Tendulkar dismisses retirement talks

MUMBAI: Champion batsman Sachin Tendulkar on Thursday appeared to dismiss any chance of an early retirement from international cricket.

When a scribe asked him about his retirement plans at a press conference here, Tendulkar shot back "I think you got to be in some other press conference."

Tendulkar failed to make much of an impression with the bat in the recent Test series against Sri Lanka which also saw the other top batsmen like Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly and VVS Laxman faring miserably.

Ganguly was subsequently dropped from the Rest of India squad for the Irani Trophy tie against Delhi, leaving a big question mark on his international career.

Plagued by injuries in recent times, Tendulkar skipped the One-day series against Sri Lanka due to a left elbow injury but has now recovered fully to be eligible for selection for the upcoming Test series against Australia beginning from October 9.

Tendulkar, who is within sniffing distance of overtaking West Indian great Brian Lara as Test cricket's highest run getter, pointed out that India have been the only team in the world to have run world champions Australia close of late in the latter's backyard.

"We have gone to Australia and beaten them. We have been able to surprise the Australian team and that's what the Australian public likes: competition and high standards of play. They love to see challenges and competitiveness", he added.

Doctor Says the Patient Thanked Him with Oral Sex

A famous Australian doctor, who was accused by his patient of the alleged sexual assault, said that woman wanted to thank him with oral sex after he agreed to perform surgery on her nose outside the working hours.

Dr Martyn Mendelsohn, an ear, nose and throat specialist, is fighting not to be removed from the medical register after he admitted that he allowed his patient to perform oral sex on him in 2005.

The doctor, who appeared on TV show, told that the woman visited him to ask for medical procedure on her nose after she had a fight with her boyfriend. He explained that the patient arrived too late to perform a surgery and all the staff had left the hospital. However, he felt sorry for the woman and complied with her request.

Dr Mendelsohn said that the woman was obviously grateful that he agreed to see her, hugging him with words "You look after me, I'll look after you". "He says she then leant down and unzipped his trousers and performed oral sex on him. He says she swallowed his semen and did not spit," said the commission's lawyer Philip Strickland.

After the incident took place, the woman asked her boyfriend to take her to police, accusing the doctor of sexual assault. She told police that Dr. Mendelsohn was kissing her, touching her breasts and ejaculating in her mouth.

The doctor explained to the tribunal that he felt "devastated" after the incident. He performed surgery on her nose, but refused to continue the treatment after what happened. The woman looked disappointed and said that Dr. Mendelsohn promised to look after her.

The Health Care Complaints Commission says that the doctor faces the charges of either sexual assault in the worst case, or sexual misconduct at best.

Source: Sydney Morning Herald

Sex in Space Possible but Problematic

In July, Dr Jason Kring, who works as an advisor at NASA, called for the agency to get the astronauts ready for sex in space. He said that a trip to Mars would last about three years and there's little chance that men and women working in the same team will not think about sex. Currently the space agency doesn't say anything about sex in space. However, for about 20 years mixed crews have performed missions in space and even a married couple flew on the US shuttle back in 1992.

There were rumors in the Soviet Union that Russian female astronauts did have sex in space when they went on a mission to the Mir space station. Will Whitehorn, president of Virgin Galactic, mentioned that these rumors were never denied. According to a space tourism venture, the test flights are likely to start this year.

"We've already had a number of inquiries from people about whether they could be the first to have sex in space. But we haven't accepted any bookings on that basis and won't until we understand what the safety issues might be," outlined Whitehorn.

But having sex in space could be quite problematic. Whitehorn explains that though there's the mass of a human body, there is no gravity to stop the person from being thrown in any direction.

"We'll understand a lot better in 2009 how our cabin will behave for weightless people and whether we will allow them to do it. They may then need training to have sex in space," said Whitehorn.

Some solutions to the problems regarding sex in space include handles, straps and bungees. There have even been proposals to use a bag developed for two persons, called 2suit. However, there are scientists who have other priorities than answering the question about a comfortable sex in space.

"As a biologist and physician, I'm not worried about the challenges of what might be called "rendezvous and docking. My concern is the implication of a pregnancy in space," said Dr Jim Logan, co-founder of Space Medicine Associates in Houston.

"A lot of people believe the success of our species depends on our ability to get off the planet to have viable, self-sustaining, self-replicating communities in space," he added.

Some space flights have shown that male astronauts registered a decreased level of testosterone and libido. Those who are in space for a longer period of time lose bone density, which is why researchers fear that babies conceived in space, where there's no gravity, could be born with fragile bones. Reproduction in space is a topic that has been poorly studied.

"After 47 years of space flight, we have yet to see a mammal go from copulation to birth, growth and then reproduction by the next generation," said Dr Logan.

Meanwhile if you wish to go for the space adventure the only thing that will make you excited is seeing our beautiful planet from space; there's little chance you will think about sex.

Source: Metro.co.uk

Need a computer virus?- download now

Computer expert put an advertisement on the Internet offering a free computer virus for everyone willing to have one.

Didier Stevens from Helsinki ran his advertising campaign on Google's Adword for half of the year. As a result of his campaign 409 people clicked on the ad, that said: "Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here!"

There are several suggestion on people's willingness to download malicious virus said Mikko Hypponen, who conducted the research at data security firm F-Secure. First of all, people must have mistakenly pushed the button, second - curiosity sometimes overcomes natural prudence and thirdly, some people must have been stupid.

In fact, Stevens tried the experiment with no actual virus. He wanted to demonstrate the advertising system can be a good source for everyone including those who have a malicious objective.

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EVA MENDES has confessed to having sex in EVERY state in America.

Although the gorgeous actress - whose film The Women is out now – was at pains to point it was NOT with 50 different blokes.

She said: “I've had sex in all 50 states. A lot of it was on a road trip I took when I was younger.”

Eva said her best bonks were in Arizona and Colarado.

She added: “Maybe it was the clear air, or the quiet, or the endless sky.

“Whatever it was, it was really, really good.

“But as for Alaska - I’d really like a do-over on that state.”

A FORMER Italian Big Brother contestant is trying to sell her virginity for a million Euros

A FORMER Italian Big Brother contestant is trying to sell her virginity for a million Euros.

Saucy ex-showgirl Raffaele Fico revealed her plan while posing for racy photographs in an Italian magazine.

Ms Fico, 20, wants the money so she can buy a house and take acting lessons.

"I can’t wait to see who’s going to pull out the money to have me," she said in the interview.

Catholic

"I don’t know what it’s like to have sex.

"But if I don’t like him I’ll just have a glass of wine and forget about it."

Her brother told the magazine: "She’s never had a boyfriend. I swear on my mother’s grave.

"She’s a devout Catholic and prays every night."

Ms Fico, whose asking price works out as almost £700,000, is not the first woman to offer her virginity for big money.

An 18-year-old US student in San Diego, Natalie Dylan, recently told a US radio show she would have sex for the first time for $1 million to pay her university fees.

In 2005 a Peruvian model, also 18, put herself up for sale to help pay her family’s medical bills but ended up having second thoughts and turning down a whopping $1.5million.

Manchester University student Carys Copestake asked for £10,000 to pay her fees on a website last year.

The 18-year-old reportedly found a buyer but refused to talk about it.

Beggars in Pak during Ramazan earn more than graduates may do in a year!

Lahore, Sept 17 (ANI): During the ongoing month of Ramazan, an average professional beggar in Pakistan is earning Rs 1000 per day, and a family, depending upon the number of 'earning members,' collects Rs 4000-5000 a day.

If multiplied by the 30 days of Ramazan, the total income comes out to be around Rs 150,000, which is enough for the rest of the year to meet the family's basic needs. The money earned during the Ramzan acts like fixed capital, even as the day to day expenses during the rest 11 months can be met by daily earnings.

According to the Daily Times, Zakia (35) begs in Gulberg almost all day during Ramazan and earns about Rs 800 to Rs 1000 per day. She resides under the Sherpao Bridge with her husband and three children whenever she is in the city. All her family members are also beggars by profession.

The family collectively makes about Rs 4,000 to Rs 5,000 every day. She goes back with her family to her hometown (Khanewal) before Eidul Fitr.

Zakia and her family aren't the only beggars who throng to the city during the holy month. Thousands of such families are found across the province.

Zakia said that her family is part of a group that comprises 18 families who live and travel together to wherever they can find better earnings. She said that all of them were related to each other, adding that every family consists of about eight members.

One of them, Rafiq, said that every year they took shelter under the Sherpao Bridge, adding that nobody has ever stopped them from residing there.

Local Union Council Nazim Chaudhry Abdul Ghafoor said that these beggars create disturbances for the environment, adding that they start begging on both sides of the road in the evening. There are always more beggars during Ramazan, which also causes trouble for the traffic, he added.

Ghafoor claimed that all the beggars work for two disabled people who live in a colony in the Gulberg Industrial Area. They provide them shelter and take money from them in exchange, he added.

Ghalib Market Station House Officer (SHO) Shoaib Khan said that the police remove the beggars from the area on a daily basis, but they return the next morning.