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The Clock Tower Project, GreenBuilder, February, 2012, pg. 38. Bison pedestals support and elevate roof pavers on rooftop deck which features a stunning view of New Orleans.
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Clyfford Still Museum, Denver, CO
Bison Wood Tiles and Deck Supports featured in corner terraces.
View Clyfford Still Museum Project Profile in Architectural Record, January 2012
dwell, April 2011, p. 74 (PDF): Residential green roof, designed by Bison's Mark Fusco, feature Bison Wood Tiles and Decks Supports for its pedestrian deck.
Pop-up parks wins 71-73 in Sunset's "The top 100 ideas, people, places and things that are making life in the West better right now." Sunset, February 2011, p. 35.
"Pop-up parks, Paklets, Ped plazas, Hell strips. Call 'em what you want – but isn't it marvelous what pavement can become when a community pulls together?..." Bison's street deck system (Bison Pop-up Park) is utilized in San Francisco's Parklet.
Just Redo it, dwell, February 2011, p. 82. Andrew Dunbar and Zoee Astrakhan remodels their urban home (Mission Home) in San Francisco. "We've learned that when you do it right," Dunbar says, "1,100 square feet of living space is not small." The Bison decking system is used (Bison Wood Tiles and Deck Supports) and "they allow easy access to irrigation lines and drains. 'The heavy tiles can be removed or reconfigured without any demolition,' notes Dunbar."
Read another article regarding this urban home online: NewYork Times - An Experiment in Design in San Francisco
Interstice Architects Web Site… click Work… Residential… Mission Home - photos of Bison Wood Tiles supported by pedestals (Bison Deck Supports) on slides 9 and 10.
41 Cooper Square is NYC's First LEED Platinum Academic Building
Bison Deck Supports (Versadjust) elevate grey concrete pavers on partial green roof at 41 Cooper Square in New York City.
Green Source, December 28, 2010 - "41 Cooper Square, Cooper Union College's new academic building located on Third Avenue between East 6th and 7th Streets has been awarded LEED Platinum, the highest LEED certification by the U.S. Green Building Council. The building has been verified by the Green Building Certification Institute and is the first academic building in New York City to achieve this status." Read entire article and watch video: Green Source: 41 Cooper Square is NYC's First LEED Platinum Academic Building
Janette Sadick-Khan, Urban Engineer, The New City of the Future, Esquire, December 2010, p. 158.
Janette Sadick-Khan, New York City's Department of Transportation Commissioner, champions street repurposing efforts and produces fast results (by working around bureaucracy) which are all backed up by tangible data and statistics.
Bison Pop-Up Park street deck system is curbside seating platform utilized in Janette Sadick-Khan's first Pop-up Cafe in New York City's Financial District last August, 2010. Read NYC's press release: NYC DOT Announces First Pop-up Cafe, Bringing Innovative Public Space to Lower Manhattan
Newsom Christens New Mojo Cafe "Parklet," Pledges More to Come
San Francisco Takes Parking Spaces for Trial Sidewalk Extensions
Bison Awarded Two 2010 Product Picks by Architectural Record: Pop-Up Park and Bison Cube
Architectural Record - Special Construction & Exterior Improvements - Bison Pop-Up Park
Wallpaper* Top 200-Parklets, San Francisco – San Francisco's Parklet wins Top 200 Award from Wallpaper* Magazine, which features the Bison street deck and landscaping system.
Bison Cube - Exteriors, Landscape Architecture, Building Materials - Bison receives new product recognition in Eco-Structure & Architect Magazine.
JLC, The Journal of Light Construction, June 2010: Replacing a Rooftop Deck - Pedestal supports and preassembled wood tiles simplify installation and maintenance.
Architectural Record chooses Bison Massaranduba Wood Tiles as an Editor's Pick in its 2009 Products Report
Green Source CASE STUDY: The Visionaire, New York City
See Bison Wood Tiles (supported by Bison Deck Supports) on The Visionaire green roof, slide num. 5.
Eco-Structure May/June 2010 - Discovery Green in Houston has water features supported on Bison pedestals.
Eco-Structure May/June 2010
Denver Magazine - The article mentions 3 prominent green roofs - and Bison is part of each.
Denver Magazine
Snap Magazine - Sweets.com's Snap Magazine featured Bison.
Snap Magazine
Lumenhaus - Bison was proud to be a Bronze Sponsor of Virginia Techs award winning entry in the 2009 Solar Decathlon, named Lumenhaus.
Popular Mechanics
Green Roofs for Healthy Cities Profile - The TWA Corporate Headquarters Building in Kansas City, MO is featured. Featuring Bison ipê tiles.
Green Roofs for Healthy Cities Profile
Building Products Top 100 - Bison was selected as one of Building Products' top 100 building products.
Building Products Top 100
MSI Smart Home - Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry used Bison products for the rooftop deck on their showcase home for energy efficiency.
MSI Smart Home
DIY Hot Tub Deck - Bison Level.it and Ipê wood tiles were used to create a small residential deck for an episode of Grounds for Improvement.
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April 10, 2013: Bison Innovative Products is a Finalist for Colorado Companies to Watch Award
June 2, 2011: [PR WEB Release] Green Roofs for the West Symposium: Denver, CO, June 16, 2011
March 12, 2011: [PR WEB Release] Turning Streets into Destinations Expands Restaurant Business and Public Open Space
January 28, 2011: [PR WEB Release] Two Bison Products Win Architectural Record's "Best New Products"
January 14, 2011: Green Roof Presentation at Denver's ProGreen 2011 Expo on Feb. 11
October 1, 2010: Bison Announces the Introduction of the Bison Cube™
September 9, 2010: Bison Featured in New York City's First Pop-up Café
May 19, 2010: Reclaiming People Space: A City's Movement
March 11, 2010: Bison Changes Company Name to Reflect Innovation
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US-VISIT's use of biometrics has helped strengthen U.S. immigration and border security to a level that did not exist before.
Every day, 30,000 authorized federal, state and local government users query US-VISIT's data in order to accurately identify people and determine whether they pose a risk to the United States. US-VISIT supplies the technology for collecting and storing biometric data, provides analysis of the data to decision makers, and ensures the integrity of the data.
By using biometrics, US-VISIT is helping to prevent the use of fraudulent documents, protect visitors from identity theft and stop thousands of criminals and immigration violators from entering the country.
U.S . Immigration and Customs Enforcement receives information from US-VISIT to identify those who may have overstayed terms of their admission. US‑VISIT matches entry and exit records and provides this information to ICE. This enhanced information‑sharing process provides an increased capability to identify and apprehend overstays—a critical tool with which to manage the immigration and border system.
Before US-VISIT, international travelers who overstayed their authorized period of admission were only identified as a consequence of some other encounter with law enforcement.
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This capability is part of a pilot program to collect biometric information from migrants interdicted while attempting to illegally enter U.S. territory through the eastern Caribbean Sea, around Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, known as the San Juan sector. The success of the program led the Coast Guard expand mobile biometric collection to the Florida Straits in 2008.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services uses US-VISIT's services to establish and verify the identities of people applying for immigration benefits, including asylum or refugee status.
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CBP officers are responsible for screening all international travelers to the United States. As part of the screening process, CBP officers collect digital fingerprints and a digital photograph from international travelers. Using US‑VISIT's services, officers quickly and accurately verify whether the person applying for entry is the same person to whom the visa was issued. And for all travelers, with or without a visa, officers use US‑VISIT's services to verify that travelers are who they say they are and that they do not pose a threat to the United States.
Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community use biometric information about known or suspected terrorists on watch lists. US-VISIT is working across the federal government to promote intelligence efforts in identifying high-risk persons.
US‑VISIT biometric services also facilitate identification of terrorists by matching against latent fingerprints collected from terrorist safe houses and ongoing criminal investigations conducted around the world. The move to a 10‑fingerprint collection standard expands this capability by providing additional fingerprints against which to match latent fingerprints.
Department of Justice and State and Local Law Enforcement use US-VISIT's services to ensure that they have accurate immigration information about individuals they arrest.
US-VISIT is furthering integration, accessibility and interoperability with other law enforcement and intelligence systems. The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI are establishing interoperability between the US-VISIT program's Automated Biometric Identification System (IDENT) and the FBI's Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) fingerprint databases.
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US-VISIT's Biometric Support Center (BSC) helps many federal, state and local agencies with their investigations. Every week, the highly-trained forensic analysts who verify biometrics 24 hours a day, seven days a week, help solve crimes, identify John or Jane Does and support terrorist investigations.
Department of State uses US-VISIT's services to establish and verify the identities of visa applicants at embassies and consulates around the world through its BioVisa program. Consular officers use this information in determining visa eligibility.
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The United States is not alone in using biometrics to enhance security and facilitate legitimate travel. The United Kingdom, Australia, the European Union, Japan, Canada, Mexico and others are implementing biometric identification programs to expedite travel and improve border security.
We are working with these countries to share best practices and move toward a consistent approach that provides for secure global travel. As countries continue developing compatible biometric systems, we will be able to more accurately identify dangerous people, making the world a place in which legitimate international travel will be convenient, predictable and secure, but difficult, unpredictable and intimidating for those who want to do us harm.


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U.S. Consumer prices continued to rise in March, according to figures released Friday by the Labor Department, although the pace of growth slowed compared to the previous month.
The Consumer Price Index, a measure of inflationary pressures in the economy, increased 0.3 percent in March, slightly slower than the 0.4 percent increase posted in February.
The increase was in line with the expectations of most economists.
The 'core' consumer price index, a measure that excludes the volatile food and energy sectors, edged up by 0.2 percent - also matching the expectations of most economists.
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A "Calypso Celebration" featuring the Steubenville High School Steel Drum Band is a fundraising evening planned by Family Service Association of Steubenville.
The evening of "tropical fun" will be held May 3 at St. Florian Hall in Wintersville, with island cocktails at 6:30 p.m. and a Caribbean buffet at 7 p.m.
There will be 50-50 drawing prizes and activities with a prize awarded to the person wearing the best "island attire."
Tickets are $40 each with tables of eight available for $320. Tickets can be obtained by calling (740) 283-4763 or at the Family Service Association office located at 226 N. Fourth St., Steubenville.
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Hans Florian Zimmer (born September 12, 1957) is a German film composer and music producer. He has composed music for over 100 films, including award winning film scores for The Lion King (1994), Crimson Tide (1995), Gladiator (2000), The Last Samurai (2003), The Dark Knight (2008) and Inception (2010). Zimmer spent the early part of his career in the United Kingdom before moving to the United States. He is the head of the film music division at DreamWorks studios and works with other composers through the company which he founded, Remote Control Productions. Zimmer's works are notable for integrating electronic music sounds with traditional orchestral arrangements. He has received four Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes, a Classical BRIT Award, and an Academy Award. He was also named on the list of Top 100 Living Geniuses, published by The Daily Telegraph. Zimmer was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany on 12th September 1957, and moved to London as a teenager. While he lived in Lo ... Read More
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Sabres coach Lindy Ruff fuels rivalry
By Allan Muir
Lindy Ruff's decision to call a timeout with 14 seconds left and a 7-4 lead on Thursday night didn't go over well with the Boston Bruins.
"Yeah, [Ruff] wants to be a big shot, and that's not the best play to do," a fired-up Brad Marchand told NESN. "That's pretty disrespectful. If he wants to be like that, that's fine."
In most cases, Marchand would have every right to be redlining. Calling a late timeout, especially in a blowout, especially in the other team's barn, is a serious breach of the code.
At least, it would be if Boston coach Claude Julien hadn't forced Ruff's hand.
The Sabres left Jason Pominville, Jochen Hecht and five-point man Thomas Vanek on the ice for the draw after Pominville's late goal made it 7-4. As the home coach, Julien has the right of last change. He countered with Lane MacDermid, a player whose efforts had been so highly regarded throughout the course of the evening that he'd been rewarded with just over four minutes-worth of ice time.
Not much recourse for Ruff there.
"When I saw MacDermid was with one of our skill players, I didn't want anything to happen," Ruff told NESN. "That's all it was."
After the breather, Ruff sent John Scott — who had mopped the ice with Shawn Thornton earlier in the contest — over the boards to even the arms race. Amazingly, the final ticks came off the clock without further incident.
It was a clown move by Julien. His team had just been embarrassed on its own ice by a club that had lost four straight. He wanted to send one last message and he got called on it.
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Barry Glassner is president of Lewis & Clark College in Oregon, where he also teaches sociology. Morton Schapiro is president of Northwestern University in Illinois, where he also teaches economics.
When the presidents of colleges and universities talk privately at this time of year, a popular topic is how to handle "helicopter parents." We muse over what to say during new-student orientation sessions to dissuade parents from hovering over their children for the next four years — interfering with the maturation their children need, while driving us a bit crazy in the process.
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Out with Generation X and in with Generation Responsible.
We're certainly lucky, in San Miguel County, to have Alpine Hospice available to help family and friends provide that level of care for our terminally ill loved ones.
This week's Up Bear Creek is a poem for Mary Friedberg, who died on Sunday, Nov. 26.
mf danced off/ last night/ in my arms/ as i ommed / to an almost full moon/ above a raging sea of mountains.
If it hadn't been for military might, we might not exist as an independent nation.
Art Goodtimes will take a hiatus from his Up Bear Creek column until the November election, to campaign for his fourth term as the District 3 San Miguel County Commissioner.
Conceived in war-time, born in peace-time, Goodtimes anticipates 'The War' on Blu-Ray.
Thoughts on celebrating the Constitution and kudos go out to the towns of Ophir and Telluride and the Sheep Mountain Alliance for holding the state's feet to the fire.
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Norwood mourned the passing of Terrell S. Snyder this past weekend.
Goodbye, Sharon Shuteran. Our county judge was one of those bedrock locals who defined what was different about Telluride.
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Strength and conditioning in the NFL is radically different from what it was 28 years ago, when Rusty Jones first started working for the Bills.
Jones, the Bears' retiring director of physical development, is a big reason.
He was the first NFL strength coach to tailor individual workout and nutrition programs for each player, the first to rely on the body mass index system and the first to monitor hydration status with a device called "The Bod Pod."
"He was a pioneer in every facet of it — nutrition, exercise, weightlifting, offseason work," said six-time NFL executive of the year Bill Polian, who hired Jones in Buffalo. "He was way ahead of his time, worlds ahead, in terms of training methods, nutrition and conserving athletes' energy."
Polian credits Jones for helping the Bills get to four straight Super Bowls in the early 1990s by conditioning the team's offensive linemen to be able to run the no-huddle offense.
When Bears general manager Phil Emery was a young strength coach at Saginaw Valley State in the mid-'80s, a friend showed him a nutritional program for football players that was being used by the Bills and "some guy named Rusty Jones." It was so much better than anything Emery previously had seen that he started using it immediately for his players.
Later, when Emery was the strength coach at Navy, he pirated Jones' metabolic training programs for position groups.
Jones came to the Bears in 2005 after a rash of muscle pulls prompted then-GM Jerry Angelo and then-coach Lovie Smith to look for different training methods.
Middle linebacker Brian Urlacher missed the entire preseason and seven games that year with hamstring pulls in both legs and a calf pull. After Jones' arrival, Urlacher never missed another game with a muscle pull until December of last season.
Urlacher's health was part of a larger trend. In the five years before Jones' arrival, the Bears had an average ranking of 31st in the NFL in fewest missed games by starters, according to the Dallas Morning News. In the Jones era, the Bears had an average ranking of ninth.
The trend was reversed in Buffalo. In Jones' last five years there, the Bills had an average ranking of fifth. Since he left, they have an average ranking of 32nd.
Jones attributes many muscle pulls to pelvic balance issues and works to avoid injuries through nutrition, hydration and exercise. All the power in the universe can't help a player if he's in the hot tub on game day, so Jones sometimes prescribed a spectrum of non-traditional exercises. He acknowledges walking a fine line between trying to make players strong enough and healthy enough.
"Strength training was the hub of the program," he said. "But you did realize there were a lot of other spokes to the wheel. You don't want it to overtake all of the other fitness components. It all goes together. You wanted to make sure, even though your players may be strong and big, they still have to run. The name of the game is speed."
Jones' running programs were position-specific based on what players are required to do in games. For instance, defensive backs didn't just run 110-yard dashes. They backpedaled and then broke right or left for 20 yards.
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These days we are burning the midnight oil in order to finalise an analytical report about the capital of Norway: Oslo. This particular report has been on its way for about a year, but the Oslo/Gehl relationship was established 26 years ago when Jan Gehl, in collaboration with Karin Bergdahl, made the first Gehl'ish-survey of Oslo for the Norwegian Institute of City Development (IN'BY). In the true spirit of the office, the 2013 report builds upon the same clear principles of observation, as were applied in 1987; there are pedestrian counts and well-documented observational studies of stationary activities from both a weekday (Tuesday) and a weekend (Saturday). The data-collection and comparative ability of the data is crucial. Yet, as the footman that has to type-in, organise and keep track of these numbers, I would like to register a personal note of observation: It seems that the complexity of city-analysis has increased more than six-fold from 1987 to 2013.
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Loved his reply to Elisabeth, "It makes a difference if your job was one of the ones saved. States got hammered as a result of the financial crisis. If we had not provided immediate assistance to the states, they would have had to fire teachers, police, firefighters," he said.
Im sure those whos jobs were saved are very grateful. Yes it will take time, just as it took time to tear it down it will take time to build it back.
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UPDATED: Horses evacuated after stables battered by torrential weather
9:05am Thursday 19th December 2013 in News By Liam Thorp, Reporter
A FREAK storm ripped through a farm — destroying stables and injuring horses.
Staff at Seddon Fold Farm in Lock Lane, Hunger Hill, were left stunned as the strong winds lifted roofs off buildings and blew walls over.
The 15 horses were trapped in stables for nearly three hours as their owners and the farm's staff worked through the night to move rubble and wreckage.
Farm owner, Stan Terry, discovered the damage at about 11.30pm on Wednesday.
The winds on Wednesday evening were so strong that large barn doors were dragged from their frames and pieces of corrugated roofing were blown about a quarter of a mile into neighbouring fields.
One white thoroughbred horse, called Ben, had to have stitches to its nose and head, while another horse suffered an eye injury.
The entire stable, with 15 half-tonne horses inside, was lifted and moved about two feet Mr Terry said: "I have been here nearly 30 years and we have never had any damage from weather.
"I can only think this was some sort of localised weather event, as the damage is devastating and some of the stuff has been flung hundreds of yards.
"My stables have been completely demolished and we need to put up some sort of temporary structure.
"Some of the stuff damaged was insured but some wasn't."
Ben's owner, Patricia Roberts, said she was very relieved the horses were still alive.
She added: "It was distressing seeing them trapped like that and it took us a long while to get them safely out.
"My horses have been here for about 27 years now and nothing even remotely like this has ever happened."
Another owner of a horse at Seddon Fold, who did not want to be named, said: "We were called at about 1.45am and a lot of us worked through the night.
"The horses are in the fields now but we need to do our best to restore the stables as best we can.
"The vet said it's a miracle none of the horses were more badly hurt and looking at how the roofs have fallen in, I'm certainly glad I wasn't about at the time."
Another owner, who also asked to remain anonymous, said she was at her nearby home when the storm struck, and the winds were so fierce her front room "vibrated".
A spokesman for the Met Office said: "Wednesday night saw several areas in the country experience very stormy conditions with strong winds and heavy rain.
"The winds peaked at about 8pm which correlates with the incident in Bolton, although at our nearest wind observation point at Blackpool Airport the strongest gusts recorded measured at 51 miles per hour, which we would not think would cause this kind of damage.
"There could well have been stronger localised gusts of wind experienced in the Bolton area."
About 7,000 homes in Northern Ireland lost power, with 6,000 having their supply restored by late on Wednesday.
Electricity North West said 3,500 properties in Cumbria and Lancashire were without power due to strong winds and debris bringing lines down.
And Stoke City's home tie against Manchester United in the League Cup had to be temporarily suspended due to heavy rain and hailstones.
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El Desayuno Universitario – The University Student Breakfast
While we were in El Salvador we ate breakfast a couple times at a restaurant in Metrocentro called San Martin's. One day I ordered something called "El Desayuno Universitario" (The University Student Breakfast). It was made of humble ingredients – french bread, cheese, beans, and a fresh salsa. I loved it.
Since coming back to the United States, I make this often – though usually for lunch or dinner. The entire family loves it, it's affordable, healthy and easy to make. Here's my version!
El Desayuno Universitario (The University Student Breakfast)
French bread or bolillos sliced in half
Frijoles Molidos (refried beans)
Mozzarella cheese cut in slices or shredded
1. Place bread slices on an ungreased baking sheet.
2. Spoon frijoles molidos onto the bread and spread to the edges with the back of the spoon.
3. Top each piece of bread with cheese.
4. Bake in the oven at 350 F until cheese is melted and bread is slightly toasted.
Optional: Put under a broiler to brown the cheese.
Serve with chunky-style salsa to spoon on top. I like to dice tomatoes with fresh basil and then add a little bit of extra virgin olive oil, salt and pepper, so it's kind of like a Salvadoran version of bruschetta.
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That looks so delicious! I love how the cheese is all browned on top. Sometimes we will fill french bread with fried black beans, cheese, avocado and whatever veggie we have on hand and roll them up in plastic. They're great to take on day outings or I will sometimes pack them in my daughter's lunch.
We used to eat this at home! Yummy!
San Martin is not really a Salvadoran restaurant, most of the time Universitarios don't eat this (we mostly eat pupusas for breakfast or panes con frijoles). Anyways, it looks really good and is something to try… Thanks so much for all your recipes
I pretty much ate this everyday for breakfast in Mexico in the university cafeteria. They were called molletes. Sooo good


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Back to this coming weekend and Deerstock and we're pleased to be a part of one of Nusic's gigs of the week for the second time this month. Multi faceted, hey?!
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To make up for the cancelled Sheffield show we were meant to be playing on 28th March we have just been offered a last minute low key acoustic set supporting The Sheepdogs from Canada at The Bodega in Nottingham on Tuesday 2nd April. This is an early show and we have £4.00 guest list tickets so please let us have your name if you fancy coming and we'll put you on the list.
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We recently hinted that we hoped to have a final 2012 show to tell you about and we're very pleased that we can now confirm the details of this. We're supporting Ultrasound at the Bodega in Nottingham on Wednesday 5th December and it should be an excellent night. Ultrasound have recently released their very well recieved second album, Play For Today, after a long time away follwing their classic debut Everything Picture in 1999.
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Ann Romney, the wife of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, is scheduled to appear at fundraising events in Duluth and Johns Creek this coming Thursday.
Mrs. Romney will greet supporters of her husband's victory campaign and pose for photos with them at a VIP Reception at Sugarloaf Country Club at 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13, for contributions of $2,500 per person or $5,000 per couple. A general reception at $1,000 per person follows at 5:30 p.m. Making a commitment to raise or donating $5,000 to the campaign allows the donor to serve on the Host Committee.
— Canton-Sixes Patch
A cat that scratched a woman at a Canton apartment complex has tested positive for rabies, and health officials are searching for others who might have come into contact with it.
The stray cat, described as a black and white shorthaired female, "aggressively" scratched the woman at the Cherokee South Apartments off Marietta Highway in Canton on Sept. 2, said Jennifer King, the spokeswoman for the North Georgia Health District said.
"The cat was immediately trapped and later died in its cage on Sept. 4," she said. "Cherokee County Environmental Health officials sent its remains to the state lab for rabies testing and the positive results were reported on Sept. 6."
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Doubt they see this but anyways
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