7/4/2012 Pt. 10 - Lockport NY
Waiting For the Fireworks to start.
Tiffany Castle
Live like royalty in Tiffany castle. A historic property nestled in the trees high above Cliff Drive overlooking the Missouri River. Secluded, yet close to Downtown KCMO, an architectural gem w/ commanding views, stone walls & concrete construction, stone fireplace, imported and domestic woodwork, stunning stained & beveled glass. 100 Garfield Avenue Kansas City, MO 64124
Plenary 7 Thursday Afternoon | ELCA Churchwide Assembly 2019
Plenary 7 Thursday 8/8/19 2:30pm | ELCA Churchwide Assembly 2019
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IMAS: Sacred Visions Stained Glass Windows from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Studios, 12-4-13
From the private collection of Dr. Lawrence & Esperanza Gelman, Sacred Visions: Stained Glass Windows from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Studios is the third largest Tiffany Stained Glass window exhibit in the United States. It is on permanent loan at the International Museum of Art & Science in McAllen, Texas.
Riding with an outlaw motorcycle club
Lisa Ling discusses embedding with the Mongols Motorcycle Club and riding in a pack of hundreds of bikers. This is Life airs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
Washington SOTU 2016 Republicans blast Obama over tax proposals
SOTU: 2016 Republicans blast Obama over tax proposals
The race for the next U.S. president was evident on Tuesday night as plenty of potential Republican contenders criticizing President Barack Obama's tax proposals, while Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, defended the President's State of the Union address.
Mitt Romney took to Facebook to argue that Obama was dismissing the message that voters sent to Washington when they voted for a Republican majority in November.
Obama tax plan: Middle-class credits, increases for rich
He ignores the fact that the country has elected a Congress that favors smaller government and lower taxes, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee wrote. His tax proposal is a maze of new taxes and complexities.
In his speech, Obama called for closing loopholes in the tax code that he says leads to inequality by allowing the top 1% to avoid paying taxes on their accumulated wealth.
The President is proposing a total of $235 billion in tax credits that are aimed to help the middle class.
To pay for it, Obama wants tax investment income -- capital gains and dividends -- at a higher rate, which could help bring in $320 billion.
As expected, Republicans widely panned the idea. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush acknowledged that some have benefited in the economic recovery but far too many people have been left behind.
It's unfortunate President Obama wants to use the tax code to divide us -- instead of proposing reforms to create economic opportunity for every American, he said on Facebook. We can do better.
Sen. Rand Paul, in his own taped response, said the President is redistributing the pie, but not growing it.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker blasted what he called Obama's top-down, government-knows-best philosophy.
Our American revival is not going to be led by a lame-duck president who would rather pick fights with Congress, he said in a statement. It will be led by reformers who know how to get things done.
Sen. Marco Rubio said in a statement that Obama's speech doubles down on outdated proposals to tax and spend more.
He also ripped into the President over his recent Cuba policy, saying it rewards repressive, anti-American regimes.
Joining Hambycast by phone, Rubio later tweaked Obama's pitch to make community college free.
The single greatest impediment to community colleges today are not costs...it's the fact that at the end of that community college tunnel is that graduates don't see jobs, he told CNN's Peter Hamby.
Separately, Rubio told CNN's Deirdre Walsh that he felt Republicans could work with Obama on some things, like increasing the child tax credit. I do think we have to focus on child care costs in America, he said. They are very high for working families.
Sen. Ted Cruz, in a statement criticizing Obama's speech, said, America saw a powerful demonstration that it is time to move on beyond President Barack Obama.
The Texas Republican posted a taped response earlier in the night on his YouTube page, but it was taken down. Reporters noted that Cruz appeared to mess up in the video and asked to start over.
My friend, Joni
Many of the Republicans were quick to sing the praises of Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst, who gave the Republican response, showing that it's never a bad move to praise the new senator from the state that holds the nation's first nominating contest.
Bush said his friend Joni offered a great contrast, while Paul tweeted that his friend did a great job tonight. Former Sen. Rick Santorum, who's spending five days in Iowa next week, also tweeted a shout-out: Good job @joniernst! Well delivered which drew a clear contrast.
Democrats jump to Obama's defense
Clinton, for her part, backed the President on Twitter, saying Obama pointed a way to an economy that works for all. Now we need to step up and deliver for the middle class. The former secretary of state is considered the Democratic frontrunner if she runs for president.
Timeline of United States inventions (before 1890) | Wikipedia audio article
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Timeline of United States inventions (before 1890)
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A timeline of United States inventions (before 1890) encompasses the ingenuity and innovative advancements of the United States within a historical context, dating from the Colonial Period to the Gilded Age, which have been achieved by inventors who are either native-born or naturalized citizens of the United States. Copyright protection secures a person's right to his or her first-to-invent claim of the original invention in question, highlighted in Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution, which gives the following enumerated power to the United States Congress:
In 1641, the first patent in North America was issued to Samuel Winslow by the General Court of Massachusetts for a new method of making salt. On April 10, 1790, President George Washington signed the Patent Act of 1790 (1 Stat. 109) into law proclaiming that patents were to be authorized for any useful art, manufacture, engine, machine, or device, or any improvement therein not before known or used. On July 31, 1790, Samuel Hopkins of Pittsford, Vermont became the first person in the United States to file and to be granted a patent for an improved method of Making Pot and Pearl Ashes. The Patent Act of 1836 (Ch. 357, 5 Stat. 117) further clarified United States patent law to the extent of establishing a patent office where patent applications are filed, processed, and granted, contingent upon the language and scope of the claimant's invention, for a patent term of 14 years with an extension of up to an additional 7 years. However, the Uruguay Round Agreements Act of 1994 (URAA) changed the patent term in the United States to a total of 20 years, effective for patent applications filed on or after June 8, 1995, thus bringing United States patent law further into conformity with international patent law. The modern-day provisions of the law applied to inventions are laid out in Title 35 of the United States Code (Ch. 950, sec. 1, 66 Stat. 792).
From 1836 to 2011, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a total of 7,861,317 patents relating to several well-known inventions appearing throughout the timeline below.