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Paris Hilton Launches New Business Venture
Does anyone remember the old SNL skit advertising "Bad Idea" jeans? This hilarious parody of Levis ads portrayed the wearers of "Bad Idea" jeans making horrible decisions. People sporting "Bad Idea" jeans would say things like, "Now that I have kids, I feel much better having a gun in the house." It was funny stuff, but it made a good point: There are brands that are a really "Bad Idea."
Today I was horrified to learn of the birth of what may be the WORST brand in history – Paris Hilton. Parlux Fragrances, Inc. has signed an agreement to develop and market the Paris Hilton Cosmetics line. Based in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, Parlux also plans to manufacture Paris Hilton watches. (Because it's important to be on time for hair extensions)
To top it all off, Parlux's CEO released a statement yesterday saying, "Paris Hilton is an extraordinary young lady with an ever-growing international following." Extrordinary? Well, that depends on your definition. Hilton was recently branded as a "partytard" by Defamer.com. and is well known for her porn star capabilities. Maybe it's just me, but I'm not buying lipstick from someone whose sex videos are all over the Internet.
I'm under the impression that when most women shop for cosmetics, they look for a solid name in femininity, class, and understatement. Last time I checked, this party girl is anything but. Just today, the New York Post headlined with a story of Paris and Britney Spears hitting the town without any underwear.
If Parlux plans to make a successful brand out of panty-less Paris, they should probably buy her some undergarments before she starts making public appearances. I'm wondering what market Parlux will target for the Paris line. Moms with tweens may be hesitant to purchase it, and the 18-24 market is already pretty comfortable with brands like Maybelline and Clinique.
What do you think? Is it possible to build a successful cosmetics line around Paris the party girl? Or is Miss Hilton the ultimate "Bad Idea" brand?
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This seems more of a dumb move to me by the company. Nobody takes Hilton seriously. When she has tried to be taken seriously in the past, it has horribly failed.
The problem is she's branded herself as a mindless bimbo who is incredibly stupid with her contrived decisions. To take that image and attempt to be taken seriously breaks with everything she's branded herself as.
You've got to be consistent or you won't be successful. Hilton is anything but consistent.
This sounds like a brand designed with the unique buying state of customers in mind.
classy and feminine...sounds pretty old to me.i don't think girls are always following those guidelines those days.and occasionally,we can be anybody behaving entirely out of control as we like.paris hilton is completely out there.she's full of energy,as least she should be credited for that.
Well, if the Post printed it then it must be fact, right? They would never exagerate or even fabricate a story to sell copy would they? You think you know her because you have read a lot about her in the press or gotten the latest scoop from some talk show? In my opinion it is the media that are the real whores. Give the girl a break.
There was a South Park episode with Paris Hilton that seems to have inspired these marketers... or at least gave someone the idea for the business plan.
Paris Hilton has the money to sit and do nothing but live off daddy and whatever multi billionaire she ends up marrying. So I think its great she has decided to use her greatest asset, herself as her brand, and go out there and set herself up in business. No doubt she will have the best advisors and everyone doing everything for her, but she will still have some responsibility, responsibility that she really doesn't have to take on. She could spend the next 10 years at least just partying. So good for her, and I am sure there will be loads of people willing to buy from the "bad girl" image and why should she be blamed for that? She's just making the best out of a great situation.
"I'm under the impression that when most women shop for cosmetics, they look for a solid name in femininity, class, and understatement. "
Sure, if your going to work. But, when your out for a fun night around town that's the last thing you want..... Unless of course your the type that goes to plays and wine tastings on your friday nights. People want to be wild when they get the chance, Paris Hilton brings that out in even the most conservative of us!
"I'm under the impression that when most women shop for cosmetics, they look for a solid name in femininity, class, and understatement. "
Sure, if your going to work. But when your out for a fun night around town that's the last thing you want..... Unless of course your the type that goes to plays and wine tastings on your friday nights. People want to be wild when they get the chance, Paris Hilton brings that out in even the most conservative of us!
"Maybe it's just me, but I'm not buying lipstick from someone whose sex videos are all over the Internet."
That's a charming notion, but I'm afraid it doesn't apply to the masses. I mean, 75,000 people bought her awful CD.
I am embarrassed as a marketing professional with experience in brand management to even be reading about this as a news item. Why are fame and fortune the only requirements for media attention and, as is the case here, product development. And why is there no prerequisite for fame? Why does the media forgive Paris Hilton and why do companies like Parlux invest in her as a brand? Her indiscretions and misbehavior should be damaging her brand, not strengthening it. Unfortunately, she is not the only benefactor of a media environment that seems to condone inappropriate and contemptible behavior. Kate Moss is not worthy of more modeling work. Tommy Lee is not worthy of Supernova, and OJ is definitely not worthy of a book deal. I could rant all day about the message this sends to our children, but since we're on the topic of branding, I will attempt to limit my comments to that.
As marketers and brand champions, what can we do about this? Obviously we can agree, in our own roles, to refrain from such poor branding association decisions. But what else can we do to reverse the trend?
We will spread the word in communication channels such as this one that this strategy is bad for branding and bad for business.
We will each personally convey our contempt of this activity to the branding champions with whom we interact.
We will boycott sensationalism promoted by celebrity news publications.
We will write about the strength and merits of brand association from reputable and admirable sources (see Tiger Woods, Christopher Reeve, and Bono).
We will deliver this message in our branding seminars and consulting engagements.
We will do what we can.
And we will spend more time with our children.
Slow day in the news room, huh?
The very idea that you would write a story about her, good or bad, is precisely why her Brand gains the strength it does.
Publicity good or bad keeps her name in the eye of the public and a large degree of the public tolerates if not accepts that her bad behavior because it makes for entertainment.
Quit writing about her and she will fade but don't expect your alternative stories to gain as much attention.
It sucks but bad news sells and by default, in this case, will fertilize the seeds of curiosity in the demographic that would buy her products.Why? Because they identify with her.
Paris Hilton does have a reputation for partying no doubt. However, does having an online sex video have anything to do with her as a person or her business sense???? NO. And not wearing underwear, how taboo.......... Kind of hot, but not really shocking stuff. She is a celebrity and therefore should watch her actions more closely, but she doesn't, and that is why she is such great gossip. If having amerature porn on the internet makes you a bad person, then the millions of Americans who do are in trouble. In conclusion, if you are going to take shots at Ms. Hilton, and are talking about her poor her business sense, then use facts about her previous business endevous to back that up. All I heard in this article, is Paris has a new brand of watches coming out, and they will suck because she sucks dick; or her watches are bad because she is a slut.
I can't wait to buy every product no matter what the cost is. I'll be envied by all my other vapid friends who don't give a damm about what matters in life. Yay me!!! "Daddy, if you love me you'll buy me fake tits too!!"
I like your viewpoint. The problem is that money and fame have been the leading benchmark for a long time. Hopefully things are changing. And changing quick. Because, at least according to me, it is a bit odd to talk about fair trade and global warming at the same time as you speak about Paris Hilton partying without underwear. I think the situation will find a happy and natural end. And that is probably not another PH product…


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Make no mistake, it's only the first of October, but Kamehameha's season was on the line.
In a game it couldn't afford to tie, the 10th-ranked Warriors put together a 16-play, 90-yard drive capped by Christian Akana's 2-yard touchdown run with 16 seconds left to slide past No. 4 Punahou 9-3 last night at Aloha Stadium.
The Warriors (4-3, 2-2 Interscholastic League of Honolulu) remained in the race for the league's Division I state tournament berth on a must-have drive that ate up most of the game's final 6 minutes.
Kamehameha was 3-for-4 on third down during the drive, but its biggest conversion came on fourth and inches when Punahou (4-2, 2-2) was whistled for an encroachment penalty, resulting in a first down.
"They had to make some clutch plays and they made them," Punahou coach Kale Ane said of the final drive.
After the penalty, Jason Muraoka, one of three Warriors with at least 50 yards rushing, bolted up the middle for 15 yards, setting up Akana's plunge that was the difference in a close game between two physical defenses.
"We always try to preach that we're conditioned enough that when it comes down to the fourth quarter, our conditioning is the difference," Kamehameha coach David Stant said. "That last drive was a great drive. Guys just sucked it up and made plays and our defense kept us in the game the entire night."
Buffanblu running back Steven Lakalaka, who rushed 31 times in a 24-19 win over 'Iolani last week, had only five offensive touches in the first half.
A bruise suffered against the Raiders limited him to 34 yards on 11 carries.
"He tried to come back in the second half but wasn't himself," Ane said, "and when we lose someone like him, it's tough on our offense."
Punahou faces Damien next week, while Kamehameha takes on Pac-Five in its final games against Division II schools.
After that, it's two games remaining against Division I opponents in the ILH to determine who gets the league's lone Division I berth in the state tournament.
"This was do-or-die for our season," Stant said. "In order for us to do anything we had to come in and beat Punahou to give us any kind of hope."
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RUSHING--KS: Tyler Meditz 15-63, Jason Muraoka 10-52, Akana 12-50, Keanu Haina 2-5. Pun: Steven Lakalaka 11-34, Isaac Savaiinaea 1-3, Zachary Hernandez 1-1, team 1-0, Liloa Travis 5-(minus 5), K.T. Tuumalo 1-(minus 7).
PASSING--KS: Akana 8-18-1-84 . Pun: 6-14-2-51, Lakalaka 1-2-0-38.
RECEIVING--KS: Charley Bollig IV 2-41, Muraoka 2-2, Brandon Akiona 1-16, Raymond Pedrina 1-15, Tristan Peterson 1-6, Keoni Bush-Loo 1-4 . Pun: Lakalaka 2-21, Mountan Mitchell 2-(minus 5), DeForest Buckner 1-38, Noah Willey 1-35, Tuumalo 1-0 .
Foster finished 20-for-27 for 169 yards before he was replaced late in the third quarter.
Everett Kim caught two of those TD passes and Jordan Doi led the Wolf Pack (2-5, 1-3) with five catches for 73 yards and a score.
Damien (0-7, 0-4), which has scored just 13 points this season, was held to seven first downs.
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RUSHING--Dam: Alan Mohika 10-25, Dylan Yonamine-Baysa 3-17, Daylan Demello 3-12, Bronson Kauleinamoku 5-11, Dustin Lungay 1-(minus 3). Pac: Ursua 2-41, Darius Anderson 6-30, Foster 3-20, Burkhart 2-11, Tyler Watkins 1-4, Carter Kauwenaole 1-(minus 2).
PASSING--Dam: Yonamine-Baysa 3-7-0-46, Mohika 3-10-0-16. Pac: Foster 20-27-1-169, Ursua 0-1-0-0.
RECEIVING--Dam: Lungay 3-39, Shayvis Wilson 2-5, Demello 1-18. Pac: Doi 5-73, Ryan Alvarado 4-23, Kim 3-24, Anderson 3-1, Chalson Baitlon 2-34, Kellen Nakamoto 2-8, Kauwenaole 1-6.


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EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing 2007, 2007:048757 doi:10.1155/2007/48757Published: 7 March 2007
This paper describes a behavioral model for affective social agents based on three independent but interacting parameter spaces: knowledge, personality, and mood. These spaces control a lower-level geometry space that provides parameters at the facial feature level. Personality and mood use findings in behavioral psychology to relate the perception of personality types and emotional states to the facial actions and expressions through two-dimensional models for personality and emotion. Knowledge encapsulates the tasks to be performed and the decision-making process using a specially designed XML-based language. While the geometry space provides an MPEG-4 compatible set of parameters for low-level control, the behavioral extensions available through the triple spaces provide flexible means of designing complicated personality types, facial expression, and dynamic interactive scenarios.


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I let the chickens out to free-range first thing. The best part, is that they were able to be outside for hours as I got to work. I took large ceramic planters from the garage and replanted them for the Spring with evergreens and pansies. I cleaned out the garage. I planted lettuce in some containers and in the garden. I raked the stones in the driveway after they had been shoveled into all of the wrong places over the Winter. I even did some minor repairs to the chicken run.
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Spring appears allusive here where I am today..unless you look very closely at nature...the bright,new green upshoots from beneath the earth, reaching for the sun. The robins, & sparrows, busily searching the now free of snow grass and trees for special nest building materials. The buds, ever so tiny on the trees, one warm day and I think they will spring into beauty....my favorite seasonsReplyDelete
Spring & Fall... thank you for stopping and leaving a comment..such a sweet one it was...
enjoy your day.
Sounds like a PERFECT day!ReplyDelete
Faith, you are so very welcome. Tomorrow we are having some April showers. I think we got lucky today;) Mother Nature is teasing us these days but warmer days should be the norm soon.ReplyDelete
MaryAnn, I hope you and your family enjoyed this gorgeous Cape Cod day! How are your girls? I can't wait to do a Tour de Coop at your place soon!
My husband also does deserve credit for helping with the ceramic planters and the plantings. I could not have done it without his strength.


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NDC, Why Bother Over Rawlings?
He Shows Damnable Disrespect For Volta Chiefs
He will Never Join NDC Campaign Trail
Before I discuss the main points of the headline above, let me quickly pass some brief comments on - one: the sad death of Dr Niyi Alabi, who was a Political Science scholar with specialization in International Relations, a French interpreter, and a fellow journalist; two: GFA's laudatory resolve to employ Akwesi Appiah, a Ghanaian coach; and three: IGP Paul Tawiah Quaye's determination to clampdown on electoral violence!
Dr Niyi Alabi's death, as reported on the radio last three days, really cut me to the quick, and the pains still reverberate in me; for, he was a good friend of mine, especially when both of us were columnists of 'The Mirror' newspaper between 1998 and 2004. However, I joined The Mirror much earlier. Whenever both of us met in the Mirror editorial, we sat down and discussed some burning political issues, and we often disagreed or agreed, amidst jovialities. Both of us were political scholars, with specialised interest in International Relations, and both had read French literature, even though he had done that to a higher level, and was much more refined in discussions on Le Cid, Le Misanthrope etc. Again, both of us were journalists, and whenever he expressed admiration for my English style, I jokingly explained to him that it was God's gift enhanced by my Exegitical training in theology. My admiration for his excellent scholarship was unending; but unfortunately, we lost contact with each other when his mobile phone was reportedly stolen. Unfortunately, I often forgot to request for his phone number in this my column. Yes, Dr Niyi Alabi, was a great young French scholar, and people close to President Kufuor (he was an interpreter to the President) often hailed his oratorical style in speaking pure French which manifested his high education in Paris.
At age 59, Niyi has died too early, and he would have done much for Ghana if he had lived beyond that. My sincere condolences to his wife, children and to his larger family members. C'est au revoir a toi, mon bon cher ami. Au revoir !
Next is GFA's commendatory decision to employ a Ghanaian coach, Akwesi Appiah, after chairman Nyantakyi's agreement to boot out that good-for-nothing Serbian coach Goran Milosovic. My precious readers can recall how in my articles on soccer, I pressed and pressed for the outright removal of that Serbian coach. Thanks be to God, my repeated calls, and those of other soccer enthusiast fortunately reached the ear of chairman Kwesi Nyantakyi and his executives, and they have admirably responded to the wishes of many Ghanaian soccer lovers. This act shows the greatness of Nyantakyi's management abilities which I often applaud- responsiveness to the concerns of the people. May God bless Nyantakyi and his executives all the time for expelling that Serbian coach, and without hesitation, employing Akwesi Appiah who actually deserves that position as Black Stars coach. I wholeheartedly express my support for Appiah. My doors are open to him whenever he wants to discuss some little spiritual and coaching points with me. He can obtain my phone number from the Editor of this paper or the Receptionist of the Daily Guide. Akwesi, try to let us be in contact with each other, and God will bless you richly.
Another moot point is the appointment of Akwesi Appiah's deputy. There are suggestions that coach Maxwell of Asante Kotoko should be the person. Without doubt, I, for one, endorse that proposal.
And lots of people agree to that. If we can observe how coach Maxwell has consistently guided and trained Kotoko to chalk victory after victory which has made the team become the 'monstrous' leader in the current league, we quickly can conclude that he can be a very good assistant to coach Akwesi Appiah. After the two had once worked together to bring home a diadem in the African series, it can be deduced that they can easily work together to bring victories. In fact, I am at pains to call for the resignation of coach Maxwell, for I myself am strong 'Kotokoran', and I joined that team as far back as 1951 when Kotoko's goalkeeper Kwaw Baffoe and Oscar Jasper, the famous left winger and Baba Yara encouraged me as a young footballer, whenever they came to play at Breman Asikuma in the early fifties. If it were today, I would have been drafted into their colt team in order to be graduated into a regular Kotoko player. Thus it's painful to cause coach Maxwell to go away from Kotoko to also take up the Black Stars coaching job. But this is a greater calling, and Maxwell will have to respond to that rather favourably. Kotoko can find a very good substitute coach, and things will go on very well. Don't worry overmuch director Dr. K.K. Sarpong, my good friend!
Lastly, I think IGP Paul Tawiah Quaye's assertion that the police have now been rejuvenated to clamp down on the current spate of violence plaguing this Biometric Registration should be a serious warning to those who want to bring confusion in the country. I wrote about this concern about two weeks ago, and how the IGP has responded to my call is highly recommendable. Such alacrity is a good pointer to a deep understanding of the police work and to a high degree of his scholarship which can quickly demystify bad occurrences and practically shape them to fall into national aspirations. Well done, IGP. Let peace be your watchword forever. We in the country need peace. May God bless you.
Let me begin this controversial Rawlings point by making a correction of the expression; 'MEET WITH……MET WITH' as in 'Rawlings MET WITH the Volta chiefs at his Ridge office…' This is WRONG. In British English, we simply say 'MEET' without any 'WITH'. So we say 'Rawlings MET the Volta Chiefs…..' We use 'MEET WITH' when we want to express an encounter which was UNEXPECTED. Eg. 'I MET WITH the thief who stole my watch', expressing unexpected encounter. But in a scheduled meeting, we MEET friends, we MEET the President etc. The Americans, in this context, say 'MEET WITH', such as: 'MEET WITH the President'. But we don't speak and write American English, we speak and write British English in Ghana. Ghanaian journalists should note this very well, and stop writing: 'MEET WITH' which is incorrect. And many Ghanaian journalists write this 'meet with' to be copied by Senior Secondary School students and University undergrads, who also write that, only to suffer deductions in their exam scores when their papers are being marked.
Now to the Rawlings's issue. It's rather unfortunate that in the encounter between the chiefs with the queen-mothers from the Volta and former President Rawlings and his wife, the latter (Rawlings) went the whole hog of expressing a litany of what he considers as failures and administrative deficiencies of Prez Mills, only to dilate on them disapprovingly, and ending by sending the chiefs to find out the veracity of what he was saying and to tell President Mills to make changes that would meet his (Rawlings's) satisfaction before he can join Candidate Mills's campaign trail to bring miraculous successes. God damn it! What charisma and what miracles has Rawlings to enable him to conjure people's overwhelming approval of the NDC, when he Rawlings has consistently and publicly or openly spoken to denounce Mills's government and very dirtily mired NDC's image?
When I hear that some people in the NDC are arguing for the inclusion of Rawlings during Mills's campaign tours, I simply laugh and ask: how can Rawlings, after denouncing the government several times since it came into inception in 2009, have that shameless boldness to turn his tongue to praise the government of Mills so to be voted into power? It's only mad people, the utterly demented, who can turn round to canvass for the NDC when they have severely damaged its image through unnecessary, open criticisms and denouncement via metaphorical allusions to Yutong driver who was mis-driving; and to Atta, the mortuary man; and to Kofi the carpenter etc. And Rawlings is not med to do that! Even if he smokes 'wee' (marijuana), he cannot stand before the crowd and say that the NDC is good so vote for President Mills. In other words he has cleverly divorced himself from the NDC, and if he could form a new viable party today, he would do so. But he is finding it difficult to do just that! Therefore, I wonder why some people in the NDC are yearning for the inclusion of JJ Rawlings in Mills's campaign coterie? And why they should press upon the NDC hierarchy to ask the Volta chiefs to go to beg Rawlings who has furtively rejected their requests to re-join Mills? Is this a sign of respect to our honourable Volta chiefs? (To be continued next week)


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One officer was in the secured parking lot when it happened and heard the shots being fired. Several rounds hit the building and at least one entered the lobby. No one was hurt in the incident.
Sparks police say the possible suspect vehicle is an early 1990's Toyota pickup truck with a regular cab. There is a second vehicle which appears in surveillance video. That vehicle is described as a larger pickup or SUV, possibly with four doors. The vehicle has two-tone paint, with a light color on the upper portion of the vehicle and a darker color on the lower portion.
Evidence from the scene was gathered and an investigation is ongoing.
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Sen. Ferrell Haile, a pharmacist, wants to eliminate the requirement that compounded drugs be prepared only with a patient-specific prescription. / File
Six months after moldy medicine caused an outbreak of a deadly new form of meningitis, Congress does not have a single bill before it to improve regulation of compounding pharmacies, and the only legislation proposed in Tennessee would strip away an important safeguard.
The one proposal pending before the Tennessee General Assembly would eliminate the requirement that compounded drugs be prepared only with a patient-specific prescription.
New England Compounding Center, the maker of the moldy medicine, violated this requirement when it mass-produced and sold steroid drugs that were injected into peoples spines as a pain treatment, federal and state regulators have charged.
The sponsor of the state legislation, Sen. Ferrell Haile, R-Gallatin, is a pharmacist.
Right now I cannot compound for more than one individual at a time, Haile said. Thats why we had all this stuff coming in from other states.
The effort by Haile is in direct contrast to the situation in California, where the state pharmacy board and some legislators are working to eliminate an existing provision in California law that mirrors the provision in Hailes bill.
Virginia Herold of the California Pharmacy Board said a pending bill would eliminate a so-called prescribers exemption allowing production of compounded drugs without patient-specific prescriptions under certain circumstances.
Traditionally, compounding was used by pharmacists to create a custom medication specifically for one patient.
Haile said the Tennessee bill would allow a doctor or a dentist to order multiple doses of a compounded drug from a local pharmacist and then use them as needed on multiple patients.
Say a dentist wants to have some numbing agent. Under this bill we can send him a bottle that he can use for multiple patients, he said.
Haile said that what was happening at New England Compounding Center was entirely different because the company was really acting as a manufacturer, not a local pharmacist. But the companys operating license in Massachusetts also restricted it to mixing patient-specific medications.
The law was not followed and state inspectors were not doing their jobs, he said of the situation.
Holding pattern
Herold said many states have been in a holding pattern on drug compounding legislation while waiting to see what Congress and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will do.
Several members of Congress promised action in November when committees of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House held hearings on the disease outbreak that has sickened 720 people thus far. Forty-eight have died, including 14 who were treated in Tennessee. The tainted medicine spawned a new form of meningitis, one caused by Exserohilum rostratum, a common fungus detected in the steroid medicine.
Bills introduced in the House to better define who regulates compounding pharmacies and improve safety regulations died when Congress adjourned. The leadership of the House Energy and Commerce Committee wants to review documents it has requested from the FDA before moving any legislation forward, said Debbee Hancock, the committees press secretary. While the FDA has turned over some documents, the committee is still seeking more.
U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, the ranking Republican on the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, plans to introduce a bill.
My goal is to end the regulatory confusion, Alexander said. Having someone on the flagpole who is accountable or in charge is the best way to make sure a tragedy like the meningitis outbreak never happens again. Our intention is to have a bipartisan bill out of committee and ready for the full Senate to consider by Memorial Day. Were paying close attention to advice from medical experts, including those at the Tennessee Department of Health.
Dr. Michael Carome, a medical safety advocate with the nonprofit organization Public Citizen, has been keeping a close watch on Congress.
We obviously dont want to see a rush to introduce what could be bad legislation that wouldnt solve problems, Carome said.
While Public Citizen has criticized the FDA for failing to assert authority against New England Compounding Center, the organization would support legislation to improve safety.
We have repeatedly stated we thought the FDA dropped the ball and could have prevented this, Carome said. That said, we do think there is a role for additional legislation at the federal level that could still be useful in trying to prevent similar situations from occurring. So were not opposed to any new legislation despite our stance that the FDA had legal authority to have intervened in this case.
Herold said Californias bill would require that compounders from other states undergo inspections by California inspectors and the costs would be assessed against the compounders.
Said Herold: Unless they do something at the federal level, its going to still be a wild land out there in the states.
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Turf Paradise Race Course
|This article includes a list of references, related reading or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. (July 2015)
|Phoenix, Arizona
|33°38′05″N 112°05′33″W / 33.6348°N 112.0925°WCoordinates: 33°38′05″N 112°05′33″W / 33.6348°N 112.0925°W
|Owned by
|Jerry Simms
|Date opened
|January 7, 1956
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|thoroughbred and quarter horse
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Turf Paradise is a thoroughbred and quarter horse racetrack in the North Mountain section of Phoenix, Arizona in the United States.
In 1954 businessman Walter Cluer, a successful millwork company founder and manufacturer from Phoenix, purchased 1,400 acres (5.7 km2) of barren desert at what is now Bell Road and 19th Avenue. Cluer, who was also a horse owner, dreamt of building a first-class race track in Phoenix.
Many locals thought Cluer's ambitious project was ill-timed and destined to fail, given that the property was 25 miles (40 km) from the hustle and bustle of the burgeoning metropolis of downtown Phoenix, and that the only way to get there was via a few badly maintained dirt roads, but he forged ahead and on January 7, 1956, Turf Paradise opened its doors to great success. Cluer remained as head of the track for nearly 25 years.
In 1980, Herb Owens took over and Turf Paradise entered into a phase of renovation. A seven-furlong infield turf course with a one mile (1.6 km) and one-eighth chute was added. The Clubhouse was enlarged and a Turf Club with penthouse-style Directors' Suite and outdoor patio was also added.
Turf Paradise's third owner, Robert Walker of Scottsdale, Arizona had made a fortune with an aerospace company he had founded and sold. He purchased the track in 1989 and moved it into the gambling field of off-track betting. Walker's formula seemed to be the right approach at the right time, as he retired the track's outstanding debt and declared the first-ever dividend for Turf Paradise stockholders. In addition, Walker and a consortium of horse racing interests successfully lobbied the Arizona Legislature to legalize off track betting (OTB). The in-state OTB network is perhaps Walker's most significant contribution to the track and Arizona's racing industry. What started out as a single OTB site in little Cave Creek (pop. 4,000) in 1991, has now grown to over 45 in-state OTBs and over 900 out-of-state locales, located in six different countries.
Turf Paradise took on a corporate face in 1994 when the track was purchased in a stock acquisition by California-based Hollywood Park Racetrack under the chairmanship of R.D. Hubbard. Despite intense competition from a number of Native American in-state casino gaming interests, Turf Paradise continued to flourish and achieve record mutual handle numbers.
The new millennium provided Turf Paradise with a new owner in the person of Jerry Simms. The self-made multi-millionaire purchased Turf Paradise on June 16, 2000 for $53 million. Simms immediately set out a $5 million renovation plan. Both the Clubhouse and Turf Club were completely renovated and re-styled. Two race book-style betting carrels, of 80 private terminals each, were added, one in the Clubhouse and the other adjacent to the Turf Club.
Simms also had the main track and turf course renovated, and in the summer of 2003, Simms built a $125,000 equine swimming pool in the stable area of the race track. The 30-foot (9.1 m) by 60-foot (18 m) pool provides advanced horse therapy for more than 2,200 thoroughbreds stabled on the backside. Containing over 140,000 gallons of water and measuring 12 feet (3.7 m) in depth, the pool accommodates up to six horses at a time. The pool had an immediate effect, not only on equine health but on field size.
The track was on a healthy financial footing in 2004, and Simms purchased property at the busy 19th Avenue and Bell Road intersection adjacent to the race track. He made use of the land for commercial development and at the same time enhancing the racing operation.
Current Officers:
Jerry Simms, Chairman Vince Francia, General Manager Dave Johnson, Vice President and Assistant General Manager Patty Chakour, Chief Financial Officer
Current Administration/Officials:
Tony Toporek, Director of Television Operations Serena Simms, Director of Corporate Sales Amelia Blanco, Director of Marketing Del Blondin, Director of Security Gareth Jones, Director of Food and Beverage Jennifer Milam, Group Sales Sondra Reisinger, Director of Human Resources Frank Abbate, Director of The Silver Spoon and The Golden Rattle Kathleen Kapner, Mutuels Supervisor Lacy Borgman, Director of Mutuels Coady Photography, Track Photographer Sal Valesco, Plant Superintendent Michael Chamberlain, Announcer and TV Commentator Denny Hall, Starter Bob Beaubien, Track Superintendent Bucky Huff - Horsemen's Bookkeeper George Estrada - Association Steward
Physical attributes[edit]
The track has a one mile (1.6 km) dirt oval and a seven furlong turf oval.
The following graded stakes are run at Turf Paradise:
- MBNA America West/Southwest Airlines Championship Challenge Quarter horses (QH-GII)
- AQRA Turf Paradise Open Quarter Horse Derby (QH-GII)
- AQRA Turf Paradise Open Quarter Horse Futurity (QH-GIII)
The following stakes are run at Turf Paradise:
- The Luke Kruytbosch Stakes
- City of Phoenix Stakes
- Caballos Del Sol Stakes
- Turf Paradise 870 Challenge
- ATBA Fall Sales Stake - Colts and Gelding Division
- ABTA Fall Sales Stake - Fillies Division
- Ford West/Southwest Juvenile Challenge Quarter Horse
- AHW Atukee Express Stakes
- Saguaro Stakes
- Walter R. Cluer Memorial Stakes (Turf)
- Chandler Stakes (Turf)
- AQRA Futurity Quarter Horse
- Paradise Valley Stakes (Turf)
- Queen of the Green Handicap (Turf)
- The "Corona Cartel" Stakes Quarter Horses
- Arizona Breeders' Futurity - Colts and Geldings Division
- Arizona Breeders' Futurity - Fillies Division
- Black Mountain Handicap
- Turf Paradise Quarter Horse Championship
- Mesa Handicap
- Arizona Juvenile Fillies Stakes
- Arizona Juvenile Stakes
- Cactus Wren Handicap
- Cotton Fitzsimmons Mile (Turf)
- Swift Stakes
- Glendale Handicap (Turf)
- Sun Devil Stakes
- Rattlesnake Stakes
- Kachina Handicap
- G Malleah Handicap
- Princess of Palms Handicap
- Turf Paradise Derby
- Arizona Oaks
- Phoenix Gold Cup
- Turf Paradise Handicap (Turf)
- Sun City Handicap (Turf)
- Palo Verde Stakes
- Cactus Handicap
- Coyote Handicap
- Tempe Handicap (Turf)
- Scottsdale Handicap
- Arizona Stallion Stakes (Turf)
- Wildcat Handicap (turf)
- Cactus Flower Handicap
- Sandra Hall Grand Canyon Handicap
- Arizona Breeders' Derby
- Joanne Dye Stakes
- Ann Owens Distaff Handicap
- Dwight D. Patterson Handicap (Turf)
- Desert Sky Handicap (Turf)
- Hasta La Vista Handicap


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Barring a steeper drawdown that could be an outgrowth of sequestration, the Army is slated to reduce the size of the active component by 60,000 soldiers for an end strength of 490,000 in fiscal 2017.
The Army's personnel chief, Lt. Gen. Howard B. Bromberg, expects the Army will end fiscal 2013 on Sept. 30 with about 542,000 soldiers, or 8,000 fewer than were in the ranks on Oct. 1, 2012, the beginning of the fiscal year.
The 2013 Defense Authorization Act sets a manning window of no more than 552,000 and no fewer than 542,700 soldiers for the budget year that ends Sept. 30.
"This is something I watch every week, and as we have made improvements to the disability [evaluation] system, that has increased the number of soldiers who process through the system, which, in turn, will affect end strength," Bromberg said Jan. 31. "When that lower number of the 542,700 was set [by Congress], we did not know the full potential of what was possible with the changes to the disability evaluation system. We should easily be close to that number by the end of the year."
The authorization act also restricts the pace of the Army's force reduction to no more than 15,000 soldiers annually during the primary drawdown years of 2014 to 2017.
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STEINHAGEN, CHRISTOPHER FRIEDERICH CARL (1814–1893). C. F. Carl (Charles) Steinhagen, early Texas cabinetmaker, was born on December 21, 1814, at Warkstorf (Warekstoff, Warckdorff), Mecklenburg, Prussia, and was baptized in the Evangelican Lutheran Church at Goldebee, the son of Hans Heinerich and Maria Dorothea (Behncke or Benecke) Steinhagen. In 1844 Carl was a wagon and wheelwright apprentice in Königsberg, Prussia. He arrived in Galveston from Bremen aboard the Galliott Flora on May 21, 1849, and was naturalized in Anderson, Texas, on April 13, 1855. He was a wheelwright by trade but made wagons for the Confederacy during the Civil War. Charles Steinhagen and Emma Friedericke Schatz were married on November 27, 1850, in Houston and settled in Anderson, where he built his home in 1853. Twelve children were born, three died young, and the surviving children were educated to speak and write in English and attended churches of their choice. B. A. Steinhagen Lake in Tyler County bears the name of his eldest grandson. C. F. Carl Steinhagen died on February 19, 1893, and was buried on February 21, 1893, in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery at Anderson, where his monument still stands.
The University of Texas Winedale Properties at Roundtop was founded by Miss Ima Hogg in 1965 to reflect the cultural influence of early Texas immigrants who settled in that area, and the restoration of the McGregor-Grimm House was completed in 1973. The house is furnished with pieces collected largely by Miss Hogg to represent the many Anglo-American and German cabinetmakers in the mid-nineteenth century. Particularly notable are the parlor and bedroom suites by Carl Steinhagen, who made furniture for his family as a hobby. In the parlor is his 1850 upholstered sofa with a pair of sturgeons across the back rail and swan's heads for armrests, an 1870 upholstered rocker with matching armrests, an elaborate drum table with an acanthus-leaf carved pedestal, and two candle stands. The sofa and rocker are reminiscent of the 1830 bourgeois Biedermeier style of furniture in Prussia. The bedroom holds his 1850 four-post bed with leaf-carved posts and large acorns for finials, a walnut wardrobe with leaf-carved pilasters, and a trundle bed. An 1861 wardrobe, in the home of a descendant, matches the four-post bed with free-standing, acanthus-leaf columns and claw feet of bois d'arc wood. The furniture was found in the homes of his heirs, and Miss Ima Hogg described C. F. Carl Steinhagen as "one of the most outstanding-if not the finest-cabinetmaker who came to early Texas."
Ethel Hander Geue, New Homes in a New Land: German Immigration to Texas, 1847–1861 (Waco: Texian Press, 1970). Lonn W. Taylor, Texas Furniture: The Cabinet Makers and Their Work (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1975).
The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article.Elinor Steinhagen Burrus, "STEINHAGEN, CHRISTOPHER FRIEDERICH CARL," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fstjt), accessed November 30, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
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The U.S. Army private accused of providing diplomatic cables and other secret documents to the WikiLeaks website has plead guilty to misusing classified material, the Associated Press reports. But he denied the most serious charge in the case, aiding the enemy.
The charges Manning admitted to before a military judge at Ft. Meade carry a possible prison term of up to 20 years. Manning, 25, entered the pleas prior to his court martial in Fort Meade, Md., which is set to begin on June 3, in a case that centers on the biggest leak of government secrets in U.S. history.
Manning, 25, said he had a "clear conscience," The Telegraph reported. "I wanted the American public to know that not everyone in Iraq and Afghanistan was a target that needed to be engaged and neutralized but people struggling to live in the pressure cooker of asymmetric warfare."
The young soldier revealed for the first time how he approached both The New York Times and The Washington Post with the archive of U.S. secrets but was brushed off by both newspapers and turned instead to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks.
Manning described how he decided to begin leaking while serving as a junior intelligence analyst in Iraq in 2009-10, where he came across detailed war logs that he believed were among "the most significant documents of our time".
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James David Barclay, son of Virgil Lee and Margaret Cecelia Slach Barclay, was born, January 18, 1946 in Muscatine, Iowa. He departed this life, Saturday, August 4, 2012, in St. Mary's Health Center, Jefferson City, Missouri at the age of sixty-six years, six months and seventeen days.
On November 10, 1968 in Bennett, Iowa he was united in marriage to Sondra Leona Jones and to this union one son was born. Together they shared forty-three years of marriage.
Jim was raised in Bennett, Iowa and was a graduate of Bennett High School in the class of 1964. He served his country proudly in the United States Army during the Vietnam War. After being honorably discharged, he returned to Iowa and married the love of his life. Together, they farmed for twenty years. He then began working for Proctor and Gamble and retired after twenty years. They retired to the Lake of the Ozarks in 2005.
Jim made a profession of faith and was a member of Lake Presbyterian Church in Osage Beach. He was also a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6514 in Osage Beach.
In his spare time he enjoyed fishing and hunting. He had a passion of raising horses. Most of all, time spent with family and friends was most important to him.
He was a loving husband, father, son, brother and uncle and a caring neighbor and friend. We celebrate his life and his accomplishments and will treasure the memories he created for his family and friends.
He was preceded in death by his father and a brother, Thomas Barclay.
Survivors include his wife, Sandy Barclay of Osage Beach, Missouri; a son, David Barclay of Fargo, North Dakota; his mother, Margaret Barclay of Muscatine, Iowa; a brother, Wayne Barclay and significant other, Mary Lou Tarrant of Atalissa, Iowa and a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and many friends.
Funeral Service will be held at 10:00 a.m., Thursday, August 9, 2012 in Bentley Funeral Home, Wilton, Iowa. Burial will follow in Oakdale Cemetery, Wilton. Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m., Wednesday in the funeral home.
Memorial donations may be made to Lake Presbyterian Church and left at the funeral home or the church the day of the service.
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I was so impressed with this presentation. It's a long movie, so I suggest that you watch it in segments, but by all means watch the whole thing. Very Compelling!
Trouble Down Below
Name: Marcus
Gender: Male
Age: 20
Location: New Jersey
I have a problem that is really fucking with my head, causing all sorts of performance anxiety and, long story short; I'm still a virgin at age 20. And because of it, a few failed sexual encounters. I can get a raging boner when I'm wacking off alone, but I feel humiliated by my dick whenever I get the chance to show it off. I have what's known as a "skin bridge." I've asked a doctor about plastic surgery to correct it, and he told me it originated when my circumcision didn't heal correctly. (And the statute of limitations to sue the bastard expired long before I knew he was at fault.) Anyway, now I'm looking at a choice between this freakish tunnel of skin that goes halfway around my cock and a different, who-knows-what-kind-of-hideous scar might result from a second surgery. The situation is ruining my life. Maybe it's the root of some psychological complex driving me toward homosexuality too, but don't worry about that. If I still can't get it up for a girl after I find some peace of mind on this issue, then I'll drop the bi attitude and come out as gay no problem. What's your two cents on the surgery? I realize this might be one of your toughest questions to date.
This isn't a particularly tough question at all. And you want my two cents? Here it is: get over it! I mean, pup, really? Skin bridges from botched circumcisions are not particularly uncommon. In fact, I know two guys right here in Seattle who have the very same thing and one is a former porn star. Trust me, his skin bridge did not get in the way of him waving his thang all over the place, don't cha know.
Here's a tip: stay away from the surgeon. More cutting on your willie ain't the answer.
Here's the thing, if, when you drop trou, and your audience, male or female, gets a gander at your johnson; and they point and shriek, "OMG, that thing is hideous! Please, please, please put it away;" then I think you've got a legitimate problem. However, if no one does that, ever, then your shame and humiliation is all in your head. You've probably created a mountain out of a molehill. But, if by chance, you think I'm being unfair, or cavalier about your concern, then take a photo of your hideously deformed wiener and send it to me for my evaluation.
Now there are two ways to go in this instance. The first option is to grow up and realize that your "condition," if you can call it that, falls within the natural variance of dick size and shape. The second option is to capitalize on the very thing that makes you different. Ya know how some guys have their dick pierced and then put a ring or rod through the piercing, just to doll things up a bit? Well, you already have a natural piercing. Why not take your cock down to your local piercing parlor and get it fitted for a nice piece of genital jewelry. Then you can say with pride that you adorned what you once though as a defect and made your cock even more beautiful than it was before.
Finally I have to ask; what's up with the…if I don't get this fixed; I'm gonna go all queer. You think gay guys are less self-conscious about their equipment than straight men? If ya do, you are living in a dream world, darling.
Good luck
Tricks Of The Trade — Part 3
Today I return to a series I started back in October. (You can Find the first two parts of this series HERE and HERE!) As you may recall from back then, a friend of mine, who is writing a book about male sexuality for women, asked me if I could be her go-to-guy for a bunch of questions she had about pleasuring a man which she wants to include in her book. I think it is only fair that you, my loyal audience, should get this information before anyone else does.
Does the concept of blue balls really exist? (With all of the tantric activity that goes on, I assume it's more of a myth than anything else, but we would love to hear otherwise if I'm wrong!)
Yep, it's slang for an actual condition — congested prostate or vasocongestion caused by prolonged sexual arousal. A dude's balls and prostate will ache if an ejaculation/orgasm doesn't dissipate the trapped blood that fills the vessels in his cock and surrounding genital area during sexual arousal.
During sexual arousal, a guys balls can increase in size 25-50 percent. This is particularly true for younger men; wouldn't you just know it.
Are there any "secret spots" on the male body that we should know about, that aren't on the penis or in the butt?
You know those two things on a guy's chest? I think they're called nipples. Some men's nipples are hot wired to their dick. I know several men who are orgasmic through nipple play alone. Any man can learn to sensitize and find pleasure in their nipples or other parts of their body as well.
Are there any magical/mystical techniques that gay men have mastered that straight women should know about?
There sure are, but us gay men are sworn to secrecy about this. And I'm not about to break this sacred code of silence. However, every straight woman should have a good gay male friend that she can ask about things like this. Most gay men are not as discreet about this as I am. They will gladly tell you what they do to pleasure their men if you ask them. Get a gay friend, if you don't already have one, and have the talk. You will be amazed.
What exactly is the Frenulum? Is there any biological purpose to it? Why is it so sensitive? And what should a girl do with it?
Actually a frenulum is a small fold of skin tissue that prevents an organ in the body from moving to far from a particular location. There are frenula at several points of the body, including several in the mouth, some in the digestive tract, a couple in the vagina, and, my favorite, the one on a guy's cock.
This is an elastic band of tissue under the dickhead that connects to the foreskin, and helps cover the dickhead when not aroused. Sadly, the frenulum can be partially or even totally removed during circumcision.
Think of the frenulum as a guy's feeble excuse for a clit. It's loaded with nerve endings. If a chick wants to know what to do with a frenulum, all she has to do is ask herself what she likes having done to her clit.
Any tricks of the trade on what a gal should do with a man's testicles? Anything that will really drive him wild?
Loads of guys like having their balls stretched. Guys have been stretching their balls for just about as long as us men folk have had balls to stretch…and that's a mighty long time. The only thing that screams male virility and potency as much as a big dick is a pair of big low hangin' nuts. In fact in many societies throughout history a man's cajones were considered sacred. They were revered as objects of religious, social, cultural, and even magical power. In fact in ancient Rome, when a man would take an oath he would grab his balls, just like we put our hand on a bible today. In fact, some etymologists believe that's where we got the word, "testify," from the Latin: testis.
Men discovered early on that ball stretching was both erotic fun and relatively easy to do. Just to clarify…when I say ball stretching, what I really mean is sack (scrotum) stretching. One cannot really increase the size of his balls (testicles). Soon men in many societies were stretching their junk to call attention to their manliness. With the help of a stretching device of one sort or another, and there are several, men were able to lengthen their balls with very little effort.
A gal can help a guy do this. The simplest method, and you don't even need no stinkin' equipment for this, is called the manual method. All ya do is give your man's huevos a nice sustained tug. Alternate your tugging with some nice ball massage. Over time this will help to lengthen his ball sack because you're manually forcing it downward. The more you pull and the longer you pull, the more you will affect the hang of your guy's balls. It's also pretty sexually stimulating too.
This method is particularly effective after a hot bath or shower. His skin will be at its most pliable then. This method is safe and effective and even a rank amateur can pull it off, so to speak. This'll be fun and pleasurable all on its one. Your guy will love that you are paying his balls some attention while you're jerkin or suckin him off. And that will make him and his nuts much happier.
What are your thoughts on circumcision? We've read that it actually can cut off important nerve endings — is there any truth behind this?
I am completely opposed to infant circumcision. It is genital mutilation. And yes, it can and often does remove important nerve endings. (See question 4 above and read below.)
As to adult circumcision, I need to say one thing from the outset. It's a particularly thorny issue for me. I firmly believe in the right of an adult to augment, adorn and embellish, or in any other way customize his or her body. Just as long as that person has taken enough time to think it through. At the same time I am a furious proponent of genital integrity. So you see my conflict.
There are, of course, medical reasons for adult circumcision.
Take a really close look at a foreskin. I mean a really close look. What do you see? Veins, right? If you pinch a foreskin between your thumb and forefinger as hard as you can; what happens? OUCH! Ya know why that is? A foreskin is just chock-full of nerve endings, darlin'. A foreskin contains about 240 feet of nerve fibers and tens of thousands of specialized nerve endings, which can feel the slightest pressure, the lightest touch, the smallest motion, the subtlest changes in temperature, and the finest gradations in texture.
In many ways, a foreskin is just like one's eyelid. It covers, cleans, and protects a guy's dickhead just like one's eyelid covers, cleans, and protects one's eye. A foreskin keeps the surface of a guy's dickhead healthy, clean, shiny, warm, soft, moist, and sensitive. And there are a whole lot of us who think a foreskin is totally hot.
A foreskin is a specialized, sensitive, and functional organ of touch. No other part of the body serves the same purpose. Besides, if it's cut off, it'll remove 50% of the skin of the cock.
Finally, I'm of the mind that millions of years of evolution has provided men a covering for our dickhead for a purpose. And to remove it is simply unnatural.
This And That
Name: Sucksalottacock
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Location: Wisconsin
Does having lesbian sex feel the same as two gay guys having sex? Please answer my question asap. I'm very curious.
Yes, lesbian sex feels exactly the same as two gay guys having sex; only it's completely different.
Okay. So you, a male, want to appreciate the finer points of the Sapphic arts, is that right? Well, here's the thing—you can't. Know why? Because you aren't a woman! Unless you have female genitalia, female nerve endings, and a female nervous system and brain to tie it all together, all I can really throw at you is an endless supply of really shitty metaphors. So let me be succinct: it feels good.
The mysteries of female sexuality are completely inexplicable to us benighted men folk. We can only imagine the throws of ecstasy a woman must feel as she dissolves into a puddle of orgasmic bliss. And when ya put two of these creatures together for some hot dyke sex…ahhh well there's no wrapping our head around that no matter how hard we try.
I suppose that's why so much of straight porn is dedicated to girl-on-girl sex. Straight guys apparently love having their faces rubbed in their pitiful inadequacy, so to speak.
Good luck.
Name: Megan
Gender: Female
Age: 23
Location: Maryland
So the guy I'm seeing has a bent dick. He told me that a girl came down too hard on it and now it's bent permanently. I'm wondering if that could be true. Thank you
A serious injury to a guy's dick could indeed make it curve. But what your BF claims happened is hard for me to believe. Cock curvature is not uncommon. Fact is many men have dicks that swerve from the straight and narrow. Some curve to the left, and others to the right. Some curve up, some curve down.
You're clear on the concept of what creates wood, right? An erection occurs when two tubular structures that run the length of the penis, the corpora cavernosa, become engorged with blood. Imagine his cock is a balloon with two separate inflatable tubes on either side. If you put more air pressure in the tube on one side, the balloon will curve. Simple as all that!
Many guys believe that a bent cock is caused by wearing tight briefs instead of boxers or that it's caused by circumcision or jerking off too much. These are all myths. However, rough or heavy-handed masturbation during one's youth can promote a curvature later in life. That's why I always promote handling one's pecker with a great deal of care.
Good luck.
More SEX WISDOM With Yvonne Fulbright — Podcast #390 — 09/18/13
Hey sex fans! Welcome back.
That internationally famous sexologist, sex educator, author, relationship expert, advice columnist, and television and radio personality Dr. Yvonne Fulbright is back with us today for Part 2 of her turn on the SEX WISDOM show. And that means I get to ask her all the questions I didn't get to last week. So yay for that!
But wait, you didn't miss Part 1 of this show, did you? Well not to worry if ya did, because you can find it and all my podcasts in the Podcast Archive right here on my site. All ya gotta do is use the search function in the header; type in Podcast #389 and Voilà! But don't forget the #sign when you do your search.
Yvonne and I discuss:
- Sex coach/sex therapy;
- Sexual performance concerns for women — preorgasmia;
- Performance anxiety;
- Sexual performance concerns for men — premature ejaculation;
- Masturbation and self-pleasuring;
- Expanding our sexual repertoire;
- Sex trends — circumcision;
- Erection enhancers;
- The G-spot debate;
- Sex play;
- Who inspires her and her sexual heroes.
Yvonne invites you to visit her on her site HERE! Her Sensual Fusion site HERE! Her Facebook page HERE! And her twitter feed HERE!
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3 remain in hospitals after 2 separate fatalities
Three people remained hospitalized on Friday for injuries they suffered in two separate Westmoreland County accidents on Thursday that claimed the lives of two women.
Shawn Schantz, 23, of Pittsburgh, was in fair condition in Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh's North Side, according to a spokeswoman.
He was a passenger in a vehicle driven by Brandon W. Thiem, 25, of Derry, who was in fair condition in UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Oakland, according to a spokeswoman.
Thiem's 1997 Audi A4 was traveling east on Route 22 in Salem when a westbound 2000 Mitsubishi Eclipse, driven by Amanda Ciccarelli, 39, of Salem, turned in front of him about 4:30 p.m., state police at Kiski said.
Ciccarelli was pronounced dead at the scene by county Deputy Coroner Joshua Zappone.
A third person was in UPMC Presbyterian after an accident around 6 p.m. on Route 130 in Unity. Acacia Macey, 20, of Greensburg was in good condition, a hospital spokeswoman said. She was a passenger in a car driven by Janessa J. Fleming, 25, of Janessa Drive, Armstrong Township, Indiana County. Fleming was pronounced dead in the emergency department at Excela Health Westmoreland Hospital in Greensburg, according to the coroner's office.
Fleming's 2006 Honda Accord was turning from Pleasant Unity-Mutual Road onto Route 130 and crossed in front of a westbound 2011 Ford Ranger driven by Richard Bowers, 48, of Mt. Pleasant, state police at Greensburg said.
Bowers was treated at Excela Health Latrobe Hospital and released, a spokeswoman said.
Ciccarelli died of blunt force injuries to the head, abdomen and the thorax, according to the Westmoreland County Coroner's Office.
Fleming died of blunt force injuries to the head, neck and thorax, the coroner's office said.
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Green Building
Wisconsin home combines green technology and green surroundings
A couple in Baraboo, Wisconsin, was able to convert their dream house into reality, as the Bruns family completed their home in the woods with a radiant heating system and three-and-a-half acres of wildlife for surroundings, according to Madison Magazine.
Stephen and Amy Bruns wanted to separate themselves from society and reduce their carbon footprint at the same time. They were able to accomplish these tasks in the construction of their modern house.
The couple discovered the property in the woods and decided to move forward with the construction.
"This was really a great opportunity to explore ideas," Stephen told the Magazine.
The couple wanted to use sustainable technology for their residence, due to their love for the environment and their desire to pay less for energy. They settled on a radiant heating system for their 1,500-square-foot home.
A radiant heating system can fit nicely into a small residence, as the technology doesn't require the use of radiators, air vents or heating ducts, which can often take up space and make the residence look crowded.


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Homefront (1991–1993)
World War II is over and the boys from the town of River Run, Ohio, are coming home. It seems that life is slowly back to normal, but war has changed everything and they will never be the same again.
Creators:Lynn Marie Latham, Bernard Lechowick
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