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    <title>My Blog</title>
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    <description>Tribe.net. Local Connections</description>
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      <title>choas</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;you know those signs that say" wokers ahead" or left lane closed? Here's how to mae those led lights say what you want. &#xD;
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 Should it will ask you for a password. Try “DOTS”, the default password. &#xD;
In all likelihood, the crew will not have changed it. However if they did, never fear. Hold “Control” and “Shift” and while holding, enter “DIPY”. This will reset the sign and reset the password to “DOTS” in the process. You’re in! &#xD;
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:07:10 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Amanda</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-02-02T23:07:10Z</dc:date>
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      <title>you're my only home</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;I love this song..&#xD;
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:25:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Amanda</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-02-02T21:25:01Z</dc:date>
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      <title>hee.. I Gots muh pirate role.</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;You are  The Quartermaster	 &#xD;
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        You, me hearty, are a man or woman of action! And what action it is! Gruesome, &#xD;
        awful, delightful action. You mete out punishment to friend and foe alike &#xD;
        – well, mostly to foe, because your burning inner rage isn’t &#xD;
        likely to draw you a whole lot of the former. Still, though you may be &#xD;
        what today is called “high maintenance” and in the past was &#xD;
        called “bat-shit crazy,” the crew likes to have you around &#xD;
        because in a pinch your maniacal combat prowess may be the only thing &#xD;
        that saves them from Jack Ketch. When not in a pinch, the rest of the &#xD;
        crew will goad you into berserker mode because it’s just kind of &#xD;
        fun to watch. So you provide a double service – doling out discipline &#xD;
        AND entertainment&#xD;
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http://www.talklikeapirate.com/ppi.html&#xD;
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      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 09:03:12 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Amanda</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-12-27T09:03:12Z</dc:date>
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      <title>hero doggy..I gots more faith in animals then people</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2151688/hero_dog_tries_to_help_wounded_dog/&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:01:47 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Amanda</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-12-15T00:01:47Z</dc:date>
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      <title>chain maille belt</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/5ca2c1b6-1e7b-46fe-a5b9-1506ef7abea5/blog/201f3bbf-346a-491f-a285-c9190c9bb8ac</link>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://people.tribe.net/5ca2c1b6-1e7b-46fe-a5b9-1506ef7abea5/blog/201f3bbf-346a-491f-a285-c9190c9bb8ac"&gt;  						          &lt;img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/466/3c1/4663c1fb-4e5d-450d-a9ed-26b26d97b028.thumb" width="65" height="43" alt="" /&gt;
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										&lt;div&gt;I gots me a chain maille belt that it perfect for nelly dancing..alas It's too big for me. it's 54 inches long, including a dangly tail that hangs in front..the belt part would best fit hips around 48 inches. I'm looking to trade it or sell it at about $80..  &lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 10:40:11 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Amanda</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-12-14T10:40:11Z</dc:date>
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      <title>beats antique : colide</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;I love this cd..perfect dancing music..ah! i have to down load it..lol&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:05:44 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Amanda</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-12-03T08:05:44Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Herm..</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/5ca2c1b6-1e7b-46fe-a5b9-1506ef7abea5/blog/093ae464-b577-4a09-8850-3ef32e02b2b0</link>
      <description>&lt;div&gt;I really super badly euberly need a job! gah.. and I've decided that when I do have a job, I'm taking up the harp and archery..lol. Not to mentiion some better dance classes!!&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:07:57 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Amanda</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-12-03T01:07:57Z</dc:date>
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      <title>My bathroom</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/5ca2c1b6-1e7b-46fe-a5b9-1506ef7abea5/blog/6ffab7d3-e57e-4820-a07a-284d65203e92</link>
      <description>&lt;div&gt;is broken.&#xD;
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The floor needs to be replaced. The shower pipes, and fixtures need to be replaced. The only well working thing in that room is the sink and lights.. oh man. I wholly dislike the people who sold us this place. They said that the only thing we needed to replace or fix, was a wall that the dry wall wasn't done right  and a hole behind the microwave.. !!!!!!!!!!!!   but everything will be okay, once I get a job. Then we can fix everything right away. &lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:51:10 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Amanda</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-08-25T22:51:10Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Pro - Anna and Fatness..among other things</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;today..I feel really fat. i have a tummy pooch, my arms seem to have gained wings, and my thighs jiggle. &#xD;
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I used to be anorexic. I had a 6 pack, skinny everything..But no more.&#xD;
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I now love food, and cooking. &#xD;
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But today, on youtube..I found 'thinsperation'  videos.. really skinny girls, able to wear what I wish I could wear. &#xD;
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It's hard, sometimes, not to back to not eating. &#xD;
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Esp. with dancing sometimes - Rachel brice ( my dancing hero lol ) is so skinny and can wear all those tint tint tops that show off  her amazing tommy rolls...and she's 40!  almost twice my age...I should probably just work out more, and NOT look at pro ana crap..but when it sneaks up on you like on you tube.. man. what a bother. &#xD;
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      <pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:41:35 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Amanda</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-08-23T22:41:35Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Cinnamon Crisp-Topped Cream Cheese-Banana-Nut bread</title>
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Prep: 15 min., Bake: 1 hr., Cool: 40 min. Warm bread is yummy, but to get perfect slices, let bread cool 30 minutes, and cut with a serrated or electric knife. &#xD;
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3/4 cup butter, softened &#xD;
1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened &#xD;
2 cups sugar &#xD;
2 large eggs &#xD;
3 cups all-purpose flour &#xD;
1/2 teaspoon baking powder &#xD;
1/2 teaspoon baking soda &#xD;
1/2 teaspoon salt &#xD;
1 1/2 cups mashed bananas (1 1/4 pounds unpeeled bananas, about 4 medium) &#xD;
1 cup chopped pecans, toasted &#xD;
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract &#xD;
1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar &#xD;
1/2 cup chopped, toasted pecans &#xD;
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour &#xD;
1 tablespoon melted butter &#xD;
1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon &#xD;
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Beat butter and cream cheese at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Gradually add sugar, beating until light and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until blended after each addition. &#xD;
Combine flour and next 3 ingredients; gradually add to butter mixture, beating at low speed just until blended. Stir in bananas, pecans, and vanilla. Spoon batter into 2 greased and floured 8- x 4-inch loafpans. &#xD;
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Stir together brown sugar, 1/2 cup pecans, 1 tablespoon flour, 1 tablespoon melted butter, and cinnamon. Sprinkle mixture evenly over batter. &#xD;
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Bake at 350° for 1 hour or until a long wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean and sides pull away from pan, shielding with aluminum foil last 15 minutes to prevent browning, if necessary. Cool bread in pans on wire racks 10 minutes. Remove from pans, and cool 30 minutes on wire racks before slicing. &#xD;
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Yield: Makes 2 loaves &#xD;
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Southern Living, JANUARY 2005 &#xD;
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I'm making this bread tomarrow and will post a review!&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 02:45:55 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Amanda</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-08-09T02:45:55Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Mountain Dew  JELLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;4 jars &#xD;
time to make 20 min 5 min prep &#xD;
3 1/4 cups Mountain Dew soda &#xD;
2 tablespoons lemon juice &#xD;
4 1/2 cups sugar &#xD;
1 package sure jell pectin &#xD;
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1. Pour mountian dew and lemon juice into a large pot. &#xD;
2. Bring to boil. &#xD;
3. Boil 3 minutes. &#xD;
4. Cool slightly. &#xD;
5. Then follow the sure jell directions. &#xD;
6. Process for 10 minutes in a boiling water bath. &#xD;
7. you can use more mountain dew and reduce it to 3-1/4 c. &#xD;
8. for a more concentrated flavor. &#xD;
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I thought I was a hardcore doer of the dew..and then I found this lol. WoW &lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:20:21 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Amanda</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-08-08T20:20:21Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Sea Dogs and rude 'dancers'</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;So i went to sea dogs, and just came home a day or so ago..I thought it was kinda boring..The one thing I have to rant about though, was this really rude tribal dancer. First, she took over the whole stage. Then, after hogging stage, She starting dictating how the drummers needed to drum!! omg..I think that no one should tell a drummer ho to drum or any one tell a dancer how to dance..I mean, really! grow up.. The world does not revolve around you. If you don't fancy the music either sit out unti you hear a beat you like, or go explore to find a new one.  Is it really that hard for some people to understand? &lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:53:13 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Amanda</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-07-30T23:53:13Z</dc:date>
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      <title>painfully short resume</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;Amanda L. Allen - Smith&#xD;
87911 Territorial Rd. #55 &#xD;
Veneta, Oregon 97487&#xD;
(541) 606 - 0995&#xD;
Job wanted: Part-time or Full time job&#xD;
...Stockroom helper ...Grocery bagger ...General Worker...Dishwasher&#xD;
...Theater maintenance helper ...Arcade guide...General assistant&#xD;
•	Reliable. Willing and able to show up on time. &#xD;
•	Honest and trustworthy. &#xD;
•	Good attitude around others. Willing to help, patient with people, do my share, willing to learn. &#xD;
Work Experience&#xD;
2008     Volunteer Dance Teacher &#xD;
•	Volunteered at Fern Ridge Public Library &#xD;
... Dealt with people ages 7 to 60&#xD;
... Had the responsibility of having a key to the library &#xD;
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2005 - 06 Dialer &#xD;
•	Worked at Venture Data&#xD;
..Did over the phone surveys&#xD;
..Was required to type verbatim&#xD;
…Talked to people nation wide&#xD;
2004 Riverfront Work Crew&#xD;
•	I did basic landscaping  &#xD;
..Basic motor skills&#xD;
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Education:  Received my G.E.D. in 2006, planning on going to collage in ’09 or 2010.&#xD;
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      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:13:55 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Amanda</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-07-15T06:13:55Z</dc:date>
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      <title>gaaah...</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;Must..not... cut hair..!!!!!!  I'm trying to grow my hair out ( i had long hair, and then chopped it all of in the 8th grade..haven't had long hair since) so i can dread it. But lately i've been seeing all these ubershort cute hair crap lol.  I'm kinda having a slight identity problem, that goes with my hair...  I'm a little raver in my heart - ala short hair all the way. But i'm also a belly dancer/hippie/oh so ra*mantic goooth lol  - ala long hair. &#xD;
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I love skinny dreadies, that when let down look lke a lions mane..ppl with dreadies remind me of faeries - one of my biggest joys. Wild, mysterious,sexy and free.&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:58:35 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Amanda</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-07-15T00:58:35Z</dc:date>
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      <title>yes, We'll have no banana's</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;I have recently learned that bananas are about to go the way of the dinosaurs. Scientists say it's unlikely they'll last another decade. Here is a link to an excellent (if sad) article about that and I'll repost the article below: www.commondreams.org/views03/0719-02.htm&#xD;
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Yes, We'll Have No Bananas - Thanks to Selective Breeding, our Favourite Fruit can Neither Reproduce nor Defend Itself from Disease &#xD;
by Robert Alison &#xD;
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The banana is about to disappear from store shelves around the globe. Experts say the world's favourite fruit will pass into oblivion within a decade. No more fresh bananas. No more banana bread. No more banana muffins or banana cream pie. &#xD;
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Why? Because the banana is the victim of centuries of genetic tampering. Scientists say they will be unable to prevent the extirpation of the banana as an edible commercial crop. And its demise may be one more powerful argument in the hands of those who are concerned about genetic modification of foods. &#xD;
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The banana's main problem is that it has become sterile and seedless as a result of 10,000 years of selective breeding. It has, over time, become a plant with unvarying genetic sameness. The genetic diversity needed to cope with environmental stresses, such as diseases and crop pests, has long ago been bred out of the banana. Consequently, the banana plantations of the world are completely vulnerable to devastating environmental pressures. &#xD;
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According to Emile Frison, newly appointed director-general of the Rome-based International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, science is helpless to prevent the demise of the banana. Already, he says, as much as 50 per cent of the world's banana harvest is lost to insects and disease. &#xD;
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When humankind first encountered this fruit thousands of years ago we were probably not impressed by the almost inedible giant wild bananas. Historic mutations, rare and accidental, produced seedless bananas through chromosome triplication. Ancient humans focused on these seedless, pollen-less mutants to generate progressively more edible crops. Eventually, edible banana flesh retained only a few vague traces of the viable seeds once carried in the ancestral wild stock. &#xD;
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Ancient plant breeders grew edible bananas by grafting sterile mutants onto wild stems. This process was repeated for thousands of years to produce the emasculated, sterile -- and defenceless -- plantation banana that currently feeds millions of people globally. &#xD;
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But the stage was set for the final act in the story of this beloved yellow fruit in the 1950s. By then, generations of selective breeding had long since inhibited natural banana reproduction, and genetic tinkering had all but obliterated most commercial varieties. Eventually, one morph remained, the Gros Michel variety. All domestic stock was its clone, an exact genetic copy of that one variety. Every tree was equally vulnerable to plant disease, crop pests and climate variables. &#xD;
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Then Panama disease, a soil fungus, attacked banana plantations and the genetically enfeebled Gros Michel banana was virtually wiped out. By 1960, the Gros Michel was no longer a viable crop. Tireless agricultural research eventually produced a successor, the Cavendish. For the past 40 years or so, the Cavendish has been virtually the only commercially grown stock available on store shelves in developed nations. &#xD;
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In the tropics, you can still find other, less desirable banana varieties, mainly grown as a starchy food staple rather than a sweet treat. But these tropical bananas aren't much like their commercial cousins in North American supermarkets. They taste bland. Their texture is often fibrous and mealy. North American consumers would probably find them quite unpalatable compared to the Cavendish, which is sweeter and smoother-textured. &#xD;
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But like its genetic predecessor, the Cavendish is also sterile, equally unprotected from diseases and crop pests. And now a powerful plant pathogen, the Black Sigatoka fungus, has appeared on the scene, attacking the Cavendish stock around the world. Banana yields have already dropped by 50-70 per cent, and banana-tree life spans have been reduced from about 30 years to just about two years. The genetic uniformity among Cavendish bananas has made them helpless to fight Black Sigatoka. &#xD;
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Nor can chemical spraying save the day. Commercial growers have long attempted to control the fungus using fungicides such as dibromochloropropane (now banned because it caused sterility and leukemia among banana industry workers). According to Dr. Frison, even powerful fungicides don't work against Black Sigatoka because the fungus is rapidly capable of developing resistance to them. Indeed, banana plantations in Costa Rica and the Amazon have already been largely destroyed. &#xD;
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The selective plant breeding that has brought us to this impasse is comparable to genetic engineering. Both change the genetic makeup of a plant, perhaps irreversibly. So the case of the banana gives ammunition to critics of genetic engineering and to their claim that much can go wrong when we tamper with plant genetics. &#xD;
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Such warnings aren't new. In 1995, biologists warned that changing the genetic makeup of a plant is like playing with fire. Even so, genetic alteration continues. At Oregon State University, scientists are at work on generating sterility in poplar trees; the Canadian Forest Service is looking into breeding insect resistance in white spruces; at the University of California, work is being done on changing root systems in walnut trees. And at the Independent University in Madrid, orange trees are being modified to promote early fruit-bearing and to grow oranges that are easier to peel. &#xD;
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The International Plant Genetic Resources Institute's Dr. Frison says biotechnology could still delay the loss of the banana, by providing the genetic blueprint of inedible wild varieties that can be genetically altered to create a genetically modified product. Does this hold out hope of an 11th-hour reprieve? Will consumers accept a GM substitute for the sweet fruit they enjoy so much? &#xD;
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The disappearance of the banana should be a wakeup call -- to what can result from reckless genetic manipulation, complacency and inattention. If this can happen to the world's most popular fruit with all humanity as its witness, imagine what could happen to more obscure, but no less useful plants whose fates are less publicized and open to public scrutiny. &#xD;
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Robert Alison, a consultant biologist based in Orillia, Ont., is a former senior biologist for the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. &#xD;
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                      this is really sad. I make a KILLER banana bread...&#xD;
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      <dc:creator>Amanda</dc:creator>
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      <title>apparently I'm trailor trash</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;Because I LIKE having an overgrown yard..I'm a hippie - I love seeing tall grass an wild flowers and - gasp - dandi lions... in a world where forests and fields are disapearing, I'd think every one would like sch a thing..but as long as they don't live next to it, I guess.. &lt;/div&gt;</description>
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      <title>!!!!</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;lol I made a tribe for my up coming wedding..I realize alot of my family dosn't have a myspace, so i made a tribe..hee..&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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      <dc:creator>Amanda</dc:creator>
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      <title>the be a u tiful jewelry set</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;http://www.estones.com/catalog/display.php?cartid=200807040081263&amp;amp;zid=1&amp;amp;lid=1&amp;amp;psku=Set-22&amp;amp;mode=sp&#xD;
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oh man.I wish I could buy these!!! ~sigh~ lol they're better then kuchi!!  lol on mh wedding I'd look like a fairy maiden..~romantic wedding music plays~ &#xD;
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not that love would appreciate it&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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      <dc:creator>Amanda</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-07-04T11:28:57Z</dc:date>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;For a little less then a week, We heard a kitten meowing. We figured a cat had her litter down there, but we were wrong. It was one little boy kitten that had somehow been trapped in our instaltion under the house. My love and i rescued Him during a thunder storm, and kept him safe and alive for a night..We bought food and a bottle for him, and went into debt  to take Thoren to a vet...The doctor we saw said that he would be ok. Just keep him warm, and feed him..&#xD;
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A couple hours later, I came home and fed him, and after that my beloved was washing him off..and he died, right in my loves hands. I know tiny kittens have a hard time living withot their momma..but the vet said he'd be okay. I'm so sad, I coldn't even sleep last night.&#xD;
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Sweet dreams Thoren, we loved you while we had you, and hope your next life is better.&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:13:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Amanda</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-07-02T02:13:00Z</dc:date>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;sometimes I don't belong.&#xD;
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I love to rave...but i'm not in the crowd.&#xD;
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I'm too skinny for the fat kids, but too fat for the skinny kids.&#xD;
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I'm a hippy but I wear 2nd hand fur and love bleeding steak.&#xD;
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I'm a pirate but i hate da rum man.&#xD;
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I'm a belly dancer, but i think dancing looks funny sometimes.&#xD;
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I love jokes but can't laugh about myself.&#xD;
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I like indivuals but hate people.&#xD;
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I love talking but alot of times I can't relate.&#xD;
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I'm a bitch but i love you. &#xD;
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I'm alone but not lonely.&#xD;
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I'm lonely but not alone.&#xD;
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I was a good girl, but was trouble.&#xD;
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I was trouble, but the bad kids were way worse.&#xD;
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I'm a lover, not a fighter..but i'll crack your teeth.&#xD;
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I'm a total romantic, and totaly not up for the reality.&#xD;
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I was up for reality, but couldn't trust anyone.&#xD;
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I hate men, but most of my friends are guys.&#xD;
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I feel like I don't belong...But I belong with kirby sama.&#xD;
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      <pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 03:27:11 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Amanda</dc:creator>
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