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Tommy Haas (top) and James Blake await the verdict on a Haas serve
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THEY tested each other's will for more than three hours in a match that held more plot twists than a Shakespearean tragedy, but now Tommy Haas and James Blake stood at the net and waited for the instant replay to determine how it would end.
When the call ruled Haas' serve an ace, they could do little but share a warm handshake and endure their opposing emotions. Blake, seeded sixth, absorbed another heartbreaking five-set loss at Arthur Ashe Stadium. Haas, the 10th seed, revelled in an unlikely triumph.
He enjoyed the moment with a large measure of perspective. His career has included many comeback stories, on the court and off. Like Blake, he has built his mental strength the hard way.
Haas, 29, was not sure he would even play here; a lingering shoulder injury has flared recently. In July, a torn abdominal muscle forced him out of Wimbledon just as he was about to play Roger Federer.
In 2002, Haas had just become the No. 2 player in the world when his parents were seriously injured in a motorcycle accident. He went to help care for them. Later that year, he injured his shoulder and was out of tennis for 15 months.
Blake has matched Haas heartache for heartache. Blake came back from breaking his neck in an on-court fall in 2004. Later that year, his father died of cancer and Blake himself came down with shingles. When he returned in 2005, he said he looked to Haas as an inspiration.
On the second-last point, Blake saved a match point with a backhand winner that needed a replay to show it had stayed in by mere millimetres. On the last point, Blake challenged an ace by Haas, which was good by the same margin.
The 4-6, 6-4, 3-6, 6-0, 7-6 (7-4) victory put Haas in the quarter-finals, where he will face the man who beat him in the quarters last year Nikolay Davydenko of Russia. Davydenko, the fourth seed, advanced with a 6-1, 6-3, 6-4 victory over Hyung-Taik Lee of South Korea.
Andy Roddick, seeded fifth, advanced to the quarter-finals when Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic pulled out of their match. Roddick was winning 7-6 (8-6), 2-0, when Berdych said he was having trouble breathing. Roddick will play top-seeded Federer, who beat Feliciano Lopez 3-6, 6-4, 6-1, 6-4, showing beyond doubt that he is human, after all.
Lopez hit shots that Federer, whose court positioning is usually impeccable, did not even bother to chase, and broke Federer in the fourth game, winning the first set in 25 minutes.
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Then, in the first game of the third, he demonstrated why he has been the best player on the planet for the past 187 weeks.
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US OPEN AUSTRALIANS Women's doubles: Third round: 2-S STOSUR/L Raymond (US) lost to B Mattek (US)/S Mirza (Ind) 2-6 7-5 7-5.
Boys' singles: First round: 5-G JONES d T Sandgren (US) 4-6 6-2 7-6 (7-5), 12-J SMITH d K Wachiramanowong (Tha) 5-7 7-5 4-3 retired, J EASTON lost to R Thacher (US) 6-2 6-1.
Girls' singles: First round: J MOORE d 3-M Brengie (US) 6-4 6-2, J KONTA d T Moore (GB) 1-6 6-2 6-3.
Boys' doubles: First round: J EASTON/D Britton (US) d A Gonzalez (Col)/R Maytin (Ven) 6-4 6-4, B TOMIC/M VERRYTH lost to T Sandgren (US)/J Bo Seal (US) 6-2 6-4.
Girls' doubles: First round: S PEERS/S Akita (Jap) d M Gorny (RSA)/S Vidov (US) 7-5 6-3, J MOORE/V Pulido Velasco (Mex) d M Cecil (US)/M Larcher De Brito (Por) 7-6 6-4 (8-6), J KONTA/N Lertcheewakarn (Tha) lost to 4-L Jurikova (Svk)/K Piter (Pol) 6-3 6-7 (5-7) 7-6 (7-9), I HOLLAND/T Moore (US) lost to K Nara (Jap)/M Doi (Jap) 5-7 7-3 6-4.
SEEDS Men's singles: Fourth round: 1-R Federer (Sui) d F Lopez (Esp) 3-6 6-4 6-1 6-4, 4-N Davydenko (Rus) d L Hyung-Taik (Kor) 6-1 6-3 6-4, 5-A Roddick (US) d 9-T Berdych (Cze) 7-6 (8-6) 2-0 retired, 10-T Haas (Ger) d 6-J Blake (US) 4-6 6-4 3-6 6-0 7-6 (7-4).
Women's singles: Fourth round: 4-S Kuznetsova (Rus) d V Azarenka (Blr) 6-2 6-3, 6-A Chakvetadze (Rus) d T Paszek (Aut) 6-1 7-5, 18-S Peer (Isr) d 30-A Radwanska (Pol) 6-4 6-1.
Men's doubles: Quarter-finals: 10-S Aspelin (Swe)/J Knowle (Aut) d 1-B Bryan (US)/M Bryan (US) 7-5 6-4.
Mixed doubles: Quarter-finals: 3-Z Yan (Chi)/M Knowles (Bah) d N Dechy (Fra)/A Ram (Isr) 6-4 6-4.
OTHERS Women's singles: Fourth round: A Szavay (Hun) d J Vakulenko (Ukr) 6-4 7-6 (7-1).
Men's doubles: Quarter-finals: J Benneteau (Fra)/N Mahut (Fra) d R Kendrick (US)/S Querrey (US) 6-3 6-4.
Mixed doubles: Quarter-finals: M Shaughnessy (US)/L Paes (Ind) d A Harkleroad (US)/J Gimelstob (US) 6-3 6-4, V Azarenka (Blr)/M Mirnyi (Blr) d S Mirza (Ind)/M Bhupathi (Ind) 6-4 6-1, L Huber (US)/J Murray (GB) d A Radwanska (Pol)/M Fyrstenberg (Pol) 6-1 6-2.
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Barack Obama won 52.9 percent of the popular vote in 2008 and 365 electoral votes, 95 more than he needed. Many naturally concluded that prejudice was not a major factor against a black presidential candidate in modern America. My research, a comparison of Americans' Google searches and their voting patterns, found otherwise. If my results are correct, racial animus cost Mr. Obama many more votes than we may have realized.
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I worked for Edge magazine for four years, arriving as staff writer and leaving as editor. In that time I wrote hundreds of pages for the magazine, including features, interviews, reviews, columns and retrospectives. Edge doesn't use by-lines, so none of that work is credited, but I can supply a selected porfolio on request. Over those four years I also wrote occasional pieces for NGC, GamesMaster, Xbox World, Digital Home, SFX and FHM.
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"Hundreds of films and thousands of books have shown us images of women in high-necked dresses swooning at the sight of a virtuoso pianist, bent over his keyboard with furious abandon.
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The true identity of centaurs, the small celestial bodies orbiting the sun between Jupiter and Neptune, is one of the enduring mysteries of astrophysics. Are they asteroids or comets? A new study of observations from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) finds most centaurs are comets.
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Meet the Global Ruling Class
Making economics and politics appear separate is one of the chief characteristics of capitalism as a system of class rule... But it is how politics is manifested AS economics and economics AS politics that should concern us especially right now...Today a general strike is paralyzing Portugal, as workers there protest the... cuts... that are essential parts of the austerity program approved last week to please the Troika (IMF, European Central Bank and EU Commission). Fitch announced this afternoon that is downgrading Portugals bonds to junk status...In the streets of Cairo clashes have taken place.... Standard and Poor just cut Egypts sovereign bond ratings deeper into junk status...
The message is: bond ratings are a reflection of how well a local government successfully suppresses working class and popular revolt. That is lesson 1... Lesson 2: The downgraded bond rating is also intended to back that government up in suppressing such opposition, by limiting options... This has been very much the point of externally-imposed austerity programs for more than 30 years...
Lesson 3: market is an abstraction. What it abstracts is a set of identifiable players, fewer than it might seem at first, since the concerted, coordinated or simply coincidental actions of a few very large banks and investors can make a huge difference...when concentrated on a single country. This leads to Lesson 4: There is an increasingly united, increasingly global ruling class, who act collectively through a set of institutions that I call, using that classes own phrase... global governance.... These actors, though distinct, not always in perfect agreement and coming from different points of view at times, are nevertheless part of the same overall division of labor ...for capital: they constitute, in their ensemble as global governance a political force, a political party of sorts if you like, able to act in concert, and whose general perspective will be similar as a result of the elite socialization process that serves to unite the private and public sector, the national and global organization actors into a single class. How else to explain why Obama, Mandela and his successors, Lula and others... end up carrying out the same essential policies...?
So Lesson 5, summing up what we have learned: whenever you see economics, especially when it seems to be neutral, professional, technocratic...you are watching politics happen, class politics. And it is not happening either as a result of impersonal, diffuse market forces, but because there are organized class forces making it happen...
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1. Globalization and the transnational capitalist class
A transnational capitalist class (TCC) has emerged as that segment of the world bourgeoisie that represents transnational capital, the owners of the leading worldwide means of production as embodied in the transnational corporations and private financial institutions. The spread of TNCs, the sharp increase in foreign direct investment, the proliferation of mergers and acquisitions across national borders, the rise of a global financial system, and the increased interlocking of positions within the global corporate structure, are some empirical indicators of the transnational integration of capitalists.
The TCC manages global rather than national circuits of accumulation. This gives it an objective class existence and identity spatially and politically in the global system above any local territories and polities.
The TCC became politicized from the 1970s into the 1990s and has pursued a class project of capitalist globalization institutionalized in an emergent transnational state apparatus and in a "Third Way" political program.
The emergent global capitalist historic bloc is divided over strategic issues of class rule and how to achieve regulatory order in the global economy. Contradictions within the ruling bloc open up new opportunities for emancipatory projects from global labor.
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2. The Global 1%: Exposing the Transnational Ruling Class
Foremost among the early works on the idea of an interconnected 1 percent within global capitalism was Leslie Sklair's 2001 book, The Transnational Capitalist Class.[ii] Sklair believed that globalization was moving transnational corporations (TNC) into broader international roles, whereby corporations' states of orgin became less important than international argreements developed through the World Trade Organization and other international institutions. Emerging from these multinational corporations was a transnational capitalist class, whose loyalities and interests, while still rooted in their corporations, was increasingly international in scope...
The transnational capitalist class can be analytically divided into four main fractions: (i) owners and controllers of TNCs and their local affiliates; (ii) globalizing bureaucrats and politicians; (iii) globalizing professionals; (iv) consumerist elites (merchants and media). . . . It is also important to note, of course, that the TCC [transnational corporate class] and each of its fractions are not always entirely united on every issue. Nevertheless, together, leading personnel in these groups constitute a global power elite, dominant class or inner circle in the sense that these terms have been used to characterize the dominant class structures of specific countries.[iii]
Estimates are that the total world's wealth is close to $200 trillion, with the US and Europe holding approximately 63 percent....As of 2010, the top 1 percent of the wealthist people in the world had hidden away between $21 trillion to $32 trillion in secret tax exempt bank accounts spread all over the world.[iv] Meanwhile, the poorest half of the global population together possesses less than 2 percent of global wealth...Global grain production yielded a record 2.3 billion tons in 2007, up 4 percent from the year beforeyet, billions of people go hungry every day. Grain.org describes the core reasons for ongoing hunger... while farmers grow enough food to feed the world, commodity speculators and huge grain traders like Cargill control global food prices and distribution.[viii] Addressing the power of the global 1 percentidentifying who they are and what their goals areare clearly life and death questions.
It is also important to examine the questions of how wealth is created, and how it becomes concentrated. Historically, wealth has been captured and concentrated through conquest...Once acquired, wealth can then be used to establish means of production, such as the early British cotton mills, which exploit workers' labor power to produce goods whose exchange value is greater than the cost of the labor... Organized business hires workers who are paid below the value of their labor power. The result is the creation of what Marx called surplus value, over and above the cost of labor. The creation of surplus value allows those who own the means of production to concentrate capital even more. In addition, concentrated capital accelerates the exploition of natural resources by private entrepreneurseven though these natural resources are actually the common heritage of all living beings.[x]
In this article, we ask: Who are the the world's 1 percent power elite? And to what extent do they operate in unison for their own private gains over benefits for the 99 percent...?
The Extractor Sector: The Case of Freeport-McMoRan (FCX)...
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Mon Dec 10, 2012, 07:30 PM
HiPointDem (20,729 posts)
4. The global ruling class: Billion-dollar babies
The rise of nation states produced national ruling classes. It would be odd if the current integration of the world economy did not produce new global elitesbusiness people and financiers who run global companies and global politicians who steer supra-national organisations such as the European Union (EU) and the International Monetary Fund.
David Rothkopf, a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, argues that these elites constitute nothing less than a new global superclass. They have all the clubby characteristics of the old national ruling classes, but with the vital difference that they operate on the global stage, far from mere national electorates.
They attend the same universities (Mr Rothkopf calculates that Harvard, Stanford and the University of Chicago are now the world's top three superclass producers). They are groomed in a handful of world-spanning institutions such as Goldman Sachs. They belong to the same clubsthe Council on Foreign Relations in New York is a particular favouriteand sit on each other's boards of directors. Many of them shuttle between the public and private sectors. They meet at global events such as the World Economic Forum at Davos and the Trilateral Commission orfor the crème de la crèmethe Bilderberg meetings or the Bohemian Grove seminars that take place every July in California.
Mr Rothkopf makes a fascinating tour of the world of the superclass. He opens the door to the office of the head of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, on the top floor of Goldman's tower on New York's Broad Street. He visits the factory that customises Gulfstream jets (every year nearly 10% of Gulfstream's clients attend Davos). He calls on the Carlyle Group where financiers and former presidents get together to make each other richer. And he offers a tour of the weird proceedings of the Bohemian Grove meetings, which Richard Nixon described as the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine...
Superclass is a pioneering study of a subject that has often been the preserve of conspiracy theorists. Mr Rothkopf is anything but a crank, and he is right when he says that, these days, the most influential people around the world are also the most global people.
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Mon Dec 10, 2012, 07:36 PM
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5. The global ruling class
The annual Merrill Lynch Cap Gemini World Wealth Report is a serious study of liquid, investable wealth held by the richest people on the planet: the High Net Worth Individuals who have at least $1m liquid wealth, and the Ultra High Net Worth Individuals who have at least $30m, both "excluding primary residence, collectibles, consumables, and consumer durables". As such it constitutes an invaluable starting point for understanding who the ruling class are, where they live and how they hold their wealth. This is from the 2010 wealth report (I'm afraid there doesn't appear to be a working online file...):
The global HNWI population nevertheless remains highly concentrated. The U.S., Japan and Germany still accounted for 53.5% of the worlds HNWI population at the end of 2009, down only slightly from 54.0% in 2008. Australia became the tenth largest home to HNWIs, after overtaking Brazil, due to a considerable rebound.
After losing 24.0% in 2008, Ultra-HNWIs saw wealth rebound 21.5% in 2009. At the end of 2009, Ultra-HNWIs accounted for 35.5% of global HNWI wealth, up from 34.7%, while representing only 0.9% of the global HNWI population, the same as in 2008.
The total liquid wealth of the rich in 2009, at $39 trillion, was actually more than two-thirds of world GDP in the same year, almost triple the GDP of the US, and nearly ten times that of China. Another way of looking at it is that the increase in liquid assets from 2008 to 2009 held by the rich was about $6.5 trillion, more than 10% of total GDP in 2009. This was in a year in which world GDP actually shrank...
Most of the new wealth held by the rich was, as you can see, not produced by economic growth, but by stock market capitalisation. In other words, market relations, sustained by state intervention, facilitated the transfer of wealth from the working class to the rich at a time when most of the world's economy was such that the direct exploitation of labour could not sustain high profit rates. That's what the bail-outs did; it's what they were intended to do. Another intended consequence is that there were not only more high net worth individuals, 10 million of them globally (0.014% of the world's population), but the 'ultras' did far better at increasing their share of liquid assets than mere millionaires - thus wealth became even more concentrated than it had been, among a mere 36,300 people, or 0.0005% of the population.
The corollary of this has been, and will continue to be, a general decline in the living standards of the working class in most of the advanced capitalist economies: at the same time as the wealth of the richest grew, global unemployment rose by 14.4%...
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More than 400 Boy Scouts, ages 11 to 18, and more than 150 leaders will take over the Southside Center and the National Center for Aviation Technology (NCAT) on Saturday, February 19th to participate in the 7th Annual Merit Badge College hosted by Wichita Area Technical College (WATC).
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Citation: N/A Interpretive Summary: No method is currently available that ensures a routine and efficient means of inserting foreign genes into poultry. Two techniques for inserting foreign DNA were investigated. The first involved the direct injection of either SV-lacZ reporter genes (transfected cells stain blue) or a RSV-GFP (transfected cells turn green when fluoresced) into freshly laid chicken eggs when the embryo contains about 60,000 cells. When SV-lacZ was injecte into the embryo, no expression of the gene was observed. If SV-lacZ was complexed with a liposome before injection, the reporter gene was expressed in a few embryos. The best result was obtained when the injected embryos were subsequently electroporated with 3 pulses of DC current at 100 volts for, 50 usec. Unfortunately, this technique was not effective for the RSV-GFP gene. The second technique involved transfection of embryonic cells in culture with RSV-GFP complexed with liposome, and then injection of the transfected cells into the embryonic disc from which about 15% of the cell had been removed. Seven of 35 surviving embryos expressed the reporter gene in circulating blood cells and vascular system 3 days after transfer. This method may be useful for producing transgenic birds because only the green fluorescing embryos need to be cultured to hatching. This procedure warrants additional testing to determine whether the transgenic birds that are hatched will contain the foreign genes in their germ cells and transmit the genes into their progeny.
Technical Abstract: Experiments were conducted to develop techniques to introduce exogenous DNA into chicken embryos at the blastula stage. Two reporter constructs for the transfection of chicken embryos were pSV-B-galactosidase (SV- Bgal) and pKK-v4-lacZ (RSV-GFP). Freshly oviposited, unincubated chicken eggs were broken to expose the embryonic disk for the DNA injection and introduction of donor cells to produce chimeric embryos. After the manipulation, the embryo and yolk was transferred into an egg shell and cultured in vitro for several days. For SV-Bgal, DNA was directly injected into the central disk area of the blastoderm. Bacterial galactosidase expression was improved by complexing DNA with a liposome before the microinjection, and further by electroporating embryos at 100 volts, 50 æsec., and 3 pulses, to achieve its expression in 75% of embryos three days later. However, the above approach was not succcessful for introducing RSV-GFP into embryos. The second approach used was to insert RSV-GFP into blastodermal cells from donor embryos by liposome-mediated transfection. Then, donor cells were introduced into recipient embryos to produce chimeras with cells carrying the reporter construct. The mortality of chimeric embryos was about 40% after three days of incubation. Electroporation of recipient embryos further increased embryo mortality. Seven out of 35 surviving embryos expressed GFP. The GFP expression was monitored, starting as early as two days after the injection. The expression of GFP was primarily in extra-embryonic bodies and cells in circulation.


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To form a Reuleaux triangle, take the three points at the corners of an equilateral triangle and connect each pair of points by a circular arc centered at the remaining point. The ratio of the circumference to the width of the triangle is, remarkably, pi.
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A CEMENT-making firm is having to import cement from less efficient plants in Germany and Ireland because it is being taxed too heavily to make it in Tilbury.
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Let us heed to the voice of the noble
No matter however weak and feeble
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Voice of the noble cry for peace
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Curse of the world should surely cease
Look at the world as one and not in pliable piece!
Voice of peace is sure the soul of wisdom
Choice of the world is to reach God's kingdom
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Voice of the noble seeks the world of peace
Noise of the wicked breeds the world of war
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The congressional supercommittee seeking a long-term debt-reduction deal over at least $1.2 trillion in deficit cuts remains deadlocked over Democrats' insistence on tax increases as a deadline for agreement nears.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus proposed a deficit-reduction plan worth almost $3 trillion with about half comprised of tax increases, according to a congressional aide who spoke on the condition on anonymity.
The remainder would be spending cuts, including in Medicare and Medicaid, as well as fee increases, the aide said. Republicans rejected the plan, which Senate Democrats wanted to pair with extensions of a payroll tax break and jobless benefits scheduled to expire at the end of this year, the aide said.
Republicans offered a $2.2 trillion plan, said a Senate aide familiar with the proposal. It includes $600 million in new revenue, mostly by assuming economic growth, the aide said.
"They're gridlocked," Greg Valliere, chief political strategist at the Potomac Research Group, said in an Oct. 24 Bloomberg Television interview. "The level of partisanship is really about to ratchet up." Valliere raised the prospect of a lower U.S. credit rating if the supercommittee fails, even as investors have shrugged off Standard & Poor's Aug. 5 downgrade of the nation's debt to AA+ from AAA.
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The cost of insuring U.S. government debt against default, as shown by credit default swaps on Treasury securities, declined since early August to become the cheapest among the Group of 10 nations. Moody's Investors Service and Fitch Ratings have affirmed their top rankings on the U.S.
"If the supercommittee fails or just does half a loaf, then I think it's not just S&P, the other agencies as well could take us down a notch," Valliere said.
The deal lawmakers reached to raise the borrowing limit directs the supercommittee to recommend a debt-reduction plan by Nov. 23 and for Congress to approve it by Dec. 23. Failure to do so would trigger $1.2 trillion in across-the-board domestic and defense spending cuts.
Several supercommittee members spoke at a hearing yesterday about the risks of falling short of an agreement, while others questioned whether it would be possible to alter the automatic spending cuts.
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"Every day we hear more and more about what the effects of failure would be on our nation's long-term fiscal health and creditworthiness," said Senator Patty Murray, the 12-member panel's co-chairman and a Washington Democrat.
The supercommittee has held most of its meetings in private and given little public indication that a deal is in the making.
Congressional Budget Office Director Doug Elmendorf told the panel that members need to find agreement by the first week of November to give his agency enough time to measure the savings of any large-scale plan.
"Lawmakers have already taken significant steps to constrain discretionary spending," Elmendorf said. Such programs account for less than 20 percent of the federal budget.
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Democrats pressed their case for a "balanced approach" to debt reduction that includes new tax revenue that ends preferences for upper-income earners. Murray said if the committee focuses only on lowering additional discretionary spending "we would still face deficits of hundreds of billions of dollars because we haven't touched entitlements and revenues."
"We've got to deal with the revenue issue," said Maryland Democratic Representative Chris Van Hollen. "We all know that in the past decade when folks at the very top were paying a little more the economy performed just fine," he said. "It seems to me this is a time for shared responsibility."
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Republicans are dug in against the Democrats' revenue demands.
Representative Dave Camp, chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, said in a Bloomberg Television interview that he opposed a previous debt-reduction proposal by President Barack Obama's debt commission because it included "high revenue levels." The leaders of that panel will testify before the supercommittee on Nov. 1.
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Camp, a Michigan Republican, asked Elmendorf if there are any barriers to Congress changing how the cuts to Pentagon programs would take effect.
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Leaders outside the committee are sounding less than confident as the deadline for recommendations approaches.
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Crabbing at Las Palmas
I love seafood.
It's actually a well-known story in our family that my mother craved seafood when she was pregnant with me and my dad took her out every Friday night for nine months for shrimp scampi.
This was a huge splurge for them at the time, especially since the only place in Wisconsin Rapids that had seafood in the 1970s was what is now the restaurant at the Hotel Mead, one of the ritziest establishments in that small city.
So, I guess it is no surprise that I have a weakness for all things seafood, especially the shrimp scampi at The Savoy Room, 1962 N. Prospect Ave.
But there is a lot to be said for just plain and simple seafood; peel and eat shrimp by the pound, raw oysters by the dozen, and oh yes, all-you-can-eat crab legs.
Scott and I ventured out to Las Palmas in West Allis, 1901 S 60th St., on the recommendation of a friend who said they had "the best crab legs in town." We were a little skeptical, firstly because Las Palmas is a Mexican Restaurant, and secondly, because when we pulled up, the place did not look very inviting -- we almost didn't go in.
But after stuffing ourselves silly on rich crab meat, I knew I had found one of my new favorite neighborhood restaurants. For $22.95 per person you get a huge Corona bucket of some of the freshest, most perfectly steamed crab legs you will find anywhere, and if you can finish that off, the staff here will keep bringing you more buckets until you are sated (Scott and I barely polished off one bucket together).
One of the novelties about all-u-can eat crab legs is that you have to work for your dinner, and while it is messy, it is usually fun (and sometimes frustrating) to crack the shells and pull out the sweet crabmeat within. At Las Palmas, the crab was so exceptionally steamed that a single crack will pull out the crabmeat in one piece, in one fell swoop.
And it is delicious. Even the top of the legs, where the legs conjoin to the crab's body, were sweet and tasty, and not at all fishy, which is the downfall often at restaurants that offer all-you-can-eat crab. The crab was so good, we hardly used the melted butter that accompanied it.
Las Palmas offers all-you-can-eat crab legs Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays for $22.95, and your order includes a side of rice and beans. Come hungry, and wearing clothes that won't suffer a few butter splatters. It is well worth it.
ppavaaj | June 21, 2010 at 7:43 p.m. (report)
So I took my boyfriend out to eat for Fathers day at Las Palmas, when we got there we were greeted very friendly but our waiter was rude. I had ordered off the menu and it was okay but I didnt finish it so I packed it home but my BF got the ALL YOU CAN EAT. I gotta tell you its freakin EXPENSIVE if i knew that we wouldnt even eat there. It was 27 dollars just for those crab legs and some were over cooked. You couldnt even share the food, alot of people who do go to restaurants do share there food esp. couples, that they losing business in that even though they are taxing for the legs. The WORST thing about eating there is that they charge you 15% gratuity on every table even if you are under the party of 6. We were bill 7 dollars for gratuity, I couldnt believe that only us two were billed for that much. I had better food and services for under 50 dollars. Let me tell you I have eaten at really good places and have known to cook really good food for all kinds of people but for this much. Im not even cheap and work two jobs and Im complaining about 15% gratuity. I wouldnt even tip 7 dollars for two ppl at a table exp. with bad services. Oh and when I wanted to pack my food to go they rushed to give us the bill when my bf wasnt even finish with his ALL YOU CAN EAT CRAB LEGS, he still wanted another bucket. The place was busy with ppl but the ppl that was there before was still eating their food but we were rushed from the waiter to leave. By the time we finished our food no one else was really there but the ones who were there before us. WTH kind of services was that and plus my 7 dollars 15% gratuity too... I would never go there again and never refer that place to anyone and tell everybody how they charge so much for not even being up scale. FYI if someone that knows these ppl or work there tell your owner who suppose to be under new management to take that 15% gratuity off every table even if its under 6 ppl at a table. Las Palmas is not even upscale nor in a RICH neighborhood to even tax that much. Thank you but never will i return again to that place. You guys just losted alot of business by me even writing a review and if any one of you guys who do read this and feel the need to write me back please do so. I would glady go in details on to why you SHOULDN'T go there
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Sportside1 | Sept. 7, 2009 at 6:11 a.m. (report)
The owner of Las Palmas passed away and the service and quality have gone downhill, if you go be careful.
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islandfanatic | July 19, 2007 at 7:52 a.m. (report)
Los Palmas is great. I admit the first time that I went, I was skeptical as well. But you don't even need the margarine or the sides that come with the all you can eat, sweet, sweet crab legs!!!!
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jmayer3668 | July 18, 2007 at 11:17 a.m. (report)
While the crab legs are excellent at Las Palmas, the last time I was there, the "butter" was margarine. Just not the same as they used to be. When we first started going there, they were $14.95 which was an awesome deal but now, they are on the top end of "all you can eat crab legs" and they serve them with margarine. Very disappointing. Club Paragon serves 'em up just as well and with butter, if you don't mind the slower service.
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amysmom | July 16, 2007 at 9:58 p.m. (report)
Oh the memories of all the fantastic Scampi at the Mead!! However, the Scampi at the Savoy is fantastic and I would definitely go back again. But now my taste buds are getting ready for those Crab Legs the next time I'm in Milwaukee for a visit.
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There's no better way to clear out winter than serving fresh, green foods.
Asparagus is one of my favorite early spring vegetables.
Packed with fiber, folate and vitamins A, C, E and K, asparagus is widely recognized as a food that can help ward off several kinds of cancer and slow the effects of aging. Because asparagus contains high levels of the amino acid asparagine, which serves as a natural diuretic, eating it also helps me keep my weight-loss goals on track.
Asparagus can be eaten raw, but I enjoy it best steamed or grilled so make it less tough.
Often served as a side dish, asparagus becomes the star of this creamy alfredo pasta. I found the recipe a few years ago in Eating Well magazine and I look forward to cooking it each spring after I buy my first batch of farm-fresh asparagus.
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8 ounces whole-wheat penne pasta
1 bunch asparagus, trimmed and cut into ¾-inch pieces
1½ cups whole milk
4 teaspoons whole-grain mustard
4 teaspoons flour
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon freshly ground pepper
2 teaspoons olive oil
3 tablespoons minced garlic
2 teaspoons minced fresh tarragon, or ½ teaspoon dried
1 teaspoon freshly grated lemon zest
2 teaspoons lemon juice
½ cup grated Parmesan cheese, divided
Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add pasta and cook for 3 minutes less than the package directions. Add asparagus and cook until the pasta and asparagus are just tender, 3 minutes more. Drain and return to the pot.
Meanwhile, whisk milk, mustard, flour, salt and pepper in a medium bowl. Heat oil in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat. Add garlic and cook, stirring, until fragrant and lightly browned, 30 seconds to 1 minute. Whisk in the milk mixture. Bring to a simmer, stirring constantly, and cook until thickened, 1 to 2 minutes. Stir in tarragon, lemon zest and juice.
Stir the sauce into the pasta-asparagus mixture. Cook over medium-high heat, stirring, until the sauce is thick, creamy and coats the pasta, 1 to 2 minutes. Stir in ¼ cup Parmesan. Divide the pasta among 4 bowls and top with the remaining ¼ cup Parmesan.
Make it a meal: Serve with a salad of sliced fresh mozzarella and cherry tomatoes tossed with a little fresh basil, balsamic vinegar and olive oil.
Nutrition per serving: 359 calories; 10 g fat (4 g sat, 4 g mono); 18 mg cholesterol; 55 g carbohydrates; 18 g protein; 7 g fiber; 602 mg sodium; 467 mg potassium.
Source: Eating Well June/July 2006
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