Thomas Jones owns the Sweedee Pie Cheesecake Bakery. Mr. Jones has come up with a secret recipe for a unique sweet potato cheesecake. Mr. Jones talk above about this cheesecake and the products he makes at the Whitesville, N.C. bakery. Take a listen and see what might interest you for the Yuletide, and super bowl season. Sweedee Pie cheese cake is a must have desert not only for Xmas but anytime.
For more information on Sweedee Pie Cheesecake factory please go to their website http://www.sweedeepie.com/
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Obama says the middle class is in jeopardy. Many think that the backs of the middle class have been broken by the antics of the financial institutions. Thus, the making of Occupy Wall Street.
Recently, President Obama made a speech to the 99 percent who have seen their movement disbanded across the country, sometimes in violence and often with multiple arrest. The President’s speech seemed to echo the sentiments of Teddy Roosevelt who gave a speech in the same location in 1910.
101 years have seen a lot of changes. In 1910, we were still an agriculture society but was we were also firmly entrenched in our industrial revolution. The decade of the 1910s was the age of the great industrialist and financier.
Yet as we look and compare the different time periods, it appears that we are back in the 1910s. The root of most of the problems of urbanization and immigration was in the economic status of most of the people at the time. The main source of work in the cities was factory jobs, which had their wages regulated by the tyrants who owned the factories. Since there was a great abundance of workers, both poor farmers who moved to the city seeking financial freedom and immigrants who came to America because they had heard it was the land of milk and honey, there was no need for the factories to entice workers with high wages. Therefore, the working middle class was actually not much of a middle class at all! They had to struggle to make ends meet.
Families who had no savings were forced to place their votes for whether the father’s union goes on strike. Due of to a lack of money to be used as a cushion during the time the workers were on strike, many people did not have the ability to fight for higher wages and better conditions. If they went on strike, they would no longer have the money to buy food and pay rent. For these reasons, the working conditions in the cities had little improvement over the years.
To make ends meet, families had to send their children off to work in the factories. Young boys often had to sit and pick out pieces of slate from coal, hurting his hands, running the risk of getting killed, and suffering health problems from breathing the coal dust-all for just sixty cents a day. For some families, this was the only option they saw to keep food on the table.
Today, sitting pretty as a member of the 1 percent Newt Gingrich recommends that poor kids (who were once middle class until the financial collapse) work as janitors in their schools. Otherwise Newt believes that they are destine for a life in prostitution, pimping and drugs.
Take a look at President Obama as he speaks words of inspiration to the 99 percent.
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Actors Anja Lee and Tino Christopher sits down at the lunch counter to discuss originating their roles in the upcoming play Massinissa and The Tragedy In The House Of Thunder . The two classical trained actors also discuss the limited opportunity for people of color in classical theatre.
Set 200 Years before the birth of Christ, MASSINISSA AND THE TRAGEDY OF THE HOUSE OF THUNDER is the dramatic tale of one man’s struggle to unravel his own identity in the quest for worthiness; that tragically leads him through betrayal and regret before he finds redemption and discovers the true meaning of honor. It is the story of Massinissa (Rome’s African king) and the inner torment that drives him to engineer the destruction of an entire civilization to revenge the death of the woman he loves. The play runs December 7-18 2011 at 309 East 108th East Harlem, New York, New York 10029 Just Off 2nd Avenue TICKETS $18 For Tickets visit: www.takewingandsoar.org
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Elijah Black spent twenty years as a rocker opening for groups like Motley Crue, Kings X, Styx, Neil Young, Cinderella, Ratt and Jackyl when he and his band wasn’t headlining their own shows.
Known as one of the hardest working musicians on the touring circuit, the Akron Ohio native is now focusing on opening night of the New York stage production of Lorey Hayes’ Massinissa: And The Tragedy In The House Of Thunder.
Black portrays Hamilcar Barca father of Hannibal in the Two-Act, epic love story detailing the defeat of Hannibal by the Romans.
This is not Elijah’s first acting gig. You might have seen him as a Visigoth for Capital One’s Viking commercials. Mr. Black also appears in the feature film and psychological thriller “Bruiser”, which is due out in 2012.
Elijah and his very powerful band Peace Tree will be releasing the 3rd CD entitled BAD DREAM in 2012.
Above, Elijah talks about his experience in his debut stage performance in Lorey Hayes’ Massinissa: Tragedy In The House Of Thunder. Below you can see and hear Elijah performing with his band.
Take a look and listen to both. I’m sure it won’t be enough so make sure you buy a ticket to Lorey Hayes’ Massinissa: Tragedy In The House Of Thunder which will be playing at The Poet’s Den starting December 7, 2011′ running through the 18th of December.
On Tuesday, 103-year-old Vinia Hall and her 83-year-old daughter Vita Lee were due to be evicted from their Atlanta home of 53 years. After arriving and seeing Hall and Lee the movers and sheriff’s deputies showed compassion by refusing the bank’s request for eviction. They left the ladies in their home. Lee had to be hospitalized as a result of the ordeal.
Following the public outcry in support of the women, “Chase Bank, which services the loan on t that’s owned by Deutsche Bank now said it has no plans to evict Hall or her daughter.” The bank. Instead the bank insist that they will work out an arrangement with the family so they can keep the home.
The women had been engaged in a long legal battle with Deutsche Bank, the financial giant accused of widespread mortgage fraud by the U.S. government earlier this year. The German owned bank is the focus of a $1 billion lawsuit filed by the Justice Department. In November, Deutsche Bank paid $165 million to settle a suit claiming that it had misled credit unions about the risk of securities tied to mortgages.
The bank issued an eviction notice for Hall & Lee, who had lived in the Northwest Atlanta home for 53 years.
Hopefully there will be some top notch Attorney’s working Pro-Bono on behalf of the ladies to make sure that the arrangement is indeed fair to the ladies. Further they may want to see why the ladies were subjected to eviction.
The video above gives more information on the Federal lawsuit and the Deutsche Bank.
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