sex lives.It found:13% have anal sex daily39% of gay men have it a couple times a week24% of gay men have it a couple times a month5 in 6 gay men have it at least a few times a yearOne in six has it less than once a yearThis means around 16% likely never haveRead anal sex, preferring mutual masturbation, blowjobs etc.Anal sex: Gay men are more likely to be topsGay men prefer to be a top (39%), vers (33%) and bottom (29%).Bespoke Surgical also found preparation impacts many people.They found:42% of gay men always or frequently use an anal cleanser38% rarely or never do21% sometimes use an anal cleanserGay men who have anal sex daily are 2.1 times more likely to always use an anal cleansing productGenerally speaking, the less frequently someone has anal sex, the more likely they are to never use an anal cleansing productBut in terms of what they actually use, the ones that bottom say:25% use a water-based enema20% use a saline enema18% use a shower adapterOn hygiene, safe sex and sex toysSex prep can be more about feeling personally clean rather than for health practices:78% of gay men think about hygiene always or most of the time during anal sex9% never do61% feel more comfortable or ‘cleaner’ if they used an anal cleanser post-sex.On safe sex: GAYSTARNEWS-
Broke Straight BoysGay men are having more unprotected sex 37% always use a condom while having sex21% occasionally do16% never do41% of gay men have experienced tearing or other damage from anal sexOn sex toys:55% use one for pleasure, to prepare, or both41% use one at least to prepare45% don’t use a sex toy for anal sex at allAre gay men having more anal sex than straight women?The researchers also asked an equal number of straight women about their relationship with anal sex.To compare, 56% of straight women report having anal sex less than once per year.But saying that, one in four straight women said they did so at least a couple times a month.A spokesperson said: ‘In this survey, we sought to learn more about the sex preparation practices of gay men and straight women, and we now have a broad understanding of how each group compares.‘With analyses like this one, our goal is to establish ourselves as an authority on proper sexual health practices and representation of LGBTQ+ voices.‘We hope that by shedding light on these topics, we can improve the position of those who are impacted by them.’Read more:Stop asking me if I’m a top or bottom – not every gay guy likes anal Study reveals different masturbation habits of gay and straight peopleGay men over 45 far more likely to be single – and these are the reasons whyTwo men convicted of gay sex forced to have anal exams in ZambiaRead the full article on Gaystarnews: :https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/how-do-men-and-women-prepare-to-bottom-for-anal-sex/
The British High Commission (BHC) said on Friday a settlement of the Cyprus issue would require tough choices and compromise, as it welcomed the UN decision to conduct consultations with the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities to determine whether there were grounds for the resumption of talks.In a statement released a week after UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres released his report on developments in Cyprus, the BHC said the UK was a strong supporter of a comprehensive, just, and lasting settlement of the Cyprus issue, based on the internationally accepted model of a bi-zonal, bi-communal federation.“A settlement will require tough choices and compromises,” the statement said. “But with real political will, we judge an agreement remains within reach, building on the progress made at Crans Montana, to the benefit to all Cypriots and the wider region.”The BHC expressed hope that the sides will engage meaningfully with the UN consultations in the coming weeks and months towards that end.In his report, the UN Secretary-General said the future of the island is a responsibility of all Cypriots, but that the leaders bear the primary responsibility for the negotiations, should they jointly agree to resume talks with the intent of agreeing on a comprehensive settlement.“In the coming period, I intend to send a senior UN official to conduct in-depth consultations with the parties. The consultations will provide a more formal, structured, and detailed channel for the parties to convey to the UN the outcomes of their reflection since Crans-Montana and to help determine whether conditions have or have not matured at this stage for a meaningful process. I encourage the parties to recognize the importance of this exercise and to seize the opportunity accordingly,” Guterres said.You May LikeAVONAvon ~ Warehouse Clearance Sale – Buy More Save More: Makeup, Skin Care, Bath & Body by AvonAVONUndoBondicTurn Any Can’t Fix Into A Quick FixBondicUndoElectric Cars | Search AdsCompare Deals On New Electric Cars HereElectric Cars | Search AdsUndo Cyprus’ Dothraki warriorUndoUrgent work planned on collapsed section of Nicosia wallsUndoCypriot ambassadors gather in Nicosia for annual briefingUndoby Taboolaby Taboola