S.1895 - Build America Bonds to Create Jobs Now Act of 2011

A bill to require the Secretary of Commerce to establish a program for the award of grants to States to establish revolving loan funds for small and medium-sized manufacturers to improve energy efficiency and produce clean energy technology, to provide a tax credit for farmers' investments in value-added agriculture, and for other purposes. view all titles (3)

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  • Short: Build America Bonds to Create Jobs Now Act of 2011 as introduced.
  • Short: Upstate Works Act as introduced.
  • Official: A bill to require the Secretary of Commerce to establish a program for the award of grants to States to establish revolving loan funds for small and medium-sized manufacturers to improve energy efficiency and produce clean energy technology, to provide a tax credit for farmers' investments in value-added agriculture, and for other purposes. as introduced.

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05/17/12
Gretna church's past captured on canvas

Roncka presented the Rev. Mike Grewe with the original painting “Evening Prayer at St. Patrick's 1895,” depicting St. Patrick Catholic Church in Gretna the year the church was built. After undergoing a major renovation in 2001, the original ...

Source: Omaha World-Herald
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05/13/12
A grizzly history of bears in old Pasadena

Farther east there is Big Bear Lake. Grizzly Flat is in the Big Tujunga area. In Reid's 1895 History of Pasadena, E. W. Giddings tells this story: "During the winter of 1879-80, bears kept robbing our bee stands, a lot of which we had in the ...

Source: Pasadena Star-News
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05/13/12
A grizzly history of bears in old Pasadena

Farther east there is Big Bear Lake. Grizzly Flat is in the Big Tujunga area. In Reid's 1895 History of Pasadena, E. W. Giddings tells this story: "During the winter of 1879-80, bears kept robbing our bee stands, a lot of which we had in the ...

Source: Pasadena Star-News
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05/07/12
User Fee Legislation Applauded on Both Sides of the Aisle in New Jersey

Bucco, in response to disturbing proposals in Passaic to charge residents hundreds of dollars for police, fire, or EMS response in the event of an emergency, has submitted legislation (S-1895) specifically prohibiting user fees for emergency services.

Source: Jackson NJ Online
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05/07/12
Bucco Applauds Governor, Senate President for Efforts on Local User Fees, Urges Specific Action on Emergency Service Charges

Bucco, in response to disturbing proposals in Passaic to charge residents hundreds of dollars for police, fire, or EMS response in the event of an emergency, has submitted legislation (S-1895) specifically prohibiting user fees for emergency services.

Source: PolitickerNJ.com
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05/07/12
Republican Lawmaker Calls For Action To Eliminate Emergency Service Fees

Bucco (R- Morris), in response to proposals in Passaic to charge residents hundreds of dollars for police, fire, or EMS response in the event of an emergency, has submitted legislation (S-1895) specifically prohibiting user fees for emergency services.

Source: NJ TODAY
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05/06/12
L. Kent Wolgamott: 'The Scream' sets auction record; Kansas City and Omaha shows

It took just 12 minutes for "The Scream" to set a mind-boggling record Wednesday night. Edvard Munch's 1895 pastel-on-board sold at Sotheby's in New York for $119,922,500 -- the most ever paid for an artwork at auction. Only two other pieces ...

Source: Lincoln Journal Star
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05/05/12
Former Miss New Hampshire Arrested for Assault

Edvard Munch Painting Sells for Nearly $120 Million:  One of the art world's most recognizable images, Edvard Munch's 1895 painting "The Scream," a modern symbol of human anxiety, has been sold at Sotheby's for a record $119,922,500 at auction ...

Source: Patch
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05/03/12
Munch's "Scream" Now Symbolizes Easy Money and the Easy Life

Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images “The Scream” has long been a cultural icon. The image of a terrified man on a bridge in Edvard Munch’s 1895 pastel captured something about the dark forces of the modern age. Now his 4,661 square ...

Source: Slate
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05/03/12
'The Scream': Iconic work by Edvard Munch sets art auction record at $119.9M

After bullish expectations and an aggressive marketing campaign for an image considered the quintessential expression of modern horror, Sotheby's in New York sold Edvard Munch's 1895 "The Scream" for $119.9 million on Wednesday night ...

Source: Detroit Free Press
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05/03/12
Who Won the Bidding Match Over Munch’s ‘The Scream’?

Last night, in a packed and jittery salesroom, Sotheby’s hammered down Edvard Munch’s 1895 “The Scream”—that emblematic image of a man wailing on a bridge—for $119.9 million. Amid giddy applause, It became the most expensive artwork ...

Source: Daily Beast
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05/02/12
Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' goes for $119.9 million at Sotheby's

After bullish expectations and an aggressive marketing campaign for an image considered the quintessential expression of modern horror, Sotheby'sNew York sold Edvard Munch's 1895 “The Scream” for $119.9 million on Wednesday night, setting a record for

Source: Los Angeles Times
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05/02/12
The Scream Auction: Munch's Painting Is Not The Most Expensive Work Of Art Ever Auctioned

But was Munch's 1895 pastel really the priciest work of art? Not when prices of other auctioned works are adjusted for inflation (h/t The Economist). Here's a look at the costliest works of art, with the prices adjusted for inflation.

Source: Huffington Post
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05/02/12
Iconic ‘Scream’ Expected to Fetch at Least $80M

One of four versions of Edvard Munch’s 1895 masterpiece “The Scream”  will be auctioned today at Sotheby’s in New York,  and could fetch more than $80 million. The image of a figure shivering with anxiety as a blood-red sky streaks and ...

Source: ABC News
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04/29/12
BlogWatcher - New York Times columnists stand up for 'stunned' nuns

Finally Australian blogger, CathBlog regular David Timbs suggests at v2catholic that the US bishops have learned nothing from Pope Leo XIII’s 1895 crackdown on their own predecessors. Alarmed at the possibility that Catholicism in the United ...

Source: CathNews
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04/17/12
Have the Rich Ever Paid a Fair Share of Taxes? (Part 2)

He proposed a constitutional amendment that would allow the government to levy an income tax "without apportionment among the states and without regard to any census or enumeration," thus making moot the Supreme Court's 1895 ruling in Pollock v.

Source: Bloomberg
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04/02/12
Matthew Orante was more than a haberdasher

They reconciled within a year. The artist died of a ruptured appendix at age 48. Wicks said Remington’s 1895 sculpture “Bronco Buster” has been called the most famous piece of American art. An original cast of the statue can be seen during ...

Source: Daily Gazette
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03/31/12
The Case of Trayvon Martin: Can Justice Survive Media Lynch Mob?

U.S. (1895), and Brown v. United States (1921), the latter of which gave cause for noted Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. to note, 'detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.' 31 states have variations of the ...

Source: Post Chronicle
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03/29/12
Aronoff: Can Justice Survive Media Lynch Mob?

U.S. (1895), and Brown v. United States (1921), the latter of which gave cause for noted Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. to note, ‘detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.’ 31 states have variations of ...

Source: GOPUSA
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03/29/12
Can Justice Survive Media Lynch Mob?

U.S. (1895), and Brown v. United States (1921), the latter of which gave cause for noted Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. to note, ‘detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.’ 31 states have variations of the Castle

Source: Canada Free Press
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03/22/12
Authorities lay Nobel Peace Prize probe to rest

It opened an investigation earlier this year into whether the Norwegian Nobel Committee had correctly carried out the task of selecting the peace laureate under the terms of prize creator Alfred Nobel's 1895 will. "The county administrative board has ...

Source: Local
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03/21/12
Standing Ground in Sanford

"Stand your Ground" originates from the Beard v. U.S. (1895) case, in which the Supreme Court ruled that a man was entitled to defend himself against an individual, who he believed was intending upon, or was in the process of taking his life, or doing him

Source: Huffington Post
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03/21/12
State of Corruption

Fingerprints of long-ago corruptive influences remain imprinted throughout the South Carolina Code of Laws and the state’s 1895 Constitution. And after more than 100 years under that Constitution, South Carolina ranks 45th with a grade of F and a ...

Source: Free Times
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03/08/12
Nobel Foundation rejects Peace Prize picks criticism

What Nobel Really Wanted," that the Norwegian Nobel Committee had gone far astray from the wishes expressed in prize creator Alfred Nobel's 1895 last will and testament. The pick of US President Barack Obama for the 2009 prize, after he had ...

Source: Times of India
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03/08/12
Nobel Foundation rejects Peace Prize criticism

What Nobel Really Wanted," that the Norwegian Nobel Committee had gone far astray from the wishes expressed in prize creator Alfred Nobel's 1895 last will and testament. Heffermehl claims that the five-member prize committee had deviated from Nobel's ...

Source: Local
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03/06/12
Nobel Foundation rejects Peace Prize picks criticism

What Nobel Really Wanted," that the Norwegian Nobel Committee had gone far astray from the wishes expressed in prize creator Alfred Nobel's 1895 last will and testament. Heffermehl claims that the five-member prize committee had deviated from Nobel's ...

Source: Regina Leader-Post
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03/06/12
Nobel Foundation rejects Peace Prize picks criticism

What Nobel Really Wanted," that the Norwegian Nobel Committee had gone far astray from the wishes expressed in prize creator Alfred Nobel's 1895 last will and testament. Heffermehl claims that the five-member prize committee had deviated from Nobel's ...

Source: The Vancouver Sun
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02/13/12
Palin not convinced of 'great candidate' Romney's conservative credentials

Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has called former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romeny 'a great candidate', but she isn't yet convinced that the Republican presidential contender is 'instinctively' a constitutional conservative. Former Alaska governor ...

Source: andhranews.net
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02/07/12
Berlin Film Festival: a movie fans' guide

Berlin's Film and TV permanent exhibition, the Filmmuseum Berlin (Potsdamer Strasse 2, filmmuseum-berlin.de) is a chance to explore the moving image's journey from the Berlin brothers Max and Emil Skladanowsky's 1895 invention of the Bioscop (an ...

Source: The Guardian
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01/31/12
Florida Republican primary: January 30 as it happened

It surely is. Pressed on this apparent contradiction this morning by the NBC News Today show's Matt Lauer, Mr Romney misquoted (as he has done before) writer Finley Peter Dunn's 1895 riposte to politicians who complain about the rough-and-tumble of their .

Source: Daily Telegraph
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