IWS Person of the Week...The Lindner Coffin Company

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Sometimes it is said that death takes a holiday, other times it is said, especially in the realm of coffin advertising...<br /><br />When you do die, take the holiday with you...and that is what the<span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://www.zpdlindner.pl/index.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><i>Lindner Coffin Company</i></span></a></span> of <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wągrowiec, Poland is all about.</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">See?  Death is hard not only on the family but on the person who died as well, so? Both the family and the deceased  should enjoy the shock and hardness of death, by being hard in his or her casket.</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjitm8njLOcD01HV8b2xBBBfEhwyIopCfB429j-s1osbu7hd2cLX4xEa6XAzIn1LeRhR5qo5nkv66_FoZDsaZfGfpqVJDeWpvwH5ddM4zIwoLp0BDiJH2QrkTA2jOp6JIftn1tyGX5nY1_R/s1600/Lindner+Coffin+Company+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjitm8njLOcD01HV8b2xBBBfEhwyIopCfB429j-s1osbu7hd2cLX4xEa6XAzIn1LeRhR5qo5nkv66_FoZDsaZfGfpqVJDeWpvwH5ddM4zIwoLp0BDiJH2QrkTA2jOp6JIftn1tyGX5nY1_R/s640/Lindner+Coffin+Company+1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />Having trouble picking out a box made of pine?  How about picking this one that will make you stiffer than you already are?<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEKGDTmUW87hmgt0pO8ffHjqc6xGfrx8OhiRra_PIpcsM9o6uEodIKjtwQNenbGmVGex_WM8efYHUqgwuH_UyJL8uqC0aSyTjx64z3vb46TcHeqkWjcKwGtvBqX5X9hKp-w2ul-dDqqQsw/s1600/Lindner+Coffin+Company+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="335" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEKGDTmUW87hmgt0pO8ffHjqc6xGfrx8OhiRra_PIpcsM9o6uEodIKjtwQNenbGmVGex_WM8efYHUqgwuH_UyJL8uqC0aSyTjx64z3vb46TcHeqkWjcKwGtvBqX5X9hKp-w2ul-dDqqQsw/s400/Lindner+Coffin+Company+2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Are you some type of British Baron or Viscount who has recently passed?  Lady Styx will supply you with more wood than you ever had during your days on Earth...<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf5Xk4Mx6CpNIrvz8hBEKdEAVg0GUQv-sQR-6RFBSMOQEK7S21914_jlxTlTt2hfdPIXC2Pb9a8gs2ynEc_mQhNnOqiWNiTZILIR_A3FKALTFrUOWa1TkDTNJb9jLuD6GOxtQrJAz5_0-Y/s1600/Lindner+Coffin+Company+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="335" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf5Xk4Mx6CpNIrvz8hBEKdEAVg0GUQv-sQR-6RFBSMOQEK7S21914_jlxTlTt2hfdPIXC2Pb9a8gs2ynEc_mQhNnOqiWNiTZILIR_A3FKALTFrUOWa1TkDTNJb9jLuD6GOxtQrJAz5_0-Y/s400/Lindner+Coffin+Company+3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Are you an Eastern European man who has succumbed to the starch of too many potatoes and too many liters of vodka?  Well then...Allow Miss Dirt Sleep of Danzig 2013, Danya, to ease the pain as you enter the realm of the earthworm...<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbv4iFvxP2Y2Y_adKz8BTrtUCsPhsl53MOYZCJqMXuKkieg87e8k33BC2a00LEHpVGdoWgMkBjQ4ERQKC0jTA58JHdwvtyIp94z32F91cyW24Z7JiGWzRLNkAhwi8KwwzLP8yXFPFezp3D/s1600/Lindner+Coffin+Company+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbv4iFvxP2Y2Y_adKz8BTrtUCsPhsl53MOYZCJqMXuKkieg87e8k33BC2a00LEHpVGdoWgMkBjQ4ERQKC0jTA58JHdwvtyIp94z32F91cyW24Z7JiGWzRLNkAhwi8KwwzLP8yXFPFezp3D/s400/Lindner+Coffin+Company+4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's to the Lindner Coffin Company of <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">Wągrowiec, Poland for taking the bold step and saying to all who die...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"><i>"We come.  And the we go.  But that doesn't mean that we can't cum while we are going."</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">Here's to you, the  Lindner Coffin Company...The Coffin Company with a pulse.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">Annnnnnnd...As we celebrate Halloween on<i> <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/10/27/walking-down-a-wicca-wonderland-with-rev-james-smith" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">IWS Radio today LIVE</span></a></i> from Noon-2 PM ET, join us as we talk with Rev. James Smith, High Priest and Founder of the Celtic Wiccan Coven, and dig this folks...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">The IWS Radio players will be doing a dramatic reading of Edgar Allan Poe's, <i>The Raven.</i>  Trust me, it's a hoot!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">So Happy Halloween, Happy Samhain, and click<i> <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/10/27/walking-down-a-wicca-wonderland-with-rev-james-smith" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">HERE</span></a></i> in order to catch us LIVE today from Noon-2 PM ET on Blog Talk Radio!!</span></div></div></div>

IWS Person of the Week...The Lindner Coffin Company

Sometimes it is said that death takes a holiday, other times it is said, especially in the realm of coffin advertising... When you do die, t...

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Forecast for Sunday, October 27, 2013

<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipQ7K_qrPwZ1wzG5URhxusX8lRK9SqcUiCLgC5ua3WHBhyrdlsU79XCLapno-eCUNlGmrskuphuOuT-2H3Ew2YzHabftL5MZR8vN5umVsDWqY8gyq-02xrHHT6AXU4Dlcs4gJ5TzfjhWy4/s1600/7day.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipQ7K_qrPwZ1wzG5URhxusX8lRK9SqcUiCLgC5ua3WHBhyrdlsU79XCLapno-eCUNlGmrskuphuOuT-2H3Ew2YzHabftL5MZR8vN5umVsDWqY8gyq-02xrHHT6AXU4Dlcs4gJ5TzfjhWy4/s1600/7day.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It will be mostly cloudy into the early morning hours as a weak cold front moves through the area. The best energy with this front is located to our north. Therefore, only sprinkles are expected as the front passes through. The greatest chance to see sprinkles will be in the Lehigh Valley and the Poconos. The GFS LAMP guidance was relied on heavily for low temperature expectations. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">During the daylight hours on Sunday, high pressure will move back into the area. Skies should be mostly sunny. The winds will also relax be lighter than today. Another weak cold front will approach the region on Monday Evening. Most of Monday should feature plenty of sunshine with a few clouds arriving late in the day as the front passes through. During this frontal passage, we may not even see much in the way of sprinkles. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A warm front is expected to arrive on Wednesday and move north of the region by Thursday Morning. A few rain showers are possible with the highest chances for precipitation north of Philadelphia. A cold front is then expected to pass through late in the week. The GFS model is faster with the frontal passage when comparing it to the ECMWF model. At this moment, our best guess is that it may be an increasingly wet as Thursday Evening progress. We will watch this carefully as Halloween activities  will be taking place on Thursday Evening. The rain should extend into Friday before skies clear late in the day. However, if the slower solution turns out to be correct, Halloween would be drier with the majority of the rain on Friday and skies may not clear until sometime on Saturday. Regardless, we are looking at the potential for a period of heavy rain sometime between Thursday Night and Friday Night.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCvSA2LFMyJpbDeUnM6TJCyBWhKvTdLo-_6PgjLrXKZGNB50-v1OwG2Qskzv79itCwocwq7_kBahhry2__G3-RkkuU6sLXj7JLy3ZFjLsRD7cxUDwj13PzYQymu0XuUojalRJZe_FC4jSa/s1600/Day+Plan.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCvSA2LFMyJpbDeUnM6TJCyBWhKvTdLo-_6PgjLrXKZGNB50-v1OwG2Qskzv79itCwocwq7_kBahhry2__G3-RkkuU6sLXj7JLy3ZFjLsRD7cxUDwj13PzYQymu0XuUojalRJZe_FC4jSa/s1600/Day+Plan.png" width="400" /></a></div><br />

daily forecast Forecast for Sunday, October 27, 2013

  It will be mostly cloudy into the early morning hours as a weak cold front moves through the area. The best energy with this front is loc...

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Photos of the Big Monster: Lady Gaga's makes bizarre entrance as she lands in London

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7550564244280554053" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; position: relative; text-align: start; width: 616px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5SXC_9C_y2O3jrsw6-QwizC80uq16qERsmXhkod13wm0UvEqMqEVTOOw5CPn8frFIH_nh7LXwCT-BLxxmPGxzMcCcIaZpTm6X8Y0jU_2g-SEKVV2NAH9GMw78qFHeVbPk8xKQOevLwmy1/s1600/article-0-18FA77CC00000578-321_634x888.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(158, 9, 11); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" /><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUvgB39-5WULmKcVb_wXJmUrM-R_3560l7WMhknJZuVxtPH4Jrn_CstUsyc3a0Gz9mWxb09bZgPtgfHky5kTP8GO0a_3fZh5RCSMy7qVWYKTPDrsQOJa7B8DJn-rkMAInA-5eYOfOZa51x/s1600/article-2476891-18FC96A500000578-372_634x843.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(158, 9, 11); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" /></div>Lady Gaga, please stop! It's getting too weird! The superstar singer wore this spooky see-through creation as she landed in London yesterday for her performance in X-Factor UK. More bizarre is that she walked barefoot (legs painted white), with her arms raised and she had this disturbing stare...as she walked to her hotel and greeted fans. 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Photos of the Big Monster: Lady Gaga's makes bizarre entrance as she lands in London

Lady Gaga, please stop! It's getting too weird! The superstar singer wore this spooky see-through creation as she landed in London yeste...

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Kim K stuns in white lace dress at her birthday party in Vegas

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-232378175854760199" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; position: relative; text-align: start; width: 616px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTV1gS1DuboGmm33xner4RQgwaE1TOW_DSs6xxdCXIjz0GTHhqyulrbk0ycCfc32DrIUAtrGnP5ITHRDSxceR6PsU-bE7F1j4gZ6yycNnLKyR7U-XOndm5KdDofEDGN_xASksnO5BZsnD3/s1600/article-2477255-18FE297000000578-464_634x854.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(158, 9, 11); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" /><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1yV3csV89hak1iSGnEU3PpcWOEwguhjf56TM1o9j84n8ZZR7VeP49pwHQ4eVkXwch53NWA7uUCkNQxGtAoGQjkcrgzTg85Gh8aROlkSbV_B8kFiSSiYBmaOsQ97_0TnzRlW3XJBMJ5MFX/s1600/article-2477255-18FE3E4000000578-295_306x731.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(158, 9, 11); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" /></div>Kim K turned 33 on October 21 and had an extravagant birthday party at Tao Nite Club in Las Vegas yesterday Oct. 25th. Her boo, Kanye and her family members were in Vegas to celebrate with her. 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Kim K stuns in white lace dress at her birthday party in Vegas

Kim K turned 33 on October 21 and had an extravagant birthday party at Tao Nite Club in Las Vegas yesterday Oct. 25th. Her boo, Kanye and he...

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John Constantine and Swamp Thing #37 Set for Massive Popularity Boost

<div class="MsoNormal">Okay loyal comic book enthusiasts, what is going to be the next hot back issue to pick up in the coming years?  I know what you’re thinking, having a bit of foresight is actually akin to a super power.  However, for me one of the best investments right now is Saga of the Swamp Thing #37, which is the debut of (The) John Constantine.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Just like the sports card market, which is driven by demand (got to love the old supply and demand point counterpoints), the number of fans a character has directly impacts the value of their appearances.  The scarcer the comic, the more high priced (and hard to find) it becomes, think of it as a seller’s market.  Key issues of books can relate greatly to the first appearance of a character, New Mutants #87, Incredible Hulk #181, and Uncanny X-Men #266 are just a few examples, like Swamp Thing #37 that pop into my head.  (First appearances of Deadpool, Wolverine, and Gambit for those not following the logic.)<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/square_small/0/9116/2197875-37.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/square_small/0/9116/2197875-37.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image from <a href="http://www.comicvine.com/invunche/4005-74211/">Comic Vine</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">John Constantine is poised to gather a few more fans.  There is a Justice League Dark movie in the works, which according to Screen Rant might <a href="http://screenrant.com/justice-league-dark-heaven-sent-update-guillermo-del-toro/">make it to theaters before</a> the actual Justice League movie, and of course, NBC is working on debuting a <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/27/4777012/constantine-tv-series-is-being-developed-by-nbc">Constantine based television show</a>.  If done well, the result will be a few more fans of the old magic wielding chain smoking smart ass guy in a trench coat.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Hey the book is already pricey at the comic book store or on eBay, but you can find raw values anywhere from $20-$40.  Graded copies can get out of hand quickly, especially the high grades, because there just aren’t too many of these to go around.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal">The short end is that putting $40 to $80 down on a character with a massive following already add in a television show and a movie (oh, I loved the Keanu Reeves “Constantine” BTW, not the same as Hellblazer, but he owned the character he was presented), and the sky could be the limit.<o:p></o:p></div>

constantine dc comics movie tv show John Constantine and Swamp Thing #37 Set for Massive Popularity Boost

Okay loyal comic book enthusiasts, what is going to be the next hot back issue to pick up in the coming years?  I know what you’re thinking,...

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Christmas Bauble Wreath

So I upped the wreath making ante by buying a hot glue gun.<div><br></div><div>OMG!  This thing is incredible!  Hot glue guns are not that popular in Ireland (maybe because we don't have Martha Stewart!) but I have seen lots of mention of them on US blogs.  </div><div><br></div><div>I picked up my Hot Glue Gun in Evans Art Supplies just off Capel Street. </div><div><br></div><div>It's so easy to use.  </div><div><br></div><div>Here's my most recent wreaths made with my Hot Glue Gun</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbRQIIUO1IkcCqtDP_4V-iQ47ZN5jcnt9cXBS7jS8Ov-CCA7KlxQxX2Z-8QXCFojmsw-BRh-ywuqnxo3VfvcvIQzDZv2RpKcXy1Ypfp6bOE7iw-8ELMWnWNAtSQZfZk5mbxd8o8GBuKSho/s640/blogger-image--1634555151.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbRQIIUO1IkcCqtDP_4V-iQ47ZN5jcnt9cXBS7jS8Ov-CCA7KlxQxX2Z-8QXCFojmsw-BRh-ywuqnxo3VfvcvIQzDZv2RpKcXy1Ypfp6bOE7iw-8ELMWnWNAtSQZfZk5mbxd8o8GBuKSho/s640/blogger-image--1634555151.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I'll put a bow on this one to complete</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaTWekyGs_GBkni0WBn0FDszlYufZYBpLQLxla9hkq1hKRRUDgTOiaDozppqPfl6bZWX7OZuSBlgqwikoYne-Y9kEUQtVwGZ952ul4tkfSBX6Q74t0K9GDvGNt4vFuyoQv2dPgqVcLV9sC/s640/blogger-image-401824622.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaTWekyGs_GBkni0WBn0FDszlYufZYBpLQLxla9hkq1hKRRUDgTOiaDozppqPfl6bZWX7OZuSBlgqwikoYne-Y9kEUQtVwGZ952ul4tkfSBX6Q74t0K9GDvGNt4vFuyoQv2dPgqVcLV9sC/s640/blogger-image-401824622.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This one is a big old hot mess - or a Hot Glue Gun mess!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiirECucMar65q6pxZFXFhrssCOUhUf-zhpza7ygyKNIU0mKwDcBtfx-thIkdszTIG1wPEUbPEBRvJnv4MaCWvXOIct-4hmvQmTu6A8qJesVM_ofvNIA8ipVni3qmYweRr_llQBbH1Wp4SD/s640/blogger-image--834027103.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiirECucMar65q6pxZFXFhrssCOUhUf-zhpza7ygyKNIU0mKwDcBtfx-thIkdszTIG1wPEUbPEBRvJnv4MaCWvXOIct-4hmvQmTu6A8qJesVM_ofvNIA8ipVni3qmYweRr_llQBbH1Wp4SD/s640/blogger-image--834027103.jpg"></a></div><br></div><br></div><br></div>

Christmas Bauble Wreath

So I upped the wreath making ante by buying a hot glue gun. OMG!  This thing is incredible!  Hot glue guns are not that popular in Ireland (...

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Expect delays on AZ 188

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6383741895455123821" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3e3gJ6EWfISJgU4w3PaYVEk-Py6wLYqRzAO-AVr4BVshG246fifU81VgmA5iXmgbjEnzPrheo6I3ovMUKASkNEQjDiJ5N5pBEeNCeh7ysnzh1smwCtEy_8e6X_ayCsgNnB_eXj0LwwplD/s1600/untitled.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3e3gJ6EWfISJgU4w3PaYVEk-Py6wLYqRzAO-AVr4BVshG246fifU81VgmA5iXmgbjEnzPrheo6I3ovMUKASkNEQjDiJ5N5pBEeNCeh7ysnzh1smwCtEy_8e6X_ayCsgNnB_eXj0LwwplD/s1600/untitled.bmp" /></a></div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6383741895455123821" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Drainage work starting</b></span></span></i><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Expect lane closure, reduced speed limits</i></b></span></span></span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6383741895455123821" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The Arizona Department of Transportation will begin a project on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_310143025" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">Monday, Nov. 4</span></span> to construct two new concrete box culverts under State Route 188, between mileposts 254 and 257, east of Punkin Center by Roosevelt Lake.  </b></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>This $984,000 project, which is scheduled for completion in spring 2014, will include the construction of two new concrete box culverts, removing existing pipes, and pavement and guardrail improvements.  </b></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Work hours will be <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_310143026" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday</span></span> through <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_310143027" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">Thursday</span></span>. During construction there will be a lane closure and a traffic signal will be used to regulate traffic through the work area one direction at a time. Motorists will experience short delays as the signal transitions through its cycle. </b></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Drivers are advised to adhere to the reduced speed limit and proceed through the work zone with caution and be alert for construction equipment and personnel.</b></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>For more information about this project, please call the project hotline at <a href="tel:1.855.712.8530" target="_blank" value="+18557128530">1.855.712.8530</a> or email <a href="mailto:Projects@azdot.gov" target="_blank" title="mailto:Projects@azdot.gov">Projects@azdot.gov</a>. 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Congress pretends to understand Internet

<div id="bloghead"><div class="graphic-header" id="index_headers"><h2 id="indhed"><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/" title="The Borowitz Report"><img alt="The Borowitz Report" height="72" src="http://www.newyorker.com/images/headers/ANDY_BOROWITZ_banner_N.gif" width="400" /></a></h2></div></div><div class="postNav top"></div><div class="published" title="2013-10-24T18:03:13"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>October 24, 2013</b></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b><b> </b></span></span><br /><div class="byline"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Posted by </b></span></span><cite class="vcard author"><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/andy_borowitz/search?contributorName=Andy%20Borowitz" rel="author" title="search site for content by Andy Borowitz"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Andy Borowit</b></span></span>z</a></cite></div><br /><div class="entry-content"><br /><article><img alt="upton-hearing-580.jpeg" class="mt-image-center" height="265" src="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/upton-hearing-580.jpeg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 20px; text-align: center;" width="400" /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b></b></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>WASHINGTON (<a href="http://bit.ly/NhEEu0" target="_blank">The Borowitz Report</a>)—In an impressive white-knuckle performance on live television today, members of Congress spent several hours in a hearing room pretending to understand the Internet.</b></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Beginning this morning, members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee devoted four hours to grilling Web-site contractors about site architecture, Web traffic, software, and other I.T. concepts about which their ignorance is nearly complete.</b></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></span><div id="entry-more"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>“As members of this committee, we are supposed to have a deep understanding of the technology involved in the health-care Web site,” said Chairman Fred Upton (R-Michigan). “So it was absolutely imperative for us to fake that we do.”</b></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>For the duration of the hearings, the Web contractors offered detailed testimony about “end-to-end testing,” “enterprise identity management,” and other technical concepts to a group of elected officials who can barely use e-mail.</b></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>“I would say that, to a man, we did not understand ninety-nine per cent of that computer nonsense they were going on about,” Chairman Upton said. “To me it was a whole lot of blahbitty-blahbitty-blah. I hope it wasn’t too obvious.”</b></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Rep. Upton said that “looking serious and nodding our heads a lot” contributed to the illusion that committee members had even scant comprehension of what was being discussed.</b></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>“At the end of the day, a lot of it came down to not asking the questions you really wanted to ask,” he said. “Like, ‘What exactly is a Web site?’”</b></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Photograph by Alex Wong/Getty.</i></b></span></span></div></article> </div>

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Right's attack on Social Security, Medicare must fail

<br /><div class="email_body_content"> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.75;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUn4iNZhX1Trfm2O3KwHVgmEbqsPbTUCVkYBd7HYx06NLOYAlvAIV9JXOemTAqIczyZ88wogZFlxn1AEGEuEXr-i9pcG3bPf1sXbIijr5vMOCnxoBznemxZ4OrIXLBdk90-Y3cPj9_-Eis/s1600/1202-bernie-sanders-031109.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUn4iNZhX1Trfm2O3KwHVgmEbqsPbTUCVkYBd7HYx06NLOYAlvAIV9JXOemTAqIczyZ88wogZFlxn1AEGEuEXr-i9pcG3bPf1sXbIijr5vMOCnxoBznemxZ4OrIXLBdk90-Y3cPj9_-Eis/s400/1202-bernie-sanders-031109.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.75;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>They're at it again.</b></span></span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.75;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.75;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Billionaires like the Koch Brothers, Pete Peterson, Stanley Druckenmiller and others are leading the charge to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.</b></span></span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.75;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.75;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>If they succeed, millions of senior citizens, working families, disabled veterans and children will suffer. We must not allow that to happen.<span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT284"> </span></b></span></span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.75;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.75;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT284">Today</span>, the middle class is disappearing, real unemployment is extremely high, poverty is increasing and working families throughout the country are struggling to keep their heads above water economically. Meanwhile, the gap between the very rich and everyone else is growing wider and wider and the wealthiest people and the largest corporations are doing phenomenally well.</b></span></span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.75;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b></b></span></span><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.75;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>We must not balance the budget on the backs of working families, the elderly, the children, the sick and the poor.</b></span></span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.75;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b></b></span></span><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.75;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>As Vermont's senator, I have the honor of serving on the Budget Conference Committee which will be negotiating a new federal budget over the next few months -- and where I am fearful that a deal could be struck to slash Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits.</b></span></span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.75;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b></b></span></span><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.75;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT285"><a href="http://caf.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=dia6Zy7OHUZjwp2ri9mioIaSq2K7gCjf" target="_blank">As the founder of the Defending Social Security Caucus, please stand with me, our friends at Social Security Works and our coalition partners in demanding; "No grand bargain in exchange for cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits." </a></span></b></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b></b></span></span><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.75;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.75;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6383741895455123821" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Let's be clear. Despite right-wing rhetoric:</b></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b></b></span></span><ul><li style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Social Security is not going broke. According to the Social Security Administration, Social Security has a surplus <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT286">today</span> of $2.8 trillion and can pay out every benefit owed to every eligible person for the next 20 years.</b></span></span></li><li style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Social Security has not contributed to the deficit. Social Security is funded independently by FICA taxes which are paid by workers and their employers.</b></span></span></li></ul><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT287"><a class="buttonthing" href="http://caf.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=gUbutJO2Bfaxai9BhjFrD4aSq2K7gCjf" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #2b9709; background-image: none; background-position: left top; background-repeat: repeat; color: white; display: block; margin: 30px auto; padding: 9px 15px 12px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; width: 200px;" target="_blank">Sign this petition.</a></span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b></b></span></span><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.75;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>The so-called chained-CPI, which recalculates how COLA's are formulated, is not a "modest tweak." If the chained CPI went into effect <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT288">today</span>, a senior aged 65 would receive $658 a year less in Social Security benefits when he/she is 75, and $1,100 a year less at age 85. Further, the average disabled veteran would lose tens of thousands of dollars in benefits over his/her lifetime.</b></span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.75;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b></b></span></span><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.75;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT289"><a href="http://caf.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Lk0%2BGE4WaXUHp8c%2FRcj%2BKIaSq2K7gCjf" target="_blank">Please stand with me today and demand that Congress and the President oppose any grand bargain which cuts Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits.</a></span></b></span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.75;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b></b></span></span><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.75;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>When one out of four U.S. corporations pay nothing in federal income taxes; when Bush's tax breaks for the rich remain in place for many wealthy Americans; when the U.S. spends almost as much as the rest of the world combined on defense, there are much fairer and economically sound ways to address the budget than cutting programs desperately needed by the most vulnerable people in our country.</b></span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.75;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b></b></span></span><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.75;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT290"><a href="http://caf.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=KKyxRwltnum%2BC4jNA%2FPoqIaSq2K7gCjf" target="_blank">Please stand with me and Social Security Works in protecting the future of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits.</a></span></b></span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.75;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b></b></span></span><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.75;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Let's go forward together. Thanks for your continued support.</b></span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.75;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b></b></span></span><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.75;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Sincerely,</b></span></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b></b></span></span><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.75;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders</b></span></div></div>

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Free Report About The Lemonade Diet

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Sigismundo Keenan</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>This diet has been around since the 40's as an alternative that would assist in weight loss, as well as remove toxins from the body. Hollywood's elite have been using it for years as "The Master Cleanse", but does the Lemonade Diet really work?<br /> <br /> Weight loss is promoted by the release of these toxins as well as over all health improvements that you will be able to easily see. It gets the nickname of the Lemonade Diet because one of the key ingredients is lemon juice.<br /> <br /> Besides the use of lemon juice it also uses natural laxatives. The use of this lemonade diet master cleanser is not easy in the slightest and should not be entered into lightly. It promotes a very strict regiment that lasts 10 days where you do not have any food to eat or consume any dairy. You may, however, use drink certain teas high in antioxidants. Though sounding gross and unappealing this is the fastest way that you can lose weight and cleanse your system. Having your health impacted in such a way is well worth the problem.<br /> <br /> The only problem with this master cleanse diet is the fact that the pounds you lose while eliminating all the toxins of your body will immediately come back due to the diet's yo-yo effect. Many of the people who have tried it have reported a rapid weight gain as soon as they have gone off the detoxification program.<br /> <br /> As far as the safety of this diet is concerned, the lemonade detoxification program has always been subject to a lot of controversy. The main problem most of those opposing this diet have emphasized is the fact that a ten days fasting (or starving, as they often prefer to call it) is not at all beneficial for the body.<br /> <br /> Losing weight is a pleasant side effect of the the lemonade diet cleansing process but the most import results to be had are the removal of dangerous toxins and undigested fecal matter that was accumulated through your body and to alleviate chronic pains and illnesses.<br /> <br /> However, there are still those skeptics that consider this dangerous for their health; they prefer to try other detoxification methods or diets, the ones they consider safer and that don't involve depriving their body of the daily nutrients it needs to function properly, preserve their health and cope with their daily activities.<br /> <br /> The lemonade diet requires you to drink a special lemon juice for 10 days without any other solid food. Although it is the most effective detox diet, it is also very hard to follow. For better and easier results you can have the lemonade diet as a supplement pill called the "lemonade weight loss diet".<br /> <br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawresource'><br /> <div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br /> About the Author:<br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawlinks'>If you want to have a free bottle offer of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SlSHo-5_LY&feature=youtu.be">the lemonade diet</a> to test then you have to watch the reviews first.</div><br /> </div><br />

Free Report About The Lemonade Diet

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Caturday; ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?! Edition

I stumbled on this looking for a funny cat video and was so grossed out that I had to share.<br /><br />Dude, really?! Sick bastard.<br /><br />Gag me.<br /><br /><iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/XVRdK-85Xrg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Caturday; ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?! Edition

I stumbled on this looking for a funny cat video and was so grossed out that I had to share. Dude, really?! Sick bastard. Gag me.

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Dublin town

<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The beautifully ornate fully restored public conveninces in Chancery Park in Dublin City near Capel Street.  The clock at the top works!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX7V2SRTaIIyuTS53lTj-ITFIlRpLLPIsWIhEHhuQtP4ySctxzSU_8qksTMc5OLs6KCGdaY_0aj2MnFH8n4mBk7aVqlvDdyptXd8uSOM77RkUrqv-P2pucovagJy9YPahcHfBuxFMQ_y2o/s640/blogger-image-1916246930.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX7V2SRTaIIyuTS53lTj-ITFIlRpLLPIsWIhEHhuQtP4ySctxzSU_8qksTMc5OLs6KCGdaY_0aj2MnFH8n4mBk7aVqlvDdyptXd8uSOM77RkUrqv-P2pucovagJy9YPahcHfBuxFMQ_y2o/s640/blogger-image-1916246930.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgKKiXq1ScTltMpkwgopKdej5D0sF6a6FhE-f9miG8ZuCGzOIW6RkzPuLw41EHvTCbH4wvhu0WO16NGyAWbpy0-3s52cSRR-QwFmrtDfnCq0F_I1i_hYWXJSjoZACDtn1FpT8hG9BGUIsL/s640/blogger-image-319207405.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgKKiXq1ScTltMpkwgopKdej5D0sF6a6FhE-f9miG8ZuCGzOIW6RkzPuLw41EHvTCbH4wvhu0WO16NGyAWbpy0-3s52cSRR-QwFmrtDfnCq0F_I1i_hYWXJSjoZACDtn1FpT8hG9BGUIsL/s640/blogger-image-319207405.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We saw this Minitel Computer for sale for  25 euro in a secondhand shop.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht5TzlqVdAANKBMpxomc35Upi4rlyy7YE7_xs7tPRG0VmewZo7NibOJhl3uNRymNIbVJRjhMNSHfyujA-XtnbOALBvZLvA2RRG4IHxbS4ncwvqiVaDSjyk00VI1VcCs-_iGSY3cdJRyza0/s640/blogger-image--1906796116.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht5TzlqVdAANKBMpxomc35Upi4rlyy7YE7_xs7tPRG0VmewZo7NibOJhl3uNRymNIbVJRjhMNSHfyujA-XtnbOALBvZLvA2RRG4IHxbS4ncwvqiVaDSjyk00VI1VcCs-_iGSY3cdJRyza0/s640/blogger-image--1906796116.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Minitel (mainly in France) was one of the most successful precursors to the Internet.  Google "Minitel Computer" and read the wiki page - it's an interesting read!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8iRxxzM_rrmjf5NvIz7e9XIoteRqm5SfaOe5wR2tRPcCr-QN2XXzfVLexYAJBobAbZPqo82qOS5TCLbpRiweQ559Ais4ttarZ6WVZfEH2RqS10QN97HoYN74zE1BOaMma9hfkv84iNsgi/s640/blogger-image-170230476.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8iRxxzM_rrmjf5NvIz7e9XIoteRqm5SfaOe5wR2tRPcCr-QN2XXzfVLexYAJBobAbZPqo82qOS5TCLbpRiweQ559Ais4ttarZ6WVZfEH2RqS10QN97HoYN74zE1BOaMma9hfkv84iNsgi/s640/blogger-image-170230476.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSxBeo5DT9nOqosptEUToxA9GxWc_pdWxd1ygkH_kvxK1cDOIA0-QS-ZK-rAbRW1c61FrPGVJQM82b07FdoS_zL75VXzSJ2nJi2z_DGaZWHt1dElGqm4zF9gNzQKoG6i1Gxm3p7N1qSIA0/s640/blogger-image--50242075.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSxBeo5DT9nOqosptEUToxA9GxWc_pdWxd1ygkH_kvxK1cDOIA0-QS-ZK-rAbRW1c61FrPGVJQM82b07FdoS_zL75VXzSJ2nJi2z_DGaZWHt1dElGqm4zF9gNzQKoG6i1Gxm3p7N1qSIA0/s640/blogger-image--50242075.jpg"></a></div><br></div><br></div><br></div><br></div>

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Tenth Doctor Month: Quote Of The Day #26

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHYWukXuv19Yt5QNZBv2kX0yBfICmnYg4wHKHFvWAr0mXghWiBoB-r_in3D1wD2gh4SmscTFv7O5mpCztrXk_Rxxo2OHKK5mXbb4iIK9JCpkwTroT8TnjVZOON5cQwUug1Yc7CIS2j0qg/s1600/ten.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHYWukXuv19Yt5QNZBv2kX0yBfICmnYg4wHKHFvWAr0mXghWiBoB-r_in3D1wD2gh4SmscTFv7O5mpCztrXk_Rxxo2OHKK5mXbb4iIK9JCpkwTroT8TnjVZOON5cQwUug1Yc7CIS2j0qg/s640/ten.JPG" width="524" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The Master: </b>My masterpiece, Doctor. A living TARDIS strong enough to hold the paradox in place. Allowing the past and the future to collide in infinite majesty.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The Doctor: </b>But you're changing history. Not just earth, the entire universe.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The Master: </b>I'm a Time Lord. I have that right.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The Doctor: </b>When will you learn. Why come all this way just to destroy?</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sphere: We come backwards in time, all to build a brand new empire lasting one hundred trillion years.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The Master:</b> With me as their master. Time Lord and humans combined, haven't you always dreamt of that, Doctor? </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last Of The Timelords (2007)</span>

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Living With Cancer: Brains on Chemo - NYTimes.com

<div id="well"><div align="left"><div class="entry-content"><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.375em;">Over the past few months, a number of headlines in The New York Times have stumped me.</div><blockquote><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.375em;"><em>Tomatoes Have Devastated American Indian Families in Oklahoma</em></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.375em;"><em>U.S. Workers Are Grounded by Deep Cats</em></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.375em;"><em>Wall Saint Banks Woo Children of Chinese Leaders</em></div></blockquote><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.375em;">Of course, those weren't actually the headlines The Times had written. But why am I staring at the word "Tornadoes" and reading "Tomatoes"? Looking at "Cuts" and reading "Cats"? Interpreting the abbreviation "Wall St." as "Wall Saint"? After three cycles (or 18 sessions) of chemotherapy, I seem to be dealing with a weird sort of dyslexia.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.375em;">Chemo brain is a phenomenon that patients have described for quite some time as a thick mental fog resulting from chemotherapy. For quite some time, too, physicians discounted chemo brain as a figment of patients' imaginations. Now, however, the American Cancer Society terms it "a mild cognitive impairment" that for most people only lasts a short time.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.375em;">Doctors were skeptical about chemo brain because many factors can induce mental glitches. Forgetfulness, trouble concentrating, memory blanks, inattention, word loss, retention problems and disorganization can result from aging, sleeplessness, depression, fatigue, anxiety, low blood counts, the onset of menopause and other medications.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.375em;">Isn't it curious, though, that chemotherapy often accelerates aging, causes sleeplessness and depression, promotes fatigue and anxiety, lowers blood counts, causes the onset of menopause and requires powerful secondary medications to deal with its side effects? We seem to be caught in a dupe — oops, I mean a loop.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.375em;">P.C.C.I., or post-chemotherapy cognitive impairment, after being attributed to patients' hang-ups, finally became the subject of serious research while I was undergoing treatment. Such investigations therefore could not yield pragmatic solutions quick enough to help me locate my car in the parking lot or my keys maybe inside it.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.375em;">While I was going through chemotherapy, the phrase "mild cognitive impairment" did not pertain to the stupefaction I experienced at forgetting a close friend's name. I found myself bewildered about what task had led me to my university office and then lost on the way home. I had to enact a convoluted guessing game to get my husband to provide the word "egg." On more than one occasion, it became apparent that one of my daughters was confiding in me, but about what?</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.375em;">From that time on, I got hooked on two aids many people use to survive with a minimum of mortification. First, on my computer and iPhone, I have an elaborate calendar listing not only events that must be attended or tasks that must be accomplished but even menus and their ingredients. I study it hourly so I will remember what needs to be performed, purchased or produced — when, and for or with whom.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.375em;">Second, I always have a small pad in my purse, another by the side of my bed, another next to my computer, another in the kitchen. Often I scribble suggestions or snippets of conversation so — if they are decipherable — I can mull them over later and learn to remember the information they convey in a new, if more laborious, manner.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.375em;">Because of the cumulative effect of chemicals, sometimes those aids do not help. A few years ago, I suffered the bane of chemo brain most intensely toward the end of six infusions of Taxol and Carboplatin, when a fuzzy hesitancy spiraled into blank enervation. I could not think to think, stand to stand, or feel to feel. Vacancy morphed me into a zombie or humanoid. I felt somehow exiled from myself, a mishap never mentioned in the cheerful brochures on chemotherapy displayed in oncology waiting rooms.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.375em;">A friend of mine now on the same drug combination weeps while considering suicide, although she is taking an antidepressant. "It's the chemicals, stupid," she has to keep reminding herself.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.375em;">Even when Carboplatin alone was later prescribed for me, I had trouble reading. I tried, but when I turned the page I became convinced that either there was a page missing or I had skipped a page. My eyes would roll over a paragraph without being able to snag on a sentence … sort of a hindrance for an English teacher.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.375em;">These days, while I take a targeted drug, the aftereffect of chemo brain persist in milder forms, making my reading quite stimulating — but for the wrong reasons. As I study a recipe calling for 1 ¼ teaspoons of salt, I wonder how to measure 11 fourths. I am regularly surprised by discussions of kidney <em>stores</em> (instead of kidney stones), <em>dejection tissues</em> (instead of digestion issues), the <em>sex dive</em> (sex drive) and <em>constipations after surgery</em> (rather than complications after surgery).</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.375em;">As a self-identified "chemosabe" in my support group assures me, at least the recognition and naming of chemo brain prove we are not (completely) crazy.</div></div></div></div><br><a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/24/living-with-cancer-brains-on-chemo/?pagewanted=print">http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/24/living-with-cancer-brains-on-chemo/?pagewanted=print</a>

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Should Medical School Last Just 3 Years? - NYTimes.com

<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sandwiched between three mind-numbing years of basic science courses and hospital rotations and the lockdown years of residency training, the fourth year of medical school has long been a welcome respite for future doctors. It is the only time in their medical education when students have few requirements and a plethora of elective course offerings – and the time to go on vacation and spend time with friends and family.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Do it now," a mentor said as I was about to start my last year, "because you may never get the chance again."</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I followed that advice wholeheartedly. I spent most of my fourth year away from my medical school, caring for children with hematologic disorders one month, then shadowing cancer surgeons for another, in hopes of figuring out which specialty I liked more. I spent time working in a laboratory, something I'd never done before, learning how to culture and freeze cells, care for mice, and critique studies. I attended national medical meetings, hung out with old friends, and slept and ate to my heart's content at my parents' home.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For me, it was a pivotal, reassuring year.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But not all of my classmates felt the same. One friend interested in a particularly competitive residency spent much of the year in high-stress "audition clerkships," four-week clinical tours at hospitals where she hoped to train; she resented having to pay tuition at our home school while paying travel and living expenses so she could learn at other institutions. Another, older classmate, who had already spent 10 successful years in another profession, was just eager to get on with his training; for him, a fourth year filled with electives and extended vacations was a waste of time and tuition money.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"The fourth year is kind of bogus," one friend recently recalled. "It might have been fun at the time, but I'm not sure it made me a better doctor."</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">These disparate opinions came to mind recently when I read two<a href="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1304681" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153);">perspective pieces</a> in The New England Journal of Medicine on <a href="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1306457" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153);">eliminating the fourth year of medical school</a>.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For several years, medical educators have been engaged in an increasingly heated, and occasionally cantankerous, <a href="http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1105095" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153);">debate about streamlining medical education</a> and training. Many experts have suggested <a href="http://bulletin.facs.org/2013/08/a-new-paradigm/" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153);">lopping years off the residency training process</a>, but surprisingly few have argued for such similarly dramatic changes in the medical school curriculum.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/sites/default/files/elibrary/Carnegie_Flexner_Report.pdf]" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153);">Established over a century ago</a> as part of a <a href="https://ualearn.blackboard.com/bbcswebdav/pid-303852-dt-content-rid-690898_1/courses/49626.201240/readings/Ludmerer-Flexner-AcadMed.pdf" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153);">sweeping change</a> to a chaotic collection of schools, apprenticeships and fly-by-night training programs, the four-year medical school curriculum is the sacred cow of medical education. Like soldiers in lockstep, nearly all medical students over the last 100 years have spent their first two years in lecture halls learning the theory and basic science of medicine and their third and fourth years on the wards learning the practical clinical applications. Apart from a few <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1431826/?page=1" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153);">short-lived experiments</a> during World War II and in the 1970s to shorten the curriculum to three years, not even the most radical of educational reformers have dared stray from the norm, carefully integrating their changes well within the venerated four-year framework.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But now it appears that the perfect storm of physician shortages, rising health care costs and student debt has begun to tip this hallowed heifer. In 2010, responding to the physician workforce shortage, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine began offering a three-year medical school track for select students interested in primary care. Soon thereafter Mercer University School of Medicine's campus in Savannah, Ga., <a href="https://www.aamc.org/newsroom/reporter/october2012/308506/family-medicine.html" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153);">followed suit</a>; and this fall, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/24/education/nyu-and-others-offer-shorter-courses-through-medical-school.html" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153);">New York University School of Medicine welcomed</a>, in addition to its traditional four-year students, its first group of students to pursue a three-year option.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Proponents believe that the three-year programs will help address several pressing issues. By producing doctors faster, three-year M.D. degree programs help to address the critical doctor deficits <a href="https://www.aamc.org/download/158076/data/updated_projections_through_2025.pdf" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153);">predicted over the next 15 years</a>. In addition, with almost two-thirds of medical students graduating with <a href="https://www.aamc.org/download/152968/data" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153);">$150,000 or more of educational debt</a> and with more students entering <a href="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1304681" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153);">medical school at an older age</a>, the three-year option allows students to begin practicing sooner and with as much as 25 percent less debt.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"We can't dissociate medical education from societal and student needs," said Dr. Steven B. Abramson, lead author of the <a href="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1304681" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153);">perspective piece in favor of three-year programs</a> and vice dean for education, faculty and academic affairs at N.Y.U. "We can't just sit back in an ivory tower and support a mandatory year of prolonged adolescence and finding oneself, when society needs doctors to get out into the community sooner."</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But critics are quick to point out the failures of past attempts to do the same. In the 1970s, for example, with support from the federal government, as many as 33 medical schools began offering a three-year M.D. option to address the impending physician shortages of the time. While the three-year students did as well or better on tests as their four-year counterparts, the vast majority, if offered a choice, would have chosen the traditional four-year route instead. Many who completed their work in three years were exhausted by the pace of accelerated study; and as many as a quarter asked to extend their studies by a year or two anyway.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The most vocal critics were the faculty who, under enormous constraints themselves to compress their lessons, found their students under too much pressure to <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1431826/?page=1" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153);">understand fully all the requisite materials or to make thoughtful career decisions</a>.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The three-year experiments were quickly abandoned.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"You can't pretend to have a great educational experience without spending time on the educational experience," said Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, <a href="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1306457" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153);">lead author of the perspective piece against three-year programs</a> and associate dean for curriculum at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dr. Goldfarb and other critics contend that a host of new issues complicate the issue. The amount of material that students must assimilate, for example, has increased dramatically since the 1970s; and regulations now limit the number of hours trainees can work in the hospital. Taking away an entire year of the educational process dramatically whittles away the time young doctors have to interact with patients and gain critical clinical experiences.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"The complexity of medicine is greater than it's ever been," Dr. Goldfarb noted. "Compressing what has become more complex than it's ever been seems counterintuitive."</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Four more medical schools are nonetheless <a href="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1304681" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153);">currently considering adding a three-year M.D. option to their traditional programs</a>. And while all of these shorter programs still remain an option and not the norm, the debate they have incited has brought greater attention to other exciting initiatives, like a<a href="https://www.aamc.org/newsroom/reporter/april11/184286/competency-based_medical_education.html" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153);">novel assessment method</a> that is based on a student's actual skill rather than the number of years completed. This "competency-based" assessment would mean that students would be allowed to graduate when they demonstrated the skills and not just when they fulfilled the four-year requirements of a 100-year-old standard.</p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto;">"Everything has changed around us," Dr. Abramson said. "Specialties have changed, society has changed and the debt burden has changed. We are never going to be able to adapt of changing needs of society and of our students if we continue to believe that the way we educate medical students is sacred."</div><br><a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/24/should-medical-school-last-just-3-years/?_r=0">http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/24/should-medical-school-last-just-3-years/?_r=0</a>

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Why New Drugs Are So Expensive | MIT Technology Review

<div><p class="dropcap" style="margin: 0px 0px 3rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In January 2012, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Kalydeco, the first drug to treat the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis, after just three months of review. It was one of the fastest approvals of a new medicine in the agency's history. Vertex Pharmaceuticals, which discovered and developed the drug, priced Kalydeco at $294,000 a year, which made it one of the world's most expensive medicines. The company also pledged to provide it free to any patient in the United States who is uninsured or whose insurance won't cover it. Doctors and patients enthusiastically welcomed the drug because it offers life-saving health benefits and there is no other treatment. Insurers and governments readily paid the cost.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 3rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Several months later, Zaltrap was approved to treat colorectal cancer. The drug was discovered by Regeneron, an emerging biopharmaceutical company like Vertex, but sold by the French drug maker Sanofi. Though it worked no better in clinical trials than Roche's cancer drug Avastin, which itself adds only 1.4 months to life expectancy for patients with advanced colorectal cancer, Sanofi priced Zaltrap at $11,000 a month, or twice Avastin's price. Unexpectedly, there was resistance. Doctors at Memorial Sloan-Kettering in New York, one of the world's leading cancer centers, decided Zaltrap wasn't worth prescribing. They announced their decision—the first time prominent physicians anywhere had said "Enough" to the introduction of a high-priced cancer drug—on the op-ed page of the<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> New York Times. </em>Three weeks later Sanofi effectively dropped its price by half through rebates to doctors and hospitals. Even so, British health authorities said they would not pay for the treatment.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 3rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The FDA approved 39 new drugs in 2012, the most in a decade and a half—a sign that the pharmaceutical industry may be recovering from its long fallow period. Wall Street applauded the revival, especially because many drug companies are facing patent expiration for their top-selling products and could see dwindling revenues after years of lackluster research productivity. Most of the new drugs either treated rare diseases like cystic fibrosis or were marginal improvements over existing cancer drugs. All carried extremely high price tags.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 3rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But a closer look at the rollouts of Kalydeco and Zaltrap reveals startling differences in how companies value a drug and justify its price. It also provides a preview of a likely future in which extremely costly drugs are common.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 3rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">More ...</span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/520441/a-tale-of-two-drugs/?src=longreads">http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/520441/a-tale-of-two-drugs/?src=longreads</a></div>

Why New Drugs Are So Expensive | MIT Technology Review

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<a href="http://www.teamster.org/content/missouri-first-student-school-bus-workers-choose-teamsters" rel="nofollow">Missouri First Student School Bus Workers Choose Teamsters</a>  teamster.org   ...School bus drivers and monitors with First Student in Sedalia, Mo., have voted overwhelmingly to join Teamsters Local 833 in Jefferson City, Mo. There 45 school bus workers in the bargaining unit... <br /><a href="http://www.wwnytv.com/news/local/Union-Ratifies-Contract-At-Yogurt-Plant-229144541.html" rel="nofollow">Teamsters Ratify Contract At Yogurt Plant</a>  WNYF News   ...Unionized workers at the Upstate Niagara Cooperative yogurt plant in North Lawrence have ratified a new three-year contract extension by "an overwhelming majority." The 36 workers in the bargaining unit are represented by Teamsters Local 687...<br /><a href="http://www.teamster.org/content/teamsters-republic-airline-representatives-resume-negotiations" rel="nofollow">Teamsters, Republic Airline Representatives Resume Negotiations</a>  teamster.org   ...The International Brotherhood of Teamsters’ Airline Division and representatives of Republic Airways held talks Thursday in Washington, D.C...<br /><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/24/us-usa-detroit-bankruptcy-idUSBRE99M0U320131024" rel="nofollow">Union lawyers build case against Detroit early in bankruptcy trial</a>  Reuters   ...Attorneys for Detroit unions and retirees sought to build a case on Thursday that Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr did not negotiate in good faith before Detroit filed for <a href="http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/bankruptcy?lc=int_mb_1001" rel="nofollow">bankruptcy</a> so they could block the city from getting court protection...<br /><a href="http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2013/10/puget-sound-grocery-workers-contract-ratification-votes-set-for-next-week/" rel="nofollow">Puget Sound grocery workers’ contract-ratification votes set for next week</a>  Associated Press   ...Ratification votes are scheduled next week on a tentative contract agreement that averted a strike by 21,000 grocery workers at four major grocery chains in the Puget Sound region...<br /><a href="http://www.tradereform.org/2013/10/enormous-humongous-trade-deficit-prior-month/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=enormous-humongous-trade-deficit-prior-month" rel="nofollow">Enormous, Humongous Trade Deficit Up From Prior Month</a>  Campaign for America's Future   ...$38.8 billion more, drained from the economy, in just one month...<br /><a href="http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18273-the-trans-pacific-partnership-legalizes-corporate-rights-prevailing-over-human-rights" rel="nofollow">The Trans-Pacific Partnership Legalizes Corporate Rights Prevailing Over Human Rights</a>  Truthout   ...Ever since the current juggernaut of "free trade" agreements began to be negotiated under President George Herbert Walker Bush (which resulted in the signing of NAFTA under President Bill Clinton), jobs have been fleeing America as corporations have become engorged with greater profits...<br /><a href="http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2022114158_apxcanadaloblawbangladeshcollapse.html" rel="nofollow">Canadian grocery giant Loblaw to compensate victims' families of Bangladesh factory collapse</a> Seattle Times   ...Canadian grocery giant Loblaw Companies Ltd. said Thursday that it will provide long-term financial assistance to the surviving victims and families affected by a deadly factory collapse in Bangladesh...<br /><a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/176822/students-demand-college-logo-brands-join-fire-and-safety-agreement#" rel="nofollow">Students Demand College-Logo Brands Join Fire and Safety Agreement</a>  The Nation   ...This week United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) is holding demonstrations at more than thirty colleges and universities across the country as part of an International Week of Action to End Deathtraps commemorating the six-month anniversary of the <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/174492/no-more-rana-plazas" rel="nofollow">Rana Plaza </a>building collapse in Bangladesh...<br /><a href="http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2022117749_chickenchinaxml.html">Ruling opens door to U.S. sales of China-processed chicken</a>  Atlanta Journal-Constitution ...Coming soon maybe to a grocery store near you — chicken from China. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) ruled recently that poultry processed in China can be sold in the U.S...<br /><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/10/23/2821461/shutdown-debt-ceiling-jobs/" rel="nofollow">Shutdown And Debt Ceiling Fights Cost 120,000 Jobs In Two Weeks</a>  ThinkProgress   ...The fights over the government shutdown and raising the debt ceiling reduced economic output by 0.25 percent in the fourth quarter of this year and <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/weekly_indicators_report_final.pdf" rel="nofollow">cost about 120,000 private sector jobs in the first two weeks of October</a>...<br /><a href="http://www.iihs.org/iihs/news/desktopnews/drop-in-teen-driving-tracks-with-teen-unemployment-hldi-study-finds" rel="nofollow">Drop in teen driving tracks with teen unemployment, HLDI study finds</a>  Insurance Institute for Highway Safety   ...the proportion of high school seniors with a driver's license fell from 85 percent in 1996 to 73 percent in 2010. The proportion of seniors who reported that they didn't drive during an average week rose from 15 percent to 22 percent over the same period...<br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/25/american-dream-dead_n_4156505.html" rel="nofollow">The American Dream Might As Well Be Dead: Here's Proof</a>  Huffington Post   ...only 43 percent of survey respondents said that achieving the American Dream is possible in this economy...<br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/25/wall-street-landlords_n_4151345.html?utm_hp_ref=business" rel="nofollow">A Huge Billion Dollar Slumlord</a>  Huffington Post   ...Here's What Happens When Wall St. Builds A Rental Empire...renovations they were assured were comprehensive amounted to little more than a fresh coat of paint and new carpeting. Tenants said they immediately discovered major mechanical and plumbing problems: broken water heaters and air conditioners, broken toilets and in some cases even vermin infestations, including fleas, silverfish and rodents. Attempts to get the issues fixed usually end in frustration...<br /><a href="http://truth-out.org/news/item/19605-cash-for-kids-firms-behind-juvenile-prison-bribes-reach-25-million-settlement-in-civil-suit" rel="nofollow">"Cash for Kids": Firms Behind Juvenile Prison Bribes Reach $2.5 Million Settlement in Civil Suit</a>   Democracy Now   ...Here's the latest news in the so-called "kids-for-cash" scandal in Pennsylvania, in which judges took money in exchange for sending juvenile offenders to for-profit youth jails...<br /><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/10/25/2835101/gop-asks-party-official-resign-admits-voter-suppresses-democratic-votes/" rel="nofollow">GOP Official Resigns After Saying Purpose Of Voter ID Is To Suppress Votes Of Democrats, ‘Lazy Blacks’</a>   ThinkProgress   ...Until Thursday, Don Yelton was a precinct chair in the Buncombe County, North Carolina Republican Party. That ended after an interview riddled with racism and candid admissions about the purpose of a <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/07/23/2340941/nc-voter-suppression/" rel="nofollow">voter suppression bill enacted by Republican lawmakers in his state</a>...<br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/10/24/california-to-levy-massive-fine-against-koch-brothers-groups/" rel="nofollow">California to levy massive fine against Koch brothers groups</a>  Washington Post   ...Two groups that are part of a conservative political network maintained by billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch have agreed to a record $1 million civil settlement with the California Fair Political Practices Commission, the largest campaign fine in state history...<br /><a href="http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19556-alec-and-tiaa-cref-join-the-assault-on-public-pensions" rel="nofollow">ALEC and TIAA-CREF Join the Assault on Public Pensions </a>(opinion)  Truthout   ...The right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council has jumped into the conservative effort to dismantle public pension systems in a big way, making it one of its top 2014 legislative priorities, a public pension advocacy group has warned...<br /><a href="http://panampost.com/joel-fensch/2013/10/25/strikes-shutdown-chiles-public-sector-ahead-of-presidential-election/" rel="nofollow">Strikes Shutdown Chile’s Public Sector Ahead of Presidential Election</a>  PanAm Post   ...With less than a month before Chile’s presidential and parliamentary elections, its largest labor alliance, the Central Unitaria de Trabajadores (CUT), instigated a nationwide strike on Wednesday involving thousands of public sector workers...<br /><a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100025913/citi-forecasts-greek-devastation-unstoppable-debt-spirals-in-italy-and-portugal/" rel="nofollow">Citi forecasts Greek devastation, unstoppable debt spirals in Italy and Portugal</a>  The Telegraph   ...If Citigroup is broadly correct, Europe faces a lost decade that is far worse than anything suffered by Japan, which will render the region marginal in coming world affairs, and is likely to have non-linear political consequences...<br /><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/24/mexico-clown-convention-drug-cartel-killing" rel="nofollow">Mexico clown convention condemns fancy-dress drug cartel killing</a>  The Guardian   ...Delegates to a three-day Latin American clown convention in Mexico City have distanced themselves from the murder last week of a drug lord by a hitman in fancy dress, insisting no genuine member of their profession would have committed the crime...

Today's Teamster News 10.26.13

Missouri First Student School Bus Workers Choose Teamsters   teamster.org   ...School bus drivers and monitors with First Student in Sedalia...

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