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Listed below are our archive of questions and answers from
The Urology Forum
for the medical topic: Sexual Dysfunction. Please feel free to browse our sexual dysfunction archive below,
our site for additional information about sexual dysfunction, or browse the
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for this forum.
2007 Sexual Dysfunction Q&A
Weak Erections | Penile Trauma | Suspensory Ligament?
ED. Physical or Psychological?
penile erectile tissue ischemia with prolonged erections ?
ED Problem - is it Endocrine, Urological, or both?
Oxygen Tension and ED
Prolonged Erection and Penis Issues
ED for 3 years, now with blue balls
Erection difficulties
erection disfunction
Errection, pain, and ejaculation problems
2006 Sexual Dysfunction Q&A
ED since early age
Please Help!!
priapism, scared of damage to the soft tissue in penis
Low Testosterone, High Prolactin
Foreskin Blocking Erection?
No Ejaculation since last week, although feel orgasm usually
Prothiaden problem.
Interaction of Gabapentin and Cialis?
Penile Trauma - now loose at base
Low Libido redux
Flexible erection
Loss of sensitivity in penis, seems more flaccid than normal
Bicycle Seat caused sexual problems
maintaining an erection
Numbness of the penis
jelqing injury
2005 Sexual Dysfunction Q&A
Penis and scrotum numbness.
Shrinking testes
zero capability of sex
Retrograde and more - HELP PLEASE
Any hope other than implant?
Low Libido w/ Normal Testosterone
Hormonal imbalance
Phleboliths in the Tunica Albuginea
Unstable sex drive and impotence
regarding lack of feeling in erection
erectile dysfunction
No pleasure sensation in from my penis
Restricted Ejaculation!
penis problem
Sexual Dysfunction Question
2004 Sexual Dysfunction Q&A
benadryl and possible erection problems
delayed ejaculation
Cannot last long enough, loose erection while having intercourse.
why isn't he cmming
low testosterone and weak erections
penile girth shrinkage
Penile Fracture repair
Problems reaching Ejaculation and holding erections
Possible Impotence from Benadryl
impotence from drugs
Delayed ejaculation resulting from zoloft
Pain during ejaculation and blood in the semen that follows
Nerve Damage and Erections
top of penis just below head doesn't fully erect
My ability to have an orgasm has dwindled away.
Erectile Dysfunction
Loss of feeling/sensitivity in glans
27 year old male with severe ED
Trouble ejaculating due to medications for depression § anxiety
2003 Sexual Dysfunction Q&A
Erectile Dysfunction, possible cause...
Small Genatles
Erectile Dysfunction Attributable to Cervical Spondylosis
Why have I lost my sexual desire?
Impotence secondary to Disc Injury
Lost a bit sensity at the tip of penis
Partial Penile Swelling
not firm// less satisfaction
Complications from colon surgery
Low libido and ED
erection pain
Weak Erection
28 year old male with Real Impotence
Can UTI/Urethritis burning cause tendancy toward premature ejaculation?
Do certain drugs impair Viagra
erectile dysfunction
Ruptured Testicle
Further question to Tracey
one testical
Panic due to not masturbating
erection pain
Hyper Arousal
Sexual problem
Redness or red spots on the tip of the penis.
Testosterone Injections and Impotence
unusual penile shrinkage(70+)
Is an inability to Mastrubate a dysfunction
intercourse and urinary sensations
Delayed/retarded ejaculation
Frequency of Viagra Use
Non Gonno Urethritis
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diaphane Wrote:Tracy, I just checked the number of replies and the hits of your post. I think that's the greatest and most successful drawing ever on this forum. Congratulations!
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What you do may not be so important, but it is very important that you do it well. (my variation of a saying by Gandhi)
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Coaching Career:
Keith Williams joined the Fresno State football coaching staff on Feb. 24, 2009 ... coached Jamel Hamler, who earned second-team All-WAC honors in 2010 ... Hamler led the team with 812 yards and six touchdowns ... led the growth and development of Fresno State's outstanding senior corps in 2009, which was led by second-team All-WAC pick Seyi Ajirotutu ... spent the 2008 season with the San Diego Chargers in a minority internship coaching position ... prior to joining the Chargers, Williams coached at San Jose City College ... Williams led the Jaguar's offensive attack from 2005-2008 as both the offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach ... in 2001, Williams began a four-year stint as the receivers coach for San Jose State under head coach Fitz Hill ... he tutored four Spartans who ranked among the SJSU record books for most career receiving yards ... guided Edell Shepherd, who set the Spartan's single season record for receiving yards (1,500) and touchdowns (14), both in 2001 ... served as the receivers coach at Solano College in 2000.
Playing Career:
A talented receiver for San Diego State from 1991-1993 ... one of the most memorable moments of his collegiate career was scoring on a 73-yard touchdown pass against Fresno State ... also competed for the Aztecs' track and field team, running a best of 10.31 in the 100-meters, good for a third place finish at the WAC championships ... signed a free agent contract with the Washington Redskins after college ... played professionally in the World League of American Football ... also played for the Saskatchewan Roughriders ... before San Diego State, Williams competed on the football, basketball and track teams for Tokay High School in Lodi, Calif. ... earned All- San Joaquin Valley, all-area and all-league first-team honors.
Born June 18, 1971 in Lima, Ohio ... he and his wife, Ayana, have two children, a son, Keyan, and a daughter, Kaya ... earned a Bachelor of Arts in public administration from San Diego State.
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But…It felt very foreboding from the moment we entered the front door. Not only was it dark and not too clean, the walls seemed to talk. To me, the feel was that this wasn't a happy home, or hadn't been for quite some time. The carpets, old Orientals, were so worn that you could barely make out any pattern. The kitchen was circa 1950 and the kitchen and bath upstairs were even older. Rooms with aged trunks, WWII uniforms and other items from days gone by made one really feel this house was where time stood still. It seemed like a woman's touch was once there, but left long ago.
This beautiful hand painted paper mache pin was in a box with some other miscellaneous do dads – someone had missed that is was of value. It was Russian and signed. I grabbed it immediately. It sold right away. I debated keeping it myself because it was smashing on a black cashmere scarf I had but I knew it would go fast. And it did.
But I kept this clock that was on the living room wall near the front entrance. I saw it as I was cashing out. I was drawn to it because it was so retro. Not only was it still ticking and keeping time, it had the original tags on it from when it was first purchased – so in more than one way, it was keeping time. I bought it and immediately because I liked the leaves around the face. It is a working clock from the United Clock Manufacturing Corp. and still has its original tag on it. The tag has a warranty that obviously is outdated, but it was like this clock was hung on the wall so many years ago and never touched again – not even to remove the tag. All I could think was that someone bought this new and it just stayed frozen in time, just like most things in this house.
There was one gorgeous frame in a parlor that was huge and ornate and very old. It held a horrible piece of artwork in red, yellow and golds that screamed ugly, but the ivory inlay on the dark wood was spectacular. Priced at over $300, it was beyond my means but was one thing of real beauty. If I needed a large frame, I would have gotten it in a minute.
Throughout the rooms in this house, there were only indications of times ago – there appeared to be nothing of this day and age. But for one exception – a box of Hustler magazines in a cardboard box that left me feeling a bit off.
After I made my purchases, I couldn't wait to get out of there. For days, I couldn't shake the sad feeling that stayed with me after being in the house where time seemed to stand still. But the clock is still ticking.
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Here's the latest in possibly questionable quotes–this one by Leona Lewis, on upcoming album Glassheart (yes, still upcoming; yes, entire album arcs have come up in the time it's been "upcoming") and what sort of vocal stylings it'll contain:
"On my new album I will be rapping. I've discovered my voice for rapping. … I could probably go up against Nicki Minaj now. I'm actually that good, so I'm coming for you Nicki!
Before you turn this into some indication of actual beef beef–this is not hypothetical, we've seen multiple comments–look. "Rapping" can mean lots of things: 1) rapid-fire, intricate, fierce, rappity-rap rapping; 2) pop-rap, which often sounds an awful lot like straight singing; 3) those vaguely spoken, half-melodic mumbles that people–especially the ones doing it–like to call rap. Leona Lewis is probably going to be doing 2) or 3). Nicki mostly does 2) these days, but she's still capable of 1), and anyone hypothetically taking her on in a rap battle will be doing 1). There's also the thing where this comment is obviously a joke. That is, Leona's rapping isn't a joke–the bragging is. Please take this exactly as seriously as it should be taken.
Or if you're going to take it seriously, at least take the trivia seriously too: this isn't Leona Lewis's first appearance in the rap game. Kanye West got her foot in the door, via one foot in a verse on "Dark Fantasy." All we need now is for Caleb Followill to start rapping.


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CONCORD, N.H., June 7— Gov. Jeanne Shaheen today signed into law a measure making the state the 11th to give lesbians and gay men protection against discrimination.
''If we are to be true to our belief that all people are created equal,'' Governor Shaheen said at a signing ceremony, ''we must insure that all of our people enjoy the same basic rights under the law.'' The law, which will take effect on Jan. 1, will provide protection in employment, housing and public accommodation.


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Randy Shannon: "We're still not where we need to be."
CORAL GABLES _ Last week I heard from the UM fan base … often.
By email. By twitter. By IM.
Everyone was disappointed with the tone of my game story from last week's win at UCF. They felt it was too critical. After all, the `Canes won by 20 points. One particular e-mail asked me to "jump on board" and another said UM should've been praised for "weathering the storm."
Earlier this week, I brought up the subject with UM coach Randy Shannon. Point blank, I asked was he happy with the win.
"I'm always happy with a win," Shannon said.
I asked again.
"I'm always happy with a win," he said.
Anyone who has covered Shannon knows what this means. When he repeats himself, it's his way of avoiding the real answer. Remember the infamous Texas A & M press conference last year?
Bottom line is this: The `Canes were happy to get the win, but that's about it. Too many sacks. Poor special teams play. The offense failed to capitalize on opportunities, even LaRon Byrd said so on 790 AM with Jorge Sedano.
"I'm always happy with a win, but I'm not happy with the way we're playing right now," Shannon said. "We're still not where we need to be."
I'm not sure this is just Shannon having high expectations or a motivation ploy. He truly thinks his team should be playing better. He felt the Oklahoma game shouldn't have "been as close as it was." There were several spurts against FAMU and UCF where the Hurricanes struggled.
"I don't think we've played the way we should all season," Shannon said. "We'll win games, but at some point in the game, we've done things that can cost you. If we're going to be a really good team, you can't do that."
Shannon laid into the team a little more this week, especially special teams. It's why they have been doing punishment drills after practice, the only portion the media is allowed to see. This Clemson game is a dangerous one, almost like Virginia Tech. If the Hurricanes get caught off guard …
"If you keep playing like this, eventually, it's going to catch up to you," Shannon said. "We can't keep doing these things."
Here's this week's injury report:
The only players ruled out is fullback Pat Hill.
RB Graig Cooper – Lower Extremity
OL Joel Figueroa – Lower Extremity
DL Josh Holmes – Lower Extremity
RB Javarris James – Lower Extremity
RB Mike James – Lower Extremity
WR Aldarius Johnson – Upper Extremity
DL Eric Moncur – Lower Extremity
DB JoJo Nicolas – Upper Extremity
DB Randy Phillips – Upper Extremity
FB Patrick Hill – Lower Extremity
Surgery and Out for the Season
DL Dyron Dye – Lower Extremity
DL Marcus Forston – Lower Extremity
LB Jordan Futch – Lower Extremity
TE Richard Gordon – Upper Extremity
LB Shayon Green – Lower Extremity
DE Gavin Hardin – Upper Extremity
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Golf Courses In The Woodlands, Texas
There are seven golf courses located throughout The Woodlands, offering golfers of all skill levels the opportunity to play a wide variety of challenging links. These courses are also home to several annual golf tournaments held throughout the year. The courses are listed based on distance from The Woodlands Town Center. Click on the course name to view more information on the course, including course construction, greens fees and tournaments.
A golf course consists of a series of holes, each hole consisting of a teeing area for the first shot, a long fairway, a rough area and other hazards, ending with a green surrounding the pin and the cup. A round of golf consists of playing 18 holes, which is the typical size. Some Golf Courses however, only have nine holes and the course is played twice per round, while others have either 27 holes or 36 holes with the players choosing some combination of groups of nine holes at a time for novelty and sometimes due to maintenance reasons. For other than municipal courses, there is usually a golf club based at each golf course.
There are also two disc golf courses right here in The Woodlands. Both frisbee golf courses are FREE.
Woodlands Golf Center Driving Range:
The Woodlands Country Club Palmer Courses (King, Deacon & General):
The Woodlands Country Club Tournament (East) Course:
The Club At Carlton Woods, Nicklaus Course:
Canongate At The Woodlands, Panther Trail Course:
The Club At Carlton Woods Creekside, Fazio Course
Canongate At The Woodlands, The Oaks Course:
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A decorated Iraq war veteran is accused of shooting his police officer wife dead in a Christmas Eve ambush.
10:15, UK, Saturday 05 January 2013
The husband of a Milwaukee police officer who was shot dead while on duty over Christmas has appeared in court charged with her murder.
Benjamin Sebena, 30, waived his right to a preliminary hearing after being brought into court in a wheelchair wearing a suicide-prevention vest.
The Iraq war veteran is accused of ambushing his 30-year-old wife, Jennifer Sebena, while she conducted a solo patrol in the early hours of Christmas Eve.
He is due to be arraigned on January 24 on a first-degree intentional homicide charge.
Prosecutors have alleged he shot her five times in the face and later told investigators he was jealous of other men's attention towards his wife.
CCTV pictures show his car near the scene around the time of the shooting, prosecutors said.
It is claimed the police-issue weapon used in the murder was also found in the attic of the couple's home.
Mrs Sebena was in her second year with the Wauwatosa police department.
Court papers allege she had told a colleague about three weeks earlier that her husband had put a gun to her head.
Sebena is being held on $1m (£615,000) cash bail. He faces life imprisonment if convicted.
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On Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Senate Republicans shot down with a 54 – 42 vote an attempt to open floor debate on the raising the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, refusing even a Senate discussion on ways to alleviate the plight of millions of Americans who, despite working full-time jobs, find themselves in poverty.
The Minimum Wage Fairness Act is designed to raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $10.10 an hour over a two-and-a-half year period, then tie future minimum wage increases to inflation increases going forward.
Adjusted for inflation, the present $7.25 minimum wage has a fraction of the purchasing power it once had.
The yeas and nays were straight down party lines, with 52 democrats and two independents voting for the bill and 42 republicans voting against the bill. Three republicans, Boozman of Arkansas, Cochran of Mississippi and Wicker of Mississippi and one democrat, Pryor of Arkansas, did not vote while Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) changed his Yea vote to a Nay vote in a procedural measure in order to be able to bring the bill back up for another vote at a later time.
Sixty votes were required in this non-Constitutionally-mandated cloture procedural vote prior to the final simple majority vote required by the Constitution. Had this been a simple majority vote, the bill would have passed.
The sponsor of the bill is democratic Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa. The legislation also includes 37 democratic and independent co-sponsors.
An increase in the minimum wage would reduce the necessity for low income working Americans to rely on government sponsored programs like food stamps and Medicaid for their basic survival. Though the GOP platform is strictly against governmental programs to help alleviate the plight of the poor, republicans are also opposed to insuring the right for millions of Americans to earn a living wage through hard work.
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With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, David Sedaris has become one of America's pre-eminent humorists. He returns to our Great Hall stage armed with his razor-sharp observations, slicing through cultural euphemisms and political correctness with whimsical satire.
Sedaris' work includes books such as Barrel Fever, Holidays on Ice, Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary (with illustrations by Ian Falconer) and his latest, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls.


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JAKARTA, Indonesia - University of Oregon sophomore Jonathan Woo capped an impressive run in the 52nd Putra Cup Friday at the Emeralda Golf Club.
The Singapore native (72-69-69-66-276 (-12)) added six strokes to his lead the final day to win by nine strokes. Overall, he posted 23 birdies and 39 pars to pull away from Srithong Natipong (second, 74-70-73-68-285 (-3)).
Woo's Team Singapore squad placed second in the four-day event, 13 strokes behind Thailand, who had also won the Lion City and Santi Cups. For comparison'sa sake, Singapore placed fifth in the latter events.
Complete results from the event are available at the following URL address
The three events were part of the 2012 South-East Asia Amateur Golf Team Championship hosted by Indonesia.
As a collegian in 2011-12, Woo played seven events for Oregon in the spring and was one of the team's top freshmen.
Among his 22 rounds in stroke play for UO, he shot five rounds under par, and another at par, and posted a 73.7 scoring average. Among his top placings, he tied for seventh twice in the Bandon Dunes Championship (+2) and NCAA Ann Arbor Regional (-5), and had a third, top-25 effort in the Oregon Duck Invitational (16th, +3).
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GALT – When the Sac-Joaquin Section Division-V Baseball Championships come rolling around once a season there is usually little room for mistakes.
Sierra High girls soccer coach Manuel Pires never formally opened negotiations with Oakdale's Alfredo Quiroga.
Dan Triglia graduated from Manteca High but now coaches East Union's baseball team across town.
LODI – Jordan Kron was not greedy in a quest for run support during the Sac-Joaquin Section Division-IV playoff opener for East Union, but there was no way he could have imagined that three first-inning runs would be more than enough to advance to the next round and end Galt's season with a 5-0 loss Thursday.
LODI – When the Manteca High baseball team sent 14 batters to the plate and pushed across nine runs in the top of the first inning victory seemed like an afterthought, but that was far from the case as the Central Catholic Raiders fought valiantly only to succumb 13-8 in the first round of the Sac-Joaquin Section Division-IV playoffs Thursday.
MODESTO - Ulysses Knapps made good on a promise made to his father, Zolton, before he passed away on Thanksgiving Day last fall.
STOCKTON - Iyana Hughes delivered once again for Sierra High.
Sierra High's girls soccer team went with the "it's not how you start, but how you finish" approach in its Sac-Joaquin Section Division-IV semifinal match at Vista del Lago of Folsom Thursday
Iyana Hughes, a prototypical top-of-the-order slapper, puts pressure on defenses with her speed.
Before Iyana Hughes' heroic base hit lifted Sierra High's softball team to win a 2-1 Sac-Joaquin Section Division-IV playoff game against Central Catholic, it took a heroic effort from four Manteca Unified groundskeepers to get the school's varsity field in playing shape Wednesday.
In her four years of athletics at East Union High, senior Jillian Goulart had little difficulty shinning on a softball field or on a golf course. Now the graduating Lancer will narrow her responsibilities to just one sport, as she signed a letter of intent to play softball for the Simpson University Red Hawks in Redding.
MODESTO – When Jerrica Hauck quietly slipped onto the scene a year ago in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division III Track and Field Trials at Modesto Junior College she won the meet with a personal best 10-foot vault. This year Hauck was on her own personal stage, leading the crowd like at a concert and winning the meet – with another personal record.
It was as dominant as a 2-0 win could be.
Ripon High's first-round playoff baseball game against Capital Christian of Sacramento was postponed Tuesday morning due to rain.
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Christy Hronkin and John Hersman of Algomah Acres examine an observation hive at the Ontonagon County Fair on Saturday. This type of hive is a frame of bees without the queen which the public can view. The group also demonstrated candle making.
GREENLAND — Cold winds, temperatures in the high 40s and low 50s held crowds down and caused some cancellations at the Ontonagon County fair in Greenland over the weekend.
Michele Smith, Superintendent of the Ontonagon County Fair and treasurer of the fair board, examines the Grand Champion, Best of Show in quilting. The cathedral Windsor quilt was hand-stitched by Ruth Morris, Mass City.
Friday night's stormy weather forced cancellation of the stock car races and things got even worse on Saturday. Motocross races were cancelled and the Timber Trails Riding Club speed show as a memorial to Jackie Strauch had to be transferred to Houghton County.
A hardy group of runners showed up despite the 46-degree, rainy conditions on Saturday for the Outback walk/run bundled up as if it were January.
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Let $X$ be a locally compact Hausdorff space, $C_{00}$ the collection of continuous functions on $X$ with relatively compact support. Then let $I \in C_{00}^*$ such that $f \in C_{00}$ nonnegative implies $I(f)\geq 0$.
Define for nonnegative lower semi continuous $g$, $$J(g) = sup(I(f): f\in C_{00}, 0\leq f \leq g)$$.
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I may be getting more attentive to this, but kids these days are getting worse since my days as a teenager (not too long ago- I think), or I'm turning into a prude. Yesterday afternoon I opened our windows only to hear around 4 teenagers playing basketball on our small street yelling Sh*t and F***, really loud, when they missed the "hoop" or something like that. All while I was feeding Cheerios to my daughter who was talking in gibberish (I imagined her just throwing the Cheerio and yelling 'Sh** Dadda!!'). I immediately walked outside and told the kids "Hey guys, watch the language, I can hear you like you're in my breakfast nook". Most of the kids are friends of one of the neighbors, but their reaction was that of "What'd I do?" even to the point of one of the kids saying "Huh? We didn't cuss". Really? The kids did stop and were pretty quiet afterwords, which was good. Somehow I don't think they're use to somebody calling them on swearing.
I don't know what the deal is these days, call it parent-syndrome, but I'm getting more irritated with it. Yeah, I hear it at work, sometimes I or friends say something in context of a story (with adults around), but we don't use F*** like saying "the".
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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - Junior Ja'Warren Hooker, who broke Washington's 19-year-old men's 200-meter record last weekend, was named the Pacific-10 Conference men's track Athlete of the Week on Tuesday by Commissioner Thomas Hansen.
Hooker clocked a speedy 200-meter time of time of 20.33 on Saturday in Tempe, Ariz. to shatter the Husky record of 20.46 established in 1981 by LaNoris Marshall. That time ranks No. 8 among all-time Pac-10 sprinters and ties Hooker for second among NCAA competitors this season.
Hooker also registered a time of 10.23 in the 100 meters on Saturday, his fastest legal time this season. Earlier this season, Hooker matched the school record he established during 1998 with a wind-aided 100 time of 10.18.
A product of Ellensburg (Wash.) High School, Hooker has now reached NCAA automatic qualifying standards in the 100- and 200-meter events. He will compete at the NCAA Division I Championships, May 31-June 3 in Durham, N.C.
Hooker's 200-meter performance marked the third Washington school record to fall this season, including the men's 5,000-meter mark by junior David Bazzi (13:47.63) and women's pole vault by Sandy Erickson (12-3 1/2).
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Miranda Kerr braved the trendy white crop top in New York City. The supermodel didn't let the arctic air ruin her sense of style. Style Bistro reported on Feb. 4 that the model was seen in an actual crop top in the dead of winter.
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In the years of peace and prosperity our fathers paid for with their blood our government has become a bloated fortress against common sense. We have an education department that teaches no one. We have an IRS filled with employees that don't pay their own taxes. A Justice Department that uses different standards of justice depending on race. We have a president in charge of it all but responsible for nothing. What isn't the previous administrations fault is the founding fathers fault who didn't give him the same powers as King George.
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The Shooting Star wildflowers in Rocky Mountain National Park are just spectacular! I've only seen them in two places in the park…Lily Lake and Black Canyon Trail on Lumpy Ridge.
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Ke$ha (now officially known as the rainbow-haired Kesha Rose) is working on new music, and according to Billboard Brazil, it's with EDM maestro Zedd.
Most people will know Zedd from his hits "Clarity" and "Stay The Night," and if not, then you'll know him for producing a few songs from Lady Gaga's ARTPOP album, including latest single, "G.U.Y."
Zedd also co-produced Justin Bieber's super catchy "Beauty and a Beat" with Max Martin, as well as the amazing "Heaven" for Japanese pop icon Namie Amuro.
I know it's cool to hate on ARTPOP right now, but that album had some pretty great songs, and "G.U.Y." is one of them. A Kesha/Zedd collabo would be bonkers, but on the other hand, it probably wouldn't be much different to a lot of the Dr. Luke music she's been rebelling against for so long.
Not that that's a bad thing. Hopefully Kesha Rose's new album will have more mature, organic material ("Wonderland" is everything!!!), but still include some of the bratty electro-pop that made us love her in the first place.
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2013 was a great year for hip hop but before the year was over, Eminem was the talk of hip hop. He had the second biggest debut in 2013 with almost 800 thousand units sold. He only trailed Justin Timberlake.
At one point, Eminem had four songs in the top 20.The Beattles were the last artist to achieve this feat. Eminem was dominating not only hip hop, but music in general. The self proclaimed rap god wasn't just talk, he was backing it up with numbers.
Eminem's single with Rihanna "Monster" topped the Billboards Hot 100. This is Eminem's fifth time topping the Billboards Hot 100.
Eminem's 8th album "The Marshall Mathers LP 2" sold over 1.7 million units when 2013. The album will most likely go double platinum. Eminem is the most successful rapper and it looks like he hasn't lost his touch.
On top of his latest album topping the charts, his old albums also made an appearance in the Top 200 charts. "Recovery" sold 167,000 units in 2013. The Eminem Show sold 165,000 units and "Curtain Call" sold 145,000 units in 2013.
Eminem is the only person who can sell his old albums as if they came out yesterday. It isn't hard to fathom his old albums popularity because there is no other artist like Eminem and their never will be.
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EMU celebrates Advent 2013
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Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians
Reid, John (Charles)
Reid, John (Charles), tenor saxophonist, clarinetist and flutist; b. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 13 December 1951.
After playing with local rock bands in Calgary, Reid turned professional in 1971 with the 25 piece show group Stratus Faction which toured North America and did TV shows for CTV and CBC networks. He also toured with territory funk bands in the 70s before completing his B.M. at the University of Calgary in 1979. He has been leading his own jazz groups since 1974, when, at the encouragement of teachers Phil Nimmons and Oscar Peterson, he formed a quartet at the first annual Banff Centre Jazz Workshop to make a Jazz Radio Canada broadcast. A stint with Alberta Culture took Reid to Edmonton music in 1980-81 where he played with Tommy Banks, George Blondheim, Bob Stroup and others before he returned to Calgary where gigs with the Saturday Pro Band gave him the opportunity to play with guests Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Horn and Bob Brookmeyer. John Reid has accompanied several big names in his career including: Harry Connick Jr., Kenny Wheeler, Tom Jones, Bob Hope, Della Reese, Red Skelton, Connie Stevens, Joan Rivers, Lou Rawls, and Richard Heyman & the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra among others. When Gino Vanelli played Calgary in the fall of 1990, Reid was invited to be the local guest saxophone player to play the saxophone solo on Vanelli's hit For Your Love. In May of 1991, the John Reid Quartet played the warm-up set for Mel Torme at the Jack Singer Concert Hall of the Calgary Centre for Performing Arts. Reid premiered his new work for solo tenor saxophone (Improvisation No. 1) for the New Works Calgary society in September of 1991. He was a member of the orchestra that recorded music for the 1988 Winter Olympic Games. He is founder and past chairman of the Calgary International Jazz Festival and founding secretary and past president of the Jazz Calgary society. The John Reid Quartet is active in Edmonton, Saskatoon, Calgary. He has appeared on the national network of CBC Television. He began working on hi s M.A. in Jazz History and Research at Rutgers-Newark in 1998 via distance learning.
Island Shuffle (1993)
Radio broadcasts:
Jazz Radio Canada broadcast; Broadcast recordings for ACCESS / CKUA Radio; CBC network radio (November 1991; aired 1992); CKRA-FM (Edmonton); CHQR-AM (Calgary)
Mark Miller, Boogie, Pete & the Senator - Canadian Musicians in Jazz: The Eighties
(Nightwood Editions, 1987).
Contact information:
John Reid
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I put "we" in quotes because we are We the people. The men who trained ISIS were under orders from the US oligarchy, our enemy. Let us never forget that, in the area of foreign and military affairs, the term US generally references a group of oligarchs acting in direct opposition to We the People. We need to stop taking even part of the blame for things that we oppose. They are not we. They are the enemy. We are … [Read more...]
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Comment – July 16, 2013
Worked for USG for 2.5 years at their new plant in Norfolk. For a brand new plant it is one of the worst I have seen. Weekly maintenance was fixing the same problems over and over and over again. Plant manager wasn't interested in a solution just wanted to get things put back together so plant could run. Maintenance shop crew went from maintenance to production because of management ideas to save a buck. Production would want you to adjust board spec numbers during a shift so boards would meet specs when entered into computer database. Waste pile behind plant from bad board is almost bigger than the plant. Worst job I ever had. Co workers were the best except for the suck ups. City crew broke a water pipe that feeds the plant and shut it down for the day and plant manager says" it's an act of GOD" so USG won't have to pay people that were showing up for the next shift 4 hours minimum. Plant manager is the stupidest man I ever meet in my life. I could go on and on and on.


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Another important new addition is Sasquatch Lite for creating and rendering hair, fur, and grass. This feature is based on Worley Laboratories' Sasquatch for LightWave-"definitely the most popular hair and fur system among users," says LightWave third party manager David Tracy. Sasquatch Lite controls enable users to fine-tune the coarseness, frizziness, length, color, and glossiness of hair, and also to "comb" strands to fall or lean in a certain direction.
Additional features include the ability to use sprites within NewTek's HyperVoxel or 3D pixel technology. This allows users to create 2D slices of HyperVoxel imagery, allowing for quicker previews and for smaller image files in scenes that do not require a full volumetric effect. Other features are a spreadsheet editor that enables users to view and edit all the elements in a scene in spreadsheet format; voxel baking for advanced smoke and liquid effects without extensive render times; a feature called SkyTracer 2 that allows for the creation of a variety of atmospheric effects, including the sun rising or setting; a new depth-of-field filter called Digital Confusion and a host of other new features.
Version 7b, described by NewTek as a maintenance update for Version 7, which launched in August, adds speed increases and optimizations for both the Intel SSE2 and the Apple AltiVec instruction set. LightWave runs on Mac OS 9 and OS X platforms, as well as on Windows 98/NT/2000/ME operating systems running on AMD-, DecAlpha-, or Intel-powered machines. The software costs $2495. (NewTek; www.newtek.com)
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And the hits just keep on coming over at Marvel Studios. Already having lured the likes of Robert Redford, Michael Douglas, Glen Close, Paul Rudd, and John C. Reilly into their superhero world, they haven't stopped shooting for the moon. In fact, if the latest rumor is true they could be on the verge of bringing in one of today's biggest stars in Johnny Depp.
According to Latino Review, Depp has met with Marvel about the lead in Doctor Strange. There isn't much more to the report than that, except to note that if Depp does sign on it would mean some overhauling of the script is in order. Joseph Gordon-Levitt had been mentioned for the part some months ago, before he ended up taking the Sandman gig, and at the time Doctor Stephen Strange was envisioned as a much younger man. That would need to change if the 50-year-old Depp comes aboard. He is closer in age to the comic book version of the character, who is known as the "Master of the Mystic Arts" and Marvel's "Sorcerer Supreme".
Depp is obviously familiar with Disney through Pirates of the Caribbean and...*ahem*...The Lone Ranger, but that close association could also be a problem. Alice in Wonderland 2 isn't that far away as its due to open in 2016, and there's always Pirates of the Caribbean 5 which is in a holding pattern. How Depp could fit in two huge flicks as those with a possible franchise in Doctor Strange is anybody's guess, but it would be interesting to see if Disney shifts things around to accommodate him.
Personally, I don't want to see Depp adding his quirks to Doctor Strange and would prefer almost anybody else in the role. Fortunately this is all just rumor for now, and the film hasn't even been formally announced for Marvel's Phase Three.


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Test-first programming is the least controversial and most widely adopted part of Extreme Programming (XP). By now the majority of professional Java™ programmers have probably caught the testing bug. (See Resources for more information on being "test infected.") JUnit is the Java community's de facto standard test framework, and a system without a comprehensive JUnit test suite is incomplete. If your projects have comprehensive test suites, congratulations; you're producing good-quality software that has some hope of working. But most code bases are quite complex. Are you sure that every method is tested and every branch followed? If not, how will your application behave when those methods and branches are executed in production?
Code coverage
The next step beyond testing code is measuring the tests with a code coverage tool. Code coverage is a way of seeing how much code is covered by a set of tests. Confidence requires knowing not only that the program as a whole is tested but that each method is tested under all possible conditions. Traditionally such measurements have been performed by monitoring the tests as they execute, perhaps through the Java Virtual Machine Debugging Interface (JVMDI) or the Java Virtual Machine Tool Interface (JVMTI), or by directly instrumenting the bytecode. Any statements that are not executed at least once are not being tested.
This approach, taken by tools like Clover and EMMA (see Resources), is valuable for finding untested statements -- but it's not enough. Knowing that a statement isn't executed by the test suite proves that it isn't being tested. However, the inverse is not true. If a line of code is executed, it doesn't necessarily follow that it's tested. It's entirely possible that the test doesn't check whether the line of code produces the correct result.
Of course, no one writes test suites that independently verify the result of each statement. Among other problems, this would violate encapsulation. You tend to assume that each line of code in the method must be operating properly in order for the method to produce the expected result, given a certain input. But that assumption isn't justified. For instance, what if you're not testing all possible inputs, and therefore not testing the code designed to handle the edge conditions? Each line of code might still be tested, but you could be missing real bugs.
Introducing Jester
This is where Jester comes in. Unlike a traditional code coverage tool such as Clover, Jester doesn't watch which lines of code have been executed. Instead Jester changes the source code, recompiles it, and runs the test suite to see if anything breaks. For instance, it will change a 1 to a 2, or change an
if (x > y) to
if (false). If the test suite isn't paying close enough attention to notice the change, then a test is missing.
I'll demonstrate Jester by using it on the open source Jaxen XPath tool (see Resources). Jaxen has a JUnit-based test suite, though the suite has less-than-perfect coverage.
Getting started
Before you can run Jester, all the unit tests must pass with the unmodified source code. If they don't, Jester won't know if its changes have broken anything. (For the demonstration I had to fix one bug I'd written a test case for but hadn't yet tracked down and stomped.)
Jester doesn't integrate particularly well (or at all) with IDEs, so it's important to set up the
CLASSPATH and directories properly to make the tests pass. The exact command line you need to run the test suite varies widely from one project to the next. Because the Jaxen tests use relative URLs that point to certain test files, its tests must be run from within the jaxen directory. Here's how I eventually ran the Jaxen tests:
$ java -classpath ../jester136/jester.jar:target/lib/junit-3.8.1.jar :target/lib/dom4j-core-1.4-dev-8.jar:target/lib/jdom-b10.jar :target/lib/xom-1.0d21.jar:target/test-classes:target/classes junit.textui.TestRunner org.jaxen.JaxenTests
You might need to clear one additional restriction on the test suite before running Jester. It must not print anything on
System.err unless the test fails. Jester determines if the tests succeed by checking what's been printed, so program output to
System.err often confuses it.
Once the test suite is running without failures, make a copy of your source tree. Remember, Jester is deliberately introducing bugs into the code, so you don't want to risk leaving one behind if something goes wrong. (This isn't so much of a concern if you're using source-code control. You are using source-code control, aren't you? If not, stop reading this article and check your code into a CVS or Subversion repository immediately.)
Running Jester
To run Jester, you must have both jester.jar and junit.jar on your classpath. (JUnit isn't bundled with Jester. You need to download it separately.) Jester looks for its configuration files in the classpath, so you must put the main Jester directory on the classpath too. Of course, you also need to add any other JARs or directories the tested application requires. The main class is
jester.TestTester. The argument you pass to this program is the name of the test-suite class for the test application. (I had to write one for Jaxen because it didn't include a single class that ran all its tests.) Jester works much more reliably if you add all the necessary JAR files and directories to the
CLASSPATH environment variable, rather the adding them to jre/lib/ext or referencing them with
-classpath. Here's how I ran the initial test on Jaxen:
$ export CLASSPATH=src2/java/main:../jester136/jester.jar:../jester136 :target/lib/junit-3.8.1.jar:target/lib/dom4j-core-1.4-dev-8.jar :target/lib/jdom-b10.jar:target/lib/jdom-b10.jar:target/lib/xom-1.0d21.jar :target/test-classes:target/classes $ java jester.TestTester org.jaxen.JaxenTests src2/java/main
Jester runs slowly, even when checking a single file. It puts up the progress dialog shown in Figure 1 and prints output on
System.out to let you know what it's doing and to reassure you it hasn't completely hung.
Figure 1. Jester progress
If you don't see any output after the first couple of minutes or so (or enough time to run the complete test suite, whichever is greater), Jester probably is hung, likely because of a classpath problem. If everything goes well, you should see output like that shown in Listing 1:
Listing 1. Jester output
Use classpath: src2/java/main:../jester136/jester.jar :../jester136:target/lib/junit-3.8.1.jar:target/lib/dom4j-core-1.4-dev-8.jar :target/lib/jdom-b10.jar:target/lib/jdom-b10.jar:target/lib/xom-1.0d21.jar :target/test-classes:target/classes ... src2/java/main/org/jaxen/BaseXPath.java - changed source on line 192 (char index=7757) from 1 to 2 answer.size() == ?1 ) { Object first = answ src2/java/main/org/jaxen/BaseXPath.java - changed source on line 691 (char index=24848) from 0 to 1 return results.get( ?0 ); } } lots more output... src2/java/main/org/jaxen/BaseXPath.java - changed source on line 691 (char index=24848) from 0 to 1 return results.get( ?0 ); } } 10 mutations survived out of 11 changes. Score = 10 took 1 minutes
As you can see from Listing 1, the
BaseXPath class isn't very well tested. Jester made 11 changes to the class, and only one caused the tests to fail. Some of these are false positives, but surely I can do better than one out of 11.
The next step is to look at the code Jester mutated without breaking the test suite and see if you need to write a test for it. Jester shows you what it's changing in the GUI shown in Figure 1 (it can't run headless, annoyingly), prints the output on the console as shown in Listing 1, and generates an XML file containing the list of changes that didn't break anything, like the one shown in Listing 2:
Listing 2. Jester XML output
<JesterReport> <JestedFile fileName="src2/java/main/org/jaxen/BaseXPath.java" absolutePathFileName= "/Users/elharo/Documents/articles/jester/jaxen/src2/java/main/org/jaxen/BaseXPath.java" numberOfChangesThatDidNotCauseTestsToFail="8" numberOfChanges="11" score="28"> <ChangeThatDidNotCauseTestsToFail index="7691" from="if (" to="if (true ||"/> <ChangeThatDidNotCauseTestsToFail index="7691" from="if (" to="if (false &&"/> <ChangeThatDidNotCauseTestsToFail index="7703" from="!=" to="=="/> <ChangeThatDidNotCauseTestsToFail index="7754" from="==" to="!="/> <ChangeThatDidNotCauseTestsToFail index="7757" from="1" to="2"/> <ChangeThatDidNotCauseTestsToFail index="7826" from="if (" to="if (true ||"/> <ChangeThatDidNotCauseTestsToFail index="7826" from="if (" to="if (false &&"/> <ChangeThatDidNotCauseTestsToFail index="24749" from="if (" to="if (false &&"/> </JestedFile></JesterReport>
Jester's line-number reports are often quite a ways off, so you're better off searching for the changed code in the console output. Here's a change from the report in Listing 1:
src2/java/main/org/jaxen/BaseXPath.java - changed source on line 691 (char index=24848) from 0 to 1 return results.get( ?0 ); } }
This change turns out to be toward the end of the class, in this method:
protected Object selectSingleNodeForContext(Context context) throws JaxenException { List results = selectNodesForContext( context ); if ( results.isEmpty() ) { return null; } return results.get( 0 ); }
A quick look through the test suite reveals that indeed no test was calling
selectSingleNodeForContext. So the next step is to write a test for this method. The method is protected, so the test can't call it directly. Sometimes you need to write a subclass (often as an inner class) in order to test protected methods. But in this case a little grep soon revealed that this method was directly invoked by two other public methods in the same class,
stringValue and
numberValue. You might as well use both of these to test it:
public void testSelectSingleNodeForContext() throws JaxenException { BaseXPath xpath = new BaseXPath("1 + 2"); String stringValue = xpath.stringValueOf(xpath); assertEquals("3", stringValue); Number numberValue = xpath.numberValueOf(xpath); assertEquals(3, numberValue.doubleValue(), 0.00001); }
The final step is to run the test case and make sure it passes. Here's the result:
java.lang.NullPointerException at org.jaxen.function.StringFunction.evaluate(StringFunction.java:121) at org.jaxen.BaseXPath.stringValueOf(BaseXPath.java:295) at org.jaxen.BaseXPathTest.testSelectSingleNodeForContext(BaseXPathTest.java:23)
Jester had caught a bug! The method didn't work as it was supposed to. Even more interestingly, an investigation of the bug revealed a potential design flaw. The
BaseXPath class should probably be abstract rather than concrete. I swear I did not cherry-pick this example to expose this bug. I just started with
BaseXPath because it was the first class in the top-level org.jaxen package, and I picked
selectSingleNodeForContext as the method to test because it was the last error Jester reported. I really thought there was nothing wrong with the method, but I was wrong. If something isn't tested, assume it's broken. Jester tells you what's broken.
The next step is obvious: Fix the bug. (Be sure you fix it in both the copy of the source tree Jester is working on and in the actual tree.) Then, iterate -- rerun Jester on this class until it no longer survives any mutations, or until it's obvious that any mutations it does survive are irrelevant. After I added a test for (and fixed) this bug, Jester then reported that only eight out of 11 mutations went undetected, as shown in Listing 2. As is often the case in debugging, fixing one problem fixes (or reveals) several others.
Jester performance
Because Jester recompiles the code base and reruns the test suite for each change it makes, it runs orders of magnitude more slowly than more traditional tools like Clover. It's therefore important to pay some attention to performance. You can use a number of techniques to speed up Jester runs.
First, if compiling takes a significant fraction of Jester's execution time, try a faster compiler. Many users have reported noticeable speed-ups by using Jikes instead of javac (see Resources). You can change the compile command Jester uses in the jester.cfg file in Jester's main directory.
Second, profile and optimize your test suite. Normally you don't worry too much about how fast the unit tests take to run, but any savings can be significant when multiplied by the thousands of times Jester executes the test suite. In particular, look for issues in the test suite that don't arise in normal code. JUnit reinitializes all fields for each and every method executed, so pulling test data out of fields and into local variables can speed things up significantly when the fields aren't used by every method in the test class. If the resulting code duplication offends your sense of style, try splitting the test suite into smaller, more modular classes, in each of which all initial data is shared among all test methods.
Third, reorganize the test suite's
suite method so that the most-fragile tests (the ones most likely to break after changes) are run before the less-fragile ones. As soon as Jester detects a single test failure, it aborts the run, so failing as early as possible can short-circuit a lot of time-consuming extra tests.
Fourth, for similar reasons, when tests are roughly equally likely to fail, put the fastest tests first. Sort the tests by rough execution time. Tests that execute purely in memory come before tests that access the disk, which come before tests that access the LAN, which come before tests that access the Internet. If some tests are particularly slow, try dropping them, even if this increases the number of false positives. In the test suite for XOM (an API for processing XML with the Java language), just a few of the almost 50 test classes count for well over 90 percent of the execution time. Removing these when jesting gives me a factor of 10 improvement in performance.
Finally, and most important, don't test the whole code base at once. Limit the tests to one class at a time, and run only the tests that are likely to expose gaps in the coverage of that one class. It might take marginally longer to test every class, but this way you can begin filling gaps and fixing bugs almost immediately, rather than waiting a few days for a Jester run to complete.
Jester is an important addition to the agile programmer's toolbox. It finds gaps in code coverage no other tool can, which translates directly into finding and fixing bugs. You'll produce more-robust software by testing a code base with Jester.
- Download Jester from SourceForge.
- Get test infected.
- JUnit is the de factor standard unit testing framework for Java code, and the one Jester relies on.
- The Jaxen project used as a guinea pig in this article is an open source XPath engine for Java language that's adaptable to many different object models.
- Clover is a more traditional test coverage tool that nicely complements Jester. It's somewhat easier to use than Jester and much faster; but it only tests that code is executed during tests, not that it's actually tested.
- EMMA is a free, open source code-coverage tool. Learn more about various open source unit testing tools and open source code coverage tools for Java programmers.
- Read Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt's Pragmatic Unit Testing in Java With JUnit (Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2003).
- Dennis M. Sosnoski kicks off a Classworking toolkit series by exploring the open source Hansel and Gretel code coverage tools.
- "Keeping critters out of your code: How to use WebSphere and JUnit to prevent programming bugs" (developerWorks, June 2003) by David Carew and Sandeep Desai looks at taking an XP approach to testing.
- Eric Allen and Roy Miller covered unit testing frequently in their respective columns, Diagnosing Java code and Demystifying Extreme Programming.
- Testdriven.com is a comprehensive collection of articles and resources about test-driven development.
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