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		<title>The Extended Life of eBooks &#8211; From Minstrel Shows to Woodstock, From Fairy Tales to Pop Culture</title>
		<link>http://staythirstymedia.com/RansomNotes/2011/06/the-extended-life-of-ebooks-from-minstrel-shows-to-woodstock-from-fairy-tales-to-pop-culture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 05:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>s.i. wells</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Beauty and the Beast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contemporary romance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Toussaint]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the days of Gutenberg to his modern day disciples, a myth has existed that a physical book lasts forever. Certainly, some have withstood the test of time. However, when Pocket Books invented the mass-market, pocket-sized paperback in 1938 with its publication of The Good Earth by Pearl Buck, the publishing world changed. During the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PBS and NPR &#8211; Time to Change or R.I.P.</title>
		<link>http://staythirstymedia.com/RansomNotes/2011/03/pbs-and-npr-time-to-change-or-r-i-p/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 01:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>s.i. wells</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congressional funding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporation for Public Broadcasting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(First published January 2009 in Stay Thirsty) The annual appropriation from the Federal government to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is in excess of $400 million. There are over 1,100 public radio and television stations in the United States. The original purpose of the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 was summarized by President Lyndon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Mean Disney Didn&#8217;t Invent Snow White or Cinderella?</title>
		<link>http://staythirstymedia.com/RansomNotes/2010/10/you-mean-disney-didnt-invent-snow-white-or-cinderella-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 02:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>THIRSTY</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Beauty and the Beast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brothers Grimm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carson McCullers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cinderella]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dark fairy tale]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fairy tale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Faye Weldon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grimm's Fairy Tales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mrs. Beast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pamela Ditchoff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prince Charming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Princess Beast]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thirsty caught up with acclaimed novelist Pamela Ditchoff at her home in Liverpool, Nova Scotia for a brief interview about her third novel, Mrs. Beast. Ms. Ditchoff has a distinguished writing career and has received many literary awards, including the Chicago Review Award for Fiction. She was named a leading author and poet by Who&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CHINA BUYS GREECE &#8211; A WARNING TO ALL PIIGS</title>
		<link>http://staythirstymedia.com/RansomNotes/2010/10/195/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 05:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>s.i. wells</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the Premier of China announced on October 2, 2010 that his country would support Greece by buying its debt, the opening of a new era of national conquest began. The dynamics are beyond simple. China has huge currency reserves and Greece is flat broke. When China buys massive amounts of Greek debt, it in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LITTLE HOT MAMA Kicks-off Family Literacy Week as #1 Bestseller</title>
		<link>http://staythirstymedia.com/RansomNotes/2010/09/little-hot-mama-kicks-off-family-literacy-week-as-1-bestseller/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>THIRSTY</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[adult education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[chitlin circuit]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[digital book revolution]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[National Literacy Month]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congress declared September 13 – 19, 2010 as Adult Education and Family Literacy Week and “LITTLE HOT MAMA – The Flossie Turner Lewis Story” by Flossie Turner Lewis and Paula Meseroll reached #1 Bestseller status this morning on the Amazon Kindle Book Chart for Literacy. The autobiography of Flossie Turner Lewis recounts the life of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bipolar Disorder and The Quest For The Test</title>
		<link>http://staythirstymedia.com/RansomNotes/2010/09/bipolar-disorder-and-the-quest-for-the-test/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>THIRSTY</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Harold Koplewicz]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nathan S. Kline Institute]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ryan licht sang]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Ryan Licht Sang Bipolar Foundation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ryan Licht Sang, a brilliant young musician, writer, and artist, passed away on August 26, 2004 at the age of 24. Ryan was diagnosed with early-onset Bipolar Disorder in his early teens. Although not understood at the time, his sleeplessness and night terrors from the age of five were sending signals of the beginnings of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOW TO FIX THE HOUSING CRISIS</title>
		<link>http://staythirstymedia.com/RansomNotes/2010/08/how-to-fix-the-housing-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://staythirstymedia.com/RansomNotes/2010/08/how-to-fix-the-housing-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>s.i. wells</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bank lending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fair market value]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreclosure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home mortgage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would invent “The Great Do-Over”. I would penalize the lenders who made the mortgages that became toxic and let them take the losses. This would include banks, securities firms, and the like. If, for example, a bank gave someone a $500,000 mortgage on their principal residence and that house or condo was now worth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Top Ten Best Hit Songs of the 2000&#8242;s</title>
		<link>http://staythirstymedia.com/RansomNotes/2010/08/the-top-ten-best-hit-songs-of-the-2000s/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 03:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Swanson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Be sure to note that these are the best hit songs, so your favorite deep cut off of an Animal Collective record does not qualify. These are all amazing songs that managed to crack into the mainstream. Also, remember that these are the opinions of Matthew J. Swanson, and not the opinions of everyone at Thirsty. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ILLINOIS TREASURER&#8217;S OFFICE DELAYS TAX REFUNDS</title>
		<link>http://staythirstymedia.com/RansomNotes/2010/02/illinois-treasurers-office-delays-tax-refunds/</link>
		<comments>http://staythirstymedia.com/RansomNotes/2010/02/illinois-treasurers-office-delays-tax-refunds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>s.i. wells</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alexi Giannoulias]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[income tax refund]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Illinois Treasurer’s office has delayed sending 2009 income tax refunds to taxpayers and has failed to inform the public. It was noticed last week that the Illinois Treasurer’s computer system went “offline” twice and has since posted incorrect messages. In mid-January, electronic filers were informed via the Treasurer’s website that if their return was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Ten Hair Metal Songs</title>
		<link>http://staythirstymedia.com/RansomNotes/2009/10/top-ten-hair-metal-songs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Swanson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A wise man once said, “Don’t need nothin’ but a good time.”  Okay, the man was not that wise: this was sung by Brett Michaels, lead singer of the quintessential hair metal band, Poison, a band so dolled up with makeup on the cover of the Look What the Cat Drug In LP that they [...]]]></description>
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