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A former fire chief who pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $200,000 from the Crusade for Children started his prison sentence weeks earlier than originally expected and reported to prison Thursday.
Paul Barth's attorney, Thomas Clay said that Barth was notified about 10 days ago that he should report to Manchester Federal Correctional Institution in eastern Kentucky, on Thursday.
The prison assignment, which usually takes 45 to 60 days, took less than a month.
Barth, the former chief of the McMahan Fire Protection District, was sentenced to three years and five months and ordered to pay $198,277 in restitution.
He antagonized prosecutors when they learned he paid $266,500 cash for a second Louisville home despite claiming he couldn't pay restitution.
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I have been a teacher and coach for 33 years. I work in both special education and general education classes but am a special education teacher by certification. I am writing today to brag about my 7th period Instructional US History class. The class is predominantly made up of sophomores who are classified as learning disabled. Our first semester just concluded today, January 16th, 2013 and the first day was August 25, 2012. I am writing to inform you that throughout the entire semester I have had 100% of assignments turned in! That includes a total of 539 assignments (some were done in class, some were tests or quizzes) but out of the entire semester, everything has been completed. All 16 students (couple have been moved in or transferred out) turned in every one of their assignments. In all my years as a teacher, this has never happened and can't think of any class here at our high school that has had this much success in turning the work in. All of the current 13 students earned A's or B's for the semester. Throughout the semester, their pride continued to motivate them to turn in all their work. This is my last year teaching as I am set to retire at the end of this school year. This class is at the end of my teaching day and might be the literally the last kids I teach in my career. Not to put one group of kids over any others, I do wonder how this has worked out for me to have such great/motivated students in my last year and last period of the day! Their success is all on them not on me. I am merely enjoying the fruits of their hard work and think their success should be considered for your CNN Student News "Shout Out" program.
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Actress Maria Bello Stars In 'Abduction,' 'Prime Suspect'
Actress Maria Bello stopped by to talk about starring in the new movie "Abduction" alongside teen hearthrob Taylor Lautner and also in the new TV show "Prime Suspect."
"Abduction" is a thriller centered on a young man who sets out to uncover the truth about his life after finding his baby photo on a missing persons website. For more information, visit abductionthefilm.com.
Prime Suspect" that takes a look inside a New York City homicide department. The series stars Maria Bello ("A History of Violence") as tough-as-nails NYPD homicide Detective Jane Timoney, an outsider who has just transferred to a new squad where her new colleagues already dislike her. Jane is confident and focused - and also rude, abrupt and occasionally reckless. She has her vices, and rumors of a questionable past follow her everywhere - but at the end of the day, she's an instinctively brilliant cop who can't be distracted from the only important thing: the prime suspect. For more information, visit www.nbc.com/prime-suspect.Copyright © 2014, The Morning Call


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Blood of the Werewolf eyes Q2 console launch window
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Andrews' Simmons, McKiver star at regional
WENDELL — T.W. Andrews' dynamic duo of Paisey Simmons and Nora McKiver posted two individual victories apiece in the NCHSAA 2A Mideast Regional late Saturday at Corinth Holders.
Simmons won the 100 dash and the 200 dash, while McKiver took the 100 hurdles and the 300 hurdles. McKiver also claimed second in the 200.
The top four individuals in each event advance to Friday's NCHSAA 2A championship meet at N.C. A&T.
In relay action, the Red Raiders' Mikel Franklin, McKiver, Traniece Wilson and Simmons won the girls 400 and Franklin, Mackenzie Henderson, Simmons and Wilson bagged second in the 800.
Andrews' girls placed third out of 21 teams, while the Red Raider boys finished fifth out of 24 teams.
For Andrews' boys, Keyonne Horne placed second in the 300 hurdles and third in the 110 hurdles. Amari Devaughn bagged third in the 400. Andrews' 1,600 relay of Horne, Williams Nunez, Lamar Raynard and Maurice Sanders also qualified.
PFAFFTOWN — Ragsdale's Xavier Jones captured three events, while Winston Craig won two to highlight the NCHSAA 4A Midwest Regional at Reagan High School late Saturday.
Jones took the 100 dash in 10.68, claimed the 200 in 21.55 and secured the 400 in 48.54.
Craig, meanwhile, took the shot put at 53 feet, 7.5 inches and won the discus at 189-7.
Ragsdale's Thomas Popek won the pole vault at 14 feet.
The top four individuals in each event advance to Saturday's NCHSAA 4A championship meet at N.C. A&T.
Glenn's Daryl Napper won the long jump at 22-9.
For the Bison boys, Kevin Green placed third in the triple jump at 42 feet, 8.5 inches.
For the Cowgirls, Hunter Roberts secured second in the 100 hurdles in 14.9 and placed third in the 300 hurdles in 46.69.
For the Bison girls, Mason Kepley notched third in the 800 in 2:24.14 and Alyiah Riley took third in the 100 hurdles in 14.82.
EAST BEND — Trinity's Colin Rosenbaum cleared the bases with a three-run double to highlight an eight-run sixth inning as the Bulldogs topped Forbush 9-3 in the first round of the NCHSAA 2A baseball playoffs.
The Bulldogs, seeded second from the PAC-6 conference, improved to 16-10 and advanced to Tuesday's second-round game at West Stokes. Forbush, seeded second from the Mountain Valley, finished 14-9.
Dylan Seay pitched the final five innings for the Bulldogs to get the win. He allowed two hits and struck out one while not allowing a run. Matt Jackson finished 3 for 3 with a double and RBI for Trinity, while Chase Clark was 3 for 4 with two doubles and a run.
Three other area teams will play in the second round of the NCHSAA playoffs on Tuesday at 7 p.m.
In 4A, High Point Central visits Northwest Guilford and Glenn plays host to Reagan.
In 2A, East Davidson plays host to Cuthbertson.
ALLEGHANY — Bishop McGuinness fell to Alleghany 8-3 in the weather-delayed first round of the NCHSAA 1A playoffs late Saturday. Nick Castellano went 2 for 3 with two RBIs for the Villains, while Chris Angiolino finished 1 for 2 with a double, run and two walks. Matt Neidert took the loss for Bishop (6-15).
Three area schools face NCHSAA second-round softball tests on Tuesday at 7 p.m. Southwest Guilford visits West Forsyth and Glenn travels to Southeast Guilford in 4A, while East Davidson plays host to West Stanly in 2A.


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As you enjoy those last holiday cookies before the New Year comes with its resolutions, we'd love to share one final present for you to enjoy: we are thrilled to announce that last week, the country of Chile became the first in the world to protect all of its seamounts from the devastating effects of bottom trawling! Oceana CEO Andrew Sharpless and actor and Oceana board member Ted Danson collaborated in an article published by the Huffington Post to share this excellent news with the world.
Seamounts are underwater mountain ranges that are home to an unbelievable array of sea creatures fed by the nutrient-rich water from the deep upwells. The destructive practice of bottom trawling, where large, heavy nets weighing as much as several tons each effectively clear-cut everything living on the seafloor, causes more direct and avoidable damage to the ocean floor and its creatures than any other human activity in the world. Although some of Chile's seamounts have already been damaged or destroyed by the country's fishing fleet, the December 20 decision closes any further trawling to Chile's 118 seamounts until scientists have assessed these and other underwater ecosystems off the coast of Chile.


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Statement of Jan E. Shadburn
Former Acting Administrator, Housing Programs
Before the Senate Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development and Related Agencies
April 15, 1997
Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee, thank you for this opportunity to testify today on the President's Fiscal Year (FY) 1998 budget proposal and the accomplishments and goals of the Housing Programs.
The Housing Programs (Housing Programs), succeeding the Farmers Home Administration, provides opportunities to rural families which help them improve their standard of living, move out of poverty and build for the future. We enable rural communities to enhance the quality of life of their residents and to strengthen their economic competitiveness. We accomplish this mission by providing rural people and communities with: access to credit -- which, as you know, is often limited in rural areas; subsidized loans and rents; and technical assistance and support to complete their community development efforts.
Housing Programs operates several housing assistance programs that provide decent, safe and affordable rental and homeownership opportunities to a wide variety of rural Americans. Housing Programs also administers the community facilities direct and guaranteed loan and grant programs which provide funding for essential facilities such as health care centers, fire stations, municipal buildings and day care centers. These facilities allow rural communities to provide an improved quality of life for their citizens and remain competitive in attracting jobs and businesses. We deliver these programs and the necessary technical assistance through a network of state and local offices, many of which are or will be collocated with other Department of Agriculture (USDA) agencies in USDA Service Centers.
Too many times we talk about the number of housing units, the square footage or the payment with the associated subsidy cost. We lose touch with the final product in the blur of our daily work -- that product is a chance at the American dream for thousands of poor working families. That product is the result of the efforts of this Congress and USDA, which gave an opportunity to a family or a community. The investment has paid off thousands of times, both for the individuals and communities and for the Federal government. The rewards continue to grow.
While we have provided this assistance for many years, we now also focus on four goals:
I would like to update you on our efforts on these four goals and our modifications to the Section 515 rural rental housing program, but first I would like to share with you the impact of housing and community facilities programs on the broader range of issues which concern this Congress. These issues include moving individuals from welfare to work, containing health care costs, providing an adequate start to children to improve their opportunities in life and improving the competitiveness and stability of the rural American economy.
Although Housing Programs finances the physical construction or rehabilitation of housing and community facilities, the impact on the community and the individual goes far beyond the tens of thousands of construction and related jobs, the millions of dollars generated each year in building and associated trades, the more than $1 billion boost in state and local taxes and the actual physical shelter provided. Our assistance literally allows individuals, families and communities to turn their lives around and to start to become self sufficient. Let me just give you a few examples.
Some of the worst housing in the country is experienced by farmworkers. The horrendous housing conditions that some of these workers endure cause so many other problems, particularly for the children. I would like to share with you how one family near Madera, California credits Housing Programs's farm labor program with providing them the opportunity to have a decent life and a future.
Three years ago, a young farmworker and his family were sharing a substandard, one-bedroom house with another family. The father worked very hard in the fields, but the high cost of child care prevented the mother from finding a job. It seemed that the children in this family had dim prospects of a better life than that of their parents -- that is, until the family was able to move into the Housing Programs-funded la Casa de la Vina farm labor housing complex, located adjacent to the grape fields which the father helps to cultivate. The eldest child attends a nearby elementary school and the middle child attends the Head Start program located in the la Vina development. These children have stability, a decent home, and good educational opportunities, all of which seemed out of reach just three years ago. And the mother now feels sufficiently secure about her children's safety and her housing that she has started to work in a local produce- packing plant. This is just one example of the thousands of hardworking, low-income American families whose housing conditions -- and therefore quality of life -- have dramatically improved through participation in the Housing Programs Section 514/516 farm labor loan and grant program.
I would also like to tell you about what a difference in people's lives our Mutual Self Help Housing program has made. This program, in conjunction with our Section 502 direct loan program, allows groups of 6 to 10 families to build homes for themselves by contributing sweat equity. Each family works on every other family's house until every house is done. Only then may the families move into their new homes. The process lasts about a year, and it's easy to see how by the end, the families have built not only their homes but also a tight community. Billy and Debra Blackmon offer a compelling example of how these programs have brought prosperity and a sense of togetherness to the people in one rural Florida town. In 1986, Mr. Blackmon was working hard at his $6 an hour job, but he never seemed to get ahead. Today, he is a certified electrician with his own successful business, and he credits his participation in the Self Help program with enabling him to achieve that goal. Mr. Blackmon is giving back some of the opportunity the government gave him: today he hires young men from the local area to work in his business. He teaches them electrical skills and he mentors them, encouraging them to complete their education and to participate in society. Some of his employees who were considering dropping out of school are now on the honor roll. Mrs. Blackmon is giving back as well: she started her own day care program, thereby raising the income of her family and providing quality, affordable day care to her neighbors, who in turn are now able to return to work. As you can see, in the process of moving themselves out of poverty, the Blackmons have become community leaders and role models. Just 10 years ago, they were living in a one- bedroom structure that got soaked every time it rained. Now, they and their children live in a lovely home they built with their own hands. Thanks to the Self Help Housing program, their kids have opportunities that were unimaginable a decade ago, and their community is turning around.
As you are aware, the effort to move families off of welfare and into work requires the availability of affordable quality day care, which is often more limited in rural America. This can present a real barrier to a family who is trying to move out of poverty. Housing Programs's community facilities programs can be used to finance both adult and child day care and Housing Programs is working hard to ensure that communities can utilize this resource. I would like to share with you how Housing Programs's financing of the "Time for Tots" child care facility in Harlan, Iowa, has impacted so many residents' lives and supports your efforts to move families from welfare to work.
Time for Tots, financed by a direct community facility loan, opened in 1993 with a license to care for 113 children. According to Nancy Gessmann, general manager of Communications Data Service, Time for Tots benefits her business because "...workers are more dependable and absenteeism is reduced by as much as 50 percent." Harlan resident Mary Marco stated that "my entire life has blossomed as a result of Time for Tots." Ms. Marco, a single working mother of four, always struggled to provide her children with a safe and stable day care environment. But before Time for Tots, there was no affordable day care in Harlan, and Ms. Marco had no alternative but to move her children from sitter to sitter and relative to relative. And still she sometimes had to stay home from work to look after them. Of course, Ms. Marco's absenteeism prevented her from moving ahead in her job. She worried that she would have to go on welfare to make ends meet. But after Ms. Marco enrolled her three youngest daughters in Time for Tots, her income stabilized, and with a loan from our agency, she was able to move her family from a rented, two-bedroom apartment into her own three-bedroom home. Because of Time for Tots, Ms. Marco and her children have a better future. They and other Harlan families are able to stay off welfare, and Time for Tots's affordable, high quality child care has given many families the resources they need to move from welfare to work.
Rural America has seen tremendous progress from these investments. As a result, many of these communities are more competitive and stable, additionally many more families are contributing to the local tax base. Child care facilities and self help housing communities are pulled together by grass roots efforts of the local people. Children are healthier, doing better in school, gaining self esteem by having the pride of showing a friend where they live. This is the real story. However, we must recognize the task still to be done. Rural areas continue to have high poverty rates and over 2.3 million substandard homes. Many communities lack essential community facilities such as child care centers, fire stations and access to health care that not only impact the quality of life but also make it more difficult to attract and retain businesses. And we cannot expect a community or a family to become self sufficient if the economy is not thriving. However, we also cannot expect a family to be able to hold down a job and stay off of welfare if they do not have a decent and stable place to live. A permanent address and a decent place to live provide the stability that a worker needs to obtain and maintain a job and that a child needs to be successful at school.
Over the last two years, we have outlined our reinvention and partnership efforts to this committee. I would like to review those efforts and lay out our plans for the future to help achieve our four goals: reinvention, partnerships and leveraging opportunities, budget savings and expanding access.
Let me first discuss reinvention. As rural America changes, so does the Housing Programs. Our reinvention efforts in the single family 502 direct loan program, under the leadership of the Vice President's National Performance Review, are a great success and have set the standard for future efforts. We recognize that as we work together to balance the budget, we must use automation and modern technology to increase our efficiency, improve our customer service and cut costs.
The reinvention of the Section 502 single family direct loan program includes three components:
The Agency purchased a commercial off-the-shelf software system directly from the private sector with modifications to meet unique program requirements. Our borrowers will experience the best of both worlds by receiving the finest servicing the private industry has to offer today while still participating in Congressionally mandated "supervised credit" services delivered locally by our field staff. These services, unique to the 502 program, offer lower payments based on income (payment assistance), moratoriums and work-out agreements which allow our borrowers to preserve their homes through economic or financial difficulties. The automation and centralization efficiencies, the reduction in staff and the improved servicing of the portfolio will result in a savings to the taxpayer of $250 million over five years (1996-2000) and $100 million a year thereafter.
The Administration laid out a plan three years ago which stated that we would complete conversion to a centralized system by the end of FY 1997. On October 25, 1996, Secretary Glickman traveled to St. Louis, Missouri, to kick off the CSC, to announce that this goal has been achieved and to present Vice President Gore's Hammer Award to the staff who have worked on this initiative. We are proud of our staff and our efforts. This is truly a reinvention of our business. The conversion of the portfolio is proceeding in 7 phases and will be completed on schedule by September 1997.
This year, we continue to build on our reinvention efforts by focusing on our multifamily housing program. We are streamlining regulations and increasing automation. We hope to create a dramatically reduced, common- sense, non-bureaucratic set of regulations that eases the burden on our borrowers and our staff. We are confident that the result will be better administration of our programs and protection of our aging portfolio.
We are also working hard to maximize our use of technology. For example, we are now posting those community facilities direct loans that are eligible for refinancing with private sector credit on the Internet so that private financial institutions can discuss refinancing opportunities with these borrowers.
I would also like to share with you our efforts to increase and build partnerships and leveraging opportunities which expand our limited resources, ensure that as many dollars as possible are directed into rural communities, and build private, non-profit and other public sector participation in local rural development efforts, increasing their likelihood of success.
The goal of the President's National Partnership for Homeownership is to provide homeownership to an additional 8 million Americans by the year 2000. In support of the President's initiative, we have increased our efforts to cultivate partnerships throughout the states. Three of these new partnerships have been especially successful, and I will tell you about them now.
First, we formed the Rural Home Loan Partnership in June of 1996. Housing Programs joined the Rural Local Initiatives Support Corporation (Rural LISC) and the Federal Home Loan Bank System to create and deliver a new single family mortgage product to enable families below 80 percent of area median income to achieve homeownership. Housing Programs provides a fixed-rate, subsidized mortgage to cover a portion of the cost of a house, while a local bank provides financing for the remaining portion. Private non-profit community development corporations (CDCs) identify and counsel eligible borrowers and aid in the development of affordable housing opportunities. This counseling is often critical to the long term success of the homeowner. This partnership brings a new player -- The Federal Home Loan Banks -- into leveraging with the 502 direct loan program. Housing Programs's partnership with the community development corporations helps direct resources to very needy areas, leverages technical assistance and builds a long lasting partnership to accomplish other rural development initiatives. This product was demonstrated in 9 states, and 8 new partnerships are being formed this year. The states involved in this partnership include Alabama, California, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin.
Second, Housing Programs is also partnering to ensure homeownership education is available in rural America. Housing Programs is working with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the Housing Assistance Council and Rural LISC to help build a rural network and support for homeownership education which typically involves a series of classes to instruct potential homeowners on credit, budgeting, savings, home maintenance and the basic ABCs of owning a home. Numerous indicators have shown that homeownership education reduces delinquencies and increases the long term success of the borrower. However, as with so many other support services and assistance, rural residents are often at a disadvantage in accessing these resources.
In addition to these new initiatives, one of our most successful partnerships, the Mutual Self Help program, also supports the President's homeownership goals. The Self Help program provides grants to non-profit organizations and municipalities to organize and provide technical assistance to groups of families who work cooperatively together to help build their own homes. The sweat equity built up by the borrowers means these families -- and the Federal government -- can get more house for less debt. The families are able to achieve the American dream of homeownership and start out with significant equity and greater commitment to their neighborhoods. Activity and interest in this program has increased tremendously in the last few years. In turning around borrowers' lives, the Self Help program brings together not only the contributions of the borrowers but also those of Federal, state, local, private, and non-profit organizations, all of which are committed to the goal of making homeownership a reality for low-income Americans.
Housing Programs's loan guarantee programs have brought increased numbers of financial institutions into partnership with the Agency. Over 1,600 partners now participate in the Section 502 guarantee loan program. This program serves low and moderate-income residents that fall under 80 percent of the median income. Additionally, in FY 1996, the agency implemented a demonstration of the Section 538 multifamily guarantee program. We plan to approve approximately $13 million in new loans for FY 1997.
In the Section 502 direct program, we have encouraged leveraging, which utilizes our direct loan funds in partnership with another lender's funds. We take the second lien on the property, with the private sector lender or housing finance agency in first position. The states have been creative in establishing a wide variety of partners across the country. In FY 1996 we leveraged almost 15 percent of our low-income 502 funds to increase homeownership opportunities to almost 1,600 families who would not have been served without this effort.
In the 515 multifamily housing program, we increasingly employ partnerships with state housing finance agencies, CDBG and HOME funds, the private sector and local community organizations. This has allowed Housing Programs to reach larger numbers of low-income tenants with limited budget authority.
In the community facilities programs, Housing Programs has leveraged over 50 percent of its funds with state, local and private partners. Housing Programs is developing a new partnership with HHS and Rural LISC to expand the number of child care centers in rural America and demonstrate a variety of financing models.
Housing Programs's third goal is to ensure access to our programs by all eligible residents and communities across rural America. Under Secretary Glickman's leadership, Housing Programs is continuing its outreach to underserved communities and populations and its efforts to comply with both the letter and spirit of the civil rights and fair housing laws. Let me give you a few examples of our activities in this arena.
Native Americans are among the poorest housed groups in America and mortgage financing has not been widely available on Tribal lands. In 1995, USDA and HUD jointly conducted a series of homeownership conferences to enhance opportunities for lending on Native American lands. One result of these conferences is a comprehensive guide for Rural Development staff called "Lending on Native American Lands." In addition, Housing Programs is working closely with Fannie Mae and several Tribal councils to better serve Native Americans' housing needs. Fannie Mae has agreed to a pilot program in which Fannie Mae will purchase Housing Programs guaranteed loans made on tribal lands.
Housing Programs has also improved the quality of life on tribal lands by expanding the use of the community facilities programs by Native American communities. For example, using a combination $825,000 direct community facility loan and a $675,000 guaranteed community facility loan, the Navajo Nation and the Foundation for Hospital Improvements were able to improve the medical compound at Ganado by building a new surgical wing, replacing the obsolete natural gas service line, making necessary repairs, and building housing for medical personnel.
Housing Programs has worked hard to ensure that all of our borrowers and staff follow the Fair Housing Laws. We incorporated a significant Fair Housing training component at all national housing training meetings last year. We are finalizing a Memorandum of Understanding with HUD on how to manage Fair Housing complaints. We have also significantly improved our annual Congressional Report on Fair Housing and Housing Programs Beneficiaries by using more meaningful indicators of our progress.
Housing Programs has been promoting outreach activities to historically underserved customers. This activity includes homeownership among women by participating in the Homeownership Opportunities for Women (HOW) partnership, one of 58 national partners in the President's Homeownership initiative. HOW is undertaking an initiative to bring national homeownership rates for women to the same level as those for men.
Doing more with Less: Housing Programs has accomplished a great deal in reinventing government, in creating and expanding partnerships and in expanding access to our programs, and we have also made a significant commitment to help balance the budget. In FY 1996, Housing Programs cut the cost of the single family direct housing loan program by over 30 percent. Our centralized servicing and DLOS initiative is saving the taxpayers $250 million dollars over five years (1996-2000). Housing Programs has proposed a legislative change to the Section 515 program. This change will reduce the subsidy rate by approximately 8 percent. Even though there is a significant demand across rural America, we have held our request for rental assistance constant, increasing it only to take on the added responsibility of converting some rural area Section 8 units to USDA rental units. Finally, Housing Programs's servicing initiative has reaped tremendous savings for the government. Our single family housing delinquency has fallen by over 3 percent from FY 1996 and is at the lowest rate in over twenty years.
Finally, I would like to provide an update on our Section 515 Direct Multifamily Rental Housing Program. The Section 515 rural rental housing loan program is a vital program that provides decent and affordable housing to families, disabled and elderly individuals whose annual income averages about $7,300. No other Federal program reaches into remote rural areas to provide affordable, safe and decent rental housing. We have made great strides in strengthening our management and oversight responsibilities in our Section 515 program. We have made over 100 administrative changes to improve performance and reduce fraud, waste and abuse. Changes include the establishment of a loan classification system which will enable us to improve our management and monitoring of the portfolio and reduce costs by improving the focus of our servicing. In addition, we have continued over the last four years to strengthen our debarment activities against developers and management companies which have abused the program.
These management improvements complement the reforms to the Section 515 program initiated by the Committee and passed by Congress in the 1997 Appropriations Act. The Department has worked diligently since the law was enacted to expedite the implementation of these reforms. Housing Programs has worked extensively with stakeholders representing for-profit and non-profit developers as well as housing advocacy groups, state housing finance agencies and other interested parties to develop the regulation.
We believe we have a regulation which is workable and meets the intent of the law. The regulation is now in final clearance, and the Department is planning to publish an Interim Final Rule in the Federal Register on March 31, 1997 to implement these legislative reforms. As a result of the Congress' and the Administration's efforts to improve the 515 program, we have a healthier and safer portfolio today. The tenants' and government's interest are protected.
Before we provide the specifics of the budget request, let me reiterate the importance of Housing Programs's housing and community facilities programs in creating strong rural economies and enabling rural families and individuals to have a decent quality of life and a fair shot at the American dream. Now I would like to highlight the following points from the 1998 Budget proposal.
For Section 502 direct single family housing loans in 1998, we are requesting a loan level of $1 billion. This is the same level as was authorized in the 1997 Appropriation Act. However, after the Act was signed into law interest rates were higher than projected so $83 million in budget authority only supported $585 million in loans. The budget authority increase from $83 million to $128 million is necessary to maintain a $1 billion loan level for FY 1998. For the Section 502 guaranteed loans, we are requesting a loan level of $3 billion. This level is $300 million more the 1997 level but only costs $690,000 more in budget authority over FY 1997.
We have also proposed legislation to permit the use of Federal guarantees to help graduate current direct loan borrowers to private credit. Housing Programs is aggressively encouraging our direct Section 502 borrowers to "graduate" to private sector credit, particularly in this low interest rate environment. However, many of the borrowers do not have sufficient equity to graduate and qualify for conventional credit. Further, they are statutorily prohibited from graduating to our guaranteed program. The President's 1998 Budget requests an authorization of a $100 million for graduating direct loan borrowers into the guaranteed program, at an appropriated subsidy cost of only $20,000. The Department will also submit a legislative proposal to remove the statutory prohibition.
In the Section 515 multifamily housing loans, a loan level of $150 million is requested for 1998. The loan level request for housing repair loans (Section 504) is $30 million. For domestic farm labor housing loans we are requesting $15 million. These and the two smaller loan programs for housing site development are requested at about their current 1997 levels.
The budget authority appropriation requested for the housing loan programs is $225 million, about $34 million higher than in the 1997 appropriation.
An increase of $16.8 million to $540.9 million is requested for rural rental assistance in 1998. In addition, Housing Programs is requesting an increase of $52 million to assume HUD's expiring Section 8 contracts in Housing Programs financed projects. These contracts, which service Section 515 developments, can be more economically managed in the Section 521 Rental Assistance program, creating savings for the taxpayer.
The housing grant programs are being requested for 1998 under the Rural Housing Assistance Grants Program. Within this program, our requests include $10 million for farm labor grants, $24.9 million for housing repair grants, $26 million for mutual and self-help housing grants, and $10 million for housing preservation grants. The supervisory and technical assistance grant program and the compensation for construction defects grant program will continue to operate in 1998 with small amounts of carry-over funds which will be available.
The community facility program request is included in the proposed Rural Community Advancement Program. Within that overall program, we project that $209 million will be available for direct community facility loans and that another $209 million will be available in the guaranteed loan program. About $9 million is proposed for community facility grants. The appropriation requested within RCAP to support the community facility programs is $28 million for 1998. This is $9 million more than is available for 1997.
For administrative expenses, the Budget requests $413.6 million. This is a $13.3 million reduction from 1997 which reflects the centralization of single-family housing loan servicing.
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BRUSSELS - Germany has thrown its political weight behind reviving the EU constitution, indicating it would like to see the shelved charter in place before the 2009 European Parliament elections.
Chancellor Angela Merkel said Berlin would start the process of reviving the document - currently sitting in political limbo since it was rejected in two referendums last year - during its six-month presidency of the EU, starting in January.
Mrs Merkel stated Germany would kick off the process in the form of a "road map" but not bring the process to an end.
"We will not be able to complete this issue in our presidency, but we want to do our part to reach an agreement that we need such a constitution," said the chancellor after meeting European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso in Berlin on Wednesday (11 October).
"The German presidency should set the goal to agree to a timeframe, a road map, a plan of how to proceed and I would like to say that we will be very ambitious in our approach to the issue," she said, noting that "we need the treaty before the next European elections."
Her comments follow those of foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier who earlier told the Bild newspaper that "We are convinced that the constitution makes Europe more transparent, more tangible and more effective."
Once again, Mrs Merkel indicated she was opposed to the treaty being cut down into a possibly more politically acceptable, streamlined version – putting her at a counterpoint to the French presidential contender Nicolas Sarkozy, who recently proposed a mini-treaty, as well as to the group of politicians, led by former Italian prime minister Giuliano Amato, who are looking into ways of getting the constitution back on track.
"It should be a structure that is deserving of the word constitutional treaty," she said.
Commission in support role
For his part, Mr Barroso, in Berlin to discuss Germany's stint at the helm of the EU, praised the plans and offered his support.
"I really believe we have a great programme for the German presidency," Barroso said. "We were discussing some of the issues in detail and we are going to work hand-in-hand with the German presidency to make it a success."
Mr Barroso recently put the constitution issue firmly back on the political agenda by saying that the EU could not expand further unless its institutions were reformed first.
This was seen in some quarters as a challenge to Germany, which supports Croatia's EU bid and with Zagreb to suffer the immediate fallout from the statement.
Energy and jobs
Other themes set to feature strongly under Germany's watch are the EU's fledgling energy policy and making Europe more competitive.
Berlin also wants to advance the discussion on the European social model - a hot topic that has featured throughout the current commission's tenure and particularly in the run up to the French referendum on the constitution.
Beyond the EU, the bloc's relations with its neighbours to the east is to be a major topic with Berlin pushing for a revamp of the bloc's policy in this area.


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The TNG era features no considerably different designs than the preceding mid-24th century on one hand and the subsequent post-TNG era on the other hand, but marks a transition from the elliptical saucer and rounded hull shapes to more variety in design approaches. Generally speaking, the single ship designs are getting more distinctive. It has to be mentioned that no design of this era actually appeared in TNG, but ships like the prototype U.S.S Bradbury were only mentioned. However, there are the ship classes from "Star Trek VIII" (Akira, Norway and Saber) and Star Trek Voyager (Nova). With their registries below NCC-70000, the ship designs could precede the TNG era, but given their "modern" appearance they were most likely developed in the 2360's. The Akira class still sports the elliptical saucer, while the Norway and Nova have rather triangular and the Saber an irregular main hull. Other features, from the main arrangement to small details, are also subject to vary considerably. It can be supposed that all these ships achieve top speeds of at least Warp 9.2. Their registries range from about NCC-65000 to NCC-74000.
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By Sandy Amazeen Oct 24, 2011, 4:42 GMT
In Lynsay Sands\' "The Gift," Katricia Argeneau knows grey-eyed cop Teddy Brunswick is her life mate. She just needs to convince him they belong together, and being snowbound in a secluded cabin will make this a Christmas neither will forget. It\'s "Home for the Holidays" in Jeaniene Frost\'s Night Huntress series. Cat and Bones may long to wrap presents and set up a tree, but this Christmas, an evil vampire ...more
Just in time for holiday reading, these novellas from Lynsay Sands and Jeaniene Frost, two top paranormal romance authors, are sure to please fans of the Argeneau and Night Huntress series. From Sands comes The Gift, a sweet tale that brings together Katricia Argeneau, an ancient vampire beauty who has taken to avoiding her kind because of the dark thoughts that have been plaguing her and Teddy Brunswick, a human chief of police. Teddy knows about vampires from his work at Port Henry where he has met and become friends with several members of the Argeneau clan. Hes envied the life mate bond that can develop between vampire and human but never dared hope for such happiness for himself. Now, as he is starting to feel old age creeping up on him and snow bound by a huge blizzard, Katricia seems too good to be true.
Home for the Holidays by Frost revisits Cat and Bones as they attempt to have what passes as a normal Holiday season but as fans know, normal just isnt a part of this couples life. Cat faces huge trouble from demons as a spell cast by Wraith results in Bones disowning her from his line, essentially a death sentence in the vampire world. Forced to bargain with another demon, Cat puts everything on the line in an attempt to restore Bones to his right mind and keep Wraith from assuming Mastership of the line. It will take some clever maneuvering and gallons of seawater to thwart a power grab centuries in the making while revealing an unexpected family tie.
These two stories are quite different as The Gift is a light easy read with few surprises while Home for the Holidays is much darker and more complex. A surprising level of trust has finally developed between Cat and Bones which is nice to see and the additional family tie gives some of the characters more depth. These are a nice holiday treat but why wait, enjoy an early treat with a cup warm cider or hot buttered rum.
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An aromatic twist on a classic dessert.
*There are many varieties of farmer's cheese; some people prefer a more sour cheesecake while others prefer a buttery one. Talk to your farmer's market cheese vendor about the cheese that will best suit your taste.
servings12 individual tarts 12 people
Ingredients2 tbsp salted butter
1/2 cup plain graham crackers
1 cup whole pecans (toasted or raw)
1/2 cup dried English lavender buds
1/2 cup white sugar
1 fresh lemon
16 oz. farmer's cheese* (room temp)
2 eggs
1/4 cup whole milk
PreparationPreheat oven to 350 degrees.
Lightly grease cupcake pan.
Melt butter in a small pan.
While melting...
...combine graham crackers, pecans, and lavender (add 2 tsp sugar for a sweeter crust) in a gallon size plastic bag and crush until the crackers are the consistency of bread crumbs and the pecans are pea-sized. (A rolling pin or meat tenderizer works great)
Combine melted butter and graham cracker mixture in a mixing bowl.
Press finished mixture into cupcake pan about 1/4 of the way up (using the bottom of a glass works well to press down the mixture)
While the crust is refrigerating...
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Add sugar and cheese. Mix until smooth. Add eggs, milk, and juice from 1/2 of the lemon. Mix until combined.
Spoon mixture into cupcake pan all the way to the top.
Bake for 35-45 minutes. Try not to open the oven door, because this can cause the tarts to crack or fall.
Once finished baking, turn the oven off, and let the tarts set in the oven for an hour or two.
Refrigerate before serving.
my notes
recipe at a glance
type: Kid-Friendly, Pie/Tart
main ingredients: Cheese, Herb
cuisine: American
dietary considerations: Vegetarian
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At the beginning of 1992 the European Single Market was created. The objective was to remove barriers to trade throughout the European Economic Area allowing companies free access to markets in all the different countries without having to meet particular local requirements such as safety testing regulations, customs tariffs or contract conditions. Prior to 1992, and subsequently, the European Parliment have issued directives (called New Approach Directives) intended to provide controls on product design, with the principal objective being to provide a high level of product safety requirements across the European Community.
The CE marking applies to products placed in the market or put into service in the European Economic Area, and only for certain product groups or product aspects. The manufacturer or their representative is required to issue a declaration of conformity which must be kept available to the enforcement authority for 10 years following the placing of the products in the markinget. The manufacturer is also required to affix the marking to the product, its packaging, instructions and guarantee certificate.
CE marking of a product is not an option; it is required by law if the product falls under one of the European Union New Approach Directives. See: Petts Consulting, CE Directives page for further information on the Directives.
The CE marking is not a quality assurance marking. It refers to the safety rather than to the quality of a product and is mandatory for the product it applies to, whereas most quality markings are voluntary. A product may not be affixed with the CE marking unless it is covered by one or more of the New Approach Directives, and the product complies with the requirements and conformity assessment procedures of the Directive(s). The CE marking of products which do not need CE marking is not allowed, and to mark such a product will lead to prosecution.
CE marking cannot be compared with certification markings of third party certification bodies (for example GS-marking). In the European markets these markings are voluntary but the CE marking is obligatory.
The CE marking is as shown above left and must be at least 5mm in height.
When a product has the CE marking is affixed, it means that the product conforms to strict EMC (ElectroMagnetic Compatibility) Directive and other relevant Directives for that product. For example; Many electrical appliances also have to conform to the Low Voltage Directive, Electronic toys will have to conform to Toy Safety Directive, etc.
The CE marking on a product that falls within the scope of the scheme means that it is allowed to be placed on the market in any of the EC countries with no further testing required, a very powerful symbol if you're a manufacturer or importer!
The EC declaration of conformity must include components like: Description of the product, a reference to the specifications under which conformity is declared, a signatory to bind the manufacturer or representative and, where necessary, reference to the EC type examination certificate for radio transmitters.
The reference to the specifications does not necessarily mean that the product has been tested to these specifications. Three scenarios are apparent:
There are 2 routes for manufacturer to comply to the CE marking Directive:
Most manufacturers will follow this route, which is self certification to harmonised standards. Harmonised standards are those CENELEC or ETSI standards which are announced in the Official Journal of the European Communities (OJEC).
The advantage of certifying against standards is that there is no mandatory requirement for testing by an independent test house. The only requirement is that the manufacturer makes a declaration of conformity as mentioned above which references the standards against which compliance is claimed. The manufacturer has to ensure that he tests the product to assure himself that it does meet the requirements of the standards and this can be done in-house. It is, obviously, cheaper to have its' own in-house equipment to test the product instead of sending it to an independent test house, which is costly. By having these facilities, it will enable the manufacturer to design in the product to conform to the standards as, in many cases, modifications to the
product will need to be done in order to conform to the standards.
Generate a Technical Construction File (TCF), which will be held by the relevant authorites as soon as the product is placed on the markinget and for 10 years after the last item has been supplied. A TCF should describe the apparatus, the procedures used to ensure conformity and a technical report from a competent body. It may or may not contain test data. The difference between this route and the first route is that the technical report or certificate is issued by a competent body.
This route is normally taken when existing standards cannot be applied or when testing is not practical because of the size of the product.
This route is also taken when manufacturer decides to apply the harmonised standards in part only, or when the product has been tested to standards that are believed to have met the essential requirements.
If a CE marked product is found to be non-compliant then the manufacturer (or, if the manufacturer is outside the EC, the importer) can be ordered to recall any affected product and rectify the problem or even recall, refund and remove from the market totally. Fines may also be imposed and the requirement to have future products tested through an independent test house for a period of time. NOTE: If the manufacturer is outside the EC then any charges bought will be against the importer, or the importers agents, within the EC. This could mean you if you personally import goods to "sell on".
As an example, the producer's total liability for damage resulting from a death or personal injury and caused by identical items with the same defect shall be limited to an amount which may not be less than €70 million (around £60 million (Nov 2008)).
Reports have been made of a "fake" CE marking. Some Chinese manufacturers are marking their products with a CE and claiming that it denotes "China Export".
The logo they are using is so similar to the European CE marking as to be mistaken by unsuspecting consumers and even professionals, at first glance! Items offered for sale on the internet (including hand held radios) may well carry this "China Export" marking, which could be visible in pictures of the item, leading the purchaser to believe that all is well. The only way to recognise the China Export marking is the fact that the two letters are closer together and not properly spaced as in the original marking. The China Export marking is shown above right.
Be warned that if you are importing goods from China to the EC for resale and a CE marking is required for the item(s) you are selling and they are supplied to you with the China Export marking, then you are required to either get the manufacturer to comply with the EC Directives, and therefore have the proper CE marking, or risk fines and, possibly imprisonment, for selling potentionally dangerous products!
For further information on fake CE marked equipment see:
Be Aware of the China Export mark, YouTube Video.
Fake Chinese chargers could kill, The Inquirer, 21 July 2008.
Counterfeiting Alert, Voltium, 25 Feb 2008 (really dangerous one!).
The perils of cheap AC Adapters, Mike's Electric Stuff.
Below are both markings, spot the difference? The European CE marking is on the left.


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The winning ticket was sold at a store in Decatur. It was the only one to match all six winning numbers from last night's Lotto drawing.
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This is pretty spooky stuff. I know there are a lot of fakes out there. What do you suspect the percentage of real sounds are as opposed to the hoaxes?
I live in northeast Oklahoma. In November I heard the same long low rumbling sound. There was no storms, no wind, it was a very calm night, the rumble went on so long I went outside through the back door onto our deck and as I looked toward the railroad tracks to see if it was a train, it wasn't a train. However, I did see something strange that frightened me. As I stood there and I have told no one except my husband. I saw a very tall thin man dressed in what looked like a long light colored coat which came below his knees and pants the same color striding along the road next to the rail tracks. He had short blond hair and walked with an ease one doesn't see in someone who looked to be at least 8 feet tall. I judged the height as he was walking by a tractor trailer sitting on its pins, not attached to a truck and he was the same height. The oddest thing of all was I just walked back into the house and went to sleep. This is a small conservative town and any male dressed like that would be noticed and not accepted. I have never seen anyone matching that description. I don't know if the long low rumbling was connected but this is what happened. I might add my husband, myself , and my grandchildren have heard and seen odd things around the house within the last three years. My husband is in the army and stays at Fort Hood, Texas and comes home periodically so I can take care of my grandchildren. At first, he thought I was crazy when I would tell him things ,until, he came home and saw some things himself this past November. Now, he believes me. What could be happening?
But what is it?Sounds like it's coming from inside the Earth,a shifting of tectonic plates perhaps.Or maybe somebody is drilling underground in anticipation of something.The noises are kind of biblical and armegeddon like though.
A side note on meditation,I've done your meditation focusing on physical sensation but I've discovered that when you actually tense each part you are focusing on then release them as you are breathing deeply the meditation is much deeper and more relaxing,and even better if you engaged in daily physical exercise.
I saw a U.F.O. after meditating like that in my 20's,I'm sure there is a connection between the two.
Not sure if this is GOOD or bad or NOTHING at all but in a dream last night I was walking down a dirt road after leaving an old lodge. I stopped to look over a fence when I see a few concrete looking buildings. THEN I see a NEW steam vent forming on level ground; the steam itself just starting to escape. I realize at this moment that I am in Yellowstone National Park. (I checked out the USGS page today and there does not seem to be any activity going on. There is such a sense of unease these days and most likely the reason for this dream).
Thank you for outlining state of coherence. I found this very helpful and enlightening.
Thank you for this Whitley. I woke up to this sound phenomenon just two weeks ago, and was starting to try to wade through the hoaxes. Your work was very helpful and saved me a good deal of confusion about whether to trust my intuition that there was a phenomenon behind the hoaxes. Last week on Thursday I also heard the sound for about ten minutes while I was at work. This sort of coincidence no longer surprises me. It sounded exactly like the background thrumming without the siren sound from the video linked above.
I am wondering if other people have reported what I experience more often than not these days when listening to UC interviews. I come to a place where, when I am listening even a little passively, I miss a passage completely but then the same thing happens in the same place even after multiple listenings, and then I get stroppy and back up and listen with just full-out concentration and can barely get through. Is something masking specific places in order to gently censor information? In this case it happened at 19 minutes in... It always feels the same, a gentle defocusing, and I now recognize it as a red flag that simply points out what is worth paying the most attention to, so whatever it is, it's backfiring!
Hello everyone,
These stories are so amazing. I live in a very remote part of the Northern Territory of Australia. I have not heard any sounds like this. It's one of those things, though, that just reading what others have experienced gives credence and depth to the phenomenon. As usual, it is so under-reported, or not reported, in general media. I always wonder why that is.
More importantly, I was wondering - Whitley, do you ever respond to this Subscriber forum? I have not seen a response from you, just from my own access to reports and information. It would be SO wonderful if you could get back to us, if you have the time, concerning the questions posted here. I so very much appreciate what you and Anne do, with Unknown Country. It has quite simply changed my life and perspective of reality. I have the feeling that this Subscriber area could become a great forum.
Kindest regards,
PS: I'm not sure if my fellow Subscribers would agree, so I'm out on a limb here ... however I would be willing to pay more for my subscription to this website and all the tremendous information provided - not to mention the wonderful people I 'meet' through the various interviews and links.
The current price is extremely generous, and greatly appreciated. However, if UC will require more resources, to stay 'on the air', I think that long time subscribers might be able to afford a little more for this service -?
Just an idea.
Whitley, do you have a comment on Steve Beckow's upcoming joyride?
I would be very interested in your opinion of this.
Dear Mr Strieber,
As a subscriber who is not an experiencer I have obviously never had the opportunity to secrete myself in a space where I must confront the visitors and 'eat my fear.' I could always stalk the dark alleys of gang areas of my town, but I'd rather not die in this particular fashion. My question is this: what might you suggest as a means to artificially create that hightened state of fear so that one might then meditate in the midst of it? Of course, you have previously suggested that meditating attracts the visitors, that when one pays attention to the phenomena it pays attention to them. So there is, I suppose, the possibly that the visitors will show up one night and scare the hell out or me! Careful what you wish you for, right?! By the way, I've been a fan/follower of your work since I first read The Hunger when I was a teenager! And although I am not an experiencer, I value what seems to be happening here. Aside from reading Gurdjieff and Ouspensky in my 20's, your work has been the most life-affirming for me!
Thank you, and Anne
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Hi Whitley,
I thought you would have remembered what I wrote you about back in July. It was about my parent's story of a strange voice/sound coming from the sky back in the forties. This sound coming from the sky could have been mistaken by my parents for a voice in a foreign language, remember they could not understand it. And we all know something very significant happened around that time in the forties.
Maybe there is a tie in here and something very big this time, especially since it is being heard around the world this time. Or maybe not!
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I keep wondering if this sound is the result of our planet is moving through a new area space. I believe that I'm right that we are passing through a new area of space that may have very different conditions than the area we are coming out of- maybe there is some kind of space weather that effects our atmosphere in a way to produce this sound? Perhaps it's something to do with lining up with the galactic center? I also keep thinking of the phrase "music of the spheres". I like the "tuning fork" idea mentioned above. Could the vibration of moving through space be causing this sound? Just ideas I'm throwing out here.
The thoughts I had on these strange sounds... magnetic pole moving causing some kind of geological event underground. Mother earth's birthing pains as she prepares for the upcoming shift..


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Level 152
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Level 152 is the twelfth level in Gingerbread Glade and the 41st ingredients level. To pass this level, you must bring down 2 hazelnuts and 2 cherries and score at least 40,000 points in 50 moves or fewer. When you complete the level, Sugar Crush is activated.
- This is another deceiving level. It looks pretty generic, but it is actually excruciatingly difficult, at least for some players.
- This level is hard due to the sheer number of blockers. All the blockers are three-layer icing and there will always be three or four, or even five, separating the ingredients from the bottom.
- With six colours, it is very hard to remove the blockers, and due to the pattern of the blockers, even getting ingredients down the middle is hard.
- Getting just one ingredient is hard and likely 50% of your attempts won't see you collect a single ingredient, yet there are four that are needed.
- Most of the time you suffer because the ingredients are right on top of the icing.
- Passing this level is easier if the ingredients start in the center three columns. There's an 8% chance for this to occur. On mobile versions, if the board does not look promising, you can exit the level and enter again without losing any lives.
- If you find a good board with ingredients starting from the middle, make a vertical striped candy through the center and activate it to bring two ingredients down instantaneously. Afterwards, repeat the process again to bring the next two ingredients down.
- If the ingredients end up just on top of the icing then you're in trouble. If that's the case, try to switch them out by moving them towards the middle. In general, try not to get ingredients to fall down on top of the icing at the beginning of the level. Destroy the icing from the middle of the board using columns which the ingredients aren't in as far as possible. Then once the icing is weakened you can use striped candy to finish it off.
- Once the icing is slightly weakened, combinations of striped candy + wrapped candy or colour bomb + striped candy will greatly help the ingredients fall down.
- In this level swapping ingredients into a column closer to the middle is an excellent move, often better than actively lowering them towards the bottom of the board.
Getting Three Stars (For Daring Players)Edit
- Difficulty: Considerably easy
- Six colours make it hard to create special candies.
- The ingredients are worth 40,000 points (4 ingredients x 10,000 points per ingredient = 40,000 points). Hence, dropping the ingredients alone leaves the player having to earn an additional 60,000 points.
- The huge amount of blockers mean that a good number of moves are required to clear them. Despite this, not all of them have to be cleared which in turn saves moves for sugar crush.
- The ingredients can be switched to the centre of the board to quickly drop them, saving a good number of moves.
- On mobile devices, well placed and activated vertical striped candies can cause the positions of the ingredients to move even closer to the exits or even drop them, further reducing the number of moves required.
- The three star target score is relatively low. Most runs of passing the level will end up with at least 120,000 points.
- Bringing the ingredients down gives the player enough points to meet the target score.
- The starting layout of the board occupied by candies and ingredients closely resembles a heart.
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I had been stuck in this level for 3 weeks. Even though I passed this level with boosters, I think this level should be insanely hard. Looking at the board, you may think it is not very hard. However, I can tell you. It is as hard as level 147. With the dreadful meringues, 50 moves is not enough to pass this level! This is by far the level which requires me to use the most attempts to pass the level, and I can only pass the level with boosters! It is not "insanely hard". This level is not IMPOSSIBLE!!
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Alright, you have my support. They are pretty even in terms of luck and skill needed. I just hate those meringues - they need way too many special candies to break through. Even if I try starting a board with ingredients at the middle, it is still hard to bring them all down regardless. I wouldn't say it's Insanely Hard just yet, but it probably could.
On my revisit, I can find no reliable strategy for this level except waiting for good luck to happen. Blueeighthnote (talk)
I retried two times this level and i did half the work, what makes this level hard is the fact there is 6 colours, making comos difficult. With one colour removed, it will be easier.
Edit : on my revisit for 3 stars I did this in my first try !
I absolutely hated this level. Having just come fresh out of Level 147, I was really annoyed to find another hard level so soon. After 40-odd tries I did a skillgaming. (used boosters). Couldn't be bothered to be stuck here any longer. I just wanted to get out of Gingerbread Glade. Lefty7788 (talk)
When I arrived on 152, after that 147, I found it somewhat easy, and I was able to bring down an ingredient or two. I once remembered that I have made an attempt bringing down 3 ingredients, that is, super close to passing. When the ingredients went down the column with no meringue, that was the time I passed.
To be honest, it only took 2 tries on me. On my first try, I was halfway, then I finished with a quit. I did my second and I completed with 3 moves left. I only got 1 star. Edit: I tried again and I passed AGAIN! I also got 3 moves at finish by 2 : Cherries. Still 1 star sadly. Don't get this as a mission, it's impossible for 2 or more stars (for me)! Harder on Facebook. Just reduce the , King! Difficulty: Very Hard or Insanely Hard | : Hard
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Well for me this was not so hard at all. In fact, I actually beat it on my first try! I had way too much luck in my hands. At the end of the level I had my last ingredient under some meringues, and sachets. I got them destroyed by special candies and then I had dropped reds to get the last ingredient : Hazelnut and got it down on my LAST MOVE! And I got the 1 stars. I bet if I retry it I will lose, but for now it was insanely easy.
Hope you have the same luck as me! User:BestBtd4Player
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