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A colorful assortment of some of the best varieties available today. Includes one each of a pink, red, yellow, orange and purple rose plant. While the varieties vary with each collection, each rose will be tagged by cultivar. It's an affordable way to incorporate high-quality roses into your gardens. Bareroot. Zones 4-9.
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These are beautiful roses! They did well in my clay soil. My favorite rose was a peachy and yellow color. They made beautiful cut flowers from June to September.The purple roses had the most blooms and the most thorns.
I ordered the collection on Memorial Day and they arrived within one week. Very sturdy and in good health. It is now July 16 the and these roses are the best looking ones in my garden. (I have 15 total from this grouping.). Tall, health beautiful roses are being produced. So far the only issue that I have had this year is Beatles. I will be ordering another collection for next year. I am very satisfied!
OH my i was a little skeptical of the deal but i thought such a great price i will try it. So so very glad i did these plants were so very healthy im so floored got them few months back planted in front of house oh my what absolutely gorgeous roses i have they are really blooming and only had to spray them once with a insect spray thats pretty good considering i live in the woods i mean really in the woods surrounded by acres of trees bugs etc and these little beauties took off cant wait for this offer to come back want to get some more.
I bought 5 Collections and couldn't be more pleased. Since they are Bare Root you have to be a little patient. They are all well established plants when you get them. Not starters. All 25 Rose Bushes are producing beautiful Roses. Thank You for such a wonderful deal.
I bought the 5 rose collection in April 2016 and 4 of them did very well. I called the nursery in June to let them know that one plant did not survive. They agreed replace. Excellent customer service. I will order more from them.
I purchased 5 Collections so far and they are really exciting to see them grow. They may not look too good when you first get them and plant them. Give them a couple of weeks and they start to come to life and take off. I can hardly wait to see them with all the different colors of roses.
I bought 5 collections of these roses and every set turned out spectacular. You will not be disappointed.
I have planted 3 sets of the Rainbow Of Roses and they have really started growing fast. Awaiting two more Collections to plant.
I ordered the Rainbow of Roses Collection Solo on the 13th of April and they arrived on the 20th.They sure shipped a lot faster then other places I bought stuff from. My 5 rose bushes arrived in great shape and really nice size plants with huge root systems on all 5 of them. These are some of the best roses that I have ever bought from anywhere. I would highly recommend Spring Hill Nursery to anyone. They are by far a 5 stars Company! Thank you for the Rainbow of Roses Collection Solo
I would recommend this collection to everyone who loves roses,Springhill has the biggest and best.Thanks for being such a great nursery.
I agree with all the reviews. Huge bare roots, and healthy sturdy stems right out of the box. Not to mention they are guaranteed to go. You can't go wrong. Thanks for a great plant. I will be back
These rose collections are great. I ordered one collection for this spring and I will order another. I've gotten them in the past. Beautiful choices. Thank you for making them available to us at a wonderful price! I LOVE ROSES
I have 2 of these collections. Was really amazed at how big & strong the bare roots were on delivery. This is my first attempt at growing roses & I'm totally blown away! Everyone of the ten bushes are beautiful. They are blooming like crazy and this is only the first season I've had them. Everyday they bring enjoyment & beauty to my home!
Love these roses. This was my first time ordering plants online and I'm in love. I don't feel I have a green thumb, but even without planting them right away, they still bloomed, and look and smell so good. I'm so happy with this buy. Thank you.
I ordered from two companies and the others were 3-4" tall. The five rose collection was like the grandma of the rose. Huge, like they are 3 yrs old.
I ordered 2 sets of these roses. They look lovely in the garden. The only thing I wish I would have known beforehand is what size they were. Some are smaller and some are what one thinks of as normal. HOWEVER, I would buy these again in a second, especially if I had more room!
I purchased the collection of color roses. To my surprise when the roses arrived ,I was expecting band roses or twigs. The roses were fully developed, and within 3 weeks after planting, brilliant color roses appeared. Spring Hill Nurseries earned my business for years to come. The roses were priced right.
I just received my 5 roses and I was shocked! They are so unexpectedly large, have great root system and already have leaf buds. Putting them in the ground w/in 24 hours, mulching, fertilizing and can't WAIT to see the blooms. SO EXCITED! Thanks for the best buy I've ever gotten for roses!
These roses are great. I've now ordered 3 collections, 2 from Spring Hill one from a partner/affiliate. The selections were diverse. The varieties spanned from brand new introductions (2015) to 60 year old AARS selections. The types included Climbers, Hybrid Teas, Grandifloras, Floribundas, and Mini Flora. While one I wouldn't have selected as an orange rose, I am still very pleased with the variety. As for health, these are some of the largest, best caned, healthiest looking bare root roses I've ever gotten. Even better than the varieties I've ordered and paid 35.00 per rose for. I would give the highest recommendations to anyone wanting a variety of good quality, healthy, roses. They'd make a great gift to any rose or garden lover. Can't recommended enough!! Very pleased!
Great service I ordered 1 collection last year. I lost the purple rose fairly soon after planting. I didn't keep the roots well covered with soil so the roots dried out. I lost the red Chrysler Imperial during the winter. I called for replacements and they are going to replace the for me on their warranty.
Purchased 2 collections last year and they have been so beautiful. Going to get more this year and share some with my daughter in law. Thanks for your great quality products.
These were a gift last year. They just bloomed and bloomed and bloomed. I would recommend these gorgeous roses to anyone looking for beautiful bouquets week after week after week! Thank you Spring Hill!
I bought 5 roses in the collection for my wife, so many people loved the cut roses I sent to her job. ,I bought 15 more. Can't wait till late spring for our show case.
ordered 2 of this collection. Thought what I was getting was what their picture showed. but that did not happen. I was told that only guarantee was the color not the type of rose. I have made other orders and only 3 of the plants I got lived. never complained but I am now.
My first order budded in only 3 weeks! So vigorous and valuable that I ordered a second batch!
Wow factor with this order of roses . I was completely amazed with the Quality of my order . Such a fantastic buy . Customer for life .
These are some of the best looking bare root rose plants I have bought on line to date.
very healthy plant's with vigorious stock green stock's with some growth on them that are worth twice the $$$


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Heads up, Avengers fans. This week's cover of Entertainment Weekly will give us our first look at Chris Evans in costume for his big splash in next year's Captain America: The First Avenger. Well, okay, maybe we did already see this when the initial concept art images hit a number of months back, as well as some blurry (and quite frankly, unflattering) leaked set pics. However, consider this the official reveal of Marvel's super-powered patriot as he looks ready to cut through legions of Nazi troops and shove that star and striped adamantium shield directly up Hitler's Rhineland. (While pulling off a version of "Blue Steel" that would make Derek Zoolander supremely jealous.) So, take a look below the read more link for a glimpse of the new cover and tell us what you think.
Looking at the cover, it's clear that there are no surprises. This is not just because we've seen imagery like this before, but there's nothing here that grabs you in a "wow!" sense, like, for instance, when EW revealed the first look at Ryan Reynolds' Green Lantern for their Comic-Con issue. However, I'll reserve complete judgment until the issue hits stands (tomorrow) and we get our look at the rest of the pictures.
Giving us a little taste of the issue's interviews, we see that Chris Evans was actually somewhat reluctant to don the ultra-patriotic mantle of the Avengers' inspirational leader. As some may recall from earlier this year, in the period just after it was announced that Evans was offered the role, he actually took a few days to think it over. While the idea of him being tied down to other commitments was out there, it was still an odd thing, considering that the role of a lifetime for any young actor was just delivered to him on a silver platter, and he seemed, well...reluctant. As Evans explains, it turns out that he was a bit overwhelmed by all of it:
"I was just scared," he says. "I realized my whole decision making process was fear based, and you never want to make a decision out of fear. I can't believe was almost too chicken to play Captain America." Adding: "At the time, I remember telling a buddy of mine, 'If the movie bombs, I'm f—-ed. If the movie hits, I'm f—-ed!'
Directed by Joe Johnston (The Wolfman, Jurassic Park III, Jumanji), the film will cover the origin of Evans' Steve Rogers as a scrawny young man unfit to fight in World War II who volunteers for the secret government initiative which turns him, via the "Super-Soldier Serum" into the enhanced, nearly perfect specimen of a fighting machine. As Captain America, a living symbol of the American spirit, he's sent to the front lines, along with sidekick Bucky (Sebastian Stan) to battle the Nazi forces and the notorious Red Skull (Hugo Weaving) who has evil ambitions beyond the scope of even Hitler. The film hits theaters July 22, 2011.
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It's hard enough for most teens to open up about issues such as racism and peer pressure. Try doing it in front of cameras from The Oprah Winfrey Show.
That was the challenge facing students at Monroe High School, who will be featured tomorrow on Oprah as part of a show on Challenge Day, a national nonprofit organization that conducts programs intended to help young people break down barriers between each other.
The show will air at 4 p.m. on WTOL-TV, Channel 11.
Monroe High School hosted a Challenge Day event on Sept. 29, when Oprah's cameras - though not the talk-show host herself - were present to see the program in action.
"It was very nerve-wracking," said Jessica Maniaci, a senior at the high school. "In the very beginning, everyone was just paying more attention to the cameras than everyone else."
But eventually people opened up and started tackling some heavy issues.
"It was tough seeing all the people breaking down and just really opening up to you and stuff," said Darren Chappell, a senior.
Started in 1987 by a California couple, Challenge Day involves a series of exercises to help students understand that other people wrestle with the same problems and feelings that they do. About 65 juniors and seniors from Monroe High School who participated represented all sorts of social groups: jocks, preps, ethnic minorities, and more, said Denise Lilly, assistant principal.
Oprah brought in each of the students, as well as parents and adult participants from the school, for the show's taping in Chicago last month, she said.
Lilly said she feels good about what the country will see about the school.
"We're just like any high school across the country. Teenagers have challenges that they face daily," she said. "We are taking the initiative and doing something about it."
A free viewing of tomorrow's program will be hosted at the Maumee Indoor Theatre, 601 Conant St., Maumee, according to Amy Clark, secretary for the Spring Green Educational Foundation, which helps fund Challenge Day events locally. Doors open at 3:30 p.m.
She said the program is in 17 schools in Lucas and Wood counties in Ohio and Monroe County in Michigan.


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The Real American Economy
The following was written by Michael Rivero and found at whatreallyhappened.com . Because I have not yet verified every detail outlined, it is not put forth with the intention that it should be perceived as a wholly accurate account. I have posted it here for informational purposes only.
However, I do think that overall central banks and the small yet immensely powerful group of men and women who own them, are not friends of the common man. I believe they exist solely to enrich themselves at our expense having little or no conscience about the damage they inflict one way or the other.
I have concluded also that the majority of U.S. politicians and their respective political parties while professing to care, actually do not. All evidence to the contrary, it appears to me they have sold out the American people, and the future of this once great nation, a long time ago.
Chris Atkins
If History has taught us anything, it is that power corrupts.
And absolute power, corrupts absolutely.
The people behind the scenes who own the central banking system, own the entire world. They own the governments, kings, and politicians. They own you, and they own me. Until the people wake up to this realization, we will ALL continue to be slaves.
That's right. Make no mistake. No matter who you are, as long as a central bank finances the whole show, and charges interest (usury) to the governments they lend to, you are a slave.
America is not a free country and has not been since 1913…
This story begins back before the United States was the United States.
In the beginning, the original thirteen colonies printed their own currency. This worked very well at empowering commerce and turning the young America into a powerful growing economy, free of the poverty and unemployment that had even then crippled London.
But the Bankers of Europe, long used to having private banks issue the public currencies, were horrified by what America was doing and naturally they saw it as a threat.
So, the Bank of England lobbied King George III to impose the Currency Act on the colonies, which forbade the colonies to use their own money and required them to borrow their lawful tender from the Bank of England, at interest.
It took only a few years for this scheme to reduce the formerly prosperous and productive colonies to the poverty and unemployment levels typical of London at that same time, as depicted in the literature of Charles Dickens, as well as others.
American schools teach that the revolution was about the Stamp act and the Tea tax, yet it was primarily the rage created by the enforced impoverishment of the Currency Act which fueled the rebellion. Why the Currency Act is generally not mentioned in the public schools will become apparent further on.
Following the American Revolution, the Founding Fathers reverted back to the system which had worked so well before the Currency Act.
The Founding Fathers of this nation set up a simple economic system that did not rely on a private central bank. The Government itself, not a central banking entity like the Federal Reserve, issued the public currency and spent it into circulation where it was used by the public, free of interest.
The money was then taxed back into the government's hands where it was re-spent back into circulation. For each fiscal year the money issued equaled the money collected. Nothing was lost. The dollar was based on a weight measure of silver, which meant the value of a dollar was fixed and not subject to the whims of government or bankers.
This type of currency system has worked very well for civil populations throughout history and made the new nation immediately prosperous. European banking clans were alarmed by this system and feared America might inspire other nations to follow suit (as it did to France in 1793).
Where Britain's military might had failed, politics succeeded.
Spurred on by Alexander Hamilton, the first Bank of the United States was granted a 20 year charter in 1791. Almost immediately, the spiraling debt in the government budget, championed as necessary for international commerce by Hamilton, began to drain the livelihood of ordinary Americans.
The furor over the debt was one of many issues that led to the famous duel between Hamilton and Aaron Burr which resulted in Hamilton's death on July 11, 1804. As a side note, the pistols which were used in the duel are today in the possession of J. P. Morgan Chase & Co. Hamilton continues to be lionized by the private banking cartels he championed.
"Everything predicted by the enemies of banks, in the beginning, is now coming to pass. We are to be ruined now by the deluge of bank paper.
It is cruel that such revolutions in private fortunes should be at the mercy of avaricious adventurers, who, instead of employing their capital, if any they have, in manufactures, commerce, and other useful pursuits, make it an instrument to burden all the interchanges of property with their swindling profits, profits which are the price of no useful industry of theirs." –Thomas Jefferson
By 1811, the owners of the First Bank of the United States had become rich while ruining the lives of ordinary Americans. Congress had prudently limited the charter of the bank to 20 years and it expired in 1811. A move to re-charter the bank failed due to public opposition.
"The Bank of the United States is one of the most deadly hostilities existing, against the principles and form of our Constitution. An institution like this, penetrating by its branches every part of the Union, acting by command and in phalanx, may, in a critical moment, upset the government.
I deem no government safe which is under the vassalage of any self-constituted authorities, or any other authority than that of the nation, or its regular functionaries. What an obstruction could not this bank of the United States, with all its branch banks, be in time of war! It might dictate to us the peace we should accept, or withdraw its aids. Ought we then to give further growth to an institution so powerful, so hostile?" –Thomas Jefferson
The following year, with the conclusion of Britain's wars with Napoleon, the Bank of England demanded King George re-invade the United States to force them back into the clutches of private central banking, this time with the Bank of England. Thus was initiated the war of 1812, a war like any other war, it was created and waged for profit.
The war of 1812 failed, and again political and monetary pressure succeeded where military force had failed and in 1816, President Madison chartered a Second Bank of the United States, in part to deal with the expenses created defending the nation from Britain a second time and the runaway inflation caused by private banks issuing their own banknotes without restraint.
Like the First Bank of the United States, the second one was granted a 20 year charter. By the time the charter was due to expire, the nation was once again struggling with debt and poverty while the bankers were growing richer every day.
As a result, Andrew Jackson opposed the renewal of the bank charter and made it a major platform of his campaign in 1832.
"Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank.
You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the Eternal God, I will rout you out." — Andrew Jackson
In 1835, an unemployed painter, Richard Lawrence, attempted to shoot President Jackson twice, with both pistols failing to fire. Lawrence gave as his reason for the attack that with the President dead, money would be more plentiful, an obvious reference to Jackson's veto of the re-chartering of the Second Bank of the United States.
As a footnote, following the loss of its charter, the Second Bank of the United States attempted to continue as an ordinary bank, but went bankrupt in 1841.
The main difference between the economic system created by the Founding Fathers and the current system is that the control of the printing presses passed to a private central bank.
The government no longer prints up and spends the money it needs to operate, but instead borrows the money from the private central bank, at interest. The money is then spent into circulation, winding its way through the population, and is collected back in taxes.
But here is the problem…
MORE money must now be collected in taxes than the government spent in order to pay the interest back to the private central bank. Obviously this does not happen and over time, relentlessly, the private central bank is acquiring wealth from the population and charging the people a fee for doing what the government itself originally did for free.
That is the major difference between the economic system created by the nation's founders and the system we have today.
It is because we have been sold back into the debt slavery of a private central bank that the history of the Currency Act and its impact on the American Revolution is marginalized in the public schools. We are brainwashed into believing that the Revolution was about soggy tea!
"If the debt which the banking companies owe be a blessing to anybody, it is to themselves alone, who are realizing a solid interest of eight or ten per cent on it.
As to the public, these companies have banished all our gold and silver medium, which, before their institution, we had without interest, which never could have perished in our hands, and would have been our salvation now in the hour of war;
instead of which they have given us two hundred million of froth and bubble, on which we are to pay them heavy interest, until it shall vanish into air… We are warranted, then, in affirming that this parody on the principle of 'a public debt being a public blessing,' and its mutation into the blessing of private instead of public debts, is as ridiculous as the original principle itself.
In both cases, the truth is, that capital may be produced by industry, and accumulated by economy; but jugglers only will propose to create it by legerdemain tricks with paper." –Thomas Jefferson
But the banks were still constrained by the Coinage Act of 1792, which defined a dollar as 371.25 grains of pure silver, matching the common silver currency in use around the world at the time, or that weight of gold which would match in value 371.25 grains of pure silver, 24.75 grains, 1/15 the weight of the silver in a silver dollar.
It wasn't the coin that was the money, but the metal the coin contained.
Of course, carrying around large amounts of metal was difficult, so paper certificates were issued, both silver and gold certificate, as a convenience. But those paper certificates were not the money. They were claim checks. They were accepted as items of value because you could walk down to a bank and turn the claim checks in for the appropriate amount of silver or gold. But again, the metal was the money, not the engraved coins and not the paper.
The bankers could only loan out as much money, based on silver or gold, as they had the silver and gold to cover in their vaults. The adherence to gold and silver as a unit of value was a major limitation on the banker's activities.
In 1861, the Confederacy broke free of the United States. Abraham Lincoln sought financing from the bankers for the war effort, but balked at the usurious high interest rates the banks demanded. So, Abraham Lincoln exercised his Presidential Authority to issue a new government currency which became known as the Greenback.
However, in order to make the currency work and to cover the escalating costs of the War between the North and the Confederacy, Lincoln was forced to abandon convertibility. This meant that the paper notes became the money and were not convertible to silver or gold (despite the flood of silver from the Comstock strike of 1857, which eventually led to Nevada's rapid statehood and Federal taxation in 1864).
While there was inflation at the time, the government issued currency, free of interest to a private bank, worked well during the war years, and Abraham Lincoln declared his intention to keep issuing the Greenbacks after the war's conclusion. This did not please the world's bankers at all.
An 1865 London Times editorial directed against Lincoln's debt-free Greenbacks said it all:
"If that mischievous financial policy which had its origin in the North American Republic during the late war in that country, should become indurated down to a fixture, then that Government will furnish its own money without cost.
It will pay off its debts and be without debt. It will become prosperous beyond precedent in the history of the civilized governments of the world. The brains and wealth of all countries will go to North America.
That government must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe."
Following Abraham Lincoln's assassination, Congress voted to end the Greenbacks, but did not restore convertibility. Banks could issue notes without regard to actual bullion reserves and a period of intense post-war inflation and speculation resulted.
Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr. revealed the Bankers Manifesto of 1892 to the U.S. Congress somewhere between 1907 and 1917. The source was an article written by Louis Even and published in United States Bankers Magazine 1892.
We (the bankers) must proceed with caution and guard every move made, for the lower order of people are already showing signs of restless commotion. Prudence will therefore show a policy of apparently yielding to the popular will until our plans are so far consummated that we can declare our designs without fear of any organized resistance.
Organizations in the United States should be carefully watched by our trusted men, and we must take immediate steps to control these organizations in our interest or disrupt them.
At the coming Omaha convention to be held July 4, 1892, our men must attend and direct its movement or else there will be set on foot such antagonism to our designs as may require force to overcome.
This at the present time would be premature. We are not yet ready for such a crisis. Capital must protect itself in every possible manner through combination (conspiracy) and legislation.
The courts must be called to our aid, debts must be collected, bonds and mortgages foreclosed as rapidly as possible.
When, through the process of law, the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and easily governed through the influence of the strong arm of the government applied to a central power of imperial wealth under the control of the leading financiers.
People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. History repeats itself in regular cycles. This truth is well known among our principal men who are engaged in forming an imperialism of the world. While they are doing this, the people must be kept in a state of political antagonism.
The question of tariff reform must be urged through the organization known as the Democratic Party, and the question of protection with the reciprocity must be forced to view through the Republican Party.
By thus dividing voters, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us, except as teachers to the common herd. Thus, by discrete actions, we can secure all that has been so generously planned and successfully accomplished.
In 1900 President McKinley kept a campaign promise to bring back convertibility by signing the Gold Standard Act, making the Gold Standard the basis for all US currency, even though much of the coinage issued remained silver.
McKinley did this because of the public perception that the US Central Banking system was weak and corrupted, and because the gold strikes in California, Alaska, and Colorado bolstered the US Treasury's stock of that metal.
One year later, President McKinley was assassinated by Leon Czolosz, who explained his attack at his execution saying,"I killed the President because he was the enemy of the good people – the good working people."
In 1910, a group of private bankers met at a private island named Jekyll Island to plan the imposition of yet another private central bank on the people of the United States.
As part of the ruse, they abandoned the unpopular name "Bank of the United States" and chose the name Federal Reserve to grant themselves the illusion that this was a government agency, when in fact it is just another privately owned central bank.
The Federal Reserve is no more "Federal" than Federal Express.
It is a privately owned bank. Three years later, in 1913, Congress voted the Federal Reserve act and President Wilson signed it, redeeming a campaign promise to his financial backers. Six years later, as his Presidency came to a close, Woodrow Wilson wrote.
"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit.
We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men." — Woodrow Wilson 1919
Because of the earlier disasters with 20 year charters, the Federal Reserve was granted a 100 year charter due to expire in 2013. Later, Congress amended the Federal Reserve act to make the charter permanent.
For a while, the new Federal Reserve was still bound by the requirements of the Gold Standard. Under the law, they were required to have enough gold on hand to redeem 40% of the paper notes they had issued.
The Federal Reserve claimed that this requirement limited their ability to deal with the financial crash of 1929, and after years of lobbying, finally persuaded incoming President Franklin Roosevelt to abandon the gold standard entirely in 1933 and to confiscate all gold and gold certificates in order to make the gold available to the US Government for war funding purposes.
In looking back at the crash of 1929 it becomes obvious that reckless speculation had created the over-valued market bubble and easy credit for buying stocks on margin drew in working-class people who did not have risk capital to play with, to form each succeeding layer of a rapidly building pyramid doomed to eventual collapse.
In the wake of the melt down, Congress passed the Banking Act of 1933, otherwise known as the Glass-Steagall Act, which created the FDIC to restore public confidence in the banks and stop the runs. Glass-Steagall also included a ban on bank holding companies from owning other financial institutions, which was seen as a major contributing factor to the reckless speculation which precipitated the crash.
The Federal Reserve completed their plan for the economic subjugation of the American people in 1964, one year after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
When Kennedy took office, silver coin and certificates were still in general use. This was money issued directly by the U.S. government and was used free of interest. Since the money was something of value and owned by whoever held it, the banks made no profit from its use and more to the point, could not manipulate its value.
On June 4th, 1963 President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order 11110. This order authorized the Treasury to issue a new government currency, the US Note, based on silver in Fort Knox, recycled from the huge magnets used in early Uranium enrichment at Oak Ridge.
This allowed the Kennedy administration to purchase four billion dollars worth of goods and services without having to borrow the money from the Federal Reserve, and signaled Kennedy's intention to restore the nations' economic system to the model used by the Founding Fathers.
John F. Kennedy's United States Note.
Five months later, John Kennedy was assassinated and his U.S. Notes withdrawn from circulation. The Warren Commission, now widely acknowledged to have been a cover-up, included as a member John J. McCloy, President of Chase Manhattan Bank and President of the World Bank.
The following year, all silver coins and silver certificates were withdrawn from circulation. The media proclaimed the new clad coinage and the Federal Reserve Notes to be just as good as the silver money, and the entrapment of the American people was complete.
From then on, all currency in circulation was worth what the private central bank said it was worth, and over time, it has been declared worth less and less. Just see how many Federal Reserve notes it takes to buy an original U.S. Silver Dollar today!
Unlike the economic system of value instituted by the Founding Fathers, the Federal Reserve System is a debt-based economy. All money, whether issued through the government, or by member banks to the public, is the result of a loan from that Private Central Bank. And therein lies the trap, because the moment that first Federal Reserve Note went into circulation, more money is owed to the banking system than actually exists! The debt can never be paid off.
The system perpetuates only so long as an ever-larger group of new borrowers can be found to create new money to pay the interest on the old money. That is what makes it a pyramid.
More money is created out of thin air in response to a loan, but the total debt still exceeds the total money supply. That is why the government and media always talk about the "growth" of the economy. "Growth" may sound like a good thing to someone who really doesn't understand the context, but in a debt-based economy like ours, "growth" means "nation and its people deeper in debt-slavery".
And because it is a pyramid, if the economy does not grow, that is, if more new debt cannot be created to service the interest on the old debt, the pyramid collapses, which is what is happening now.
The Federal Reserve System is designed to suck the real wealth out of the nation and put it in the pockets of the bankers, and now that they have succeeded, the system is breaking down, too cash-poor to operate efficiently, just as it did in the colonies in the early 1770s under the Bank of England.
The system is broken because the bankers have all the wealth, and absent a new source of wealth to pay the bankers' interest charges and fees, the system is locking up.
Of course, at the end of the day it's important to understand that this is in a sense, nothing but a game being played out. A game where the rules are written by the Bankers, large corporate entities, and politicians, to enrich them at the expense of the taxpayers. Yet because it is a game, it is all paper debts and make-believe obligations.
The money owed to the bankers by the government never existed in the first place!
It's just part of the game by which the bankers enslave the world, which is the real essence of banking; to hold nations and people perpetually in debt-servitude or indentured service, with the government bribed to not take action to ameliorate the situation!
"This is the very essence of the banking industry; to make us all, whether we be nations or individuals, slaves to debt!"
In 1999, the Gramm-Leach-Blily repealed the provision of the Glass-Steagall act that prohibited bank holding companies from owning other financial institutions, and dropped the barrier that separated banks and investment houses, allowing them to engage in each others business.
This created a repeat of the exact same financial environment that had led to the crash of 1929.
Those politicians who had championed deregulation, like Senator John McCain (a veteran of the Keating S&L Scandal of the 1980s), avoided keeping any oversight over the recently unchained financial system to ensure that past crimes were not being repeated. As a result, almost immediately after the repeal of Glass-Steagall, the banks and investment houses began to acquire and "flip" homes, to drive the prices up.
The reason for the flipping should be obvious. Banks make their money from interest on loans. The more people are forced to borrow, the more they have to work to pay the banks back. From a bank's point of view, a house that sells for only a few thousand dollars is useless.
The ideal is to have that same house cost so much that a borrower will spend 30 years working off that paper debt, often paying the banks many times more in interest than the house itself originally cost.
From 1999 through 2006 housing prices soared. Adjustable-rate mortgages became the norm, with low lead-in teaser rates to draw in new borrowers. Aiding the process was the US Government itself, which baited the trap with an $8000 tax credit for first-time home buyers.
Let us start by looking at how Mortgage companies worked up into the mid 2000s.
In a normal mortgage, the lender, who is a member bank of the Federal Reserve system, prints up a bunch of cash (or in reality, just enters the amount of the loan into a computerized bank account) to loan to the mortgage applicant.
This is not a joke; the money the bank hands to you to buy a house, or car, or iPod, is created out of thin air the moment you sign the loan agreement, credit card slip, or mortgage papers.
Up until that point, it did not exist!
"If the people understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning" – President Andrew Jackson
Here is how the game works in a nutshell. The mortgage lender, who is allowed to print up the money they loan out (up to a legally defined limit), makes their profit from the borrower, who is not allowed to print up the money he or she hands back to the bank.
They must trade their labor and time for money with which to pay back the banker. Because of compound interest, the mortgage borrower actually repays the banker many times the original cost of the home. By design, the Bankers always win, and you always lose.
Let's say that you take out a $100,000 mortgage over 30 years at 8% interest. That works out to $733.76 per month, which does not seem too bad (until you start adding in insurance and property taxes, but that is another story).
$733.76 per month is $8,805.12 per year. Over 30 years that comes out to $264,153.60 paid out to the banker. In other words, while the builder of the house earns $100,000 after buying the land, buying materials, and building the house, the banker earns $164,153.60 purely for having the right, granted by the US Government, to create money out of nothing.
Remember that from an investor's point of view, the value of a home is not the home itself, but the amount of debt the home creates! That debt, which is pure profit, is sold to Americans as the "American Dream" of working 30 years to pay the bankers many times what the house actually cost! Fortunes were being made and the politicians were neck deep in the greed.
But there was a new wrinkle.
Starting in 2006, Wall Street operators got the ideas of taking debt obligations, and collecting them together to sell to other investors. The mortgage lenders would take their mortgages, bundle them together and then sell the entire bundle for a flat fee.
The advantage was that the mortgage lender recovered his money in a single large lump, while the investor buying the bundled mortgages would accept their return on investment over the lifetime of the mortgages. For long-term investors such as investment banks and pension funds, this was an ideal investment so long as all the mortgages were paid on time every month.
The investment looked sound as long as real-estate prices kept soaring, and nobody was taking too close a look at the individual mortgages. Because the banks and mortgage companies were passing the mortgages onto outside parties, there was little incentive to look too closely at the borrowers, while financial incentives encouraged the mortgage writers to over-inflate earnings and home values on the applications to push the deals through.
The mortgage bundlers, drunk on the instant profits falling like manna from heaven, started taking some reckless steps. Mortgage analysis companies like Clayton Holdings were reporting to the clients at the big banks that many of the so-called sub prime mortgages did not meet basic underwriting requirements, either for the private banks or for the three "F"s, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and FHA. But the mortgage bundlers blended the sub prime with prime mortgages and sold off the bundles as "Mortgage Backed Securities" or "Collateralized Debt Obligations". In other words, the mortgage bundlers knew many of the mortgages in those bundles were not going to perform well, but did not tell the investors who bought them, then invested in "derivatives", basically betting those MBS and CDOs would fail!
"I suddenly realized I had joined the wrong mob." — Lucky Luciano, comparing Wall Street to the Mafia
Mortgage bundlers were greedy! They needed more mortgages to feed the giant mortgage-backed-security bubble they were inflating. So they started luring in borrowers with borderline credit into "sub-prime" mortgages.
Since members of the US Congress were invested in the very companies that were reaping giant profits on those mortgage-backed-securities, Congress voted through an $8000 tax credit for first-time home buyers to bait them into the scheme!
But still there were not enough new mortgages. Investors were clamoring for more mortgage-backed-securities to buy. Then the bankers had an inspiration. They realized that while you can only sell a house to one owner at a time, you can in theory sell the mortgage over and over, since it is a piece of easily copied paper or more likely a computer record in MERS, the Mortgage Electronic Registration System, a computer system created to evade title transfer fees and to speed up the churning of the mortgages as they shuffled from one investment company to another!
MERS initially helped conceal the over-selling of mortgages, but eventually the scam became known, and numerous major banks have been exposed for selling the same mortgage into multiple mortgage-backed securities, generating vast profits for the bundlers.
Now, from the point of view of the mortgage bundlers, they might not have seen this as a fraud. Nobody wants to see themselves as a villain, and the bundlers may have decided they were simply following the reserve system of banking to the next level.
Under the reserve system of banking, for every real dollar in deposits you have in the vaults, you can create and loan out 8, or 10, or 30, depending on the current reserve requirement imposed by the top bank, the Federal Reserve System.
The mortgage bundlers may have decided that for every real mortgage they held, they could create 3, or 4 , or in one case 20 out of thin air with which to collateralize the investment package. As long as everyone does not come in to get the actual mortgages at the same time, the system would work the way the reserve money supply does in the banks, in which only enough real money is on hand to cover expected transactions with customers, and the rest for the bankers to play with out in investment land.
While this "reserve" approach to mortgages may have looked okay to the bankers, who saw the world through money-colored glasses, it is in fact a crime! In February 2009 CNBC broke the story that many of the mortgage bundlers had pledged individual mortgages as collateral over and over into different CDOs, when legally, they can be pledged as collateral only once.
Chris Whalen tells CNBC's Larry Kudlow that Bear Stearns will be exposed as having sold the same loan to different investors on numerous occasions.
This is why many homes are being foreclosed on by more than one bank at a time.
But there is another problem with over-selling mortgages. For every copy of a mortgage bundled into an investment, there is an investor expecting a mortgage payment every month. Obviously the home buyer, who has signed only one mortgage, is making only one mortgage payment.
For the extra copies of that mortgage there are no monthly payments coming in. As long as only a few mortgages in the bundle are underperforming, nobody noticed, but as the jobs left America and more and more home buyers started to fall behind, the risk that the over-selling scheme would be exposed to public scrutiny and condemnation (not to mention arrest and prosecution) began to be apparent!
Because mortgages were changing hands so many times, the regulatory fees for a transfer became a major cost factor for the mortgage bundlers. To get around the fees and generally speed up the process, a system was created called the Mortgage Electronic Registration System, or MERS. All notes were transferred into MERS legal ownership and then could be assigned and reassigned willy-nilly all over the financial system without the usual paperwork and fees.
By mid 2008 the wheels were starting to come off the boom times. The automatic interest rate increases on those adjustable-rate mortgages started kicking in, and due to the high prime-rate at the time, those increases in monthly payments were enormous, with no increases in salaries and wages to cover them!
The US Government, at the same time it had taken the chains off of Wall Street had continued a policy of tax credits that encouraged American corporations to offshore high-paying manufacturing jobs. Caught between a rock and a hard place, between higher mortgage payments and declining wages and salaries, Americans started defaulting and the banks started foreclosing.
And here is where the system began to really break down. Because the mortgages and titles had been traded around in the creation of the mortgage-backed securities, the companies servicing the mortgages (i.e. collecting the payments) could not locate the actual mortgage note. In the cases where the same mortgage had been pledged as collateral on more than one mortgage-backed security, the paperwork trail led to more than one owner-of-record.
By the end of the year, it had become apparent that a massive fraud had been committed by the mortgage bundlers, and that a great many of the mortgage-backed securities held by investors and pension funds were in fact without collateral. While the mortgages were being paid and returns on the investment paid, nobody noticed. But as homes started to default it became apparent that investors did not in fact have any collateral behind most of those collateralized debt obligations! Lawsuits followed by investors trying to recover money from the banks. In a telling move, the US Government has moved to protect the banks!
Those mortgage-backed securities with multiply-assigned mortgages ARE the "Toxic Assets" Congress was screaming about when they forced the Troubled Asset Relief Program through Congress in the fall of 2008, despite overwhelming public opposition. The mortgage bundlers had stuck key financial institutions with fraudulent mortgage-backed securities, and Congress voted to loot the public to purchase the useless paper and hide it from public scrutiny.
Why? Because the members of the US Congress had their own fortunes invested in those fraudulent mortgage-backed securities. Had the institutions collapsed, members of Congress would have been ruined as well. So they saved their own investments by dropping the losses on the American people!
This is why, even though the public opposed TARP, members of Congress were so happy when the bill finally was forced through the Congress.
Commercial real estate was caught up in the mortgage-backed securities mania, and eventually the US Government used $3 trillion in taxpayer funds to deal with that growing catastrophe!
In other cases, the Federal Government has been exposed as intentionally concealing the scale of the losses from the American taxpayer, even to the point of hiding billions in bailout payments, further fueling speculation that the major "Too Big To Fail" banks have indeed already failed and are technically insolvent.
We are not talking about a few crooked bankers, but a system-wide culture of criminality that makes Bernie Madoff-with-the-loot, the NASDAQ founder who swindled his own investors for $65 billion, look like a choir boy!
This brings us to the interesting sidebar of John McCain's candidacy for President. All seemed to be going well for him until in a move that surprised many political observes, McCain chose as his Vice President Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.
McCain's claim that he needed a female Vice President seemed reasonable, but there were far more qualified women out there such as Hawaii's Governor Linda Lingle, who was not even contacted by McCain's campaign. In hindsight, it almost seemed McCain was intentionally destroying the credibility of his own campaign, and now a possible motive surfaces.
If it was already known that the mortgage-back securities had become toxic assets, and that the taxpayer was going to be made to foot the bill, what better plan for the Republicans that had created the mess to drop the task of screwing the American people onto the Democrats, including a man willing to do anything to be America's first black President! And it appears to have worked as the same Republicans that created this financial mess appear poised for a mid-term return to control of the White House.
But while the US Government using taxpayer money was buying back the fraudulent uncollateralized mortgage bundles, the holders of the genuine mortgages were still faced with a problem. The trail of documents through MERS was a hopeless rats' nest! Mortgage Service companies were forced to go into court without all the required documents, and judges, failing to see the actual debt note or title before them,. were starting to throw foreclosure cases out! Representative Marcy Kaput got up in Congress advising homeowners to demand the foreclosers to prove they owned the actual loan!
So a new creature came into being, the "Foreclosure Document Mill", small start-up companies which for a fee would "re-create" missing paperwork to allow the foreclosures to pass a judge's scrutiny. But the foreclosure mills were also faced with the confusion in the MERS system and under pressure to perform, were hiring virtually anybody willing to engage in a little "gray" paperwork, hiring Wall Mart floor walkers, former beauticians, factory workers, and putting them in offices with no formal training to process foreclosure paperwork. According to one whistle blower, workers who produced large amounts of "re-created" documents were rewarded with cars and jewelry! Computerized processing systems cranked out foreclosure lawsuit paperwork by the reams!
The problem was that nobody was checking to see if the documents were actually correct or accurate, or if the people being foreclosed were actually behind in their payments. Even worse, lawyers were walking into court with foreclosure documents they knew were forged! The rush was on to file as quickly as possible ahead of the expected backlog of cases hitting the courts.
In at least two known cases, foreclosure proceedings were started against home owners who did not even have mortgages! Companies that contracted to serve the legal papers on the homeowners never delivered those papers and many people were unaware they had been foreclosed on until the Sheriff showed up to change the locks!
The corporate media is still trying to say this is all a bunch of simple errors for which nobody should be held accountable, but already testimony is surfacing that major banks like Citicorp knew exactly what they were doing and that very well the investments they were selling at huge profit were really junk!
MERS itself has come under scrutiny, both because it is clearly a device to evade government fees and regulation, and secondly because no legislative body approved its creation and implementation into the home mortgage system. There has been no review of the system by any outside party.
That massive fraud did take place is beyond doubt, and the US Government in connivance with the bankers, conspired both to conceal the true nature of the cause of the economic crash and to dump trillions in dollars in losses on the American taxpayer. And behind it all remains the core problem that lenders and home-owners often do not know where the notes and titles are to be found!
But with individual mortgages being sold out as many as 20 different times, the mortgage bundlers faced a huge problem. Every home payment made has to be repaid to the investor in the MBS for every time that mortgage was resold, that is to say for every dollar paid by the home-owner, the mortgage bundler is on the hook for up to $20 owed to the holders of the mortgage backed securities.
In that context, the banks have a huge motive to foreclose on homes to limit the losses on those oversubscribed mortgage backed securities! Once the home is foreclosed, payments on those over-subscribed mortgage backed securities stop and the criminals who over-sold those mortgages are off the hook. It is not unlike the Mel Brooks movie "The Producers" in which the producers intentionally choose what they think is a terrible script, "Springtime for Hitler", which they hope will close the first night.
The producers then over-subscribe the investment in the play by 1000%. 100% is spent producing the show, with the other 900% to be pocketed after the show fails and the investors, unaware of the extra shares in the show, accept their losses and leave.
In the film, the play is a surprise hit and the producers go to jail. Hopefully, the same thing will happen to the financial companies who played the same game. If the over-selling of mortgages into mortgage backed securities was intentional, and given how many different financial companies did it, this seems certain, then the same financial institutions that profited from the selling of mortgage backed securities intended to crash the housing market to cover their escape.
They took mortgages and sold them as mortgage-backed securities over and over again, then foreclosed the properties to end their obligations to the over-subscribed mortgage backed securities. This is why nobody cared whether home buyers were actually qualified for the mortgages, as the mortgages were never intended to be repaid, only foreclosed on!
However, the investors and especially the foreign banks that bought those over-subscribed mortgage-backed-securities are not quietly accepting their losses! Bank of America is being sued by PIMCO, the New York Fed, and several European banks. Two class-action suits have been filed against the owners of MERS. Sooner or later the fraudulent over-selling of those bundled mortgages must come out. And the bankers will stand exposed as the criminals they really are.
In Tom Clancy's book "Debt of Honor" a stock market crash is exacerbated when the computer systems used to track transactions are sabotaged. That seems a good metaphor for the runaway mortgage-backed Securities market compounded by MERS allowing (or fraudulent bankers causing) mortgages to be placed in multiple investment bundles.
The inspiration in the book is a phrase heard often in science "If you didn't write it down, it did not happen!" And in the book, the solution is to simply discard everything that happened after the last good record and restart the machinery at that point. The stock market re-opens with the last good trade before the computers were sabotaged and everybody goes home happy, eventually.
Of course, real life will not be that simple. The mortgage bundlers have made fortunes off of these deals. If they can claim innocent victim of a computer error, then they will not be willing to surrender the fortunes they made; they will resist any solution that involves losing their profits, no matter how ill-gotten they may be. They are quite happy with the world as it is now.
The Government will not, indeed cannot ever admit error, even though, like the Gulf Oil Disaster and the Bernie Madoff scandal, the government's job was to prevent this from happening, not bait more victims into the scam with a tax credit.
But having swindled the American people out of trillions of dollars to buy back and conceal the fraudulent non-collateralized mortgage securities, the US Government is now clearly an accessory to the crime, if after-the-fact. The original fraud with the mortgage-backed securities was covered up ahead of the 2008 election, and it appears Obama is trying to do the same for the 2010 elections, announcing a Federal criminal investigation which will supposedly look into the bankers' possible illegal activity, but in reality is intended to block criminal investigations already underway in all 50 states. CNBC reports that Congress may simply retro-actively declare the fraud to be legal, ending all investigations and indemnifying the bankers from criminal prosecutions.
That the relentless looting of the public treasury to cover-up this disaster has harmed the nation is beyond doubt. Trillions that might have paid for new schools and roads and hospitals has vanished into the black hole of Wall Street, to buy up bad paper and feed it to the shredder before the public finds out that once again, as is typical of a fascist economy, the poor are made to pay for all!
People without mortgages, people who have never bought a home, are all harmed by this disaster. We are all victims of the rampant and reckless greed that consumes the money addicts in the halls of power. 43 million Americans are on food Stamps, and according to Barron's Magazine(October 11, 2010), unemployment is at 22%, which is depression levels. Meanwhile, Wall Street executives will collect bonuses this year totaling 8% of all the US cash in circulation!
Ultimately, the homes taken by MERS must be restored to their rightful owners. The people who bought what they thought were honestly foreclosed homes in good faith must of course be compensated and provided with equivalent properties. Beyond that, it is time to take a close look at the true nature of banks, especially the Federal Reserve, and to understand that banks do not serve the public, they serve only themselves!
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.
The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
Thomas Jefferson, (Attributed)
3rd president of US (1743 – 1826)


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Before the anonymous brick-veneer suburbs proliferated throughout the periphery of Australia's major cities, an unaffected residential design idiom expressing local economic climatic and geographical influences had evolved in Queensland, which of all the Australian States, has the strongest indigineous residential architectural identity as a result.
The situation which has arisen in the past decade is a revived appreciation of the qualities of the Queensland house by the public as well as by some architects, both within the State and elsewhere. This is occurring at a time when social and commercial pressures are diminishing the rational style which had evolved over a century of settlement. The influences which shaped this spacious, and relatively inexpensive house, are not generally understood, but are often the subject of erroneous conjecture, even amongst members of the construction professions.
Regrettably, the influences of practical experience, improved technical training and the contributions of the building research organisations are being eroded by the diminishing involvement of the qualified architect, inflation and the merchandizing methods of some building material manufacturers, merchant builders and real estate salesmen.
The Thesis concludes with an evaluation of the survival of the privately financed one-off or stock design house and examines some alternative accommodations. When doing so, it must be recognised that the present and presumably, future generations, being more aware of our relationship to physical factors, are demanding less of technology and more respect for the natural environment. It is hoped that this trend with erase much of the nostalgia, superficialty and outdated construction techniques which are destroying the character of the house in Queensland and provide the opportunity for architects and designers to revive and develop a rational climate-oriented regional identity.
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Looking for new ideas for fun things to do this summer? I've put together a list of destinations in and around the Chicagoland area that I think you're going to love.
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Do you want to feel like a million bucks? Then visit the Money Museum at the Federal Reserve in Chicago. There you can pretend you're a millionaire by taking your picture with a million dollars in two different denominations singles and twenties. Admission is free and you are given a bag of shredded money to take home as a souvenir.
Why wait for the 4th of July to see a great light show when you can visit Buckingham Fountain in Grant Park, Chicago and see a multicolored light show every evening after dusk, on the hour all summer long.
Can you taste a rainbow? Maybe not, but you can get a taste of The Original Rainbow Cone in Chicago. This frozen confection would be a great way to cap off a day at The Children's Museum in Oak Lawn via our Museum Adventure Pass Program.
Stop by Lincolnwood to play a round of golf on either one of the two 18-hole courses available at the 60-year-old miniature golf course at Novelty Golf. While not the slickest course around, its mismatched statues and lack of an overall theme should keep you entertained.
Take some postcard pictures of yourself on a European vacation to Niles when you visit their version of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Constructed around 1933 this clever solution is disguising the fact that it's actually a water tower.
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I noticed that every time you apply certain filters to an image they run differently each time. I thought it might be fun to check out the image stacking in Photoshop's new 'extended' versions.
I chose coarse settings for the pixelate > crystallize filter - course enough to disguise the photo. Below is a stack of 8 such images averaged together. The more you use, the less the filter disguises the original.
Here is a (tedious) method for stacking images without the extended version of Photoshop
High ISO Noise Reduction by Image Averaging
I was playing around with this. For image averaging you don't actually need Photoshop Extended. You can do it in any version of Photoshop that supports 32-bits:
Stack the images in layers. Use the LINEAR DODGE (ADD) blend mode to sum all the layers. You will blow out the image way past white. No worries. Kick into 32-bit mode and dim the sum (no pun intended :D ) back into a usable range. For a true average, dim it by a factor of (1 / N layers)


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Preliminary hearings for a Grant Township Man accused of molesting children at a day care center, and for his sister who ran the day care have been continued. As we previously reported, 44 year old Todd Swaynie is accused of inappropriate behavior involving at least two children, with one incident happening this past year, and another one that occurred around 10 years ago, at a day care center owned by his sister Crystal Pfeffer on Dixonville Road. Pfeiffer is accused of permitting her brother access to the children at the day care center. Police say in the incident that happened nearly a decade ago, she told a parent who complained about Swaynie's behavior that it was the parent's responsibility --not hers-- to do something about it. She also mentioned that Swaynie was a special-needs individual and had pledged to keep him away from the children, but failed to do so. Swaynie faces five felony charges, including two counts each of corruption of minors and aggrivated indecent assault of someone under 13 years old. He is being held in Indiana County Jail with bond set at $40,000. Pfeiffer was charged with six counts of endangering the welfare of children, and is free on bond. No word yet on when these hearings will be rescheduled.
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Background: Eosinophilic enterocolitis (EEC) is an emerging distinct inflammatory bowel disease of unknown etiology. There are no published data on the effect of infliximab (IFX) or adalimumab (ADA) for the treatment of refractory cases.
Methods: A report of all pediatric cases with EEC treated with anti-tumor necrosis factor, identified after an open international call.
Results: We describe here the first 8 children with refractory EEC who were treated with IFX (75% boys; mean age at diagnosis 8.6 ± 4.03 [range 1.6–14 years]; mean age at IFX treatment 11.7 ± 4.4 [range 4.2–16 years]). Allergic and infectious causes of EEC were excluded in all cases. Rapid and complete clinical remission was documented in 6 (75%) children following the induction infusions: 3 (38%) with endoscopic remission, 2 (25%) with endoscopic improvement, and 1 unknown. Four of the 6 responders had secondary loss of response and were switched to ADA, 3 of whom with sustained remission using high doses. Overall, the 6 responders were followed for a median of 7 years (range 4–12; interquartile range 6.4–8.8 years) without evidence of developing Crohn disease or ulcerative colitis. The only case with macroscopic findings on endoscopy was a primary nonresponder.
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The Jervis McEntee Diaries - January 19, 1883
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Friday, Jan 19, 1883 A dark day with snow. Painted in my picture for Springfield "Shadows of Autumn" 14x26 and advanced it. Mr. McWinn who used to be Andrews Lieutenant called. Eastman came while he was here and invited me to dine with him. I went up about half past four and staid until after 10. We had an earnest talk on religious topics and on seriousness and the foolishness of shams in life.


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The Turbines of Tomorrow
Combustion (gas) turbines are key components of advanced systems designed for new electric power plants in the United States. With gas turbines, power plants will supply clean, increasingly fuel-efficient, and relatively low-cost energy.
Typically, a natural gas-fired combustion turbine-generator operating in a "simple cycle" converts between 25 and 35 percent of the natural gas heating value to useable electricity. Today, most new smaller power plants also install a recuperator to capture waste heat from the turbine's exhaust to preheat combustion air and boost efficiencies. In most of the new larger plants, a "heat recovery steam generator" is installed to recover waste heat in the exhaust to generate steam for a steam turbine-generator. This configuration is called a "combined cycle."
How Gas Turbine Power Plants Work
In 1992, the U.S. Department of Energy's Fossil Energy program began an intensive effort to break through technical barriers that had essentially capped gas turbine efficiencies. Within eight years, this program produced turbine systems that could operate at temperatures in excess of 2600 degrees F (300 degrees hotter than conventional turbines) and achieve efficiencies above 60 percent, a mark once thought unachievable. At the same time, new combustion techniques were developed to limit the formation of nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions (the principal air pollutant released by gas turbines). As a result, high-efficiency natural gas turbines continue to be among the cleanest ways to generate electricity from fossil fuels. Gas turbines being developed under the Department of Energy's Fossil Energy Program will be able to achieve high efficiencies with NOx emissions at less than 2 parts per million.
The use of gases produced from coal as gas turbine fuel offers an attractive means for efficiently generating electric power from our Nation's most abundant fossil fuel resource. The adaptation of gas turbine technologies to use with fuels produced from coal gasification has been demonstrated under the Clean Coal Technology Program (specifically, the Tampa Electric's Polk Station and the Wabash River Repowering Projects).
The Department of Energy's Fossil Energy Program is developing key technologies that will enable advanced turbines to operate cleanly and efficiently when fueled with coal derived synthesis gas and hydrogen fuels. Developing this turbine technology is critical to the creation of near-zero emission power generation technologies.
The Federal turbine R&D program is an investment in secure U.S. electric power production that is clean, efficient, affordable and fuel flexible, and will make possible the continued use of coal--our Nation's largest domestic fossil energy resource.


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BOD higher than COD + toxicity?(2)
a grad student, and have been trying to resolve multiple issues with the BOD
test for a few months now. Any advice or experience would be greatly
samples: effluents from constructed wetlands treating greywater.
Anaerobic conditions, high sulfides.
details- I've been using Polyseed and commercial GGA, DI with house-prepared
nutrients for dilution water. Both BOD and COD are run on the same day as
GGA always low, blanks periodically high, BOD always increases as sample volume
decreases to the point that BOD > COD, BODs of split samples sent to a
certified lab on two occasions were much lower than what I measured.
Dilution water blank = 0.3 mg/L
SCF = 0.97 mg/L
GGA = 120 and 135 mg/L
Sample 1:
3 mL: 2.41 mg/L depletion, BOD= 143.6 mg/L
5 mL: 3.00 mg/L depletion, BOD= 121.9 mg/L
10 mL: 4.49 mg/L depletion, BOD = 105.7 mg/L
20 mL- residual DO of 0.7 mg/L.
COD = 134 mg/L
Sample 2:
3 mL: 2.01 mg/L depletion, BOD = 104.2 mg/L
5 mL: 2.22 mg/L depletion, BOD = 75.1 mg/L
10 mL: 2.84 mg/L depletion, BOD = 56.0 mg/L
20 mL: 4.11 mg/L depletion, BOD = 47.1 mg/L
COD = 75.5 mg/L
Has anyone seen a situation like this before?
How would you interpret it?
At first glance it does look like toxicity. In this case I would only use the result from the smallest volume. However, SM now requires reporting of the average of all replicates, albeith with a qualifier.
Have you tested your effluents for ammonia? The COD test doesn't oxidize ammonia. If your BOD sample does not include a nitrification inhibitor and the effluent has nitrifiers as part of its microfauna community, the BOD sample may be oxidizing the ammonia. It doesn't take a lot of ammonia to exert a high oxygen demand. The rule-of-thumb that nitrification does not occur until 5 days into a test is just that a rule-of-thumb; it may not apply to your real-world situation.


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August 6, 2006
um, does anyone know whether valrhona will be selling the porcelana in smaller sizes, such as their usual 75g?
I will get the answer next weekend.
"Porcelana: The Holy Grail of Pure Criollos" (Marieel E. Presilla)
April 29, 2004
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November 19, 2004
A little of track maybe, but I have a question about swedish chocolate actually. You see I just happened to stop by a swedish TV-channel, an just got the end of a program about this lady with her own chocolaterie in Lund. Ever heard of it? Is the choclate any good, or just cute since it is "homemade"?
August 6, 2006
Green, I've created a new topic in sources called "Swedish Chocolatiers" with an answer:[url]http://www.seventypercent.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=322[/url]
By the way, I will receive a box of Porcelana del Pedregal the coming weekend.
"Porcelana: The Holy Grail of Pure Criollos" (Marieel E. Presilla)
May 16, 2004
Originally posted by masur
um, does anyone know whether valrhona will be selling the porcelana in smaller sizes, such as their usual 75g?
I will get the answer next weekend.
Any more news on this?
Also, does anyone know if Porcelana del Pedregal is available anywhere in the US, in any format?
August 6, 2006
Sorry, I forgot to reply. There will be no smaller sizes of Porcelana Del Pedregal according to what I've been told. (Source is the the Swedish distributor)
"Porcelana: The Holy Grail of Pure Criollos" (Marieel E. Presilla)
May 16, 2004
August 1, 2006
Originally posted by Green in wrong thread: [;)]
Hehe, I understand you allright, I sometimes wonder myself why I spent so much money. (All of my friends surtainly wonder a lot!)
But it really is an extremely good chocolate, not like anything I have ever put in my mouth. It is SOOO smooth. You can hold it between your fingers for half an hour without getting any stains, but the minute you put it in your mouth it melts like whipped cream. And I have to say it is even satisfaction just to look at it. It's beautiful...
But, it's a once in a lifetime experiece really. Don't think I'll ever buy it again.
And thank you so much for Berlin-info, I'm so excited it's difficult to focus on my exam-reading...
August 1, 2006
I just had my first sampling of this, and I must admit that I was favorably impressed. It has that typical Valrhona red fruitiness along with a floral tone, but they're both extremely mild. This chocolate is also laced with sweet spice, which was again quite mild and subtle. What I really appreciate about Porcelana del Pedregal is the end and finish, both of which are considerably more robust and assertive than the rest of the length. I love that lasting impression of pure chocolatiness it leaves on the palate. Overall, I think this is a worthy addition to the current Porcelana roster.
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The UConn School of Business and UConn coach Geno Auriemma announced today the establishment of the Geno Auriemma UConn Leadership Conference during a news conference at the School of Business. The event will be held April 29 and 30 at the Mohegan Sun Convention Center in Uncasville.
"It's not just a Geno Auriemma, women's basketball, UConn athletics, UConn School of Business event,'' Auriemma said. "This really is a community event that I think will galvanize the entire university and will benefit the entire university.''
Said UConn president Susan Herbst: "I think Geno has done more for women's collegiate athletics than almost anybody in the country, almost anybody in American history. So he does that and then he is an ideal typical university citizen. He's engaged with the rest of the university. He's an intellectual. He helped pick a campus book last year. He's everywhere. We're blessed to have a coach who is so much more than a coach and so much of a leader for this higher education institution.''
The keynote speakers for the event will be Walmart President/CEO and UConn alum Bill Simon and Nike President Charlie Denson. The number of registrants will be limited to 150.
For more information, log on to http://www.genoleadership.com/
"This isn't a money-making venture for Geno Auriemma,'' Auriemma said. "As you know in the media, I already make more money than I deserve. But, then again, if you spend your life with 12 women under the age of 22 I'm not making nearly as much as I should. So you have to understand this is not a money-making venture for me. That's not why I'm doing it. I'm not getting a dime out of this operation. Whatever profits we do generate is going to go directly into the School of Business for whatever purposes they feel fit to use. Whether it's scholarships or whether it's resources or facilities or whatever it is that the School of Business thinks will help them. I'm not doing this as another way to get publicity for me or to enhance my reputation in the world or make any money that benefits me personally.
"I have a speaking role and I will be involved in the entire event from the beginning to the end.''


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So who is the latest celebrity to star in a homemade porno that could be leaked to the public?
Lindsay Lohan?
Britney Spears?
Why it's Marilyn Monroe, of course! She of hit films Some Like It Hot, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Seven Year Itch, and many years of being dead.
Yes, a 5-minute, silent, black-and-white film of the buxom blonde bombshell engaging in oral sex with an unidentified man was sold this week by memorabilia collector Keya Morgan to a New York business man intent on keeping it out of the public eye. Morgan sold it for $1.5 million after scoring the film from the son of a dead FBI informant.
"The gentleman who bought it said out of respect for Marilyn he's not going to make a joke of it and put it on the Internet and try to exploit her," said Morgan. "That's not his intention and I would never get my name involved if that were to happen."
The silent film shows Monroe on her knees in front of a man whose face is out of the shot, indicating that he knew the camera was there. The footage appears to have been shot in the 1950s, and was discovered in the mid-'60s. Then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had his agents spend two weeks futilely trying to prove that Monroe's sex partner was either John F. Kennedy or Robert F. Kennedy, according to declassified agency documents and interviews.
One word comes to mind: HOT!!!!
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My friend, Doug Hawes Davis's film festival, has really taken off. In
its third year, it has received over 800 entries. It is held in the
gorgeous Wilma theatre in downtown Missoula Montana. Missoula is a
vivbrant university town with an active film going populace. Last
year they did a retrospective on the Maysles brothers. Albert wasn't
able to attend because of the Cristo deal in Central Park. Doug is a
prolific documentary film maker. He is now doing a project on the
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Favorite thing All along the highway there are ample opportunities to pull over and take in the sights. It seems that every 10 km, there is another view point. I would recommend that you should stop at as many as time allows. Our 5 hour trip turned out to be 8 hours and we did not stop at all the places we would have liked. Next time we will spend a couple days camping on our way up the Ice Field Highway.
Take your time and enjoy the place.
Fondest memory There are so many hikes, trails and view points that you can not see them all in one trip.
Favorite thing We were surprised to see large numbers of people lolling on the rocks at Mistaya Canyon as if they were sea lions in the North Pacific. I believe the reason for the crowd was the close proximity to various hostels and campgrounds. I'm sure that lying on the rocks listening to the roar of the falls is a pleasant way to spend a few hours while the sun is out. Hard to find fault with their choice of afternoon's diversion.
Favorite thing The Icefield Parkway (#93) between Banff and Lake Louise was first completed in 1939, then upgraded in 1961. The entire Parkway follows the foot trail developed by Banff guide Bill Peyto in the early 1900's whom Peyto Lake was named after. Today the road remains open year-round, and many scenic stops have been developed along the way. When travelling on Parkway, better keep your gas tank full in Jasper or Lake Louise, for services along the road are very limited. The photo was taken at Big Bend viewpoint, a few km north of Saskatchewan Crossing.
Favorite thing The Icefield Parkway connects Jasper and Lake Louise. It's 230 km long and can easily be travelled in 4 hours, although most people spend much longer than that to enjoy the scenery along the drive. It's considered one of the most beautiful mountain highways in the world. When you visit Banff and Jasper National Park, there's no other route.
When driving along Icefield Parkway, watch out for wildlife because there are unmarked animal trails crossing the highway. At one point the Park Service developed several underpasses for large animals to cross but it didn't seem to work. It's common to see deer, mountain goats causing "deer jam" or "goat jam". The photo shows a deer wandering at a crossroad (#93 and #1)
Favorite thing Crowfoot Glacier got its name because its "claws" clinging to the steep slopes look like a crow foot. However, after the rapid retreat in recent years, only 1 of the 3 toes can be seen today. The Glacier is best seen from Bow Lake right by Icefield Parkway (#93).
Favorite thing The Trees that grow at this elevation have to be tough , they have sap that is soo tough that is does not freeze,and they have wax-coated needles that protect the tree fom strong drying winds.
Upturned needles catch fistfull of snow that insulate from the extreem cold.
Bow Summit's two main trees may look a like,but check them out, the needles of Engelman's Spruce trees are pointed and sharp when you touch them, Subalpine are softer and blunter Spruce needles have four sides and feel square when rolled betwen two fingers. Fir needles are flatter ,and will not roll.
Favorite thing The peyto Glacier once filled this Valley, now it is merely a tongue at the large Wapta Icefield.You can see the proof of the Glaciers former presence.Past Glacial advances gouged out the U-shape of the valley at the bowl of the lake. The Glacier is one of the best shaded Glaciers in the Canadian Rockies The recent discovery of 3000 year old wood fragments covered by the Ice indicates that much of what is now Glacier ,once was Forest. But advances and retreats are part of a Glaciers life.
The Glacier has receded about two kilometers in the last century.
Fondest memory The greates memories are seeing the enormous mountains their peaks covered with snow ,and then the postcard view of the lakes ,you wonder if it all can be real.