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So, working on the U in my remodel since the epiphany that the end wall will come down... and now wondering... how on earth does one light something like this? I've looked for images of similar layouts and maybe I'm not using the right search terms but I've found very little. The view of this rendering is looking towards the long side of the U from the dining porch. At the right (bottom)end of the U will be 2 or 3 stools for seating. Directly in front of you is a traffic aisle and then my main prep counter. I'll need task lighting there and some kind of (nicer?)lighting over the dining part at the end. Do I do the exact same light all the way around or can there be two types of lights, designating the different areas of the counter? Thinking along the of arts/crafts/mission/prairie/rustic feel, to work with the stained glass inserts on the cabs. There will be recessed lighting and undercab lighting in addition to the lights in question here. Thank you for any ideas, images, advice. (Oh, and continued props to Bellajourney for her phenomenal kitchen renderings. She's gotten so good that I decided to hire her!) |
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- Posted by angela12345 (My Page) on Thu, Feb 7, 13 at 11:47
Pic does not show up for me. : ( |
- Posted by lavender_lass (My Page) on Thu, Feb 7, 13 at 14:07
Hi, Deedles! I saw that you were taking down the wall between the living room and kitchen, but now it's very open. Have you thought about having glass upper cabinets between the two spaces with a higher opening (like over the range) in the middle? Then you could still see through but have a little more storage and it would be easier to add lighting. Keep the pendants over the peninsula to the dining area and I think that would look open and spacious, yet still vintage and charming :) |
So, you're saying to add cabs over the prep counter, huh? Maybe... I keep reading on here that when people have those cabs, they end up wanting to take them down though? Maybe though... |
Oh, and Hi Lav! |
- Posted by lavender_lass (My Page) on Thu, Feb 7, 13 at 15:21
You have lots of possibilities for more storage and a bit of separation, without making it too closed off. Here's one idea...this kitchen is sort of like yours, with the range on one wall and prep sink across. What if you had shelves on either side of the opening, like the ones on either side of the window, to the right in the picture.
Here's another idea with a slightly higher backsplash that opens to the other room with cabinets on that side. The posts and beam give you some definition and a place to hang your lighting.
Or you could have a 'window' between the two spaces, with glass uppers on either side.
Just a few ideas :) |
Oh I have to agree with LL. Make them the high useless cabs, for display, so they don't get in your way. Then you won't look like you're at the helm of a large lobby. On topic, though, I have no idea! This is why they started using those big boxy fluorescent fixtures. And ceiling acne pot lights. |
- Posted by lavender_lass (My Page) on Thu, Feb 7, 13 at 15:27
Fori- LOL! Such great lighting descriptions :) Deedles- When I say 'window' I meant framed opening. I know many people don't like dust-catching shelves, but I think display is what makes kitchens unique and give them that vintage feel. It would look wonderful with your range, too! |
Lav, I'm not sure which spot you're talking about now. The prep leg or the seating leg? I'm attaching view from the dining end if that helps anyone... |
- Posted by lavender_lass (My Page) on Thu, Feb 7, 13 at 16:13
Now I'm confused...I thought your living room would be on this end and the dining area would be on the old porch. Does this mean no more fireplace in the living room? Can you show us the new floor plan? |
No, the living room with (now) wood stove is still down there. When I said dining area I should have said dining 'counter'. The dining area is still on the porch. Boy, you have a good memory! :) I can't post the layout because photobucket officially stinks and is buggy and I can't access my stuff right now. And of course I can't find the image on my computer either. But... nothing has changed layout-wise. |
- Posted by lavender_lass (My Page) on Thu, Feb 7, 13 at 20:04
Okay, I think I understand. The counter area closest to the living room is going to have stools and be a second eating area, right? Then I wouldn't close that off too much, but a little definition might be nice and tie in with the porch. What if you add a post on the corner, to frame the dining counter like the second picture, above. It would make it more 'post and beam' and would tie in with the entry into the porch/dining area. If it were me, I'd probably put some lights in that beam (halogen spots?) and then use your other lights (didn't you choose some pendants already?) over the prep sink counter. Just an idea :) |
- Posted by michoumonster (My Page) on Fri, Feb 8, 13 at 4:37
do you like the retro diner look? i think it might work in your space, though maybe you are going for more rustic? |
- Posted by localeater (My Page) on Fri, Feb 8, 13 at 6:40
Deedles, Before you switched to opening up the living room wall, you had planned some lovely pendant lights over the prep side of the U. Why wouldn't you just use those lights on both sides the eating and the prep? |
Michou: That's what I'm trying to minimize. I said that I fear it'll feel like I'm working in a movie theatre concession stand or a diner or something. Localeater: I'm going to try what you suggest, thanks. |
- Posted by cottagewithroses (My Page) on Sat, Feb 9, 13 at 20:20
You seem to have a major traffic pattern through your kitchen. Could the kitchen move to the area beyond the posts? If you replaced the kitchen window with a large bay or window seat, you would have a nice space for the dining room table. |
- Posted by EATREALFOOD (My Page) on Sat, Feb 9, 13 at 23:22
deedles you and Angie always have the most interesting threads. I love reading them and will be sad when you are finally done(but happy for you). There's no getting around it with the counter exposed now you will feel like you are slinging hash ! LOL. Just make sure you demand tips. I use a diner table(my only table) and when I ask if the "diner" would like the coffee topped up I do demand tips . I have no constructive comment to add at this time, I know you and Lavender and oldbat2be and belllsmom will figure it out & it will look GREAT . |
I will confess that I am not good at imagining decor solutions, but since it sounds like you don't want either pot lights or pendants-- I saw a track light that was curved into a U shape that could follow your counters. I've also recently seen somewhere a track light that had very vintage-y looking slightly iridescent light amber shades. I thought they were very pretty and didn't look like they would seem out of place in a kitchen like yours. |
- Posted by michoumonster (My Page) on Sun, Feb 10, 13 at 2:42
deedles, sorry, i guess i missed that part where you wanted to avoid the diner look. lol! can you do a skylight somewhere? that gives you lots of natural light and breaks up the large expanse of ceiling. also a hanging pot rack island light can be nice too. i thought this one looked really interesting and the pendants were also nice. |
Here is a link that might be useful: housebeautiful pot rack light
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When I was still young, I was out on a walk with my father in the woods next to my great-aunt's house. The woods were an offshoot of the Devil's Hopyard state park, which meant that they were old and vast. As the family often congregated around the house, there were a number of paths we knew that wove their way through the forest, but I remember where we always stopped, and I remember the day when I asked what was further along.
My dad grinned, and we kept walking. It was about ten minutes from there to a beautiful, moss-covered waterfall that was right on the edge of the state park, with an alcove just large enough that I could squeeze underneath the falls. That sticks with me every time I start up a new game, because that was when I started to really wonder about where paths might lead. Everything leads somewhere. Finding things out is one of the things I love, probably what attracted me to video games in the first place.
The first console I ever owned was an Atari 2600 in a neighborhood where everyone else had a Nintendo if they had anything. We had no manuals, there was no internet, and we had a game called Solaris. Everyone else in the house gave up on it almost immediately, since it was the sort of game custom-made to require a guide. I couldn't get enough of it. I would play quietly and intently, trying to figure out how the game worked and where everything was. It was an exercise in finding things and putting together the game on my own terms, at my own pace.
It was my aunt that first introduced me to RPGs by her own love of the genre. She passed along her NES when the SNES came out, along with a collection of games that included Dragon Warrior. That game proved to be such a relentless timesink that rules were put into place about how long I was allowed to spend on the console per day, as my mother was starting to worry about me becoming totally fixated on the game. Not that it helped, since I just wound up devoting my additional time to maps and reading about the game.
Back in those days of gaming, most levels had time limits and any number of things that would kill you. They told you who you were and what you were doing and gave you strict limits. Dragon Warrior let you tell it what your name was, and it let you take the game entirely at your own pace. The idea that you could choose to not follow the game's main story, that you could wander about the world and never bother rescuing the princess -- that was eye-opening.
Small wonder that I found myself almost immediately hooked as soon as the concept of pen-and-paper roleplaying was introduced to me. Between that and Magic: the Gathering, my life up through early high school was awash in stories and game systems and numbers. When I was just thirteen, I was introduced to Final Fantasy VI and Secret of Mana for the first time, with the former having an unbelievably immersive story and world, and the latter actually offering a slight multiplayer aspect by letting someone else control one or both of your other party members.
When I was in high school and finally had enough money to buy consoles and games for myself, it was 1999. That was the same year that EverQuest was first released, and I still remember walking into the store and seeing the display. It promised adventure. It promised exploration. It promised somewhat clothing-impaired elven women to a teenage boy. I looked at the box, thought carefully, and then asked, "Who the heck would be interested in this crap?"
For some players, EverQuest looked like something amazing. To me, it looked like generic fantasy that I was burned out on from far too many RPGs, with graphics I found unimpressive. And the idea of paying money every month for a game I wasn't even sure I would like made me roll my eyes and toss it right back on the shelf.
What brought me around was Final Fantasy XI. Sort of. By that point I still had it in my mind that MMOs were pretty dumb and not fun for anyone, having heard the infamous horror stories about EQ and having zero desire to experience it. I had more or less written off the eleventh game of the series, and then I happened to sit down with my then-girlfriend and my roommate at the time to watch the tech demo.
The girlfriend immediately piped up that I should totally buy it. And when I mentioned that I didn't know anyone else who would be playing anyway, my roommate volunteered. I'm not totally sure I've ever forgiven him.
After a few months, I was ready to quit. Except that was right around when City of Heroes was coming out, and I had to admit, it sounded like a lot of the problems I had with Final Fantasy XI were sidestepped in that game's design. By the time I was cooling on that, World of Warcraft was being released, and my friends online were raving about how excellent it was...
By the time I had left Guild Wars and had resubscribed to FFXI with a renewed appreciation of the game's design elements, I found myself increasingly interested with the genre on its own merits. I had tried taking a break from MMOs entirely for a little while, and there was something indefinably missing. Every other sort of game had a certain finite quality, certain boundaries that I couldn't articulate well. They were still fun, but they weren't quite the same.
And by the time I was back to World of Warcraft, my fiancée and I were spending time together after a long hiatus. We had been best friends all through college, and so I offered to buy her a copy of the game so she could see what it was that I liked so much about it. At the time, we weren't yet dating. We would just log in together and play, running through Mulgore and then the Barrens, talking and growing closer and closer.
That was three and a half years ago. And I'm still playing, and still exploring, and still trying whatever strange combination of stats and abilities appeals to me, figuring out how to make even the bizarre combinations work once I've gotten them in my head. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't -- but it still leads somewhere. It's a hobby, a job now, and part of my personality and history.
Besides, it beats scrapbooking.
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Posted: Nov 20th 2009 1:54PM AlamoeJones said
I love the title. Great article.
Posted: Nov 20th 2009 2:03PM Wisdomandlore said
FFXI was the game that got me into MMOs as well. I was in high school at the time and my brother was managing an EB games. He got a hold of a promotional copy of the beta and gave it to me. I had to go out and buy an outdated (but still expensive) graphics card to put in my parents outdated computer.
I was pretty confused at first, as FFXI at the time (not sure if it does now) had no tutorial. It just dropped you into the world. I didn't even know I needed to equip a weapon until a plant out in Gustaberg owned me. Soloing mainly composed of auto-attacking until you could use a WS. Money was hard to come by. Skills were non-existent.
Then I joined my first group in the Valkrum dunes, gained several levels in an hour or two, and I was hooked.
I was pretty confused at first, as FFXI at the time (not sure if it does now) had no tutorial. It just dropped you into the world. I didn't even know I needed to equip a weapon until a plant out in Gustaberg owned me. Soloing mainly composed of auto-attacking until you could use a WS. Money was hard to come by. Skills were non-existent.
Then I joined my first group in the Valkrum dunes, gained several levels in an hour or two, and I was hooked.
Posted: Nov 20th 2009 2:47PM (Unverified) said
yes, nice simon & garfunkel reference.
Posted: Nov 20th 2009 4:25PM (Unverified) said
Dude.. nice insight into the world of a gamer:) Really liked the article bud!
Posted: Nov 20th 2009 5:30PM Dblade said
I live a little ways away from devil's hopyard, in Norwich, so it was a welcome suprise to see a Massively writer that spent time in our region. I might even have seen your aunt-depending on how old she was then. I used to work the electronics counter in one of the local department stores, and we had an older lady really big into SNES rpgs like FF 3 shop there often.
I'm an ex-FFXI vet too, and a lot of local people I know have played it, or at least tried it. It's always surprising to me to find at least one coworker if not more playing or familiar with it.
I'm an ex-FFXI vet too, and a lot of local people I know have played it, or at least tried it. It's always surprising to me to find at least one coworker if not more playing or familiar with it.
Posted: Nov 20th 2009 5:38PM (Unverified) said
When I was young my dad took me to a waterfall that I liked. I think that's why I play video games. Beautiful story.
Posted: Nov 20th 2009 9:03PM Vundal said
FF11 was my first mmo. i will always remember this one pc from japan. He would always crouch on a hill overlooking the newbie lands, as if starring off into the distance. I was a nub at the time so i always wondered what he was waiting for. things like that...little mysteries (even player created ones) really draw you into the mmo world.
Posted: Nov 20th 2009 9:42PM (Unverified) said
My dad showed me a waterfall in a forest once. It's not the reason I enjoy the beauty of nature so much, though it might be... As much as WoW brought up boredom, and addiction at the same time, which I dislike, I really liked Elwynn Forest.
I remember seeing an Everquest commercial on the VHS for A Knight's Tale. I think I was 11. I was like "Duuuuuude," and there wasn't any clothing-impaired elven women. I wonder what made me want to play it.
I remember seeing an Everquest commercial on the VHS for A Knight's Tale. I think I was 11. I was like "Duuuuuude," and there wasn't any clothing-impaired elven women. I wonder what made me want to play it.
Posted: Nov 20th 2009 9:43PM (Unverified) said
Not that clothing-impaired elven women are a requirement... :P
Posted: Nov 21st 2009 2:20PM hatori1181 said
I'm glad to see someone that appreciates FFXI, even after playing other games. Fantastic article, it really echoed my own feelings really closely.
Posted: Nov 24th 2009 11:52AM artifex said
I feel old, now :) But thanks, that was a neat story.
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Document Type Master's Dissertation Author Govender, Soundalay email@example.com URN etd-05212012-142317 Document Title Lived experiences of haemodiaysis patients with erectile dysfunction : a phenomenological study Degree MCur Department Nursing Science Supervisor
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Date 2012-04-13 Availability unrestricted Abstract "Hearing is one of the body's five senses. But listening is an art." (Tyger, 2005 : para.1). While working in the haemodialysis unit in KwaZulu-Natal, I observed that patients preferred not to disclose their experiences of erectile dysfunction with the professional nurse practitioners but to the health care workers and to other patients in the unit. The nondisclosure served as a barrier to the patients receiving the assistance and support they required to be able to cope with erectile dysfunction. Added to this, there were no therapy groups or supportive groups available for the patients to allow them the platform to voice their experiences of erectile dysfunction and to provide them with strategies to cope with these experiences. The professional nurse practitioners lacked the knowledge and skills to assist the patients to cope with their experiences of erectile dysfunction. Therefore, there was a shortcoming in the provision of holistic nursing care to these patients, threatening their mental health specifically. The Theory for Health Promotion in Nursing (University of Johannesburg [UJ], 2009:4) states that a person is seen holistically in interaction with the environment in an integrated manner therefore the need for holistic nursing care. From the problem identified above I envisioned the need to conduct a study on the lived experiences of patients with erectile dysfunction from a holistic perspective that includes a mental health perspective. The overall aim of this study was to generate an in-depth understanding of the lived experiences of patients with erectile dysfunction who were on a haemodialysis programme in three units of a renal disease management organisation in KwaZulu-Natal. The aim was achieved by exploring and describing the patients' lived experiences of erectile dysfunction. My understanding of the lived experiences of these patients formed the basis for proposing recommendations to facilitate the mental health of patients with erectile dysfunction in the context of this study with reference to nursing practice, education and research. The facilitation of mental health care to the patients in the haemodialysis units would require the provision of holistic nursing care to be implemented by the professional nurse practitioners with the assistance and support of the advanced psychiatric professional nurse practitioner. A phenomenological research design that was qualitative, explorative and contextual was followed to achieve the aim and objectives of the study. Purposive sampling was used for the sample selection based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The number of participants selected for this study was guided by data saturation. The total number of participants selected for this study was nine. The data collection methods utilised were phenomenological interviews, naďve sketches and field notes. In the phenomenological interview the participant was asked: "How is it for you to live with erectile dysfunction?" Thereafter the participants were requested to "Write a story on living with erectile dysfunction." The field notes included observational, methodological, theoretical and personal notes. The phenomenological interviews were audiotaped and transcribed. An independent coder and I analysed the transcribed phenomenological interviews, written naďve sketches and field notes. I made use of Creswell's method of data analysis (Creswell, 2007:156) in analysing the data. The measures taken to ensure trustworthiness in this study included credibility, dependability, confirmability, transferability and authenticity. The three primary ethical principles articulated by the Belmont Report (beneficence, respect for human dignity and justice) and the Declaration of Helsinki guided this study. There were two major themes with sub-themes that emanated from the collection of multiple data. The first major theme was that the participants' lived experiences of erectile dysfunction reflected psychological, physical and social losses that seemingly negatively influenced their mental health. An alternative story of two of the participants' acceptance of living with erectile dysfunction which positively influenced their mental health emerged as the second major theme. Therefore the essence of most of the participants' experiences of erectile dysfunction was reflected by losses in the psychological, physical and social dimensions that seemingly negatively influenced their mental health. However, two participants had embraced the challenges of erectile dysfunction and managed to deal with the losses in the psychological and social dimensions. Based on the findings and the literature control recommendations were proposed for nursing practice, education and research. The recommendations were guided by the Theory for Health Promotion in Nursing from the University of Johannesburg (2009:1). These recommendations served as a frame of reference to enable the professional nurse practitioner to facilitate the mental health of patients who experience erectile dysfunction within the context of rendering holistic nursing care. The advanced psychiatric nurse practitioner has both developmental and consultative roles to implement in the haemodialysis unit. In implementing these roles, the professional nurse practitioner is assisted by the advanced psychiatric nurse practitioner to mobilise the internal and external resources to meet the patient's needs on a holistic level. A psychiatric nursing qualification for professional nurse practitioners treating patients in the haemodialysis units is recommended to assist and support the patients to cope with their experiences of erectile dysfunction, thus facilitating their mental health. Copyright © 2011, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of PretoriaPlease cite as follows:
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Women's soccer haze | Even with World Cup rush, sex always gets headlines
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Evanston, Illinois | We had intended to let this one lie, but a recent posting from Newsweek columnist Mark Starr on the hazing scandal affecting the Northwestern University women's soccer team made us reconsider. The actions of the players depicted on a vigilante-style website intended to document misbehavior among athletes cross all boundaries of decency. The blindfolding, titillation, and excessive drinking stirred in us the same vague fear we remember from watching bizarre "secret society" rituals in our own college past.
Other hazing events among female college athletes have come to the fore: members of Catholic University women's lacrosse team carousing with a male stripper, binge drinking among Fairleigh Dickinson's women's softball team and, as recently as 1 June, allegations of underage drinking at a hazing event for the University of Albany (N.Y.) women's lacrosse team. Survey responses from nearly 1,100 female athletes in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association report that 49 percent have experienced alcohol-related, physical or mental hazing. The latter includes "singing or dancing, practical jokes and being stranded or 'kidnapped.' "
Nevertheless, we find in the "girls gone wild" approach taken by Starr and other commentators (such as the Fox News demagogue Bill O'Reilly) stronger testimony to the fascination among the male-dominated media with the sexuality of women athletes than a show of genuine concern. Starr says that illusions of virtue created by the U.S. team that won the 1999 Women's World Cup have been shattered.
For me, like many in America, that summer proved to be one of love. The women on that unforgettable American team were not only winners, but exemplars of all the virtues that we once associated with sports. I spent months covering that team and felt privileged to share the experience close up. I have no doubt those ladies could be, on occasion, rowdy and even crude. But they didn't develop a selfless team ethic—a one for all, all for one credo—through exercises in bondage and group French kissing. …
[T]here is almost nothing that distinguishes this Northwestern affair from the seamy and demeaning antics of the Duke men's lacrosse team at their team fiesta—except, of course, that at Duke it escalated into allegations of criminal behavior.
This is a fatal linkage, comparing an event at which women athletes debased themselves and their sport with an alleged incident in which men selected a victim to terrorize. The women at Northwestern are self-made victims. Starr's recognition that Duke's lacrosse players may have committed a crime—an extremely serious one—seems tacked on. (Thus far, the two teams have suffered the same punishment, with their playing privileges temporarily revoked.)
The similarities between the two incidents lie in the institutions themselves. Duke and Northwestern share vast resources, prominence, high academic reputations and historically poor gridiron-football teams. More important, despite protests to the contrary, they are both deeply invested in the high-stakes, corrosive, symbiotic relationship between elite sport and higher education.
Wallace Wade Stadium at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, the home of the school's woeful gridiron-football team. Each year, Duke fields 26 varsity sports teams, men's and women's, and spends $10.5 million for athletic scholarships. |
"There is no overstating how big college sports are in America," writes Paul Harris in the Observer of London, offering a valuable outsider's perspective. He marvels at the Duke gridiron-football stadium, "a deep bowl, carved into a hillside" that would put "many professional British football teams to shame." He should have a gander at the stadiums housing good college teams; there, he would behold even more opulence.
Frank Deford, the curmudgeon of National Public Radio and Sports Illustrated online, extends the "athletes gone bad" theme to women on the basis of the Northwestern incident, going so far as to imply that the extension of Title IX in the 1970s, seeking equal participation for women in college sports, has helped lead us to the present shame. "We had hoped when women started participating in sports in large numbers after the passage of Title IX that they would improve the institution," he writes, "investing it with the finer feminine values. Well, the results so far seem to indicate that, instead, sports has won and womanhood has lost."
In fact, the source of much problem behavior remains the men. According to Harris's research in the Observer, male student athletes, representing 3 percent of student populations, account for 19 percent of campus sexual assaults. Another aspect, naturally, is the ready availability of alcohol and its awesome impact in the dysfunctional zones of student housing. At Duke, the campus food service offers kegs of beer for student groups to help them slosh through the weekend. There is also an on-campus bar, which seems like overkill.
Now, with the Internet and the prodigious wireless networks at campuses nationwide, exploits can be documented with ease. Susan Lipkins, an authority on hazing who has been making the media rounds, says the posting of demeaning photographs online, presumably by the participants themselves, indicates a malfunctioning moral compass. The participants' lack of perspective relates directly, she says, to the exaltation of sports in the very environments where civic responsibilities and development of the inner person should be cornerstones of the curriculum.
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In an interesting column in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Elizabeth J. Chin, a visiting professor of cultural anthropology at Duke this past spring, chronicles the attempt to teach students in her "Girl Culture/Power" course using the men's lacrosse team's alleged misbehavior as a case study. Deliberately, Chin tried to break down walls in a campus culture supposedly intended to facilitate diversity and the meeting of different minds. Chin notes the barriers of race, gender and status, and might have included the separation between non-athletes and athletes, between members of different fraternities and sororities and so on.
"[A]lthough 32 percent of [Duke] students belong to ethnic minorities," Chin writes,
many whites have no significant interactions with people of color or anyone "different" in some way, like sexual orientation. Members of the dominant white group feel that other groups are segregating themselves, but do not recognize their own behavior as segregation.
The idea of separation seems, and we are not sure exactly how, close to the center of the controversy involving the Northwestern women's soccer team and other allegations of hazing. (For more information, the Wikipedia entry on the subject includes an astounding range of hazing behaviors, broken down by category, and some insight into the history of such rituals.) The hazing acts as another means of "setting off" groups that are already quite isolated to begin with, who spend chunks of practice and travel time together and who might even live as roommates. The strong group identification that hazing seeks to instill seems, in the case of college athletes, like needless duplication.
As Chin writes of her students, in forcing them to pair in their research projects with peers seen as "different" from themselves, "I wanted them to experience how ridiculously easy it actually is to step into someone else's world, to realize that the separation between my world and yours is almost always made and enforced by us."
Such would be more sensible rites of initiation for the college athlete, male and female.
Update: As of 9 June, Northwestern officials had reinstated the women's soccer program, while suspending some players from regular-season games in the fall season. Everyone on the team will be required to participate in a joint community service project.
Before attention turns almost exclusively to the men's World Cup finals, we mention other stories in the women's game. …
Windhoek, Namibia | Often we gain the most pleasure reading accounts of the women's game in Africa, where nations emerging from postcolonial struggle have started spreading football passion to the previously marginalized. These dispatches brim with optimism that girls and women can transcend gender stereotyping and, through soccer, carve out new roles in society.
Writer Surihe Gaomas in the Windhoek New Era chats recently with players commemorating Namibia's 16th anniversary of independence. Marelle Polster, 15, of the Khomas club of Windhoek, the capital, wipes sweat from her brow and expresses fresh confidence. "Maybe I can represent my country by playing soccer at a professional level one day. … [B]oys that call me 'tomboy' are just trying to break me down because I play better than them." Teammate Belinda Mbaindjikua, 16, credits the game with keeping participants "away from clubs, drinking and smoking as well as teenage pregnancies." Continues Gaomas:
Now sixteen years after independence, the grooming of Namibian female soccer players is on the cards and this is becoming a growing phenomenon, where the sport is also being offered to girls at schools throughout the country.
"Women have the willpower, discipline and need the encouragement to play soccer because they have potential. Nowadays we can't underestimate them," said coach [Tobias] Hermonn with a smile.
Sun Wen |
Beijing | At the other end of a playing career, on another continent, reports from China Youth Daily in April that Sun Wen, FIFA's co-player of the century, was living in a run-down hostel while trying to revive her fortunes before China hosts the Women's World Cup in 2007 had us dejected for the rest of the day. The woman who had brought footballing class and extraordinary technical skill to the Atlanta Beat for two professional seasons in the Women's United Soccer Association now washes her own kit.
I buy a plastic bin and do my laundry wherever I go. I'm afraid I'll have to bring my own bedclothes next time.
Sun plays in the National Women's League in a Beijing suburb, housed with teammates, according to the Reuters transcription of the story, "in rooms no more than six meters square (54 square feet) with dirty sheets on tiny beds, malfunctioning television sets and air-conditioning and a leaking toilet."
China women's coach Ma Liangxing had asked Sun to end her two-year retirement to helped rebuild the national team before the World Cup and 2008 Olympic Games, also in Beijing. Sun says, alluding to her situation in a harsh statement for the government propaganda sheet, that "if the situation keeps getting worse, in the future no girl in China will play soccer."
Celebrations ensue when Tonga defeats the hosts 3–2 in the semifinal. |
Apia, Samoa | The spread of the women's game can be recognized in the participation of eight sides in the Oceania U-20 Women's Championship in early April, the qualifying tournament for the FIFA U-20 Championship in Russia in August. Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu, Samoa, Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, Fiji and eventual champion New Zealand fielded teams. Australia has moved to the Asian zone, and Tahiti was a late withdrawal.
Samoa's availability as host signals a broader trend in Polynesia toward football and away from traditional games such as kilikiti, a form of Polynesian cricket that includes women in teams of up to 50. In Tuvalu, another archipelago, "young people do not want to play kilikiti any more," a player on the main atoll, Funafuti, told the Daily Telegraph in March. The word for the game is a Polynesian corruption of "cricket," brought to the islands by the London Missionary Society in the 19th century.
A Samoan church service, hosted by Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, featured in the tournament's cultural program. Rev. Fepai Kolia preached at a youth hall in Mulinuu before Malielegaoi, perhaps sensing he was losing his audience, alluded to the "smell of food filling our nostrils," which was To'ana'i, the Samoan lunch.
Oceania has a claim to prominence in women's football, in that Evelyne Whitman of Tahiti in 1998 became the first woman to take charge of a nation's football federation. "[T]he fate of football in Polynesia has always been steered by a man," she told a FIFA symposium on women's football in 1999. "I can assure you that my arrival at the top of the Tahitian football association was an innovation in the Polynesian football world."


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Synergy Media Group designs and installs audiovisual solutions for the education industry. Our installations can take place in K-12 public schools, K-12 private schools, colleges, universities, technical institutes, and educational training facilities.
Some our audiovisual spaces in the educational market include classrooms, lecture halls, auditoriums, computer labs, distance learning classrooms, school board meeting rooms, LGI's, cafeterias, student unions, lobbies, chapels, and gymnasiums. Our people have installed AV systems in 80% of the colleges and universities in western Pennsylvania area so you can be sure we have the knowledge and experience to complete your educational space.
Below are a few common audiovisual solutions in the educational marketplace:
K-12 Classroom
In K-12, technology in the classroom is becoming very common. A simple solution for the K-12 classroom is a projector mounted from the ceiling, an electric screen, a few speakers, and a wall plate to connect your laptop or DVD player. A slightly more functional AV classroom solution involves the addition of a Crestron control panel that will operate the screen, projector, volume, and source selection with the touch of one button! This slightly more functional solution is very cost effective and makes your classroom AV system extremely user friendly.
College Lecture Hall
Audiovisual systems in a college lecture halls is mandatory. Lecture halls demand a minimum of a ceiling mounted projector and an electric screen. Additionally, microphones, speakers, laptop connections, and DVD players are almost always present. Crestron touchpanels often control the classroom AV environment by allowing any professor to control all aspects of the lecture hall with a touch of his/her finger. Blinds, lighting, source selection, projector functions, volume, and screen control are commonly controlled by in an advanced audiovisual lecture hall. Additional items that are sometimes found in college lecture halls include rear-projection screens, projector lifts, dual projection systems, plasmas for video reinforcement, and audioconferencing systems.
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Garnier • Fall FIght Leave In Conditioner/Treatment • Hair Treatments
(8 reviews)
Average Rating. | 3.9 |
Would buy this product again. | 50% |
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NIkkix123 on 12/9/2014 8:01:00 PM more reviews by NIkkix123
Age: 19-24 Skin: Normal, Fair Hair: Brunette Eyes: Blue
I bought this at Dollarama once just randomly. I thought it was an "okay" leave in conditioner, but I still noticed I shed a lot of hair even when using it. It's something I'll probably use up, but I don't think I will repurchase this if I saw it on the shelves again.
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Sail7 on 11/17/2014 11:43:00 PM more reviews by Sail7
Age: 18 & Under Skin: Normal, Medium, Neutral Hair: Blond, Kinky, Medium Eyes: Blue
This stuff really restored my hair. I could have made a coat out of all the hair that was breaking off, but this (glorious) product saved me. Honestly, I didn't think that anything could help my poor, broken, chlorinated hair, but this fall fight stuff REALLY WORKED. This product did everything that it said it would do (I know right) and more, seeing as it saved my self confidence regarding my dry locks. Seriously recommend this to anyone looking to get soft, frizz free, healthy looking and feeling hair. Plus, the smell is pretty good too! Five stars on everything about this.
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BlackHoleDiver on 8/19/2014 2:44:00 AM more reviews by BlackHoleDiver
Age: 25-29 Skin: Normal, Fair-Medium Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Fine Eyes: Green
After Garnier's shampoo failed, I stuck with this combined with my favorites: Suave strawberry and clarifying shampoos.
The combo, plus a little apple detangler by Suave, makes my hair easy to comb out, non-greasy, light and fragrant. No residue, no sticky feeling, just soft hair. I think Suave conditioners kinda suck but their body washes and Naturals shampoo line are ideal for clean skin and scalp.
If Garnier has failed you, keep using their after-shower stuff because it actually does work. :)
Side note: This spray makes your scalp tingle when first applied. It's cool.
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alliebeaar on 8/17/2014 4:23:00 PM more reviews by alliebeaar
Age: 18 & Under Skin: Acne-prone, Fair Hair: Black Eyes: Blue
It honestly reminds me of L'oreal Kids detangler spray I used to use when I was a kid. Other than that, there's nothing fancy about it. I've only ever used it on wet hair.
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*TOP REVIEWER* emily0212 on 2/27/2013 4:21:00 PM more reviews by emily0212
Age: 36-43 Skin: Combination, Fair Hair: Brunette, Straight, Fine Eyes: Brown
I like this, not for it's "fall fighting" properties (which I think are a gimmick) but for it's leave in conditioning properties. The only thing about the packaging that I don't like is that the nozzle clogs and I have to rinse it under hot hot water until it unclogs. They are using too fine a sprayer for this.
I wouldn't buy this again only because I'm a product junkie and there are a million other things out there to try.
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*TOP REVIEWER* suzanneb on 2/26/2013 9:47:00 PM more reviews by suzanneb
Age: 36-43 Skin: Very Dry, Fair, Cool Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Fine Eyes: Green
Just started using this today since my hair has been falling off so much, sprayed and massaged for one minute on freshly washed hair, scalp feels fresh and cool, I will come back and update review.
EDIT: hasn't seen any difference using this, the only thing that makes a difference is when I add certain foods to my diet.
EDIT August 2013: this product finally worked but it took 6 months to do so.
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GeekyMcGee on 9/20/2012 10:00:00 AM more reviews by GeekyMcGee
Age: 25-29 Skin: Sensitive Hair: Brown, Fine Eyes: Brown
I also reviewed the shampoo, and mentioned the spray, but I thought I'd better put it here too. I bought both products hoping it would help with my shedding problem, but it's become far worse. I normally use the Garnier triple nutrient leave in stuff, and love it. The Fall Fight line is horrible, and this spray was the worst. I accidentally got some in my mouth one morning, and my tongue started tingling and going a little numb. Yes, I know you're not supposed to get it in your mouth, but that still can't be good for your head. I will not be repurchasing and feel horrible about having to dump out two full bottles of product. Ugh.
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missthing303 on 8/26/2012 7:12:00 PM more reviews by missthing303
Age: 30-35 Skin: Dry, Fair Hair: Brunette Eyes: Other
This whole line is really working well for me. It's definitely helping. I've been shedding excessively due to anemia (according to my dr). He put me on iron supplements for a few of months and I have been extra gentle with my hair. I started been using the fall fight shampoo, the fall fight conditioner and the fall fight leave in and I am shedding less! In fact, hardly shedding at all compared to before which is amazing! I massage each product in per the instructions and bottom line, I'm shedding a lot less. With this leave in, I really use it more as a scalp treatment than anything else. I use my normal L'Oreal extra body mousse on the length of the hair after massaging in the fall fight treatment. It comes in a spritz bottle and is easy to use. No fuss. I love the whole line and have bought a couple of backups because I don't see it everywhere. Please don't discontinue!!!!
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The Gay PA
by cantbuymy©
Ok this is 100 percent interracial. Even though race has nothing to do with this how this story reads, I wanted to put it under interracial but it is still a love story about two people except they happen to be different colors. If I had my way I would put it under romance, but what the hell, interracial will work.
I was just out of college and I needed a job. Up until that time my job was to be a student. But now I had to strike out on my own I had sponged off my parents long enough.
So I headed for Atlanta, where business was booming. Even with degree in business and an MBA I could not find a job. I was only twenty four and had done three years in the Army until they told me I was no longer needed on active duty, something about RIF [Reduction in Force]. Actually that was pretty good because as an officer I owed them seven years from the last college class they paid for, so I got college at their expense and then they told me to play in the reserves. Prospective employers either told me I was over qualified, or did not actually fit their management team. "Did not actually fit" I had come to understand means not the correct color. I could do many things but changing color was not one of them.
After almost a month I was ready to head home to Montana. I had been staying at the YMCA and had to leave anyway. Now for a country boy just out of Montana, that was an eye opener. We all got along well enough, but not that well, if you get my meaning. But I did make some friends that were pretty nice guys, strike pretty nice and insert good, when they were dressed like guys. They even seemed to be protective of me when some of the other guys came around. I was not to be bothered was the word.
So I am at a Starbucks getting a coffee; ok it was one of those foo foo designer coffees with mocha vanilla foam crap; but it still tasted pretty good. There were a group of guys talking about this PA job in the next building over. I thought, why not, I could do that; it might be a step in the right direction. So I listened in and they were talking about interviews all day long. I headed back to the Y and went to put on the only suit I had; it was nice looking dark grey with light grey pin stripes. I polished my shoes and as I was getting it all together after hitting the shower when one of the "guys" asked what was going on and I told him about the job. He had a bit of a laugh at it and then told me I had to change a few things.
I am five foot ten, slight build, I am called wiry, but with muscles. I run every day and I like to stay in shape. I keep my hair cut short, because I don't like to have to deal with it when I take a bath or after, probably came from the military and working on the ranch. So he gives me a sort of pink shirt with this hand painted tie from Hawaii with some kind of flower on it. He tells me I look perfect and laughs again. What I am is a hick from Montana and he is a drag queen, so I figure he knows more about dressing for the location than I do; at least he did not try to put me into a dress. He tells me to trust him, he knows about the job and I am dressed perfect for it.
Before I headed back down to the job site with resume in hand I jump onto the net and find out about the business. It is one of those all female black owned and operated businesses that deals in clothing; sports, casual and some more formal stuff. But they also engage in manufacturing for other companies.
I got a once over as I found the receptionist and told her I was here to be interviewed. She did have a surprised look on her face but she gave me the initial application and I turned it back in with my resume. It was about noon when this stunning black woman who had to be six foot seven or eight, without shoes on, walked past all of us sitting there and gave us a quick once over. She had to have on three or four inch heels and she was a giant. I smiled, why the hell not, she was fucking gorgeous, but she sort of scoffed at me and walked on past. Well so much for charm.
The interviews went on and on and by three o'clock there were only three of us left and each of us had talked with three other interviewers. I was the last of the three to go into "The Room." The other two had gone in and after ten or so minutes each one had walked out of the room and out of the office. I was the last one called and with a little hesitation I went in.
Behind the desk was the African Goddess I had seen before but now that she was sitting I could see just how good looking she was. I had never been "into" black women but there was just something about her, something that really got to me. She did not smile she just looked through me. The other two did the talking. "What do you think your job entails?' was the first question.
"While I will leave it up to you to tell me the specifics, I believe that my job will be to make sure that all of the things you don't need to be involved in, the so many little things that take up a good part of your day, are handled for you in a matter you would want them taken care of. My job, if I may be so bold, it to free you to do your job, which is run this company, develop new business, see to it that your business plan is being implemented for the business you have. If you don't have the time to do your job, then none of us have a job. I hope that I can help with that." I thought it was a pretty good answer. Oups, wrong again.
"So you want to make all the decisions, you want to run the business while we are just figure heads, do I hear you right?" This one came from the second lady in the room.
"No Ma'am, I did not mean that at all and I am sorry if my answer implied that. It was my fault in not being specific enough. Every day I would watch what you did and how you did it. Those things that seemed to be taking too much of your time and appeared to be repetitive and not worthy of your time, I would ask if I could handle them for you and by then I would already know how you did those tasks. I would be an extension of what you wanted done, not what I wanted done. I would prepare a one page summary of what I did every day and let you look at it the next morning and let you decide if I handled them correctly, listen to your correction and then make sure I would do it according to your instructions. I would include those things on the daily report until you told me you did not need to see a specific event again. I would also prepare a weekly report in more detail with everything, including the things that you had already excluded from the daily, just to keep you informed of what was happening, in case you wanted to change the policy about something. I feel it is important to keep the commander informed as we used to say in the Army. It would be my hope that the time it took to see the daily would be insignificant to the time it would take you to do those tasks yourself." I thought it was a pretty good answer without being obsequious.
Now the Goddess herself spoke. "Will you be able to work for a woman? Do you see any problems with that and with being on call 24/7?"
"No Ma'am, I see no problem with that at all. I am currently staying at the YMCA and I will seek a place to stay close to the office or the person I am to be the PA for so that I can perform as needed."
I was told to wait outside and I could hear them talking. They needed a PA but they also had some EEOC problems and a white man would be prefect. They would have a man and one that was white plus I was just out of the military; and my being gay was a plus too. I was to be their token gay white man vet; wow, three stereotypes in one hire. I had to laugh but I was serious when I was called back in after five minutes. "Gay? Did they say gay? I sure hope they mean happy," I thought.
I have the job but I would have to be more fashionably dressed when I worked here. Another PA, Dorothy, would take me shopping immediately, and I would have to be appropriately dressed by eight tonight. There was an event at the Hilton and I would attend, making notes of discussions. I was not an attendee I was working. I was told I would have a room at the Hilton for that evening.
Dorothy took me out and with a company credit card we went to a nice store and I was fitted for half a dozen pair of slacks, half a dozen sports coats and six suits. They even bought me two dozen shirts and ties. I was taken to the hotel and as I dressed for work, which was a black suit for me, black tie for the guests, I was handed an iPhone and a new iPad. The tools of my trade. The iPhone was already loaded with phone numbers and the iPad had preloaded websites and business information.
Dorothy was so helpful and I thanked her. She smiled and told me not to thank her yet. At ten minutes to eight I was downstairs waiting at the entrance when the phone rang, it showed a picture of my boss, the Goddess. "Where the hell are you Steven?" my boss demanded.
I am in the lobby waiting for you Ma'am. Just then the elevator door opened and my Goddess boss walked out with a tall black man at her side and I fell into step with them. I later learned his name was Russell. As they went through to have their passes checked I just followed her in. One of the men was going to ask for my pass but realized I was just one of the many drones, even if I was white. Everyone at the event, except a few other drones and some staff, was black.
I followed her around, making notes of conversations, and taking pictures of the people she was talking too, as I did not know their names. I stayed invisible; that was easy to do. I made no eye contact with anyone and moved before people asked me to move. I took no food and drank nothing offered. Most of it was social but I kept track of talk of vacations, births, names of children or wives or husbands, every bit of information I could get. I spoke to a few other drones and got the names of the people my Goddess spoke with by showing them the pictures. During a lull in the conversations I was monitoring I would look them up on the net and get some information as to who they were and what they did. My boss, and the black man whose name was Russell were apparently well known in this circle and apparently well liked by everyone. At dinner I sat in a chair against the wall closest to her table, Cynthia Wilson was my Goddess' name, so I could hear the conversation. There was dancing and I stood and waited. Always keeping notes of who was with whom, just for future reference.
About one o'clock Cynthia told me I was dismissed for the evening and to be at work at seven in the morning and to keep my phone on, she might need to contact me. I spoke with some of the other drones and the help and by the time I went back to my room I knew by face everyone in attendance that evening.
When I got back to my room I noticed that Dorothy had left behind a new apple computer for me with a note that everything needed was preloaded. I prepared a report on the evening, and included a report on who danced with whom and how many times. I thought it might be helpful.
At ten minutes to seven I was in the office and waiting for the boss to appear. Dorothy had told me what she liked in the morning by way of coffee and I had it there with a little pastry waiting for her. When she arrived I walked into her office right behind her, getting a "what the fuck do you think you are doing" look as I did so. I poured her coffee into her favorite cup and taking the carry out cup with me I left to wait as the guardian of the gates.
It was not more than ten minutes that another very tall and damn nice looking woman, Georgette Winters appeared and started to walk into the boss's office. I politely stopped her and smiling asked if she had an appointment. She said no and I told her if she would please have a seat I would see if I could fit her in. She laughed and shook her head but did sit down. I gave a quick knock and walked in and told her who was here and without an appointment. She looked up and said "that is my sister you idiot."
"Yes Ma'am, your sister. Next time your sister appears I will allow her to just walk in, I'm still learning but I will try to get it as fast as I can. Maybe later I you can tell me who I should speak with to find out who can enter at will and it will never happen again." Damn I hated starting the day off wrong.
"I am sorry Mrs. Winters I did not realize your status with the company. It will not happen again." I opened the door for her and held it open. I asked if there was anything she wanted and she said no.
It was only a few minutes later that I was called in. The report I gave was now up on a big screen and both ladies were looking at it. They had questions about some of the people they did not know. I told them what I knew about them, having looked them up on the net during the evening. They also had questions about who danced with whom and why I included it. I told them it was just as much business as social and that if you wanted to talk business with someone privately I thought the dance floor was a good place to be private without suspicion. The boss asked if I kept track of who she danced with and I said yes but I did not put it into a report; but I did compile a list of people her partners danced with and it was strange that when she danced with a certain person the next dance for him was with a specific woman and I identified that person for her. Both the boss and her sister thought this was pretty good information and I even sent them a flow chart of what happened that evening, as best I could construct it and they immediately put it on the screen.
What ever I had done must have been right because they smiled at each other as if the information would be worth some further investigation.
Mrs. Winters asked me what I did in the Army. "I was in the infantry Ma'am, I broke things and I made widows and orphans. Now if there is nothing else, I will leave you ladies to your discussion." I wanted to shut down that little dialog as fast as possible and they seemed to know I was uncomfortable with the discussion so they let it drop.
"We have not discussed your living arrangements or your salary yet." It was a statement from the boss, not a question. I own a building not far from here and your presence there would be best. She wrote down the address. You can see them when I go to lunch and have someone go and pick up your clothes from the hotel and the YMCA and have them delivered." I was told to have accounting take care of my pay and with that I was dismissed. I still did not know what I was making but I did not care, I just wanted to be around her. That was pretty damn stupid for a man who needed a job, getting stuck in one and not even asking for salary information. Someone from Human Resources came down and got a lot of information from me and they left.
Dorothy proved invaluable with some of this and she got the people in shipping to head to the hotel and the Y to get all of my stuff.
At noon the boss left with the large man she had been with the prior evening and told me to keep the phone on at all times and to check out the living arrangements. I went over and there were three or four units I could use. One was a penthouse with a great view, two were four bedroom units and one was a studio with a large closet. It took about three and a half seconds to choose the studio apartment, because I knew this was not going to be a place I would spend much time in. The shipping people put the clothes away and I walked back to the office; it all took less than thirty minutes. I was called by Helen from HR and she told me my first months check was now in my bank via direct deposit and welcome to the family. I thanked her. I went downstairs to the bank and made a withdrawal and then I called up a few places to make some arrangements for a proper "Thank you" to each of those who helped me. I went down to shipping and gave them each an envelope and a handshake for helping me move. Each one got one hundred dollars. Dorothy got flowers and chocolates, and I had one of the ladies find out what she liked. Inside the box of chocolate I included two tickets to a play she wanted to see and had mentioned the night she helped me buy clothes. You see I was making a lot of money so why not be generous.
The boss was back around two thirty, looking a little worse for the wear; but happy. I gave her a rundown on the calls, told her about the apartment and thanked her. We talked about which calls seemed important. I stayed in her office as she returned her calls; which surprised her. I quickly learned what was important and what was not.
I spoke with the receptionist and got more information about who called when and what it was usually about. I set up a routine where the receptionist would text me who was on the phone with the information about the call. By the end of three months I owned the position.
There were no more daily reports and weekly reports were changing into monthly reports. I did put in a lot of hours. I was there when she needed me and even when she did not need me. She took me to events just to have me hang around and make her feel important. But I earned my money by taking great notes and learning about everyone in attendance.
I got to see what "lunches" were going to go until three or four without her telling me. Pretty soon I realized how to limit her schedule so that when it was going to be a lunch with one of her men friends that nothing was planed for the rest of that day, just paperwork.
I kept it like in the military. My first sergeant would have all the paperwork sitting on my desk, if you count a card table as a desk, for my signature in the morning. we would talk about what happened when I was not there and what we could do to fix any problems or train to not let them happen again. It was the same with her business.
My life revolved around this Goddess, and yes she was a Goddess to me. I have never been so smitten by a woman in my entire life. She was a very big woman, as I already said, she was damn tall. She had a good nine inches on me without heels. She was big all the way around without looking or being fat. When you are that tall you can't be too skinny and not look like hell. If you saw her from a distance she would be perfectly proportioned and she was. She had long legs and huge tits that would look like basketballs on anyone not as large as her, and black, deep almost purple black skin. Huge African lips, short hair and great eyes. They were dark brown, bottomless brown. She was about thirty two at the time.
When she said I worked 24/7 she means 24/7. I did not have a private life, as it revolved around her and the company. We took trips out of the country to see where some of the material was purchased. We went to our own factories inside the US. I still went to parties and kept notes and by now I had lists of when and to whom to send birthday cards and little presents. I knew all of her associates and their anniversaries. I kept a special calendar of everything that was more personal about those she did business with. I let cards for her to sign with a request about a gift and always gave her a paper with the gift suggestions and cost limitations. Then when she approved it I did it. I still ran daily and did some weight lifting and rode as much as possible.
After the first year I was the keeper of the gate and I kept it shut tight when needed and at proper times the gate was always opened. We developed a great working relationship, and that is all it was for her but not for me. I was in love with this woman. No one looked and saw it; I was supposed to be a gay man. They even gave me tickets to the gay ball and shit like that. The friends that I met originally at the Y were still my friends. They got a kick out of a straight white man going to a gay ball because he got tickets from an all black woman business who would never have hired me if they knew I was straight. I would go to the ball and take one of them and then after we were in I would let them have their fun, these events were closed to everyone else, and I would head out as fast as I could.


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Mr David Ritchie AO Ambassador to Germany
Mr Ritchie is a senior career officer with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and was most recently Australia's Ambassador to Italy. He has previously served as Ambassador to Indonesia (2002-2005) and has had extensive experience in Germany, having served at the Australian Embassies in both East Berlin (1981-1983) and Bonn (1975-1978). Mr Ritchie has been a Deputy Secretary at DFAT since 2001 and was Senior Adviser, International Relations, in the Prime Minister's Office (1999-2001).
Mr Ritchie holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree from the University of Queensland in German language and literature. He has two children and is married. Mr Ritchie speaks German and Italian.


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The small Irish-themed drinking and gaming venue is best known for having affordable table games, cheap beer and beer pong.
Originally opened in 1989, O'Sheas Casino closed in April 2012 to make way for construction of The LINQ Promenade, but it returned to Sin City in big way at end of 2013.
Measuring 5,000 square feet, O'Sheas Casino boasts two indoor bars (the Dublin Up Bar and the Lucky Bar) and an outdoor bar (the Blarney Bar). Guests can order a variety of Irish, European and domestic beers here. There are some draft beers for $3 and shots for $5. Signature cocktails cost about $10 and include the St. Peppermint Patty, the Pot of Gold, the Irish Bloody Mary and the Irish Margarita, which is made with Jameson Irish Whiskey, sweet and sour mix, Cointreau and lime juice. In addition, specially priced beers and shots are available weekly during Throwback Thursdays.
Among the other amenities at O'Sheas Casino are 11 tables games, 15 video poker machines and six beer pong tables. Beer pong tournaments are held daily beginning at 3 p.m. There is a small stage that showcases bands and other live entertainment nightly. You may even see Mr. Lucky the Leprechaun take over DJ duties occasionally.
Even though the old O'Sheas Casino was imploded, several pieces of the original establishment were preserved. Its marquee was refurbished and has been hung above the entrance from The LINQ. Some of the tin ceiling tiles have been repurposed and serve as decorative finishes throughout the property. Plus, a large picture of the original O'Sheas Casino forms the backdrop behind the Lucky Bar.


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I am Tom Ballard, and I welcome you to this outreach ministry, Jesusfreaktrucker.com. This site is about the trucking industry, the trucking lifestyle and all things trucking. This site is about my passion for the industry that has supported the Ballard family for 14 years. This site is about the people we meet, the places we go, the problems we encounter and how we deal with it all. But most of all this site is about a life with Jesus Christ. This site is an ecumenical outreach to drivers and people interested in the industry. I pray that as episodes roll out I can help spread the word that the Christ centered life is the only life for all of us, trucker, or not.
Who is Tom Ballard?
I am a Trucker with over a decade of over-the-road experience. I've covered all of the lower 48 states and several of the Canadian provinces hauling dry vans, refrigerated vans, live floor and flat bed trailers. I've also hauled more than my share of oversize loads. Now I haul livestock in the Midwestern states running 3 to 4 days a week. The call to evangelism was burning long before I went on the road, but it is on the road that God seems to use me most.
I've utilized many low cost or free resources available on line to study the Bible and enjoy "auditing" Bible college and seminary courses while on the road. I have an unusual interest in eccleseology, denominational beliefs and practices. I also have training as a faith based crisis counselor.
I live live in Rice Lake, Wisconsin with Kris, my wife of 28 years.We have 3 grown children and 5 grandchildren. I love the outdoors, the road and fly fishing. Although my job on the road prevents me from holding office on his church counsel, I have served in a teaching capacity as time permits, focusing on teens and men's groups.


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[697] Is the "Pragmatic Approach" for H. pylori Diagnosis Effective?
Amir Samani, Stefano Serra, Eva M Szentgyorgyi, Rajkumar Vajpeyi, Hala El-Zimaity. University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
Background: Controversy exists over the most cost-efficient approach for Helicobacter pylori diagnosis. Since 2004, to reduce costs, our group routinely screened gastric biopsies with sections stained only with hematoxylin and eosin (H&E). Special stains (Giemsa, Warthin Starry, or immunohistochemistry) were performed at the discretion of the pathologist. The goal of this study was to evaluate the "pragmatic approach" in a surgical pathology setting. In addition, we sought to evaluate how having biopsies from only one site (either antrum or oxyntic) might affect the diagnostic accuracy.
Design: We randomly chose from our files biopsy specimens from 93 patients who had at least antral and oxyntic biopsies taken specifically for H. pylori diagnosis. All cases were interpreted during regular sign out following the "pragmatic approach". We then stained each block with a silver stain and Helicobacter immunohistochemistry stain. Slides were coded, randomized, and reviewed independently by four pathologists and one trainee. Observers had no information on the clinical status of the patients. We used a visual analogue scale graded from 0 (absent) to 5 (maximum) to score H. pylori and inflammation on each slide. We did not consider any stain as the "gold standard" for identifying H. pylori. We considered a biopsy specimen positive when all observers agreed that bacteria with the characteristic morphologic features of H. pylori were present in at least one of the special stain slides.
Results: There were 28 H. pylori-positive and 65 H. pylori-negative patients. Following the "pragmatic approach" 3 of 28 (11%) H. pylori positive patients were interpreted as negative at regular sign out (sensitivity 89%). Most of these biopsy specimens had minimal chronic inflammation. Helicobacter were identified at both sites in 57% of patients, in the antrum only in 25%, and in the oxyntic mucosa only in 18%. Of the 65 H. pylori-negative patients one was interpreted as positive for the infection (specificity 98%).
Conclusions: When the "pragmatic approach" is used, pathologists tend to over- estimate the minimal amount of inflammation that can be seen with H. pylori infection. This suggests that pathologists need to lower their threshold of when to order special stains, or get special stains routinely. A second potential reason for under diagnosis of H. pylori could be when biopsies are only taken from one site. In this study, biopsies from the antrum or body only would have resulted in a significant false negative diagnosis. The "pragmatic approach" using H&E sections only, leads to inconsistent results..
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Velour filet or Amethyst? Thoughts or experience? http://www.johnnyseeds.com/p-8399-velour-filet-beans.aspx http://www.johnnyseeds.com/p-8697-amethyst.aspx |
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- Posted by farmerdill (My Page) on Fri, Jan 10, 14 at 8:33
Depends on the product you want. Amethyst is a standard snap bean comparable to Royal Burgundy or Purple Queen. Velour is a fillet bean, which means an extra slim pod smaller pod. If you want skinny beans, Velour will fit your needs.Like the regular size purple beans, they become green beans when cooked. |
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There is a difference. The fillet beans must be picked young 1/8 to 1/4 inch in diameter. That is smaller than a common pencil. They do have a much shorter harvest window. They do get tough quickly. Both types (bush) are stringless when harvested at the appropriate stage. |
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