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By George E. Curry
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In the oral arguments last week before the Supreme Court to determine whether a key section of the Voting Rights Act should be upheld, Justice Antonin Scalia referred to the provision as "perpetuation of racial entitlement."
It was the kind of comment that could easily spark a demonstration in front of the court. But when Scalia made his comment about the pre-clearance provision of the 1965 law last Wednesday, there were already protesters in front of the U.S. Supreme Court marching in support of the Voting Rights Act.
The Voting Rights Act was originally passed in 1965. When Section 5 was scheduled to expire, it was extended by Congress in 1970, 1975, 1982 and for another 25 years in 2006. It was approved the last time with broad bipartisan support. It passed the House by a 390-33 margin and the Senate 98-0.
Under Section 5 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, jurisdictions with a history of racial discrimination must receive pre-clearance from the Justice Department or a federal court before they are allowed to make any changes in their voting procedures.
Inside the court, Scalia addressed the various extensions of the Voting Rights Act since its passage.
"…The initial enactment of this legislation in a—a time when the need for it was so much more abundantly clear—in the Senate, there—it was double-digits against it. And that was only a 5-year term. Then, it is reenacted five years later, again for a 5-year term. Double-digits against it in the Senate. Then it was reenacted for seven years, Single digits against it. Then enacted for 25 years, eight Senate votes against it. And this last enactment, not a single vote in the Senate against it. And the House is pretty much the same.
Scalia then said, "Now, I don't think that's attributable to the fact that it is so much clearer now that we need this. I think it is attributable, very likely attributable, to a phenomenon that is called perpetuation of racial entitlement. It's been written about. Whenever a society adopts racial entitlements, it is very difficult to get out of them through the normal political process."
Justice Sonia Sotomayor did not let Scalia's entitlement comment go unchallenged.
She pressed Bert W. Rein, the lawyer representing Shelby County, Ala., four times on the issue. She asked, "Do you think that the right to vote is a racial entitlement in Section 5?" Rein finally answered, "…May I say Congress was reacting in 1964 to a problem of race discrimination which it thought was prevalent in certain jurisdictions. So to that extent, as the intervenor said, yes, it was intended to protect those who had been discriminated against."
Stephen G. Breyer said the case should be looked up through a historical context.
"So in 1965, well, we have history," he said. "We have 200 years or perhaps of slavery. We have 80 years or so of legal segregation. We have had 41 years of this statue. And this statue has helped a lot. So, therefore Congress in 2005 looks back and says don't change horses in the middle of the stream, because we still have a ways to go."
If Section 5 is upheld on this conservative-leaning court, it would probably be on the vote of Anthony M. Kennedy. The right-leaning justice hinted that the Voting Rights Act may have run its course.
After Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. praised the effectiveness of the Voting Rights Act, Kennedy said, "Well, the Marshall Plan was very god, too, the Morale Act, the Northwest Ordinance, but times change."
Sotomayor said Shelby County has not changed enough.
"Assuming I accept your premise, and there's some question about that, that some portions of the South have changed, your country pretty much hasn't." she said. "In the period we're talking about, it has many more discriminating—240 discriminatory voting laws that were blocked by Section 5 objections."
Shelby County went to court after the Justice Department rejected a redistricting plan that evidently played a role in the defeat of Ernest Montgomery, the only Black member of the 5-member city council in Calera, Ala., a bedroom community of 12,000 people near Birmingham.
Montgomery was elected to the council in 2004 from a district that was nearly 71 percent Black. The district was redrawn two years later, reducing the Black presence to 23 percent. Montgomery narrowly lost his 2008 re-election bid to a White challenger. But the Justice Department invalidated the election because district changes had not been pre-cleared. Shelby County went to court to overturn the decision. In meantime, Montgomery won a newly-called election.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote an opinion in 2009 that might signal how he will vote in this case.
He said at the time, "Things have changed in the South. "The evil that Section 5 is meant to address may no longer be concentrated in the jurisdictions singled out for preclearance. The statute's coverage formula is based on data that is now more than 35 years old, and there is considerable evidence that it fails to account for current political conditions."
Elena Kagan, an Obama appointee, referred to Senate support of the Voting Rights Act.
"Well, that sounds like a good argument to me, Justice Scalia," she said. "It was clear to 98 Senators, including every Senator from a covered state, who decided that there was a continuing need for this piece of legislation."
March 07, 2013
By Maya Rhodan
NNPA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As Black History Month came to a close, a Civil Rights icon made history once again in the halls of the U.S. Capitol.
On Feb. 27, in a ceremony hosted by President Obama and members of Congress, Rosa Parks became the first Black woman to have her full-length likeness depicted in the National Statuary Hall.
The statue of Parks, which stands at 9-feet tall, depicts the Civil Rights icon seated and clutching her purse to commemorate her refusal to move to the back of a Montgomery, Ala. bus, sparking the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 that lasted more than a year.
During his speech, President Obama told the story of Parks' encounter with the bus driver on Dec. 1, 1955 which led to the boycott.
Parks had been kicked off the bus by the same driver twelve years prior for entering through the front door when the back was too crowded.
"He grabbed her sleeve and he pushed her off the bus. It made her mad enough, she would recall, that she avoided riding his bus for a while," President Obama said. "And when they met again that winter evening in 1955, Rosa Parks would not be pushed."
Later, when Parks refused to move from her seat, even after the bus driver who had kicked her off the bus 12 years before threatened, and later delivered on his promise, to have her arrested, she remained.
"Some schoolchildren are taught that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat because her feet were tired," then Sen. Obama remarked at Rosa Parks' funeral in 2005." Our nation's schoolbooks are only getting it half right. She once said: "The only tired I was, was tired of giving in."
For 385 days, Black people across Montgomery boycotted the bus system until it was desegregated; a feat President Obama said last Wednesday led to "the entire edifice of segregation" beginning to tumble like the "ancient walls of Jericho."
Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga), who grew up in Troy, Ala., only 40 miles from Montgomery, did not meet Parks until he was a student at Fisk University.
"I was only 15 years old during the Montgomery bus boycott," Lewis said. "But I, like everyone else I knew in Alabama, had a deep admiration and respect for Rosa Parks because of her dignity, her courage and her integrity."
President Obama referred to Parks as a woman who "defied the odds and defied injustice."
Although known for sparking the bus boycott, Parks' activism extended far beyond refusing to be removed from her seat. She was an eternal activist who served in her local NAACP, and worked with Congressman John Conyers of Michigan from 1965-1988.
At 74, Parks opened the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development, an organization that educates and trains disadvantaged youth for employment. Twelve years later President Bill Clinton honored an 86-year-old Parks with a Congressional Gold Medal.
"Rosa Parks held no elected office. She possessed no fortune; lived her life far from the formal seats of power. And yet today, she takes her rightful place among those who've shaped this nation's course," President Obama said during the ceremony.
Parks, whose casket became the first of an African American to lie in the Capitol Rotunda when she died in 2005 at age 92, now stands among 100 of the most notable leaders in our nation's history.
"Rosa Parks' singular act of disobedience launched a movement. The tired feet of those who walked the dusty roads of Montgomery helped a nation see that to which it had once been blind," President Obama said during the unveiling. "It is because of these men and women that I stand here today. It is because of them that our children grow up in a land more free and more fair; a land truer to its founding creed."
The icon who would have turned 100 on Feb. 4, joins the likenesses of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Sojourner Truth in the hall of more than 180 pieces of art that celebrate men and women who are "illustrious for their historic renown."
Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio), the current chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, released a statement on the unveiling praising Parks for her "dedication to ensuring no human being is treated like a second class citizen."
She added, "I am grateful to Mrs. Parks for her contributions to our country. As the statue of Mrs. Parks will remind every person who walks through the halls of the U.S. Capitol, the sacrifices and the fight to secure civil rights in this country are far from over."
March 07, 2013
By COREY WILLIAMS | Associated Press
DETROIT (AP) — Mayor Dave Bing acknowledged Wednesday that an emergency manager will be appointed to oversee Detroit's finances and said he won't participate in the city's appeal of a report criticizing local officials for their handling of the economic mess.
The City Council approved a resolution authorizing an appeal of Gov. Rick Snyder's finding that an outside overseer is warranted because Detroit is in a financial emergency with no good plan to get out of it.
Bing, who had the option of either joining that appeal or filing his own, told reporters that he sees no way of avoiding an emergency manager, even though he opposes it.
"We need to end the drama and the infighting and understand that whether we like it or not, an emergency financial manager is coming to Detroit," Bing said.
Under Michigan law, emergency managers have the power to develop financial plans, renegotiate labor contracts, revise and approve budgets to help control spending, sell off some city assets and suspend elected officials' salaries.
Snyder said Friday he agrees with a state-appointed review team that spent two months delving into Detroit's finances. The city's budget deficit is at $327 million. It also has long-term debt topping $14 billion and has had trouble in recent months making payroll and paying other bills.
He scheduled a hearing date for next Tuesday in case his decision was appealed. Chief Deputy Treasurer Mary MacDowell will preside over that hearing in Lansing as Snyder's designee, spokesman Terry Stanton said.
"There is no statutory time frame for the governor to either confirm or revoke his determination that a financial emergency exists in Detroit," Stanton wrote in an email to the Associated Press.
Bing said he met with Snyder this week in Lansing and concluded efforts to head off a manager will be fruitless.
The Republican governor said he already has a person in mind to take the emergency manager's job if he decides Detroit needs one to get out of its fiscal mess.
"For me, I don't mind fighting, but I'm not stupid," Bing told The AP Wednesday morning. "If I know I'm going to get in a fight that I have no chance of winning, why in the hell should I get in that fight? I'm much better off walking away from that and fight another day."
Council President Charles Pugh said he was holding out hope that Snyder may ultimately not appoint a manager and that city officials "are going to try every avenue that we can."
Bing said he disputes portions of the review team's report, namely the determination Detroit has no plan to deal with its financial emergency. Bing also said he questions if Detroit is responsible for budget problems in the city's 36th District Court.
The court had $279 million in outstanding accounts receivables as of June 30, according to the review team report. Of that amount, an estimated $199 million is owed to the city.
Court officials, as of early this year, had taken no actions to reduce expenditures and had 350 workers while budgeted for 285, the review team said.
If Snyder does appoint a fiscal overseer, Bing said he intends to work "collaboratively" with that person instead of battling with Lansing.
"This city has a reputation of fighting, fighting, fighting and so we wind up fighting each other," Bing told the AP. "And when we do that, the city loses."
March 07, 2013
By Kalin Thomas
Special to the NNPA from The Atlanta Voice
Southern Christian Leadership Conference CEO Charles Steele Jr. has a stern warning for the FBI – leave State Rep. Tyrone Brooks alone.
"If they can bring about the harassment and intimidation of a man like Tyrone Brooks, just think what they can do to others," Steele said, referring to reports that FBI officials are investigating Brooks for alleged improper use of funds. "We're going to show U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder that intimidation of people of integrity like Tyrone Brooks will not be tolerated," he added. "If they think they saw a movement in the 1960s, we're going to make that look like a Sunday school picnic."
Federal Bureau of Investigation officials reportedly have questioned members of the Georgia Association of Black Elected Officials (GABEO) – which Brooks heads – about funding for the re-enactment of the 1946 Moore's Ford Bridge lynchings in Monroe, Georgia.
Brooks coordinates the annual event to spur the FBI to actively investigate one of most heinous civil rights era murders on the books. Many observers believe that some of the white killers of two black couples –including a pregnant woman – are still alive and should be brought to justice.
Georgia NAACP president Edward DuBose called the reported investigation of Brooks a "witch hunt" and said federal authorities should focus on the Moore's Ford Bridge killers, not on Brooks.
"The NAACP has coordinated quite a few organizations to speak out in support of Tyrone Brooks," he said. "We think it's a witch hunt and an effort to detract from the real issue of bringing the Moore's Ford Bridge killers to justice."
Neither the FBI nor U.S. Attorney Sally Yates' office responded this week to repeated calls for comment.
For his part, Brooks said this kind of FBI "intimidation" is nothing new.
"I understand exactly what's going on," said Brooks, a veteran civil rights activist. "I haven't been contacted by the FBI directly, but we heard about it in Quitman, Georgia at our winter conference this past weekend. And we heard that the black-owned restaurant in Athens that feeds us has also been threatened."
Brooks vows, however, that no attempt at intimidation will stop the movement.
"We still will continue our plans for our annual march across Moore's Ford Bridge on April 6," he said. "And if they kill me, Charles Steele and Edward DuBose will carry on the fight."
February 28, 2013
By Zenitha Prince
Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper
Essie Mae Washington-Williams died this month without ever publicly being acknowledged by her father, the infamous South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond. Yet, after his death in 2003, she became the embodiment of his legacy—as one of America's greatest political hypocrites.
That a politician who had built his career on claims of Black inferiority and the condemnation of miscegenation had fathered a daughter with his family's 16-year-old Black servant was, for some, the ultimate irony.
"If your public face is that you believe in a racially hierarchal environment in which sexual relationships between Black men and White women are forbidden but privately sexual relationships between White men and Black women are accepted it represents a great deal of hypocrisy and psychological contradiction," said Dianne Pinderhughes, professor of Africana studies at University of Notre Dame.
"For a lot of people outside of the South, that was a surprise and a shock," said AFRO Publisher John J. Oliver of the revelation.
For people in Edgefield, S.C., however, it was a simple matter of fact, and Washington-Williams was, perhaps, one of the worst-kept secrets of Southern political folklore.
The American South was littered with children like her, which a series of AFRO articles highlighted in 1948 when it revealed Thurmond's other Black relatives.
At the time, then Gov. Thurmond was running for president under the Dixiecrat (States' Rights Democratic Party) banner on a segregationist platform—the party was formed by deserters of the Democratic Party, which had, under President Harry Truman, begun to advance civil rights legislation.
Thurmond represented the "mass resistance," a powerful planter community consisting of strong advocates of White supremacy," Pinderhughes said.
During his campaign, the candidate once declared that there were not enough troops in the Army to force White Southerners to "admit the (expletive) race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches." But, apparently, Black women were welcome in their beds.
According to an Aug. 21, 1948 AFRO article, postal worker Robert Thurmond, of Morristown, N.J., revealed that the governor was his first cousin—his father, Thomas, was half-brother to James Thurmond, the governor's father—and the relationship was well-known.
"I certainly do know Strom and he knows me and he knows about our relationship because we were the only Thurmonds in Edgefield," he said. More relatives came forward.
In an Aug. 28 article, the Rev. James R. Thurmond recalled seeing the governor's father visiting his grandfather, the blue-eyed Thomas Thurmond.
"They used to sit and eat, and talk for hours," he said. "I remember asking my grandfather why that 'White' man always visit our home. My grandfather told me they were brothers."
And there were many more Black Thurmonds littered throughout Edgefield and surrounding counties, he said, a fact well-known.
"It is an old story and 'everybody in these parts knows it,'" the AFRO quoted Thomas Thurmond, the governor's half-cousin, as saying.
"We wanted to highlight the hypocrisy of the Southern attitude," said Oliver, of the newspaper's coverage. More specifically, he added, "We wanted to highlight the inconsistency of his (Thurmond's) political vision and his personal life… [that] this guy is a racist but he has Black relatives."
Oliver said the article likely had some impact, particularly in the elections.
"Thurmond did not get a lot of votes because he reflected a way of life that people no longer wanted to promote," the newspaper executive said.
Thurmond's duplicity, as manifested by his Black daughter, was evident in other ways. Those inconsistencies—for example, his authorship of the "Southern Manifesto," which was created to counter the Supreme Court's 1954 ruling in the Brown v. Board of Education case that banned public school segregation and, later, his support of legislation to create a holiday in Dr. Martin Luther King's honor (Blacks are a powerful voting bloc in South Carolina)—seemed to suggest that his public positions were based on political expediency, said some critics, such as former Sen. Edward Brooke (R-Mass.), who in 1966 became the first Black senator elected since Reconstruction.
In his biography, Brooke said that in January 1967, not long after his election, he went to the Senate pool and found Thurmond and several other Jim Crow defenders already swimming laps. Brooke was expecting objections to his attempt to integrate the pool. Instead, the Southern lawmakers invited him to join them.
"There was no hesitation or ill will that I could see. Yet these were men who consistently voted against legislation that would have provided equal opportunity to others of my race," Brooke wrote. "I felt that if a senator truly believed in racial separatism I could live with that, but it was increasingly evident that some members of the Senate played on bigotry purely for political gain. They appealed to ignorance and prejudice to entrench themselves in office."


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Former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles and Former Senator Alan Simpson (R-WY) discussed their recommendations as the co-chairs of the President's Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and the current debate over the debt and federal spending at a Politico Playbook breakfast.
The commission, more popularly known as the Simpson-Bowles commission, made a series of recommendations in 2010, but no comprehensive package of these spending cuts and tax changes was ever passed. Instead, Congress passed the Budget Control Act, which requires across-the-board cuts to defense and discretionary spending on March 1, 2013, if no other agreement is reached.
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A very spectacular route frozen to the bluff above Lake Superior. We saw a picture of this route in a guide, but it wasn't named. Top roped it by lowering in from the top 2/2012 and it was in good shape and in all the way to the water line with no shelf ice.
Just east of Grand Portal Point. Like most climbs in the area you can't see it from above but from a prominent point to the east is can easily be surveyed. GPS Coordinates: 46.550878,-86.457145
TR from trees above or (for the really brave) rap to the water and pull the rope and lead on screws.
Does anyone know the name of this route? I had seen a picture in Jon J's guide and I'm almost certain he labeled it as "unclimbable" with no other description. Any info would be appreciated to make the route description here correct.
I didn't say "unclimbable" I said "Another unnamed and unclimbed route??" The comment was meant to stir someone hike the 7+miles out there and do it! It has been TR'd, but has anyone lead it?
I stand corrected, thanks Jon. It was absolutely worth the 7+ miles we hiked to climb this route!
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Globally, sanitation has long been a
troubling issue. It is estimated that almost half of the world's
population live without adequate sanitary provisions, and more children
die through hygiene-related illnesses than almost any other cause. Furthermore, around 1.1 billion people in the developing world lack access to clean water. In response to the slow progress being made toward the Millennium
Development Goal of halving the number of people worldwide living
without basic levels of sanitation by 2015, the UN General Assembly
declared 2008 as the "International Year of Sanitation". Focus has been placed particularly on addressing the stigma attached
to sanitation issues, as well as raising awareness of the health and
economic benefits of better hygiene and sanitation. Within Ghana, sanitation is an equally worrying issue, and the
country was recently ranked in the three worst African nations for
sanitation, coming in the top two in the West African region.
According to Health Minister Major (rtd) Courage Quashigah, eight
deaths are caused every hour in Ghana through bad sanitation. Many of the causes of Ghana's low sanitation levels are clearly
visible on a daily basis: litter clogs open drains, food is sold and
prepared in close proximity to mounds of waste, and in open spaces,
piles of rubbish are dumped, to be later burnt, or simply left to rot.
According to the Accra Metropolitan Assembly, in Accra, 1500-1800
tonnes of waste are generated each day, with only 1200 tonnes on
average being collected. Surplus waste therefore builds up, blocking
drains and collecting in open areas. The direct correlation between bad sanitation and disease is well
known, and it is therefore not surprising that in 2007, diarrhoea was
responsible for 425,250 outpatient deaths in Ghana, making the illness
the fifth most common mortal ailment in the country. Following not far behind were fatal cases of intestinal worms,
taking 8th place. Upper respiratory track infections - 50% more likely
in areas of inadequate sanitation – came second only to malaria as the
cause of the most outpatient deaths. According to the Deputy Minister of Health Abraham Dwuma Odoom,
around 80% of ailments reported to health facilities are preventable,
being associated with inadequate sanitation. He described diseases of
sanitation as "diseases of choices" due to their needless nature. One of the key problems surrounding Ghana's sanitation crisis
relates to the country's lack of toilet facilities, with a recent
report by the UNICEF and the World Health Organisation revealing that
only 10% of Ghanaians have access to improved latrines. Findings from
a separate report revealed that around four million Ghanaians practice
open defecation – just under 20% of the population. The United Nations Human Development Report 2006, which focused on
issues of water, sanitation and poverty, exposed access to suitable
toilet facilities as "one of the strongest determinants of child
survival". The improvement of latrines was identified as having the
potential to increase child survival by 30%, with flushing toilets
bringing a far larger reduction in child mortality than pit latrines. The benefits of proper toilet facilities not only affect
individuals, but also the community as a whole. "When a household
installs a latrine," the UNHDR reported, "it not only protects them
from their own excreta, but also helps to protect their neighbours." By way of illustration, the report cited a study carried out in
Salvador, Brazil, in which incidences of infant diarrhoea were twice as
high in households without latrines, and three times as high in
communities without sanitation infrastructures, such as drains and
sewers. As well as providing significant health benefits, better sanitation
has also been linked directly to economic growth. According to the
Coalition of non-governmental organisations in Water and Sanitation
(CONIWAS), every dollar invested in sanitation returns, on average,
nine dollars of economic benefits. This benefit comes mainly through the resultant reduction in medical
costs, which allow a greater investment of funds into other areas, such
as education, increasing the Gross Domestic Product. Furthermore, loss
of labour through sickness is reduced, boosting productivity in the
nation's workforce. As explained in the UNHDR, "Sanitation improvements can broaden real
choices and substantive freedoms that people enjoy, acting as a
catalyst for a wide range of human development benefits. They can
protect people – especially children – from ill health. They can lift
people out of poverty, reducing the risks and vulnerabilities that
perpetuate cycles of deprivation. They can raise productivity, boost economic growth and create
employment. And they can build people's pride in their homes and
communities." In the wake of such findings, the question remains as to what is
being done about Ghana's sanitation problem. The answer, it seems,
lies in a serious of national campaigns - several launched this year -
attempting to improve the health and prospects of Ghanaians through
sanitary improvements. In May, the Vice President Alhaji Aliu Mahama announced the launch
of a national sanitation campaign, themed 'Repackaging Sanitation for
Accelerated National Development'. Organised by CONIWAS in
collaboration with WaterAid Ghana, the campaign aimed at raising
awareness of Ghana's sanitation problems and encouraging the treatment
of sanitation issues as a national problem. July saw the launch of the Sixth National Food Safety Week,
targeting at highlighting sanitation issues linked with food
preparation and vending, launched by the Health Minister. Speaking at the launch, the Minister urged the public not to
underestimate the dangers of bad hygiene and the effect that
sanitation-related diseases can have on the economy. "All these
diseases cause misery, impede productivity, strain health systems and
consign millions of people into abject poverty", he stressed. Earlier this month, a further national campaign on sanitation was
initiated by Zoomlion Ghana Limited, in collaboration with the Ministry
of Health, Local Government, Rural Development and Environment and
Manpower, Youth and Employment. Code-named, "Tin Ton Tan", the
campaign called for the improvement of sanitation in Ghana through
public education and better hygiene standards in healthcare facilities. But are such campaigns enough to solve the problem? Speaking to The
Statesman, Executive Secretary of CONIWAS Patrick Apoya praised recent
sanitation projects, and described 2008 as year with "more media
coverage, public discussion and local government involvement in
sanitation issues than ever before." Campaigns such as the recent Zoomlion initiative, he claimed, would
make "considerable improvements" in Ghana's sanitation problems, with
local governments having a "big role to play" in alleviating the crisis. However, he called for a more unified approach to sanitation across
government institutions. "Government departments need to talk to each
other, pull together their policies and make sanitation a key point on
government agenda," said Mr Apoya. He added that a more centralised approach needed to be taken, if
real changes are going to be seen: "Rather than dealing with
sanitation through a range of different government institutions, a
central effort must be seen." Mr Apoya called for a "dramatic realisation" of the national crisis
that sanitation poses in Ghana, and a better government appreciation of
the powerful effect that improved sanitation could have on the health
and economy of the nation. He stressed that, until such a realisation comes about, progress
toward a healthier, cleaner, more affluent Ghana will be hindered.
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I'm not a big fan of diet books. Research on dieting has shown that even popular diets that produce quick weight loss are tough to stick to over time. To really shed weight and maintain the loss, you've got to make practical changes in your own eating practices that you can keep up until they become a habit. But I am a big fan of tips that help people make those practical changes, and as much as I hate the book's title, The Wall Street Diet (Hyperion) is full of them.
The book is aimed at the busy, stressed-out professionals who constitute author and dietitian Heather Bauer's clients. (I'm busy and stressed out, but I'm no Wall Streeter—and I found plenty of tips for my own life.) Though there are a few menu plans in there, she readily admits that most of her clients don't follow them. Instead, she gives them strategies for dealing with meals in real-life settings: business meetings, airplane travel, commuting, office parties, and the like.
For example, when it comes to dining out, Bauer says to make a decision before you even walk into the restaurant that you'll have just one of three possible treats: a second alcoholic drink (she already allows one per business meal), a piece of bread, or a dessert that's a couple of notches more healthful than a chocolate torte, such as fruit, sorbet, biscotti, or ricotta cheesecake. She also offers suggestions for food choices (order two appetizers instead of an appetizer and an entree) and, very helpfully, a list of ways to be a "stealth dieter" so that your food choices don't become the center of attention among your dining partners. My favorite: If you order a wine spritzer, everyone knows you're dieting; instead have vodka with soda on the rocks, which tastes nasty enough to keep you sipping slowly all night.
She also offers lists of the better options at restaurants you're likely to come across while traveling, as well as at specific airports (when in Minneapolis, head for the 360 Gourmet Burrito in Concourse M and order a teriyaki steak salad) and when flying on specific airlines (if you're flying United, she advises buying the turkey wrap and skipping the snack packs, unless you're really good at leaving some items untouched). And there's a whole section on how to fit exercise into a hectic day.
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Two things first — 1) Sorry for being a little late with this, but it has been a busy day and 2) I apologize in advance to anyone I forget to thank or mention in the coming paragaphs. There literally has been too many people who have positively impacted my life in the past six years to remember everyone.
Well, even though I've known for about a month that my days at the Washington Times were numbered, it is still going to feel weird when I wake up tomorrow and I won't have something to write about.
I've known for a long time that I wanted to be a sports writer. I've been doing it in some fashion since I was 13 years old, and outside of a breif flirtation with architecture (which was quickly cast aside when I found out you actually had to be able to draw) it's been the only thing I've wanted to do for basically half of my life.
The Washington Times is the only paper I've worked for since college, and there are so many people at the paper that I need to thank for helping me get to where I am today. Editors Mark Hartsell, Monty Wood and Dave Coates were instrumental in my career path, while John Taylor and Scott Silverstein have played a huge part in making me a better reporter and writer. John probably deserves an entire post of his own, and I can only hope my relationship with future editors is remotely close to ours.
I have several friends at the Times who I have worked with since we were all at the Diamondback together, and wherever we end up there will always be the DBKStop fantasy baseball draft at Tim Lemke's house to bring us back together again. People probably don't think of fantasy leagues as a way to stay connected with people, but hopefully the Times-themed football and hockey leagues will survive for that very purpose.
There are so, so many people in the hockey community to thank. I've covered every sport for the Times, either in small or large doses, and everything positive people say about working in hockey — from the players to the coaches to the people around the teams — is 100 percent true.
Covering the Caps for the past three-plus years has put me in a rink for a lot of amazing games and stories and performances, but the friendships I've formed are far more meaningful to me.
To the guys in the Caps PR department — Paul Rovnak, Nate Ewell and Kurt Kehl — well, there is a reason they are the 1980s Edmonton Oilers of the Dick Dillman Award. I also need to mention Scott Strasemeier and Staci Michaud at the Naval Academy here — I've been blessed to work with the very best media relations people in their sports on the two beats I've covered for the Times.
I will certainly miss being on the road with Mike Vogel and Brett Leonhardt, as well as talking hockey on The Capitals Report. The wonderful gesture Bruce Boudreau made after the game Tuesday has become well-known at this point, but I have to say my "farewell dinner" with Paul, Vogs and Stretch in Vancouver not only showed what great people they are but will be something I never forget.
I owe a great deal to Tarik El-Bashir, who has helped me learn the ins and outs of covering the NHL more than anyone. Covering the Caps would not have been nearly as wonderful of an experience if Tarik and I didn't get along as well as we do. It is very easy for us to transition from "competitor" to "friend" and we have had many a great nights on the road because of it.
There are many other writers and members of the hockey community I owe gratitude too. Pierre LeBrun and Scott Burnside at ESPN.com and Damien Cox of the Toronto Star are superstars in our profession, but they've been great to me from Day One.
I need to thank Pierre in particular. Near the end of last season, I was in a bit of a rut professionally and was starting to waver a little about whether or not I wanted to do this the rest of my life. Spending two weeks with Pierre during the first round of the playoffs changed that in a hurry, and I don't expect my fervor for the profession to ever waver again. There are literally dozens of hockey people who have met me because either Pierre or Scott or Damien introduced me to them, and I can't be more gracious for that.
Two other hockey writers have to be mentioned here. Rob Rossi of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and Chris Johnston of the Canadian Press have quickly become two of my best friends, both inside of hockey and out. Guys, I will do my best to find employment soon. The Trio will survive.
Last but certainly not least in a post that is suddenly a lot longer than I expected it to be even though I know I am leaving too many people out:
I have to thank Patrick Stevens. Besides being the best college football/basketball/lacrosse beat writer in the nation (and this is not even up for debate), Pat was my first real boss. He was the sports editor at The Diamondback, our student newspaper at Maryland, and from the moment when he told me the second story I submitted to him wasn't worthy of running in the paper, I knew he was going to make me a better writer.
Pat also played a large role in me getting a job at the Times. I have basically replaced him twice at the Times when he's been promoted — first as a part-time agate clerk and then as a full-time member of the copy desk. Along the way, he's also become a lifelong friend.
Thanks to all of the Caps fans who have been so supportive, not only in the past few days but during my time covering the team. I think most of you have even gotten over the fact that a kid from Pittsburgh was writing about your team every day.
I think it is appropriate for me to end my final blog post for the Times where it all began. When I started covering this team I knew there were shoes too big for me to fill when Dave Fay passed away, but I am positive the standards and expectations set by his work made me work as hard and I could.
We haven't forgotten you, Dave, and just because the sports section is going away doesn't mean we will anytime soon.


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As a long time fan of the Metal Gear series (since 1998 to be exact), I want to thank you for your work on the games and the work you continue you to do. I grew up playing games on the SNES, Playstation, and Playstation 2. But I, like many others, have moved on to using a PC as a primary gaming platform.
Releasing your next upcoming game in the franchise, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, for the PC would be an incredible thing for several reasons. We are aware that you have said in an interview with Gametrailers at E3 that a release on PC could happen sometime but it is not a priority. Why not?
Opening the franchise to the PC community would not only satisfy the many PC gamers that appreciate the franchise (such as myself), but would also introduce the series to those on PC who haven't had the privilege of trying Metal Gear's unique gameplay. A stealth-oriented, open world game with an incredible plot and rich backstory is just asking to be released on PC. Need I mention how beautiful the Fox Engine makes the game look? The PC could truly take advantage of what this engine is capable of.
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Active-duty military members and their families will get free admission to more than 1,000 museums in the United States this summer. It's part of the National Endowment for the Arts Blue Star Museums program. 129 of those museums are in Michigan.
Bob Sadler is with the Detroit Historical Museum. He says this is the second year the museum has participated in the program and they hope to continue:
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