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The protein tyrosine phosphatase alpha modifies insulin secretion in INS-1E cells.
ABSTRACT Increasing evidence indicates a role of insulin signalling for insulin secretion from the pancreatic beta-cells. Therefore, regulators of insulin signalling, like protein tyrosine phosphatases, could also have an impact on insulin secretion. Here, we investigated a possible role of the negative regulator protein tyrosine phosphatase alpha (PTP alpha) for insulin secretion. RT-PCR analysis confirmed that both splice variants of the extracellular domain of PTP alpha that vary by an insert of 9 amino acids are expressed in human islets and insulinoma cells (INS-1E, RIN1046-38). Overexpression of the wild type PTP alpha splice variant containing the 9 amino acids reduced insulin secretion, as did a mutant form unable to bind Grb2 (Tyr798Phe). By contrast, overexpression of a phosphatase inactive mutant improved insulin secretion. These data reveal a functional relevance of PTP alpha for insulin secretion.
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Article: Characterization on the alternative splicing, expression and gene phylogenesis of PTPR4 family in Japanese flounder, Paralichthys olivaceus[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: We have identified the PTP Receptor-Type IV (PTPR4) family, including one form of PTPα and two forms of PTPε (PTPε M and PTPε C) in flounder. The existence of PTPε C was the first report in non-mammalian animals. Semi-quantitative RT-PCR showed independent expression patterns of the three forms. The sequence of PTPε C was identical to that of PTPε M except for its 5'-terminal regions. Southern blot analysis proved that there existed only one PTPε gene in the genome, indicating that the two isoforms of PTPε might have been derived from alternative splicing of this gene. Phylogenetic analysis also provided evidence that the gene duplication from the ancestor gene to PTPα and PTPε occurred before the divergence of Gnathastomata and Agnatha. These results showed that the functional evolution of protein phosphorylation is promoted by not only genome duplication, but also elaborate regulation of expression. INTRODUCTION Tyrosine phosphorylation, controlled by the coordinated actions of protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) and protein tyrosine kinases (PTKs), is a critical mechanism for the regulation of numerous cell functions (Tonks and Neel, 1996; Mustelin et al., 2002). Since the first identification, PTP members have been identified in many organisms (Tonks et al., 1988; Fischer et al., 1991; Alonso et al., 2004). PTPR4 contain two cytoplasmic PTP domains (D1 and D2), one transmembrane segment and an extracellular domain. PTPα and PTPε are the only known members of PTPR4 (Sap et al., 1990; Matthews et al., 1990). The precise subcellular localization of PTPs is an important for regulating their physiological roles (Mauro and Dixon, 1994; Fischer, 1999). PTPε includes four forms of proteins coded by a single PTPε gene. The two most prevalent forms are the transmembrane form (PTPε M) and cytoplasmic form (PTPε C) derived from alternatively splicing of PTPε gene (Elson and Leder, 1995b; Elson et al., 1996). The other two forms p67 PTPε and p65 PTPε are produced by initiation of translation of PTPε mRNA, and specific proteolytic cleavage of larger PTPε proteins, respectively (Gil-Henn et al., 2001; Kraut et al., 2002). Each form possesses unique expression patterns, subcellular localizations, and functions. In teleost fish, Okubo and Aida (2003) isolated and characterized PTPα and PTPε M in medaka, and demonstrated that GnRH down regulates their expression. Van der Sar et al (2001) cloned PTPα and PTPε M in zebrafish and described their expression during development. However, none of cytoplasmic form of PTPε was identified in teleost fish. Here we report the cDNAs of PTPα and two forms of PTPε, from Japanese flounder. We proved that these two isoforms of PTPε are also from one PTPε gene by alternative mRNA splicing. The unique expression of PTPα and two isoforms of PTPε mRNAs in various tissues are described.Genes & Genetic Systems - GENES GENET SYST. 01/2008; 83(2).
Article: Have we overlooked the importance of serine/threonine protein phosphatases in pancreatic beta-cells? Role played by protein phosphatase 2A in insulin secretion.[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Genetic predisposition and environmental influences insidiously converge to cause glucose intolerance and hyperglycemia. Beta-cell compensates by secreting more insulin and when it fails, overt diabetes mellitus ensues. The need to understand the mechanisms involved in insulin secretion cannot be stressed enough. Phosphorylation of proteins plays an important role in regulating insulin secretion. In order to understand how a particular cellular process is regulated by protein phosphorylation the nature of the protein kinases and protein phosphatases involved and the mechanisms that determine when and where these enzymes are active should be investigated. While the actions of protein kinases have been intensely studied within the beta-cell, less emphasis has been placed on protein phosphatases even though they play an important regulatory role. This review focuses on the importance of protein phosphatase 2A in insulin secretion. Most of the present knowledge on protein phosphatase 2A originates from protein phosphatase inhibitor studies on islets and beta-cell lines. The ability of protein phosphatase 2A to change its activity in the presence of glucose and inhibitors provides clues to its role in regulating insulin secretion. An aggressive approach to elucidate the substrates and mechanisms of action of protein phosphatases is crucial to the understanding of phosphorylation events within the beta-cell. Characterizing protein phosphatase 2A within the beta-cell will certainly help us in understanding the mechanisms involved in insulin secretion and provide valuable information for drug development.JOP: Journal of the pancreas 08/2005; 6(4):303-15.
Article: Serine dephosphorylation of receptor protein tyrosine phosphatase alpha in mitosis induces Src binding and activation.[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Receptor protein tyrosine phosphatase alpha (RPTPalpha) is the mitotic activator of the protein tyrosine kinase Src. RPTPalpha serine hyperphosphorylation was proposed to mediate mitotic activation of Src. We raised phosphospecific antibodies to the two main serine phosphorylation sites, and we discovered that RPTPalpha Ser204 was almost completely dephosphorylated in mitotic NIH 3T3 and HeLa cells, whereas Ser180 and Tyr789 phosphorylation were only marginally reduced in mitosis. Concomitantly, Src pTyr527 and pTyr416 were dephosphorylated, resulting in 2.3-fold activation of Src in mitosis. Using inhibitors and knockdown experiments, we demonstrated that dephosphorylation of RPTPalpha pSer204 in mitosis was mediated by PP2A. Mutation of Ser204 to Ala did not activate RPTPalpha, and intrinsic catalytic activity of RPTPalpha was not affected in mitosis. Interestingly, binding of endogenous Src to RPTPalpha was induced in mitosis. GRB2 binding to RPTPalpha, which was proposed to compete with Src binding to RPTPalpha, was only modestly reduced in mitosis, which could not account for enhanced Src binding. Moreover, we demonstrate that Src bound to mutant RPTPalpha-Y789F, lacking the GRB2 binding site, and mutant Src with an impaired Src homology 2 (SH2) domain bound to RPTPalpha, illustrating that Src binding to RPTPalpha is not mediated by a pTyr-SH2 interaction. Mutation of RPTPalpha Ser204 to Asp, mimicking phosphorylation, reduced coimmunoprecipitation with Src, suggesting that phosphorylation of Ser204 prohibits binding to Src. Based on our results, we propose a new model for mitotic activation of Src in which PP2A-mediated dephosphorylation of RPTPalpha pSer204 facilitates Src binding, leading to RPTPalpha-mediated dephosphorylation of Src pTyr527 and pTyr416 and hence modest activation of Src.Molecular and cellular biology 04/2010; 30(12):2850-61. · 6.06 Impact Factor

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Game Day 4/2: Falcons at BruinsSubmitted by pete on April 2, 2006 - 17:04
It's just painful. SPR-2 PRO-6 Gerald Coleman stopped just 29 of 35 in the loss. Springfield got a power play goal from Ryan Vesce in the first on the power play from PJ Atherton and Dan Cavanaugh and a garbage time goal with 19 seconds left from Jason Jaspers. Jaspers' goal was his 25th from Kvapil and Blatny. Kvapil has 17 goals and 41 points in 72 games as a rookie. Game sheet from [url=http://ahl.leaguestat.com/stats/game-summary.php?game_id=1002030]TheAHL.com.[/url]
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Linkopings/Frolunda Game FiveSubmitted by pete on April 2, 2006 - 16:32
With their backs against the wall, Vastra Frolunda responded today downing Linkopings 3-1. Linkopings still holds a 3-2 series lead in the Elitserien semifinal matchup. Shane Willis and Andreas Holmqvist were scoreless in the game. Fredrik Norrena stopped 24 of 27 shots faced in the loss.
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SM-liiga Semifinals SetSubmitted by pete on April 2, 2006 - 16:29
HPK will have plenty of rest by the time the SM-liiga semifinals begin on April 5th. HPK disposed of Ilves in a quick 4 game sweep and will now face #2 seed HIFK in the next round. HPK was the #3 seed in Finland's top league entering the postseason.
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Superleague Semifinals: Day ThreeSubmitted by pete on April 2, 2006 - 16:25
With a lae goal today, Magnitogorsk toppled Avangard Omsk 4-3 today to tie their semifinal series a 1-1. Nikita Alexeev still has yet to suit up in a game for Omsk during the playoffs.
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Game Night 4/1: Lightning at PanthersSubmitted by pete on April 1, 2006 - 21:17
It almost makes me vomit when we drop a game to these clowns. TB-2 FLA-4 You know what the difference is between the inspired effort against the Thrashers and this stinker tonight? Fear. The Lightning are afraid of Ilya Kovalchuk in particular, so they bring their highest intensity level to the rink. Against Florida? These are the patsies that allowed the Lightning to score 4 goals in the third period to tie it last game, so zero intensity. And when you do that, even against patsies, you will lose if the patsies have a goaltender like Roberto Luongo. Lesson learned, I hope. Florida is on the schedule two more times. John Grahame stopped 22 of 26 before being pulled for Sean Burke who stopped 9 of 9. Paul Ranger was -2 in 25:44 with 4 shots and 1 blocked shot. Get well soon Boyle and Kubina. Ryan Craig was -1 in 15:41 with 2 shots, 1 hit and 1 blocked shot. Timo Helbling was -1 in 11:27 with 1 hit. Evgeny Artyukhin had 3 shots and 1 hit in 5:45. Bringing up the rear, Doug O'Brien played just 4 shifts getting 2:45 of ice time. There's a vote of no confidence right there. Game sheet from [url=http://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreports/20052006/GS021102.HTM]NHL.com.[/url]
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Game Night 4/1: Chiefs at NailersSubmitted by pete on April 1, 2006 - 21:13
Morgan Cey greeted rudely in his ECHL return. JHN-2 WHE-5 Cey stopped 30 of 34 before Wheeling tacked on the empty net goal. Dennis Packard stayed hot with 2 assists while Andre Deveaux potted his 4th goal in the ECHL. Game sheet from [url=http://www.echl.com/cgi-bin/ppublic.cgi?action=summary&id=3135]ECHL.com.[/url]
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Superleague Semifinals: Day TwoSubmitted by pete on April 1, 2006 - 21:11
Kazan crushed Yaroslavl 5-1 today in the opening game of their semifinal series. Winger Anton But was held scoreless for the Lokomotiv in the game.
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Game Night 4/1: Falcons at Wolf PackSubmitted by pete on April 1, 2006 - 21:10
Sadly, this was actually an improvement. SPR-3 HFD-5 Gerald Coleman stopped 41 of 46 and had an assist in the game. Gerard Dicaire, rightfully, was a scratch so the Falcons again went with 5 defensemen and Tarnasky with Ray Schultz's return to the lineup. Tarnasky scored his 10th and 11th goals of the season while Dan Cavanaugh had a goal and an assist. Helpers were also earned by Norm Milley, Jason Jaspers and Darren Reid. Game sheet from [url=http://ahl.leaguestat.com/stats/game-summary.php?game_id=1002016]TheAHL.com.[/url]
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Linkopings/Djurgardens Game FourSubmitted by pete on April 1, 2006 - 21:04
Shane Willis scored the game winning goal today 2:14 into overtime to lead Linkopings to a 4-3 victory over Djurgardens. Linkopings now holds a 3-1 series lead in the semifinal matchup. Willis also had an assist on Linkopings' first goal. Fredrik Norrena stopped 24 of 27 in the win.
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Lundin Injury UpdateSubmitted by chad on April 1, 2006 - 08:11
University of Maine defenseman Mike Lundin recently missed the better part of four games due to an injury suffered when he was slashed on the right hand vs. Merrimack. The tip of Lundin's little finger was nearly sliced completely off and doctors at the game had to re-attach it. He also suffered a broken bone in his finger in the incident. Yesterday Lundin told the [i]Bangor News[/i] that the finger is healing nicely as he gets ready for the team's Frozen Four match-up against Wisconsin. "It feels a lot better now," he said. "I can move it around. Before, when I'd move it around, I felt a tug, and I didn't want that to happen because it could damage it."


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|Sun, 08-28-2005 - 5:24pm
Well, I finally did it...I went all out and met someone who agreed to role play a real spanking with me.
He drove from a long distance. I was so nervous when he called because I knew that he was only five miles away. I am recently single and on my own for the very first time, so I have been having trouble controlling myself when it comes to finances, temper, punctuality, etc... I was also to be punished for having affairs while I was married. He pulled into my driveway, and I nervously peered through the lace curtains in the kitchen. He was tall, with large hands and he was wearing a suit. He carried a bag with him that I could only assume contained the implements of my upcoming "punishment".
We talked for a while. Then he said, "Shall we get started?" He asked me to stand in the middle of my living room, as he began to lecture me on my recent behavior. I had been keeping track of my temper outbursts, financial indiscretions and number of minutes late to work each day for the week, and relaying each incident to him nightly. We both agreed on a safeword for the session. He told me I was to get two swats with a strap for every minute late. Another agreement was for previously agreed on rules, I would forego the warm up he had planned for me, to punish me for the affairs. The night before this rule was to be enforced, he kept me up late talking, and I was 14 minutes late. He agreed to allow me a decision. Either he would reduce the number of the strap to 15 on my bare backside, or I could choose 10 swats with the paddle over my jeans. Choosing the implement of one's punishment is a difficult decision. I chose wrong. In addition to this, I was 5 minutes late the following day, which meant 10 with the strap anyway.
He told me to bend over and grab my ankles. I was to be allowed to jump and scream if necessary, but I was told to get immediately back into position. If I did not comply with requests after 15 seconds, I would receive additional swats with the paddle.
My heart was racing as I spread my feet apart and gripped my ankles. Having never truly been spanked like this before, I had no idea what to really expect. He had removed his jacket and lined up his instruments on the floor. There was a ping pong paddle, a belt, a light paddle, a bath brush, and the object of my current nervousness, a 1 1/2 foot paddle with holes drilled in it.
The lecture continued. He asked if it was true that I had been 14 minutes late. "Yes sir" I said. He raised his arm high, and delivered the first hard swat. I squeezed my eyes shut as searing pain spread through my cheeks. The second swat followed quickly. It was then that I cried out. He was asking me questions between each, that I could barely answer. After the fourth swat, I had to put my hands on my couch. "Get back into postion", he commanded. I did my best. He then told me to begin repeating "I will never be late to work again", followed quickly by a swat. I knew if I didn't repeat the phrase, the punishment would be worse, but as soon as I did repeat, the paddle would once again meet with my reddening rear end. The last three came in rapid succession.
I stood up and attempted to rub my burning bottom. "Keep your hands at your sides", he instructed. "You were five minutes late for work this morning. Is that correct?" "Yes sir", I said meekly. "Remove your pants and panties", he said. I stood there. Was it possible I was going to reveal my ample bottom to a man with spanking implements? I waited to the 15 second mark to remove them. He waited patiently. "Bend over and grab your ankles again." "No, please", I begged. "Bend over and grab your ankles." I complied. The lecture went on as he began to apply the strap. Though not as forceful as the paddle, it still had significant sting.
I barely made it through the strap, and was yelping loudly after each smack. After the strapping, he required that I stand in the corner for five minutes. I knew my butt had to be flamingly red by now, and was embarrassed to stand half naked in my living room while his eyes roamed my backside. He then sat on my sofa to deliver the previously foregone over the knee warm up. He spanked me for a couple of minutes with his hand. I struggled a little. He asked if I had begun to feel real remorse for the affairs. I met his eyes with defiance and dry eyes that were impossible to mistake. "You will get the bath brush, then." He began with the small but powerful brush. At this point, I threw defiance to the wind. I began to plead and struggle, to no avail.
"Over the bed", he said as he allowed me off his knee. I lay over my bed, a pillow under my stomach to raise my butt in the air. He tied my hands and feet to the bedposts. He used a lighter paddle this time, but after so many swats, it was very painful. I began to weep true tears of remorse for my naughty behavior. "Please, please, please...Stop...No...Oooowwww...I can't take anymore...Please," I was screaming now. "I think you have learned your lesson. You will get five more with the light paddle, and one on the bare bottom with the school paddle", he said. Those last six swats were the worst I received, but I knew I had to take them to be done with the session. They rained down on my butt quickly but effectively.
It was now that he released my limbs and took me in his arms, allowing me to cry on his shoulder. I cried for five minutes, then excused myself to the restroom to inspect my throbbing and stinging rear end. I am very pale skinned and expected the worst. I was not to be disappointed. My butt was a multitude of colors. The perimeter was a deep blackish purple that changed to splotchy and varying shades of red in the center. Bending over, I discovered, had exposed more of my rear end.
I went back to the bedroom, where he waited. He comforted me longer, which led to rubbing, then kissing. The session ended with steamy sex, as he asked me to get on all fours. He took me from behind so that he could see my colorful rear as he pumped me.
I went to bed that night satisfied and sore. I am still sore, and am reminded to hold my temper and get up early for work each time I sit down.
|Mon, 08-29-2005 - 12:34pm
Wow, what a story! Spanking has been a huge turn on for me for years.
Was this a true story? If so, how did you meet this person? How did you get comfortable doing this with him? How long have you had a fetish for spanking? Have you been spanked in the past? Was the spanking purely for pleasure, or do you think it will also help to change some of your behavior in the future?
|Mon, 08-29-2005 - 9:08pm
|Tue, 08-30-2005 - 12:06pm
I have had this fantasy for years as well. I assume this is the first time you've ever acted on it.
How nervous were you when you were talking to him about it? Were you nervous about him seeing you naked since it's not really a sexual relationship? Is it something that you thought about doing in real life for a long time, or did you do it just as a spure of the moment thing?
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|Wed, 08-31-2005 - 4:05pm
|Wed, 08-31-2005 - 9:07pm
This is the first time I have ever acted on this sort of fantasy, or really any fantasy. This site was devoted to spanking and does have personals that you can search by state. I am told that you will get more responses if you actually write something when you sign up for their free mail/ads posting. All that I wrote was that I had never been spanked but had been very naughty. When I searched, I went write into where you type an address and typed spankingchat, and I think it was the very first site to come up. If you want my email address, I can arrange to give that to you if you have trouble finding it. Be careful though. I hope I haven't made a mistake that will cause me a whole ton of trouble.
I was very nervous about his seeing me naked. He was pretty forward about talking about specifically what I would want and what would be too much. So far, as far as I can tell, he has been honest about himself. He was exactly what he described. We talked for 2-3 hours a night for at least 5 nights before he came here. I was allowed to keep my shirt on for the entire spanking. Funny, I found one of his leather cuffs under my bed today. It is quite exciting holding it, since I had never seen one really, and wasn't exactly focused on being bound to the bed during the spanking.
As for thinking about it, I have fantasized about this forever. Actually acting on the fantasy has been spur of the moment. I had many deterrants in the past. The first, that I am slightly overweight and uncomfortable with my body. Also, I am recently single, not actually divorced yet, since it is an issue of being able to afford to file. I think it will be contested which will make it more expensive. I have discovered that I am prettier than I thought. I never had men falling in my path like this! I am not just talking about this internet guy either. I have had two affairs with people I know and men trying to pick me up at Walmart, work etc... It is something of a self esteem booster. I am 28 and I do enjoy older men, usually 35-50, although my usual is about 42.
Anyway, let me know if you want my email and I will get it to you.
|Wed, 08-31-2005 - 9:17pm
My schedule is kind of hectic now, since I am a single mom now. I am working 60-70 hour weeks to try to make sure I have the money to feed my kids.
I am supposed to see him again sometime next week. My butt is still black and blue and it has been 5 days. I am very pale, so it is taking a while to fade. It is a large paddle shaped marking. I am pretty sure that there were some blisters at first. He took me to dinner afterwards, and I was moving pretty gingerly.
I have continued to be 5-7 min late to work almost everyday, and I lost my temper after my spanking, so he is displeased. I understand that this next time, I am to receive a longer over the knee spanking, followed by smaller implements like the bath brush and a spatula. It will probably sting more since after the paddle, I am sure I didn't get the full effect of the rest of the spanking. I know that after the bath brush, I will once again be restrained to the bed with pillows underneath so my butt is lifted. He tells me I am to get the strap/belt for a while. The entire spanking is going to last 30-45 minutes this time. Hopefully, I will not show the defiance I showed last time. Because I lost my temper (and had time to think before I chased the person down to tell them how I felt in no uncertain terms), he will end the punishment with 5 swats with the school paddle on my bare butt. I barely took one without my panties last time, so I expect to be pleading for him to stop at this point.
We actually really hit it off conversationally and dinner went well, so he has asked me to go to the movie and perhaps the state fair at the end of the month, so we may actually date in addition to the discipline. From talking further, I think he may be more into a BDSM lifestyle than I realized, but I am open to trying some things. I find it really erotic. For a long time, I thought maybe I was just sexually deviant, but I have found that lots of people have this kind of desire.
I will definitely post again. I don't know if I am much of a story teller, but I did enjoy "getting it down on paper".
|Thu, 09-01-2005 - 11:52am
Hi. I would like to hear about the spanking fantasy. Like you, I also thought of myself as somewhat of a sexual deviant. I have come to grips with the fact that it is ok to feel this way. I may actually learn to embrace it. Thanks.
Edited 9/1/2005 7:23 pm ET ET by iblasters
Edited 9/12/2005 5:05 pm ET ET by iblasters
|Thu, 09-01-2005 - 11:10pm
|Thu, 09-01-2005 - 11:54pm
Edited 9/12/2005 5:03 pm ET ET by iblasters
|Fri, 09-02-2005 - 12:30am
I love your post. My current SO and I met online, chatted for months before we met and have been together for 2 years now. During our months online, we chatted and cybered about everything including bondage and spanking. Prior to our third time meeting in real life, he told me that we would be living out one of our cyber chats but would not tell me which one. When he arrived at the house, it was with a small silk bag that included silk rope, a leather paddle, a riding crop, a brush and a ball gag. With very little talk, he instructed me to strip to my undergarments and lay face down on the bed. He came in the room, tied my hands to the posts of the bed, gagged me and calmly explained that he was going to read to me a chat we had a few months before. As he read what I had written to him about my fantasy of being tied to the bed and whipped until my bottom was bright red and too tender to touch, I felt a stirring inside that I will never forget. After he read the entire chat, about 20 minutes worth, he asked me if I wanted to live out the chat as he slid his fingers inside me. My head nodded yes as he teased me then I felt the first of numerous attacks on my bottom. He had the video running and took time to take digitals that he later submitted to a spanking website. My ass was so red and sore that I begged him not to crawl on top of me so he started using his hand to please me. I was so wet that all his fingers went inside without any problem. I saw the flash going off and then he asked me if I was ready for him to slide his fist inside. My body responded by shoving down on his fist with it sliding inside me. It was a night of firsts that I will never forget. We continue to enjoy some bondage, spanking and most frequently fisting.
I would love to hear more of your stories of your new friend.


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Architecture and Environment
August 10, 2014
Sometimes an architect has a wide-open space, a large budget, and unlimited freedom to design a structure. In these cases established best practices will lead to a technically impressive result. Looking at the Burj Dubai, the appearance is of a very tall structure which required engineering expertise and advanced materials to build. With this sort of tower superproject, genuinely new and unexpected patterns are comparatively rare. The technology and academic literature certainly progress as in other fields, but the result of one of these projects is pretty much what you would expect: a very tall structure on a flat foundation.
Now consider a heavily constrained project, like Frank Geary's fallingwater house. In this case the client requested a house that fit on a unique piece of land, with forested hills and a waterfall going through the property. You might guess that limiting the possibilities available to the architect would produce limited results, but the reality is exactly the opposite. In those unique circumstances, Geary produced the famous cantilevered design and spectacular proportions which endure as iconic examples of the craft. I don't want to suggest that one can design a skyscraper without any creativity, or build the fallingwater house without any engineering skill. In fact both projects require a great deal of both abilities. I will suggest that the skyscraper requires comparatively more of the engineering part, and the fallingwater house requires more of the creative part.
Here there is an analogy with other disciplines. Architectural concepts apply to any situation where complicated systems of interacting components have to be designed. Courses of education, business processes, and software systems are some examples.
Working programmers dream about having unlimited resources and freedom to build monumental skyscrapers of software design, but reality does not often accomodate these fantasies. Schedules and budgets are limited, often severely. Large systems usually include legacy infrastructure which was not intended to perform the task at hand. Instead of designing with a blank slate, working around these limitations makes up the bulk of a programmer's day to day experience. I would argue that the reality makes professional programming a much more creative pursuit than it might seem after reading the textbooks and papers. This is good! It makes the job interesting and even fun at times.
The Ludum Dare competition is a great example of the same phenomenon. Each round the participants vote on a thematic constraint to impose on their game projects. Together with a deadline, this limitation acts as a catalyst for ideas. If I'm asked right now to come up with an arcade game, it probably won't happen soon. Ask me for a game which has, say, a theme of "Escape" or "Tiny world" and the ideas come a lot faster.
The point is not just that constrained projects demand the creative side of architecture, but also that limiting the scope of a project can encourage creativity. The next time you find yourself at a loss for new ideas, try imposing some arbitrary constraints. It will probably help.
Space Frack!
April 29, 2014
Here's a game I put together over the weekend for Ludum Dare 29. The theme for this weekend was "Beneath the Surface" and the idea was to make an outer space fracking game.
You are controlling the latest in space fracking technology, a little rover with the task of retrieving space resources from a moon or asteroid or whatever. Use your shockwave (
spacebar) to frack open the resources, and then drill (
shift) to extract the resources for processing. But watch out for enemy rovers sent by rival corporations!
The enemy rovers are a less sophisticated model without cutting-edge fracking technology, but they have been extracting all the available resources for a while and will not hesitate to hit you with a shotgun blast and steal all your newly fracked resources. Avoid them carefully, or use your shockwave to blast them out of the way!
Watch out for the space fracking protesters, too. You don't want to cause a PR disaster by accidentally running one of them over!
Play the current build here: http://guscost.github.io/spacefrack
Vote for Space Frack: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=31734
January 18, 2014
Words are funny things. I think they function as little encodings of shared cultural experience, as I'm sure I've said before. This means that weird stuff happens when we try to translate certain words from one culture to another. In American English land we might enjoy total dominance of teh interwebs, but that doesn't mean that other cultures haven't embraced ideas which are much harder for us to understand.
As an example consider the German word "schadenfreude." Transliterated it could be written as "harm joy" or "misfortune joy" or something like that. However for english speakers that doesn't adequately convey its meaning. Does it describe some kind of catharsis might accompany bad luck? In fact it does not. Rather it describes the enjoyment one might derive from witnessing another's misfortune.
These words make interesting case studies especially when studying translation as a discipline. Germans might have adopted this phrase-word-whatever as a witty way to describe something that actually happens rather often, but it takes many more English words to describe the same phenomenon, because we haven't absorbed the idea to the same extent. Interestingly, I would say that this means most people are wrong when they say a certain word "has no English translation." It almost always does, though that translation will invariably require many English words!
There is a Portuguese word "saudade" which describes a certain longing or melancholy or nostalgia, usually for something or someone from the past, but also towards the transcendant and abstract. This word has no English equivalent, but the extended definition could be substituted in many cases. This awkwardness results in the phenomenon where meaning is "lost in translation" and it leads to the idea that certain translated works are never as good as the originals.
However we can also just steal these words from their respective languages and use them to denote the foreign concepts in our own language! The Oxford English Dictionary includes both "schadenfreude" and "saudade" and these days they are often used as valid English words in the appropriate context. This is one way that a language evolves to describe new concepts, and it means that there are no words which will never be "said" in some language. What is missing is often any mainstream understanding of the true definition, and the shared cultural experience which it conveys.
I don't really have a simple point to make here, but the idea that any given language is "missing" certain words is very interesting. If you'd like to broaden your vocabulary in your native language, look to these interesting ideas from other cultures, and find some cool new words to steal!
Bitcoins, Cash and Gold
December 15, 2013
There's a lot of buzz about Bitcoin and its significance lately. At the time of writing the MtGox price per is around $900 after briefly going above $1000 last month. I'm no economist (or investor – I sold most of mine way too early!) but it seems like the issue here has to do with relative demand for different financial instruments, specifically stores of value and mediums of exchange.
What is called a "store of value" I would describe as a kind of hedge, a financial instrument used to offset the risk associated with some investment. In this sense stores of value are hedges against losses on investment of time spent building wealth. The investor uses them to handle the risk of that wealth losing purchasing power, due to inflation or sociopolitics or whatever. The most famous store of value in history is elemental gold, which is scarce, shiny and useful (and therefore valuable) because of geology and physics and chemistry. This means that no human institution is required for gold to be in demand, and so nations still stockpile massive amounts in places like Fort Knox as a hedge against market disruption. Some citizens have been converting their own wealth into gold, especially since the value of dollars was decoupled from the stockpile in Fort Knox.
More recently, US dollars have served reasonably well as a hedge against instability elsewhere in the world. During the depression in the 1930s, people who trusted banks to store their wealth ended up regretting that decision, and those who kept cash in mattresses and walls made out comparatively well. Since then a culture of stockpiling cash has arisen, and historically the US dollar has been the favorite for its perceived stability. While this store of value provides a great deal of liquidity and quite reasonable portability, it can only be as reliable as the institution of the United States, and because the FDIC guarantees bank deposits there is not much reason to trust paper dollars as a better store of value than a standard US bank account.
Perhaps for this reason, Bitcoin has grown from a cryptography experiment into the hot new digital alternative to gold. Like gold it relies on mathematics and computer science rather than the authority of a government, but unlike gold it requires the existence of an information network like the Internet, and leverages that technology to enable much higher liquidity. In the long-term view it seems to function as a hedge against the marginalization of existing institutions and material goods caused by Internet and new technology.
I'm focusing on stores of value with medium to high liquidity, but there are certainly other options. Collectible goods like art and vintage instruments are popular, as is real estate. The value of these investments is necessarily non-zero (at the very least they can be used to build a fire) and determined by market demand. Still, no investment is risk-free and every one of these examples could lose value dramatically in the right situation. America recently went through a boom-bust cycle in real estate and many investors went bankrupt. Wealthy Chinese have been pouring their wealth into real estate for decades, the result being a market where not enough people can afford the hugely inflated housing prices and the bottom could fall out at any time. A non-trivial amount of that wealth is now moving into Bitcoin, which is probably the dominant cause of the recent spike.
In the case of cash, the primary risk is that the government will destabilize and/or the Fed will "ease" all the value out of those mattress dollars. As that risk was discovered commodities rose in value, most notably gold. It is still unclear exactly how much of the trend is due to devaluation of the currency and how much is due to speculation and fear.
In the case of gold, the practical applications might prove less useful than the price can justify, which would adversely affect its market value. In the extreme case, mass-produced alchemic gold could even end its reign as the definitive precious metal. That seems far-fetched right now, but I can't honestly say it is entirely outside the realm of possibility. The technology to manufacture diamonds is orders of magnitude less sophisticated, but it did not exist a century ago.
In the case of Bitcoin, the most threatening eventuality is that the Internet goes dark and the blockchain ends. This might be even less likely, but many of the gold investors are also stockpiling guns and food so they are evidently thinking along those lines. If SHA-256 is broken the implications on digital security and the Bitcoin economy would be devastating as well. A less threatening situation might involve the lack of adoption by legitimate businesses and/or banning by governments. This would push the Bitcoin market further into illegal territory, but where there is money there will be money laundering so it wouldn't necessarily shut down the market.
In summary, the best way to store value is never known and can only be determined in retrospect. It might involve more than one method, since bitcoins can function as a traditional hedge for dollars and vice-versa. Personally, most of my (modest) capital is stored in manufactured goods, with a bit of old-fashioned mutual funds and a tiny slice of other investments. If I sold these assets tomorrow they would raise much less value than the equivalent amount invested into gold bullion (or bitcoins), but I hope that won't be necessary. Not having to provide for a family at the moment is convenient.
However, by far the most valuable things I have acquired are my skills. It seems like a decent market position to be in these days, but of course there is still the risk of being paralyzed in a car crash. I recently bought a new set of tires to mitigate the risk, so we'll see how that works out.
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National Debt
October 16, 2013
If you're listening to the news lately, you could be forgiven for thinking that America "needs" to extend its line of credit by raising the debt ceiling again. This is an absolute mockery of economic planning. Does anyone still think it will actually improve our situation?
The most astonishing part is the fact that pundits are talking about raising the debt ceiling in units of time! It used to be described as an increase of however many billions of dollars. This latest plan will raise the ceiling until "February" or thereabouts, whatever that is supposed to mean. Do you realize the dollar figure isn't mentioned anymore because it has become so embarrassing that people don't want to acknowledge it?
I can't get over how ridiculous the whole thing has become. It's like if a drug addict was asking me to borrow money and saying, "With this I should be good until Tuesday." How can a person not conclude that they will in fact be wasting it on more drugs? Yet we keep handing over cash for the next fix like a bunch of ashamed tourists.
Unfortunately, the only rational thing to do is to go cold turkey as soon as possible. Banks are now basically being paid to sit on over $1.8 trillion in "excess reserves" provided by our national borrowing binge. However many more fixes these junkies can score, when equilibrium is finally restored the withdrawal is going to be pretty intense.
What a stupid, pointless debate.
UPDATE: It turns out that the "February" language is not just a media euphemism, it's actually the letter of the law! America has effectively deemed itself worthy of unlimited credit until the provision expires early next year.
Hardware Hacking
August 19, 2013
One of the nicest things about living in 2013 is the fact that computer hardware is cheap. Cheap enough that buying an extra computer to sit next to your TV or toaster or up in a weather balloon isn't much of an expense to the average consumer. The Raspberry Pi is among the most popular and dramatic examples of this revolution, but compelling alternatives like the Beaglebone Black have been arriving on the market recently.
I'm interested in these little gadgets because they make electrical engineering and embedded systems a lot of fun. The possibilities are mind-boggling with the available cheap hardware, and working on random electronics projects is teaching me more about electricity than school ever did. Current is just like the amount of water flowing through a pipe, and voltage is like the pressure difference between two sections! Resistance is the diameter of the pipe or something like that. I never liked all the confusing homework problems with those abstract circuit diagrams because it seemed arbitrarily complicated. Now I'm actually learning how to read and write the language because knowing circuit design is necessary in order to build things.
A major in electrical engineering would probably involve quite a lot of lab work, but the mandatory textbook material makes it less accessible than it could otherwise be. I don't mean to say that there is no use for a rigorous course of education – it obviously minimizes the inevitable gaps in domain knowledge. Still, unless you're intending to find a salaried job in the field, it's a lot cheaper and a lot more fun to just order a good soldering iron and pick something to build.
Bar Trivia
July 21, 2013
Trivia night is all the rage at local bars, and I've been enjoying the challenge. It's about as much fun as people who are old enough to drink legally but are not working on a postgraduate degree until their eyes bleed can have on a weeknight. Plus, it's a chance to win free beer, and therefore not end up spending disposable income on alcohol! Perhaps not a great chance, but a chance nevertheless.
This framing device isn't arbitrary – the bar trivia fad is a great example of the things that people of my generation are doing with their college knowledge. Our great-grandparents designed bridges, uncovered the secrets of atomic physics, and argued for a universal declaration of human rights. We can write down Avogadro's number and come up with vulgar team names to offend any sensibility.
Ha ha! Of course I'm exaggerating. Everyone knows that only the better aspects of popular culture are remembered. Fans of Classic Rock don't talk about all the rest of the crap that Yes and Rush recorded. Still, it's kind of funny that a bachelor's degree in the humanities used to mean a real opportunity to find a good job and earn a good salary. These days, if you pay attention in class, you might win a free pitcher of ale.
NSA Snoops
June 27, 2013
This whole NSA melodrama is rather interesting. Once again a disgruntled government employee has leaked juicy top secret documents, and the fallout has divided politicians roughly along that quirky libertarian/authoritarian axis. Meanwhile, the public is freaking out because privacy online is an illusion, and Big Brother has been watching all along. George Orwell was right! We didn't listen!
Along with several other people, I'm not exactly surprised by this revelation. What does the NSA even do if not this? How else does a company like Palantir make money? Are people actually surprised that planning crimes on Facebook is not a solid business plan?
Less obviously, why would anyone expect an ad-supported media company to stand up for privacy rights or whatever the libertarians want? People are acting like this is the cyberspace equivalent of strong-arming banks in order to search everyone's safety deposit boxes. I'd suggest that it's closer to reading people's mail and rooting through their garbage. If someone invented a cheap stealth robot to do exactly that, do you really think the NSA wouldn't be their top customer?
Signals intelligence is a sketchy business, whether or not you agree with the tactics. Most contractors who are not fleeing the country probably figured that out a long time ago.
Thrift Shops
June 15, 2013
Secondhand markets combine several great aspects of capitalism. Unlike much of that feel-good environmentalist nonsense, reusing manufactured products actually saves energy. Plus the revenue goes to enterprising resellers and charitable causes.
The problem is that this trend has turned into a mainstream fashion movement, which I suppose must please some people to no end. How could it be a problem? Well, the secondhand market obeys the laws of supply and demand just like any other market, so with increased demand either the price of goods will go up or the supply will dwindle. If you're shopping for exclusive secondhand deals to stick it to corporations and show solidarity with the lower classes, somehow I can see that plan backfiring.
It's fair to argue that if the secondhand store is run by a charity, increased business will divert more capital to a worthy cause. However, direct charity is not the only service that these organizations provide. And buying unnecessary new clothes does nothing for society beyond indulging our need to stand out or fit in, no matter where the transaction happens. Still, that is not necessarily a bad thing.
Look, if you're all about the whole anti-consumerist underpaid Starbucks employee thing, there's nothing wrong with getting a good deal on clothes. But taking your parents' money to Goodwill so that you can buy beer and cigarettes with the change is a whole different story. If you're not even going to donate some overpriced khakis or whatever, you're actually making life that much harder for many of the unglamorous poor.
I'm getting awfully tired of products dubiously marketed as pre-packaged ethics, but that's a topic for another time.
May 24, 2013
Last time we plotted a Mandelbrot set using a small Python script. This set is interesting because an unexpectedly large amount of detail emerges from the iteration of a relatively simple function. Even more interesting is the fact that this detail is not limited to any particular resolution. The Mandelbrot set exhibits fractal geometry, meaning that tiny areas of the set share features with the whole thing. If we zoom in, smaller details are visible no matter how far we choose to zoom.
But you don't have to believe me – let's modify our Python script and see what happens. Basically we have to map 600 pixels in each direction to arbitrary sections of the real and imaginary axes. We can have our script read in the desired ranges and calculate appropriate mappings. First, store the inputs in decimal variables:
def get_decimal(m):
while True:
x = float(input(m))
return x
except ValueError:
print('Enter a decimal number.')
loX = get_decimal('Minimum X: ')
hiX = get_decimal('Maximum X: ')
loY = get_decimal('Minimum Y: ')
hiY = get_decimal('Maximum Y: ')
Divide 600 by the range in each direction to compute scale coefficients:
scaleX = 600.0/(hiX - loX)
scaleY = 600.0/(hiY - loY)
Now modify the drawing code to use our designated ranges:
for x in range(0,600):
real = loX + x / scaleX
for y in range(0, 600):
imag = loY + y / scaleY
c = complex(real, imag)
p = mandel(c)
w.create_line(x, 600-y, x+1, 601-y, fill=colors[p])
With these changes we can zoom in and see some interesting features. Try using -0.15, -0.05, 0.9, and 1.0 as input values. More detail is visible, but it looks like some of the boundaries are smoothing out! Interestingly, that's because our
mandel() function only checks whether each candidate
c escapes within 20 iterations. Points close to the boundary often take more than 20 iterations to escape, but they don't actually belong in the set. Therefore, as the zoom level increases we have to test each candidate
c for more iterations in order to maintain an accurate image. This is left as an exercise for the reader.


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The Books Tour North America
By Tom Breihan on June 14, 2010 at 12:25 p.m. EDT
The Way Out, the new album from sound-collagists the Books, is due July 20 from Temporary Residence; you can hear "Beautiful People", a song from the album, here. And this fall, the duo will bring their intensely visual live show to venues across North America. Before the tour kicks off, they've got festival gigs planned at the Wilco-curated Solid Sound Festival in Massachusetts and at ATP New York, and they'll also play a free outdoor show in Chicago later this month.
To catch a glimpse of the Books' live show, check out this video. To see their dates, click below.
Primavera Sound Festival [Thursday]
By Pitchfork on May 28, 2010 at 5:00 p.m. EDT
Barcelona's Primavera Sound Festival kicked off its first day with sets from Broken Social Scene, Pavement, the xx, Titus Andronicus (pictured above), the Books, Fuck Buttons, Moderat, and more. Check out selected write-ups of some of the night's big sets, plus a few shots from last night below; then head over to our photo book for full photo sets by Shannon McClean and Elisabeth Vitale.
New Books Track: "Beautiful People"
By Ryan Dombal on April 27, 2010 at 3:50 p.m. EDT
Found sound collage gurus the Books return with a new album this July on Temporary Residence. The album is called The Way Out and here's your first listen.
"Beautiful People" boasts backwards vox, calming singing about science and math, brass, and a (relatively) rigorous drum beat. Nobody else really makes music like this. Check out our interview with the guys from last year for more details on the forthcoming record.
New Album From the Books Due in July
By Tom Breihan on April 5, 2010 at 11:20 a.m. EDT
Lost and Safe, the last album from the pastoral sound collage duo the Books, came out almost exactly five years ago. Kids who were born on the same day Lost and Safe came out are now gearing up for kindergarten. Dogs who were born on the same day Lost and Safe came out are now entering middle age. It's time for another Books album.
The Books Book Tour
By Tom Breihan on October 30, 2009 at 2:15 p.m. EDT
In an interview with Pitchfork this summer, electro-acoustic sound collage duo the Books promised to release their long-awaited follow-up to 2005's Lost and Safe early next year.
You'll be able to get a preview of that album when they debut new material on a short North American tour next month. Expect plenty of trippy screen projections.
Dates below.
Watch a New Live Song From the Books
By Tom Breihan on October 9, 2009 at 5:45 p.m. EDT
A few weeks back, the low-tech sound-collage duo the Books played to a tittering crowd at St. Louis' Luminary Center for the Arts. At that show, the band played a spacey, mellow new track called "Group Autogenics", and the rear projections that accompanied them made visual jokes out of the duo's trademark instructional snippets.
The performance has been captured on video, then posted online with a few extra bits of animation. Check it out below. Hopefully, that new Books album is imminent.
The Books Spill Details of Highly Anticipated New Album
By Ryan Dombal on August 20, 2009 at 4:20 p.m. EDT
It's been four years since sound collagists the Books released their last proper LP, 2005's Lost and Safe, but Nick Zammuto and Paul de Jong are "well underway" with the as-yet-untitled follow-up, due early next year. The long gestation process makes sense considering the painstaking work required for each of their found-sound tracks, which are usually made up of tons of tiny samples from all sorts of unique and/or forgotten sources.
"We started collecting audio tapes and video tapes on our last tour and we came home with a mountain of stuff-- around 4000 tapes," said Zammuto in a recent phone interview. "There's an unbelievable amount of treasure to go through, and that's what we've been up to over the past few years."
The duo are set to show off about a half dozen new compositions on a two-week tour of the U.S. next month, each one paired with exacting, synchronized videos that are often as impressive as the music itself. Click on for details about the new record (including a song based on Talkboy tapes) and some insight into how these guys distill thousands of hours of found material into something that's not only enjoyable but enlightening:
News in Brief: The Books, DeVotchKa, Eliot Lipp, Edwyn Collins, Numero Group
By Tom Breihan and Amy Phillips on January 16, 2009 at 4:45 p.m. EST
-- They haven't released any music since their 2006 art installation soundtrack and they still don't have any planned, but the electro-acoustic duo the Books will play a few shows in the coming months.
-- Denver gypsy-punk journeymen DeVotchKa are also hitting the road, touring the U.S. throughout winter.
-- On January 27, electro producer Eliot Lipp will release a new album, the awesomely titled Peace Love Weed 3D, on his own label, Old Tacoma Records. A single, "Beamrider", is out now. Lipp is currently touring America, and he'll be on the road through mid-March.
-- Back when Orange Juice was in its heyday, every British post-punk band wanted to do something like this: Former OJ frontman and "A Girl Like You" Bowie-impersonator Edwyn Collins has finally hooked up with the legendary reggae rhythm section Sly & Robbie. Sly & Robbie will back Collins on a bunch of dub versions of old Orange Juice songs at a show at Glasgow's Old Fruitmarket on January 25. This is part of an event that Future Pilot AKA mastermind Sushil K. Dade (remember that guy?) curated, and it's somehow supposed to pay tribute to the Scottish poet Robert Burns. Thanks to John Caples for the tip.
-- Crate-digging powerhouse the Numero Group will bring its superlative taste to the stage for the first time this spring. On April 4 at Chicago's Park West, the label will present "Eccentric Soul Revue", its first live show. The revue will feature artists from the defunct Chicago soul label Twinight, which was chronicled on the 2006 Numero compilation Eccentric Soul: Twinight's Lunar Rotation. Renaldo Domino, the Kaldirons, and the Final Solution will all perform for the first time in over three decades, in addition to performances from the still-active Syl Johnson, the Notations, and Nate Evans.
Numero Group also has a few new releases lined up for the coming weeks. On January 27, the Asterisk imprint will release long-forgotten 1970s folkie Caroline Peyton's albums Mock Up and Intuition, and on February 10, they will inaugurate the new vinyl-only imprint Numerophon with Niela Miller's Songs of Leaving.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671777.comments2014-11-07T10:34:50.328-06:00Merle Widmer's PEORIA WATCHMerle Widmerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671777.post-69930398017396603402014-11-07T10:34:50.328-06:002014-11-07T10:34:50.328-06:00Chemo didn't work. Not sure about next step. D...Chemo didn't work. Not sure about next step. Doesn't look good.Merle Widmerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671777.post-19083977766182486812014-10-30T17:32:04.243-05:002014-10-30T17:32:04.243-05:00By Tuesday I should know the biopsy results. Optim...By Tuesday I should know the biopsy results. Optimistic.Merle Widmerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671777.post-47767295036838288432014-10-15T08:05:51.193-05:002014-10-15T08:05:51.193-05:00I think I did see a report on Live at Five but you...I think I did see a report on Live at Five but you'd probably had dinner and were in bed by then.

Just kidding...Vonsterhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671777.post-44438386502066460352014-10-08T16:20:35.371-05:002014-10-08T16:20:35.371-05:00I'M STILL ON FACEBOOK ALTHOUGH I HAVE NEVER BE...I'M STILL ON FACEBOOK ALTHOUGH I HAVE NEVER BEEN VERY ACTIVE. i DEVOTE MOST OF MY COMPUTER TIME TO MY BLOG SITE. Merle Widmerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671777.post-46082189121762941522014-10-08T15:54:46.921-05:002014-10-08T15:54:46.921-05:00First results show no malignant cancer cells in ur...First results show no malignant cancer cells in urine. Further results will be known by the end of October.Merle Widmerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671777.post-77710468860320183182014-10-05T14:46:29.121-05:002014-10-05T14:46:29.121-05:00Sorry Vonster. Thanks for your comments.Sorry Vonster. Thanks for your comments.Merle Widmerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671777.post-34203106544455163472014-10-05T14:31:12.803-05:002014-10-05T14:31:12.803-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Merle Widmerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671777.post-63569181468036990122014-10-02T01:17:00.016-05:002014-10-02T01:17:00.016-05:00This site carries good source of information can't...This site carries good source of information can't wait to read more of your thoughts. Keep sharing.

www.n8fan.netdadayhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671777.post-28993880981405153142014-09-15T14:39:21.205-05:002014-09-15T14:39:21.205-05:00Spot on Merle!Spot on Merle!Bob firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671777.post-76967308217774171962014-09-02T14:10:18.554-05:002014-09-02T14:10:18.554-05:00False: See: http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/...False: See: http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671777.post-48862777895932407982014-07-10T01:22:49.980-05:002014-07-10T01:22:49.980-05:00Many thanks for the exciting blog posting! I reall...Many thanks for the exciting blog posting! I really enjoyed reading it, you are a brilliant writer. I actually added your blog to my favorites and will look forward for more updates. Great Job,Keep it up..
Lapel pinssan warnehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671777.post-56912286324319833762014-07-05T01:12:19.914-05:002014-07-05T01:12:19.914-05:00I am extremely impressed with the view point. Than...I am extremely impressed with the view point. Thanks for sharing such useful information in your blog. Great Job, Keep it up.
Soft Drink Vending MachinesJohn Bennyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671777.post-80617463814801440842014-07-02T16:43:59.617-05:002014-07-02T16:43:59.617-05:00If that's the same Brian G I remember he reall...If that's the same Brian G I remember he really is a little bitch.Vonsterhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671777.post-58944021606330612512014-06-19T15:51:32.143-05:002014-06-19T15:51:32.143-05:00Mechanic Loans? Too much secrecy and not enough JS...Mechanic Loans? Too much secrecy and not enough JS investigative reporters that are qualified.Merle Widmerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671777.post-88238159494826196142014-06-19T15:48:40.811-05:002014-06-19T15:48:40.811-05:00Could be. Cat says they are in no hurry so we will...Could be. Cat says they are in no hurry so we will see. If Taft Homes are demolished, Peoria Park Board President Bonnie Noble will be enthralled.

Spell-check somehow got disconnected. Working again so I'll do more blogs.Merle Widmerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671777.post-14014282785484943502014-06-07T15:11:45.940-05:002014-06-07T15:11:45.940-05:00Taft won't be vacated until sometime in 2015! ...Taft won't be vacated until sometime in 2015! Also, if PHA had a deal with Cat they would have to divulge it. One final reason you are in left field here: think of the bad publicity associated with moving Taft residents, and ask yourself if Cat would want anything to do with that political hot potato?

I think that simple deduction proves your theory email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671777.post-91637635953268478012014-06-04T16:02:39.719-05:002014-06-04T16:02:39.719-05:00Although I approve of your comments - using spell ...Although I approve of your comments - using spell check might lend to to the credibility. Just a suggestion.....firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671777.post-21339266545632131152014-05-17T07:46:41.474-05:002014-05-17T07:46:41.474-05:00Obama will not get a third term. He was lucky to g...Obama will not get a third term. He was lucky to get his second. I don't know where to go with this. AARP, as well as their "evil cousin" Obama, are not socialists. Do you actually know what socialism is?

What if I told you that on a worldwide level, Obama is actually quite conservative? Zachary Tepehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671777.post-70487128359995404142014-05-15T16:52:26.765-05:002014-05-15T16:52:26.765-05:00Merle - I heard a rumor about mechanic liens on th...Merle - I heard a rumor about mechanic liens on the hotel. Any truth to firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671777.post-1622351503698252582014-05-03T15:06:42.851-05:002014-05-03T15:06:42.851-05:00To be fair to author Cohan, I believe MANY Duke gr...To be fair to author Cohan, I believe MANY Duke graduates, students, parents, supporters were unhappy with Cohans 600 page descriptive book. I know of no lawsuits filed against this writing of Cohans' and I hope there are no other schools that would allow a guy in a regular classroom to pull out his "johnson" and whip it across his desk.

The book says a female student who gave her name later publicly described her sexual contacts in great detail with the 'whipper" after seeing his "johnson".

You doubt that Duke students didn't and don't hold "wild' parties??

Hmmmmm.Merle Widmerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671777.post-32195454456293090262014-05-02T20:17:27.441-05:002014-05-02T20:17:27.441-05:00There are several books on the case, the most prom...There are several books on the case, the most prominent being "Until Proven Innocent", by Taylor and Johnson.

Taylor and Johnson have both reviewed Cohan's book unfavorably, (in Commentary Magazine, and on Real Clear Politics) and Johnson has eviscerated it on his blog, Durham-in-wonderland.

Others are "It's not about the truth", by (Coach) Pressler

"A Rush to Injustice", and "Race to Injustice".

All are much more specific and detailed than Cohan's book.

Coman, Winstead and Steel, now claim that Cohan misrepresented them in his book (he never even contacted the first two).

Cohan relies on contemporary media accounts for much of his book, and by doing so he simply repeats their distortions and hype (for example, his opening description of the lacrosse player's "wild" party is simply a prosecution fantasy).

Btw,the players were not stereotypes. There were players on the team who were teetotal, who were evangelical Christians, and who weren't but who didn't drink anything at that party.

The father of one of the accused was raised by a black family. The father of another was born poor but used his fortune later in supporting black education and medical clinics in Africa.

The team was described in an article in Duke Magazine, a few months before the case, as being "unknown and unheard of" on campus; but the article said their anonymity
was good for their academic work (in which, btw, they led all other teams in their ACC division).

But it was so much easier for Cohan just to pull out the template and avoid talking about actual problems with Durham, North Carolina, Duke, media hype, and prosecutorial abuse--all of which are the real problems behind the lacrosse email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671777.post-25072177060224989612014-05-02T10:11:19.493-05:002014-05-02T10:11:19.493-05:00What other book or books are you suggesting I read...What other book or books are you suggesting I read on the subject? Where does Cohan say he "misrepresented" the positions of Coman and Winstead, and Robert Steel, who was Chairman of Duke University Board of Directors?

In 600 pages, Cohan included a lot of facts parents should know about happenings when kids get away from home.Merle Widmerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671777.post-55692287326601980642014-05-01T23:07:05.080-05:002014-05-01T23:07:05.080-05:00"I suggest of these pseudo-racist believers r..."I suggest of these pseudo-racist believers read the book, "The Price of Silence" "

May I suggest one of the other books about the case, instead? Cohan appears to have omitted more than he included.

(His book does not even mention Durham police chief Chalmers, whose daughter Nifong arrested; he gives slight coverage to the part played by many local figures in the attempt to convict three students for a crime which never happened (such as Joyner, Barber, Bell, and Baker);

and three figures he cited (state investigators Coman and Winsted, and R. K. Steel) have already said he misrepresented their positions or what they said.)

And he gives credence to much of the versions proffered by Nifong and Mangum, without rebuttal.

In all, a shallow, evidently biased, attempt at revisionist history, email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671777.post-22544068265914528262014-04-29T16:54:35.625-05:002014-04-29T16:54:35.625-05:00Sorry for my blogging a media error that originall...Sorry for my blogging a media error that originally said 2 people were killed. I'm sorry for the person who tried to save his life and his riders life and especially glad that one person did survive.

Hopefully the survivor will have a full recovery. Merle Widmerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671777.post-64058919954274930692014-04-27T08:05:06.296-05:002014-04-27T08:05:06.296-05:00If the Chief had talked to me after Detective Roge...If the Chief had talked to me after Detective Roger martin flubbed the jewelry theft I REPORTED, Maybe the theft would have been caught.

Perhaps I used bad judgment in screening who I invite into my home. Bill Clinton is welcome most anywhere and he had oral sex and worse in the White House and I am made a pariah while my wife, now looked as a martyr, was in a hospital and nursing home largely because of her alcohol addiction which she will not seek professional help to cure.

And, no, while arrested once in my lifetime,I have never been convicted of even a misdemeanor except by the Stowell boys, Jim and Jerry, and the liberal media.

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I cannot believe it is the end of October! This busy semester filled with tons of homework and long hours of interning is flying by. Luckily, I graduate in December and will soon be on to the next phase of my life. In the meantime, I wanted to post some fashion pics of my recent outfits because I miss blogging and sharing my style. Below are some fall fashion inspirations, hope everyone has a spectacular weekend! Xx B
I Love this "AIN't LAURENT without yves" sweatshirt I bought last winter from Pac Sun. I cut off the bottom (not pictured) so it is kind of cropped. I paired it with my Breedazzled bracelets, statement ring, statement necklace from Urban Outfitters, and leather leggings and I was off to my internship!
I wore this last weekend to a friend's apartment for a get together. My ripped jeans are by One Teaspoon and are kinda rockstar-ish which I LOVE! My blouse is from Urban Outfitters and my black oversized back is Tylie Malibu. And of course, the long gold beaded necklace I am rocking is Breedazzled.
This outfit is so comfy! I wore it to my internship on a rainy day. My dark gray cargo pants are from Urban Outfitters last year. My black belt is from American Eagle, I bought it for 8 dollars (they have the best sales) and my fancy sweatshirt is by free people.
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As my title suggests this is truly one riad that we shall never forget even after many trips to Marrakech on previous occasions. From the moment we entered the riad we were greeted by the charming owner and staff and we felt instantly as though we were returning friends rather than tourists.
Every wish was catered for throughout our stay, we didn't want for anything. The rooms are simply furnished but very comfortable and decorated in an Art Deco style. Clean towels were provided everday and fresh flowers in the room on arrrival was a lovely touch.
The riad itself is beautifully relaxed and tranquil set in the grounds of a garden of Moroccan tiles, fountain, white bourgainvillea flowers and hibiscus. Lots of green foliage offers total privacy whilst sitting outside in the sunshine.
Evening meals can be provided if ordered in advance. They are a real treat and were eagerly devoured by my husband and I after a busy day in the Souk. A Moroccan breakfast was included during our stay and put quite simply, was fresh and delicious.
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Cats. It seems like only yesterday I was talking about how much I hated them in the Wake Up Your Cat Comedy Goldmine article. How I would like to round up each and every kitten in the world and load them into a potato cannon and launch each one mercilessly at passing cars armored with high impact explosives. How pathetic I find every lolcat, every friend of mine who has adopted "oh haiii" as their customary digital greeting. They haunt my every waking moment. They make my eyes itch.
Unfortunately, it seems like I am alone in my hatred, because apparently the rest of the fucking Internet loved that update. Well, not long afterwards forum goon SPop6 got it into his head that the Internet really needed another thread about cats wearing funny clothes. Good because this meme isn't beaten into the ground and unfunny and the joke is dead and everyone should just move on. I hate myself for even posting this update but I got so many emails asking for another cat article that I felt compelled, so enjoy your cats chucklefucks while I go off to find something beautiful to smash.
Pretty self explanatory. Dress up your cat using anything you want, or put your cat in an odd scenario using the things and space available to you. Post your photos here.
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Zimbabwe took a cautious approach on the first day of the first test against India at Bulawayo today, scoring at well below three an over but easing their way through to a creditable total in the process. India's bowling, although impressive at times, suffered from apparent rustiness in the form of no-balls and occasionally off-target bowling that was punished by the Zimbabwean batsmen, in particular Tatenda Taibu and Terry Duffin.
Among 3 changes from the side thrashed by New Zealand, Zimbabwe included two debutants in their eleven, Charles Coventry, probably selected on the back of his promising performances in the triangular ODI tournament, and Terry Duffin. The latter walked out to open the batting in his first test with Brendan Taylor after the home side had won the toss and elected to bat. The other change was Gavin Ewing coming in for Prosper Utseya, again probably due to one-day international performances. The two openers made a reasonable start to the innings, the score reaching 25 before Zaheer Khan announced his arrival on the tour by having Taylor caught by Gautam Gambhir.
A similar partnership followed as Duffin continued to bat sensibly, this time in the company of Hamilton Masakadza. But then, with the score at 45, Zaheer struck again by catching the edge of Masakadza's bat on the way through to Dinesh Karthik. Renowned slow-scorer Dion Ebrahim was the next man in and he and Duffin defended their way through to lunch. The opening session saw just 75 runs scored as Zimbabwe made an obviously cautious start to their innings. Duffin finished the session with 26 from 88 balls, a slow and steady start to his test career.
Duffin continued his determined debut knock after the break and reached fifty before the partnership of 74 between he and Ebrahim was broken as he was caught LBW by Pathan for 56. His partner followed just five runs later to the same bowler, caught and bowled to make the score 124/4.
The defensive approach by Zimbabwe continued throughout the day, as captain Taibu played patiently for a well-deserved half century, ably supported by Heath Streak with 27. Coventry had a less successful introduction to test cricket than his fellow debutant, being trapped LBW by Anil Kumble for just 2 to leave the score at 197/6. That got worse still as one of Zimbabwe's stars of the ODI series Andy Blignaut fell the same way for 4, but the successful bowler this time was Zaheer with his third wicket of the day, and 211/7 was the score.
A lively innings towards the end of the day by the new man in Keith Dabengwa, in which he scored at not far short of a run a ball in reaching an unbeaten 33, would have woken up a few sections of the crowd as it brought the run rate for the day up over 2.8 per over.
Although credit must be given to Zimbabwe for a performance vastly improved from the series against New Zealand, India were far from perfect today as shown by the fact that there were no less than 20 no-balls by the Indian bowlers, a very large number and something that needs to be worked on ahead of their upcoming series against South Africa. The main culprits were Zaheer with nine, and surprisingly Kumble with six. However, they are two bowlers who joined the tour after the ODI tournament and are therefore slightly short of match practice.
Zimbabwe will be hoping to add a few more runs tomorrow morning before beginning the tough task of getting through the fearsome Indian batting lineup.
Match Summary - Stumps, Day 1
Zimbabwe 263-7
Tatenda Taibu 61no, Terry Duffin 56
Zaheer Khan 3-68, Irfan Pathan 2-50
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