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The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday announced a proposal to curb carbon emissions from future power plants built in the U.S., with some criticizing the standards as a furtherance of President Barack Obama's "war on coal."
Calling climate change one of the most pressing public health issues of our time, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said the new standards are aimed at lessening the impact of global climate change caused by carbon pollution in the air. Power plants, she said, represent the single largest carbon polluter in the nation.
"The overwhelming judgment of science tells us that climate change is real, human activities are fueling that change, and we must take action to avoid the most devastating consequences," McCarthy said.
Climate change, she said, is leading to erratic weather patterns such heat waves and drought, which in turn drive up the cost of food and pose significant health risks such such as heat-related deaths.
On average, coal-fired power plants in the U.S. emit just under 1,800 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere per kilowatt hour. Under the proposed standard, new coal plants would be restricted to 1,100 pounds per kilowatt hour, essentially requiring utilities to capture the carbon before it is release into the atmosphere and storing it underground. The technology to do this is proven, though not commercially. And therein lies a concern, noted Ronn Robinson, corporate communications director for Kentucky Power Company, a subsidiary of American Electric Power.
"I think that's part of the issue here: Is the technology available to meet the rule?" he said. "Technological feasibility is not the same as commercial availability."
Robinson said carbon capture technology has been demonstrated on a small scale, but the cost of implementing the technology on a commercial scale will likely prevent the construction of any new coal-fired plants, because the cost would be passed on to the customer in the form of higher rates.
"I think, not only for Kentucky Power AEP, but for utilities across the country, if it's prohibitive to build coal-fired power plants because of the rules, they won't be built. Regulators won't approve excessive costs to comply with technology that's not commercially viable."
Robinson noted the proposed standards won't be finalized until next summer and will have no impact on the company's planned action to purchase a stake in a coal-fired plant in West Virginia. But at the same time, they do raise questions about the future of coal in America.
"I think it raises serious concern about the country's ability to use coal into a fuel mix," he said. "Gas and coal and wind and all that is going to be part of the future, but this raises some concerns about that."
In McCarthy's speech on Friday, the EPA chief said the standards are flexible and will usher in a new generation of power plants that are cleaner and utilize American technologies, leading to further investment in methods such as carbon capture.
"With these investments, technologies will eventually mature and become as common for new power plants as scrubbers have become for well-controlled plants today," McCarthy said.
But the proposal is meeting with opposition from lawmakers in Kentucky, where the coal mining industry has continued to shed jobs in the past two years, including the loss of more than 500 jobs when James River Coal announced furloughs just this week.
Republican Congressman Hal Rogers, who represents the 5th Congressional District in the Eastern Coalfields, said the EPA proposal would further eliminate jobs in his home district, one of the nation's poorest where unemployment rates in most counties are well above 10 percent.
"This War on Coal is a war on our way of life, already costing our region more than 6,200 high-paying mining jobs. Today's latest assault is sadly no different," Rogers said in a statement released on Friday. "These overreaching, unworkable greenhouse gas regulations will cost thousands more jobs and increase energy costs for every household, small business and our seniors on fixed income."
Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican Leader, described Friday's announcement as the latest salvo in President Obama's "war on coal," and he will sponsor a resolution of disapproval to prevent the regulations from going into effect.
"This is another attempt by the President to fulfill his long-term commitment to shut down our nation's coal mines," McConnell said. "Sadly, it does not come as a shock given his failed attempt at getting Congress to pass a cap and tax bill designed to hike utility rates and bankrupt the coal industry."
The proposed standards represent the first limits to be placed on carbon pollution and will only be applied to newly built coal- and gas-fired plants. The EPA is expected to release a separate proposal on existing plants next year.


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It started in 1845 and lasted six years. Before it was over, more than one million men, women, and children starved to death and another million fled the country. Measured in terms of mortality, the Great Irish Potato Famine was one of the worst disasters in the 19th century-it claimed twice as many lives as the American Civil War. A perfect storm of bacterial infection, political greed, and religious intolerance sparked this catastrophe. But even more extraordinary than its scope were its political underpinnings, and The Graves Are Walking provides fresh material and analysis on the role that nineteenth-century evangelical Protestantism played in shaping British policies and on Britain's attempt to use the famine to reshape Irish society and character.
Perhaps most important, this is ultimately a story of triumph over perceived destiny: for 50 million Americans of Irish heritage, the saga of a broken people fleeing crushing starvation and remaking themselves in a new land is an inspiring story of exoneration.
Based on extensive research and written with novelistic flair, The Graves Are Walking draws a portrait that is both intimate and panoramic, that captures the drama of individual lives caught up in an unimaginable tragedy, while imparting a new understanding of the famine's causes and consequences.
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"[Kelly's] exhaustive research covers every aspect, threading the gruesome events into a huge panoramic tapestry that reveals political greed lurking behind the pestilence." (Publishers Weekly)
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"Unforgettable, Haunting, and a Compelling Warning"
What an amazing book! I listened well into the night, the story and the narration were so compelling. I can't recommend it highly enough! Today, I am enlightened, appalled, grieved, very angry, and even alarmed about an event that happened half a world away over 150 years ago. I'd say that's a tribute to any historical account!
Like nearly all Americans, I was familiar with the reason so many Irish left their country in the 1840's. Mostly, it was, to me, more a story of American immigration than Irish tragedy. Well, no more! This is gut-wrenching, heart-breaking stuff, and, like all the best histories, brings to life the events and people of the time.
Can you believe it? The legislature of the most powerful and wealthy country of the time failed to react adequately to a natural disaster because 1} the poor in Ireland (a lazy bunch, anyway) might become dependent on government handouts; 2) giving away food would disrupt the free market (perfectly good non-potato food was, throughout the famine, being exported at great profit from Ireland); and 3) Party squabbles and greedy personal agendas meant too little action and too little political will to help the poor (and even the formerly relatively prosperous). This could never happen again, right?
So, besides being the terrible story of an awful time in Ireland that affected the entire world, this is a dire warning for the future. Bad economies, failing crops, and over-population are international problems. Once again, we'd better know our history and heed its lessons!
Beautifully written by John Kelly and compellingly narrated by Gerard Doyle, this is an important, important book. Don't miss it!
"Every Irish American should read this book"
As one who dislikes throwing around superlatives, I must call this book an astounding revelation. As an Irish American on my mother's side whose great-grandparents emigrated to New Orleans during the Great Famine, I now realize how profoundly uninformed I was about this tragic period in Irish history. If I thought about it at all, I just assumed it was caused by crop failures for a few years. Now I understand that it was greed, indifference, political expediency, British prejudice against the Irish for their perceived "laziness" and "unwillingness to help themselves" that caused a serious problem to become a catastrophe.
My sweet and gentle Irish grandmother, who was born in New Orleans in 1876, could not be riled by much, but we learned to dare not mention the English to her. I always thought that was quaint and amusing. I'd give anything if she were here today so that I could learn what she knew.
"One of the best accounts of the famine"
Unlike most of the popular nonfiction books books on the potato famine, Kelly intertwines the anecdotal with the political, social, and economic policies that exacerbated a European crisis into what seemed like an attempted Irish genocide. Data is explicit, and should be accompanied by the printed or ebook to review the notes and bibliography. Its well enunciated by the Irish Doyle, and the perfect length.
One of the best I heard recently.
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"This will happen again."
John Kelly bring history alive in this masterfully written book. He tells the story of the poor Irish people and how the world failed to help them in time. One third of the population of the country died in the famine. The English government came out as ineffective in the book between personal agendas, petty political squabbles and a ruling party that said "We owe no man help". The sad thing is polictics today sound the same. . Everyone needs to read this book and the world needs to take heed of the message within. In school I was taught that famine and pestilence was cyclic but modern science has derailed a world wide famine since the1840 world wide famine. I was taught the following will cause a famine: Bad economies, failing crops, drought, extreme weather changes, and most of all overpopulation and lack of world leadership. John Kelly showed how this all came together in Ireland and less so in the rest of Europe to cause the famine of the 1840s. We are in the gathering of the storm right now and need to listen to the lessons from this excellent book. I was amazed at the prejudice the English had of the Irish. No wonder it is hard to obtain peace between the two people. My maternal side of the family fled Ireland at that time and settled in England, then migrated to Canada before WW1. My paternal family was from Scotland. I must admit this is the first time I have read a detailed account of the Irish famine my ancestors fled from. Gerard Doyle did a superb job narrating the book. This is a must read book.
"A horrible tragedy brought to life"
I love work which helps me understand and relate to how other people lived in other times and other lands. This historical work on the history of the Irish Famine is just such a book. I am Irish by heritage and some of my maternal ancestors came to America to flee the famine. But I had no idea...
The author details not only the terrible blight that caused the destruction of the potato crops upon which the Irish subsistence farmers depended to survive, but also the horrific consequences of the arrogance and indifference of the Irish aristocracy and the British government, and of the despotic and destructive decisions that added so much to the suffering and death. The Irish wouldn't call the events a famine; they would call it a deliberate starvation. You'll come to understand why. You'll also come to understand the economic realities that, in some cases, drove the impossible decisions the British and Irish ruling classes had to make.
It's a difficult story to hear, but it's true. Like the Black Plague in the 12th and 13th centuries and the Dust Bowl in 1930s America, the individual stories of human struggle, venality, suffering, death, survival and, in some cases, triumph, will both astound and confound you.
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"Capitalism, Religion, and Culture yield Famine"
The Irish Potato famine lasted from 1841 to 1849 and resulted in the deaths of millions of poor Irish farmers and their families. John Kelly, the author, uses newspaper reports, diary entries, and Irish literature written in that time to take the reader through those horrific years. He shows that the consequences of the famine were the result of the capitalistic, religious, and ethnic cultures of the time. If slavery was America's "Original Sin", The Potato famine was Great Britain's. As the reader moves through the period of the famine, it is obvious that greed, self interest, and ignorance combined to bring down the Irish peasants and land owners alike.
One part of Kelly's narrative that I found interesting was his description of the Irish immigrant experience in America and Canada as result of the famine. I recommend The Graves are Walking to any interested in understanding what shaped Irish culture from 1841 to this day.
Tangential, eclectic, avid listener... favorite book is the one currently in ear.
"Irish Geneology Joy"
If you have Irish in your family tree, this is certainly worth a listen to understand what is really meant by "potato famine." I never imagined the extent and ramifications of the famine, nor the lifestyle which precipitated it or the politics which worsened it. No wonder tracing my Irish side is such a nightmare.
"hardship, compounded by weak leadership"
Gripping recap of the potato famine in Ireland, and the disease and death that went with it. John Kelly also tells about the Irish emigration to America, along with the difficulties of the trans-Atlantic journey of the weak and too often ill travelers. Awesome narration by Gerard Doyle.
"Fascinating window into a pivotal event"
I've always heard about the potato famine, but never really knew the details - including how avoidable it was . The story is well-told, well-read, and well-documented. All that it missed, and this is a personal preference rather than a criticism, were some in-depth and personal stories about actual families deeply affected by the crisis. That said, it explained the ongoing struggles between the English and the Irish, the huge migration to American, and some pretty misinformed food policies. Worth reading!!
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"Stop Using Food as a Tool of Moral Reeducation"
Have you ever read/listened to a or story and found yourself getting really angry? I don't mean the polite. distant, "I can't believe that happened" mad. I mean the kind of righteous ire that has you pacing the floor, cursing, and punching sofa cushions. John Kelly's "The Graves are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People" (2012) enraged me, because Kelly was talking about my great grandfather's parents, Rosetta and John, who immigrated from Ireland in 1846 and 1847, when they were 8 and 9.
I've always known that Rosetta and John were 'potato famine Irish', but until Kelly's book, I had no appreciation for what that meant. My understanding of 'The Great Famine' was romanticized by Ron Howard's 1992 film "Far and Away." It would have been more historically accurate if Howard had used the same gaunt, haunted actors Steven Spielberg cast in "Schindler's List" (1993); and if Howard had replaced the beautiful Irish landscape with useless public works roads leading to nowhere, and stripped the verdant, forrested hills to bare dirt for no reason at all.
Phytophthora infestans (a fungus) caused Ireland's potato crop failures in 1845 to 1847, but England's attempt at social engineering actually killed an estimated 750,000 Irish. 2,000,000 more - including my great great grandparents - left. 25% to 30% of Ireland was gone in 2 years.
England's grand idea was that depriving the Irish of potatoes would make them self sufficient. Perhaps if Ireland, at England's direction, wasn't exporting food during the famine . . . Or if the grandiose administrators distributed grain sent from around the world , . . Or corrupt officials weren't propping up import prices . . . It broke my heart.
Although this book had a profound effect on me, I'm giving the story a 3 because it really wandered and repeated itself. I was confused about what happened, and when. Obvious questions weren't answered - who determined Phytophthora infestans was the culprit? What worked to stop it? There are more questions I'd like answered.
Gerard Doyle was a good narrator, although - with apologies to John and Rosetta - I wouldn't know a true Irish accent unless I was at Coulter Bay with a native of the "Irish race." Not my phrase, of course - thank the phrenologists of the day.
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Since 2010, the New Bern Bears and Durham-Hillside Hornets have played four times, with the fourth contest coming this past Saturday night.
With Hillside's 27-24 victory, the series over the past four years is tied at 2-2.
New Bern defeated the Hornets 40-20 in 2012, a season that culminated in a 4A state championship for the Bears and 27-19 in 2011.
Hillside had eliminated the Bears from the state playoffs with a 12-7 Eastern Regional Final victory in 2010.
Saturday's game featured the closest margin of victory of the four recent battles.
While New Bern's defense was able to bottle up Hillside star running back Dontae Thomas-Williams, giving up no rushes to him over 15 yards, the Bears couldn't keep big plays away from Hillside's other prominent star, Trevion Thompson.
Thompson scored on two touchdown catches of 80 and 51 yards.
In turn, the Hornets had no answer for New Bern quarterback Mike Hughes.
After Josh Htoo made a field goal to send the game into overtime, Hughes took off toward the end zone, only to be brought down at the five, where he fumbled and Hillside recovered.
The Hornets' Ian Burris Jr. then nailed the game-winning field goal to tie the series over the past four years.
"We had to tie this thing up," Hillside coach Antonio King said. "Last year, it got away from us down here and they (New Bern) won the state title and we had to get this thing to 2-2. Coach Curlings was going to ride his horse in Mike (Hughes) and I was going to ride my two (Thompson and Thomas-Williams)."
King said it is his hope that the Hornets and Bears can continue to play each other every season and beyond.
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Obviously a little dejected at some areas where his team fell a bit short, New Bern coach Bobby Curlings said it is always good to play a tough Hillside team early in the year.
"We went up and played them in the 2010 Eastern Finals and saw what a class act Coach King and his players were and how hard they played and anytime you can play someone like that early, we jump at it," Curlings said.
New Bern's Mike Hughes ran for a touchdown and threw for two in his first game as a starting quarterback.
After Hughes was injured on the overtime fumble, it was Thompson who jogged over and offered a hug and pat on the helmet.
"It's all about respect and keeping a friendly rivalry and you never want to see anybody get hurt," Thompson said. "We all want to win and show respect in doing it."
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John Plumtree singled out Andries Bekker's lineout ability as just one of the Stormers strengths.
In a midweek press conference, Plumtree was in a good mood, joking with journalists ahead of a match that could be definitive to who wins the South African Conference.
Plumtree said there were few injury concerns after the win against the Cheetahs and added the match was a chance to redress the result of last year's Currie Cup final when the Stormers (in the guise of Western Province) won in Durban. He said the Cup could only be won back in a different competition at a later stage of the year.
For now the emphasis was on Super Rugby and Plumtree said his team's lineout would be under pressure against the likes of Andries Bekker. He was comfortable that Sharks hookers Craig Burden and Kyle Cooper performed well against the Cheetahs, but he felt the Stormers lineout would provide an even sterner examination.
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RALEIGH – The Havelock fans chanted from the stands – "MVP, MVP, MVP."
Derrell Scott smiled, accepted his plaque and lifted it toward the crowd.
The speedy running back became the third Rams' player to earn the 3A state championship Most Valuable Player Award.
"I don't know how to describe it," Scott said. "I couldn't have done it without the honor to God, my teammates and coaches. Everybody helped put me in this position."
Havelock was trailing by its worst deficit of the season – 10 points – early in the second quarter.
The Rams rode the back of their senior workhorse.
Scott, a four-star recruit, scored on touchdown runs of 51, 20 and 96 yards, and accounted for 21-unanswered points, in Havelock's 21-13 victory over Concord in Saturday's 3A state championship game at Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh.
He racked up 209 yards on 18 carries and three scores.
Scott's initial touchdown run occurred on Havelock's first offensive possession of the second quarter and brought life back to the Havelock sidelines.
"I was telling the guys that the game was not over," Scott said. "We were down 10-0 and we were only in the first or second quarter. We didn't want to panic, and just keep our head up."
Scott scored just before halftime, and then outran the Spiders for a 96-yard touchdown midway in the third quarter.
"I was really just following a block and tried to make something happen. There was a hole there," Scott said of matching the school record for longest touchdown run.
Scott gained 111 yards in the first half alone as the Rams led 14-10 at halftime.
"We are a team that can score quickly," Havelock coach Jim Bob Bryant said. "We can turn a five-yard gain into a 50 or 60, 96-yard TD."
Scott follows Pharoh Cooper (2012) and Garrett Crowe (2011) as Havelock's three state championship MVPs.
Scott finished his season with 2,143 rushing yards and 25 touchdowns, and his first touchdown run put him at more than 6,000 rushing yards in his career. He holds Havelock's single-season and career rushing records.
He will play in next weekend's Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas, and then the Semper Fidelis Bowl in California at the beginning of January.
But the biggest prize for Scott was winning his third-consecutive state title.
"It's been a good year," he said. "We won the state championship, which was the biggest goal of mine. That's what we work for and that's all we talk about."
Adam Thompson is the sports editor of the Sun Journal.


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Giving Thought to Gospel 'Math': Why Jesus + Nothing = Everything
The following are notes taken during the session.
This comes from 22 sermons on the book of Colossians in 2009. Everything I'm going to say is based in Colossians.
I grew up in churches where I believed the gospel was only for people outside the church. I saw it as synonymous with evangelism. But evangelism is only a part of the gospel. The gospel is for Christians. It doesn't just ignite the Christian life. It is the fuel that keeps Christians going each and every day.
Some think that once we're saved and justified by the gospel, we should move on to deeper theological matters. But the truth is that we don't move on from the gospel, we move further into the gospel. All of the Christian life, and all of the Bible is about Jesus. I count myself as one who is on mission with other men to help the church recognize again the power of the gospel.
This topic addresses 3 issues that are important to grasp if we are to see a revival in the church regarding the gospel:
- Motivation
- Identity
- Idolatry
1) Motivation
For all the talk of the gospel we hear in the church today, there is still some fear and trepidation regarding the radical nature of grace. There is still talk about two equal dangers Christians must avoid: legalism and lawlessness. Too much focus on grace leads to lawlessness, so in order to remain balanced, we need to keep some grace and some law.
Framing the issue this way prevents us from really understanding the gospel of grace for all of its radical depth and beauty. It's more theologically accurate to say there is one primary enemy of the gospel, mainly legalism. But it comes in two forms: some people avoid the gospel and try to save themselves via rules. This si front door legalism, which was can easily detect.
But some people avoid the gospel and try to save themselves by breaking the rules, doing whatever they want. This is back door legalism, less obvious.
So there are two laws that keep us from Christ. A law that tries to keep the rules to stay free from Christ, and a law that tries to find freedom from Christ by becoming a law unto yourself. Either way, you're still trying to save yourself. You're still legalistic.
So in my opinion it is a huge mistake to frame the issue as two ditches, one on each side. There aren't two ways to fall off the Christian life. It's one way, with two forms. The biggest lie about grace is that it is dangerous and therefore needs to be kept in check. The devil does not want us to believe in the radical nature of grace. The biggest lie he wants us to believe is that grace is dangerous, unruly, and that we need to balance it out with a healthy dose of law.
Believing this violates gospel advancement. This "Yes grace, but..." is the kind of disposition that keeps moralism swirling around in our hearts.
At times every parent or pastor faces the problem of children or congregants who are acting out, in various ways and for various reasons. And all too often they conclude that the best way to deal with it is to give more rules. The goal is that we want licentious people to take God seriously and obey his commands. But the only way licentious people start to obey is when they get a taste of God's radical, unconditional acceptance of sinners.
The irony of gospel growth is that those who end up obeying more are those who increasingly realize that their standing with God is not based on their obedience but on Christ's. Those who end up performing better are those who understand that their standing isn't based on their performance but on Christ's.
We see people acting up, and our instinctive action is to drop the hammer. But we make a huge mistake when we believe that the thing that is going to transform the human heart is more rules and standards. The only way the change happens is when the sinner gets a taste deep down in their heart of the radical grace of God through Jesus.
This means people need to hear less about what we need to do for God and hear more about what he has done for us.
Imperatives minus indicatives = impossibility. When we give commands without saying what God has done for us, we create impossibly scenarios for people to live a long obedience in the same direction. And if you are powered by any engine smaller than the gospel, you're train is eventually going to conk out.
Long term, sustained, gospel-motivated obedience can only come from faith in what Christ has already done, not fear in what we must do. Any other kind is unsustainable.
The Bible is clear that God is not concerned with any kind of obedience. He wants a certain kind. Just consider Cain and Abel. Both offered sacrifices, but God only received one. Work done by any obedience other than the gospel is not acceptable to God. It does not honor, glorify or show his worth. God doesn't want that kind of obedience. God wants obedience that is motivated by love for what he has done for us.
That's the way it is in parenting. I can get my kids to obey me for fear of what the consequences are, but that won't last in the long run. In order to win true obedience, I have to go deeper than fear or guilt.
2) Identity
The world spends a lot of money trying to tempt us to locate our identity in someone or something smaller than Jesus. We are strongly tempted to tie it to human approval, or personal accomplishments. But the gospel liberates us by showing us that our identity is not located in someone we must become or something we must do. It locates it in Christ.
We don't need to spend our lives trying the earn the approval and acceptance and affection of other people. Most of us are enslaved to that pursuit. We need to get those things from Christ through the gospel. That is what we are looking for in a thousand things apart from Jesus.
Rediscovering the gospel enabled me to see that, because Jesus was strong for me, I was free to be weak. Because Jesus won for me, I was free to lose. And it is only when you are free to lose that you are free to live with unbounded courage and risk and sacrifice.
Life cannot beat a man who doesn't care if he loses. When you are afraid to lose, circumstances will kill your joy and make you slave. But if you are in Christ, your identity is secure and you are free to give everything you have. You have nothing to prove or protect.
3) Idolatry
The greatest threats to gospel advancement are not the idols outside the church but those inside the church. We spend so much time trying to identify idols in the culture, but the most dangerous ones are those in the church.
Joylessness in suffering happens not because of bad circumstances but because of idolatry. Idolatry is very subtle. It infects even our spiritual issues.
The idolatry issue and the identity issue are interconnected, because the idolatry issue involves us looking to other things—idols—to give us what we want. It's "Jesus and . . ." It's not just a non-Christian problem. It's a serious Christian problem too, and the gospel is the answer to it.
What is the one thing or the main thing that, if you lost it or had to part with it, would devastate you? What is your non-negotiable? Who or what are you depending on most to make you feel that life is worth living? If it's anything other than Jesus, it's your idol. Doesn't mean it's a bad thing. It could be your children or your wife. But it's a good thing that goes wrong because we make it an ultimate thing.
The pain you may be experiencing is God trying to open your grasp on the good things you have fallen more in love with than him.
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If youve ever driven from I-40 to Sevierville, Pigeon Forge or Gatlinburg in the last 15 years, you have come to expect congestion along State Route 66, The Great Smoky Mountains Parkway. The Tennessee Department of Transportation was able to accelerate funding to improve this important route with funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The entire project from I-40 to downtown Sevierville will widen the existing highway from 4-lanes to 6-lanes improving congestion and enhancing safety for the traveling public.
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Phase One and Phase Two of the highway 66 improvement project are complete. (project phase map)
Phase Three was awarded in February 2012 for $32,517,493.62 to Simpson Construction Company, Inc. It is estimated to be completed by December 31, 2015.
Highway 66 serves as the main artery into the popular tourist areas of Sevierville, Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg which are the Gateways to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Over 9 million people visit the Great Smoky Mountains National Park each year, making it the most visited national park in the country.


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Church Growth 101 A Church Growth Guidebook for Ministers and Laity is based on his thirty-five plus years of pastoral ministries. All the churches Dr. Mollette served grew in attendance, mission giving and effective ministries. This is a must read for every pastor, church staff worker, and church member. In this book Dr. Mollette shares practical and simple insights that will help your church grow.


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When it comes to choosing the greatest distance runner of all time, Bill Rodgers (who deserves to be in any such conversation) suggests that it's impossible to pick one male athlete. "A lot of us guys—Frank Shorter, myself—we did a lot of things well, but we never dominated," says the four-time winner at both the New York and Boston marathons. "But when it comes to women, there's only one. Grete. She won at every distance. She was dominant. She's the best women's distance runner ever." Dominant. The word defines the career of Grete Waitz, who died of cancer on April 19 at 57 but whose legacy will be recalled often on and around November 6, the day of the New York City Marathon—a race she indeed dominated, winning it nine times, three times setting a world record. She also ran in four Olympics, won five World Cross-Country titles, and set world records at five distances besides the marathon. Yes, Grete Waitz was dominant.
But that's not the adjective friends and family members use to describe the woman who, while soaring above her peers, remained faithful to her roots, that of the youngest of three children born to working-class parents in Oslo, Norway, in the 1950s. A woman whose ambitions were to be a schoolteacher, not a world-beater. Those closest to her use words like reserved, quiet, humble. She enjoyed a Diet Coke and a good mystery novel; lights out by 9 p.m., speedwork done by 6:30 a.m. She sure didn't leave behind many "that's Grete for you" stories that sum up her fabled life. "When I was writing a piece about Grete after she died," says George Hirsch, the former publisher of Runner's World and longtime friend to the runner and her husband, Jack, "I couldn't think of any anecdotes about her. Even when I called people we both knew, it was hard to come up with any."
But few will forget the day she ran her first New York City Marathon. On October 22, 1978, Grete Waitz discovered how good she really was, and the world discovered a new heroine.
Late Summer, 1978
Prague and New York City
JACK WAITZ (Grete's husband, coach, and manager): Grete and I were in Prague for the European championships, and Grete had just finished in fifth place in the 1500 meters in four minutes and 55 seconds. Earlier she had gotten a bronze medal in the 3000 in 8:34. But in that race she was leading the whole time, until a Russian girl who was way back on the last lap caught her at the end. Grete was pretty disappointed when it was over and all but ready to retire right there.
That night we were having dinner at a restaurant in Prague with a friend, Knut Kvalheim. He gave us the idea about doing the marathon in New York, because he had run it a couple of years earlier. "It really is something else," Knut said.
KNUT KVALHEIM(1976 Olympic 5000-meter runner from Norway):
I heard Grete mention this story once on a TV program—she said that I was the one who made her run a marathon—but I don't remember it like this. Grete and I were both from Oslo, and that night we were talking about our careers, and what our lives would be like when we weren't racing anymore.
At some point, Jack said, "Grete is thinking of running a marathon." And I said, "What?" And she said, "Oh, this is just something Jack is talking about." What I did say was, "I know what you do. You go to New York, and you ask them to pay for your ticket." Finnair had flown me over when I did New York.
So I told Grete, "Run the marathon, take a week's vacation, and finish your career in great style." I was probably the one who turned her onto New York as a place to run if she was going to run a marathon, but I wasn't pushing her. That was Jack.
JACK WAITZ: Okay, it was my idea. We knew that her opportunities were probably even better if she could run longer distances. She had already done a cross-country race in Stockholm, a 15-K, and did really well. I'd also been running with her for years, so I knew that she was a pretty good long-distance runner.
ALLAN STEINFELD (in 1978, the number-two NYCM official behind Fred Lebow): Grete wanted to come, but she wanted to bring her husband, and at that time, we didn't allow anybody to come with the runners. So she was denied access to the race. But then Fred found out and said, "It's okay. Let her bring her husband."
GEORGE HIRSCH (former publisher of The Runner and Runner's World magazines): At the time The Runner was a sponsor of the marathon. Goodness knows, I gave Fred $5,000, and Fred was happy to have it; it covered a lot of safety pins. But when Fred brought Grete over, no one really paid that much attention. She was this remarkably unknown woman. Yes, she was an absolute true champion, but she hadn't medaled in the two Olympics she'd been to. [In both 1972, when she was 18, and 1976 she failed to make it to the final of the 1500 meters.]
BILL RODGERS (defending NYCM men's winner in 1978): I knew who she was, but only from reading about her. She had set world records in the 3000. She was a figure out of storybooks.
JACK WAITZ: We were staying at a hotel on the West Side, and we didn't know anything about what we should do or what they expected of us. I think somebody asked us to come over to Tavern on the Green, and we met with Fred for maybe 10 minutes. That was it. There was no press conference, nobody gave us any instructions, so we just toured all around the city; we walked around for hours, looked around, got lost—what most people do when in New York the first time. We had a ball. The race was not on our minds at all. The night before the race we had steak, red wine, ice cream. No pasta. Grete never really ate pasta.
Early Morning, October 22, 1978
Marathon Day, New York City
DOREEN ENNIS-SCHWARZ (a New Jersey runner, 22 at the time): It was my first marathon, too. I had entered at the last minute—maybe a week or two before. Apparently, Grete did as well. I had just graduated from college; in the spring I had finished third in the collegiate championships in the 1500. But at the time I had no clue what I was doing when it came to the marathon. I was doing it as a training run. I had no expectations. I just had to finish in time so I could bowl with my bowling team that night.
ELEONORA MENDONCA (Brazilian Olympian and a women's favorite in NYC): Grete was no one that, in my opinion, we had to worry about—well, I shouldn't say no one; at that time she had won, I believe, three world cross-country championships. But the field that day was loaded with very good marathoners. We were the marathoners, and she had never run one.
JACQUELINE HANSEN (first woman to run a sub-2:40 marathon): I remember that day like it was yesterday. I rode the bus with the elite runners out to the start with Christa Vahlensieck [at the time the world record holder in the marathon]. Christa and her coach were the ones who pointed out to me that Grete was in the race. I didn't even know she was entered. I asked her, "Who's your main competition besides me?" She said, "Grete." I said, "Really?" Then Christa says, "Grete's the World Cup champ; she ran the 1500 meters in the Olympics." Then she let me know that Grete had just run a 16-K cross-country race in less than an hour. "Okay," I said, "now you have my attention."
JACK WAITZ: I didn't know what to expect from her. I'd never coached Grete for this kind of race. She never did high mileage; 80 miles a week, that was more or less what she did. That's not much compared with what [elite] marathoners are doing today.
At that time I was working as an accountant for a newspaper, and Grete was a schoolteacher. We lived in the suburbs of Oslo, and her routine was to run in the morning at 5 or 5:30, then she had to take a bus to the subway, and then another bus to get to the junior high where she taught. Then in the afternoon the same thing back. So it was pretty tough. But with any workout she did, she always ran fast. Knut trained with Grete and never wanted to run in the mornings with her, because she took off like that [he snaps his fingers]. She kept a good pace all the time.
JOHAN KAGGESTAD (Grete's coach later in her career): She never ran slower than four minutes a kilometer for the long runs. I remember Rob de Castella came to Oslo for training once and he said to her, "Do you always run that fast?" And she said, "Yes."
JAN ANDERSEN (Grete's brother and frequent training partner): If Grete and I hadn't seen each other for a while, we would talk like parrots during our runs. But if we had been training a lot together, then we didn't talk at all. She was very disciplined. She normally ran every kilometer around 3:50. We call that slow distance running, but it was pretty fast.
JACK WAITZ: On the morning of the marathon I told her, "Whatever you do, don't take the lead. Don't push the pace"—because they [the race organizers] thought she should be a rabbit. "It's going to be slow, so you have to stay behind and do what these girls are doing, because they are experienced." I knew Christa was going to be her main competitor. She had never been in a race like this before. She had always competed in races against eight or 10 well-trained top athletes. In New York she was with thousands of runners of all different levels.
Before she got on the bus, I kept reminding her, "Go slow," although I knew she couldn't do that for too long. Going slow wasn't a natural way of running for her.
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An Exclusive Oral History of the Late, Great Grete Waitz
When it comes to choosing the greatest distance runner of all time, Bill Rodgers (who deserves to be in any such conversation) suggests that it's impossible to pick one male athlete. "A lot of us guys—Frank Shorter, myself—we did a lot of things well, but we never dominated," says the four-time winner at both the New York and Boston marathons. "But when it comes to women, there's only one. Grete. She won at every distance. She was dominant. She's the best women's distance runner ever." Dominant. The word defines the career of Grete Waitz, who died of cancer on April 19 at 57 but whose legacy will be recalled often on and around November 6, the day of the New York City Marathon—a race she indeed dominated, winning it nine times, three times setting a world record. She also ran in four Olympics, won five World Cross-Country titles, and set world records at five distances besides the marathon. Yes, Grete Waitz was dominant.


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Many forward-thinking enterprises in the government and commercial sectors are using cloud environments to improve scalability, agility, automation, and efficiency. The operating landscape for these organizations is rapidly evolving: Costs are reduced. Data is ubiquitous. Information is flowing from more sources than ever before. However, the same features that create such high promise for the cloud also bring a potential for new levels of criminal exploitation through fraud. A distinguished panel of top experts will look at the new face of fraud in a digital age, provide insights in how to prevent, detect and investigate fraud in the cloud and identify options to combat fraud in the cloud computing world.
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Former South Africa schools star Sam Lane has been drafted into the Reds squad following yet another serious injury.
The Reds went into the 2012 season without the services of flyhalf Quade Cooper, who was recovering from a knee injury sustained at the 2011 World Cup. The Reds lost two more flyhalf options in Mike Harris and Ben Lucas when they played the Sharks two weeks ago, and another when Jono Lance broke his leg in last Saturday's game against the Bulls.
This has prompted the Reds to sign Sam Lane, the son of former Wallabies centre Tim Lane, on a short-term contract. The 21-year-old flyhalf attended Bishops in South Africa and represented Western Province at the age group levels and in the Vodacom Cup.
He also trialled for the SA U20 side last year before seriously injuring his knee. Lane has since moved back to his home country, and before he received a call from Reds coach Ewen McKenzie, he was training at the ARU's national academy.
It's been confirmed that Lane will be considered for the Reds' next fixture against the Force.
Aside from the mass losses in the flyhalf position, Reds hooker Saia Faingaa will also be unavailable after sustaining an injury in the heavy defeat to the Bulls.


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Varman T. Samuel MD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology)
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Office of Student ResearchMouse Metabolic Phenotyping CenterInternal Medicine: Endocrinology: Fellowship Training; Diabetes Research Center
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Fat Induced Hepatic Insulin Resistance; In vivo metabolism core of the mouse metabolic phenotyping center at YSM more...
- B.S., Cornell University, 1991
- M.D., NYU School Of Medicine, 1995
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- Targeting sterol receptor coactivator-1 with antisense oligonucleotides increases insulin stimulated skeletal muscle glucose uptake in male rats. Cantley JL, Vatner DF, Galbo T, Madiraju A, Petersen M, Perry RJ, Kumashiro N, Guebr Egziabher F, Gattu AK, Stacy MR, Dione DP, Sinusas AJ, Ragolia L, Hall CE, Manchem VP, Bhanot S, Bogan JS, Samuel VT. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab. 2014 Aug 26:ajpendo.00148.2014. doi: 10.1152/ajpendo.00148.2014.
- The emerging role of oestrogen-related receptor ? as a regulator of energy metabolism. Samuel VT. Diabetologia. 2014 Sep 26.


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The All Children's Hospital Pediatric Psychiatry Program treats children and teens with a variety of mental health problems, including ADHD, anxiety, depression, psychoses, eating disorders and behavioral problems. Services include new patient evaluation, medication management, and psychotherapeutic evaluation and management.
Our program is part of All Children's Specialty Physicians, a group of specialists here at All Children's Hospital. All Children's is a leading center for pediatric treatment, education and research.
About Our Practice
Our services include: new patient evaluations, medication management, counseling, psycho-educational testing, and pharmacotherapy with evaluation and management. Hospital services are provided only at All Children's Hospital and must be requested by another physician. All Children's does not have an inpatient psychiatric unit.
We provide evaluation and treatment for a variety of conditions, including ADHD, anxiety, depression, psychoses, eating disorders and behavior problems.
We see new patients from age four years through their seventeenth birthday. Patients will be transitioned to an adult psychiatrist at 18 years of age. We do not accept new patients at 17 years and older.
It is important to your child's care to have follow-up visits with the same physician who did the initial evaluation. We will not change your child's physician during the course of treatment.
Medical Records
A records release form must be signed for each individual (including parents & legal guardians) or facility that you want to receive your child's medical records. This includes his or her primary care doctor. Only records for care provided in this office will be released. Records that are sent to our office are for reference purposes only and will not be released. If you need records copied, please give our office as much advance notice as possible. Please note that there may be a charge for your child's records. All records are distributed via All Children's Hospital Health Information Management Department via postal mail; we do not fax records.
You can ask us for a records release form or download a copy at allkids.org.
Please Note That:
- New patients who miss the first appointment will NOT be rescheduled.
- Established patients who miss three appointments without notice ("no show") and/or frequently cancel will be discharged from the practice.
- New patients who arrive 10 minutes late will need to reschedule.
- Established patients who arrive five minutes late will need to reschedule.
- This policy includes late arrivals due to bad weather and traffic accidents & delays.
- If the physician's schedule is delayed, every effort will be made to see the patient as close to the appointment time as possible
Please let us know about any address, telephone or insurance changes as soon as possible. If your insurance changes, please call the office to check that our physicians are participating with your new insurance plan.
Most mental health plans require that a parent call to get an authorization for the first visit (new or follow-up) in order to be paid under the plan. Authorizations must be obtained before you arrive for the first appointment.
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Telephone hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. When you call the office during regular hours, you will need to leave a message for your child's physician. The physicians try to answer simple questions and approve prescription refills between appointments. Calls are usually returned at the end of the day.
Please limit calls to immediate medication questions, possible drug reactions or psychiatric emergencies.
You should schedule an office visit if there are other issues you want to discuss. If you have an urgent problem or a psychiatric emergency during regular office hours that can't wait for a return phone call, consider calling 911 for immediate assistance.
A physician is on call for psychiatric emergencies during nights and weekends. When you dial our office telephone number you will be transferred to our answering service.
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Routine prescriptions and refills are handled only during regular office hours. Please allow 48 hours to complete refill requests. When you call for a refill, please give the name of the medication, the dosage, the number of pills, the phone number for your pharmacy or your mailing address for us to mail you a prescription.
Some medications, by law, cannot be called in to a pharmacy. You will need a written prescription. In this case you need to either pick up the prescription or request it be mailed to you.
Please allow one-week delivery time by mail.
Co-payments and outstanding balances are due at the time of your visit. Cash, personal checks and major credit cards are accepted. Please call us if you have any questions.
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Courtesy Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Pediatrics, University of South Florida College of Medicine; Board Certified in General Psychiatry and Child Adolescent Psychiatry Read more >>
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Dr. Meyer earned her doctorate degree from the University of South Florida, and completed an internship at the Children's Hospital of Michigan and a post-doctoral fellowship at Akron Children's Hospital. Dr. Meyer has provided psychological services to children and adolescents with a broad range of medical conditions, such as diabetes, kidney disease, sickle cell anemia, cancer, and various neurological conditions (e.g., AVM, cerebral palsy, chronic pain, epilepsy, spinal cord injury, stroke, and traumatic brain injury). She provides consultation services on the inpatient units at All Children's Hospital and sees outpatients as part of the All Children's Pediatric Psychiatry program. Read more >>


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|Lynn Buscaino is the June 2011 DAISY Award Recipient
Congratulations to Lynn Buscaino, RN who is the June 2011 Daisy Award Recipient. Lynn works in our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The DAISY Award is presented monthly to an All Children's Hospital Nurse that has provided extraordinary service to our patients.
A parent recently wrote:
My child has been in the NICU for approximately 120 days. Our primary nurse is Lynn Buscaino. She has been there for us since day one, teaching us, advocating for us and supporting us throughout the NICU emotional "roller coaster" process. She has taught us the skills to utilize in the hospital for my baby's development and has also been a supportive factor in helping us to understand the medical challenges my preemie has faced and will continue to encounter. She has consistently stayed with our family "through thick and thin" and has been an instrumental figure by continuing to emphasize the importance of my input and voice in my child's well-being.
More importantly, she has never minimized my concerns and has always been optimistic, even when my child's outlook was very uncertain. Her dedication and optimism alone has helped me and my family through one of the most difficult times in our lives. I want to show my appreciation and gratitude by nominating her for the Daisy Award for her ongoing excellence and dedication to the field of neonatology and infant development. Thank you Lynn!!
"Lynn was recruited to the NICU in October 2004 and has become a tremendous asset to the NICU staff," said Cindy Driscoll, RN, BSN, director of the NICU. "In addition to providing outstanding bedside care, her love of neonates is exemplified as she strives to provide the best outcomes for our patients and their families by providing family-centered care. Lynn has helped in bringing this initiative to fruition in our NICU."
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Thursday - 2/14/2013, 2:00am EST
If you are somewhat confused about sequestration, automatic cuts and furloughs, welcome to the club.
Having jointly created, then delayed, then rescheduled the cuts---now due to begin March 1 — the White House and most members of Congress say it shouldn't happen. That it is the ultimate March Madness. Now many of the people who designed it, knowing it would self destruct, say they can hear the ticking. The only thing Republicans and Democrats agree on is that the other side is totally to blame.
So what if it happens? What if many federal agencies furlough workers one day a week? What then?
The worst-case scenario has airplanes colliding in the sky (assuming they can take off), rotted meat finding its way to your table and bank robbers running wild while furloughed FBI agents are home watching Dr. Phil.
Just about everybody (except true government haters) believes that furloughs are not a good idea. Various groups, representing contractors, rank-and-file feds, senior executives, retirees and people who provide and need services say forcing people to stay home (and unpaid) is not the way to run any business. Even government.
But if the worst happens, and many believe the politicians will blink before the March 1 sequestration start date, how bad can it be?
Earlier this week, a 30-minute early alert of a monster tornado probably saved hundreds, maybe thousands of lives, when it tore through southern Mississippi and Alabama. If we get another one like it during the furlough will the weather service be able to make a life-saving call.
Food poisonings are so rare that when they happen they make national news. Will federal inspections cease or become dangerously spotty during a furlough?
Are federal law enforcement agencies really going to have to furlough officers and vital lab personnel?
Whose going to keep order in federal prisons if the people who are paid to be locked up eight hours a day alongside prisoners are told to stay home?
Will National Parks be shut down if rangers join the endangered federal species list?
People whose duties include preparing for automatic across-the-board cuts have done and are doing their thing — when they could (probably should) be doing other things. Like the jobs they are paid to do. But few people understand what governmentwide furloughs would look like. Especially if they run for a couple of weeks or, worst case, until Sept. 30th?
While the postal service prepares for five-day mail delivery (Saturdays would be a packages-only), the rest of the U.S. Government is preparing for a four-day workweek. Having a three-day weekend probably wouldn't prompt many more feds to eat out, take trips and mini-vacations since those activities require money. Giving tens of thousands of federal workers and federal contractors a 20 percent per week pay cut for the next several months could have an interesting impact on our still struggling (but improving) economy.
So what about your agency? Your base or shipyard? Your office? What have you been told? Do you think you know what you don't know? What do you think would happen to public services if you are furloughed?
Let us know and we'll pass it on to Capitol Hill. If they stick to their grinding Tuesday-through-Thursday schedule, we should catch up with them sometime next week.
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Beginning in the middle of the 19th century, people would routinely send "vinegar valentines," Slate reports. These were "tart, sassy, vindictive and just plain mean" missives people anonymously sent to friends, enemies and social rivals. The practice, sadly, died out in the middle of the last century.
USPS makes case for ending Saturday delivery as postal reform push continues
The USPS plan to cut Saturday delivery divided lawmakers a Senate hearing Wednesday. Postmaster General Pat Donahoe said the decision was necessary to save $2 billion a year.
Employee unions march on Capitol Hill to stop sequestration (PHOTOS) Unions, such as the American Federation of Government Employees, rallied against the potential cuts from sequestration as part of their week-long legislative conference. Unions say they want lawmakers to understand the broader impact the cuts would have.


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Energy Star Rebates for Washington, DC Residents
July 31, 2006
The DC Energy Office (DCEO) is offering rebates on Energy Star-rated appliances. Rebates of $150 are being offered for clothes washers, $100 for refrigerators, and $50 for window air conditioners to all DC electric customers.
Washing machines must be purchased between June 1, 2006 and May 31, 2007 to be eligible. Refrigerators and room air conditioners must be purchased between April 13, 2006 and May 31, 2007 to be eligible.
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It's time for some celery! Well, sugar cookies posing as celery anyway.
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Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper. On a clean work surface, knead the cookie dough with the flour until smooth. Dust the work surface with flour. Roll out the dough to a scant 1/4-inch. Using the template, cut out as many celery shapes as possible. Transfer cutouts to the prepared pans about 2 inches apart. Cut the slices in the tops of the celery cookies and spread them open slightly. Repeat with the remaining dough and scraps. Place the cookies in the oven and bake until they are just golden, about 10 to 12 minutes. Remove the cookies from the oven, transfer them to a wire rack and let them cool completely.
Heat the corn syrup in a small bowl in the microwave for about 5 to 10 seconds or until bubbly. Working with one cookie at a time, lightly brush the top of the cookie with the heated corn syrup and sprinkle it with decorating sugar. Repeat with the remaining cookies.
For the frosting, place the confectioners� sugar, egg white powder and 5 teaspoons warm water into a bowl and beat until the frosting is thick and fluffy. Add a teaspoon more water if it is too thick. Tint light green with the food coloring. Spoon the frosting into a resealable bag. Snip a very small corner from the bag. Pipe the celery rib lines on top of the cookies. Pipe a few leaves at the top of the cookie. Allow cookies to dry for about 30 minutes.
Introduce this classic snack to your child with the Wonder Pets!
Here's one way to get the kids to eat their veggies: Turn a yellow pepper into Ming-Ming!
Your favorite guinea pig makes for a wonder-ful cupcake!
Enjoy this "serious" treat together!
Everyone's favorite turtle, Tuck, makes for a very sweet cupcake
The Fly Boat Cake is a wonder to behold--and to eat
Dora's keeping your cookie undercover until the surprise treat is ready to be unwrapped by a friend!
Dora's dessert is a garden of delights with fruity flowers & sweet pudding!
Kids will have fun in the kitchen making these bubble bites just right!
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Create a snack your kids won't be able to keep their paws off!
Make this snack in a snap & watch them disappear like magic!
No baking job is too big, no pup lover is too small to help out in the kitchen!
Thanksgiving guests will want to swipe every last piece
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Make this a-DORA-ble autumn treat for the apple of your eye!
These swim-sational cookies will pop right out of your cookie jar!
Make no bones about it, these cookies are delicious & easy to make!
Present your pie with your preschooler's favorite explorer!
A winter treat your kids can FROST and EAT!
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These simple snacks are filled with fruit and almost too pretty to eat! Almost...
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The perfect treats to make and decorate together!
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