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The Chickens Come Home To Roost
To listen to recent news broadcasts and commentary, one would think that the Republican Party missed its chance to stifle the emergence of Donald Trump by not coming out strongly against him shortly after he declared his run for the presidency. It is my contention that this is a problem that has been years in the making.
The Republicans have skewered all of the Democratic presidents over the past few decades as being unfit for office. Jimmy Carter was labeled a failed president although he kept us out of wars and was the first president to make a concerted effort at energy conservation. Although Bill Clinton was the last president within recent memory to leave office with a balanced budget, the Republicans continue to try to sell themselves as the party of fiscal responsibility. In addition, the Republicans attacked Clinton's main obvious weakness and found a way to impeach him.
On the night of President Obama's inauguration, Republican leaders met and plotted to assure that he would have a failed presidency. They attempted to do this by blocking any initiative that he would take, even those that they had previously endorsed. After doing so, they then claimed that President Obama refused to work with them.
The attacks on President Obama have been relentless throughout his time in office. When ridiculous claims about his place of birth were raised, the leaders of the Republican Party refused to dismiss those notions. When a Republican member of Congress shouted, "You lie," during a State of the Union address, there was silence from the Republican leadership.
The truth is that the Republicans continue to be the "Stupid Party." Despite overwhelming evidence, they steadfastly deny that global climate change is caused by the burning fossil fuels. Marco Rubio had great difficulty trying to decide if the earth was 6000 years old or 4 billion years old. Many of their candidates would not allow abortion even in instances of rape, incest or to save the life of the mother. Supply side economics remains the gospel of the party – despite the fact that it has been totally disproven.
And now they're worried about the emergence of Donald Trump. They laid the groundwork for his rise years ago. Mitt Romney recently labeled Donald Trump as a fraud and a phony. I agree. That, I feel, is also an apt description for the modern Republican Party.


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Federal Reserve and the opaque banking syndicate – If the economy were booming why does the Fed still hold over $2.5 trillion in securities? $640 billion current fiscal year budget deficit.
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The Federal Reserve is one giant black box of financial mysticism in our economy. At least that is what the Fed wants the public to think so it can remain shrouded in mystery. Since the crisis slammed our economy and the bailouts started in mass, calls for greater Federal Reserve transparency have been echoed in a non-partisan voice. The protectors of the Fed are largely part of the banking syndicate that have used this institution as one giant washer machine to recycle taxpayer money and convoluted the true intent of the original bailouts. Some in the public seem to think that the bailouts have all been repaid and suddenly the economy is back on even footing. Nothing can be further from the truth. To the contrary, the digital printing press is humming at a feverish pitch but the mainstream media has failed to convey the biggest financial story in any meaningful way. How can a multi-trillion dollar swindle occur with very little media scrutiny? The media would rather focus on Dancing with the Stars or some other flavor of the day reality show instead of confronting the financial system that runs our economy.
Federal Reserve still holding onto crisis like position
In more stable times, the Federal Reserve held roughly $750 billion of traditional security holdings like U.S. Treasuries. This is largely a role of a central bank until in late 2007 the Fed started breaking its historical mandate and venturing into uncharted territory purchasing whatever the banks flung its way. Today the Fed holds over $2.5 trillion in a grab bag of securities. We really don't know the quality of what is being held but if structures like Maiden Lane are any indication the Fed is holding onto toxic debt waste of the bubble days.
Yet Bloomberg has won a first in the 98 year history of the Fed to actually have a court order release the details of the Fed's bailout actions:
"(Bloomberg) The order marks the first time a court has forced the Fed to reveal the names of banks that borrowed from its oldest lending program, the 98-year-old discount window. The disclosures, together with details of six bailout programs released by the central bank in December under a congressional mandate, would give taxpayers insight into the Fed's unprecedented $3.5 trillion effort to stem the 2008 financial panic.
"I can't recall that the Fed was ever sued and forced to release information" in its 98-year history, said Allan H. Meltzer, the author of three books on the U.S central bank and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh."
Keep in mind this is occurring contrary to the Federal Reserve's initial desires. If it were in their hands you would not even have a clue what was going on in their black box. $3.5 trillion in bailout actions to stop the 2008 financial panic yet taxpayers have no access to the crucial information as to how all this occurred. We already know from the way the stock market and banks are ripping through profits where the bailouts were geared. In the meantime the middle class contracts even further.
Spending tomorrow's money
Part of the reason the Fed is still holding onto a record amount of securities is that we are spending more than we earn as a nation. For the fiscal year, we are in the hole to the tune of $640 billion. In the last fiscal year we ran a $1.2 trillion deficit so this year we are on track either to tie or pass that mark. This of course is completely unsustainable. Part of the reason we ended up in this financial crisis in the first place is because we were spending more than we were earning. So the solution is to spend more than we earn yet again?
This is a very big problem and given the rising costs of items like Medicare it is likely to continue even with a growing economy because of our aging population and rapidly rising healthcare costs. The only way to address these issues is to either curb healthcare costs or find other sources of revenue or to expand the economy. Last month we spent $47 billion on the Department of Defense. How long can we simply continue to spend money that we don't have? Is it any wonder that over the last decade the U.S. dollar has taken a massive beating?
People may not see the direct correlation to their daily lives but the fact that we now have a higher structural unemployment rate with lower wages and increasing costs of daily goods should tell you that Americans are paying for all of the above by a slowly decreasing quality of life. Take a look at the agricultural index over the last few years:
The agricultural index is up 96 percent from the low reached in late 2008. This translates into higher food costs and many are feeling it even though the CPI with the heavy weighting on housing does not reflect this change.
The banking system is inundated with toxic loans. Many sit in the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve since no one in the open market wants to touch this junk. Anyone really looking to buy a strip mall in the middle of the desert? Because of this, the Fed wants to lure in more and more home buyers with artificially low interest rates and hopes to unload some of these homes at a time when inflation can eat away some of the bubble mania. Yet prices rose so high and so quick that the Fed is still at their peak in terms of their holdings. That is why the Fed is still keeping rates near zero percent:
So what is the banking and government solution to our predicament? Keep deficit spending and allow the banks to use the Fed as their corporate mark to market suspension account for all the bad loans of the last decade. Slowly over time the cost will be shifted to working and middle class Americans in a process designed to strip and destroy the middle class. All of this is intentional and calculated. If the Fed had the best interest of the public they would have been open and transparent about their bailouts from day one. So here we are, a very long time into the crisis of 2007/2008 when the Fed ushered in unprecedented bailouts and we are only now about to find out who really got what. Will this even be covered in the media?
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tyler said:
Well written and good article. The fed has acted like the big banks, venturing out of what they are supposed to do. The big banks aren't making enough just being banks so now they are "investment" banks. I don't know if I would call jp morgan or goldman sachs investors considering they didn't have a losing trading day all last year. The game is rigged and the fed is the rigger.
I'm glad you continue to write really good articles. Part of being a writer involves getting feed back and I don't know why no one ever leaves a comment on your site, myself included.March 22nd, 2011 at 2:56 pm
kimboslice said:
I think that the Fed may like secrecy to avoid public panic and distrust, which may have negative financial consequences. I also believe the Fed, like all other organizations, likes to be independent and hide what it does from those who would perhaps control it. The wealth that Americans have lost was fake home equity that was a bubble. This is gone forever. The only way for Americans to create true wealth is by innovation, increased productivity, investment, and saving. We need increased productivity of everything, especially energy. We need to encourage jobs for Americans, products made by Americans, and American investment and saving must be rewarded, not punished by our government.March 23rd, 2011 at 1:59 pm

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Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Match day...
First of all - Happy Valentine's Day! I hope you were able to tell all your loved ones how you feel for them: good or bad :)
Yesterday was Match day. The day when the magical computer program does whatever it does and medical students find out where they will spend the next years of their lives. At least, if you go to an Osteopathic medical school...
As I've stated before, I go to an Osteopathic medical school and I've chosen to participate in the AOA match - for better or worse. So, yesterday was the day I learned my fate, where I will spend the next year training as an intern.
It really is not as bad as it sounds. My fiance and I (it feels weird to type that word here instead of girlfriend, but I should call her by the correct title) went through the match as a couple, and so we are both going to the same hospital. It wasn't our first choice, nor our second, but at least we didn't have to go too far down the list and at least we matched!
We will be spending the next year at
Geisinger Medical Center
Danville, PA.
I interviewed there in the beginning of January and liked it - even though it is truly in the middle of nowhere. The hospital is actually HUGE and has a cachement area of over 2.5 million people. This single hospital serves as a tertiary referral center for most of central and northeastern Pennsylvania. Other good things about the hospital include an active Emergency medicine program (which makes me happy) and a pediatric hospital attached to the main hospital (which should make her happy). Downsides include the relative isolation of the hospital, the size of the town, and the fact that it is one of two programs to which we applied that are not dually accredited by the AOA and the ACGME. While I do not think this will be a program given the volume of patients the hospital treats, we mostly applied to dually accredited programs to ensure the training we received meets the highest standards.
While I am disappointed we didn't match at our #1 or 2 program, I'm actually excited to be going to Geisinger. I think it will be a good experience. I think it will be exciting to live in an area completely surrounded by mountains (you can't look in any direction and not see them), and it can't hurt to be within 1 or 2 hours drive of a half-dozen ski resorts. The area is also purported to have excellent hiking trails and picturesque state and national parks within close proximity. It doesn't hurt that Danville is also
King of Prussia Mall
. I know she'll be happy about that - she'd spend all day, every day at that mall if she thought she could get away with it!! New York City is also within 3 hours, with its endless entertainment opportunities!
I just wish I knew we'd actually have time for all this fun!
Of course, I still haven't even considered having to re-apply for residency next year - but that is another post for another time. I still have a new Personal statement to write and a wedding to plan!
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Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Delayed Gratification
As if going through college, applying for medical school, and going to classes for more years than you thought you were capable wasn't bad enough, after you're done with all that and your life-long dream of becoming a physician has finally come true, you're faced with residency.
Or, in my case: Internship, then residency.
Why did I choose to pursue an internship before applying for and entering my final residency? Several reasons, actually.
While some may have no cares in the world, may fly through life willy-nilly with the only dream they have left being to complete their training and finally become that attending physician they've always dreamed they'd be - I have other dreams. I've dreamed many things, one of which is the very same as I just "said." Who wouldn't love to have no other obligations except to themselves? I know I would.
However, I've made choices that forever alter my course in life. I have others to concern myself with - my girlfriend being one of them. We are in a very committed relationship and have made the decision to try and stay together throughout our residency training - something that is not easy, but not impossible. We are couples matching, which means we have decided to link our rank lists in such a way that unless both of our lists match exactly with the programs we have ranked, neither of us will match. I don't foresee any problems next week or down the road. However, it is a choice that has altered my training decisions.
When I decided to attend an Osteopathic medical school, I made a committment as well - a committment to follow the recommendations and requirements of the governing body for Osteopathic physicians: the AOA. Currently, the AOA requires a traditional internship for licensure and acknowledgement by the AOA. Thusly, I have applied for an internship this year, and will be re-applying for my final residency next year.
Finally, both my girlfriend and I want to transplant to another part of the country. Since we have both spent some time in the northeastern part of the country and liked it, we've decided to seek our training in that part of the country.
Given this mixture of conditions, we've decided to pursue an internship together and to reapply for our final residencies next year. We both have decided that in order to be together, it is worth delaying our final training.
Besides, what is a year? I've spent 28 of them getting to this point.
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Monday, January 23, 2006
I'm so sorry...
As I stated in my main page, I've been very lazy and have not actually blogged in a few months. I feel terrible about it. Ah well. I can always pick it up again, right? All is forgiven and forgotten.
The latest news is such:
I received my scores for the COMLEX Step II PE in late December. I passed!!! Nothing to worry about now - smooth sailing until graduation.
I certified my match list today. Match day is February 13, 2006 - less than 3 weeks away! I'm so excited. Soon, I'll post my match list with some explainations.
Enough for now - I must go. I'm relaxing before bed so I can work again tomorrow.
Au revoire
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Wednesday, November 09, 2005
The "Doctor" Difference
I must admit that I've been reading
the StudentDoctor.net forums
too much and my perceptions have probably been just a bit jaded by some of the things I've read there. I already know that I am quite cynical by nature... I think I was born that way :)
Bear with me, I'm coming to my point:
About every week, there is an argument about who should or should not be called "doctor." I'm sick and tired of it and I think the term
should be abandoned completely.
Once upon a time,
meant teacher and friend. Somehow, over time, it has come to mean something more (or less, depending on your point of view). A
was a family friend (every family's friend, actually) who would take care of anyone because they needed the care. He was given respect for what he did and his willingness to come out at anytime, day or night, whenever he was needed.
Progressively, however,
has come to mean less and less
and more and more a demand for
, whether it was earned or not. I've written about this before - see
this link
for the previous post.
Now, there is concern, given the fact that patients are confused by numerous health care providers and hospital workers (nurses, techs, physical therapists, nutritionists, pharmacists, social workers, housekeeping, dietary, NPs, PAs, and physicians) and begin to call all of them "doctor." Is there anything wrong with this? Yes and no. There is nothing wrong with it if the person corrects the patient and says "No, I'm not your doctor - I'm the nurse/dietitian/etc." What commonly happens, however, is the person does not correct the patient and merely goes about his/her job until finished and leaves the room. This creates confusion when the actual physician enters the room to evaluate the patient and the patient asks about something they told/asked that "other doctor" who was in fact housekeeping. See the problem?
The other complaint is what does one call a Ph.D? Ph.D is a doctorate degree and the person has the right to be called doctor, since they are a teacher, right? However, what happens if you have a RN, Ph.D? Is it then Doctor-nurse? While the nurse may have a doctorate degree in nursing, in the clinical setting he/she is not a clinical "doctor." More confusion for everyone, especially the poor patient. Consider all the other permutations - a Pharmacist who is a PharmD or a psychologist who has a PsyD, etc, etc. It only gets worse and worse with time.
My solution: noone is called "doctor" and everyone goes back to their proper titles. What was "doctor" is now "physician," PA is "physician assistant," NP is "nurse practitioner," etc. Ph.Ds will be called "professor," since Ph.D is a teaching or research degree and that is what college teachers are called. RN, Ph.Ds will be called "nurse" or "nurse practitioner" (depending on his/her training) in the clinical setting and "professor" in the research or teaching environment. Everyone will have the option of being called by his/her first and last name, however, so long as your job is clearly explained and displayed for the patient.
This will alleviate a lot of problems of confusion for everyone, and will stop some midlevel providers from trying to back-door their way into the title of "doctor" in an attempt to legitimize their plea for independent practice rights.
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Friday, October 28, 2005
Step II COMLEX and USMLE passed
I finally received the score from the COMLEX part II today (well, I didn't receive it - it was finally put online where I could view it). I passed, pretty convincingly. On COMLEX step 1, I scored in the 99th percentile nationally. I repeated that performance on step 2. The same for USMLE steps 1 and 2 - with the exception that I scored in about the 94th percentile on both in the nation. Still, very impressive in my opinion.
I'm still waiting on my PE score - which I think will be in about 3 months, but I may be surprised. They told us 10-12 weeks for scores to be released. I don't know what they are waiting for. They should have the score almost that day, except our progress notes, which they scan and send to various parts of the country to be graded by actual physicians. The rest of the exam is graded by the lay performers who are paid to act like they are sick.
Wonderful system, huh? Physicians being graded by people with no medical knowledge. Sounds like we're asking for trouble...
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Friday, October 21, 2005
As threatened, I took the physical examination portion of my medical board exams today - the COMLEX PE (Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing EXam) Physical Exam. Ever since I first heard we were going to be required to take this exam nearly 3 years ago, I have been (usually quite vehemently) opposed to it. When the president of the AOA (American Osteopathic Association) came to our school to "answer questions" (read: tell us what he wants us to know and avoid answering any questions we might ask), I was there asking what was the need for this exam when the schools test us on the exact same things that were to be tested on this exam.
The reasons we were given is that there was a "public outcry"to the schools of medicine to prove that their graduates are adequately trained to talk to patients and take medical histories and perform physical exams. This test has been around for years - it was previously administered only to foreign medical graduates who wished to enter residency training in this country, and it was called the Clinical Skills Assessment (CSA). Everyone knew the exam basically tested proficiency in spoken English language and had very little to do with actual clinical skills. This is one reason I opposed the exam - everyone graduating from a US medical school already has demonstrated English proficiency and does not need to be tested on their English language skills.
So, the arms on the clock have turned enough times that I have now taken this exam. Still, I claim it is a waste of time and a very large amount of money. The exam charge is $995.00, which is outrageous enough until one considers the exam is administered in only one place in the US - Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. This means that all 4th year students from all Osteopathic medical schools must travel to this one site and take the exam. Travel and lodging is not included in the exam fee, nor was it included in my loan disbursement. I was told that I would need to "budget carefully" to allow extra money to travel to the site and stay in a hotel (for an average of $150 per night) while there. All this to take a test that has not been proven to be necessary by any study or even common sense.
Needless to say, I'm a bit pissed. I'm even more angry after having taken the exam. It was poorly designed, poorly run, and I assume will be poorly scored. From what I understand, something on the order of 96% of exam-takers pass the test, if not more. This means that basically, I could have gone up there, given the NBOME my $1000 and (statistically) walked back out without having to waste a whole day taking this ridiculous exam.
Why is it poorly designed? Let me explain: The exam uses Standardized Patients (SPs) as their subjects. They are "extensively trained" to perfectly emulate whatever condition they are supposed to "have." They use a series of tricks to try to emulate physical exam findings - none of which are particularly successful or accurate. For instance, if one is trying to elicit reflexes and they want to show them to be decreased, they will contract their muscle as you strike the tendon, thereby diminishing the visible reflex. On the other hand, if they want to show hyperactive reflexes, they will exaggeratedly flex the muscle after the tendon is struck. These two are the most believable methods they use to fake physical exam findings. Others they use is saying "Hush, Hush" while you listen to their heart to fake a murmur, moving their chest wall and not actually breathing to emulate decreased breath sounds, whistling to emulate wheezes, and more.
The problem with these maneuvers is that they are not realistic, and they are frequently inaccurate. For instance, on several patients, I thought they were trying to emulate "crackles" in their lungs, but I could not tell what it was they were trying to do, since I had no idea what their "trick" for making crackles is. Maybe they were trying to emulate "crackles," but maybe they are just coarse breathers. I couldn't tell. All I know is that it didn't sound like any crackles I'd ever heard before.
I suppose we'll see how it all turns out in the end. I'm expecting my Pass/Fail score sometime in January 2006. I expect to have passed, but I really think it's a toss-up. I could have flipped a coin at the front desk and had just as good a feeling about the outcome of the exam as I do now. Funny for someone who always as people remark to him how good his clinical skills are, eh?
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Sunday, October 09, 2005
Another night on call
This is now my third call night - and the second with my current intern.
A few things have changed since my last call - we have a new attending, who everyone said was very hard-nosed and would chew you out for nothing. On the contrary, I have found her to be quite amiable and easy-going. This was a great relief, since our first day with this attending was after my second call. I was having palpitations at the thought of having to present all my patients to her from memory, since she does not like notes being used for presentations.
Anyway, aside from that big change, Ashleigh is now on my team. That means we are on call together - and also that we had Saturday off together. What did we do with our awesome time off? Well, we got rained on... a lot. It dumped about 6 inches of rain on us on Saturday, causing so much flooding it shut down many of the highways and flooded most of the major rivers in southeast Pennsylvania! The good news is that we left early enough in the morning that everything was not completely flooded and we got back just before they shut all the roads down.
We left at about 1130 to go to King of Prussia, Pennsylvania to their HUGE MONSTROUS mall. The mall is so big, it is two buildings!! Something like 400+ shops and restaurants are housed within this monstrous complex. It was freaking HUMONGOUS!! Other than that, I wasn't too impressed. I got to spend some time with Ashleigh, so that was nice, but I'm not a big mall person. Obviously, she is.
So, after my (almost) eventful day on Saturday, now it is Sunday (or by the time I'm done typing this, Monday) and I'm on call. So far, I've had one admission and one consult. The great thing about having Ashleigh on the team is that now we split the admissions :) That's ok - Ashleigh has only seen one consult and no admissions thus far. In fact, as I type this, she is asleep in the call room - hopefully for the rest of the night. I'm hoping we're done (knock on wood) for the evening.
The final BIG change that's happened in the past few days is that with the new attending came new rules. Since Ashleigh and I are 4th year medical students, we're now being treated more like interns - we are seeing our own patients (mostly) independently, writing their notes and their orders and having them co-signed by the intern. Our intern loves it, since he doesn't have to do much, aside from make sure we don't kill anyone :) Just kidding. I think we're doing pretty well for ourselves here.
Ok, I should probably go to bed soon, so I can be fresh and chipper in the morning for rounds bright and early.
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Ahhhhh.. 4th year. If the rumours are true, this will be a cake walk. Herein is my online account of my 4th year of medical school - follow with me to see if the hype is true or lie.
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A formal portrait taken of James Arthur Murosky as an infant. The photograph was likely taken late 1942 or early 1943.
James was born October 8, 1942 in Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania. He was the oldest child born to Arthur Murosky and Mary Eugenia McDonald.
This photograph is from the Helen Tillie Bukowski Collection. Photographer Unknown. Editing and digital restoration by Michelle M. Murosky.
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Though not every juvenile sex offender will reoffend as an adult, there are compelling reasons for ensuring that teens convicted of serious sex crimes spend a long time registered as sex offenders — maybe even the rest of their days, as Attorney General Derek Schmidt advocates.
One such reason is Mark Anthony Baker.
As Tim Potter reported in the Sunday Eagle, Baker's two convictions as a 15-year-old didn't necessitate that he be listed on the sex-offender registry kept by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
Now, at 25, he stands charged with murder and sodomy in the March death of his girlfriend's 19-month-old son, Zane Pennington. Potter also reported that Baker was under suspicion of sexually abusing a child in a separate incident in Kansas last year.
The Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services is performing a "comprehensive and exhaustive review of the facts of this tragic case," according to SRS Secretary Rob Siedlecki. If mistakes were made, SRS needs to learn from them and alter procedures as necessary.
And for the state's offender registry to work, parents and others in the public need to check it regularly (www.accesskansas.org/kbi/offender_registry/).
But they can't know who isn't on it but deserves to be.
Baker's Kansas crimes as a juvenile — two counts of aggravated indecent liberties against two girls when he was 14 — put him on the registry while he lived in Texas. But that listing was of little use to those who came into contact with Baker after he returned to the Parsons area last year.
Baker's case is a parent's nightmare — a convicted but unregistered sex offender spending time with a toddler he allegedly went on to abuse sexually and "intentionally shake, torture or cruelly beat" to death.
But it's a judge's and legislator's nightmare, too.
At the time Baker was sentenced for his earlier crimes, in 2002, judges had discretion about whether to put juveniles on the registry until they turned 18 or up to five years from the date of the offense (whichever was longer). Now, the law calls for juveniles convicted of aggravated sodomy and rape to go on the public registry for 15 years.
State lawmakers are finalizing Senate Bill 37, which includes the attorney general's proposal for serious juvenile sex offenders and will affect other issues related to the state's offender registry. As they do, they should think of Baker's case, and carefully weigh the juvenile sex offender's potential for rehabilitation against the public's right to know — and the risks of not knowing.


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So I know most of us are back to school and while we may be dreading wakingup in the morning, we shouldm't dread using our school supplies! I wanted to share some of my favorite things I have gotten/created for school.
Cute, Bow pencil pouch from Francescas. It's the perfect size.
These are two of my favorite binder cover ideas. I got the patterns from Pinterest, and just typed the classes on using Microsoft Word. I love them, because they are much more unique and personalized to me.
My Kate Spade Agenda is my love. It has the perfect amount of room to right things that I need to do and plan all the major events in my life. How can you resist stripes and polka dots?
Now I just wanted to talk about how I made my composition books. I got basic composition books from Offic depot, but then used fun paper and monogram stickers to make them my own. I can easily point them out in a group and plus they are totally my style.
Don't Let Grades Get You Down
I'm assuming almost everyone is back at school now and if not back yet is very close to starting. I have been back for about 3 weeks, and have already had several tests and quizzes and I have received some grades I'm ecstatic about and others I wish I could hide under a rock. Whether you have the hardest course load possible or a fairly easy one, bad grades are going to come and you have to be prepared to react to them. You can not start crying, because you failed an assignment. You can't let it faze you; you have to tell yourself, I may not have done my best on this assignment, but I will do better on the next. And then actually work harder the next time, spend 10 minutes extra to studying or try a new study technique. The important thing to remember is that there are other assignments, this will not be the only grade you ever get. Teachers will give you many more opportunities to prove your knowledge and that one bad grade will slowly become forgotten. This was my philosophy last year and I got all A's in honors and 2 AP classes. Don't give up hope or stop trying, because you get one bad grade. There is always a way to improve and get better, but it will require extreme work and dedication. I know we all have sports and clubs that occupy are time outside of school, but thats where organization and planning come into play(look for a post coming really soon). My main point is that even straight A students get F's sometimes and you can't let that ruin your day or your overall drive. You have to keep moving, keep pushing forward and if your grades aren't exactly what you want work a little harder. You will get the grade that you deserve in the end, just let the education system play itself out.


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By Jim Sack
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A few weeks back Fort Wayne Police Chief Rusty York came to City Council for authorization to purchase new technology for a couple patrol cars. Over the years Rusty has built up such creditability with Council and the community that hardly the first question was asked about the nature of the equipment he had in mind.
Rusty frequently comes to Council to upgrade patrol cars. Take a ride in one: officers are closing in on Robocop status given all the electronics that surround them and technology they wear. So, Rusty read from his application, asked for questions and was quickly dismissed with a do pass motion. It was so abrupt that everyone had a bit of a laugh. Council could have, and probably should have, spent a bit more time on the matter.
What Rusty asked for is part of a technological revolution in law enforcement, and while the technology offers greater efficiencies in catching thugs and thieves, the systems are fraught with civil rights questions.
The equipment will allow police to prowl the streets searching for specific license plate numbers with an optical reader call the Automated License Recognition System, ALRS. The system will allow officers to search for stolen cars while cruising in traffic or parked behind a billboard. Both oncoming, passing and parked cars can be scanned. Patrol cars can meander through neighborhoods or prowl Glenbrooks parking lot and simply wait for the system to tell them to stop. Ah, ha, beeps the machine, The license plate is stolen and does not belong to the car upon which it is mounted. Someday the machine will emit a voice that will tell officers details, such as the crime, the record of the associated crook, a physical description, the thugs record and other annotations that might speed the arrest and protect the officer. Scar on his neck, tattoo on his forehead and carries a knife in his boot.
The systems can also be deployed to issue traffic tickets for overtime parking, speeding, moving violations and more, and officers may never have to leave the comfort of their prowl cars. They can just send an SMS to parking control, who can then boot the car.
The system is not new. It was developed in England in the 1970s and refined over the years in Europe. The Dutch are big users, branching out from simply searching for thefts to using the electronics to measure traffic flow and adjusting timing on traffic lights. It works a bit like the drive through systems on toll roads offering an optical scan in milliseconds.
But, in England, where the use of closed circuit camera is ubiquitous, where a citizen is photographed repeatedly as they go about their legal business and where rioters and murderers are regularly caught in the act, the system is widely accepted. The first arrest using the device was made there in 1981.
The question before us in Fort Wayne is one of privacy and abuse. Fortuitously, the system will be paid for by the Federal Government. In some jurisdictions the systems are sponsored by insurance organizations and the proceeds are split with the incentives to tweak the system to generate more aggressive fining. You may remember the case of a Fort Wayne officer a few years back who was incentivized to issue citations and make arrests. He was reassigned after public outcry, but in reality it was the design of the system that encouraged zealousness that lead to his reassignment. That could easily happen again here with this system.
Have you ever tried to argue with a computer
in a court of law, with a testy judge starring at you and a lawyer ready to tie your tongue in knots? The ALRS is not perfect, it is still in development, so differences in license plate design and fonts can lead to misreads. And, infamously, Indiana uses the same number on different vanity plates, so matching a number is not sufficient evidence. Also, the ALRS is plagued by poor resolution, grime on plates, or plates that are too reflective. All lead to technological guesses or misses. Garbage in, garbage out still applies.
You can imagine companies that will spring up to manage the data sending bits of a comprehensive analysis of your driving patterns to retail billing; bits to law enforcement for the issuance of fines and points; bits to planners for their various uses; and something to the divorce investigator to build a case for infidelity. Someday you will receive a bill that will encompass all of your car related transactions payable to CarPal.
You can also imagine that traffic planners will drool at the idea of building data that would show traffic patterns and prove their cases for running a road through your living room.
Over time the system will integrate with hundreds of data bases around the country, then Interpol note on your plates the presence of a little bar code. Within our life times federal, state and local data bases will talk to each other. Within our lifetime myriad more business applications will be created. In both cases the use of technology will be used to benefit society, but will also be put to devious uses by a new generation of hackers, organized crime and petty scoundrels.
Council did the right thing in approving the system. The next step is working with legislators, prosecutors and others in other areas of government to envision the potential abuses and protect Hoosiers.
Many in Fort Wayne trust Rusty, with his compassionate smile and easy manner, but Rusty is about to retire.
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Hello, my name is Sigrid Barklund, and I'm currently a fourth-year medical student. Here are some pictures from a typical day on a fourth-year elective rotation (in this case rheumatology). Before you follow me around the hospital for the day, let me introduce myself. I'm originally from Idaho Falls, Idaho, and went to St. Kate's for my undergraduate degree where I majored in chemistry and philosophy. I didn't go medical school right away. I got a master's in chemistry from Caltech, then taught high school for a year before matriculating at Wash U. After graduation, I'm moving to Denver for my residency in dermatology at the University of Colorado.


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Who is A? Who tried to kill Hannah? Secrets will be revealed in the fourth novel (and final arc in the first quartet) of the Pretty Little Liars series.
My Review:
The fourth book in Sara Shedpard's Pretty Little Liars gave a great ending to one of the many plot lines – who is the first A? I was very happy that this story arc came to a close, since the mystery of A was beginning to become more of a bother than an interesting plot line.
Some of the characters do seem whiny and annoying, at least by an adult's standards, but it is fitting in the setting of the high school teenagers dealing with a crazy murderer.
This book will get you hooked from start to finish. With the tease of knowing who A is, you'll be grasping onto this book desperately and not wanting to let it go. Each character has a different chapter and it rotates so the reader gets many points of views within this final novel within the first quartet in Pretty Little Liars.
This book moved at a good, fast paced and the plot line was well thought out. There wasn't much more I wanted out of this book! The plot arc coming to a close made the four books arc perfectly over. I can't wait to get the fifth book in this series! This book was not as slow in the movement of plot as the first three were! Sara Shepard seems to be getting better and better with each PLL book that comes out.
If you have watched the television series you must be aware that this series does not follow directly with the show. This series was made first, and thus there was changes.
For readers who are not as impressed with this series as I am – every quartet is a great place to stop if you don't want to leave things off on a bad ending. Each quartet seems to have a good ending if you felt the need to stop, but there will still be a few unanswered questions. That being said, if you chose to stop here, it would help tie up most of the loose ends.
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Just watched a europa game today (fulham vs roma) and saw 2 additional referee, one at each goal line without a flag in their hands. Initially it does not seem right but then I remember that it is the experimental try out to have 2 more referees in a game for europa. What is the panel opinions on this? If the argument is to have 2 additional pairs of eyes to help the CR, then wouldn't more referees (maybe another 2 or 4) be better? Would it be even better to have those 2 referees sitting upstairs monitoring numerous video shots from different angles?
The changes to the laws at the elite level! How do you do that at the park level? I often referee as a single official!! Technology is a useful tool and the desire to get the decisions right may well create this plethora of video review and extra eyes but in my opinion the game changes are in line with NFL video review yet I still see wrong decisions with long delays. Hell they near lynched Esse at the world cup when video review did not show the initial foul at all. I am a traditionalist and 3 officials with a 4th works well as long as we stay within the spirit of the beautiful game. I do not want to see it become the wonders of a technology game! Cheers
Hi I'm a technologist and I see nothing wrong with a appointing a video referee who is miked up to the ref and assistants to assist in matter of fact. Technology would improve the situation significantly at the elite level with better decisions made with the use of video replay and slow motion. TV officials have been introduced by other sports successfully at the upper levels and football should IMO follow suit. These two extra officials IMO are extra cost and they will get these penalty area decisions wrong. The naked eye needs technology to help. Fact. As they are rolled out I see them creating far more problems that solving them. Problems are emerging already such as communication, differences of interpretation.
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HMRC has released details of an email address that has been set up for anyone wishing to make HMRC aware of different types of models being promoted as an alternative to the changes to the employment intermediaries legislation.
Over the years many of these schemes can appear with different names, ranging from EBTs to simple loan schemes. This isn't to say that all such models are set up deliberately to get around the new legislation, but should you have any concerns then you can, if you wish, provide the details to HMRC.
HMRC set up this email having received many requests from both companies and individuals to query such scheme's. HMRC anticipate that it will be used to provide copies of contracts being offered, which are of concern, so as to seek HMRC's technical view.
If you have any queries with contracts provided by such schemes, or companies claiming to be HMRC Approved or QC Approved, then the email address is: email@example.com
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Tallahassee – Today, Governor Rick Scott issued the following statement for Thanksgiving:
"As families throughout Florida gather with their loved ones to eat turkey, watch football and offer thanks for the year's blessings, it's important we remember the service of more than 6,000 Floridians who are currently serving abroad to protect our American freedoms. It's because of these courageous men and women that Floridians can enjoy the blessings of the holiday season. While many of these soldiers won't have the opportunity to enjoy a home cooked Thanksgiving meal with their loved ones, we are keeping all of them and their families in our thoughts and prayers this holiday season."


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Should You Use a Removal Company?
Moving home can be both stressful and expensive. Not only do you have to worry about the paperwork and the expense of acquiring your new home, you have to deal with the actual process of moving, including boxing everything up, loading it into a removal van, and then getting everything out at the other side. It can be tempting to try to handle this job yourself in an attempt to save money, but that will just add to the stress you feel on the big day. Letting the professionals handle the removals process makes sense from a practical and a financial point of view, in most cases, at least.
When to Hire a Removal Company
If you are moving from a small home to a bigger one, or even relocating your family for work, you will probably have a lot of stuff to move. This poses two problems. Firstly, some of that stuff is probably fragile, so you will be worried about making sure it gets to your new home safely. Secondly, some of that stuff is probably heavy. Do you really want to have to carry that huge chair down from the study and load it onto a van? Why not let someone who is good at moving stuff do that for you?
Some people are wary of using removal firms because they don't want to entrust their precious possessions to someone else, even for a little while. This concern is understandable, but if you choose a respectable removal firm it is unwarranted. The British Association of Removers (BAR) has a code of conduct which all its members must follow. This code of conduct lays out many things which removers must follow, including:
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- Their obligations to you as a mover
- How any disputes or issues must be handled if things go wrong
As long as you choose a removal service that is a member of the BAR, you can be confident that your possessions will be packed safely (if you choose to use the moving firm's packing service), loaded properly and securely, and transported promptly. This frees you up to focus on other things, such as keeping your children occupied, saying goodbye to your friends, or just relaxing on the day of the move.
When to Move DIY Style
If you're moving out of a small apartment and don't have a lot of stuff to take with you, then it makes sense to move it yourself. You can save a lot of money by boxing up everything you own and renting a reputable "man with a van". If you don't have a lot of items to move, of if those items are not especially fragile, and then you will not have any trouble handling the move yourself. This is especially true if you are moving into your first home and taking only small items such as books, DVDs or electronics. Since you don't have any furniture or appliances to move, you don't have to worry about heavy lifting, or protecting precious items that are easily damaged.
Moving is never easy, but you can make it less stressful. Think about how much you have to move, and be realistic about how much time it will take. If it's too much for you and a friend to do in an hour or two, consider leaving it to the professionals.
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Increasingly, Reuters' wacky leftism is just about beyond belief. Here is how Reuters tells the story of U.S. involvement in Somalia:
"A Somali gunman drives past a destroyed house in the streets of Mogadishu, September 24, 2003. The house is one among hundreds that was destroyed during fighting between rival Somali factions after the overthrow of dictator Mohammed Siad Barre in 1991. U.S. forces gunned down thousands of civilians including women and children in a failed hunt for a renegade clan leader, and then were withdrawn by an alarmed U.S. administration after one particularly tough battle horrified U.S. public opinion."
There you have it. American troops just went in and started slaughtering women and children for no apparent reason. And the dragging of U.S. servicemen's bodies through the streets was a "particularly tough battle." Yes, that's just how I remember it.
We are living in a very weird era, in which the mainstream news services don't even pretend to report the news factually, but rather make it up as they go along in service of a radical ideology held by only a small percentage of their readers. This would seem to be a losing business strategy, but they are undeterred. It appears that Reuters, the Associated Press and UPI will have to go out of business and be replaced by real news services, rather than propaganda outlets. But why they should choose this fate is hard to understand.
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The recent loss of a charger for my iPhone made me think about those brands whose loyal customers take brand loyalty to extreme. As I stood in the Apple store I marvelled at the glossy eyed stare of my fellow shoppers. Price sensitivity was not an issue here; desire for the brand and its products over ruled that. Apple, through its product ethos and marketing, has created in its hardcore customer base a personal investment in the brand. This is why people queue overnight when they release a new phone that looks exactly like the one in their pocket and the two other doppelgangers gathering dust in a drawer at home.
Apple is not alone in its ability to generate brand hysteria. Sony and Microsoft have done a similar job not with a DVD player and Excel but with the battle between the Playstation and Xbox games consoles. There is arguably very little technically different between the two but don't put that on a web forum unless you want to be bombarded. The platforms and the games on them engender fanatical loyalty.
This is not a new phenomenon. Pepsi drinkers have been arguing with Coca Cola drinkers since forever. Brands that become a lifestyle also generate the same level of love. From Harley Davidson to sports brands such as Adidas, each one manages, through very careful and clever brand management, to find a way into the hearts and lifestyles of their chosen target markets.
The best example I can give of what happens if you get it right is Sriracha sauce. It has a simple website, no Facebook or Twitter profiles and does not do any advertising at all in the
where it's based. Yet 20 million
bottles of the hot sauce were sold in the US in
2012 alone. It, like Spanx, Rolls Royce and Krispy Crème doughnuts spend nothing
on advertising and just concentrate on the product and the retail experience and
let the brand advocates do to talking and buying. That's careful brand
management, a science and an art form. US
Tim Youngman is director of marketing for Archant


text: Infectious risk associated with arterial catheters compared with central venous catheters*Lucet, Jean-Christophe MD, PhD; Bouadma, Lila MD; Zahar, Jean-Ralph MD; Schwebel, Carole MD; Geffroy, Arnaud MD; Pease, Sebastian MD; Herault, Marie-Christine MD; Haouache, Hakim MD; Adrie, Christophe MD; Thuong, Marie MD; Français, Adrien RT; Garrouste-Orgeas, Maïté MD; Timsit, Jean-François MD, PhDCritical Care Medicine: April 2010 - Volume 38 - Issue 4 - p 1030-1035 doi: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181d4502e Continuing Medical Education Articles Buy CME Abstract Author InformationAuthors Article MetricsMetrics Background: Scheduled replacement of central venous catheters and, by extension, arterial catheters, is not recommended because the daily risk of catheter-related infection is considered constant over time after the first catheter days. Arterial catheters are considered at lower risk for catheter-related infection than central venous catheters in the absence of conclusive evidence. Objectives: To compare the daily risk and risk factors for colonization and catheter-related infection between arterial catheters and central venous catheters. Methods: We used data from a trial of seven intensive care units evaluating different dressing change intervals and a chlorhexidine-impregnated sponge. We determined the daily hazard rate and identified risk factors for colonization using a marginal Cox model for clustered data. Results: We included 3532 catheters and 27,541 catheter-days. Colonization rates did not differ between arterial catheters and central venous catheters (7.9% [11.4/1000 catheter-days] and 9.6% [11.1/1000 catheter-days], respectively). Arterial catheter and central venous catheter catheter-related infection rates were 0.68% (1.0/1000 catheter-days) and 0.94% (1.09/1000 catheter-days), respectively. The daily hazard rate for colonization increased steadily over time for arterial catheters (p = .008) but remained stable for central venous catheters. Independent risk factors for arterial catheter colonization were respiratory failure and femoral insertion. Independent risk factors for central venous catheter colonization were trauma or absence of septic shock at intensive care unit admission, femoral or jugular insertion, and absence of antibiotic treatment at central venous catheter insertion. Conclusions: The risks of colonization and catheter-related infection did not differ between arterial catheters and central venous catheters, indicating that arterial catheter use should receive the same precautions as central venous catheter use. The daily risk was constant over time for central venous catheter after the fifth catheter day but increased significantly over time after the seventh day for arterial catheters. Randomized studies are needed to investigate the impact of scheduled arterial catheter replacement. (Crit Care Med 2010; 38:1030–1035) Head of Infection Control Unit (J-CL), Bichat-Claude Bernard University Hospital, Assistance publique–hôpitaux de Paris, Paris; Professor (J-CL), Denis Diderot University, Paris, France; Physician (LB), Medical ICU, Bichat Claude Bernard University Hospital, Assistance publique–hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France; Physician (J-RZ), Infection Control Unit, CHU Necker Enfants-Malade, Universite Paris Descartes, Paris, France; Physician (CS), Service de Reanimation Medicale, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Grenoble, France; Physician (AG), Surgical ICU, Bichat–Claude Bernard University Hospital, Assistance publique–hôpitaux de Paris, Paris France; Attending Physician (SP), Assistance publique–hôpitaux de Paris, France; Hospitalary Practice Physician (M-CH), Reanimation University Hospital, Grenoble, France; Physician (HH), Medical-Surgical ICU, Delafontaine Hospital, Saint Denis, France; Associate Professor (CA), Cochin Hospital & Paris Descartes Paris University, Paris, France; Physician (MT), National Biomedecine Agency, Saint Denis la Plaine, France; Physican (AF), INSERM U823, "Outcome of cancers and critical illness," Albert Bonniot Institute, 38076, La Tronche Cedex, Paris, France; Physician (MG-O), Medical-Surgical ICU, Saint Joseph Hospital Network, Paris, France; and Director of Research (J-FT), Team 11, INSERM U823, Grenoble; France; and Chief (J-FT), Medical Intensive Care Unit, Grenoble, France. The project was supported by a public grant from the French Ministry of Health (Projet Hospitalier de Recherche Clinique #2005-PHN01). Ethicon donated the Biopatch dressings. Neither the French Ministry of Health nor Ethicon had any influence on the designing or conduct of the study, on the management, analysis, or interpretation of the study data, or on the preparation, review, final approval, or decision to submit the manuscript. For information regarding this article, E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com © 2010 by the Society of Critical Care Medicine and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins


text: Twitter Mania 05/05/2017 Okay, true confession: I'm a bit of an author stalker. I've walked through Hemingway's house, strolled the grounds of Emily Dickinson's place, surveyed vineyards once owned by Jack London. Add a drive past Stephen King's place, a stop at Robert Frost's house, then a tour of Nathanial Hawthorne's...Well, you get the idea. I really like writers. Being in their space is cool, but MEETING them is even cooler. So the natural next step? Writing conferences: I've met dozens of my faves at SCBWI


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MNDOT Adds Plow Cams to Road Conditions Website
St. Paul, MN (KROC-AM News) - The Minnesota Department of Transportation is making it easier for people to access real-time information about road conditions.
The agency has added a "plow cams" feature to the 511mn.org website and the MNDOT 511 app. It allows people to view images from cameras placed in snowplows, providing them with another tool for making good decisions about their travel plans during inclement weather.
Kelly Braunig, 511 program manager says, "If they go on the 511 site and see that travel is not advised, they can actually see an image of the road the cameras take as the plow is traveling. Seeing is believing."
MNDOT has ordered 200 of the cameras, but not all of them have been installed and tested. Officials also note the active trucks displayed on 511 only represent a portion of MnDOT's fleet for snow and ice and other maintenance activities.
The images from the plow cams can be accessed on the left menu of the 511 website by clicking on "Plow Cameras."
For 24/7 news and sports check KROC AM and follow KROC-AM on Facebook.


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On Friday last Pope Francis met with the CEO of Google in the morning and in the afternoon paid a surprise unanticipated visit to a retirement home on the outskirts of Rome and spent an hour with the 30 residents. He intends to make these 'Mercy Fridays' during the year. He spoke about our modern 'throwaway culture' and about the great value that the elderly should have in the church and in society. He also visited patients in a vegetative state and their carers at a nearby facility.
Asked if the traditional Works of Mercy remain relevant today, he replied:
"They are still valid, still current. Perhaps some aspects could be better "translated," but they remain the basis for self-examination. They help us open up to the mercy of God. Let us examine the Seven Corporal Works of Mercy: feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, dress the naked, house the pilgrims, visit the sick, visit the imprisoned, bury the dead. I do not think there is much to explain. We have received freely, we give freely".


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( Connecting Libraries, Underserved teens and Books)
If my library received a previous Great Stories Club grant (Challenges, Choices, Breaking Boundaries, and/or New Horizons themes), may we apply again?
Yes. In fact, if the Great Stories Club has become part of a successful ongoing program at your library, you may wish to mention this in your narrative. However, if your library received a Great Stories Club grant, but did not submit a final report to ALA, your application will not be eligible until the report has been received.
Must libraries give the Great Stories Club books away to teens?
Yes. The library may keep up to one copy of each title for the library collection, and provide up to one copy for the discussion leader. All other Great Stories Club books must be gifted to teens to keep as their own. If you cannot fulfill this program requirement, please contact Lainie Castle at 312-280-5055 to discuss options for meeting the grant terms.
May a library apply for more than one Great Stories Club grant?
Yes. A single library may conduct multiple Great Stories Club programs in the same community, provided that appropriate partnerships are in place. For example, if your library would like to conduct one program with an area alternative school, and another program with the department of juvenile justice, you may apply for two grants. With questions about applying for multiple grants, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
How were the books chosen?
The Outreach to Young Adults with Special Needs Committee of the Young Adult Services Association (YALSA) selected the theme and titles.
Will ALA substitute other books that are not on the Great Stories Club "Second Chances" reading list at our request?
No. If you experience problems with any of the titles on the Great Stories Club reading list during the grant term, you will need to purchase an alternate, theme-related title at the library's expense. If this is not possible, all books must be returned to ALA in unused condition. Failure to comply with these grant requirements may negatively impact the library's eligibility to receive future grants from the ALA Public Programs Office.
Will only successful applicants receive notification about the outcome of the application?
No. All applicants will be notified by ALA, regardless of the outcome of their applications. Libraries will be notified via e-mail by December 20, 2010. If your library has not received notification by the stated date, please contact ALA at 312-280-5287 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Return to the Great Stories CLUB home page


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Hello, Crafty Friends -
I'm delighted to say that today is release day over at Taylored Expressions. All of the fun new stamps, dies, and accessories that the awesome design team have been sneak peeking are now available for purchase. I must admit that I have a lengthy shopping list myself. I just cannot resist Halloween cuteness!
But first I have another Halloween card to share. This one features the latest addition to the mailbox line of stamps I have been illustrating: You've Got Mail – Halloween.
So, I intended to make a clean and simple card… yeah, that didn't happen at all! Instead I added almost all of my favorite embellishments: tag, ribbon, jute, washi tape, designer paper, die cuts, and sequins. Even though it isn't what I intended to make when I sat down I love how it turned out!
I stamped the mailbox on white cardstock and colored with Copic markers. The image was then cut out with the tattered edge tag die from the new Build A Tag 5 die set. I also used the circle embellishment die to cut out a spider from black cardstock. I adhered some jute to his bottom to mimic the look of a spider hanging from a web.
I used the Little Bits – Ghosts dies from last year to cut out a couple of light green ghosties from Potato Chip cardstock. They kind of look like they glow in the dark. The "trick or treat" sentiment is actually from the new Grumplings in Costume stamp set. I just omitted the rest of the sentiment.
For more texture I embellished the main image with Glossy Accents and a Clear Wink of Stella Glitter Brush pen. I may have gone overboard with the foam tape. Just a little bit. ;)
Thanks for visiting! If you'd like to see more projects and new product information, please head over to the TE Blog for a complete blog roll of our participating designers!


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Paintless dent repair is quickly becoming more popular than traditional dent repair for a variety of reasons. Not only is paintless dent repair a long-term solution, but it's also cheaper and less time-consuming.
Traditional dent repair involves filling the dent, not actually eliminating it. Because of this, the method isn't a sustainable solution.
However, paintless dent repair requires no fillers or sanders to restore your car's body to like-new condition.
Heavenly Hail Repair is home to trusted technicians who will remove the dents in your ride.
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The paintless dent repair specialists at Heavenly Hail Repair use a special LED light to discover all the dents in your truck, car or RV.
Speak with the skilled technicians at Heavenly Hail Repair today. We help residents in Amarillo and the entire Texas Panhandle.


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Each Sunday I have been devoting my blog post to extending a huge THANK YOU to the curators of Etsy Treasuries who featured items from my Etsy shops over the past week. This week, I was visiting grandchildren in Arizona May 27-31, arriving home VERY, VERY late on Sunday night.
It was a bit tricky keeping up with the posts with intermittent wifi--and I wanted very much to spend time with the family. So it was a real challenge keeping up with the treasuries this week -- and an even greater challenge trying to get this post together. I completely lost my first draft!!! ARGH!!!
Perhaps it is just post-travel fatigue, but I am beginning to seriously question my ability to continue with the Sunday posts, at least in their current "thanks to all" format. But for this week, the tradition continues. I will do my best to recreate the thank you post, thanking all (I hope) of the curators who included items from my shops in Etsy treasuries over the past week.
JoannasScentedSoaps featured my red linen bow clutch in the treasury, Summer Will Arrive Soon - Red. Here is an elegant gift set of pretty soaps from this shop.
Nadege Gaubour of lentonnoir featured my blue man pillow cover in the treasury, Diving Blue. I love this beautiful painted fabric notebook cover.
MandalaSvetlanaBarbe featured my lavender floral oven mitt in her treasury, Summer Ideas--. This Peace of Mind mandala is one of the beautifully crafted godseye mandala's you will find in Svetlana's shop.
Svetlana also featured my stars and stripes key fob in her treasury, June Trends . Here is another beautiful mandala -- this one is called Budda Mandala.
KaterinaMenthe featured my navy and white chevron oven mitt in her treasury, Summer Dreams #41. This miniature steampunk doll is one of the unique finds in Katerina's shop.
Carol of ModernClassicbyCarol featured my happy camper oven mitt in her treasury, Oh So Sweet! This green crochet hat is SO cute!!
Mike Kraus of MikeKrausArt -- one of my favorite visual artists -- included my patriotic mini-bunting in his treasury, Great Finds . Mike had his elephants on parade on Facebook over Memorial Day, so I decided to feature this dark green elephant. So cute!
Susan McAnany of McAnany featured my black and white chevron oven mitt in her treasury, Simplicity. This bass guitar photo in black and white harkens back to a simpler time.
Mike Kraus also featured my blue and lavender baking utensils oven mitt in the treasury, TUESDAY TREASURIES! Here is a wonderfully-detailed digital download from Mike's shop called, Oh, the Humanity!
Valyashki featured that same oven mitt in her treasury, Bright Mood. This adorable felted wool hedgehog brooch reminds me of my granddaughter Madeline in NH. One of her favorite books was Hedgie the Hedgehog by Jan Brett.
Darla of UniqueSilverBox featured my light blue and houndstooth foldover clutch in the treasury, TEMPT TREASURY. This beautiful amethyst ring packs a pretty purple punch!
Eli Rolandova of PillowsRollanda featured my green and white chevron oven mitt in her treasury, Mouse Biker on a Motorcycle On Shopping =). Some of Eli's pillows are downright whimsical -- like this fun geekery blue pillow.
Summer Fashion . This crochet barefoot sandals pattern makes me wish I'd learned to crochet. Wouldn't those be pretty for a beach wedding?
Eli Rolandova of PillowsRollanda is back, this time with a Blue and Purple Shopping treasury that included my lavender and blue baking utensils oven mitt. This cute Relax pillow is one of dozens of fun pillows you'll find a PillowsRollanda.
Shopping for 5 June Birthdays + Father's Day + 2 June Weddings!!! Well, Etsy is the perfect place to shop for unique gifts! I have a baby shower to attend in a few days -- and this handmade baby blanket would be a lovely gift for a special baby.
RosaShawls featured my textured brown pillow cover in her treasury, Timeless. Rosa's shawls are simply stunning. I fell in love with this pretty peach shawl.
Suzy of TheDustyWingVintage featured my colorful birds oven mitt in her treasury, Birds of a Feather . This mid-century yellow fondue pot brings back memories from my college days, long, long ago. And notice -- it's 25% off!
Christina Guenther featured my orange and gray floral baby bib in her treasury, It's Beautiful Here . This Peace silver pendant is a beautiful piece -- a "statement" necklace of a different kind.
Valyashki featured my bright blue utensils oven mitt in her bright and colorful treasury, Bright Mood. Valyashki is a shop full of delightful wool felted creations. This adorable felted hat for a PukiFee was SO cute, I just had to share it with you!
Spillija featured my purple chevron oven mitt in her treasury, Summer Fashion . I love this colorful crochet summer style hat.
Eli Rolandova of PillowsRollanda is back! This time with a Blue & Purple Shopping treasury, which included my lavender floral oven mitt. This bright and cheery Break pillow made me smile. Couldn't we all use a break sometimes?
And Spillija is back! She included my gray and yellow uptown oven mitt in her treasury, Waiting for Summer. The wait was over in Arizona, with temperatures well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. But it's not too early to start thinking about making things for Fall craft fairs and the holidays. These warm woolen mittens could be one of my favorite things (along with raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, of course)!
Eli Rolanda featured my lavender floral oven mitt in her treasury, Purple Passion . Here's another one of Eli's whimsical pillows that made me smile - Googling!
Thursday Sundries . I love these fiber beads from Julia's shop. And she also has a tutorial to show you how to DIY fiber beads. Have I mentioned that I have an enormous number of scraps -- and they seem to multiply like rabbits?
Vickie Wade of VickieWadeFineArt featured my yellow chevron oven mitt in her treasury, Feeling the Sun. This three sisters art print from Vickie's shop shows three girls feeling the sun in their pretty sundresses.
Carol of ModernClassicbyCarol included my yellow linen bow clutch in her treasury, Bright and Shiny May. One of Carol's specialties is wedding napkin rings. I love these pretty white and yellow napkin rings.
Susan McAnany of McAnany featured my red folk art key fob in her treasury, Red Summer Trends . This Anticipation wall art shows another summer trend -- outdoor dining -- also in red!
Judy Nolan of MisterPenQuin included my green and white graduation bunting in her treasury, If I Can't Have the Ocean, I'll Take Green & Turquoise, Please. I'm running out of pages in my current gratitude journal, so I have my eye on this pretty songbirds gratitude book. Isn't that pretty!
Father's Day Finds . For an over-the-top special dad gift, check out this amazing segmented wood art pen.
And last, but certainly not least, Margaret of SplendidLittleStars included my baby girl bib in pink and red in an adorable treasury, Little Alice . You'll find tie dye -- the real deal -- in Margaret's shop, like this cute heart t-shirt.
And there you have it -- albeit a little late.
Have a wonderful week!
Monday, June 1, 2015
Very Belated Treasury Thanks
3 comments:
The mandalas are beautiful and the hedgehog brooch is so cute! Second cutest thing I've seen today, right after a picture from a customer of her actual hedgehog with one of my snuggle sacks. =)ReplyDelete
I can't fault you for being unsure about continuing the current format. You're always in so many treasuries that this post must mean a whole lot of work!
Glad you had a good visit with your family!ReplyDelete
Love those mandalas!
Wonderful post!ReplyDelete
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Wolf Facts
Wolves are special
The wolf is a highly complex creature - a highly skilled hunter, yet a gentle and playful parent that cares for other members of its pack and shares its food. The wolf was the first animal to be domesticated some 13,000 years ago.
The gray wolf used to be the most widespread mammal in the northern hemisphere, but today is restricted to eastern Europe, mountains in the mediterranean region and Middle East, plus areas in Asia and North America. The Ethiopian wolf is the rarest of all the canids.
The gray wolf lives in a variety of habitats, from semidesert and wolderness areas, to forests, prairies and frozen wastelands. Incedibly, the Ethiopian wolf lives at about 3,000m,in 'subalpine' heathlands and grasslands. A wolf's 'home range' depends on pack size and food availability. Territories range from 18 to over 1,000 square miles.
Gray wolves hunt a wide range of food dependent on the location. Because they hunt in packs, they can prey on big animals such as moose, caribou and elk. But smaller prey such as beaver, hare, rabbits and mice are also caught. The Ethiopian wolf hunts alone and catches small mammels such as mole rats, grass rats, hares and rock hyrax.
The wolf is a large animal, with a long lean body. Hardy and powerful, its strong legs, big feet and incredible stamina are perfect for long-distance running and harsh weather conditions. a wolf has a dense, warm fur, so can survive extreme cold. A wolf's sense of smell is up to 100 times more sensitive than humans, it can hear up to a distance of 10 miles and has good night vision.
Wolves are elusive, avoiding contact with humans wherever possible. Wolves are playful animals and play amongst pups helps to develop muscles, hunting skills and to establish hierarchy.
Wolves live and hunt in closely bonded packs, led by a dominant, breeding pair, the 'alpha male and female'. Wolves sometimes mate for life. There is a well defined 'hierarchy' within the pack and other pack members include sub-adults from the previous year's litter.
After a nine weeks gestation, the alpha female gives birth to an average of 4-7 pups, who are dependent on her milk. After a month, the pups emerge from the den and members of the pack help care for the pups and give thm food and attention.


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Mark your calendars! The Library and Archives portion of the Nebraska State Historical Society in Lincoln, Nebraska will be opening on March 9th. This is great news for those of us who been without their resources for what seems like ten years. Actually it has been fourteen months of construction and renovation.
The regular hours for using the Library and Archives will apply. They are Tuesday-Friday 9 to noon and 1 to 4; Saturday 8 to 5. You will want to visit the Nebraska State Historical Society web page for more details. They have a new leaflet in PDF format which you can download and read before returning to do research in the newly renovated room.
The Nebraska State Historical Society is located at 1500 R Street in Lincoln, Nebraska. It is wise to also plan ahead for parking as it is on the campus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. There are parking garages not too far away and metered parking (if available) along R Street.


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I searched for many solutions to play Youtube videos on iOS.
At the moment i just use a webview to show only the player and then press the play button (only embed the video in the webview).
But I know there is a javascript solution to get an mp4 link for the youtube video.
This is the javascript:
The script searches for the video element and grabs all informations and finally make it possible to download the mp4.
Im not good in javascript, so i dont know if there is an possibility to write that code, that it just works with http://myurl.com/getvideo?id=VIDEOID .
I would try it myself, but i dont know if it is possible to grab all these informations the script uses without the player element.
Maybe you can help me ;)
(im using iOS 5 btw)
My english is not the best, so if u have problems to understand something, just ask.
you can check PSYouTubeExtractor that allows you to retrieve the mp4 version of a YouTube video, it is pretty easy to use.
Late answer but i found an easy solution for it. no need for 3rd party library.
open any Youtube video in
& on download button do below stuff :
NSString *getURL = @"";
NSString *str = @"function getURL() { return document.getElementsByTagName('VIDEO')[0].src; } getURL();";
getURL = [self.myWebViewObject stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:str];
// Your code for download video from upper URL.
Here getURL
NSString Object give you appropriate url that you looking for download.
Now, you can download any video on YouTube(restricted also) by download file on upper
But keep in mind that download YouTube video is against terms & condition of YouTube. Though there are apps on AppStore that let users to download videos from YouTube, We will not able to upload app on AppStore which allows download from YouTube!!