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guy drains his main vein.4.17 / 5.00 7,756 Views
( Original ) Nesia Legend of Cosieda Episode 1
The first episode of my original anime3.96 / 5.00 2,939 Views
Godians Fight
Two Men Fight to the Death!4.15 / 5.00 2,108 Views
Nice to see a Christmas special.
Funny enough this is one of the rare animutations that had an english song in it but it worked cause it was random as hell and it was actually a christmas song i haven't heard of,as for the video it was quite random but didn't explode at me like other animutations did but regardless Jon Stewart is great so this video was good enough for me and that final picture of Santa Claus chugging down Hennessy had me dying in laughter,overall great job.
In case anyone is still watching my stuff, I've decided to come out of retirement.
lol so messed up and so true
this reminds me of my famly lol they way into cristmas
God this movie is sooo funny!And festive for the holidays!
ur animutation work is good, though ppl say some r NSFW, i still like them...anyway, could u tell me the name of the song in the easter egg of the guy grooving to the disco cover of Sleigh Ride...would be much appreciated, ty
Awesome bro.
Not to long after his success of his NSFW works, Flashbastard would undergo construction of 2 new mutations. This would be the Animutation Christmas and Rock-Away-Fish.
Flashbastard took a new approch with these mutations. Both featured cameos of the popular and active Animutation Portal members, and included similar under-the-picture lyric follow alongs.
With his first release of his new mutations, this being Animutation Christmas, it would be the first in a good while to be added to the collection page on Newgrounds. With that, it featured a easter egg which included a "Holiday Greetings" that was spoken dialogue of Flashbastard himself.
With the outstanding success of An Animutation Christmas, very few knew of his next project, Rock-Away-Fish that would be the mutation that defined his style.
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Frequent cough in unsatisfactory controlled asthma – results from the population-based West Sweden Asthma Study
© Mincheva et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014
Received: 15 April 2014
Accepted: 16 June 2014
Published: 18 August 2014
Asthma is a complex disease presenting with variable symptoms which are sometimes hard to control. The purpose of the study was to describe the prevalence of asthma symptoms, use of asthma medications and allergic sensitization in subjects with asthma. We also related those indices to the level of asthma control, lung function and in particular, cough.
An extensive questionnaire was sent to randomly selected adults from the West Sweden region. Clinical examinations and interview were performed in a subset. Of the participants, 744 were defined as having an ongoing asthma - reported ever having asthma or physician diagnosed asthma and one of the following – use of asthma medications, recurrent wheeze or attacks of shortness of breath with or without wheeze in the last 12 months. A respiratory disease-free control group of 847 subjects was also described.
According to GINA guidelines, 40.6% of the asthmatics had partly controlled and 17.8% had uncontrolled asthma. Asthmatic subjects reported significantly more symptoms in the last 12 months than the control group – wheezing (79.4 vs 9.2%), shortness of breath (36.1 vs 2.5%), wheezing with shortness of breath (58.7 vs 1.3%). Important complaints were morning cough (42.5 vs 15.5%), cough with sputum production (36.1 vs 6.8%) and longstanding cough (32.5 vs 11.1%), which bothered two thirds of the uncontrolled and one third of partly controlled subjects. Asthma medications were used by 87.5% of the asthmatics, although around 30% of them who had insufficiently controlled disease used only short-acting beta-agonists. Asthmatics also had lower lung function, reacted to lower doses of methacholine that the controls and 13.6% of them had a FEV1/FVC ratio below 0.7. Allergic rhinitis was reported by 73.8% of the asthmatics and they were more frequently sensitized to several common allergens.
Approximately 60% of asthmatics from this population-based study had insufficiently controlled asthma and persistent complaints, despite a high use of asthma medications. These self-reported symptoms were supported by clinical examination data. Increased cough frequency is an indicator of a more severe and difficult to control disease and should be considered when asthma is characterized.
KeywordsCough prevalence Level of asthma control Lung function Population-based study
Asthma is a complex syndrome with variable clinical course and presentation which is estimated to trouble more than 300 million people worldwide [1]. An increase in asthma prevalence and morbidity was noted from the middle of the last century [2–4] but this tendency seems to have subsided in the last decade, at least in the Westernised countries. [5–7]. A recent large-scale epidemiological survey in Sweden revealed an estimated prevalence of asthma around 8.5% suggesting a steady level for the last two decades [5].
Asthma is classically characterized by variable episodes of shortness of breath, chest tightness, wheezing and cough which can concur or be present at different times. Complementary lung function tests often show decreased forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1), increased airway responsiveness to bronchoconstrictive agents like methacholine and reversibility of more than 12% and 200 ml after inhalation of a bronchodilator during periods with asthma symptoms [8]. Even though breathlessness and wheeze are more frequent asthma symptoms, cough often seems to be the most troublesome and problematic complaint for the patient. It also tends to be more resilient to treatment with bronchodilators than the other complaints [9]. Cough often presents as a longstanding symptom, even if the disease is adequately controlled by anti-inflammatory treatment, and recently it was shown that transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 channels are overexpressed in the bronchial epithelium of more severe asthma [10, 11]. Moreover, cough might be associated with airway hyperreactivity without the presence of dyspnea, wheezing and airflow obstruction, an entity that has been coined as cough-variant asthma [12]. Asthma is often accompanied by several comorbidities like allergic rhinitis (AR) and chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) which are also considered to be substantial risk factors for asthma development [13–16] and the latter a predictor for more severe disease [17, 18]. AR and CRS also cause dripping of secretions back to the nasopharynx leading to perpetuation of cough symptoms [19, 20]. Today's mainstream asthma treatment is guided by the early use of anti-inflammatory medications and the increased need for reliever medications is considered an indicator of inadequately controlled disease [21]. Guidelines suggest the use of short-acting beta-2 agonists (SABA) alone should be given exclusively to a small group of asthmatics with intermittent disease.
The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence of respiratory symptoms, the use of asthma medications, the presence of concomitant diseases and the level of asthma control in the subset of subjects from the West Sweden Asthma Study with asthma, and to relate these to lung physiology and cough, with the hypothesis that these are interconnected. The understanding of such associations is important to dissect mechanisms of asthma severity.
Study population, questionnaire and clinical examinations
The clinical part consisted of a detailed interview about asthma presence, asthma symptoms and medications, exacerbations, health-care and emergency visits, concurrent obstructive and non-obstructive pulmonary as well as extra-pulmonary diseases, smoking and asthma triggers. Clinical examinations included physical check-up, spirometry before and after a bronchodilator, fractional exhaled nitrogen oxide (FeNO) measurement, methacholine testing for bronchial hyperresponsiveness, skin-prick tests to 11 common allergens (D. Pteronyssinus, D. farina, Alternaria, Cladosporium, German cockroach, dog, cat, horse, timothy, mugwort, birch) and blood testing. The focus of the present study was a subset of these subjects (n = 744) who were defined as having ongoing asthma - reported ever having asthma or physician diagnosed asthma and one of the following in the last 12 months – 1) use of asthma medications, 2) recurrent wheeze or 3) attacks of shortness of breath with or without wheeze. This is a slightly more severe group than sometimes described in epidemiology as "current asthma", which would include also individuals with any wheeze in the last year. The reported symptoms and objective measurements were compared with a group of respiratory disease – free (RDF) subjects (n = 847) – those not having reported ever or physician diagnosed asthma or asthma symptoms and use of asthma medications, COPD, chronic bronchitis, emphysema or tuberculosis and chronic productive cough.
The study was approved by the local Ethics Committee of University of Gothenburg.
Definitions are based on the questions from the interview:
Ever asthma:" Have you ever had asthma?"; Physician-diagnosed asthma:" Have you been diagnosed as having asthma by a doctor?"; Asthma medications:" Have you used asthma medications (permanently or as needed) in the last 12 months?"; Shortness of breath;"Have you ever had suddenly appearing shortness of breath or breathlessness?" and "have you had these symptoms in the last 12 months?"; Recurrent wheeze:" Do you usually have wheezing or whistling in the chest when breathing?"; Any wheeze:" Have you had whistling or wheezing in the chest on any occasion during the last 12 months?"; Wheezing with shortness of breath: Yes to Any wheeze and"Have you been at all breathless when the wheezing or whistling was present?"; Longstanding cough:" Have you had a longstanding cough during the last 12 months?"; Morning cough: "Do you usually cough or hawk in the mornings?", Sputum production:" Do you usually cough or hawk phlegm from the chest, or do you feel like you have phlegm in the chest that is difficult to bring up by coughing and hawking?"; Sputum production longer than 3 months per year:" Do you cough of hawk phlegm (or do you have phlegm which is difficult to bring up despite coughing) most days in periods of at least 3 months per year?"; Allergic rhinitis:" Do you currently have or have you ever had allergic nose problems of hay fever?"; Physician – diagnosed COPD, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, tuberculosis:" Have you been diagnosed as having COPD, chronic bronchitis, emphysema or tuberculosis by a physician" (asked in separate questions); Doctor's office visits:" Have you consulted a physician or other medical care because of breathlessness, shortness of breath or whistling in the chest, cough with or without phlegm, phlegm in the chest or other lung or airway problems in the last 12 months?"; Hospitalisations: "Have you been hospitalised due to problems with your breathing during the last 12 months?"; Emergency unit visits:" Have you visited the emergency unit because of problems with your breathing during the last 12 months?"; Level of asthma control – controlled, partly controlled and uncontrolled (according to GINA 2006 guidelines) based on the presence of daytime/nighttime symptoms, limitation of daily activities, use of reliever medications, pulmonary function and exacerbations, evaluated by the person conducting the interview. With regard to GINA guidelines patients were categorised as having controlled asthma when they had no limitation of daily activities, nocturnal symptoms and exacerbations, had none or twice or less a week of daytime symptoms and need for rescue medications as well as normal lung function (FEV1 > 80% predicted). Partly controlled were patients having any of the following – limitation of activities, nocturnal symptoms/awakenings, more than twice a week had symptoms during the day and required reliever medication, had one or more exacerbation per year and FEV1 below 80% predicted. All subjects who reported three or more of the features of partly controlled disease or exacerbation in any week were regarded as uncontrolled asthmatics.
Statistical analyses were performed using IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 21.0. Armonk, NY: IBM Corp. Descriptive statistics (frequencies, means and standard deviation) were acquired to describe the characteristics of the subjects. Proportions were compared with chi-square test and Mantel-Haenszel test for trend was used whenever appropriate. Continuous variables were analysed using unpaired t-test. P-value of <0.05 was regarded as statistically significant. Adjusted logistic regression analyses were performed to determine risk factors, presented as odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (95% CI).
General characteristics
Age, sex, BMI and smoking status of the asthmatics and the controls
Current asthma No (%)
Controls No (%)
P values
Number of subjects
Sex (women)
460 (61.8)
451 (53.2)
47.6 ± 15.5
49.9 ± 15.5
23 (3.1)
38 (4.5)
242 (32.6)
337 (39.8)
289 (38.9)
364 (43.0)
189 (25.4)
108 (12.8)
Smoking status
386 (52)
457 (54.1)
261 (35.2)
298 (35.3)
95 (12.8)
89 (10.5)
Adjusted logistic regression showing risk factors (Odds Ratios (95% confidence intervals)) associated with party controlled and uncontrolled asthma
Partly controlled asthma
Uncontrolled asthma
1.022 (1.006 – 1.038)
1.037 (1.013 – 1.062)
1.663 (1.118 – 2.475)
2.231 (1.240 – 4.012)
0.799 (0.512 – 1.248)
0.868 (0.467 – 1.613)
Below 20
1.265 (0.444 – 3.604)
1.040 (0.266 – 4.071)
1.059 (0.675 – 1.660)
1.087 (0.636 – 1.856)
Above 30
1.206 (0.708 – 2.054)
2.543 (1.455 – 4.447)
Longstanding cough
2.263 (1.438 – 3.562)
4.182 (2.332 – 7.497)
Productive cough
2.991 (1.888 – 4.738)
6.691 (3.575 – 12.524)
Morning cough
2.075 (1.379 – 3.121)
4.679 (2.635 – 8.311)
Respiratory symptoms
Prevalence of respiratory symptoms reported in the last 12 months in the groups of the asthmatics and controls
Current asthma No (%)
Controls No (%)
P values
Longstanding cough
242 (32.5)
94 (11.1)
Morning cough
316 (42.5)
131 (15.5)
Sputum production
268 (36.1)
57 (6.8)
591 (79.4)
78 (9.2)
Wheezing with shortness of breath
437 (58.7)
11 (1.3)
Shortness of breath
269 (36.1)
21 (2.5)
Longstanding cough without other symptoms
14 (1.9)
66 (7.8)
Morning cough without other symptoms
23 (3.1)
95 (11.2)
Allergic rhinitis and longstanding cough
170 (22.8)
34 (4.0)
Allergic rhinitis
548 (73.8)
259 (30.7)
Allergic rhinitis is reported in 73.8% of the asthmatic subjects, compared to 30.7% of the RDF control group, and allergic rhinitis and cough are present in 22.8% of the asthmatics but in only 4% of the controls.
Lung function and sensitisation
Description of lung function, sensitisation and health-care utilisation
Current asthma
P values
Overall number of subjects
FEV1% predicted
90.6 ± 17.6
101.0 ± 12.9
FEV1% predicted below 80%
164 (23.2)
43 (5.3)
Positive reversibility after a bronchodilator
110 (24.8)
16 (3.4)
FEV1/FVC ratio < 0.7
96 (13.6)
33 (4.0)
FeNO ppb#
26.88 ± 24.3
19.03 ± 11.0
Reactiveness to PD20 ≤ 1.96 mg**
195 (70.9)
105 (32.0)
At least 1 positive SPT
413 (71.8)
191 (33.1)
Number of positive SPT in the sensitised subjects
79 (19.1)
68 (35.6)
63 (15.3)
54 (28.3)
75 (18.2)
29 (15.2)
196 (47.4)
40 (20.9)
Doctor's office visits
263 (35.3)
80 (9.5)
16 (2.2)
1 (0.1)
Emergency visits due to respiratory problems
78 (10.6)
11 (1.3)
Health–care visits and co-morbidities
Over a period of one year, 35.3% of the asthmatics reported to have sought medical services for respiratory symptoms, 2.2% were hospitalised and 10.6% reported emergency care visits, while the corresponding percentage in the RDF control group was 9.5%, 0.1% and 1.3% respectively.
Prevalence of comorbidities, use of asthma medications and the level of asthma control (according to GINA guidelines) in the asthmatic population
Prevalence No (%)
Physician diagnosed comorbidities
43 (5.8)
Chronic bronchitis
84 (11.3)
5 (0.7)
Level of control (GINA 2006)
278 (41.6)
Partly controlled
272 (40.6)
119 (17.8)
Exacerbations ≥ 1
151 (20.3)
Asthma medications
651 (87.5)
Medications and asthma control
Prevalence of cough in differently controlled asthmatics
Number of subjects 669
Level of control according to GINA 2006 Guidelines
Controlled (No 278)
Partly controlled (No 272)
Uncontrolled (No 119)
Prevalence in the groups%
Longstanding cough
Sputum production
Sputum production ≥ 3 months
Morning cough
The West Sweden Asthma Study provides one of the most current descriptions of the state of respiratory symptoms and asthma at a population level in northern Europe [5]. The strength of the study is that it reinforces the concept of supplementing data about subjective symptoms from self-administered questionnaires, with objective data from clinical examinations. This representative cohort of asthmatics had lower lung function than respiratory disease-free subjects, but on average the loss of lung function was small [23]. Nevertheless, around 13% of the asthmatics had persistent airflow limitation and post – bronchodilator FEV1/FVC ratio below 0.70. In some of these subjects this could be due to overlapping COPD, while in others it might be due to variable obstruction without a well-defined cause [24]. Although a greater percentage of asthmatics had increased airway responsiveness, also 30 percent of the respiratory disease-free subjects responded to methacholine. It is well known that airway hyperresponsiveness can be observed also in non-asthmatics, including individuals with allergic rhinitis and atopy [25–27], and in smokers [28, 29], but can also be a predictor for future development of asthma. In the respiratory disease-free subjects, 45% of those who reacted positively to methacholine challenge reported allergic rhinitis and 15% were current smokers which could to some extend account for the increased airway responsiveness. In regard to allergic sensitisation, the greater proportion of the asthmatics showed positive skin-prick reaction to at least one allergen compared to one third of the tested control subjects. Also, asthmatics were far more frequently sensitised to more than four allergens, results which are consistent with previous studies on asthma with different level of severity [17, 30]. In the group of asthmatics, individuals with obesity were significantly more than the individuals in the control group which is in accordance with the bidirectional link which has been speculated between asthma and obesity [31, 32].
A considerable proportion of the subjects from the asthmatic sample were troubled by respiratory symptoms in the year preceding their examination, with the most frequent ones being wheezing with or without shortness of breath, morning and productive cough, shortness of breath and longstanding cough. Furthermore, many asthmatics presented with symptoms that were overlapping, supporting the concept that asthma is a complex and clustered syndrome [33]. We also focused our analyses on different types of cough and their relation with other symptoms and level of asthma control. The asthmatics reported having productive cough always in the presence of longstanding or morning cough and these complaints were broadly superimposed upon each other as well as on wheezing and shortness of breath. By contrast, the control individuals, apart from reporting cough much less frequently, often reported different cough types separately, resulting in morning and longstanding cough without other respiratory symptoms being more frequent in the control group than in the group of the asthmatics. It can only be speculated that some of the latter subjects might fall into the group of cough-variant asthma, but the cross-sectional design of the study precludes us from making such conclusions [34]. Moreover, when we examined the risk factors for partly and uncontrolled disease we found that productive, longstanding and morning cough were highly significant contributors to unsatisfactory controlled disease in the asthmatic group.
Subjects from the asthma group were also classified as having controlled, partly controlled or uncontrolled asthma according to GINA guidelines. Accordingly, around 60% of the asthmatics had inadequately controlled disease and 20% had one or more exacerbations in the last year. The prevalence of longstanding, morning and productive cough increased with the decline of the level of control so that ultimately around 70% of the uncontrolled asthmatics were troubled by morning and productive cough and 55% by longstanding cough. It has been recently proposed that cough frequency can be used as a surrogate marker of asthma control and that "'uncontrolled' asthma patients have significantly higher cough rates than those 'partly controlled' or 'controlled'" [35], a notion that is reinforced by our results. However, further case-control longitudinal studies controlling for co – morbidities are required to support this conjecture.
In our study sample, 87.5% of the asthmatics utilised some type of asthma medication during the last 12 months. The mainstream of asthma treatment is guided by the timely and adequate use of inhaled corticosteroids solely or in combination with bronchodilators. Sixty percent of the asthmatic subjects that we studied were indeed reporting use of some form of ICS, results that correspond to the data from the general population [36]. Asthma management guidelines recommend the use of SABAs to relieve bronchospasm during acute exacerbation and prevent exercise – induced bronchospasm and they should only be used on "as – needed" basis and in the minimal required dose [8]. However, our results show that nearly 30 percent of the asthmatics used solely inhaled short-acting beta - agonist which comprised of around 15% of the uncontrolled and 20% of the partly controlled asthmatics. These results put stress on the necessity of closer monitoring of asthma medication regimens and compliance.
In the present study we opted for more stringent inclusion criteria of the asthmatic individuals with ongoing asthma focusing on those who reported "recurrent wheeze" and not only "any wheeze" in the last 12 months, which can be considered more rigorous than other epidemiological studies evaluating "current asthma" [37–39]. Our approach therefore most likely comprises a slightly more severe group of asthmatics. Additionally, it is also possible that individuals with perhaps more severe and less controlled disease are more prone to attend to the clinical investigation, which could results in an overrepresentation of this group. However, any such effect on prevalence may not be extensive, since our data is in accordance with previous studies from Europe [40, 41]. A cross-sectional study like ours provide important information about present asthma prevalence and how symptoms and other factors overlap, but follow up studies will give more information about time trends and current risk factors of disease progress.
In conclusion, the results from the present study provide the most up-to-date report on asthma symptoms in Northern Europe, and specifically how traditional asthma symptoms and cough overlap. Importantly, approximately 60% of the asthmatics have insufficient control of their disease according to GINA criteria, which may correspond to inadequate utilisation of asthma medications as well as difficult to treat disease. Importantly, cough is relatively more common among asthmatics with signs of more severe disease and should be thoroughly considered when phenotypes of asthma are characterised.
Forced expiratory volume in 1 second
Allergic rhinitis
Short-acting beta-2 agonists
Long-acting beta-2 agonists
Inhaled corticosteroids
Respiratory disease – free
Global Initiative for Asthma.
This study is supported by the VBG GROUP Centre for Allergy and Asthma Research at Göteborg University, which receives financial support from the Herman Krefting Foundation against Asthma and Allergy. Additional funding was provided by the Swedish Heart Lung Foundation and the health authorities of the Västra Götaland Region (LUA/ALF). The University of Gothenburg is part of the GA2LEN European Network of Excellence, supported by the EU.
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The teenager Cory seemed to be recovering again, when he suddenly dies of an overdose. The day before his funeral, his friends and family get together to remember is life, and their thoughts about life are assembled in a unique piece of Americana in the exceptional 'Putty Hill'. Matt Porterfield's starting-point was both this story and a desire to make a film about the run-down working-class neighbourhood Putty Hill in Baltimore. And with the actors from another abandoned project, 'Putty Hill' has become a true guerilla film: shot with the means that were available, gliding between documentary and fiction, between the characters and the actors who play them, and between the city and its stories. With the sudden death of the teenager, Porterfield catches his characters at a vulnerable moment, and even if we are in a suburban world of uprooted teenagers, skaters, drug-addicts and tattoos that reach far up the neck, the result is a surprisingly affectionate and generous film, which takes its time to listen. This is not the inversion of the American dream, as we often see in these types of settings, but a new American dream. And it is so vulnerable, that Cory's friends almost don't dare formulate it, and yet it is so essential to survive.
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I thought I wouldn't be around when I saw myself fail,
I thought that my energetic mind, heart and soul would see me through,
I had nightmares of my fear coming true, of failing right before my very eyes,
I dreamt of that chiming, unknown voice whispering, give it one more try,
I wished for the past to be re written and the future to be known,
The problems ahead, the trouble and harm racing for a place to be extinct,
One more try, without failing, no faults, and the known unknown forever,
Still a heavy heart beats silently underneath my chest, teasing me of my mistakes,
And only now do I realise that deceasing my flaw full heart,
Didn't take the pain away, didn't make a difference, didn't give me that one more try,
That one more chance, when, maybe, I could have forgotten and forgiven my selfishness,
And became a new person, with all the mistakes in the world... or none at all.
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Bella, amazing work once again. The words flow one after the other like a calm stream, it all pieces together wonderfully. This poem I'd have to say is one of my favourites that you've done already, just superb work, Bella, truly.
Wow, this is an amazing Poem it's really touching and it made me sad quite a bit. This just expresses what you really feel when you make a mistake and contemplate death as a "solution". I love it.
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2010 Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG, an AW Drivers Log
MOTORSPORTS EDITOR MAC MORRISON: This is one bad boy right here.
The pure performance driver in me is not a huge fan of a lot of Mercedes' products, even many AMG creations, but the C63 is spot-on in my "how to tackle a road and win" book.
DTM-inspired bodywork looks great, giving the C63 an aggressive appearance that leaves no doubt as to what it does best, and the true hardware lives up to expectations. From the moment you turn the key (thanks, AMG, for eschewing the ubiquitous yet useless start button) and the V8 belches awake with a deep tone, you know you're in for a great ride.
Behind the wheel, you find yourself in perfect driving position thanks to the outstanding seats with massive side bolsters. The wheel itself is sweet, with a flat-bottom design and touch-points trimmed in suede (OK, Alcantara in reality) like a race car. Select manual mode, open the throttle and this car lights up the rubber without hesitation, cracking off shifts with speed and precision and rumbling with menace on downchanges and trailing throttle. Again, the racing heritage is evident and the soundtrack adds a lot of fun to this experience. Naturally, it also goads you (or at least me) into finding every little gap in the road to punch it, then banging down through the gearbox every time I need to slow, holding the revs smack in the middle of the powerband when normally you'd just leave most cars in the higher gears.
In fact, AMG's Speedshift Plus automatic surprises you. No, it's not as involving as a manual nor is it as quick-shifting as a modern double-clutch system. But it still shifts well, smooth and relatively quick, matching revs during downshifts as a car like this should. Normally, this is where I would complain about the lack of a manual or double-clutch system, but the C63's transmission is competent enough that it certainly wasn't a deal breaker for me.
The aforementioned powerband is extremely flat and useable, with almost 90 percent of peak torque available from 2,000 rpm. There's always plenty of go available at any speed or throttle position; this is one of those imminently enjoyable cars that sucks you into slicing both corners and straights into oblivion at even the slightest opportunity. Mercedes and AMG won't like the following analogy, but I feel a lot of BMW M car in this thing. The steering is quick, the chassis nimble, the engine relatively high revving. Those key attributes are missing from many of Mercedes products, but not this one. What Mercedes/AMG will like to hear is that, finally, I would have a difficult choice deciding between the C63 and M3 if my money was on the line at the local dealer. And I appreciate this car's relative simplicity compared to the M3 and certain other modern performance cars: No launch control, no endless combination of suspension and gearbox and engine map settings to drive you crazy. There's just a good, solid setup straight out of the box that gets the job done. Sometimes less really is more.
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Private Health Insurance: In Most States and New Exchanges, Enrollees Continued to be Concentrated among Few Issuers in 2014 [Reissued on February 14, 2017]
GAO-16-724: Published: Sep 6, 2016. Publicly Released: Sep 6, 2016.
GAO found that enrollment in private health insurance plans remained concentrated among a small number of issuers in most states in 2014, including in the newly established exchanges. On average in each state and the District of Columbia, 11 or more issuers participated in each of three types of markets—individual, small group, and large group—from 2011 through 2014. However, in most states, t...
Defense Civil Support: DOD, HHS, and DHS Should Use Existing Coordination Mechanisms to Improve Their Pandemic Preparedness
GAO-17-150: Published: Feb 10, 2017. Publicly Released: Feb 10, 2017.
The Department of Defense (DOD) has developed guidance and plans to direct its efforts to provide assistance in support of civil authorities—in particular the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Homeland Security (DHS)—in the event of a domestic outbreak of a pandemic disease. For example, the Department of Defense Global Campaign Plan for Pandemic Influenza and Infectious Dise...
Medicaid Managed Care: Improved Oversight Needed of Payment Rates for Long-Term Services and Supports
GAO-17-145: Published: Jan 9, 2017. Publicly Released: Feb 8, 2017.
Out of six states with Medicaid managed long-term services and supports (MLTSS) programs that GAO selected for review, five set clear financial incentives in their payment rates for managed care organizations (MCO) to provide care in the community versus in an institution. However, most of the selected states did not opt to link payments or penalties to MCO performance on MLTSS goals. These goals,...
Foster Care: HHS Has Taken Steps to Support States' Oversight of Psychotropic Medications, but Additional Assistance Could Further Collaboration
GAO-17-129: Published: Jan 5, 2017. Publicly Released: Feb 6, 2017.
State child welfare and Medicaid officials in seven selected states reported a variety of practices to support the appropriate use of psychotropic medications, which affect mood, thought, or behavior, for children in foster care. Practices include screening for mental health conditions, developing prescription guidelines, and monitoring a child's health while on medication. Additional state effort...
Medicaid: Program Oversight Hampered by Data Challenges, Underscoring Need for Continued Improvements
GAO-17-173: Published: Jan 6, 2017. Publicly Released: Feb 6, 2017.
GAO found that available Medicaid expenditure and utilization data do not provide CMS with sufficient information to consistently ensure that payments are proper or that beneficiaries have access to covered services. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that administers the Medicaid program, relies on two key data s...
Medicaid: CMS Has Taken Steps, but Further Efforts Are Needed to Control Improper Payments
GAO-17-386T: Published: Jan 31, 2017. Publicly Released: Jan 31, 2017.
GAO's prior work has identified four Medicaid program integrity issues—where the program is vulnerable to improper payments such as those made for services that were not covered, were not medically necessary, or were not provided—as well as actions taken by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to address the issues and additional actions that should be taken.Enrollment Verificati...
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Concentration, Plan Availability and Premiums, and Enrollee Experiences in Health Insurance Markets Since 2014
GAO-17-383T: Published: Jan 31, 2017. Publicly Released: Jan 31, 2017.
GAO issued three reports in 2015 and 2016 on the early impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) on private health insurance markets.Market ConcentrationIn a 2016 report, GAO examined enrollment in private health-insurance plans in the years leading up to and through 2014, the first year of the exchanges established by PPACA, and found that in all years analyzed, markets wer...
Military Personnel: DOD and the Coast Guard Need to Screen for Gambling Disorder Addiction and Update Guidance
GAO-17-114: Published: Jan 30, 2017. Publicly Released: Jan 30, 2017.
Department of Defense (DOD) data show 514 DOD and Coast Guard (CG) active-duty servicemembers and 72 Reserve Component servicemembers—less than 0.03 percent of the average number of servicemembers in each year—were diagnosed with gambling disorder or were seen for problem gambling in fiscal years 2011 through 2015 in the Military Health System (MHS). The MHS provides health services to benefic...
Federal Health Care Center: VA and DOD Need to Develop Better Information to Monitor Operations and Improve Efficiency
GAO-17-197: Published: Jan 23, 2017. Publicly Released: Jan 23, 2017.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense's (DOD) evaluation to determine whether the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (FHCC) should continue operating as an integrated facility or revert to a "joint venture" included conducting both separate and joint reviews. As an integrated facility, the FHCC has a unified governance structure, workforce, and b...
Veterans Health Administration: Management Attention Is Needed to Address Systemic, Long-standing Human Capital Challenges
GAO-17-30: Published: Dec 23, 2016. Publicly Released: Jan 23, 2017.
The Veterans Health Administration's (VHA) limited human resources (HR) capacity combined with weak internal control practices has undermined VHA's HR operations and its ability to improve delivery of health care services to veterans.Attrition of medical center HR staff increased between fiscal years 2013 and 2015, due to HR staff transferring to other federal agencies. VHA officials note a lack o...


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The history of the Premiership in Nunavut is extremely brief as Nunavut was only created as a territory in 1999. In that time there has been only two leaders of the Territory. There are no political parties in the Legislative Assembly and the Premier is selected by the other members of the legislature in a form of government called Consensus. The people choose their representatives who then chose one of these representatives to lead the territory as Premier. These are Nunavut's premiers.
Paul Okalik, 1st Premier
Okalik was a lead negotiator in the land claim discussions that led to the creation of Nunavut as an Inuit territory in 1999. He studied law in Ottawa and became the first Inuk lawyer in the North West Territories/Nunavut. In 1999 he was elected in Iqaluit West and chosen as Premier by the Legislative Assembly.
Okalik's priorities as premier were to strengthen education, housing, Inuit culture and the economy of Nunavut. Housing was improved, medical facilities built and a great many other improvements were ushered in with the help of funding from the federal government.
In 2004 he ran again, won, and was selected Premier was more, becoming the only Premier of territory to be elected to a second term consecutively. In 2008, Nunavut went to the polls again and voted all but two members of the government, one successful member being Okalik. In the Premier's race that followed he was defeated by Eva Aariak. He was later offered a cabinet position which he declined, instead sitting as regular member of the LA.
Eva Aariak, 2nd Premier
Aariak was the Languages Commissioner for Nunavut prior to running for office. in 2008 she ran and won, the only woman elected to the Legislative Assembly. She suggested her status as sole female in the legislative could be a result of a lack of daycare services in Nunavut that prevents women from entering politics. She was chosen over Okalik as premier and became the fifth female premier in Canada's history. She still serves as the current premier.


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Hey, Matt. If you're truly a purist, I think that's all the more reason to use EQ. Recall my statement that peaks and dips are unintended artifacts of manufacturers' designs. I think exceptions are rare. I wouldn't be surprised at all if the very engineers of the headphones they designed would listen to them with EQ turned on. Also, if you're the kind of purist who insist upon following a specific compensation curve as closely as possible, EQing will also help you profoundly in this regard. I agree about the change going from desktop to portable. I will always prefer the sound from my Asgard 2 connected to a computer, but when on-the-go, I'm really not a finicky as I'm not critically listening (I do a lot of cycling and walking in traffic with IEMs in my ears).
"I just don't like the idea of getting bogged down with the technicalities of it all at the expense of enjoying the music." Oh boy, I was definitely in the same boat when I first started out. One day, when I have the time and impetus, I will write up a guide. At least one already exists, but I want to contribute my perspective with regard to compensation curves and loudness sensitivity of human hearing. It's unfortunately true that in the beginning it will seem like a flood of technicalities that you have to contend with. For me, it was definitely one of those things where it's like an odyssey; full of adventure but trials and dangers - hopes and heartaches. However, this was mostly due to a lack of guides. Once you've gotten the entire skillset and decided on an EQ setting for each pair of headphones, though, you can just sit back and let yourself get lost in the music, never against needing to think about the technicalities of your system. Since 4 days ago, I haven't even touched my current setting for the HE-400. It's done, and once the music is on, I don't even think about it.
No, he's referring to EQ the discrepancies out of your headphones, not out your music! EQ'ing for every album and song, more that would be something to drive you crazy! I'm sure I've seen that facility on software, to custom EQ each track! Madness!


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Y39-1-4/5, 3-room apartment on 1st floor. Comfortable and tasteful furnishings: lounge with TV and international TV channels. Exit to the terrace. 1 room with 2 beds (90 cm, length 200 cm), shower/WC. Exit to the balcony. 1 room with 1 bed (180 cm, length 190 cm), shower/WC and TV. Exit to the balcony. Open kitchen (4 hot plates, microwave, freezer) with small bar. Shower/WC. Air-conditioning. Large balcony. Terrace furniture, deck chairs. Beautiful view of the swimming pool and lagoon. Facilities: washing machine. Please note: non-smoking house.
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Apartment block Y39. In the resort El Gouna, in a sunny position in the residential district, 2 km from the sea, 30 m of lagoon, direct access to the lagoon. For shared use: swimming pool (01.01.-31.12.). Outdoor shower, private beach. Linen change (suppl. charge extra). Room cleaning on request (extra). Pre-arrival grocery service. Parking at the house. Supermarket 2 km, shopping centre 2 km, restaurant 2 km, bar 2 km, café 2 km, internet café 2 km, bicycle rental 2 km, bus stop Shuttle 50 m, sandy beach Lagoon 30 m, diving center 2 km, outdoor swimming pool 50 m, lagoon 30 m. Sports harbour 2 km, golf course (18 hole) 1 km, tennis 2 km, minigolf 3 km, riding stable 2 km.


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Cindy Leng
Waters stall on a warm winters night.
The craft I pull takes on its stillness.
Breathing in old circumstance.
My Desire reflects clearer than I saw before.
On a rock face far, his hand reaches out to me.
My palms penetrate the glassy surface and fold into his.
Mist forms.
Dare I hope?
In but a moment the river starts again,
and we must release.
Drifting forward.
Buds imprint the skin.
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Spain believes bank is being 'bounced' into monetary tightening by German hardliners, writes Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Germany and Spain have clashed in an escalating dispute over the European Central Bank, exposing the deep rift that has emerged between Europe's North and South.
The simmering dispute erupted into the open after the ECB's chief, Jean-Claude Trichet, opened the door for a rate rise in July, despite mounting signs of an economic slowdown across most of Europe's Latin bloc.
The change in ECB language has already pushed up Euribor lending rates by 32 basis points to 5.24pc, inflicting further pain on Spanish homeowners.
Some 98pc of Spanish mortgages are on floating rates and the country is now in the grip of a fully-fledged housing slump. Adding to the woes, Spanish truckers are launching a national strike to protest against the rise in diesel prices, openly threatening to bring the economy to a standstill.
While Mr Trichet seemed to give the impression that a majority of ECB members were ready for a rate rise, Madrid believes the bank is being "bounced" into monetary tightening by a German group of hardliners. It is very hard for the ECB to back off once a rate rise has been "signalled" to the markets.
"I would advise Mr Trichet to be more careful in his comments: we expect the European Central Bank to be more responsible," said Spain's premier, Jose Luis Zapatero.
In a rare breach of diplomatic etiquette, Germany shot back yesterday with a public rebuke of Spain's elected leader. "We have no criticism to make of the ECB or Mr Trichet. If Mr Zapatero sees this differently, he must explain that," said Thomas Steg, spokesman for Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Mr Zapatero is a passionate pro-European and this is the first time he has aligned himself with Italy's Silvio Berlusconi and France's Nicolas Sarkozy in attacking the ECB.
The emergence of a Paris-Rome-Madrid axis changes the balance of power in the euro-zone and poses a serious threat to ECB hegemony. Together they make up three of the "Big Four" euro powers.
Under Maastricht Article 109, politicians have the ultimate power to set exchange rate policy. If they choose to invoke this clause - by qualified majority vote - they could overrule Germany.
"The tensions can only increase," said David Owen, Europe economist at Dresdner Kleinwort.
"Politicians are not going to stand by as their economies disappear into recession. There is going to be more speculation about countries quitting EMU," he said.
The ECB is having to pilot a hazardous course between inflation and the credit crisis. "The risks to euro area financial system stability on balance had increased," it said in its monthly report.
"There is a fairly broad consensus that US house prices have further to fall before housing market conditions stabilise. Vigilance by financial institutions is of the essence. Those with relevant exposures will need to step up their efforts to effectively manage the risks that may lie ahead," it said.
The Bank for International Settlement said banks in Europe (including the UK and Switzerland) had suffered losses of $202bn (£102bn) since the credit crisis began. Bond issuance in the region contracted by 50pc in the fourth quarter of 2007, led by Spain, Ireland and France.
Overall, the credit crisis has proved just as bad for Europe's banks as it has for US banks. Spreads on interbank lending - widely viewed as a stress barometer - have been higher in the UK and the eurozone, largely because of suspicions that the banks have not yet come clean.
Lehman Brothers yesterday advised clients to halve holdings of European equities as rising labour costs and the ECB's squeeze hit profit margins.
The US bank says there are better pickings in America, where stocks are cheaper. "We are downgrading our weighting in Continental European stocks from 24pc to 12pc," said Ian Scott, the bank's equity analyst.
"The contrast between the ECB and other central banks is striking. We don't think the European region is the right place to be right now," he said.
Unit labour costs are rising briskly in Europe as unions push for better wage deals. It is a different picture in the US, where unit labour cost growth has collapsed from 4pc to near zero over the last year - evidence of America's flexible economy.
Lehman Brothers said the Fed's dramatic rate cuts - to 2pc from 5.25pc since September - has offered a lifeline to US banks.
They can now rebuild their balance sheets by exploiting the spread between short-term rates and long-term US Treasuries, a process known as the "steepening yield curve".


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1. Install an USB PCI card. Around here, 10 bucks or so.
2. Read http://www.usbman.com for clues.
I am posting this for my sister who cannot get online due to a problem with her USB port and a cable modem. She has a Win 98 computer with one USB port. After a recent move, the USB is now not working - it was before the move. The problem was discovered when they tried to hook up the USB cable modem and the USB would not work. It looks okay in the device manager, but there seems to be no power to the USB.
I am sorry that I can't give you the system details since it isn't my system. It is a Dell running Win 98 SE I believe. It is about 5 years old, so it is probably a first generation of USB ports - but it was working until the computer was moved.
Could there be a loose connection or a simple explanation of how to fix this. Any help you can offer is appreciated.