And in our series on Island Hopping we visit jersey just off the coast of france. The srabon gotten is here in germany a small plots of garden colonies that city dwellers love to have to grow vegetables flowers or just to sit in and relish the simple joys of nature at the weekend this is typically german as is the fact that these hobby gardeners are this year celebrating the 100th anniversary of the rules and regulations of such gardens really rachel stood is an expert on all things quintessentially german. Well piece of your slice of calm in the city. Well. All over germany on the outskirts of towns of the long lines youll find god in colonies plots of land divvied up and rented out to green. About garden. There
are several names for the allotment in germany because theyve got enough for 370. 00 square metres of manicured lawns neat flower beds and decoration is welcomed including of course the king of german kitsch the garden gnome. In the 19th century city populations blue and green
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here as perry has noted. nothing? you don t think anything has changed substantively? well, not yet. we don t have anything on the table that s that s suggesting there s some grand deal possible. it s going to have to happen eventually. it s the only way out of this whole mess. maybe we have a little more leeway now. there seems to have been some good faith gestures but we still don t have anything on the table and taking some senators to dinner, taking paul ryan over to the white house for lunch isn t really going to get us there. perry, you write in the grio, quote, there is room for negotiation here, and obama appears ready to explore it. what was the impetus here? i mean, what do you think happened? did someone finally get in the president s ear and say, you know what, if you really want them to work with you and want them to like you, in d.c. you ve got to take them out for a nice dinner? i don t think the white house thought the sequester would go
educated. do you liberals live in a fantasy land? there are a lot more students going not enough to make up for the money you are throwing at them. the per student amount of financial aid is up. today they get an average 12,000 in federal and state aid. up from 7,000 in 1987. good morning mr. vice president. at least biden understands. how do you feel about the idea that government subsidies by artificially increasing the availability of student loans is at least partially responsible for rising tuition costs? government subsidies have impacted upon rising tuition costs and it s a con nan nun dr here. they advertise lobster dinner expensive dorms with luxury pools. pools and spas and fancy gym facilities and sushi for lunch
they keep losing employees and hire new ones. they are advertising on top of pizza boxes. a career where x-ray vision and health insurance are standard. it spends ten times what the previous company spent. he was shocked how much money they can waste. you don t want to know. i sent two guys out they have a warehouse they have hundreds of puffers that didn t work. they cost 150,000 dollars each and were supposed to detect closes. they paid like $600 a piece for dod to tess stroi them. the tsa wastes money, infuriate passengers and create long lines. isn t there a better way? lines are shorter at san francisco airport they move quickly and passengers say the screeners are nice. people here are friendly and willing to help.