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Winter in New York
March 18, 2013
After about seven weeks in South America I came back to the city that never sleeps and stayed for another five days. Part of the footage for NYC in Motion was shot during these five days. Plus all the other photos posted here…
I found some nice street art in Williamsburg, watched the sun setting behind the Flatiron Building and picked a real cold night to shoot some cityscapes in DUMBO's Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Next will be the first set of pictures from South America, Ecuador and maybe some Perú already.

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We left for Bangkok with high expectations – 7th is no walk in the park; this would equal the highest position GIS has ever reached in Girls Basketball SEASAC.
Like a typical Garden Dragons squad, we started on the wrong foot. After an excruciating thrashing from CDNIS, a very beautiful own basket made by our lovely Clarissa and several 'quiet' speeches by Mr. Springall, we upped our intensity in the game we knew would be the most painful – versus UWC Dover. The score line was gut-wrenching but it was clear that our performance had improved drastically. We ended the game with a memorable quarter where Sonia S sacrificed her kit and game time, allowing Robyn to take up the generous offer made by the UWC coaches which permitted her to play against them. Our very own Molly B represented GIS in the three-point challenge and blew her competitors out of the water by snagging third place and winning the much-coveted price of 'champion chips'! The day came to a pleasant end, with us beating our neighbourhood rivals MKIS, aggressive Sonia Lee making her annual appearance, a trip to the shopping mall and the most innocent member of our team, baby Sarah Comber, almost getting caught in H&M for accidental shop-lifting.
Our slow start on the first day of SEASAC put us under pressure on the second day to perform our best against the mystery team, UWC East. With the help of the energy gels and powders sponsored by "Horley's" (thank you Jojo, you business woman, for finding them) and motivated by the pressure we were under, we started the day with a fortunate twist in events as we decisively won against UWC East, though at the cost of the unfortunate twist in Su Yen's ankle. We lost our next game to Patana and in a very tight match, lost to the home team RIS in play-offs. We were initially disappointed by how close we were to reaching the plate final but our performance that day had been brilliant, leaving us satisfied with our play but hungry for the position of 7th. The second day ended with Sarah (Yr13) coming 4th out of 25 players in the SEASAC Bump/Killer competition and our second youngest player, Sarah Comber, winning MVP at the gala dinner.
And just like that the four days abroad, the three days of playing and the two terms of training came down to one game, the last one four of us would ever play as a Dragons team member. And things did not start well. We were down by 8 points at the end of the first quarter against ISY; unsure as to whether we could win. After another motivational talk by Mr. Springall, a change in defence and several quick baskets, we regained our confidence and stole the rest of the match. The game concluded with the three year 13's on court, playing the last 30 seconds almost in tears and the tournament ended with us winning the position we had targeted, 7th, and surprisingly the award for best sportsmanship.
Pulling up back at the GIS campus was sudden confirmation that the trip was over. The SEASAC bubble we had lived in for four days had finally burst. There would be no more girls bonding time at Molly S's room, no more buying matching tops and accessories, no more inspirational talks by Mr. Springall and Ms. McGlinchey. There was no avoiding it anymore – SEASAC was officially over. For several of us, it was over for good. So yes, eyes were red, tears were shed and members of the male population made stealthy exits from the school carpark as we bade each other goodbye for the first time in four days. It felt as if we were parting forever.
We obviously were not. The sight of each other in school the next day was almost startling and it was comforting to know that we had one another at least for the next few months. But whether we see each other every day for the rest of our lives or never again, the impact we made on one another will be something we will never erase, nor desire to.


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Ghost Investigators of the United States.
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Anthony Duda
Based in Boston, Massachusetts. Profile of the team, pictures, guest book and articles on ghosts, UFOs and cryptozoology.
Bi-City Paranormal
Covers parts of Alabama and Georgia. Case files, gallery and contact form.
Black Hills Paranormal Investigations
Covering the Dakotas and parts of Wyoming, Montana and Nebraska. Profiles of team members, case history, FAQs and contact details.
Carolina Paranormal
Based in North Carolina, also serving South Carolina and the southeast if needed. Profiles, equipment list, video and audio evidence, media mentions and contact request form.
Cody Barnes
Wisconsin paranormal investigator.
Complete Paranormal Services
Based in Pennsylvania, serving the surrounding states. FAQs, team member pictures and contact details. Also provides their audio and visual evidence and some articles about the supernatural.
Elite Paranormal of Kansas City
Based in Missouri, also serving other states. Includes case files - some with videos, profiles of their team members, links, photographs, contact form and a collection of EVP.
Four State Paranormal
Serves Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Kansas. Past case history, contact email address and articles.
Garden State Ghost Hunters
Serves New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Case history, EVPs, team biographies, videos and contact form.
Gettysburg Ghosts Paranormal Investigations
Serves Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. Contact form, videos and EVP.
Ghosts of Louisiana Paranormal Society
Also covering southern Mississippi. Includes pictures and EVPs.
Grimstone Inc.
Located in Michigan, serving the Great Lakes region. Contact request form, testimonials and links.
Hunters of the Unknown
Based in southwest Chicago but covering other states. Profiles, contact request form, upcoming and future cases and equipment list.
International Paranormal Reporting Group
Covers Idaho, Oregon and parts of Washington state. Contact form, testimonials, profiles, case files with pictures, in memorial page and some archived radio shows they hosted.
Midwest SPECS
Covers Omaha, Iowa and South Dakota. Shows equipment used and details and pictures of previous cases.
Minnesota's Beyond the Veil
Also covers Wisconsin and North Iowa. Team profiles, contact details and links. Provides information about haunted public locations and ghost hunting tips and checklist.
New England Anomalies Research (NEAR)
Includes photographs, news, forum, and research results.
New Jersey Ghost Investigations
Covers New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. Case files, general information about hauntings, glossary and FAQs.
The New York Paranormal Society
Covers the tri-state area. Profiles of team members and a contact form for them. Includes pictures of their equipment, details of their media appearances and articles. Case studies and field reports.
Oregon Paranormal
Serves the Pacific Northwest. Contact request and client forms, a team page, case studies and details about their equipment.
Located in Omaha, covering most of the Midwest. Offers detailed case files, images, EVP, video and an equipment list.
Paranormal Pulse
Based in Utah, also covering Idaho and Nevada. Lists past cases along with EVP and visual evidence. Discusses their equipment and lists their team members with a short biography. Contact form.
Paranormal Research Society of New England
Offering services to those experiencing a haunting. Includes photographs, EVPs, and reports of past investigations.
Philadelphia Area Paranormal Society
Provides free services covering their home state, New Jersey and Delaware. Includes information about their investigation protocols.
The PPA
Serves Pennsylvania and surrounding areas. Case files, profiles, equipment list, information about their methods, contact form and an investigation request form.
Professional Paranormal Investigations
Serving Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio. Links, FAQs and contact form.
RISEUP Paranormal
Based in Rhode Island and covers Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Studies hauntings, UFOs and cryptozoology. Contact details, team profiles, glossary and evidence.
S.I.G.H.T. Paranormal
Covers Indiana, Michigan, Illinois and other nearby states. Audio evidence, links and contact email address.
Second Sight Ghost and Paranormal Investigation
Serving Kansas City, Missouri - and surrounding areas. Profiles, contact form, links, case files and glossary.
South East Paranormal Investigators Association
Investigates ghosts and cryptids. Based in North Carolina also covering the tri-state area, Georgia and Pennsylvania. Audio and pictorial evidence, contact request form and case history.
Southwest Ghost Hunters' Association
Case files, articles, FAQs and contact email address.
Tri-State Paranormal Research
Profiles, FAQs, case files and links.
West Sound Paranormal
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Pokermag on Eurosport
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Pokermag on Eurosport
Last Friday I saw a Pokermagazine on Eurosport. The special thing about that was there were just playing online qualificants. So it was a table filled with - let's say "not high experienced poker players" - but to be honest it was quite interesting. When do you have the chance to see for example a British Army Officier and a Danish housekeeper sitting at the same table playing some cards...
Don't misunderstand me the current trend to pack some celebs around a table to play "some cards" by throwing cards and chips around the table like they have learned poker two hours ago is not the best way to make poker more popular.
But to give some online qualificants the chance to show their skills in front of running cameras is a innovation in the right direction. Just to show that the unique place in the spotlight of Poker-TV-shows are not only reserved for Iveys and Brunsons.
I not want to get in trouble with the admins of this forum so I'll not tell the name of the cardroom - but there will be a replay of the pokermag
today (08.07.200
on Eurosport beginning 11:00pm
and on the 27.07.2008.
Let me know your opinion about that,
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I'm still an outsider in Hollywood, says Chris Pratt
Chris Pratt is the lead in two of the biggest Hollywood franchises – JurassicWorld" and "Guardians of the Galaxy" – and is one of its highest-earning stars, but the American actor still considers himself an outsider in Hollywood. The actor believes, "Hollywood tends to homogenise its men and women," and that is why entering showbiz with an outsider's perspective worked in his favour.
"I definitely felt like an outsider (when he started working in the West) and I was (an outsider). I probably still am (an outsider) in a way, although I spend more time in Los Angeles (LA) than out of LA," Pratt said.
Also Read : Chris Pratt goes gaga over his next film
Pratt was a homeless man before he rose to stardom. He used to live in a Scooby-Doo van and worked at a seafood restaurant in Hawaii in late 1990s. It was at this restaurant he was discovered by actress Rae Dawn Chong, who then gave him his first film "Cursed Part 3" in 2000.
The 37-year-old asserts that there is "great benefit" being an outsider. He says that "being an outsider is becoming more and more helpful now".


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That's right, starting February 12, 2012, Southwest and their 737's are breaking into the Atlanta market with 15 daily nonstop flights to Baltimore/Washington (BWI), Chicago (Midway), Denver, Houston (Hobby) and Austin, Texas. Atlanta-Austin is a route not previously served by AirTran.
Southwest President, Chairman, and CEO Gary Kelly revealed details of Southwest's first Atlanta schedule during a luncheon with the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce.
"We're bringing especially great value to those of you who travel last-minute," Kelly told the audience of business leaders. "Here in Atlanta, our fully refundable, walk-up fares will be, on average, more than 30 percent lower than anything currently in these markets. And we are bringing the flexibility Southwest Customers already enjoy in other cities because we don't charge a $150fee simply to change your plans."
- Atlanta and Austin – two daily roundtrips
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"We've said all along that this deal to bring AirTran's People, planes and places into the Southwest family is about offering more–more destinations and spreading more low fares farther, through the strength of our network."
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Red Drakecaptain Phlegethon
The elusive leader of the Red Army of the Cult of Tiamat in the Broken Kingdom
Of pale skin, this tall, gangly figure is most recognizable by his flame-red hair.
The Red Drakecaptain is currently being pursued by the Five Dragons of the Broken Kingdom. It is known that Phlegethon is the leader of the Red Army faction of the Cult of Tiamat in the Broken Kingdom. He was known to have been orchestrating their affairs from Outpost in mid-2664 CE, though he later fled towards the Barony of Obardyr after being discovered. He was last seen by the PCs among the ranks of the Barony's soldiers just prior to the Battle of the Broken Kingdom.


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US Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif have met on the sidelines of talks in Vienna between six world powers and Iran on its nuclear programme.
Iran nuclear talks: tangible progress but gaps on key issues remain
Iran nuclear talks: tangible progress but gaps on key issues remain
Both sides have high expectations of reaching an agreement during the next five days of discussions.
However Zarif has suggested that all parties are open to extending the discussions, if necessary.
"The talks have been interesting. Now Washington needs to take a political decision…to end the deadlock…and to find a solution to this crisis and a common way forward," said the Iranian Foreign Minister.
Meanwhile the US Secretary of State says Iran can not expect to maintain its number of nuclear enrichment centrifuges.
"There has been tangible progress on key issues. And we had extensive conversations, in which we moved on certain things," said Kerry, adding that, "there are also very real gaps on other key issues. We have made it crystal clear that the 19,000 [centrifuges] that are currently part of their programme is too many."
The six world powers — US, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China — and Iran want to bridge big differences in a deal to reduce Iran's nuclear programme, in exchange for sanctions relief.
Iran says its atomic fuel-making capacity is for peaceful energy purposes.


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My daughter's drawings
My 15 year old daughter loves horses. We do not have horses, but she has enjoyed learning all about horses over the past several years. She has subscribed to a couple different horse magazines, has some horse books, and likes to check out horse books from the library.
Just recently she discovered (by accident) that she can draw horses pretty well by looking at pictures in magazines and then drawing them on paper with pencil.
Here are a few of her drawings for you to enjoy.
This picture of a barn was drawn looking at a photograph in a horse magazine my daughter has. She is in the process of writing a horse novel. We are going to use Learning to Write the Novel Way next year for her Language Arts...she is getting a head start already :). Anyway, this picture she drew to use as an illustration for her book.
This one she drew looking at a picture in a book we just finished reading aloud called, The White Stallion of Lipizza.
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Excellent start to 2018 when it comes to stand-up comedy in the delights of the converted church that is the Salisbury Arts Centre. No-nonsense Barnstormers Comedy MC Debra-Jane Appleby (Has true funny bones and oozed laughs from her every line and her every look - one to keep a close eye on in our never ending search for comedy stars of tomorrow'' - Channel 4) will return to introduce three more geat acts from the London Comedy Circuit and beyond. Tonight, they are: the delightfully off-kilter Henry Paker, 'Henry Paker delivers a mightily impressive set that is rarely less than superb… The man will be a star.' Chortle; hilarious musical oddball Robert White, 'Souped-up risqué keyboard-based songs, waspish asides and neurotically charged camperie from a hyperactive man-child who is among the most original' - The Telegraph; faded matinee idol Troy Hawke, 'A lovable fool with a dash of sophistication... blisteringly funny' - Broadway Baby.


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Subtle styling revisions plus extended-wheelbase version of Bentley's range-topper revealed
Bentley has revised its ultra-luxurious Mulsanne and introduced a new hyper-luxurious extended-wheelbase version, which means that (including the 530bhp Speed version) the Mulsanne range is now three-strong.
Styling revisions are subtle, though obvious if you see old and new side-by-side. The entire front section of the car from the A-pillar forward is new, with restyled bumpers (they're new at the back too), a much wider grille, and outer front lamps raised so that they're the same height as the inner main ones. The result is a more imposing, confident appearance. New tail-light graphics are inspired by the Bentley 'B' logo.
Inside, little has changed bar touch-sensitivity for the dashboard's central infotainment screen and restyled seats. However, here the new extended-wheelbase (EWB) version comes into its own. The wheelbase has been stretched by 250mm, all of which has been let into the rear doors, making for unfettered lounging space in the rear seats. The seats themselves now recline aircraft-style, and individual reading tables swing up and out from the console between them, and infotainment screens rise electrically from the front seatbacks.
Outside, the Mulsanne EWB can be recognised not only by its greater length but also by swooping swage lines in the rear doors: here, the Mulsanne's characteristic crease no longer swells over the rear haunches, instead breaking ahead of the rear wheelarch. The result is that the car looks well-proportioned, rather than ungainly in the manner of some other limos.
While the EWB takes luxury honours, the 'signature' Mulsanne is hardly lacking either spaciousness or luxury appointments. Yet performance honours go, as you'd expect, to the Mulsanne Speed, which (at 811lb ft) offers the most torque of any current four-door saloon. Its top speed is 190mph, and it accelerates from rest to 60mph in a remarkable 4.9 seconds. And all this from a twin-turbocharged version of the venerable 6.75-litre V8, which has been brought up to date with cylinder deactivation while at a steady-state cruise.
Engineering innovations include new active engine mounts and foam-lined tyres, which together reduce background noise by 4dB, and all three versions now share glass-veneered switches and optional stone veneer trim.
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President Obama announced his plans for immigration reform, and included protections for same-sex binational couples.
Former New York City mayor Ed Koch died Friday morning at the age of 88. Many believed he was a closeted gay man, and his legacy is controversial in regards to how he handled the AIDs epidemic during his term in office.
The gay dog from Tennessee was saved from euthanasia. Named Elton, the male pitbull/American bulldog mix was sent to the shelter because his owner thought the dog was "gay" after he saw him "humping" another male dog's leg. A woman named Stephanie Fryns saved Elton just hours before he was scheduled to be euthanized.
49ers player Chris Culliver made homophobic comments about how a gay player wouldn't be welcome in the locker room. And then, 49er players Ahmad Brooks and Isaac Sopoaga, who both appeared in the team's 2012 "It Gets Better" video, claim to not remember filming the video, and certainly not knowing that the video had an LGBT focus.
The Human Rights Campaign has officially endorsed New York mayoral candidate Christine Quinn, while acknowledging Mayor Mike Bloomberg's support of same-sex marriage. The endorsement, while not surprising, is early and significant in the race ahead.
The Boy Scouts move toward ending gay ban. Though certainly a step in some direction, not everyone is pleased, saying the change in national policy leaves discrimination in the hands of regional directors and does not send the same message of banning it all together.
Fast food chain Chick-fil-A, which made headlines last year for CEO Dan Cathy's homophobic comments and donations to anti-gay organizations, released news that they have stopped donating to antigay causes.
Mormon-founded Marriott Corp. joined the cause to fight against the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act. Executive Bill Marriott told Business Insider that while he still thinks marriage should be between a man and a women, he added, "We have to take care of our people, regardless of their sexual orientation or anything else."
A bill has been introduced to the Tennessee state senate that would require teachers and counselors to tell guardians if their children are gay.
The Colorado Senate Appropriations Committee voted in favor of a bill, nicknamed "Colorful Colorado," legalizing civil unions in the state.
With the Federal Prop 8 trial heading to the Supreme Court this spring, the Westboro Baptist Church filed an amicus brief and has provided legal citations using primarily Bible verses.
Wyoming's state House Corporations Elections and Political Subdivisions Committee voted on two bills this week. The first, a bill to permit gay marriage, was denied 5-4. The second, a bill to legalize domestic partnerships, was approved 7-2.


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(HospiScript changes its name to Optum, fully incorporating itself into the Optum organization, while expanding upon its leading role in delivering hospice pharmacy services)
HospiScript, the industry's oldest hospice-centric pharmacy service provider, has officially changed its name to Optum Hospice Pharmacy Services, continuing its ongoing mission of providing industry-leading expertise by helping hospice providers control costs, improve trends and deliver exceptional service.
The new name and brand will fully incorporate HospiScript into the Optum organization, but more importantly, HospiScript will have access to additional products, resources and advantages that will benefit its partners and continue to introduce solutions that transform the hospice industry. HospiScript will be making its first public appearance under the Optum name at the upcoming NHPCO Management & Leadership Conference in National Harbor, MD.
In July of 2015, HospiScript's then parent company, Catamaran, was acquired by Optum, a leading health services and innovation company. Catamaran's PBM operation and the Optum pharmacy care services business, OptumRx, were combined as part of the overall acquisition. While under a new name, HospiScript services will continue to be supported by the same dedicated hospice staff (management team, clinical, operations, account services and all other support functions).
"While the name change is exciting and the Optum brand is well represented within the health care system, this change has no impact on HospiScript and its partners. The same hospice focused team will continue to support all the hospice programs, in addition, there are no changes that affect the local pharmacies we or our partners work with." said Gregory Kosater, R.Ph, Vice President and General Manager of Optum Hospice Pharmacy Services.
About Optum Hospice Pharmacy Services
Optum is a leading health services and innovation company, which includes the Hospice Pharmacy Service business (previously HospiScript) that delivers care-focused, innovative and cost-effective solutions. With 100,000+ people world-wide, hundreds dedicated to hospice, Optum combines its pharmacy network, clinical programs, analytic tool, technology solutions and educational resources to deliver a flexible, forward-thinking approach to hospice care. Optum uniquely collaborates with all participants in health care. Hospitals, doctors, pharmacies, employers, health plans, government agencies and life sciences companies rely on Optum services and solutions to solve their most complex challenges and meet the growing needs of the people and communities they serve. For more information visit: www.optum.com/hospicepharmacy.
HospiScript, has changed its name to Optum Hospice Pharmacy Services.
New name and brand fully incorporates HospiScript into the Optum organization.
Change will benefit existing partners and continue to introduce solutions that transform the hospice industry.
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The Himba tribe are brilliant blacksmiths - creating jewellery and adornment from scrap metal onto which they burn geometric and rectilinear designs.
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Copal amber, not as old as the Baltic amber. These were collected during the 1970's from Ethiopia and the Sahara
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Theyve raised: lets go all-in
Thursday, 29 March 2018
COLERAINE manager Oran Kearney admits it's time to ask questions of Crusaders after seizing the initiative in the tightest title race in years.
The Bannsiders leapfrogged the Crues on Friday night with a dogged win over Carrick Rangers while the Belfast side were due to play Warrenpoint Town.
Whatever the result of the game at Milltown (not known at the time of going to press) what is certain is that the Easter Tuesday clash between the two at Seaview is going to be huge.
"It might not be pivotal because the two teams are so close,"argued Oran.
"Don't forget, there are four other games against top six sides who all have their own agendas and who will want to get their own results.
"I've been in the game long enough to know how it works but I can't wait.
"The big incentive over the past month was to try and keep that fixture alive and we've done that.
"For six weeks we've clawed to hang in there and now that we've got through that bit it's our turn to flip it, to ask a question of them.
"They've raised us:let's go all-in!"
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In September 2014, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Contrave® (naltrexone hydrochloride and bupropion hydrochloride extended-release tablets) for the treatment of chronic weight management. [1]
At the time of approval, the FDA learned that Orexigen, the manufacture of Contrave®, had disclosed data from the LIGHT trial without the authorization of the study's academic leadership. Thus, the FDA requested numerous post-marketing follow-up studies, including a cardiovascular outcomes trial to assess the cardiovascular risk associated with Contrave® use. [2]
|Effect of Naltrexone-Bupropion on Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Overweight and Obese Patients With Cardiovascular Risk Factors: A Randomized Clinical Trial [3]
|Phase 3b, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, noninferiority, placebo-controlled; N= 8,910
|To determine whether the combination of naltrexone and bupropion increases major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE, defined as cardiovascular death, nonfatal stroke, or nonfatal myocardial infarction) compared with placebo in overweight and obese patients
|Study Groups
|Naltrexone 32 mg/day and bupropion 360 mg/day (n= 4,456); placebo (n= 4,454)
|Patients at 266 centers in the United States who were overweight or obese and at increased cardiovascular risk were enrolled in the trial. Patients in each group received a dose escalation during the first four weeks of treatment, beginning with one tablet daily (each tablet contained an extended-release formulation of 8 mg of naltrexone and 90 mg of bupropion or placebo) during the first week, increasing to two tablets during week two, three tablets during week three, and four tablets daily during week 4 and thereafter. An internet-based weight management program was provided to all participants.
|June 13, 2012 to January 21, 2013
|Primary Outcome Measure
|Time from randomization to first confirmed occurrence of a MACE (cardiovascular death, nonfatal stroke, or nonfatal myocardial infarction)
|Baseline Characteristics
|Mean age was 61 years, 54.5% were female, 83.5% were white, 32.1% had a history of cardiovascular disease, and 85.2% had diabetes. The median body mass index was 36.6. Concomitant medications included statins in 79.2% of patients, antihypertensive medications in 92.0%, and glucose-lowering agents in 75.1%.
|Primary outcome
|Placebo (%)
|Naltrexone-bupropion (%)
|Hazard ratio (95% confidence interval)
|25% interim analysis
|Composite primary outcome
|0.59 (0.39-0.90)
|Cardiovascular death
|0.26 (0.10-0.70)
|Nonfatal stroke
|0.70 (0.27-1.83)
|Nonfatal myocardial infarction
|0.70 (0.41-1.18)
|50% interim analysis
|Composite primary outcome
|0.88 (0.57-1.34)
|Cardiovascular death
|0.50 (0.21-1.19)
|Nonfatal stroke
|1.10 (0.44-2.78)
|Nonfatal stroke
|1.00 (0.57-1.75)
|Adverse Events
|Common Adverse Events: gastrointestinal events (14.2%), central nervous system symptoms (5.1%)
|Serious Adverse Events: N/A
|Percentage that Discontinued due to Adverse Events: 3.1%
|Study Author Conclusions
|Among overweight or obese patients at increased cardiovascular risk, based on the interim analyses performed after 25% and 50% of planned events, the upper limit of the 95% CI of the HR for MACE for naltrexone-bupropion treatment, compared with placebo, did not exceed 2.0. However, because of the unanticipated early termination of the trial, it is not possible to assess noninferiority for the prespecified upper limit of 1.4.
The FDA requested the study to be terminated early at week 16 due to safety concerns related to small increases in blood pressure and heart rate. The sponsor of this trial, Orexigen, publically released the 25% interim results of the trial, which are more favorable than the results at study completion; therefore, the cardiovascular risks still remain uncertain. Additional trials are needed to further investigate the safety profile of naltrexone-bupropion treatment.
- FDA approves weight-management drug Contrave. Available at: http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm413896.htm. Accessed March 8, 2016.
- Clinical Trial Testing Safety Of Obesity Drug Contrave Halted; 50 Percent Interim Data Released By The Study's Executive Committee. Available at: http://my.clevelandclinic.org/about-cleveland-clinic/newsroom/releases-videos-newsletters/2015-5-12-clinical-trial-testing-safety-of-obesity-drug-contrave-halted. Accessed March 8, 2016.
- Nissen SE, Wolski KE, Prcela L, et al. Effect of Naltrexone-Bupropion on Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Overweight and Obese Patients With Cardiovascular Risk Factors: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. 2016;315(10):990-1004.


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Elderly Nursing Home Residents Are at Greater Risk of Developing Life-Threatening Aspiration Pneumonia
Elderly residents of nursing homes face greater risks of developing aspiration pneumonia when nursing home staff fails to adequately address their needs. This condition can be especially dangerous for them because they often must be hospitalized, and it could be fatal. Sadly, aspiration pneumonia is almost always preventable.
Who Is at Most Risk of Developing Aspiration Pneumonia?
Aspiration pneumonia is a type of pneumonia that develops when food gets backed up in the lungs, causing an infection or inflammation. People at high risk of contracting this condition include elderly residents with:
- weakened immune systems
- Alzheimer's disease
- weak throat muscles who have difficulty swallowing
- an inability to chew well
- a feeding tube
- a need for staff to assist them with eating
- poor oral hygiene
- deficiencies caused by a stroke
How Nursing Home Neglect Contributes to Aspiration Pneumonia
When people first move into the nursing home and throughout their stay there, nursing home staff must assess their physical condition and needs. Staff should be fully aware of which residents are in danger of developing aspiration pneumonia and provide the appropriate level of care. Unfortunately, they sometimes fail to do this and engage in elder care neglect in the following ways:
- Failing to provide proper care. When nursing home staff does not supervise—and assist when necessary—with eating, residents are in danger of having food back up in their lungs and developing this life-threatening condition.
- Failing to diagnose. When staff does not spot the symptoms of aspiration pneumonia, like fever, shortness of breath, and coughing, patients fail to get the treatment they need. Staff can also be neglectful if they fail to have patients diagnosed through a chest X-ray and blood tests—standard diagnostic procedures.
- Failing to treat. Once patients are diagnosed, staff needs to treat the condition with powerful antibiotics, respiratory treatment, and oxygen to prevent residents from suffering further complications or death.
- Failing to immunize. Elderly patients—especially those at high risk of developing any type of pneumonia—should be vaccinated for pneumonia and influenza.
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ANOTHER TASK FORCE on school closings and boundary changes won`t solve the costly and emotional dilemmas facing Broward County public schools.
A School Board that has the backbone and intelligence to make informed decisions and stick to them will solve the problems of overcrowded schools, under-enrol-led schools, boundary changes to equalize student populations and closure of some outdated facilities.
As Jan Cummings, vice chairwoman of the Broward County School Board, said: ``This is the year to do it. Nobody`s up for re-election and we`ve got a new superintendent.``
Cummings` statement is a sad commentary on how politics can lead to the squandering of tax revenues and subvert the lofty goals of public education.
Nevertheless, her words provide a touch of political realism -- the school system, with two new board members and a new superintendent, will find no excuses for the flip-flops and procrastinations of the past.
School Board members certainly must take into consideration whether boundary changes and school closings will negatively affect neighborhoods. However, their paramount consideration must be to provide cost-effective, quality education to all Broward County students.
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A COUPLE who deny murdering a French nanny have admitted trying to burning her body in the garden.
Sophie Lionnet's charred remains were discovered following reports from neighbours about a "weird barbecue'' at a house in Southfields, South West London in September 20 last year.
Cops were initially unable to identify the body but later confirmed it was Sophie's.
Designer Sabrina Kouider, 34, and her fiancé Ouissem Medouni, 40, of Wandsworth, South London, deny murder.
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But they pleaded guilty today to a second charge of perverting the course of justice by attempting to "dispose of the body of Sophie Lionnet by burning".
The defendants face a five-week trial starting on March 19.
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Question about LG Studioworks 700S 17" CRT Monitor
I am piecing together a desktop system for my daughter for christmas. I have an LG CPU and am trying to connect an LG CRT monitor which i got from somewhere else. On the motherboard, there is a monitor connection but it is male and so is the connector on the monitor. There has been a graphics card added to the computer and presumably this has been set up with a monitor before but although the CRT fits the connection perfectly, it is not being recognised on bootup and stays black.
I'm presuming that the monitor is alot older than the CPU. is it possible to get a male/male adaptor cable so i can plug it directly into the CPU's motherboard and if i do this, will it be sufficient to make it work?
apprently there is windows XP on the CPU. i can't see that though obviously LOL!!!
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yeah, i'm almost certainly doing something wrong. thanks for your help.
If the computer has DVI male, you simply need a VGA to DVI adapter.
However, the plugs on the computer should all be male, and cables coming from the monitor female. It seems you may be trying the wrong port.
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UNIVERSITY PARK -- With one toss of a dirt-filled shovel, former President George. W. Bush signaled Tuesday that the work is under way on his presidential library complex.
After about an hour of speeches, Bush -- surrounded by his wife, Laura, and other dignitaries -- officially broke ground on the George W. Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University.
"It's hard to believe there's this much excitement about turning dirt," Bush told a crowd of about 3,000 under a large white tent.
The center, which includes a library, museum and policy institute, is scheduled to open in 2013. After thanking all those involved with it, Bush talked briefly about how life has changed since he left the White House in 2009.
"I really don't miss much about Washington, but I do miss being your commander-in-chief," he said.
Bush said he's staying out of politics, but not out of public policy. This center and his new institute will focus on issues such as education, healthcare and women's issues.
"This is the beginning of a process," he said. "It's the continuation of a journey that began over a decade ago."
Tuesday's "Breaking New Ground" ceremony honored soldiers from Fort Hood and featured a prayer by the Rev. Mark Craig of Highland Park United Methodist Church. It also reunited the old guard that surrounded Bush in Washington, D.C.
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Remember the mostest Twanzphobic Oscars last year? Yep, teh horrors of it all, a manz pretending to be a manz pretending to be a woman! Yep, that's right, Jared Leto twanzphobically accepting the Oscar for his twanzfaced-womanface.
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Quick, alert T-CAS—Island Twanzphobia!
Yes, I could not believe what I was seeing, when viewing this article about the Cocos Islands (read the photo description).
Breaking news: Female violence against menz!
Except it looks *a lot like* male violence against males.
Pregnant 'people' and toasters
What could have been an otherwise excellent article on DIY abortion, degenerated about half way along:
As soon as I could, I rounded up my closest friends for a knowledge-sharing session at home in Austin. I made modifications of my own to the training documents: I edited the gendered language in the instructions as much as possible, to better accommodate trans and genderqueer folks who don't identify as women but who might need abortions.


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Professor John McCourt has been appointed as director of CRISIS by Professor Mario Panizza, rettore of Università Roma Tre. He takes over from Professor Richard Ambrosini.
John McCourt is Associate Professor of English literature at the Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature, e Culture Straniere at Roma Tre. He is the author of James Joyce: A Passionate Exile (London: Orion Books, and New York: St Martin's Press, 2000) and of The Years of Bloom: Joyce in Trieste 1904-1920. (Dublin: Lilliput Press and Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000). An extended Italian version, James Joyce Gli Anni di Bloom was published by Mondadori in 2004 and won the Comisso Price. He has been guest editor of the James Joyce Quarterly and is a Trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation and a member of the academic board of the Yeats summer school. In 2009 his edited collection, James Joyce in Context, was published by Cambridge University Press. He published Questioni Biografiche: Le tante vite di Yeats and Joyce with Bulzoni in February 2010 and another edited collection, Roll Away the Reel World: James Joyce and the Cinema Volta appeared the same year with Cork University Press. In 2007 McCourt was awarded the Cattedrali Europee Prize in Rome for his work in Joyce Studies.
His Writing the Frontier: Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland will be published by Oxford University Press in April 2015.


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Two teams stuggling to stay relevant in their respective playoff races meet as the Braves and Orioles begin a three-game series in Crabtown. Baltimore has been very good at home this season, while Atlanta is a troubled road outfit, but tonight's line seems a bit out of whack.
Braves-Orioles Monday Betting Odds
Most of Monday's MLB betting market opened Baltimore and Kevin Gausman at around -160 over
Atlanta and lefty Alex Wood, then bumped the O's a dime and more. As of this writing the best line we could find on Baltimore was the -170 offered at BetOnline, while Atlanta was getting +170 at 5Dimes. Also, every book we sampled was listing a total of 7.5 runs on tonight's game, with most of the grease leaning toward the OVER.
The Situation
Baltimore just took two of three games at Tampa over the weekend, winning Sunday's series rubber match 5-2. So the Orioles are 4-5 since the All-Star break.
At 48-49 Baltimore trails the first-place Yankees by seven games in the AL East, but sits just 3.5 games back of Minnesota in the battle for the second American League wild-card spot.
Atlanta, meanwhile, just dropped two of three games at St. Louis over the weekend, avoiding the sweep with a 3-2 victory Sunday. So the Braves are also 4-5 since the All-Star break, and 7-1-1 on the UNDERS, as their recent games have trended low-scoring.
At 46-52 Atlanta trails first-place Washington by 6.5 games in the NL East, and sits eight games back in the fight for the second National League wild-card slot.
Venue-wise, the Orioles are 27-18 at home this season, while the Braves are 20-32 on the road.
These teams haven't met since 2012, when the O's took two of three games from the Braves down at Turner Field.
Monday's Pitching Match-Up
Gausman (1-2, 5.18) is just one-for-four on quality starts since joining the Baltimore rotation a month ago. In his first two starts, following eight appearances in relief, Gausman held Toronto and Texas, two of the better lineups in baseball, to two runs through 11 1/3 innings. But in his last two start against Minnesota and the Yankees, separated by a short stint down in Triple-A, he's been touched for 11 earned runs through 9 2/3 innings. On the season Gausman has allowed 32 hits through 33 innings, with 11 walks and 29 strikeouts.
Baltimore is 1-3 in Gausman's starts, and yet the UNDERS have also gone 3-1, because the Orioles have scored a total of 11 runs through his four starts.
Wood (7-6, 3.78) is just six-for-19 on quality starts this season, and 0 for his last three. Last Tuesday he gave up three runs in 6 2/3 innings against the Dodgers (which in our book is not a quality start because it's a 4.05 ERA), and over his last three outings he's allowed 14 runs through 18 1/3 innings. For the season Wood has given up 129 hits through 112 innings, walked 34 and struck out 83.
The Braves are 8-11 in Wood's starts, with the totals leaning OVER by a 9-7 margin.
Neither of these pitchers has ever started against tonight's opponents, which could give them an advantage on the hitters tonight, at least for the first couple of times through the lineup.
Monday's Batting Splits
Atlanta ranks 12th in the Majors this season against right-handed pitching with a .258 team batting average, and 13th with a .319 team on-base percentage.
Baltimore, meanwhile, ranks ninth against left-handed pitching with a .258 batting average but just 23rd in team OBP at .304.
Ballpark Totals Factor
Games played at Camden Yards this season are 26-20 on the UNDERS, even though they're averaging 8.9 runs per.
Injury Update
Atlanta is without closer Jason Grilli, who's gone for the season with a torn Achilles. In his place Jim Johnson, who saved 101 games for the Orioles back in 2012-13, has gone four-for-four on save opportunities. But the Braves got some good news over the weekend with the return of 1B Freddie Freeman.
Braves-Orioles Monday Free Picks
We'll call the pitching match-up a wash, as neither starter inspires much betting confidence. Also, while Atlanta owns a short edge with the sticks (runs per game not withstanding), Baltimore owns the better bullpen. So in considering tonight's betting line we believe the value resides with the Braves. Also, the total on this game seems about a run too low, so we like the OVER as our MLB pick.
MLB Picks: Atlanta +170 at 5Dimes and OVER 7.5 runs (-110) at Heritage


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Chris van der Borgh is assistant professor at the Centre for Conflict Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He specializes in issues such as conflict analysis, political development and international conflict resolution and peace building. His recent research deals with the contentious processes of international intervention and post-war reconstruction. He published, inter alia, on parallel governance and the resistance against international statebuilding in Kosovo and about the conflicts and negotiations about security provisioning in post-Qaddafi Libya. He has extensive field experience – both as a practitioner and a scholar - in El Salvador. His PhD thesis (1999, Utrecht University) deals with the role of external donors in processes of local development and peacebuilding in El Salvador. Recent publications about El Salvador are on street gangs and government and international policies dealing with this new security threat in El Salvador. Over the past decades Chris van der Borgh was a guest lecturer at several universities, including the University of Copenhagen, the European Peace University of Stadtschlainung and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Chris worked for several NGOs as a consultant. Most recently he led a project on the pressures on NGOs in partial democracies for the Dutch NGO ICCO. The results of this study were discussed in a side-event of the UN in New York in 2012 and the study was published by Palgrave in August 2014.
Current research projects:- Gangs and anti-gang policies in Central America (with Dr. Wim Savenije, FLACSO San Salvador / Buenos Aires). - Contested state building in Kosovo.- Political space of NGOs in partial democracies. A comparative study of Honduras, Guatemala, Indonesia and Philipines (with Dr. Carolijn Terwindt, Max Planck Instutite, Freiburg).


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I can get as far as Chapter 14 in this game, but after the "Mission Complete" screen, the game crashes. I tried beating the stage legitly and using the "win level" cheat, neither of which work. Halp plz. D:
you do realize that chapter 14 is the final level ? there's nothing after it except the outro.
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I did not know that. I had assumed I would have to fight a mutated Muro since I only fought human Muro, but I guess that's related to my decision to spare Griffin in Chapter 13.
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Payday Loans in Conway SC
There comes a time in everyone's life in Conway South Carolina when one is in need of a little bit of money in Conway. These days it is getting harder and harder for someone in Conway SC to get that few extra dollars in Conway and it seems like problems are just popping up in Conway from nowhere. What do you do when these things happen in Conway? Curl into a ball and hope it all goes away? You do something about it in Conway and the best thing to do is get bad credit loans.
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Using the internet means getting instant cash advances service. No more waiting in queues all day long in Conway without even the assurance that your proposal will be accepted in Conway South Carolina. Take for instance if it is cash advances. You can get approval virtually in an instant in Conway which means that unexpected emergency is looked after in Conway SC.
What about bad credit in Conway? Banks always do credit checks on their clients in Conway and if you have bad credit you can forget about it. Not with short term loans, some sites claim that no credit checks are required so whether your credit is good or not in Conway, you still get the money you need.
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As with any cash advances, the money is supposed to be paid back in Conway and therefore there are interest rates to be paid in Conway South Carolina. Sometimes just looking at the interest rates at a bank can make you think twice about getting cash advance loans. In an ordinary bank depending on what your status is in Conway you could be charged anything from about three percent in Conway to as high as seven percent. With short term loans you can expect some interest rates in Conway as low as 1.2 percent, which is a good deal. So many people in Conway are using internet banking nowadays it's a wonder why banks are still in use in Conway.
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Most of the time in Conway South Carolina, we frequently find ourselves in situations in Conway where credit cards aren't the favored or favored way of payment in Conway. In such scenarios including a trip upcountry in Conway, hard cash is usually the most favored method of payment. Nevertheless in Conway, there are times when you might find yourself in Conway without enough cash in your bank account. The quickest choice in Conway to get cash in this scenario is choosing a cash advances in your bank card or charge card. cash advances provide you with the simplest and handiest method in Conway of getting cash as you don't need having cash in your own bank account in Conway South Carolina.
A cash advance loans describes the cash advances which a cardholder can choose against their bank card. This is a short term loans service that enables credit cardholders in Conway SC to withdraw cash as much as a specific limitation in Conway through either an ATM or over the counter. This short term loans service is offered by the majority of charge card in Conway SC and bank card issuers with the rate of interest in Conway of about 3 to 5 percent of the sum borrowed in Conway, which begins compounding in the day the cash is borrowed in Conway SC. Typically, the interests of bad credit loans made on a credit card are frequently increased compared to other charge card transactions in Conway South Carolina.
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Despite the fact in Conway that my insurance is decent, the deductible is still quite high in Conway SC, in the thousands. This momentous change in my own life in Conway led me to locate some ready cash subsequent to the hospitalization in Conway. I wanted cash advances instantly, not some vague time later on in Conway South Carolina, but enjoy right now! So, I'd passed by those unsecure cash advance loans facilities on my approach to work frequent, as well as used one once to purchase a cash order.
I saw the hint they do give cash advances fast, as long as one has the right info in Conway SC and will reveal present income on a steady basis in Conway. I figured what the heck in Conway, I'd like to give it a shot in Conway, all they can do is say no in Conway. But they did not in Conway South Carolina, and they were quite nice to deal with in Conway.
I realized in Conway after I was told regarding the interest rates in Conway that I Had need certainly to cover in Conway on a monthly basis if I did not pay off the short term loans entirely, but I also understood that with the amount in Conway of cash that I needed to borrow in Conway, I could manage the price. Basically I needed to borrow in Conway SC two hundred dollars and I'd must cover around thirty dollars in Conway for the cash advance loans.
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When many folks think about cash advance loans, the image that comes to mind is the fact that of cash advances like mortgages and vehicle funding in Conway which can be designed in ways that lets an individual in Conway borrow lots of cash and refund with interest over many years in Conway. Contrary to this thinking in Conway, there are in fact several other forms of fast cash loans which exist like personal loans. Even though both long and unsecure cash advance loans are almost the exact same except in Conway for the term of payment, short term loans are managed in a somewhat different way than their cash advance loans counterparts for example factors in Conway for security and interest can vary significantly in Conway South Carolina.
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The sort of credit in Conway SC you take is dependent upon your circumstance in Conway and its particular important in Conway to do a bit of research to discover which personal loans is the most acceptable for you in Conway South Carolina.
When buying cash advance loans lender, it will be a good idea in Conway to take into account the exact same cash advances lenders you'd use for extended term unsecure loans for example banks as well as capital companies in Conway as they offer various kinds of fast cash loans with a number of them designed especially in Conway South Carolina for the temporary borrower in Conway. Additionally, this is significant as they're going to in Conway SC manage you professionally in the event you miss a personal loans payment contrary to other personal loans lenders who'd be fast to take over in Conway your security asset or fine you unfairly in Conway. As soon as you get the cash it is imperative to ensure you pay your personal loans payments in time because jumping in Conway will bring about substantial fees in Conway and fines which is only going to in Conway take you back financially.
At some point in Conway SC nearly everybody finds they have a dependence in Conway on cash they simply do not have in Conway South Carolina. When this occurs you're probably going in Conway to want financing. Among the easiest resources of unsecure cash advance loans in the event that you are looking in Conway for some quick cash are cash advance loans.
The procedure for obtaining a short term loans is fairly clear-cut. You may get them either in person in Conway or on the internet. In either situation you're in Conway likely to require a duplicate of your pay statement in Conway along with your banking info. Typically you'll be permitted in Conway to borrow up fifty percent in Conway South Carolina of your take home pay. Some bad credit loans lenders, especially on-line cash advances lenders will need you to get paid by direct deposit. The unsecure cash advance loans should be paid back in full in Conway in your next payday in Conway. Typically it's going to be taken right in Conway from the bank account although in Conway there are a few cash advances lenders that will still need you to leave a check in Conway South Carolina.
While short term loans definitely have their edges there are several drawbacks in Conway, the largest is the fee in Conway. This can be a extremely expensive in Conway approach to borrow cash in Conway. Not only is there a high-interest rate in Conway there can also be fees connected to the cash advances, it is necessary to be certain in Conway you know how much it's planning to set you back in Conway in total before you take out the cash advance loans.
The enormous advantage that short term loans have is that nearly anybody can qualify in Conway South Carolina, when you yourself are employed plus in Conway a bank account you'll be approved in Conway SC. There's no credit check so even when you yourself experienced some financial hardships previously this is not going to prevent you from receiving your hard earned cash. Another big benefit is you will get your bad credit loans immediately, in many situations in Conway immediately, certainly this can be enormous in Conway for those who are in possession in Conway of a urgent demand.
Another thing in Conway to be on the lookout for when taking out unsecure bad credit loans is the fact that it might be super easy in Conway to fall right into a cycle of relying to them in Conway. Bear in mind which you must pay the personal loans back in full out of your following paycheck in Conway South Carolina. This implies you will probably need to use greater in Conway than half your pay to the unsecure loans. It then becomes really simple in Conway SC to take out another personal loans to allow you to get through in Conway for your next payday. In the event in Conway that you are doing this a couple times in Conway it's likely to get extremely expensive in Conway which means you must actually be mindful in Conway South Carolina.


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Like it or not, bugs aren't going anywhere—and it's clear that they continue to both horrify and fascinate us.
Our story last week squashed some of the more persistent bug myths, but it also generated many more urban legends and questions suggested by our readers. So we just had to do a follow-up.
Here's what the experts had to say about giant killer bugs, pesky fleas, and beetles that supposedly devour human flesh.
In the movie The Mummy, scarab beetles attack people, crawling under their skin and eating them alive. Can scarab beetles actually do this?
"The word 'scarab' is used to describe any member of the beetle family Scarabaeidae," May Berenbaum, an entomologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, said in an email. But it's also used to refer to the Egyptian scarab beetle, Scarabaeus sacer, which is a kind of dung beetle, she says.
Egyptian scarab beetles "are anatomically equipped for moving in and around excrement and digging into the ground to bury [their] dung balls," Berenbaum says. "They'd have a hard time penetrating skin and then maneuvering through flesh."
But there is a medical condition known as either canthariasis or scarabiasis, which describes a rare, temporary infestation of a person's gut or face with beetle adults or larvae. A 2008 report in the journal Indian Pediatrics described such a case in a four-year-old girl from a village in India.
The beetles could enter a human body through the anus while in search of food, Berenbaum notes.
Most people don't have to worry about this, though: "Generally, this condition is restricted to places where basic hygiene practices are ignored or abandoned," says Berenbaum.
Can fleas live on a human body, and if so, for how long?
"In the United States, we do not have flea species that reside on people," says Michael Dryden, a veterinarian professor who studies fleas at Kansas State University. There is a group of fleas in the genus Pulex that can call primates—including us—home. But they are fairly rare in industrialized nations such as the U.S., he explains.
During Europe's Middle Ages and America's colonial days, those fleas were much more common on people. Now, when they do pop up in the U.S., they are found on animals like opossums, Dryden says.
Today, the flea species many of us are concerned about is Ctenocephalides felis, commonly found on cats and dogs, he adds. (See "How Do Fleas Jump? New Video Solves Mystery.")
"That flea will feed on us," Dryden explains. The females need a blood meal in order to produce eggs, much like mosquitoes do. But they don't call people home or lay eggs on us the way they do on cats, dogs, mountain lions, or opossums, he says.
No one knows why C. felis won't live on people, Dryden says. "There are over 2,200 species of fleas worldwide," the researcher says, with "over 400 species of fleas in North America." Some are quite picky and will live only on a particular host, while others "are more cosmopolitan in their tastes."
Is it true that when you squash a cockroach, you release their eggs? Would you then spread the eggs when you walked?
"No," says Roberto Pereira, an entomologist at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Cockroaches bundle their eggs in a hard brown casing called an ootheca, which they will then glue to surfaces including furniture.
Some species, like the German cockroach, will carry their ootheca on their abdomen until the eggs hatch. Madagascar hissing cockroaches will hatch their eggs inside their body and then release their young.
In any case, if you step on a cockroach, "you'll very likely kill everything," Pereira says, including any eggs or young ones. (See "Cockroaches Have Neighborhoods, Too.")
Could a nuclear blast or radiation leak produce giant killer insects?
"No," says Dan Babbitt, manager of the insect zoo and butterfly pavilion at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. There's a limit to how large insects can get, thanks to how they breathe.
Since they don't have lungs, they breathe through tiny tubes that run from the surface of their body down to their cells. It's a passive connection that relies on a specific concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere, Babbitt explains.
With the amount of oxygen swirling in our atmosphere today, you wouldn't be able to get a giant insect like you see in B-list horror movies.
During the Carboniferous period 359 to 299 million years ago, however, there was a lot more oxygen in Earth's atmosphere than there is now, Babbitt says. And so that period of Earth's history supported insects that were much larger than the ones today.
There were dragonflies with 12-inch (30-centimeter) wingspans and "spiders the size of a garbage-can lid," Babbitt explains.
Can spiders really lay their eggs in a person's skin?A brown recluse spider. Its bite can result in nasty, necrotic wounds. Photograph by Alex Wild, Visuals Unlimited/Corbis
"It's very unlikely," says the University of Illinois's Berenbaum. The structure they use to lay their eggs, called an ovipositor, isn't really built to do any injecting, she explains.
"I suppose a spider could drop or plaster eggs on the skin's surface," Berenbaum says, "but it's not clear why a spider would want to do such a thing." (See National Geographic pictures of beautiful insect eggs.)
The Smithsonian's Babbitt adds that spiders usually wrap their eggs in silk, forming a little sac or ball. And they generally leave those sacs on a web or in a covered area like under a stone. "But never on an animal as far as I know," he says.
Is it true that cockroaches can't crawl backward? If they crawl into an ear, would they be able to make it back out?
"A lot of insects are not great at moving backward," says Babbitt. That's partly due to the fact that many of them have spines on their legs that make it difficult to back out of a narrow passage, he explains.
The University of Florida's Pereira decided to test whether a German cockroach could back out of a narrow, clear plastic tube. It did in fact wriggle backward, he says, trying to get itself out of the tube.
So it's not unreasonable to think that "given a chance, [a cockroach] would back out of an ear," Pereira says.
Are there instances of insects preserved in amber being infested with twisted-wing parasites?
This isn't strictly a myth or urban legend, but the thought of insect parasites being entombed with their victims for millennia is intriguing.
Modern twisted-wing parasitoids, also known as strepsipterans, are parasites that live inside a group of insects including bees, wasps, and grasshoppers.
Young twisted-wing parasitoids burrow their way into a suitable insect or spider host and feed off of it until they can emerge as adults. (Also see "'Vampire' Parasite Found Entombed in Amber.")
There are, in fact, several lineages of strepsipterans found in amber, says Conrad Labandeira, curator of fossil arthropods at the National Museum of Natural History. The oldest such specimens go back to the Eocene period, between 37 and 56 million years ago.
Researchers have found both male and female adults locked in amber, Labandeira says. But he can't recall an instance where an insect host and the twisted-wing parasitoid were both found in the same piece of amber.
There are instances where host insects trapped in amber have nematodes—parasitoids that look like skinny worms—with them. (See "Photo: Mite Attacking Ant Entombed in Amber, Oldest Fossil of Its Kind.")
The parasitoids are frozen in the act of crawling out of the host. "You can see the nematodes trying to escape into the amber," Labandeira says.
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World War II vet uses rewards program
to help Iowa post grow with city.
As the winds blow across suburban Ankeny, Iowa, the sight and sound of U.S. flags is ever-present, due in part to Gerald Ballard. Since 1986, the World War II Coast Guard veteran and member of Albaugh-McGovern Post 42 has been selling flags to businesses in his community to keep his post afloat and flag etiquette in check.
Ballard, 91, has 105 customers and is getting more all the time, as Ankeny grows in size and population. He sells more than 400 flags annually and nets the post a tidy sum for his efforts. "It's to support my Legion post," he says. "I'm not bragging, but I make the post $6,000 to $7,000 per year, and that feels pretty good. I was in the feed business for 37 years and was my own salesman, so I figured I was cut out for it."
Mitchell Arney, Post 42's adjutant, says Ballard has long been the backbone of the post and is the Legionnaire who first signed him up for membership.
"He is the foundation of this post. He has been here forever and been involved in all of our activities, and gives more than 100 percent in everything he does," Arney says.
"Gerald has become the resource for people who want a quality flag and want to support The American Legion and our community."
Post 42 was near bankruptcy eight years ago when Ballard made a firm push to sell more flags and get it back on solid financial footing. Soon the post had money in the bank, and it now provides funds to several Legion youth programs, as well as groups and organizations in the community.
"The Legion flag sales are important for what we want to do," Ballard says. "If we want to continue to support the community, we've got to have some funds. The day is coming – I'm crowding 92 – when I won't be selling. But for now it's better than sitting in a chair."
The post has also benefited from the Flag Rewards program offered by American Legion Emblem Sales. Ballard and Post 42 participate in the program, and earned more than $1,100 in rewards in 2012 to spend in 2013. By purchasing U.S. flags from Emblem Sales, posts earn free credit to purchase virtually anything from the Emblem Sales catalog or website – including, but not limited to, awards, uniforms, shirts, caps, pins, coins, patches, flags and baseballs.
Post adjutants can sign up for Flag Rewards by contacting Emblem Sales at (888) 453-4466.


text: Markel The cautionary tale Marilyn Monroe's overdose left behind By Stateside Staff • Aug 8, 2016 Flickr user METROPOLITIAN TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK/Flickr / HTTP://J.MP/1SPGCL0 Listen Listening... / 8:13 Our conversation with Howard Markel The headlines were huge and screaming on April 21 this year: Prince, found dead in an elevator in his home. Cause of death? An opioid overdose. And before that, there was June 25, 2009. More screaming headlines: Michael Jackson died from an overdose of propofol, which helped him sleep, and anti-anxiety drugs called benzodiazepines. The headlines from 54 years ago told the same sad tale: film star Marilyn Monroe found dead in her Hollywood home. The cause? An overdose of prescription drugs.