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So far I've tried:
Maker's Mark
Maker's Mark 46
Evan Williams Single Barrel
Jim Beam Black
Ancient Ancient Age 10 Star
Four Roses Small Batch
So yeah, nothing real fancy.
So far I think I like the Evan Williams best.
I did really like Maker's Mark 46, it's just a little out of my price range for a sipping whiskey. And I'm gonna try Elijah Craig 12 year because evidently it's a great bourbon for the price.
So maybe I like a wheated bourbon? I'd love to try Old Fitzgerald but I haven't found it in my area (Chapel Hill, NC).
I'm currently drinking Four Roses Small Batch but it's not as sweet as I'd like. I'm currently on my 9th finger of Four Roses so this post isn't as coherent as I'd like.
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JERUSALEM, Israel -- The Christian bond with Israel grew stronger recently, but it didn't make international headlines. It did, however, lead Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to credit Christian Zionists with a crucial role in founding the modern State of Israel.
In the heart of Jerusalem overlooking the Old City, a windmill that has been a landmark for more than 150 years is working again, thanks to a team effort.
The Jerusalem Foundation, a group of Dutch Christians, and Israeli government ministries paid for the restoration work. That effort prompted praise for Christian Zionists from the prime minister.
"I don't believe that the Jewish state and modern Zionism would have been possible without Christian Zionism," Netanyahu said at the dedication ceremony. "I think that the many Christian supporters of the rebirth of the Jewish state and the ingathering of the Jewish people in the 19th century made possible the rise of Jewish Zionism."
Sir Moses Montefiore, a wealthy British Jew, established the windmill in the mid-1800s as part of the first Jewish settlements -- or suburbs -- outside the Old City walls.
Montifiore's great, great nephew Simon Montefiore, an historian and author, spoke with CBN News about the windmill's history.
"This is really the beginning of the new city, the modern city, the rebirth of Jerusalem," he said. "And so from this little windmill and these Montefiore cottages just outside the Jaffa Gate started all the suburbs around the Old City Walls and that grew into the huge modern city of Jerusalem."
During Israel's War of Independence, Jewish fighters used the windmill to defend the city.
In 1948, the British blew up the top of the windmill in what they called Operation Don Quixote. It was later repaired, but only for looks. It never worked again as a mill after that.
"From my Bible interest, I came [to] this country and almost every year I was here and I see the mill and I feel the pain of the mill and I think one day we have to give new life to the mill," windmill expert and Dutch Christian Gerrit Keunen told CBN News.
Keunen initiated the restoration project and got others involved.
"And I believe with the help of God -- and I think it's the plan of God -- to repair to restore the windmill because it's more than windmill, it's a symbol," Keunen said.
Dutch millwright Willem Dijkstra (pronounced Dike-stra) studied old photos and materials for the restorations before starting work on the windmill, which took about for about three months.
"It's not like rebuilding; you do a reconstruction so you have to try to find the most closest way how it was in the early times," Dijkstra said.
A few months from now, shafts and machinery will be installed to grind flour as the mill did for its first 20 years.
"For me it's more than a mill," Keunen said. "My family for more than 100 years were millers," he explained.
"Personally I'm convinced that this mill is a sign of hope for the Jewish people here in Israel. It's connected to the resurrection of the State of Israel after 2,000 years," Keunen said.
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This Day In Wrestling History – April 25th
In 1999, WWF Backlash: In Your House was held in Providence, Rhode Island. This would be the final PPV to carry the In Your House tagline
– Al Snow defeats Hardcore Holly to win the WWF Hardcore Title
– The Godfather defeats Goldust to retain the WWF Intercontinental Title
– Mankind defeats Paul Wight in a Boiler Room Brawl
– Steve Austin defeats The Rock in a No Holds Barred Match with Shane McMahon as special guest referee to retain the WWF Title
In 2010, WWE Extreme Rules was held in Baltimore, Maryland
– Jack Swagger defeats Randy Orton in an Extreme Rules Match to retain the World Heavyweight Title
– Sheamus defeats Triple H in a Street Fight
– Beth Phoenix defeats Michelle McCool in an Extreme Makeover Match to win the WWE Womens Title
– Edge defeats Chris Jericho in a Cage Match
– John Cena defeats Batista in a Last Man Standing Match to retain the WWE Title
Title Changes
1936 – Ali Baba defeats Dick Shikat to win the World Heavyweight Title
1971 – Dusty Rhodes defeats Sputnik Monroe to win the TSW Brass Knucks Title
1989 – Jerry Lawler defeats Master of Pain to win the USWA Unified World Heavyweight Title
1992 – Jimmy Snuka defeats Salvatore Bellomo in the final of a tournament to become the first NWA-ECW Champion
2000 – on Smackdown, Dean Malenko defeats Scotty 2 Hotty to win the WWF Light Heavyweight Title. Also, Crash Holly defeats Matt Hardy to win the WWF Hardcore Title
2000 – on Thunder, David Arquette & Diamond Dallas Page defeat Eric Bischoff & Jeff Jarrett (Arquette pins Bischoff to win the WCW World Title)
Happy birthday to current CZW Tag Team Champion Sabian (34) and former Zero-1 regular Ricky Landell (31)
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2 thoughts on "What does it mean to have your mortgage suspended, during modification on a home loan?"
It means they do not move forward with a foreclosure until the modification is decided upon.
It is a vague term that usually means that they will not continue to process your modification unless you provide more information ( explanations of credit dings, old job verifications, additional bank statements). It can be frustrating if they have asked you for something you can't get.


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Album Summary
- Arne Running (Clarinet)
- Michal Schmidt (Cello)
- Marshall Taylor (Saxophone)
- John Koen (Cello)
- Hirono Oka (Violin)
- Linda Reichert (Piano)
- Burchard Tang (Viola)
- Ohad Bar-David (Cello)
- Susan Nowicki (Piano)
- Paul Demers (Clarinet)
- Mary Javian (Double Bass)
- Elizabeth Masoudnia
- Elizabeth Masoudnia (Oboe)
- Angela Nelson (Percussion)
- William Newman (Guitar)
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"Thomas Whitman's Piano Quartet is a very finely crafted, appealing work with more than enough engaging melodic ideas to sustain the listener's interest and justify the composer's choice of medium. It has three movements and employs cyclical form, but at the same time it manages to absorb its traditional elements into an obviously contemporary idiom. Melinda Wagner's Romanz with Faux Variations is a single-movement piano trio in several loosely connected episodes. The cute title basically says it all: the episodes aren't really variations in the strict sense, but it all hangs together and features some very exciting ensemble writing in the process the performances by the Network for New Music are totally dedicated, polished, and very well recorded." -Classics Today
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- Performers: John Koen (Cello); Hirono Oka (Violin); Linda Reichert (Piano); Burchard Tang (Viola)
- Ensemble: Network for New Music
- Running Time: 26 min. 25 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Written: 2003
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- Performers: Ohad Bar-David (Cello); Susan Nowicki (Piano); Hirono Oka (Violin)
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- Running Time: 12 min. 39 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
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Levinson, Gerald : At the Still Point of the Turning World, There the Dance Is
- Performers: Paul Demers (Clarinet); Mary Javian (Double Bass); Elizabeth Masoudnia; Elizabeth Masoudnia (Oboe); Angela Nelson (Percussion); William Newman (Guitar); Arne Running (Clarinet); Michal Schmidt (Cello); Burchard Tang (Viola); Marshall Taylor (Saxophone)
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To the hard working men and women of the UFCW:
I am so incredibly honored to be your new International President. But this election is not about me, it is about the future we must and can build together.
The choice we face, brothers and sisters, is what kind of America do we want to live in?
Will we stand united together and build an economy that every hard-working family deserves, or watch as more Americans fall further behind and struggle to make ends meet?
Let me be clear, we will unite and fight for a more just and fair America.
I believe in this union, because I believe that every worker has the right to a decent living, a reliable schedule, quality affordable health care, and respect on the job. These principles have always guided me and will serve as the foundation of our union's work going forward.
But the ideas and principles to build a stronger union do not lie within any one individual. They lie within all of us. They lie in the collective wisdom and strength of 1.3 million UFCW members, like you, who work hard every day to support their families.
I want to hear your ideas and vision. I want to hear what you think we must do to become even stronger.
Over the coming weeks and months, I plan to meet with members like you. I want to visit your worksite and local union hall, engage in a conversation, and hear your thoughts on how we can better the lives of everyone in the UFCW and the millions of workers all across this nation who go without voice.
Working together, we will grow our union, we will bargain the best contracts possible, we will organize smarter, and we will hold irresponsible corporations accountable.
I do not want to pretend this will be easy. It will be hard. It will be challenging. But I know we can do it.
No matter the challenges we may face, I will be your ally and champion each and every day.
In solidarity,
Marc Perrone
International President
40 Hour Week for Happier Home Life
Throughout early American history and into the 1860s the average was 11 hours with 12 to 14 not uncommon. In 1937, the 40 hour work week started to become the law, because workers protested and demanded it.
Why do we feel such a strong reaction when we see the old sign "40 Hour Week for a Happier Home Life." Maybe because, so many of us have friends and family struggling to survive working part-time jobs. Constant underemployment is crushing working families in America.
What make a forty hour week so important? If you aren't working forty hours a week, on one job, you are most likely living in poverty. This has happened to millions of people, all across our country. Working people have fallen from the middle class, into poverty, as their hours have been drastically cut. In 1990, 70% of retail workers were full-time, today 70% work part-time. This is increasing corporate profits, but working people and their families are being destroyed financially.
The American dream of a good job with 40 hours' work, one they can feed their-families on and maybe buy a home, seems to have been sacrificed on the altar of corporate greed.
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|Poet and fiction writer JAMES MAGORIAN was born April 4, 1942 in Palisade, Nebraska. He attended the Universities of Nebraska, Illinois State, Harvard, and Oxford. He is the author of Haymarket Square (1998) and many poetry collections, children's books, and the satirical novels America First (1992), The Man Who Wore Layers of Clothinq in the Winter (1994), Hearts of Gold (1996), and Souvenir Pillows From Mars (1996). His most recent publications are the poetry colletions The Missing Pages of the Scarecrow's Diary: Poems of Nature and Art (2013), Kaaterskill Clove (2009), The Bookbinder's Daughter (2007), and Geographia (2008). Recent work has appeared in Hiram Poetry Review, The Pacific Review, The Louisiana Review, The Louisville Review, Cimarron, The Shakespeare Newsletter, and The Harvard Advocate.


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Quarterback play is really important in the NFL.
But the Colts don't have a legitimate quarterback.
Curtis Painter threw for a measly 94 yards, and gave up the ball twice with interceptions before being replaced by Dan Orlovsky. Painter should have had another pick, but it was offset by a 12 men-the-field penalty.
The Colts are bad, but the quarterback ineptitude is where it all stems from. It's embarrassing, but it won't change until 2012. It's not going to change with a coaching change, it's not going to change by firing the Polians. Other things can improve, but the quarterback play is here until Manning or Luck walk through the door.
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Your Home a Place of Graceby Susan Hunt
You have everything you need to make your home a haven of grace. God's presence brings peace to your home and empowers you to reflect His goodness. Beyond Himself, God has given you the church so that your home can be all it should be. In God's definition, the church is part of your family--so whether you're married or widowed, a parent or single, you have an extended family. You have grandparents in the faith who can share with you what they have learned about living in a relationship with God and others, and whose words and example will show you how to raise the next faith generation. Susan Hunt is a spiritual grandmother to many. Using her experience and knowledge, along with that of other "grandparents," she shares how you can create a home of grace. Though "Your Home"brims with practical applications, it is not a how-to book. It is more about who God is than what we do. It is more about God's grace than our game plans. It is about God working in and through you to make your home a sanctuary of His design.
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What Lessons Did You Learn from Your First Job?
When I turned 16, I got a job as a cashier at a local craft store. This high school job taught me quite a few things about life, including that I wasn't exactly cut out for a "traditional" job.
The first job you have leaves an impression, whether it was a summer job, or whether it was working in your parents' business or whether it was something you did after school for three years straight. Hopefully, there were some things you took away from your first job.
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Two letters could hold the key to your next summer vacation: RV.
That stands for recreational vehicle, and the RV is again gaining popularity as a way to travel and vacation.
Brad and Amy Herzog stopped by WFMZ in Salisbury Township, Lehigh County, on Tuesday, as part of their "Summer of Love 2.0" tour.
Brad is a blogger for GoRVing.com and the couple is the RV Industry Association's "Explore America Team."
They've traveled more than 100,000 miles and through 48 states in the past 15 years. They even traveled for many years with their two young sons!
The Herzogs say RVing is a fun, affordable, family friendly way to see the country.
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Currently, histopathologic analysis represents the practical reference standard for the diagnosis of melanocytic skin lesions. However, there are limitations particularly related to the morphologic nature of the histopathologic interpretation and the influence of the clinical information on the final diagnosis.1 To provide lesional tissue from melanocytic proliferations for molecular analysis without jeopardizing the conventional histopathologic diagnosis, we invented a miniaturized biopsy device with a total width of 0.35 mm, containing a sample chamber 0.15 mm wide. This device penetrates approximately 250 µm in healthy skin (ie, superficial dermis) to collect approximately 1600 cells.2 This microbiopsy device can be used without local anesthetic, and there is no need for a suture. Our hypothesis is that the minimal skin damage caused by the microbiopsy does not interfere with the subsequent histopathologic diagnosis.
Five patients scheduled for suspicious pigmented lesion removal at the dermatology department of the Princess Alexandra Hospital, a public tertiary hospital in Brisbane, Australia, were recruited. Consent was obtained from all participants with approval from The University of Queensland/Princess Alexandra Hospital Human Research Ethics Committees. Clinical images of the lesions were taken before surgery and immediately after excision. Each excised lesion was bisected, and 5 microbiopsy specimens were applied ex vivo to one of the halved lesions. The microbiopsy site locations were documented, and the specimens were labeled accordingly. All specimens were sectioned in the hospital's pathology laboratory according to routine protocol.
All sections were examined by a dermatopathologist (D.L.) for the histopathologic diagnosis, with special emphasis on the microbiopsy defect. The mean (SD) size of the microbiopsy defect was 113 (50) µm wide and 146 (37) µm deep (n = 4). These defects are comparable, albeit not identical, to processing artifacts in nonmicrobiopsied specimens ranging from 20 to 2100 µm wide and 70 to 600 µm deep. Histopathologic diagnoses in both halves, while examined separately, were exactly the same in all lesions. Diagnoses included compound nevus, junctional lentiginous nevus, compound dysplastic nevus, junctional dysplastic nevus, and solar lentigo.
From the 5 lesions included in the study, 2 are displayed herein clinically and histopathologically. Patient 1 was an 88-year-old man with a history of metastatic melanoma, who had a deep shave excision of a new nevus identified on his left flank. One of the microbiopsy defects identified within the melanocytic region was 132 × 74 µm in size (Figure 1). The diagnosis was a compound dysplastic nevus. Patient 2 was a 56-year-old woman with history of nonmelanoma skin cancer, who presented with a changing nevus on her left scapula. One of the microbiopsy defects found outside the lesional region was 145 × 201 µm and reached the superficial dermis (Figure 2). Diagnosis of this lesion was junctional lentiginous nevus.
A, Patient 1 clinical photograph; B, excised lesions; and C, microbiopsy sites (white arrows). D, The microbiopsy device with a sample; E, the site of microbiopsy at low magnification; and F, the site at high magnification.
A, Patient 2 clinical photograph; B, excised lesions; and C, microbiopsy sites (white arrows). D, The microbiopsy site at low magnification; and E, the site at high magnification.
Over the years, many microdevices have been developed to obtain tissue samples,3- 5 but interestingly enough none of these microdevices are specifically engineered for skin lesions. Because of the new exciting developments of targeted molecular therapies in patients with melanoma,6 there is a need for a minimally invasive biopsy device enabling small tissue collection with minimal adverse effects to perform downstream molecular diagnosis of melanocytic skin lesions.
The size of microbiopsy defects measured in this study was comparable to other artifacts more or less commonly seen in routine sectioned specimens. The potential diagnostic difficulties for the dermatopathologist encountered with the histopathologic assessment of a microbiopsied melanocytic skin lesion can easily be overcome by ordering multiple levels. All 5 melanocytic lesions included in this study were not difficult to assess, and therefore the diagnostic process was not hampered by the microbiopsy-induced artifacts; however, on the basis of the size of the microbiopsy artifacts, we foresee that the diagnostic process, even in equivocal cases, will not be influenced. The data from this study support the hypothesis that minimal skin damage caused by the microbiopsy does not affect the histopathologic diagnosis.
Corresponding Author: H. Peter Soyer, MD, FACD, Dermatology Research Centre, The University of Queensland, School of Medicine, Translational Research Institute (TRI), 37 Kent St, Woolloongabba, QLD 4102, Australia (email@example.com).
Accepted for Publication: May 7, 2013.
Published Online: July 17, 2013. doi:10.1001/jamadermatol.2013.5020.
Author Contributions: All authors had full access to all of the data in the study and take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.
Study concept and design: Lambie, Prow, Soyer.
Acquisition of data: Banan, Lin, Lambie.
Analysis and interpretation of data: All authors.
Drafting of the manuscript: Banan, Lin, Prow.
Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: All authors.
Statistical analysis: Banan.
Obtained funding: Soyer.
Administrative, technical, and material support: Banan, Lin, Lambie, Prow.
Study supervision: Lambie, Prow, Soyer.
Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported.
Funding/Support: This study was supported in part by Epiderm. Dr Soyer has a National Health and Medical Research Council Practitioner Fellowship.
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One hundred years from now, people will still be talking about the Clemson Architecture School building at the corner of George and Meeting streets. Charleston does, after all, care passionately about its built environment.
But it's today's voices that could shape what that building will look like. And a good opportunity to speak to Clemson's plans will be at the Charleston Board of Architectural Review meeting at 4:30 p.m.
It should be a lively discussion. While architects have tweaked the plans since they last appeared before the BAR, the concept is the same. And it's not something neighbors like.
Indeed, boards of both the Charlestowne Neighborhood Association and the Historic Ansonborough Neighborhood Association voted unanimously to oppose the plans. The Preservation Society of Charleston also has serious concerns that the building will not be compatible with its surroundings.
The Historic Charleston Foundation, however, sees merit in the design and placement.
And the BAR earlier approved its size and scale.
All should agree that the corner, which is on the prominent north-south corridor serving downtown Charleston, deserves an exquisite structure.
Of course, one person's idea of "exquisite" can be far different from another's.
And Charleston has been accused of resisting modern design, leaving new construction to mimic what already exists or be merely watered-down modern.
The challenge for the BAR is to be open to new design, but not to roll over and accept a design just because an architect says it is good.
Actually, this is the second building proposed for the Clemson architecture program. The first, nearby on George Street, was scrapped because neighbors complained that it was too big for a small lot.
In an opinion piece in The Post and Courier in December, Steve Gates and Randy Pelzer of the Charlestowne Neighborhood Association, along with Angela Drake of the Historic Ansonborough Association, called for the BAR to reject the current proposal that is "so incongruous with the prevailing character of our neighborhoods."
Its architects, on the other hand, see the building as being similar in "rhythm and proportion" to Charleston's architecture.
They contend that the concrete "shade walls," which are pierced to let in indirect light but keep out direct light, are somehow reminiscent of Charleston's traditional shading and shuttering. But one member of the BAR saw the shaded south facade as reminiscent of two big lips.
Charleston is acclaimed as one of the country's most beautiful cities with some of its most historically significant architecture. The corner of George and Meeting streets demonstrates the good, the bad and the ordinary. For example, the lot where Clemson would build was the site of an imposing mansion until it was replaced by a single-story brick building that is out of character with those around it.
The next building on that corner must be of a superior design that respects its surroundings. The BAR will be better able to make a sound decision with input from the people who will live with it every day.


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dude..it takes 2 minites to read what i wrote...if you read it you would see what i wrote about the tests....i said they will BOTH take the test..there are other factors that are much bigger IMO...um like $$$$
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While I do agree with your theory, I doubt the fight is happening in 2011. We already know Arum's planning to have Manny fight the winner of Cotto/Margarito II late next year. If this fight ever does happen, I say the earliest is May 2012
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yes I agree he did say that..but Freddie Roach also said BEFORE Mayweather went on vacation that "WE NEED MORE TIME TO PREPARE FOR MAYWEATHER, HE IS A WHOLE DIFFERENT BALL GAME"...
so basically Mayweather going on vacation was had no effect on fight cuz roach said they werent ready.
Also you mentioning Mayweather is on vacation fits into my theory of him not wanting to fight this year. Mayweather fights for $$$. How do you know he doesnt feel like the money he wants is available this year. I mean you wanna go off he say she say...why dont you mention what Roach & Pac were saying wayyyyyy before Mayweather went on vacation...like "im afraid of needles....blood makes me weak....i can fight but only if test isnt random and its 30 days before fight".....
like i said...u cant disregard what Team Pac was spewing out, then only take into consideration what Mayweather said months after Team Pac said all of this.....
its all hype man
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ok hes on a vacation...so what ....the guy fights for money...why fight in 2010 when the economy is ****?...why not fight when its on the rise and BOTH guys can make the most money?
Let me ask you this...if you're Pac and you had 2 chances to fight Mayweather..once in 2010 for 30 million or wait a year and fight him in 2011 and make 50 million? All while racking up millions against stiffs like Margarito & Clottey? Would u wait?
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2nd round went by, they compromised even more, to what floyd wanted originally, TO MORE THAN THAT. if anyone sees that as derailing a fight, he should have his head examined.
all your theories about arum trying to cash in on pac before he gets to mayweather can be applied in reverse to floyd. and your timing is wrong, when pac took on cotto, mayweather just finished unretiring and picking on a bloated featherweight.
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Manny and roach werent ready? you are a ****in liar. They straight up called him out after the Clottey fight.
Dont you remember the Arum countdown? Everyone watched as the clock turned to zero and floyd was still on vacation. Manny and arum did everything they could to try to get Floyd to agree, but he wasn't thinking about boxing. He said it himself. You tell us its hype, but youre a biased little fan boy.
Ross Greenburg confirmed this himself. He is neutral. Obviously you aren't. Arum tried to sign the fight, floyd simply refused. "its still mannys fault! hype! everyone else lies!"
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I'm not going to read all that ****. The only theory is that Floyd is a puzsy and nothing more.
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LMAO..just like Team Pac & Top Rank said that they were negotiating and NOBODY from team Mayweather said they were....whos side you believe is on you. From the facts that have came out and the things that were said...i think Top Rank has been the ones lying...they have numerous excuses that dont add up. You say above I can mention all the lies that Team Pac & Bob Arum said....yet you turn around and tell me that they sat down to negotiate the 2nd time? That makes sense....
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Lmao@ you bringing the INVISIBLE Arum Timeline up....
so basically you're telling me that its mayweatehr fault? You're saying they tried to negotiate, but they really didnt because they dont want RANDOM testing......why cant you understand this. AT NO POINT DID THEY AGREE TO RANDOM TESTING....this just hasnt happened. the only proof you have that this happened is from Bob Arums mouth.....why is it that everyone from team Mayweather denies this? It makes sense really because initially when all this happened it was Pac, Roach, Ariza & Arum that were flip flopping and till this day they do. And now your telling me after months of lies im supposed to believe they said "ok we'll do random".....if they agreed to Random testing then whos gonna do the random testing and why havent the people who are supposed to do the random testing verify this? The only FACTS you have are from a team of people who have been spewing lies from the start?
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DeWitt, NY -- There was no need to be alarmed by screams coming from the lower levels of ShoppingTown Mall throughout October. Scaremasters from High Esteem's Creepy Camp took over the 8,000-square-foot space formerly occupied by the DeWitt Public Library.
The haunted house is the annual fundraiser for High Esteem's Camp Goodwill, a not-for-profit which provides respite and residential camping experiences each year to more than 500 children and young adults with physical disabilities and other special needs. The camp moved to the mall after the town of Cazenovia imposed a new fee for fundraising events. As a result, attendance was off 80 to 90 percent, organizers said.
For 10 years, the camp has drawn upwards of 8,000 patrons yearly to its rural location on Route 13 between Chittenango and Cazenovia. The site itself contributed to the creepy atmosphere — from the wind blowing through the trees to the rushing water of Chittenango Falls and Chenango Creek.
But miscommunication about a new permit for nonprofits in the town left organizers scrambling for a replacement location. High Esteem President Michelle Lowell said the new permit charges $900 for each fundraising event.
While Creepy Camp could afford such a permit, other fundraising events at the rural camp would have required the same permit — such as a Mother's Day pancake breakfast for campers and their parents. "We would have had to sell 200 breakfasts just to cover the permit," said fellow organizer John Hanmer.
Town officials offered to consider a waiver, but the public meetings couldn't be scheduled quickly enough. "Halloween doesn't wait," Lowell said. In a pinch, the team moved to the "dungeons" of ShoppingTown Mall on "Eerie" Boulevard.
The space is between mall anchors Sears and Dick's Sporting Goods, in the wing where storefronts are home to Syracuse Martial Arts Academy, Salt City Improv Theatre, batting cages and driving ranges.
Instead of their monthlong setup, volunteers had just four days to re-create the attraction, building 100 walls for visitors to wind through in two attractions — "Autumn Nightmare" and "Intensity" — and transporting truckloads of props and costumes. "We brought the best of the best," Hanmer said.
But while the scares were better than ever, attendance was 80 to 90 percent down, Hanmer said. "If we had six months to prepare, to publicize, we could have broken attendance records," Hanmer said. "But people couldn't find us."
A sign posted at the site on Route 13 directed patrons to the new location and the event's website and Facebook page.
But Lowell and other organizers were visibly shaken as they prepared for the final night of fright on Monday. "We don't know what the future is," Lowell said of the financial implication for the summer camp. "I don't know if we can make it through this."
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Out of One, Many: Stem Cells Ignite Scientific Inquiry, Controversy in '99
Dec. 29, 1999 (Boston) -- In the beginning, there was a stem cell -- a single blob of living matter with the potential to grow into blood, bone, or brain. Pretty impressive stuff, but most miraculous of all was the alchemy that in 1999 turned a human embryonic stem cell into a hot potato.
Throughout the year, medical research using human stem cells derived from embryos or placentas sparked scientific spirits and inflamed religious hearts, igniting passions that will smolder well into the new millennium.
In a battle reminiscent of the struggle between Galileo and the Church of Rome, medical researchers, backed by the National Institutes of Health and the presidentially appointed National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC), fought for federal support of research to derive or isolate and use human embryonic stem cells. But because the process consumes embryonic tissues, it has brought down on scientists' heads the wrath of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) and a small coalition of right-to-life advocates and right-of-center politicians.
Despite a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ruling holding that stem cells are not embryos and therefore not subject to federal bans on human embryo research, and despite the issuance in early December of National Institutes of Health (NIH) draft guidelines intended to assure that the research is conducted in "a legal and ethical manner," the National Right to Life Committee issued a statement asserting that the guidelines "would result in federal sponsorship and funding of experiments in which living human embryos are dissected and killed -- a clear violation of federal law." Rep. Christopher Smith, R-N.J., displaying unquestionable zeal but imperfect understanding of the underlying science, called the research "truly barbaric and grotesque experiments on human beings."
Putting passions and politics aside for the moment, few would argue that from a purely medical viewpoint the news about stem cell research has been breathtaking in its scope and import, and in the speed with which new developments occur. Consider the following select items reported by WebMD over the last 12 months:
- In January 1999, Canadian and Italian scientists proved that, contrary to conventional wisdom, you can teach an old stem cell new tricks. As Vescovi and his co-authors reported in the Jan. 22 issue of the journal Science, adult nerve stem cells, previously thought to be unable to develop into other cells, metamorphosed into a multitude of different types of cells when injected into mice with deficient immune systems.
- In February, Duke University researchers reported in The New England Journal of Medicine the results of a 16-year prospective study showing that stem cell transplants from related donors could reconstitute immune systems in infants with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID). "There is a way to save the lives of [SCID] children, and you don't need to have a perfect match to do this," lead author Rebecca H. Buckley, MD, professor of pediatrics and immunology at Duke University, told WebMD.
- The ink had barely dried on the two previous studies when biotech researchers from Osiris Therapeutics and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore reported in the April 2 Science that human mesenchymal stem cells -- the precursors of mature bone, cartilage, ligaments, fat, and muscle -- can be coaxed to differentiate into the desired tissue type.
- Investigators at the University of Bonn, Germany, reported in Science on July 30 that embryonic stem cells can be used to recoat defective nerve cells in rats, a process that could one day be used to treat degenerative neuromuscular disorders such as multiple sclerosis or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). In a similar study, neurology researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis reported in the December issue of Nature Medicine that embryonic stem cell transplants promoted the regeneration of functional neurons and restored some hind-limb function to rats with a thoracic (chest)-level paralyzing spinal injury. The study also indicated continued viability of transplanted cells.
- In the Oct. 5 Annals of Internal Medicine came word of a case report from Australia in which a man with severe treatment-resistant rheumatoid arthritis who received high-dose chemotherapy followed by a transplant of stem cells from his identical twin had complete remission of symptoms for at least 2 years, the longest follow-up on record.
- In a fitting bit of symmetry, the year ended as it began, with a new study reported by Baylor College of Medicine researchers in the Dec. 7 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, indicating that skeletal muscle stem cells, when injected into mice whose natural bone marrow was ablated, developed into blood cells. Although the cell-manipulation techniques described in several of the studies cited above may allow researchers to circumvent the tangle of ethical and political issues surrounding embryonic stem cells, there is unflagging and widespread support in the medical community for research using undifferentiated human stem cells.


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By The Associated Press
Death penalty facts:
-- 1,099 people have been executed in the United States since the U.S. Supreme Court permitted executions to resume in 1976.
-- The most executions -- 98 -- occurred in 1999.
-- 42 people have been executed this year and 53 in 2006.
-- Of those executed, 929 were by lethal injection, 154 electrocution, 11 the gas chamber, three hanging and two firing squad.
-- New Jersey would be the first state to abolish the death penalty since Iowa and West Virginia did so in 1965.
-- 37 states have the death penalty.
-- New Jersey has eight men on death row, but hasn't executed anyone since 1963.
-- The daily routine on New Jersey's death row involves 6:30 a.m. awakenings, daily recreation periods, 11 a.m. lunches, 15-minute showers, two phone calls, dinner around 4 p.m., visits from immediate family members between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. lock-ins, although there's no official lights out. Inmates clean and mop their cells and the unit on Fridays.
-- Ralph J. Hudson of Atlantic City was the last person executed in New Jersey. He was electrocuted in Jan. 22, 1963, for the stabbing death of his wife.
-- Since 1973 more than 120 people have been released from death row in other states with evidence of their innocence.
Sources: Death Penalty Information Center, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, New Jersey Department of Corrections.


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The Spokane County Sheriff's Office continues to search for a missing 71-year-old man with dementia.
The sheriff's Air1 helicopter flew Thursday, and officials planned to continue flying over remote areas of the county Friday, depending on weather.
Samuel H. Counts hasn't been seen since Nov. 23 when he left his Spokane Valley home to drive to a grocery store.
He was driving a white 2012 Kia sedan. Counts is 6 feet tall and 170 pounds. He was wearing a red and black jacket, jeans and white tennis shoes.
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Nearly two dozen agencies of the United Nations system have banded together to issue an urgent call for nations to 'green' their economies to address the multiple crises that are dampening progress towards reaching development targets, UN News reported thursday.
In a statement to the high-level UN Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development, currently underway in New York, 21 agencies joined forces to underscore the need for a shift to a green economy that can spur job creation and curb a multitude of threats ranging from current crises related to food, water and climate change.
"The solidarity of the international community is being tested," said the statement. "Let this economic recovery be the turning point for an ambitious and effective international response to the multiple crises facing humanity."
The ultimate test, the agencies pointed out, will come in December when nations are expected to wrap up negotiations in the Danish capital on a new climate change pact that will replace the Kyoto Protocol, whose first commitment period expires in 2012. "Let Copenhagen be the turning point for ushering in a global green economy," they said.
Today's statement underscored the need for fiscal reforms which can encourage green investment, as well as phasing out "perverse" subsidies which result in the excessive use of fossil fuels in agriculture and fisheries.
"The revenues saved by phasing out such subsidies could be reallocated towards the development of green job skills, the provision of clean, affordable energy alternatives for the poor, and support to other green sectors with broad economic benefits," it noted.
Further, the joint statement underlined the need for education to pave the way for sustainable development through training for new job skills and for newly-required health systems.
"Delivering a transition to a low-carbon, resource-efficient Green Economy cannot occur without the creativity, vision, actions and support of a broad cross-section of society," said Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
"This rapid harmonization of perspectives from so many agencies reflects their determination to be agents of change towards a sustainable 21st century," Mr. Steiner, who presented the statement on behalf of all 21 agencies, said.
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A consent order between the city of New Orleans and three Jackson Square artists will allow them to sell reproductions of their work at the famous site. The decree caps a dispute that has been simmering since 2005 over a New Orleans law that said artists on that coveted French Quarter turf should display and sell only work that has "been accomplished essentially by hand" and without the use of "any mechanical or duplicative process."
Under the ordinance, city officials could yank violators' permits to sell artwork for a year.
The consent order signed Dec. 20 by attorneys for the city and the three local artists -- Holly Sarré, Barbara Yochum and Jack Wittenbrink -- states the city is "permanently enjoined from impairing these plaintiffs' right to display and sell reproductions of their original art."
While the order relates only to these three individuals, Sarré's attorney Brian Bégué contends that the floodgates are now open.
"Once the word gets out -- and it's a small artists community so word spreads quick -- new suits are going to be filed seeking the same relief," Bégué speculated Thursday afternoon.
The city also is required to pay the three artists' attorneys fees, totaling $127,500 under the order.
Bégué also had represented artist Marc Trebert, who won a suit against the city in 2005 that contended Trebert's First Amendment rights had been violated by the city's attempt to stop Trebert from selling items it said weren't handmade: digital photographs that he colored with pastels.
A few months later in 2005, Sarré -- a contemporary folk artist perhaps best known for the hand-painted toilet seats she used to display along the Jackson Square fence -- sued the city, similarly saying the ban on prints violated her rights of free speech under the First Amendment and of "basic economic liberty" under the 14th Amendment.
Sarré, who had caused a stir among some in the Jackson Square artists' colony after she began selling $35 prints of her more expensive acrylic-on-canvas New Orleans renderings, essentially argued that artists should be allowed to sell less expensive multiples to help make ends meet. Since Hurricane Katrina, she has produced acrylic series such as the "Flood Series" and "After da Spill."
Yochum, who worked on the square for about 40 years, stopped in 2009 when she could no longer support herself there without selling reproductions. Instead, she opened 906 Dream Studio on Royal Street.
"With this economy, you just can't make money with originals," Yochum said. "I was selling a painting once or twice a month, which wouldn't pay my rent."
She says she was hoping that the city would change the ordinance for everyone but that the current order "is better than nothing."
"Prints are important, as three quarters of the population can't afford an original unless it's a $5 fleur de lis," she added. "Jackson Square, it's all souvenirs now."
The city has contended that, without the ordinance, artists could sell lower-priced prints that would inevitably take the lion's share of the business, driving out artists producing original works and diluting the square's attractiveness to tourists.
In 2006, U.S. District Judge Ivan Lemelle suggested the city should adopt a "more narrowly tailored ordinance" than a total ban on prints, but the City Council in 2007 refused to go along with his idea, rejecting, for example, a proposal to allow every Jackson Square artist to sell reproductions, provided they did not generate more than 20 percent of the artist's sales.
Then, in 2009, Lemelle ruled in favor of the city, saying he had become "convinced that allowing print sales would subvert the creative, improvisatory interplay between working artists and audiences that is inherent in the Jackson Square experience."
But in March, a U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling gave the artists new life. The New Orleans-based appeals court determined that Lemelle had erred in 2009, as the city had failed to prove it had a good reason to forbid the sale of prints.
The appeals judges stated that the city "merely offered affidavits of rival artists, who are likely to be biased against their competitors" and had failed "to prove a nexus between the sale of prints at Jackson Square and harm to the character of that area."
While there are alternative forums for reproductions, such as the Dutch Market Co-op and the flea market in the French Market, plus local galleries and websites, the artists have argued that they were not adequate substitutes for spaces along the Jackson Square's al fresco gallery strolled by millions of tourists a year.
Yochum is known in part for creating fantasy scenes populated by mermaids and pixies.
Wittenbrink, who has recently used Katrina-ravaged scrap metal to create New Orleans-inspired images, has said he joined the suit in part because he wants to reach "gas station attendants from Lafayette" and other visitors who can't afford original works of art and won't venture into galleries. He has said the square's artists should be able to offer something for everyone.


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- Main color MC (navy) 14 balls
- Contrast A (aran) 2 balls
- Contrast B (taupe) 1 ball
- Small quantity of Contrast C (orange) for embroidery.
- Knitting Needles: size 4.5 mm (U.S. 7) or size needed to obtain tension.
- Circular Knitting Needle: size 4.5 mm (U.S. 7) 36 ins [90 cm) long.
- Cable needle.
Approx 42 x 48 ins [106.5 x 122 cm]
20 sts and 26 rows = 4 ins [10 cm] in stocking st.
Each Motif (before edging) = approx 6 ins [15 cm] square.
C4B = slip next 2 sts onto a cable needle and leave at back of work. K2, then K2 from cable needle.
C4F = slip next 2 sts onto a cable needle and leave at front of work. K2, then K2 from cable needle.
MOTIF A (make 12).
Note: When working from chart, wind small balls of the colors to be used, one for each separate area of color in the design. Start new colors at appropriate points. To change colors, twist the two colors around each other where they meet, on WS, to avoid a hole.
With MC, cast on 31 sts. Knit 3 rows (garter st) noting that first row is WS.
Work Chart I in stocking st to end of chart reading knit rows from right to left and purl rows from left to right.
With MC, knit 2 rows.
Cast off knitways (WS).
Work embroidery on Snowman as illustrated.
MOTIF B (make 12)
Note: When working from chart, carry yarn not in use loosely across WS of work but never over more than 5 sts.
When it must pass over more than 5 sts, weave it over and under color in use on next st or at centre point of sts it passes over. The colors are never twisted around one another.
With MC cast on 31 sts. Work 3 rows garter st noting that first row is WS and inc 4 sts evenly across last row. 35 sts.
Work Chart II in stocking st to end of chart reading knit rows from right to left and purl rows from left to right.
Next row: With MC, knit, dec 4 sts evenly across. 31 sts.
Next row: Knit.
Cast off knitways (WS).
MOTIF C (make 24)
With MC cast on 31 sts.
Knit 3 rows, noting that first row is WS and inc 13 sts evenly across last row. 44 sts.
1st row: (RS). P4. K4. P2. K8. P2. K4. P2. K8. P2. K4. P4.
2nd and alt rows: Knit all knit sts and purl all purl sts as they appear.
3rd row: P4. (C4B. P2. C4F. C4B. P2) twice. C4B. P4.
5th row: As 1st row.
7th row: P4. (C4B. P2. C4B. C4F. P2) twice. C4B. P4.
9th row: As 1st row.
11th row: As 7th row.
13th row: As 1st row.
15th row: As 3rd row.
16th row: As 2nd row.
These 16 rows form pat.
Work a further 21 rows pat, ending with WS facing for next row.
Next row: Knit, dec 13 sts evenly across. 31 sts.
Next row: Knit.
Cast off knitways (WS).
Motif Edging:With RS of work facing and MC, pick up and knit 35 sts along side of Motif.
Next row: (Wrong side). Knit.
Next row: Knit.
Cast off knitways (wrong side).
Block squares to measurement. Join Motifs as illustrated in Diagram 1.
Side edging: With RS of work facing, circular needle and MC, pick up and knit 240 sts along side edge. Do not join. Working back and forth across needle, work 6 rows in garter st, inc 1 st at each end of row. 252 sts. Cast off knitways (WS).
Rep along opposite side edge.
Top and Bottom Edging: With RS of work facing, circular needle and MC, pick up and knit 174 sts along top edge. Do not join. Working back and forth across needle, knit 6 rows, inc 1 st at each end of row. 186 sts. Cast off knitways (WS).
Rep along bottom edge.
Join mitred corners of edgings.
Fringe: Cut 14 inch [35.5 cm] lengths of yarn. Taking 10 strands tog knot into fringe across top and bottom edges as shown.
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Newton, MA – BC Law Professor Dan Kanstroom gave the keynote address at "Our Shared Table 2013: Promoting the Health and Wellbeing of All Immigrants and Refugees" on Tuesday morning at the Massachusetts State House.
Over 250 immigrants and legislators from across Massachusetts celebrated their shared immigrant heritage at the annual Thanksgiving Luncheon, offered by the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, or MIRA. Boston Mayor-Elect Marty Walsh was in attendance and helped serve the meal and introduce the speaking portion of the event.
The keynote speech by professor Kanstroom focused on his work on immigrants' rights and his personal history and memories of his grandmother, who fled pogroms in Russia and Ukraine at the age of 4 with her parents and her 8 brothers and sisters in 1908, and who inspired him to dedicate himself to the field.
"This is our task today, I think: to give thanks, to be grateful; but also to keep struggling for those who are not yet here or not yet fully or legally here or who face the threat of deportation," Kanstroom said. "It is surely a difficult struggle, but I am optimistic that the better angels of our nature—linked to our long and best historical traditions— will prevail and that together we can both give thanks and work together to build this dream—my grandmother's dream-- for our children and grandchildren."
Kanstoom is donating to MIRA his proceeds from the upcoming anthology, Constructing Illegality in America: Critiques, Experiences, and Responses, edited jointly with Cecilia Menjívar of Arizona State University.
"We were pleased to have a range of distinguished guests join us for our annual State House luncheon," said MIRA Executive Director Eva Millona. "At this annual feast in which we all give thanks for our blessings, we take pride in healthcare advancements that started right here in Massachusetts with the passage of the 2006 health care reform law."
Speakers list:
• Marcela Garcia, Bilingual journalist — Emcee
• Eva Millona, Executive Director, Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition — Opening remarks
• Marty Walsh, Mayor Elect, City of Boston — Thanksgiving Remarks
• Jay Gonzalez, Senior VP and Chief Development Officer, CeltiCare — Sponsor's welcome
• Dan Kanstroom, Professor of Law, Boston College — Keynote
• Pelagio De La Cruz, immigrant healthcare story one — From no healthcare to full coverage
• Valdirene Oliveira, Immigrant healthcare story two — Caring for a daughter with special needs
• Jamie Eldridge, State Senator, Middlesex and Worcester District — Legislator's remarks


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Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I faces his critics at the Diet of Cologne. He is in a strong position, having settled the Bavarian question, and with the recent death of his enemy Berthold of Henneberg, Archbishop of Mainz. He persudes the German princes to support him in an expedition to Hungary to assist King Ladislas II, who is having troubled with factionalism among his nobility. He also begins to reform the Empire in a way that points towards his most treasured aspiration, which is for a universal Hapsburg monarchy.
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Neighbors of the Valdivian Coastal Reserve
Since 2003, The Nature Conservancy has worked in southern Chile's Valdivian Coastal Reserve not just to protect one of the world's most biodiverse temperate rainforests, but to involve local communities in sustainable, economically profitable activities that benefit people and nature at the same time.
A Reserve Open to the Public
The Conservancy has made community access a top priority since establishing the Valdivian Coastal Reserve. The construction of trails, signposts, picnic areas, public restrooms and parking lots has made the Reserve accessible, safe, educational and enjoyable for locals and tourists alike. To enhance community and tourist understanding of the importance of the Valdivian Coastal Range, the Conservancy has also initiated a program to train local community members in becoming Reserve guides during the busy summer season. These guides share their unique perspective on the area with visitors interested in learning about the rainforest from the people who call it "home."
Construction of facilities has attracted more visitors to the Valdivian Coastal Reserve, and between 2006 and 2009, the Conservancy recorded a 30 percent increase in tourism. Tourists often make stops in villages near the Reserve and represent a growing market for the sustainably produced goods, such as locally produced honey and herbal teas, being manufactured by neighboring communities.
A Reserve that Benefits the Public
The Conservancy has also initiated projects that directly benefit the local communities of Chaihuín, Cadillal, Los Liles, Huape and Huiro.
The Conservancy, in conjunction with the United Nations Development Program, established a $300,000 fund to finance community groups engaged in sustainable development projects. Several local organizations have already received financing and are creating and selling various products sustainably harvested from the Valdivian Coastal Reserve:
- The Kutralhue artesian group is collecting fruits from the temperate rainforests of the Reserve to produce herbal teas that can be consumed by their community or sold to tourists.
- The Huape community group has set up an apiary to cultivate and harvest organic honey. The group bottles and sells the honey to other communities or to visitors looking for local flavor.
- The Los Liles co-op is beginning to sustainably harvest native trees and carve them into furniture and sculpture for sale to tourists.
- Fishermen of Chaihuín are planting native trees alongside freshwater streams and rivers to help reduce erosion and improve habitat conditions for the native mussels harvested and consumed or sold by much of the community. The improved habitat conditions will increase mussel production so that fishermen will, in turn, have more mussels to sell.
The Conservancy and partners have also sponsored community exchange programs in which members of neighboring communities can visit one another to learn and share experiences with sustainable use of natural resources, tourism ventures, and income generating activities.
Lasting Benefits
Preservation of the temperate rainforests of the Valdivian Coastal Range will benefit people everywhere by reducing greenhouse gases, providing habitat to species found nowhere else on Earth, and protecting the environment for local communities who have lived there for decades, but the Conservancy has also promoted programs specifically designed to benefit the youths growing up around the Reserve. For example, a new environmental education initiative has taken root in four local schools, enabling students to better understand and appreciate their natural surroundings.
If the natural environment in and around the Valdivian Coastal Reserve is protected and sustainably managed, current and future generations of fishermen, artisans, woodcutters, tea makers, honey collectors and tour guides will have access to all the resources they need to profit from their work — and they'll always have a beautiful place to call home.


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In my third year as chairman, I was so encouraged by all the support we received from the community to help make this event a reality, especially during these tough economic times.
It is an example of how much value our community places on the education of our youth and their continued support of the SCV Education Foundation.
I specifically wanted to thank all the sponsors of the event: Vanir Construction, JSB Development, e-Instruction, Piper & Jaffray, DC Architects and School Specialty.
My thanks also extend to the real principals, assistant principals, superintendents and assistant superintendents who opened up their schools to let someone else take over for a few hours and share what really goes on in our school.
I get the pleasure of hearing from both sides, and what a wonderful opportunity this day provides.
It allows the business owners in the community, who are the future employers of the students, to see what type of training is taking place and also what the struggles are that the educators need to deal with.
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Fulton County Commissioner Robb Pitts is requesting a court to disqualify the results of last month's election results because of a design err in the ballot. Pitts who lost a close race against Chairman John Eaves for the position said the ballot listed their race for chairman as "District No. 7 at large leading to "voter confusion and voter disenfranchisement. He wants the court to order a new election for the Democratic primary for commission chairman. Eaves called the lawsuit frivolous, self-serving and a waste of taxpayer dollars.
Judge dismisses tuition lawsuit for immigrants
Although he was sympathetic to their causes, Fulton Superior Judge John Goger dismissed a lawsuit filed by immigrants who were brought to this country illegally as children seeking state college tuition. In his ruling, Goger wrote that Georgia law bars such lawsuit through sovereign immunity. A lawyer for the 39 complaints said they would appeal the ruling.
Parents of baby injured in a police raid lash out
The parents of a 19-month-old boy who was severely injured when a flash band device landed in his crib during a drug raid, said they would never put their children in harm's way. They said they never noticed any drugs in the house or any drug transaction taking place at their relative's home in Cornelia. Bounkam and Alexcia Phonesavanh said when they inquired why their son Bou Bou was giving off agonizing screams, a Habersham County Special Response Team deputy told them that the child had lost a tooth. The couple met with investigators from the GBI and the FBI for three hours on Tuesday.
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The DeKalb County Commission delayed a vote on whether to spend $5 million to purchased a YMCA building. The vote was postponed because it lack four votes needed for approval. The funds would come from voter-approved green space bonds.
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With the delivery Wednesday of the last two Atlanta Streetcar vehicles, testing on the line should begin the coming weeks, said a spokesperson. The Siemen's S70 vehicles are 80 feet long and can carry 200 passengers. They can also accommodate wheelchairs, strollers and bicycles.
Reality TV star owes more than $1 million in back support
"Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta" star Steven "Stevie J" Jordan overs $1,107,412 in back child support, according to New York court records. Jordan fathered a child in 1997 and again in 1998. In 1999, the court ordered him to pay about $6,600 a month in child support. The court later raised the amount to $8,500 a month. The complaint states that Jordan stopped paying child support in 2001. He was arrested in Georgia on Monday but will face criminal charges in New York.
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I used to be relatively cool. I lived in a funky little neighbourhood in Boston, with lots of fun little shops and interesting people. And then I had a child. And then a second child. And suddenly, we were too many people for our little condo in the funky neighbourhood, and we started looking for bigger houses and better schools. And then I had a third child and I joined a book club. I believe that last bit was the death toll for any amount of coolness I once had. Don't get me wrong, I love my book club, but it is so very suburbanite of me to belong to one and I can no longer fool myself that I am young and cool. But it's okay. As it turns out, I quite like the older, less cool, suburbanite mother of three that I have become.
I hosted the last book club meeting, and a friend who is interested in the gluten free, lower carb way of life requested that I make something to fit that bill. It seemed like the perfect opportunity to try out another peanut flour recipe I had in mind. I'd noticed an interesting quality to peanut flour when I was working with it on the Flourless Chocolate Cakes I made for my husband's birthday. When mixed with just butter, cocoa and sweetener, it had an almost fudge-like consistency, and it had me scheming on how I might use this quality to advantage. I had no clue if it would work, but I thought it might make an excellent peanut-buttery center to a truffle. Cookie-dough truffles are all the rage these days, so why not a low carb, gluten free version?
The Results: Working with low carb and gluten free ingredients has challenged my creativity in the kitchen and I daresay that I am a better cook and baker than I was before. When I notice how a certain ingredient behaves, I start thinking about how I might use it in other ways, and it usually works in my favour. It certainly worked out in this case! These were so tasty and quite easy to make, and I was proud to serve them to everyone, even those who had no reason to be eating low carb or gluten free. Everyone said they liked them and I don't think they were just being polite, as I saw at least two women go back for seconds. My husband and I enjoyed eating the leftovers over the next few days. I didn't share them with the kids…they still have lots of candy left over from Halloween and Christmas, so these were mine!
Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Truffles
5 tbsp butter
1/4 cup peanut butter (preferably natural)
1/4 cup granulated erythritol
16 drops stevia extract
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
3/4 cup peanut flour – 12% fat variety
2 tbsp butter
3.5 ounces 85% to 90% cacao chocolate
For the filling, line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Place butter and peanut butter in a microwave-safe bowl, and melt together in the microwave, stirring occassionally.
Stir in erythritol, stevia and vanilla. Add peanut flour in three batches, stirring to combine well each time. Dough will get quite stiff towards the end.
Working with about 1/2 a tablespoon at a time, roll dough between palms into round balls. Place on baking sheet and freeze until very firm, about 1 hour.
For the coating, melt butter and chocolate together in a small saucepan over low heat, stirring until smooth.
Using a toothpick, spear peanut butter balls one at a time and dip into chocolate. Tap lightly against the side of the pan to remove excess chocolate. Place back on parchment-lined baking sheet Repeat with remaining balls and refrigerate until set, about 1 hour.
You will end up with leftover melted chocolate but you need to have enough to be able to dip the balls properly. Just set it aside for ice cream topping or eating on its own!
Makes 24. Each truffle has a total of 4.4g of carbs, but only 2.4g if you subtract erythritol. And in reality, it is actually less, as I had to factor in all of the coating to get an accurate carb count, but had quite a bit left over.


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