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29 May 2013 15:44
If you'd told me ten years ago that I'd be ecstatic at the prospect of riding an R1200GS as a longterm test bike, I'd have been breathless with laughter before any sort of verbal response could form on my lips. But back in the here and now, I'm just that – ecstatic. So what's changed? Well there's no point pretending ...
31 January 2013 13:18
This week's edition of Motor Cycle News (30 Jan 2013) features a 7-page first test of the all-new BMW R1200GS, which was launched in South Africa last week. Senior Road Tester, Adam Child, was highly impressed by the new partially water-cooled all-roader, grab your copy now to read his thorough appraisal of the new bike. Adam invited your questions before ...
02 October 2012 10:00
The new BMW R1200GS will use a 125bhp water/air cooled motor and feature semi-active suspension. The biggest change comes in the engine, with the introduction for the first time of water-cooling. Rather than the engine being fully water-cooled, 65% will still be air-cooled, while the rest will be cooled by a system that uses a water-glycol mixture and two radiators. There is ...
08 June 2012 10:37
The upcoming BMW R1250GS has been spied during testing, showing many upgrades over the current R1200GS. It's impossible to overstate the importance to BMW of the new R1250GS – the firm simply has to get it perfectly right or risk suffering a financial calamity such is the role the bike plays in sales across the globe. The current R1200GS and ...
04 April 2012 10:53
Three all-new rivals, including Triumph's eagerly-awaited Tiger Explorer, make the adventure bike class more competitive than ever. But which is best? We took the Triumph Explorer 1200, Ducati Multistrada 1200, Kawasaki Versys 1000, Moto Guzzi Stelvio NTX, Yamaha Super Tenere, KTM 990 Adventure, Honda Crosstourer and BMW R1200GS up to Scotland and back to find out. Read all about the ...
03 January 2012 12:38
These world exclusive spy shots clearly show for the first time the all-new BMW R1250GS features the biggest single overhaul of the massive-selling and class-leading bike in its 30 years with a new water-cooled engine. This is the biggest change to the GS in current form since the bike was given a new engine with the arrival of the R1100GS ...
19 August 2011 16:50
This exclusive spy shot proves the next generation BMW R1200GS will be new from the ground-up, with an all-new water-cooled engine, revamped styling and major chassis changes. The photographs - taken last week outside BMW's Munich Development Centre - show a pre-production GS with a water-cooled engine plus radial brakes, modernised styling, adjustable screen, new clocks and the exhaust and ...
11 February 2011 11:59
These spy shots taken by a Spanish BMW owner on his mobile phone confirm BMW is well ahead with the development of a new water-cooled version of the top-selling R1200GS. The new motor will bring to an end 90 years of the traditional air-cooled boxer twin engine when the new bike goes on sale in 2012. To find out more ...
17 September 2009 11:17
These world exclusive spy shots show BMW's new 2010 R1200GS with the new double overhead cam (DOHC) engine first revealed in MCN on August 19. From the pictures it appears there are no changes to the styling of the adventure bike apart from clear indicator lenses – the DOHC engine is the only major change. Close inspection of the pictures ...
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Training astronauts underwater is an effective way of getting used to the sensations of working in weightlessness for long periods.
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The Etsy Challenge: Anthropologie Looks for Less
I have a real jones for Anthropologie. I love the clothes, love the furniture, love everything. What I don't always love is their prices. So I got to thinking: what would happen if I tried to recreate Anthropologie's vintage, handmade look with finds from everyone's favorite vintage and handmade marketplace?
The rules of the challenge were simple: find a covetable product at Anthropologie, and then find a similar one for less on Etsy. Take a look at what I found.
1. Left: Azrou Rug, Anthropologie, $980. Right: Moroccan rag rug, Boucherouite on Etsy, $380.
2. Left: Ubiquity Lamp Ensemble, Anthropologie, $280. Right: White birch log table lamp, NHWoodscreations on Etsy, $49.
3. Left: Fleece Flounce Pillow, Anthropologie, $188. Right: Shaggy faux fur pillow, NotTooShaggy on Etsy, $38.00.
4. Left: La Versha Chair, Anthropologie, $248. Right: Pair of vintage metal chairs, lisabretrostyle2 on Etsy, $115.
5. Left: Bowled Over Base, Anthropologie, $298. Right: Vintage bowling pin lamp, AlteredArcheology on Etsy, $47.
6. Left: Barnwood Hanging Bed, Anthropologie, $3,298 for queen size. Right: Handmade Hemlock Nautical Hanging Bed, collectedfat on Etsy, $750 for king size.
7. Left: Coupe Floor Lamp, Anthropologie, $498. Right: Mid Century Floor Lamp, ObscureArchive on Etsy, $80.
8. Left: Cordage Armchair, Anthropologie, $1,298. Right: Hans Wegner style rope rocker, MODhusTacoma on Etsy, $423.
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What a super idea and you did extremely well!
I agree totally about those prices, I hope they read this as well.
Love this post! More posts like this would be welcomed. Those green chairs are adorable!
I agree, more posts like this would be great!
These are great! Please make this a regular feature!
Love this! Thanks for an inspiring post and awesome resources.
#4 - Pair of vintage metal chairs -- free at my grandmother's house...
Fantastic post! I am addicted to etsy and love what you've found
Three cheers for far more affordable products. I doubt Anthro will lower their prices because of demand, but that's fine with me. I'll continue supporting the small business and artisan community while saving myself lots of pretty pennies.
I agree with the other comments - this is awesome and I would love it as a regular feature!
Love this post! Wish it would come back as a regular feature.
I agree about making this a regular feature! The Etsy options are considerably more affordable, and look great too. Well done.
I also like the idea that purchases from Etsy support the individual making the product, rather than a corporation.
Love it! I love Etsy for this very reason, and you're supporting local artists. Win win!
There has been a bowling pin lamp in a storage room of my parent's house forever, can't wait to share with my dad that his wood shop creation is a $298 Antrho home good.
great post - i'm joining the crowd in saying this should be a regular feature!
This is amazing. Take that anthropologie! I absolutely love that rocker by the way...
Yeah, you did a fabulous job of finding similar items. I'd love to see it as a feature. (And I love Etsy!)
Just want to say...Anthro has great sales, for the patient. But great finds here, I agree.
Regular feature! And it doesn't necessarily only have to be for anthro.
Love the post. Maybe this should be a feature. Love the rug most. The funny part is that Anthropologie was most likely attempting to copy the real Moroccan boucherouite that you found on etsy, as well as everything else. I love Anthropologie's styles, but they value engineer their products and the prices aren't on par with the quality.
Great post. More like this, please.
Agreed! Love this and would love to see something similar for a wide variety of stores. I sometimes find Etsy a maze to browse through, so always appreciate articles that highlight items and sellers I might not find on my own.
I liked all the Etsys better. Especially the rug.
What a great post! Love it!
It has gotten to the point where I use Anthropologie -- their stores and their catalogs -- as idea sources only. Their prices are beyond ridiculous (with a few exceptions) and way too much of their stuff is made (cheaply) in China.
I love this post too! I will definitely search Etsy the next time I am looking at Anthro furniture I cannot afford!
I found the rope chair for even cheaper on Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/listing/96836811/mid-century-rope-rocking-chair-wegner?ref=sr_gallery_13&ga_search_query=rope+chair&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_ship_to=ZZ&ga_min=0&ga_max=0&ga_search_type=vintage
I agree with everyone-please do more of these posts! I went into Anthropologie the other day and as much as I covet some of their things (love their hardware) I just can't spend the money. Sure I can afford a couple of $8 knobs, but when I need 10 of them.. no way! As Pippigirl said above I also use them as an idea source. I just go home and search on ebay and etsy to find similar pieces. Thank you for this post and MORE PLEASE!!
I also highly recommend the Worldstock section in Overstock.com which features beautiful creations from artisans around the world and the shipping on anything is $2.95. I found a couple of gorgeous wool rugs there for a fraction of the Anthro price.
Apart from Anthopologie's prices I'm surprised that no one has commented that a better reason not to shop there is the fact that their CEO is a bigot and someone who promotes a racist agenda in one of the sister stores Urban Outfitters!
Man, I thought this was going to be more like http://www.regretsy.com/2011/01/19/new-game/
Anthropologie has some really awesome ideas, just as many horrendously tacky ugly ideas, and all of them are absurdly overpriced. I would be lying if I said I didn't feel sort of bad for people who actually shop there.
Now can you tell me where I can get their clothes for a fraction of the price?
You rock! This should be a REGULAR POST! DO YOU HEAR ME APARTMENT THERAPY?!!!! THIS IS GENIUS!!! DO IT! DO IT! DO IT! I've been reading your blog for years and this is the first post I've been impressed with in a VERY long time.
While I've heard the name, I've never been to the Anthropologie store? site? It looks like you did a great job finding comparable items. Some of them are more appealing than the store version. I'm reminded of a Seinfeld episode where Rachel kept buying stuff from Pottery Barn? I think and telling Phoebe they were antiques she found.
Unbelievable! I totally agree on making this a regular feature. Great job!
So often, I see "Look For Less" type fashion or design articles and shows and think to myself, they really don't get it. It's just not the same 'feel' or 'context.' Well, YOU GOT IT. Great collection. (More, please!)
Best post ever.
I recently discovered the exact same knobs sold at Anthro can be purchased at Hobby Lobby for half the price. I show examples here: Poor Man's Anthropologie.
I'd love to see the same line up for jewelry.
Great Post. And I really appreciate Karen72's comment. I've stopped shopping at Anthopologie, Urban Outfitters and Free People after recently learning that their CEO contributes a lot of money to anti gay rights organizations and was a big supporter of Rick Santorum's campaign. I definitely won't presume to tell anyone what to think or how to spend their money, but I know that there are a lot of liberal minded people in the design community who (like me) would be very happy to be able to make a more informed choice about who they give their business to. The online design world gives Anthropologie so much free press, it would be great if we could get the word out about where our money is going if we chose to continue shopping there.
In the words of the great Motown song: "I second that emotion..." (see all of the above). Repeat please, on a regular basis! Great post!
PS Love that Etsy birch log lamp!
Love it!! Etsy is a great resource and I love having the opportunity to score something that's one-of-a-kind AND support artists. I love the Anthro look, but they are cra-zy on their prices for what seems like no justifiable reason. At least I understand why Design Within Reach is out of my reach--they're selling world renowned designers. I agree with other posters, that I would love to explore this idea further, including other retailers.
Like everyone else, I really like this post! Great detective work.
The High/Low Project comes to AT! Excellent!
Excellent post! I've always thought Anthropologie was unbelievably overpriced. Glad to see some affordable options on Etsy. I would rather support an artist than a big corporation.
You can bet Anthro Corp. has outsourced their labor, slashing costs, while raising their prices, ie., profits. Then they take the ca$h and bankroll the candidates of their choice. Sigh. So unoriginal. Let's hear it for Etsy and all the talented, creative artists out there with a great forum to offer their wares to the discriminating consumer! Love all the finds here...makes me want to spend the next 4 hours doing the same type of "reseach".
I agree with the comments above...can we make this a regular topic? It's funny to me that Anthropologie promotes such a carefree, bohemian look but it costs so much to achieve it! I love their pretty little things, but you definitely have to sprinkle in great, affordable pieces like these to say on budget.
I'm really surprised that this is a post. I thought it was pretty common knowledge that Anthropologie/Urban Outfitters steal ideas from Etsy artists all the time.
Rather than celebrating Etsy because we can find cheaper versions of mass produced items why don't we appreciate it for being a place where we can find interesting handcrafted pieces made by artists?
My pillow case is similar in style to their Arimatsu bedding!
Here's a great one!!!
Anthropologie: http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/product/shopsale-gift/77418.jsp
Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/97931725/wooden-printers-letter-stand-vintage
Etsy is a great resource, but please don't assume that most of the stuff is homemade by an artisan. A lot of it looks imported, and its pretty easy to cut prices if you don't have the overhead costs of an urban storefront.
As for the politics, what kind of choices will we get if every store owner has to run his ideology through a litmus test before you buy something? Diversity of ideas is a good thing and should be encouraged. After all, we are humans, not lemmings.


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LUCERNE, Switzerland -- Natalie Mastracci of Thorold, Ont., and Larissa Lagzdins of Burlington, Ont., advanced to the final of the Olympic qualification regatta with a win in the women's pair repechage on Monday.
Canada overtook Belarus to win the rep in 7:08.74 over 2,000 metres. Belarus also advanced with a time of 7:10.85.
The top two boats from Tuesday's final will earn berths to the London Olympics. The women's pair is the final boat that Canada is attempting to qualify for the 2012 Games.
"There are going to be six desperate crews lined up for tomorrow's final and our women will have to give it their all to finish in the top two and book a ticket to London," said Rowing Canada official Peter Cookson in a statement.


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These War Death poems are examples of Death poems about War. These are the best examples of War Death poems written by international PoetrySoup poets
. Beneath a blanket of earth
With a pillow made of stone
Her child eternally sleeps
. While at the foot of his bed
She stands alone
And weeps! And weeps! And weeps!
. Written: November 20th, 2009
Author: Elaine George
Where cradled canyons sing
Of ebony wood in the forest
There lies a gurgling spring
Where cockcrows sing their chorus
To the melody of singsong birds
There I've concealed my sensuous words
Filled with befitted signs
The saccharine whiff of my designs
Come to me my mortal youth
To the wild realm of your truth
Where nymphs and gnomes abound
For the earth is filled with weeping
And only your tears be found
Where the fogs of night are fountains
Spills of glistened moon ignite
By distant silhouette mountains
We dance with passion of fight
Entwining ancient stance
Mingling hand in hand we dance
Till the mountains smile on high
Near and far we spring
To pursue the realest of dreams
While the world cries at its seams
Anxious in trouble to cling
Come to me my mortal youth
To the wild realm of your truth
Where nymphs and gnomes abound
For the earth is filled with weeping
And only your tears be found
To where the ridges merry make
From the beaks of wooden bright
In sparkly pools the ghouls awake
That scarce to stir our night
We watch for seekers down under
Muttering secrets in their soul
We bid them lucks of shivers
Dipping gently in
From reeds that hide a tear of a foal
Under the gentle rivers
Come to me my mortal youth
To the wild realm of your truth
Where nymphs and gnomes abound
For the earth is filled with weeping
And only your tears be found
Far away she shall ever churn
The taciturn eyed
She'll listen no more to turn
To the working mills beside
Or the scrubbing of the barn
May peace weave in her song
She shall wave in the yarn
To a haven known as Belong
Come to me my mortal youth
To the wild realm of your truth
Where nymphs and gnomes abound
For the earth is filled with weeping
And only your tears be found
For she comes, the mortal youth
To the wild realm of her truth
Where nymphs and gnomes abound
For the earth is filled with weeping
And only her tears be found
Strangely bent this journey extends
Surreal at times, yet so real at ends
Each end confronts with a hardship of choices
With an abrupt passing, or an eternity of voices...
You and I, once on similar trends
Like brothers, we traversed all evil impends
The wheels then turned, unleashed worst of fears
We parted asunder on an ocean of tears
Through fallen decades, aggrieved heart sustained
I found my calling, forgot I was pained
Just when the going got peaceful and boring
Gales of anguish, and war started pouring
Again, I was forced to extinguish my wills
Left home for those in need of my skills
Forced to welcome the worst of thrills
A reward for one with the highest kills?
As we splattered blood on uncertain causes
Strode down the road of victories and losses
A vessel, merely, I was as I killed
Of sons, of husbands, of fathers, I spilled
In the heat of the battle, as I charged through
When my craving eyes met the eyes of you
That instance, that second, that moment, I knew
Neither decades nor ages could help subdue
My faltering sword could no longer fight
For whom I, now, behold in my sight
And I question my vow, having vowed despite
Whether or not my cause was right
Yet again, I stand on the recurring hill
In the midst of havoc, at a standstill
A piece of land that I swore to defend
Is it worth the life of a brother, a friend?
America the Free ~ America the Brave ~
Freedom with price Capitalism attacked
the many taken hearts broken still
one World try to rebuild
sadness and tears fall hard with fears
guilt by association many accused still
souls evaporated shattered dreams
tears fall on innocence left with anger
The proud fearless knew the inevitable
policeman fireman many lives lost
grieving does not stop 12 years later
New York city once proud & shameless
refusing to let fears in protecting ours
left in shock still question's unanswered
nothing learned nothing gained
ready to attack many left behind
anger greets denial anger meets rage
unacceptable still refusing new love
wanting days to rewind let us go back in time
acceptance allowing the victims leave in peace
the brave taken young leaving us sadly old
haunting dreams lost spirits dwell
no answers to hate never forgetting that day
Evil entered suddenly unforgiving fate
entering our City we stand with the fallen
How to fix how do we Change
This can be read many different ways ~ This is a poem I am so proud to write ~
The Dead Winter
(A bio of a Jewish girl's tender soul)
Abigail~ "Her Father's Joy"
Artistic kindergartner, honest, emotional, mischievous
Big brown eyes
Sister of Aaron, Daughter of Rosa and Shoen
Lover of riding her tricycle, playing with dolls
Who fears starvation, separation, severe cold
Now, merely skin and bones…
Heart beating faster than a locomotive
Crammed into a cattle car heading to Auschwitz
Her miniature teeth chattering amidst the sounds of wailing Jews
Starvation distorts the echoes of the screeching train
The stench of decomposing neighbors overtakes her
Too dehydrated to shed a tear
Nazi floodlights pierce her once beaming eyes
Her dreams soon to be disinfected
Vapors escape her brittle bleeding lips
Fragile flesh iced as it adheres to the cattle car's steel bars
Afraid of being separated from her family once again
Clinging tightly to the frozen fabrique of her grandmother's prayer shawl
All hope is lost…
Her innocence is punished
How could she be the eternal enemy of the Fuerher?
She'll never know
Through the bitter cold and the foul smelling snow mixed with human ashes
The beauty of an emerging crocus fades
A scent never to be fully realized…
Abigail, "Her Father's Joy"
Written for Sidney Lee Ann's Contest~ Dead Winter
by Gwendolen Rix
I, a Red Skin dog, as some may delight to call me,
I have heard the tales of horror, from my dark skinned foes.
I have heard the tales of terror, from others who became my friends.
And I have walked with a dark skinned woman of their tribe.
We walked in the beauty of her courage, together. Tearless.
Tearless we both were as she spoke, for tears, only gods could cry for her.
I am a Red Skin dog.
And yet we walked together and we talked – together, fearless,
I and this swaying ebony sapling, sprung from the roots of my foes tribe.
We talked of the pitiless reality of that life she left behind, of that time
That she has left, far, far behind, like a useless scar
That has toughened over. And made her stronger.
I learned from this daughter of my foes
That true courage is never fearless, but always stronger. Victorious,
Stronger she was by far, to this Red Skin dog
Than the thousand sons who died, in her honor. So they say. Ridiculous,
But I have heard the balance of their sins.
And for all the tales I have heard from those angry young men, and their vengeful fathers
Her horror was a thousand times more sinister. A thousand times more callous.
Horror took up residence in her home but never in her heart.
But for others, I cannot speak.
"…splinters and bursting fragments…in my mind
Ai! Tearing! Memory of tearing flesh, swallowing tears and mucus, blood and bile
…bruising and ripping garments…off my body
…filthy, familiar hands tearing at my dress…
…my legs split and broken like a wild pig slaughter, my screams smashed from my lips,
With the butt of a rifle, just used to kill a Red Skin dog…
Aieee! Clean this floor mama, mop up this spew!
It cannot be mine!
This child is not mine!
It is not mine! It is the devils own creation born in hell fire!
Born in my death!
Aieee! I am dead, I cannot be alive.
I am dead and the Red Skin dogs have eaten my corpse.
Those spirits in their wingless chariot flew over the land and sea, to rescue me?
Rescue me from that black devil who said he was like Jesus to me.
I thought you were my uncle-brother…
Who else could have found us here?
Hidden away from the Red Skins and their Wingless Angels.
Only you my uncle-brother
Only you could have found us
Only you could have killed us.
And now the progeny of your evil deed suckles at my breasts
As I lie dead in the home of those Red Skin dogs you fought."
White paper boat
Her image fled among the trees
his realness to intercept,
some Christmas day! With scenes inept,
beneath dark clouds and deathward's seize.
A mercenary sergeant was
that fought in wars for many years,
ascertained charge to volunteers,
instructing e'er the warfare laws.
The coffee 'pon the mountain glen,
on twilight time of wintertime,
his Christmas warmed (recalled a chime),
the M16 A4's his friend.
A ranger, served elite brigades,
but couldn't tell how life was lost,
his apparition of a ghost,
that fled to slopes and pure cascades.
He just recalled one Winter morn,
received her mail; on streamlet's banks,
next to the seething tracks of tanks,
he read her vows, on paper worn.
He never knew to phrase response,
and also thought she wouldn't wait;
his quantum was devoid of fate,
proscribing stronghold, Christmas' sconce.
On thawed snow-stream her worn mail goes,
white paper boat, comrade and guard,
his stare kept up, he was shot hard,
upon the snow, two qubits froze.
© 11-22-2013, G. Venetopoulos, All Rights Reserved
(Epic, Iambic tetrameter)
Sponsor: Leonora Galinta
Contest Name: CHRISTMAS EPIC POEM
(for definitions, please read the "about the poem" text.)
In silence and in prayer.................
For those who gave everything
and never failed to protect
for those who left loved ones
and tried hard not to look back
for those who made it home
and for those who's spirits flew on...
For you my hat is off in Gratitude
I thank God for people like you..
I remember with thanksgiving
in painful facets from within
each man and women
who fought for this country
until the bitter end..
Come home my proud soldiers
come home once again
come home my mighty soldiers
come home to mend...
In Gratitude I bow...
A Debbie Guzzi Contest
I have lost the will to change
Taking the path that leads to nowhere
The darkness is taking over
something i cannot repair
If it is to be broken
Drowning in the sorrow
I cannot give in
Take the fall and run to the heavens
Im never going to bow
Im never going to break
I will not fall
I will not fade
I was made to take your breathe away
Whenever my hope is lost
Thats my chance to run for cover
Light the fuse and burn it up
I dont want to change the world
I just want to make it colder
Watching the end
With our dying eyes
Tell me where forever lies
The sweetest sounds of burning trees
A gentle stroking in the breeze
The calm has lasted past the storm
Cloudy visions, Satan's roar
Too many sights have passed my way
A time found only in the haze
The softest screams are running bare
My aching bones creak as I stare
You walk a distance towards me
The fall's eternal, can't you see?
I'm a memory in your heart
I whisper to you in the dark
The battle's started at the end
No one is coming to repent
The sinners grab their wine from prey
No judgment calling here to stay
The sport is reckless to be told
The one is laughing at his souls
It falters nowhere to be sure
The power grows forevermore
Like a spirit in the wind
I have no say in where you've been
But cross the line to come to me
And pay the price for ecstasy
You walk a distance towards me
The fall's eternal, can't you see?
I'm a memory in your heart
I whisper to you in the dark.


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VALPARAISO | While Charles Wade was not promised anything for agreeing to testify in February against convicted murderer Dustin McCowan, he was rewarded Monday.
Porter Superior Court Judge Roger Bradford said he considered Wade's cooperation when deciding to suspend seven of the 15 years of prison time Wade was given for a 2010 carjacking.
Bradford also said he had no objection to a request by the defense to allow 29-year-old Wade to continue to be held at the jail in Pulaski County to keep him out of harm's way after cooperating in the Porter County murder case.
Wade pleaded guilty a year ago to felony counts of carjacking and confinement stemming from accusations of abducting his former girlfriend at knifepoint in July 2010 and returned the following day to commit the same offense against the woman and her daughter.
Wade showed up in a different courtroom during the third week of the McCowan murder trial in February to tell jurors how McCowan had told him while they were locked up together he was concerned about police discovering blood and gun powder evidence in connection with the slaying of Portage resident Amanda Bach, 19.
McCowan said he accidentally struck Bach in the nose on the night in question while reaching for her cellphone and some of her blood may have dripped on the carpet of his home, Wade said. McCowan also reportedly told Wade he was getting a sweatshirt for the blood and the sweatshirt may have gun power residue on it from him shooting earlier while wearing it.
Wade said McCowan told him when he realized he still had Bach's cellphone after she left, he discarded it in an abandoned house near where he lived. McCowan said his father later found Bach's phone, Wade said.
McCowan's defense team accused Wade of lying in hopes of easing his sentence in the carjacking and criminal confinement case.
McCowan was sentenced last week to a near-maximum 60 years behind bars for the Sept. 16, 2011 shooting death of Bach, who was his former girlfriend.


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Former "90210" star Jennie Garth is officially a single woman ... because her divorce from "Twilight" actor Peter Facinelli has been finalized -- and it's quite possibly the most amicable and novel divorce of all time.
As we reported, Garth and Facinelli pulled the plug on their marriage in 2012 after 11 years together. They have three daughters -- 15-year-old Luca Bella, 10-year-old Lola Ray, and 6-year-old Fiona Eve.
The divorce order was officially signed Tuesday -- but the real story ... Garth and Facinelli still totally trust each other -- especially in the money department.
The two have each declined spousal support. As for the children, they're doing something pretty novel. Jennie and Peter are funding a joint bank account for the care and education of their children. Both parents will deposit money in equal amounts. Each has full access to the accounts.
They have also agreed to share 50/50 custody of their daughters and insist they don't need a formal custody arrangement -- unheard of in Hollywood.
Good for them!
Jennie seems like a agreeable, fair person, so not surprising. I hope she finds happiness again
Wow, look at that, two adults acting like adults!! Amazing.
Nice to hear such a nice divorce. It is good they both keen to take care of their children together and don't really hate each other.
Well they are obviously more concerned for the children's well being. Parents to admire.
Jenny said that the divorce came out of nowhere! She didn't know Peter even wanted a divorce.she said she had no idea he was so u happy in their marriage! I think he is an ass/hole for Just springing it on her like that! Sorry for her! He sucks!
Very nice of them. This is how all people should get divorced and not used the children like ammo to hurt the other parent.
And that folks, is how you do it. I wish them both well.
Now that his Twilight fame has fizzled out to nothing, he's probably regretting that he ended a good thing in favour of bangin some crazy Twilight fans. What a waste.
Awesome! I've always been a fan of those two, was sad to hear they split. These are two people who genuinely have their kids best interest at heart. This is how it should always be but greed gets in the way and most of the time, the kids have to suffer. Kudos Jenny and Peter, I'm even a bigger fan now.
The only reason it's gone so smoothly is because of Jennie being the person she is. He cheated on her with another actress from some movie he made while doing Twilight movies and Nurse Betty while Jennie raised their 3 daughters back home allowing him to following his acting dreams. She has said on many occasions she wanted their marriage to work and wanted to go to counseling and for him to be happy. She was obviously still very much in love with him and wants to do whats best for her daughters. He's getting off pretty easily and that's because of the wonderful person Jennie is. He's garbage!
I like the way Garth comes across. I know she said she didn't want the divorce & she didn't seem to think their problems were that bad, but at least she finally accepted it. Much better to step away from an unhappy situation than to raise your kids in that environment. If you really want more for them when they're adults , much better to let them know that unhappiness is not part of a healthy marriage. They will take better care of themselves & have their parents honesty to thank for it.
Why not stay together then. Sure she's 2 years older than he is but she's also super pretty so why not make it work..
Okay, okay! Now that the divorce business has been taken care of...who is she, Peter?
She's already spreading her legs for a parade of new boyfriends.


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Dead Block Review (XBLA)
Posted by Jim Cook, Jul 19, 2011 05:49
Dead Block starts off with a lot of things in its favor, including a very strong concept that can best be described as 'third-person survival/defense against a zombie horde.' The idea of boarding up areas, laying traps, and striking zombies down in a 1950s America is a good one, and Dead Block technically provides all of that. However, its range of activities are just too simple and lacking in variety to really keep the player's interest. It's really unfortunate, as making players repeat the same dull tasks dozens of times per stage ruins what could have been a fantastic co-op experience.
Played from a third-person perspective, Dead Block lets you control three different characters; a construction worker, boy scout, and traffic warden that each evoke an exaggerated 1950s motif. Each of the game's eighteen stages (ten single-player, eight co-op) puts them in an enclosed area where they must gather resources, figure out good places for traps, and repel the zombie horde. Depending on which stage you're playing, you'll also be tasked with either finding parts for a guitar so you can outright destroy the zombies with a rock song or simply killing enough of them to activate a machine that finishes off the remaining undead. While it sounds silly, on its own there is nothing wrong with these ideas and Dead Block could have been a great game.
The problem is that you'll be doing the same things over and over. While each stage has a few pre-made traps and health dispensers, the majority of the objects you find are just furniture to break apart for the materials to build traps. Doing this requires you to press B repeatedly, or LT and RT to sift through debris, or hold another button for several seconds to finish constructing a trap. This would be fine, but breaking and sifting through items takes up almost all of your play time. There dozens of containers in each stage, and you'll have to break nearly all of them to find the guitar parts you need to really finish the level. The guitar serves as the objective for most stages, as you bring the parts to a specific area and then play a very short rhythm mini-game; success causes a rock song to destroy the remaining zombies. It might have worked as the basis for one level, but the majority of them work like this.
It's fair to wonder why pushing buttons a lot is a bad thing for a video game, but the problem lies in that your actions in Dead Block feel like work rather than play. Instead of spending just a minute or two gathering resources, you devote most of your time to it and thus aren't really doing much beyond watching your character do the same monotonous work again and again. While your traps and special abilities are an interesting mix of things like nail guns, bombs, giant rolling pins, swarms of hungry flies, and so on, they're not enjoyable enough compared to the 'grinding' you have to do to use them. Stages where you have to kill a certain number of zombies (generally at least a hundred of them) to proceed aren't much better, as combat is very simple. Most zombies can be defeated by just setting up a trap to hurt them, running in and out to bait their attack, then moving back in to hit them. This pattern works far too well, and ensures that killing zombies feels as much like 'work' as breaking objects does.
While each character has a different set of traps and special weapons that can be upgraded by finding certain items, they share a core set of capabilities. One may hit zombies harder while another might search through wreckage faster, but they generally play the same overall. This is just as well, since it lets you pick whichever one you like while the AI will control any unplayed characters. That said, the AI isn't particularly smart and local split-screen co-op may be the way to go if you choose to play Dead Block. Online play is mysteriously absent, which could leave many players stuck babysitting the AI. Thus, what could have been the core of a good co-op game is held back both by repetitive game mechanics and a requirement for local play; not everyone has that many players (or controllers) immediately handy.
Ultimately, it is hard to say what's worse about Dead Block, that it squandered the great idea of 'third-person zombie defense' or that it's just dull rather than spectacularly bad. Most of its features and controls work like they should and there aren't many crippling glitches to worry about, so you can't even have a 'so bad it's hilarious' reaction. You're left with just poor game design, as requiring the player to mash the B button hundreds of times per stage to break furniture for materials becomes honestly boring. It's hard to recommend something this tedious, despite the neat idea of defending against zombie hordes by laying traps throughout the building. Armed with an awesome game idea but terrible execution, Dead Block fails to earn its 800 Microsoft Point/$10 USD price and you might do well to check out any of several other Xbox Live Arcade or Indie Games titles if you're looking for zombie-slaying action.
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there's an armored convoy about tossing tear gas now so much for that fucking "resolution" earlier today
don't let this shit die. we still don't have justice and even at that police CONTINUE to oppress the people so quit it and start paying attention again. open your eyes.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP) -- As the nation marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Rosa Parks, we should avoid the temptation to see her as merely a historical figure, a heroine of the past. It would be easy to do so. After all, no city in America segregates its public transportation system by skin color, not even Montgomery, the capital of the old Confederacy, where Mrs. Parks famously refused to give up her seat to accommodate Jim Crow. Even so, Rosa Parks' example is about the future as much as the past.
First of all, the memory of Rosa Parks ought to remind us that she didn't live in what we refer to as "the civil rights era," as though racial justice was achieved and can now be ignored. True, the awful state oppression against African-Americans, both north and south, was knocked down with legislative triumphs in areas of public accommodations, employment non-discrimination, and voting rights. Thank God. But racial reconciliation is never a finished project, at least not between Eden and Armageddon.
Beyond that, Christians especially ought to reflect on what Rosa Parks' civil disobedience reminds us about our life together in society.
When Mrs. Parks refused to give up her seat, she was affirming an ancient truth of
the reality of natural law.
The bus boycott, sparked by her, was a revolt against an unjust law. Mrs. Parks, and the activists she motivated, never argued the law wasn't supported by the majority. They argued the law was wrong. As Martin Luther King Jr. also communicated in his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," civil law rests on a broader foundation of a law that is written in the heart, a law that transcends human cultures and majoritarian whims.
That natural law, embedded in the conscience, is the reason the power of the state, any state, is limited. Herod had some legitimate authority as ruler, but it was, as John the Baptist pointed out, "not lawful" that he should have another man's wife (Matthew 14:4). Caesar had the legitimate authority to wield the sword against evildoers, an authority the Scriptures affirmed (Romans 13:1-7), but he had no authority to dictate worship (Revelation 13:16-18). The temple leaders had a legitimate authority, an authority Jesus affirmed (Matthew 23:2-3), but they had no authority to forbid the preaching of the Gospel (Acts 4:18-20).
The natural law stands above human law, and gives its legitimacy. The law maintains order precisely because it is not the arbitrary expression of a ruler or of a mob. The law must give an account to a more ultimate Lawgiver. That's why Jesus, in His famous discourse on Caesar's coin, distinguishes between duty that must be rendered to government and that which must be rendered to God.
Rosa Parks' protest also affirms the
persistence of natural rights.
When she refused to give up her seat, deprived to her on the basis of her skin color, Mrs. Parks defied a law that based human dignity on some devilish idea of white supremacy. This idolatry was encoded in law and embedded in culture. White children were taught not to give a lady like Rosa Parks the recognition of the title "Mrs." or "Ma'am." And the legal code designated what water fountains she could use and where she could sit.
Mrs. Parks, though, believed the old American creed that "all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights." That Jeffersonian principle is grounded in a concept of dignity older than the Enlightenment, the concept of a common human race made in the image of God (Genesis 1:27). This is why God, the Bible says, "shows no partiality" (Deuteronomy 16:19; Acts 10:34; Romans 2:11).
All human beings reflect His image, and are worthy of respect. And no human being is a god, with the power to exercise dominion over human nature itself. Human dignity isn't "purchased" by voting power, commercial wealth, sexual attractiveness, natural ability or anything else.
Finally, Rosa Parks pointed to the
sacrifice of neighbor-love.
In refusing to give up her seat, Mrs. Parks wasn't struggling for her own position. She did so on behalf of millions of others, many yet unborn. There's a difference, in a truly Christian ethic, in fighting for our own prerogatives and in working for justice for others. Jesus calls us to give up the cloak, to walk the extra mile, to turn the cheek (Matthew 5:38-42). And yet, He also led the Apostle Paul to appeal to his rights as a Roman citizen not to be prosecuted for preaching the Gospel (Acts 16:37-39). Why? It was because the issue wasn't Paul's personal comfort but the advance of the church as a whole.
Rosa Parks was a great heroine who deserves our honor. But let's not consign her to the museum. Her heroism still speaks, and points to some old, old truths that are needed in a new century.
Russell D. Moore is dean of the school of theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. This column first appeared
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Family squabbles have a way of turning ugly in a matter of seconds, and yet can be weirdly comical to a bystander. Relatives know too much about each other and have too wide a range of weaponry to choose from. When a burned dinner from ten years before can suddenly surface as a major accusation, it's safe to say that all bets are off and we enter the realm of the absurd.
"Everybody in Our Family," a new film by Romanian director Radu Jude, is a violent, funny and disconcerting vision of a familial argument turned into actual slugfest. What makes the movie compelling is that even though the characters act in extreme ways, the whole thing doesn't seem exaggerated in the least.
Marius (Serban Pavlu), a thirty-something divorced dentist, plans to take his small daughter Sofia (Sofia Nicolaescu) to the seaside. The girl lives with Marius' ex-wife Otilia (Mihaela Sirbu) and her new partner Aurel (Gabriel Spahiu). When Marius arrives and announces it's time for the long-planned camping trip, his former mother-in-law, Coca (Tamara Buciuceanu-Botez), informs him that the girl was sick just the day before and that the trip may be not such a great idea. Aurel seconds her, even though Sofia seems fine. Marius doesn't take no for an answer, and since his ex-wife is still at the beautician's, he decides to simply take his daughter and leave. A fight with Aurel ensues and once Otilia joins the party, things get really nasty.
Even though the elderly Coca tries to placate him, Marius goes off his rocker in a spectacular fashion. He bangs Aurel over the head with a frying pan, gags him and ties him up — just for starters. The film turns into an epic fulfillment of every Ralph Kramden-like threat of what will happen "one of these days" if a man is pushed to his limit. Old wounds are opened and no can of worms is left untouched. By the time Marius and Otilia are exchanging startlingly vulgar barbs (all the more jarring in mouths of folks priding themselves on their education), there is a delirious feeling in the air. We laugh — mainly because there's barely any malice in the picture, just a gargantuan failure of communication.
Movies that tackle explosive conflicts set in confined spaces usually originate as stage plays and can be burdened by glib wordiness. Even such pressure-cooker classics like "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (or the more recent "Carnage") ultimately feel like elegant contraptions for actors to exercise their chops. "Everybody in Our Family," on the other hand, is much more raw: the dialogue is seemingly messy and unpredictable, editing is choppy, and the whole situation feels as banal, silly and horrifying as only an actual altercation can be.
What makes the movie work is the consistent, comical self-pity of Marius, who at one point even professes mad love for Otilia and says they should get back together again. It's a great moment for the actress Mihaela Sirbu, who manages to convey that tiny glimmer of amusement still dancing inside her, letting us know that Marius and Otilia were probably a great couple long ago. In this moment, the film plays almost like a kitchen-sink version of "His Girl Friday," with madcap Marius trying to save Otilia from a lifetime of boredom with Aurel the fuddy-duddy. He even quotes poetry to her and her expression makes it clear that no one has done it in a long, long time.
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The last shot of the movie is great in an unobtrusive way that made me think of the closing scene of one of my favorite films of recent years, "The Kid with a Bike." The main character, bleeding and shaken — but already going back to old habits, as indicated by the cigarette he lights up — simply walks away from the camera and down a busy street. We've witnessed the violent turmoil he experienced (and caused), but we're forced to let go of him just as his nerves start to settle down. What Jude suggests is that Marius is a volatile man of passion who would better fit into another period in history. Had he lived in medieval times, he would be that guy who burns down three villages to get a girl's attention, or starts a war over a misplaced token of affection. Jude doesn't make us admire him, but he leaves us no choice but to acknowledge how much life there is in the guy.
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Donald Trump wants The New York Times
Can the billionaire buy his way into ownership of the respected newspaper company?
Shares of the company, which also owns the Boston Globe, were barely budging on the news, indicating that Wall Street isn't holding its breath for a deal to happen. A spokesperson for the Times couldn't immediately be reached.
It's unclear exactly how much progress, if any, Trump has made in buying the newspaper company. New York magazine, which broke the story, says "Trump has engaged in more than one meeting to discuss how he might buy the Grey Lady." If Trump does make a credible offer for the paper, the company's board of directors would have a fiduciary duty to consider it.
Trump has had a contentious relationship with the company's flagship newspaper for years. In 2011, he lost a libel case against Tim O'Brien, a former reporter and editor for the paper, who argued in a book that the 56-year-old wasn't really a billionaire. O'Brien, now with The Huffington Post, couldn't immediately be reached. Many at the paper, including columnist Gail Collins, have mocked Trump's claims that President Obama may not have been born in the United States.
If Trump is successful -- and that's a big if -- he would have a tough time convincing employees and advertisers that he wouldn't use the paper to promote his own political agenda. In fact, some newspapers around the country have been snapped up by wealthy business owners with their own motives. Real-estate developer Doug Manchester, for example, bought the San Diego Union-Tribune in 2011 and turned the paper into what Media Matters for America calls "a corporate shill."
Trump's interest comes at a tough moment for The New York Times, which has recently offered buyouts to newsroom staff to cut costs as it struggles to reinvent itself in the digital age. The deadline for accepting these offers is Thursday, according to the paper. Wall Street isn't expecting the struggles to end anytime soon. Revenue in the December quarter is expected to fall 11%, according to analysts' estimates. Profit is expected to be 31 cents, down from 45 cents a year earlier.
Wall Street sees better times ahead for the venerable publisher, whose digital strategy has gained traction. The average 52-week price target on the stock is $9.58. about 10% higher than where it currently trades. Shares of the publisher have surged more than 13% over the past year.
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Why does the public continue to feed this brats' ego? He says the most ignorant things and makes a mockery of the democratic system yet he still gets air time and press time. Let him slither back under the rock he came from. He is a clown. I want to take this moment to apologize to all clowns,
That is the most stupid statement I've ever heard. Sounds to me like Mr. Trump has already bought Michael Cohen. The statement "there is nothing He can't do" only appies to ONE and that one is GOD. Now, Michael and Mr. Trump, I'm not weathy and I hardly have a dollar to my name. But, I have something NEITER or you can buy!!! Integrity!! I was once told by a woman she "could get into ANY man's pants!" Had she not said "any," I would have agreed with her. But, when she said "any" I replied to her with "you can't get into this man's pants." That has been years ago and that discussion never came up again. There are things Donald Trump's money cannot buy.
Michael Cohen, a Trump spokesman says. "Mr. Trump is so smart and so rich that if he wants it, he will get it."
Obviously a statement by someone on the Trump payroll.
Least people forget, Donald Trump inherited his wealth, around $20 million from his father. For the longest time, it was joked that he took a $20 million inheritance and turned it into a $20 million dollar business, meaning it went nowhere. But if you have enough money, enough lawyers and bankers backing you up, eventually you'll make money which is what Donald Trump finally did. Most of us don't have the advantage of starting out with millions of dollars and teams of lawyers and bankers to support us.
The final question is, do we really want Donald Trump owning the NYT and influencing what is reported in it?
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|Chapter 6: The Meeting of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Raghunatha dasa Gosvāmī
Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Antya 6.311
vairāgyera kathā tāńra adbhuta-kathana
ājanma nā dila jihvāya rasera sparśana
vairāgyera — of the renunciation; kathā — talks; tāńra — of him; adbhuta-kathana — wonderful topics; ā-janma — from birth; nā dila — did not allow; jihvāya — to the tongue; rasera sparśana — tasting.
Topics concerning his renunciation are wonderful. Throughout his life he never allowed his tongue sense gratification.
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A lot of work has gone into getting this body to rest in peace.
There is a quiet, strangely clinical atmosphere in a funeral home; it feels antiseptic, not unlike a doctor's office. In some ways, this isn't surprising, because both doctors and morticians deal with the same thing: the human body. The funeral director takes care of the body when the doctor can do no more, accompanying it and facilitating its last journey from the morgue to its final resting place.
"Over the course of the year I traveled to funeral homes in various states, gaining access to spaces that most people rarely see," says photographer Sienna Perro. "Rather than focusing on the context in which most people encounter funeral homes — frequently during emotional and distressing periods of grief — I was fascinated with how surprisingly normal they appear when only the staff are present."


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NEW ROCHELLE, NY - The Iona College men's basketball team earned an 84-73 victory over Fairfield in Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference action at the Hynes Center. The Gaels (12-6, 6-1 MAAC) won their sixth straight game, improved to 7-0 at home and maintained pace with Niagara for first place in the league standings in the victory over the Stags (10-9, 2-5 MAAC).
Iona's dynamic scoring duo of senior Lamont Jones and junior Sean Armand led the way with 27 points and 23 points respectively. It is the fifth time this season both players scored 20 or more in the same contest. Armand carried the Gaels in the first half posting a game-high 15 points in the frame. Jones picked up the load in the second half netting 22 points.
Jones, the No. 5 scorer in the NCAA, shot 10-of-17 from the field including 3-of-5 from beyond the arc. Armand was 7-of-15 with three three-pointers. Armand added five rebounds in the win.
Junior DaShawn Gomez and sophomore David Laury scored nine points apiece in a supporting role. Gomez tripled his previous career-high draining 3-of-4 attempts from beyond the arc. He also posted three assists. Laury struggled from the field - just 2-of-12 - but recorded 14 rebounds and an Iona season-best five blocks in 33 minutes.
For the fourth time during Iona's six-game winning streak, the squad was both out shot and out rebounded by its opponent. Fairfield has a 44.6% - 42.2% advantage from the field and 41-38 on the boards. The Gaels committed just eight turnovers. In their last five games, the Maroon & Gold is averaging just 9.8 turnovers per game.
Fairfield senior Derek Needham scored 26 points and grabbed six rebounds. Sophomore Maurice Barrow and freshman Marcus Gilbert had 12 points each. Gilbert added nine rebounds and two bocks while Barrow had five offensive boards Rookie Amadou Sidibe had 11 rebounds to lead the Stags.
The Gaels took an 11-point advantage into halftime with the help of a 14-4 run over the last 5:07 of the frame. Fairfield got to within one point just over five minutes into the second half, as it started the half scoring 16 of the first 22 points. Iona never relinquished the lead and less than five minutes later regained a double-digit lead on a runner by rookie A.J. English at 10:56 that made the score 61-50.
The pendulum swung back in the visitors favor and the Stags climbed back to within three points with 3:41 left. Four straight points by Jones gave the Gaels a seven-point advantage with 2:28 to play and the Maroon & Gold held off Fairfield for the victory.
Iona hits the road at Rider on Sunday at 2:00 pm. After two straight home games, the Gaels play four of their next five on the road.


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Maggots, Worms: Scary Medicine Goes Mainstream
Offbeat treatments, both old and new, are 'eeek-ing' their way into more common practice.
By Jeanie Lerche Davis
Reviewed By Michael Smith
It's the stuff of horror movies -- blood-sucking leeches, flesh-eating maggots, and venomous lizards. It may sound like voodoo medicine, but these "new" treatments have some amazing healing powers.
Leeches: a Good Thing
Leeches have been granted new-found respect. Medicinal leeches (Hirudo medicinalis) are blood-sucking animals that live in fresh water.
For thousands of years, people used these small, slimy creatures to suck blood with the hopes of curing numerous ailments. It was considered an alternative to bloodletting (draining blood) and amputation.
Today, leeches continue to be used worldwide to help heal wounds and restore circulation in blocked blood vessels.
Just this year, the FDA gave clearance to a French company for commercial marketing of these leeches as a medical device in the U.S. The company has bred leeches for 150 years in a certified facility and tracks each lot of leeches it produces.
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Bloodletting's Benefits
Before antibiotics were developed, bloodletting -- draining blood from the body -- was the prescription for scores of serious illnesses. George Washington is said to have had 80 ounces of his blood drained in a last-ditch effort to save his life; it didn't work. As recently as 1942, medical textbooks advocated bloodletting as a treatment for acute pneumonia.
But why did bloodletting work sometimes, not others? Just this year, a Chicago scientist discovered the reason.
Staph infections -- caused by the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus -- can cause serious infections of the blood, bones, and lungs (pneumonia). Antibiotics have helped control these infections, but in recent years staph bacteria have become more resistant to antibiotics.
Staph thrives on iron compounds, scavenging it from the animals it infects. It obtains most of the iron it needs to grow during infection. Specifically, it prefers the kind of iron found in heme, the molecule in red blood cells that helps carry oxygen.
Bloodletting seems to starve staph and slow its growth. The less blood that's available, the harder it is for staph to scrounge up enough heme to thrive. Researchers say bloodletting is out of vogue but the theory may have uses in modern-day medicine. Targeting staph's ability to obtain iron is a promising area of research that may create new options for therapy against infection.
Read more about bloodletting's benefits.
Maggots Heal Deep Wounds
You've gotta love 'em. Maggots have a big job, and they're good at it -- eating dead skin and tissue, whether it's on roadkilled animals or a living human being. In the early 20th century, maggots were used to treat human bone and tissue infections.
It's called maggot therapy, and it involves larvae called Phaenica sericata. The larvae are disinfected before they're used, so they won't make an infection worse. Twice a week, the larvae are placed on a wound and left there for 48 to 72 hours. The maggots only eat the dead tissue, leaving healthy tissue intact, a process called debridement.
The maggot larvae are thought to secrete substances that fight infection.
New research has revived maggot therapy. In a recent study, wounds that got presurgical maggot therapy developed no infections after surgery, according to the report in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.
When wounds didn't get maggot therapy, about one-third developed an infection. Also, surgical closure of those wounds fell apart.
Read on for more details about maggot therapy.
Gila Monster Spit Helps Diabetes
It's true, spit from the Gila monster -- a less-than-friendly lizard -- has medical use. An experimental drug derived from Gila monster saliva appears to help people with type 2 diabetes gain control over their blood sugar. It's a welcome alternative when other commonly used drugs have failed to work.
Another plus: The new drug, called exenatide, does not cause weight gain (other diabetes drugs can); this weight gain is a big frustration for people trying to control their diabetes. Exenatide also appears to help preserve insulin-producing cells, reports Martin Abrahamson, MD, chief medical officer at the Joslin Diabetes Clinic in Boston.
Exenatide is not FDA approved.