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Contemporary Art? Large scale installations? Comestible sculptural materials? If any of these words pique your interest, then hop the metro to Barberini and take a look at the wonderful and bizarre works of Swiss artist, Urs Fischer, showing at Rome's Gagosian Gallery. It's a tiny exhibition space, just three rooms inside a former bank from … Continue reading
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Current Museum Exhibits in Rome
I am sure that you have all been enjoying this not-so-cold weather, but let's face it, it won't last forever! In anticipation of the upcoming wintry weather, probably, here's a summary of most of the museum exhibits going on in Rome at the moment. You know, just in case you want to spend a day indoors, weather … Continue reading
This Is Rome: Tonight and Tomorrow
Returning for its 5th edition, This Is Rome is back in the capital today and tomorrow, the 17th and 18th of October. This event, born in the club scene, highlights the most interesting components of culture that characterize the capital of Italy, Rome. This year, the event moves into the famous walls of Rome's new … Continue reading
Roma Jazz Festival: Visual Jazz
Internationally acclaimed, Roma Jazz Festival returns this year, so get JAZZed up! Going on from October 12 – November 25, there is plenty of time to visit the Auditorium to catch all the sights and sounds that this year's festival offers. This year's theme,"'Visual Jazz,' aims at catching the trends and the evolution of jazz … Continue reading
FotoGrafia 2012 – International Photography Festival of Rome
Kicking off tomorrow is the 11th edition of FOTOGRAFIA, Rome's International Photography Festival. The festival promotes contemporary photography, and brings to the surface up-and-coming artists. This year's theme is WORK, 'a keyword in the history of photography.' For the third year in a row, the MACRO– Contemporary Art Museum of Rome, and the MACRO Testaccio will host … Continue reading
Damien Hirst at Gagosian
Rome's gallery scene gets 2012 off to an exciting start this week with the opening of Damien Hirst's "The Complete Spot Paintings 1986–2011″ this Thursday at the Gagosian. Hirst is the English artist known for, among other things, the shark-in-formaldehyde piece formally known as The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living … Continue reading
Zvia Talks to Romans: Fabrizio, Painter
Fabrizio is a super talented painter, living and working in Rome. He has been painting for a long time, and I talked to him! Name: Fabrizio Cicero Age: 29 Where are you from? Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, provincia of Messina, Sicily. For how long have you been in Rome? 5 years. Which was the last restaurant … Continue reading
Roma-Europa Festival Takes over Rome
Need a culture fix? The Roma-Europa Festival is well underway, bringing art, performance art, contemporary dance and theater, and films to Rome. There are many performances scheduled, in multiple venues in Rome. So check out the program to get a full list of performances available. (Not everything is available in English unfortunately.) Just a peek … Continue reading
Roman Aqueducts Exhibit at Cinecittàdue
Over 1,000 Roman aqueducts are known to have been built between 312 BC and the end of the Roman Empire. The expert skill with which they were created and their incredible functionality (they supplied about 300 million gallons of water a day to Roman citizens) are legendary. In addition, their architectural profile has become an … Continue reading
Modern Mattatoio: Photo Exhibit at the MACRO Testaccio
The MACRO Testaccio, the outer-borough, abandoned slaughterhouse-housed, younger sibling of one of Rome's leading contemporary art museums, is currently playing host to FotoGrafia – Rome's International Photography Festival. Now in its tenth year, and second at the MACRO, FotoGrafia is promoting contemporary photography by bringing together artists emerging at the national and international level. Some … Continue reading


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1. In honor of Ash Wednesday, Trinity Lutheran Church representatives will have ashes available for commuters at Lansdale Train Station from 6:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.
2. Hatfield Township Commissioners hold a work session meeting at 7:30 p.m. at the township municipal building.
3. A book discussion group meets at 7 p.m. at Lansdale Library. This month's selection is "Playing for Pizza" by John Grisham.
4. Harth Builders, an award-winning design-build remodeling firm in Lansdale, will present a free remodeling educational forum for homeowners titled "Avoid Disastrous Remodeling Mistakes" from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the McVeigh Community Room at Germantown Academy, 340 Morris Road, Fort Washington.
5. Uli Jon Roth presents a concert at 8 p.m. and a workshop at 1 p.m. at Sellersville Theater. Workshop cost is $75. Tickets are $21.50 and $30.

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Why Do Coupon Clippers Spend More?Many coupon clippers like to reward themselves for being thrifty by cutting and using coupons. In exchange for their efforts, they may splurge on small luxury items that, without the coupon savings, they wouldn't buy. The extra savings justifies this type of guilt-free splurging.
There are also those who feel such purchases are "free" because the savings received in coupons offsets the extra spending. Unfortunately, as the study indicates, what really occurs is that the coupons fail to cover the complete cost and many clippers end up spending more on the small luxuries compared to the amount saved with coupons.
In addition, many times people may use their coupon dollars to upgrade what is in their grocery cart. They could decide to invest in a really good cut of meat instead of a lesser quality meat they would have purchased had they not redeemed their coupons.
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PETIT LARCENY: Ashleigh M. Kwoka, 31, 173 Corinthea St. was charged with petit larceny Thursday. According to the arrest report, the victim left his wallet on a shelf at a Main Street business on July 20. When he returned, the wallet was missing. A review of the surveillance tape allegedly showed Kwoka took the wallet and went to the cooler. She was arrested without incident.
ASSAULT: Miles R. Johnson, 17, 325 Green St. was charged with third-degree assault Wednesday. According to the arrest report, the incident happened on Aug. 18 at Lock City Pizza. Johnson got into an argument with a co-worker and punched the victim in the face, causing swelling and a laceration. The victim did not want to press charges at that time, but on Aug. 20 he changed his mind and made a complaint at the police station. Johnson was arrested without incident.
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ASSAULT: A 20-year-old Dysinger Road man reported an assault and robbery at 2:35 a.m. Thursday. A sheriff's deputy located blood splatter on the carpet of a basement hallway of the apartment building, then followed blood drops up to the third floor of the building. According to the report, the victim had been lured to the basement hallway by a woman and an unknown male came from the laundry room and punched him in the face. He gave the male $40, but the suspect asked for more. The woman and the unknown male left the apartment building. The victim transported himself to Eastern Niagara Hospital for treatment.
DWI: Christopher John Fritton, 48, 89 Grant St., Lockport was charged Wednesday with driving while intoxicated, drinking alcohol in a motor vehicle on the highway, operation of a motor vehicle by an unlicensed driver. A sheriff's deputy was called for a report of an unwanted party on Ewings Road at 9:03 p.m. The deputy was reportedly told that Fritton had just left the residence and was heading south on Ewings Road in a black Ford Escape while intoxicated. According to the arrest report, the deputy saw Fritton throw an alcoholic beverage can into his backseat. There was a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage on Fritton, who was slurring his speech and had glassy bloodshot eyes and impaired motor coordination, deputies said. He failed a number of field sobriety tests and recorded .24 percent blood alcohol content, the report said.


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text: Red Hat Network has determined that the following advisory is applicable to one or more of the systems you have registered: Complete information about this errata can be found at the following location: https://rhn.redhat.com/network/errata/errata_details.pxt?eid=2393 Bug Fix Advisory - RHBA-2004:425-08 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Summary: Updated sysreport package An updated sysreport package that fixes system crash with dmidecode is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. Description: Sysreport is a utility that gathers information about a system's hardware and configuration. The current sysreport calls dmidecode to get the hardware information and causes a system crash. This updated sysreport package fixes this problem. All users of sysreport should upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve this issue. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------- Taking Action ------------- You may address the issues outlined in this advisory in two ways: - select your server name by clicking on its name from the list available at the following location, and then schedule an errata update for it: https://rhn.redhat.com/network/systemlist/system_list.pxt - run the Update Agent on each affected server. --------------------------------- Changing Notification Preferences --------------------------------- To enable/disable your Errata Alert preferences globally please log in to RHN and navigate from "Your RHN" / "Your Account" to the "Preferences" tab. URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/network/my_account/my_prefs.pxt You can also enable/disable notification on a per system basis by selecting an individual system from the "Systems List". From the individual system view click the "Details" tab. --------------------- Affected Systems List --------------------- This Errata Advisory may apply to the systems listed below. If you know that this errata does not apply to a system listed, it might be possible that the package profile for that server is out of date. In that case you should run 'up2date -p' as root on the system in question to refresh your software profile. There are 23 affected systems registered in 'Your RHN' (only systems for which you have explicitly enabled Errata Alerts are shown). Release Arch Profile Name -------- -------- ------------ 3AS i686 durian.nac.uci.edu 3AS i686 br.nac.uci.edu 3WS x86_64 m33.ps.uci.edu 3WS i686 montana.nac.uci.edu 3AS i686 hydra.nac.uci.edu 3AS i686 p02.es.uci.edu 3AS x86_64 mpc64.nacs.uci.edu 3AS i686 mothra.nac.uci.edu 3AS x86_64 narg.nac.uci.edu 3AS i686 nebraska.nac.uci.edu 3AS athlon blee.nac.uci.edu 3AS i686 network-stats-collector-3.nacs.uci.edu 3AS i686 vesta.nac.uci.edu 3AS i686 bounce2.nac.uci.edu 3AS i686 cpl-console.nac.uci.edu 3AS x86_64 pxe.es.uci.edu 3WS i686 node-xeon-4 3WS i686 node-xeon-10 3AS x86_64 iwt01.nac.uci.edu 3AS x86_64 iwt03.nac.uci.edu 3AS athlon tw1.ps.uci.edu 3WS i686 pong.nac.uci.edu 3AS x86_64 iwt02.nac.uci.edu The Red Hat Network Team This message is being sent by Red Hat Network Alert to: RHN user login: ucinacs Email address on file: <firstname.lastname@example.com> If you lost your RHN password, you can use the information above to retrieve it by email from the following address: https://rhn.redhat.com/forgot_password.pxt To cancel these notices, go to: https://rhn.redhat.com/oo.pxt?uid=3145121&oid=3699264


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Light Pollution: Night Skies, Dark No More
The ecological dangers and health effects of a bright night are becoming more apparent.
The night is not what it was. Once, the Earth was cast perpetually half in shadow. Man and beast slept beneath inky skies, dotted with glittering stars. Then came fire, the candle, and the light bulb, gradually drawing back the curtain of darkness and giving us unprecedented control over our lives.
But a brighter world, it is becoming increasingly clear, has its drawbacks. A study released last month finding that breast cancer is nearly twice as common in brightly lit communities as in dark ones only added to a growing body of evidence that artificial light threatens not just stargazing but also public health, wildlife, and possibly even safety.
Those findings are all the more troubling considering that an estimated 30 percent of outdoor lighting—plus even some indoor lighting—is wasted. Ill-conceived, ineffective, and inefficient lighting costs the nation about $10.4 billion a year, according to Bob Gent of the International Dark-Sky Association, a nonprofit that aims to curtail light pollution, and it generates 38 million tons of carbon dioxide a year.
Motivated by such trends, more than two dozen cities worldwide will go dim on March 29 in an hourlong demonstration. At 8 p.m. local time, Atlanta's and Chicago's tallest towers, the Phoenix Suns' arena, and San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge will join many other sites in turning off their lights. According to the World Wildlife Fund, which is organizing the event, an estimated 2.2 million Australians switched off their lights or took other action during "Earth Hour" last year in Sydney, briefly reducing that city's energy use by more than 10 percent.
A number of groups are trying to measure light pollution and assess its detrimental effects on the environment in the hope that people will reduce their own contribution to the problem. Last week, as part of an annual program called GLOBE at Night, thousands of students and amateur scientists stared up at the constellation Orion from locations across the country and reported how many of its stars they could see. No data are yet available, but in dark, rural areas, says Gent, about 2,000 stars are typically visible at night, compared with "maybe five" in a bright city square—and about 5,000 in centuries past. "One of the goals," says Steve Pompea of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson, Ariz., "is to identify urban oases—places in our cities that are dark enough to see the sky."
People who are working while others are stargazing may face the greatest risks. Hormonal disturbances triggered by nighttime exposure to white or bluish light can disrupt circadian rhythms and fuel the growth of tumors, experiments show. Two decades of research indicate that women who work night shifts have unusually high rates of breast cancer, and some data suggest a parallel effect on male workers' prostate cancer rates. Last December, a unit of the World Health Organization deemed shift work a probable human carcinogen.
Yet light and cancer may be even more fundamentally linked. In last month's study, a team that included Richard Stevens, the University of Connecticut Health Center epidemiologist who first proposed the connection, compared satellite images of Israel at night with maps showing where cancers are most common. Its analysis suggests that 73 percent more breast cancers occur in the country's brightest communities than in its darkest.
Beaming up. Light beamed into the sky is squandered, since it's not illuminating any target. Yet many fixtures—like old-fashioned spherical streetlamps—send plenty of photons upward and outward. "If you fly into a city at night and you can see the streetlights from the airplane," says Chad Moore, leader of the National Park Service's Night Sky Program, "that light is counterproductive." As the light bounces off particles in the air, it casts a far-reaching "sky glow," he says. "We have documented light from distant cities traveling roughly 200 miles into national parks."
And while lighting is often installed in the name of safety, says Gent, it may ironically benefit criminals. A pedestrian temporarily blinded by the glow of an ATM, for instance, may be an easier target for a mugger hiding in the shadows. In fact, most light that goes directly from its source to a person's eye is worse than worthless. Such glare—from a car's high beams, a poorly aimed porch light, or even an unshielded window—inhibits night vision, paradoxically making it harder to see. That can endanger drivers, not to mention hapless deer.


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Children best taken in small doses
The thing I like about the holidays, such as Easter, is they give my family the time-tested tradition of getting together and wishing we all had earplugs.
That's because when we all get together, on Dad's side at least, there are always at least six children below the age of first grade in tow.
It's not that I don't like them. In fact, each one is just as important to me as the next, if by "important" you mean "loud."
But perhaps I'm getting ahead of myself.
First of all—don't get me wrong—I really do like small children, I just believe that they should be taken in small doses.
Remember that reality show called "Jon and Kate Plus 8" on TLC? I think that's a good example of my point.
I don't care what "Entertainment Tonight" or the supermarket tabloids say: The only thing that broke that whole thing apart was the fact that they had a set of twins, a set of sextuplets and no real-life commercial breaks.
One child is OK, though. In fact, a single toddler can be a wonderful source of entertainment. (This is how I am going to get back to my original topic.)
Take Gracelyn, for example.
A rare bit of Free Press Columnist Trivia is that Malinda Just ("Lipstick and Pearls") and I are cousin-in-laws—or whatever it is when your cousin marries someone—and as a result I get to spend a lot of time around Malinda's daughter, Gracelyn, on major holidays.
This is always a joy because, at least for a little bit longer, Gracelyn is an only child and she knows it, too.
A typical family gathering goes like this: Once everyone has arrived, we all eat around one big table, and then when we're done we go and sit in a circle-like formation in the living room. And Gracelyn sits in the middle and entertains us.
Last weekend, for instance, we watched Gracelyn play with plastic Easter eggs. She tossed them, and rolled them, and opened them up and put the halves over Grandpa Darrel's eyes, which gave him the appearance of Elmo (Gracelyn's favorite Sesame Street character), which caused half the room to break out into the "Elmo's World" theme song.
We did this for—by conservative estimates—two hours, which got me thinking: What did we all do at family gatherings before Gracelyn got here?
This is in stark contrast to Easter with Dad's side of the family, in which I was more concerned with how much longer it would be until all the toddlers got to leave.
This year there were eight small children at the family gathering, the oldest being in first grade.
At this point in family history, we no longer fit around the same table, so the six most-able kids sat at a smaller table just a couple feet away.
And boy, were they talkative! (Although the Bible doesn't explicitly state it, scholars believe that Jesus actually left the tomb because there was a table of six toddlers in there with him.)
The topic of the day was: What do you smell like?
This is a game in which each child gets a turn in trying to out-do the last by telling the kid across the table what they smell like. But don't be fooled: A clause in the game rules states that nothing can be coherent.
The conversation went more or less like this:
Kid 1: Your mouth smells like crayons.
Kid 2: Yeah, well YOUR hair smells like sausage.
Kid 3: Oh yeah? Well you smell like a fire truck.
Kid 4: But your NOSE smells like chicken pox.
Kid 5: Oh yeah? Well…
I suppose a conversation like this could be humorous, had it not been at a decibel level similar to, say, a jet engine.
What was happening at this Easter was a phenomenon that occurs in elementary school lunchrooms across the country: one table is sort of loud, so the next table gets a little louder, then the other table gets a little louder than that, and then the other table gets louder than that, and it finally escalates to the point where the corned beef is disintegrating from the intense molecular vibrations in the air.
Eventually, I couldn't even hear myself talking to my brother, who was sitting right next to me. (I think I was saying, "Yeah, well your ARM smells like a permanent marker.")
Looking back, I think being in an atmosphere like this is a good form of birth control. Then again, so would having cameras crammed in your face 24-7 before having children.
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Thursday, June 10, 2010 - 6:39 PM
According to this Kiplinger article, "State governments are joining banks in the protest over lower processing fees."
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I won! I won! I won! I won! I won!
Surely you have heard by now that three of us winners will be splitting the $640 million lottery.
Yep, I bought my ticket in Illinois.
I'm going to keep working, though. My life would be so empty without you guys. Besides, $213 million will only go so far after taxes.
So keep an eye on your mailboxes: you should each be receiving a check for $500,000 to thank you for reading my column through the years.
Oh, and, um, April Fool's!
No, I didn't win. (For those of you who are still scratching your heads, that also means the part about the $500,000 checks was a joke).
Do I look like I have that kind of luck?
My luck leans toward the bad side, although it can fluctuate. I did get a parking space right near the door at Publix last week. Then again, I also bit my own hand yesterday while eating a cheeseburger.
Just so you know, I did not buy a ticket to win the lottery. I figured with my luck I would run out of gas while waiting in all that traffic at the exit on the Tennessee line, then get picked up by a serial killer with a media nickname like Bind, Torture, Kill.
I made a decision a long time ago that I do not wish to win mega-millions. Nope, I'll earn mine the old fashioned way: One sweat-stained penny at a time. I should reach a million by the time I'm, say, 142.
Seriously, though, if you've read some of the stories about what happens to people who win the lottery, you would understand why I'd rather stay the humble small-town journalist who from time-to-time gets recognized while wearing a paint-stained sweatshirt at "the Walmarts."
That's much better than the fates that have befallen many lottery winners, whose stories read like a listing on an R-rated movie box: May contain graphic, disturbing, violent content plus some nudity of questionable origins.
Take poor Michael Carroll. Please.
The Brit won a European lottery and arrived to claim his prize wearing a criminal offender monitoring device, which should have been a clue right there. Carroll soon blew his money on drugs, gambling and prostitutes and is now living on state assistance.
Well, at least he had fun for a little while.
Many people lose friends because those who are jealous try to scheme a way to a portion of the money.
For others, though, winning the lotto is a life-or-death situation. In 1998, William "Bud" Post III won $16.2 million in the Pennsylvania lottery, which led his brother to hire a hit man to kill him and his wife so he could inherit.
So, you see, this is why I would give the money away if I won.
Y'all know I just have a big heart that way, right?
I'm happy to share, right after I use some of the money to purchase Hugh Jackman (or maybe I could just adopt him like that one sleazy millionaire businessman adopted his 20-something-year-old girlfriend. Hmmm.)
Oh, and after I buy a Hershey-bar-shaped swimming pool filled with milk chocolate sauce.
Anything more would just be greedy.
By the way, The News Courier's corporate office warned us last week about running fake news stories on April Fool's Day but this is a humor column so it's OK. I think. Just don't tell on me, kay?
Kelly Kazek
I won! I won! I won! I won!
I won! I won! I won! I won! I won!
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Today's interactive column: What's your Bacon Number?
Google has created a search engine that automatically calculates any actor's "Bacon Number," meaning how many connections it takes to link him or her to Kevin Bacon, á la the parlor game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.
Biography of Kelly Kazek
Kelly Kazek was born in Warner Robins, Ga., in whichever year adds up to her being 35.
Warning: Get ready for the apawcalypse
Humans are being cat-washed — and I don't mean by little sandpapery tongues.
- A wish for peace, perfect parking space
What? Like you've never glued a foot to the floor
... I don't want you to get the wrong impression about me. I like men, especially Channing Tatum, and I don't even care if he's smart. So today, in the interest of fairness, I want to give equal space to Stupid Girl Tricks.
Fall of the South? Much ado about Honey Boo Boo
It's been 80 years since those living in the Great Depression focused on Shirley Temple to lift them from doldrums. In 2012, in the midst of the Great Recession ... Americans have a new bubbly, curly-headed icon to take their minds off their woes: Honey Boo Boo Child.
'Man aisle?' What about a single mom aisle?
I like to tell my peeps I don't think all men are stupid. Just the ones who practically beg me to write about them like William Bonner of Augusta, Ga., who last week poured a shot of Bacardi 151 on his head and asked a friend to light it
A girls' guide to safe thong-wearing
Yes, a pair of panties, which in my experience have always been non-violent, has joined the list of items mamas must warn children about: "You are not old enough for your own thong. You could put your eye out."
Solutions for 'toe-besity,' bad mug shots
I personally never worry about slimming down an area I can hide with a nice pair of Easy Spirits and instead concentrate on fat in places that could lead people to think I am pregnant … or a beached manatee … or a pregnant beached manatee.
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April has passed and we are sure all of you should have a detailed (or brief) review of what's going on in those series of the season. Not yet? Check out our previous posts for more previews and recommendations. In the April 2010 Anime flood, which characters do you like (or hate) most? This is the first run of the poll series and this time is only for female characters. Take your side (choose up to 10 characters)! Basically we've just chosen the main female protagonists of the series. For more characters, make your recommendations in the comment!
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This past summer, senior Melissa Kniceley took a leap of faith—and landed hundreds of miles from home in Boston, Mass.
At a sports conference last April in Charlotte, N. C., Kniceley met JMU alumnus Justin Kittredge, the only other Duke at the conference. Thanks to this chance meeting, Kittredge eventually offered Melissa a summer internship at his two companies—Shooting Touch and ISlideUSA.
As a Marketing and Sports and Recreation Management double major, Kniceley felt this internship was the opportunity of a lifetime, so she threw her anxieties to the wind, packed up, and moved to Boston for the summer.
Shooting Touch, is a nonprofit that aims to elevate young adults through the power of basketball. Each year, Shooting Touch hosts a sport conference that helps raise money to fund international trips to third world countries so that representatives from Shooting Touch can use basketball as a catalyst for enhancing the lives of young people from all over the world. For this company, Kniceley was responsible for inviting representatives from universities across the country to attend the sports conference in order to garner support and awareness of Shooting Touch.
The other company, a startup footwear company called ISlideUSA, markets and sells customizable athletic sandals. For ISlideUSA, Kniceley was responsible for marketing the footwear and cultivating the brand identity.
Experiences in the College of Business prepared Kniceley for balancing the responsibilities of working for two companies at once. She says, "Taking COB 300 gave me a basic knowledge of the subjects inherent to running a company successfully. It was extremely relevant to my internship with ISlideUSA specifically because I was able to come into the internship with a basic knowledge of operations, marketing, management, and finance. Having that knowledge really helped me make smarter decisions in both of my internship positions—regardless of the struggle and stress that results from COB 300, I felt prepared because of it."
Thanks to these internships, Kniceley is confident that she knows which field she wants to enter when she graduates in May. "My internships helped me determine my future career path," she says. "Had I not worked for Shooting Touch or ISlideUSA, I might not have gained this experience or realized that I want to work with merchandising for the athletic apparel industry."
The internship proved valuable in other less expected ways as well. Kniceley explains, "I definitely grew professionally, but I also grew as a person. At first, I was uneasy about leaving my comfort zone and moving so far away from home—looking back, I would never change my decision. I am so glad that I did it. "
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1. Don't teach until a concept is covered. Teach until it's mastered.
2. Try to make learning fun.
3. Kids can forget. Schedule regular Review Sessions.
4. Try to tap into their Intrinsic Desire to control their world.
5. As much as possible, make it "real", not abstract.
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Pizzeria Libretto now open for lunch
Not sure if this has been posted but Pizzeria Libretto is open for lunch. Was there today and had the $15 Prix Fixe. Includes salad, pizza and desert. A fantastic deal considering that you cannot get a pizza at Terroni for that price at lunch.
yeah, but you get to put up with lineups and crowded tables and annoying servers at Libretto instead
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i think the servers there are great, very friendly for all 3 of my visits.
the servers at Terronis are pretentious and not very polite. my feelings towards the service there was confirmed after having a large party (16+ ppl) for coworkers but ended up being hassled by the staff 15 mins prior to my reservation until the very end of the dinner. i will not be returning and dissuade others with a large group who want to go there. there are many other places in the city that do great food without the snobby service.
It is a great lunch deal. Love everything about this place and their pizza.
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That is a great deal. And I've been several times and never had bad service. In fact it's always been really good and although I have no problem with waiting, I've never had to wait longer than 20 minutes or so. Didn't find it crowded either. It's lively and has a good vibe, full but not crowded. And when I do have to wait on Ossington I appreciate that they will take your number and call you when a table is ready giving you an opportunity to grab a drink nearby. I recently sent some friends from Chicago there and they raved about it. Definitely prefer it to Terroni's.
Just tried Libretto for lunch. The sardine salad was not great - a nicely grilled sardine but the dandelion salad was swimming in oil withnot enough acid, bland chickpeas.... quite boring for $10 at lunch.
Had a pizza - Margharita with Ontario proscuito - extremely salty, and although I liked the char I found it way too salty and the dough too "sourdough-ish" for my taste.
The service, and the welcome and goodbye were all very warm and sincere, so a big 10 for that alone.
With a 20% tip and no booze I somehow spent $39!! Eeeek.... but I had leftover pizza in my toaster oven and it was good but SO salty!
Just got back from LIbretto - went at about 12:20 and picked up a couple of pizzas. the place was relatively empty, and no lineups.
In any case, I picked up two pizzas, a margherita pizza and a duck confit and pear. The Margherita pizza was good, but the Duck Confit pizza was absolutely awesome. Perfectly cooked, seasoned and balanced - the pears were delicious, and a perfect complement to the duck.
I also had the Tiramisu, which was delicious, if not a bit too sweet. Will definitely be returning.
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Yum. I actually tried the exact same pizzas and their Tiramisu. While the pizza was very enjoyable, we added some duck prosciutto on top of it as well as the chili oil - Y-U-M! :-) The lunch is a great deal imo. Wish it was more accessible from work!
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Welcome back E, we missed your Toronto musings (and envied your distant travels).
Tiramisu at Libretto was good, but I find the Pizza disappointing (their whole wheat dough is too tough and toppings bland IMO). Queen Margherita is still the best pizza napoletana in TO (or NA for that matter).
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Friends and I went to Libretto for the lunch prix fixe on Feb 11 and found it very enjoyable despite it being absolutely packed during the midday rush. In fact, I think the pizza was the best I've had from them (I've previously only gone at night). The crust had a good chew and crispness, and wasn't too unevenly charred. Toppings were also well distributed.
The salads greens were very fresh and lightly dressed and the gelatos were nice and smooth.
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Ten Most Significant Cultural Trends of the Last Decade
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Ten years is a very short time. As I reflect on the world in 2011 compared to the world in 2001, I'm less struck by how much has changed than by how much is the same. Terror, war, new technology, economic boom and bust, surprising political triumphs followed by sudden changes of fortune—yup, sounds like the 1990s, 1980s, 1970s, and 1960s to me. It's almost axiomatic that any change big enough to shape an entire nation or society happens in long waves spanning generations, not a mere ten years.
Indeed, when I reflect on the most significant developments of the never-adequately-named 2000s (the aughts? the aughties? the naughties?), it seems that almost all of them were well under way in 1999, or even 1989. At the same time, in the last ten years some long-wave trends accelerated in notable ways. Acceleration matters. In one sense, walking, riding a horse, driving a car, and traveling by plane are simply variations on the millennia-old human theme of mobility, tracing back literally to the earliest signs of our restless race. But the difference between five miles an hour and 500 miles an hour is not just a quantitative matter of speed, but a qualitative change in the horizons of possibility.
Here are ten significant trends in North American culture that accelerated dramatically in the 2000s—almost always for better and for worse at the same time.
One | Connection
By far the most significant acceleration was in our technologies of connection. In June 2000, 97 million mobile phone subscribers existed in the United States; in June 2010, the number rose to 293 million. Urban and suburban Americans swim in a sea of WiFi (sitting in my living room on a quiet side street I can see 8 wireless networks)—and in the middle of Nebraska, you can get online at McDonald's.
What did not take off in the 2000s was "virtual reality"—a world constructed entirely of disembodied bits, populated by avatars and existing only in the realm of the ideal. As the 2000s ended, the virtual-reality world Second Life was on virtual life support.
Instead, we used technology to reinforce our embodied relationships. Facebook was the highest trafficked website in 2010 (US subscribers in 2000: zero; in 2010: 116 million). Look at your Facebook friends—unless you are a celebrity, the vast majority of them are people you have met in the flesh. Same with the recents on your cell phone. Rather than replacing embodied connection, our devices supplemented and extended it, an electromagnetic nervous system to match the physical infrastructure of transport built in the twentieth century.
Two | Place
Therefore, oddly enough after a decade of wild growth in invisible telecommunications, place mattered more in 2010 than it did in 2000. Travel and transport remained basically flat throughout the decade. Total vehicle miles driven, while an impressive 3 billion miles in 2010, were only up from 2.7 billion miles in 2000, a period during which the population increased from 288 to 318 million—meaning the average American drove less in 2010 than in 2000. At 9:45 tomorrow morning there will be roughly 4,500 commercial flights in the air, just as there were on 9:45 the morning of 11 September 2001—no change despite a decade of economic and population growth. And mobility, the hallmark of twentieth-century United States culture, declined throughout the decade and reached a post-war low in 2010, with less than 10% of American households changing their address.
At the Q gathering in 2010, urbanologist Richard Florida observed that young adults meeting one another no longer ask, "What do you do?" They ask, "Where do you live?" More and more people will change careers in order to stay in a place—connected to family, friends, and local culture—than will change place to stay in a career. The 20th-century American dream was to move out and move up; the 21st-century dream seems to be to put down deeper roots. This quest for local, embodied, physical presence may well be driven by the omnipresence of the virtual and a dawning awareness of the thinness of disembodied life.
Three | Cities
Cities, the places where both connection and local presence can thrive simultaneously, had an extraordinary renaissance in the 2000s. The revival of American cities was underway already in 2000, but it reached its full flowering by 2010. Of course not every single American city flourished in the last decade, but those of us old enough to remember New York, Chicago, Atlanta, or Houston circa 1990—not to mention Portland, Columbus, or Phoenix—can only be astonished at the way economically fading and often crime-ridden city centers revived as centers of commerce and creativity.
The challenges often associated with urban life, meanwhile, began a movement to the suburbs that may well accelerate in the 2010s. The frontiers of justice, mercy, compassion, and reconciliation are now in the suburbs—places where connections are harder to sustain and local culture is thinner and less appealing than the cities. Some suburban environments will reinvent themselves, but multi-generational poverty, crime, and gangs that provide a substitute social network where others have failed are already as common in Westchester County as in the Bronx, in the San Fernando Valley as in Compton. The really radical and difficult place to raise a family by 2020 will be . . . the suburbs.
[See Tim Keller's Q talk on "Grace and the City" and Joel Kotkin's on "The Future of the Suburbs."]
Four | The End of the Majority
Everywhere in the 2000s, cultural majorities collapsed. Predominantly black neighborhoods became half Hispanic. White rural communities saw dramatic immigration from Asia and Latin America. City centers became internationalized. Mercados and Asian food markets sprung up in suburbia and in exurbia (drive down a thoroughfare well beyond the 285 beltway in Atlanta, and you will see shop signs in a dozen different languages). White Americans were still a bare majority of the population by the end of the decade, but in delivery rooms they were already only a plurality (the largest of many minorities).
We are all minorities now. Evangelical Christians are a minority, as are liberal Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, agnostics, and atheists. The establishment of Will Herberg's 1955 book Protestant—Catholic—Jew is now a minority. Barack Obama is a minority, but so is Sarah Palin. Republicans are a minority—so are Democrats, and so are independents.
There may never have been a society in history that was as culturally, religiously, and politically diverse as the United States is today—except perhaps the Roman Empire. There are few models for how such a diverse community can sustain itself, and plenty of models for failure. Perhaps the most hopeful model is a community that arose at the edges of that Empire and eventually spread to its heart, among whom there was neither Jew nor Gentile, slave nor free, male nor female.
Five | Polarity
We used the technologies of connection and the commitment to place to sort ourselves into more and more tightly homogenous subcultures, refuges both virtual and real from the heterogeneity of our society. Republicans became more Republican; Democrats became more Democratic. Salon lost ground to the Huffington Post—CNN lost ground to Fox News. A president elected on the premise of unity presided over two years of ever-sharper rhetoric of division and seemed unable to change the game. Hipsters got more extremely hip. The Reformed became truly Reformed.
It was not at all clear, as polarization accelerated, that anyone could convince any large number of Americans that they had anything crucial in common.
Six | The Self Shot
When movie directors in the 2030s are trying to convey in a single glance that their scene is set in the 2000s, they will use the self shot—the self-portrait shot from a digital camera or cell phone held by one hand extended away from the subject. We look out at our own hand, perhaps squeezing another friend into the frame, composing our face in a smile or a laugh. We are shooting ourselves.
The visual presentation of the self accelerated in the 2000s. Previous generations saw themselves most often in mirrors. But mirrors do not show us what others see—they show us a mirror image with right and left reversed. The difference is subtle but real, and symbolic of a deeper reality. Now most 20-year-olds have seen thousands of images of themselves as others see them. In the 2000s we learned to shape and groom our image for public consumption. Body modification—augmentation, reduction, smoothing, straightening, whitening, tanning, not to mention tattooing—became normative. The closing years of the decade gave us the word "manscaping." Enough said.
Seven | Pornography
Underneath it all was porn. Pornography is as old as visual art, but in the 2000s it was more ubiquitous than it had been since the ancient Greeks erected herms at every crossroads. Superimposed on every image of our own bodies, and the bodies of our friends and lovers, were the idealized bodies of pornography and its close cousin, advertising and popular culture, which differ from porn only in not consummating the voyeuristic impulses they arouse.
And yet as omnipresent as porn was, it remained underground—a subject of shame even among the most secular and urbane. Our culture seemed to draw back from the brink at the same time as it plunged into the abyss. The bestselling memoir was titled Eat, Pray, Love, not, Eat, Pray, F@#k. No one really wanted the culture of porn to become a runaway train. But neither was anyone sure how to stop it.
Eight | Informality
Men untucked their shirts. Billionaires wore jeans. The most powerful CEO in America was universally known as "Steve." Indeed, informality was now a sign of privilege—only low-status workers wore uniforms. And the ubiquity of the camera meant that everyone—including celebrities, politicians, business leaders, people who in past decades would have been insulated by privilege—was caught off guard, meaning that status now accrued to those who could be most artfully informal, rather than those who could protect themselves from view.
Most institutions, with layers of tradition and deference accumulated over years, struggled to stay relevant to an informal culture. Tie-wearing network news anchors were eclipsed by cable-channel comedians with open collars. Journalistic codes of integrity and objectivity looked simply foolish next to the raw data of The Smoking Gun and Wikileaks. Marriage, with its vows and formal attire, became for many young people a distant aspiration far on the horizon, while cohabitation became the accepted gateway to adult relationships. A crippling blow was dealt to the cultural legitimacy of the oldest institution of all, the Roman Catholic Church, not by sexual abuse per se (almost all the cases reported had happened at least a decade earlier) but by the realization of how its hierarchy had covered up the scandal. The most informal and anti-institutional demographic cohort in a century, Generation X, moved uneasily and unsteadily into adulthood—symbolized neatly by its most celebrated religious movement, the emerging church, refusing to institutionalize at all and naming the leader of its most prominent organization a "coordinator."
Nine | Liquidity
Wealth was ever more disconnected from real assets. Countries that pumped one particular liquid from the ground acquired vast resources of sovereign wealth that went looking for high returns. The most storied and prominent financial firm, Goldman Sachs, ended its century-long system of limited partnership and become a publicly traded company. Hedge funds made billions by trading not shares, but shares of bets on the future price of shares (and derivatives far more exotic). Your mortgage, once the most boring and staid of financial instruments, was sliced and diced into tranches of risk.
Money sloshed around the globe like quicksilver (the title of Neal Stephenson's epic 2003 novel about the earliest moments of modernity). It sloshed beyond the borders of nations, of national regulators and politicians, quickly breaching the levees of international financial standards like Basel 1 (replaced by Basel 2, soon to be replaced by the soon-to-be-swamped Basel 3). Anyone unwilling to swim in the sea of liquidity drowned (or, as one Wall Street executive said, as long as the music was playing you had to keep dancing). As money sloshed, prices of oil, food, housing, and labor spiked, then collapsed, then threatened to spike again. Those who could trade on volatility often made untold fortunes; those actually needing to buy and sell real goods often suffered.
Ten | Complexity
There was a bull market in oversimplification, and no shortage of attempts to find someone to blame or, more hopefully, some way to make a difference. At the close of the decade some Christians were especially excited about the potential for cultural elites to change the world—just at the moment when elites everywhere were waking up to how little they could do to change anything at all. If there ever had been reliable levers of power—the Federal Funds Rate, Fashion Week, the New York Times bestseller list, the Nobel Peace Prize—they no longer carried much leverage in a world of countless connections, devolved into countless particular locations and conurbations, filled with fractious and fissiparous minorities, and ceaseless self-preoccupied informality. It was not a good time, to say the least, to be a central planner.
Yet all this complexity also contained the seed of certain kinds of promise. The human brain, after all, is also complex, interconnected, embodied, improvisational, constantly being rewired—simply put, the most complex system known in our universe. The culture of North America in the 2000s took several not inconsiderable steps toward having those same qualities. Not without risks, not without loss, and with every expectation of grave difficulty ahead. And yet in the most surprising places what was emerging could be called intelligence. Of course, intelligence needs to be married to wisdom—and in surveying the history of that most elusive of all cultural goods, we can only conclude that the 2000s left us neither worse nor better off than human beings have ever been.
In your opinion, did Andy miss something? What would be on your list?
Wednesday, January 05, 2011
Reformed Anglican Top 10 Films of 2010
It was a tough year for films. However, those that were worthy of praise as films that have depth, tell a compelling story, and capture the culture rose up out of the garbage heap of movies that obsessed about horror, crack-addicted-action-filming, and stupidity. Having said that, most of the great films of 2010 were very dark. From the moving post apocalyptic dystopian plot in The Book of Eli to the amazing meth lab drama of the Ozark mountains in Winter's Bone, the great films this year were very gloomy. Even the animated wonder of Despicable Me and Toy Story 3 featured orphans, an evil villan as anti-hero, a jaded kid who has forgotten his childhood and an evil fluffy teddy bear that smelled like strawberries.
1. Winter's Bone
2. Despicable Me
3. The Book of Eli
4. The Fighter
5. Exit Through the Gift Shop
6. The Ghost Writer
7. Toy Story 3
8. Inception
9. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
10. The Social Network
Monday, January 03, 2011
Reformed Anglican Top 10 Songs of 2010
Here is my very subjective top ten list for best songs of 2010. These are the songs from 2010 that either consistently ended up on my itunes playlist or that I really enjoyed hearing on the radio throughout the year. Since I like, rock, indie, folk, alternative and whatever is excellent in music, the list is a bit eclectic.
1. The Black Keys (Brothers) Tighten Up
It's Rock N' Roll. Guitar and drums and that's it. Like The White Stripes or early Zepplin, The album is superb and this song seemed to always be playing on the local radio station in Pittsburgh.
2. Colonizing the Cosmos (Colonizing the Cosmos) Dear Citizens
When front man Josh Moyer sent me the pre-release of their debut album I listened to the whole thing three times in a row and then told my wife, "This is epic." There are few albums today written in a way that tell a story throughout. Fewer still where ten of the 15 tracks on the album are amazing, catchy, and enduring as songs that will show up on your play list over and over and over again.
3. Regina Spektar (Live in London) Laughing With
This Russian Jewish genious immigrated to the US at 9 and has risen to be an amazing voice is music. Laughing With is a stunningly beautiful song voiced by a woman who believes in the God she is talking about.
4. The Avette Brothers (Live, Volume 3) I and You and Love
I and You and Love came out in 2009 and I have been listening to that whole album ever since. The live album has a great version of I and You and Love as well as a deep well of Avette excellence.
5. Mumford & Sons (Sigh No More) The Cave
Everytime I hear Mumford and Sons I just stop what I am doing and listen. This band creates very traditional sounds combined with all of the benefits of the technology of the new millennium.
6. Vampire Weekend (Contra) Giving Up The Gun
There are so many great bands out now. Vampire weekend is sophisticated, deep, hip, and playful all at the same time. Their songs get stuck in your head.
7. Kt Tunsall (Tiger Suit) Uummannaq Song
This Scottish singer-song writer has energy reminiscent of Sinead O Connor. The Tiger Suit album is good but this song and Fade Like a Shadow stand out on the album.
8. Pomplamoose (Covering Lady Gaga) Telephone
Jack and Natalie sent out all these youtube releases covering famous songs. I most cases, I liked the covers better than the originals. In the Spring of this year, they released this Lady Gaga cover and now what seemed like an inane bit of pop drivel is full of life and vigor. I love Pomplamoose.
9. Kings of Leon (Come Around Sundown) Radioactive
Last summer I sat with a bunch of 40 year olds who were commiserating about how they don't make good music anymore. Of course, since they only listen to music from the 80's they were not able to pick up on the amazing music that is being made today. Kings of Leon make great music. It is raw, stright forward Rock N' Roll.; arena rock that can hold up to anything out there. The Come Around Sundown Album proves it once again and radioactive is just one in a series from a great album.
10. Kid Rock (Born Free) Born Free
Yeah, Kid Rock. No, seriously. This "kid" from Michigan is not just rappin about bein a cowboy. The album sounds like Bob Seger meets Brice Springsteen in the trailer park. So, of course, I love it. Born Free is a great song.


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I tried going to my gyn but he laughed and said there is no such thing as too big a penis because women can stretch big enough to give birth. He just said use more lube and go slow which we have tried 4 times since but he just wont fit inside! I can feel my opening stretch but to a point where it just wont stretch any more. I bled this last time and we just dont know what to do next. Can anybody help us?
Your fiance sounds huge! I'm not sure what else you can do if he's really that big and you're a petite girl. Over time, you might be able to stretch to accommodate him, but then again, he might just be too big for you. I would say see if you can buy a set of vaginal dilators (used to treat vaginismus) and see if you can gradually stretch it out over time to be able to fit. You'll have to be patient with yourself, I'm guessing it won't happen overnight. In the meantime, pleasure each other in other ways, he can also use his fingers to gently stretch you and try to help things along.
Good luck!
Another thought is if you are anticipating the pain, you probably are tensing up and that can make this situation worse. Try to relax as much as you can, bubble bath, erotic massage etc...whatever works for you.
Have you had penetrative sex with other guys, or is your fiance your first? Like Elise said, you are going to need to be completely relaxed to be able to accept such a large penis, especially as petite as you are. If this is your first sexual encounter, I am wondering if you are especially nervous or tensed up, even though you may not think so.
Your doctor should have suggested a set of dilators to you. If you have health insurance and he writes a prescription for them they should be covered, If they're not, the medical-grade ones are quite expensive, but you don't have to buy those. Instead, I would suggest going online to any of the sex toy sites. You can find rubber or silicone toys (dildos) that come in a variety of sizes and shapes. You could buy two or three sizes, and work up slowly to the larger ones.
If you haven't had sex before this, the bleeding could have been caused by your hymen being ruptured so try not to let the blood deter you from trying again. Above all, both of you need to be patient and understand that you two are pretty much at the opposite ends of the scale when it comes to size. Keep trying, slowly and carefully, making sure you are as relaxed as possible and well-lubricated. Above all, listen to your body. Pain is there to protect you, and anything more than minor discomfort should tell you both to stop for a while.
While it may seem impossible right now, eventually you will be able to enjoy sex together, it will just take time and patience.
Best of luck to both of you and congratulations on your engagement
Ive had sex before. Five times with one other guy who was a lot smaller. The first time I bled from losing my virginity so thats not it. Actually the first guy made me bleed one time also from being too impatient getting inside me. I split a little right at the bottom of my opening. After that though with him all we had to do was go slow for a little but then it felt great.
I get plenty wet with my fiance but we bought some lube anyway. I'm really not nervous and were totally not rushing things. We spend hours cuddling in bed watching TV and I am completely turned on first. Its more like Im just stretching as far as I can go and cant stretch any more. He can get the head in but past that is where he's really big. No kidding weve laid there for a half hour with him pushing lightly but I just cant open up any farther.
Ive tried stretching with my fingers and so has my fiance. Hes made me orgasm orally first then putting a finger inside I feel like I open up in there okay. But there's like a wide web of skin at the bottom of my vagina that doesn't stretch. Thats what I think is the problem getting him past that. I never thought of the dildo idea but am ready to try anything.
We have to do something. I have dreamed of a guy like my fiance since I was little and were just perfect for each other. We just so want to be able to make love!!
That web of skin is called the fourchette, and it's actually where your outer labia join at the bottom. If it's too tight, intercourse can be painful or impossible with such a large penis.
Painful intercourse is called Dyspareunia. Here's a link to a definiton and description of this and a relatively minor surgical procedure to loosen that area.
I'd find another gynecologist that is a little more interested in helping and ask about this surgery. I sure hope this helps, you two sound like a remarkable couple!
This doctor was much more willing to listen to what I was saying. My fiances penis is so big it cant get past that web of skin because it doesnt stretch and thats whats been tearing and bleeding and not my vagina.
The doctor said I would probably have problems with even normal size men. Dilators wont help because its not my vagina thats to small its this web of skin in the way. Its not even in the mucous membrane just the perineum. Anyway I found out that I can have a minor procedure where the doctor will snip a triangle of skin away from my fourchette allowing complete access to my vagina. He said its basically just the opposite of the surgery women get to tighten their vaginal opening after childbirth. Instead of sewing it tighter he will open it larger and after I heal we should have no problems at all having sex.
I am so happy I came here:) You cant imagine what it was like thinking I may never be able to make love to the man I love and am going to marry. But even this doctor acted like I was crazy when I said my fiance was so big. I told him his measurements and he said I shouldnt listen to men when they say how big they are because there was no way hes that big. I felt like calling my fiance in the room and having him drop his pants! I just let it go by though. We're just both so happy this surgery is there. Im calling the doctor back this week to tell him to go ahead and schedule the surgery.
Thanks to everybody from both of us you have been a great help!
I enjoy some occasional porn, and I've seen women with that very "web of skin" before. With some it's quite prominent, it's almost as if their vagina is "back behind it" It probably isn;t as much as a problem with women of larger stature (that aren't as petite as you) and with more average sized men. It's kind of unique that life's "roll of the dice" put such a petite woman together with a man with such large "equipment". And it's wonderful that now that doesn't have to be a problem for you two.
AS to your doctor's comment about not listening to men when they talk about their size, again he's yet another doctor that over generalizes everything. What is up with doctors anyway? What an arrogant comment "there's no way he's that big" as if he's an authority on penis size and you have no idea what you're talking about...and this coming from a doctor who does nothing but deal with women's reproductive systems. Probably the only penis he's ever seen is his own...I wish your fiance would have came into the room with an erection and dropped his pants and said "measure this, wise guy..."
Best of luck with the surgery and I hope you two have a long and happy marriage with an incredibly satisfying sex life.
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2013 (Freshman) - Set freshman program records for a goalkeeper in saves (79), minutes played (1856:59) and shutouts (6) ... Finished season with 13-7-1 record, 79 saves, 1.31 goals-against average and .745 save percentage ... Posted her first shutout in season openere against Samford, making one save ... Had five saves in the win against Missouri and earned American Athletic Conference Rookie of the Week honors ... Posted back-to-back shutouts against Western Kentucky and Alabama ... Set season high with nine saves against Alabama on Sept. 13 ... Had three more outings with eight saves, coming against Louisville, twice, and UConn.
Prior to Memphis -Standout goalkeeper for the U17 Canada National Team in the 2012 FIFA World Cup in Azerbaijan ... Did not play for her high school squad, but brings club experience with FC Boisbriand ... Helped club team to Quebec championship in 2009 and 2010 while finishing third among all Canadian club teams in both seasons ... Earned the Gold Glove award in 2009 and set record for fewest goals allowed in 2011 ... Current member of the U20 National Pool for Canada Women's Soccer.
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