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I am a healthy 42 year-old-male, concerned with the removal of fat around my jowl and neck. This is a common problem found in my immediate family. What treatment(s) would work best for my situation? I am a VA resident, who would prefer to locate a board-certified clinic in my area.
Options for Jowls and Neck Fat?
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Thank you for your question.
Liposuction can be used to remove neck fat.
However, correction of Jowls requires a Face and Neck Lift. There are important nerves around the jowls and mouth that could be injured if Liposuction is attempted to correct Jowls.
Web reference: http://drseckel.com/surgical-procedures/face-lift/
Soudns like you need a facelift and neck work odone,. Youc an find a plastic surgeon in your area by goingto the ASPS or ASAPS websites.
Web reference: http://www.stevenwallachmd.com
Jowls and neck fat are best addressed through a comprehensive face-neck lift. The jowls cannot be adequately removed with only liposuction. If the jowls are very mild, consideration can be given to a neck lift only, with the inferior-most portion of the jowls being removed at the time of the neck lift. A neck lift will not address excess skin; it will tighten the muscles in the front part of the neck and remove fat only in the neck. A comprehensive face/neck lift will address removal of fat in the neck, tightening the muscles both in front and behind the neck, and lifting the facial muscles and SMAS, along with tightening excess facial skin.
Web reference: http://www.seattlefacial.com
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If fat is truly the predominant problem in the neck and jowl area, liposuction may well be a good option for treatment. With the use of a liposuction cannula, I free up the skin of the entire neck and lower jawline jowl area prior to the liposuction. Leaving a cuff of fat on the undersurface of the skin, I judiciously and conservatively liposuction the excess fat taking care to avoid over-liposuction. I then have my patients wear a velcro elastic chin strap for several days and then as much as possible for the next couple of weeks. If there is only a small amount of pre-surgical skin laxity, the skin will tighten a small amount with this widely undermined procedure.
On the other hand, if there is substantial skin laxity as well as platysma muscle banding in the neck, a face/neck lift procedure, in combination with conservative liposuction, would yield better results than with liposuction alone.
The bearded skin of a male is quite different in its retractability after liposuction than a woman's. You may have less tightening of the sagging tissue with liposuction than a woman. You should see a plastic surgeon who could evaluate you for a neck lift and face lift for the jowls. Alternatives of surgical lifts or liposuction of the neck and jowls, are: botox along the jaw to help lift the jowl (off-label use), Thermage radiofrequency tightening of the neck, and Botox for neck muscle (platysma) bands if they exist. The latter treatments would not be expected to provide nearly as long lasting results as the surgical procedures, nor as great an improvement for most patients.
Well lucky for you I am in your area in Fairfax, Va. Without a picture it's a little difficult to say what you need. However, men have different issues and concerns then women. I try to make limited incisions in men. The best option is to make a small incision under the chin (which is not visible). From here liposuction of neck fat can be performed as well as tightening of the muscles. As we are the same age I doubt that you have excess skin that needs to be taken out with an incision around the ears.
So call my office at 703.752.6608 next week to set up a consultation and we'll discuss your neck and jowls.
Web reference: http://www.hessplasticsurgery.com
In younger individuals (under 30 years of ag) neck liposuction alone can fix the problem of extra neck fat and the skin being elastic snaps back up. However, in older individuals the skin will wrinkle up after fat has been removed. In order to prevent that problem a necklift is the solution. It is very similar to a facelift except that it only involves the lower half of the face and recovery, bruising and swelling is a lot less.
Web reference: http://www.janjuafacialsurgery.com
With out photos or a detailed medical history going over ALL the options and combination of these options could be a chapter in the Clinic of Plastic Surgery. Needless to say you can have many types of liposuction, direct sub mental surgical fat removal, with or without Platysma plication, neck lifts, face & neck lifts, combinations of the prior lists. The examination allows the plastic surgeon to determine your skin elasticity and amounts of fat vs skin ratios. Best of Luck Regards and Merry Merry!
Jowls and neck fat in a young individual can often be addressed with a simple liposuction. Typically, if you are under the age of 45 and have good skin elasticity and tone and not a lot of skin excess, simple liposuction will allow contracture of the skin and improvement of the areas you seek. I hope this information helps.
If you have a significant amount of fat in the neck, then liposuction will need to be a major component of your correction. If you have no real excess skin transversely, then the liposuction may be all that you need. However, if you do have excess skin and muscle, I use liposuction and a MACS Lift to elevate and resolve the skin and muscle problem. In someone your age this can be done with an incision only in front of the ear that hides in a natural crease and is barely perceptible.
A regular neck lift places a scar behind the ear that can, occasionally be quite problematic. The MACS Lift also elevates the cheek and removes any early jowl. It also puts the tissue back to where it came in the first place, not rotated backwards, behind the ear in an unnatural manner.
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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Grandpa's Journals: The Cowgirl's Confidence, Partr 2
Fiction, Consensual Sex, Incest, Male/Teen Female, Virginity
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Gender: male Age: N/A Location: N/A
Posted Sat 7th of April 2012
The sun rose the next morning just as it always does, in the East at around 6:30 in the morning to a cloudless sky. The mountains gave off a pinkish glow from the sunlight splashing off the snow covered peaks of the Three Sisters, just miles away from Sisters, Oregon and the home of my son's ranch just on the edge of the Willamette National Forrest. As my grand daughter came out to tend her horses, she walked with a special step to her stride. It was one of pride and confidence for she had, on the previous night, let herself turn all of her anger over her looks aside and had fulfilled something that she didn't know that she had in her. She had stimulated herself into a marvelous orgasm and she had done it in front of me, her loving grand father.
I had watched from my perch just outside of her window and even though she had turned off the light to her bedroom, I could still make out, under the glow of the of a full moon, the white image of her naked body as she felt, fondled and stimulated herself into a full fledged orgasmic release. It wasn't her first one but it was her best, most intense one that she had ever had. She no longer felt like the Ugly Duckling of the family. She felt, and rightly so, sensual and desirable to the opposite sex. She felt beautiful, she felt alive.
I heard her singing loudly to her horse and its foal and I wondered if they knew just how wonderful she felt this morning. I didn't even know the extent of her joyousness until I joined her at the barn and she came up and gave me a rather seductive hug and kiss right on my lips.
"Wow," I whistled out loud. "What's gotten into you this morning?"
She just stood there, looking up into my eyes starring, smiling and almost laughing at my question. "I woke up this morning feeling like a real woman, for the first time in my life, I wanted to get up and shout it out to the world. I am a woman and I am beautiful and nothing can take that away from me!" she said with so much enthusiasm that I honestly believed her when she said it. She gave me another hug and then said, "And I have you to thank for feeling this way."
"Me? What did I do?" I asked incredulously.
"When you touched my legs at the ice cream parlor yesterday I knew right then that you thought that I was beautiful, that I was desirable, that you wanted to touch me, to caress me, to love me. I knew right then that no matter what I thought of myself, that you thought I was worth looking at. And if my grandpa thought so then maybe someone else would think so also," she explained.
I thought of what she was so excited about for a minute and then said the only thing that I could think of at the time, "I think so, Susan honey," I said with a tear in my eye. "I think that you are beautiful."
We finished with her chores and walked back to the house hand in hand. Susan thought for a second and then told me that she had to go into town this morning and she didn't want me to join her. I thought that this was rather strange but told her that I had some stuff to do over in Bend so I would see her this afternoon and turned to go into my rig. I wondered what she had on her mind but I decided that I would find out if and when she wanted to tell me.
The rest of the week flew by. Thursday was the big day for Susan to get her braces out and she spent the entire afternoon having her cavities filled before her graduation on Friday. I had talked with my son about the Lasik procedure that I wanted to give her for a graduation present and although he said it was too much money, gave me his blessing to go ahead and make all of the arrangements. I scheduled it for the middle of June and filled out an envelope with a note inside to give her on the evening of her graduation. She knew that I was thinking about it because I had accompanied her to the local eye doctor but she had no idea I had finalized the procedure.
On Friday around 2:30 in the afternoon, she had her hair styled and when I saw her come out into the living room of the house, I almost started to cry she looked so marvelously beautiful. Her fresh clean smile was no longer distracting to the onlooker and her long curly red hair had a soft, shorter wave to it and it was much more attractive than it use to be. She wore a nice green dress that made the color in her face stand out and shout, "Hey, look at me because I'm beautiful!" and all of the rest made me want to bust my seams with pride.
Even her brother and father took notice of the changes in her appearance but her mother's reaction was priceless. After looking at her daughter for a moment, studying her up and down, she said, "Where was I when you became so beautiful?" and broke down into tears.
The graduation went off without a hitch. Everyone yelled and cheered when their senior came across the stage to receive their diploma. Some people had more than one group cheer them on but when it came time for Susan to get hers, there was a strange murmuring fill the room as you could hear the whispers asking who this beauty was.
I did not cheer nor did anyone else. Every eye in the place was following her as she walked across the stage yet no one knew who she was. I wanted to cry I felt so bad for her but the look on her face told me that it didn't matter to her one bit,. so as she got the diploma from the principal, I stood up and chapped and shouted out at the top of my lungs, "Way to go Susan, I love you!" She stared at me with a big grin on her face as it turned an instant shade of crimson.
That night I was so anxious to go to her window and wait for her to disrobe for me. I looked at my watch and it said that it was past 10:30, in fact it was almost 11:00 o'clock. Just as I was about to give up and walk away, the light came on in her room and I saw my pajama clad grand daughter walk over to her dresser and pull something long and thin out of little tube and place it right by the night stand. It was a tampon and that told me there was not going to be any shows for a week or so.
It was just as well because the temperature turned down right hot for the month of June. It rose to near 100 during the afternoons and it didn't cool down until much later in the night. Susan had had her eye surgery and had come through it fantastically. She now looked so beautiful without the glasses that my heart skipped a beat every time my own eyes made contact with hers.
My son and Brandon took their horses over to the Triple J to board them over there while my daughter-in-law traveled to San Francisco to attend a protest over some poor, little heard of animal or insect or something. That left us to ourselves, all alone at their ranch to do whatever we wished.
It was the middle of July when Susan came over to my rig one evening and knocked at my door. She sheepishly asked if I wanted to go for a walk and talk a little. I told her "Sure," and wondered what she had on her mind. We hadn't done much since graduation as far as really being with each other. I didn't feel invited to come to her window at night and we never got a chance to be alone much with her mother around so much. But now she was asking me to go for a walk and to talk, so I had hopes for a rekindling of feelings between the two of us.
We walked along in silence for awhile, just enjoying the evening's warm breeze. She said that she had been so busy lately with the horses and all and I told her that I had been also, but I didn't try to explain what I was doing in town all the time. But when she ask me if I remembered back in June when she went into town and told me that I couldn't come with her, well, she said that she had gone to the family doctor to get on the pill and that now she had been on them for over a month. She stopped and looked up at me, right into my eyes and asked, "Will you make love with me Grandpa? Will you show me what it's like?"
I was dumbfounded, I was in shock at the question but I was turned on as hell with excitement. "Are you sure you want me to teach you about sex?" I asked her with doubt in my question.
She continued to look into my eyes as she just nodded her head yes and said, "Uh huh."
"I got you something, it's just a little present that I picked up in town the other day just in case we ever had the opportunity to go, ah you know, be alone together, kind of on a date or something. I'll give it to you when we get back to my rig and if you seriously want to know if I would make love with you, the answer is in the present. My God, Susan, I've hate to admit it but I've thought of nothing else since I saw you that night when you turned off your lights and, well, you know."
She just turned down her eyes and whispered, "I know. I wanted to tell you this for over a month but I wanted to wait until I was sure that they were working. The Doctor said to wait for a full month before, ah, having relations so it had been a month now so when do you want to do it?"
"Let's take it slow and naturally," I said, trying hard to hide my enthusiasm. "How about we go back to my rig, I can give you my present and we can take it from there. Maybe we'll do it tonight, maybe we'll wait until tomorrow night," I told her.
"Or maybe we'll do it both nights?" she asked with smile on her face.
I laughed at her joke and bend down and gave her a big kiss on her lips. She responded to this show of affection with her arms around my neck, jaw extended, open mouth kiss right back as we melted into each others arms. I was pulling her so hard into me that I worried that I might hurt her tender little waist line but as she sighed in between kisses and pressed her hips into mine, my hands grabbed her by the butt and I pulled her off the ground. In doing so, she swung her legs around my waist and pressed her crotch into my groin area, kissing me as hard as she possibly could.
We were so turned on when we broke off the passionate groping of our bodies and walked back to my rig that I had trouble knowing what to do or to say. Stopping her outside, I went on in to retrieve my gift for her and when I came back out with the box, I told her to go back to her room, take a nice cleansing shower and put on the outfit that I had purchased for her. When she was ready, she was to come on back out and we would see where it led us.
She got a devilish grin on her face as she took the box under her arm and fairly flew back to the house to follow my instructions. I nervously took a quick shower of my own as I put on some nice clean clothes and settled down to wait for her to return. I wanted a drink but decided that I would refrain just this one time because I wanted to make sure that I had a full remembrance of this evening.
I waited and waited for her return while fidgeting with my shirt and trousers. I ran back into my rig to change my shirt back to the more casual one that I put on in the first place and was coming back out wondering if I should go back in and change it back when she stepped around the corner of the 5th wheel and I detected the softness of the flowing dress that she was wearing.
The dress looked absolutely fabulous on her and I got an instant hard on just looking at her wearing it. The white, soft cotton blouse was loosely cut into a peasant's style that came down over the shoulders and was held up by the elastic band running through it and her breast line. The delicate embroidering on the two inch collar that covered her breasts had eyelets sown into the fabric and softly hung over the breasts accentuating the smooth flowing shoulders of the wearer.
The full, flowing skirt was made from yards of the same material with the eyelets embroidered into the lower third of the calf length garment and it swished around her legs as she walked. But as she crossed in front of the setting sun, I saw the best of my purchase in the matching panties that I detected her wearing underneath the flowing dress. My heart skipped a beat as she twirled around, sending the hem of the skirt flying outward and showing off her white delicately tapered legs.
She grinned at me with excitement as she stopped her spin and then held out her arms and asked, "Well, what do you think?"
"I think you look fantastic!" I said. "But the question is, what do you think?"
She came over to me to put her arms around my waist as she looked straight up in my eyes. Resting there with her crotch pressed into mine she said in low sexy voice, "It makes me feel all warm and sensual, like I'm trying to be as sexy as I can be. Those little embroidered panties really turned me on just looking at them and to wear them just for you, well…"
I gulped a breath of air as I tried to visualize them on her beautiful little body but my mind was too busy to recall the vision back from my memory so I just smiled and gave her a big hug. She asked me if I wanted to take her for another walk in the sunset and I indicated that I would like that so we slowing walked arm in arm towards the setting sun as we both tried to get control over our emotions.
As we walked towards the mountains and the setting sun behind them, I placed my hand on her shoulder and caressed it softly as well as her neck. She cuddled into my touch and then reached up with her hand and placed it right on top of mine and gave it a little squeeze. I rubbed her back briefly as I took my hand away again to purposely feel for a bra but my fantasies were realized when I felt only flesh under the blouse.
She looked up into my eyes as if to say, "I'm not wearing one," and gave me a little smile of knowing. I almost melted right there as we slowly came to a halt. She turned in front of me and I had to ask her, "Susan Honey, would you do your ol' grandpa a favor? Would you stand right there in front of the sunset, spread your legs a little and pick up your collar so I can see you better?"
She just smiled a nervous sort of smile, bit down on her lower lip and picked up the collar on the blouse of her dress. She very slowly separated her legs to let the sun shine through and expose my eyes to the most wonderful treat. I took my time to inspect every little aspect of the silhouette of her wonderful body, its fullness, its shape and its tantalizing whiteness as it shown under the shade of the dress. I could make out the image of her nipples as they began to stand out from her pink areolas. I could barely see the matching eyelets that adorned the panties that covered her most sacred area as she started to squirm under my scrutiny. I then held out my hand and said to her softly, "Let's go back to the 5th wheel and get comfortable."
We walked back to my RV in silence for the most part and I let my hand wandered down to rest on her hip and waist area. I could feel the bareness of her soft skin and then I felt the firmness of elastic line of the waistband so I ran one finger around on the edge for about an inch on either side and got terribly turned on just thinking of this evening.
As we got back to the rig, I let my hand trail down as she stepped up to enter the 5th wheel and I lightly touched her hip and her rear end. I got this strange sensation of need from deep within my soul but I knew that I should go slowly, very slowly and tenderly. This was her big moment and I didn't want to do anything to spoil it. So I stepped up and entered after her and followed her into the living quarters of the rig. There I stopped her and as she turned around I pulled her close and put both arms around her shoulders.
"Are you ready for this?" I asked her tenderly.
"I think so," she answered in a soft little voice.
"Do you want to talk or have a Coke or anything?" I asked, suddenly felling like a young teenager on his first date.
She just smiled and shook her head "no" and then took me by the hand and led me towards to bedroom. I followed her into the room and when we got there, standing right in front of the closet mirror, I put my hands on her shoulders and started to give her a gentle yet firm massage. Looking into my eyes through the refection, she gave me a smile as she almost closed her eyes in appreciation.
I was kneading her shoulders with my firm hands and she was really enjoying the stimulation that I was causing her muscles but when I lowered my touch down to her chest area and inserted them under the opening to her top, she ceased her breathing and opened her eyes for just a second before moaning out loud and re-closing her them.
My hands found her skin to be lusciously soft and tender as they went down the inside of her blouse. But as they reached her full, firm breasts and settled right on top of them, I also had to remember to let out my air that I had been holding before I started getting light headed.
I found her nipples with my fingers and stopped to twist and pull on them just a little before taking all of her breasts into my palms. She had her head back on my shoulder with her eyes tightly closed, enjoying every second of the manual stimulation that I was affording her, as they cradled into each hand. I would heft them gently by bouncing them up and down but when I gripped them firmly into my grasp and pressed them flat against her chest, she opened her mouth and gave out a mighty groan of pleasure, letting me know what a glorious feeling I was bring to her.
I slid the elastic neckline of the peasant's blouse down around her elbows, exposing her ripe breasts to my eyes and even more to my manual assault. She opened her eyes just long enough to observe my hands on her breasts and a quick glance up into my eyes before she leaned her head back into my shoulder and closed them once again to feel the firm groping of her beautiful full breasts. They were superb in every way imaginable; so soft, so firm and so white because of her fair complexion. But as I continued to massage them, I began to crave her more and more.
I began to kiss her neck as my hands continued with their work. She was staining her chin upward, opening her throat up to my oral assault. I began to remove her arms from the blouse of her dress, urgently pulling it down and thrusting her arms through the gaping holes until the blouse fell down to her waist where it gathered in a heap. Now she was bare from the waist up and I was devouring her with my eyes.
Feeling the freeness of the cool night air on the skin on her bare chest, she turned around and greeted me with her hips pressing into my groin as she threw her arms around my neck and drove her body into mine. She ground it into me as I ground back into her while I walked her back to the bed and gently laid her down. I kept her in my arms and softly lay down on top of her. She moaned out loud in between our kisses as I drew up my knee up to place it directly on her crotch.
She was kissing me hungrily now with the passion that was building inside of her as I was frantically trying to undo the buttons on my shirt. She opened her eyes and helped me with this endeavor and soon had it flying to the floor while fidgeting with my belt buckle. This time it was I who succeeded in opening up my pants and it was I who soon had them sliding down my legs and onto the floor. Now, looking down at her bare chest and those two perfectly giggling masses, I threw myself down upon them and took them deep into my mouth.
Gripping one in my tight fist with just the areola and her nipple protruding out between my fingers, I licked and chewed on that spot as she thrust up her chest to feel the thrill that I intended. I was mad with my lust for this girl and I was starting to build up to a gigantic orgasm when I suddenly stopped and told myself that this wasn't for me but for Susan. I had to control myself and make this all about her and her desires. I had to slow down.
I got up to my knees and slid my underwear down and off of my legs. I looked down at my grand daughter lying there on my bed, naked from the waist up with the skirt of the wonderfully soft sexy dress that I had bought for her riding up her white trim legs. One was bent at the knee and was placed outward and the other one was spread out slightly. I could see her pale white skin show through the skirt and as she slowly opened her eyes to see what was next, I extended my hand out and down to rest it right over her bent knee onto her inner thigh and start the slow process upward to find the junction between the two.
Gathering the skirt up in a ball as my hand made its way up between her legs, I could see her two white thighs slowly come together into a "Y" as they met at the white cotton panties. The matching embroidered eyelets in the underwear allowed a few tuffs of red public hair to stick through the openings and I gained even more excitement from this exposure. My heart was beating rapidly just hearing her pant out her breaths and her hands clutched at the covers on the bed. As I touched her right on the junction, she cried out loud and sucked in on her tummy as she threw her legs widely apart.
I cupped her warm, moist place with my hand and pressed my fingers in between her legs as she continued to squirm out her approval. Rubbing the crotch of the panties right into the moisture was causing a stain laden spot to form on them as I moved my other hand up the outside of her hip, taking the rest of the skirt up to gather at her waist. Then, with both of my hands, I gathered up the entire dress into my hands, pulled the elastic waistband over her hips and down her legs, and soon had it lying in a pile right next to the one of mine.
Looking back up at her two straight white legs, then up to the vision of her two beautiful breasts and the distance between the two that was separated only by a thin covering of cotton fabric, my heart skipped a beat and my breath caught in my throat at the thought that I was soon be doing to and with this beautiful grand daughter of mine. I almost shed a tear of gratitude just thinking about it.
I leaned over and crawled up between those two legs, up until I was resting on my knees right at her wide spread knees, all the while, never taking my eyes off of the prize that was waiting for me. I reached out my hand and placed it right on her crotch once again and started to rub my fingers along her little slit, back and forth until she gasping for air and groaned out her excitement. As I continued to fondle her beautiful pussy through her panties, the moisture began to flow out of her opening and the aroma was more than I could take.
Reaching up to her waistband and pulling down on the panties, I started the long progress down over her hips and down her slim legs. She raised her knees and I slid them over her backside and off of her feet. Her red bushy pubic mound stood brilliant against her lily white thighs but as I placed her legs on either side of my knees, I knew that I had to taste her wonderful, wet pussy and taste it soon. Taking her by the knees with both hands, I spread her out and placed my face directly down on her hot little cunt.
She erupted when I first placed my tongue in between her lips, crying out loud, "OH MY GOD GRANDPA! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"
I slid my tongue up to taste her little nubbin and that brought out another cry of ecstasy. She was thrashing her hips wildly up and down and to and froe in a panic to get away from the stimulation that I was forcing upon her. But suddenly, she dug in her heels and started raising her hips up in a rhythmic motion that told me that now was the time.
I worked my knees up to where they were resting just at her butt with my rock hard cock sticking straight out at her opening. Placing it right between her lips, I nestled it into contact with her vagina and slowly pressed forward. She held her breath as it started into its journey up between her reluctant outstretch vaginal muscles, deep into her womb where no one had ever ventured before. As it reached its full depth and stopped, she let out her breath and mumbled, "Oh Grandpa, it feels so good."
I told her that I was glad and I wanted it to be good for her and that I would try to control myself but at that very moment, I could feel my loins start to give off that tale-tale sign of an impending orgasmic release and I knew that I had to hurry if I was going to get her off too. I withdrew it to its length and then reversed myself and rammed it home with meaning this time.
She grunted loudly but threw herself into my movement. She wasn't used to having something rammed up into her vagina but she took to it almost instantly. She griped the covers into her two hands, spread her legs out wide and started ramming her hips up to meet my every thrust. As she built up to her release in a few more short thrusts from both of us, we jointly spewed out our fluids at the same time as we rocked the 5th wheel almost off of its stands.
Over and over she cried out at the top of her lungs, "OH GOD GRANDPA, I LOVE WHAT YOU ARE DOING TO ME! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! DON'T STOP, PLEASE OH PLEEAASSSEEEE!" She arched her back and had one of the greatest orgasms that I have ever witnessed. She strained her hips skyward and accepted my every thrust deep within her aching vagina and every ounce of my spitting sperm as it shot out of my rock hard cock.
We both came down from our adventure into a state of exhaustion and slumber. I couldn't remember being so turned on in my life, except for when I was with Lori a few months ago and I only hoped for this feeling would replay itself many more times before I had to leave. I settled down into my love's arms to rest and to reflect. I felt so much love for her and then she whispered into my ear, "I love you Grandpa, I really do love you."
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2016-08-27 10:02:03
I must agree, your "Grandpas" are such tender, caring and understanding; their initiation of sex with their willing grand-daughters is kind and gentle mentoring, not taking advantage of their youth but advancing their development into healthy young women. Unfortunately, the majority of grandfather-granddaughter sexual contact is the very opposite, leaving scarred young women detesting their grandfathers.
anonymous reader
2012-04-09 17:18:50
once again you showed not only hot sex but true lovefor your charaters.
anonymous reader
2012-04-08 11:41:08
y dont u get here pregnant in ur next story
anonymous reader
2012-04-07 19:37:20
Great chap 2. It is special when a swan finally appears in a girl who doesn't think so. That is what your stories are about. A girl who experience love and acceptance for the first time. Your grandfathers are portrayed as being loving and caring. The rest of us are just normal lecherous perverts. Ha ha
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Rivalries, ratings and revenue
Duke-Carolina delivers the goods well beyond Tobacco Road
Published November 12, 2012, Page 1
Duke-North Carolina doesn't just draw the eyes of the college basketball nation each time the rivals meet; it's the closest thing to a regular-season all-star game that college basketball has. It's that time when the sport stops and issues a powerful reminder that the regular season in college basketball does matter, at least for those two hours.
As the NCAA embarks on yet another college basketball season, many in the sport mourn an unintended consequence. The fever pitch of March Madness has reduced the regular season to second-class status.
Made-for-TV matchups like this week's doubleheader featuring Duke-Kentucky and Michigan State-Kansas whet the appetite, but the nation's eyes don't truly turn to college basketball until after football season. Think about it: By the time the Super Bowl is played, it's February and basketball's regular season is in its stretch run. By then, March Madness has become the focus, whether you're a Final Four contender or a bubble team.
The scarcity of tickets when UNC plays Duke at Cameron Indoor Stadium brings out major donors and celebrities. |
The top regular-season college football game will generate a rating in the double digits, as the 2011 Alabama-LSU game did with an 11.9 on CBS. Last season's highest-rated basketball game was the regular-season finale between Duke and Carolina with a 2.7 on ESPN.
With 68 teams now making the NCAA tournament — and conference tournaments losing their meaning for all but the most desperate teams — concerns have grown about the relevance of the regular season.
Duke-UNC television trends
Date | Network | Rating | Viewers (000s) |
March 3, 2012 | ESPN | 2.7 | 4,247 |
Feb. 8, 2012 | ESPN | 2.2 | 3,121 |
March 13, 2011 | ESPN* | 1.4 | 2,076 |
March 5, 2011 | CBS | 2.7 | 4,611 |
Feb. 9, 2011 | ESPN | 1.5 | 2,367 |
March 6, 2010 | ESPN | 1.6 | 2,498 |
Feb. 10, 2010 | ESPN | 1.4 | 2,241 |
March 8, 2009 | CBS | 2.9 | 4,625 |
Feb. 11, 2009 | ESPN | 2.1 | 3,269 |
March 8, 2008 | ESPN | 3.4 | 5,612 |
Feb. 6, 2008 | ESPN | 1.8 | 2,634 |
* ACC tournament
Source: SportsBusiness Daily research
Even in the basketball-rich ACC, where football and basketball in the past have been valued equally in the conference's media contract, it's now weighted roughly 70 percent football, 30 percent basketball. "In other conferences, it's probably more like 80-20," ACC Commissioner John Swofford said.
But in pockets of the country, especially that eight-mile stretch between Durham and Chapel Hill, college basketball's regular season does matter.
Swofford told a story from a recent gathering of conference commissioners, where the conversation turned, as it often does, to television rights. He tried to contain his smile when one commissioner, whom he declined to identify, confided that he considered only two regular-season basketball games as annual "must-sees": Duke-Carolina and Carolina-Duke.
"When the commissioner of another conference makes that statement," Swofford said, "that says a lot about how it's viewed nationally."
Facing the donors
The college game's pre-eminent rivalry has become the face of the regular season. Neither the Blue Devils nor Tar Heels made the Final Four last season, but they play twice annually and the games drive tremendous business for both schools, their multimedia rights holders, and the networks that broadcast them: ESPN and Raycom Sports.
Living side by side, on campuses separated by a brief stretch of U.S. 15-501, Duke and Carolina propel television ratings to their peak. It's that rare regular-season basketball game that resonates nationally.
It brings in well-heeled donors from all over the world, some of whom might not attend another game all season. A handful cling to season tickets just so they can be assured of a seat at this one. Those who don't, jockey for the few seats
The ACC has a powerful television syndication package that's driven in large part by the opportunity to air UNC-Duke. |
"When this game comes around, we've already predetermined who will receive these tickets," said John Montgomery, executive director of the Rams Club, UNC's athletic booster club. "These go to our best donors and our best prospects. Many of them bring in business clients because this is the one game they want to see. … This game doesn't just monetize itself for one night. We monetize it over the course of several years."
The Duke-UNC game on March 3, the regular-season finale, drew 4.25 million viewers, making it the most-watched college game out of the 1,450 that were broadcast on ESPN's platforms and the most-watched college basketball game on ESPN since another Carolina-Duke game in 2008.
Duke donors came from as far away as Switzerland and Taiwan to attend that March showdown at Cameron Indoor Stadium. They were members of Duke's Legacy Fund, an elite group of donors who have given more than $1 million to Duke basketball. Twenty-two of the 34 partners in the fund found their way to the Carolina game.
"It's a very high-level group and they live all over the world," said Kevin White, Duke's athletic director. "This game provides one of the very few chances to have so many of them here. … It's just so much bigger than an athletic contest. It's like the world stops for a day."
Turnkey Sports Poll
The following are results of the Turnkey Sports Poll taken in October. The survey covered more than 1,100 senior-level sports industry executives spanning professional and college sports.
Which of the following is the best rivalry in men's college basketball?
Duke/UNC | 84% |
Kentucky/Louisville | 6% |
Michigan/Michigan State | 2% |
Indiana/Purdue | 2% |
Kansas/Missouri | 2% |
Syracuse/Georgetown | 1% |
Not sure / No response | 3% |
Where would you rather see a Duke-UNC men's basketball game?
Cameron Indoor Stadium | 68% |
Dean Smith Center | 15% |
Not sure / No response | 17% |
When Duke and UNC play in men's basketball, who do you root for?
I wish they could both lose | 33% |
Duke | 28% |
Not sure / No response | 15% |
Source: Turnkey Sports & Entertainment in conjunction with SportsBusiness Journal. Turnkey Intelligence specializes in research, measurement and lead generation for brands and properties. Visit www.turnkeyse.com.
"What I see is ESPN making more platforms" to deliver college basketball, he said. "They're not shutting them down."
TV advertisers, however, bear out the emphasis on March Madness over the regular season. Nielsen research shows that advertisers spent more than $1 billion on the 2011 NCAA tournament compared with just under $300 million on the 2010-11 regular season. The ratio is just the opposite for college football, where advertisers spend three times as much on the regular season as they do on bowl games.
Still, White could look around Cameron Indoor Stadium during the North Carolina game and see, from a business perspective, the importance of this regular-season rivalry.
Before the game, Duke President Richard Brodhead hosted close to 300 of Duke's most influential donors at the Hart House, his majestic, on-campus home. Brodhead will host such events only a few times a year; the Duke-Carolina game is always one of them. It's an opportunity for Duke's fundraisers to spend time with their most valued donors, and without the game, getting this many of them together would be nearly impossible.
"You're not in 'ask' mode at that point because you're protecting the integrity of the game," White said. "You're just taking the opportunity to tell Duke's story and give people kind of an insider's view. … When you have events around this game, though, everything is enhanced. You do a lot of cultivating — you do an enormous amount of cultivating."
The scene at Chapel Hill for last February's game between the two schools carried the same feel, with TV trucks filling the parking lot behind the Dean Smith Center through the week and visitors clad in Carolina blue filling the halls outside Athletic Director Bubba Cunningham's office.
It's unlike any other day of the year and Cunningham, who started as UNC's AD late last year, felt the stress of being tugged in one direction, then another.
That afternoon, about seven hours before the 9 p.m. tip against Duke, a line formed outside Cunningham's door. Some of the school's top donors came from Atlanta, Dallas, Chicago and New York for the Duke game, the jewel of a season-ticket package that requires a minimum annual donation of $5,000 — a striking figure considering the fact that the spacious Smith Center seats 21,750.
For many of them, it's the only game they see in person all season. And it was their first chance to meet Cunningham.
Cunningham invited his mother from Florida to the game, her first in Chapel Hill. At one point that afternoon, Cunningham peered down the hall at the line of visitors who wanted a piece of his time. He hoped he'd eventually get to see her.
"It's the game that's on everyone's bucket list," Cunningham said. "It's that perfect combination of a regional game with national appeal."
A few miles away at the Carolina Inn, UNC's multimedia rights holder, Learfield Sports, entertained high-ranking executives from school sponsors such as Verizon, Wells Fargo and Time Warner Cable. Typical pregame hospitality might draw 50 to 75 Learfield guests. More than 200 packed the Old Well Room and adjacent rooms that were needed to accommodate all the guests prior to the Duke game.
Elan Chairman Robert Ingram, the former vice chair at GlaxoSmithKline; Tom Waggoner, a principal at 360 Architecture; and Jack Clayton, regional president at Wells Fargo, were among those in the room.
"Bubba asked me which game I'd want to go to and, naturally, I picked this one," Waggoner said with a laugh.
Tuned in for a rivalry
When the head of the network that syndicates ACC basketball to stations across the country is asked what the conference can do to further drive its rights fees, he has one answer.
Men's Basketball Top Revenue Programs, ranked by revenue
While on the court, Duke and North Carolina often find themselves ranked in the top five, and the same holds true when comparing revenue from the nation's top basketball programs. Here's how they stack up based on 2010-11 revenue, the most current figures available.
Rank | School | 2010-11 men's revenue |
1 | Louisville | $40,887,938 |
2 | Duke | $28,917,329 |
3 | Arizona | $21,209,980 |
4 | North Carolina | $19,672,012 |
5 | Syracuse | $19,017,231 |
6 | Kentucky | $18,557,243 |
7 | Indiana | $17,804,586 |
8 | Ohio State | $17,020,807 |
9 | Michigan State | $16,479,208 |
10 | Texas | $16,437,705 |
11 | Wisconsin | $16,353,313 |
12 | Marquette | $15,568,569 |
13 | Illinois | $15,408,818 |
14 | Minnesota | $15,141,713 |
15 | Arkansas | $14,608,513 |
16 | Tennessee | $13,785,893 |
17 | Pittsburgh | $13,574,317 |
18 | Oklahoma State | $12,262,241 |
20 | Kansas | $11,535,922 |
Source: SportsBusiness Journal analysis of U.S. Department of Education reports
While Haines was joking, his point was sincere. Since 1981, Virginia, Georgia Tech and Maryland each have been to a pair of Final Fours, making the ACC one of two conferences to have five teams appear twice in that span. Yet, for all the ACC schools that have percolated into national prominence in basketball over the years, UNC and Duke are without challenge the crown jewels in a conference that still considers the sport to be at the core of its brand.
Nowhere is this clearer than in the place ACC basketball holds on the television landscape. Like most major conferences, the ACC's regular-season games appear on an array of channels, with rights holder ESPN sublicensing games for syndication to Raycom, and also to some regional sports networks. Where the ACC has stood alone over the years is in the power of its syndication package, driven in large part by the opportunity to air UNC-Duke.
"ACC basketball has long been like SEC football. It is consistently the most watched," said Burke Magnus, ESPN's senior vice president of college programming. "I'm not talking about who has the best teams or the best competition, but just in terms of driving viewer interest, it's the ACC. And most of the credit for that goes to Duke and North Carolina."
In the overwhelming majority of markets across the country, midweek college basketball games air in syndication via independent stations, or through the syndication-only MyNetwork. In contrast, the Carolina-Duke game has traditionally aired on CBS affiliates in the Charlotte, Raleigh and Greensboro markets and on NBC affiliates in Wilmington, N.C., and Columbia, S.C.
The ratings bear out that decision. From 2007 through 2012, the Wednesday night UNC-Duke game pulled Nielsen ratings ranging from 14.8 to 18.1 in Charlotte, 19.3 to 24.3 in Greensboro, and 21.9 to 26.8 in Raleigh. By way of comparison, ratings for "American Idol" in those three markets on a Wednesday night in January ranged from 13.4 to 14.8.
Most-watched regular season games, 2011-12
Cable networks
Game | Date | Network | Rating | Viewers (000s) |
UNC-Duke | March 3, 2012 | ESPN | 2.7 | 4,247 |
Carrier Classic: UNC-Michigan State | Nov. 11, 2011 | ESPN | 2.4 | 3,859 |
Kentucky-Indiana | Dec. 10, 2011 | ESPN | 2.3 | 3,585 |
Duke-Ohio State | Nov. 29, 2011 | ESPN | 2.3 | 3,422 |
Duke-UNC | Feb. 8, 2012 | ESPN | 2.2 | 3,121 |
Broadcast networks
Game | Date | Network | Rating | Viewers (000s) |
UNC-Kentucky | Dec. 3, 2011 | CBS | 2.0 | 3,070 |
Ohio State-Michigan State | March 4, 2012 | CBS | 2.0 | 3,065 |
Missouri-Kansas | Feb. 25, 2012 | CBS | 1.9 | 2,939 |
Wisconsin-Ohio State | Feb. 26, 2012 | CBS | 1.8 | 2,895 |
Indiana-Ohio State | Jan. 15, 2012 | CBS | 1.9 | 2,881 |
Source: SportsBusiness Daily research
Regular-season viewership trends (000s)
Network | 2011-12 | 2010-11 | 2009-10 | 2008-09 | 2007-08 |
NA=Not available
Source: SportsBusiness Daily research
Beginning last season, the ACC's new TV agreement with ESPN allowed for the game to air both nationally on ESPN and in syndication, via Raycom. Even with that split, the game ran on 63 stations in 28 states via syndication, pre-empting major network programming in 11 major markets.
"The basketball regular season, for a lot of conferences, has deteriorated some in television terms," Swofford said.
"There are so many games on now, with so much focus on the postseason, it's had an effect on the regular season for all of us — but less so for the ACC than most conferences."
"When you have a game of this magnitude, it's huge because it also adds credence to other regular-season games," Krzyzewski said. "It impacts the game before and the game after, not just in wins and losses, but also with all of the attention that's paid to these two programs in the lead-up to the game. Those games before and after take on a greater magnitude and that's the rippling effect it has on the regular season."
Duke's White was struck by how many questions he got about Duke-Carolina on a recent visit to London prior to the Olympics. "I was at Oxford and people asked about the game," White said. "I spent some time with [London Olympics Chairman] Sebastian Coe and he was all over me about Duke-Carolina. I was dumbfounded by the interest over there and how much they knew about the game."
Recent scheduling decisions made it clear how the rivalry is viewed within the conference. As the conference has grown, expansion broke up some annual home-and-home matchups. One that bit the dust was the annual two-game series between North Carolina and N.C. State, who now play just once per season in given years. Instead, the league preserved the two meetings per season for Carolina-Duke.
"I think when most people look for comparisons, it goes to Red Sox-Yankees or Auburn-Alabama football," Swofford said of Carolina-Duke. "It's more that type of thing than any other game in college basketball.
"I don't know who is No. 2."


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Strings of Exponents
Lesson 8 of 15
Objective: SWBAT to use patterns in strings to describe the fundamental laws of exponents
Big Idea: The laws of exponents are an intuitive set of ideas and we should help students understand them as such.
Start Up
To get this class rolling, I give students a few Startup Strings and ask them to analyze each set of expressions. I give them the task, "After you compete each string, find a way of describing the pattern you see."
String 1 is meant to illustrate how we add exponents when multiplying to equal bases. It starts off with combinations they will recognize and then transitions into negative combinations.
String 2 is mean to help students identify how they can deal with a power of a power by pairing equal expressions and then contrasting them with an unequal expression. This will help students recognize that expressions like (3^3)^4 = 3^12, not 3^7
String 3 is presented as an opposite from string 1. The emphasis can be put on the idea that multiplication and division are opposite operations and thus imply opposite algorithms. When we multiply equal bases we add exponents, when we divide we subtract
String 4 is meant to help students process the idea that (ab)^x = a^x * b^x and that (a+b)^x does not necessarily equal a^x + b^x
Resources (2)
String 1 Review
As I stated in the Start Up, String 1 is meant to illustrate how we add exponents when multiplying to equal bases. It starts off with combinations they will recognize and then transitions into negative combinations. I have a student share their results and explain. I ask direct questions, like, "What pattern do you see?" And I ask lots of what if questions like, "What if the bases are different? What if the base is negative? Will this law still apply?"
String 1:
2^2 x 2^0 = 2^2
2^2 x 2^1 =
2^2 x 2^3 =
2^3 x 2^4 =
2^4 x 2^5 =
2^5 x 2^4 =
2^4 x 2^3 =
2^3 x 2^2 =
2^2 x 2^1
2^1 x 2^0 =
2^1 x 2^-1 =
2^-1 x 2^-2 =
After discussing this string as a class, I give the class a few problems to work on:
The amount of problems I ask students to complete depends on the time available, but I like to get a few questions out and see how students are doing. This work time is meant for individual work, but I am flexible if students need more support.
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String 2 Review
String 2 helps students identify how they can deal with a power of a power by pairing equal expressions and then contrasting them with an unequal expression. Again we review the string and I ask them what they notice about each expression. I check for reasoning by asking, "will this only work with bases of 2 and 3 and with exponents of 2 and 3?"
String 2:
2^2 x 2^2 =
(2^2)^2 =
2^2 x 2^2 x 2^2 =
2^2 x 2^3 =
3^2 x 3^2 x 3^2 =
(3^2)^3 =
I like to introduce algebraic reasoning in this discussion by asking "How can we show that this will always work?" I want to help my students think algebraically, in terms of variables. It helps to also discuss why this law builds on the previous rule. For example, (3^2) ^3 = 3^2 x 3^2 x 3^2, so this law is simply an extension of our previous law.
Then, I ask students to complete a set of practice for this string: (ab)c.docx
An important pair of examples to discuss with students is that (x+y)^2 does not equal (xy)^2. I like to ask that one at the end as a challenge. However, most students struggle to simplify these expressions correctly. The need to deal with them directly can not be forgotten.
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String 3 Review
I consider String 3 to be in opposition to String 1. In this discussion I like to place emphasis on the idea that multiplication and division are inverse operations and thus imply opposite algorithms. When we multiply equal bases we add exponents, when we divide, therefore, we subtract.
String 3:
4^3 x 4^3 =
4^3/4^3 =
2^3 x 2^2 =
2^3 / 2^2 =
2^4/2^2 =
2^5/2^2 =
2^12/2^6 =
2^2/2^3 =
My goal for this string is to really tap into student understanding of adding exponents as the appropriate strategy when equal bases are being multiplied. I support this way of thinking about the string by showing my students why this makes sense. I show how the pairs of factors form terms and can be cancelled as "1's" as you divide them. It is critical to be careful, to make this process meaningful, to discuss it in relation to multiplication.
Like String 2's reasoning built on String 1's conclusions, this law also builds on the others. My experience is that if I do not help students to make the connections, they consider each law as a separate rule to memorize (instead of developing the mindset that they are all different perspectives of the way we work with exponents). Again, I provide a set of practice problems: ab divided by ac.
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String 4 Review
String 4 helps students process the idea that (ab)^x = a^x * b^x and that (a+b)^x does not necessarily equal a^x + b^x. This law is fundamental to the way we deal with radicals in high school and is something I spend a lot of time revisiting.
String 4:
(2 x 3)^2 =
2^2 x 3^2 =
(3 x 4)^2 =
3^2 x 4^2 =
(3 x 5)^2 =
3^2 x 5^2 =
(1 + 2)^2 =
1^2 + 2^2 =
(4 + 5)^2 =
4^2 + 5^2 =
Students frequently rush and "distribute" the exponent over addition and subtraction. They apply a misinterpreted perception of the distributive property. Over the years this seems to compound issues they have with the laws of exponents. As students work on (ab)^x.docx, most of my questions here get them on track to understanding the law and applying it situations where we also have (a/b)^x. I stress the importance of the law and explain the frequent misinterpretation in the summary.
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The summary conversation is about the major misconception I try and identify for them during this lesson:
(a + b)^x does not always equal (ab)^x
I have found that a fun way to approach this is statement is to ask, "When is this true?"
I think that it helps students to realize that they can test different cases to find out when it is and isn't true. The types of cases they test vary in each situation, but I encourage them to try simple positive and negative values and try special values like 1 and 0. They can test fractions and extremes as well, but they need to start with their comfort zone. The goal here is to get students thinking, "I can't remember the exact law, but let me test it with some easy numbers. That should give me a clue."
We finish by stressing that since (a + b)^x does not always equal (ab)^x, we don't treat it as a law. We are studying properties which are always true. There might be properties that are sometimes or rarely true, but those are dealt with on a case by case basis.
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