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area premiere by Lucas Hnath, directed by Hayley Finn
March 6 – April 5, 2015
Weeks before the New Year (and the new estate tax taking effect), the ailing Maxine is convinced that her estranged daughter is bribing Nurse Tina to expedite her demise. But, when Maxine offers an enticing deal of her own, Nurse Tina finds herself at a moral crossroads. A suspenseful and captivating dark comedy, Death Tax raises timely questions about the tensions between family and money, life and death. "Provocative…whip-smart…You really can't ask for anything more." –Chicago Sun-Times
The Gospel of Lovingkindness
area premiere by Marcus Gardley, directed by Marion McClinton
May 29 – June 28, 2015
From the playwright of the road weeps, the well runs dry, comes an equally powerful and poetic contemporary drama inspired be true events. Two young men growing up on the South Side of Chicago, Manny's life is on track, and Noel's life is derailing. Manny just sang at the White House; Noel just got kicked off the basketball team. When their paths cross, they risk everything for their dreams, leaving behind two grieving mothers and a city on the verge. "The Gospel of Lovingkindness is an ambitious prayer; one that pleads for a deeper appreciation for the value of life, as well as an end to violence and the circumstances that create it." –Newcity Stage
world premiere by Tracey Scott Wilson, directed by Noël Raymond
September 18 – October 18, 2015
A group of teachers change their students' test scores so they will receive their annual bonuses, but racial and sexual tensions arise as they try to cover up their transgressions.
Commissioned by Pillsbury House Theatre through a 2014 Joyce Award, Prep is inspired by a number of recent local events with racial overtones that have stirred up emotions and conflict. Playwright Tracey Scott Wilson spent a month in the Twin Cities earlier in 2014, immersing herself in conversation with community members that have been part of these experiences. As in her 2012/13 production of Buzzer, Scott Wilson's goal with this play is to cut through political correctness and broach off-limits topics in order to inspire genuine conversations about race.
Also in the 2015 Season
Chicago Avenue Project
April 20, 21 and November 2, 3
The Late Nite Series
November 7, 14, 21
Naked Stages
December 10–19
Ticket Information
Season passes: Pick-your-price season passes (regular price: $100; minimum price: $65) are on sale now online or by calling 612-825-0459. In order to take advantage of the pick-your-price option, YOU MUST CALL 612-825-0459 to purchase a pass.
Individual tickets: Individual pick-your-price tickets for the 2015 Season will go on sale in January 2015, online and by calling 612-825-0459.
Groups: Call Kelsye at 612-825-0459, or email her at email@example.com.
Free child care, provided by the staff of Pillsbury Early Education Center, is also available for select performances.
Pillsbury House Theatre's "Late Nite Series: Non English Speaking Spoken Here" will return on Nov. 8, 15, and 22. The annual celebration of new work, now in its 17th year, will feature a unique lineup comprising emerging artists from Minnesota and New York. The artists and performers will explore contemporary culture through music, dance, theatre, film, literary arts, and visual art. Local music artists performing in the series include Jayanthi Kyle, Rico Mendez (a.k.a. DJ Don Cuco), and "Steely" Dan McAllister. Other highlights include a building-wide performance installation by Love|Forté, spoken word by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, and an "Indo Afro Groove" performance by Pyeng Threadgill.
The lineup was carefully curated by E.G. Bailey and Laurie Carlos with the intention of connecting underground New York and Minnesota artists, encouraging collaboration between them, and giving them exposure to a diverse audience. "We try to find artists that are willing to take a risk, artists that have that kind of energy in their work already," said Bailey. "The key thing is practicing freedom, having the freedom to do any and everything within the limits of what the space can hold."
The Late Nite Series traditionally sells out; audience members will find themselves packed in an exciting, creative environment. "Being in such a small theater with so many people, the energy is so palpable you can feel it," notes Kelsye Gould, communications coordinator of Pillsbury House Theatre.
Each night's programming begins at 9:00 p.m. Food from local chefs will be served at no extra charge at 8:00 pm in the lobby. Attendees may pick their own price for every performance (regular price is $15, anything above that is considered a donation).
"Come with no expectations and come open. I think that's the best way to take in Late Nite," advised Bailey.
Pillsbury House Theatre's Chicago Avenue Project presents Out on a Limb, featuring ten original, short plays written by neighborhood youth in partnership with professional dramaturgs, and performed and directed by some of the Twin Cities' best theatre artists.
November 3 and 4, 2014
Monday at 7:00 pm
Tuesday at 4:00 and 7:00 pm
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The Plays
Twerk Team by Amir
direction by Adrian Balbontin, dramaturgy by Steve Moulds, starring Christian Bardin and Gregory Parks
The Future of Walmart by Cicely
direction by Chava Curland, dramaturgy by Deborah Yarchun, starring Valarie Falken and Beverly Cottman
The Theme of Love + The Theme of Fighting by Diego
direction and dramaturgy by Sharif Abu-Hamdeh, starring Carolyn Pool and Jason Rojas
The Coyote of Wall Street by Gabe
direction by Terry Hempleman, dramaturgy by Eliza Rasheed, starring Dylan Fresco and Heather Bunch
Hole by Manny
direction by Mel Day, dramaturgy by Jacob Devine, starring Dustin Bronson and Rachel Austin
The Two Lovebirds by Marlin
direction by Molly Van Avery, dramaturgy by Saymoukda Vongsay, starring Suzie Cheng and Sam Pearson
Frenemies by Mimi
direction by Cheryl Willis, dramaturgy by Basil Kreimendahl, starring Taous Khazem and Esther Ouray
Masters of Dishwashing Two by Nat
direction by Crystal Spring, dramaturgy by Josef Evans, starring Brant Miller and Katie Kaufmann
A Girl Gone Missing and a Thief to Discover by Neveah
direction by Dudley Voigt, dramaturgy by Kate Tarker, starring Jamila Anderson and Neal Skoy
The Mystery by Samaria'h
direction by Addie Gorlin, dramaturgy by Amber Patton, starring Joy Dolo and Sandra Struthers
artwork and illustrations by Cicely, Neveah, Bella, and Phebe
Eshu (aka Elegba and Elegua) is the orisha of chance and uncertainty. Known as the "trickster," he lurks at gateways and doorways to introduce chaos and accident into the lives of humans. He is also seen as the "divine messenger," delivering messages and sacrifices between the natural and spiritual worlds, and is known for his sexual exploits. In "The Brother/Sister Plays," Marcus Eshu, Elegba, and Elegua all have divine visions or insights.
Ogun is the orisha of iron, metal work, and war. He is dependable and helps overcome spiritual and psychological obstacles. Ogun is also the only character appearing in all three of "The Brother/Sister Plays."
Oshun is the orisha of sensuality, beauty, and fertility. She has the power to heal with water, and is often called upon to cure female ailments. Oshun is a strong and confident woman, but she also has a passionate, easily angered spirt. In "The Brother/Sister Plays," Shun, Osha, and Shaunta Iyun all have characteristics of this orisha.
Shango is the orisha of masculinity, virility, warriors, thunder and lightning, and fire. He has three wives, Oya, Oshun, and Oba. He is said to be able to transform ordinary items into something pure and coveted. In "The Brother/Sister Plays," Shango is a soldier in Iraq who woos several other characters.
Oba is said to be a dutiful wife, despite having been left by her cheating husband Shango. In "The Brother/Sister Plays," Oba raises Marcus on her own.
Oya is often described as the tempest, the winds of destruction, change and progress. She is the orisha of rebirth and is often depicted with her husband Shango. In "The Brother/Sister Plays," Oya is faced with several difficult decisions that change the course of her life.
Oshosi is the orisha of hunters. He resides in the forest. In "The Brother/Sister Plays," Oshoosi Size escapes to the woods with his friend Elegba.
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Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet is a Pillsbury House Theatre and The Mount Curve Company co-production in the Dowling Studio at the Guthrie Theatre, September 12 – October 5, 2014. Reserve your tickets through the Guthrie's Box Office online or by calling 612-377-2224.
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"[Nathan] Barlow…delivers a breakout performance that is grace-filled and revelatory. He handles his two major monologues, both Shakespearean in their heft, with charisma and aplomb, inviting us into his heart, his hopes and his reveries. But his brilliance is far from solitary… All the players in "Marcus," who sit at the side of the stage when not performing, have moments when they light up the stage with their individual fireworks.." Read the full review »
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"The Pillsbury House/Mount Curve production deftly brings out both the mystical and earthy in McCraney's play, the staging spare, the technical effects minimal but timely, and most of the performances convincingly crafted." Read the full review »
McCraney's "Marcus" Has Topnotch Talent Telling Its Gay Coming-of-Age Story
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"Tarell Alvin McCraney's Brother/Sister Trilogy has become one of the major dramatic works of the current era. Pillsbury House and the Mount Curve Company co-produced the first two plays at the Guthrie's Dowling Studio. Now they are presenting the final and best of the three in the same venue by the same director, OBIE-winner Marion McClinton." Read the full review »
"Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet" by Pillsbury House Theatre at the Guthrie Theater
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"Talented young playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney has such a unique vision and voice, and these three plays create such a specific world with people that are familiar and beloved." Read the full review »
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"The Dowling Studio provides such an intimate setting for this story. The actors larger than life emotions and depth sweep you away into the bayou, into the storm that is coming literally and figuratively. As you watch Marcus unravel his dreams and truth, you will see some of your own life but also life through new eyes, with profound insight. This play takes touchy subject matter, makes it real and teaches us with plenty of humor along the way." Read the full review »


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Mozart and More! delivers less than it should
THE Winnipeg Chamber Music Society is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. The current group has been together for more than a decade and they are gifted individual players. Together, Gwen Hoebig and Karl Stobbe, violins, Daniel Scholz, viola, Yuri Hooker, cello and David Moroz, piano are, on most nights, as good a chamber music ensemble as you will hear anywhere.
Something just wasn't quite right on Tuesday night in the first of their annual two-concert mini-festival, Mozart and More! Whether it was the once-in-a-lifetime occurrence of the transit of Venus or just not enough rehearsal time, this was not the quality of performance we have come to expect from this talented group.
And while there were certainly some high points, including the performance of special guest, cellist Desmond Hoebig, the program of Mozart and Brahms was disappointedly uneven.
Mozart's final string quartet, Quartet in F Major, K590, began with Gwen Hoebig, Stobbe, Scholz and Hooker in tightly meshed rhythmic unison. They played with lovely balance and gusto, offset by flowing melodic passages. Mozart wrote this work for King Frederick of Prussia who played the cello, so he gave the instrument many opportunities to shine. Hooker approached this modestly and tastefully. Scholz, in his passagework, made his viola sing like a sultry alto, satisfying and throaty.
Hoebig, amidst some commanding playing, did not project her usual rounded tone, but offered a rougher, less polished version that didn't suit the movement.
Deep, reverberating notes from the cello anchored the stately opening of the andante. A playful melody ran through much of this movement but often bordered on plodding. It needed a lighter touch -- which only some of the artists employed. Despite some sensitive playing, one yearned for it to be less careful and more carefree. Hoebig's final notes were pretty and delicate.
The deceivingly pert menuetto, full of intricate passages and loaded with grace notes was full of the unexpected and played with great energy and form. The finale featured a scurrying motif running from one instrument to the other before getting down to serious business. The quartet dove right in, never missing a beat, despite frequent stops and starts in the score.
Hoebig's brother, Desmond was the star of the second half of the program. Cello professor at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music in Houston, he brought his big sound to the stage for Brahms' Trio in B Major, Op. 8. Sister Gwen and Moroz joined him.
We were lured in immediately with his ultra-romantic opening solo. But when the piano entered it was a rude awakening -- as the chords were harsh and crashing and threw the entire section off balance. The Hoebigs play so well together, with matched vibratos as if by instinct, yet their mellow playing was marred by overpowering piano and even a few stumbles. This occurred several times throughout the work and is not typical of Moroz's playing. Perhaps lowering the piano lid would help alleviate the unfortunate volume situation.
The adagio, however, was beautiful, with piano and strings taking turns at the pensive, gradually growing theme. The cello solo passage was deeply emotional and warm. Moroz found just the right touch here, blending well. This was patient and intuitive playing by all.
The festival continues Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
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Why Obama caved yesterday
Three primarily political reasons drove the Obama concession yesterday to allow insurance companies to continue to cover customers whose plans don't meet ObamaCare standards. And none really had anything to do with doing what was right for the citizenry. He wasn't really doing anyone any favors except Democrats. He was, as usual, focused solely on limiting political damage.
One reason that drove the concession was the usual – an attempt to start shifting the blame. As Megan McArdle points out:
This may be a near-perfect specimen of that Washington perennial: the nonsolution solution. Insurers are already warning that they can't simply allow people to stay on their old plans, firstly because all plans have to be approved by state insurers who haven't signed onto this, and secondly because getting their computer systems to reissue the canceled policies is a hefty programming task that may not be possible to complete by the end of the year. But that's not the administration's problem, is it? They can say, "Hey, we changed the rule — if your insurer went ahead and canceled your policy anyway, that's not our fault!"
Blame shifting is as natural to this administration as breathing is to the rest of us. While they take more heat, they can now pass some of it off to insurers who were simply following the law as the Democrats and the administration had written it. Now they're the bad guys. As you might imagine, the insurance industry is furious. And insurance regulators? Well, they're left wondering what is what.
Reason number two for the concession was Congressional Democrat panic. Karl Rove has some thoughts on that:
Mr. Obama's assertion in the NBC interview that "the majority of folks" whose coverage is canceled will "be able to get better care at the same cost or cheaper" is also likely to be false. The higher premiums that result from ObamaCare's bells-and-whistles coverage mandates may be offset for some by subsidies, but most people will pay more.
This problem will get worse and poses a dilemma for Mr. Obama and Democrats. A March analysis by Healthpocket.com estimated that less than 2% of individual plans comply with ObamaCare's mandates. A Nov. 7 study by McClatchy Newspapers suggests as many as 52 million people, including many covered by their employers, could lose their plan.
As the 2014 election approaches, these people will be (a) losing coverage or have lost it already, (b) shopping for new policies, (c) suffering sticker shock over higher premiums and deductibles and (d) wondering why Mr. Obama called their previous policy with doctors they liked "subpar." Then, next September and October, they'll be told about premium increases for 2015.
Democrats know this, and that is why they're pushing so hard for a delay in these cancellations. They're really not so much interested in a "fix" as they are in enough time to avoid the consequences of the law in 2014. So they're very willing to grab this totally short-term political "solution" by kicking the can down the road in order to weather the 2014 midterms. By the time this rears its ugly head again in full, they're hoping the elections will be over.
Again, this isn't about people losing coverage. This is about Democrats losing office.
And finally the third reason was a real need to get out in front of the Upton bill in the House. Kimberley Strassel covers that:
The primary purpose of the White House "fix" was to get out ahead of the planned Friday vote on Michigan Republican Fred Upton's "Keep Your Health Plan Act." The stage was set for dozens of Democrats to join with the GOP for passage—potentially creating a veto-proof majority, and putting enormous pressure on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to follow suit.
The White House couldn't risk such a bipartisan rebuke. Moreover, the Upton bill—while it lacks those GOP joy words of "delay" or "repeal"—poses a threat, since it would allow insurers to continue providing non-ObamaCare policies to any American who wants one. Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu's version of the bill would in fact (unconstitutionally) order insurers to offer the plans in perpetuity. Both bills undermine the law's central goal of forcing healthy people into costly ObamaCare exchange plans that subsidize the sick.
The president's "fix" is designed to limit such grandfathering, but that's why it is of dubious political help to Democrats. Within minutes of Mr. Obama's announcement, several Democratic senators, including North Carolina's Kay Hagan —whose poll numbers have plummeted in advance of her 2014 re-election bid—announced that they remain in favor of Landrieu-style legislation.
But it's not going to happen. Obama has already said he'd veto the Upton legislation. There's a message there for Mary Landrieu as well.
This was all about Barack Obama, as usual. It is a result of raw political calculation – his only seeming area of competence. He's now managed a political solution which serves him about as well as any solution can in the mess he and his administration have made of this atrocious law. He's found someone else to shift the blame too, he's quieted Democrats, at least for the moment and he's politically pre-empted a GOP move that would have seriously damaged his signature legislation and dumped his leadership and credibility ratings even lower.
For him, this is about as good as it gets.
Obama myth of a strong and decisive leader finally meets reality
I'm not sure why a majority of America once did consider Obama a strong and decisive leader, but then there are a lot of things I can't explain. But Gallup's latest poll makes it clear than President Obama is no long considered a strong and decisive leader, at least for the moment:
After six messy weeks — defined chiefly by the partial government shutdown and troubled rollout of the federal government's healthcare exchange website — President Barack Obama's reputation with the American public has faltered in some ways, but not in others. Most notably, for the first time in his presidency, fewer than half of Americans, 47%, say Obama is a "strong and decisive leader," down six percentage points since September.
The current spin coming from the White House and Democrats says this is all a cumulative bump in the road that had to be suffered. The disastrous ObamaCare rollout, the government shutdown, the perceived lie about keeping one's healthcare insurance if they wanted it have all, as Obama's favorite preacher would say have "come home to roost".
The question, however, isn't when will this pass, but whether it will pass at all? Is this just a bump in the road for the Obama team or is it the "new normal" for him?
There's no question the trend in his approval ratings the past few months have been anything but encouraging. One thing politicians have learned throughout the ages that they're unlikely to keep their job if they lose the trust of their constituency. There's obviously very little reason for Obama to be concerned about losing his job, however, loss of trust now, barely into his second term, could mean his second term agenda is all but dead on arrival. His desire to push immigration reform and climate change legislation wouldn't even get our of the starting gate. That's because other politicians, the ones he needs to get the job done for him, will have no fear of defying his wishes and facing the wrath of the people.
So how has Mr. Obama's trustworthiness done? Not well:
Similarly, the share of Americans who view Obama as "honest and trustworthy" has dipped five points. Exactly half of Americans still consider Obama honest and trustworthy, but this is down from 55% in September and 60% in mid-2012 as Obama was heading toward re-election.
He's at 50% and sinking. And you've got other Democrats taking the lead in trying to fix the ObamaCare debacle while he seems to be doing what he usually does – dither.
The hit, then, to both his trustworthiness and decisiveness are a bit of a double whammy to his ambitious agenda. And it may not be recoverable as Gallup points out:
Of more concern for the White House, Obama's once-positive image as a strong and decisive leader has suffered, in addition to his longtime reputation for being honest and trustworthy. Of these, the decline in Obama's honesty rating may be the most noteworthy because Gallup has previously found that this dimension is one of the most important drivers of his overall job approval. Thus, the recent controversy over whether the president honestly described Americans' ability to retain their own healthcare plans under the Affordable Care Act could have the most significant implications for his presidency.
As Insty would say, indeed. Taking hits in decisiveness and trustworthiness are not hits you shrug off. They represent core qualities or a lack thereof and once lost, they're very hard to regain. Mr. Obama is seen more and more to be lacking those qualities. That doesn't bode will for him in the next 3 years.
Democrats want the usual "villain" blamed for ObamaCare debacle … not them
If you're wondering why, please remember that whenever the Democrats or the White House get in trouble, step one of escaping that trouble is to use the bully pulpit to blame someone else. Oh, and there's the fact that in the past, attacking the health insurance companies seemed to have worked:
The approach hasn't sat well with some Democratic allies, who are publicly and privately urging the White House to ramp up its attacks on insurers, arguing that the the tactic shored up support as they struggled to push the bill through Congress. A group of Democratic strategists pressed senior administration officials during a conference call last week.
They'd like a repeat of 2009-10, when then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called insurers "the villains," Obama blasted their willingness to "bend the truth or break it," and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius accused them of banking excessive profits.
"When Obamacare got into trouble, we juxtaposed our message against the insurance companies, which are very unpopular," said Celinda Lake, a Democratic pollster who has advised her 2014 clients, including Alaska Sen. Mark Begich, to go after insurers. "We should be messaging against the insurance companies this time as well. This is not good faith. If there is a snowstorm, the insurance companies are blaming it on Obamacare."
But there's a problem. With the horrific rollout of ObamaCare, the White House needs the support of the industry they demonized for so long. They need the "villains".
This time around, Obama needs the industry to make Obamacare work.
His restrained response over the past week shows just how much the dynamic between Obama and the insurance companies has shifted since the law passed — and how their fates have become intertwined. The health care law expands coverage to millions of Americans by sending them into the private insurance market armed with tax subsidies, forcing the president and his former nemeses into an uneasy partnership that's only beginning to face strains.
"Their interests are aligned with our interests in terms of wanting to enroll targeted populations," a senior White House official said Wednesday. "It is not that we will agree with everything now either, but I would say for some time now there has been a collaboration because of that mutual interest."
The uneasy truce will likely exist until such a time as it is politically expedient for the White House to blame all of ACA's ills on someone else — namely health insurance providers (trying to blame Republicans seems to have had little traction). But they can't afford to do that at the moment. However, while a full frontal assault on the industry may not be in the offing, the White House is still inclined to snipe:
Senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett angered insurers when she posted on Twitter that it was a "fact" that "nothing in Obamacare forces people out of their health plans."
White House press secretary Jay Carney has been critical of insurance companies during his daily briefings, calling the individual market an under-regulated "Wild West." But he's tried to strike a balance, casting insurers as engaged in bad practices before the new health care law brought them into line.
Obama did the same during a health care speech Friday in Boston.
"Remember, before the Affordable Care Act, these bad apple insurers had free rein every single year to limit the care that you received or used minor pre-existing conditions to jack up your premiums or bill you into bankruptcy," Obama said.
Ah, the life of a failed community organizer and his posse. Help create a monstrosity out of whole cloth and then, when it performs as poorly as critics said it would, find a "villain" and blame them. Except right now you need the villain. Meanwhile your party is raising the volume on its protests about the awful rollout and its effect on their chances for re-election next year.
What to do. What to do.
You Can't Sabotage a Disaster
The Democrats' newest line in the peeling onion of fail that is Obamacare is that its failure is all the Republicans' fault because…they sabotaged it. This line has been taken up by Politico in an article by Todd S. Purdum.
From the moment the bill was introduced, Republican leaders in both houses of Congress announced their intention to kill it. Republican troops pressed this cause all the way to the Supreme Court — which upheld the law, but weakened a key part of it by giving states the option to reject an expansion of Medicaid. The GOP faithful then kept up their crusade past the president's reelection, in a pattern of "massive resistance" not seen since the Southern states' defiance of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954…
Most Republican governors declined to create their own state insurance exchanges — an option inserted in the bill in the Senate to appeal to the classic conservative preference for local control — forcing the federal government to take at least partial responsibility for creating marketplaces serving 36 states — far more than ever intended.
Then congressional Republicans refused repeatedly to appropriate dedicated funds to do all that extra work, leaving the Health and Human Services Department and other agencies to cobble together HealthCare.gov by redirecting funds from existing programs. On top of that, nearly half of the states declined to expand their Medicaid programs using federal funds, as the law envisioned.
Then, in the months leading up to the program's debut, some states refused to do anything at all to educate the public about the law. And congressional Republicans sent so many burdensome queries to local hospitals and nonprofits gearing up to help consumers navigate the new system face-to-face that at least two such groups returned their federal grants and gave up the effort.
So, political opposition to a law that Republicans always opposed is now "sabotage'. That's simply nonsense on stilts. The law was passed without a single Republican vote. That should've been a big signal to Democrats that the law was going to be on shaky ground, but of course, in their arrogance, it didn't.
Back in 1993, when Hillary Clinton was working on Health Care Reform, Daniel Patrick Moynihan gave her some sage advice. He told her that without support from a large, non-partisan majority, no large-scale reform can ever be successfully concluded. She ignored him at the time, just as Democrats ignored that advice when they passed Obamacare on a strictly party-line vote.
But no Congress can ever bind a succeeding Congress. This has been a black-letter principle of American politics for two centuries. The only way a succeeding congress can be bound is if the support for a particular law is widespread and bi-partisan. And in the case of Obamacare, not only have the Republicans been opposed since the beginning so has a majority of the American people. Obamacare has never polled with majority support among the electorate, and as its implementation date has drawn closer, the majority of the electorate that opposes it has increased.
Howard Dean, recently suggested that Republican opposition to Obamacare is a sign that Republicans have "forgotten that they're actually supposed to serve the American people." But since, by all the polling results I've ever seen, a substantial majority of the public opposes Obamacare, it would seem to me that Republican opposition is actually the precise opposite of what Howard Dean suggests.
Defining opposition to Obamacare as "sabotage" is simply sour grapes from an arrogant political party that imposed an unpopular law against the apparent wishes of the electorate.
Obamacare is a disaster. I predicted it was an unworkable disaster before it was passed, as did anyone who took the time to look at the perverse incentives it created. The amount of wishful thinking that went in to passing this stupid law is incomprehensible to me. It could not have been more clearly prone to failure if it had been intentionally designed to fail.
Make no mistake: if you support Obamacare, you are a complete dolt, or so lacking in fundamental knowledge that your opinion about it is irrelevant. It is a law that literally cannot accomplish its stated purpose, because it ignores essential and fundamental economic and political realities. Moreover, it was passed in opposition to a majority of Americans.
Opposition to this disaster is not sabotage. It is the only rational response to the utter stupidity it encapsulates.
But framing opposition as sabotage does have a darker, more nefarious purpose. The whole point of such charges is to delegitimize the opposition. Frankly, it's part of what I see as an ongoing Democratic strategy to define opposition to any policy they support as un-American, at the very least, if not somehow criminal. The Left in this country could not be doing more to foment a civil war if they were intentionally trying to do so.
I have very little hope for the future of this country. I have very little left but anger.
Lying liars and the lying liars who support them
I'm not one to use the word "liar" much since I consider it's definition to be very specific, i.e. telling something you know to be false.
However, in the case of the ObamaCare lie – and that's what it was when President Obama said "if you like your insurance, you can keep it" – I call it what it is. And there's no question about it now.
What I hate worse than a liar is someone who tries to rationalize or explain away a lie. Like Steny Hoyer:
House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer conceded to reporters today that Democrats knew people would not be able to keep their current health care plans under Obamacare and expressed qualified contrition for President Obama's repeated vows to the contrary.
"We knew that there would be some policies that would not qualify and therefore people would be required to get more extensive coverage," Hoyer said in response to a question from National Review.
Asked by another reporter how repeated statements by Obama to the contrary weren't "misleading," Hoyer said "I don't think the message was wrong. I think the message was accurate. It was not precise enough…[it] should have been caveated with – 'assuming you have a policy that in fact does do what the bill is designed to do.'"
So it was a lie to begin with, no one spoke up and now the lying liars are trying to spin the result. You weren't just misled – you were LIED too. Purposely. And shamelessly.
Welcome to politics and government today. Utter disgust doesn't even begin to describe how I feel about the whole institution.
You may be a criminal
There's an interesting little petition at MoveOn.Org. It got some press attention, and apparently MoveOn decided to try and cool it a little bit, and stop promoting it, even though it seems popular, with almost 50,000 signatures. Anybody can set up a petition at MoveOn, and the popular ones show up on the main petitions page. But, Move on has decided that this petition "may not reflect MoveOn members' progressive values," so they aren't promoting it any more. The petition is still there, though, and here is what it says:
I call on the Justice Department of the United States of America to arrest Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Speaker of the House John Boehner, and other decision-making House Republican leaders for the crime of seditious conspiracy against the United States of America.
Petition Background
The House GOP leadership's use of the Hastert Rule and H. Res 368 to shut down the government and threaten the U.S. economy with default is an attempt to extort the United States government into altering or abolishing the Affordable Care Act, and thus, is self-evidently a seditious conspiracy. Arrest the perpetrators in Congress immediately and bring them to justice.
These people are so sure that they're right that they see no problem at all with criminalizing politics, and threatening their opponents with prison. Political opposition to their preferred political views is not mistaken, in their view, it's criminal. They seem serious about it.
You should probably try and think through the implications of that.
Well goodie – no more debt ceiling – at least till February
In a brilliant move, the GOP has managed to not only be unable to impose the debt ceiling, it has apparently found a way to capitulate and make it temporarily unlimited:
There's no actual debt ceiling right now.
The fiscal deal passed by Congress on Wednesday evening to re-open the government and get around the $16.4 trillion limit on borrowing doesn't actually increase the debt limit. It just temporarily suspends enforcement of it.
That means Americans have no idea how much debt their government is going to rack up between now and February 7, when the limits are supposed to go back into place and will have to be raised.
17 days for this?
And they wonder why people call them the "stupid party".
Is prosperity about to become a thing of the past?
You tell me. Robert Samuelson:
The presumption of strong economic growth supported the spirit and organizational structures of postwar America.
Everyday life was transformed. Credit cards, home equity loans, 30-year mortgages, student loans and long-term auto loans (more than 2 years) became common. In 1955, household debt was 49 percent of Americans' disposable income; by 2007, it was 137 percent. Government moved from the military-industrial complex to the welfare state. In 1955, defense spending was 62 percent of federal outlays, and spending on "human resources" (the welfare state) was 22 percent. By 2012, the figures were reversed; welfare was 66 percent, defense 19 percent. Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, Pell grants and Social Security's disability program are all postwar creations.
Slow economic growth now imperils this postwar order. Credit standards have tightened, and more Americans are leery of borrowing. Government spending — boosted by an aging population eligible for Social Security and Medicare — has outrun our willingness to be taxed. The mismatch is the basic cause of "structural" budget deficits and, by extension, today's strife over the debt ceiling and the government "shutdown."
You know, we keep saying this is "unsustainable", yet we keep refusing to face the problem head on and do anything about it.
This little bit of political theater isn't going to change that and we all know it. The last paragraph identifies the problem. What apparently isn't understood, though, is government is not the solution. And big government simply makes the problem worse because it sucks down more and more of the GDP.
The solution is both painful and difficult. And, of course, no one wants to face that fact, certainly not any politician.
So the can gets kicked down the road – as you know it will before any of this ever begins. None of the politicians want to be "the ones" in power when all of this collapses.
For whatever reason, after WWII, we decided to change the purpose of government from "night watchman" to "Santa Claus". Maybe it was the horror of war. Maybe it was the huge surge in post-war prosperity, but like the story of the goose that laid the golden eggs, we're about to kill the goose.
So what does that mean?
As economist Stephen D. King writes in his book "When the Money Runs Out: The End of Western Affluence":
"Our societies are not geared for a world of very low growth. Our attachment to the Enlightenment idea of ongoing progress — a reflection of persistent postwar economic success — has left us with little knowledge or understanding of worlds in which rising prosperity is no longer guaranteed."
And that fact alone makes any recovery from this mess even less likely. We've been able to stumble along and put off the inevitable because we have managed to have "persistent postwar economic success". But if you look at economic projections for the future, they don't show the historical growth that America has enjoyed since the '50s. They show European type "growth". They show slow growth as the "new normal". Why?
Lindsey attributes U.S. economic growth to four factors: (a) greater labor-force participation, mainly by women; (b) better-educated workers, as reflected in increased high-school and college graduation rates; (c) more invested capital per worker (that's machines and computers); and (d) technological and organizational innovation. The trouble, he writes, is that "all growth components have fallen off simultaneously."
As it seems now, Greece is our future. Nothing, politically, is going to be done about it, despite the current political theater. Neither the politicians nor the citizens want to face reality. And as it is shaping up, it isn't a matter of "if", but "when" it all folds in on itself like a wet cardboard box.
Well, that didn't take long
Last night, on the podcast, I predicted the Republicans would fold on Obamacare, end the shutdown, and avoid a technical default on the debt. Less that 24 hours later, it appears that the Republicans have decided to celebrate the Columbus Day holiday by folding. The word is—as of 1:30pm Pacific Time—that the government will be funded through 15 Jan 2014, and the debt ceiling to around 15 Feb 2014. All is proceeding as I have foreseen.
My position, as a strategic matter, was that the Republicans have simply been galactically stupid. The reality is that Obamacare, with the current Senate and President, will not be repealed. If the republicans, therefore, were not prepared to shut the government down for as long as the sun burns hot in space, they shouldn't have shut it down at all. Moreover, even if we assume, arguendo, that the Republicans were prepared to shut down the government forever, they shouldn't have done it this month.
Alternatively, they could've sent up a temporary debt limit increase first, and ensured that was in place, and then shut the government down. At least that way, they could have a long-term shutdown without the specter of default hanging over it.
Then, they should have delayed shutting down the government until after the Obamacare rollout, which everyone with an ounce of sense knew was going to be a failure. Assuming they could have gotten the senate to sign on to a clean budget deal that would've funded the government for some period of time, that would've made the Obamacare rollout failure the top story last week. Instead it got overshadowed by the budget fight and the shutdown. The Republicans effectively did the Obama administration a favor. Otherwise, they could've waited until the failure of the Obamacare rollout was clear, then could've offered to delay the personal mandate for a year, to match the business mandate delay, as a gesture of good will to give the Administration some time to "get the system fixed."
Sure, the Republicans—or at least a plurality of them—were elected to repeal Obamacare. Sadly, the electorate as a whole didn't provide them with the political power to make that happen. Those Republicans, therefore, cannot simply wave a handful of magical fairy dust and make Obamacare disappear. Absent a new resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, or the program's collapse under its own weight, Obamacare will be the law until 2017. That's just an undeniable fact.
The shutdown was a big game of chicken. The problem is that I firmly believe that President Obama is fully willing to have the US technically default on its debt rather than agree to let Obamacare loose. He isn't going to veer away at the last minute. He'll go all the way to default, then blame Republicans for it, and his water carriers in the media will be glad to repeat that message. As Michael said last night on the podcast, at the end of the day, this isn't about the debt, or default, or Obamacare. It's about taking the chance to destroy the Republican Party's opposition.
And again, I go back to my oft-stated position that I want Obamacare implemented. The electorate effectively voted for it, they rejected the chance to repeal it, so they should get it. good and hard.
All the government shutdown did—a shutdown that the republicans didn't have any plan to implement, by the way—is expose the Republicans as ineffective and, ultimately, feckless. So, this appears to be ending exactly as I knew it would, with the Republicans having accomplished nothing but cause an unnecessary uproar for a couple of weeks, and obscure the Obamacare rollout's failure.
It doesn't do much real-world good to temporarily stand for your principles, without any thought-out plan or strategy, knowing you will eventually cave, with the inevitable result of making it measurably more difficult to stand for your principles in the future.
In basic weapons training, one of the first things you learn is that you never pull a gun on someone unless you're fully ready to put two rounds into the body and one to the head. In this case, the Republicans pulled the gun, brandished it wildly for dramatic effect, and now appear to be ready to calmly snap it back into the holster.
What is the budget endgame? And why do I even care?
So, first off, sorry about no podcast tonight. Bruce is away for a few days, and I was caught up in something.
Anyway, how about that government shutdown, huh?
Obamacare is the central issue, of course. Republicans don't want it, and Democrats don't want to abandon it. So, the whole government shutdown is really about whether or not Obamacare gets repealed or gutted. Both sides have staked out their claim, and the only climbdown I can see for either side would entail a massive loss of face. I don't see how any bill that can pass the House can pass the Senate. And even bills with almost unanimous House support, such as a couple of the peicemeal funding deals the House passed this weekend, are DOA in the Senate.
So far, it's clear that the Senate Democrats won't take up any piecemeal funding at all, since that is tantamount to surrender. After all, if they go down that path, there is one funding bill the Senate will never get from the House, which is an Obamacare funding bill.
What is the endgame, then? When does some sort of deal emerge? I dunno.
I suspect the Republicans will cave, because Obama will simply veto any bill they passed that defunds the ACA. I just don't see how Republicans can win this, unless there is some surge of public disapproval against the Democrats that threatens them wholesale in 2014. Unless the Republicans were willing to shutdown the government for…well…ever over Obamacare, then they shouldn't have shut it down at all. I don't think Republicans are willing to do that, so I think they'll eventually fold without accomplishing anything
My view, of course, is that a continuing government shutdown over Obamacare is pointless. I want the ACA fully implemented. I think it will be a staggeringly massive failure, and I want that that failure to occur. The voters had their chance to elect a Congress and a president that would overturn it. They chose to do otherwise. So…screw 'em. They voted for it. They should get it. Good and hard.
Over and above all that, I go back, once again, to wondering how long all of this can go on. The Right and Left in the country have fundamentally different ideas about the purpose and role of government. Those ideas are completely incompatible. So, why would either side continue to consent to rule by the other?
I just don't know. I don't know about any of it. That's why I don't write about politics much anymore. I've seen the idea of individual liberty be consumed by this ever-encroaching collectivism for my entire life. Nothing much has stopped it. I'm not sure that there's much of anything that can stop it, other than to let it run its course, and for the American people, hopefully, to realize that the promises of collectivism are false, and that to the extent it brings economic equality, it is an equality of poverty—except for government officials and their cronies, of course. They'll always have their dachas outside Moscow. Or farms in the Virginia countryside, as the case may be.
And if the American people don't ever realize that…well…then they don't, and they deserve whatever they get. I'm pretty sure that what I write about it won't effect it much either way. And, frankly, the way things have gone for my lifetime, the long slow surrender to collectivism is almost at the point of no return. I expect I'll do what I can to enjoy the dying fruits of the country our forefathers bequeathed to us for as long as I can, and hope I die before the Levellers finish looting it, and it's gone.
So, I've been driving a new Chrysler 200 for the past few days. I'll drive it a few more days. Then I'll write about it this week. That'll give me a lot more pleasure than writing about Washington power games and the declining state of our political culture ever will.


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Sex offender claims to be living in homeless shelterMarch 27,2013BENNINGTON A Bennington man, who has been charged in New York for rape, sexual assault on a physically helpless person and sexual contact with someone younger than 11, was arraigned Monday for failing to comply with the requirements of the Vermont Sex Offender Registry for a period longer than five consecutive days.
According to an affidavit filed in the case, Christopher Carreau, 33, of Bennington, is currently staying at the homeless shelter on North Street although officials with the Bennington Coalition for the Homeless have identified that shelter as temporary housing designed to be used for only one or two nights at a time.
Carreau pleaded innocent to the charge in Bennington criminal court Monday.
In an affidavit, Detective Anthony Silvestro of the Bennington Police Department said Carreau was convicted in Rennselaer County, N.Y., of first-degree rape in October 2000. The conviction requires Carreau to be registered in Vermont as a sex offender.
Silvestro said he learned from staff at the Vermont Department of Children and Families on March 12 that Carreau was using an address with the sex offender registry that was not his true address.
Silvestro said he interviewed Carreau on March 18 and said Carreau was not continually staying at the address he provided to the registry.
Carreau was released without bail on Monday but ordered not to have contact with children younger than 16 except for contact approved by the Vermont Department of Children and Families.MORE IN This Just InBy Susan Smallheer Full StoryMONTPELIER – The United States Department of Agriculture announced today that schools in... Full StoryBy Brent Curtis Full Story
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A microporous catalytic material and support prepared under a reducing atmosphere by pyrolysis of an interiorly metal-plated porous polymer to leave the residual microporous tubular-configured metal sheaths of the nodes, fibrils, or other surfaces within the interior of the resulting hollow structure.
1. A microporous catalytic material and support structure for catalytic material comprising a three-dimensional tubular network of metal having micropores throughout, which network comprises the hollow tubular residue of continuous metal plated nodes and fibrils of the interstices of a microporous polymeric material which has been pyrolyzed to remove all materials except said metal material.
2. A catalytic material of claim 1 prepared from a metallized microporous synthetic organic polymer material.
3. A catalytic material of claim 2 wherein the polymer is polytetrafluoroethylene.
4. A catalytic material of claim 1 prepared from a metallized naturally occurring pyrolyzable porous material.
5. A catalytic material of claim 1, 2, 3, or 4, wherein a catalytic metal is plated on said catalytic material as a support structure.
6. A process for preparing a microporous catalytic material and support structure which comprises a three-dimensional network of tubular metal configurations corresponding to the surfaces of the nodes, fibrils, and other surface of the interstices of a microporous polymeric material comprising the steps of:
(a) metal plating the surfaces of the nodes, fibrils, or other surfaces of a microporous material;
(b) placing said plated material between porous supporting means;
(c) pyrolyzing the supported plated microporous material at a temperature and for a time to completely remove all non-metal material; and optionally
(d) chemically removing one or more interior or outer layers of metal.
7. A process of claim 6 wherein the plating process is by electroplating.
8. A process of claim 6 wherein the plating process is by chemical electroless plating.
9. A process of claims 6, 7, or 8 wherein the pyrolysis is carried out in a reducing atmosphere.
10. A process of claims 6, 7 or 8, wherein the plating process is selectively repeated to build up metal layers in a predetermined order to provide following step (c) selectively chosen metal surfaces on the inside and outside of the material.
11. A process of repeating steps (a), (c), and (d) of the process of claims 6, 7, or 8, as a means of providing support for the catalytic material.
12. A process of claim 6 wherein a less-nobel metal layer is removed from the catalytic material by an acid wash or treatment with an organic metal-complexing agent.
The invention relates to catalytic materials, specifically microporous catalytic materials which can alternatively serve as a support for catalytic materials.
Catalytic materials, such as supported metal catalysts, are usually prepared by impregnating a porous high surface area support medium with a salt of the catalytic metal in solution or ion-exchanging atoms of the catalytic metal for certain of those of the support medium.
In the case of salt impregnation, the pores of the support medium are impregnated with sufficient solution to coat the outside of the support medium if a surface shell of metal around the outside of the catalyst particle is wanted or the support medium may be completely soaked in the metal salt solution, the support particles drained, dried, and calcined in air to convent the metal salt to the corresponding oxide. The oxide is reduced by hydrogen to the zero valent metal atoms at the sites of the oxide particles on the surface or within the pores of the particles of support medium.
In the ion exchange method, complexed catalyst metal atoms replace acidic hydrogen atoms of the support medium, the support is washed with deionized water to remove all free salt, the support dried, calcined, and reduced. Catalysts prepared as above have the metal dispersed on surface of the support, including inside the pores, as small crystallites of varying sizes.
Another type of catalytic material is porous metal-platable materials, used in electrochemical catalytic reactions such as fuel cells, electrochemical production or as electrodes for other reactions. Processes for chemical plating the surface of and within the pores of solid polymer materials have been used to make electrodes for fuel cells, for instance, by LeDuc, as shown in U.S. Pat. No. 3,235,473, where a continuous layer of silver was deposited from solution on the surface and within the pores of polyethylene. An electroplating process disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,204,918 plated metal onto the walls of the void spaces in porous metal sheets, such as nickel, to provide porous catalytic materials.
The preferred materials for use as starting materials in the present invention and the process for making them are those disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,557,957 and 4,720,400, issued to the present inventor and the two references are hereby incorporated by reference. The patents describe microporous polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) articles, having a microstructure of nodes interconnected by fibrils in which a continuous metal coating plates and incapsulates nodes and fibrils of the microporous PTFE structure, while maintaining substantially the original porosity of the unplated microporous PTFE from which the metal-plated articles were formed.
The invention is a microporous catalytic material which can be a support structure for other catalytic material. The material is a three-dimensional tubular network of microporous metal which comprises the residue of the continuous metal plated nodes and fibrils of the interior of a metal-plated segment of microporous polymeric material, such as PTFE, which has been pyrolyzed to remove the PTFE. The network may be used as is as a catalyst if the plating is by use of a catalytic metal and if pyrolysis has been under reducing conditions. If the network is to serve as a carrier, another different catalytic metal may be plated on the surfaces of the metal residue.
FIG. 1 shows a segment of pyrolyzed three-dimensional catalyst and support structure of the invention with fluid flow through and around it.
FIG. 2 shows a segment of network.
With reference now to the Figures, FIG. 1 shows a microstructure composed of hollow metal nodes and interconnected hollow fibrils. A fluid flow is depicted through the segment of metallized microstructure in the X,Y, and Z directions, with the Z direction being through the hollow inside of the tubing making up the microstructure. The Z direction fluid flow may be one of diffusion and because of the small pore sizes of the inside hollow microstructure apertures, molecular separation may occur in that only molecules of sizes small enough to diffuse inside this microstructure will pass inside and separate from other molecules. Those molecules that diffuse inside may contact catalytic metal atoms or crystallites plated on the inside of these very small tubes or pores. The metal surface on the inside of the tubes can be the same or different from that on the outside of the tubes of the microstructure and can be chosen for the specific catalytic reactions desired. Such use of different metals for catalytic reactions is known as bimetallic catalysis. The Z microstructure pore size can be controlled for desired molecular size ranges by selecting the porous expanded PTFE membrane for its initial node and fibril diameter, so that when the PTFE is pyrolyzed from the metallized membrane, the hollow pores formed by removal of the PTFE by pyrolysis will be in the desired molecular size ranges.
To manufacture the above metallic microstructure, porous expanded PTFE membranes, which have been prepared according to U.S. Pat. No. 3,953,566, are metal-plated with platinum or platinum black, for instance, or another catalytic metal by the methods disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,557,957 and 4,720,400 and several sheets of the metallized material placed between two fine-meshed metal screens. The screen-supported sandwich construction holding the metallized membranes may be flat planar or cylindrical, and may be build up in layers or spirally wound, or in any useful shape. The construction is placed in a hydrogen gas-purged furnace and the temperature raised to at least the pyrolysis temperature of PTFE. The temperature is held until the PTFE is completely pyrolyzed to leave only the intact node and fibril shaped metal microstructure inside the supporting screens. This structure can be used as is, as a microporous catalytic material or as a catalytic support material which can be further electroplated or chemically plated with platinum or platinum black or other catalytic metal on the outside or on the inside of the hollow nodes and fibrils of metal according to the methods of the above patents.
An example of a way to provide different catalytic metals inside than outside of the material is to first lay down a layer of platium-palladium-tin mixed plating according to a metalling process of U.S. Pat. No. 4,720,400 on the surface of the nodes and fibrils of a piece of porous expanded PTFE. This is followed by plating on in order layer of nickel, platinum black, platinum, and gold. The plated material is then pyrolyzed above the decomposition point of PTFE to complete elimination of the PTFE to leave a tubular material having hollow nodes and fibrils, nickel coated inside and gold coated outside. An acid solution can be used to remove the nickel from the interior of the hollow material without disturbing the outside coating of gold to yield a catalytic material having platinum black on the inside and gold on the outside. By proper ordering of plated-on layers one can then selectively remove layers by appropriately selected means to remove them when desired by acid wash or other means, such as an organic complexing agent.
This electroplatable or chemically platable porous microstructure of the PTFE membrane starting material consists of nodes interconnected by very fibrils which are affected in size, shape, and length by the conditions of temperature, rate of stretch, and the temperature and time of heat setting of the stretched material. The fibrils may vary from about 5 angstroms to about 1000 angstroms in width and the nodes may be less than 1 micron to about 400 microns across and these materials produced at high temperature and stretch rates have smaller more closely spaced nodes, more interconnecting fibrils, and greater strength. The initial surface area of the PTFE membrane starting materials range from 5-10 square meters per gram of material. However, when catalytic metals of different surface area are deposited on the PTFE membrane microstructure, the surface areas can be increased, thereby providing controlled catalytically active sites for specific catalytic reactions.
Various screening or other porous supports to hold the metallized membrane for pyrolysis and use afterwards can be utilized. Support materials such as stainless steel, Hastelloy, Inconnel, platinum, gold, ceramics, and refractory metals and alloys generally which are chemically resistant to attack by the pyrolysis products of PTFE and heatable while retaining adequate strength to and beyond the pyrolysis temperature of PTFE can be utilized. The heating generally takes place in an electric induction furnace in a reducing environment, usually hydrogen, and the pyrolysis products of PTFE are removed by hydrogen purging.
The prepared catalytic material may be used as is in the screens in flat, cylindrical, or other useful shapes for catalysis of fluid phase reactions and the plating process may be repeated to provide thicker metal layers which can serve to support themselves.
The preferred material for making the catalyst of the invention is the metallized porous expanded PTFE described in the two patents above, but any other porous material which can be plated in its interior interstices upon node-like and fiber-like arrangements and configurations obtained by stretching the material, such as an organic polymer other than PTFE, or other materials that are manufactured by other methods or are naturally occurring materials having microporous configurations and are metal-platable and amenable to pyrolysis can also be utilized to make the catalytic material of the invention. A filled substrate from which the fill has been solubilized might be used.
It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and changes could be made without departing from the scope of the invention, the boundaries of which are delineated by the appended claims.
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The five-part miniseries starring Kate Winslet, Guy Pearce and Evan Rachel Wood debuted Sunday night.
HBO's Kate Winslet miniseries Mildred Pierce drew 1.3 million total viewers in its premiere Sunday night.
The pay network said that was on par with its expectations for the five-part mini.
HBO also added that Part 2 of the mini, which aired at 10 p.m., retained 94 percent of the audience from Part 1 and that 63 percent of viewers were female.
Compared with other recent HBO miniseries debuts, Mildred Pierce didn't fare as well as last year's The Pacific (3.1 million) or 2008's John Adams (1.8 million) but outperformed 2008's Generation Kill (1 million) and that same year's House of Saddam (900,000).
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- Preparation Time: 180 min
- 2 (6 oz.) cans Albacore Tuna (water packed) drained and flaked
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- 2 hard boiled eggs, finely chopped
- 1/4 cup green or red pepper, chopped
- 2 stalks celery, chopped
- 1 bunch green onions, chopped
- 1 cup frozen green peas cooked and cooled (or 1 cup canned peas, drained)
- 3/4 cup mayonnaise (or to taste)
- 2 tablespoons pickle relish
- salt and pepper to taste
- Cook macaroni according to package directions, drain and rinse with cold water. Allow to cool.
- Mix first 7 ingredients. Mix well.
- In a small bowl, mix together mayonnaise, pickle relish, salt and pepper. Add to the macaroni and mix well. Place in refrigerator for several hours before serving.
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8132805417 / 813-280-5417
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ma 1 week, 6 days ago
I don't know who this number belongs too. When I call recording says call can not completed please call customer service.
judy 1 week, 6 days ago
Keep getting calls from this number and no one is on the other line
Fed up 1 week, 6 days ago
Scammer. ...
call all the time, never leave any voice mail to contact back, like a legitimate business would do. Set my phone to auto block the number when it rings, I don't hear it... lovely concept I must say !
Thinking about hooking up an air horn to my phone next... soon as they call pick up and Blast them ! lol
call all the time, never leave any voice mail to contact back, like a legitimate business would do. Set my phone to auto block the number when it rings, I don't hear it... lovely concept I must say !
Thinking about hooking up an air horn to my phone next... soon as they call pick up and Blast them ! lol
Pat 2 weeks, 6 days ago
Definitely something about health care. I get calls three or four times a day. Never leaves a message. I called back but message told me that call cannot be completed. I say health care because I've been shopping for insurance and I've received an explosion of calls, usually from courteous callers who identify themselves and refrain from further calls. Don't know how one call re insurance can result in so many people calling me. Disgusting and needs to stop.
becky 4 weeks, 2 days ago
This number keeps calling me but never leaves a message
Anon on 24/10/14
Calls on cellphone with no messages - repeat calls. I'm not answering.
Anonymous on 21/10/14
This # has called me 2 times. When I try to call back it says non working #
Donald Duck on 17/10/14
I just enter the number as BS and don't answer them at all after googleing them to find out more info!
A.Spolar on 25/9/14
This company has called my husband 6 times within the last 4 hours! Ridiculous! Every time I answer I have to ask who they are about 4 times, almost all of the time without an answer, and they do not speak good english, so you know, that helps a whole lot! They refuse to tell me any info about their company or what you are calling in regards to. Most of the time they say "Sorry wrong number" no you asked for my husband, clearly you have the right #! If you dont know who your company is, or what you are calling for, DO NOT call! Simple as that! Finally some girl told me it was a A&b insurance company or something like that, acting like I had the nerve to ask them who they were. So finally fed up with the multiple phones calls while my husband tries to sleep for work,I call the # back and what do you know, it beeps twice and then disconnects. SCAM alert, block this #! Sketchy sad business. Do NOT give them any personal information!
Caller Type: Likely Phishing or Scam
hexxuss on 21/7/14
Definitely a scammer. They're calling my cellphone (illegal - report at the fcc.gov website), that is on the federal do not call list (report at donotcall.gov website), 3-4 times a day. They most likely got everyone's info from the various database breeches that have happened, which may include your name, contact number & bank name (especially if it was the Target breech). The only things they would need to totally steal your identity is your date of birth & social security #. NO NOT provide them info!
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Ky. man applies for job, steals sunglasses -- uses real name
Police say they had little trouble tracking down 23-year-old Andre Wells of Louisville when a store employee accused him of taking $540 worth of sunglasses.
The Courier-Journal reported that Wells left his real name on a job application just moments earlier.
A Jefferson County arrest warrant says Wells walked into Dr. Bizer's Vision World - where he was a former patient - on March 5 and asked for a job application.
The warrant says Wells filled out the application and then asked for a vision exam, but when the clerk turned away Wells walked out with three pairs of sunglasses.
Officials say four witnesses at the store identified Wells by picking his photo out of a lineup.
He was arrested and charged with theft by unlawful taking.
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