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Arbitration News
Bob Buckley: Mediation can be helpful in many cases
Lawyers call it alternative dispute resolution. Many of us who practice in civil litigation consider it an assault on the right to trial by jury. Mediation and arbitration are the primary methods of alternative dispute resolution. Mediations are useful and do not constitute an assault on the constitutional right to trial by jury, but arbitration in many instances is. read
Updated WIPO Guide On Alternative Dispute Resolution A Tool For IP Offices
The World Intellectual Property Organization Arbitration and Mediation Center has released an updated guide providing an overview of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) processes for intellectual property disputes. read
Vietnam launches mediation centre for trade-related issues
The Vietnam International Arbitration Centre (VIAC) held a ceremony on May 29 to launch the Vietnam Mediation Centre (VMC) and announce the mediation code, under the support of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank (WB) Group. read
Singapore International Mediation Centre names new CEO
The Singapore International Mediation Centre has named Mr Aloysius Goh as its chief executive from Tuesday (May 1), succeeding Ms Lim Seok Hui who becomes a Board member. read
In The Future Blockchain Will Solve Most Real-World Problems -- Even Arbitration
When examining the legal system, Ast followed Elon Musk's advice and first considered the principles. At its core, what is a court system? The answer he saw was people trying to find the truth in a given situation, such as whether an agreement was broken. read
Encouraging Greater Use of Mediation in International Commercial Arbitration
Mediation is not a staple of complex international commercial arbitration. It may well precede it—many arbitration agreements contain a "tiered" approach to dispute resolution that includes mediation—but, once a large international arbitration is fully underway, mediation has not been widely accepted. read
'You can't force people into mediation': Society spells out ADR wishes
Lawyers and consumers need to 'buy into' the use of alternative dispute resolution but do not need it forced upon them, the Law Society has said. read
Arb-Med-Arb: what is it and how can it help the parties to solve their disputes efficiently?
AMA is a hybrid mechanism and combines arbitration and mediation. It contains in essence the following steps: read
South Africa: Why mediation and arbitration offer a better route to solving medical disputes
The benefit of a medical mediation is that the emotional toll on both parties in the dispute is minimized. read
The perfect dispute resolution clause
Practitioners from every stage of the disputes process: in-house, private practice, the Bar and institutions, gave their insights on what makes for an effective dispute resolution clause. read
Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Nursing Home Arbitration Agreements
In Kindred Nursing Center Ltd. Partnership v. Clark, the United States Supreme Court recently continued its protection of arbitration agreements by holding that the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) preempted a Kentucky "clear statement" rule that disfavored arbitration agreements. read
Mediators Share Advice on Managing Outside Counsel
Most cases resolve at some point, and early mediation lowers the costs incurred in litigation. In going even further though, I would advise in-house counsel to challenge some of the common practices litigation counsel often employ. read
Senators Must Ask Gorsuch If He Will Force Americans into Arbitration
As part of his confirmation as a Supreme Court justice beginning on March 20, the Senate must ask Judge Gorsuch about his views on arbitration to determine whether he will put big business ahead of Americans' constitutional right to a trial by jury. read
SCOTUSblog: Judge Gorsuch's arbitration jurisprudence
Arbitration, which involves agreements between parties to settle disputes in a private forum rather than in court, might seem like a fairly dry area of the law. But recent Supreme Court rulings interpreting the scope of the Federal Arbitration Act have had significant implications in consumer protection, labor, and class action contexts. read
Unfortunate confusion of mediator and arbitrator roles
The headline reads: "Mediator: Hamilton man doctored videos trying to swindle son's widow, children." The best read is the first comment that very capably distinguishes between the roles of a mediator and arbitrator. read
Effective Use Of Mediation-Arbitration
Over the past 15 years, mediationarbitration (or "med-arb") has grown into a popular method of resolving family law disputes. As its name suggests, med-arb combines the most effective features of both mediation and arbitration. Why has med-arb become so popular? When does it work and when it does not? What are the ethical and practical issues that must be considered? read
Obama admin. seeks curbs on mandatory arbitration for insurance
The Obama administration is pressing U.S. states to curb insurers' use of fine print in contracts that bars unsatisfied customers from suing, taking the latest step against "mandatory arbitration clauses" in an insurance report released by the Treasury Department on Monday. read
Problematic nursing home arbitration clauses
This week, I want to discuss important federal regulatory changes that will affect millions of elderly dependent adults who are residing in nursing homes. read
Airbnb Defends Arbitration in Push to Dismiss Discrimination Suit
Lawyers for Airbnb Inc. defended the home-sharing platform's terms of service Wednesday in Washington federal district court, arguing that a user who brought a discrimination case against the company should be forced into arbitration to resolve the dispute. read
U.S. to Bar Arbitration Clauses in Nursing Home Contracts
The federal agency that controls more than $1 trillion in Medicare and Medicaid funding has moved to prevent nursing homes from forcing claims of elder abuse, sexual harassment and even wrongful death into the private system of justice known as arbitration. read
There's a difference between arbitration, mediation
To start, I couldn't agree more that mediation can be complicated and the quality, knowledge and professionalism of the mediator are usually the most important components to a successful mediation. read
Arbitration and Mediation: Trending Worldwide for All the Right Reasons
The rising trend of alternative dispute resolution was a focus of the New Jersey State Bar Association Annual Meeting and Convention in Atlantic City, NJ. read
How Gig Economy Is Using Private Arbitration to Win on Labor Classification
Sharing economy workers' best shot at suing to rewrite the rules of their employment may soon pass them by. As judges last Thursday considered settlements that will leave Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. drivers as independent contractors, two of the biggest names in the on-demand economy are likely to avoid policy changes that would force them to rethink their business models. read
Start-Ups Embrace Arbitration to Settle Workplace Disputes
For start-ups — many of which began in Silicon Valley — the clauses can seem to conflict with professed goals of upending business as usual and being open with employees. read
Proposed CFPB rule: A partial end to forced arbitration
Soon, says the CFPB, consumers will not find mandatory arbitration clauses in their contracts with financial companies. Thus, disputes will be handled fairly. read
Blumenthal lauds proposed curb of forced arbitration clauses
A proposal by a federal consumer agency to curb the use of forced arbitration clauses is being praised by U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.). read
The New Arbitration Rules Are (Almost) Here
Recent reports indicate that the CFPB will announce a new rule governing arbitration clauses in consumer lending contracts at a field hearing on the subject scheduled in Albuquerque, New Mexico, later this week. read
The Upside of Employment Arbitration
A recently completed five-day arbitration with twenty-one witnesses, reminded me of the upsides of employment arbitrations (especially when I compare my situation to that of my colleagues who are preparing for jury trials in similar cases). read
Deflategate: Limited Ability to Appeal Arbitration Awards
Nearly all collective bargaining agreements have an arbitration clause for deciding any disputes under the agreement. Beyond the labor arena, employers have increasingly mandated arbitration as the designated forum for resolving employment disputes. With the recent Deflategate decision, we are reminded of the limitations of appealing an arbitrator's decision. read
Forced arbitration clauses might be on the way out
If you have a credit card, you have been forced to kiss away your constitutional right to sue the card issuer. But it's looking increasingly likely that this is about to change. read
Forced arbitration clauses are a form of wealth transfer to the rich
A federal judge called America's move to forced arbitration and bans on class-action suits -- bans favored and enabled by Scalia -- "among the most profound shifts in our legal history." read
Mediation, Arbitration or Trial? Information to Make Your Decision With
If you're going through a divorce or have a business issue, no matter what the legal dispute, you can mediate, arbitrate or litigate to come to a resolution -- it's your choice. read
Consumer Protection Chief Decries Mandatory Arbitration Clauses
Mandatory arbitration clauses often are designed to prevent Americans from exercising their rights, warns the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. read
FINRA Arbitrations: Behind Claimant "Win" Statistics
FINRA reported that, for 2015, Claimants won about half of private securities arbitrations: 47% for all-public panel decisions; 45% for majority-public panels. A colleague and securities mediator recently studied FINRA's 2015 private securities arbitrations to see just what the results are when Claimants "win." read
How Arbitration Has Advantage Over a Trial
By exchanging the uncertainty and delay of class-action participation for a fair and timely arbitration procedure in which he has nothing to lose, the consumer's financial disadvantage at the time of contract would be eliminated. read
Why The CFPB Thinks Arbitration Is Bad
Opponents of the practice note that while arbitration can be used judiciously, it has been adopted as a favored tactic of service providers (cable companies), financial services firms (credit card companies) and debt collectors (particularly expired debt collectors) to skirt consumer protection laws and insulate themselves from class action lawsuits. read
FINRA Arbitration Process Due for Overhaul?
FINRA's troubled dispute resolution forum could come in for an overhaul. That's a possibility now that the regulator's arbitration task force has issued a new report containing 51 recommendations to reform arbitration. read
Over the weekend my good friend Lou Del Duca passed away. This news came as a shock, because I skype chatted with Lou about the latest developments in the UNCITRAL ODR Working Group just a week ago. read
Efforts to Rein In Arbitration Come Under Well-Financed Attack
The ad attacks the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal agency created with Ms. Warren's strong backing after the 2008 mortgage crisis. What the ad did not say: Its sponsor wants to rein in the agency in part because of its efforts to restrict arbitration — the widespread practice in corporate America of requiring customers and employees to resolve disputes not in the courts, but in private proceedings with neither judge nor jury. read
You're Getting Ripped Off By Forced Mandatory Arbitration -- Here's How to Stop It
From Senator Al Franken of Minnesota and Congressman Hank Johnson of Georgia. Forced arbitration rigs the game in favor of big corporations and against consumers and employees. And recently, a New York Times investigation has exposed just how prevalent this damaging practice is; indeed, the story almost certainly affects you, personally. read
No, arbitration isn't evil, but safeguards are needed
There seems to be a lot of confusion about arbitration. Judging by recent media accounts, it's a crooked business designed by thieves for the purpose of cheating the virtuous. But arbitration is not the problem. The situation is more complicated than that. read
ADR flourishes in Francophone Africa
This article offers an overview of the disputes markets in Cameroon and Ivory Coast, and identifies growing interest in ADR, in what are thriving markets for dispute resolution. read
Mediation, arbitration are not the same thing
I was disappointed to read the inaccuracy contained in the Associated Press article " Financial regulators may limit forced arbitration," in the Oct. 11 Dispatch. The article confuses mediation with arbitration and perpetuates the notion that mediation and arbitration are one in the same. read
Uber Loses Bid to Force Arbitration on California Driver
A former Uber Technologies Inc. driver defeated the company's bid to force her into arbitration, a second victory after California's labor commissioner said she should have been considered an employee. read
California Supreme Court says 'yes' to arbitration clause
A recent California Supreme Court case upheld an arbitration provision in a sales agreement, even though it contained a class action waiver and multiple arguable terms. However, the court also reaffirmed that "unconscionability," meaning a contract provision is substantially unfair, is still valid grounds to challenge an arbitration clause. read
Frank Ochoa: Case for Alternative Dispute Resolution Often More Beneficial Than Lawsuit Route
Mediation is a process with deep historical roots, but with a fairly recent formal acceptance into our society's dispute resolution processes. It is the least adversarial form of ADR. A neutral is engaged to work with the parties, to identify the issues underlying the dispute, to manage the dialogue between the disputants, and to help them arrive at a mutually agreeable resolution to the dispute. read
California Moves Toward Ban On Mandatory Arbitration of Labor Claims
On August 31, the California Legislature passed AB 465, aiming to "ensure that a contract to waive any of the rights, penalties, remedies, forums, or procedures under the Labor Code"—such as an arbitration agreement—is "a matter of voluntary consent." This bill, now before Governor Brown for his approval, raises two big questions: (1) will the Governor sign the bill, and, if he does, (2) to what extent would the new law be enforceable? read
IRS Eliminates Appeals Arbitration Program
The Internal Revenue Service has gotten rid of a rarely used program that was supposed to allow taxpayers to expedite the appeals process. The IRS issued Revenue Procedure 2015-44 on Tuesday, announcing the elimination of the Appeals arbitration program. The new revenue procedure obsoletes an earlier revenue procedure that formally established the Appeals arbitration program. read
Arbitration Agreement Does Not Relieve Company of Need to Respond to Lawsuit
An arbitration agreement can be a valuable tool for businesses. It provides certainty regarding the method of dispute resolution. Compared to litigation, arbitration may be less expensive and generally leads to a quicker resolution. But those benefits are of no use if the dispute ends up in litigation instead of arbitration, despite the arbitration agreement. read
Drafting Consumer Arbitration Clauses for Electronic Agreements
Notwithstanding the Supreme Court's broad holdings on the scope of the FAA's protection of arbitration clauses, careful drafting and implementation remain important to maximize the enforceability of arbitration clauses, particularly in e-commerce consumer agreements. read


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This iReport is part of an assignment:
Final presidential debate: Unanswered questions
What about Foreign Policy?
- zdan, CNN iReport producer
I would give Mitt Romney an A+ and Obama maybe a D for this final debate. I felt as though President Obama didn't answer many of the questions directed towards him, many times he referred to the UN sanctions and what other countries are doing. He said world order is at a all new high. I felt as if he didn't answer the questions directly enough, almost relying on others for an escape.
The deficit.. Now that got me very agitated! It is President Obama who got us this high into debt in the first, NOW he has a plan to get us out? I hope it is less costly that his first 4 years. He never really talks about his own plan, he just points out that he doesn't what Mitt Romney's plan is. Now while many American's don't know either, we DO know what Obama did the last 4 years by doubling the national debt.. I sure hope this isn't the plan he talks about that is working, because I don't believe it is.
As being part of the Patriot Guard Riders I have been part of a couple of funerals for our soldiers. It hurt me when President Obama spoke of "It was worth moving Heaven & Earth to get Osama.." For how many years did we lose troops in Iraq and Afghanistan? How many years did we spend looking for this man in 2 countries where he wasn't? Was it really worth all these US losses for the death of one man that was with our "allies" the whole time? No it wasn't "worth" it.. No soldiers life is worth Osama's, not one! I recently learned about the homeless soldiers all across the country, even in my own home town.. or how about the increase of suicides of soldiers coming home.. Obama said he cares, I think the last 4 years show the true picture.These issues are not being dealt with.
Lastly, China.. Did Obama actually even answer that question? Real vague answers if anything. When Obama said trading had doubled, I wonder from where has it doubled? Did it go from 5% to 10%? I feel like Mitt answered this question very well too, just as he did for all the other questions in this final debate. Instead of answering, he went after Mitt about investing in companies that have moved there. He didn't answer, he simply moved the subject.
Over all I believe Mitt came out on top as he stayed focused and answered the questions. I thought it was funny that towards the ending, President Obama said he thought it was his turn. He said Mitt had enough floor time already, but actually the time clock showed the president had actually talked more. I didn't like the many stabs he took towards Romney when he should have been talking about Foreign Policy. That brings us back to the title of this report.
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Summary Snapshot
Gold climbed to record settlement territory Monday on uncertainty about European sovereign debt and the potential for more U.S. dollar weakness. Silver traded above $30 an ounce, its highest since 1980. Markets were clearly unnerved with all sorts of speculation doing the rounds that Portugal may be next EU country to require a bailout. The ongoing EU debt crisis added another notch earlier with signs of frustration coming from the Slovakian Finance Minister stating clearly that "taxpayers cannot pay for finance losses forever". Sentiment toward the Euro itself was not helped (EUR/USD 1.3287) down from an intraday high of 1.3414 earlier in the session when the UK OBR's Nickell says "a Euro collapse is not a high probability, but it is a possibility."
The INSCX Nanomaterials Global Index (INMX) ended the European session at $111.75 index points up from a close in NY Friday of 110.25. Across the board metals and oxide prices listed on INSCX exchange were in general offered higher. Benchmark Nanosilver 25nm was quoted offered at $4.22 per gram up almost 5% over the week. The rally in base precious metals is continuing to add upward pressure with Gold Nanoparticles quoted some 2% higher at $6.15ml. Iron Oxide fetched 21c a gram by the European close. MWCNTs (Industrial Grade) were offered higher in USD reflecting Euro weakness 14.5c per gram for a Metric ton (MT). Crude Oil held steady at $89.25 a barrel keeping Carbon Black prices in check on the upside.
"The $90 a barrel mark in Crude looks like being tested soon. If $90 is reached and held this will act to drive Furnace Black prices higher" according to dealers at the NCM/Stekram desk. N121 US delivery Grade was offered $1.62 per lb at the session close.
C60 Fullerences were in focus Monday offered 0.5% higher at USD $70.85 per gram while Ti02 Bulk continued its run from mid last week offered in Rutile at the USD $2,050 level.
INSCX exchange itself featured in an interview with PCI Magazine, a trade journal for the US Paint and Coatings industry. The full text of the feature can be accessed using the link:
Gold for February delivery traded as high as $1,421 USD up 15.00, +1.07%). The most active contract, gained $10.80, or 0.8%, to $1,417.20 an ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange in earlier trade. Gold was ignoring a stronger dollar on Monday. A rising USD is regarded generally as negative for gold and other commodities as it makes them more expensive for holders of other currencies.
The market on this occasion acted to ignore the usual trend. Last week, gold gained 3.2%, after tacking on almost $17 Friday to end at $1,406.20. Uncertainty is driving precious metals higher. The money creation by the US Federal Reserve and ECB is driving currencies down and thus commodity prices pegged in general to the USD are rising. Adding fuel to the rally was news last week that China's securities regulator has given the green light to a mutual fund to invest in foreign exchange-traded funds backed by gold. The market seemed to focus late in the European session on rumors the European Central Bank was in the market for Irish and Portuguese government bonds fuelling debt concerns.
Silver, meanwhile, traded at a new 30-year high. Silver for March delivery was quoted at USD $30.001 per Troy Oz +73.90, +2.53% from Friday's close. Precious metals are the main beneficiaries of the current uncertainties in the markets. Debt problems in the [European Union] peripheral countries and the Fed's expansion of the monetary base, as well as the geopolitical risks and robust physical demand from Asia and liquidity injections into commodity markets, are all providing impetus to the prices of gold, silver and other metals.
"With Silver reaching a 30 year high and technical analysis charts in Gold pointing up a breakout where this rally ends is at this stage anyone's guess, but chasing Gold and other metals at these lofty levels runs a clear risk to the downside. Any move of significance from either the Fed on a stimulus or the EU to calm debt fears could stop this latest metals rally in its tracks" cited one trader at exchange specialist firm NCM/Stekram.
Industrial Metals:
Copper traded near the high end of its intraday range on Monday as bargain-hunters entered the market but the rest of the complex dragged, posting only modest gains. Copper traded at $8,799 per Metric Ton ($400 per US lb), up $69, after pushing through the $8,800 mark on Monday afternoon. Aluminum traded at $2,315, down $5. Technical tightness remains on the LME contributing a bias on the upside.
Figures for other metals as of the 4pm close in London were:
Zinc $2,311
Lead $2,330.50
Nickel $23,505
Tin $25,450
Billet $495
Cobalt $39,300
Molybdenum $36,500
Political/Economic Moves:
European authorities convened to try to contain the debt crisis, and U.S. markets were buzzing with talk of more federal stimulus. U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman in a Sunday interview opened up to the possibility of committing more money beyond the $600 billion in asset purchases.
USD Index:
The dollar index stood at 79.78, +0.40, +0.51%), which compares the U.S. unit to a basket of six currencies, rose to 79.76 from 79.37 in late North American trading on Friday.
Summary Snaps:
Japan's Nikkei slipped (-0.1%) on Monday after weak U.S. jobs data and a renewed focus on U.S. quantitative easing pushed the dollar down against the yen, spurring profit-taking in Tokyo stocks after they hit a six-month high last week. But overseas fund operators and Japanese retail investors were looking to buy on dips, limiting losses for the Nikkei, analysts said.
The German government rejected the proposition of any further increases to the size of the EU rescue fund or issuance of Eurozone bonds.
Equity markets pointed to a mild retreat on Monday after last week's strong gains. Concerns again resurfaced to focus on Eurozone debt troubles offsetting optimistics indications from the Federal reserve concening a second round of economic stimulus.
Industrial metals:
Gold $1,420
Silver $30.01
Copper $400.80
Palladium $750
Platinum $1712
WTI last @ $86.25
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Hi all, first post from a newbie. Does anyone with medical knowledge know if jelquing too aggressively (e.g. purple and red bruising, discoloration, red blood dots on shaft and head, etc.) can cause your blood to form small clots at the point of "injury" in your penis and then travel through the body to accumulate in the legs? It may simply be coincidence, but I noticed about 4 weeks ago an intermittent pain in my right calf that I thought might be symptomatic of a blood clot in my leg resulting from PE. I went and got an ultrasound and they did not see any blood clots. Following that I took a week or two off and the calf pain (it moves to various locations throughout my lower leg) subsided. I had a brief jelquing session for the first time in the past couple of weeks this morning (medium intensity) and have noticed a resumption of the same calf pain.
It would seem possible in my mind if I am repeatedly causing an area of trauma on my penis that, in turn, is causing my blood platelets to do what they naturally do when blood vessels break that blood clots might form. I have been excited about PE because I have added at least half an inch in length (closer to 3/4") and over 1/4" in girth since I started this roughly three months ago. It is certainly fun and exciting seeing my dick get bigger, but I don't want to risk a life threatening medical condition (stroke, pulmonary embolism, etc.) for a larger unit. Any information, suggestions or accounts of similar experiences would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
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Dunno enough about this to comment fully... I do think it is something else though. I have no idea if clots would form from jelqing too hard.
I would say you should check your diet. Take some Omega-3 fish oil. Diet, exercise... the whole shabangshabang. Otherwise talk to your doctor about it if you're really worried.Starting Size (09/2009): ~7"BPEL x ~5" MSEG
Most Recent Measurement (08/13/2012): 8"BPEL x 5.5"MSEG
Final Goal: When I'm told to stop.
- 12-03-2011 #3
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First of all you're doing pe wrong. If you're getting brusing and red dots and all the like don't you think that's using a bit too much force?
So have you ever gotten a black and blue on other parts of your body? Dead blood cells that have evascerated out into the tissue that you body gets rid off. Get a good punch in the arm and you damage blood cells in the vessel (blood clot) and you get more clots as the blood flows into the tissue. Your body know what do do with them. I don't really think you'll end up with a stroke or pulmonary embolism from jelqing. The only thing you're going to end up with if you keep jelqing that hard is a dick that will fall off and run away from you citing abuse!It is far better to give when itseems natural to take.
- 12-03-2011 #4
From someone with, let's say, a significant medical knowledge, I'd say that there's no way that jelqing would cause a deep veinous thrombosis, even if as it seems your grip is too tight. If you had had signs of local veinous thrombosis in the veins of your penis, i wouldn't be that affirmative, though the risk of transformation of a superficial veinous thrombosis in a deep veinous thrombosis and in pulmonary embolism is quite low.
So relax, use a lighter grip, and PE safely!Il vaut mieux mobiliser son intelligence sur des conneries que mobiliser sa connerie sur des choses intelligentes.
- 12-03-2011 #5
Your doctor told you you do not have a clot, and yet you expect a forum of strangers to tell you otherwise?
Listen to normalguy, he's right on.Initial(9-1-11): BPEL: 7.25", BPSFL: 7.75", EG: 4.75", BEG: 5.25", BPFL: ~5.0", FG: ~4.0"
Current(7-1-16): BPEL: 8.375", BPSFL: 8.75", EG: 5.375", BEG: 5.875", BPFL: ~6.625", FG: ~4.75"
Realistic Goal: BPEL: 8.5", EG: 5.5"
Idealistic Goal: BPEL: 9.0", EG: 6.0", BPFL: 7.0", FL: 5.0"
- 12-03-2011 #6
If you got a clot from P.E it would linger about in your dick for a while and it will be hard and you will know when you have one also a medical profesional has examined you in person with very good technology and has gave you the all clear, CASE CLOSED!!Good Luck with your gains,
CMPMeasurements as of 22/9/12
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- 12-03-2011 #7
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There should be NO BRUISING OR RED DOTS, EVER!! You are overdoing it!!! Your penis should be as pink (if you're Caucasian), as it was when you started. It might turn a slightly darker shade, but that is all. Fuck the "No pain, no gain" bullshit. This is penis enlargement--not wrestling or dog/cock fighting.Going411by7 (I was a grower; now I'm a shower).
Oct. '03: BPEL 7.75" x 5" Flaccid 4" x 4"
Feb. '04: BPEL 10.5" x 7" Flaccid 4" x 4"
Oct. '08 BPEL 9.50" x 6" Flaccid 7" x 6"
Feb. '09 BPEL 9.50" x 7" Flaccid 7" x 6.5"
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Thanks to everyone for the feedback / suggestions. Obviously, I am a bit of a hypochondriac and tend to over analyze / worry unnecessarily. What is obvious is that I am yanking my hog too hard to result in bruising and red dots. My delimma is finding the optimal level of intensity to generate results without causing injury. I will ratchet down the intensity to avoid further complications. Hope that I am able to still make the desired gains with a softer grip. Thanks again for the above info.
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Better to be safe than sorry, your cool in our book. Just be carefull and do as suggested and if ever a problem arises that is a serious concern then seek medical advice. even the best doctors would be foolish to give a real diagnosis without seeing you in person. Good luck and PE safely.Going an inch and 1/2 deeper than before
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Bubble breaking games are timeless reminders of the charm found in classic arcade titles. Striking the perfect balance, bubble popping games are the perfect mix of simple to play and difficult to master. Bringing these types of games to the modern gaming audience can also be a matter of finding the right balance. Lost Bubble, developed by Peak Games, fails to recognize the charm of classic bubble breakers by reaching too far for a modern overhaul.
Like any bubble breaking game, the premise of Lost Bubble is simple. Players enter a level with colored bubbles populating the screen. It is the player's job to shoot matching colored bubbles in order to make them fall. Early levels are quite simple, but the game challenges players with more bubbles to break and new obstacles as they advance through stages.
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One of the problems in analysing developments within the Middle East has been separating out the strands of political ideologies that we are looking at. Looked at from afar an easy division between good secularist and bad islamist movements is possible but as soon as you get closer the divisions cease to work as well as a tool to understand what is happening in the Middle East. I am no expert and this article is as much a call for knowledge as it is a statement of fact, but one of the crucial issues that seems forgotten in most discussion of political Islam is the way that politics and other religions have fused and sustained democracy. Unless Islam is significantly and crucially different then it too may have the potential, indeed may be realising the potential as I write, of doing precisely that.
The Middle East in this sense is a place in which only the extremely acute outside observer should make quick judgements- and I claim no such status. But there are some factors that we ought to consider in our analysis of the region that are worthy of at least thinking through. The Middle East is filled with regimes which with notable exceptions are dictatorial- they are founded upon military power and they maintain themselves through the classic instruments of torture, oppression and propaganda. Such regimes as Syria's or Saudi Arabia's might fall easily into this category. Others like Turkey have an imperfect democracy and between the Turkish imperfection and the Syrian despotism lie all sorts of controlled democracies or even franchise enriched dictatorships (a lovely euphemism) from Iran's experiment with theocratically vetted elections to Jordan's with monarchically controlled elections. That background is indispensible to understanding the complexity of the Islamic movements that we face within the region.
But it also leads to distortion, because if we assume that all Islamic oppositions are the same, then we may fall into the trap of thinking that either they are all benign movements of liberation or that they are all fundamentalist movements of obscurantism. According this article from Al Ahram Weekly, we should complicate this vision. Khalil El-Anani argues that there is an emergeant Islamic centre if you like which whilst it bows to the politics of Allah also worships the deities of impartial law and democratic elections. In some sense what he describes is not a million miles away from the view that Tariq Ramadan offers western European Muslims, that Islamic engagement in the modern world is to be conceptualised as within the domain of a witness to timeless truths and is therefore compatible with secular democracy. Ramadan's argument about witness attacks a view like Said Qutb's that there are no alternatives between a fully Islamic state and a pagan state that all Muslims must oppose. Ramadan offers a middle path whereby Islamic democrats can use the principles of their religion within a democratic and secular polity to inform public policy, that seems to be something similar to the model of what El-Anani calls a new Muslim Centre.
El-Anani's view of the way that some within Arab politics consider the world receives some support from other sources. His claims about the parties he mentions are substantiated, in the case of the Jordanian Islamic Centre and in the case of the Tunisian Al Nahda party which split on the precise issue of its relation to democracy and secular law. His broader view of the trends within the Middle East has also found support- for example take this article by Par Amr Hamzawy which comes to similar conclusions but mentions a slightly different list of parties as included within the phenomena.
In many ways these Islamic movements fit within societies in which the predominate method of criticising often corrupt leaderships and expressing nationalism rests within a political language that can't be divorced from its Islamic context. Like for instance Catholicism in Eastern Europe under communism, identification with an Islamic nationalism has become an alternative to identification with the regime's promotion of secular nationalism. As Olivier Roy has commented at length in a lecture this kind of politics is one that is steadily becoming more and more important within the Islamic world. I myself have discussed both Professor Roy's lecture lecture and what I think is a related phenomena whereby strict religious behaviour and an identification with incorruptability become crucial aspects of politics within such societies, points I mean to develop over the coming months. The linguistic opportunities offered by Islam as a means of criticising leaderships who seem seduced by luxury don't mean that Islam is neccessarily incompatible with either law or democracy- in a sense as El-Anani argues these movements attempt to separate modernity from Western Christian ideas and provide it with an Islamic base. As Roy has argued, the new mutation in political Islam in the Middle East (interestingly he extends it to other regions too) is the move to allying Islam to nationalism.
Obviously there are questions and problems about this. One for example is with whether such a movement can encompass the pluralism of a genuine democracy. El-Annani's article demonstrates this: with its absolutist rejection of the West and consequently of perceived imperialism. The issues that Farish Al Noor sketches out in his article about Malaysia are issues which all Muslim movements will eventually have to face as their countries come to grips with the dilemmas of living with minorities- especially recently immigrated or even converted minorities. There is also the problem of description- I have no doubt that members of these movements stand further towards Qutb than Ramadan. Nor do I doubt another significant problem which is that a decision to use religious language to describe politics, inevitably risks the kinds of sectarian divisions that say were frequent in early twentieth century Europe.
Having said all that, this is a fascinating phenomenen and one that I do not see covered at all in analyses of the Middle East. Maybe I am too credulous of reports in Al Ahram as in other places, but the backing of experts like Sivan makes me think that I'm not. We must acknowledge that the Middle East is incredibly complicated and the ways that Islam plays into the political arena are also complicated- we must not go down the road of seeing every Islamist as a fundamentalist- there may be Rick Santorums in the Middle East whose motivations are Islamic but whose means are democratic. I don't profess expertise in this area- and some of the judgements in this article are no doubt wrong- but the sense that there might be a space whereby the language of politics, which in so much of the world is Islamic could also support moderate democratic governments I think is right.
I have to say though that I advance this thesis with the maximum of caution, I am ignorant and don't have the language skills to do more than that and would welcome somebody who comes along and disagrees based on better information. This is if you like the first draft of an idea which I hope to redraft several times- maybe hundreds of times.
I should note petulantly that I tried to publish an earlier and better version of this article but Blogger in its wisdom wiped my first attempt- so this is if you like the reheated version and I attribute all infelicities to that fact!
December 16, 2006
Is there an Islamic Centre? A Cautious Thought offered.
One of the problems in analysing developments within the Middle East has been separating out the strands of political ideologies that we are looking at. Looked at from afar an easy division between good secularist and bad islamist movements is possible but as soon as you get closer the divisions cease to work as well as a tool to understand what is happening in the Middle East. I am no expert and this article is as much a call for knowledge as it is a statement of fact, but one of the crucial issues that seems forgotten in most discussion of political Islam is the way that politics and other religions have fused and sustained democracy. Unless Islam is significantly and crucially different then it too may have the potential, indeed may be realising the potential as I write, of doing precisely that.
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I've been using an 80 litre (21 us gal) trash bin for my cooling water since I started last year, and it serves me well. My pot is about 4 gallons to the top (4.8 us) so I only run about 3 gallons of wash at a time, and the water, although it gets quite warm, never gets above about 35 deg C or 95F However, as the bin is sitting inside my still shed, it's taking up precious real estate, so I've acquired a water butt that is twice the size, which will mean cooler runnings, and am going to sit it outside, which will free up a lot of room in my shed!
Now, the question I have is this, how can I keep the water from becoming stagnant/gunky? I threw some bleach and white vinegar in the trash bin last year, but it isn't looking very fresh after a few months. I remember reading that bleach only has a limited lifespan, and after a while, loses its strength. Is there anything that you guys know of, that I can add to the water that will keep it from going off for an indefinite period? I'm going to do my best to seal the water butt, to minimise the ingress of any foreign matter/insects, etc. Bear in mind, also, that it needs to be kind to copper (my liebig).


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"Go hard or go home!" If you are a keen exerciser then you've heard this phrase a million times and the obvious answer to getting fitter and stronger is easy, go hard, right? Well, maybe it's not so obvious.
Common exercise advice rightly suggests that our body reacts well to being shocked, it helps it get to a higher performance level, and avoids the dreaded performance plateau. So the common held belief is that when you workout you should give it everything you have, every time. Rest days are for wimps. If this is your modus operandi then please read on, because you're probably guilty of what I call "Dumb Training".
The obsession with lifting as heavy as you can and running as hard as you can every time is cultivating a new form of performance plateau. A plateau that makes you feel like you are performing at your best every time, but actually isn't making you any faster, any stronger and is probably leading to a variety of recurring injuries. If this sounds familiar then you need to re-evaluate your fitness regime. Sometimes "go home" is the right answer.
To highlight why you shouldn't be 'going hard' all of the time we should look to those at the pinnacle of sports performance. Usain Bolt does not sprint 9.58 sec 100m's every day, Mo Farah does not run sub 27 min 10,000 meter's every day. They save that for competition days, when it matters, when they need it.
Thierry Henry, one of the most explosive soccer players the world has ever seen has said that he rarely sprinted at full speed in training. He believed that his body had a limited number of top speed sprints in a given week, so he didn't waste them, he saved them, for competition time, when it mattered, when he needed it.
This doesn't mean that they are lazy, that they are slacking. It means that they are training clever. They are avoiding burning out, allowing themselves the opportunity to reach their maximum potential. If Usain Bolt aimed to beat his 9.58 sec 100m record every day he would fail, repeatedly! He may get close but eventually, as he kept training he would find a level where his body will only allow him to reach maybe 9.8 or 9.9secs consistently. He'll be giving it 100% every day, but he won't even be in the photo when the winner crosses the finish line. This is the "Dumb Training Plateau". The point where you are trying your hardest and without realising it, allowing fatigue to limit your peak performance capabilities.
Instead, someone like Usain Bolt will aim to break down his training, he'll focus on his technique, at a lower speed, working on the component parts of his stride and his arm movement, building his endurance. His explosive speed work will be focused on shorter distances, his high intensity training will be limited to specific periods of his training week. When the time comes he'll put all of the pieces together, he'll deliver, he'll be ready.
Fluctuating your training resistance is important for your body. Adding lower resistance training days will allow your higher intensity days to be more effective. It will enable your energy systems to replenish. Your body can not continue to perform at it's maximum without giving it the opportunity to replenish your energy stores.
'Dumb Training' Plateau
Toning down the intensity will enable you to reach your peak performance level, but remember, you can't reach it every day, nobody can. Fitness and performance should sneak up on you. Performance gains come from training optimally, not maximally. Fitness and performance really refers to a set of complex biological processes that can't be rushed
The next time somebody suggests you "go hard or go home", take a second to consider the benefits of going home. Train clever.
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The middle child of Pamela and Graham Bridger, he has an older sister and younger brother who both still live in the Surrey area.
After serving in the Army, he met Julie Williams and the couple married in Machynlleth in June 1990.
They had a son, Scott, in 1992 before separating. Mr Bridger stayed on in Machynlleth, finding work as a welder at a company called Verona Design Welding and Fabrication.
He is also thought to have spent large periods of time unemployed.
The 46 year–old is closely associated with the Bryn–y–Gog estate where April Jones lived with her family. He is known to have had a number of relationships in the district and fathered six children. Up until two years ago, he was living with a local woman named Corinna Robinson, but they split up and neighbours said he had moved in with another woman on the estate.
A fit and active man, he is known to have worked as a lifeguard at Machynlleth Leisure Centre, from where the search for April has beencoordinated.
People described him as quiet, but said he was not particularly popular in the tight–knit community.
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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The political consultant behind the 2010 Election Night robocall scandal fires back at the high-ranking politicians he says are out to get him.
In an exclusive interview, Julius Henson talks to Derek Valcourt about what he calls political payback.
Julius Henson makes no apologies for the Election Night robocall he wrote to help Republican Bob Ehrlich in his 2010 bid to defeat Democratic Governor Martin O'Malley.
"It was a very clean call," Henson said.
But Democrats called it a dirty trick, an illegal attempt at voter suppression. Maryland's attorney general and the state prosecutor went after him.
"Unhappy, bitter, evil," Henson said.
In his first in-depth interview, Henson says he believes his prosecution was politically motivated.
"What I suggest to you is it was never about no voter suppression anyway. It was about trying to do something for a political consultant who went and worked for a Republican who should only work for Democrats in their view," he said.
He blames "the Democratic hierarchy" for his trouble.
"I mean he [O'Malley] was in the race against Governor Ehrlich. He appointed the state prosecutor. I'm sure the first question he asked him in that interview in December was `How do you feel about robocalls?'" Henson said.
The state prosecutor insists he never spoke with Governor O'Malley about the case. He won criminal convictions against Ehrlich's campaign manager Paul Schurick but said there was no evidence to prove former Governor Bob Ehrlich knew about the robocall.
"The state didn't want to find out whether Bob Ehrlich knew," Henson said. "They weren't interested in them. They were saying, `Hey, let's go talk to the African-American people, let's do them in' and that's what they did," he said.
Henson blames race for the robocall furor.
"Let me ask you this question. Paul Schurick and I were co-defendants or co-conspirators, as they called us," he said. "Well, nobody got a search and seizure warrant for his house, came into his community and raided his house. Why is that? So if that's not some part of race on somebody's case, what would you direct it as?"
Henson also points to the fines a federal judge slapped against him and his employee Rhonda Russell, who recorded the robocall.
"Paul Schurick gets found guilty on four charges, didn't pay one single dime. Rhonda Russell was not found guilty of anything, wasn't even on trial, wasn't charged with anything, yet she was fined $10,000. That's some perverse justice right there," he said.
His legal troubles haven't soured Henson on political consulting.
"I'm sure in the future I'll get calls on Election Day and I'll be in a position to write a call," he said. "So I'll be making calls again but I won't make this call."
Henson promises he'll take his appeals in both the civil and criminal cases all the way to the Supreme Court, if needed.


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How Effective is Metformin?
With metformin, diabetes may not be as much of a distraction than without it. Metformin is an orally ingested medication that works with the body to prevent the liver from making excess glucose. Also, it works with the (muscle and fat) cells to allow easier passage by heightening sensitivity to insulin. Meformin can lower the cholesterol levels in the blood and does not have the side effect of weight gain, which is common with other medications.
Metformin, the generic name for the drug glucophage, is normally prescribed to individuals with type 2 diabetes. Like any medication, metformin has certain side effects. The most prevalent ones are nausea and diarrhea, but headaches, muscle cramps and fatigue are also associated with it. One of the more serious side effects is the possibility of lactic acidosis. Lactic acidosis is the condition where a high amount of lactic acid builds in the bloodstream. It is not recommended to take metformin if an individual consumes alcohol.
With metformin, diabetes symptoms may be greatly reduced if given the proper dosage. Prescribed as tablets, it is usually started a level of 500 mg taken twice per day or 850 mg once per day. After about a week, the dosage level may be raised to 1000 mg for the first dose and 500 milligrams for the second dose per day. In no circumstances should the daily level of intake exceed 2500 milligrams. In most cases with type 2 diabetes, a significant response is not seen by doses less than 1500 milligrams, but there have been reports of results with less. It is typically taken two to three times per day with a meal, but the extended release form of the drug may be taken only one time per day.
Using metformin, diabetes can be a lot less of a problem. Along with the other benefits of the medication, it also does no cause hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) in patients who use it. Hypoglycemia is a common side effect with certain medications taken by individuals with type 2 diabetes. Hypoglycemia can create physical discomfort and put a person with type 2 diabetes at risk of other health issues.
Since each cases varies, it is a good idea to always seek the advice of a medical professional before taking any medication related to type 2 diabetes. With metformin, diabetes can become less of an issue and allow an individual to continue living a complete and fully functional life. The medication alone cannot create results, but must be used in accordance with a healthy diet and proper exercise. If there are any pre-existing conditions, then it is strongly suggested that they are revealed to your physician before beginning a regimen that includes metformin. Some of these symptoms include liver disease or a history of heart disease. If taken properly, then it will create the desired results. With metformin, diabetes can be controlled not solved. As with any medication, it may take time to see the results. Be patient and give the medication time to acclimate to your body. It will prove to be beneficial in the long term process.


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Despite company CEO Mark Zuckerberg flat out denying it, rumors of a Facebook phone will simply not die. Last year TechCrunch was certain that Facebook was secretly building a phone and this time London daily business newspaper City A.M. is back with a new report that includes even more juicy details. City A.M. is one of the few sites that broke the news on the Nexus S, so let's give them the benefit of the doubt and assume their contacts are correct again.
According to unnamed sources, Facebook has selected HTC to produce a pair of phones that include the Facebook branding and colors, which will be revealed at Mobile World Congress next month. One phone will feature a touch-only slate design and the other will pack a physical QWERTY keyboard. The devices will run a tweaked version of Android that incorporates all of Facebook's services including messages, chat, and the ability to call your friends.
Two high-level Facebook employees, Joe Hewitt (who worked on the Firefox web browser) and Matthew Papakipos (a leading member of the Google Chrome browser team), are said to be leading the project. We also believe that Erick Tseng, the former Google product manager who worked on the Nexus One, is also involved with the project. Mr. Tseng has close ties to HTC, so it makes sense that Facebook might have chosen them to produce a phone.
Facebook CTO Bret Taylor recently told an audience of developers that "Mobile is our primary focus for our platform this year." Facebook keeps publicly saying that their goal is on pushing HTML5 standards for the mobile web, but at this point I see no reason for them not to make a phone.
All of the details in the City A.M. report might not come true, but I believe there is some truth behind the report. Do you think it would be wise for Facebook to try and launch their own branded devices?


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I hope we are not the next HOT NEW TERRORISTS
Originally posted by CaticusMaximus
Im very critical of police, but there is no reason not to simply be polite in a routine situation.
Originally posted by Rikku
why didn't you just tell her if it wasn't a big deal? you showed her you have a bad attitude and she treated you accordingly.
Originally posted by MystikMushroom
I think it was sort of an arrogant thing to do. Sure, they get paid hourly ...
Cops have to deal with some real scumbags every day. The best way to deal with police is to be respectful and calm. If you haven't done anything wrong, behaving in such a way 9 times out of 10 will result favorably and you'll be on your way in no time.
Originally posted by SpaDe_
I wouldn't call this an interrogation at all. I have been interrogated before (long story) and I can safely say that you were not interrogated by this officer. Around here being a jerk to an officer will more times than not get you a ticket for something totally unrelated to the original stop.
Originally posted by Retikx
Oh you poor tortured soul...
Originally posted by winofiend
It would surely have to be based on the attitude of the officer at that time.
From the op it sounds to me that she was asking a question without malice. But without being there, no one else can determine the demeanour of the officer.
If it was an accusatory query, then I'd be right up there with the staunch attitude in defiance of having to answer any irrelevant questions. but if it was just to pass time, and be informal.. then to be defiant is where the problem starts.
Depends, but as the result shows, she did nothing to administer a special kind of justice to the op, so I don't see if as a show of power at all. She probably just went home that night counting how many bleepers she had to deal with that day.
Had she got you out of your car, searched you, your car, detained you for 12 hours in a hot tank office and threatened to do it over and over because you're attitude was unwarranted.. that's a show of power.
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Originally posted by Di0nysis
I'm sorry but judging by your attitude there was nothing wrong with her response. Infact, out of the two participants in this conversation, you were the one trying to wield some kind of power, I would say you were angling for some kind of retort from her so you could exercise some right. I'm not the biggest fan of cops but a routine check doesn't warrant the attitude against her. My guess is you have a problem with authority and created an unnecessary situation.
Originally posted by olaru12
When she asked you where you were from, she was probably just making polite conversation and planning to ask you out on a date for dinner and a movie but you blew it with your attitude.
Your response should have been...."I'm from Finland and even though I'm a fat white guy, I'm well versed in the finer points of love making" "may I stroke your pistol and restraint apparatus"
Female cops love that kind of talk.....trust me!!edit on 14-2-2013 by olaru12 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by CaticusMaximus
Doesnt sound like a "show of power" at all. Maybe she was just curious... Im guessing you have an accent. People who are not familiar with it, are curious about it.
The way youre describing the story, the whole attitude thing seemed unnecessary. She didnt ask you "whats in your trunk", or "show me the contents of your glove box".... You were not threatened with a taser or a pistol; it wasnt a "show of power"... it was just a simple question probably out of curiosity, that you seemingly blew way out of proportion.
Im very critical of police, but there is no reason not to simply be polite in a routine situation.
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