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WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - On separate occasions in recent days, lawyers on opposite sides of a U.S. Supreme Court fight over same-sex marriage took an elevator to the fifth floor of the Department of Justice, entered a large conference room and made a pitch to Solicitor General Donald Verrilli and other top Obama administration lawyers.
Each side wants the administration's support in a late-March showdown on the fundamental rights of gay men and lesbians.
On Jan. 18, Theodore Olson and David Boies, the well-known duo representing gay couples challenging California's ban on same-sex marriage, asked the administration to back their claim of a constitutional right to such unions nationwide. On Thursday, attorney Charles Cooper, who has long represented defenders of the ban known as Proposition 8, asked the government to stay out of the case.
These advocates and others in the dispute over same-sex marriage joined a common but little-known ritual of Supreme Court litigation. Parties seeking outside "friend of the court" briefs they hope will sway the court's nine justices often try to get the weight of the federal government behind them. Justice Department officials regularly hear out both sides, with such meetings concerning a couple dozen cases each court term.
Lawyers who attended the private sessions on gay marriage said the government attorneys, while nodding at some points made by both sides, did not tip their hand. In these sessions, which have some attributes of an informal courtroom argument, officials do not make up their minds on the spot. It might be weeks before a party knows whether the valued government brief, with its distinctive gray cover, will be filed on its behalf.
Any outside group that sides with defenders of Proposition 8 must submit its amicus curiae, or "friend of the court," brief by Tuesday under Supreme Court deadlines. Gay rights groups and others backing the challengers have until Feb. 28.
While President Barack Obama has vigorously endorsed gay marriage, as recently as in his second inaugural speech last Monday, he also has suggested that the federal government should not take the lead. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said the day after the inauguration ceremony that while Obama's "personal view" favors same-sex marriage, he "believes that it's an issue that should be addressed by the states." The administration has never taken a position on Proposition 8, which California voters adopted on Nov. 4, 2008, the day Obama was first elected president.
Under laws passed since 2004, nine states and the District of Columbia allow same-sex couples to wed.
Presidents generally do not become involved in a solicitor general filing to the Supreme Court. But in this politically charged dilemma, lawyers on both sides say it is all but certain that Obama, a Harvard Law School graduate who was once a constitutional law professor, will play a big role in directing the administration's stance.
Verrilli ran the meetings around a large rectangular table in a plain conference room near his ornate office. Lawyers who took part would not speak publicly because the meetings are confidential but they said the Jan. 18 session for the Olson-Boies team and Thursday's session for the Cooper group lasted an hour each. About 20 government lawyers, mainly from the Justice Department, attended. The advocates' assertions were at times passionate and animated. For their part, government attorneys were methodical in their questioning, focusing on legal analyses.
Both sides' arguments largely reflected their briefs in earlier proceedings.
Olson and Boies, former opponents from the landmark Supreme Court case that decided the 2000 presidential election for George W. Bush, urged the government to enter the case and assert that gay and lesbian couples have the same right to marry as a man and a woman. According to lawyers in the room, Olson stressed that the administration's voice should be heard at this historic moment. Olson, who as solicitor general under Bush from 2001-04 once ran such meetings, was especially fervent. He compared the contention that states need more time to resolve the gay-marriage dilemma to arguments half a century ago that states needed more time before blacks and whites could share the same public accommodations such as drinking fountains.
A former Reagan administration lawyer, Cooper argued in his session that marriage is the business of the states, so no federal constitutional interest can be asserted. Cooper referred to Obama's own comments suggesting that states should decide the matter and echoed much of what he had written in his recently submitted brief to the Supreme Court. In that, Cooper included Obama's remarks from a May 2012 interview with ABC News referring to the "healthy process and ... healthy debate" occurring in the states.
The court will hear two cases over two days. In the Proposition 8 case of Hollingsworth v. Perry, to be heard on March 26, the justices could decide the constitutionality of same-sex marriage or rule on narrower grounds. In a related case to be heard the following day, United States v. Windsor, the justices are reviewing a 1996 U.S. law that denies federal benefits, such as Social Security survivor payments when one partner dies, to gay couples in states that permit their marriage.
While the Obama administration has never taken a stand on Proposition 8, it has in recent years opposed the provision in the 1996 law, known as the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), forbidding married gay couples from obtaining benefits that heterosexual couples receive.
Yale Law Professor Drew Days, who was a U.S. solicitor general in the Clinton administration from 1993 to 1996, said that as Obama lawyers weigh a federal interest in the Proposition 8 dispute, they are likely considering how it would intersect with the administration's nuanced stance in the DOMA case. Days is not involved in either case and said he has no direct information about the administration's position.
The administration in early 2011 said it would no longer defend DOMA's disparity in marriage benefits. It also has suggested there be a heightened constitutional standard for assessing laws that treat gay people less favorably. Only when the Department of Justice files its brief in the case of United States v. Windsor in late February will it indicate how the administration thinks such constitutional scrutiny should apply to various laws based on sexual orientation, from limits on marriage benefits to an outright ban on same-sex unions.
Closely watching to see what Obama does on Proposition 8 are groups such as the National Organization for Marriage, whose president, Brian Brown, derided Obama's emphasis on gay marriage in the inaugural speech. On the other side, the Human Rights Campaign yearns for an Obama assertion of a constitutional right to same-sex marriage now, and not after more state action. Fred Sainz, Human Rights Campaign's vice president for communications, said the Proposition 8 case was "the game for us." (Reporting by Joan Biskupic; Editing by Howard Goller, Amy Stevens and Douglas Royalty)
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Clemson, SC—Clemson ranks seventh by USA Today and eighth by the Associated Press in the final college football polls released on Tuesday morning. The number-seven ranking in USA Today is the highest final ranking for the Clemson program in one of the two major polls since 1981 when Clemson won the National Championship according to both wire services.
Clemson's number-eight final ranking in Associated Press is the highest for the program in that poll since a number-eight final ranking in 1982.
Clemson defeated a then sixth-ranked Ohio State team, 40-35 on January 3 to win the Discover Orange Bowl. It marked the second straight year Clemson had beaten a top 10 team in a bowl game to conclude the season. Clemson closed the 2012 season by defeating a seventh-ranked LSU team, 25-24 in the Chick-fil-A Bowl.. Clemson is the only program in the nation to defeat a top 10 team in a bowl game each of the last two years.
The 2013 season marks the ninth season Clemson has been ranked in the final top 10 of at least one poll. It is the first time Clemson has had a top 10 final ranking in consecutive years since 1987 and 1988. Clemson was 10th in the final Coaches Poll of 1987 and eighth in the final coaches poll of 1988.
This is the third straight season Clemson has finished in the top 25 of both polls. This is the third time in history Clemson has had a run of at least three straight years in the final top 25. Clemson was in the final top 25 for six consecutive years from 1986-91 and for three straight years from 1981-83.
Clemson was one of two ACC schools to finish in the top 10 of both polls this year. Florida State won the national championship last night with a 34-31 win over Auburn. This marks the first time since 1997 that two ACC teams have finished in the top 10 of both polls. Florida State and North Carolina did it that year.
Here are some other notes on Clemson and the polls:
•Clemson was ranked eighth in the preseason AP poll and eighth in the final poll. This marks the first time Clemson has had the same preseason and postseason ranking in a season in any poll.
•This is the fifth time, the first time since 1990, that Clemson was ranked in the top 10 of the preseason AP poll and the final poll. The other years Clemson did it were 1982, 1987, 1988 and 1990.
•Clemson will enter the 2014 season with a run of 46 straight polls in the top 25, the seventh longest active streak in the nation. It will be just four short of the Clemson record for consecutive polls in the top 25. Clemson had a streak of 50 from 1989-92.
•The 2013 season marked the seventh season Clemson has been ranked in the top 25 of every AP poll. The other years were 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 2000, and 2012.
•Today's ranking is the 103rd time Clemson has been ranked in the top 10 by Associated Press.
•This is the 28th season Clemson has been ranked in the final top 25 by at least one of the polls. In 1956 Clemson was ranked 18th in the final UPI poll, but unranked by AP. That is the only time Clemson has been in the top 25 by UPI and not ranked by AP. Clemson's 27 final top 25 rankings by AP ranks 19th among FBS schools.
•Eight schools have been ranked in the final top 25 of the AP poll each of the last three years. The other schools to do it are Oregon, Alabama, LSU, Florida State, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Stanford.
•Clemson is 22-4 over the last two years and all four losses have come to teams that have finished in the top 10 of the final AP poll in their respective seasons. This year Clemson's two losses were to teams that finished in the top four.
•This marked the second straight year Clemson has jumped up four spots into the top 10 of the final poll by defeating a top 10 team in a bowl game. Last year Clemson jumped from 13th to ninth in the USA Today poll by beating seventh ranked LSU in the Chick-fil-A Bowl. This year Clemson jumped from 11th to seventh in the final USA Today poll by beating sixth ranked Ohio State in the Orange Bowl.
•When Clemson (ranked 12th in BCS entering the game) defeated Ohio State (ranked seventh by BCS entering the Orange Bowl), the Tigers became the second ACC school to beat a higher ranked team in a BCS bowl. The only other league school to do it was #19 Virginia Tech over #12 Cincinnati in the 2008 Orange Bowl.
•This is the ninth time Clemson has been ranked in the top 10 of at least one final poll. Not included is Frank Howard's 1959 team that was 11th ranked entering the bowl season that year. The Tigers upset seventh-ranked TCU in the Bluebonnet Bowl, 23-7, but in those days there was no final poll after the bowl games. Five of the top 10 teams in the nation lost bowl games that year, so Clemson certainly would have been in the top 10 had there been a poll after the bowls.
Clemson's Top 10 Seasons Year Record AP USA/UPI Head Coach 1950 9-0-1 10 10 Frank Howard 1978 11-1 6 6 Pell/Ford 1981 12-0 1 1 Danny Ford 1982 9-1-1 8 NR Danny Ford 1987 10-2 12 10 Danny Ford 1988 10-2 9 8 Danny Ford 1990 10-2 9 9 Ken Hatfield 2012 11-2 11 9 Dabo Swinney 2013 11-2 8 7 Dabo Swinney

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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Despite the graduation of several talented athletes from last year, the Bulldogs are ready to challenge themselves again this season. After a respectable fourth-place finish at indoor Heptagonals Championships last year, the Bulldogs will continue working on dominating multiple events within their conference. As always, they expect to qualify a number of individuals for NCAA post-season meets; l ast season, five members advanced to the NCAA East Regional. The first meet of the indoor season, the Lidlifter Invitational, will take place at Coxe Cage on Dec. 5.
The Bulldogs have constantly excelled in the sprints and hurdles events in the past. In the 500-meter dash, seniors Remi Ray and David Soiles went third and fourth, respectively, at indoor Heptagonals last season. Ray also broke a long-standing Yale indoor record in the 500-meter dash with a time of 1:02.09 at the Boston University Terrier Invitational. Sophomore Matt Bieszard is coming off of a promising first season, setting the Yale freshman indoor record for the 400-meter dash in the finals of indoor Heptagonals last season. The Bulldogs also gain a new standout sprinter, freshman Josh Fuller, who was Washington's three-time state champion in the 100-meter dash and two-time champion in the 200-meter and 400-meter dashes. In the hurdles, senior Ted Galligan looks to progress even more after placing fourth in the 400-meter hurdles at outdoor Heptagonals last season. He will also compete in the 60-meter hurdles and 110-meter hurdles this year.
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Senior Chris Labosky returns in the 800-meter run, having placed fifth at outdoor Heptagonals last year and qualifying for the NCAA Northeast Regional two years ago. Sophomore Andrew Esposito will also contribute in the 800-meter run, having competed in the event at last year's indoor Heptagonals. Coming off of a successful high school career in California, freshman Christopher Ramsey will also specialize in the mid-distance events. The Bulldogs will seek additional contributions from junior Itse Begho, sophomore Charlie Jaeger and freshman Timothy Hillas.
Despite the graduation of Jake Gallagher '09 and Murat Kayali '09, who went fifth and seventh, respectively, in the 1500-meter run at last year's outdoor Heptagonals, the Bulldogs return a youthful squad to compete in the distance events. Senior captain Jeff Perrella looks to excel in the 3,000-meter and 5,000-meter runs again this season. Perrella currently holds the eighth-fastest Yale time of 14:22 in the 5,000-meter run for outdoors. Junior Max Walden also earned All-East honors at indoor IC4As by placing sixth in the 5,000-meter run. In the 3,000-meter steeplechase, the Bulldogs return junior Matt Bogdan and sophomore Nathan Richards. Richards placed seventh at outdoor Heptagonals last year to qualify for the IC4As. In the shorter distances, senior Kevin Brown has scored in the mile at indoor Heptagonals for two years in a row. Sophomore Conor Dooney, who sat out last season because of an injury, is coming off of a strong cross-country season and will also contribute to the distance squad, as will sophomore Julian Sheinbaum.
Holmes will aim for the long jump title at the Ivy League Heptagonals this season after placing second for two years in a row. He earned All-Ivy honors with a season best of 7.14 meters at the conference meet; his personal best is currently 7.39 meters. Freshman Tommy Winger, who won Maine's state title in the long jump and finished sixth in the New England Outdoor Track Championships, will also specialize in that event. Senior Eric DePalo, who set the No. 2 all-time best Yale jump in the pole vault and qualified for the NCAA Division I Championships as a sophomore, should score big points throughout the season as well. The Bulldogs will also look to senior Bashir Adeniyi and sophomore Yifan Chen to compete in the jumps.
The Bulldogs have some big shoes to fill with the graduation of standout thrower Jeff Lachman '09. Last season, Lachman placed third in the discus throw at the NCAA Regional Championships and finished in the top 20 at the NCAA Division I Championships. The Bulldogs will now look to junior David Smith, who competed in the weight throw and shot put at last year's indoor Heptagonals. Freshman Mike Levine, who made the farthest throw in the discus for the state of New York last year, will also compete in the hammer and weight throws.
Both the 4x100 meter and 4x400 meter relays qualified for the outdoor IC4A Championships last season. The 4x100 meter relay team returns Holmes, junior Marty Evans and junior Chris Stanley. The squad placed third at outdoor Heptagonals last year with a season best of 41.55. The 4x400-meter relay team has an even larger pool of runners to choose from. At last season's indoor IC4A Championships, Ray, Soiles, Bieszard and Evans set the fourth-fastest time in the Yale record book for the 4x400 meter relay. The 4x800-meter relay team, which has placed second at indoor Heptagonals to earn All-Ivy honors for two consecutive seasons, also holds high expectations.
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Authorities in New Mexico have arrested a man who allegedly broke into "Breaking Bad" actor Bryan Cranston's car late last year and stole a script for the popular television show.
Bernalillo County Sheriff's officials announced Monday that 29-year-old Xavier Macafee is being held on suspicion of burglary. They say none of the stolen items have been recovered, but detectives are investigating the case.
Sheriff's officials say Cranston's car was broken into Dec. 20 while it was parked at Sandia Peak.
The award-winning AMC TV series is set in Albuquerque and is filming its fifth and final season in and around the city.
"Breaking Bad" follows Cranston's character Walter White producing and selling methamphetamine with a former student named Jesse Pinkman, who's played by Aaron Paul.
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When Arizona became a state in 1912, many wildlife species were in dire straits. Fifty years later, most wildlife species, especially game animals, were abundant beyond the hopes of even the most enthusiastic conservationist.
A newly published book, "Bringing Back the Game: Arizona Wildlife Management, 1912-1962," examines wildlife management in Arizona during those formative years as sportsmen, and later professional game wardens and biologists, worked to return game populations to abundance and to provide more fishing opportunities for anglers. This comprehensive 490-page book has 35 chapters in five sections, and includes more than 150 historical photographs.
Published by the Arizona Game and Fish Department, this is the third in a series of wildlife histories that began with "Man and Wildlife in Arizona: The American Exploration Period, 1824-1865," and continued with "Arizona Wildlife: The Territorial Years, 1863-1912." The Arizona Wildlife History Series now covers almost 140 years of efforts to conserve, use and manage wildlife in the Grand Canyon State – a significant achievement.
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David Ortiz hit a leadoff home run in the 10th inning and the Boston Red Sox beat the Oakland Athletics 7-6 on Sunday to avoid a four-game series sweep.
Ortiz was the only Boston starter without a hit until he lined a 1-2 pitch from Fernando Abad (2-3) over the wall in left-center.
The Red Sox had to go extra innings after letting a 6-1 lead slip away. The A's scored three runs in the eighth, and then homered twice in the ninth against Koji Uehara (3-1). The closer had converted 31 consecutive save opportunities dating to 2013.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Security software maker Rapid7 said on Monday that it has hired Trey Ford, the former general manager of the Black Hat hacking conferences, to serve as its global security strategist.
He will serve as a liaison between Rapid7 and the research community and also work to educate the public on cybersecurity issues.
Ford previously held posts with online gaming company Zynga Inc and anti-virus software maker McAfee, which is now owned by Intel Corp, before becoming general manager of Black Hat, which runs hacking conferences around the globe and is owned by UBM Plc.
His position at Black Hat was eliminated at the end of last year in a restructuring at UBM. A spokeswoman for Black Hat said on Monday that Ford will remain a member of a board that reviews research presented at its conferences.
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TALLAHASSEE --- The Florida Legislative Black Caucus on Wednesday abruptly cancelled a scheduled noon meeting with Gov. Rick Scott, saying that it would be "fruitless" because of Scott's "lack of action" on matters of importance to the group.
The caucus and Scott have a rocky history.
Last year, black lawmakers sharply criticized Scott for not appointing more African-Americans to judgeships, and Scott sought to shift responsibility for highly controversial voting-law changes to the Legislature. In 2011, Scott offended black lawmakers by telling them at a luncheon that he grew up "probably in the same situation as you guys" by living in public housing.
Rep. Alan Williams, D-Tallahassee, the caucus chairman, released a letter to Scott explaining why the group was snubbing him. The letter cited concerns over affordable health care, judicial appointments, restoration of rights for ex-felons and minority participation in economic development efforts such as state advertising programs.
The letter said in part:
"Despite great respect for the public office you hold, we have agreed to cancel our scheduled meeting with you today.
"Based on your lack of action on matters of importance to this caucus that we have brought to your attention at prior meetings, we believe another meeting at this time would be fruitless.
"Today, as we recognize the anniversary of the birth of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., we are particularly mindful that the dreams of Floridians remain unfulfilled. Therefore, we take this occasion to respectfully remind you that there are significant needs facing Floridians that demand attention and action.
"All Floridians, including the thousands of residents of the communities we serve, deserve to have access to affordable health care that can be provided under an expansion of coverage using available federal dollars.
"We believe you can and should do more to ensure that your administration -- as well as the various staffing and judicial appointments you make -- reflects the racial and ethnic diversity of Florida.
"The restoration of rights for individuals who have paid their debts to society is an important caucus priority. So, too, is the proper enforcement of voting rights and the end to the unnecessary purging of legitimate voters from voting rolls for apparent partisan gain."


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Dominic Ficociello sat in bed one night during his senior year of high school and couldn't help but feel drawn to a place 1,500 miles from home.
Ficociello, a two-sport standout in Fullerton, Calif., was committed at the time to play baseball at Oregon along with a handful of friends and teammates. However, the lure of something new, something "eye-opening," something "life-changing" was too much to pass up.
The infielder decided that night to change his commitment to Arkansas, where college baseball has evolved from cult following to die-hard religion over the last decade. Ficociello chose a state where the Razorbacks rule, as opposed to his native California where programs compete for attention almost as much as they compete on the field.
"I realized I'd never forgive myself if I didn't come out here and experience the (Southeastern Conference), the Razorbacks and what's it's like to play in a stadium like (Baum Stadium)," Ficociello said.
It's a decision Ficociello hasn't regretted in the slightest since that night, one he reveled in last summer as Arkansas reached the College World Series for the seventh time and came within one win of the championship series against eventual champion Arizona.
Now he's hopeful the Razorbacks — ranked No. 1 in three preseason polls and armed with one of the top pitching staffs in the country — are ready to take that next step and win the school's first national championship. Ficociello said anything less than Omaha is "absolutely not" acceptable this season.
"We want to make it to Omaha, but we've already done that," Ficociello said. "A lot of guys on this team were there last year. We want to take it a step further now and get ourselves a ring with a big No. 1 on it."
Arkansas' lofty hopes this season begin with a pitching staff that fashioned a 2.83 ERA last season, fifth-best in the country and the lowest for the school since 1976. It's a staff that returns much of its top talent this season, including right-hander Ryne Stanek.
Stanek was 8-4 last season with a 2.82 ERA in 17 starts and is expected to be one of the top picks in June's Major League Baseball draft. While the junior will anchor the rotation, he should have plenty of help from Barrett Astin (1.99 ERA in 58 2/3 innings last season) and Randall Fant (3.27 ERA).
Also, junior Colby Suggs returns after posting a 1.38 ERA in 39 innings last season and several other top freshmen are expected to compete for innings.
"It's just as good as last year and has the potential to be better than last year," junior catcher Jake Wise said of the staff.
Dig past the arsenal of arms, however, and you'll find the Razorbacks' hopes truly begin with veteran coach Dave Van Horn — much as they have since he was hired before the 2003 season. Arkansas has reached the NCAA tournament in all 10 of its seasons under the former Nebraska coach, reaching the College World Series for the third time last season under his watch.
Van Horn's secret to success is anything but a secret to those who know him best. He demands accountability — from batters, pitchers and coaches — on each and every pitch.
That includes practices, where Stanek said even the small details such as a missed bunt defense can lead to the attention of several coaches and a missed strike results in a lap of running.
"(Van Horn's) an intense coach and gets everybody to play their best," Stanek said. "You learn, quickly. It's a lot easier to play the games than be out there at practice every day."
The Razorbacks averaged 1,399 fans per game in 2002, the season before Van Horn's arrival. Since that time, Baum Stadium has turned into one of the top venues in the country — hosting an average of 7,893 fans per game last season.
"It's an unbelievable feeling playing here and having 8,000 cheer you on," Stanek said. "Especially in college baseball, where not a lot of schools get that."
Arkansas' attendance was second in the country behind LSU, one spot ahead of 2010-11 champion South Carolina. Mississippi rounded out the all-SEC top four in attendance, and Mississippi State gave the conference five of the top six in the country.
It's that kind of passion that has Van Horn wary of the rest of the power-packed conference, which boasts five teams in Baseball America's top 10. He's also focused more on the grind of the regular season than the preseason hype, a point he has made time and again to the Razorbacks.
"Our guys are grounded," Van Horn said. "They know what's up."
What Van Horn also hopes is up this season is an offense that was 170th in the country in runs per game (5.2) last season. That hope is fueled by an offense that Van Horn said is deeper overall this season, one led by Ficociello — who is switching from first base to second after hitting .311 in his first two seasons.
While the offense remains a question mark, one thing is certain for Arkansas. It feels as though its time has come to sit atop college baseball. And Van Horn and the rest of the Razorbacks would just assume that time came sooner rather than later.
"That desire will be there until we win one," Van Horn said. "... It's there for me personally, for our whole staff.
"It's not something we sit around and dwell on. We just work toward getting to the end, but we have a long way to go before that opportunity will be there."


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8a. SUPPORT COLLECTION UNIT INFORMATION SHEET (Form UD-8a):
The Plaintiff must submit this document where the services of the Support Collection Unit are requested. The Support Collection Unit is a state agency that assists litigants in obtaining the child support that has been ordered by the court. You may utilize the service or decline the service. If you decline the service you may apply to the Support Collection Unit in the future to assist you in obtaining the child support that the court has ordered to be paid.
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After teasing us time and time and time again, Yamaha Europe has taken the wraps off its 2010 Yamaha FZ8 (and it's cousin the 2010 Yamaha Fazer8). As was expected, the FZ8 is a 779cc naked street bike that borrows its heritage from the FZ1, and replaces the FZ6 in the European line-up.
While the FZ8 looks well and good, Yamaha has proven that a copy of a copy never carries over well. The FZ8 motor is in essence a smaller bored FZ1 motor, which is itself a de-tuned R1 powerplant. As such the Yamaha FZ8 puts out a solid 104hp, which may disappoint many riders. Torque lovers rejoice though, the 2010 Yamaha FZ8 makes an impressive 62lbs•ft of wheel turning power from its 779cc's.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Planes are getting up to speed faster than trains and automobiles in the storm-stricken Northeast.
All the region's major airports were open once New York's LaGuardia resumed flights Thursday morning. While there were additional canceled flights and the tri-state air space was still relatively empty, flying was closer to normal than moving by rail, subway or car.
By midday, about one-third of all scheduled departures from LaGuardia and nearly one-third from Newark, N.J., had been canceled, according to tracking service FlightStats.com. There were 192 canceled departures at LaGuardia, 188 at Newark, and 82 at John F. Kennedy International, or about one in every seven scheduled takeoffs for the whole day and evening.
That's nothing compared to earlier in the week, when the airports were virtual ghost towns. Airlines scrapped nearly 8,000 flights on Monday and another 6,500 Tuesday. Thursday's cancellations were about 1,000, according to FlightStats, bringing the total from Superstorm Sandy to more than 20,000.
Travelers like Kate Childs were just happy to be heading home.
She works for Random House and was in New Orleans for a launch party for a book release. After two cancellations by Delta Air Lines, she was looking at a flight home Friday. But her company's travel department managed to snag her the last seat on a Delta flight Thursday night.
It was a middle seat.
"I would take anything at this point," Childs said. "You could put me in the storage container, I'd be fine."
Cancellation numbers were smaller at airports outside New York. Reagan National outside Washington had 29 canceled departures by midday; Boston-Logan Airport 26; and Philadelphia 19. There were just five at Baltimore-Washington International Airport and nine at Dulles in Northern Virginia, according to FlightStats.
A spokesman for the Washington Metropolitan Airports Authority, which operates Reagan National and Dulles airports, said most of their cancellations were flights to and from the New York area.
The situation was the same in New England.
"We're in great shape other than to-and-from New York," said Matthew Brelis, a spokesman for Boston-Logan operator Massport. Service to the New York City area accounts for about 15 percent of the airport's traffic, he said.
There were still some hiccups.
For instance, JetBlue moved 13 flights originally scheduled to depart LaGuardia to JFK, leaving some travelers scrambling. But overall, travelers seemed happy to be finally moving once again.
"They were just opening up JFK and I thought it was going to be a nightmare," said Bryan S. Neft who was flying from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia and had the misfortune of connecting in New York. "I was pleasantly surprised that everything went very smoothly."
Neft's Delta flight landed in Philadelphia 30 minutes early.
As for other modes of transportation:
— Intercity buses were possibly the best option. Greyhound, MegaBus and Bolt Bus were running nearly normal schedules. MegaBus, part of Coach USA, had canceled more than 550 trips, affecting 27,500 customers across 14 states in the Northeast and Midwest. On Thursday, 95 percent of its routes were restored and full service was expected Friday. Greyhound, Bolt Bus and Peter Pan were all running full schedules with the exception of storm-ravaged Atlantic City, N.J.
— Amtrak ran trains Thursday between Boston and New Haven, Conn., and from Newark, N.J., to Washington and other points south. By midday, water from one of two flooded tunnels under the Hudson River had been pumped out. The first train into New York City was expected at 8:45 p.m. Thursday. There was no estimate on when service to the north would resume.
— Commuter trains from the north and east of New York City also crept back to life but on limited schedules.
— Most of New Jersey's mass transit systems remained shut.
— Those who couldn't take mass transit were stuck on clogged highways and in long lines at gas stations.
— Cruise terminals in Manhattan and Brooklyn remain closed. Several ships diverted to Boston, including at least one that rode out the storm at sea. Passengers aboard the Norwegian Gem reported 40- to 50-foot waves rocking the ship and people vomiting in the hallways.
Those trying to travel within New York City faced major challenges.
Police peered into the window of every car trying to enter Manhattan to ensure that drivers where following emergency carpool rules. It there weren't at least three people in the car, they were ordered off bridges and highways. Once on the island, they faced massive gridlock.
The subway — which handles 5.3 million passengers on a typical workday — wasn't running south of midtown or out to Brooklyn. They left many commuters waiting for the few seats on temporary shuttle buses into Manhattan.
At one Brooklyn bus stop, more than 1,000 people snaked through police barricades. At another pickup point, passengers rushed the door when a bus pulled up. It filled instantly, leaving most people stranded at the curb.
Others dusted off their bikes or just prepared for a lengthy walk.
Those able to take the subway were thankful.
Technology worker Ronnie Abraham was trying to get from Penn Station to Harlem on the subway — a 20-minute trip. Buses fighting worse-than-usual traffic were taking 2 ½ hours to make the same journey.
"It's the lifeline of the city," Abraham said of the subway.
Koenig reported from Dallas. Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Verena Dobnik, Meghan Barr and Adam Geller in New York and Joan Lowy in Washington.
Scott Mayerowitz can be reached at http://twitter.com/GlobeTrotScott and David Koenig at http://twitter.com/AirlineWriter.


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Greene & Greene-inspired Storage Chest
Classic design elements combine to create a new design.
By David Mathias
Pages: 36-41
From the April 2008 issue #168
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Seven years ago I made my first piece of Greene & Greene-style furniture, a coffee table of my own design. It contained several elements the Greenes commonly used: cloudlifts and ebony pegs. As with many pieces inspired by their designs, it is somehow lacking.
While their design elements are easily appropriated, there is something more elusivein using them to create a cohesive whole. Slapping on cloudlifts and ebony pegs doesn't automatically create inspired, or even good design. There is no substitute for experience – aiming high and sometimes falling short, as with my coffee table. This piece is farther along the evolutionary scale, due in part to furniture maker Darrell Peart, who helped me work through several details.
Charles and Henry Greene established an architectural practice in 1893. Early in the 20th century, a personal style began to emerge. Inspired by Arts & Crafts designs, their work took on the clean lines and exposed joinery of that movement. Charles, in particular, was also influenced by Japanese architecture and Chinese furniture, and these elements began to appear in the Greenes' work.
The final piece of the puzzle came from a warm climate and casual California sensibility.The Greenes melded these disparate influences into a unique style.
By 1904, they began to create furniture and decorative arts for their commissions and soon were designing nearly every item in the home. Houses and furniture shared a common vocabulary, one that evolved at an amazing rate between 1905 and 1909. The Greenes' symbiotic relationship with builders Peter and John Hall resulted in some of America's most remarkable residences and furniture.
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* To download additional text and step photos detailing the construction of the hinges, leather strap and ebony pegs for the Greene & Greene-inspired Storage Chest in PDF format, click here.
* To download PDF drawings of the sunburst stiles and bottom panel for the Storage Chest: click here.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday pushed for his proposal to have the wealthy pay more in taxes as a way to tame the federal deficit, taking a hard line in his opening bid before he begins fiscal talks with U.S. lawmakers later in the week.
"We should not hold the middle class hostage while we debate tax cuts for the wealthy," Obama said in his first press conference since winning re-election on November 6.
Obama also said he was encouraged some Republicans have agreed to raising new revenues.
With the presidential election over, Obama's talks with lawmakers begin in earnest on Friday when he meets with Senate and House leaders.
(Reporting By Kim Dixon; Editing by Sandra Maler)


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NEW YORK (AP) — The nation's crude oil supplies shrank last week, the government said Wednesday.
Crude supplies fell by 1.5 million barrels, or 0.4 percent, to 374.5 million barrels, which is 13.2 percent above year-ago levels, the Energy Department's Energy Information Administration said in its weekly report.
Analysts expected an increase of 1 million barrels for the week ended Nov. 16, according to Platts, the energy information arm of McGraw-Hill Cos.
Gasoline supplies dropped by 1.5 million barrels, or 0.8 percent, to 200.4 million barrels. That's 4.4 percent lower than year-ago levels. Analysts expected gasoline supplies to grow by 1.25 million barrels.
Demand for gasoline over the four weeks ended Nov. 16 was 1.6 percent higher than a year earlier, averaging 8.7 million barrels a day.
U.S. refineries ran at 87.5 percent of total capacity on average, up 1.5 percentage points from the prior week. Analysts expected capacity to increase to 86.7 percent.
Supplies of distillate fuel, which include diesel and heating oil, fell by 2.7 million barrels to 112.8 million barrels. Analysts expected distillate stocks to decline by 1 million barrels.
Benchmark crude rose 74 cents to $87.49 a barrel in New York.


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Man, 19, to face graffiti charges
THE culprit allegedly behind the spate of graffiti attacks in East Warwick has been arrested and charged by Warwick police.
The 19-year-old Warwick man is accused of spray-painting smiley-faced graffiti tags on properties along McEvoy, Percy, Hamilton and East Sts on Monday night.
Warwick police officer in charge Stewart Day said there had been an increase in graffiti incidents over the last few weeks.
"The 19-year-old man has been charged with 11 graffiti offences," Senior Sergent Day said.
"We conducted a search warrant and he has also been charged with possessing a dangerous drug and drug utensils.
"Police are continuing to investigate and hope to catch a number of offenders over the next few days."
Peter Butler's front retaining wall was tagged with a smiley-face followed by the word crazy.
"We have been in this house for 40 years and never had this happen before," Mr Butler said.
"The retaining wall is only two and half years old. I've been told I might not be able to get it off because it will soak in.
"It is not going to be cheap to replace 10 blocks."
Mr Butler said he believed the vandalism happened on Monday night.
"We didn't hear anything though," he said.
Around the corner on East St the Miller family's front window was tagged with the same black paint and smiley-face.
"We've been here 51 years and never had it happen before," Rita Miller said.
"It is pretty widespread though.
"It must have happened on Monday night because it wasn't there when I brought the mail in on Monday night.
"But it was there when I got the paper at 5am the next morning.
"At first I thought it was a reflection from inside, then I got closer and realised it was paint."
The graffiti was painted on houses, fences, railways bridges and shop fronts.
The 19-year-old man, arrested on Thursday night, will front Warwick Magistrates Court on November 25.
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>> She sent out her invitations with an air plant inside and was just awarded the first ever Ecco Domani sustainable design award, so former Teen Vogue and Nylon writer Eviana Hartman had set herself apart even before she unveiled her first official show at The Horticultural Society of New York yesterday. Being committed to the eco-conscious involves using dyes derived from eggplants or spinach leaves, quilting from recycled bottles, and non-violent silk blessed by the Dalai Lama — "Working sustainably imposes constraints. You can't just think, 'What do I want to make right now?' You start there, but the next question is, 'What's possible? Can I dye that color organically? Is there a recycled fabric that exists that gets me to the right look?'" — but it doesn't mean that style has to be sacrificed, as Hartman proved with her dip-dyed jumpsuits and tunics.
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IDS CENTER — Pen dealer Barry Rubin has found a way to marry his passions of pens and designer toys into a single project: the Ink Artist Series limited edition pen line.
Rubin has been in the pen business since 2006, when he launched an upscale pen store Ink in the IDS Center.
When the economy crashed in 2008, the days of corporate clients buying expensive pens came to an end. Rubin knew he had to refocus his business, and he turned to the world of designer toys for inspiration.
Designer toys are collectibles produced in limited editions that rose to popularity in the early 21st century. Typically, a designer toy line features toys all based on the same basic shape but customized by different artists, usually graphic designers, graffiti artists, illustrators or other "low artists." Rubin realized that the same concept could be applied to a series of pens, and the Ink Artist Series was born.
The first artist Rubin approached, Miq Willmott, turned him down flat. Rubin mailed him a colorful Dr. Seuss pen and its storage box, and Willmott changed his mind in an instant. "There's a lot of real estate for me to decimate," Willmott told Rubin.
Willmott came on board as the art director for the project, and with his wife Thuy Kim he designed the first pen, which is available now. As with all future pens in the series, it is numbered and limited to 500 and sells for $295. According to Rubin, 100 of the pens were spoken for before they were even officially available.
"It's not cheap, it's not a Bic," said Rubin. "But it's not that much for a piece of art, either. And how many piece of art can you use?"
According to Rubin, the pens are a way people in the corporate world can bring a little hipness into their offices. "There a lot of people out there in the corporate world that are under 35, and they're into being cool," said Rubin. "The days of the watch and the pen as status symbols are over, but this attracts an age group that isn't interested in pens."
Rubin said that many of the people who have ordered the first pen want to make sure they get the same number for each upcoming pen. "They don't want to miss a number 9," said Rubin. The next two pens in the series have already been designed, and Rubin and Willmott are targeting about 30 artists for upcoming pens.
"We'll do three or four pens a year and keep the series going on as long as we can go on," said Rubin.
Block E loses two more tenants
WAREHOUSE DISTRICT — A representative for the Hard Rock Café has confirmed that the Block E location is scheduled to close on Sept. 30.
"We have run a successful business in Minneapolis, but the current site has created challenges that prevent us from continuing to operate at this location," said a Hard Rock International PR representative in a prepared statement. The closure of the 9,000-square-foot restaurant is another blow for the struggling complex, which current owner Alatus LLC wants to redevelop into a casino called "Minnesota Live."
"Our strategy over the past year and a half has been to reposition and re-tenant the building. We continue to work towards a revitalized Block E, contribute to a successful Hennepin Avenue, and carefully and methodically determine the best possible uses for the site," said Phillip Jaffe, partner at Alatus LLC.
In addition to the Hard Rock, the Cold Stone Creamery franchise across from the movie theater box office has also closed. With its closure, the only remaining tenants on the complex's second floor are a GameStop location and a Mrs. Fields Cookies franchise. Panchero's Mexican Grill closed in April, and the Applebee's shut down in late March. Legislation to allow the expansion of gambling into downtown Minneapolis was not voted upon before the end of the legislative session, and Alatus has thus far revealed no other plans for Block E.
Rosa Mexicano opens its doors
HENNEPIN AVENUE — After a summer of construction, Rosa Mexicano has opened at 609 Hennepin Ave.
The first Midwest location for the upscale Mexican chain, the Hennepin Avenue restaurant was scheduled to open Sept. 22 — after this issue of The Journal went to press.
The restaurant chain focuses on authentic Mexican cuisine such as braised pork belly, short ribs in tomatillo-chipotle sause, and guacamole prepared fresh tableside. The name "Rosa Mexicano" refers to a shade of pink common in Mexico, and the restaurant incorporates it and many other vibrant colors into its décor, which also includes flowing water walls and an electric blue tile pool with sculptural cliff divers.
With 325 seats in 12,000 square feet and an outdoor patio area, the new location is the biggest in the Rosa Mexicano chain. The restaurant features an expansive lounge and multiple dining areas with primarily large tables, as President and CEO Howard Greenstone considers the restaurant to be a social, group-centric dining experience.
"We are, above all else, a restaurant first," said Greenstone. "We're hip and cool, but I don't consider us to be trendy. At the end of the day, we're about tequila and guacamole."
Jack Riebel opening new restaurant on Hennepin
HENNEPIN AVENUE — Jack Riebel, veteran of kitchens such as the Dakota, Goodfellows and La Belle Vie, is planning a new restaurant for 1121 Hennepin Avenue. According to a CPED report on the one-story office building, the new restaurant will be called Butcher and the Boar and open before the end of the year. Local restaurant design powerhouse Shea, Inc has been tapped to create the look of the space.
Riebel's plans for the restaurant are still largely secret, but Butcher and the Boar will reportedly be an American restaurant with a focus on a local farm-driven menu, as well as bourbon and beer. An outdoor beer garden is planned for the spring of 2012.
Details of the new restaurant were first reported by Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl in Minnesota Monthly.
Grumpy's introduces delivery service
WASHINGTON AVENUE — Downtown residents are now able to get a burger from Grumpy's Bar & Grill without leaving their homes. The bar at 1111 Washington Ave. S. is now offering complimentary bike delivery via a new partnership with restaurant delivery service MPLS Courier.
MPLS Courier has also partnered with Sorella Wines & Spirits at 1010 Washington Ave S., and will even make a stop at the liquor store to pick up some beverages for your meal. We recommend the mini tacos appetizer and the peanut butter-slathered Elvis burger.
Tour the city with Minneapolis By Bike
It may be late in the season, but that wasn't about to stop Alyssa Kohn from launching her new tour company Minneapolis By Bike. She came up with the idea for a bicycle tour company nearly four years ago and spent the last year developing the plan and getting everything ready. She wasn't going to be stopped by something as small as the end of summer.
"After a year of planning, I couldn't wait anymore," said Kohn. "Even if I have one tour, that's a success for me."
Minneapolis currently offers two different tours: a Farmers Market tour and an historic tour. The Farmers Market tour visits both the Mill City Farmers Market and the Minneapolis Farmers Market. The historic tour visits the Sculpture Garden, St. Anthony Main and areas in between. Each tour covers 10 miles, lasts three to four hours and cost $45 per adult.
One of the unique features of Minneapolis By Bike's tours is that the helmets have radio receivers in them so Kohn can speak to an entire group of 10 riders through a radio rig without stopping the tour. While each tour does have scheduled stops, she's able to impart even more information on participants through the transmitter set up. "I want people to really be able to participate in Minneapolis," said Kohn.
For more information, go to minneapolisbybike.com.
The Crooked Pint Ale House, 501 Washington Ave. S., has opened. The pub has a large selection of bar fare, brews, wines and spirits.
St. Paul's L'Atelier Couture Bridal Boutique has relocated to a new North Loop location at 219 2nd St. N, suite 404. Owner Amanda Kautt was ready to expand her business and the 7,000 square foot space offered room for features like spacious dressing suites and complimentary valet service for appointment-only customers.
The Foiled Again Salon at 2807 Johnson St. NE celebrated its 10-year anniversary in early September. The salon originally opened six blocks south of its current location and moved to its current larger space in 2005. submitted Photos


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FCC officials told Congress on Friday that the GPS industry should have raised concerns about interference long before it gave LightSquared the go-ahead for a wholesale wireless service in an adjacent band.
The commission is in hot water over its handling of LightSquared after it fast-tracked the company's plan to launch LTE in spectrum next to GPS bands, then stopped LightSquared from moving forward because of problems with GPS interference.
The military, GPS manufacturers, aviation industry and other sectors were in an uproar over LightSquared because its service had the potential to knock out a wide swath of mission-critical GPS receivers.
The FCC sought to deflect blame during testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee on Friday. Neither LightSquared nor any FCC commissioners appeared at the hearing. Instead, the agency was represented by Mindel De La Torre, head of the international bureau, and Julius Knapp, head of the office of engineering and technology.
During the decade before it received LightSquared's waiver request in November 2010, the GPS industry had "numerous opportunities" to bring up the issue but failed to do so, De La Torre and Knapp said in a joint statement.
"Despite participating in multiple proceedings, and raising other interference issues that were ultimately resolved to the GPS industry's satisfaction, it did not do so," they said. "The FCC would have investigated any complaints as soon as they were raised and attempted to mitigate at that stage."
The officials also faulted "unfiltered or poorly filtered GPS legacy devices" that picked up signals from the neighboring frequency where LightSquared planned to launch its network. The issue was not LightSquared's signal bleeding into the GPS band, "rather, it results from legacy GPS devices listening into the band next door to them. In effect, we discovered that some GPS legacy equipment effectively treats the GPS spectrum and the L-band spectrum as one band."
The argument over receiver design is a favorite of LightSquared, which has long blamed manufacturers for making GPS devices that pick up transmissions from nearby spectrum. The GPS industry maintains that its receiver design was not problematic under the FCC's former standards for LightSquared's spectrum.
Jim Kirkland, general counsel for GPS company Trimble, called the FCC's testimony "deeply misguided and wrong." The FCC repeatedly promised spectrum near GPS bands would only see limited use, and that formal proceedings would take place before making any changes, he said.
The FCC repeatedly committed to these government users that it would proactively protect GPS, including explicit statements to that effect in 2003 and 2005, and government users and industry relied on these commitments. Now, the FCC staff apparently believes that it was only obligated to consider GPS interference issues if GPS manufacturers raised them – which would be an astonishing abandonment of the FCC's public interest responsibilities.
Kirkland also said the FCC's explanation ignores its commitment to protect government GPS users, and defended the GPS industry's receiver designs.
The FCC's statements about GPS equipment design "are all based on the assertion that the FCC put government and private industry on notice that ubiquitous terrestrial use of the mobile satellite band would be allowed. Since the FCC in fact said exactly the opposite up until 2010, GPS equipment was designed based upon the permitted, compatible use of the MSS band."
LightSquared has not released comment on the hearing. The company is currently in bankruptcy, but insists it is still working to find a way to move forward with its LTE network. It invested about $4 billion in its LTE plans and signed contracts with dozens of potential customers before the FCC moved to stop it.


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Two female western gray whales, Agent and Varvara, left the coast of Russia late last year and are now half-way across the Gulf of Alaska. For the second consecutive year, an international team of scientists successfully tagged endangered whales off Sakhalin Island and the team is now tracking the animals via satellite.
The western gray whale population is listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM. The estimated population size in 2010 was about 136 whales, including only around 30 mature females. Little is currently known about the migration routes and wintering areas of this population. Knowing more about their movements will make it easier to develop appropriate conservation measures.
Six whales have been tagged this year, but only Agent and Varvara are still being tracked; the other tags presumably came off. So far, they are following the same path as Flex, the male western gray whale that was tagged and tracked in 2010.
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This article appeared in the March 2012 issue of Sojourners magazine
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the sake of the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider Jesus, who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you may not grow weary or lose heart. —Hebrews 12:1-3
Are there any remaining glimmers of hope in politics today? Such questions seem to me to be absolutely connected to the passage from the letter to the Hebrews. One thing that it says to me is that we do not have the luxury of falling into despair. There are too many folks who have fought too long and given too much and found their way through too many disappointments and seeming failures for us to say, oh, it just didn't work, and, I'm finished with that stuff.
When you're surrounded by Fannie Lou Hamer and Amzie Moore and Septima Clark and Malcolm X and Martin King and Ella J. Baker, and when you take seriously those lives and the thousands like them, then it seems to me that the first response to what we've been through in these last few years is the question that one of my friends said she is always asking: What is the gift? For she assumes that life is full of gifts, sometimes absolutely disguised gifts. She assumes that whatever we are in the midst of, especially when it's fear-provoking and despair-encouraging, it is so necessary, so important, to keep asking, "What is the gift here?"
I am reminded of something that one of the great residents of Washington, D.C., used to say back in the '70s, when he was getting very old and getting even spicier in his capacity to speak the truth. Thurgood Marshall, our first African-American Supreme Court justice, used to say, "Just think of it: Those slave owners and slave traders said they were building a democracy. They didn't know anything about building a democracy. What do slave owners and slave traders know about building a democracy?" But he didn't stop there. He said, "What that means is that every generation since then has got to do the job that they couldn't do, that they weren't qualified to do. We have to build that democracy that does not yet exist."
We started with a beginning that was essentially flawed—trying to put together democracy and slavery, trying to put together democracy and capitalism. And, praise God, some of us crazily trying to figure out how to put together democracy and following Jesus. That's where we are.
We are in a fascinating, powerful, and perplexing time. My assumption is that's why we were created with such tremendous capacities: to deal with perplexing situations. That's why some of us believe that there is within us the creative power of the universe, that God dwells in us. Now, what's the point of God dwelling with us if we don't have any tough jobs to do? God's wasting God's time, if there is no tough stuff to work on. For me, right now, the building of a democracy called America is the toughest job that we have to work on. The stuff that we are going through now is part of the context, part of the material that's here for us.
One of the critical parts of the material that we have to work on is the gift of being taught that, in a true democracy, it is absolutely dangerous to focus our hope and attention on one elected official. Democracy is meant to build our gifts as the people, to focus our gifts and to bring our gifts in connection with the gifts of the leaders—but never to leave the leaders alone, just because "they are our leaders." That is not democracy. All leadership comes from within.
THE GREAT CLOUD of witnesses that Hebrews talks about includes Mother Jones, who said, "Don't mourn. Organize!" I would say mourn and organize.
As someone who is 80 years old, and a historian of this country and its life, I am constantly living with the reality that this country is just a bit over 200 years old. In the light of human history, that's no time. We are, in a sense, in our childhood as a nation. At best, we are gawky teenagers as a nation. Always wanting everything now. Always overreacting to everything. Two hundred years.
The fact is, it's only been for the last 60 years that we have even begun to commit ourselves to say out loud that we want a multiracial democracy. And so, when it comes to building a multiracial democracy, we are a developing nation, with no authority to bomb democracy into anybody. Because we are trying to figure out right now what it means.
As for the money question, the compassion question, the racial question, now the religious question—all of these are things that we have to take hold of. We should not see them primarily as more burdens, but, "Lord, what a gift you are giving us to try to make a nation out of this stuff. Wow." It seems to me that's the spirit we need to bring. And many ask, How do you struggle when folks are constantly pushing back? I can only say, How else do you struggle? That's what makes struggle—not constant victories, but getting up after you have been knocked down, again and again. That is what makes for your faith in the fact that you are a follower of the One who took up the cause.
I am constantly being reminded of one of my great heroes, W.E.B. Dubois, who was alive and young and full of life in 1896, when the Supreme Court of the United States said it's all right to keep black people over here, as far over here as possible. Out of the mainstream. Dubois was not yet 30. What I know is that Dubois did not stop struggling until he died in 1963. So four years, the period of a presidential term, is nothing. It's breathing time. It's time to get together again and again and say, now, what is the gift? What should we be doing? What should I be doing?
Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children's Defense Fund, is one of those magnificent women who was at the heart of the freedom movement. She has her hands on one of the most critical issues that we are facing now as a nation: what it means to have the kind of poverty rate where more than a fifth of our children are poor.
When Marian was in her senior year at Spellman College, back in 1960, she wrote this in her diary: "Now, as never before, is the chance offered to do something. This is a history-making epoch, where we, me, the young, can be major characters. Now is the time to act, to work, to sacrifice. Life is so pressing. Time is so strained. I'm very frantic in my quest to use it, not to waste it. Now is the time. Each moment must be made to count." She was 21 years old then. She's 72 now, still working at the tasks.
IF THIS PERIOD of blowback over the last few years does anything, it must encourage us to recognize that we are still children when it comes to building a democracy. We've got work to do. It will not come automatically. Nobody—no president—is going to give it to us. We've got work to do, and we've got to figure out how to organize the work. How do we plan for the work? Can it be work done in chapels, as often as we can? Can it be work in places where we live, where we eat together, where we meet together? What is the work that we should be doing?
What we need to know is that those who do not believe in democracy are working. Those who do believe in democracy will not get democracy just by talking about democracy.
I was very glad to be here for Barack Obama's inauguration in 2009. I came here with my mind deeply influenced by Brother Barack's memoir, Dreams from My Father. I believed, and I still believe, that he has within him the capacity to be much more than he has been up to now.
The question is, what do we do now? We know what we shouldn't do now, in terms of dependence on the Democratic Party, as it is, on the president, as he is. How do we move us and them to another place, so that the richest country in the world will not have more than 20 percent of its children in poverty?
We simply have to recognize that we are wrestling with something that is powerful. The gift of that is that we now have the opportunity to see how much power there is in our lives to deal with it, if we will submit ourselves to the magnificent calling:
- that we have to take our lives away from the foolishness that the society wants us to be wrapped up in and to focus ourselves on the building of a new world
- that there is the company of witnesses, the cloud of witnesses
- that there is the loving Master who is available to us
- that there is a community of folks who we will never know until we stand up and say, "I am tired. I am angry. I am beaten. I need some help. Please help me."
We will never find it until we do that work of letting others know that we want to be servants of a new humanity. And then see what the end will be. You've got to just keep at it.
Vincent Harding, author of Hope and History and There is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America, is a Sojourners contributing editor. This article is adapted from a fall 2011 interview with Dr. Harding by Sojourners editor-in-chief Jim Wallis in Washington, D.C.


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She is also a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine.
She and her husband, Chuck Moody, reside in Columbus, Ohio. Buckworth
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Rod K. Dishman, PhD, is a professor of exercise science, adjunct
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About Carolina Ponte
Pattern and repetition are at the core of Carolina Ponte's practice. Though trained as a printmaker, Ponte works primarily in crochet and wet-media drawing, the latter of which falls into two groups, distinguished by composition: one group is characterized by intricate, symmetrical forms based on tapestries or decorative designs; the second group features amorphous forms built up iteratively. Her drawings contain multiple patterns, and typically feature bright colors. Ponte's crochet pieces amount to wall-mounted sculptures or installations, often featuring hanging tubes or nodules of varying stripes and stitches, and sometimes building upon the compositions of her drawings.
Brazilian, b. 1981, Salvador, Brazil, based in Petrópolis, Brazil
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Charleston artist Mary Whyte wasn't thinking much about the direction of her work when she began painting a well-to-do South Carolina banker in 2007.
But by the time she'd finished, she'd shifted her focus from producing a likeness of one of the South's social and economic elites to documenting the near-forgotten ordinary folks trying to eke out a living in some of the region's poorest and most rapidly disappearing occupations.
Spurred by a newspaper article about the closing of a local textile plant, Whyte began talking about the story while her subject posed. And when he replied that most, if not all the mills and the jobs that went with them might be gone within a decade, she couldn't stop wondering about the giant shift that was redefining life across vast swaths of Dixie.
Not long afterward, Whyte began a series of watercolors that took her across 10 Southern states in three years. On each stop in her journey she looked for ways to capture the experiences of common people employed in such iconic but fast-vanishing Southern jobs as tobacco farmers, textile workers, cotton pickers and oyster shuckers.
What resulted from her epic endeavor is the evocative catalog of faces and figures showcased in "Mary Whyte: Working South," a collection of 50 watercolor portraits and drawings that runs through July 7 at the Peninsula Fine Arts Center in Newport News.
Previously on view at such venues as the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston and the Telfair Museum in Savannah, Ga., the traveling exhibit is part documentary record, part elegiac look at many fading ways of life. It's also a convincing demonstration of talent for an artist who knows how to wield a watercolor brush.
"This is a show that should attract artists as well as people who simply like looking at art," Pfac curator Michael Preble says.
"If you like to draw and you like doing watercolors, you need to come and see Mary Whyte's work. It's pretty clear she knows such masters as Wyeth, Sargent and Homer very well, and she combines those influences with an innate talent of her own."
Unusually large, boldly composed and meticulously detailed, Whyte's 2006 portrait "By a Thread" served as both a precursor and inspiration for the series, capturing the likeness of an aging female textile worker as she stands in the middle of a production line and gauges a long thin length of thread.
Head turned to the side — and arms outstretched almost all the way across the painting — her workmanlike gesture takes on a noticeably neo-classical, almost heroic form, transforming the woman into something larger than life. But this big emblematic portrait has a remarkably personal and intimate feel at the same time, in part because of the care Whyte takes in rendering the smallest details of the woman's flowered work smock, her pilled and unraveling woven gloves and her aging skin.
Behind this wonderfully rendered likeness, Whyte conjures up a series of much more quickly and schematically drawn bins of spooled thread, building a dark, near-abstract background for her much more brightly illuminated subject.
But there's just enough information there to keep her sweeping, gesture-filled renderings in check — and balance them off with the much higher degree of detail and realism found in the portrait.
Whyte uses a similar approach in several other masterful paintings, including "Pearl" — a 2009 portrait that depicts an Urbanna oyster shucker — and "Spinner" — a 2007 likeness that explores the tired face and tattered clothing of another South Carolina textile worker.
As in many of Whyte's other images, these subjects look back from the surface directly at the viewer — giving us a chance to gaze into their faces and eyes as well as study their figures.
Other paintings, such as a 2008 portrait of a New Orleans shoe-shine man, offer a broader glimpse of their subject's working environment, in this case a vintage two-seat stand complete with old-fashioned tufted cushions and metal footrests.
But as handsome as this temple of grooming may seem, it also has the worn, frayed at-the-edges look of a relic from times gone by.
Maybe that's why the man is sitting, waiting and reading the newspaper rather than busily perfecting a customer's shoe shine.
Find Erickson's arts stories at dailypress.com/entertainment/arts and Facebook.com/dpentertainment.
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"Mary Whyte: Working South"
Where: Peninsula Fine Arts Center, 101 Museum Drive, Newport News
When: Through July 7
Cost: $7.50 adults, $4 children 6-12
Information: 757-596-8175 or http://www.pfac-va.org
Online: Go to dailypress.com/workingsouth to see a photo gallery of Whyte's work.