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Case Number: 5-104-003(A), Year Published: 2006
HBS Number: KEL058
Thalidomide, Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, Patient Advocacy, Non-Government Organizations, Global
In the 1960s, Thalidomide, a popular new drug considered to be safe and effective, was revealed to cause severe nerve damage and birth defects in new-born infants, prompting health officials to ban the use of the drug and tighten overall restrictions on new drugs and drug use. Twenty years later, after recognizing the positive effects of thalidomide when treating patients with leprosy and its potential role in treatment of certain types of cancer and cases of HIV/AIDS, the Celgene Corporation would be forced to contend with stringent FDA regulations, liability concerns, public skepticism, and poor mass media portrayal in order to secure the drug's approval.
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Something you never thought you wanted until you got it. Something that satisfies you on a Caribbean island with a group of people, say six people, ranging in age from 20 to 30 years old, who have shared an unduplicable adventure, at a time, say 1:00 A.M., when you weren't sure if you should sing another power ballad together, play another round of that laughing game you made up with the candle or just take your inebriated selves back to your respective suites and pass out. But then you realize it's not as late as you thought is was, there is still plenty of time to hump Orca and walk the perimeter of the pool at least one time.
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Pistol powders are generally of the fast-burning double-base type for use in short-barreled guns. Shotgun powders are also fast burning and double-base, designed to burn completely under low pressures. Rifle powders are generally slower burning to accelerate a rifle bullet down a long barrel with maximum velocity while producing minimum pressures.
Winchester has replaced metal powder cans with its new plastic packaging, which keeps volatiles in and moisture out of the powder inside.
As smokeless powders deteriorate, they generate small amounts of nitric acid. Stabilizers are added to these powders to absorb acid byproduct. Most powders have fifty or more years of life before the stabilizers are used up and nitric acid begins to leach out of the nitrocellulose, leaving plain cellulose and reducing the efficiency of the powder. Occasionally powder will deteriorate owing to acid residue that was not properly washed out in the manufacturing process. Such powder will take on an unpleasant acidic smell and a brown dust looking very like rust will appear in the powder.
Powder in this condition will not shoot well, giving poor ignition and low power. It should be disposed of. Metal cans containing powder will sometimes rust on the interior, producing a very similar-appearing dust, but without the characteristic odor. This does not harm the powder and can be removed by dumping the powder on a flat piece of bed sheet, spreading it evenly, and gently blowing off the dust.
The powder should then be placed in another container. An empty plastic powder bottle is good so long as it is clearly marked as to what it is. It is a good idea to mark containers of powder with the date of purchase and then use the oldest first. Opened containers of powder should be checked at least every year for signs of rust or deterioration if they are not being used. Sealed containers should be left sealed until they are to be used. Alcohols and occasionally camphor are added to stabilize burning characteristics. Powder containers should be kept tightly closed to keep these volatile additives from evaporating into the air.
Smokeless powder is toxic if ingested because the nitroglycerin component causes heart irregularity. British soldiers in WWI chewed smokeless powder from rifle cartridges to cause a brief though severe illness to get off the line, until medical authorities discovered this practice. Children have a tendency to taste things; smokeless powder should not be one of them.


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Each corner has three different ornaments on it. There are two exactly
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Just Released – National Guidelines for Managing Food Allergies in Schools
Today marks a milestone for the food allergy community. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has published "Voluntary Guidelines for Managing Food Allergies In Schools and Early Care and Education Programs" – the first comprehensive national guidelines for school food allergy management. Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE) collaborated with the CDC along with other groups on the development of these guidelines.
The CDC guidelines seek to protect the physical and emotional health of students with food allergies by providing practical information and strategies for schools to use while reinforcing federal laws and regulations. These guidelines can help schools and early childhood programs improve existing practices and implement policies that may help reduce allergic reactions, improve response to life-threatening reactions and ensure current policies are in line with laws that protect children with serious health issues.
Here's how you can help spread the word that the CDC guidelines are now available:
- Know the Facts: More than 15 percent of children with food allergies have had a reaction at school, and approximately 25 percent of epinephrine administrations in the school setting involved an individual whose allergy was previously undiagnosed.
- Contact Your District and School Leaders: Reach out to your school board, superintendent, principal, and/or school health office to let them know that the guidelines are available at www.foodallergy.org/CDC. If your school district already has school food allergy management guidelines in place, ask your school officials to consider the CDC guidelines the next time changes are proposed. We also have handouts for School Boards and School District Administrators available on our website.
- Tell Your Friends: Let other families know that they can help increase awareness of the new CDC guidelines by notifying their district or school leaders.
With your help, we can continue to advance the safety and inclusion of students with food allergies at school. We appreciate your support and your help in spreading the word about the CDC guidelines in your local community. For more information, visit www.foodallergy.org/CDC or http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/foodallergies/.
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balanced. i am drawn to almost all styles, colorways, eras and design philosophies. a little bit feminine, a little bit masculine. spaces rich with pieces that have stories to tell. glamorous, rustic and antiquated all at once. i've always been this way. it freaks a lot of people out, but my inspiration seems to come together just fine in the end. (at least, i hope so anyway!)
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wine, red wine, dry red wine
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i'm quazi gangster,
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Major Section: EVENTS
Examples: (defun app (x y) (if (consp x) (cons (car x) (app (cdr x) y)) y))where
(defun fact (n) (declare (xargs :guard (and (integerp n) (>= n 0)))) (if (zp n) 1 (* n (fact (1- n)))))
General Form: (defun fn (var1 ... varn) doc-string dcl ... dcl body),
fn is the symbol you wish to define and is a new symbolic
name (see name),
(var1 ... varn) is its list of formal
parameters (see name), and
body is its body. The definitional
axiom is logically admissible provided certain restrictions are met.
These are sketched below.
Note that ACL2 does not support the use of
lambda-list keywords
(such as
&optional) in the formals list of functions. We do support
some such keywords in macros and often you can achieve the desired
syntax by defining a macro in addition to the general version of
your function. See defmacro. The documentation string,
doc-string, is optional; for a description of its form,
see doc-string.
The declarations (see declare),
dcl, are also optional.
If multiple
dcl forms appear, they are effectively grouped together
as one. Perhaps the most commonly used ACL2 specific declaration is
of the form
(declare (xargs :guard g :measure m)). This declaration
in the
defun of some function
fn has the effect of making the
``guard'' for
fn be the term
g and the ``measure'' be the term
The notion of ``measure'' is crucial to ACL2's definitional
We now briefly discuss the ACL2 definitional principle, using the following definition form which is offered as a more or less generic example.
(defun fn (x y) (declare (xargs :guard (g x y) :measure (m x y))) (if (test x y) (stop x y) (step (fn (d x) y))))Note that in our generic example,
fn has just two arguments,
x and
y, the guard and measure terms involve both of them, and the body is
a simple case split on
(test x y) leading to a ``non-recursive''
(stop x y), and a ``recursive'' branch. In the recursive
fn is called after ``decrementing''
x to
(d x) and some step
function is applied to the result. Of course, this generic example
is quite specific in form but is intended to illustrate the more
general case.
Provided this definition is admissible under the logic, as outlined below, it adds the following axiom to the logic.
Defining Axiom: (fn x y) = (if (test x y) (stop x y) (step (fn (d x) y)))Note that the guard of
fn has no bearing on this logical axiom.
This defining axiom is actually implemented in the ACL2 system by a
definition rule, namely
(equal (fn x y) (if (test a b) (stop a b) (step (fn (d a) b)))).See definition for a discussion of how definition rules are applied. Roughly speaking, the rule causes certain instances of
(fn x y) to be replaced by the corresponding instances of the
body above. This is called ``opening up''
(fn x y). The
instances of
(fn x y) opened are chosen primarily by heuristics
which determine that the recursive calls of
fn in the opened body
(after simplification) are more desirable than the unopened call of
This discussion has assumed that the definition of
fn was
admissible. Exactly what does that mean? First,
fn must be a
previously unaxiomatized function symbol (however,
see ld-redefinition-action). Second, the formal parameters
must be distinct variable names. Third, the guard, measure, and
body should all be terms and should mention no free variables except
the formal parameters. Thus, for example, body may not contain
references to ``global'' or ``special'' variables; ACL2 constants or
additional formals should be used instead.
The final conditions on admissibility concern the termination of the
recursion. Roughly put, all applications of
fn must terminate.
In particular, there must exist a binary relation,
rel, and some
unary predicate
mp such that
rel is well-founded on objects
mp, the measure term
m must always produce
something satisfying
mp, and the measure term must decrease
according to
rel in each recursive call, under the hypothesis
that all the tests governing the call are satisfied. By the meaning
of well-foundedness, we know there are no infinitely descending
chains of successively
mp-objects. Thus, the
recursion must terminate.
The only primitive well-founded relation in ACL2 is
(see o<), which is known to be well-founded on the
o-ps (see o-p). For the proof of
well-foundedness, see proof-of-well-foundedness. However it is
possible to add new well-founded relations. For details,
see well-founded-relation. We discuss later how to specify
which well-founded relation is selected by
defun and in the
present discussion we assume, without loss of generality, that it is
o< on the
For example, for our generic definition of
fn above, with measure
(m x y), two theorems must be proved. The first establishes
m produces an ordinal:
(o-p (m x y)).The second shows that
m decreases in the (only) recursive call of
(implies (not (test x y)) (o< (m (d x) y) (m x y))).Observe that in the latter formula we must show that the ``
m-size'' of
(d x) and
y is ``smaller than'' the
m-size of
x and
provided the test,
(test x y), in the body fails, thus leading to
the recursive call
(fn (d x) y).
See o< for a discussion of this notion of ``smaller
than.'' It should be noted that the most commonly used ordinals are
the natural numbers and that on natural numbers,
o< is just
the familiar ``less than'' relation (
<). Thus, it is very common
to use a measure
m that returns a nonnegative integer, for then
(o-p (m x y)) becomes a simple conjecture about the type of
m and the second formula above becomes a conjecture about the less-than
relationship of nonnegative integer arithmetic.
The most commonly used measure function is
acl2-count, which
computes a nonnegative integer size for all ACL2 objects.
See acl2-count.
Probably the most common recursive scheme in Lisp programming is
when some formal is supposed to be a list and in the recursive call
it is replaced by its
cdr. For example,
(test x y) might be simply
(atom x) and
(d x) might be
(cdr x). In that case,
(acl2-count x)
is a suitable measure because the
acl2-count of a
cons is strictly
larger than the
acl2-counts of its
car and
cdr. Thus, ``recursion
car'' and ``recursion by
cdr'' are trivially admitted if
acl2-count is used as the measure and the definition protects every
recursive call by a test insuring that the decremented argument is a
consp. Similarly, ``recursion by
1-'' in which a positive integer
formal is decremented by one in recursion, is also trivially
admissible. See built-in-clauses to extend the class of
trivially admissible recursive schemes.
We now turn to the question of which well-founded relation
uses. It should first be observed that
defun must actually select
both a relation (e.g.,
o<) and a domain predicate (e.g.,
o-p) on which that relation is known to be well-founded.
But, as noted elsewhere (see well-founded-relation), every
known well-founded relation has a unique domain predicate associated
with it and so it suffices to identify simply the relation here.
xargs field of a
declare permits the explicit specification of
any known well-founded relation with the keyword
well-founded-relation. An example is given below. If the
for a
defun specifies a well-founded relation, that relation and its
associated domain predicate are used in generating the termination
conditions for the definition.
If no
well-founded-relation is specified,
defun uses the
well-founded-relation specified in the
See set-well-founded-relation to see how to set the default
well-founded relation (and, implicitly, its domain predicate). The
initial default well-founded relation is
o< (with domain
This completes the brief sketch of the ACL2 definitional principle.
On very rare occasions ACL2 will seem to "hang" when processing a
definition, especially if there are many subexpressions of the body
whose function symbol is
if (or which macroexpand to such an
expression). In those cases you may wish to supply the following to
:normalize nil. This is an advanced feature that turns
off ACL2's usual propagation upward of
if tests.
The following example illustrates all of the available declarations, but is completely nonsensical. For documentation, see xargs and see hints.
(defun example (x y z a b c i j) (declare (ignore a b c) (type integer i j) (xargs :guard (symbolp x) :measure (- i j) :well-founded-relation my-wfr :hints (("Goal" :do-not-induct t :do-not '(generalize fertilize) :expand ((assoc x a) (member y z)) :restrict ((<-trans ((x x) (y (foo x))))) :hands-off (length binary-append) :in-theory (set-difference-theories (current-theory :here) '(assoc)) :induct (and (nth n a) (nth n b)) :non-executable t :use ((:instance assoc-of-append (x a) (y b) (z c)) (:functional-instance (:instance p-f (x a) (y b)) (p consp) (f assoc))))) :guard-hints (("Subgoal *1/3'" :use ((:instance assoc-of-append (x a) (y b) (z c))))) :mode :logic :normalize nil :otf-flg t)) (example-body x y z i j))


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In the wake of the war-built Essex-class ships were three aircraft carriers that served as crucial testbeds for the technology and operations of their huge Cold War–era progeny.
The three large, or battle, carriers of the Midway (CVB-41) class were the largest warships built by the United States in World War II, had an important role in the Cold War, and were the first U.S. Navy ships to embark nuclear weapons. The Battle of Midway in early June 1942 is generally cited as the event that illuminated the need for the three ships. The battle was in many respects the turning point of the Pacific war, when Japanese naval forces were decisively defeated, opening the way for an American offensive in the Pacific.
Based on the lessons of the battles of the Coral Sea (May 1942) and Midway, the Navy proposed a 45,000-ton large carrier, that would—appropriately—be named the Midway, as well as additional fleet carriers of the Essex (CV-9) class. The CVB actually originated with a proposal from the Navy's General Board for a large carrier that would have an armored flight deck and be particularly well compartmented below decks to help resist battle damage. The board held hearings on the proposed battle carrier as early as March 1942, and Congress approved construction of the lead CVB (as well as nine additional Essex-class ships) in July.
In early August, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox approved contract awards in the fiscal 1943-44 authorization for 690 new ships, including four large carriers, the CVB-41 through -44. On 12 August, however, President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote to the secretary approving the entire program except for the four 45,000-ton carriers. The President disapproved the CVBs because of their long construction time in comparison to the 27,100-ton Essex-class ships, which he believed were a better investment of resources. At the same time, U.S. fleet commanders showed no enthusiasm for the larger ships.
Roosevelt confidant Captain Edward L. Cochrane, however, believed that shifting two of the planned CVBs to the New York Navy Yard, which had excess drafting capacity because of the cancellation of the large battleships of the Montana (BB-67) class, would interfere little with other carrier construction.1 Both Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia and the New York yard would construct CVBs, with the drafting work done at New York.
Cochrane, who would become chief of the Bureau of Ships in November 1942, apparently had a major influence on the President, and Roosevelt agreed to CVB construction. A memorandum from Secretary Knox on 29 December 1942, approved the construction of two ships (CVB-41 and -42) and on 26 May 1943, the President approved building a third ship (CVB-43). The fourth ship—CVB-44—was formally cancelled on 11 January 1943.
Bigger in Every Way
After several design iterations by the Bureau of Ships, the CVB design evolved as one of the world's largest warships, with a standard displacement of 45,000 tons and an overall length of 968 feet.2 With a beam of 113 feet, the carrier would be the first U.S. ship designed from the outset that was too large to transit the 110-foot-wide locks of the Panama Canal. (The Essex-class carriers could transit the canal locks only with their 40-mm starboard gun sponson removed and the port-side elevator in the vertical position. Also, three World War I–era battleships that were modernized after Pearl Harbor had bulges that increased their beam from 108 to 114 feet.)
The CVBs were the U.S. Navy's first armored-deck carriers. They were also distinctive, with a massive starboard island structure and funnel somewhat reminiscent of the old Lexington (CV-2) and Saratoga (CV-3), built in the 1920s. The new ships were to have the heaviest antiaircraft battery of any warship, with 18 single 5-inch/54-caliber guns of a new, long-range design, plus 84 40-mm and 28 20-mm guns.
The ships were designed to operate up to 144 contemporary aircraft. With an estimated optimum aircraft takeoff and landing interval of some 30 seconds, it would—in perfect circumstances—take more than an hour to launch or recover its air group.3 The aircraft would be moved between the hangar and flight deck by one deck-edge and two centerline elevators. Two hydraulic flight-deck catapults would launch the heaviest aircraft.
Carved in Steel
The keel for the CVB-41 was laid down on 27 October 1943 at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. During the war and afterward reports circulated that the CVBs were converted from unfinished Iowa-class battleship hulls. That was a shipyard myth. The two unfinished Iowa hulls were scrapped. During the war, consideration was given to converting the six Iowa-class battleships when still under construction to aircraft carriers. Undersecretary of the Navy James Forrestal was a prime advocate of such conversions, declaring, "I think the conversion of the BB-63 and BB-64 would be very wise indeed."4 But the Bureau of Ships demurred, arguing that it was more efficient to simply build more Essex-class carriers, and undertook no battleship conversions.
When the CVB-41 was launched on 20 March 1945, the U.S. Navy had 88 aircraft carriers of all types and sizes in commission. Another 25 were under construction, and an additional 31 were on order. Although more than two-thirds of the flattops in service were escort carriers, 26 fast carriers were in service with 16 more in various stages of construction.
The CVB-41 was christened the Midway by Mrs. Bradford William Ripley II, widow of a naval aviator killed during training. The first USS Midway had been a small fleet auxiliary (AG-41), renamed Panay in April 1943 so that the escort carrier CVE-63 could have the appellation. That ship, in turn, was renamed the Saint Lô in September 1944.
The Midway was placed in commission on 10 September 1945, eight days after Japan's formal surrender on board the battleship Missouri (BB-63). Subsequently, the Midway carried out trials and air group workup for the next few months.
On 1 March 1946, the carrier, with portions of air group CVG-74 embarked, departed Norfolk, Virginia, with three destroyers to conduct cold-weather tests. Operating off the coast of Labrador and above the Arctic Circle, this evaluation of carrier operations in arctic waters was called Operation Frostbite. It demonstrated that cold-weather carrier operations were feasible, although at a reduced tempo. The task force returned to Norfolk on 22 March.
A more historic operation occurred in September 1947. After the war, both the United States and the Soviet Union exploited German missile technology and test-fired a large number of V-2s.5 That month at Norfolk, the Midway took aboard two operational V-2s (without warheads) and a dummy training missile. The carrier went to sea with U.S. and German rocket scientists and engineers—among them Wernher von Braun, "father" of the V-2—on board. On 6 September, one of the rockets was launched from the carrier's flight deck in Operation Sandy. The 46-foot, 14-ton missile lifted off and immediately began to tilt to starboard. Within seconds, the missile's control vanes corrected its attitude to the vertical, and the only launch of a V-2 missile from a moving platform was a success.
Cold War Deployments
When World War II ended in Europe in the spring of 1945, the Soviets were in firm control of Eastern Europe, mostly by military occupation. Communists also threatened Turkey and Greece and won control of Bulgaria and Soviet troops refused to withdraw from Iran.6 As a countermove, in April 1946 the United States sent the battleship Missouri, a light cruiser, and a destroyer into the eastern Mediterranean. Officially the ships were there to return the remains of a Turkish diplomat who had died in the United States in November 1944; in reality, they were sent to warn the Soviet Union of U.S. interest in Turkey remaining noncommunist.
No aircraft carrier accompanied the Missouri. At one stage of planning for the operation, the large carriers Midway and Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB-42) were to have accompanied the dreadnought. The carriers, however, were dropped from the operation when the State Department concluded that the Soviets might consider so large a force a provocation. But the Missouri's visit initiated the practice of sending major fleet units into the Mediterranean. The Roosevelt did operate in the Mediterranean from 8 August to 4 October 1946 with the 123 aircraft of Battle Carrier Air Group 75 (CVBG-75). The aircraft on this single carrier possessed more striking power than the combined air forces of all Mediterranean nations.
During the 1946 cruise, the FDR visited Athens to bolster the government of Greece in its fight against communists. At other Mediterranean port calls, the Roosevelt opened her decks to thousands of visitors, starting a custom of goodwill visits by U.S. warships. This show of naval force, begun with the Missouri visit, was a major milestone in the development of U.S. foreign policy in the postwar era.
From late 1947, on a continuous basis, at least one U.S. carrier operated in the Mediterranean, and from mid-1951 at least two attack carriers normally sailed that sea until the end of the Cold War. The Midway's first Med deployment was from November 1947 to March 1948, with carrier air group CVBG-1. She made port calls in Gibraltar, Algeria, Malta, Italy, and France.
Finding a Nuclear-Strike Carrier Plane
The U.S. Navy's most significant effort in carrier development in the immediate postwar years was the drive to achieve a nuclear-strike capability. When World War II ended, the United States had a very limited nuclear capability because of the few atomic bombs available, which could only be delivered to a target up to 1,500 miles away by a small number of modified B-29 Superfortress bombers. The Navy had no nuclear capability. The atomic bomb had been developed as an Army project with only a few Navy officers involved, albeit serving in key positions.
During the war, the Navy had begun developing a large, three-engine attack aircraft—the North American AJ Savage—intended specifically to operate from the three Midway-class carriers as well as future, larger flattops. It was to be powered by twin piston engines and an auxiliary J33 turbojet. The first XAJ-1 prototype flew on 3 July 1948. But the Savage would not be ready for fleet operations until the fall of 1949, and the Navy was not willing to lose time in the development of a carrier-based nuclear-strike capability. The only naval aircraft that could carry a 10,000-pound bomb and stood any possibility of taking off from a carrier deck was the Lockheed P2V Neptune, a new twin-engine, land-based patrol aircraft. It had a wing span of 100 feet, a length of 78 feet, height of 28 feet, and take-off weight of some 60,000 pounds.
Extensive tests with the Neptunes were conducted ashore at Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland before two P2V-2s, loaded aboard the Coral Sea (CVB-43) by crane, took off from the carrier's deck with the aid of rocket boosters on 28 April 1948. A dozen of the planes were modified to carry nuclear weapons. Designated P2V-3C, they were to be loaded aboard the Midway-class carriers by crane to fly atomic strikes. On 7 March 1949, three Neptunes launched from the Coral Sea, which was then off the East Coast. Two flew to a nearby airfield while the third, weighing 74,000 pounds on takeoff, with a five-ton dummy bomb on board, flew across the country, dropped its "bomb" on the West Coast, and then returned east to land at Patuxent River—a round-trip of nearly 23 hours and 4,500 miles. Despite the demonstration, the Navy was still far from having a practical carrier-based nuclear-strike capability.
All three of the Midways had their flight decks strengthened to operate the loaded Neptunes and were modified to store and assemble nuclear weapons. The Coral Sea was the first to be fitted to handle "nukes." Completed in March 1950, its special weapon spaces were installed at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard. The ship then moved to the nearby Norfolk naval base, where a crane deposited a P2V-3C on board. On the night of 20-21 April 1950, a gun-type (uranium) MK VIII atomic bomb was assembled on board ship, albeit without certain critical components, and loaded into the Neptune. At 0730 the aircraft, weighing 74,668 pounds, took off amid a cloud of JATO (jet assisted take-off) exhaust in the first launch of a nuclear weapon from an aircraft carrier.
Deliveries of AJ-1 Savages to fleet squadrons began in September 1949, although the first carrier takeoff was not made until April 1950 from the Coral Sea. The Savage was the first true carrier-based heavy-attack aircraft. With a gross weight of 47,630 pounds, the AJ-1 could carry a MK III or a MK IV atomic bomb or an equal weight of conventional weapons to targets 750 miles from the carrier and return.
Special Weapons at Sea
On 14 June 1950, President Harry S. Truman released 90 nuclear bomb assemblies—without the plutonium core—from the Atomic Energy Commission to permanent military control; a small number were placed aboard Midway-class carriers as they departed Norfolk for operations in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean. While, in theory, this gave the carriers a nuclear-strike capability, the Savages were awkward to operate on straight-deck carriers, while the Neptunes had to be loaded aboard by crane. Still, the three CVBs were the world's first warships to be armed with nuclear weapons.
The nuclear components for atomic bombs were not placed aboard aircraft carriers until at least 1953. In the interim, under a program code-named Daisy Chain, an elaborate scheme was developed to fly the plutonium cores from Savannah, Georgia, to a NATO-controlled airfield in the Mediterranean area where modified TBM-3R Avenger aircraft would be waiting to fly the components out to the carriers.
The Midway-class CVBs initially served with the Atlantic Fleet, making periodic deployments to the Mediterranean and other NATO areas during the early phases of the Cold War. They did not participate in the Korean War, as many U.S. political leaders feared that Korea was the first step in a process that would escalate to war in Europe.
The Midway became the first of her class to enter the Pacific Ocean when she departed Norfolk on 27 December 1954. Sailing by way of the Cape of Good Hope, she joined the U.S. Seventh Fleet off Taiwan in February 1955. In late June she sailed to Washington's Puget Sound Naval Shipyard for an extensive modernization. In the yard through September 1957, she received an enclosed hurricane bow, angled flight deck, three steam catapults, and other updates. The Coral Sea followed into the Pacific in September 1960; the Roosevelt remained in the Atlantic. The availability of larger carriers of the Forrestal and later classes in the Atlantic beginning in 1955 permitted the shift.7
Carriers at War
Subsequently deploying to the Western Pacific on a regular basis, the Midway was in the South China Sea during the Laotian crisis in the spring of 1961, but no shots were fired by U.S. carrier planes. The first Midway-class carrier to launch aircraft in combat was the Coral Sea. In response to a Vietcong attack on a U.S. military compound in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam, on 7 February 1965, the Coral Sea, Hancock (CV-19), and Ranger (CV-61) launched strikes against military targets in North Vietnam. The only U.S. loss was an A-4E Skyhawk and its pilot from the Coral Sea.
All three Midway-class ships subsequently carried out operations against Vietcong and North Vietnamese targets. From 1965 to 1975, the Midway made nine deployments to the war zone, the Coral Sea eight, and the Roosevelt—still an Atlantic Fleet carrier—one. The Midway and Coral Sea also had important roles in the evacuation of military personnel and civilians from Saigon when South Vietnam fell in April 1975.
On 11 September 1973, in a historic move, the Midway became the first U.S. aircraft carrier based overseas when Yokosuka, Japan, became her home port. From there, with air wing CVW-5 embarked, she operated in the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean areas for 18 years. On 2 November 1990, she arrived in the North Arabian Sea to provide air support for Operation Desert Shield. And, with five other U.S. carriers, the Midway flew missions in support of Desert Storm in 1991. Keeping pace with the larger carriers, her aircraft flew 3,339 combat sorties—an average of 121 per day—during the conflict.
Desert Storm marked the end of the Midway-class carriers in the Fleet. The Roosevelt, which had undergone the least modernization because of scheduling and cost issues during the Vietnam War, had been the first decommissioned—after 32 years of service on 30 September 1977—and scrapped. The Coral Sea hauled down her commission pennant on 30 April 1990, after 42 years in the Fleet; she, too, was scrapped.
The Midway departed Yokosuka in August 1991, relieved as the overseas-based carrier by the Kitty Hawk (CV-63). She was decommissioned at Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego on 17 March 1997 after serving in the Fleet for almost 46 years. The ship was stored at Bremerton, Washington, but was under way again on 30 September 2003, when she was towed south to Oakland, California, for restoration work.
Finally, she was taken in tow on the last day of 2003, en route for San Diego. There, in June 2004, she officially opened as the San Diego Aircraft Carrier Museum. Today from her flight deck can be seen the site of what was the Glenn Curtiss training camp on North Island where, on 23 December 1910, the U.S. Navy accepted an offer by Curtiss to teach a naval officer to fly without charge. Lieutenant Theodore G. Ellyson reported to the Curtiss camp for flight training. He became Naval Aviator No. 1.
Mr. Polmar, a Naval History contributing editor and frequent contributor to and columnist of Proceedings, is the author of Aircraft Carriers: A History of Carrier Aviation and Its Influence on World Events, vol. 1 and 2 (Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2006, 2007.)
1. Details of this CVB decision process are found in Friedman, Aircraft Carriers, pp. 202-204; also see Hearings of the Navy General Board. Cochrane was promoted to rear admiral and became Chief of the Bureau of Ships in November 1942; he was promoted to vice admiral in April 1945; he served in that post until September 1945. back to article
2. The original displacements of the major U.S. war-built ship classes were:
Standard Full Load CVB-41 Midway 45,000 tons 60,100 tons BB-61 Iowa 45,000 tons 57,540 tons CV-9 Essex 27,100 tons 33,000 tons
Source: Department of the Navy, Ships' Data U.S. Naval Vessels, vol. I (Washington, D.C., 15 April 1945). back to article
3. Most sources list the Midway air group at 130+ aircraft, e.g., Norman Friedman, U.S. Aircraft Carriers: An Illustrated Design History (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1983), p. 395, lists 64 F4U-4 Corsairs, 64 SB2C-5 Helldivers, and 4 F6F-5N and 4 F6F-5P Hellcats. The 144 aircraft number is based on Memorandum from Op 03-5 to Informal Advisory Board, subj.: Design of New Aircraft Carrier, June 30, 1946, p. 2. back to article
4. Memorandum from the Undersecretary of the Navy to the Secretary of the Navy, June 15, 1942 [no subject]. Four battleships of the Iowa class were completed in 1943-1944. The last two ships of the class, the Illinois and Kentucky, were laid down in 1945 and 1944, respectively, but never completed. After the war the conversion of the Kentucky to various missile configurations was contemplated, but never undertaken; both hulls were scrapped. James Forrestal, Under Secretary of the Navy from August 1940, became Secretary of the Navy in May 1944 upon the death of Secretary Frank Knox. In 1947 he became the first Secretary of Defense. back to article
5. In October 1945 the British fired three captured V-2 missiles from Cuxhaven on the North Sea in Operation Backfire. Subsequently, over the next few years 68 V-2s were test fired in the United States and 11 in the Soviet Union. back to article
6. Iran (Persia) had been jointly occupied by Soviet and British troops during the war, dividing the country in half. back to article
7. The Midway-class designations were changed from CVB to CVA on 1 October 1952, and to CV on 30 June 1975. back to article


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Alleva has overseen unprecedented success and growth in the department that includes propelling Duke into a fixture among the nation's top all-around programs, posting graduation rates that consistently rank among the best in the country, enhancing community outreach efforts, establishing record-setting fundraising levels, initiating sizeable facilities construction and renovation, and increasing the department staff size by nearly 40 percent.
"Joe is unwaveringly loyal to Duke and to the educational values that undergird all of our programs, including athletics," Duke President Richard H. Brodhead said following Alleva's five-year reappointment to the position in August 2007.
Brodhead further explained the review confirmed that Alleva was well-recognized for sustaining high standards of integrity in the athletics program, his championing of Duke's concept of the student-athlete, the quality of coaches he has hired, and the high level of success that has been achieved across athletic programs at Duke under Alleva's leadership.
During Alleva's tenure as director of athletics, every one of Duke's 26 varsity sports and the Health, Physical Education and Recreation department have benefited from increased commitment. Simply put, the Duke Department of Athletics has never been as successful, whether in competition, the classroom, or the community.
Duke athletics has flourished under Alleva's direction. The Blue Devils finished fifth in the 2005 Division I Directors' Cup, which rates athletics departments based on the success of its teams. Duke followed up its impressive 2005 performance with an eighth-place finish in 2006 and an 11th-place showing in 2007. Prior to 1998-99, Alleva's first full year as director of athletics, Duke had never placed higher than 21st in the Directors' Cup standings. Since then, Duke has enjoyed six top 20 finishes, including four in succession (2004-07).
In the 2006 National Collegiate Scouting Association Power Rankings that combine a school's Directors' Cup finish, its athletic graduation rates and its academic ranking in U.S. News and World Report, Duke was the top-ranked Division I school in the nation, ahead of Stanford, Notre Dame, Princeton and Harvard. Duke also finished first in this listing in 2005 and second in 2004.
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Six Duke teams -- men's basketball in 2001, women's golf in 1999, 2002, 2005, 2006, and 2007 -- have won national championships since Alleva's appointment as director of athletics. Since Alleva took over the helm at Duke, 44 Blue Devil teams notched ACC Championships, the second-highest total among ACC schools since 1997-98. Duke has won at least four ACC Championships in eight of the nine years Alleva has been the director of athletics (not counting spring of 1997-98). Eight of Duke's top 10 seasons in regards to conference championships are under Alleva, including the school-record seven league titles in 2000-01.
While continuing its excellence in competition, Duke has not lost sight of its obligation to educate its student-athletes. Duke's graduation rates for its student-athletes continue to rank among the best in the nation (its most recent Federal Graduation Rate was 91%). In 2007, Duke finished first among league schools on the ACC Academic Honor Roll for the 20th consecutive year (394 Blue Devil student-athletes maintained a grade point average of 3.0 or better in 2006-07). During the 2006-07 academic year, 20 of Duke's 26 athletic teams posted grade point averages of 3.0 or higher. Alleva has augmented the academic support budget that is now 10 times higher in 2006-07 that it was during the 1997-98 year.
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Fundraising under Alleva has reached extensive heights. In nine years, Alleva and his fundraising team raised more than $173 million in gifts and funded more than $85 million in new facilities or renovation. Annual giving to the Iron Dukes has increased 50 percent since the year 2000, including a record $11 million in the fiscal year ending in June 2007.
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The latest major facility upgrades include the multi-million dollar Michael W. Krzyzewski Center Dedicated to Athletic and Academic Excellence, which will house three major components -- the Jack Campbell Academic Support Center, the University Events Center providing all areas of the campus with a premier event space and a basketball training complex for both the men's and women's teams. Included in the facility will be vastly expanded academic space, new weight rooms, team and individual video rooms, meeting rooms and banquet facilities able to accommodate 300 people. Groundbreaking on the 56,000 square-foot center occurred in September 2006 and its completion date is January 2008.
Alleva also established a visionary Athletics Advisory Board in 1999 consisting of influential business and sports leaders throughout the country with interests in the Duke Athletics program.
Alleva is active on the national collegiate athletics scene, serving on the Football Bowl Certification Committee and the Gatorade Advisory Board. He sits on Atlantic Coast Conference committees on Finance, Infractions and Penalties, Television (chair), Football, and Men's Basketball. At Duke, Alleva is part of the Undergraduate Leadership Group, the Committee on Undergraduate Affairs and the University Athletic Council. Additionally, Alleva recently completed his service on the NCAA Division 1 Championships/Competition Cabinet.
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Alleva played football and baseball at Lehigh and was football captain in 1974. He received his bachelor's degree in 1975 majoring in finance and served as a graduate assistant football coach for Lehigh, earning an MBA in 1976. Alleva began serving Duke in 1976 working for the vice president for business and finance.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Torture is widespread in Libyan jails run by militias that toppled Moammar Gadhafi's regime in 2011, according to a United Nations report released Tuesday.
U.N. investigators, who had periodic access to various detention centers, said there is evidence that 27 people have been tortured to death in the prisons, 11 of them this year, according to a report by the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and the U.N. Support Mission in Libya.
The office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and the U.N. Support Mission in Libya said in a report released Tuesday that the problem is rampant in jails run by militias that triumphed in the eight-month civil war in 2011.
"In some cases, members of the armed brigades freely admitted, and even tried to justify, the physical abuse of detainees," the report said.
Last month, Libya adopted a new law that requires conflict-related detainees to be screened and processed within 90 days.
Conditions are improving for detainees held in prisons run by officers trained by Libya's Judicial Police, the report found. But many detention centers are still run by militias that have links to particular Libyan government ministries.
The U.N. investigators urged the Libyan government to accelerate the process of taking over the militia-run jails and installing trained police and corrections officers.
Some 8,000 detainees jailed since the eight-month civil war in 2011 are held without due process, the report said. They are usually held without access to lawyers and have only occasional access to families, the investigators found.
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"I started in this job in January 2007," says the Arkansas Extension engineering machinery specialist. "I'm originally from India and got my bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering there."
Before coming to the United States, Kulkarni worked in India for six years in research and development on a small sugarcane harvester. The harvesters used in the United States don't typically work in the subcontinent because of smaller fields, compaction issues and other things.
In 2001, Kulkarni arrived in South Dakota seeking a graduate degree in agricultural engineering. His work there was on precision agriculture in sugar beets. Two years later, he'd moved to Fayetteville, Ark., and earned a Ph.D. Shortly thereafter, he landed his current job with the Extension service.
Kulkarni's responsibilities include farm machinery safety as well as cotton ginning safety. When he first began looking things over, "ATV safety — along with tractor and other farm machinery safety — was obviously of prime importance."
Why was that the case? "For data collection in university projects, I used to ride ATVs. I remember thinking 'I'm doing this without a helmet, without proper safety equipment.' I noticed no one else was using one either."
The ubiquitous sight of kids racing ATVs alongside Arkansas highways disturbed Kulkarni. Equally worrisome were adults holding toddlers while riding four-wheelers.
"How many times have you seen someone with a small child, or even a baby, riding on an ATV? It happens all the time."
Looking at safety statistics, "I found there were many accidents every year from improper ATV safety. There are thousands of injuries annually across the United States. Some 70 or 80 children come to Arkansas Children's Hospital every year for ATV-related injuries.
According to the Consumer Product Commission, in 2005 (the most recent data available), 467 Americans died in ATV-related accidents. Those 467 were part of 137,000 people hospitalized for ATV accidents. Children account for about a third of that total.
"I thought that needed attention. To promote safety, one thing that came to mind was an ATV safety essay contest for children. My boss, Dennis Gardisser, and the Extension communications department were for it. So, we started the effort alongside a similar program run by 4-H."
Last fall, Kulkarni announced an ATV safety essay contest that would run on two tracks. The first was for those under 12 years of age. The second was for kids aged 12 through high school.
The 2007 announcement was sent out through county Extension offices and press outlets. Simultaneously, "we found there are around 360 ATV dealers in the state — or they have ATV-related business in some way. We sent a letter to those dealers explaining what we were doing and asked if they wanted to be involved. They were very generous and provided gifts, or prizes, for the essay winners: helmets, goggles, cash, gift cards, all kinds of things."
The essays were graded by five people — from both Extension and the Arkansas Children's Hospital.
The 2007 contest was successful, so this past spring, "we again held the contest. That, too, was a success. We now want to continue this program into the future."
Essays for the fall 2008 contest are due by Oct. 30 (for more on the rules and requirements see sidebar or contact Kulkarni at (501)671-2151 or e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com).
In his Little Rock office, Kulkarni powers up a computer and starts a computer simulation of two flailing occupants in a car rollover. Even using glorified stickmen, the demonstration is alarming.
This is similar to what you see in car-crash demonstrations with the crash-test dummies, which have sensors all over them. Soon, I want to use the same modeling techniques for ATV accidents. This will be done in collaboration with Chadrashekar Thorbole, the chief safety engineer at the Engineering Institute in Farmington, Ark.
"I've discussed this with the Arkansas Children's Hospital. They are very interested in the endeavor."
Once the modeling is done, Kulkarni and colleagues will be able to provide information about various ATV accident scenarios.
"We'll be able to show what happens if you haven't a helmet and roll to the left at 40 mph. Or, what will happen if you're involved in a dead-on collision, or drive into a 5-foot ditch, etc. The visualization will be much more powerful than just talking about how important ATV safety is."


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This Guest Post is by one of the adult yudansha in our dojo (Hikari Dojo), Peerawut "Peter" Kamlang-ek.
Guest Post: Naihanchi and Jigotai Dachi Stance
This Guest Post is by one of the adult yudansha in our dojo (Hikari Dojo), Peerawut "Peter" Kamlang-ek.
Embracing LGBT Students
If you just read the Guest Post, you will know that I respect and accept the students in our dojo. I embrace and celebrate the diversity of our students.
For the record, this also applies to LGBT students.
Our students are part of a family or ohana -- and this applies to all students.
The only type of students I would not like are violent, arrogant, or lazy ones.
Charles C. Goodin
Guest Post: Karate, No Discrimination
This Guest Post is by one of the adult yudansha in our dojo (Hikari Dojo), Peerawut "Peter" Kamlang-ek.
Me and My Sons
My second son, Charles, was recently married. Here is a photo of me with my three sons, Charles, Chris, and Cael, at the wedding rehearsal (in the garden at the Hale Koa Hotel). I'm sure that I could take them all... to dinner!
Charles is a CPA (and the head of our dojo). Chris is an attorney (and practices Kendo). Cael works for Jade Range in Brea, California (and should resume JuJitsu training soon).
My daughter, Natasja, is not in the photo. She is about to start her second year in college.
Charles C. Goodin
Karate in the Olympics?
I am sometimes asked if I think that Karate should be an Olympic sport. This is just my personal opinion -- no.
I love watching the Olympics. I actually am watching it right now. I admire the athletes, their coaches, and their dedicated families. Of course, I cheer for my country, but I think that the Olympic spirit transcends national borders.
But... to me Karate is not a sport. It is not something where one person can beat or do better than another. Karate is about self-defense, about an unexpected attack. It is not a contest. It is not a performance art. It is not a political thing. It is not a business. It is not about rank, titles, trophies, or even medals. It is not even about a pat on the back
In the process of training in Karate, the character is developed. There has to be training, then there can be character development. Through the mind's control of the body, through sweat and dedicated effort the character is forged. They don't give medals for that, but maybe they should.
I am still holding out hope that someone will win the Nobel Peace Prize for work in Karate. That would be something!
I respect that there are people who think that Karate should be in the Olympics. I just happen to have a different view.
I was speaking to my friend and senior Sensei Pat Nakata. I said something like "it is too bad that when we finally start to understand Karate, we are already getting older and weaker." He replied that a Karate man's prime is in his 70's. I agree with that.
But any any age, Karate is based on training. To some extent, anything other than training is just a distraction -- even my research and museum work. My Sensei here in Hawaii, Sensei Rodney Shimabukuro, has always told me that my training must keep up with my research. I must never be just a "book" or "mouth" Karate student. Training must come first. Then other things such as research are OK.
Good luck to all the athletes in the Olympics. Since I am old enough to be the father of most of them, I would also say, "Keep safe."
Charles C. Goodin
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Any serious pornoholic has definitely at least heard of the tube site known as xHamster.com. Most of you, I'm willing to wager, have fapped to it on more than one occasion. For some of you, it might even be your go-to porn tube site. And, if that is the case , you are certainly not alone. In fact , there are 10 million others who fap to xHamster frequently enough to be registered users. After Xvideos and Porn Hub , it is the third most popular pornographic site on the internet today. Headquartered in Limassol, Cyprus, xHamster was founded in 2007 by Alex Hawkings. The minds behind the site wanted to do something different from what they were seeing most porno sites doing at the time. Coming off of the peak popularity of social media sites like Facebook and Twitter , xHamsters founders set out to create a site that was equal parts porn tube and xxx social media site. 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With the number of people out there in the world who are sick fucks—not sick fucks who spend all day fapping in their mothers' basements the way you are a sick fuck, I'm talking real , clinically ill sick fucks—a site like xHamster that allows its users to upload basically whatever they want was bound to become inundated with illegal and fucked up content. xHamster has not struggled in keeping up with the shifting social tides and establishing a sense of moral duty , though. In April of 2016, for example , North Carolina enacted laws that said its counties and cities were allowed to openly discriminate against members of the LGBT community. In response to this, xHamster blocked their site from any users with an IP address based in North Carolina. You might also recall hearing about the People V. Turner sexual assault case. 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What this should tell you is that a majority of the content will be homemade, or at least amateur-inspired. You might label a lot of it Gonzo. I tend to use the term "raw." We're talking productions akin to Casting Couch Fake Taxi and Asian Street Meat. Granted, Video-One does have the occasional HD studio video thrown in here and there, the majority of their content if not full-on homemade, is from one of these studios that specializes in raw content. Be Careful What You Click On Video-One also seems to cater to the demographic of pornophiles who fancy the more taboo type stuff —daddy/daughter, brother/sister incest roleplay. Well at least I hope it's all roleplay. Some of the videos in these sections are from easily recognized, reputable studios, but a good portion of them look to be very homemade and are tagged with things like " Real Sister." I have no way of verifying whether or not these videos are actually illegal or not. I sure as hell ain't clicking on that shit. I wish that you sick incestuous fucks would get the fuck away from the legal web. Stick to the dark web for nasty shit like that. Furthermore, I really think tube sites like Video-One should draw a hard line in the sand against illegal content like this. Even if these aren't true incest videos, why even entertain that they might be? Anything tagged with something like " Real Sister" should be immediately removed from your site. This kind of shit, unfortunately, spoils what could have been a great tube site for me. It should not be on the viewer's discretion to view illegal or potentially abusive content. That becomes your responsibility the moment you decide to make a porn site. How the fuck is this a thing that I can't even skim through a tube site without worrying about whether or not doing so will get me put on some FBI list that I have no business being on? Come on, Video-One, get your fucking shit together. Having said that, be careful what you click on if you decide to visit this site. If you're okay with sifting through potentially illegal content there is a lot of legit, above-board material here to enjoy. And, again, a fucking massive amount of it. Just to illustrate I was on the site for 10 minutes before refreshing the homepage. In that 10 minutes, 15 new videos had been uploaded. That's crazy. You'll never run out of videos to choose from on Video-One. A Labyrinth of Pornography The site itself is designed pretty Either As far as ads are concerned there are some, but most are thoughtfully kept to the bottom of pages. Which, given the number of videos that appear on each page , you'd have to do a hell of a lot of scrolling to ever find them. I do appreciate that aspect. However , at the you do get to them, there are shit load. No ads before videos, though. You will run into the occasional pop-up, new tab ad when you click on a video, but at least it's not every fucking time you click on something like it is on a lot of other sites. I would obviously prefer none , but if I have to search for them, then I guess these ads are somewhat excusable. Besides the majority of the on-page ads are for other tube sites (which is very convenient if you want to get the fuck away from the incest bullshit), and the new tab pop-ups were often pages that were unable to load in private mode. I'm not sure exactly what this means, but if I can't see the ad, I'm happy. A Brief Call to Action Before You Get Back to Fappin' To be honest I am really turned off by the potentially illegal content to be found on Video-One. It's a shame too, because Video-One has so much potential to be a great porn site with a shit ton of content to choose from. Even if they removed all of their potentially illicit videos, they would still have a massive archive to explore. All of us porn addicts need to come together and just stomp this kind of shit out of our community. Flag shit that looks sketchy. If you can. Video-One, unfortunately, doesn't offer that feature. Step up and take on the fucking responsibilities that come with having a porn site or don't have one. It's as simple as that. All hail the almighty Porn Hub ! The king of porn sites! Founded in 2007 by Matt Keezer, who sold it to Fabian Thylmann in 2010, because the fucker probably cared more about the money than the website itself! (Would you refuse of the Manwin branch which is now known as 'Mindgeek'. Other giants in the network include sites like YouPorn and Redtube. Although Porn Hub is currently not the most popular porn site in the world it does hold more pornographic content than any other website out in the romantic comedy movie 'Don John' of 2013? It's about a fap addict that can't stop masturbating on porn sites, even though he has a very active sex life. I wonder why the fuck they asked that closet faggot Joseph Gordon-Levitt your cumshot with the stars in the video. It can be so annoying that the dude and the video is already done! I sham if a video got you off or not. By registering an account, which is 100 free by the way you encounter , you can also easily can remove up your hairy ass with Bubba in jail ! From innocent looking teens showing their naked bodies to spazzed out crack whores being choked, spit on and having every hole violated by a hockey team , this site has it all. Do you like pornstars like Mia Khalifa, Chyna and Stormy Daniels? No problem , click on the pornstars' menu , and you'll how she's able to all that off on Porn Hub ( often misspelled as 'pron hub ", "pirnhub", "prnhub", "poenhub", "hubporn", "phub" or "potnhub"), then you cant get off anywhere! In case the ads annoy you, you want to download or watch for a friend 's birthday! Imagine the look on his face , when he opens your present. His eyes will be shattered with tears, and you can be sure that this is one gift he won't be selling on eBay again afterward! You can even upload your homemade sex tape and get paid up to $5,000 by using their amateur payment program and become the next amateur porn star. Don't you want to be the next big thing in pornography?
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