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Storage Solutions for 5 Summer Accessories
With the advent of summer, inevitably I find myself on wild goose chases for my hats, sandals, and other warm-weather accessories. At the last minute, I'll decide that I desperately need a certain pair of sunglasses, and after spending valuable time searching my purse, jewelry box, and goodness-knows-where-else, they'll eventually turn up at the bottom of a forgotten drawer. Knowing myself as I do, I've decided to foil this tendency with some simple organizational techniques.
• Sunglasses: To prevent having pairs of sunglasses strewn about your apartment, use a wooden hanger for a simple, no-fuss storage method. Or for those with a bit of DIY moxie, use a picture frame and some wire to corral your shades.
• Hats: Use fabric-covered shoe boxes to stylishly store your baseball caps, visors, and sunhats. Photo labels will help you locate the precise hat you want at a moment's notice.
• Hair supplies: Use a Tic-Tac box to easily store bobby pins and elastics so you can throw your hair up at a moment's notice. This is a really easy way to keep these items handy in your purse or car.
• Flip-flops and ballet flats: By tweaking some wire coat hangers, you can get rid of the mountain of flip-flops that can so easily accumulate on the closet floor. Hanging them in pairs makes them easy to find, and there's no more rifling through a basket or pile to find mates. Epbot has a handy tutorial for how to make these shoe hangers, but for those who would rather save some time, they are also easy to find on Etsy.
• Beach gear: A friend with a newborn baby introduced me to the wonders of the wet bag, and I have been addicted to mine ever since. It's perfect for carrying around wet swimsuits and towels, toiletries, or damp pool toys. You never have to worry about leaks or about getting everything in your gym bag or beach bag soggy. There's a wide variety of sizes and patterns to be found on Etsy, but I've included the above pictures of a couple of my favorites.
(Images: 1. Hilda's Sunny Swedish Highrise House Tour, 2.Cupcakes and Cashmere, 3.A Beautiful Mess, 4. The Burlap Bag, 5. Epbot, 6. Together Threads on Etsy, 7. Kimoley on Etsy, 8. LilStuff on Etsy)


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Iran welcomes Omani sultan
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran welcomed the leader of neighboring Oman Sunday in a visit that has raised hopes that Omani mediation could help ease tensions between Iran and Western powers over Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
Omani Sultan Qaboos was scheduled to focus on bilateral and international affairs during his three-day visit. In the past, Oman has played a mediating role in helping to help release Iranian and American nationals from both countries' prisons. In the run-up to the current visit, Iranian newspapers raised speculation that Oman could repeat such mediation in the ongoing dispute over Iran's nuclear program.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, however, denied any knowledge of such an agenda for the visit while speaking to reporters after the sultan's arrival.
"We are not aware if the sultan of Oman is conveying a message," Zarif said. "We are ready to discuss various issues he might be interested in raising."
Pro-reform Iranian daily newspaper Bahar said the sultan might discuss easing financial sanctions imposed by the U.S. and Europe on Iran in return for the country decreasing uranium enrichment activity. Iran has had no access to foreign revenue because of an oil-and-banking embargo imposed on the country because of its nuclear program.
Western governments suspect Iran's nuclear activities have military dimensions, while Iran says it is pursuing only peaceful aims such as power generation and cancer treatment.
In May, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visited Oman and other Arab states in the Persian Gulf region to push for the creation of an integrated defense network against the alleged threat posed by Iran.
Oman has had good relations with Europe and the U.S. while enjoying historic ties with Iran. The visit marked the first by a foreign leader to Iran since centrist Iranian President Hasan Rouhani took office about three weeks ago.
During a greeting ceremony, Rouhani urged both sides to apply efforts to "deepen and boost bilateral cooperation more than before."
The Omani sultan responded that his country is ready to help create trade routes through Iran between Oman and Central Asian countries such as Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Annual Iran-Oman trade stands at $250 million.
Both countries also are partners in controlling the strategic Strait of Hormuz, through which one-fifth of international oil supply passes.
Qaboos last visited Iran in 2009, three decades after his only other trip in the mid-1970s when Iranian forces helped him dismantle Soviet-backed Marxist guerrillas who sought independence in the southern Omani province of Dhofar.

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text: Floppin 5,990 Report post Posted June 21, 2013 During the weeks before he was killed in a car crash in Los Angeles, reporter Michael Hastings was researching a story about a privacy lawsuit brought by Florida socialite Jill Kelley against the Department of Defense and the FBI. Hastings, 33, was scheduled to meet with a representative of Kelley next week in Los Angeles to discuss the case, according to a person close to Kelley. Hastings wrote for Rolling Stone and the website BuzzFeed. Kelley alleges that military officials and the FBI leaked her name to the media to discredit her after she reported receiving a stream of emails that were traced to Paula Broadwell, a biographer of former CIA director David H. Petraeus, according to a lawsuit filed in Federal District Court in Washington, D.C., on June 3. Petraeus resigned from the CIA after publicly admitting that he and Broadwell had carried on an extramarital affair. The story about Kelley, Broadwell and the Petraeus affair would have been consistent with topics that Hastings has focused on during his reporting career. His unvarnished 2010 Rolling Stone profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top American commander in Afghanistan, led to McChrystal's resignation. The story described the disdain McChrystal's staff showed for President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden. Since Hasting's death early Tuesday, wild conspiracy theories have bloomed on the Internet implying that he was murdered by powerful forces wanting to silence him. On Wednesday night, the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks inserted itself into the story, publishing a message on Twitter that Hasting had contacted a lawyer for the organization hours before his car smashed into a tree on North Highland Avenue in Los Angeles. The message read: "Michael Hastings contacted WikiLeaks lawyer Jennifer Robinson just a few hours before he died, saying that the FBI was investigating him." http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-michael-hastings-jill-kelly-case-20130620,0,2559316.story HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (KTLA) — The investigation continued on Wednesday into a fiery car crash in Hollywood that killed award-winning journalist Michael Hastings. Hastings, 33, was perhaps best known for a Rolling Stone article that led to the resignation of Gen. Stanley McChrystal. Michael Hastings The coroner's office had yet to identify the victim, but both Rolling Stone and BuzzFeed, where Hastings worked most recently, reported that it was him. The solo-vehicle crash happened near the intersection of Highland and Melrose avenues around 4:15 a.m., according to the LAPD. Hastings' Mercedes-Benz slammed into a tree and caught fire. "I was just coming northbound on Highland and I seen a car going really fast, and all of a sudden I seen it jackknife," said Luis Cortez, who witnessed the wreck. "I just seen parts fly everywhere and I slammed on my brakes and stopped and tried to call 911," Cortez added. The engine of the vehicle was found in a yard about 100 feet away. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene. Coroner's officials said the body was too badly burned to make an immediate identification. Police were investigating the possibility that speed may have been a factor in the crash. Meantime, friends, family and colleagues were trying to come to terms with the news, and to offer some insight into Hastings' life. BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith issued a statement on Tuesday, saying his team was "shocked and devastated by the news." "Michael was a great, fearless journalist with an incredible instinct for the story and a gift for finding ways to make his readers care about anything he covered, from wars to politicians," Smith said. "He wrote stories that would otherwise have gone unwritten, and without him there are great stories that will go untold," he said. Friends said that, because of the nature of Hastings' work, he often led a very paranoid lifestyle. "A lot of his friends were worried that he was in a very agitated state, yes. No question, people were concerned," said Cenk Uygur, host of "The Young Turks." "He was incredibly tense and very worried and was concerned that the government was looking in on his material," he said. http://ktla.com/2013/06/19/driver-killed-in-fiery-car-crash-in-hollywood/#ixzz2Wo53zbGe Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Birthday Party Beautification: Dress Up a Chandelier!
Got a chandelier or pendant light over your dining table? Well, then you already have the perfect foundation for some really special party decor. All you have to do is dress it up a bit and you have an eye-catching centerpiece for any birthday celebration. Some ideas for doing so are pictured here and outlined after the jump:
1: Go soft and casual by knotting loose ribbons overhead.
2: Clump balloons and tissue poms around the light for a pleasant glow.
3: Channel the 1920s with the shimmy of a little fringe.
4: Dense streamers can cover anything - even ceiling fans!
5: Starting at the fixture as your center point, fan out to create a room-sized starburst.
Related: 20 Inspiring Real-Life Birthday Party Themes for Kids
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We all know that it's the finer details that count, and that's why we captured a detailed look at San Andres's autumn (fall) / winter 2016 runway show at Milan fashion week (MFW).
You can see all of the detailed photos of the San Andres autumn (fall) / winter 2016 runway collection by clicking on a thumbnail on the left. From there you can browse through each of the pictures from the fashion show.
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American Pinup - "Boarding House"
New York's American Pinup deliver us a heart wrenching O'l Skool ballad, spotlighting the pain and desperation of the downtrodden and oppressed in our society. From the album "Strange Creatures" (Altercation Records), the single "Boarding House" showcases another side of American Pinup and shows again just what an amazing and diverse band they are.
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American Pinup emerged from the suburban sprawl and unsung underground music scene of Westchester County, New York and brought along an original brand of fierce, exuberant performance that is just as wild as it is charming. The indie/punk four-piece was pegged by AMP magazine as the "voice of the new decade" and combines elements of rockabilly, surf rock, punk, pop, folk, and ska to create a unique and fresh alternative sound. Blending the DIY ethos of the punk scene with a reverence for the melody and simplicity intrinsic to pop music, American Pinup has carved out their own niche in the world of independent music.
Frontwoman Lauren West combines soulful, melodic crooning with raspy, punk rock vocals, adding dimension to their hooky composititions and high-energy live performances. In 2010, the band took to their drummer's basement recording studio where they self-produced their debut album, Strange Creatures. It quickly caught the attention of Altercation Records, who signed the band and released the record in February 2011.
American Pinup has appeared at festivals such as SXSW, Red Gorilla, Valley of the Vapors, and Upstart Fest since coming on to the scene. In February 2012 they put out a split with New Jersey's Lost In Society on Altercation Records and spent the following March on a co-headlining national tour in support of the release. In August 2012, the band followed up with the independent release The End of the World EP. They are currently working on completing their sophomore full-length album and are slated to play at The Fest 11 in October 2012.
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Dallas Buyers Club (US - BD RA)
Gabe enjoys the Texas approach to benevolent drug kingpinning...
Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey) sees his freewheeling life overturned when he's diagnosed as HIV-positive and given 30 days to live. Determined to survive, Woodroof decides to take matters in his own hands by tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. After his journey to find a cure leads him to an unlikely ally in Rayon (Jared Leto), he establishes a hugely successful 'buyers' club' and unites a band of outcasts in a struggle for dignity and acceptance that inspires in ways no one could have imagined. (From Focus Feature's original synopsis)
Jean-Marc Vallée's Dallas Buyers Club is a trifecta of Oscar-friendly filmmaking: 1: It's based on an uplifting true story. 2: That true story gives the actors a valid excuse to undergo radical physical transformations. 3: Despite taking place in a bygone era, the story is used to deliver a very modern message. This all may sound formulaic (and it is), but what's interesting about Dallas Buyer's Club is that it's not delivering the message movie you'd assume it would be, based on the trailers and synopsis. Movies like Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia and Gus Van Sant's Milk already used dramatic historical context to deliver a message of tolerance for the homosexual community and people suffering from HIV/AIDS. Recent social moments seem to verify that those messages seem to have been received. Dallas Buyers Club is using dramatic historical context to deliver a message about corruption in the American healthcare system. The facts of 'Big Pharma's' part in the AIDS crisis (or at least the facts of one side of the argument) have been the focus of numerous, highly-acclaimed documentaries lately, including David France's How to Survive a Plague and Brent Leung's House of Numbers, but there hasn't been a dramatic look at the event.
The true story is already interesting enough to sustain an provocative feature, so Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack's Academy Award-nominated screenplay's real value is in the way it unravels its plot. At its best, the tale is told via Ron's experience alone, cutting briskly through the events and locations without stopping to explain every single little repercussion. This editing pattern works so well that it's jarring to cut to any other character's point of view. Suddenly, the audience is made aware of the artificiality of Vallée's cinéma vérité camerawork. Poor Jennifer Garner, who gives an otherwise moving performance, becomes the harbinger of doom as the subject of most of these miscalculated moments. Further problems with the story arise as the true-life story starts to slide into the biopic template, hitting the bases in a disappointingly Hollywood fashion and losing some major steam at the onset of the final act. It's not that Vallée and the screenwriters are bad at the mainstream thing (they're actually very good at it) – it's that the precedent set during the first act (which is revisited somewhat at the end) is significantly more engaging.
McConaughey and Leto have also both been nominated for Oscars in roles seemingly tailor-made for the distinction. It's difficult not to be a little dubious of performances that include rapid weight loss, but both actors achieve more than frightening physical transformations. I've read articles referring to McConaughey's second wind following his downfall at the hands of dreck, like How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and Failure to Launch, as his 'McConaissance.' I adore this term and find it absolutely apt, not only because the actor's recent work feels like a full-on creative renaissance, but because it doesn't take the evolution too seriously. So much of of McConaughey's enduring popularity is found in his refusal to take himself with more than a grain of salt. He isn't only aiming for award-shilling roles (though I'd love the chicken-eating scene from Killer Joe to make an appearance at the Oscars); he's creating an entire brand of southern-fried protagonist/antagonist and showing an incredible breadth of talent in the process. Leto has an even more difficult job, he has to make a character as flamboyant as Rayon into a full-fledged human being – one that will move Ron to change. But it is the chemistry the two actors have together and that their relationship isn't treated in an overly sentimental manner that gives the film its emotional core. The affection isn't expressed with swooning close-ups and swirling music – it is presented truthfully with a wink and a nod.
Dallas Buyers Club was shot using Arri Alexa digital HD cameras and is presented here in 1080p, 2.35:1 video. Vallée and cinematographer Yves Bélanger shoot a lot of the film handheld, under limited source lighting and with shallow, tight focus. This rough, off-the-cuff look is then contrasted with the significant clarity of the Alexa system. The cinéma vérité shake and persistent darkness of some scenes hinder detail on occasion, leading to minor fits of digital noise, but, generally, lines are crisp and textures are complex, without any edge enhancement to complain about. The colour palette changes quite a bit between locations. Most daylight exteriors scenes are yellow, warm, and dusty with blown-out white lights. Most interiors are cooler with stronger highlights, especially the raunchy reds that mark various locations as 'seedy.' The Mexican locations are the most profoundly colour-graded and feature a major uptake in the usual orange & teal hues. Throughout all of these changes, black levels remain deep and pure, though not at the risk of the smoother blends Vallée and Bélanger use during the darker scenes.
This Blu-ray carries the typical DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack. You might expect a movie on this scale to be little limited on the audio front, but this is actually a full-bodied track that makes good use of all five channels. The sound design is divided between hyper-realistic ambience and the more subjective sounds from within Ron's head. The subjective stuff is more aggressively stylized, especially moments when the character's ears ring and the rest of the sound is sucked out of the scene. The ambience is more impressive, however, because it moves sound so subtly throughout the channels that you might not even notice it. There aren't any brassy directional cues flying out of the rear speakers, but the atmosphere is effectively recreated. Composer Alexandra Stréliski provides some minor score, but, in keeping with the hyper-realism, the bulk of Dallas Buyers Club's musical soundtrack is made up of period pop/rock/country songs being played on radios or other sound systems (there are maybe two moments when Vallée breaks this pattern and lets his acquired music crackle and bounce, unhindered by 'realism').
The special features are brief, including only three deleted scenes (5:00, HD), A Look Inside Dallas Buyers Club (4:00, HD), an extended trailer with some cast interviews, and trailers for other Focus Features releases.
Dallas Buyers Club is the best brand of Oscar bait. It has some issues with structure, specifically when conforming to the biopic formula, but also manages to be emotionally stirring without seeping into cloying sentiment. It isn't my pick for Best Picture, but I'd still recommend it as highly as any of the films on that list. Universal/Focus Features' Blu-ray looks sharp and comes fitted with an outstanding DTS-HD MA soundtrack. The extras are, unfortunately, almost non-existent, aside from a small set of deleted scenes and a promo piece.
* Note: The above images are taken from the Blu-ray and have been resized for the page. Full-resolution captures are available by clicking the individual images, but due to .jpg compression, they are not necessarily representative of the quality of the transfer.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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McConaughey's re-deirection is on a great run right now. Great performance.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 4th February 2014
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.40:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English
Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish
Extras: Deleted Scenes, A Look Inside Dallas Buyers Club, DVD Copy, Digital Copy
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto, Steve Zahn, Denis O'Hare, Griffin Dunne
Genre: Comedy and Drama
Length: 116 minutes
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The bracket to hold the line to the sub frame is not even on the brake line.
Quote from: sixt9x33rs on August 11, 2008, 01:32:11 AMThe bracket to hold the line to the sub frame is not even on the brake line. Are you talking about the steel brake pipes or the rubber flex hoses? The front brake pipes never had a bracket of any sort as part of the pipe; the brackets on the subframe were separate bolt-on parts.
That clip is seperate from the flex line. The flex line does have a copper collar on that point of the flex hose, but not the clip itself.Not the greatest pic of that exact area:


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August 9, 2006
|Photo by Ben Young, M.D.
Several times in the past year, I've taken the 14-hour flight from Denver, Colo., to Kiev to assist in training doctors, nurses, psychologists and social workers in the care of people with HIV. Our efforts are facilitated by a non-governmental organization (NGO) program called the AIDS Knowledge Hub. Several international donor organizations fund the Knowledge Hub, which brings health care teams from throughout Eastern Europe and Central Asia to Kiev for training.
Kiev, as well as the rest of Ukraine, is a place with a growing HIV population -- perhaps some of the most rapid epidemic growth in the world occurs here. It's estimated that Ukraine has between 70,000 and 200,000 HIV-infected persons, most of whom face incredible stigma and alienation. That stigma, combined with the low pay for health care professionals (the average physician in Ukraine earns only about US$150 to US$200 monthly; nurses earn only US$20 to US$50 a month), can make it a daunting task to find doctors, especially medical specialists, who are willing to treat people with HIV.
The Ukrainian epidemic stands in stark contradiction to the stereotype that Americans hold about HIV in non-developed countries: that the epidemic is fueled by people of color -- mostly Africans and Asians, particularly men. In Ukraine, nearly all patients are white, almost half are women, and most are younger than 25. Antiretroviral medications have only recently become available in Kiev; the prognosis for the many HIV-infected Ukrainians is as bleak as it was for American patients in the pre-HAART era.
|The gates to Lavra clinic and monastery; photo by Ben Young, M.D.
Every three months, I return to Lavra to help develop its HIV care program. My quarterly return is punctuated by heartrending developments: Too often, I find that patients I had met only two or three months earlier have died since my last visit. This is particularly tragic, because all of the patients I see are young adults -- an equal mix of men and women. It's like walking onto a college campus where everyone is dying. The epidemic here is heterosexually driven, so besides all the young couples diagnosed, there are lots of children with HIV. The Lavra clinic, however, doesn't see a lot of pediatric AIDS cases; pediatricians or obstetricians provide this care elsewhere in the city.
Many patients arrive at Lavra too sick to be helped -- or, even worse, they need treatment that is not yet available in Kiev. Access to antiretrovirals is a given throughout much of the developed world, but in Ukraine, the scale-up of antiretroviral medications has been painfully slow. There are only 2,000 patients on HIV treatment in the country, even though as many as 200,000 citizens are living with HIV.
This access gap extends far beyond antiretrovirals: For instance, cytomegalovirus retinitis, an opportunistic infection that has become relatively rare among HIV-infected patients in Western countries, occurs frequently here. Most patients at Lavra who are unlucky enough to get it end up going blind, for the most unfair of reasons: Doctors here can't diagnose the disease, because they don't even have access to an ophthalmoscope -- a tool used by virtually every doctor in the United States during a routine physical exam. As for coinfections, the clinical situation is even worse; diagnostic tests for hepatitis B or hepatitis C are not available at all.
A greater tragedy is unfolding on the tuberculosis (TB) front. TB is a preventable, easily treatable illness in the developed world, but many of the HIV-infected patients who make it to Lavra are already actively dying from TB, and have a CD4+ cell count under 20. In many parts of Eastern Europe, the number-one opportunistic infection for HIV-infected patients is TB. It's extremely difficult to treat TB and HIV simultaneously, because TB meds interact with protease inhibitors, severely limiting a patient's HIV treatment options. Thus health care providers are forced to treat the TB first, and hope patients live long enough to begin HIV treatment later.
Of course, this is assuming that doctors even know they're treating a patient with both TB and HIV. Lack of communication between specialists is a serious logistical problem: In Ukraine each medical specialty has its own hospital, so HIV and TB specialists often don't have the opportunity to talk to each other. Even worse, it can sometimes be more dangerous for a patient if their TB specialist knows they have HIV. The stigma of HIV is so pervasive that it has even infested the health care profession, where one would hope that clinical objectivity would prevail. Tragically, it's not unknown for TB specialists to turn away patients who are coinfected with HIV.
In fact, one patient I met at Lavra was a bright young woman whose HIV diagnosis came while she was in a hospital to remove what neurosurgeons thought was a brain tumor. It turned out to be a tuberculosis brain abscess. Once the neurosurgeons discovered she was HIV positive, they told her that there was nothing else they could do for her. She was immediately discharged and forced out onto the streets while still recuperating from the operation -- effectively a death sentence for someone in her condition. Fortunately, she found her way to Lavra, and after months of TB and HIV treatment, her health has improved. She's now in training to be a HIV health advocate.
We were able to help this one woman, but how many more people, after being turned away by their hospital, were unable to find the help they needed? And how many don't even seek out help in the first place? In many parts of Eastern Europe, an HIV diagnosis is equated with injection drug use or prostitution -- practices that are pegged with monumental stigma. As a result, most patients wait until they have debilitating symptoms to enter care. Often, their CD4+ cell counts are so low that they don't make it.
|Dr. Svetlana Antoniak; photo by Ben Young, M.D.
Through the tireless work of Dr. Antoniak and many others, Ukrainian patients who gain access to care and medications do have their lives and health restored. In turn, many of those survivors go on to become advocates for patient education and greater access to HIV medications. Up until the last few years, Lavra was the only place in Ukraine (and probably much of the former Soviet Republics) where patients could get a CD4+ cell count and viral load test. Thanks to the heroic efforts of health care providers and advocates in this region, that dire situation is slowly beginning to improve.
On my last visit to Lavra, I sat down with staff physician Tatiana Suprunenko, M.D., and head nurse Tatiana Savina to discuss the Lavra clinic, as well as the medical and personal experiences both women have had since the scale-up of antiretroviral therapy access began.
Tell me about HIV-infected patients in Ukraine.
Suprunenko: Officially, there are over 70,000 HIV patients in Ukraine. Most have been infected through injection drug use, but recently, an increasing number of new patients are heterosexual. Now, about 30% are women.
Tell me about the Lavra clinic.
Suprunenko: Lavra clinic has been providing care to HIV patients since 1987. The clinic receives funding through the Academy of Medical Sciences and the department of AIDS research institute. Medications are provided from funding from the Academy and the Global Fund.
Savina: At Lavra there are about 300 patients on antiretroviral therapy; since 2000, there have been over 2,000 patients under care. Most of these patients were diagnosed and receive care at the clinic.
When did antiretroviral therapy (ART) arrive in Ukraine?
Suprunenko and Savina: Antiretrovirals arrived in Ukraine in 2000; at that time, Lavra was the only provider of medications in the country. In the initial period of time, only a limited number of patients, 48, received antiretroviral therapy. Since August 2004, due to Global Fund monies and scale-up of antiretroviral therapy, of course, the number increased.
What changes have you seen since the arrival of ART?
Suprunenko: A lot of things have changed. Before the era of ART, all the patients were doomed; now they see hope. We see good results; [ART] works.
Savina: We see more patients now, since more people are learning about ART. Trainings have been initiated and this has been good for the patients and the people are more and more positive in attitude.
What is your preferred first-line treatment?
Suprunenko: AZT [zidovudine, Retrovir], 3TC [lamivudine, Epivir] and efavirenz [Sustiva, Stocrin].
[Lavra also provides d4T (stavudine, Zerit), ddI (didanosine, Videx), nevirapine (Viramune), nelfinavir (Viracept) and lopinavir/ritonavir (Kaletra) to their patients. BY]
What kinds of AIDS complications do you see?
Suprunenko: Tuberculosis is number one, toxoplasmosis, esophageal candidiasis, CMV retinitis and pneumocystis. With regard to antiretroviral therapy, we see peripheral neuropathy and lactic acidosis are on the rise. I believe that we don't see as much drug allergy since we use efavirenz more than nevirapine.
[In the few weeks I spent in Kiev, I saw more TB (including multiple cases of TB meningitis), cerebral toxoplasmosis and lactic acidosis than in all my years of medicine in the United States. BY]
|Dr. Tatiana Suprunenko (left) and head nurse Tatiana Savina (right); photo by Ben Young, M.D.
How long have you been involved with HIV care?
Suprunenko: Ten years.
Savina: I've been working here as head nurse for three years.
Ten years ago in Kiev, it couldn't have been very desirable to be an HIV doctor -- why did you choose to do HIV medicine?
Suprunenko: Actually, the situation hasn't changed in 10 years; HIV still isn't a "desirable" area. First of all, it was very interesting. This is a promising area of medicine; I can learn a lot of new things. Everything changes very quickly. Personally, a very important factor was that I got to know Dr. Antoniak. I decided to stay [at Lavra] to work with her.
Savina: Ever since I was a student of psychology at the Medicine Institute, I wanted to learn the psychological approaches of working with HIV patients. These approaches haven't been well explored. I've known Dr. Antoniak and Dr. Suprunenko for a long period of time through their work with the AIDS foundation. We discussed these opportunities and I decided to work here.
How has HIV medicine changed since the arrival of antiretroviral therapies?
Suprunenko: New therapies give hope. It's easier now because of hope. The biggest success is the good outcomes in some patients. Very helpful here is a very good team of nurses and social workers.
What sort of challenges do you face?
Suprunenko: We're very fearful for the lack of continuity to ART -- the possibility that we'll lose access. Also, the clinic is very big. We sometimes don't have physical time -- so sometimes we have to stay past 8 in the evening. It's a burn-out effect.
Savina: Seeing the first HIV-infected child die was the hardest. And the record keeping. The national requirement is to have paper format and the Global Fund requires electronic format. We're doing the same work twice. So it takes a lot of time. Other than the paperwork, the challenge is to spend enough time with family. They're not happy about it, but we're used to it.
I think in this way we are very similar. What is your five-year forecast for HIV patients in Ukraine?
Suprunenko: We are hopeful that we'll have ART for more years. Otherwise, it will be too horrible to even try to image; we would have only compassion [with which] to treat our patients.
Savina: I hope that we will see less tuberculosis. We are very lucky that Dr. Antoniak is here. If ART is still here and the Global Fund is here, maybe the country will do something; I'm hopeful that the condition of our patients will improve.
Tatiana Suprunenko and Tatiana Savina, spasiba bolshoi (thank you very much).
For more on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Ukraine, read this report recently released by the World Bank.
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Aquarium saves Halloween for thousands of trick-or-treaters
Mystic — Herds of lions, swarms of bees and a handful of ninjas kept company with the fish at Mystic Aquarium Wednesday night for a free, last-minute trick-or-treating event.
Aquarium spokesman Erin Merz said more than 8,200 people — families from towns beleaguered by power outages, downed trees and power lines — made the trip for a safe Halloween haven among the aquarium's exhibits for the evening.
"We were talking amongst ourselves — our staff and our volunteers and their families were so impacted (by Sandy) — so we thought, what the heck, we'll open this up to everyone who wants to come," she said.
Officials in several local towns had canceled scheduled parties and parades, with some even asking parents to postpone trick-or-treating to a specified later date. But for purists intent on doing Halloween on Halloween, the aquarium opened up all indoor and outdoor exhibits, staffing a path of 10 trick-or-treating tables throughout the outdoor exhibit.
Less than 24 hours of planning went into the event, Merz said, with volunteers and staff raiding local stores for bags of candy and retrieving decorations that had been tucked safely away ahead of the storm. Merz said some good Samaritans, upon learning why those enlisted were ringing up armfuls of sweets, pitched in on what turned out to be 40,000 pieces of candy — an entire minivan full of sugar.
Social media and email blasts to aquarium members brought in the crowds, creating a traffic jam from the I-95 exit, past Olde Mistick Village, where an annual trick-or-treating event also was being held. Even Republican U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon made an appearance, handing out candy to the costumed masses.
The indoor exhibits were in full swing as well: Spiderman hung his elbows off the glass of the sting ray pool, petting swimming passersby; a princess pressed her face to the glass, admiring a school of fish.
Parent chaperones shared a prevailing sentiment of gratitude for the aquarium, which brought in 35 volunteers and staffers to lend a hand.
"It was very nice of them to do this," said David Flagge of Old Lyme, who lost power at home and came with his daughter, Isabella, 9, sporting a dark-braided wig as Wednesday Addams.
Isabella's best friend, Jack Beauprez, also 9, was in tow, in place among the aquarium's regular inhabitants in his shark costume. Two defeated legs protruded from his hood's sharp, toothy mouth — dinner.
"I've been getting lots of compliments," Beauprez said.
Tara and Jeff Autrey of East Lyme were busy trying to snap a photo of daughter Ashlyn, 2, next to one of the tanks; Ashlyn, cozy in a gray, striped onesie of a cat costume, was more interested in taking stock of her loot in a plastic jack-o'-lantern bucket. The family was just there Sunday.
"The fish are all old hat," Tara said.
After losing power in the storm, the couple said they were happy to have somewhere to bring their daughter.
"We think it's really great that they did this tonight," Jeff said. "I think the kids are having a lot of fun."
By 7:30 p.m., 2½ hours in and a half hour before close, the flow of candy was still going strong. By 8 p.m., with the last of it handed out to the exodus of trick-or-treaters, all 40,000 pieces of candy had found new homes.
Merz said the turnout was overwhelming — in a good way.
"When you plan an event of this magnitude in less than 24 hours' notice, you never really know what to expect," she said. "I think everyone was really happy to have a Halloween because they almost didn't this year."
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Steelers vs Chiefs
Arrowhead Stadium
The Steelers head to Kansas City for an important AFC showdown on the road as they look to continue their winning streak and stay in contention in the AFC. Depending on how things shake out with the previous week's game the Steelers could still find themselves in first place. A lot depends on the Bengals/Ravens game but regardless the Steelers need to keep winning.
Tyler Palko will start for the injured Matt Cassel at Quarterback. Even though the Chiefs have been hit hard by injuries the Steelers can't afford to take this game with anything less than the utmost seriousness.
More injury news will be available in the days leading up to the game but as of now Sanders and Woodley are still questionable.
UPDATE as of Saturday, 11/26.
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I've just finished up a report for Education Next on New York's successful bid for Race to the Top funds. And though I interviewed dozens of people and learned a great deal, one question I was unable to answer with any certainty was who had actually coined the term.
I'm no branding genius, but Race to the Top has the je ne sais quoi of brilliance.? (I also thought No Child Left Behind was?pretty good.) But why is everyone so shy about fingering its creator??Institutional humility?
Most of the people I interviewed pointed to Jon Schnur, co-founder of New Leaders for New Schools and a ?close advisor to the Obama presidential campaign (see Alexander Russo).? According to Education Week's Alyson Klein, Schnur ?led the development of the $4 billion Race to the Top initiative.? (Schnur, according to Klein, is leaving New Leaders to advise Michael Bloomberg on education issues.)
Schnur would be the obvious choice and the fact that he wouldn't talk to me surely lends support to the theory that the term was his baby. But I also know that there's a bill-naming cottage industry on and around Capitol Hill and...
The New Jersey teacher whose public confrontation with the Garden State's Governor in September has become ?a YouTube classic? (over 840,000 views as of today), according to the NY Times, is now front page of the Times ?and a poster child for the growing anti-union ?outrage? over public employee wages and benefits. The teacher, Marie Corfield, tells the Times:
People I don't even know are calling me horrible names ? The mantra is that the problem is the unions, the unions, the unions.
After reading the story, you might agree with poor Ms. Corfield's detractors. While New Jersey's average local government pensioner is earning less than $20,000 a year, the Times reports, its retired teachers are earning $46,000.? (Truth be told: Some police and firefighter retirees are pulling down six figure pensions.)
The clock on the pension bomb continues to tick, faster and faster?especially in the public sector. In California, says the Times,
[P]ension costs now crowd out spending for parks, public schools and state universities; in Illinois, spiraling pension costs threaten the state with insolvency.
The ?incestuous alliance? between public employee unions and their employers, as the Times characterizes it,...
?Monday is Cathleen P. Black's first day of school??so begins a provocative story by Elissa Gootman in the NY Times.?The Times asked some of New York City's ?most respected principals? to give the new Gotham schools Chancellor ?some advice.?
They do.
It's a terrific roundup of opinion?educated opinion. Let's hope Black is listening.
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Thalidomide in Treating Patients With HIV-Associated Kaposi's Sarcoma
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00019123
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : April 13, 2004
Last Update Posted : August 16, 2013
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RATIONALE: Thalidomide may kill cancer cells by stopping the growth of new blood vessels to the tumor.
PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of thalidomide in treating patients with HIV-associated Kaposi's sarcoma.
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|Drug: thalidomide
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OBJECTIVES: I. Determine the antitumor activity of thalidomide in terms of regression or stabilization of disease in patients with HIV-associated Kaposi's sarcoma. II. Determine the toxic effects of this regimen in these patients. III. Determine the pharmacokinetics of this regimen in these patients.
OUTLINE: Patients receive oral thalidomide on day 1. Treatment continues daily for 6 months in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients with complete or partial response or stable disease after 6 months of treatment may continue treatment for an additional 6 months. Patients are followed at 1, 6, and 12 months.
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DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Histologically proven Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) HIV-positive by ELISA and Western blot Disease progression within the past 2 months Evaluable disease by non-invasive methods Minimum of 5 measurable lesions previously untreated with local therapy (such as intralesional injections) Ineligible if reduced performance status beyond minimally symptomatic pulmonary disease or other potentially or acutely life-threatening KS present Visceral disease, including pulmonary disease, allowed if the following conditions are met: Not acutely life-threatening No effect on performance status beyond minimal symptoms No urgent requirement for chemotherapy May be ineligible if actively bleeding or critically located KS lesions present that pose an immediate risk
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: 18 and over Performance status: Karnofsky 70-100% Life expectancy: More than 3 months Hematopoietic: Absolute neutrophil count at least 750/mm3 Platelet count at least 70,000/mm3 Hemoglobin at least 8 g/dL (at least 1 month since prior transfusion) Hepatic: Bilirubin no greater than 2.0 mg/dL (no greater than 3.8 mg/dL if elevation due to a protease inhibitor or Gilbert's syndrome) AST and ALT no greater than 125 U/L PT or APTT no greater than 120% of control No history of hepatic cirrhosis Renal: Creatinine no greater than 1.5 mg/dL Creatinine clearance at least 70 mL/min Pulmonary: See Disease Characteristics Other: Not pregnant Negative pregnancy test Fertile patients must use effective hormonal and barrier contraception for at least 1 week before, during, and for at least 1 month after study No greater than grade 1 peripheral neuropathy of any etiology except a localized neuropathy due to a mechanical cause or trauma No other malignancy within the past year except completely resected basal cell skin cancer No grade 3 toxicity except lymphopenia or neutropenia No hypersensitivity to thalidomide or related compounds No evidence of underlying severe or life-threatening bacterial, viral, fungal, or protozoal infection within the past 2 weeks Fever of 39 degrees Celsius or greater within the past 10 days allowed only if not due to a severe underlying infection
PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy: No prior interferon No prior thalidomide for KS At least 6 months since prior suramin Chemotherapy: At least 4 weeks since prior chemotherapy Endocrine therapy: No prior systemic steroids except physiologic replacement doses of corticosteroids, sex hormones, or noncorticosteroids such as anabolic steroids for wasting syndrome Concurrent short-term courses of steroids allowed Radiotherapy: No prior radiotherapy Surgery: Not specified Other: At least 2 weeks since prior antiretroviral therapy OR On stable doses of 1 or more of the following for at least 2 weeks before study: Zidovudine, zalcitabine, didanosine, lamivudine, or stavudine Protease inhibitor Non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor No other prior systemic anti-KS agent or regimen No other concurrent anti-KS therapy during the first 6 months of the study No concurrent sedating drugs that cannot be reduced to below a minimal level, sedating recreational drugs, or alcohol No change, initiation, or discontinuation of antiretroviral therapy unless medically indicated Concurrent intralesional therapy after 6 months on study on rare occasions for occasional painful or disfiguring lesions allowed
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AIDS-related Kaposi sarcoma
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Sarcoma, Kaposi
Neoplasms, Connective and Soft Tissue
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Herpesviridae Infections
DNA Virus Infections
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Neoplasms, Vascular Tissue
Immunosuppressive Agents
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Oct. 19 Mike Matheny postgame interview
Q. Seems almost the same as Game 1. Lance the first three innings really good, and the 4th inning kind of fell apart. Can you take us through what you thought of Lance and especially that 4th inning play where it looked like Kozma wasn't there or I don't know if Lance wasn't anticipating him not being there for the throw?
MIKE MATHENY: I thought he was as good as we've seen him all season those first three innings. He looked like he was untouchable. He was mixing his off‑speed pitches very well and executing his fastball instead of just trying to throw past people. He was pitching.
Q. Seems almost the same as Game 1. Lance the first three innings really good, and the 4th inning kind of fell apart. Can you take us through what you thought of Lance and especially that 4th inning play where it looked like Kozma wasn't there or I don't know if Lance wasn't anticipating him not being there for the throw?
MIKE MATHENY: I thought he was as good as we've seen him all season those first three innings. He looked like he was untouchable. He was mixing his off‑speed pitches very well and executing his fastball instead of just trying to throw past people. He was pitching.
And the 4th, a couple of quick base hits, gets an out, strikeout and the ball back to him. He's got an opportunity, pretty good runner on first, he gets an out at first base, you're sitting with two outs, second and third. And gets a pop‑up on the next guy.
But I don't mind him being aggressive if he's got the play. Kozma was in the right place, he just made a low throw. And to do it over again, I'm sure he'd like to take the easy out at first base and then try his luck on Belt.
Didn't work that way, and we were stuck in a spot where it just kind of spiraled at that point in a hurry. And that was the game.
Q. What was Zito doing that was so effective tonight?
MIKE MATHENY: He was pitching. He was raising eye level. He was in the top of the zone, just above, on the edges, just off. He was moving in and out, back and forth. He was taking speeds off his breaking ball and change‑up. That's what pitching is. You don't have to have 99 on your fastball if you can locate and keep hitters off balance.
And we never, never did get into a good groove. We had a good opportunity in the second when we had second and third and nobody out, punch out, walk double play takes a lot of life out of a club. And another opportunity in the 4th. But those were really all we had. In these games you have to take advantage of those. And Zito didn't make many mistakes.
Q. Zito came in here and pitched a game against you later in the season where he won I think 6‑2. Was it the same ‑‑ I didn't see that game ‑‑ was it the same kind of game? Was there something that your batters have difficulty with against him or is it just knowledge?
MIKE MATHENY: Batters have a tough time with pitchers that make pitches. And guys that aren't giving too much of the plate and working ahead in the count, changing speeds and changing speeds off every pitch they have. If you're locating it's tough, even ‑‑ it doesn't matter what the velocity on your fastball is. But he kept our guys kind of off balance. And it looked like we started to guess a little bit, tried to anticipate a little bit what he was going to do and he was one step ahead.
Q. If I can follow‑up again on Lynn. What do you sort of see him going forward, as you talked about first three innings, kind of lights out, but both games not getting through the fourth. What do you see him moving forward?
MIKE MATHENY: Moving forward he's been a very, very good pitcher for us this season. And we don't look any further past right now, for right now. And he's done a nice job for us, came out and I knew we were going to see a different pitcher, and I just was hoping it would last a little longer than it did.
Q. I know also that you talked yesterday, too, about this is a Giants team that came back and won three straight against Cincinnati. Are you obviously keeping that in focus, and again, it is one game at a time, but Sunday is top priority, and that's what you're focused on at this point, I assume?
MIKE MATHENY: Yeah, we never ‑‑ thinking for a second that these guys are going to go away. They're a good team and they're going to keep fighting, we know that. It just comes down to execution. They executed today better than we did.
Q. You and your team are obviously careful to note that the series wasn't over last night. But our line of questioning to them was very much about going to two straight World Series and also looking past today. Did you have any concern that that would get into their heads, there would be a risk of looking past today?
MIKE MATHENY: There's distractions from you guys every day. That's part of the gig. These guys could be so distracted with what's going on that they can't control that they wouldn't be able to operate. But it's a matter of them having enough experience to realize that that's always going to happen, it's going to be elevated at this time of year. We've had discussions, they've talked amongst themselves. We go out and we play the game and the team that can take the distractions and put them aside and just go out and do your job is the team that's going to have a higher likelihood of winning. And this team has that ability.
Just today we had a guy come out and pitch us tough. And we didn't get the execution when we needed it. And that's what it all comes down to.
Q. This is a two‑part question: You had the bases loaded in a situation there in the second inning and in that at‑bat. How tough is it to manage in that situation? And also, I don't know, this is a tough loss for you, but is this a situation where maybe down the road baseball needs to think about going to the DH?
MIKE MATHENY: I missed the second part of that, but the first part is bases loaded, we're trying to do the situation like we have all season. Danny Descalso has done a good job for us and comes up in that situation, puts the ball in play and executes extremely well. Zito elevated a fastball to get him on strike three. They didn't make an intentional walk. We have a pitcher that hasn't given up a hit at that point. There's not much move to make at that point.
Hoping he'd either hit a fly ball deep or swing and miss. He strikes out right there we're still in a good spot. He took a curveball, got in front of it a little bit, hit it hard at the shortstop and we're out of the inning. There's nothing to do different there.
Q. Can you talk a little bit about your bullpen, five and a third except for the Sandoval home run, that's got to be on the positive to build on going forward that you got an outstanding performance from your bullpen this evening?
MIKE MATHENY: Yeah, they did a nice job. Trevor came in and Joe Kelly getting out of the inning and making a clean follow inning. But these guys have done a very consistent job for us. The one run given up by Mujica, but besides that they threw the ball well. We have a lot of positives. You take today as a game. It's one game. We've got too many things we've been doing well over a long stretch of time to forget about the positives that we have. And the bullpen is just one of those.
Q. You talk about moving ahead. You have a big game pitcher with Chris Carpenter. Can you talk about your thoughts on him and him getting the job done for you in Game 6?
MIKE MATHENY: We're excited to have Carp on the mound anytime we can get him. And we know in big situations he comes up big for us. We also know they've got a guy throwing the ball extremely well that's going to be on the mound for them. We have to put a better game plan together than the last time and execute it.
They're excited about going home and rightfully so. We've got our hands full. So hopefully we'll catch a flight tomorrow and have everybody get their heads right and show up Sunday for a tough game.


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MIAMI A bus carrying more than 30 people hit a concrete overpass at Miami International Airport, killing two people on board and leaving three others critically injured, officials said Saturday.
The large, white bus was too tall for the 8-foot-6-inch entrance to the arrivals area, said airport spokesman Greg Chin. Buses are supposed to go through the departures area, which has a higher ceiling, he said.
Two large signs warn drivers of large vehicles not to enter beneath the concrete overpass. One attached to the top of the concrete barrier reads: "High Vehicle STOP Turn Left." The other, placed to the left of the driveway several feet in front of the barrier, says all vehicles higher than the 8-foot-6 threshold must turn left.
Three people were at hospitals in critical condition. The other 27 passengers had been hurt, but their injuries were less extensive, authorities said.
The body of one dead passenger was pulled from the bus late Saturday morning; the second person died after being taken to a hospital.
Fire trucks and police cars swarmed the area Saturday morning, and the bus was blocked off by yellow police tape. A white cooler that had been filled with water bottles was on its side behind the bus, the front of which remained wedged beneath the overpass Saturday.
The bus was privately owned and typically used for tours, though police believe all the passengers were local residents, not tourists, said Miami-Dade police Lt. Rosanna Cordero-Stutz. The bus' ultimate destination was not yet known, but the driver was unfamiliar with the area near the airport and did not intend to wind up at the arrivals area, Cordero-Stutz said. The driver was being interviewed by investigators, she said.
The bus was going about 20 mph when it hit the overpass Saturday morning, Chin said.
The bus resembles others commonly used for charters and tours, with the driver seated low to the ground and passenger seats in an elevated area behind the driver's seat. It was not immediately clear who owned the bus.


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Financial coaching and $2-for-$1 matching grant are keys to success
DUBUQUE, Iowa—Diligent saving, ongoing communication and a $2-for-$1 savings match through Dupaco Community Credit Union helped a young Dubuque couple become the proud first-time homeowners of a cozy house on Dubuque's Kaufmann Avenue.
Scott VanNatta and Rachel Stecklein purchased the house Oct. 22 through Dupaco's Individual Development Account (IDA) program.
A carpenter by trade, Scott VanNatta builds houses for people all the time. But until recently, he never had one to call his own.
"It's pretty awesome to be able to come home to my own place," VanNatta said. "I'm actually working toward something now, and I'm going to own this place someday."
In Dupaco's IDA program, the savings of a participant are matched by a dollar-for-dollar grant from the Iowa Credit Union Foundation. When additional funding is available, as was the case this time, the savings are matched by a 2-to-1 dollar grant.
Dupaco opens the savings account and provides the financial coaching required by the program to help ensure the participant's goals are met.
Saving money from every paycheck, Stecklein and VanNatta eventually accrued $2,000, with another $4,000 matched by the foundation. About 1½ years after enrolling in the IDA program, the young couple used the money to make a down payment on their first house.
"Rachel was thrilled about the IDA program, and she couldn't get over the fact that there was going to be a $4,000 match," said Dupaco's Paula Ervolino, who was the couple's financial coach. "She was nervous about it all coming together, and when it did she was smiling from ear to ear."
Stecklein was a full-time graduate student when she heard about the IDA program. She and VanNatta both lived at home with their parents, and they were saving little by little to eventually buy a house together. The IDA program was the boost they needed.
"Without some type of help, we wouldn't have been able to move for awhile," said Stecklein, who has since graduated and has become a social worker at The Finley Hospital.
While Stecklein has been a diligent saver for many years, her boyfriend was living paycheck to paycheck before they got serious about buying a home. They both credit the savings program for teaching them valuable life lessons about their finances.
Stecklein says it afforded her the opportunity to learn more about her credit score and all of the costs that come with homeownership. For VanNatta's part, the program caused him to re-evaluate his spending habits. Instead of dining out every day, he now packs a lunch to take to work. He's also more conscious about conserving gas, taking care of multiple errands during one trip.
"It might not seem like a lot of money at one time, but if you do that for a whole year, think about how much you are saving," he said.
Before the couple enrolled in the savings program, they were not Dupaco members. But because of their positive experience with the credit union, they are both in the process of moving all of their accounts to Dupaco.
"They've been great to work with. They've played a big part in everything," said VanNatta, who predicts Dupaco will continue to play an important role in their long-term goals and dreams.
The couple hopes to someday marry and start a family in their new home. In the meantime, they will continue saving what they can to fix their house up right--a new roof, new siding, new windows, maybe even a walk-in closet for Stecklein.
"I think they will continue to be good savers," Ervolino said. "Even at the closing, we talked about applying more money to the mortgage payments to save more money in the future."
The couple says Dupaco's savings program has helped them live the American dream.
"I wish more people would do it, because it helped us so much," VanNatta said. "We probably wouldn't be in a house yet had we not done this program."
Participants must meet income guidelines and be residents of or purchase assets in the state of Iowa to qualify for an IDA account. The savings and matching funds are then used by the individual to purchase a specific asset, such as a home, start or expand a small business, pay for education or job training, or purchase a vehicle to get to work.
Credit union members interested in more information on an IDA may contact Dupaco's Member Services Department at firstname.lastname@example.com or (563) 557-7600 / 800-373-7600, ext. 206.
Dupaco Community Credit Union is a not-for-profit, member-owned financial cooperative. It serves residents in 28 counties throughout eastern Iowa, northwest Illinois and southwest Wisconsin. Chartered in 1948, membership now totals more than 67,000 with assets exceeding $1.04 billion.
Offices are currently located at: Hillcrest Road at JFK, Pennsylvania Avenue at Northwest Arterial, 1465 Sycamore Street, 2245 Flint Hill Drive, and 400 S. Locust Street (inside Hy-Vee) in Dubuque; 5865 Saratoga Road in Asbury, Iowa; 807 Ninth Street SE in Dyersville, Iowa; 1200 W Main Street in Manchester, Iowa; 3131 Williams Boulevard SW, and 1st Avenue at 35th Street Drive SE in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; 11375 Oldenburg Lane in Galena, Illinois; and at 1100 E Business Highway 151 in Platteville, Wisconsin.
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New crafts store open
When I heard about a new Ben Franklin Crafts store in Hopkinsville, I was interested. WalMart has been our primary source of such items since JoAnn Fabrics closed its Hopkinsville store a dozen years ago or more. Now, rumors abound that our WalMart will be closing its sewing and crafts section soon.
Keely and I decided to investigate. We drove about a mile west of town on Highway 272 (Canton Pike) to the Oak View Plaza. The Ben Franklin is located on the right of the Food Lion grocery store.
It is not a large store, but it has a decent selection of craft items. More items are to be added as stock arrives (oil and acrylic paints and supplies, picture framing.)
Scrapbookers will find a variety of papers and embellishments. For beaders, the store has an assortment of beads and jewelry findings. Several hundred printed cotton fabrics are in stock, along with sewing notions. We saw lots of doodads and gadgets for most of the major needlecrafts, as well as basic materials.
Not surprisingly, the prices are a little higher than we've been paying at WalMart. However, if WalMart's craft department closes, it will certainly be more economical to pay the Ben Franklin price than to make a 60-mile round trip to a Clarksville, TN, craft store. Meanwhile, I'm going to give the BF a little business so maybe it will still be open if/when we lose the WalMart craft supplies.
The store is owned and operated by Anne K. Koehne (at right in the above photo), and it's open from 10 AM to 7 PM daily, except Sunday when the hours are 1 PM to 5 PM. That's Keely at left, giving me a look for taking her picture.
I was surprised that the store is a Ben Franklin. I had imagined that Ben Franklin went out of business years ago.
We had a Ben Franklin store in Bassett, Nebraska, when I was growing up. Looking back, I realize that it always had lots of craft items. I remember crochet threads and yarn, fabrics and sewing notions, tubes of fabric paint, and lots of kits -- kits for embroidered pillowcases and kitchen towels and quilt blocks, latch-hook rug kits, and of course, paint-by-number kits in various levels of difficulty.


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A citizen who wasn't ready for gun ownership...
Most Kentuckians are strong supporters of Second Amendment rights, and I agree that citizens should have the right to own weapons. We have a few guns ourselves. I've always thought that an occupying force would have a terrible time subduing Kentucky, given the armed populace, the love of freedom, and the challenging terrain.
Unfortunately, a very sloppy exercise of Second Amendment rights happened in Hopkinsville last Friday. It was chilling to read about it, but on the other hand, the story has some almost-comical elements.
According to Hopkinsville's newspaper, the Kentucky New Era, Matthew Ashley Hicks went to WalMart and bought some ammunition for his brand-new Jennings 9mm handgun. Then he walked out of WalMart with his purchase and got into his vehicle,
Sitting in the driver's seat of his Mercury Mountaineer in front of the WalMart garden center, Hicks began loading the gun. In the process, he fired it three times.
The first bullet went into the steering wheel. The second bullet went through the driver's side window and the front tire of a nearby car. Glass from the shattered window sprayed onto the hood of another vehicle parked nearby. Police hadn't located the third bullet at the time the report was prepared for the newspaper. The story includes a photo of a policeman on his hands and knees, inspecting the bullet hole in the flat tire.
Luckily, no one was injured. I'm surprised that Hopkinsville police can't think of anything to charge Hicks with, but the newspaper reports that no charges will be filed. Hicks' age and address were not available at the time the story was written.
Dennis and I were leaving WalMart at about the time all this was happening -- 2:30 p.m. on Friday . We were getting groceries for a Boy Scout campout. We didn't hear the gunshots. Fortunately we had parked on the other end of the parking lot!
I don't want you to think that incidents like this happen often in Hopkinsville's parking lots. The majority of our gun-owning citizens are careful, steady, responsible folks who, I'm sure, could hardly believe this story!
(Source: "Accidental gunfire damages 3 vehicles in Wal-Mart parking lot," from staff reports, Kentucky New Era, published in Hopkinsville, KY on Saturday, September 15, 2007.)


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SB 156, sponsored by Senator Gary Tapp (R-Waddy), was designed to assist small businesses across Kentucky by authorizing the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority (KEDFA) to develop and fund a small business loan program to assist new or existing small businesses operating in the Commonwealth.
"Since small business owners are the backbone of our economy, and as a small business owner and sponsor of Senate Bill 156, I want to thank Governor Fletcher and Secretary Strong for supporting the direct loan program," said Senator Tapp. "This legislation will assist small business owners - who employ half of Kentucky's workforce - in updating or expanding their companies and lead to more jobs for Kentuckians.
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Recognizing that small businesses, while essential for the economic vitality of the Commonwealth, may have difficulty obtaining conventional loans, KEDFA may provide terms that are more lenient, high-risk, or otherwise less stringent than industry standards.
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"SB 156 represents the Cabinet for Economic Development's continued commitment to the growth of our small business community in Kentucky," stated Secretary Gene Strong. "Nearly 80% of all new jobs are created by small businesses and we believe that this piece of legislation will further enhance job creation throughout Kentucky."
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Coach Pete Carroll says he plans to move defensive end Bruce Irvin to outside linebacker, where he'll compete with Malcolm Smith for the starting job.
Irvin will still see looks as a defensive end in nickel pass-rushing situations, but isn't big enough to ever earn a full time role on the defensive line. Carroll brought up Irvin's versatility as being extremely valuable to the team, and added "We're a 4-3 personnel system that plays 3-4 looks," indicating Irvin will get plenty of pass rush opportunities at outside linebacker. Expect Irvin to win the job from Smith after serving his four-game suspension for PEDs.
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