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Good looking, functional but heavy.
By sivart37
from Dallas, TX
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Comments about Shimano M520L Mountain Bike Pedals:
They look good, for the price not bad but they are heavier that I expected. Heavy duty though.
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M520L Pedals
By Retired
from CA.
Got these to replace the stock flat pedals on my Trek mtn bike. A definite upgrade, but will probably replace with a wider single sided for more versatility.Will put these on my road bike.
These are good pedals so far
By JulesF
from NorCal
About Me Casual/ Recreational
I've only had the pedals for a couple of weeks so I don't how they will hold up in the long term but as they are now they are a great improvement over the more expensive Shimano single entry spd pedals that I had been using before. Every time I press down I clip in. No more flipping the pedal over to clip in. This is much safer and just generally more efficient when riding in traffic.
Would buy this product again
By John
from Baltimore, MD
I've recently started mountain biking. Decided to try clipless to solve the keeping my feet on the pedals problem I was having negotiating obstacles. I took a couple of falls from not being able to get unclipped but once I adjusted tension and got used to them they're awesome. Pedalling efficiency is a huge plus; climbs became much easier, and now my feet stay where they need to be when crossing logs.
Awesome Pedals
By Doc
from O'FALLON, MO
Like them so much bought a pair for my road bike.
Excellent Pedal
By Plasticplant
from Round Lake, IL
About Me Bike Messenger
Put me down as another fan of this product. For the price it can't be beat. Love the double sided entry. Pedal is super durable as well. I'll admit, my first 2 rides out with these I fell. I just forgot I was clipped in, what can I say? The pedals took the brunt of the impact each time and with the exception of some scratches, they were no worse for the wear.
Easy to use.
By Bakerc7
from Rogersville MO
These were my first clipless pedals. I was worried about reviews of clipless newbies saying "you will fall" Well, several rides, no crashes yet. I really like the force you can put on the upstroke. I also am surprised/pleased with the "wiggle" while pedaling. This seems to help with my knee. I had to have the kneecap screwed back together. When I got back to riding, my clip pedals made the knee hurt.
Best bang for you buck!
By r-mack
from Southern Indiana
This pedal is the best bang for your buck. You cannot buy another pedal for this price. The quality of this pedal would compare to a price point of $80 to $100 and I paid $25.99.
nice pedal, great price
By Paulo
from Omaha NE
use them on all my bikes
well made, work well.
By bmxoldguy
from Escondido, CA
An excellent way to try clipless for yourself without a huge investment. I'm still amazed how this improves my whole riding experience, and wish I would've tried clipless years ago. A bit of a learning curve but well worth the effort. Pedals easy to adjust and work perfectly.
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> Useful Websites
> Resources for Employees
> Resources for Employers
> Facts and Statistics
> Domestic Violence and the Workplace
> General Workplace Violence
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Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV)
A research program of the Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS) at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Click on the CSPV Databases tab and you can search for workplace violence-related research articles, successful programs, evaluation tools, materials, and more.
Corporate Alliance to End Partner Violence
While CAEPV focuses on intimate partner violence, their website provides articles, research findings, best practices, and other information on a wide variety of workplace sexual violence issues. Browse resources under the Get Information tab.
Family Violence Prevention Fund
Click here for the section of the website focused on violence against women in the workplace.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (U.S. Department of Justice)
NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide. Search A-Z Topics for Violent Crime, keyword within topic Rape and Sexual Assault, for extensive resources on a variety of sexual violence topics.
Resources for Employees
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
- Sexual Harassment: It's About Power
- Spanish Version: Acoso Sexual: Lo que Usted y Su Unión Pueden Hacer al Respecto
Equal Rights Advocates
Feminist Majority Foundation
Houston Area Women's Center
- Sexual Assault in the Workplace fact sheet
- Sexual Harassment fact sheet
Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault
- Sexual Harassment statistics (fact sheet). Click here to download (first on list)
Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence
- Spanish Version: Licencia Laboral para Atender Asuntos Relacionados con Violencia Doméstica y Sexual
Legal Momentum
Equality Works Program:
- Harassment on the Job and Your Rights as a Woman
- A Tradeswoman's Guide to Employment Discrimination and Sexual Harassment 2008
- Legal Resource Kit: Sex Discrimination and Sexual Harassment
Minnesota Department of Health
- Social Influence: Workplaces (section in A Place to Start: A Resource Kit for Preventing Sexual Violence)
National Employment Law Project
National Partnership for Women and Families
- Know Your Rights. On the Road from Welfare to Work: Sexual Harassment
- Spanish Version: Conozca Sus Derechos: Acoso Sexual
New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault
Northwest Women's Law Center
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Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
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International Labour Office
- Sexual Harassment at Work: National and International Responses
One section of this document provides detailed information on writing appropriate sexual harassment policies.
Legal Momentum
Minnesota Department of Health
- Social Influence: Workplaces (section in A Place to Start: A Resource Kit for Preventing Sexual Violence)
Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission
Prevention Connection: The Violence Against Women Prevention Partnership
- Organizational Practices and Violence Against Women: Implications for Prevention (Slide Show Presentation)
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
- Questions & Answers for Small Employers on Employer Liability for Harassment by Supervisors
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- EEOC Training Institute Workplace Harassment Issues Essential Guide (note: requires purchase)
- Sexual harassment information
U.S. Office on Personnel Management
Facts and Statistics
U.S. Department of Labor - Women's Bureau
Site has statistics on women in the workforce, broken down by various characteristics.
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board
Sexual Harassment in the Federal Workplace: Trends, Progress, and Continuing Challenges. A Report to the President and the Congress of the United States.
Domestic Violence and the Workplace
American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence
- A Guide for Employers: Domestic Violence in the Workplace (1999); $12
- Domestic Violence: Workplace Policies And Management Strategies
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
- Domestic Violence: How Unions Can Help
- La Violencia Doméstica (Domestic Violence)
- Domestic Violence: An AFSCME Guide for Union Action
American Institute on Domestic Violence
Colorado Bar Association
Family Violence Prevention Fund
Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence
- Did You Leave Your Job Because of Domestic Violence?
- Spanish Version: ¿Tuvo que abandonar su trabajo por ser víctima de violencia doméstica?
Legal Momentum
New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence
Safe@Work Coalition
General Workplace Violence
American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations
American Society of Safety Engineers
ASIS International
Canadian Initiative on Workplace Violence (CIWV)
Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
Click on V for Violence under NIOSH Site Index.
U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)
Workplace Violence
- Training Materials on Workplace Violence
- Guidelines for Preventing Workplace Violence for Health Care & Social Service Workers
World Health Organization (WHO)
- Workplace Violence in the Health Sector
WHO in collaboration with International Labour Office (ILO), the International Council of Nurses (ICN), and Public Services International (PSI) Joint Programme on Workplace Violence in the Health Sector.
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2008 and Later Ford Taurus / Mercury Sable Maintenance and Repair Forum
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slagfysh Posts: 7I recently had a couple of episodes with my 08 Mercury Sable which I thought might be of interest to owners of similar vehicles with this engine. I was far from home and stopped for gas. When I cranked up to leave, the engine would not respond to the accelerator. I eventually got the car to begin slowly moving and got out onto the street. A short distance later I stopped for a traffic light and had the same experience. A short distance later I pulled off and checked the transmission. The fluid level was on the full mark. After these two episodes, the car ran fine and made it home without further issues. Later I learned from a poster on another forum that these engines had issued with carbon build up in the throttle body which kept the throttle plate from completely closing, causing the throttle position sensor to send out crazy signals the caused problems such as I experience. He advised wiping clean the throttle body and plate every oil change and removing the throttle body for a thorough cleaning every 30K miles. When cleaning after removal it is important to keep the TPS which is attached to the TB on top so that none of the cleaning spray makes it way into the TPS. I removed mine and gave it a thorough cleaning. It has performed flawless since. I might also say the mine was very dirty and caked with carbon. It had 41K miles so I was late to the need for regular cleaning. Hope this information helps someone else.
jshillington Posts: 3I have a 2009 Ford Taurus with 33,000 miles on it. I have noticed that when the car reaches a point where the car bottoms out I hear a clunk. sometimes the noise sounds like a windshield cracking. I took the car to Reynolds Ford and they are telling me that the struts are bad. The car drives fine, passes the bounce test, tires are not cupped. I am wondering if the TSB fix would work. Any body have a clue?
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stevr1 Posts: 1I know this is a little late in the discussion, but I own a 2009 Taurus Limited. I have had the struts replaced, sway bars replaced, and the nuts tightened on the assemblies on several occaisions. The "clunk" goes away for awhile, but then always comes back in a few months.
I had the original dealer try to tell me it was normal. I really don't don't believe that at all.
Can you tell me what TSB # you are referring to? What is the fix the TSB recommends?
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dmers1 Posts: 8Our 2008 Mercury Sable Premier has about 130K without much problem, except basic maintenance. I know we have version 1.0 MySync and it is very crude and slow.
I feel Mulally is part of the problem. He refuses to open up to the upcoming Apple iOS 7 w/64 bit chip and keep the slow Microsoft system in the Ford/Lincoln cars. I think he is doing this in order to get a sweet deal from Microsoft as a new CEO. Or he is tech illiterate.
Also, he could be using Garmin (with 1 lifetime upgrade fee) for GPS vs. the $200.00/year upgrade map DVDs that Ford currently uses.
I also, am not a believer in Consumer Reports biased auto evaluations, though I do like to read the 5-8 year customer complaint summaries for each model to watch for trends in repairs and mechanical issues, as we keep our vehicles for quite a few years.
I really do hate to give this car up. I don't know how Ford screwed up the rear seating in the current 2014 models (Taurus/Lincoln MKS). It seems like a limo in the rear seats of our car and we get a lot of compliments on the ride and massive rear sitting room on trips with others.


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Visitation will be from 2-6 p.m. Friday, October 19, 2013, at Byas Funeral Home in Cleveland.
Survivors include daughters Mary Whitt of Pace and Louise Rhea of Memphis, Tenn.; eight grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.


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Moover Baby Truck Red
Our Moover Baby Truck (Red) is a perfect first ride-on toy. At the beginning you may have to click the truck together for your little one. He will enjoy the working pulley and steering about the house. As he gets a bit older, he will love building and disassembling the truck. The easy click system allows your little driver to explore his engineering and problem solving skills (no tools required!).
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Pacific Rim is now in theatres. I encourage you to see it this weekend. Click here to read my review from earlier this week. But then again, I might be biased. Because I have great affection for Guillermo del Toro.
Two weeks ago, I was in San Francisco, covering the Pacific Rim junket for etalk. In addition to the screening, the programme included a tour of Industrial Light & Magic, where the special effects for the movie were produced, a demonstration by some of the lead animators on how the "jaegers" and the "kaiju" came together, and finally, at the end of the day, just before our screening, a private session presentation by del Toro himself, who took us through certain scenes, frame by frame, explaining the process involved in bringing the robots and monsters to life onscreen. Read Full Intro
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Judy Tenuta will perform at Riddles Comedy Club in Alsip for a Valentine's Day weekend special on Feb. 15 and 16.
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Suggestions include Judy Tenuta at Riddles Comedy Club in Alsip and SpongeBob SquarePants at Omega Pancake House in Crestwood.
Riddles Comedy Club, 5055 W. 111th St., Alsip, hosts a Valentine's Day weekend special with Judy Tenuta at 8 and 10:30 p.m. Feb. 15-16.
Tickets are $15 per person with a two-drink minimum. Attendees must be at least 21 years old.
Information: (708) 422-5055, myriddlescomedyclub.com.
Omega Pancake House, 13233 S. Cicero Ave., Crestwood, will offer pictures with SpongeBob SquarePants and free cookies on Feb. 16.
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Feb. 15's Weekend magazine features previews of the Drama Group's "Superior Donuts" in Chicago Heights and Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra's Classical III concerts in Frankfort and Palos Heights.
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Visitation will be held at 10 a.m. Monday, April 29, 2013, at Gunnison United Methodist Church.
Nell was born on November 26, 1924, in Memphis, Tenn., to Harvey Ralph Whiteside and Robbye Cheshier Whiteside. She graduated from Blue Mountain College and was a business and English teacher in the Gunnison and Rosedale communities for 25 years. She served in the U.S. Navy as a Wave and was a member of the Mississippi Delta Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Nell married Milton Orville Kent of Gunnison on December 5, 1950. She said she always loved being a farmer's wife. She enjoyed hunting, fishing, playing bridge, making meals for family, giving vegetables from the garden and her dogs.
She is preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Orville; two sisters, Sarah Kennedy Ledbetter and Mary Sue Whiteside; and a nephews, Benjamin Robin Kennedy and Michael Lewis Dean.
She is survived by her son, Keith Kent of Rosedale; daughter, Kathy Kent of Rosedale; and numerous nieces and nephews.
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Just in time or the 24 Hours of the Nurburgring Gabe and Todd sit down and talk with Dirk Hollweg head of MINI Motorsport. If you are even a little interested in MINI's involvement with motorsports, you don't want to miss this. In fact we'd call this a must listen for MINI fans. And for those of you that want even more, there is always the MINI Motorsport YouTube Channel.
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Owner Corri McFadden looks over clothes and shoes dropped off at her store, eDrop-Off, 2117 N. Halsted, which lets women sell items worth $50 or more in online consignment. | Keith Hale~Sun-Times
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Q . I keep hearing all about the holiday bargains available over the Internet. What's your advice on how to find
those bargains?
A. Here's the thing about holiday shopping online. What you don't get is the sensory and enticing experience of walking through a store and being "struck" by the "perfect gift." What you do get is a disciplined way to shop for the best price on something you already have decided should be the perfect gift.
And since you're likely not to pay local sales taxes when you order online (unless the merchant has a retail presence in your location), there is a huge incentive to avoid the crowds and order online. Online holiday shopping is expected to increase 17 percent from $46.63 billion in 2011 to $54.47 billion in 2012.
But the real benefit of online shopping is instant price comparison. Many websites scurry around the Internet finding all the best bargains on the products you are most likely to want. When you click through from their website, you get the low price guarantee — and they get a small fee per click-through from the store.
PriceGrabber.com is one of the top shopping comparison websites. You can
go to the site and compare prices of more than 80 million different products and read merchant reviews. Shoppers can also download the PriceGrabber App which gives them the ability to compare prices on the go by browsing or using the barcode scanner.
It's instant information. You can compare by product category — i.e., top three 40-inch LCD televisions, or find the lowest price sellers of the product you decide upon.
PriceBlink.com is another free tool that saves you money by doing all the searching for you for coupons, free shipping and more. If you can purchase that very same product on another site for less or if the site you're on offers any coupon codes, free shipping or any other deals, PriceBlink will let you know.
Priceblink also just released a free companion iPhone App, called BuyorNot, which helps shoppers when they're in the store to quickly see how an item is rated by other shoppers simply by scanning the barcode of any product to search more than 45 million reviews.
JustDeals.com is a daily discount site that offers savings of up to 95 percent off original pricing on deals ranging from electronics to home goods and housewares, to jewelry. JustDeals.com offers four deeply discounted daily deals with limited quantities that go live every night at 11 p.m for a 24-hour period, or while supplies last as products quickly sell out. For today, Thursday, the deals include an HP digital camera, a camcorder, a set of carpet mats and a kung fu food processor!
RetailMeNot.com, CouponSherpa.com, and eBay.com: These and many others have tools to help you search the best online deals, save money and fill your holiday stocking with gifts for everyone. But I just can't resist adding my traditional advice about not overspending. Remember a bargain isn't a bargain if you're paying interest on it for the next six months! And that's the Savage Truth.


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Accelerating the advancement of women in the workplace.
Although the number of women has surpassed men in many professions, progress into the upper ranks of management remains slow. In The Chicago Network's annual Census Report for 2011, women represented 14.9 percent of executive officers in 50 of Chicago's largest publicly reporting companies, and these figures are mirrored nationally.
Meaningful change only comes when a diverse workforce is a priority for an organization and that priority is communicated from the most senior levels of management. At organizations with CEOs who 'get it' (and there are many), this recognition results in companywide talent development and mentoring initiatives. The most progressive organizations recognize accelerating the advancement of women to positions of increasing responsibility, and ultimately the ranks of senior management, means making one of the most powerful elements of success – a sponsor – part of the broader corporate ethos.
Sponsors are often confused with mentors, and the distinction is vital. Mentors are often, but not always, employees of the same company; they assist employees in understanding the cultural by-ways of their firm and often provide emotional support and career advice. A sponsor is someone, in the same organization, in a position to influence advancement by making sure an employee is considered. This happens almost instinctively in the case of men helping men, but to help narrow the gap between men and women in senior ranks, companies must erase the disparity between men and women who are sponsored.
According to The Sponsor Effect: Breaking Through the Last Glass Ceiling, a study on sponsorship published in the Harvard Business Review in 2010, 13 percent of women versus 19 percent of men at large companies have sponsors. The authors are blunt: "Women who are qualified to lead simply don't have the powerful backing necessary to inspire, propel and protect them through the perilous straits of upper management. Women lack, in a word, sponsorship."
A common refrain is: women receive too much mentoring, too little sponsoring. The result is too many women are under-prepared and less visible when the opportunity for promotion arises. Kelly Grier, office managing partner at Ernst & Young, LLP (E&Y) and member of The Chicago Network says, "Sponsorship is at the top of the list to increase diversity. It is the most potent tactical aspect."
Leading companies understand there is a compelling business reason to make sponsorship integral to diversity management. Sponsorship programs at E&Y have been in place for two decades. For the past 10 years, "at the center" of the firm's Inclusiveness Steering Committee strategy, E&Y identifies the key factors to advancement and tracks the number of women who advance, the number who advance to manager and the percentages of women to men.
The role of a sponsor carries responsibilities and rewards. A sponsor must have power, influence and credibility. A sponsor also "needs to know the value proposition of the employee and everything about her," says Andrea S. Kramer, partner at McDermott, Will & Emery, who's also a founding member of the firm's Diversity Committee and member of The Chicago Network. Ms. Kramer, who works with one or two young lawyers (both men and women) every year, reminds us the sponsor must be clear: sponsoring, unlike mentoring, is "specific to advancement."
Sponsorship can last for years as you help navigate an employee through a full range of emotional, cultural and job-related challenges. It can also be a bit risky. The sponsor may be working with an employee in another region or department, with different reporting responsibilities. "A good sponsor truly believes this is the right thing to do, and it is not just politically correct," says Cheryl K. Beebe, executive vice president/CFO, Ingredion. "As a sponsor, you're putting your name on the line and taking an active role in seeing the employee is assigned to a position," explains Ms. Beebe, also a member of The Chicago Network. "You sometimes need to act like a parent and conduct very pointed conversations. And, if the sponsored employee fails, you need to be clear why this happened."
Women can be sponsored by women or men. But, this can be tricky. Why? A relationship between (most typically) an older, more powerful man and a younger woman raises the specter of impropriety. The authors of The Sponsor Effect found "the majority of senior men (64 percent) at the level of vice president and above are reluctant to have a one-on-one meeting with junior women, and half of junior women, likewise, avoid seeking out such contact." While one hopes these types of stereotypes fade over time, companies must set the cultural tone so the sponsorship value proposition does not appear to be risky when the employee being sponsored is a woman.
The qualified employee cannot wait for lightening to strike. The employee must be active and, like the sponsor, purposeful. In Profession Advancement and Gender Stereotypes: The 'Rules' for Better Gender Communications, Ms. Kramer writes, "as women, we must learn to promote ourselves, even if this means stepping out of our comfort zones. Without question, this means communicating more like men: being clear, self-confident, forthright and proud of our accomplishments."
Sponsorship programs are not the only answer to ensuring diversity. But, as the battle for talent – and competitive advantage – continues, companies that understand the value of effective sponsorship can be positioned to move ahead.


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Today's asteroid not a surprise like meteorite, Adler astronomer says
BY ANNA HELING Staff Reporter February 15, 2013 10:36AM
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The meteorite that hit Russia and injured nearly 1,000 people caught astronomers by surprise, but scientists have a good handle on the path of the asteroid that will buzz past Earth on Friday, an Adler Planetarium astronomer said.
"We know the asteroid's orbit very, very well. We know that it poses zero chance of hitting the Earth. Not even just a tiny chance. No chance. We know its position plus or minus two miles," said Mark Hammergren, an astronomer at the Adler Planetarium.
Asteroid 2012 DA14 will come within 17,200 miles of Earth Friday, passing over the Indian ocean near Indonesia.
It won't be visible to anyone in Chicago, and even those near Indonesia will need big binoculars and precise timing to see it, Hammergren said.
Though the asteroid and meteorite are close in time, the two are unrelated, Hammergren said.
The 10-ton meteorite that streaked the skies of Chelyabinsk, Russia, Friday wasn't on astronomers' radars because it was too faint for large telescopes to pick up, Hammergren said.
The large telescopes used to track meteorites have a field of view the size of a postage stamp.
"These things can't be seen until they come very close to Earth," Hammergren said. "I don't think anybody had an awareness of it until it hit the atmosphere and started glowing as brightly as it did.
While Hammergren said meteorites are fairly small, he called Friday's "fairly large." A fireball of its size — approximately 30 feet across — would have been visible for hundreds of miles. Its sonic boom could've been heard dozens of miles from its path.
Unlike a meteor — the flash of light seen in the sky when a chunk of an asteroid hits the atmosphere — a meteorite is the chunk of rock or metal that hits ground, Hammergren said.
A meteorite's force can shatter windows and damage buildings, but few of its fragments are left behind. Meteorites travel, on average, between eight and 20 miles per second, so most of the material gets vaporized and "blasted off" by the atmosphere, Hammergren said.
What should sky aficionados keep their eyes out for next?
Hammergren noted two comets coming this year that could "be nice sights in the sky," specifically comet ISON, set to come close to the sun in late November or early December.
Yet the nature of this, like Russia's meteorite, is tough to predict.
"Comets are fickle beasts. This one is on its first pass close to the sun, so sometimes comets like this don't brighten as much as we predict them to."
Hammergren believes these meteorites, asteroids and comets are all subtle hints for land-dwellers.
"They highlight that we here on the Earth are part of a dynamic solar system, that part of our planet is part of a large universe. And every now and then, nature feels the need to remind us of this fact."


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The discussion was part of the College of Arts and Sciences Lecture Series: Madison Center Celebration honoring the inauguration of Delta State President William N. LaForge which will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday in the Bologna Performing Arts Center.
Morhard opened his discussion by saying that he was there to get students to think about "where you are going in the 21st century."
He then went on to the explain that during the 20th century the country built a lot of walls in confrontations, such as the Vietnam war which was brought up by Jennings.
Jennings hoped that through the use of Vietnam as a model, it would challenge people on how to deal with the world.
"These wars were wars of attrition … we built these walls but none of these walls have worked and then 9/11 comes around and you realize that no walls protected us and we were attacked and we were ill prepared," said Morhard.
The second focus of the evening was China.
Morhard expressed that many believe there is a power struggle between the United States and China.
"They want to be economically successful. China looks at themselves as a civilization, not as a country. If you study them, they have their capital, then kingdoms within China, and everything outside they consider the barbarians. I submit to you that they look at us as barbarians," said Morhard.
Morhard continued to explain how many continue to look at China as a power struggle and who would be that super power.
"I come here today to tell you, not that we are going to get into a war with these guys, but that we are already in a very complex situation with that country and many of the other countries there," said Morhard.
He then went on to say that on the tip of India ports are growing and China is building its military presence there.
"They watched us in Afghanistan in Iraq and they know that those wars did not serve us well. They are looking at it with a long view saying 'what are we going to do so we don't have those problems and can also continue to grow,'" said Morhard.
Jennings interjected to ask about what the Chinese policy was to which Morhard answered that he couldn't explain exactly what the policy was but "I can tell you where I see things going."
Morhard went on to describe a concept in the "Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power" written by Robert Kaplan which said during the 20th century the world map focused on America, however in the 21st century the map will include China and India.
"That is where things are going to happen," he said.
With China continuing to be successful Morhard expressed the important of others to learn a second language.
He also explained that the U.S. is at a disadvantage because those in are government are limited by their time in office or position, which limits any long term strategical plans that can be made.
"At best, if you're a president, you've got eight years and you know the last two years you're linked up—you cant do anything. You've really got six years to get something done. Under our current structure we're really challenged on how we create that strategy," said Morhard.
Jennings stepped in to say, "This is an inheritancy problem. We've been staggering through the decades with this problem. At the time of 9/11 we had only a handful of Arabic speakers in the intelligence area."
"Eight percent of the Pentagon knows a second language. Think about that. And yet their dealing with the world issues. I don't know what the stats are in the state department but I'm afraid to ask," said Morhard.
He then continued on to say that he believes this is an even bigger issue.
"How can you have a long term strategy when you only have six years to do it?" He said of the constitution, "while it was supposed to be a living document, we are not able to change it at this point to accommodate the changes in the world. I think that's our biggest challenge," said Morhard.
He believes that there is a choice to build walls or bridges. "You save lives building bridges," he said.
Towards the close of his lecture, as an encouragement to the students sitting in the theatre listening, Morhard once again urged them to learn another language and said that their generation would become the next generation because they will have to.
"Unless you study other countries, unless you learn their language, you're never going to understand their soul," he said.


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J2ME Polish is a suite of tools and technologies invented in 2004. It has been downloaded up to a million times until now and hundreds of companies worldwide have purchased commercial licenses (including Huawei, Samsung, Nokia, Qualcomm, and Vodafone).
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Oral History Program Lois Heap Murray Interviewed by Marci Farr 28 July 2008 Oral History Program Weber State University Stewart Library Ogden, Utah Lois Heap Murray Interviewed by Marci Farr 28 July 2008 Copyright © 2009 by Weber State University, Stewart Library Mission Statement The Oral History Program of the Stewart Library was created to preserve the institutional history of Weber State University and the Davis, Ogden and Weber County communities. By conducting carefully researched, recorded, and transcribed interviews, the Oral History Program creates archival oral histories intended for the widest possible use. Interviews are conducted with the goal of eliciting from each participant a full and accurate account of events. The interviews are transcribed, edited for accuracy and clarity, and reviewed by the interviewees (as available), who are encouraged to augment or correct their spoken words. The reviewed and corrected transcripts are indexed, printed, and bound with photographs and illustrative materials as available. Archival copies are placed in Special Collections. The Stewart Library also houses the original recording so researchers can gain a sense of the interviewee's voice and intonations. Project Description The Dee School of Nursing was founded in 1910 to provide training for nurses who would staff the new Dee Memorial Hospital. The first class of eight nurses graduated from the school in 1913 and the school continued to operate until 1955, with a total of more than 700 graduates. A new nursing school and home located just east of the hospital was completed in 1917 and all nursing students were required to live in the home during their training. This oral history project was created to capture the memories of the school's alumni before their stories disappear in the same way the Dee Hospital has disappeared. The oral interviews focus on how the women became involved with the school, their experiences going through training, and how they used the training. ____________________________________ Oral history is a method of collecting historical information through recorded interviews between a narrator with firsthand knowledge of historically significant events and a well-informed interviewer, with the goal of preserving substantive additions to the historical record. Because it is primary material, oral history is not intended to present the final, verified, or complete narrative of events. It is a spoken account. It reflects personal opinion offered by the interviewee in response to questioning, and as such it is partisan, deeply involved, and irreplaceable. ____________________________________ Rights Management Special Collections All literary rights in the manuscript, including the right to publish, are reserved to the Stewart Library of Weber State University. No part of the manuscript may be published without the written permission of the University Librarian. Requests for permission to publish should be addressed to the Administration Office, Stewart Library, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, 84408. The request should include identification of the specific item and identification of the user. It is recommended that this oral history be cited as follows: Lois Heap Murray, an oral history by Marci Farr, 28 July 2008, WSU Stewart Library Oral History Program, Special Collections, Stewart Library, Weber State University, Ogden, UT. iii Lois Heap Murray Application Photo September 1942 Graduation Photo Class of 1947 Lois Heap Murray September 10, 2008 1 Abstract: This is an oral history interview with Lois Heap Murray. It was conducted July 28, 2008 and concerns her recollections and experiences with the Dee School of Nursing. The interviewer is Marci Farr, and Lamoy Murray was also present. MF: This is Marci Farr. We are interviewing Lois Heap Murray for the Dee School of Nursing. She graduated in 1947. It is July 28, 2008. We are interviewing Lois at her home in Ogden. Could you tell us a little bit about your early life, your education, your family, and where you went to school? LHM: I finished high school. My folks all lived in Jerome. My mother was on her third marriage. My dad lived in Ogden. I loved Ogden. They had a presentation at school before we graduated which talked about nurses and the qualifications to be accepted. I thought that would be a really good idea. I signed up for it. There were two hospitals, one was the LDS Hospital in Salt Lake and the other one was the Dee Hospital in Ogden. Of course, I knew where that was. We had to write a letter why we wanted to enter the nursing program. The Dee Hospital accepted me which made me happy because that is exactly where I wanted to be. MF: So that is what made your decision. LHM: Yes. I got a job when I got out of high school in Twin Falls. People who say they cannot find a job are wrong. If you put your mind to it you can do anything. I finally went to the biggest department store and said, "I will do anything and you do not have to pay me this month." They took me. After a week they kept me. I made eighteen dollars a week. It was almost impossible to live on that. I had 2 this little apartment, paid seven dollars a month. I hardly had anything to eat. You worked long shifts, you did not get off for lunch, and you also worked Saturdays. But that was easy compared to what nursing was. MF: I am sure. What was your impression when you first came to nurses' training? LHM: I thought it was very well run. This was in 1943 and the war started in 1941. I thought it was very well set up. They were very strict with us. MF: You had a curfew, correct? LHM: It was at ten o'clock. MF: You could not sneak out after? LHM: No, you could not get out. The lights had to be off too. I learned how to put up my hair in the dark because I had never done that before. You know, those little pin curls you did and everything? Well you have to remember, the war was on and you could hardly buy bobby pins. MF: And nylons too. LHM: I have to tell you about the nylons. Sometimes L. R. Samuels, a department store down in Ogden, would hide a few for us. We would go in there and we did not have any money or anything. The owner would say, "You girls have got to have these." We had to wear hose. If we could not get the white hose, the white nylons, which was very rare, and we had to mend them all, if we could not get those we could buy the Lyle stock which all cotton. The silk, which were terrible, they turned yellow and they pulled on you. You had to wear a girdle, you could not wear a guarder belt and wear hose all the time. Of course, you had a wear a bra too. 3 MF: You had some of your classes at Weber College? Did you walk down there or did you have most of them at the hospital? LHM: No, most at Weber College we walked down there. When we had association with the University of Utah, then the instructors came to the hospital. All the people who finished graduation spent three months on campus. I went back to Weber State and got all my other stuff in. MF: With the instruction at the hospital, do you remember who taught your classes? LHM: I do not remember. MF: Did you have nurses, doctors and nurses both? LHM: Yes. Our psychology, they were not nurses, the zoology, and all the labs, the chemistry; those were all the regular teachers. MF: Who were some of your classmates that you went to school with? You had roommates when you lived in the nurses' home. Tell me about some of those and also who was your housemother? Do you remember who they were? LHM: It has been so long ago I have not even thought about them. I know somebody mentioned Mrs. Manning. MF: Yes. LHM: I guess she is still alive. MF: Really? Was she was the housemother? LHM: She kind of watched over us, no not a housemother just kind of helped the others practice down. We did have a housemother and she was quite strict. I can only imagine with a whole bunch of young women. They only had one phone there and you had to be on phone duty and so forth. 4 MF: Tell us what a typical day was like when you were at the hospital on duty. What were your responsibilities? LHM: If you had the day shift you had to be in chapel at six thirty. You had to go right over to the hospital. You worked seven to eleven. Then you got off for lunch and study. Then you had classes from one to four. At four thirty you had to be back there and you work until seven o'clock. It was a long, long day. MF: That would be a long day. LHM: Supposedly you are supposed to study when you were not caring for patients. I have a little story to tell you. I was a big coffee drinker. All my family drinks loads and loads of coffee. You were not allowed any coffee there. MF: Really? LHM: They had it for the patients but we could not even steal any. We could not get any. We only made fifteen dollars a month. That does not work out to very much money because the shoes were so terrible. They were out of cardboard and stuff. You wore them out really fast. I would fall asleep in class and get called in. I just needed a pick me up. They had a little confectionery store. It was north of the hospital right across the street. MF: Catherine and ELHMer Hogge's store correct? LHM: Yes, I met a fellow over there and thought he was a little forward and I would not go out with him. He kept calling me on the phone. He called me on the phone for three weeks before I went out with him. To make this a little bit short, this story, he became my husband later on. 5 We opened up Murray's Drug Store, and had that for thirty-five years. It was just a confectionery store. A lot of the nurses would come over to eat and so forth. I used to make this, they call it sloppy joes now, but I called it barbecued beef. They were wild about it. And lemon pie and so forth. MF: Did you buy that from the Hogges'? LHM: No we rented it from them. We rented the house next door too. They were very good landlords. You knew, you would think, just shaking your hands. We did not have the entire thing drawn up and all that. MF: Just by your word? LHM: That is how things used to be. MF: We wish it was that way now. What was your favorite floor to work on? LHM: Your last six months you could say where you wanted to go in the hospital. I was crazy about surgery and loved the emergency room. I have a hard time when I see an ambulance go by. I want to follow it. MF: Ambulance chaser. LHM: Oh I know. MF: So that is was your choice? LHM: Yes. MF: Tell me about P.M. care. LHM: I know everybody got back rubs that wanted them. You have A.M. and P.M. You would not be giving them baths then. The A.M. care you would give them the bath and so forth. 6 MF: What did you do if you had a night off or if you had a weekend pass? What did you do if you were not working? LHM: There were no such thing as a weekend pass. We only had a night off during the week since we worked six days a week. We had one week off the entire year. Most of us were so poor we could not go anywhere anyway. One thing we did, was wear our uniforms, go down to the Berthana and roller skate. There were a lot of service men and they treated you a lot better. They would not try to get smart or anything. We always wore our uniform for safety. They were really ugly uniforms. I never had a picture taken of me but I noticed this last funeral I went to, she had her picture taken and those ugly hats, it was that ugly green. They were simply terrible. MF: Were there any traditions at the Dee Hospital that you remember? LHM: No we had our own school song and we had very little time off. There was a shortage of men if they were up at the dance or something. Usually you could not find a date to go anywhere with them. MF: Were you required, at that time, to attend church? LHM: No we did not but we went to different churches. I was not LDS. A lot of my roommates were, I think only a couple were not LDS. Most people went there because they were LDS. We went to Holy Rollers one time. It was really kind of exciting. We were jumping up and down and everything. MF: Do you remember much about your capping and pinning ceremony? LHM: No but it was certainly exciting because it was a long, hard draw. We had to take state boards. They were not going to let me because I was not twenty-one yet. 7 They had never had anybody that went through nurses training that was not twenty-one. I did not want to wait six months because you get a better salary when you are a registered nurse. We always did not think we did very well on the boards but we really did. It was two days and really hard. Since I worked in the surgical part I could nail that flat. It was all about vasectomies and we had never seen one. It was illegal in Utah. So I thought, "Why did they put this thing in there?" I have got to tell you one funny story. We had phone detail, we did not have it very often, but this guy called and he wanted to take a couple of nurses out to eat. He said, "It is not a romance thing or anything, it is not a date or anything." They were a little bit older and wanted to have some company. They contracted this place to get steaks and if I could go out, and another girl, they would have a taxi pick us up. They would not be in the taxi, they would meet us at the restaurant and the taxi would come and take us back. I thought, "Well yes." We were so deprived; the food was just awful at the hospital. MF: That is what I have heard. It was not very good. LHM: It was chicken ala surprise. I mean chicken; we had roast chicken on Sunday. That was not a surprise but the rest of it you wonder. We went out there and the fellows were really nice. There were four of them. We talked and laughed and we had the best time. They said they wanted female company but did not want to be stuck with some women that were walking the streets. Of course, we just gobbled those steaks down. We had the best time. But when we were about to leave I said, "What is all these things clear up there?" He said, "Well those are chevrons." I said, "Yes I know but what does it mean? How long have you been 8 in the service?" "Yes," he said, "one is every three years." Hell he was older than my dad. MF: How many were in your class? LHM: We started off with thirty and ended up with ten. You had to have a B+ average. Plus work your tail off. A B+ average was tough. You look back and those were the good days. MF: You could not be married right? LHM: No you could not get married. You could not be engaged either. MF: They would kick you out right? LHM: Oh yes. School teachers, were the same way too. MF: Really? LHM: When I went to school, if the school teacher wanted to get married, she could not work after she was married. She had to be home. It was only during WWII that women got out into the work force like Rosie the Riveter. We got out and had jobs, before then women were not allowed to work. MF: That is interesting. I did not know that about teachers. LHM: This is my husband. He works at Weber State. He is a pharmacist. They have a pharmacy over there. Most people do not know about it. MF: The one that is in the Health Center? LHM: Yes. MF: Oh good. LHM: Honey? Oh I do not know if he can get away and talk to you. MF: Yes. 9 LHM: Honey? I have two people here I would like you to meet. MF: Hello. LM: What? LHM: They are from Weber State. MF: Hi. LM: Weber State? Where is that? LHM: Yes, they are interviewing me. LM: I used to go to Weber State. You used to go to Weber State too. LHM: When I went down it was on Jefferson. LM: You had nurses' training at Weber State too. MF: Yes that is why we are interviewing her. LHM: I am on camera. LM: How come you are here? MF: We are doing a history for the Dee School of Nursing. LM: History in what? MF: We are doing the history of the Dee School of Nursing. So you are on tape now. LHM: Come over here honey if you want to get on tape. LM: What? LHM: Your kids are going to see this. Come over and get on tape. LM: What are you doing? Making a yearly book or something? MF: We are compiling the history of all the nurses that are still living. LM: You are what? LHM: Do not get in front of the camera. 10 LM: Okay I will sit over here. MF: It will be a good project. LHM: It will be, yes. MF: You mentioned you received about fifteen dollars a month correct? LHM: They took out a breakage fee on the thermometers. MF: Oh if you broke them. LHM: In surgery we did not have thermometers and we still got charged for them. MF: After graduation did you stay at the Dee Hospital? LHM: Yes I did. I worked for three years in surgery. Surgery was very interesting. I cannot get any of my grandkids or great grandkids. I am still working on them. I do not know why anybody would not want to be a nurse. MF: If that works for you that is a great profession to be in. LHM: Yes it is. MF: I think especially surgery too. LHM: No matter how many operations, when they first make that mid-line incision I would just quiver. We did not have the tests those days so we could find out really what was wrong. It was called exploratory. It was a big excitement, that first…I thought, "Are they going to flinch?" I did not know if they were really asleep. But they were. They would make that mid-line and I would just…I could not wait to see what was inside there. MF: Did you know any members of the Dee family at all? LHM: No. MF: Did you know Elizabeth Stewart? 11 LHM: No. MF: How long did you work in nursing? LHM: We moved to Santa Fe and I retired in, I guess, the end of 1949. Yes because I had a daughter that was born in January, 1950. I did not believe in other people raising your children. Nobody is better than you are. If you are a good mother then nobody is better. You could put your kids in daycare; you can do all that stuff, but nobody likes your kids as well as you do. MF: Exactly. LHM: My daughters have done the same thing as what I have done. They stayed home until their kids got old enough. MF: That is good. LHM: It is a decision I made and I breast fed all of them. Even when it was not popular. I could not understand why people had all these kids and they want to work all of the time. MF: Exactly. LHM: What is the point? MF: Exactly. It is true. You need to be responsible. LHM: You could teach your kids so much. MF: Exactly. Plus they need you and you realize that is important. LHM: I will tell you a little story. MF: Tell us some stories. LHM: I was working in the emergency room and we had a really busy night. The interns were worked to death. You thought we were worked to death? They 12 were worked to death. They had to get up all hours of the night. About four o'clock in the morning, I worked the seven to seven shift, they brought this guy in. He was really, really drunk. He had a cut above his lip, a long cut. The highway patrol brought him in. I said, "You know, I would hate to wake up that intern. Would you like to be my nurse and help me? I will sew this guy up." He said, "You bet!" It is not like with a needle and thread you can grab them and everything, it is slippery. It was a lot harder than it looked. You had to know how to do it. I got through with a pretty nice job. I left instructions. He was to find his family doctor and have his stitches removed in a few days. The intern I had to call in at six thirty in the morning that morning and I said, "I sewed up one of your patients. I did not want to wake you." He said, he looked kind of surprised and said, "I sure thank you. I was so tired." MF: It probably turned out wonderful. We appreciate you letting us come and visit with you Lois. LHM: I appreciate it too.
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Thanks for the info i will check my diary , i might be flat out lol i will give it some consideration
Well, I was lucky tonight and chose a kit that had circular elements (thanks Jenn). How cool!
I'm keeping up and not pulling my hair out . . . I'm not sure how that happened.
i am trying to keep up,
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All the conspiracy theories about Derrick Rose playing Monday against Denver because of a television channel change were put to rest on Sunday, as it became very evident that Bulls head coach Tom Thibodeau isn't much into conspiracy theories.
"Nothing has changed,'' Thibodeau said of his MVP point guard, who did go through a full practice at the Berto Center. "He keeps improving, he still has a ways to go.''
It's the "ways to go'' part that won't sit well with Bulls fans, or more specifically, the social media world that was declaring Rose a possibility because Comcast SportsNet announced that it moved the Bulls game from CSN-plus to their main station.
Thibodeau was asked if Rose could play at all during the upcoming three-game homestand, especially because it makes sense that if there is a debut for Rose this season, it would take place at home.
"I'm not going to get into that,'' Thibodeau responded. "When he's ready, he's ready. He's got to keep working, that's all.''
What does work in Rose's favor is not only this week, but the next few weeks.
The Bulls play five of their next seven games at the United Center, which means a lot of practice time for the guard to push the surgically-repaired anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee. He had his best practice since the injury Thursday in Oakland, and reported no pain or setbacks on Friday.
All along the Bulls have insisted that Rose needed to be able to go full speed in practice, have no setbacks, and do that day after day.
The fact that he again went hard on Sunday seems to indicate that process has started.
"He's working hard, man, he's working hard,'' teammate Joakim Noah said of Rose after the Sunday workout. "He's moving right, he's doing all the right things, so it feels good to see him out there.''
Not as good as it will feel to see Rose out on the court in a regular-season game, and especially if he can bring a few friends along with him.
The Bulls were still operating short-handed, and will do so against a Denver team that is on an 11-game winning streak, which includes wins over the likes of the Lakers, the Thunder, the Knicks and Memphis.
Kirk Hinrich, who has missed the last six games with a stress reaction in his right foot, did not participate in practice on Sunday, but shot around afterwards.
Taj Gibson [sprained left MCL] was practicing without the large knee brace, but Thibodeau said he was day-to-day.
And then there's Richard Hamilton, who has missed the last eight games with a back problem, and while he was at the facility after staying back in Chicago for the West Coast trip, he is no closer to returning.
"Well, I've been through situations when you've had people out,'' Thibodeau said of all the injury problems to hit his team this season. "Never quite [like this]. The advantage from this situation is that we knew Derrick was going to be out and we knew that from the summer. That did give us a chance to prepare but what you're not planning on is all of the other injuries.
"But that's part of the NBA and that's why you have everyone on your team and it's so important for them to be ready when they go in. You never know when that time comes and when that time does come you have to take advantage of it and get the job done. We need everybody. We're short-handed. We know our chance for success is to do it collectively.''


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vic_o jumping off the stars. smh
Indians can't bowl - Where has the rumour come from as I myself and many indian friends arwe competent fast bowlers ?
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whatever i have seen of bailey, it has not impressed me.
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If I had a tape measure, I would. Circumference can't be more than 2, though.
let's grab a drink, I'll give you some validation
I can't quite accept that. Diameter = circumference / 3.142, which would be .64" or a bit over 5/8ths of an inch. I find that very difficult to accept. If you actually mean a diameter of 2", then you are quite large as that would be 6.3" in circumference.
Please do measure it some time, and let us know. You don't need a cloth tape, just a strip of paper or cloth, wrap it around your erect penis, mark it, and then measure from the mark with a ruler.
Mine is about 4.75" in circumference mid shaft, about 1.5" in diameter, and I'm about 5" long...
I've seen your penis. It's way thicker than mine. My circumference is tiny. I'll try measuring tonight, I guess.
An extremely skinny one which causes my penis to be small overall despite its length.
My index finger at the first knuckle is 2 inch circumference. Im 5'7"
You are measuring around your cock
Porn companies would want you for the 'oddity' factor
Waiting for the number
It's amazing how much intrigue you've managed to generate around your penis.
Blah blah blah, something enigmatic sounding...
That last comment works completely fine without the wink. Because anyone acting as though it doesn't matter is deluding themselves.
Have you changed your mind about measuring it?
So your penis is the same size as an index finger?
I don't even have a ruler around the house. 2 was definitely a horrible estimate (hard to judge circumference when you're not used to measuring circular patterns) but it's still by far skinnier than most men I've seen in person.
If you really care:
1. Take a piece of string.
2. Get yourself hard. If you get performance anxiety, try again later.
3. Wrap the string around the girthiest part of your cock.
4. Lay the string flat, marking where the string intersected itself.
5. The distance from the tip of your thumb to the first knuckle is usually roughly an inch, unless you have huge or tiny hands. Use that to figure out how many inches the girth was.
Or we can just all accept that it's exceptionally, freakishly thin.
Would I have a problem with your cock if you were in bed with me? No, not in the slightest. But that doesn't matter. You obviously have decided it's a problem. In which case, perhaps you should do something about it.
I found my tape measure
Here is a 2 inch circumference.
I can honestly say I don't care about the penis size of a partner. I do however care about my penis size, it is just below average. I don't find it matters, hope I am not the only one whose found this.
I'm basically the same way, my partner's penis is just great size about average maybe bigger. But when it comes to my size I just care so much about it, sometimes I even forget about it when nobody mentions it to me or brings it to my attention.
I've had my partner tell me once that he wishes it was bigger, it leaves me depressed but I get over it because what I've done is accept the fact of my size, you CAN NOT change it at all. Acceptance is the only solution and coming to the realization I can't do anything about it just be happy that it works is all that makes me forget about the size.
I've yet to meet or know someone whose smaller than me, but again I think the real issue with the TC is his width of his cock not the length.
How often do you have to put up with guys making these types of shallow and insulting comments at you?
If someone has no respect for you and is going to treat you like a piece of meat then I'd say move on to the next. It would certainly kill the mood immediately and turn me off having sex with them right there and then.
A shame that you're having to deal with so many (as they say in U.S.) assholes and douchebags.
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I moved on to the next. But it doesn't change the truth of his statement.
What makes him an asshole in this case is only the fact that he stated the truth and didn't polish it with some "I don't love dick, I love the person it's attached to" nonsense.
Well I think this thread has reached an ending point without more info.
All I can say now is I hope you manage to feel better about yourself, one way or the other.
Americans need to keep their guns so they can protect themselves from gun violence just like Nancy Lanza did. And like Chris Kyle did. And like Gabby Giffords did. And like Tom Clements did. And like Michael Piemonte. And Joseph Wilcox.
I only mentioned him because folks keep trying to tell me it's "all in my head." And the other poster's story reminded me of him.
If it were opinions like his influencing me, it wouldn't have taken me until page 3 to mention him.
That guy wasn't a "partner." I never slept with him because he's a fucking tool.
I'm sure your penis is thinner than average. It's just math. But you seem to be denying that it is relevant whether other people find you and your cock attractive or not. I learned a long time ago not to argue with my guy about what he finds attractive. I am not my own type. But I'm not trying to turn myself on, I'm succeeding at turning him on. At least don't assume someone is just feeding you a line when they say it's not important to them. And admit that for some guys a thinner dick is what they're actually looking for.
Americans need to keep their guns so they can protect themselves from gun violence just like Nancy Lanza did. And like Chris Kyle did. And like Gabby Giffords did. And like Tom Clements did. And like Michael Piemonte. And Joseph Wilcox.
I'm trying to turn myself on.
Like I said, even masturbation is difficult because I'm so turned off by how small I am. There have been times where the other guy is into me and it doesn't matter because I loathe myself. This is where (surprise surprise!) you and I are different.
I don't think it is fair to say that as long as our partner is happy with our dicks that it is somehow not that important for us to be happy with them.
Everyone wants to be heard. No one wants to listen.
^Thank you. A lot of folks have these ideas that the goal in our lives should be to find others to validate things in ourselves that we are insecure with. I completely disagree with that.
Fair enough, point taken. I like to feel sexy when my guy comes my way, and that mood of my own can change. Sometimes even contradicting what I enjoyed before.
I have a question for you: have you ever known someone who didn't like something permanent about himself and was down about it? Other than dick size.
Americans need to keep their guns so they can protect themselves from gun violence just like Nancy Lanza did. And like Chris Kyle did. And like Gabby Giffords did. And like Tom Clements did. And like Michael Piemonte. And Joseph Wilcox.
Oh, and that is not even close to what I was saying, or feeling, btw. I was just pointing out that whether you like it or not, other people are entitled to find you sexy and not be called a liar. That point of mine still stands, even if I agree with your other remark.
Americans need to keep their guns so they can protect themselves from gun violence just like Nancy Lanza did. And like Chris Kyle did. And like Gabby Giffords did. And like Tom Clements did. And like Michael Piemonte. And Joseph Wilcox.
Only on the internet. But then again, that's probably where one feels most comfortable opening up about such things.
True enough. I hope it feels better to at least get it off your chest. And I actually agree with seeing a surgeon just for a consult. I think if people pierce their dicks and split their tongues with laser beams then finding out the risks/rewards of adding some girth would at least put an option on the table.
Americans need to keep their guns so they can protect themselves from gun violence just like Nancy Lanza did. And like Chris Kyle did. And like Gabby Giffords did. And like Tom Clements did. And like Michael Piemonte. And Joseph Wilcox.
You aren't saying how others view you is unimportant, are you? When you feel like you don't measure up to other black men, you must be comparing yourself to them. The opinion of others can't be totally without value. Feeling inferior has it's root in comparison to others, right? If you are inferior, someone else must be superior, no?
Haven't small breasted women had to deal with their issue all their lives? Some accept themselves as they are, while others make surgical changes. Many would argue they do it just for themselves and no one else.
Everyone wants to be heard. No one wants to listen.
This brings up another point, though. I'm assuming most straight guys aren't turned on by themselves, and yet they find a way to masturbate regardless.
But I'll reiterate that it's obviously a problem, and you should definitely look into getting the surgery.
You're kidding, right? Straight men may not be turned on by men in general, but they definitely like themselves and their dicks.
I don't even know why the whole "gay/straight" dichotomy even came into the discussion anyway, to be honest. This was never about whether I think like a gay man or a straight man. This was about my circumstances and how I cope.
I'm not saying how others view me is unimportant. I'm saying how I view myself is far more important than any of that. There's so many out there who would probably say "oh, having a ridiculously small penis is okay, I like you for your personality" and blah blah blah blah. Sorry. That's not going to cut it with me.
I'm thinking straight men like their dicks, and playing with them, mainly for the pleasure it affords them. They might take pride in having a larger one, or feel ashamed at having a smaller one, but I don't think they enjoy the whole "playing with a cock" thing the same way gay men do.
But to distill it down, you have three options.
1. Learn to accept what you've got.
2. Go under the knife to make it more impressive.
3. Stay the course.
Friend: I don't know why she's with him. He's all wrong with her.
Lex: OK, we get it. You keep bringing that up. Would you just deal with it?
Friend: I am!
Lex: Not very well.
Friend: You don't think so?
Lex: Well, you keep bitching about it.
Friend: That's my way of dealing with it.
I'd spend more time disagreeing with your gay/straight theories, but I've yet to even understand the relevance.
As for everything else you said: No shit.
Most of what I'm saying here is me responding to folks trying convince me that there is no real issue.
The only realistic way to deal with this defect is to embrace it and its consequences. You don't just feel inferior to real men, you were born with a clearly inadequate sex organ that makes you obviously inferior. Your penis will always be a joke for others, regarded as cute by some, but mostly ignored. You claim you don't like to "bottom," but it's not for you to decide. Becoming a sexual female to authentic men is the destiny assigned to you by your sad excuse for genitalia.
There is enormous pleasure and satisfaction in being owned and occupied by a true, phallic male. Learn to make his pleasure your reason for existence. If it hurts, endure quietly. Eventually, your inner female nature will be unleashed and your cunt will begin to respond to his overwhelming male power. You can rub your clitoris if he allows, but don't orgasm until after he finishes breeding and you have sucked him clean. Love your inferiority to him just as you love the power of his thick, long, amazing penis.
Do you feel any differently about anything after 3 pages?
Everyone wants to be heard. No one wants to listen.
Basically that it may not be worth the risk. But I also want to know the risks, because right now I have no chance of being happy with what I have, so I may not really have anything to lose anyway.
The place I originally signed up for consultation with hasn't gotten back to me, so I just signed with another local clinic.