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'King Louie' known for murals, youth work
King Louie's reputation in the Grand Valley wasn't always regal.
At age 17, Louis Gonzalez broke into a vehicle and stole items, which landed him a trip to jail and eventually a stint on probation. It also led to life-altering lessons, Gonzalez told The Daily Sentinel in an August 2002 interview.
"You can't hold a beer in one hand and a grudge in the other," Gonzalez told the newspaper. "You can't achieve anything that way."
Friends and family said Gonzalez walked that talk.
Gonzalez died Tuesday night at Palisade Living Center with one of his five daughters, Santana, by his side. He was 59. A celebration of his life is scheduled for 3 p.m. July 21 at Riverside Park.
A former professional boxer, Gonzalez once ran a downtown Grand Junction boxing club, The Kingsmen. He was also widely known for his striking murals — dueling Aztec warriors or scenes of wildlife — which once graced the outside of building walls in the Riverside neighborhood, the entryway of East Middle School and a former downtown restaurant, Cork n' Embers. A white buffalo mural painted in 2002 on Dickie Lewis' garage in Palisade still remains.
"I had talked to him for years about doing it," Lewis said. "He finally did ... finished it in a week and didn't charge a penny. Just friendship."
An attorney with the Colorado Public Defender's Office in the early 1970s, Lewis said he met Gonzalez after he'd run afoul of the law on minor charges.
"He decided he wasn't going to be one of those kids," Lewis said. "He changed everything."
The men remained friends over the years. Gonzalez worked tirelessly to raise money in order to take his local boxing proteges to competitions on the Front Range, Lewis said.
When he wasn't working with local youth, Gonzalez might be remembered by Grand Valley residents as the guy behind the wheel of his distinctive, customized low-rider. He'd hung a tiny chandelier from the middle interior dome lamp.
"He'd etched rose (designs) into the rear window of the car," Lewis said.
There were other media: Gonzalez decorated elk hides, bear skulls and drapes, among other items, with brass tacks.
"If he'd lived to be 90, Louie would have been the eccentric on the block," Lewis said.
His sister, Bonnie Valdez of California, said "The King" nickname stuck from his childhood. He was born in Ogden, Utah, and raised in Grand Junction.
A high-school dropout who eventually obtained a diploma in hotel management, Gonzalez constantly stressed the value of education to youth he met, in or out of the boxing ring.
"He was always drawn to the kids, trying to help them stay out of gangs," Valdez said.


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Bradley University police and the City of Peoria police responded to an armed robbery at approximately 5:45 a.m. on Wednesday, March 7, in a parking lot in the 800 block of Moss Avenue. A female student was approached by a male suspect who displayed a pocket knife and demanded money and jewelry. The victim turned over her money and jewelry and then notified the Bradley University police a short time later. The victim was not injured. Bradley and Peoria police searched the area but did not apprehend any suspects. An investigation is continuing.
The suspect is described as a male, 5'7" to 6'0", wearing dark clothing with a large hoodie covering his face.
If anyone witnessed this incident or has further information, they are asked to contact Bradley Police Department at 309-677-2000.
All Bradley University students, faculty, staff, guests and visitors are reminded to:
- Report suspicious people immediately to the Bradley Police Department by calling 309-677-2000 or using one of the emergency blue light phones on or near campus.
- Use the Student Patrol or Bradley Police Department escort programs by calling 309-677-2000. Programs operate during evening and night hours.
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Airtight order entry: How an oversight led one pathology group to upgrade its ordering system
September 2004Delane A. Wycoff, MD
"Dr. Wycoff, we don't like your
computer ordering system!" It was Julie, the lab manager in a clinic about 100 miles away for which our laboratory provides reference testing services. I had asked Julie if she was happy with the direct computer ordering system we had recently set up in her lab. Julie's disappointment with the system was troubling. Where had we gone wrong?
Our pathology practice serves numerous clinics and rural hospitals within a 150-mile radius of North Platte, Neb., and covering parts of Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado. Testing is performed in our local hospital lab or our independent reference lab, which are linked together through a laboratory information system interface, permitting referrals in either direction. These labs are also interfaced to outside testing sources at university and national reference laboratories. The clinics and hospitals that we serve have been receiving all of their clinical pathology and anatomic pathology reports via direct teleprinter services for 22 years. We recently had begun providing direct electronic reporting interfaces to medical records systems in some of these clinics.
The impetus for our direct computer
ordering system was a need to improve on our manual paper requisition process for ordering lab tests. We had ongoing problems with illegible handwriting and incomplete information on the paper reqs, which we felt might improve if we put computer ordering in the hands of our customers. We had done this with apparent success in three clinics and one hospital before providing Julie's lab with the same service.
When we set up Julie's lab for direct computer entry, we provided the same computer screens and ordering functions used in our own laboratory. The ordering screens looked like ours—character user interface, or CHUI, screens running on a telnet session. These entry functions worked well in our lab, but some of Julie's staff refused to use them. We soon realized that the screens worked well in our lab because they were ideal for "heads-down," high-volume key entry, and our staff processed hundreds of orders per day. However, they were not user-friendly for our clients who did not spend all day doing this type of work, such as Julie's lab. Julie's staff expected graphical user interface, or GUI, screens with features convenient enough for novice users.
I invited Julie and her staff to help us develop a better system. Using suggestions from her lab and other laboratory clients, we developed ideas for a direct ordering system using Web browser technology. We already had a secure Web site for looking up lab results. This was the nudge we needed to complete our previously planned lab-ordering capability. We implemented a new Web-based ordering service in 10 weeks. We then spent four weeks refining the system, which has worked successfully for the last 10 months.
The new system was easy to use.
Nurses and laboratorians needed less than an hour of orientation, usually over the telephone. Some of our clients had even begun using the system successfully without any instruction from us. Furthermore, customers used words like "neat" and "fun" when describing their experience with the system. In fact, the system proved so easy to learn that we are now training our own new employees on Web browser-based ordering in lieu of traditional order entry.
We also benefitted when outside clients ordered directly from our Web site. These pre-ordered requests were processed more efficiently, requiring only entry of "date/time of receipt" to complete the request.
Additional benefit was gained by our billing office. With improved validation of billing information during order entry, billing workload and the volume of phone calls requesting billing information declined. When our billing office lost two employees, the billing manager announced that there was no immediate need to replace them.
Design decisions focused on customer convenience also contributed to our success. We view the direct computer ordering process as optional. We tell clients not to use it unless they find it helpful, and we emphasize that we will always accept paper requests.
Why did our laboratory clients like the new system?
We achieved "faster" in several ways. We designed for the worst case scenario—that is, users with a dial-up modem connection. We kept our screens fast, despite slow connections, by designing Web frames and pages with no images.
Using pure HTMLkept the data thin and the responses snappy. We also avoided using .pdf files for computer-generated specimen packing slips and advance beneficiary notice, or ABN, forms. (While commercial vendors of Web-oriented lab-ordering systems sometimes use this technique, we found it unnecessary and counterproductive when speed was the objective. It is possible to exactly duplicate the government-mandated ABN form using only HTML if clients have arial and arial narrow typefaces on their computer and appropriate margin settings on their printer.)
We also minimized keystrokes and mouse clicks and avoided unnecessary page changes. We prepopulated all patient demographics and insurance information whenever previous information was in our database. Because 80 percent of our testing is on returning patients, this feature alone made the computer ordering process faster than handwriting a paper request. Furthermore, we included such features as a check box to duplicate addresses from responsible party to patient or vice versa; client-specific pull-down menus for ordering physicians; client-specific and physician-specific pull-down menus for the most commonly ordered tests and most frequently used diagnosis codes; two- or three-letter abbreviations or zip codes to designate city, state, and zip code; and acceptance of almost any date format, including T (today) or T-1 (yesterday).
We made the ordering process easier by giving users options for key word text lookup of insurance company codes, test codes, and diagnosis codes. The desired selection could then be entered automatically with a single mouse click. Test lookup displays were further enhanced with information on specimen type and testing location and a Web link to the online directory of services. If the test was sent out from our laboratory, it was linked to the reference laboratory's Web site to display that lab's directory information for the test in question. We provided special pages for ordering Pap exams, non-gynecologic cytology, and surgical tissues, which streamlined entry of these requests.
Finally, our direct-entry process was better because we checked information during the ordering process to assure that billing information was complete, Medicare or Medicaid numbers were valid, insurance ID numbers and group codes were in the correct format for the most frequently used insurance companies, and additional requested information, such as urine volumes, culture sites, and patient weight, was included. We initially received a few concerned comments from users regarding their need to provide information that they had previously ignored, but the immediate feedback helped them to learn quickly, and they soon recognized, and appreciated, that this led to fewer phone calls from our laboratory seeking missing information.
We also made sure that we requested only pertinent information. In one case, due to an initial oversight, a customer was quick to remind us, "You shouldn't need that information on this order." We immediately corrected our ordering rules.
Online checking and validation of Medicare medical necessity are now offered as well. The ease of this process and the immediate feedback on passing and nonpassing codes were praised by users even before they discovered that the system allowed them to print a completed ABN form. We also provided users with a secure "lab only" messaging service on our Web site. This allowed users to easily exchange information protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and provided an easy way to answer questions that didn't warrant a phone call. Fur thermore, we included a Web-based method for ordering lab supplies.
We achieved success
with our direct order-entry system because we listened to our customers. For example, one of Julie's first complaints was that a stool specimen with orders for culture, ova and parasites, and Helicobacter pylori antigen required three separate orders on the old system. Consequently, we made sure the new Web service allowed any combination of testing on the same specimen. We continued to use operator feedback to tweak or enhance the system. What we learned during this process applies to hospitals that want to implement Web-based lab orders for outreach services and to reference laboratories not yet providing Web-based direct ordering.
Anyone considering a Web-based enhancement to their system, or middleware that provides similar functionality, should keep in mind that:
We have been seeking medical
clinics and hospitals that are interested in implementing a direct ordering interface with their medical records system. Direct, or computer-to-computer, links can be an even more efficient way of handling lab requests, particularly patient addresses and insurance information. Yet we've had no takers.
Even though some of our clinic-based customers like to receive lab reports electronically, they seem reluctant to undertake an ordering interface. It appears that it is easier for them to print a computer- generated label request or a label they can affix to a paper request. Even so, at least one of the clinics that used printed labels on paper requests has opted for Web-based ordering.
In summary, our experience with direct Web-based ordering of reference lab testing by clinics and rural hospitals has been invaluable. Web pages that are functional and well designed are more appealing to clients than are paper requests, and they offer greater efficiency and fewer errors. More importantly, Web-based technology makes direct ordering readily accessible to a broader scope of laboratory customers than systems that depend on computer links, while providing many of the same benefits.
Dr. Wycoff is clinical pathologist, Pa thology Services PC, North Platte, Neb.


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Urology 73:598-602. 2009..The economic and clinical effects of infectious complications after radical cystectomy have not been analyzed...
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Urology 80:126-9. 2012..To perform a contemporary comparative cost-analysis of robotic-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RARP) and open radical retropubic prostatectomy (RRP)...
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Sinn Féin MEP Martina Anderson says President Barroso "needs too give his head a good shake"
Following President Barroso's speech in the European Parliament Ms Anderson said:
"President Barroso needs to give his head a good shake. Where I come from if something doesn't work then you don't carry on doing it and expect it to work the next time. Mr Barroso is proposing a continuation of the same failed policies that haven't worked in recent years.
"The problem he hasn't addressed is the failure of the policy of chasing after third world conditions in employment and public services. We will not get out of the crisis by lowering wages and destroying jobs and public services, by cutting spending and pouring billions into the banks.
"And now Mr Barroso wants to change the EU Treaties to create a 'federation of nation states'. What he is really about is taking more power away from local, regional and national democratic institutions and putting it in the hands of remote and unaccountable institutions. He wants more power to impose the failed policies of austerity on reluctant peoples
"I agree with Mr Barroso that we need a debate on the proposals the Commission will be coming forward with. I agree that the elections to the European Parliament in 2014 will be an important part of that debate. He can rest assured that Sinn Féin will take the lead across Ireland in promoting a real debate and in promoting a European Union which genuinely serves the interests of its peoples.
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Wisconsin Black Students' Reading Scores Rank Lowest in United States
Black eighth-graders' reading scores in Wisconsin rank lowest in the U.S., according to new national test results released Thursday.
The achievement gap in Wisconsin between white and black students was the highest in the nation in both math and reading for fourth- and eighth-graders, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the nation's report card.
Black eighth-graders' reading scores in Wisconsin averaged 237, followed by Mississippi with 239 and Alabama with 241. The national average is 250.
The average reading score for black fourth-graders in Wisconsin was 193, second worst in the nation. Blacks in only three states had lower average scores than Wisconsin's 216 for fourth-grade math and 252 in eighth-grade math.
Overall, Wisconsin students continue to rank high in math but have shown little progress over the past four years, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ( http://bit.ly/1dPUE0D) reported.
The National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, tests fourth- and eighth-graders in public and private schools across the country in math and reading skills every two years.
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Sir Elton John to Produce VIRTUOSO Music Pilot for HBO
Showbiz411 reports exclusively that HBO will team with Sir Elton John, his husband David Furnish and 'True Blood' creator Alan Ball on a pilot centered on an elite music academy.
Titled "Virtuoso", the project, set in 1790's Vienna will follow young musicians in a distinguished music academy headed by Antonio Salieri, Mozart's nemesis in the Oscar winning film Amadeus. According to the report, the show will feature "lots of music, ruffled shirts and sex of all kinds"
Currently, casting is underway for young men and women who are are skilled at piano and other instruments.
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BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced that new data from a Phase 3 study in people being treated for hepatitis C for the first time showed similar rates of viral cure (SVR12, HCV RNA levels < 25 IU/mL 12 weeks after the end of all treatment) when telaprevir was given twice daily compared to three times daily, the currently approved dosing schedule. Telaprevir is approved for use in combination with pegylated-interferon and ribavirin by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Health Canada under the brand name INCIVEK® (telaprevir) tablets for people with genotype 1 chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) with compensated liver disease (some level of damage to the liver but the liver still functions), including cirrhosis (scarring of the liver). In addition, new data from a Phase 2 study demonstrated that approximately three of four people co-infected with HCV and HIV achieved an HCV viral cure (SVR24, HCV RNA levels < 25 IU/mL 24 weeks after the end of all treatment) with telaprevir combination treatment. These and other new data on Vertex's medicines in development for hepatitis C were presented at The Liver Meeting®, the 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD).


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after two weeks a catheter was put in for a seroma which remain in place for 4 weeks, I'm no longer draining but my stomach is just as larger as the day after surgery and the doctor says seroma surgery will not work. I never wore a compression garment because he said he does not recommend them for tummy tucks. I've seen an internal/ infectious disease doctor and my surgeon,twice a week for the last 7 weeks had several ultra sounds and still don't no any reason why my tummy is not flat.
My Stomach is Larger Now That Before my Tummy Tuck 7 Weeks Ago
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Stomach larger
the only obvious thing i can think of is that your internal plication stitches have released which could happen for a multitude of reasons, thus thngs are not as flat as you would like. all surgeons are different. i routinely use binders after abdominoplasty, though i do open them every 3-4 hours to prevent vascular compromise.
No change after Tummy Tuck
It sounds like you have a complicated case and post op course. Without seeing before and after pictures, examining you in person and knowing much more information about your operative course, it is difficult to give you specific advice. It sounds like your surgeon is doing the right thing with US imaging and consulting other doctors. If they have not done a CT Scan yet, you may ask them to consider this.
Good Luck.
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Large tummy after tummy tuck
Sorry you are still having problems. It's hard to say exactly what is going on. It certainly sounds like you have done a good job following up with your surgeon.
If you are still having trouble getting a handle on what is happening, I recommend you ask your surgeon for the name of another good plastic surgeon in the area you can talk to. Perhaps talking to someone else will help you better understand your options.
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Honoring veterans and veterans to be
Sat, 10 Nov 2012 18:35:53 GMT —
It's a long holiday weekend for many Central New Yorkers, with special attention to those who've served, or are serving in our military.
At Syracuse's Zoo, there's free admission for active military, veterans and their families on Sunday and Monday. Zoo goers are asked to present military or veteran organization ID cards or military discharge documents or wear your uniform for verification for complimentary Veterans Day access to the Zoo.
Liverpool Library is doing veterans appreciation through Monday, as well, with 'hugs and kisses'--candies and certificates for a free book from the ongoing book sale. The library is also collecting donations for the Gregory J Harris Military Comfort Room at Hancock Airport: individual sized, packaged snacks and drinks, as well as cans of ground coffee for the privately-supported effort to make layovers a little more 'homey'.
Syracuse University is also planning a Veterans Day observance at Hendricks Chapel. Starting at 5am, members of military-linked groups (including ROTC) will be reading the names of 6500 who've fallen in the line of duty, from the Chapel steps. At 11 there's a memorial and tribute service.


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Easy Honey Mustard Carrots Recipe
Wonderful color and flavor make fresh carrots a standout side dish. Trisha Kruse - Eagle, Idaho
- 4 packages (10 ounces each) julienned carrots
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1/4 cup honey mustard
- 4 teaspoons butter
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1. Place 1 in. of water in a large saucepan; add carrots. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 3-4 minutes or until crisp-tender. Drain and set aside.
- 2. In a small saucepan, combine the remaining ingredients. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2-3 minutes or until slightly thickened. Pour over carrots; heat through. Yield: 10 servings.
Nutritional Facts
1/2 cup: 125 calories, 2g fat (1g saturated fat), 4mg cholesterol, 259mg sodium, 28g carbohydrate (21g sugars, 3g fiber), 1g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 2 vegetable, 1 starch, 1/2 fat.
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"What can I say, if it has honey mustard on it my family will eat it. Doesn't take long to julienne your own carrots."
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There are divergent, sincerely held views on the death penalty. Capital punishment generally has the support of the American people, though significant minorities oppose it.
We consider it a tragically necessary punishment for the most vicious violent crimes and for acts such as treason against the United States. It is society's strongest expression of horror against such crimes.
But the issue is in the news today because Tennessee and a number of other states have had to surrender to the federal government their supplies of one of the drugs used for lethal injections of death row inmates. Some allege that the drug may have been improperly obtained from an unregulated foreign supplier.
The Tennessee Department of Correction says it got its supply domestically, but it is reviewing its options for conducting executions since it had to hand over the drug.
No one should take delight in even well-deserved executions. But neither should Tennessee or any other state face undue delays by the federal government in carrying out that duly imposed sentence.
There should, of course, be verification that drugs used in lethal injections work as they are supposed to, and do not inflict needless pain. But Tennesseans, through their elected state lawmakers, have chosen to keep the death penalty on the books. The will of the majority should prevail.


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Hatteras Financial Corp. (NYSE: HTS) (the "Company") today announced it commenced an underwritten public offering of shares of its Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (the "Series A Preferred Stock"). The Company expects to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase additional shares of Series A Preferred Stock solely to cover overallotments, if any. The Company will file an application to list the Series A Preferred Stock on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "HTSPrA." Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., UBS Securities LLC and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated will serve as the joint book-running managers for the offering. RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Jefferies & Company, Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, BB&T Capital Markets, a division of Scott & Stringfellow, LLC, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. and Sterne, Agee & Leach, Inc. will serve as co-managers for the offering. This offering is being made pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and only by means of a preliminary prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus. Copies of the preliminary prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus may be obtained from (a) Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Attn: Capital Markets Client Support, 1525 West W.T. Harris Blvd., NC0675, Charlotte, North Carolina 28262, by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com, or by telephone at (800) 326-5897; (b) Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Attention: Prospectus Department, Brooklyn Army Terminal, 140 58th Street, 8th Floor, Brooklyn, New York 11220, by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com, or by telephone at (877) 858-5407; (c) UBS Securities LLC, Attention: Prospectus Department, 299 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10171, or by telephone at (877) 827-6444, extension 561 3884; (d) Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Attention: Prospectus Department, 222 Broadway, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10038, or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com; or (e) the Internet site of the Securities and Exchange Commission at www.sec.gov. This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the offered shares or any other securities, nor will there be any sale of such shares or any other securities in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of such state or other jurisdiction.
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Don't judge struggling mothers
As this new mum sunk in to post-natal depression, everyone around her judged her coping skills, without bothering to ask why.
Being judged when you are a mother is a funny old thing. We are surrounded by people who question our abilities and decisions. Whether it's the source of the milk you feed them, the nappies you use, whether you work or stay at home, the method you use to introduce solids, the car seat you put them in, the way you teach them about the world, or the way you choose to cope when you have a child that doesn't fit the norms, you will always disappoint at best, or offend at worst.
On one hand, it's easy to be hurt. To let the judgments scar your heart. To hold them close to you and let them whisper in the quiet moments and remind you of your utter failure.
On the other hand, you can find the ability to defend yourself. You are a mother. Let yourself roar.
I choose to defend.
My first baby, seven years ago, is almost a distant memory, blocked out in a haze of ante- and post-natal depression - it was tough, that much is true.
But boy, my second pregnancy hit me hard and took its toll on me physically. From the tremendous weight gain (25 kilos, thank you very much) to the excruciating pains throughout that shot up my legs and back like electric shocks. The hormone fluctuation that left me simultaneously raging against the world and against the baby inside me. The brutal caesarean in March 2012 complete with a failed epidural, unplanned general anaesthetic and eventual post-partum haemorrhage that very well could have taken my life. There were so many things happened outside of my control that left me hating my body for failing me so badly.
I've always struggled with a poor body image, the result of years of sexual and emotional abuse. I couldn't have planned for the hate I felt towards my body - I was so overwhelmingly happy and content when we decided to try to conceive - I never saw it coming, and I had no plan in place to deal with it.
But people wouldn't know that, because they never bothered to ask me. They just judged me for not coping.
I started to research from day one the methods to embed good sleep habits in my newborn baby. After going through two years of sleep deprived hell with my first, I wanted to ensure history didn't repeat and that I was doing everything in my power to teach my child everything I could.
So number two would lie in his carrycot beside me in bed, so that he was safe but close. I would swaddle him tightly and shush him to sleep. We breastfed continuously and on demand throughout each night. I would rock him and pour my love into him. I was the epitome of calmness in the middle of the night as I gazed at him while he suckled.
Despite all of my work, he became more and more unsettled, arching away from my breast and screaming constantly as I rocked him for hours. I desperately tried to co-sleep with him, but he would stir every few minutes and his misery only seemed to be exacerbated. I was reluctant to move him in to his own room, but I did it because I didn't know what else to do.
But people wouldn't know that, because they never bothered to ask me. They just judged me for not keeping him close, and for admitting I wasn't coping.
I crashed badly about four months in, when the doctor had reassured us multiple times that it would get better. When we had been to the cranial osteopath, talked to the experts, the paediatrician, tried every herbal and prescription drug we could find, scoured the internet for anything that would help our child be happier.
I was working over 40 hours a week so that we had a roof over our heads and so my husband could stay at home. I was running a team of people, keeping a brave face, being ground down by the weight on my shoulders while existing on sometimes as little as two hours of broken sleep each night, pumping my breast milk at each and every break I had because it was all I could do to supply a steady stream of food for my child - the one thing that kept me grounded and attached to my son. I started antidepressants. They numbed me.
But people wouldn't know that, because they never bothered to ask me. They just saw my stress and judged me for returning to work and for resorting to medication.
My mind has gone to some dark places over the last 17 months. I've contemplated suicide a number of times, on my darkest days.
On slightly better days, I've desperately wanted to run away without looking back. The weight on my shoulders has been so great on occasions - trying to keep a professional and happy face during business hours, performing well enough to ensuring I retain my job, working enough hours to meet my deadlines, giving my husband enough support, being gripped by insomnia on the nights where my baby has slept by some miracle, pumping desperately to keep my milk supply up, being crushed when he began to reject it from the bottle in favour of formula.
Wanting to provide him with everything, but simultaneously feeling that I am failing in every aspect of my life - the darkness is easy to fall into if you know how.
I regretted having him, not so much for me (even if it were true my life would have been easier without him), but for him. Because he seemed so miserable, red-faced and screaming, clawing at his face, at mine, at the world with so much anger and desperation. I couldn't read him, not a word of his story. I couldn't speak to him, he wouldn't listen to me. We were like two deaf mutes from opposite sides of the world, speaking different languages with our bodies and minds.
But people wouldn't know that, because they never bothered to ask me. They just judged me for giving formula, and misread my anguish and sadness and anger and turned away.
After walking in front of a bus in a haze of exhaustion and nearly being hit, things changed. After months of trying to love him to sleep, we reluctantly gave in to controlled crying, desperate to give him some sort of rest so that he might become a happier child.
Both in tears we sat motionless, our heads in our hands as our baby cried from his room. We set a clock and watched every second pass, both being pulled towards him and wanting to cradle and rock him and tell him that he was loved. It was one of the hardest things I have ever had to do, and something I would never wish to repeat. But what kind of life is it for a baby who cries constantly every single day because he is too exhausted to even see the world around him?
But they wouldn't know that, would they?
Nine months on, he sleeps now, well - at least sometimes. And if we are lucky, he sleeps for an hour or two at a time, more than we ever could have hoped for some months ago. I carry him to his room each night and cover his face with kisses. We say goodnight to the entire world and the trees and the sky from the windows along the path to his cot, and I stand and rock him in a silent dance, telling him how much I love him, how much his Dada loves him, how I am trying to be a better mother to him every day, how sorry I am for the mistakes I have made and the moments of anger, frustration, depression, regret. For the only time each day, I offer him my breast, and he usually takes it, and meets my eyes with his and I stroke his face and he reaches out for mine and we are utter oneness and I wonder where this creature came from who is an extension of me.
But people, they didn't ask me about that, or let me tell them my story, which I am open and honest about. They just judged me, judged my actions and my admissions. They didn't bother to try to understand why I am where I am, and what would drive me to some of the places I have been, saying and doing some things I have done. And do you know what that makes them? Childish. And pathetic.
And that is a judgment I am happy to stand by.
This article was submitted by a reader to Stuff Nation. Who name was withheld at her request.


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Every holiday season, Bedford Falls beckons, though It's a Wonderful Life isn't quite as ubiquitous as it was in the 1990s, when you could catch a showing of the movie every day on TV from Thanksgiving to New Year's.
Still, actor Christopher Swan hopes people have seen it before coming to This Wonderful Life, the one-man show he stars in at American Stage that opens this week.
"A lot of the play does rely on audience familiarity with the movie," Swan says. "It makes the experience of seeing the play so much better because we refer to semi-inside jokes about the movie. With one line or one look we suggest moments in the movie."
Swan portrays all the movie's characters from George Bailey to Mr. Potter to Uncle Billy to Zuzu Bailey in the play by Steve Murray and Mark Setlock. To prepare for the performance, he has been watching the Frank Capra film.
"I watched it intently straight through twice, and now I always have it on in the background when I'm working on scenes," he says. "We have a copy to watch in rehearsals, so that when we get to a sticky spot in the script, we can check the movie."
The production, directed by Todd Olson, is designed to take advantage of the technical capacity of American Stage's new theater.
"Todd has incorporated a lot of sound, a lot of lights," Swan says. "You basically go to all the locales that you do in the movie, and every one needs sound and lights to make the transitions. I think it's going to be a feast for the eyes and ears."
Swan is appearing in his second cinematic homage at the St. Petersburg theater. Last season, he played director Victor Fleming in Moonlight and Magnolias, a comedy that imagined the process of writing the screenplay of Gone With the Wind.
This Wonderful Life has previews today and Thursday and opens Friday to run through Dec. 27 at 163 Third St. N, St. Petersburg. $26-$45, with $10 student rush tickets available 30 minutes before curtain. (727) 823-7529; americanstage.org.
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There's another solo show opening this week, Bad Dates, Theresa Rebeck's series of comic monologues about a single mother's romantic life, or lack thereof. Jessica Rothert plays Haley Walker, a transplanted Texan who runs a popular New York restaurant but is pushing 40 and hasn't been out on a date with a man in years. She tries on many pairs of shoes. Rosemary Orlando directs the Stageworks Theatre production. It has a preview Thursday and opens Friday to run through Dec. 6 at Shimberg Playhouse of David A. Straz Jr. Center for the Performing Arts (formerly Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center). The Thursday, Friday and Saturday performances this week are sold out. $24.95, $10. (813) 229-7827; tbpac.org.
John Fleming can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or (727) 893-8716. He blogs on Critics Circle at blogs.tampabay.com/arts.


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OCEANSIDE — Charles Johnson was a child prodigy who sold his first software program to an online company at the age of 15.
In 2015 he plans to quit his job as a software engineer to pursue his dream as a full-time storyteller and family entertainer.
Also known as The Paperbag Cowboy, Johnson will be offering spooky stories and ukulele playing at a free, family-friendly event at 2 p.m. Oct. 20 at the Oceanside Public Library.
Johnson got interested in storytelling as a child playing Dungeons and Dragons. During the summer, he fed his imagination by acting out imaginary characters such as Robin Hood or those he'd see in classic movies such as "King Kong" and "Sinbad."
His performing career was ignited in October 2004 when he read that you lose the ability to learn how to play an instrument if you haven't done so by the age of 40.
"I was 35, and always wanted to play an instrument so I got a ukulele, and a harmonica and I started working away at it," he said. "My goal was to be able to play sing-along songs to share at parties."
By August 2006 he taught himself 12 cowboy songs, and set out to fulfill a lifelong dream of working as a street performer at Balboa Park.
To do that, he participated in a lottery where he was fortunate to draw a low number.
"I knew there were people there who did this for a living, so I took a mediocre spot, near the Morton Bay Fig," he said.
"I pushed my back up against the fence, made myself as small as possible, stared at the ground and sang quietly, trying not to look at people or attract attention. I played for seven hours — the same 12 songs, over and over again. I made $6."
In 2008, Johnson set out to learn the craft of storytelling by taking an evening and weekend job as a haunted walking tour guide in Old Town.
"One night I was the host to 50 Girl Scouts, and we walked through Old Town telling spooky stories about the Whaley House and the Old Adobe Church," he said. "It was about that time that I decided this was the life for me. Professional storytelling is not as lucrative as you might think, but it's certainly good for the soul, mine and my listeners.'"
Johnson's act evolved to the extent that he became a storyteller who played songs in support of his stories.
Then he added jokes and started playing the harmonica, concertina, kazoo, fife, paperbag and a banjo. He also began sewing his costumes.
Marilyn McPhie is president of the nonprofit Storytellers of San Diego.
"Charles is one of the most energetic and engaging storytellers I've seen," she said.
"You are tapping your toe and repeating phrases or a refrain. You're excited about what's going to come next. He takes possession of the whole space, jumping up and shooting imaginary arrows."
Today, Johnson is recruited to perform at a variety of venues including house concerts and outdoor events such as the Sam Hinton Folk Festival at Old Poway Park.
"Charles reminds me of the type of performer you used see at Disneyland in the old days," park supervisor Dave Richards said.
"It's a very captivating art form, not something you see of anymore and he does it well. Charles has some sort of Disney magic about him."
Johnson is looking forward to the day when he becomes a full-time performer.
"Storytelling makes me feel the way that I did when I was a boy, when I would pretend that life is a grand adventure," he said. "I don't just sing songs, I sing cowboy songs that Gene Autry and Roy Rogers would've sung, or I pick up a concertina to play sea chanteys wearing pirate garb.
When I tell stories I throw myself into it, I pretend that I'm the hero rescuing the damsel in distress, or the stalwart adventurer discovering lost worlds. And I hope my audience does the same."
The Oceanside Public Library is located at 330 North Coast Highway. For more information call (760) 435-5600 or visit oceansidepubliclibrary.org or paperbagcowboy.com.


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After a nearly eight-month investigation stemming from employee complaints and alleged abuses, the state has downgraded Albuquerque's Sequoyah Adolescent Treatment Center, one of the state's key mental health facilities, to a "temporary certification."
Sequoyah is a state-run facility that provides 24-hour residential care to some of New Mexico's most violent and severely
mentally ill teens. According to its website, the facility is "for treatment, not incarceration" and lists as a key bullet point its "culturally sensitive" outlook.
But a lengthy investigation by the state Children, Youth and Families Department show an on-the-ground reality far different from those lofty ideals.
Last month, CYFD sent
Sequoyah a report detailing 15 violations the facility made, including
injecting patients with drugs as a means to restrain them but failing to
"promote the client's health, safety and welfare."
The report—which grew out of employee concerns and alleged violations of state regulations—affirms many of the concerns raised last fall in the
employee memo, which have since led to two whistleblower lawsuits from two former
employees after their terminations. As a result, CYFD's Licensing and Certification Authority downgraded
Sequoyah, which is run by the New Mexico Department of Health, to being in only partial compliance with the state's certification requirements. The letter gives the facility a laundry list of tasks to complete to get back into good standing
with state regulations.
DOH spokesman David Morgan writes to SFR that the issues at Sequoyah have since been "investigated thoroughly, safety and quality processes implemented and are continuing to be implemented."
"The final report from CYFD was a compilation of requirements for improvements over the last year," Morgan writes. "We have been working closely with our CYFD Monitor, Shauna Hartley to assure we are in and maintain compliance with all requirements from our partners from licensing."
One example of the facility's wrongdoing in the CYFD report includes how its staff restrained a patient who was "not a threat to self/others at the
time of physical restraint" with an intramuscular injection, violating regulations.
In another instance, the report also documents how Sequoyah staffers restrained a patient who became "verbally abusive" and stood on top of a picnic table, slammed a door open and kicked a football. Sequoyah injected the patient with 50 milligrams of Thorazine, a powerful antipsychotic drug used to treat patients with schizophrenia. The problem? The patient presented no harm to justify such a restraint.
"Records reviewed did not contain documentation of imminent, serious physical harm to self or others at the time nursing obtained the order for restraint," the report reads.
The facility's practice of drugging patients doesn't stop there. Another violation cited in the report concerns Sequoyah patients who "consistently reported" that "their psychiatric medications had been changed without their consent," which violates a client's right to informed consent for prescription medication.
Sequoyah also failed to properly report how a patient stabbed one of the facility's nurses. Although the nurse filed an assault complaint to the state police, the CYFD report still found Sequoyah guilty of "non-compliance to regulations related to the lack of Serious Incident Reporting…on this client-to-staff physical assault."
Violations go all the way up to the administrative level and include "non-compliance to regulations related to staffing schedules, staff to client ratios and staff training."
At the end of the report, CYFD gives Sequoyah four direct
action plans to bring the facility back into compliance with state regulations. They include conducting
an audit of the facility as well as conducting a comprehensive quality improvement
Morgan says DOH is currently recruiting nurses, therapists and technical staff "for program changes that meets and exceeds national standards for adolescent treatment."
DOH's full statement on Sequoyah:
The final report from CYFD was a compilation of requirements for improvements over the last year. We have been working closely with our CYFD Monitor, Shauna Hartley to assure we are in and maintain compliance with all requirements from our partners from licensing. The issues discussed in the article were investigated thoroughly, safety and quality processes implemented and are continuing to be implemented. We have partnered with Disability Rights New Mexico and SAMSHA to assure our program model continues to meet the needs of our clientele.
We are currently recruiting staff for nursing, therapy services and technical level staff and we are in the planning stages for program changes that meets and exceeds national standards for adolescent treatment.
Our plan for Sequoyah is to be a leading practices facility by integrating our boys into the community early on in their rehabilitation, center our program around community services and improve family involvement with our adolescent care and treatment.
Read the CYFD report below:


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Arcata Police Department officers arrested a Crescent City man on Monday after he reportedly attempted to burglarize an outdoor store.
According to an APD press release, officers were dispatched to Adventure's Edge on 10th Street at 4:43 a.m. for a burglary alarm and a citizen report that the front window had been broken out. The citizen also provided a description of the suspect.
Upon arrival, officers found a large glass display window was broken out and a bicycle -- still attached to a security cable -- was sitting outside.
After checking the area, officers arrested Dylan Joshua Zingg, 21, one block from the business.
Zingg was treated at a local hospital for injuries caused by broken glass and booked into the Humboldt County jail on suspicion of burglary.


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Philippe Masson has been working in the area of electromechanical systems, power application of superconductivity, and Multiphysics modeling since 1999. He received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy, France, in 2002. He spent 6 years at the FSU-Center for Advanced Power Systems working on the development of high power density superconducting machine for aircraft propulsion as part of the NASA URETI on Aeropropulsion and Power and on electrothermal instabilities in superconductors. At the same time, he was appointed by the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering as an Adjunct Professor for the Department of Electrical Engineering. At the end of 2008, Dr. Masson left the academia to join the Advanced Magnet Lab as a senior scientist where he kept working on turbo-electric propulsion, large superconducting machines, and multiphysics modeling. Dr. Masson was appointed to the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity and has been serving as an Editor for Large Scale Applications since 2005. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and AIAA and a Member of the Cryogenic Society of America. He received the Outstanding Young Researcher Award from NASA GRC in 2007. Dr. Masson has published over 25 journal papers and given more than 50 conference presentations in the area of applied superconductivity and multiphysics modeling, and he holds 4 patents on superconducting machines and magnet technology. Dr. Masson has given numerous invited lectures and seminars. He is a Member of the program committee of the Applied Superconductivity Conference (ASC) in 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2010 and has served as Technical Editor for ASC 2004, 2006, and 2008 and Magnet Technology 21.
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Since the 1970's, Tenuta S. Anna has been pushing the limits of innovation in winemaking. The care put into selecting the varietal wine, research and attention to detail, are the foundations on which Tenuta S. Anna has modeled its success. Tenuta S. Anna was founded in the early sixties in Loncon di Annone Veneto, right in the heart of the DOC Lison Pramaggiore area, where the tradition of winemaking has remained deeply rooted since the times of the ancient Romans.
The Azienda immediately made a name for itself with its excellent products and distinctive practice of enhancing single varieties of grapes: single-variety vinification brings out the best of each grape. Great attention is also given to bottling, with a special bottle design and distinctive rhomboid-shaped label that depict works of art, representing the uniqueness and prestige of each wine. Sant'anna is part of the Le Tenute di Genagricola portfolio of wineries.
Made from 100% Merlot, after the harvest, the grapes are de-stemmed and crushed. The must was left to soak in contact with the grape-skins at temperatures of between 28° and 33° C for five to six days. A partial malolactic fermentation was carried out and subsequently the wine is transferred to cement tanks and left to rest, after which it was bottled.


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The red light district in Amsterdam is famous. It's so easy to find a woman. They sit in front of their little shop windows. You just wander along & browse until you find the one you like.%0D %0D But I've always wondered if there's a gay equivalent in Amsterdam.%0D %0D Anyone know?
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Yes, Warmoesstraat and Reguliersdwarstraat
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But they passed a law that tourists can't go into the special coffee shops anymore. What's up with that?
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Yes the gay brothels use blue lights.
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Not true R2
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Banning Foreigners from Amsterdam Coffe Shops Called %E2%80%98Tourism Suicide%E2%80%99
Holland%E2%80%99s New Drug Laws Will Ban Cannabis-Selling Coffee Shops From Catering to Visitors
If you always were planning a trip to see the Van Gogh Museum and thought you might stop by one of those Amsterdam Coffee Shops that sell both exotic coffee and marijuana who may want to book your flight.
By the end of the year customers will have to sign up for a one-year membership, or %E2%80%9Cdope pass%E2%80%9D, to enter the shops and many of the 220 coffee shops in Amsterdam have already planned their closings. There are a total of 750 shops throughout the Netherlands and the move could cost the country millions of dollars a year in lost revenue. Each coffee shop will be able to have 1500 registered customers who are to be made up of residents who apply first.
Dutch health and justice ministers say that the law %E2%80%98 will put an end to the nuisance and criminality associated with coffee shops and drugs trafficking%E2%80%99.
Holland decriminalised %E2%80%9Csoft%E2%80%9D drugs in the 1970%E2%80%B2s and the coffee shops were seen as a then useful weapon in controlling both illicet drug use but also a way to contain street sales and crime. New claims are that the coffee shops cater to %E2%80%98drug tourists%E2%80%99 that start trouble. A spokesman for the mayor of Maastrich, Holland said %E2%80%9CThey block streets in the city centre, they don%E2%80%99t respect parking rules, they are noisy and, when they go from one coffee shop to another, they urinate and vomit in the street.
Those claims are denied by shop owners. %E2%80%9CIf this law comes into effect, we will lose money and jobs,%E2%80%9D said Marc Josemans, owner of the Easy Going cafe.
Last year, 1.4 million tourists visited the city of Maastricht alone. Foreigners accounted for 70 per cent or sales, worth about $13.6 million in revenue. In many municipalities of Holland prostitution is legal.
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Get there quick OP. Amsterdam is being cleaned up.
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Yes, the law changed in the city of Maastricht, but no one is actually observing it. It doesn't apply to the rest f the Netherlands - local authorities make the law in each area on this issue.
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No. It is not just Masstricht:
The Dutch Cabinet: coffeeshop to be a private club for the local market
Press release | 27-05-2011
Coffeeshops will become private clubs for the local market. Upon recommendation by Minister Schippers of Health, Welfare and Sport and Minister Opstelten of Security and Justice, the Council of Ministers has agreed to measures to reduce nuisance and drugs tourism. For example, access to coffeeshops will be linked to a membership pass and the Cabinet will set a maximum number of members per coffeeshop. Members have to be adults and Dutch citizens.
The Cabinet endorses the conclusions of the Van de Donk Commission which wrote in 2009 that substance use of minors has to be countered more strongly and that coffeeshops have grown into large points of sale for cannabis that are hard to manage. The current coalition agreement provides that the current open door policy of coffeeshops should be terminated and that the fight against organised (drugs-related) crime is intensified. In order to achieve this, the Cabinet is taking the following measures:
Coffeeshops will become private clubs for the local markets only accessible to Dutch citizens upon display of valid proof of identity and based on membership of the relevant coffeeshop.
Membership is granted in the form of a membership pass by the coffeeshop owner upon display of valid proof of identity and proof that the applicant is a Dutch citizen. Membership must have a term of at least one year.
The Cabinet will achieve the envisaged small-scale nature by setting a maximum number of coffeeshop members. The maximum number of members per coffeeshop will be set at a later time. The mayor may determine a lower maximum number of members per coffeeshops depending on local circumstances.
Persons who do not hold Dutch citizenship will not have access to the coffeeshops. The Cabinet notes in connection with this decision that the outcome of the proceedings before the Council of State between the municipality of Maastricht and a coffeeshop concerning the citizenship condition.
In order to reduce the visibility of coffeeshops to students, the Cabinet will increase the distance between schools and coffeeshops to 350 metres. The real distance to be crossed on foot along the public road will count in this connection.
[more at link]
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I don't know about registered prostitutes, but male hustlers are still easy to come by in the red-light district. Be prepared to pay top dollar; and definitely use rubbers. Years ago the baths were like free whorehouses. Any kink you could want was available... free.
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I will never understand why Any gay man pays for sex. With all the bear, daddy, twink, chub, chaser and god knows what other clubs out there it seems like you'd have to have some major damage to not be able to find anyone to have sex with. People say dumb shit like "I don't have time to look for hook ups" and "I like sex with no complications" but it's all just stupid loser crap. More than anything I can't get over how embarrassing it must be to either make that phone call, or negotiate what your actor will pretend to like for what price. It makes sense for straight guys because so many women use sex as a negotiation tool or only sleep with guys they're in a relationship with but but for gay men it just seems like admiting you're the lowest kind of loser.
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R5 I don't even do dope and I think this new law is sad, mainly because it shows how the "laid back" way of life is vanishing at rapid speed in Europe, mainly because everyone wants to be like America (for some reason). These countries see how conservative America is and they copy everything we do.
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Central Amsterdam has become a shithole. There is nothing relaxed about it. It's horrible.
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r11%0D I don't think the Netherlands really gives a shit what goes on in America, contrary to your little delusion.
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Craigslist. %0D %0D Do people still actually pay for sex? Didn't the internet kill the prostitute?
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That's my point too, who in this day and age has to pay for sex?
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The last few years when I have flown from Amsterdam to LAX, the police are always right there with the drug sniffing dogs *right as you get off the plane*, before you even get into the building. (that little hall that connects the plane to the building). And, again at the luggage turnstiles. I have seen dogs crawling over luggage and saw a few bags that have been swiftly taken away.
On that flight, once you finally get out of customs to your luggage, most of it is off the turnstile and set on the floor already. This way, the dogs can go bag to bag.
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Thank God, R16. Can you imagine if marijuana got a foothold in Southern California?
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Let's stay on topic, boys. Where are the male hustlers? What's the going rate???
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r10 and r14 are truly dumb. The true value and motive for hiring a prostitute is to experience sex with someone much hotter than the client can attract himself. It's sexual fantasy and quality much more than availability or no strings attached. You can find a free partner on craigslist or manhunt, just like you can at the clubs or public cruising spots. But you're only going to find willing men who are in your league of looks or uglier. You pay a hustler so you can get somebody hot with a huge dick for sure.
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R13 = From a shitty Third World Country
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R19 proves every single thing I said about gay men who pay for sex.
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Wrong, r21.
You leap to a false conclusion from R19 because you want to believe that escort clients are inferior to yourself, not because they are.
You declared that you "will never understand why any gay man would pay for sex" and therefore hiring a hustler is just "admitting you're the lowest kind of loser."
I explained the commonest motive for hiring a prostitute -- to have sex with someone much hotter than you can attract freely. But you never acknowledged or accounted for this prior to my post, so whether you previously understood it is suspect.
Furthermore, you cannot conclude that someone is "the lowest kind of loser" just because they want and get sex from someone hotter than themselves this way.
You can cook for yourself, but you're not a loser just because you paid a chef much better than you to feed you at a restaurant.
Your dismissal is your self-righteousness and hate talking, in an attempt to make yourself feel better than them.
Truth is, hustler clients are occasionally VERY HOT men who do it for the convenience, discretion or more control; motives additional or secondary to the desire to fuck a hottie.
You're not capable of complex thinking and you haven't witnessed any broad sample of hustler clientele, much less isolated their motives. You're not willing to respect the Johns from the outset.
You're just a hater. Plain men get to have sex with hotties and you're jealous. Maybe the thought that some ugly men are comfortable admitting they're uglier than the hustlers unnerves you, because you're too proud to ever admit it. Maybe the guys who can spare a lot of disposable income are of greater socio-economic means than yourself and you burn with envy.
Either way, your self-righteous notions of sexual "dignity" aren't compelling.
P.S. What's worse? "Admitting you're the lowest kind of loser" or pretending you're hot and desirable when you're actually nothing?
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Thank you judge, I rest my case.
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There is a Gay Brothel on Spuistraat called Club 24. On the first floor there is a bar with a big lounge area where the boys hang out. The Bartender is the boss, and you make all deals through him. The deal is you take the boy upstairs where there are 4 or 5 private rooms for an hour, for about 150 Euros. On the weekends, there are 50 or more boys available, and a wait for the rooms. It's an interesting place. Most of the boys are from Eastern Europe and some are really hot.
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[quote]Thank you judge, I rest my case.
Your side has lost, spectacularly. The opposing counsel has convinced me that he is right and that you're a prissy douche.
Next case!
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[quote]I will never understand why Any gay man pays for sex.
itpersonally, i'll never understand why some gay men want their nipples twisted since it does nothing for me, but to each their own, ya know? so don't be so judgy, r10.
in my case, i like it to be all about me, and i like to call the shots. knowing that i've paid someone to do exactly as i say without worrying about their wants or needs, is a major turn on. if a unpaid trick just volunteers to do what ever i want, it's not such a turn-on, and in fact is a turn-off. what does that make me- a dominant who hates submissives? i don't know, but paying every once in a while, works for me. and it's not a everyday sex thing, either. paying someone is like hot fudge sundae- as an occasional indulgence, it's delicious, but if i had to eat it everyday, it would make me sick.
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does House of Boys still exist?
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Love love love Amsterdam and love those brothels. The opposite of sleazy and so much fun and safe for both client and hustler. And I did it when I was young and cute and could get laid anywhere (not sure how I'd feel about it now). But ONLY when in Amsterdam and with a caveat: I always warn people if they pay for regular "missionary position" sex, so to speak, they may be disappointed. The guys can be detached and move quick to get it over with and get the money. (Women too from what I hear). So it can be a drag, not worth the $$$.%0D %0D BUT if you have a fetish or fantasy that you are shy about or wouldn't even want to do with someone you loved (a fetishist may understand this), it's the best. As long as it doesn't hurt the guys, they are game -- and what embarrasses you is often shrugged off by them as no big deal.%0D %0D You do it, you pay, then you go downstairs and hang out at the bar, ha. The opposite of a walk of shame and soooo hot. :) So don't listen to the idiot detractors. They don't know.
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I'm a straight guy who hangs out here (I confessed this in the recent straight guy thread so give me a break). I've spent some time in the straight brothels, and they work exactly the same way. My favorite is Jan Bik, maybe a 5 minute walk from the Central Station (link below).
They're clean and safe, the girls are friendly, there's no hustle, and you get a very enjoyable hour or so for about 100 Euros. Last two times I've been with a very charming Italian girl, late 20's who was working to raise money to open a shop back home (I think that was the truth because she never stopped talking and I wound up knowing all about her apartment, her roommates, the classes she had taken . . . it went on and on). The second girl was Dutch, early 20's from a small town over by the German border. She was a sweetheart too.
The clubs are just the opposite of the window girls where it's nothing but hustle, quick mechanical sex, and horrible attitudes. I did that twice, never again--the drunken British yobs are welcome to that mess. It is entertaining to wander around watching and listening to the mobs of males as they survey the different girls.
Anyway, just thought I would throw out the straight version for whatever it's worth.
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[quote] just thought I would throw out the straight version for whatever it's worth.%0D %0D Well, not a lot, quite frankly, on a gay board.%0D But thanks for your contribution.%0D %0D Also, thanks, R24, for finally answering my question.
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I actually enjoyed your link r29, thanks. A couple of the ladies at that establishment look really old. There are a couple of hotties though.
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Last time I was in Amsterdam, I went on "Randy's Redlight Tour" and it was one of the best tours I have ever been on. You get a little history of Amsterdam, plus a nice tour of the redlight district and you get all your questions answered about the whores. My question of course was "How come no guys?"
The guide explained that they tried to have men in the booths for hire for women at first, but the whores charge in 15 minute increments and the customers complained that women cannot do that in 15 minute increments, so eventually they stopped it.
I also visited the gay escort bar for shits and giggles, the problem is that it's up a couple of flights of stairs in a building away from all other nightlife, so you're kind of "trapped." Lots of pretty boys come and socialize and you can sit and have a drink. The night I was there i think there might have been 1 other customer so there was a lot of pressure and a hard sell going on. I eventually just tipped the boys for their time and left. One of them followed me downstairs and told me I could meet him in his off hours if I want. (I assumed so that he didn't have to pay the house.)
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[quote]The guide explained that they tried to have men in the booths for hire for women at first, but the whores charge in 15 minute increments and the customers complained that women cannot do that in 15 minute increments, so eventually they stopped it.%0D %0D I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you're talking about. 15 minute increments?
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R19 is right. I can hook up with chubby, old guys anytime I want - that's a surety. What I can't hook up with is young, hard pretty boys - that costs. Everyone on here who isn't one of the beautiful people knows this.
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I went to Anne Frank's house while stoned. Good times.
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I like old slappers. Thanks for the link.
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Did it ever occur to some of you less attractive sisters that if God wanted you to hook up with hotties he would have made you one to and to do so is unnatural?
Think about the hotties and what they must go through to feign an interest in you sexually.
God knows I'd vomit chunks if I had to hook up with a chubby plain jane.
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I'm not paying for the sex, I'm paying them to leave when I'm done.
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R10, do you have any idea what a clueless, oblivious, self-involved moron you sound like?%0D
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R32, the guide didn't explain why they don't have guys for men (who I assume wouldnt have an issue with "15 min increments")?%0D %0D Also, are rhe escorts in the escort bars all twink types? Can you find a bodybuilder type hustler in Amsterdam? I know that most male brothels are only young twinks.
|by Anonymous
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[quote] the guide didn't explain why they don't have guys for men (who I assume wouldnt have an issue with "15 min increments")?
The guide said it was never brought up. (i.e. the "gay whore" lobby I guess never petitioned for it)
There were all different kinds of types in the escort bar, but mostly they were all clean cut all probably in their 20s. I like em a little beefy, and there were a few there who fit that bill. Although I also like them a little older and was more into the hunky 30 something bearded bartender, but he was not for sale
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What about cute trannies in Amsterdam? Are can you pay a guy to dress in drag for you at a regular gay brothel.
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Anne Frank lived in Germany, dumbass.
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No. Anne Frank was born in Germany, but lived most of her life in Amsterdam. Lame try.
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Look at the combination of arrogant and idiot we see at R43.
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Well, it is true that Germany had usurped Netherlands during the war, so technically speaking you might say she lived in Germany the last years of her life.
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hey heading to amsterdam for the weekend ere can i find shemale or ladyboys
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One night after dinner we went to one of those houses with two sisters just to look. We were amazed that there was nothing but un-attractive nelly queens on offer that night. We left.
BTW, we ourself had several 'generou$ gentlemen' visiting us when we were living in Amsterdam.
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Amsterdam backed off on the ban on tourists in coffee shops, those other posts are old news.
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[quote]block streets in the city centre, they don't respect parking rules, they are noisy and, when they go from one coffee shop to another, they urinate and vomit in the street.
Sounds more like alcoholics than pot heads.
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So... any decent men-for-men there? Anyone?
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[quote]Amsterdam backed off on the ban on tourists in coffee shops
Link, please.
Reading this thread, it seems that for a man to pay for sex with a man in Amsterdam, he has to go to some horrid club up some dark sleazy stairs where's he's trapped and confronted by nellie queens in full make-up and forced to pay 50 Euros for a scotch and coke.
I was once trapped in a hetero version of such a club and had to literally tear myself out of the clutches of some micro-mini skirted whore and run down the sleazy staircase to the relative safety of the street.
I'll pass.
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Is there a difference between the stereotypes in Bruno and Transformers 2?
It's easy to look like a poor sport when you're talking about negative stereotypes in film and TV.
The latest flap along those lines involve two of summer's most anticipated movies: Sacha Baron Cohen's Bruno and the whiz-band action film Transformers 2.
Some critics have already taken aim at Bruno, denouncing Cohen's in-your-face mockumentary centered on a cartoonishly effeminate and hyper-sexual fashionista as a gay minstrel show.
Writing in Salon, David Rakoff provides a typically caustic review, calling the Bruno character "an open hydrant of empty, venal ignorance" and denouncing the film as "bad for gays" over its too-broad attempts to provoke homophobic reactions from unsuspecting people.
Other critics have lodged similar complaints against Transformers 2, noting that two new robot characters, Skids and Mudflap, talk in a patios normally associated with young black people and are mostly ineffective, foul-mouthed characters used almost entirely for comedic effect.
Director Michael Bay shrugged off the criticism, saying ""We're just putting more personality in. I don't know if it's stereotypes — they are robots, by the way. These are the voice actors. This is kind of the direction they were taking the characters and we went with it."
Which raises an interesting question: When is such stuff considered stereotypical?
When Tracy Morgan voices a jive-talking hamster in the new animated movie G-force, is that a stereotype, or Morgan just doing what he does? Does that verdict change when you watch the commercials, where his character struts in front of the camera like he's doing a modern-day pimp walk?
I'll be discussing these ideas at about 9:30 a.m. this morning, appearing on National Public Radio's Tell Me More. My verdict, as someone who has seen Transformers but not Bruno: It seems tough to lay the stereotype label on Bruno, which is specifically crafted to pile on all those gay stereotypes in one character to satirize how we all react to them.
That's a lot different than creating two stereotypical fictional characters -- like Star Wars' Jar-Jar Binks -- purely for comic relief in a movie focused on a totally different subject.
In this game, I think, you get points for intent. Tune in at 9:30 and see if anybody else agrees with me.


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Lonnie's review published on Letterboxd :
I think it was somewhere on Cracked.com where they joked that this film could have easily been made better by simply switching the words around. Horse War. Can you just imagine it?
The film we got isn't that great but better than most out there, but it can't really match up to Horse War. But nothing much can.


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Authorities said the suspect fled the scene in a red Toyota.
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