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Breathe. Don't worry be happy. Travel the world while drawing. Eat. Not to die.
I love to draw, read and travel... and you know what else. The simple things in life. Food, music, fantarcheology, Beauty in all it's forms. Balance, I'm a libra. Anything that is good or very good or great or amazing. I love things done with passion, time, effort, grace... Michael Jordan. Bonzai trees. Art from Papua New Guinea. Fanzines, Things that are not about money, Good music. Flea markets, thrift stores, Antique stores.
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It is NOT just about being forced to pay for contraception and abortion drugs. That's big but that is NOT the core issue. The current debate is the first symptom of a deadly disease to come. When Roman Catholic leaders cozied up to the Obama Administration -- as did insurance companies and doctors and hospital associations -- back then, back in 2009 -- a LOT of people were trying to warn us. There were people shouting from the housetops: "Don't drink the Kool-Aid dear Bishops! Wake up Cleveland Clinic and Mayo Clinic and AARP and AMA. Wake up Evangelical Leaders, all too quick to fight for liberty in just one or two areas of life (abortion and marriage). Wake up America -- a disaster is coming... Now is NOT the time to cut deals and compromise. Once you start down this path, once you give the government full control over health care -- you will lose your liberty and eventually your life."
And for the record -- IF these groups had fought, they would have found the votes they needed in Congress to craft a much better set of reforms.
But the Catholic Bishops were afraid to take a stand against the immoral transfer of authority from the individual and family to the state. They tried to carve out a little ghetto of protection. The Evangelical leaders took a half stand in the Manhattan Declaration and were neutralized. The medical community cowered before the fear of opposing a then popular President. The insurance industry lacked the courage to take on the radical Left and tried to cut a deal. Now they all are finding out that deals made with Washington, whether signed by President or bureaucrat are not worth the paper on which they are written. Which is why the writers of the Constitution were so desperately careful to establish boundaries in law to prevent such atrocities.
So now what? The answer is the same as it has always been. Repent. Admit we blew this one and ask God to help us find our way back to the light. Health Care is a priority. Insurance can work and does work. America has brilliant doctors and willing institutions that care. If we don't come back to first principles in this debate -- our ignorance and greed will kill us. Congress must repeal this legislation and start over. It will take a great deal of humility (not exactly in abundance on the Potomac) for Congress to admit the mistake. Even greater courage will be needed for religious leaders to stop settling for half-measures and face up to their responsibilities to provide principled leadership in civil society. Thus we urge everyone to join us in our continued 40 days of prayer for Congress. May God have mercy on all our souls.
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Phytosensors are plants that are genetically engineered for sensing and reporting the presence of a specific contaminant, including agriculturally important biological agents. Phytosensors are constructed by transforming plants to contain specific biotic- or abiotic-inducible promoters fused to a reporter gene. When such transgenic plants encounter the target biotic or abiotic agent, the specific inducible promoter is triggered and subsequently drives the expression of the reporter gene, which produces a signal for detection. However, several systems lack robustness, rapid induction and promoter strength. Here, we tested the FLP/
The use of real-time
Plant sentinels, or 'phytosensors', potentially have tremendous utility as wide-area detectors. The use of an inducible promoter is a desirable feature when contemplating its use for the design of a phytosensing system. However, the complexity of the expression of many plant promoters is inherent to the fact that they contain several
To address the problem associated with the inducible promoters directly fused to a reporter in phytosensing systems, we expanded the phytosensing platforms to include a site-specific recombination strategy. Site-specific recombination involves enzyme mediated rearrangement of DNA fragments that do not possess a high degree of homology [
Site-specific recombination systems have been used primarily for the deletion of transgenes resulting in antibiotic-free transgenic plants and/or for direct integration of transgenes into plant genomes. In this study, we propose possible application of this system for phytosensing purposes. We employed one of the well-characterized site-specific recombination systems—the FLP/
A biolistic vector, useful for plant transformation via biolistic particle delivery system, containing the FLP-
Transgenic tobacco and
GUS expression analyses were performed by subjecting the plants to histochemical assays using GUS staining solution containing the substrate 5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indolylglucuronide (X-Gluc) as described in [
Genomic DNA was extracted using Qiagen DNeasy plant mini kit (Qiagen Inc., Valencia, CA, USA) and PCR was performed using
A two gene cassette scheme of an inducible FLP/
For further verification, the recombination event upon heat induction was analyzed by PCR. A successful recombination event in a heat-treated plant would result in a 931 bp PCR fragment whereas in an untreated plant would result in a 4,165 bp PCR fragment. As shown in
Taken together, our results demonstrate that this two gene cassette organization of the inducible FLP/
Phytosensors could serve as a valuable and a cost-effective method for sensing environmental contaminants in real time. An inherent problem associated with this application is the inadequate level of reporter signal for detection, which depends, at least in large part, on the strength of the inducible promoters involved in phytosensing. In this study, we demonstrated that a two gene cassette scheme of the inducible FLP/
We thank Christy W. Rose for assisting with tissue culture. We gratefully acknowledge funding by a USDA-NIFA grant and funds from the Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station and Racheff Endowment.
Schematic representation of the FLP/
Schematic diagram of the biolistic and binary vectors.
Histochemical analysis of GUS expression in leaf tissues of tobacco
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I'm out in Oklahoma getting ready to fish the Fish & Chips tournament. This is another chapter in the good life that I wrote about last week. This has been a great week, and it isn't over yet.
We're fishing Grand Lake o' the Cherokees. It was formed in 1940 and is something like 46,500 acres. The fishing is supposed to be pretty good. I don't know that for sure yet, but I do know that the wildlife around here is extraordinary. On our way to the ramp, we had to brake for a pheasant that was walking across the road without a worry in this world. You don't see that very often. And while we were messing around on the water yesterday we saw a couple of red foxes playing along the shoreline. That's something to watch. They were really cute. I enjoyed watching them. But that's nothing compared to the place we're staying.
It's in Quapaw, population 984 according the 2000 census, and I believe it was named after Quapaw Chief John Quapaw. (He donated land for a community school back around 1891.) It's called the Downstream Casino Resort, and I'm here to tell you, it's first-class all the way. They have valet parking for your truck and boat as well as golf cart service to and from it after they've parked it. That's the sort of thing a guy could get used to. I can't remember ever having that anywhere else.
The parking lot is smooth as silk, too. I've been skateboarding all over it for the past few days with only a couple of mishaps. Of all the places I've been, it's the best skateboarding parking lot I ever seen. I love it.
The first night we were here they had a Halloween disguise contest. The winner was awarded a check for $3,000. You can imagine what the place looked like. There was one of everything and everyone. Nothing was left to the imagination — nothing. (Sorry. I don't know who won or what they were wearing.) My partner and I thought about wearing our tournament jerseys and going as professional bass anglers, but we chickened out. I wish now we'd done it. It would have been a memorable experience, although I doubt we would have won anything.
We'll start fishing for real this Thursday. Usually I say I can't wait, but in this case the decision isn't so easy. When we're not fishing we'll be competing in poker tournaments. That's always a lot of fun. I'm better at it than you might think, especially considering how frugal — actually cheap — I am. I'll let you know next week how everything turned out. I know one thing now, though. Even if I don't catch a single fish or win one hand of poker, this will go down as one fine trip.


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When Lea Davison realized that she could make mountain biking her career, she focused on riding and never looked back. "I love my job," she told an interviewer last year. She's also very good at it. Lea is the top woman mountain-bike racer in the country, and she represented the US in the 2012 Summer Games in London. The team was the most-successful women's mountain-biking team in US history.
A natural athlete, Lea had the full support of her family as she pursued many different sports, eventually focusing on skiing and cross-country running. During high school and college, she earned slalom titles and state cross-country championships. In 2000, during her junior year in high school, a friend suggested she try out for the mountain-biking team and she was an immediate success. Her passion for the sport grew and, by 2004, she was a regular on national podiums.
Lea believes that riding a bike can be empowering for girls and co-founded Little Bellas, a biking/mentoring program for girls 7-14, with her sister, Sabra. Started in Vermont, the program is now national. It's a way to pass on the encouragement she and her sister received from their mother. "Our goal is not about racing – we want to get girls on bikes and keep them on bikes."
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Leonard John Lundgren received his Bachelor of Arts degree in architecture from the University of Texas at Austin in 1949. Directly out of school he practiced as an independent architect. In 1950 Maurer graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with his Bachelor of Arts degree in architecture, and he also began practicing architecture in Austin. Three years later Ed Maurer contacted Leonard Lundgren about working together and in February 1953 the two formed the architectural firm of Lundgren & Maurer and occupied offices at 1003 W. 24th Street in Austin.
The firm designed a wide range of buildings including medical centers, public building for the State of Texas and the City of Austin, commercial retail stores, banks and office buildings, churches, schools and residences but they were perhaps best known for their work in hotel design. In the 20 or so years of practice the firm designed hundreds of hotels in the United States, Mexico, Central America, and Saudi Arabia for Holiday Inns and other hospitality chains. In 1954 Lundgren & Maurer received an American Institute of Architects Award of Merit for the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity House in Austin. This building, along with some other Lundgren & Maurer commercial and residential projects, was an excellent example of Modernist or the International style of architecture.
After the partnership ended in the early 1970s, Lundgren continued to practice as Lundgren and Associates (ca. 1974). At about the same time Lundgren also became part of the international hotel consulting firm Phillips Lundgren & Wallace. This partnership dissolved just over a year later in August 1976. Maurer formed Maurer Associates around 1975. Maurer then went on to practice as Maurer International between 1977 and 1983.
More information about Leonard J. Lundgren and Lundgren and Maurer can be found
The materials within this collection originate from two separate acquisitions. After the dissolution of Lundgren & Maurer, each retained approximately 50 percent of the partnerships files and drawings. Lundgren donated his portion first and Maurer's portion was donated by his son after his father's death. Since these records were initially created together, they have been arranged, filed and described as one single collection.
The Project Files, arranged by building type, contain such material as correspondence, specifications, field reports and financial records documenting the design and construction of some of Lundgren & Maurer's work dated 1963 to 1985. Only thirteen projects are represented in this series, including both the Carver Branch and the University Hills Branch of the Austin Public Library, Bank of Austin, Serena Woods Development and the round tower design for Holiday Inn.
The Office Files series (1961-1981, undated) consists of administrative files and correspondence relating to the partnerships of Lundgren & Maurer and Phillips, Lundgren and Wallace. Also included in this series are the individual correspondence files for both Lundgren and Maurer. The items within these two folders are a mixture of personal and business items. Both Lundgren and Maurer were members of the Austin Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and there is a single letter included in the collection written to the City of Austin Mayor and City Council documenting the A.I.A.'s review of the Town Lake Committee Report in 1966.
The third series contains Photographs, all of which are undated. Photographs of Austin/Travis County buildings were transferred to the AHC Photo Collection (see Separated Materials for locations). Images of unidentified or out-of-town projects are filed in this series by building type. Some images are photographic reprints of drawings or renderings which have been reduced for presentation reports.
Oversize materials such as photographs, photo renderings of the Cross Country Inn in Houston, TX and the Adams Extract Building in Austin, and a single firm brochure of hotel projects are filed in series four.
The Drawings series contains about 5780 drawings representing approximately 364 projects. Approximately one third of these projects are for hotels, the majority of which were for the hotel chain Holiday Inn. Lundgren & Maurer began designing Holiday Inns in Texas in the late 1950s and early 1960s and ultimately designed Holiday Inn buildings built nationally and internationally. Lundgren and Associates continued designing hotels for Holiday Inn after the dissolution of the partnership. Another third of the drawings are for residential projects, the majority of which are located in Austin. The remaining third of the drawings represent other types of commercial buildings (retail, restaurants, medical, etc.), schools, churches and public buildings.
The following items originally in this collection were separated into the photo collection:
Pearce Jr. High School (4 color prints) - AF-Public Schools-Junior High P8800(10) Pearce, PICA 25829-25832
Guadalupe St. (1 black and white print)- AF qHB (box) Guadalupe, 2352, PICH 06799
Maurer residence (1 black and white print)- AF qHB (box)Woodlawn Blvd, 1508, PICH 07355
Gamma Phi Beta Sorority House - University of Texas (1 black and white and 1 color print)- AF qHB (drawer) Pearl, 2222, PICH 07356-07357
708-712 Congress Avenue - AF qHB (drawer) Congress Ave 708-712 PICH 06802
Carver Branch, Public Austin Library (6 Polaroid prints and 5 color prints)- AF L2710 (44), PICA 27539-27546
Shettles Memorial Methodist Church (6 Polaroid prints)- AF C3690(11), PICA 27547-27552
Bank of Austin (3 black and white prints)- AF B0700(6), PICA 27553-27555
815 Brazos (6 Polaroid prints) - AF HB Brazos, 815, PICH 07831-87836.
This record series is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.
Open to all users.
The collection was donated by Leonard Lundgren on July 14, 1987 and by Scott Maurer in September 1990.
Lundgren & Maurer Drawings and Records (AR.2009.025). Austin History Center, Austin Public Library, Texas.
Donor #: DO/1987/061, DO/1990/097
Donation Date: 1987, 1990
Finding aid was prepared by Tim Wilder/1991, updated by Molly Hults/2010 and Kathryn Garvey/2012.
Finding aid was encoded by Evan Usler/2010.
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Essendon chief executive
Mr Robson announced his resignation on Thursday, saying he initially offered to go in February but had stayed on at the request of the board.
Mr Robson said the internal investigation into Essendon's governance by former Telstra boss
"As Ziggy said in his recommendations, the club CEO must be accountable for everything that happens within their organisation.
"We all know that a lot happened at this club in 2012 that just should not have happened," Mr Robson said.
"We let down our players and their families. How seriously we let them down is still a matter under investigation.
"There is no excuse in not knowing and as CEO, I accept that accountability."
Findings would be pivotal
Essendon chairman
"There will be some change as a result of not only Ziggy's report but the investigation, which hopefully is nearing its completion," he said.
"We're now starting to at least sight the end."
He said ASADA had nearly finished interviewing Essendon players.
The Bombers expect to make an announcement on Friday about a caretaker chief executive.
Mr Robson hopes to find another job in sports administration and said he had learned from his failings.
"I am now going to commit myself to becoming a better sports administrator," he said.
"Working through this period has taught me a lot, and the passion I have to work in this industry is undiminished."
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There is a limited number of yearbooks available. If you wish to buy one, they will be on sale for $55 for as long as they last in Room 204 during 7th period. There is a surplus of the following years yearbooks that are selling for $10 each: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, and 2013. See Mrs. McClure in room 204 for more information.
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Students: Signing out early from school will result in needing a doctor's excuse. If a doctor excuse is not provided, your sign outs after 2pm will count the same as a tardy to school. Check your agendas for the consequences after three sign in or sign outs.
Scott High School follows the Boone County Dress Code policy, listed on the Dress Code page. Students almost always know when they have crossed the line! Please encourage your kids to dress appropriately for school.
Check out the Bell Schedule. There is also a printable version of the Scott High Daily Bell Schedule.
All students will be required to pay for any 2nd breakfast. You will not be allowed to charge. Seniors with outstanding breakfast bills will not receive their diplomas until they are paid in full.
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About the Book
This is the story of one little puppy, abandoned in a field. Starving, alone and afraid, she had managed to survive until she was found by a family out for a drive in the country.
Millions of dogs and cats are euthanized in the United States every year due to the lack of available homes.
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If you are thinking of getting a pet, consider adopting. Adult dogs are great pets too! Read the book and you'll see other adopted pets and how they can bring a lot of joy and love into your home.
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- Category Children
Standard Portrait, 7.75×9.75 in, 20×25 cm
32 Pages
- Publish Date May 28, 2009
- Tags Willa Gorilla, mixed breed, Jenny Gandert, Aunt JenJen, Aunt JenJen Gandert, rescue, puppy, dog, spay, neuter, Willa, loving, pretty, adorable, funny, Gandert
About the Creator
My parents influenced us through hard work, creativity, strong Christian values, and a love of nature and animals. They encouraged us to use all of our gifts, including our brains. Through necessity, I had to use the brain so much at work that it overshadowed the creative side for many years. Recently, that side of me has been unleashed and the results are starting to trickle in. You'll find me in photography contests, a drawing or painting or two (although I'll acknowlege the title of artist belongs to my extremely talented brother) and soon you'll see more writing. I'm starting with my kids' books under the author name "Aunt JenJen Gandert" and hope to finish my novel within the next year. I'll use my normal name for that. For the illustrations used in my first book, "Willa Gorilla" I edited photographs I'd taken with photo editing software to give them varying degrees of a watercolor appearance. My web site is slated to be complete sometime in 2010 so check back soon!
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Jenny Gandert Thank you both! It was fun to write this and edit the photos for the book.
Anthony Tanoury I meant "Willa Gorilla", not "Willa the Gorilla", but you already knew that, right?
Anthony Tanoury Willa the Gorilla is just gorgeous Aunt JenJen! Your book is a masterpiece and it just oodles with cuteness! I thoroughly enjoyed it! Magnificent!
ShereeZielke Jenny, your book looks wonderful. I am sorry, I had no idea. Wishing you much success with it. I will buy a copy, but into the new year. For now, let me share it on Facebook. And again, three cheers! I am so impressed.


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Two prison officers have been suspended after an inmate broke out of his locked unit and scaled four barbed and razor-wire fences to escape from Acacia Prison yesterday.
WA's biggest jail remains in lockdown today and is being constantly patrolled by armed guards after Brett Shannon Klimczak's audacious breakout.
It was not the first time Klimczak had escaped.
In 2010 he broke out of Wooroloo Prison Farm and went on a 2500km crime spree while on the run for three weeks.
Acacia Prison, a medium- security jail that holds about 1000 men, is run by private contractor Serco, which faces a $100,000 fine for the escape under its contract with the WA Government. A Serco spokesman said last night the two officers were suspended from duties pending the outcome of an investigation.
Corrective Services Minister Joe Francis said Klimczak, 31, had been "absolutely determined" to escape custody.
"He managed to get out of a secure door," he said.
"He managed to get through four different barbed and razor-wire fences. (He was) absolutely determined and in doing so sustained a number of injuries to himself.
"I don't think it was spontaneous. I don't think at this stage there were too many other people involved."
Klimczak was initially jailed for seven years for burglaries, car theft and other offences. He was given a further 14 months after his escape from Wooroloo and was relocated to Acacia.
He is believed to have escaped about 3.30am yesterday and walked 15km to steal a Toyota LandCruiser from a property on Great Southern Highway in Woottating.
Police recaptured Klimczak after a short pursuit about 9.30am when the vehicle became bogged in Jane Brook. He was taken to Royal Perth Hospital for treatment for his injuries.
Klimczak has been charged with escaping from lawful custody, stealing a motor vehicle and driving recklessly, reckless driving - inherently dangerous, failing to stop when called on to do so (circumstance of aggravation) and having no authority to drive.
He is due to appear in Midland Magistrate's Court today.
Corrective Services Commissioner James McMahon said he spent yesterday at Acacia Prison to ensure security was "as good it can be".
"I've directed 24/7 patrolling of the perimeter - both routine and non-routine - will occur," he said. "I've also issued a directive that the emergency response group will carry out patrols of the prison. They're armed and I've also deployed a number of specialists to lend support both in an operational sense and in an intelligence sense."
Mr McMahon said he expected the investigation into how the escape happened would take at least two weeks.
Shadow minister for corrective services Paul Papalia said he raised fears about security in Acacia last year when tools capable of being used in an escape were stolen and never recovered.


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This weekend I'm attending the Evangelical Theological Society and American Academy of Religion, and I will be liveblogging some of the sessions that I'm attending.
"Assessing Stanley Grenz's Contribution to Evangelical Theology: 10 Years Later," that's the name of the session I'm attending at ETS. But Stan's death isn't the only thing that happened ten years ago at ETS. That was also the year that ETS voted against Open Theology, for all intents and purposes expelling people like Greg Boyd, Clark Pinnock, and John Sanders. Now, when you look through the program book, in addition to the annual reaffirmation of inerrancy in the image above, you will see that many sessions are dominated by Southern Baptists.
8:50am Jason Sexton just presented Edna Grenz, Stan's widow, with a volume of 20 essays in his honor. She implored the gathered scholars to not just continue Stan's theological rigor, but to also treat one another with humility and respect as they debate one another.
8:54am Sexton continues that many, looking back, do not think that Stan really understood postmodernism. Some also incorrectly believe that he had departed evangelicalism before his death. This would only happen, Sexton says, if we look exclusively at Stan's academic work and ignore his spiritual and ecclesial life.
Sexton also thinks that Stan is unfairly criticized for his book on homosexuality,Welcoming but Not Affirming: An Evangelical Response to Homosexuality. Instead than being a recalcitrant evangelical, Sexton says, Granz was "ahead of us" on sexuality, women, postmodernity, and the Trinity.
Who's the real Stan Grenz? That's what Sexton tried to discover in his dissertation, but he says Stan cannot be found in the secondary literature — the books and articles about Grenz. That's because, "Maybe we're afraid of what we might find, how the real Stan Grenz might push us beyond our own boundaries."
9:05am Derek Tidball takes on the topic of Stan Grenz and Evangelicalism. He says that evangelicalism is virtually impossible to define doctrinally, so others define it historically. But Grenz argued that evangelicalism is a living, mutating organism. By seeing the Bible as the book of the community, Grenz was faithful to his Baptist roots, and that's something that evangelicalism at large should heed. Stan is wrongfully called the "godfather of the emerging church." [Read more…]


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The early bird catches the worm – and it seems as if this early-opening café aims to catch commuters before they vanish down the wormhole that is Chalk Farm tube station. Right next door to the entrance, Early Bird offers sandwiches and Continental cooked dishes, as well as a selection of Polish cakes, in a bright and airy dining area.
Lemony yellow furnishings are contrasted by black-and-white wallpaper depicting birch trees, all illuminated by a broad plate-glass front.
The food is displayed at the counter, but orders taken at the table. A frittata of the day was studded with mushrooms, which turned the egg-based dish into an unfortunate-looking grey slice. Still, a lovely hint of rosemary rendered it perfectly enjoyable.
Salmon fishcakes were moulded patties of crushed new potatoes and big chunks of salmon, generously seasoned with fresh dill. Never mind that they disintegrated at the touch of a fork – these were decent fishcakes.
It's not obvious that Early Bird has Polish owners and staff unless you notice the Eastern European preserves on sale, and the classic Polish cakes on display.
A cheesecake had a light and crumbly texture, with a hint of lemon flavour, in the Polish way. Also very authentic- tasting was a slice of apple cake, made with chunky cinnamon apple compote and topped with a light crumble.
Local early birds may wish to take advantage of the breakfast options, which are mostly egg-based and include the likes of omelettes and scrambled eggs and served until 2pm.On an earler visit, we tried a cooked breakfast, but we think the cakes and the lunch options are more appealing dishes.
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I come here mostly with friends but sometimes alone as well. It is a very nice relaxing coffee shop! Unlike Starbucks and other noisy coffee shops! Mainly come for tea/coffee with croissant/pastry, very nice quality tea and fresh pastries. I tried a home made cheesecake once also it was unique
Very good lunch options, affordable, fresh, varied and deliciously composed– it looks like they are always doing their best to use seasonal produce. Cakes are also excellent – plum tart and poppy roulade being my favorite. Highly recommended.
I visit this cafe atleast 4times a week, the food is always nice and fresh, the staff are very happy and friendly. I have recommended this place to many other people. You can even grab a nice cup of coffee at 6am - Starbucks don't even open at that time.
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Very nice clean place. Very nice service and food. Fodd light not too heavy so you can stil have a place for a cheskake. Everybody will found something even vegans. The toliet is so clean I could not belive I am in London Cafe
Really disappointing. Went for breakfast here and both the food and the service are below average. Milk that came with coffee was off (!!), it took them another 15 mins to bring more milk by which point coffee was cold. My breakfast was sat at the bar for good 5 mins before they brought it out, they then apologised that they forgot, the poached eggs were boiled. Please don't waste your time and money here.
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"I had three kids, so I had to give up my sports car to have enough money," noted a student of his experience in Buckeye Trail Middle School's "Real Money. Real World." program May 4.
With the help of many community volunteers who staffed 14 business booths, Buckeye Trail eighth graders were assigned a career, a monthly salary and a specific number of children. Each student rotated through the Real Money. Real World. simulation, making spending decisions at each booth, and hoping they would have enough money to make ends meet by the end of the month.
The program was organized by the Guernsey County OSU Extension office to meet the requirements for eighth grade career education. They collaborated with Lonnie Caudill, Buckeye Trail Middle School principal, and Laura Worcester, Impact Science & Career Technology teacher, to offer the money management program.
Volunteer Chad Hibbs at the child care booth said that one of the biggest surprises to participants was the cost of child care. One youth, who came into the simulation with only an $1,100 monthly salary and two children, was discouraged to discover that day care for his two children would be over $800.
Matt Dolan from Advantage Bank and Dennis Doutt from US Bank, at the Financial Advice Booth, assisted him in getting a second part-time job after he discovered that "giving his children back" was not an option.
Volunteer Brian Stillion from Cambridge Classic Ford assisted students who purchased cars at the Transportation booth but failed to go directly to Gene Moore's insurance booth. Students quickly learned the importance of purchasing insurance.
Tim McKim from Dunning Motor Sales made sure everyone applied for a credit card and made a minimum monthly payment.
Joy Bodner from OSU Extension, with her grocery display, helped youth understand the value in buying store brand versus name brand products.
Volunteers Evelyn King and Vickie Syme sold or rented houses to students and Sharon Shivers gave them cards of chance, which represented those unexpected expenditures we all experience from time to time.
Debbie Larrick provided students with choices for purchasing clothing and diapers.
The students thoroughly enjoyed their experience but were shocked at how hard it was to meet a monthly budget. At the end of the experience, comments included, "I learned that I need a better job," "Life is a whole lot harder than I thought," "I didn't know how much was deducted from your paycheck before you get it," and "I learned that it is important to save money and spend it wisely."


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Who still, upborne by joy, in smiles was found, With step elate that scarcely press'd the ground.
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Humble hero from Lockport awarded Medal of Honor
WASHINGTON – The war stories that Lockport's William F. Leonard used to tell his three daughters – about receiving Holy Communion in a bombed-out church in Strasbourg, France, and finding the best bread in the world in a deserted bakery in a tiny French village – probably would not be of much interest to any president.
But the story Leonard never told – the one about leading a charge up a hillside with a back full of bullets and a sharpshooter's eye that picked off one German soldier after another – proved plenty interesting to President Obama.
Obama on Tuesday belatedly rewarded Leonard and 23 other World War II, Korean War and Vietnam War veterans with the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military decoration. And doing so seemed to leave the president in awe.
Reflecting on 24 long-lost tales of bravery and sacrifice, Obama said: "Their courage almost defies imagination."
Patricia Kennedy, of Lockport, Leonard's eldest daughter, seemed even more overwhelmed, fighting off tears as she accepted the Medal of Honor from the president on behalf of her late father.
"I just felt so proud of him," said Kennedy, who joined her two sisters – Rosemary McQueen of Lockport and Carol Maxey of Dry Prong, La. – at the White House. "It was just such an incredible experience. But it would have been so much better if my father could have been there."
Tuesday's award ceremony was the culmination of a surreal month for Leonard's three daughters, who knew that their dad had served in the Army in World War II and that he had won medals, but who were surprised to learn the details of his heroism.
The details came clear, though, in the Army citation that was read at the White House ceremony.
On Nov. 7, 1944, five months after D-Day, Leonard and his platoon served among the American forces trying to push the last remaining German troops out of northeastern France. In a battle near Saint-Dié, France, that day, the Germans fought back hard, raining artillery, mortar, machine gun and rifle fire down on Leonard's platoon and leaving only eight men standing.
In spite of the carnage all around, Leonard led the survivors up a hill through machine gun fire toward their goal: a German roadblock they wanted to clear and capture.
"Ignoring bullets which pierced his back, Pfc. Leonard killed two snipers at ranges of 50 and 75 yards and engaged and destroyed a machine gun nest with grenades, killing its two-man crew," the citation reads. "Though momentarily stunned by an exploding bazooka shell, Pfc. Leonard relentlessly advanced, ultimately knocking out a second machine gun nest and capturing the roadblock objective."
Leonard's daughters never heard any such thing from their father, whom they recalled as a quiet, hardworking man with a dry sense of humor and a patriotic streak.
A butcher by trade, Leonard left the Army with the rank of staff sergeant and worked at Harrison Radiator after the war, walking to the plant every day despite a limp from his war wounds.
His daughters remember him coming home every Christmas in a taxicab stuffed with toys, even though his wife had already done the Christmas shopping.
And they recalled the American flag he always flew on the front of the house and the Army uniform he kept on display in the garage, in what Kennedy described as "one of the original man caves."
All the while, the daughters only encountered hints of his heroism.
"We read about his citation, probably, when we were young, because it was in a book he had," Kennedy said. "He didn't really mention details."
Kennedy vaguely remembers, too, that one time she heard someone refer to her father as "Lockport's Audie Murphy." Not knowing that Audie Murphy was one of America's most decorated World War II combat soldier, Kennedy didn't think much of it at the time.
"From what I understand, there are a lot of veterans who don't talk about what happened to them," Kennedy said. "I think it's just a very sad time in someone's life. You're doing your duty – I'm sure that's how he felt."
Leonard's refusal to tell his tale kept it in the shadows with many others. For example, it took until Tuesday for the nation to properly honor Pfc. Leonard F. Kravitz – the uncle of rock star Lenny Kravitz, who attended the ceremony – who sacrificed his life to save his platoon in the Korean War, as well as Sgt. 1st Class Melvin Morris, who rescued a fallen colleague while simultaneously killing the Vietcong troops who had just shot him.
Such heroes had long deserved fuller recognition, said Obama, who noted that while 10 of the new Medal of Honor recipients died in combat, the rest came home, worked hard and built families and communities.
"These veterans lived out their lives in the country that they helped defend, doing what the loved, like William Leonard, who at age 71 passed away in his backyard [in 1985], sitting in his chair, listening to his beloved Yankees play on the radio," Obama said.
Leonard's tale of heroism might have died with him if it hadn't been for an act of Congress.
After discovering that the Army had failed to award the Medal of Honor to some Jewish and Hispanic war heroes who deserved it, Congress in 2002 authorized a review of war records. The review covered the experiences of thousands of troops, including many, like Leonard, who were neither Jewish nor Hispanic but who had not been honored just the same.
In the end, the Army determined that 24 additional men who served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War – all Distinguished Service Cross recipients – deserved the Medal of Honor. And Leonard's wartime actions earned him a spot among "the Valor 24," the largest class of Medal of Honor winners since World War II.
"Today, we have the chance to set the record straight," Obama said.
For Kennedy and her sisters, it was the chance, too, of a lifetime: the chance to visit briefly with the president in the Oval Office and to mingle in the White House with the families of other war heroes.
"It still doesn't seem real that we're here and this is all happening," Kennedy said.
For Leonard and her sisters, it's seemed unreal from the start. In fact, when an Army representative called Kennedy last month to tell her that her father had earned the Medal of Honor, Kennedy didn't believe it.
"I thought that she was going to say: If you give me your credit card number I will mail you the medal," Kennedy said in an interview before Tuesday's ceremony. "I was sure that this was some sort of scam."
But when she got on the phone that day with her youngest sister, Carol Maxey, reality started to set in. Maxey had her television tuned to CNN, which was reporting the news about her father.
"When they started showing pictures of Dad, I was crying hysterically and Pat was crying hysterically," Maxey said.
"And we were screaming," Kennedy added. "It was just unbelievable that our dad was on CNN."
Their dad was on CNN again Tuesday, as all the networks provided extensive coverage of the 24 long-unnoticed war heroes.
"We were always very proud of him," said Rosemary McQueen, Leonard's middle daughter. "But now everybody knows."
William F. Leonard
Place of birth: Lockport
Date of birth: Aug. 9, 1913
Date of death: Aug. 4, 1985
Military branch: Army War zone: Europe
Top rank: Staff sergeant
Previous top honor:
Distinguished Service Cross
Postwar employer: Harrison Radiator
Wife: The late Mary E. Barone Leonard
Daughters: Patricia Kennedy and Rosemary McQueen of Lockport; Carol Maxey of Dry Prong, La.
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Electronic and Magnetic Specifications for Filing Form 8851, Summary of Archer MSAs
The following are updates to Rev. Proc. 2001-31, electronic and magnetic specifications for filing Form 8851, Summary of Archer MSAs.The format for filing these forms remains the same, however, there are changes to the types of acceptable media and editorial changes.
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Manila Clams in Spicy Black Bean Sauce Recipe
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Hong Kong Style Cheong Fun (Steamed Rice Noodle Rolls) with Photo Tutorial
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Imitation Shark's Fin Dumplings
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Palmyra (Arabic: تدمر Tadmur) was an ancient Arab city[1][2][3], In the old times it was an important city of central Syria, located in an oasis 215 km northeast of Damascus[4] and 180 km southwest of the Euphrates at Deir ez-Zor. It has long been a vital caravan city for travellers crossing the Syrian desert and was known as the Bride of the Desert. The earliest documented reference to the city by its Semitic name Tadmor, Tadmur or Tudmur (which means "the town that repels" in Amorite and "the indomitable town" in Aramaic.[5]) is recorded in Babylonian tablets found in Mari.[6]
Though the ancient site fell into disuse after the 16th century, it is still known as Tadmor in Arabic, and there is a newer town next to the ruins of the same name. The Palmyrenes constructed a series of large-scale monuments containing funerary art such as limestone slabs with human busts representing the deceased.
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In the mid first century CE, Palmyra, a wealthy and elegant city located along the caravan routes linking Persia with the Mediterranean ports of Roman Syria and Phoenicia, came under Roman control. (See below.) During the following period of great prosperity, the Aramaean and Arab inhabitants of Palmyra adopted customs and modes of dress from both the Parthian world to the east and the Graeco-Roman west.
Tadmor is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible (Second Book of Chronicles 8:4) as a desert city built (or fortified) by the King Solomon of Judea, the son of David.
In the First Book of Kings (9:18) is mentioned the city of תמר Tamor or Tamar, also built by Solomon. But it is traditionally read (see Qere) as Tadmor, and several citations in the tractates of the Talmud and of the Midrash refer to that city in the Syrian desert (sometimes interchanging the letters "d" and "t" - "Tatmor" instead of "Tadmor"). Some modern scholars wrote that it could refer to a place near the Dead Sea.
Tadmor is also mentioned as built by Solomon in Flavius Josephus Antiquities of the Jews - Book VIII, along with the Greek name of Palmyra.
Tadmor is the name of Palmyra in modern Hebrew. The exact etymology of the name "Palmyra" in this case is unknown, although some scholars believe it was related to the palm trees in the area. Others, however, believe it may have come out of an incorrect translation of the name "Tadmor" (cf. Colledge, Seyrig, Starcky, and others).
The city was first mentioned in the archives of Mari in the 2nd millennium BC. It was another trading city in the extensive trade network that linked Mesopotamia and northern Syria. Palmyra is also mentioned in 2 Chronicles (8:4):
There had been a temple at Palmyra for 2000 years before the Romans ever saw it. Its form, a large stone-walled chamber with columns outside, is much closer to the sort of thing attributed to Solomon than to anything Roman. It is mentioned in the Bible as part of Solomon's Kingdom. In fact, it says he built it.—Terry Jones and Alan Ereira, Terry Jones' Barbarians, p. 183
Persian and Greco-Roman periods
When the Seleucids took control of Syria in 323 BC, the city was left to itself and it became independent. The city flourished as a caravan halt in the 1st century BC. In 41 BC, the Romans under Mark Antony tried to occupy Palmyra but failed as the Palmyrans had received intelligence of their approach. The Palmyrans escaped to the other side of the Euphrates, demonstrating that at that time Palmyra was still a nomadic settlement and its valuables could be removed at short notice.
Jones and Erieira note that Palmyran merchants owned ships in Italian waters and controlled the Indian silk trade. "Palmyra became one of the richest cities of the Near East." "The Palmyrans had really pulled off a great trick, they were the only people who managed to live alongside Rome without being Romanized. They simply pretended to be Romans."
Palmyra was made part of the Roman province of Syria during the reign of Tiberius (14–37). It steadily grew in importance as a trade route linking Persia, India, China, and the Roman empire. In 129, Hadrian visited the city and was so enthralled by it that he proclaimed it a free city and renamed it Palmyra Hadriana.
Beginning in 212, Palmyra's trade diminished as the Sassanids occupied the mouth of the Tigris and the Euphrates. Septimius Odaenathus, a Prince of Palmyra, was appointed by Valerian as the governor of the province of Syria. After Valerian was captured by the Sassanids and died in captivity in Bishapur, Odaenathus campaigned as far as Ctesiphon (near modern-day Baghdad) for revenge, invading the city twice. When Odaenathus was assassinated by his nephew Maconius, his wife Septimia Zenobia took power, ruling Palmyra on the behalf of her son, Vabalathus.
Zenobia rebelled against Roman authority with the help of Cassius Longinus and took over Bosra and lands as far to the west as Egypt, establishing the short-lived Palmyrene Empire. Next, she attempted to take Antioch to the north. In 272, the Roman Emperor Aurelian finally retaliated and captured her and brought her back to Rome. He paraded her in golden chains but allowed her to retire to a villa in Tibur, where she took an active part in society for years. This rebellion greatly disturbed Rome, and so Palmyra was forced by the empire to become a military base for the Roman legions.
Diocletian expanded it to harbor even more legions and walled it in to try and save it from the Sassanid threat. The Byzantine period following the Roman Empire only resulted in the building of a few churches; much of the city turned to ruin.
Islamic rule
The city was captured by the Muslim Arabs under Khalid ibn Walid in 634. Palmyra was kept intact. After the year 800 and the civil wars which followed the fall of the Umayyad caliphs, people started abandoning the city. At the time of the Crusades, Palmyra was under the Burid emirs of Damascus, then under Tughtekin, Mohammed the son of Shirkuh, and finally under the emirs of Homs. In 1132 the Burids had the Temple of Ba'al turned into a fortress. In the 13th century the city was handed over to the Mamluk sultan Baybars. In 1401, it was sacked by Tamerlan, but it recovered quickly, so that in the 15th century it was described as boasting "vast gardens, flourishing trades and bizarre monuments" by Ibn Fadlallah al-Omari.
In the 16th century, Qala'at ibn Maan castle was built on top of a mountain overlooking the oasis by Fakhr ad-Din al-Maan II, a Lebanese prince who tried to control the Syrian Desert. The castle was surrounded by a moat, with access only available through a drawbridge. It is possible that earlier fortifications existed on the hill well before then.
The city declined under Ottoman rule, reducing to no more than an oasis village with a small garrison. In the 17th century its location was rediscovered by western travellers, beginning to be studied by European and American archaeologists starting from the 19th centuries. The villagers who had settled in the Temple of Ba'al were dislodged in 1929 by the French authority.
Main sights
City remains
The most striking building in Palmyra is the huge temple of Ba'al 34°32'50.55"N 38°16'26.72"E, considered "the most important religious building of the first century AD in the Middle East".[7] It originated as a Hellenistic temple, of which only fragments of stones survive. The central shrine (cella) was added in the early 1st century AD, followed by a large double colonnaded portico in Corynthian style. The west portico and the entrance (propylaeum) date from the 2nd century. The temple measures 205 x 210 m.
Starting from the temple, a colonnaded street, corresponding to the ancient decumanus, leads to the rest of the ancient city. It has a monumental arch 34°32'59.68"N 38°16'15.66"E (dating to reign of Septimius Severus, early 3rd century AD) with rich decorations. Next were a temple of Nabu, of which little remains today apart the podium, and the so-called baths of Diocletian.
The second most noteworthy remain in Palmyra is the theater 34°33'2.11"N 38°16'7.78"E, today having 9 rows of seating, but most likely having up to 12 with the addition of wooden structures.[8] It has been dated to the early 1st century AD. Behind the theater were a small Senate, where the local nobility discussed laws and political decisions, and the so-called "Tariff Court", which an inscription led to think to be a custom for caravans' payments. Nearby is the large agora 34°33'1.82"N 38°16'2.01"E (measuring 48 x 71 m), with remains of a banquet room (triclinium); the agora's entrance was decorated with statues of Septimius Severus and his family.
The first section of the excavations ends with a largely restored tetrapylon ("Four columns"), a platform with four sets each with four columns (only one of the originals in Egyptian granite still visible). A transverse streets leads to the Diocletian's Camp, built by the Governor of Syria Sosianus Hierocles,[9] with the remains of the large central principia (Hall housing the legions' standards). Nearby are the Temple of the Syrian goddess Allāt (2nd century AD), the Damascus Gate and the Temple of Ba'al-Shamin, erected in AD 17 and later expanded under the reign of Odenathus. Remains include a notable portico leading to the cella.
Funerary art
Outside the ancient walls, the Palmyrenes constructed a series of large-scale funerary monuments, which now form the so-called Valley of the Tombs, a 1 km long necropolis, with a series of large structures with rich decorations. These tombs, some of which were below ground, had interior walls that were cut away or constructed to form burial compartments in which the deceased, extended at full length, was placed. Limestone slabs with human busts (in Roman and Parthian Iranian fashions) in high relief sealed the rectangular openings of the compartments.
These reliefs represented the "personality" or "soul" of the person interred and formed part of the wall decoration inside the tomb chamber. A banquet scene as depicted on this relief would have been displayed in a family tomb rather than that of an individual.
Further excavations
Archaeological teams from various countries have been working on-and-off on different parts of the site. In May 2005, a Polish team excavating at the Lat temple discovered a highly-detailed stone statue of the winged goddess of victory Nike.
Recently, archaeologists in central Syria have unearthed the remnants of a 1,200-year-old church believed to be the largest ever discovered in Syria, at an excavation site in the ancient town of Palmyra. The church is the fourth to be discovered in Palmyra. Officials described the church as the biggest of its kind to be found so far — its base measuring an impressive 51 by 30 yards. The church columns were estimated to be 20 feet tall, with the height of the wooden ceiling more than 49 feet. A small amphitheater was found in the church's courtyard where the experts believe some Christian rituals were practiced.[10]
See also
Some or all of this article is forked from Wikipedia. The original article was at Palmyra. The list of authors can be seen in the page history.
- ↑ Gods, demons, and symbols of ancient Mesopotamia: an illustrated dictionary By Jeremy A. Black, Jeremy Black, Anthony Green, Tessa Rickards. p.35
- ↑ Early Byzantine churches in Macedonia and southern Serbia, Ralph F. Hoddinott. p.262
- ↑ The church in ancient society: from Galilee to Gregory the Great By Henry Chadwick. p.166
- ↑ Syria uncovers 'largest church' BBC News Online, 14 November 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-16.
- ↑ Palmyra (Syria) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia Retrieved 2008-11-16.
- ↑ Syria Gate - About Syria - Palmyra Retrieved 2008-11-16.
- ↑ Burns, Ross (1999). Monuments of Syria. London and New York. p. 165.
- ↑ Burns, Ross (1999). Monuments of Syria. London and New York. p. 169.
- ↑ Burns, Ross (1999). Monuments of Syria. London and New York. p. 171.
- ↑ "1,200-year-old church uncovered in Syria". The Associated Press. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jAzBSBOFJhi4iTgpaNylsy6RhH9QD94E2QE80. Retrieved 2008-11-13.
- Burns, Ross (1999). Monuments of Syria. London and New York: I.B. Tauris. pp. 162–175.
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It's has been in the news a lot lately, and the prospects of a global currency have Max Keiser, Huffington Post blogger and host of BBC World's "The Oracle," giving dire warnings of the consequences if China or other countries were to make a push for it.
Keiser appeared on Al-Jazeera English's March 27 "Inside Story" to discuss the possibilities of a global currency. Host Darren Jordon asked Keiser about the pitfalls of converting to a global currency and Keiser used it as an opportunity to launch into an anti-American diatribe.
"Well, the pitfalls are for the U.S.," Keiser said. "The U.S. has what [former French President Charles] de Gaulle called an extraordinary privilege - they can write checks that they never have to cash. They just print new dollars. This has been going on since Bretton Woods at the end of World War II."
Keiser insisted it was the United States that had a lot to lose and that China, a big player in the global economy, would be reluctant to push for a stronger currency than the U.S. dollar for fear of retribution.
"So, America has everything to lose and they're going to resist the new global currency every way that they possibly can," Keiser said. "China would obviously love to be able to do their business in currencies outside of the U.S. dollar. But look what happened in the Mideast."
The Huffington Post blogger pointed to the invasion of Iraq and America's strong warning to Iran over its nuclear activity.
"Look what happen to Saddam Hussein when he tried to start to trade oil in Euros," Keiser said. "He was bombed and then assassinated by the U.S. Look what happened in Iran when they started talking about trading oil and gas in Euros. Suddenly America is saber-rattling in Iran."
So in Keiser's view, the Chinese won't jump onboard the global currency bandwagon out of fear of the U.S. military.
"So any country looks at those examples and they say, 'You know if we get out of the U.S. dollar, does this mean that U.S. Marines are going to show up in our backdoor and start to cause mischief?'" Keiser said. "That's a legitimate concern these countries have."
But even the Aljazeera host was skeptical the United States would launch a military response if China made a push toward a global currency.
"OK, well, I'm not so sure the American Marines would turn up on the streets of Beijing, Max," Jordon said.
This is type of insight that might normally be expected from Aljazeera, the Huffington Post or even the BBC. However, the editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Arianna Huffington is slated to appear as a guest host on the more mainstream CNBC "Squawk Box" on March 31.
Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., has introduced legislation that would prevent the introduction of a multi-national currency into the American economy on March 25.


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Mr. SANDERS. Madam President, sometimes there is no end to arrogance. I find it literally beyond comprehension that we have folks from Wall Street who receive huge bailouts from the people of our country, from working families in this country, because of the greed and recklessness and illegal behavior that Wall Street did to drive us into this recession, and now these very same people are coming here to Congress to lecture us and the American people about how we have to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid while they enjoy huge salaries and retirement benefits.
Lloyd Blankfein is the CEO of Goldman Sachs. In 2006 and 2007 he was the highest paid executive on Wall Street, making over $125 million in total compensation. My understanding is that he has wealth of hundreds of millions of dollars. Goldman Sachs received a $278 million refund--Goldman Sachs did--from the IRS in 2008 even though it made a profit of $2.3 billion.
During the financial crisis, Goldman Sachs received a total of $814 billion in virtually zero interest loans from the Federal Reserve and a $10 billion bailout from the Treasury Department. This is the CEO of Goldman Sachs. Now, with his huge wealth, he is coming here to Washington to lecture the American people on how we have to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid for tens of millions of Americans who are struggling now to keep their heads above water.
This is a statement Lloyd Blankfien recently made, I believe, on a TV show:
You're going to have to, undoubtedly, do something to lower people's expectations, the entitlements, and what people think they're going to get because they're not going to get it. Social Security wasn't devised to be a system that supported you for a 30 year retirement after a 25 year career ..... So there will be certain things, like the retirement age will have to be changed, maybe the benefits will have to be affected, maybe some of the inflation adjustments will have to be revised ..... But, in general, entitlements have to be slowed down and contained.
This comes from a man worth hundreds of millions of dollars whose company, along with the rest of the companies on Wall Street, drove this country into the recession it is in, which, by the way, contributed to the deficit we are in. He is coming to Capitol Hill to lecture us and lecture the working families in this country on how we have to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. I think arrogance has no end, that people from Wall Street can come down here and tell us that.
I think most Americans understand that the reason we are in the terrible recession we are in right now and the reason we went from a $236 billion surplus when Bill Clinton left office has everything in the world to do not with Social Security but with the fact that we went into the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and forgot to pay for them; we gave huge tax breaks to people such as Mr. Blankfein and did not offset them; passed the Medicare Part D prescription drug program, not paid for; and as a result of the Wall Street recession, significantly less revenue is now coming into the Federal Government. That is why we went from a $236 billion surplus in 2001 to a $1 trillion deficit today.
The deficit is a serious issue and it has to be addressed, but it has to be addressed not in the way that Mr. Blankfein, Pete Peterson, and the other Wall Street billionaires want us to address the deficit but in a way that is fair to working people. Among other things, we have to protect Social Security, protect Medicare, protect Medicaid.
I was appreciative the other day when I read that the White House has said something that many of us have wanted them to say, which is that Social Security had nothing to do with the deficit; Social Security should be treated separately. I think that is a real step forward. Many of us signed a letter to that effect.
But what does worry me is this issue of chain CPI. I want everybody to understand what the chain CPI is about. Nobody outside of Capitol Hill knows what it is about. What it is about is reformulating how we determine COLAs. If this chain CPI passed, what it would mean is that if somebody was 65 now--this would go into effect immediately if it were passed--by the time they were 75, there would be a $560-a-year reduction in what they otherwise would have gotten in Social Security benefits through the COLAs. By the time they are 85, it would be $1,000 a year. We must defeat any and all efforts to oppose a chain CPI not only on Social Security beneficiaries, but it would also apply, if my colleagues can believe this, to disabled veterans. Mr. Blankfein and his other CEO friends on Wall Street really want us to balance the budget on the backs of the disabled vets? Well, this Senator surely is not going to support that.
There are ways to deal with deficit reduction that are fair. Everybody has to understand that we have already cut approximately $1 trillion in benefits. So when we talk about $4 trillion in deficit reduction, $1 trillion has already taken place.
Second of all, obviously, at a time when the wealthiest people are doing phenomenally well and we have growing wealth and income inequality in America, of course we have to repeal Bush's tax breaks for people making $250,000 a year or more. That is another $1 trillion. We have to appreciate the fact that one out of four corporations in America doesn't pay a nickel in taxes. We can bring in significant amounts of revenue through tax reform that asks corporations to start paying their fair share of taxes. We are losing $100 billion a year because corporations and the wealthy are stashing their money in the Cayman Islands and other tax havens, thus losing substantial revenue in the United States.
Defense spending has tripled since 1997. We are now spending almost as much as the rest of the world combined. Let's take a serious look at defense spending. If we do that, make some changes toward efficiency in Medicare and Medicaid, make them more efficient but not cut benefits, we can move toward serious deficit reduction without cutting Social Security, without cutting Medicare, and without cutting Medicaid.
We just had an election a few weeks ago--November 6--and what I think the American people said is that the time is now for the wealthy to start paying their fair share of taxes. We have seen poll after poll after poll, including from some very conservative people who are saying do not cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. I think it is time for the Senate and the Congress to start listening to the American people. Let's go forward with deficit reduction, but let's not do it on the backs of the elderly, the children, the sick, or the poor.
With that, I yield the floor.
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True to its name and sun-splashed cover art, Windsurf is breezy and light on their debut LP Coastlines. Glimmering analog keyboards spread across an array of tumbling percussion on this collaboration between Daniel Judd of Sorcerer and Hatchback's Sam Grawe. It's mostly instrumental, sharing prog ground and the cosmic disco grooves usually associated with Lindstrøm and Prins Thomas, and although Coastlines' current home is on Thomas's Norway-based Internasjonal label, Windsurf's beachy pop sounds were born on California shores.
With reluctantly progressing movements from one textured plane to the next, Windsurf's Coastlines sounds like the "side project" that it's purported to be—the neck-deep surplus of spiraling arrangements and ideas conjure up the imagery of hours of perfectionism. When I'm not thinking of sandy deck surfaces at a beach-side bar, I can visualize a couple of bearded musicians tweaking DD-5 delay pedals and fiddling with the knobs on a huge Korg synthesizer. There are proggy, perpetually splitting keyboard lines worming through "Pocket Check", while inoffensive drum machine patterns and funky guitar licks turn up on "The Big island". It's all very nice and airy, but what would work so well in a "controlled" environment of sorts feels empty otherwise.
For example, "White Soweto" is ludicrously dated-sounding, with a pseudo-gloomy Knight Rider-like melody peering out beneath jangly guitars and repetitive synths. By its end, closer "Crystal Neon" defies the playful motifs that renders Coastlines a fairly limited listen. It's sprawling and dense, peppered with moogs, bird sounds, and obviously surf noises, but it avoids any other resort-hotel lobby music atmospherics, with a bed of loops and glassy chimes that grows increasingly lulling by the minute. If you're making a night of being indoors and basking in the afterglow of expensive weed, or maybe you're nine Coronas in, and peering off the deck overlooking the beach at your vacation home, Coastlines is one of the records you're likely to completely immerse yourself in, at least until its indulgences make you feel bloated and tipsy.
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Bought this table about a month ago- and while it is on the higher end of the price-for-performance spectrum, it's a fine product. The only complaint I really have is that the ball/racket holder is pretty basic and flimsy. Also- this table lacks expandable legs for leveling, which at this price point should have been included. Would buy again!
I bought the table wanting good quality on a reasonable budget. I got what I wantedz there are quite a few comments about the set up time. With the proper tools it should only take 2 hours. It's very simple to do its just a lot of pieces and Stiga has made it almost dummy proof.
This shipped fairly promptly to California and arrived as scheduled. The assembly instructions were extremely clear and easy to follow. It took about four hours to build and I'm satisfied with its sturdiness and convenience. The quality is very good. I don't know how well it will hold up, but it folds and unfolds nicely, rolls very smoothly, and seems stable and secure for play.
The table once constructed works fine and the kids had a great time on it. However, it took a few hours to get it set up. The particle board is quite thin and unless you have two people who really know what they are doing, you may end up pulling one of the legs out of the board and strip the particle board. This is extremely frustrating for a table that costs $169. We had to move the leg over a little bit so we can fasten the screws in a different place on the board. Luckily it seems to be ... holding fine. Another thing to watch out for is the secure latch that will keep the two ends up for storage. If you pull a bit without unlatching properly, it will strip through the board. Again, very frustrating. Good thing is that the table is still usable, with a quarter sized hole in the board near the net. We are currently using a bungee cord to close the table for storage since the latches won't work anymore after we tore through the particle board. Again, wish the material was not so cheap for something I paid $169 for.
we bought this table over the weekend, took it home and had it together in about 2 hours. wasn't difficult but the tools you "Should" use are not what's listed. first off, you'll do yourself a huge favor if you use a cordless drill instead of a scrrewdriver. also, a socket/ratchett with 7/16 AND a crescent wrench. be sure to lay everything out first and READ the directions first. I've read other reviews by folks that took HOURS to put it together. that's ridiculous. just read through the tech ... specs, lay everything out afterwards, and do exactly as it says. piece of cake. it's really a very sturdy table. we've played on it for hours now! folded it up and put it away, several times now. nothing is lose or needs retightened. I wouldn't recommend one of the cheaper tables. this is about the best one for the best price. as with anything, you get what you pay for. NO, it's not an industrial grade table that we would put in the rec center but it will certainly last for a long time in the family game room.
Well build this is our 2 ping pong table and by far this is the best. Pay a little extra if you can and buy this one
This is honestly everything we thought and hoped it would be! The shipping was super fast, but the delivery driver wasn't quite as friendly as we would have liked. Once we got it here we set it up about a week later (waiting on our team to have time to put it together) and one of the corner pieces is broken. We've sent a few messages to Academy but no one has responded yet on the replacement. All in all we love it, Now I am hoping that we get a message back to be able to get that corner replaced.
Perfect for a small space. Pool table is decent. Took a while to balance but rolls fairly true. Air hockey works great. Nice float. Ping pong is small obviously but still fun. Highly recommended.
I bought this table and assembly was challenging. The support tubes are not designed very well as they are interchangeable and the the plastic washers hang up on the hinges on two of them. Contacted customer service thinking they sent the wrong tubes and received a very uncaring and uninterested individual. Modified it myself and works ok. The table is a good value other than that. My opinion, table better than their customer service.
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A BEWDLEY pub has received an accolade from Wyre Forest CAMRA.
The Rising Sun, in Kidderminster Road in the tourist town, was named pub of the season for spring 2014 by the district branch of the campaign for real ale.
Members of the club gathered at the pub and presented the landlords Geoff and Kaye Mansfield, who spoke of the improvements they had made to the establishment and their hopes for the future, with a certificate.
Nick Yarwood, chairman of Wyre Forest CAMRA, said: "The award is in recognition of the hard work that Geoff and Kaye Mansfield have put in over the years and their unwavering dedication to serving good beers.
"The Rising Sun is a hive of community life, always buzzing with conversation and there is invariably something special going on such as traditional pub games, clubs, quizzes and music on Sundays.
"Kaye and Geoff Mansfield have kept it for four years and transformed it into a lively proper pub, always offering top quality real ales from Bank's, Wye Valley and Enville.
"With these being from local breweries the pub is accredited in CAMRA's LocAle scheme in which the pub always offers at least one ale from breweries within 25 miles."
The drinking group also held a new members' welcome evening at The Swan in Vicar Street in Kidderminster.
44 new members, who had joined during the recent Kidderminster Beer Festival, socialised with existing members and learnt more about the club.
They were also treated to behind-the-scenes stories about the history and working of Kinver Brewery from brewers Ian Davies and Dave and Carol Kelly.