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The invention describes prostaglandin E1 derivatives as pharmacologically active agents, and pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds, especially for transcutaneous administration.
1. A transdermal pharmaceutical composition comprising: prostaglandin E1 derivative of general formula I, ##STR3## in which R1 is hydrogen, or R1 and the hydrogen atom gem thereto are replaced by a carbonyl oxygen atom, and R2 is a C1-4 alkyl residue; and, wherein said derivative is present in a transdermally deliverable amount in combination with a transdermally effective carrier.
2. The composition of claim 1 wherein the transdermally effective carrier comprises a substance selected from the group consisting of gels, ointments and liquid vehicles.
3. The composition of claim 1 wherein the transdermally effective carrier comprises plaster.
4. The composition of claim 1 for the treatment of circulatory insufficiencies.
5. In a method for treating a patient for a circulatory insufficiency with a transdermal pharmaceutical composition comprising prostaglandin E1 or 6-keto prostaglandin E1, wherein application of said composition provides distribution into the body of prostaglandin E1 or 6-keto prostaglandin E1 at a predetermined rate, the improvement comprising modifying said composition to provide said prostaglandin E1 or 6-keto prostaglandin E1 as an C1-4 alkyl ester thereof, application of said modified composition thereby providing said distribution at a greater rate than at said predetermined rate.
6. In a method of contacting a patient with a pharmaceutical composition comprising prostaglandin E1 or 6-keto prostaglandin E1 for transcutaneous administration, wherein application of said composition provides distribution into the body of prostaglandin E1 or 6-keto prostaglandin E1 at a predetermined rate, the improvement comprising modifying said composition to provide said prostaglandin E1 or 6-keto prostaglandin E1 as a C1-4 alkyl ester thereof, application of said modified composition thereby providing said distribution at a greater rate than at said predetermined rate.
7. The transdermal pharmaceutical composition of claim 1 wherein R2 is an ethyl group.
This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 07/156,177, filed Feb. 16, 1988 now abandoned.
The invention relates to prostaglandin E1 derivatives (PGE1 derivatives) as pharmacologically active agents and to pharmaceutical compositions--especially for transcutaneous (transdermal) application--which contain a PGE1 derivative.
DE-A-27 53 986 and the corresponding U.S. patent application No. 4,205,178 disclose 6-keto prostaglandin E1 derivatives, especially the 6-keto PGE1 methyl ester.
A number of biological and pharmacological effects are described for these compounds. Various routes of administration are indicated for the various kinds of illnesses to be treated, e.g. oral, intravenous, subcutaneous, intra-arterial, buccal, rectal and intra-vaginal administration. Topical administration is described in connection with skin injuries or skin diseases at or near the site of the injury or disease.
6-keto prostaglandin E1 derivatives are also described in DE-A-28 40 032, in which the authors also refer to various forms of pharmacological activity and administration.
Prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) and 6-keto prostaglandin E1 (6-k PGE1) can be used for the treatment of several diseases. These diseases include peripheral occlusive diseases, complications in arteriosclerosis such as Meniere's disease or acute loss of hearing, acute myocardial infarctation, unstable angina pectoris, acute ischaemic strokes, impotence, bronchial asthma, impaired hair growth and rejection following kidney transplants; see H. Sinzinger and W. Rogatti, Prostaglandin E1 in atherosclerosis, Springer Verlag Berlin--Heidelberg--New York, 1986; S. Schrey, PGE1, Therapie der arteriellen Verschlusskrankheit, Universitatsdruckerei and Verlag Dr. C. Wolf und Sohn, Munich, 1985. PGE1 is used for the treatment of chronic arterial occlusive diseases in phase III and IV. This condition calls for intra-arterial or intravenous infusion which results in a severe limitation in the use of PGE1, as the infusion is not only a strain on the patient, but also involves a certain risk of arterial haemorrhage. Neither route of administration (i.a. and i.v.) is suitable for continuous therapy in ambulatory patient care. However, long-term administration would be most appropriate for these diseases. The oral administration of PGE1 is always problematic as either the very low bio-availability rules out such administration, or the typical undesired effects (nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea) are prohibitive due to the high concentration of the drug in the gastrointestinal tract when orally administered.
The object underlying the invention is to provide PGE1 and PGE1 derivatives as pharmaceutical compositions or pharmacologically active agents. The PGE1 derivatives, which were especially developed as pharmacologically active agents for transcutaneous (transdermal) administration, are absorbed by the skin and subsequently split by hydrolases into prostaglandin E1 or 6-keto PGE1 and alcohol. The PGE1 derivatives thus fulfill the requirements of the "Pro-Drug" concept and avoid the disadvantages of PGE1 and 6-keto PGE1 when administered arterially, intravenously or orally.
The subject matter of the invention is therefore prostaglandin E1 derivatives of the general formula I ##STR1## in which R1 is a hydrogen atom and R2 is a C1-4 alkyl residue, as pharmacologically active agents.
A further subject matter of the invention is a pharmaceutical composition containing a prostaglandin E1 derivative according to formula I.
Still a further subject matter of the invention is the use of prostaglandin E1 derivatives of general formula I, ##STR2## in which R1 is a hydrogen atom (PGE1) or in which R1 and the hydrogen atom gem thereto are replaced by a carbonyl oxygen atom (6-k-PGE1) and R2 is a C1-4 alkyl residue for the preparation of a pharmaceutical composition to be administered transcutaneously.
FIG. 1 shows the absorption rate of PGE1 and PGE1 ethyl ester which has been determined as the cumulative urinary excretion following transcutaneous administration.
Specific examples of alkyl residues are the methyl, ethyl, n-propyl, isopropyl, n-butyl, isobutyl and tertiary butyl group.
Due to the non-toxicity of the fragments, the preferred group R2 is the ethyl group.
The preparation of the compounds of general formula I is carried out according to methods known per se via esterification of PGE1 and 6-k PGE1. The methyl and ethyl ester, for instance, are prepared by reacting the same with diazomethane or diazoethane; also see Ch. J. Sih et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Vol. 97 (1975), pp. 857 to 865.
The compounds of general formula I can be used to treat circulatory insufficiencies, for instance of the brain, the heart and the extremities, to inhibit platelet aggregation (thrombocyte aggregation), impotence and to treat allergic reactions such as bronchial asthma, rejection following transplantations and impaired hair growth. Typical examples of deficiencies in the cerebral blood supply are transitory cerebral ischaemia, acute loss of hearing, vertigo caused by circulatory insufficiencies and ischaemic strokes. Typical examples of deficiencies in the myocardial blood supply are angina pectoris and myocardial infarction. Typical examples of deficiencies in the blood supply of the extremities are periphal arterial circulatory insufficiencies in arteriosclerosis and Raynaud's disease and Raynaud's syndrom.
The compounds of general formula I can also be used to treat gastrointestinal ulcers and ulcers of the skin. Typical examples of gastrointestinal ulcers are ulcus ventriculi, duodenal ulcers and ulcerative colitis (Crohn's disease). A typical example of a skin ulcer is ulcus cruris. The compounds of general formula I have a cyto-protective effect. The cells exhibit increased resistance to noxious stimuli.
The compounds of general formula I can further be used to treat haematomas, especially surface haematomas.
In addition to transcutaneous (transdermal) administration, the compounds of general formula I can also be administered by inhalation, intravenously and intra-arterially and in each case incorporated into microsomes.
The preparation of pharmaceutical compositions is carried out according to conventional methods. For the preparation of pharmaceutical compositions to be administered transcutaneously, the compounds of general formula I can be mixed with a gel, ointment or liquid vehicle either with or without various solvents and stabilizers. The packages used are sprays, tubes, ampules and individual doses. Once applied to the skin either with or without an additional occlusive dressing, the active agent is absorbed.
The compounds of general formula I can also be placed either with or without stabilizers and solvents onto a plaster and can then be applied as such.
The conversion of the ethyl ester to PGE1 in the human body was demonstrated in the following way: an isotopically labelled PGE1 ethyl ester was applied in the manner described above. The isotopically labelled urinary metabolites were separated with HPLC and compared with the retention time of the main metabolite of PGE1 (7α-hydroxy-5,11-diketotetranorprosta-1,20-dioic acid). It was found that after administration of the PGE1 ethyl ester, the main metabolite was identical to the main metabolite after administration of PGE1. This proves that the PGE1 ethyl ester is a pro-drug of PGE1.
The following examples illustrate the invention.
The preparation of prostaglandin E1 ethylester.
Excess diazoethane in diethyl ether (17 mg/ml; 0.3 mmol) is added to 500 μg PGE1 (1.31 μmol) in 500 μl ethanol under stirring and cooling. The reaction mixture is taken out of the cooler and is stirred until it reaches room temperature. Stirring is then continued for a further 30 minutes. The excess diazoethane and the ethanol are removed at room temperature by a stream of nitrogen. The product is purified by high-pressure liquid chromatography (RP 18).
In the same manner and with excess diazoethane, 500 μg of 6-keto PGE1 in 500 μl of ethanol are reacted and processed in diethyl ether. The ester is purified by high-pressure liquid chromatography (RP 18).
250 μg of prostaglandin E1 ethyl ester together with an isotopically labelled PGE1-ethyl-ester in 250 μl of ethanol were worked into 2 g of a gel vehicle of the composition as indicated below. The gel was applied to the upper arm and rubbed in for 1 minute. The application area was covered with a plastic foil.
One week later, 250 μg of prostaglandin E1 together with an isotopically labelled PGE1 in 250 μl of ethanol were mixed with 2 g of a gel vehicle of the composition as indicated below. It, too, was applied to the upper arm and rubbed in for 1 minute.
Measurement of the absorbed quantity was carried out by determining the isotopically labelled prostaglandin metabolites in the urine. For this, the total urine was collected in portions from the beginning of the application onwards. Four hours after the application, the plastic film was removed and the excess gel wiped off. As can be seen in FIG. 1, the absorption rate of PGE1 ethyl ester (23%) was clearly better than that of PGE1 (approx. 4%).
The gel vehicle was prepared according to the following recipe:
______________________________________Isopropanol 40.0 gDiisopropyl adipate 0.5 gCarbopol 940 2.0 gTrometamol 1.91 gPurified water ad 100.0 g______________________________________
The isopropanol can also be exchanged for ethanol.
The water, alcohol and diisopropyl adipate are mixed, the carbopol is dispersed in this mixture and left to swell. The gel is neutralized with the aqueous trometamol-solution.
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I bought this online and was worried it might not be a good fit. I got the medium and it fits perfect! I am 5'11" and 165 pounds. The jacket is so stylish. I can't say how warm it is because the cold season hasn't really started here yet but, but I plan to use this as a mid layer while skiing and an outer layer while casual.
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Well, the big step has been taken.... we're um.... our mothers know....official? Brad (ksmarguy) and I are officially a couple. It's long distance, still got a long way to go, but....
(happy dance)
We'd like to thank this wonderful community for your support and for bringing us together.
To the two of you: Congratulations!!!
To everybody else: I AM SINGLE!!!!!
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May your relationship bloom and grow with each passing day, I truly am happy for both of you.
Congratulations!!! You make a very Handsome couple!. Best Wishes to you Both!!!!
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Congratulations and best of luck! The long distance thing can be worked out and dealt with. You both look great together and so happy.
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You guys rock! I was so tired and worn out when I got home tonight - and seeing this made my day! You look great together - thanks for the news!
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Congratulations to both of you.
WAHOO! Congrats to you both!
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Congratulations! Although it's been said many times, it's still worth repeating. You are a very good looking couple! We wish you the best!
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Really awesome! Blessing on you guys:)
When you find love or it finds you there is nothing better in the world. Congratulations to you both! May you always have the sunshine on your face and the wind at your back.
Thor, this just proves I have good taste in men and I think ksmarguy would totally agree with me! :-)
You bet I would!!!!!!!!! :D
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I have to agree with all of the other comments!! You two look great together! Congratulations and may you have a long, happy life together!!
I'm really happy for you both...you look good together, too...
congrats. it seems so right. hope it means ks moves to ca and not the other way around :)
Congrats!!!! I wish you many happy years!!
Congratulations! It's great when you find someone special to share your life. And, even better when your life can be "knit" together with common interests. I know all too well about the long distance relationship thing . . met in AZ last month, meeting in NYC next month, ??? in July. Thank goodness for good cell phone plans :) It's just another and different dimension to a relationship, but can be fun at the same time.
Keep us posted . . and feel free to contact me if you want to share ideas on keeping up a long distance relationship.
Ut oh... I am never going to hear the end of this! My knitting buddy, Elizabeth, always... yes, always... comments on how handsome you are! It is just going to break her heart to hear that you are no longer available and that you liked boys in the first place. I guess I had better stock up on chocolate now!
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CONGRATULATIONS! Ain't love grand! Yup: the commuting thing is a drag, but it can be done. My partner David and I commuted for 13 years between Michigan and Vermont. At the very least, you will help pull the airline industry out of this recession. :-) You two put a smile on so many of our faces and lightened our hearts. Best wishes..... and happy knitting! -John
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This is a true story of my 46 y/o wife?s most exciting Valentine?s day. It all began 2 years into our 15 year marriage when I discovered my wife?s favorite fantasy. It began innocently enough with a little role play and interracial porn. I discovered my wife was a black cock slut and she didn?t even realize it. The good part of this was that interracial sex and wife sharing just happened to be a fantasy of mine. The first movie of this sort that she saw, awakened a passion in her that I was pleased to see existed in her. This particular movie was playing on one of the porn channels that are offered on our satellite service. It featured beautiful married white MILFS being pleasured by several very well hung black men as their husbands watched. This fascinated her and had her dripping wet in no time. As I rubbed her beautiful nipples and tight pussy, she began to ask questions about what she was seeing on the screen. ?Do couples really do this? and ?are all black men so well hung and long lasting?? And was fascinated by the fact that these white ?wives? enjoyed sucking these black cocks and swallowing their cum so willingly as that is something that she really hadn?t enjoyed with me. She wondered allowed how they must taste as these women were insatiable at swallowing as many loads as they could get. I told her that yes many couples did enjoy that lifestyle and that most black men were indeed well hung. She couldn?t believe how much cock these white wives could take and how hard and long these wives? orgasms seemed to be. She came herself about this time and actually squirted cum all over my hand. Her orgasm seemed to go on for several minutes while ejaculating several times almost like a man. I asked her if she liked those black cocks that much. She shivered and said it was just the interracial aspect that must have sent her over the edge and that she had never seen anything as hot as those white wives sucking those massive cocks and then hungrily sucking them dry while their husbands watched. She went on to admit that she had never seen cocks as large or beautiful as those. We watched the rest of the movie as she came several more times just watching while I ate her pussy. I mentioned to her the next morning that her boss was young, fit, and black and that he too had a cock just like those we saw last night. She asked me was I serious as her face turned flush. I said sure and that she should look at his cock every chance she got today and see for herself. I went on to tell her that I bet he had already fucked her in his mind numerous times while looking at her fine ass. I told her I bet his massive cock stood erect while he thought these thoughts about her. She blew this off saying that he could have any young woman he wanted in the office and almost surely didn?t pay attention to her 46 y/o ass. I told her to just check him out and she would see. Well around 2 that very afternoon she called me at my office almost out of breath. It seems that she had dropped a pen and bent over to pick it up. As she turned around, she saw Marquis eyeing her beautiful ass as he fidgeted with his cock. She shyly turned around then back to Marquis and he was indeed still staring at her ass and his cock appeared to have grown tremendously as he fisted it upright. She said she couldn?t take her eyes off of it as it grew larger in his hand. As she looked up into his eyes, he smiled and squeezed his cock again sending tremors through her pussy. She said she was embarrassed that he had seen her staring intently at his cock. She turned and went back to her desk as her panties soaked themselves with her juices. She eventually went to the bathroom and pleasured herself thinking of his cock. She said she licked her fingers dry while imagining it was his young cock. She hung up and spent the rest of the day daydreaming about what his cock must look like. When I arrived home, she was in a great mood and suggested that we watch another interracial movie that evening. She was so hot that she tried to apologize for letting a black man have that effect on her. She didn?t expect the reaction she got from this young black stud lusting after her ass and seeing his cock become erect thinking of her. She asked me not to be mad that I was the only man she loved. I told her not to worry and that it turned me on knowing her young stud boss wanted to fuck my wife. And it made me even more horny knowing that she too was turned on by this. I told her I was proud of her and I liked that she found him so hot and the effect that black cocks were having on her. I told her to enjoy it as I knew she did and to enjoy the fact that she could have any black cock she wanted. She assured me that it wouldn?t go further than that but I knew better. She began to take more time dressing for work, wearing more and shorter skirts that complimented her ass and legs. I encouraged her to dress sexily for this man and if the opportunity presented itself, be sure to let him see ass much of her ass and legs as she could get away with. She said she has begun to notice another 30 something black man that was in her office begin to take an obvious interest in her ass and legs too. I told her to go with it as her boss had probably told him of your obvious interest in black cock. These two black men began to position themselves at work so they could get a better glimpse of her legs and panties. She was sure they had seen her panties on several occasions. Each time she would go to the bathroom and finger her pussy while fantasizing of these 2 men and sucking their large cocks. I knew she was ready for the next step so I purchased a 10 inch jet black black dildo for her and gave it to her that night when we went to bed. She shivered in anticipation as she waited for me to use it on her. I bought another movie and waited for the magic. As a beautiful redhead dropped to her knees to suck off a very large veined black cock, I brought the dildo to her right nipple and rubbed the large head all over her nipple. She put her hands around the dildo and helped me rub both nipples to erection as she looked down at the dildo and back to the movie. She worked the black cock in her dainty hands ever closer to her mouth until she licked her tongue out and found the purple head. The sight was incredible and she shivered through an orgasm while inserting this large cock into her mouth. I moved back and grabbed our camera from the nightstand and began filming her as she inserted inch after black inch into her mouth while licking her tongue all around the head and veined cock. The sight was beautiful as I filmed her continue to watch the redhead suck the cock on the movie as she inserted several more inches into her waiting mouth. She appeared to be enjoying sucking the large dildo. I started to finger her pussy while filming her suck the large cock. After a couple of minutes, I asked her how Marquis? cock taste. She groaned and thrust her pussy onto my fingers and the dildo into her throat. She started cumming and moaned for Marquis to cum in her mouth. I told her to suck him harder and as she did she began to convulse all over my fingers while erupting the most female cum out of her pussy that I had ever seen. I asked her if she would suck Marquis and the other black man at work and she said she wanted to all the time but didn?t want to lose her job. I then removed the dildo from her mouth with a pop as she began to scoop her own cum from her pussy and into mouth all the time asking Marquis to cum in her mouth. I then put the 10 inch dildo into her pussy as far as it would go and held it there while she sucked her fingers and humped the dildo try to get more of it in her. I was filming all of this as I asked her to fuck Marquis harder. She came again as I inserted the entire 10 inches into her pussy and cervix. She screamed his name and came again while fucking his imaginary cock for all it was worth. I told her that I wanted her to fuck him in real life and she came again yelling yes?yes?.i will fuck him and anyone else he wanted her to if he would just give her his cock. This continued for several minutes as she came down with all 10 inches still in her tight pussy. I told her to look down at his black cock buried deep in her pussy. I asked her if that is what she wanted and she said yes and she was sorry but she had to have it. I told her that she would make it happen but that she should be prepared to be his white married slut. She said she understood and would do whatever he wanted. At that time I began to replay the video for her. As she watched herself become a slut for that black dildo while calling out Marquis? name she began to cum again. She told me she looked like such a slut and liked it. I told her that tomorrow she would dress and behave to let Marquis and Victor know what was one her mind. After we finished, Leigh shaved her pussy and ass bare and found an ankle bracelet to wear the next day with her heels and short dress. We chose a black thong teddy to wear with her black mini dress and thigh highs. She would certainly make an impression the next day. As she dressed the next morning, I could tell she was having second thoughts so after she had her teddy on and thigh highs, I began to kiss her on her neck and ears. Before she knew it, I handed her the black dildo and told her to suck Marquis before she went to him. She began to lick and suck it while I rubbed her pussy and asked her how his cock tasted. She said it was wonderful and couldn?t wait to swallow his and Victor?s cum. I pulled the dildo from her mouth and inserted the head in her pussy. She took over from there and began to cum at which time I pulled it from her pussy and told her she would wait for their cocks. She pleaded with me to continue but I knew she would be more ready if she waited. She finished dressing and headed for the door. She kissed me hungrily and thanked me. She said she might be late coming home but she would call. She arrived at work and went straight to Marquis? office where she found him and Victor in a meeting discussing something. They asked her to come in and shut the door. Marquis told Leigh how fine she looked and she noticed his cock begin to grow. They both watched her stare at his cock until Victor asked her to sit down. She sat in front of Marquis? desk as her dress rose above her thigh highs to only an inch from her panties. She knew Marquis could see her panties and this made her horny as she heard Victor lock the door behind her. She turned to find him fisting his large cock through his pants only a foot from her mouth. He reached for her thighs as his cock came in contact with her face. Marquis was now between her thighs spreading her legs wide as he reached for her pantied pussy. She turned towards Victor only to find the largest black cock she had ever seen only inches from her mouth. As Marquis began to snake his fingers inside her thong Victor told Leigh to suck his black cock. She didn?t have to be told twice as he pulled her mouth onto his purple head. She stuck her tongue into his piss slit and began to cum as she tasted his piss and precum. She wanted his come and knew she would have it soon. She sucked as hard as she could trying for more cum as he inserted half of his 14 inches into her mouth. Marquis was eating her pussy as Victor fucked her mouth. His precum began to pour from his head into her throat as Marquis stood and pulled his fully erect 12 inches out and placed it next to Victor?s. she alternated between their cocks asking them for their cum. This took Victor by surprise and he placed her mouth over his cock and pumped several times before filling her mouth with the first cum she had swallowed and she loved it. She began to cum hard as he filled her mouth over and over. She cleaned his cock until Marquis pulled her mouth from Victor?s cock onto his and placed his cockhead to her throat entrance and came straight down her throat. She was lost in ecstacy as he pumped several gobs of cum into her throat. As she was cleaning the last drops from Marquis? massive cock, she noticed that Victor was behind a video camera that Marquis had set up zooming in on her mouth as she cleaned Marquis? cock. This caused her to shiver and cum wondering who would see the video. After she had finished Marquis, she helped him dress and waited for someone?s cock. Marquis told her that she was now his slut and she should do whatever he asked. She said that she was theirs and she would do whatever they wanted if they would fuck her now. He told her they couldn?t at the job but she should go home and prepare a bag for the night. They would get a hotel room and call her with the address. She agreed and asked how long she would be made to wait. Victor handed her the video, told her to go home and watch it and wait for their call. She would be fucked well this afternoon and another video would be made. She went home and called her me on the way telling me what had happened and what was going to happen later. She arrived home and watched herself servicing these men for several hours before being called. Marquis instructed her to meet them at a hotel in town and dress sexily for them. She did as she was instructed and hurried to the hotel room to meet these two men. When she arrived Victor answered the door and led her into a room where Marquis and two other hot black men sat watching a second video of her sucking them. She was embarrassed until Marquis introduced her to Javon and Eric. She sat with these three men watching her video while Victor finished setting up another camera. Victor said she would become a star in many of their movies. This excited her as she reached for Marquis? cock and sank to her knees to suck him off again. As she was sucking him, the other three studs undressed and gathered around her with their beautiful black cocks at her face. She sucked all 4 men until Javon said her was going to cum. She placed his cock in her mouth and pumped him until he exploded into her mouth. The other 3 placed her on the bed and tore her clothes off as she tried to place another massive cock into her mouth. As she sucked Eric?s huge cock, Marquis slipped between her thighs and place her legs on his shoulder as he began entering her tight white pussy. She began to cum immediately as he inserted his 12 inches into her cervix and held it there until she began to saw herself on his cock. He fucked her for 45 minutes before dumping his cum into her womb. He removed his cock and Victor followed suit fucking her senseless as she sucked both Javon and Eric?s cum from their balls into her throat. This continued for several hours into the night until the men had to return home to their wives. They drove her home as she sucked Marquis off in the back seat. She told me what had happened and how it was the best night of her life and that they would be using her oftem. She told me about the videos and that really turned me on. She now fucks these men weekly and I get to watch and film most of these times. We are very happily married and she has become the slut she never knew she was.
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Six months ago, three men envisioned Heritage Square in Somerville crowded with residents who felt the same way they did: that the fallen sons and daughters of Somerville needed to be recognized.
Francis Thomas is a World War II Navy veteran who says the proposal for a war memorial monument was supported from the beginning.
"The city was very responsive in that all of the people we talked to were very excited about it," Thomas said.
On Friday morning, he, Pastor Sidney Akin and Bill Hodges were pleased to see their vision realized. The monument bears the names of men who have fallen in the line of duty since World War I.
Besides the monument, the city will also have the "Walk of Honor." Engraved bricks holding the names of more servicemen and women make up the walk way to the monument.
Thomas said both are things he felt the city needed, not only to honor those who died, but to keep their sacrifices alive in the minds of those who see the memorials.
"We are hopeful that it is going to spark a little bit of patriotism and remind them of their past," Thomas said.
The guest speaker for the dedication ceremony, Somerville's own Marine Corps Major Cesar Rodriguez, shares Thomas' idea.
"A lot of times, we take our freedom for granted and it is something you should not," Rodriguez said. "It is not free and it takes people who are willing to fight for it and willing to work hard for it to keep it."
He said events like Somerville's ceremony encourages those in the service to keep doing what they do.
"As a serviceman, it makes you proud," Rodriguez said. "It makes you feel like what you are doing is important when citizens that you are defending support you and pat you on the back."
Placed in a visible part of the city, the monument proudly displays Somerville's appreciation and patriotism.
"I think Somerville should be very proud," Thomas said.
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The Neighbourhood
The Neighbourhood – Warm feat. Raury
For a moment this collaboration seemed like a dream, but it is in reality. Our favorite dark pop band The Neighbourhood have teamed up with everyone's favorite new artist Raury and it's a winner. The track oozes a beautiful darkness and is a cry for love. It starts as a track that is a familiar NBHD sound but suddenly there's an intensity that builds up through the track. Raury puts his touch on it which makes this track that much more special. Listen to the pure music masterpiece below.
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[MP3 Premiere] The Hard Knocks – Hosana
When we were introduced to The Hard Knocks this spring, we instantly compared them to modern indie favorites like The Neighbourhood and The 1975. But that was before "Hosana." This track is a two-and-a-half minute bulldozer over every preconception we had about LA band. It expands our previous comparisons to legends like Michael Jackson and Queen. On the recording lead singer Shane Hunter sounds like he's singing for his life, sparking this ball of retro energy that is a perfect reminder of what our generation is missing. We'll keep you posted on the band's upcoming ME+ EP.
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JMSN – Fool
Hot off the presses! To celebrate teaming up with The Neighbourhood for a nationwide tour, JMSN decided to drop this dreamy, somber track for us today. "Fool" starts you off with some soft strings and haunting vocals and eventually takes you to… well, soft strings and haunting vocals. But it's awesome. And so are you. Happy Thursday.
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The Neighbourhood – $TING
I think it's obvious The Neighbourhood have made an impact on all our ears and will only continue to do so. They seem to treat us with a new track every few weeks and I'm not complaining about that one bit! Today they released a track called "$TING" which is smooth and gloomy in the best way possible. Head over to Complex to also hear a new JMSN track which will appear on the 7″ single featuring "$TING". It's available on "The Love Collection Tour" this summer.
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Stream New Songs by The Neighbourhood and Lovelife
After touring extensively over the past few years, The Neighbourhood is finally going on their first national headlining tour. They are bringing a few friends with them–friends who happen to also be some of our favorite artists, including Lovelife, The 1975, and JMSN. Icing on the cake? The guys are releasing three limited split 7″ singles with their friends; these will be available at every show.
The NBHD has never been shy about their hip-hop influences. "West Coast" marks the return of lead singer Jesse Rutherford's rapping (previously known as Jesse James) and truly is a sun-kissed, summer jam. Lovelife's "Every Minute" is a silky smooth, dramatic taste of indie rock witha falsetto bit that will change your life. Thank God for bands that care.
I'm so West Coast, it's a goddamn shame
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Stream The Neighbourhood's Debut Album 'I Love You'
It's almost here. On April 23rd The Neighbourhood will release their debut album I Love You via Columbia Records. You can stream it below in all of its glory, thanks to Rolling Stone. I don't know if I was anticipating an album this year more than this one, and so far, it does not disappoint. All aspects of one of our favorite bands are in full effect here; it's dark, brooding, sensual, raunchy, bleak, confident, transformative, manipulative, suave, angry, and always lovely.
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Preview Two New Songs from The Neighbourhood's Debut Album
The Neighbourhood have found their niche within the industry and look to expand upon it with their debut full-length I Love You, which will be out on April 23rd via Columbia Records. I genuinely believe these guys will rightfully infiltrate the mainstream by the summertime. You can quote me on that. Below are two video snippets, featuring brand new songs, "Everybody's Watching Me (Uh Oh)" and "W.D.Y.W.F.M?," from I Love You. If for some reason you weren't already excited for the album, now you will be.
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The Hard Knocks – Pocket Full of Change
I get emails from people I don't know. That's just part of my life now. Depending on how intriguing the subject line is or even how much free time I have, I'll open the mass email, and occasionally, I'll like the song held within it. When I get an email that says, "For fans of The 1975, Pacific Air, [and] The Neighbourhood," I have to stop and pay attention to it. This guy knows what he's doing, and either he will be dead off in his comparison or he's managing my new favorite band. Luckily in the case of The Hard Knocks, he's managing my new favorite band. The SoCo-based four-piece is headed in the right direction, garnering comparisons to some of my favorite buzz bands of the past few years. It's gonna be very interesting to see where this single takes them, and what's next for this group.
We'll keep you posted on The Hard Knock's debut ME EP, coming out May 7th.
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The Neighbourhood – Sweater Weather (Little Daylight Remix)
Little Daylight decided to make the move and remix The Neighbourhood's "Sweater Weather". Ballsy move if you ask me, but they pulled it off. The Neighbourhood has risen to be one of the biggest "buzz bands" of the year, receiving feature requests from some of the top festivals around the world. They deserve it. These guys rock. And this remix aint bad either!
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The Neighbourhood – Sweater Weather [Music Video]
From the start, The Neighbourhood seemed like the band that had it all figured out. They had the personality, the aesthetic, and most importantly, the music to take over the world. And trust me, they will take over the world. Already, they are signed to Columbia and are playing some of the biggest festivals on the planet. Over the past year or so, they have steadily released music accompanied by stunningly cinematic videos, but alas, I think the Cali band has outdone themselves. Introducing the perfect video, where each shot is more picturesque than the previous one. Prepare to be amazed.
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Look for their debut album I Love You on April 23rd.
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The Neighbourhood – Let It Go (Ghost Loft Remix)
To revamp its latest single, "Let It Go," The Neighbourhood elicited fellow Cali-native Ghost Loft to head-bobbing results. This remix keeps the ominous and stark vibes of the original, while adding some choice trap sounds that are oh so popular right now. Swerve, amirite?
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The Neighbourhood – Say My Name/Cry Me A River [Cover]
When people or God made the word "cool," this is what they had in mind (maybe). One of our favorite bands The Neighbourhood recently dug up these '90s classics and mashed them up into really probably a perfect cover.
Destiny's Child + Justin Timberlake + The Neighbourhood = perfection + this blog post + tears + hospitalization + hair loss – constipation / saliva + no friends + tennis elbow – tennis – elbow
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"Dick Cheney watches television": The four previously unseen 9/11 photos that will make you hate the evil VP all over again
Topics: 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Chicago, News
When reporters go one on one with Barack Obama, they end up writing things they'll regret in the morning papers. It's a phenomenon called "drinking the Obama juice." One besotted scribe called him "tall, fresh and elegant." And the august Atlantic Monthly mooned about Obama's "charisma, intelligence and ambition, tempered by a self-deprecating wit," titling its article "The Natural."
OK, Obama is tall (6 feet 2 inches), intelligent (Harvard Law, two bestselling books), and damn, he's ambitious (running for president after two years in Congress). But he's no natural.
As a correspondent for the Chicago Reader, I covered Obama's 2000 campaign to unseat Bobby Rush, the ex-Black Panther who's been a Democratic congressman from Chicago's South Side since 1993. It's the only election Obama has ever lost. As even one of his admirers put it, "He was a stiff." You think John Kerry looked wooden and condescending on the campaign trail? You should have seen this kid Obama. He was the elitist Ivy League Democrat to top them all. Only after losing that race, in humiliating fashion, did he develop the voice, the style, the track record and the agenda that have made him a celebrity senator, and a Next President.
I got my first sight of Obama early that winter, at a church in the South Side's Bronzeville neighborhood. It was a Saturday afternoon — as a greenhorn challenger, Obama wasn't getting the Sunday pulpit invitations — and maybe a dozen people were scattered in the worn pews. Obama was a mere two-term state senator, and this was half a decade before "-mania" was added to his name. Weak December light strained through the stained glass. Obama wore a suit and tie — he hadn't yet pioneered high-fashioned, open-necked campaign casual — and, posing uncomfortably before the baptismal, tried to relax the crowd with self-deprecating wit.
"The first thing people ask me is, 'How did you get that name, Obama,' although they don't always pronounce it right. Some people say 'Alabama,' some people say 'Yo Mama.' I got my name from Kenya, which is where my father's from, and I got my accent from Kansas, which is where my mother's from."
At the time, Obama was teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago, and this was the sort of awkward, beginning-of-the-semester joke you hear from a professor trying too hard to prove a sense of humor. If anyone caught that Obama was trying to connect himself both to the birthplace of civil rights and a time-honored black party joke, they didn't laugh or nod. He went on to give a speech attacking Rush as "reactive." Afterwards, when I polled his listeners, one told me Obama represented a new generation of black leadership, which is the wrong way to sell yourself in a primary election dominated by senior citizens. Another was a hip-hop poet. He handed me a business card with a photo of himself wearing clown makeup.
Every account of that campaign points out that Obama was tagged as "not black enough" for the South Side. State Sen. Donne Trotter, the third wheel in the primary, told me then, with a sneer, that "Barack is viewed in part to be the white man in blackface in our community." Black nationalists grumbled about an "Obama project," led by the candidate's political godfather, former Clinton White House counsel Abner Mikva. But no one appreciates how hard the man tried to earn his ghetto pass. At a rally for South Side teachers, held in a dim, tiny nightclub called Honeysuckle's, Obama lashed out at the critics who were calling him too bright and too white.
"When Congressman Rush and his allies attack me for going to Harvard and teaching at the University of Chicago, they're sending a signal to black kids that if you're well-educated, somehow you're not 'keeping it real.'"
The air quotes hung over the silent gathering.
Wherever Obama went, he talked like a poli-sci thesis. Here's how he bragged on himself back then, as I reported in the Reader: "My experience of being able to walk into a public housing development and turn around and walk into a corporate boardroom and communicate effectively in either venue means I'm more likely to build the kinds of coalitions and craft the sort of message that appeals to a broad range of people."
Obama just couldn't — or wouldn't — loosen up. The dignified demeanor that had won him a state Senate seat in the university community of Hyde Park did not translate to the district's inner-city precincts. His internal rhythm was set to "Pomp and Circumstance." "Arrogant," scoffed a South Side radio host. Even his body language signaled he was slumming. During a debate with Trotter, in the dank basement of a park field house, he sat with his lanky legs crossed, chin cocked at a heroic angle. He wasn't even trying to conceal his impatience with a mere state Senate peer, or with this grungy necessity of campaigning. Trotter, who embodied bourgeois black Chicago, from his bow ties to his soul food lunches to the smooth jazz oozing from the speakers of his Jeep, hunched over his microphone, taking digs at his increasing irritated rival. When he finally needled Obama for failing to pass a child-support bill, the calm dissolved.
"Senator, that's a distortion!" Obama snapped. His baritone went full fathom five, but he never unbent from his patrician pose.
Obama may have been testy because he did have a reputation as an ineffectual legislator — for many of the same reasons he was tanking as a campaigner. Some of his colleagues saw him as a self-righteous goo-goo who thought he was too cool for the chamber and who disdained the hard work of digging up votes.
"Barack is a very intelligent man," Rich Miller, publisher of Capitol Fax, a statehouse news service, told me in 2000. "He hasn't had a lot of success here, and it could be because he places himself above everybody. He likes people to know he went to Harvard."
Obama had been a golden boy for so long: embraced by the Ivy League, profiled in the New York Times, published by Times Books. At 38, it gnawed at him that others his age were already moving up the political ladder. U.S. Sen. Peter Fitzgerald, whose seat Obama now holds, was only a year older. But for the first time in Obama's life, his ambitions were blocked. The world was pushing back. His impatience showed in condescension to his surroundings.
Back in 2000, when I interviewed Obama in his cubicle-size office at a downtown law firm, he started the meeting by checking his watch. Then he dissed his congressional district, half-joking that he was more committed to the South Side than his opponents, because, number one, he'd moved there from Hawaii, and number two, he could have been raking it in on Wall Street.
"I really have to want to live here," he said. "I'm like a salmon swimming upstream on the South Side of Chicago. At every juncture of my life, I could have taken the path of least resistance but much higher pay. Being the president of the Harvard Law Review is a big deal. The typical path for someone like myself is to clerk for the Supreme Court, and then basically you have your pick of any law firm in the country."
Didn't the people appreciate the sacrifices he'd made? To grind out a voter registration drive when he could have been earning $200K a year at a white-shoe firm? They didn't. On Primary Day, Obama received 31 percent of the vote. He didn't lose because he was "too white." He lost because he was a presumptuous young man challenging a popular incumbent. If anything, his whiteness spared him a bigger beating. He ran strongly in Beverly, an enclave of Irish cops who had never forgiven Rush for his Black Panther past.
Trotter, who is plenty black, got 7 percent. In fact, Obama may be lucky he didn't win. It's harder to get to the U.S. Senate — or the cover of Men's Vogue, or the drawing rooms of Manhattan donors — from a black-majority district.
Obama returned to Springfield a loser. The week of his defeat, he sat down to his regular poker game at the home of state Sen. Terry Link, a fellow Democrat from the Chicago suburbs. The same words were on the lips of every pol at that table: I told you so. Obama didn't need to hear it. He knew he'd blundered.
"He made a lot of mistakes, and he learned," Link says now. "He forgot who he was. That he's Barack. He tried to sell to a crowd who wasn't buying."
Around that time, Obama also had a soul-searching drink with Miller, the Capitol Fax publisher. He was upset about the way Miller had characterized him, but "he took that criticism the right way," Miller remembers six years later, "and he could have taken it the wrong way."
"A lot of politicians, they know that they're smart," Miller says. "They know that they're capable. It messes with their minds. Politics is not a game of qualifications. It's a game of winning. That congressional campaign really showed that to him."
On the state Senate floor, Miller saw a more focused, more collegial Obama, who began to take his work — and his fellow legislators — seriously. Using his experience in constitutional law, he passed legislation to curtail racially motivated traffic stops and to require police to videotape murder confessions. He sponsored legislation that added 20,000 children to the state's health insurance program.
"I just can't emphasize enough how much this guy became respected, and how transformative it was," Miller says. "By 2004, he just had this aura about him."
Even black legislators, who had resented Obama in his early years, were won over. He earned the respect of Trotter, who watched his fellow senator mature from a résumé in search of an office to an effective legislator. Trotter was so impressed, he now sits on Obama's presidential exploratory committee.
"I wouldn't say losing humbled him," Trotter says, swatting away a term used by many of his white colleagues. "Barack is a competitor, and being a competitor, you don't like to lose. When he came back, he really immersed himself in the process. He learned he had to get an agenda, to get issues he felt passionately about. He also learned some of those 'get-along' qualities you need to get a bill passed. He has proven himself to me that he can take advice. He's not a one-man operation."
I'd thought Obama had campaigned like an ass, but I expected him to run for the U.S. Senate. And I expected him to win. His white upbringing would appeal to suburbanites, while South Siders might figure that Obama was as black a senator as they were going to get, after the Carol Moseley Braun debacle. His braininess, his haughtiness, his sense of entitlement — they could only be pluses in a Senate campaign. They don't call that place Ego Mountain for nothing.
In 2004, I went down to his Michigan Avenue campaign office to interview him for the Reader. His press secretary had already scolded me for the "negative" quotes in my last article. I was expecting another preening, insecure performance. But Obama charmed me right away. He did it to dozens of reporters that year. "Good to see you again," he intoned, casually, gliding across the room like Fred Astaire playing Abe Lincoln. He had doffed his suit coat for shirtsleeves.
We went into his office, where, sitting under a giant photo of Muhammad Ali knocking out Sonny Liston, Obama tried out some lines he would use at the Democratic National Convention.
"There is a tradition of politics that says we are all connected," he said. "If there is a child on the South Side who cannot read, it makes a difference in my life, even if it's not my child. If there's an Arab-American family who's being rounded up by John Ashcroft without benefit of due process, that threatens my civil liberties. Black folks, white folks, gay, straight, Asian — the reason we can share this space is that we have a mutual regard. That's what this country's about: e pluribus unum. Out of many, one."
That was the mission statement of 21st-century Obama. As a black candidate, he'd been too inhibited, too embarrassed, to force out phrases like "our community." Finally, he was comfortable in his own skin, now that he'd accepted that the skin was half-white. Obama wasn't born to be a voice of black empowerment, like Rush or Jesse Jackson. It's not just a racial thing. It's generational, too. Confrontational '60s-style politics are not his bag. But as a multicultural politician, trying to find the unified theory of ethnic politics, he was rolling like Tiger Woods at the Masters. The aloofness was gone as well. Very intently, he laid out his plan for a federal Children's Health Insurance Program.
"I think it'd be a good opportunity to lay the groundwork toward expanding health care to all the uninsured," he said.
Obama was no longer selling himself. Now, he had a legislative goal and a strategy for making it happen. Or maybe, because he knew I was one of his skeptics, he was selling me on the idea that he wasn't selling himself. In the words of an old police reporter, Obama makes grease look gritty. Just as he was looking two moves ahead, politically, I'm sure he was two moves ahead of my expectations. It was working. I was impressed that he finally believed in something. He was a big-government liberal, no weaseling about it.
"How would you have voted on the Iraq war resolution?" I asked.
"I would have voted no." And then, with a simplicity that his old self might have thought simple-minded, he said, "I'm not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars."
Then I asked him about his race against Bobby Rush.
"I got a good spanking," he said, evenly. "I think that was youthful impatience on my part. I knew I was going to lose on Election Day. I was standing outside a polling place, and old ladies kept coming up to me and saying, 'You seem like a nice young man, but Bobby hasn't done anything wrong.'"
Later, when I called his office for follow-up questions, Obama jumped on the line and drilled me with more details of his healthcare plan. He also repeated his "E Pluribus Unum" speech, tweaking a few words. He was proud of that one.
A few weeks after that, I heard him speak at a North Side organic restaurant known for its liberal politics. The Heartland Café had welcomed Harold Washington during his run for mayor, and now it welcomed this new South Side phenom. Obama climbed up on the bandstand and filled that dining room with the same energy he'd project across the Fleet Center: "If there is a child on the South Side who cannot read … If there is an Arab-American family who's being rounded up by John Ashcroft!" I was startled. The pedantic lecturer had been retired. Now, Obama was a fight announcer, a preacher and a motivational speaker, all on the same platform. Full of conviction, he drove his words into our ears like a carpenter pounding nails. The white folks loved him because he was liberal. The black folks loved him because, as one said to me, "We need someone who can reach beyond the race. He can go to Washington and talk their language."
That wasn't the Obama I'd known. But it was the Obama America came to know. I was sold. I voted for him twice that year. That July, the Democrats made him the keynote speaker at their convention. It was partly a defensive move against a rumored candidacy by ex-Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka. Obama delivered a maiden speech to rival that of Hubert Humphrey in 1948, or William Jennings Bryan in 1896.
Terry Link believes that losing that congressional race liberated Obama to be the real Obama — the bright young charmer Link had met as a fellow freshman in Springfield.
"When he ran for the Senate, he was so comfortable," Link says. "It's like speaking from your heart, against speaking from notes. I thought, 'This is the one I knew. It's Barack again.'" Trotter saw a different dynamic: "He grew up around whites, so he's very comfortable in those venues. That was obvious when he went over to [the South Side Irish enclave of] Beverly. His comfort zone was in those circles. That is who he is. This is the face of his grandparents."
So what do you make of a campaigner whose persona changed so drastically in four years? That he's finally learned to be himself, or that he's putting on an act? He's doing both. All great politicians are also great performers. Obama has been called the Democrats' Ronald Reagan because he has the personality to sell the public on programs it might reject on their merits. (In Reagan's case, it was supply-side economics. In Obama's, it would be national healthcare.) They're alike in another way. Reagan was a washed-up thesp, doing Vegas and General Electric ads, until he was cast as governor of California, then president. Obama has also grown into the character he was born to play: the great uniter who can bring together old and young, black and white, Democrat and Republican. So far, he's playing it brilliantly. Even his comic timing has improved — he's got his new audiences laughing at the same old Alabama/Yo Mama joke. And Bobby Rush has backed him for president.
Some of us, though, are still trying to figure out how he got to be Elvis, Lord Byron and Bobby Kennedy, all in the same dark suit.
"Charisma is in the eye of the beholder," says Donne Trotter. Much as he admires Obama, he's not going to drink The Juice over a community organizer from his old neighborhood. "I can't define him as being this charismatic guy. He's no Svengali or Jim Jones. Certainly, he has learned, though. He's a very fast learner."
This story has been corrected since it was originally posted.
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Returned Two Pair
I recently wore out two pair of older Vasque Summit boots after over 5 years of almost daily hiking. I loved them and ordered two new pair. The first pair has been fine. The second pair had an upper eyelet pull out within two weeks. Thanks to Backcountry.com's return policy I had a replacement pair sent back to me quickly. Within 2 weeks of starting to use this pair, the same upper eyelet pulled out again. They will be returned tomorrow. Vasque changed the design of their upper eyelets from triple and double rivets to a single rivet. The new eyelets also are not offset from the rivets as in their previous design leading to more force in the direction of pulling the rivet up through the leather. I recommend staying away from Vasque boots until they fix this design. Backcountry.com's service has been fantastic and I will be ordering a replacement pair of boots (of a different brand)from them very soon.
Same thing happened to my pair...after wearing them in an office for a couple of weeks to break them in! I can't believe it! Do not buy these boots, they only give a one year warranty for a reason!!
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"Returning to school for my doctorate after 8 years post-graduate work was no easy feat. As an older student, mother, and full time employee, my view of life and education had greatly shifted from my undergraduate and graduate school experiences. The cohort model of the Edgewood College program allowed me to thrive within community. I was challenged in so many ways to be my best self, both academically and professionally. Through this program, I have found a new love for research, especially research that can bring positive change and give voice to student populations that have often been overlooked in higher education."
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University of Wisconsin Whitewater
"My most memorable experience during the dissertation process was the time I spent with Drs. Linda and Richard Barrows. They are brilliant teachers with a wealth of knowledge that they graciously shared. I felt incredibly blessed to have them on my team. I believe my perspective on leadership has increased my determination to be solutions oriented. This includes looking for ways to ensure that students are given the tools and foundation of knowledge that is aligned with assessment expectations, but also provides an accurate picture of the individual child's abilities and unique learning style."
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"Edgewood College was my first experience teaching or learning in a private educational institution. I have enjoyed being immersed in a learning community at Edgewood that embraces values similar to mine. Edgewood faculty, staff, and students have not only exemplified the college's values but have also threaded the values into learning activities in every course. I enjoy reflecting about how I will integrate Edgewood College values in higher educational leadership."
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The First Time I Saw Vicky's *****....After being married to her daughter for 2 years we moved back to our home town. We spent alot of time at my Mother inlaws house. WE just had our first baby and Vicky did alot of baby sitting for us. Vicky has been divorced for along time now. She lives with her sister who also is divorced. At this time Vicky was in her mid 50's. Her sister is 8 years younger I think. Since it was just the two of them living together Vicky could walk around the house in her panties with or without her bra on. Or she could walk around naked. I took full advantage of this fact. So one morning I get to her house early hoping she hasn't got up yet. I always just let myself in when ever we go over there. So today was no different. Her house was quiet. I walked straight for her bedroom to see if she if was still in bed. I slowly peek in hoping I'll get to see her sleeping and have some part of her body exposed to me. My heart is pounding, I find her asleep in a T-shirt that isn't covering anything below her hips. She isn't wearing any panties. And her legs are slightly parted. I have a clear view of her *****. I just stare at it like its the first ***** ive seen. Vicky is all natural. Nice pubic bush. Vicky is filipino so she doesn't have a wild bush. In fact she has a perfect bush. Her ***** lips are dark and thick I can see them through her curly pubes. I wanted to stay and stare at her ***** all morning but It was time to go. I got what I wanted to see so I was happy. I got home and jerked off thinking about Vicky. I still think about her when I jerk off.....
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that has to have been one beautiful MIL.
What a hot memory to have! I'm happy for you!
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Ex-Goldman Olympics Boss Tackles Terror to Toilets
June 8 (Bloomberg) -- In an oak-paneled church hall a few blocks from Big Ben, Paul Deighton, chief executive officer of the London Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, strides to the podium.
He's holding the almost 3-foot-high golden torch that he proudly says was designed in east London and manufactured in northern England.
For all the mighty symbolism, the torch can't shield Deighton from the skeptical audience gathered one evening in March to hear how they can profit from this summer's Olympics, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its July issue.
The hall is filled with about 200 small-business owners, and a gloomy mood prevails as Britain struggles through its first double-dip recession since the 1970s.
One woman waves a London 2012 brochure and asks why it was printed in China when the games should be helping British businesses.
"I'll look into it," Deighton promises. He gently reminds her that 95 percent of London 2012 contracts were awarded to British firms.
Another man asks about a feared shortage of portable toilets in the Olympic Park. Deighton politely reassures him that they've got that one covered.
It's fitting that a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker is running the business end of the Olympics -- and getting dumped on by cantankerous Londoners.
Bleaker Mood
When Britain won the bid for the 2012 games seven years ago, the economy was booming, Prime Minister Tony Blair was presiding over what was still "Cool Britannia" and the City, London's financial district, was gorging on cheap credit and megabonuses for bankers like Deighton.
Then a bleaker mood set in. The day after London won, homegrown terrorists bombed the city's public transportation system, killing 52 people and raising fears of more attacks, including during the games.
In 2007, after a decade in office, Blair stepped down. Soon the financial crisis was rocking the U.K., followed by the sovereign-debt calamity in Europe, Britain's largest trading partner.
Against that backdrop, not to mention the biggest government budget cuts since World War II, a summer of Olympics celebration offers London some relief.
'Public Eye'
It might not have seemed that way to Deighton as he fielded hostile questions in the church.
Deighton, 56, says his 22-year career at Goldman didn't prepare him for being quizzed about such nitty-gritty details by a cynical British public.
"When you're in investment banking, you're pretty much under everybody's radar all the time," he says. "Here, everything we do all the time is completely in the public eye."
As he speaks, Deighton is sitting in his office, a space so cramped that, in his telling, a visiting delegation from the 2014 Winter Games, set to take place in Sochi, Russia, figured he couldn't be terribly important.
Wiry and blue-eyed, Deighton says he's more cheerleader than chief executive now that the hard part of the games for him -- the finances -- is in place.
As Britain prepares to welcome 15,000 athletes from 205 countries on July 27 for more than four weeks of Olympic and Paralympic Games, Deighton is charged with making sure that the events, which will be watched by more than 4 billion people, are delivered on time, on budget and nightmare-free.
Age of Austerity
Together with London 2012 committee Chairman Sebastian Coe, the only man to have won 1,500-meter Olympic gold twice, Deighton is overseeing everything from transport to security, while making sure he's got enough of those portable toilets. Surely his is one of the toughest jobs in the world right now?
"The best job in the world," Deighton says, smiling.
While the games will take place in an age of austerity, they won't be austere. In 2007, after underestimating the cost of cleaning up the site and constructing sports venues, the Blair government more than tripled the original spending plan, to 9.3 billion pounds ($14.3 billion).
In addition, Deighton's London Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, or Locog, has a separate 2.2 billion pound budget.
For a country still reeling from the financial crisis, the money amounts to a backdoor Keynesian stimulus. Plus, Deighton says, the total outlay guarantees London a boost in tourism.
Dancing Nurses
Although the spending pales in comparison to the $67 billion China lavished on the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the government of Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron is doing what it can to make Britain cool again.
"Getting it right and doing the best for Britain is the overriding political driver in this, rather than saving the last pound to cut the deficit," says Tony Travers, director of LSE London, a research center at the London School of Economics.
The government even found an extra 41 million pounds in public money to mount Olympic spectacles, including "Slumdog Millionaire" director Danny Boyle's secrecy-shrouded opening ceremony, which somehow will merge Shakespeare's "The Tempest," a play about a shipwreck, with dancing National Health Service nurses, singing schoolchildren and Paul McCartney.
Spending on security has risen to more than 1 billion pounds as the government tries to guarantee a trouble-free Olympics.
Surface-to-Air Missiles
The original budget for security at Olympic venues has almost doubled to 553 million pounds to pay for 23,700 guards instead of the original estimate of 10,000.
At a time of deep cuts in policing and national defense, the government is spending another 475 million pounds on wider security measures, unsettling local residents.
The Ministry of Defense says it has tested sites around Olympic venues as part of a plan to deploy surface-to-air-missile batteries to prevent a terror Armageddon.
The 2012 games are sumptuous compared with the last time London hosted an Olympics.
That was in 1948 in the shadow of World War II, when athletes ate whale meat to supplement beef rations and slept in schools that had been converted into makeshift dorms. The government spent 750,000 pounds, about 20 million in today's pounds, on what came to be known as "the Austerity Olympics."
Legacy Bid
This time around, it was so-called legacy planning that helped Britain win the bid. London's plan to use the games to revitalize the East End will serve as a blueprint for future hosts, Jacques Rogge, the International Olympic Committee president, told reporters earlier this year.
To that end, the government has turned what was once London's industrial core, a port crisscrossed by railways, into Europe's largest public building project -- a 500-acre (200-hectare) Olympic Park in the midst of some of the most deprived boroughs in Britain.
Bombed by German warplanes and contaminated by industrial waste, the area was a toxic badlands. Prior to building anything, contractors spent 2 billion pounds to clean up the place; they even decommissioned a Luftwaffe bomb.
Before London won the bid, Australia's Westfield Group, the world's biggest owner of shopping centers, acquired a site next to the Olympic Park for Westfield Stratford City, a glittering, 1.8 billion pound edifice plopped down alongside grim high-rise public housing.
Shopping Olympics
Three-quarters of the visitors to the games will funnel through Europe's largest urban shopping center -- past 240 stores, from Armani to Zara -- and be enticed to take part in the Shopping Olympics before they get to the real thing.
After the games, the Athletes' Village will be turned into an apartment complex called the East Village.
Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Co., a unit of Qatar's sovereign-wealth fund, and Delancey Estates Plc, a British developer, paid 557 million pounds last year for about half of the apartments and the right to build 2,000 homes nearby.
The remaining apartments, bought by three public housing associations, will be turned into "affordable" homes.
For Locog's own budget, Deighton hunted down sponsors to supplement income from the sale of broadcasting rights, tickets and branded merchandise. His target for UK sponsors was 700 million pounds.
By moving early, he avoided getting caught empty-handed when the credit crunch hit in 2008.
"It was clear to me the sun was shining in the financial sector," Deighton says. "Being in the markets all my working life tells me you do a deal when the market is there. You don't wait for it to get any better."
'Ice to Eskimos'
By the time Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. went bankrupt in September of that year, Deighton had already locked in seven sponsors, raising 400 million pounds. They included Lloyds TSB Bank Plc, part of whose contribution, in an ironic twist, fell to British taxpayers because the bank was bailed out by the U.K. government in 2009.
Locog ended up raising more money from sponsors than any other Summer Olympics organizing committee, Coe says. Deighton, who says his "sweaty moments" occurred when piecing together all of the finances, won praise for pulling in another 300 million pounds after the financial crisis.
"I reckon he could sell ice to the Eskimos," says Dee Doocey, a member of the House of Lords who stepped down in May from the London Assembly. "And he could make the Eskimos thank him for selling the ice. I don't think anybody could have raised the money he has in this economic climate."
Deighton is self-deprecating enough to give Coe credit. He says Coe -- a former Conservative member of Parliament and now a member of the House of Lords -- is the celebrity with the unique connections in political and Olympics circles.
"I am the easy one to clone," Deighton says. "He's the hard one."
Deighton, who made 50 million pounds when Goldman went public in 1999, says his ease in working with Coe stems from Goldman's tradition of co-senior partners, as when Robert Rubin (who would go on to be U.S. Treasury secretary) and Stephen Friedman ran the firm jointly in the early 1990s.
"I always remember Bob saying when he and Stephen had a different point of view about something, he'd simply evaluate which one of them felt more strongly about it," Deighton says. Of Coe, he says: "We're both very happy to cede to each other big decisions."
All-British McNuggets
It was Coe after all who hired him. When London won the bid for the 2012 games -- beating Paris, New York, Madrid and Moscow -- Deighton was at Goldman's London headquarters on a video conference call with colleagues in New York.
"For the first time in 22 years, I got their attention and they actually listened to me when I told them London had won," he recalled to a group of business leaders in March.
Deighton took up the Locog post in April 2006 after seeing an ad in The Economist. He'd been at Goldman since 1983, initially in investment banking focusing on aerospace before spending two years in New York running the controllers department.
After returning to London in 1996, he made partner and became chief operating officer for Europe as Goldman began ramping up its presence in London.
Deighton, who earns 480,000 pounds a year and promised to give his 2011 Locog bonus of 220,125 pounds to charity, says he has no regrets about moving into a job that requires him to wrestle with such matters as the percentage of British chicken in the McNuggets sold at McDonald's Olympic Park outlets.
"I'd answered every question there was about derivatives regulations," he says. "Why not about chickens?"
The McNuggets are now 100 percent British after some public wrangling.
'Downton Abbey'
The occasional absurdities of staging an Olympics spawned a BBC spoof documentary, "Twenty Twelve," starring Hugh Bonneville of "Downton Abbey" as the "head of deliverance," aka Deighton.
The reality of organizing the Olympics is sometimes funny enough, Deighton says, adding, "Why don't they just bring a camera into my office every day?"
Deighton recalls a conversation he had in 2006 with Ken Livingstone, then London's mayor, about whether they could save money on the 269 million pound Zaha Hadid-designed aquatics center by not putting the roof on it -- or just installing a partial one.
"Do you let the swimmers get wet who are in the water, or do you need to keep the crowds dry?" Deighton says, laughing at the recollection. In the end, they kept the whole roof.
Gridlock Everywhere
As the games draw closer, Deighton says he's growing calmer.
"I'm actually sleeping probably as well as I've slept during the past 6 1/2 years," he says.
The same can't be said for many others in London amid talk of gridlock in the air, on the streets and underground.
At Heathrow, the world's third-busiest airport, airlines have warned of delays caused by increased air traffic and long lines through customs and immigration.
Deloitte LLP, the accounting firm, says London's subway system, which struggles as it is to move 4 million people around London each day, will have to cope with an additional 3 million daily journeys.
While nearly 80,000 athletes, VIPs and journalists zip around the city in specially designated lanes, the less fortunate may find themselves stuck in Olympic-size traffic jams.
'On Track'
One rainy day in May, Deighton heads to the Olympic Park to survey his work. He passes the basketball arena, explaining how London organizers are in talks with Rio de Janeiro about shipping the structure to Brazil and using it there for the 2016 games -- all part of his pledge to not leave behind any white elephants.
He turns and points to the looming, 1.9 million-square-foot (176,000-square-meter) shopping mall, where he says 10,000 jobs have been created. All thanks to the games.
"People don't mind you spending money as long as you demonstrate you've really thought about the long-term return," he says, sounding like both the banker he once was and the Olympics impresario he now is. "We're on track, but you really can't assess it until it's over."
When they're over, the Olympics often don't yield the returns their proponents promised; post-2004 Athens is Exhibit A. And yet if Deighton is proved right, he and London alike will reap benefits long after that torch he carries around has been passed to someone else.
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Spending on doggie toys has not been slowing, so it comes as no surprise that the money going to maintain pets' health is following the trend. Therefore, investors who are interested in investing in the growth in spending on pets can also choose to look at companies that run the animal hospitals or supply the medicine administered by the veterinarians. (For related reading, see The Economics Of Pet Ownership.)
MWI Veterinary Supply (Nasdaq:MWIV) is a distributor of animal health products to veterinarians and animal hospitals. The company was able to flourish during the recession, and revenues increased by 27% in 2011 over 2010 numbers. MWIV is up 25.3% year to date.
While MWIV supplies its products to doctors, PetMed Express (Nasdaq:PETS) markets its prescription and non-prescription pet medications directly to the consumer via 1-800-PET-MEDS. PETS has been on an upward trend throughout this year. PETS is up 15.7% on the year.
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give the man his due, but some people will never let up.With e mail, inter net, tweeting,skeeting,creeping etc, everybody has an opinion,just as they have rear ends. And don't knock Urban. it's the medication.
i will never believe that the "shoppee" didn't know what the "shoppor" was doing.How many of you have 20 year kids you can actually speak for without them asking you a million questions about the subject? Come on Newton's, think we're figs?
this is so over the top and at this time of the football season.Want to hear football talk and watch the action, but the way we live now,the media is always looking for dirt,and even not finding it, some manure left behind.And it will take a kid like Cam Newton with that smile and personality to survive this.O.J. keeps his trophy and Reggie gives his back.You can kill people but alumni can't pay for the parents living quarters.
1 thing about the SEC, everything is settled on the field in both divisions.Started Auburn-L.S.U. alabama-L.S.U. and Auburn-Georgia, then the Tide.And Boise State is in the mix with that schedule they play.But Utah did school Bama 2 years ago, and they have legs to s tand on.
if Urban gives it up, does Mullen come back to be the Gator head coach?
best thing happened to Newton was he could play quarterback full time for a year.Florida had chosen Brantley as the heir to Tebow.Not Newton, or it would have been a 2 game suspension.Now look what it has caused .Florida from the pent house to the outhouse, and more to come.Think Urban has had it personally. But thanks for the great years
P.F. your disrespect of the Vanderbilt head coach is classless.He's waited 30 years with a dream to become a head coach, and finally succeeded. What's wrong with that?The last coach they had went like 26 and 67, and you don't think this guy has a chance to be there next year.You treated himwith disrespect at the SEC media days and tell everybody you won't apologize.And proud of it.Wach out when you come back down the ladder.There will be spaces between where you put your feet.
let the new sheriff win in his own state before beginning his police career
what every one has missed, including the head of the SEC, was not inviting Texas and Oaklahoma to join the SEC. Every Sat. morning, fans from Alaska to Key West, Maine to San Diego would want to know whos playing whom.Texas between the hedges, Oaklahoma heading to the swamp,Tennessee orange and Texas orange,Tiger Stadium at night hosting the Sooners, etc.,etc.What we have missed and nobody talking about it.ESPN would have raised the TV contract on their own. Ratings would ahve compared to national chapionship game every Saturday.A BLOWN OPPORTUNITY FOREVER
with the possible realignment of college football conferences and some say even leaving the NCAA, who's going to run the insane asylem? Players won't even fake going to class. Semi pro college. not sure if this good for the fan or anybody else.If some programs have been out of control, u ain't seen nutting yet
the smell of money is in the air. as a college football fan, a bombshell is coming, not know what, but it will be the "Big Bang"
the absolutely most fun in sports is the 1st 64 games and if you are lucky enuff to be in an LasVegas sportsbook when they start. Paul's right, the NCAA is going to kill the most sucessful thing they have going
Urban is hot right now, but the coaches competing in this conference have all earned their way. no gimmes. lex,nick,steve,urban,mark. don't have to use last names
Urban is hot right now, but the coaches competing in this conference have all earned their way. no gimmes. lex,nick,steve,urban,mark. don't have to use last names