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So after clipping the chains on Waimea, the very fine '5.10d' at Rumney today, I congratulated myself on the onsight...but perhaps prematurely. At the 4th bolt, I had stepped right and put a hand in the crack, shaking out my left after clipping. I then continued up the crimps, clipping the 5th bolt and finishing the route. After lowering off, I checked out my trusty Ward Smith Rumney climbing guide and I wondered whether I'd just done 'Waimea the Weenie Way,' (only rated 10c) due to my use of the crack to cop a rest. Then I thought what the fuck? I climb the line of least resistance, clip all the bolts, top out the route--it's not like I traversed over to the no-hands rest on surf's up. IMHO, Waimea is either (A) an eliminate at 10d, or (B) should be downgraded to 10c to reflect the most efficient sequence along the bolted line. I guess it was just easier to make up a squeeze job variation with a pejorative title than downgrading a moderate classic -- that could bruise some egos.
.......... You must have been in the gym quite a bit lately. Honestly you onsighted the route and it doesn't truly matter if you rested in a crack. I had a similar incident where I was at the last move of onsighting a .12a and the move is out way left to a jug used by the route which was squeezed in. I didn't want to use the jug and not truly onsight the route so I opted out and tried a direct move which gave me some airtime. Once again it doesn't matter
Oh, it matters alright. Is the thing 10c OR 10d? The people must know!
I don't think it is a squeeze job.. it is a pretty different alternate if you go the weenie way with gear. (if you don't use gear you will get damn close to the ground if you fall, if not deck)
Does not sound like you used the crack to avoid the crux... I agree If you have the hold and its within reach... it seems reasonable to use it, especially if you are particularly tall. Like Jake said. The weeney way is to climb the crack avoiding the crimp system. (Not that i consider someone leading overhanging 10.c on gear a weeney)
I agree with the last two posts, Eric. It sounds like you did not bypass the crux on the climb and you clipped all the bolts. In my book, you did Waimea. I have seen the trad version being led, and it climbs differently from the sport version. One could argue the sport version straight up is .10c/d but I think that matters less than moving on and testing yourself on climbs such as Peer Pressure, Centerpiece, Idiot's Deluxe, etc.
did you have fun? that is all that really matters... who the fuk cares if it's an eliminate or not. Just keep climbing goddamn rocks.
More importantly - did you enjoy the climb?
You have to consciously do it the 10c way to do it the 10c way. It's not a squeeze job either...you gotta go way out there to get to the crack. as it stands the route trends right at a point before the crux. You did the route, relax.
what if ice-climbing were like this... Ha! Using the crack probably made it a 5.8...sorry to break the news to you :(
Wait until you get to the finishing moves on Social Outcast....
If you climb All the Way-a and top-out, you can legitimately claim an ascent of any route at Waimea. You just went a little off-route! Jaws II here I come!
whoa, I had no idea this thread would grow so quickly. I think I figured out what the correct answer is: it doesn't matter. I'll dial back the spray in the future... and the climb was fucking sick~!!! never have I pulled on friendlier crimps or more enjoyed finding hidden buckets than on this beautiful, dope-ass line.
Generally you know when you're off route on a sport climb. If you're looking a the pendulum of doom in the advent of a fall, then you're usually off route. If not keep climbing on the path of least resistance. Waimea is a sick route!


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Torrington candlelight vigil, Moment of silence scheduled to support Newtown
A candlelight vigil for Newtown will be held in Torrington at the First Baptist Church on Thursday, December 20th at 6pm. This is an effort to come together as a local Wyoming community to show support for those affected by the shootings at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.
In addition, Gov. Dave Heineman is asking Nebraskans to observe a moment of silence to honor the victims of the Connecticut school shooting.
The national moment of silence is set for Friday at 9:30 a.m. Connecticut Gov. Daniel Malloy is also asking schools, churches and other facilities with bells to ring them 26 times to acknowledge each life lost.
The shooting last week at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., killed 20 students and six staff members.
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Firefighters were called to a south Lincoln home Tuesday morning. Lincoln police say the resident who tried to put out the fire, 20-year-old Nathan Stokes, has been cited for negligent smoking. Lincoln fire investigators say the fire was caused by improperly discarded smoking materials.
A trace of smoke could be seen pouring from the second floor window of the home at 46th and Eagle Ridge Road.
Stokes was home when the small fire started.
"I ran upstairs to go cook some eggs and I heard all the fire alarms go off. I went to the edge of the stairs where the stairs started doing down and I saw the reflection of the flame. I ran downstairs and my whole couch was on fire," Stokes said.
That's when Stokes says he grabbed two empty garbage cans in hopes of putting out the flames.
"I had the shower going and I filled them up a couple of times trying to put out the fire on the couch and once I realized it wasn't helping and the flames were starting to reach the ceiling, it was time to get out of there," he said.
Once on the scene, firefighters say things were contained to the basement but smoke had filled the home.
"There's smoke damage throughout the house. The occupant tried to put out the fire himself for a minute or two and it got out of hand, probably delayed our response just a little bit," LFR Acting Battalion Chief Steve Dolezal said.
Stokes says don't wait to call 911.
"Call the fire department, don't try putting it out yourself."
And fire officials agree. They say Stokes could have been overcome by smoke, and it could have been deadly. Inspectors say damage was minimal, and the family is back home tonight.
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South Georgia firefighters say they're mourning the death of those 19 Arizona firefighters as brothers, and they understand their loss because they know the job they were doing when they were killed.
The 19 firefighter deaths was the topic of conversation this morning at the Albany Fire Department. They say all firefighters know the dangers inherent of their job, but few quit because of it. New recruits training today said the 19 deaths will make them study more seriously.
The new recruit class of the Albany Fire Department learns to roll hoses as their training gets underway. 27 year old Raymond Whyte said the Arizona firefighter deaths had an effect on him.
"It makes me train a little bit harder. Just pay attention to the instructions I'm being given." Whyte said
25 year old Antoine Hunt says he knew firefighting has its risks when he signed up.
"You always have to think about the danger, because the possibility that anything can happen," Hunt said.
AFD Chief James Carswell said all firefighting is much the same....and experienced firefighters understand the tragedy that killed the 19 firefighters in Arizona.
"Sometimes a fire can become so large you cannot control it. In this case they couldn't get away from it. They couldn't make an escape."
Firefighters train to work together as a team, and Chief Carswell said that is why firefighter deaths often occur in large numbers. They train and practice constantly, but firefighters say the unexpected is always what they have to prepare for. These recruits all said the same reason they want to be firefighters.
"I want to be a firefighter simply because I enjoy helping people," Whyte said.
"It takes a special person to want to be a firefighter. The ones who are good at it understand the dangers and we try to manage that the best we can. But it's a very dangerous job," Carswell said.
But they say it's the training that helps them overcome that fear and be ready to stand up to help. And why any firefighter death is special to them.
"It brings us into a close knit group or society amongst ourselves. Basically we feel their pain," Carswell said.
New recruits say they understand these deaths, and are still ready to answer the call.
Chief Carswell and the recruits say the dangers are always in the back of your mind, never really knowing what they face when the fire truck stops at the fire. Ready to risk their lives to protect others.
Despite those fire dangers, the stress of the job may be even worse. Heart attacks are still the number one killer of firefighters on duty.
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Some folks don't think Mississippi is living up to it's Hospitality State title, so they're fighting for equality. Members of the LGBT community are hoping small steps will lead to big change.
"We don't want special rights," said The Dandelion Project President Brandiilyne Dear. "Just equal rights."
With signs, flags and shirts, a large group proudly showed up in the capital city to support equality.
"There's power in numbers and there's even more power in unity,"explained Dear. "And we all come together for one purpose and one mind people notice and things change."
A song with lyrics of "love won't be denied" rang out as everyone marched the block from Smith Park to the Capitol. Some of them were hand in hand with their partners.
"I'm more than just my sexuality," asserted protestor Nykolas Alford. "I am a human being and I love someone of the same sex. And I don't see that as being a problem."
Still, many of these ralliers say when their sexuality is revealed, the rest of their identity is overshadowed by stereotypes.
"You can get fired for being gay," said rally organizer Jeff White with the Mississippi Gulf Coast Lesbian and Gay Community Center. "It has happened to numerous people across the state. they lose their job just because they are gay.we can't adopt. There's no bullying laws protecting the students."
While marriage isn't the only right the group wants, it is on their list. Inside the Capitol, lawmakers point to 2004 vote when Mississippians approved a constitutional amendment that bans same-sex marriages.
"I certainly don't believe we need to change that or go against the will of the people of the state," said Representative Andy Gipson-R.
Yet others believe the past decade has brought about a shift in attitudes.
"I think what we're looking at finally is a heart change as well as a head change," said Rep. Steve Holland-D. "And we're looking at each other as human beings, as children of god with different kinds of ways of looking at life."
Organizers first decided to hold the rally after the controversial religious freedom bill was brought up at the Capitol. They fear that it would open the door to more discrimination in the state.
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The DAC Pack has made a couple Facebook/Twitter updates about Isaac Freeman and people around campus have apparently seen him and yelled things telling him to come to Drexel. I know all the current guys LOVE playing in front of the DAC Pack, so it'd be great to really instill that on recruits.
Here's a question... for those that have seen both play - between 7 foot recruits Issaac Freeman and Tao Xu, who would you prefer at Drexel? Who would we have a better shot of landing?
From everything I've read, I think Tao Xu is the better player, and I LOVE everything I've heard about him being a great student. But if he already has offers from power schools, it will be really tough to land him (hopefully he loves engineering). I think we need a super tall guy next season to get minutes in situations of foul trouble, or where matchups dictate. Because after next season our bigs will be Dartaye, Casey/Kaz, and whomever we bring in. After this season, we'll need to somebody to bring that defensive presence in the middle that Daryl currently provides.


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While NoSQL may be getting all the buzz, in many cases an old fashioned relational database, such as MySQL, may work just as well if not better. That was the message from a number of MySQL users who presented their stories at Oracle's first MySQL Connect conference, held Saturday and Sunday in San Francisco.
On Sunday, engineers and executives from Twitter, PayPal and Verizon discussed their use of MySQL or MySQL Cluster. In each case, MySQL was being used for large high volume, distributed workloads that have been increasingly thought of as the province of NoSQL data stores such as MongoDB and Cassandra.
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"A lot of people think they have a big data problem, and a lot of times they don't," said Daniel Austin, who is the chief architect for PayPal. "They have an urge to find a big data solution to a problem, because it looks good."
Austin admits that the typical relational database system (RDMS) architecture has not scaled very well to meet the influx of new data in many organizations, but he cast doubt on the idea that NoSQL data stores provide the answer. "You don't have to give up your relational model to have big data," Austin said.
Paypal itself deals with large amounts of data for its global payment transaction system, which must be fast and accurate. The system must be able to manage 100TB of fixed storage, and once data is written to the system, it must be able to be read from anywhere else in the world in less than a single second. This can be a challenge given that the fastest data can travel between the two most distant places on earth is about 67 milliseconds, thanks to the hard limit of the speed of light. "So that puts a lower bound of how fast things can go," Austin said. The company uses Amazon Web Services, spread across six different locations. All the live data is handled in-memory, rather than being immediately written to disk.
PayPal uses MySQL Cluster for a number of reasons, most notably that true High Availability (HA), which ensures that all the data entered into the system is captured immediately. Another advantage MySQL Cluster offered was scalability.
"We had to think about how to build the architecture a little bit," Austin said. The approach they used, called architectural tiling, was designed to "build a system that scales to an arbitrary number of users. And we did that with SQL," Austin said. " We feel confident we can scale beyond 100 million users no problem."
Another big user of MySQL is Twitter. Currently, Twitter has over 140 million active users, who issue about 400 million Twitter messages every day, all of which have to be stored, indexed and annotated with metadata. The company uses a modified version of MySQL 5.5 to handle this load. The company has six full time database administrators, to maintain "a few thousand database servers," said Jeremy Cole, the chief database architect for Twitter. The company also employs one full-time MySQL developer.
Cole spoke to why Twitter uses MySQL even when NoSQL databases would seemingly be better suited for such a heavy workload. "It comes down to a few key points," Cole said.
One is basic familiarity. "We have very extensive at-scale knowledge. We know how MySQL works internally. We know how to upgrade it, we know how to fix bugs and push out new releases," Cole said.


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The AMA Pro motorcycle Grand National Flat Track championship will come down to one race, Saturday night at Fairplex Park in Pomona in the Law Tigers AMA Finals.
Three racers - Jared Mees, Sammy Halbert and Jake Johnson - can win the title. Mees, from Clio, Mich., leads the series by 12 points with Halbert of Graham, Wash., second and two-time reigning champion Johnson, from Coatesville, N.J., 20 points back.
"I finished fifth at Pomona last year and ended the year in second overall," Mees said. "This time out I want to better my finish and take the title."
The race will be 25 laps on the half-mile dirt oval.
"I really think I have a good shot at dominating this time out," Halbert said. "I took a third last year and hopefully I can better that and bring home the win. I really like racing at Pomona. It is a very challenging track and those are definitely the kind I enjoy."
Mees has won once this season and been on the podium nine times. Halbert has a series-high four wins and four other podiums. Both race on Harley-Davidsons.
Johnson has won at least one race in each of the past 10 years, but is winless this season. He has eight podium finishes this season.
The 15-lap Pro Singles series title will also be determined. Stephen Vanderkuur of Davison, Mich. leads Jake Shoemaker of Glenmoore, Pa., by 13 points and Jason Isennock of Owings Mills, Md., by 25.
Before the main event, there will be one heat of speedway cycles on the track, an autograph session featuring past and present riders, the pits will be open to all and there will be a pre-race concert.
J.C. Agajanian Jr. has been named the grand marshal for the race.
Racing is scheduled to start at 6p.m.
Formula Drift
There has been one constant in the abbreviated history of Irwindale Speedway: Put on a major drifting show and Southern Californians will come.
There have been 18 D1 or Formula Drift events in 10 years at the track and each one has drawn a minimum of 8,000 people; the track's grandstands hold 6,500 and the luxury box suites hold 1,000.
Twice, Formula Drift officials has had to stop selling tickets at 12,000, including last year, because temporary grandstands along the third-mile oval had sold out and the track's fan capacity had reached dangerously high levels.
The numbers will be about the same this weekend, series co-founder and president Jim Liaw predicts.
"We will for sure be at capacity," Liaw said. "We'll need every single seat and parking space that is available. We're looking for alternative parking measures. We're asking teams and those buying tickets to carpool so that we will have enough spaces."
There have been eight season-ending Formula Drift events at Irwindale, which many consider the U.S. home of drifting because the track was the first to hold international events. In addition, the way the grandstands and two oval tracks are positioned, it makes for perhaps the best drifting venue in the nation.
In the past three years, more than 34,000 have watched the two-day show at Irwindale.
"We have not watered down the product," Liaw said of the series' success. "We still keep two Southern California events and I think that overall, that is content for most people."
Unlike many motorsports, Liaw said attendance has grown this season at all venues.
"Organically we've been a growing event," he said. "The appetite for drifting events is still growing.
"I think people come and the next year they bring two friends. We have kept our ticket prices the same, and I think we're a decent and viable option to something comparable to like the Lakers."
All of the available vendor booths have sold out and all of the grandstands, including those in Turn 1, are nearly sold out.
Fifty-five cars are entered with single-car qualifying today and the 32-car tandem competition on Saturday.
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There is nothing normal about the endless Toronto municipal election campaign, and readers have strong views about what they have seen and still want to see in The Globe's coverage, writes public editor Sylvia Stead.
Do you know the answers to the following facts of geography, history, civics and science? Or would you double-check to make sure you are right?
It is easy to dismiss the proposal for a national press council as "out-dated." Even the world "press" conjures up images of reporters from the previous century wearing a sign in their hats that said "Press." But media ethicist Stephen J.A. Ward explains why we should not dismiss the idea for a national press council outright.
A complainant was puzzled and concerned when an online story out of Gaza had no details at all about the information in the headline. He rejected the explanation that this was human error due to the fact that the story had been updated so often the facts referenced in the headline disappeared.
Where is the line between news value and shock value in communicating the horror of James Foley's beheading by Islamic militants?
It would be useful for CBC News to think about ways to help members of the public understand the process used, and give context that enables them to assess what they are seeing, writes Esther Enkin.
Balance and fairness can and should be judged by the content and the range of views presented, regardless of the title of one particular guest, writes CBC ombudsman Esther Enkin.
New Canadian Media founder George Abraham reflects on his project's first four years and what the future holds for immigrant journalism.
The mystery of the photograph identified in the Star as Great War soldier Pte. Thomas Lawless has now been solved.
While the staff articles showed restraint and said only that Robin Williams died of asphyxia or hanging, unfortunately a Reuters wire story posted by The Globe online included far too much unnecessary detail about his death, writes public editor Sylvia Stead.
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Branch n Berry - Hayloft cabin in Hendersonville
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$ 1,980 - $ 1,980 / month
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Branch 'n Berry is located near Pisgah National Forest between Brevard, Hendersonville and Asheville. The location offers convenience to many amenities/outdoor attractions and easy access. Branch 'n Berry's 9.5 acres offer gardens, a chapel, small pond, gazebo, outdoor play area and short walking trails for their guest's enjoyment. There are 3 cabins located on the property, each with it's own unique design and theme. "Hayloft" cabin is decorated in an equestrian theme.
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Hayloft has an open loft design with two twin beds with a half bath in the loft and a queen bed with full bath downstairs. The cabin looks out over the pond from the back porch and a field/gardens from the front porch. The cabin includes a full kitchen, heating/air conditioning, wireless connection, cable television and gas grill. Linens are provided.
activities and attractions in Hendersonville Smoky Mountains
Branch 'n Berry is located near the Blue Ridge Parkway, waterfalls, river tubing, hiking, mountain biking and fishing. There are a variety of shopping and restaurant options in either a quaint, small town environment (Brevard, Hendersonville) or larger and more diverse city (Asheville).
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Children under 12 free. 12-18 are $5.00 per night or $15.00 per week
Allyn Perkins 828-890-8997
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By Julie Huss
---- — LONDONDERRY — Those who love the theater are hoping to bring a professional program to town.
Theater professionals Joel Mercier and Walter Pinault came before town councilors last week to pitch an idea of making Londonderry a home base for upscale productions and events.
Mercier, a 2002 Pinkerton Academy graduate, has worked in professional theater for many years and told councilors Londonderry would be a great location.
Both men have worked in the business on a high level, in New York City and beyond, and said the state was due for some great shows closer to home.
"We think New Hampshire is missing something," Mercier said.
Putting a professional program in place in Londonderry could guarantee shows that are more professional, union-based.
"It would have a New York stamp of approval of professionalism," Mercier said.
Mercier is no stranger to this area. In addition to graduating from Pinkerton, he went on to produce shows, musicals, and write productions that have been performed here at home and in other professional venues.
Right now, he is working on developing the New Hampshire Theatre Factory, a multi-stage program that would bring year-round professional companies to the state.
Mercier said the Granite State only has two commercial year-round companies, but other New England states boast more programs offering union-based, professional events.
He said it's time New Hampshire follows suit.
The program would offer not only professionally produced shows, but also educational pieces to teach students the ins and outs of theater production, along with helping those newcomers create their owns shows to develop.
"We've been building this for about two years," Mercier said. "We want to open it, create it, and start it and found Londonderry as a potential home."
Where potential shows would be held is another step that will have to be looked at, Mercier said.
He told officials he hoped they would support a theater-based organization in town.
"Is this something that you would help us find a home for?" Mercier asked.
A potential venue would need to be able to support 250 to 300 audience members, plus include utilities and enough space to hold shows, workshops and rehearsals.
Councilors told Mercier he should contact school officials to see what district space might suit his needs, if the theater plan moves forward.
For information on Mercier's NH Theatre Factory, visit nhtheatrefactory.org.


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All year long the Danville Area Community College's culinary arts students — both adults and high school students in College Express — have been gearing up to feed the masses in the Mary Miller Center's new hospitality room during this week's National Junior College Athletic Association's tournament.
This is the fifth year the college's culinary arts program will prepare two meals a day every day during the weeklong tournament.
"The hospitality room feeds 600 to 700 people, including corporate sponsors, administrators from the schools, coaches and corporate sponsors' guests," said instructor James Crook who teaches DACC's culinary arts program with Dana Wheeler.
"We fix enough food for a couple hundred people and then the local restaurants fill in with donations of food," Crook said.
"It's a big deal," Wheeler said of keeping the hospitality room supplied with food during the week. "We use all of the classes all week long. It's good practice for them."
When Danville High School's College Express students arrive at DACC's state-of–the-art kitchen at 8:30 a.m. each day, they don their chef coats and busily work to finish the egg casseroles and sweet rolls to be ready to serve in an hour or less.
"The College Express students prepare the first food to go over (to the hospitality room) in the morning," Crook said.
The 30 to 40 adult culinary arts students who attend class in the afternoon and evening prepare the meal served in the hospitality room in the evening and prepare the ingredients for the breakfast casseroles.
"The adults prep the breakfast the night before," Crook explained.
"The egg casserole we make for breakfast is big enough so 30 to 40 people can eat one," he said. "We also make sweet rolls."
Sarah Bowler, who has been in the culinary arts program only one semester, said she enjoys DACC's program and is considering applying to a cooking institute such as Le Cordon Bleu.
"It's mostly hands-on and not much class time," she said. "He'll (Crook) come around group to group and talk to us about what we're doing right and wrong."
Kaylee Turner, who started out in the culinary arts program as a College Express student, said the DACC program helped her decide her career path. She applied and has been accepted to the Culinary Institute of America in New York.
"I like it all, and it got me interested in applying for culinary schools," she said.
Turner, who prepared food for the NJCAA tournament last year, conceded, "It might get a little stressful, but it's a lot of fun."
Mark Radloff, who has been in the program only one semester, said he enrolled in the program to sharpen his cooking techniques.
"I'm doing it to learn for my own self," he said, adding that he wasn't too concerned about the rush to get food ready for the hospitality room this week.
"We'll get it all done as a team," he said.
Crook, who graduated culinary school in the 1970s and was the executive chef at former local restaurants such as The Heron and Anthony's Supper Club, said, "After 30 years, I can say I know how to boil water."
Crook said preparing much of the food served during the NJCAA tournament gives the culinary arts students a taste of what it's like to cater a party or large event.
"It's good for the students," he said. "It gives them a chance to see what it's like to prepare all that food and then to clean up after.
"It's work. We've been gearing up for this all year," he said. "We recently catered a party for a church group of 25 just to get them used to it before the NJCAA tournament."
That party's menu included shrimp cocktail, salad, roasted chicken, prime rib, lemon meringue pies and key lime cheesecake.
"We cater for the college so that gives them experience, too," Wheeler added.
Crook said the fee charged for the program's catering services goes right back into the culinary arts program.
The menu for this year's NJCAA hospitality room includes soul food including barbecued pork butt, spaghetti and tuna noodle casserole for Lent.
"We have a set menu and then we throw in a couple of surprise things," Crook said.
When cooking a lot of food in a short time frame, Crook said he doesn't turn into hot-headed celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay in the kitchen, but he does acknowledge that it's a challenge keeping the 50 College Express students on task.
"We have to keep the kids focused, and sometimes they don't understand they have to clean and do all the dishes," he said. "They have to leave the kitchen as they found it.
"We tell them this is a cooking class, not an eating class."
Crook said he treats the high school-aged College Express students as if they are adults.
"They learn knife skills and some go on to culinary schools or become pastry chefs," he said.
"We teach them like they're adults because we don't want them to get hurt."
Wheeler, who has been involved with DACC's culinary arts program for three years, said, "It makes you feel good when you see them move up from being a high school student and into a culinary arts school. It's fulfilling."
Culinary arts is a two-year, 30-credit hour program after which students earn a certificate and a sanitation license. In addition to knife skills, the program teaches pan frying, sautéing, dry heat cooking (baking) and moist heat cooking (braising).


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We've heard about credit and debit card skimming at ATMs, MetroCard vending machines, retail stores, and restaurants. Now police are warning about a new twist on the latest target: muni meters.
You have the option to use quarters when you pay for city parking at a muni meter, and some people do. But many people don't want to carry $10 or more in quarters. It's so much easier to pay with a credit or debit card. And so much easier for the thieves who've attached skimming devices to steal your account number.
Police said muni meters along Kings Highway in Brooklyn have been especially hard hit, but it's a citywide problem.
You can protect yourself by checking your statement balance as often as possible and purchasing an NYC parking card to use at the muni meters instead of your debit or credit card.
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Teen comedy Fun Size centers on a sarcastic high school senior named Wren (Victoria Justice). She wants to go to college to get away from her dysfunctional family. Wren's mother, Joy (Chelsea Handler), insists that she watch her little brother Albert (Jackson Nicoll) on Halloween night, so Joy can go out with her much younger boyfriend. Wren gets distracted when she's invited to the party of the year, and Albert disappears into a sea of trick-or-treaters. Anxious to find him before their mom learns he is missing, Wren gets help from her BFF April (Jane Levy), as well as Peng, an aspiring ladies man and co-captain of the debate team, and Peng's best friend, Roosevelt (Thomas Mann), a sweet nerd with a crush on Wren. This four search all night for Albert, meeting amazing characters at every turn.
Here's what the critics are saying.
You'd hope that Gossip Girl creator Josh Schwartz, directing for the first time, would have a better feel for such matter, but Fun Size blatantly and lazily traces mediocre versions of the genre. (Who wants to be a poor poor-man's version of Can't Hardly Wait?) There is no attempt to reinvent, and what might have been a half-decent homage is undermined by numbing comic failure. At least Levy delivers her lines with some snap, and even though she could play the snarky best friend in her sleep, she still has fun with it, which is greatly appreciated. Handler, on the other hand, looks literally pained, and fans of the talented comedian will wonder why she's already taking thankless mom roles after films like Bridesmaids proved a market for brassy female-driven comedies. This movie has no courage and little brains, and is salvaged, if at all, only by its heart. There remains a huge market for a great Halloween teen comedy, but Fun Size is the disappointing apple that your crazy-haired neighbor gives you instead of candy. Feel free to dump this one in the bushes. Jeff Labrecque, Entertainment Weekly.Com
Considering the pedigree (director Josh Schwartz created the TV series "Chuck," and screenwriter Max Werner writes for "The Colbert Report"), it's bewildering to find the movie is nothing more than a dead zone of forced jokes, unfunny sight gags and weak double-entendres. What's worse, the movie sets up a nice emotional family situation, with Wren and her family still coping with her father's recent death, only to toss it all out the window for a cheap gag just before closing credits. Sean P. Means, Salt Lake City Tribune
Overall, Fun Size is trying to cater to everyone and by doing so, annoys everyone. This could qualify as a movie of the week on say Nickelodeon (who produced this sucker) or Disney. And perhaps, the commercial break-ups would actually assist in the delivery, if that tells you anything. But this is not theater worthy material my friends. Even the tweens, for whom this is geared toward, will think this is too juvenile and cheesy. Joe Belcastro, Shockya.com
"Fun Size" is rated PG and runs 90 minutes. It's showing at Beechwood Stadium 11 and at Carmike 12.
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Resource planning is grinding to a halt. From EPA regulations to irrational markets, today's policy missteps threaten tomorrow's reliability.
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Agency moves ahead despite ruling that Clean Air Act is unconstitutional.
By granting petitions filed by four Northeastern states seeking to reduce ozone pollution in their geographic areas through reductions in nitrogen oxide emission (NOx) from out-of-state sources, along with other initiatives, the Environmental Protection Agency on Dec. 17 began to clean the regulatory air that has grown murky as of late.
Last May a federal court had struck down the agency's move, in its call for state implementation plans (SIP) on NOx, to tighten the national ambient air quality standard for ozone from a one-hour standard to an eight-hour standard. The court said that Congress had exceeded constitutional authority by delegating too much power to the EPA.
But the issue was still in a tangle, as several states had taken advantage of the uncertainty to file their own lawsuits against out-of-state polluters.
Pointing Upwind:
The Section 126 Complaints
In the EPA's action of Dec. 17, the states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania each won approval on their petitions under Section 126 of the Clean Air Act, which allows states to ask the EPA to set emissions limits for specific pollution sources in other states that contribute significantly to their air quality problems and hinder their ability to meet the one-hour ozone standard. (Last April petitions in the remaining New England states were denied because they no longer had areas that failed the one-hour standard.) Meanwhile, at press time, petitions were still pending for Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware and the District of Columbia.
The granting of the petitions means that EPA has found that various electric utilities and large industrial generators located upwind are contributing significantly to pollution in the complaining states. The action means that 392 facilities in 12 states (Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia) and the District of Columbia must reduce annual emissions by a total of nearly 510,000 tons from 2007 levels. The EPA says that the Section 126 action along will mean cleaner air for over 100 million people, over one-third of the country's population.
The identified facilities can meet emissions "caps" by participating in a federal NOx cap-and- trade program, which will allow them to buy and sell emissions allowances. The program, which had been on hold, now begins to move forward toward the deadline of May 1, 2003 four sources to achieve their respective required NOx reductions. For more information on the petitions, including a list of companies with cited facilities, go to "Recent Actions" ( http://www.epa.gov/ttn/oarpg/ramain.html) on the EPA's webside and see "Section 126 Petitions."
Doubling Efforts: the Federal Lawsuits
Earlier, on Nov. 3, the EPA had filed lawsuits against seven electric utilities operating plants in the Midwest and South, alleging the companies violated the Clean Air Act by abusing a loophole that exempted older, coal-fired plants from the law. The EPA had alleged that, for all intents and purposes, the companies had converted those facilities into "new" plants by increasing capacity and replacing and updating equipment, thus nullifying any


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I was a good student activist at Harvard, but then I HAD TO MAKE A LIVING. I had an on-again off-again thing with remodeling through the '70s. And in about 1978, I said this is good, this is what I'll do, and that's what I've done. Trying to answer those seemingly competing interests — "I love my old house and want to retain ITS AUTHENTICITY or its charm or its style, but I need to change it" — that still gets me up in the morning.
I think it was 10 years ago that I prepared the organ chamber for a new organ at Christ Church Cambridge [built in 1761], and that's when my work moved FROM HOUSES TO INCLUDE HOUSES OF WORSHIP. Two years ago we did phase one of the church exterior and last year phase two of the exterior. Then we went to St. James's Episcopal Church in Cambridge [built in 1888] and then First Church Cambridge [built in 1872].


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Shoppers and restaurant patrons were evacuated suddenly at approximitely 9:20 p.m. Wednesday evening when carbon monoxide (CO) detectors showed high levels of the deadly gas present inside both Macy's and Applebee's Restaurant in the Cross County Shopping Center.
Lt. Toni Scherer of Empress EMS stated that 20 people were treated for CO poisoning, with five of them labeled as "critical" and all victims were transported to area hospitals for treatment.
Yonkers FD responded to the scene and reported that initial inspections showed that the spiked readings in CO were due to construction going on in the underground tunnels beneath the mall.
Ventilation of the tunnels were initiated by Yonkers FD and the CO leak was put under control.
Both stores remained shut down by Yonkers FD for the rest of the night until Thursday morning.
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Iowa City, IA, Tuesday, March 29, 2011. Beneath the often vituperative intra-left debate over whether or not to support any aspect of the Obama administration's intervention in Libya and what the consequences of that intervention will be, lay a fundamental question: why did Obama go to cruise missile war? What did the White House hope to achieve? What's it all about? The administration claims that it merely seeks to protect the democratic rebels and the broad populace against the vengeful dictator Muammar Gadaffi. It's a humanitarian mission, consistent the United States' and the West's supposed longstanding democratic ideals, according to the official White House line.
The knee-jerk, almost self-caricaturing counter from some sides of the so-called radical left says that it's all about Washington' desire to grab Libya's oil by ousting the unsavory but nonetheless anti-imperialist and objectively progressive Muammar Gadaffi in the deceptive name of humanitarian intervention and democracy. This, some on the "radical left" argue, is George W. Bush and Afghanistan and Iraq all over again, with Gadaffi standing in for Saddam Hussein and the Taliban as the bad guy and the Libyan rebels standing in for the Northern Coalition and Ahmad Chalabi as props to justify another long American colonial war of imperial occupation.
My own position, significantly influenced by the reflections of the two leading left intellectuals on U.S. policy in the Middle East (Gilbert Achcar and Noam Chomsky) is consistent with neither side of this difference.
Too Cynical to Discuss
Washington's claims of humanitarian concern should be taken with more than a grain of salt, of course. Beyond the fact that "Operation Odyssey Dawn" (OOD) carries its own deadly potential for civilian heath and democracy inside Libya, how seriously are we supposed to take the administration's declared motives as Uncle Sam continues to massively fund and equip oppressive regimes across the region and world? What about the millions living under the oppressive rule of sadistic autocrats across Africa and in, for example, the key U.S. ally, Saudi Arabia, home to perhaps the world's single most reactionary government? The United States is not moving towards targeted bombings and no-fly zones to protect human rights and democracy and discipline oppressors in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Palestine, Israel, Guatemala, Columbia, Honduras, or Yemen, where the U.S.-supported president Ali Abdullah Seleh has recently butchered and maimed hundreds of protestors. The American military and financial aid keeps flowing to authoritarian and unjust rulers in these and numerous other U.S.-backed states. Those rulers and their cronies are not subjected to travel bans and asset freezes and Western-led prosecution for crimes against humanity. They continue to receive official designation as U.S. allies in the "war on terror." It is hard to believe that a new imperial White House that supported a right wing coup in Honduras (during and since June of 2009) and only reluctantly and belatedly came to offer qualified support for the historic democracy uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt has suddenly been converted into a heroic defender of popular governance and human rights in Libya. As Noam Chomsky recently told me in response to an e-mail inquiry, "the humanitarian talk is too cynical even to discuss."
Consistent with that judgment, the left U.S. foreign policy critic Phyllis Bennis has noted a dark irony behind many Americans' support of the Libyan action. That support was premised on the notion that Gaddafi's successful crushing of his opposition "would send a devastating message to other Arab dictators: Use enough military force and you will keep your job." Things are working out quite differently, with the American intervention seeming to feed top-down repression, not bottom up rebellion in the Middle East. As Bennis observes:
"Instead, it turns out that just the opposite may be the result: It was after the UN passed its no-fly zone and use-of-force resolution, and just as US, British, French and other warplanes and warships launched their attacks against Libya, that other Arab regimes escalated their crack-down on their own democratic movements….In Yemen, 52 unarmed protesters were killed and more than 200 wounded on Friday [March by forces of the US-backed and US-armed government of Ali Abdullah Saleh. It was the bloodiest day of the month-long Yemeni uprising...Similarly in US-allied Bahrain, home of the US Navy's Fifth Fleet, at least 13 civilians have been killed by government forces. Since the March 15 arrival of 1,500 foreign troops from Saudi Arabia and the UAE, brought in to protect the absolute power of the king of Bahrain, 63 people have been reported missing."
This is contrary to one argument Obama made for his intervention in a nationally televised address to the American people last night (I am writing on the morning of Tuesday, March 29, 2011). In that address, Obama claimed that failure to intervene would have threatened the peaceful transitions in Egypt and Tunisia, as thousands of Libyan refugees poured across their borders, while other dictators would conclude that "violence is the best strategy to cling to power." A cynical rationale, I think.
At the same time, there's no doubt that oil is the top U.S. consideration in the region. For more than six decades, the Middle East and North Africa have figured prominently in the military and geo-political calculations of the U.S. foreign policy establishment and American presidents for one reason alone: the region is the world's petroleum energy heartland and control of its vast oil reserves is the single greatest economic and strategic prize in the world capitalist economic and political system. As American post-WWII planners understood quite well, U.S. control over Middle Eastern oil producers gave Washington political-economic "veto power" (George Kennan's term) over its leading industrial competitors in Europe and Japan. This has been the primary U.S. concern in the region since the 1940s and we can be sure that OOD is all about oil.
Six Reasons to Question the Reflexive "Radical" Response
There are, to be sure, analogies to Washington 's epic Iraq invasion, also launched on March 19th. Obama, like George W. Bush, is pushing regime change in the deceptive name of democracy in a nation that poses no clear or imminent danger to the United States (The "no-fly zone," Chomsky notes, was "from the first…a cover for participation in the rebellion"). Obama has further mimicked Bush on Hussein by claiming that Gadaffi has "a large stockpile of chemical weapons" – by playing the "weapons of mass destruction" (WMD) card.
But the reflexive "radical" analysis outlined in the second paragraph of this essay is less than impressive for six basic reasons. First, the Libyan intervention is not primarily a US operation. As Chomsky told me, "It's a French and British affair, primarily, with virtually no international support, incidentally, in the region or beyond." The older colonial powers have led the way and the U.S. was "dragged in reluctantly," trying to "move into the background" at a rapid pace - no doubt part of why Obama did not feel compelled to obtain authorization to use force from the U.S. Congress [1]. There's no prolonged U.S. occupation being planned, of course.
Second, the United States stayed with Gaddafi "until the last minute" (Chomsky) – very different than its long-term demonization of evil Saddam Hussein starting in 1990 (when the formerly obedient dictator defied Washington by invading Kuwait) and lasting through Saddam's execution in 2006.
Third, the notion of there being something progressive and anti-imperial about Gadaffi is childish nonsense. After a long and bizarre dictatorial career that (beneath his deceptive claims to be advancing a socialist utopia and direct democracy for "the Masses") earned him a richly deserved reputation for madness within and beyond the Arab world, Gadaffi dropped all leftist pretensions to re-open the Libyan economy to Western corporations as the Cold War came to a finish. When Washington invaded Iraq eight years ago in the name of protecting the world from Saddam's WMD, the prolific and brilliant Left Middle East and imperialism scholar Gilbert Achcar notes, "Gaddafi, worried that he might be next, implemented a sudden and surprising turnabout in foreign policy, earning himself a spectacular upgrade from the status of 'rogue state' to that of close collaborator of Western states. A collaborator in particular of the United States, which he helped in its so-called war on terror, and Italy, for which he did the dirty job of turning back would-be immigrants trying to get from Africa to Europe." By this time and ever since, the Gadaffi dictatorship had lost the last shreds of any legitimate claim it might have held to being progressive and anti-imperial. The dictator responded to the rise of democratic protest (inspired by the wave of Middle Eastern rebellion that started in adjacent Tunisia) with raving promises to slaughter those who questioned his rule, claiming that they had been "turned into drug addicts by Al Qaeda" – this after denouncing the Tunisian people for overthrowing their dictator Ben Ali, who Gadaffi called "the best ruler" the Tunisians would ever have. (Gilbert Achcar, "Libyan Developments," ZNet, March 19, 2011). "The idea that Western powers are intervening in Libya because they want to topple a regime hostile to their interests is just preposterous," Achcar rightly notes.
Fourth, Libyan oil is already under the control of the West. As Achcar notes, "the whole range of Western oil and gas companies is active in Libya: Italy's ENI, Germany's Wintershall, Britain's BP, France's Total and GDF Suez, US companies ConocoPhillips, Hess, and Occidental, British-Dutch Shell, Spain's Repsol, Canada's Suncor, Norway's Statoil, etc." (Gilbert Achcar, " Libya : A Legitimate and Necessary Debate from an Anti-Imperialist Perspective," ZNet, March 25, 2011). This and the fact that Gaddafi had already decisively surrendered to Western business and the American Empire makes the notion that the U.S. and the West are trying to destroy some sort of anti-imperial regime and grab the oil – though France probably hopes to increase its currently small share of Libya's reserves by playing a leading role in the intervention – look more than a little silly.
Fifth, the opposition to Gadaffi within Libya is not really analogous to the Northern Alliance thugs or the ridiculous Amahd Chalabi. It is largely the same as the other popular uprisings across the region. Its composition is very similar to the heterogeneous opposition coalitions that have emerged to challenge and overthrow dictators and autocrats in the Middle East in early 2011. And what "unites all the disparate forces," Achcar observes, "is a rejection of the dictatorship and a longing for democracy and human rights."
Sixth, it is certainly the case that the Western intervention stopped a likely massacre in Benghazi, saving the lives of thousands and perhaps tens of thousands Gadaffi had essentially promised to destroy. It is very, very difficult to imagine any other way those lives could have been preserved short of intervention by the imperial, fake-humanitarian, oil-addicted, parasitic, and racist West.
Of course the Western intervention isn't actually primarily about saving those lives. As the left socialist Achcar notes, it's about oil. More specifically, it's about preventing a massacre that would have compelled the West to have imposed an embargo on Libyan oil in a time when oil prices are already quite high (primarily for structural reasons), feeding an ongoing epic capitalist recession that is fueling significant austerity and massive popular anti-austerity rebellion in the West itself as well as around the world. The last thing Obama wants as he approaches the 2012 election is a re-deepened economic crisis. At the same time, the White House is certainly aware that, as Chomsky told me, "a massacre in Benghazi would have been blamed on Washington, something they didn't want to face." Think like Obama from a realpolitik perspective on the potential deadly political consequences of letting Gadaffi move forward with a massacre: significant global and Western public outrage over standing to the side + a worsened economic situation exacerbated by an inevitable embargo = a no-brainer self-interested equation for "humanitarian intervention."
Some U.S. Web "radicals" (their self-designation often reflects confusion between [a] stridency and cynicism of rhetoric and [b] depth of analysis/ knowledge) are uncomfortable with the notion that any U.S. and Western military intervention in what we used to call the Third World might happen to have a positive humanitarian impact in one instance. They are afraid that their core identity as bad-ass, hard-core enemies of Empire (and of Obama)will be compromised. Let me (an early radical-Left critic of Obama and the author of a book titled The Empire's New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power) assure these comrades that acknowledging this is in no way to go soft on Washington or the current administration and its commitment to the petro-imperial project. The analysis presented in this essay is as cynical, radical, and power-centered as any hard core leftist could want.
Empire and Inequality: Mass Diversion
My desire to get into a finger-pointing match with "progressives" who either eagerly support or stridently denounce (in often frenzied and hysterical terms) Obama's Libya policy is inhibited to no small degree by my sense that the imperial extravaganza includes a standard "wag the dog" aspect in the hands of America 's dominant Orwellian mass war and entertainment media. OOD has helped divert public attention from at least three critical and ongoing policy and political issues: the epic state-capitalist assault on public sector workers, the poor, social protection, organized labor, and working people more generally and the remarkable popular rebellion against that assault within and beyond Madison, Wisconsin; the equally epic nuclear disaster in Japan and the lethal implications of aging and revamped nuclear power operations (horrifying epitomes of the underlying and very possibly exterminst irrationality of the capitalist profits system) within and beyond the United States, where an old, and accident-prone nuclear plant (Indian Point, home to 2 of the nation's 105 currently operating nuclear power reactors) is located just 30 miles north of the world's financial capital, New York City; (3) the counter-assault on democratic protests in U.S, sponsored regimes like (to name just three)Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain. Even as they steal vast, desperately needed public resources away from the real and potential meeting of social needs and help distribute wealth upwards (to "defense" contractors like Boeing, Raytheon, and other elite, high-tech corporate interests) at home moreover, imperial military campaigns and the bloodlust they reflect and promote are great authoritarian populace-diverters and domestic democracy-destroyers – all too consistent with the warnings of American Founding Father James Madison, who observed that "The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers abroad."
Losing Our Way
A recent Huffington Post item reports that "In the opening days of the assault on Libya, the United States and the United Kingdom launched a barrage of at least 161 Tomahawk cruise missiles to flatten Muammar Gadhafi's air defenses and pave the way for coalition aircraft….In fiscal terms, at a time when Congress is fighting over every dollar, the cruise missile show of military might was an expenditure of nearly a quarter of a billion dollars. Each missile cost $1.41 million, close to three times the cost listed on the Navy's website…Raytheon Corp. is the manufacturer of the Tomahawk Block IV, a low-flying missile that travels at 550 miles per hour. During a decade of war in Afghanistan, Iraq, and now Libya, the Pentagon has increasingly relied on the Tomahawk. A year ago, Raytheon boasted of its 2,000th Block IV delivery to the Navy." (See Sharon Weinberger, "Cruise Missiles: The One Million Dollar Weapon," Huffpost Business (March 25, 2011) at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
This is a question I hope somebody will raise tonight as Obama attends a $30, 800 per-plate Democratic Party dinner in Harlem 's gentrified up-scale Red Rooster Restaurant. As reporter James Ford notes, "the president will headline a big fundraiser in Harlem . Big, that is, in money, but not attendance. The Red Rooster Restaurant will have only 49 patrons for dinner, but those few customers are expected to raise $1.5 million….Thousands of supporters of — and probably at least a few demonstrators against — the president are expected to line the streets outside of the new, gourmet restaurant." (James Ford, "President Obama's Visit to NYC," Pix 11,http://www.wpix.com/news/wpix-
Perhaps the selected diner cadre will include an official from Raytheon. After the newly inaugurated Obama declared he would not appoint any lobbyists to government, his pick for second in command – charged with overseeing acquisitions – at the Pentagon was William Lynn, a former Raytheon lobbyist.
The dining club will certainly not include the former New York Times columnist Bob Herbert, who recently wrote the following in his very last Times column:
"So here we are pouring shiploads of cash into yet another war, this time in Libya, while simultaneously demolishing school budgets, closing libraries, laying off teachers and police officers, and generally letting the bottom fall out of the quality of life here at home."
"Welcome to America in the second decade of the 21st century. An army of long-term unemployed workers is spread across the land, the human fallout from the Great Recession and long years of misguided economic policies. Optimism is in short supply. The few jobs now being created too often pay a pittance, not nearly enough to pry open the doors to a middle-class standard of living." "The U.S. has not just misplaced its priorities. When the most powerful country ever to inhabit the earth finds it so easy to plunge into the horror of warfare but almost impossible to find adequate work for its people or to properly educate its young, it has lost its way entirely. "
"Nearly 14 million Americans are jobless and the outlook for many of them is grim. Since there is just one job available for every five individuals looking for work, four of the five are out of luck. Instead of a land of opportunity, the U.S. is increasingly becoming a place of limited expectations."
"Overwhelming imbalances in wealth and income inevitably result in enormous imbalances of political power. So the corporations and the very wealthy continue to do well. The employment crisis never gets addressed. The wars never end. And nation-building never gets a foothold here at home."
"New ideas and new leadership have seldom been more urgently needed. "
"This is my last column for The New York Times after an exhilarating, nearly 18-year run. I'm off to write a book and expand my efforts on behalf of working people, the poor and others who are struggling in our society. My thanks to all the readers who have been so kind to me over the years. I can be reached going forward at [email protected]" (B. Herbert, "Losing Our Way," NYT, March 25, 2011)
Paul Street (www.paulstreet.org)is the author of many articles, chapters, speeches, and books, including Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2008); Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007; Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid in the Post-Civil Rights Era (New York: Routledge, 2005); Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2008); The Empire's New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2010); and (co-authored with Anthony DiMaggio, Crashing the Tea Party: Mass Media and the Campaign to Remake American Politics (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, May 2011). Street can be reached at [email protected]
1 In 2007, candidate Obama was asked the following question when it was feared that the United States was going to attack Iran : Under what circumstances would the president have the constitutional authority to bomb Iran without first seeking authorization from Congress? His answer: "The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation. As Commander-in-Chief, the President does have a duty to protect and defend the United States . In instances of self-defense, the President would be within his constitutional authority to act before advising Congress or seeking its consent. History has shown us time and again, however, that military action is most successful when it is authorized and supported by the Legislative branch." Essentially, Obama said that the president had the authority to act first and seek approval later if there were an imminent threat to the security of the United States and that the president could not order a military attack without the approval of the Congress if a threat to the United States was not imminent. Both statements were accurate but neither applies the current situation in Libya . They have pretty much disappeared down the Orwellian memory hole as far as many of Obama's liberal and centrist supporters are concerned. Many of those supporters would likely be complaining about constitutional violations if the Libya venture was being conducted by a President McCain. Likewise, many Republicans would be muzzling the constitutional concerns they are currently voicing if one of their party currently held the title of Commander in Chief. Such is the moral and intellectual level and situational politics of partisan identity and behavior within and beyond Washington.


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For targeting Homosassa trout, Capt. William Toney's go-to setup is a DOA 512-inch CAL Nite Glow jerkbait.The shape and weight of this larger lure allow you to cover more water and attract larger fish. Toney ties a 3/0, offset live-bait hook to 20-pound fluorocarbon leader using a loop knot. The hook is inserted under the chin and through the nose to maximize the darting action. Few strikes are missed with the hook exposed, and it is surprisingly weedless.
Capt. Dan Clymer adds the element of scent when focusing on redfish. Using a loop knot, he ties on a 18-ounce chartreuse jig under a float with 18 to 24 inches of fluorocarbon leader, depending on the depth. He then pinches the head off a live shrimp and threads the tail onto the jig. As a variation, he'll substitute 2-inch strips of filleted mullet, small chunks of ladyfish or a quartered section of pinfish tail pinned to a 2/0 hook.
Rods: 7- to 712-foot medium-action spinning rods with fast tips.
Reels: 2,500- to 3,000-class spinning reels.
Lines: 10-pound-test braid.
Lures: Soft plastic jerkbaits in glow or root beer colors, shrimp imitations in natural hues, scented lures, spoons and walk-the-dog topwater plugs.
Baits: Live or fresh shrimp 1 under a clacking or popping cork 2 for trout. Small mullet strips, chunks of ladyfish, or shiner (pinfish) tails cut at a 45-degree angle are effective for redfish.


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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's speech is just as powerful today coming from the lips of students at Roanoke College. After the crowd paused a moment to remember as college junior, Adrian Gillem rang the bells on campus.
A ringing that he hopes will continue to sound across the country.
"To me knowing the history, and looking at the history of him is insurmountable. To know that I was a young African American that can come here and integrate and interact with many alike and many different knowing that full well that it was a dream carried by a man only fifty years ago that brought me here today," Gillem said.
He and the crowd at the college joined millions across the country in celebrating the 50th anniversary of King's famous speech.
In Lynchburg a church congregation gathered to remember what Dr. King fought for and prayed the country will continue fighting. A fight that Lynchburg Mayor Michael Gillette says is still young.
"I think we also need to recognize that there is a lot of progress left to be made and that still today there is a lot of inherent prejudices and biases in our social structures that really do need to be addressed," Mayor Gillette said.
But for Adrian there is still hope. While the young college junior says we can all agree there is still more progress to be made, now unified the fight is stronger than ever.
"There is still hope. It was uttered yes in the presidential campaign. By now President Barack Obama who is African American, yes we can. There is hope, but it's on the ground," Gillem said. " The fight is still there it's just we need to keep on hoping that it will be won for equality, not inequality."
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Even if you have your Facebook set to the tightest security settings, advertisers could use your photos in their ads after Facebook changed the language of their privacy policy.
The change is stirring up some controversy and confusion and some are worried that their personal photos could suddenly be used in advertisements. An expert explains what the changes really mean.
Capturing sweet moments and then sharing the photos with family and friends on Facebook has become a normal part of life for so many. But now Facebook is changing its policy regarding how images on their site can be used. Their new policy says consumers automatically give them the right to use their photo or content for advertising.
The changes are not sitting well with Facebook users like Leighann O' Sullivan.
"I think it's horrible. First off, I think it should up be up to the users to decide if that's something they would want," she said.
But Facebook's new policy states "you are granting Facebook permission for this use when you use our services."
Other users said they don't have an issue with the change.
"I'm not surprised. It makes sense. I think if you are going to use a free service they will want to use it for research and other stuff. I guess we knew it was coming," said April Tebbe.
However, six major consumer privacy groups have asked the Federal Trade Commission to step in and block the changes. They are especially concerned about protecting the images of minors.
Social media expert Ramsey Mohsen said he believes Facebook has created some confusion.
"The problem is that Facebook, in the way they updated the language, they haven't done it in a very friendly way," he said.
Mohsen said users should not worry about Facebook using any of their photos in their albums. Instead he believes the site will continue to use profile pictures like they have done in the past. He said their new language just doesn't make that clear.
"When we say illustrations of photos for ads - if they showed an example such as Ramsey likes Redbull and a sponsored Redbull ad shows up on your newsfeed. We are used to that and most people enjoy what other people like. And that's the intent of Facebook," he said.
There is still a way for users to opt out of the new language. Click on the privacy settings button at the top right-hand side of your page, it looks like a sprocket or flower, then click on "Ads" on the left-hand side of the screen. By clicking on the word "edit", a person can say they don't want to pair their social actions with ads.
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Product Details You may or may not be old enough to drink in a saloon, but you can dance in one! This sassy sweetheart saloon costume will make you put on your dancing shoes and put a skip in your step. Watch out for the outlaws though, they're likely to be tempted to whisk you away on their horse when they see how you sure do look purty! This lovely tavern girl dress includes a light, satiny gold colored sleeveless dress which hits just above the knee and has white fringe around the hem. A brown corset, which is smartly designed and unique with lace up sides, a V-waist and a paneled front edges, is tied on separately, and shows strips of the dress in between the panels, creating a two-toned look. Off shoulder detached sleeves create an exaggerated, off-the-shoulder look for the dress, which is so reminiscent of the tavern girl, early western saloon style. You'll feel both naughty and nice, old-school and hip in this modernized, uber-feminine tavern costume dress. Don't forget to pair this slinky saloon costume dress with the right pair of western wear or any matching boots, easily found in our wide array of shoe and boot selection in the accessories section.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The end of the government shutdown means the Lincoln Home National Historic Site in Springfield has reopened.
The site was flooded Thursday with eager tourists, who would have missed out had they come one day earlier.
The Lincoln home is a major tourist attraction and brings in visitors from around the world.
While guides gave their talks, other workers cleaned-up two weeks of fallen leaves.
Last year some 295,000 people came to Springfield for the Lincoln sites.
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Although most children in Woodridge School District 68 are allowed to wear a costume to school on October 31st in celebration of Halloween, our school, Willow Creek, has banned costumes for the second consecutive year. While safety for all children is of utmost concern for the staff at Willow Creek, wearing a costume to school does not compromise such safety. We need to prove to Willow Creek School and District 68 that we want Halloween back! Please do not allow a small group of individuals speak for the majority. By signing this petition you are raising your voice for our children. Don\'t let them be robbed of their childhood! Please don\'t sign if you don\'t agree. That is your choice - not to sign.
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Stories Full of Stories: San Diego's new Central Library is a landmark achievement
In the ninth floor art gallery, Kathryn Kanjo posed with a painting by Gail Roberts. Kanjo, chief curator at Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, organized the inaugural show, 'Renewed.'
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By Lonnie Burstein Hewitt
After 30 years of planning, controversy, fundraising and hard work, the new San Diego Central Library is finally a reality, and deserves a rousing cheer, or three.
An impressive triumph of form and function, it is the city's grandest collaboration, a partnering of private and public sectors, including the Library Foundation, San Diego Unified School District, dozens of corporate sponsors and more than three thousand individual donors.
"We're the repository of so much information, but we're also a space which is truly something special," said Head Librarian Deborah Barrow.
It certainly is. For starters, as Interim Mayor Todd Gloria pointed out at a Sneak Peek event Sept. 25, "Architecturally speaking, this building is a work of art, and it has some of the best views in the city."
There are more than 1.2 million books in its dome-topped, nine-story, almost-500,000-square-foot expanse, not to mention 1.6 million government documents, many of which have never before been accessible to the public. There are special sections for children, teens and disabled people, a multimedia TV studio and tech center and a full-service homework center, with computers and tutors.
Stories No. 6 and No. 7 are leased to the e3 Civic High School, which has its own separate entrance. There's a main-floor gift shop and outdoor café, a rooftop art gallery and sculpture garden, and plenty of art, including murals and special exhibits, throughout.
There's also a 350-seat auditorium and a glass wall in the main lobby that slides open to create an indoor-and-outdoor area large enough to accommodate 1,000 people. And there's a rentable space on the ninth floor, perfect for weddings and private events.
On the Saturday before the official Sept. 30 opening, there was a day-long celebration, an East Village street festival with live music, interactive activities, food and library tours. Upcoming events include bi-weekly Sunday concerts with top-flight local musicians.
"This building was born in workshops with San Diegans," said the architect, Rob Quigley. "It's about community. We listened when people said: we want to look toward the future, but respect the past. I don't know if there's ever been a building that had the participation of so many to make it a reality."
Standing on the roof on a breezy day, you can hear the wind singing through the open dome. Said Quigley: "We knew the building would have an acoustic personality as well as a visual one. That really gives it depth."
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• "We wanted a native Engelmann oak in the courtyard, but our budget only allowed for a 15-gallon one, which was much too short, at only about three feet tall. We had a picture of a perfect tree, but it cost another $8,000.
• So the contractor went out and bought it for us! That's the kind of camaraderie we had here. Everyone felt it was their library." — Architect Rob Quigley
• "Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso bajo la especie de una biblioteca." — Jorge Luis Borges ("I always imagined that Paradise would be a kind of library.")
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