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Senator Patty Murray – In the News


09/22/11 Senator
Murray Cosponsors Legislation to Outlaw LGBT Discrimination in Housing,
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Health Care Reform Resource Center

No senior should ever have to worry about not being able to
afford the prescription drugs they need to stay healthy. So I worked hard to
make sure that the recent health care reform legislation signed by President
Obama on M… read more

Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction

The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (JSC) is a
unique organization created by the Budget Control Act of 2011. read
more

21st Century Careers

A skilled, prepared workforce in our nation is more critical
than ever before as we strive to compete in an increasingly global and dynamic
economy. read more
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Official Google blog


From the desert to the web: bringing the Dead Sea Scrolls online

(Cross-posted on the Nonprofits Blog, the Google.org Blog and the European Public Policy Blog)It’s taken 24 centuries, the work of archaeologists, scholars and historians, and the advent of the Internet to make the Dead Sea Scrolls accessible to anyone in the world.  Today, as the new year approaches on the Hebrew calendar, we’re celebrating the launch of the Dead Sea Scrolls online; a project of The Israel Museum, Jerusalempowered by Google technology.http://youtu.be/5rYj_0foJYA

Written between the third and first centuries BCE, the Dead Sea Scrolls include the oldest known biblical manuscripts in existence.  In 68 BCE, they were hidden in 11 caves in the Judean desert on the shores of the Dead Sea to protect them from the approaching Roman armies. They weren’t discovered again until 1947, when a Bedouin shepherd threw a rock in a cave and realized something was inside.  Since 1965, the scrolls have been on exhibit at the Shrine of the Book at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Among other topics, the scrolls offer critical insights into life and religion in ancient Jerusalem, including the birth of Christianity.

Now, anyone around the world can view, read and interact with five digitized Dead Sea Scrolls.  The high resolution photographs, taken by Ardon Bar-Hama, are up to 1,200 megapixels, almost 200 times more than the average consumer camera, so viewers can see even the most minute details in the parchment.  For example, zoom in on the Temple Scrollto get a feel for the animal skin it’s written on—only one-tenth of a millimeter thick.

You can browse the Great Isaiah Scroll, the most well known scroll and the one that can be found in most home bibles, by chapter and verse. You can also click directly on the Hebrew textand get an English translation.  While you’re there, leave a comment for others to see.

The scroll text is also discoverable via web search.  If you search for phrases from the scrolls, a link to that text within the scroll viewers on the Dead Sea Scrolls collections site may surface in your search results.  For example, search for [Dead Sea Scrolls “In the day of thy planting thou didst make it to grow”], and you may see a link to Chapter 17:Verse 11 within the Great Isaiah Scroll.

This partnership with The Israel Museum, Jerusalem is part of our larger effort to bring important cultural and historical collections online.  We are thrilled to have been able to help this project through hosting on Google Storage and App Engine, helping design the web experience and making it searchable and accessible to the world.  We’ve been involved in similar projects in the past, including building the Yad Vashem Holocaust photo collection and collections at the Prado Museum in Madrid.  We encourage organizations interested in partnering with us in our archiving efforts to enter their information in this form. We hope you enjoy visiting the Dead Sea Scrolls collection online, or any of these other projects, and interacting with history at your fingertips.

Posted by Eyal Miller, New Business Development and Eyal Fink, Software Engineer, Israel Research and Development Center

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The Americans JOBS ACT —


President Obama Presents American Jobs Act

9/22/2011 Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory Supports the American Jobs Act

Sep 22, 2011

The American Jobs Act will invest $50 billion in infrastructure updates.

Sep 22, 2011

Patent Reform with the America Invents Act 

President Obama is joined by CEO’s and Entreprenuers as he signs the America Invents Act into law.  The bill invests in America’s future by streamlining the patent process, allowing start-ups and small business owners to turn their innovative ideas into products three times faster than they can today.  Learn more at http://whitehouse.gov

Sep  7, 2011

Rep. DeLauro Explains the Infrastructure Bank 

Highlights from an interview by Jeremy Koulish, the Executive Director of Main Street Insider, with Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT3). The Congresswoman discusses her proposal, H.R 402, the National Infrastructure Development Bank Act of 2011.

Mayor Rawlings-Blake of Baltimore Supports the American Jobs Act

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Friday’s critical September 30th FEC deadline …

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Al Gore‘s right — “at no time has Democrats’ progress been more threatened than it is now.” Tea Party Republicans are working feverishly to roll back Democratic achievements and advance their own radical agenda.

 There are just a few days left before Friday’s critical September 30th FEC deadline and we are still $293,841 short of our $1 Million goal. We need to have the strongest showing possible — that’s why all gifts today are matched 2-to-1, tripling your impact.

Act fast and generously to help Democrats now >>   www.dccc.org

Robby

Robby Mook
DCCC Executive Director

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From: Al Gore
Sent: Monday, September 19th, 2011 12:14pm
To: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Subject: Extremists
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Friend —

At no time has Democrats’ progress been more threatened than it is now. Single-minded proponents of a dangerous and extremist agenda are working feverishly to roll back every Democratic gain we’ve ever made.

The Tea Partiers now calling the shots in the Republican Party won’t back away from their radical agenda. And they are also exceedingly well funded by corporate backers, thanks to the Supreme Court’s disastrous Citizens United decision.

It will take an unshakeable commitment from grassroots Democrats like you to guarantee our progress and to continue to move America forward.

That’s why I am asking for your support of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC)’s Million Dollar Matching Gift Campaign before their critical Federal Election Commission (FEC) fundraising reporting deadline on September 30th.

Contribute $3 or more today and your gift will be matched by House Democrats with two dollars of their own!   www.dccc.org

Your gift will fund the DCCC’s Rapid Response Network and shine a powerful spotlight on the Tea Party Republicans’ extreme agenda so we can return to the Majority in the U.S. House of Representatives as full partners with President Obama and with Nancy Pelosi as Speaker.

I am making this personal appeal to you because it’s imperative we have a strong FEC filing on September 30th.

We need to deliver proof that the Democratic Party is ready, willing and able to lead the country forward — with money in the bank and people like you willing to stand and fight.

Contribute $3 or more today and your gift will be matched by House Democrats with two dollars of their own!  www.dccc.org

Thank you for making the best donation you can.

Sincerely,

Al Gore

P.S. Nancy Pelosi and my friends at the DCCC are working around the clock to stand up to the Republicans’ war on middle class America, but we must have grassroots Democrats like you at our side to return to the Majority. Contribute today >>   www.dccc.org

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AFL – CIO … Have a JOBs Story ?


Have a jobs story?
Have a story to tell? Congress needs to hear it.Rep. George Miller—the most senior Democrat on the House committee that deals with health, education, jobs and pension issues—is sponsoring a fact-finding forum and gathering stories to help Congress understand what life is really like for people struggling with the jobs crisis.You and your friends can help by submitting your stories.
Do you ever feel like the call for jobs is falling on deaf ears in Congress? It’s not. It’s just that obstructionists are blocking progress.Rep. George Miller—the most senior Democrat on the House committee that deals with health, education, jobs and pension issues—wants to stop the political games and pass legislation that gets America back to work. And you can help.
After you submit your story to Congress, please take a quick moment to paste it into the body of an e-mail and send it to us at peoplepower@aflcio.org.Are you struggling to find work or to acquire new skills? Have you or has someone in your family lost a job, particularly in construction or education? Has job loss threatened your home or your family’s health care?Tell Congress your story.

How have budget cuts in education affected your life or work? If you are a parent of a child in public schools, how have those cuts affected your children? Are schools or community colleges in your area in need of repair or modernization? Tell Congress your story.

Do you see a need for construction work in your community that is not being done for lack of funding? Tell Congress your story.

What kind of access do you have to job training or reemployment assistance programs? Is it sufficient? Tell Congress your story.

Outside of Washington, job creation is at the top of everyone’s agenda. Rep. Miller knows that. Let’s help him flood his congressional colleagues with compelling stories to demonstrate that America wants to work and we need good jobs now.

Thanks for doing your part to create jobs.

In Solidarity,

Manny Herrmann
Online Mobilization Coordinator, AFL-CIO

P.S. If you know people who have been unemployed for a long time—or who have first-hand experience in the struggling construction or education industries—Also, after you submit your story to Congress, please take a quick moment to paste it into the body of an e-mail and send it to us at peoplepower@aflcio.org.