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Bears
Bears are mammals of the family Ursidae. Bears are classified as caniforms, or doglike carnivorans, with the pinnipeds being their closest living relatives. Although there are only eight living species of bear, they are widespread, appearing in a wide variety of habitats throughout the Northern Hemisphere and partially in the Southern Hemisphere. Bears are found in the continents of North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.
Common characteristics of modern bears include a large body with stocky legs, a long snout, shaggy hair, plantigrade paws with five nonretractile claws, and a short tail. While the polar bear is mostly carnivorous and the giant panda feeds almost entirely on bamboo, the remaining six species are omnivorous, with largely varied diets including both plants and animals.
With the exceptions of courting individuals and mothers with their young, bears are typically solitary animals. They are generally diurnal, but may be active during the night (nocturnal) or twilight (crepuscular), particularly around humans. Bears are aided by an excellent sense of smell, and despite their heavy build and awkward gait, they can run quickly and are adept climbers and swimmers. In autumn some bear species forage large amounts of fermented fruits which affects their behaviour.[1] Bears use shelters such as caves and burrows as their dens, which are occupied by most species during the winter for a long period of sleep similar to hibernation.
Bears have been hunted since prehistoric times for their meat and fur. To this day, they play a prominent role in the arts, mythology, and other cultural aspects of various human societies. In modern times, the bear's existence has been pressured through the encroachment on its habitats and the illegal trade of bears and bear parts, including the Asian bile bear market. The IUCN lists six bear species as vulnerable or endangered, and even least concern species such as the brown bear are at risk of extirpation in certain countries. The poaching and international trade of these most threatened populations are prohibited, but still ongoing.
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Drifter995
Neko//Night
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Bears
Bears are mammals of the family Ursidae. Bears are classified as caniforms, or doglike carnivorans, with the pinnipeds being their closest living relatives. Although there are only eight living species of bear, they are widespread, appearing in a wide variety of habitats throughout the Northern Hemisphere and partially in the Southern Hemisphere. Bears are found in the continents of North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.
Common characteristics of modern bears include a large body with stocky legs, a long snout, shaggy hair, plantigrade paws with five nonretractile claws, and a short tail. While the polar bear is mostly carnivorous and the giant panda feeds almost entirely on bamboo, the remaining six species are omnivorous, with largely varied diets including both plants and animals.
With the exceptions of courting individuals and mothers with their young, bears are typically solitary animals. They are generally diurnal, but may be active during the night (nocturnal) or twilight (crepuscular), particularly around humans. Bears are aided by an excellent sense of smell, and despite their heavy build and awkward gait, they can run quickly and are adept climbers and swimmers. In autumn some bear species forage large amounts of fermented fruits which affects their behaviour.[1] Bears use shelters such as caves and burrows as their dens, which are occupied by most species during the winter for a long period of sleep similar to hibernation.
Bears have been hunted since prehistoric times for their meat and fur. To this day, they play a prominent role in the arts, mythology, and other cultural aspects of various human societies. In modern times, the bear's existence has been pressured through the encroachment on its habitats and the illegal trade of bears and bear parts, including the Asian bile bear market. The IUCN lists six bear species as vulnerable or endangered, and even least concern species such as the brown bear are at risk of extirpation in certain countries. The poaching and international trade of these most threatened populations are prohibited, but still ongoing.
Anal:
Anal sex. Do you love it? Hate it? Kinda wanna try it, but aren’t sure if you should? If you can? You’re not alone! We’ve noticed that anal sex is one of those topics that divides people into three main camps: There are those people who just don’t want to try it, not now, not ever. It’s gross, it’s weird, it’s unnatural, or hey — maybe it just doesn’t float your boat. Then, there are those people who have tried it, and don’t ever want to try it again. Because it hurt, because it was embarrassing, because they didn’t really want to do it in the first place, etc. And finally, there are those people who absolutely love it!
A finger (or two or five) is exactly what the doctor ordered for mind blowing, toe tingling H-O-T sex! Sometimes people move from camp to camp before they finally settle down. The first time Amber had anal sex was in high school, and it was horrible! She swore it would be her first and LAST time doing it. Except… as time wore on she started thinking, “well, I’ll probably never have anal sex again.” Then she started thinking, “I really want to have anal sex, but I have so many concerns about it.”
So, with dreams of hot (and safe) anal sex glimmering in her eye, she did exactly what every person who kinda-sorta-really-wants-to-have-anal-sex but is kinda-sorta-really-nervous-about-it should do: she bought a book.
Now, there aren’t a whole lot of books about anal sex for women floating around out there. In fact, there’s a whopping total of one that we know of, but you know what? It’s not so bad. “The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women” by Tristan Taormino is fabulous start! We strongly recommend it for anyone at any level of anal play. It does a great job of debunking the myths about anal sex, and it is full of useful information about how to ease anal play into your sex life. We read it all of the time, and the truth is — a lot of the information we have about anal sex comes from reading that book… and, of course, from trying to figure out how to have hot anal sex that doesn’t hurt, make us blush, or make us itch! Read on…
For some people, the whole idea of anal sex just seems kind of, well, WRONG (although they can’t always articulate why). A woman Amber knows puts it this way: “things should not go IN where stuff comes OUT.” Menstrual blood comes out of our vagina, but does that mean this woman avoids vaginal penetration? Of course not! But even after Amber pointed this out, the woman just shrugged, scrunched up her face and said, “I don’t know… I just couldn’t do it.” Hey, it’s her loss, but we’d be lying if we said we didn’t understand how she feels.
Even for the most converted of anal sex aficionados, there are still days (usually with new partners) where anal sex just isn’t an option. Sometimes, fun as it can be, anal sex conjures up feelings of intense shame and embarrassment just by thinking about it: It’s too messy. I’m going to accidentally poop on my partner. I’ll become incontinent with too much anal sex. It hurts too much. It’s not natural. I’ll be more likely to get an STD.
The anus is so hairy and ugly — I don’t want my partner looking at it. We don’t know about you, but these are the kinds of things we used to think all of the time! But, most of these fears are based in myth, not fact. (Myths, Myths. “Yes?” Sorry…we just couldn’t resist! If you can guess that movie, we’ll send you a set of stickers.)
Edit: I didn't write this, nor read this... I just copied a random essay on anal... enjoy
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Kadushy
Douchebag
Maize ( /ˈmeɪz/ mayz; Zea mays L, from Spanish: maÃz after TaÃno mahiz) known in many English-speaking countries as corn or mielie/mealie, is a grain domesticated by indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica in prehistoric times. The leafy stalk produces ears which contain seeds called kernels. Though technically a grain, maize kernels are used in cooking as a vegetable or starch. The Olmec and Mayans cultivated it in numerous varieties throughout central and southern Mexico, cooked, ground or processed through nixtamalization. Beginning about 2500 BCE, the crop spread through much of the Americas.[1] The region developed a trade network based on surplus and varieties of maize crops. After European contact with the Americas in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, explorers and traders carried maize back to Europe and introduced it to other countries. Maize spread to the rest of the world due to its ability to grow in diverse climates. Sugar-rich varieties called sweet corn are usually grown for human consumption, while field corn varieties are used for animal feed and as chemical feedstocks.
Maize is the most widely grown grain crop in the Americas,[2] with 332 million metric tons grown annually in the United States alone. Approximately 40% of the crop — 130 million tons — is used for corn ethanol.[3] Transgenic maize (genetically modified corn) made up 85% of the maize planted in the United States in 2009.[4] While some natural strains of maize grow to 12 metres (39 ft) tall,[5] most commercially grown maize has been bred for a standardized height of 2.5 metres (8.2 ft). Sweet corn is usually shorter than field corn varieties.
Maize is the most widely grown grain crop in the Americas,[2] with 332 million metric tons grown annually in the United States alone. Approximately 40% of the crop — 130 million tons — is used for corn ethanol.[3] Transgenic maize (genetically modified corn) made up 85% of the maize planted in the United States in 2009.[4] While some natural strains of maize grow to 12 metres (39 ft) tall,[5] most commercially grown maize has been bred for a standardized height of 2.5 metres (8.2 ft). Sweet corn is usually shorter than field corn varieties.
The word "maize" derives from the Spanish form of the indigenous TaÃno word for the plant, maiz.[6] It is known by other names around the world.
"Corn" outside the United States means any cereal crop, its meaning understood to vary geographically to refer to the local staple. In the United States, "corn" primarily means maize; this usage started as a shortening of "Indian corn".[7] "Indian corn" primarily means maize (the staple grain of indigenous Americans), but can refer more specifically to multicolored "flint corn" used for decoration.[8]
Outside the U.S., the word "corn" often refers to maize in culinary contexts. The narrower meaning is usually indicated by some additional word, as in "sweet corn", "corn on the cob", "popcorn", "corn flakes", "baby corn".
In Southern Africa, maize is commonly called "mielie" or "mealie"[9].
"Maize" is preferred in formal and scientific usage because it refers specifically to this one grain, unlike "corn", which has a complex variety of meanings that vary by context and geographic region. However, in bulk-trading, people use "corn" only to refer to maize.[citation needed] "Maize" is used by agricultural bodies and research institutes such as the FAO and CSIRO. National agricultural and industry associations often include the word "maize" in their name even in English-speaking countries where the local, informal word is something other than "maize"; for example, the Maize Association of Australia, the Indian Maize Development Association, the Kenya Maize Consortium and Maize Breeders Network, the National Maize Association of Nigeria, the Zimbabwe Seed Maize Association.
Many forms of maize are used for food, sometimes classified as various subspecies related to the amount of starch each has:
Flour corn — Zea mays var. amylacea
Popcorn — Zea mays var. everta
Dent corn — Zea mays var. indentata
Flint corn — Zea mays var. indurata
Sweet corn — Zea mays var. saccharata and Zea mays var. rugosa
Waxy corn — Zea mays var. ceratina
Amylomaize — Zea mays
Pod corn — Zea mays var. tunicata Larrañaga ex A. St. Hil.
Striped maize — Zea mays var. japonica
This system has been replaced (though not entirely displaced) over the last 60 years by multivariable classifications based on ever more data. Agronomic data were supplemented by botanical traits for a robust initial classification, then genetic, cytological, protein and DNA evidence was added. Now, the categories are forms (little used), races, racial complexes, and recently branches.
Maize has 10 chromosomes (n=10). The combined length of the chromosomes is 1500 cM. Some of the maize chromosomes have what are known as "chromosomal knobs": highly repetitive heterochromatic domains that stain darkly. Individual knobs are polymorphic among strains of both maize and teosinte.
Barbara McClintock used these knob markers to validate her transposon theory of "jumping genes", for which she won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Maize is still an important model organism for genetics and developmental biology today.[18]
The Maize Genetics Cooperation Stock Center, funded by the USDA Agricultural Research Service and located in the Department of Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is a stock center of maize mutants. The total collection has nearly 80,000 samples. The bulk of the collection consists of several hundred named genes, plus additional gene combinations and other heritable variants. There are about 1000 chromosomal aberrations (e.g., translocations and inversions) and stocks with abnormal chromosome numbers (e.g., tetraploids). Genetic data describing the maize mutant stocks as well as myriad other data about maize genetics can be accessed at MaizeGDB, the Maize Genetics and Genomics Database.[19]
In 2005, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of Energy (DOE) formed a consortium to sequence the B73 maize genome. The resulting DNA sequence data was deposited immediately into GenBank, a public repository for genome-sequence data. Sequences and genome annotations have also been made available throughout the project's lifetime at the project's official site, MaizeSequence.org.
Primary sequencing of the maize genome was completed in 2008.[20] On November 20, 2009, the consortium published results of its sequencing effort in Science.[21] The genome, 85% of which is composed of transposons, was found to contain 32,540 genes (By comparison, the human genome contains about 2.9 billion bases and 26,000 genes). Much of the maize genome has been duplicated and reshuffled by helitrons a group of rolling circle transposons.[22]
