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1) "Justified discrimination"
Affirmative action is simply a euphemism for discrimination. AA solves nothing it simply creates the same problem all over again. We should be trying to fix institutionalized discrimination, not adjusting ourselves to it. AA allows for the reverse of a preexisting problem.
1) Affirmative action helps socially excluded groups to preferred positions in society.
Affirmative action would not be necessary if there were no discrimination. This policy only helps minorities from their low socioeconomic statuses and makes education equal. With things such as legacy scholarships factoring one's chance to get in a college, it only makes sense to have AA. Because of discrimination legacy scholarships only apply to people with a higher statuses in the past because minorities could not go to such colleges .Additionally, AA does not just let any minority get into a school or have a job. It gives qualified applicants a chance that they will not have otherwise. Some people treat AA as a free ticket for minorities to get into college, but those people would not have been considered if they did not have good application. AA gives people the education they deserve, resulting in better jobs and in the end improving their life by making things equal.
2) AA helps with discrimination problems we have today
While some may argue there is no discrimination, there certainly is. Black applicants were half as likely as equally qualified whites to receive a callback or job offer. In fact, black and Latino applicants with clean backgrounds fared no better than white applicants just released from prison(http://www.dollarsandsense.org...).The events involving Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Jordan Davis, and Freddie Grey make it hard to deny that discrimination is a difficulty we struggle with today. AA only helps with this trouble we face with by giving these discriminated people a better life.
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The opponent said we should be trying to fix industrialized discrimination and we do: it's illegal to discriminate in jobs. Affirmative action helps by helping minorites into higher postions in society. Affirmative action programs are created in an attempt to make sure that all groups within a given society have the same opportunity to succeed. It adresses the imbalance groups in workplaces. Minorties in lower classes need this opportunity to succed and get a good education that results in a good job that brings in money. The escape of poverty is formed with the help affirmative action.(http://www.cheatsheet.com...)
Affirmative action does not discriminate against whites and it doesn't create quotas. Affirmative action does not put people who are not qualified in college. Affirmative action is a necessary policy in college admissions that combats racial discrimination and the lower class. (http://www.hlntv.com...)
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Reasons for voting decision: Con didn't debate at all and forfeited. All that Con said was that AA is basically a form of discrimination. Didn't explain why and how. Pro explained the benefits of AA which were not rebutted. I don't even know why I'm providing RFD here! Conduct: Con ff. 1 point to Pro Language: it's fine. Sources: Pro provided sources.
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The Federal Reserve Board reported that the nation's industrial production rose by a full 1 percent in September, the largest monthly increase since May 1979. The increase reflected gains in the production of consumer durable goods, particularly automobiles, and construction supplies -- two areas hardest hit by the recession. The 1 percent increase in September follows a 0.6 percent increase in August.
Meanwhile, personal income continued to rise, and for the first time in several months consumer spending increased at a slower rate than income, the Commerce Department said. It reported that personal income increased 0.9 percent in September to an adjusted annual rate of $2.16 trillion. That follows a 0.7 percent increase in August.
The department also said Americans increased their consumer spending by 0.7 percent in September, up $10.9 billion from the previous month. The figures indicate Americans may be spending their money more cautiously and saving more.
The government said the 0.7 percent increase in personal expenditures in September -- a smaller increase than the previous month -- reflected a decline in major consumer purchases such as autos. But purchases of smaller, nondurable items increased $5.6 billion over the month, compared with a $6.4 billion increase in August.

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How Celebrities Celebrated The Fourth Of July
Happy Fourth of July! Some of us were lucky to celebrate with three, four or maybe even five-day long weekends. No matter how long your party, it was probably filled with lots of red, white, blue and good times. Celebrities' Fourth of July celebrations were no different. There were plenty of patriotic colors and fun, along with the occasional adorable animal.
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Shay Mitchell celebrated the Fourth of July and Canada 150 in Mykonos with burgers and themed bathing suits, of course.
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Heading into last week`s District 12-5A high school football games, Lauderdale Lakes` Boyd Anderson had an open road to the championship.
Then they ran into a traffic jam.
Scott Quillen`s Cobras lost to Taravella 26-19 in overtime Nov. 7. That loss, combined with South Plantation`s 21-7 victory over Miramar, resulted in a three-way tie for the district lead between Boyd Anderson (4-1), South Plantation (4-1) and Taravella (3-1).
Tonight at 8 p.m. the three teams will put their shares of first place on the line in three separate district games. Taravella plays Miramar at Coral Springs, South Plantation visits Cooper City and Boyd Anderson visits Coconut Creek.
If all three win tonight, and Taravella defeats Coral Springs on Nov. 22, the three-way tie for the district would have to be decided by a playoff.
``All we`re hoping for is a piece of the pie,`` said South Plantation`s Nunnie Robinson, whose team is 6-2 overall. ``We beat Taravella already and lost to Boyd Anderson. Our last district game is against Cooper City (tonight) and if we win, we`ll be 5-1. I have confidence that we will be.``
Besides Boyd Anderson, Taravella, coached by Ray Buscemi, already has defeated Cooper City and Coconut Creek. The Cobras have district wins over Coral Springs, Cooper City, Miramar and South Plantation.
``We came into the Miramar game knowing that we had to win if we wanted a shot at a tie in the districts,`` Robinson said. ``We want to go into the district playoffs and see if we can`t win it all this year.``
Against Miramar, which was coming off a 33-0 district victory over Cooper City, South Plantation mixed up its offense, scoring two rushing touchdowns and one passing.


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Martinez dismisses Liverpool title chances
Everton boss Roberto Martinez has dismissed Liverpool's Premier League title chances by suggesting the battle for the trophy is down to the top three.
Martinez takes his side to leaders Chelsea on Saturday looking to become the first manager to inflict a Premier League home defeat on Jose Mourinho.
As far as the Everton boss is concerned, Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester City are the three contenders for the title. That is despite the fact that Liverpool, in fourth, are only a point behind City and four adrift of Chelsea.
Martinez unhappy at FA Cup ticket allocation
- Meanwhile, Roberto Martinez says he is "disappointed" that Everton have been given a reduced ticket allocation for their FA Cup quarter-final at Arsenal. The club have been given 5,186 tickets for the match at the Emirates Stadium on March 8.
- FA Cup rules state that away teams can ask for up to 15% of seats for all ties up to including the quarter-finals, meaning Everton were entitled to 9,000 seats.But Arsenal's Safety Advisory Group has cut that allocation on safety grounds.
- "I'm disappointed, because it's a major, major football event, and we want to have as many fans as we can there," Martinez said."Remember, we are a club with fans who travel in huge numbers. We don't want any sort of disappointment that comes from fans missing out.
- "Obviously, the decision has been taken for safety reasons, and there's not much we can do. "I don't think it's a decision that's been made just for Everton, and for this tie. It's been a general decision, every time there's been a big football event there, that there could be some safety worries.
- "It's disappointing, and I understand the frustration of the fans. It's just about making sure now that the ones who are fortunate enough to be with us have an enjoyable afternoon."
Everton, in sixth place, retain hopes of catching Liverpool and claiming the fourth and final Champions League qualification spot, but would have to make up an eight-point gap to do so.
Martinez did not mention Liverpool by name, but made it clear that he sees the title contest as a three-way battle.
"Nothing is given. There are a lot of points to play for - 39 points for us and 36 for other teams. But clearly, the top three teams are in a very advantageous position to win the title," Martinez said.
"Everyone else will rely on how good they can be now, and how effective they can be from now until the end of the season to see where it can take them. If you look at the table now, you'll see clearly where you are in terms of the aims for the season. You need to be realistic with it.
"The points tally gives you a great starting point. If you look at the points totals accumulated by the top three, they clearly have a great chance to win the title. The next four teams have a great opportunity to get into that fourth place, and then you've got a really decisive battle to try to stay in the division."
Chelsea boss Mourinho has repeatedly played down Chelsea's title chances, even though they are a point clear of Arsenal at the top with 12 games to play.Martinez, for his part, is not buying Mourinho's pessimism.
"From the outside, Chelsea look a team who are capable of competing for the title, in the same way that I can see Arsenal and Manchester City putting forward strong arguments to win the title," Martinez said.
"It's the final third of the season, and now is the time when teams can speak about their aims. When you look at the way teams are playing, and the points tallies they have, it is plain that those three clubs will have clear ambitions to win the title, and rightly so."
Everton have not won a league fixture at Stamford Bridge since November 1994, although they did claim victory there on penalties in a 2011 FA Cup fifth-round replay. No visiting team have managed a league win at Chelsea in either of Mourinho's two spells as manager; the first between 2004 and September 2007, the second beginning at the start of this season.
Earlier this season, though, Martinez guided Everton to a first away win at Manchester United since 1992 - and he believes they are capable of victory at Chelsea too as they bid to bounce back from the 1-0 defeat they suffered in their last league game at Tottenham on February 9.
"I do feel that we've performed really, really well away from home. I don't think it's been a case of not being confident away from home, and not being able to be ourselves. I think we have done that," Martinez said.
"The only thing I would say is that when you play well away from home, you need to get full points. It's no good to go away from home, play well and maybe drop two points, or even - as happened at White Hart Lane - play well and lose.
"I think that's the big difference. If there's one area we want to improve, it's making sure we win when we play well. There are no excuses. From that point of view, this weekend is going to be the biggest test. Chelsea, as you know, have terrific home form - not just this season, but over the years with this manager.
"So it's an incredible challenge that we've got ahead. But we need that. If we go anywhere in the league and play well, we need to collect the points. That's the area in which we need to work to fulfil the potential of this squad."


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Big World, Small Planet: Abundance Within Planetary Boundaries
By Johan Rockstrom and Mattias Klum
Review by David Wineberg
Look at it this way, the authors say: "We (humans) constitute a geological-size force, one even more extensive in magnitude and pace than volcanic eruptions, plate tectonics, or erosion." All of the wealth in the world comes from the Earth, but we are killing the planetary goose that lays the golden eggs.
It has taken the Earth 4.5 billion years to reach this state of equilibrium known as the Holocene era. Balancing the sun's vicious heat on a wobbling, 70% water covered sphere has led it from the tropical to the frozen and back again, countless times. In just the last century, man has thrown a wrench into it. The Earth, showing great resilience, has absorbed far more of the pollutants than thought possible, extending our ability to pollute at will. But it is now at the end of its ability to counter the madness. Wild climate swings are returning, Habitable and agricultural land will shrink as waters rise. The virtuous balance will become a vicious circle of flooding, drought, heatwaves, hurricanes, and dead zones on both land and sea.
This book is a highly organized, clearheaded look at the science. It calculates worldwide production in exajoules, and projects the effects of managing it. Exceptionally clear, bold and colorful charts light the way. The authors show the resilience of the Earth, which constantly ties to return to a balanced position, to hold onto the Holocene environment that has allowed life to thrive. They explain the theory of boundaries, in which the Earth has reached its saturation point for a number of abuses, and can no longer help us continue as we have. This is not some superstorm we have to survive to get to the calm on the other side. The imbalances will play out as massive shifts in climate and storm activity for at least hundreds of thousands of years. It's not nice to fool Mother Nature.
Big World Small Planet suffers from a conflict, a suspension of disbelief. On the one hand, it clearly demonstrates how we have gone too far, and unless we act yesterday, we will have damaged the ecological balance forever. At the same time, it tries to be optimistic and prescriptive, believing we can right the wrongs. Their prescription – cut polluting processes 50% immediately – only allows us to hold the line. And this is after explaining throughout the book that we've crossed the boundaries, that the boundaries were already too generous, and that this must be implemented today, not in 2050 or even 2020 . It is not very hopeful or realistic with the planet divided into 200 selfish fiefdoms, not to mention individual rights advocates who hold to no restrictions on their activities.
The authors say the expected 2.5 billion additional population will result in massive runs on resources, as two thirds of the cities to house the increase by 2030 have not yet even been built. How do they reconcile an immediate 50% reduction in resource production, extraction, consumption and waste with this sort of demand?
They give examples of isolated systems implemented by local governments all over the world: a transportation system here, recycling there, no-tillage agriculture elsewhere. But nothing is being done worldwide. The oceans are still acidifying from all the extra CO2 they've been asked to absorb. Carbon in the air is the highest in 800 000 years, well over the authors' prescribed boundary. We have whole countries, notably Australia and Canada, two of the biggest resource dealers, led by climate change deniers. The majority leader of the US Senate has a 50 year record beating back any criticism of coal, the worst of the worst. Special interests are invading the climate conferences, along with the military, who rightly expect wars to break out when we run out of land.
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The 44th president has, as did the 34th president, used his bully pulpit to speak of what Eisenhower referred to as "the chance for a just peace for all peoples."
Eisenhower's presidency began with a speech on the cost of war, when he explained in 1953 that
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people…. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
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Happy October everyone!
Look at this little ham. Seriously, turn on the camera, and he starts posing. Funny guy.
My parents were awesome and let us sleep at their house the week prior to our move. As much fun as boxes are, it was great to have the boys away from the temptation of undoing all my work! So Halloween was a big party for us, a reason to take a little break from the packing and have fun together.
Wesley making some yummy dipped marshmallows with Grandma.
More smiles!
Freddie decided to use the stuffed animal basket like a doggie bed. He's kind of a puppy so it works, haha!
Laundry baskets are somehow the best toy. They become so many things!
Love this picture of him reading in my old doll cradle.
I'm so glad they like books!
Bucket head!
Helping papa on the computer!
Grandma has the magic touch!
Cute pumpkins!
He found a fun little clubhouse under the table!
I love those dimples!
Annual trip to find horse chestnuts.
Reaching the high ones!
One of the local nurseries had a kids activity where they were given bulbs to plant.
Those eyes.
Finished product!
We made bald eagle cookies :o)
Freddie's work!
Wesley's creation
We made time to go to a pumpkin patch. The wheelbarrow rides are always a hit.
Looking for that perfect one.
I'm pretty sure this was the aftermath of him tripping for the nth time over the pumpkin vines. He's not our careful one!
Our cute littlest pumpkin
My boys!
Love that smile. He brings so much joy wherever he goes.
Happy six months to Timothy! It has gone by so fast. He got his first taste of rice cereal. Yum! He was a big fan.
The boys blowing out the candle for Timothy. No, Timothy did not get a cupcake. Yes, the rest of us did. Hey, any excuse for a cupcake!
My mom fulfilled Wesley's greatest wish, and made him his very own captain America costume. Freddie got one too. They turned out amazing! She is ridiculously talented.
Hanging out on the tablets. Even superheroes need a break.
Ready for Action!
More than a handful. I've got an armful!
Our church had a Halloween party and trunk or treat the night before Halloween. It was a lot of fun!
Our kitchen full of boxes. This was just the beginning.
Tough being so cute.
Halloween night we just went around my parent's neighborhood to trick or treat. This was the first year that Wesley was not too shy to say the words, and the Freddie had the vocabulary to really do it himself. Obviously they had a blast! Free candy, dressed up like Captain America. Kid Heaven.
In spite of some constipation issues from the rice cereal, he still managed to have a happy night!
Cake pops!
Before I left, I had the girls over for one last hurrah. We did a favorite things party, and it was really fun. I made everything for a "high tea." Cucumber sandwiches, crumpets, cheese and crackers, fruit, and a hot chocolate bar.
Wesley's artwork.
Brothers hanging out!
And last but not least, I can't get over this kid's morning hair. Totally fits.


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Sunday night is right for Globes
EmptyThe Golden Globes, which have taken place on Monday for the past two years, are moving back to Sunday night.
The 65th annual Golden Globe Awards will be broadcast on Sunday, Jan. 13, by NBC at 8 p.m. EST, the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. said Monday.
The Globes moved to Monday in 2006 to avoid a second head-to-head ratings confrontation with ABC's then red-hot Sunday night lineup, anchored by "Desperate Housewives," which had cut into the Globes' ratings in 2005.
Monday worked equally well for the HFPA since it marked the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, and as a federal and state holiday, it eliminated much of the traffic at the intersection of Wilshire and Santa Monica boulevards, allowing the authorities to set up traffic patterns to accommodate the show at the Beverly Hilton.
But in 2008, the King observance will take place a week later than usual on Monday, Jan. 21. Since the HFPA did not want to hold its ceremony that late, it opted to move to Jan. 13 and not Jan. 14, since the latter is a regular workday, and the weekday traffic along the Wilshire corridor would collide with that generated by the event.
Although the networks have not yet announced their schedules for next season, ABC's Sunday night lineup, which still boasts "Housewives," has been showing some weakness, while NBC's Monday night lineup, which includes "Heroes," has picked up strength.
"I really believe we can hold out against whatever lineup is on Fox and certainly on ABC and CBS," HFPA president Philip Berk said of the return to Sunday. " 'Desperate Housewives' doesn't have the same impact it had. It does seem that Sunday night is not insurmountable."
By picking Jan. 13 instead of the King holiday on Jan. 21, the HFPA avoided one other conflict. This year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will announce its Oscar nominations on Tuesday, Jan. 22 at 5:30 a.m. PST. If the Globes were held the night before, with parties going into the wee hours, the town would have probably witnessed a mass publicists meltdown with the Globes segueing into the Oscar noms.
Other key dates for the 65th Golden Globes include Dec. 10, the deadline for nominations ballots; Dec. 13, the noms announcements.


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Using both MobileMe and Gmail, or Google Accounts and Exchange, or any mix of multiple accounts on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch and curious how to reduce the clutter by linking them into a single, unified entry? It's easy to do, provided the contacts meet a few simple formatting criteria. We'll show you how, after the break!
Let's say you have a colleague who's also a friend. You have his home contact information syncing with MobileMe and his business details syncing in Exchange. It's handy to keep them separate in theory but it's annoying to have them that way on your iPhone or iPad in practice. Here's how you can link the contacts to unify the entry:
- Make sure you've set up more than one account on your device
- Make sure the accounts are setup to sync contact
- Make sure both accounts have the same contact (i.e. if the contact is only in one account, even if it's duplicated in one account, you can't link them -- you have to have the same contact in two or more different accounts)
- Make sure the first and last name is identical names. Edit to remove minor variations if you have to (i.e. initial vs. first name).
- Select the first of the two contacts
- Tap edit
- Scroll to the bottom
- Tap Link Contact (iPhone) or the silhouette icon (iPad)
- Select the second contact
- Tap link
- That's it, they're linked!
You now have a single, linked contact and Unified Info will be shown on the top bar to remind you when you view it.
If you want to unlink a contact:
- Select the unified contact you want to unlink
- Tap edit
- Scroll to the bottom
- Tap the red circle
- Tap the read unlink button to confirm
- And they're unlinked
Bonus Tip: If you have one account set up on your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, and then add another, iOS will automatically link any accounts that have identical names -- so you may already have linked accounts.
If you have any other cool contact tips to share with us, drop them in the comments!
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Oxford, Miss.
I HEARD them before I saw them: the sound of the engine, the car horn playing "Dixie." It was 1982, and I stood outside Deaton Hall, my dormitory at the University of Mississippi, as a Jeep full of young men waving a Confederate flag the size of an afghan cruised by, threw a smaller flag at my feet and yelled, "Nigger, pick it up!"
What I couldn't know at that moment was that Ole Miss and I were coming of age. Earlier this year, as I celebrated my 50th birthday, I was struck by the fact that I shared this milestone with the 50th anniversary of integration at my alma mater. Although the institution opened its doors in 1848, in many ways, we have grown up together.
The university that was for so long synonymous with violence and racial hatred, and I, an African-American woman and a native Mississippian, are linked as is everything here by the past, which regularly rises to meet us. I am who I am in part because of what I learned here, and ultimately because 50 years ago this week James H. Meredith braved a deadly riot of angry whites, described by historians as the last battle of the Civil War.
The university's evolution from war to reconciliation in a span of 50 years is a human triumph. This is not to say that it has become a racial and social utopia; that was never anyone's goal, anyway. Nevertheless, Ole Miss is a modern-day history lesson in what is possible.
And like all places defined by their history, it is a land of contradictions. The monument to Confederate dead, which stands at the center of the campus, is just a short walk to the statue of Mr. Meredith. The William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation, which aims to "foster reconciliation and civic renewal wherever people suffer as a result of racial discrimination or alienation," found a home in Vardaman Hall, named for James K. Vardaman, one of the most virulently racist politicians in the history of a state riddled with them.Continue reading the main story
Those contradictions have been underlined by "Opening the Closed Society," a yearlong celebration of the anniversary of integration. The title alludes to the 1964 book "Mississippi: The Closed Society," by James W. Silver, an Ole Miss history professor who drew the wrath of much of the state with his outspoken support of racial equality. Mr. Silver befriended Mr. Meredith at Ole Miss, and finally resigned amid death threats and isolation.
William Faulkner, Mr. Silver's friend and fishing buddy, is here, too, his words emblazoned on a wall inside the university library: "I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail."
Those words might well have been on the minds of the small population of black students who provided the first real test of integration at Ole Miss, in 1970. Eight years after Mr. Meredith arrived, they still faced daily hostility from their white classmates.
When appeals to the administration were ignored, the students put together a list of demands. After a peaceful protest, they were met by police officers, who filled local jails with most of the black student body before sending the overflow to Parchman Farm, an infamously brutal state penitentiary.
Eight students were expelled, including Donald R. Cole, now assistant provost and associate professor of mathematics at Ole Miss, who spent two nights in jail. A quiet, friendly Southern gentleman, Mr. Cole received his doctorate in 1985, after having been readmitted without fanfare.
"To understand the world," Faulkner once said, "one must first understand a place like Mississippi." He understood the contradictions of Southern society firsthand, but also the fact that as foreign as the state and the university may have seemed to the outside world, they were a great and at times terrifying human experiment.
That experiment was still continuing when I arrived in 1980. While 1962 was about the right to an education, the early 1980s were about the desire to truly participate in university life.
I saw firsthand the hatred unleashed when the school's first black cheerleader, John Hawkins, refused to carry the Confederate flag across the field at football games. He was met with bags of hate mail and death threats. White students wielding rocks and bottles took aim at his fraternity house.
The Ku Klux Klan visited Oxford several times during my years at Ole Miss, changing into their robes and hoods across the street from campus. And yet in a sharp contrast to 1962, a small group of whites and blacks formed a counterprotest.
In February of this year I attended the three-day Black Alumni Reunion. Many of the graduates now have children who are themselves graduates of or students at Ole Miss. A record crowd made the pilgrimage for this 50th anniversary. Proudly wearing Ole Miss garb, recounting their children's accomplishments, many of these professionals are avid supporters of the university.
It all seemed so ... normal. More than 40 years later, Mr. Cole said, "demands" that seemed insane at the time — integrated sports teams, removal of the Confederate flag and other divisive symbols, black professors — have been met. As I stood chatting with old friends, I was startled to see a big black bear dressed in an Ole Miss jersey waving and coming toward me. Colonel Rebel, the beloved school mascot, has been replaced by the Ole Miss Black Bear. (Students do still elect a young man to serve as "Colonel Rebel" alongside the homecoming queen; this year he will take the field with the first elected African-American queen.) The student body president is an earnest, bubbly, pearl-wearing black woman, who is also a member of Phi Mu, a white sorority.
Last year, on a different trip to Ole Miss, I was asked to share my memories in a videotaped interview. After the interview, a young white man, the student who had been behind the camera, approached me with an outstretched hand.
"I just want to say thank you for what you did for us," he said. Though my first reaction was to say that my contribution would hardly register on anyone's list of great civil rights accomplishments, I was gratified by his realization that the changes had been for him, too.
As I look back on a half century, the stages of the journey are clearer. I have reconciled with Ole Miss, as perhaps it has done with me.
At 50, I am part of a generation of African-Americans who were not Medgar Evers, James Meredith, Martin Luther King Jr. or countless others whose names we'll never know. We did not take the beatings, feel the sting of the hoses, endure a thousand and one indignities as we lived our daily lives. We are old enough to have attended segregated schools by law, to have felt the tug of fear and angst before we could explain it. Yet we are young enough to have college educations we needed only to apply ourselves to achieve, to own iPhones on which we can read news of a president who looks like us.
We have a front-row seat at American history, with a debt we can never repay no matter our achievements. We are like refugees, not from another country but from another time, carrying memories that propel us forward.Continue reading the main story


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Labor Day celebration in Mount Carmel, Illinois. A floral float passes in a parade. People stand beside a road and watch the parade. Men walk in the parade. A float depicts work of washer-men. Peace written on one of the floats. An old man watches the parade. Ford carriers company float. A woman dressed as the Statue of Liberty stands on a float. A man addresses. 'God bless America' written on the podium.
Scenes of city. Troops in a military van. The van stops and the troops get out of the van. Soldiers go down in mines. Soldier and miner welding. Miners share their lunch during mealtime. Speakers address the community. State Secretary of Mines meets miners. A man standing on a carriage full of anthracite coal. Scene of coal in a factory. (World War II period).
South American heavyweight, Arturo Godoy in Carmel, New York. Arturo Godoy practices for a boxing Championship. Arturo on a field with a trainer. He practices boxing on punching bag.
Mounted police keep order at edge of thousands of people packed into times Square in Manhattan, New York City on election night, November 5, 1940. Marqee and lights of Hotel Astor seen in background. lights shine on sign with image of Uncle Sam calling for "No Third Term! Democrats Willkie." Lights moving with message across the Times building spell out: "McNary concedes the re election."(News refers to Charles L. McNary, vice Presidential candidate on the Republican ticket, with Wendell Wilkie.) People in crowd wave hats and make lots of noise. Photographer's lights illuminate various sections of the crowd who react by waving arms and hats. Marquee of Loew's Criterion movie theater in background shows Robert Montgomery starring in a movie and displays banner beneath, advertising "Latest War News."
Crowds in Times Square, Manhattan, New York City, on election night, November 5, 1940, gathered to watch returns displayed on the Times Building. View of people in crowd, illuminated by search light beam as they cling to a street sign post. Behind them can be seen lights of the Rialto Theater and various other neon signs.Men are seen on elevated platform, maneuvering search lights to shine on various parts of the crowd. A sign showing Uncle Sam and message: "No third term." People in crowd milling about. Marquee of New York movie Theater. Mounted police thinning out the crowd in places. Moving lights on Times building report results from Hudson County, New York. And they spell out:"Roosevelt leading in States having a total electoral vote of 442." "McNary concedes." "Wilkie retired at 1:30 AM with announcement he would have no further statement until he awakened." Part of another announcement reads:"Republican leader refuses to concede election."
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Eric Wickenheiser was in Germany recovering from an assault when he signed up for today's intermedix Ironman 70.3 triathlon.
"I figured to get motivated to heal," said the North Augusta resident.
He had been overseas for training with his company, MTU Diesel, when he was "jumped."
Wickenheiser spent two weeks in ICU recovering, but shortly after he arrived home he began training for the event.
For two months, he has been swimming at Lake Thurmond, running along the Greeneway and biking on a hilly bike path near his home.
At Saturday's Ironman Expo at the Augusta Convention Center, he lay on a table at the Elite Health Solutions booth while Dr. Josh Mason applied the Active Release Technique to his calf muscle to soothe a sore knee.
"What this does is releases fascial adhesions within the soft tissues that can restore normal motion, and can remove restrictions around nerves. It can improve their motions and their efficiency and their ability to move," Mason said.
Hundreds of people poured into the convention center to complete their registration for today's event, and to pick up their registration packets. They and their support groups then shopped vendors selling everything from protein bars to compression socks to shadow boxes.
At noon, competitors gathered for a briefing about the race.
While her husband, Alvaro Velez, took their son Sebastian, 1, to the meeting, Laura Velez entertained the couple's other son, 4-year-old Andy, in a less crowded section of the expo.
Alvaro Velez competed in the event two years ago, but the heat slowed him down near the end of the running portion, Laura Velez said.
"We're going to have really nice weather this year, which is nice," she said.
Laura Velez said she isn't sure whether downtown Augusta is just nicer than she remembered, or whether it has improved, but she enjoyed seeing artwork along Broad Street.
She said she is looking forward to cheering her husband on from the sidelines as he runs through downtown today.
"It's a very important event, and not everyone is capable of doing something like this, so I feel very proud of him being able to do it and do it well," she said.


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Here is a brief list of people who have said that President Trump's allegation that President Barack Obama ordered a wiretap of Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign is simply not true:
1. Devin Nunes
The Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, who has been one of the few defenders of Trump's claims, made clear today that there is zero evidence to suggest Trump Tower was wiretapped.
"I don't think there was an actual tap of Trump Tower," said Nunes. He added that if you are taking Trump's tweets literally - which he said you shouldn't do - then "clearly the President was wrong".
2. James Clapper
The former director of national intelligence made clear in an interview with NBC's Chuck Todd that no wiretapping happened. "There was no such wiretap activity mounted against the President, the President-elect at the time, or as a candidate, or against his campaign," Clapper said.
3. Former President Barack ObamaHe also offered a total and unequivocal denial that a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Act (FISA) warrant had been issued to create such a wiretap.
In a statement issued via a spokesman shortly after Trump tweeted the wiretapping allegations, Obama said: "A cardinal rule of the Obama Administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice. As part of that practice, neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any US citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false."
4. James Comey
The FBI director, who is set to testify on Capitol Hill on the matter on March 20, was so outraged by Trump's allegation that he pushed, unsuccessfully, to have the Justice Department publicly refute it. The New York Times wrote:
"Mr Comey's request is a remarkable rebuke of a sitting president, putting the nation's top law enforcement official in the position of questioning Mr Trump's truthfulness. The confrontation between the two is the most serious consequence of Mr Trump's weekend Twitter outburst, and it underscores the dangers of what the president and his aides have unleashed by accusing the former president of a conspiracy to undermine Mr Trump's young Administration."
Against such strong denials from people in a position to know, the White House has offered up, well, not much. Trump has largely gone silent since making the allegations 10-ish days ago. His White House senior aides have been backpedaling; the latest being White House press secretary Sean Spicer's decidedly-odd argument that "wire tapping" and wiretapping are simply not the same thing. (Breaking news: They are!)
As I wrote at the time that Trump levelled these very serious allegations: The burden of proof was on him. To suggest that a former President orchestrated a listening programme using the tools and resources of the federal government during a heated national campaign is a big charge. To do so without providing evidence - then or now - is eye-popping.
The repercussions of such charges should be serious. After all, this is conspiracy theorising at the top levels of government. But they almost certainly won't be, as a Republican Congress is unlikely to scold a Republican president so new to the White House. And Trump, if past is prologue, will somehow declare victory and move on.
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Thursday, 10 November 2016
Roasted Aloo Gobi Salad
What elevated this salad was the seeds, especially the Kolonji, onion seeds known these days as nigella seeds.
We ate this Roasted Warm Aloo Gobi Salad with a little drizzle of tangy tamarind sauce or even mango sauce if you prefer sweetness. The seeds added both spice and crunch. There was also crunch from the curly kale that crisped up in the oven, but if you still want additional texture maybe some poppadom crisps or pitta chips. I was thinking about tinkering with this further by throwing in some chickpeas, but decided against it as I was concerned they would have dried out too much, but popping beans are quite trendy at the moment - so I was kicking myself after, so maybe next time.
Vegan Mofo prompt today is Fusion Food. This Warm Aloo Gobi Salad is essentially a Aloo Gobi Curry or even Bombay Potato - what makes this fusion is that it is baked in the oven, turned into a warm salad.
Roasted Aloo Gobi Salad
Serves 4
1 red onion, thickly sliced
200g new potatoes, parboiled
1 large cauliflower, broken into florets
2 tablespoon olive oil
1 teaspoon ground turmeric
Optional: 1/2 teaspoon chilli flakes or ground chilli
1 teaspoon cumin seeds
1 teaspoon nigella seeds
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
Salt and pepper to taste
Handful of curly kale, stalks removed
In a wide bowl, toss in the vegetables (except for the kale), oil and spices and stir well to coat.
Transfer to a baking tin.
Roast in oven gas mark 4/180oc for 30 minutes or until tender.
Then stir in the curly kale.
Taste and adjust seasoning if necessary, then return to oven and cook for a further 10 - 15 minutes until crisps.
Serve immediately with optional mango chutney, tamarind sauce.
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I love cauliflower!ReplyDelete
This salad looks so good. :)
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Thank you Adi.Delete
I didn't know nigella seeds were onion seeds! You taught me something today 😄ReplyDelete
This looks delicious. I love cauliflower and curries.Replies
Thanks ChelseyDelete
Heaven, heaven, heaven. I remember my dad making gobi aloo saag when we were kids, and it's still one of my favourite dishes of all time - this reminds me of that, and it looks delicious!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Joey.Delete
This salad style was a nice change and much more lighter to eat too
great idea - roasted vegies are so yummy and your spicy additions sound interesting (though no chilli for me please)ReplyDeleteReplies
You can def. reduce the chilli or sub it with black pepper!Delete
Great fusion! This sounds like a wonderful salad with so many flavours =)ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you Kimmy, it made for a changeDelete
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This Thoughtbot review gives the reader a clear understanding of the idea of the company and the services it renders.
The company is a team of experts engaged in consulting services related to mobile applications. The team numbers about 90 people. And they have such sub-branches: ThoughtbotLondon, Thoughtbot San Francisco, Thoughtbot Boston, etc.
As it was mentioned above the company does consultations on mobile and web applications that run on Android and iOS and Ruby on Rails respectively. Thoughtbot work with firms or organization that design new products or try to introduce new type of service but their future still looks vague. However, their customers must be enthusiastic about updating and promoting their products. Usually, these companies expect user feedback and hope to receive test models as soon as possible.
Thoughbot.com review emphasizes that this expert team does lot of types of mobile development. And when they say Mobile they don't apply to apps, but to their users. They are engaged in developing and designing the software the every aspect of which is customer-friendly.
The Android applications of the company are all native, meaning they do them with Java. Special guidelines are strictly observed by the Thoughtbot designers. And the developed app is placed in Good Play without any problems.
Swift, Objective-C and Xcode are the tools used by the company's employees to develop iOS software. The completely exclude the use of any other developer's platforms while writing the app. Such policy ensures the use of latest Apple updates of technology when it is released.
Thoughtbot team uses a variety of developing methods, many of them are based on material describes in a special guidebook. It is called Extreme Programming Explained and is one of the flexible methodologies for software development. 25 years passed since the book was first published, but it does not loses its actuality and popularity among experts. For a better quality of work the developers of the company uses XP experiences.
For any developer it is very important to design a qualitative and secure product, and makes its cost lower to be compatible at the market. All these can be achieved by using Ruby on Rails in development process, which is done by the Thoughtbot. The effectiveness of work of the company is proved by the numerous satisfied customers.
When doing the Thoughtbot.com review it was noticed that not only they use Ruby/Rails while developing a tool, but also take advantage of other frameworks and languages which include Python/Jango, React, Go, etc.
The team undoubtedly pays a lot of attention to attractive deign of their software, as this Thoughtbot review shows. They make all the way from A to Z, from sketching the idea down on a piece of paper to coding the design in the app. They always make the research to get the users opinion.
Design sprints of Google Ventures assist is realizing the experience of user and defining the points of the product that are to be perfected. Once it is done, the customer is given a prototype that was utilized for interviewing.
Thoughtbot testing and researching are carried out to define the possible problems that user may face when dealing with the app and eliminate them, as well as to see which features should remain and wish are not really necessary.
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Soothing the Elites
The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University
By Louis Menand
W.W. Norton, 2010
Like the novel or the morals of teenagers, higher education is always in crisis. A quick overview of recent titles from across the political spectrum includes Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More, University, Inc: The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education, The Quiet Crises: How Higher Education is Failing America, Declining by Degrees: Higher Education at Risk, not to mention the more overwrought titles like David Horowitz's The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America.
By comparison, the biggest surprise of Louis Menand's short volume, The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University, is its measuredness. Adapted from a series of lectures delivered at the University of Virginia in 2008, the book isn't the polemic or set of proscriptions we might expect from the title. Instead, each chapter traces the background and history of various issues, outlining their evolution rather than railing against their deficiencies. Three chapters address the content and boundaries of disciplines – what kind of general education universities should provide, the role of the humanities, and the question of interdisciplinary curricula. Menand offers a lucid and readable account of these issues, along with a range of intriguing historical facts. He also unpacks a number of lazy clichés, ranging from how an undergraduate degree became a prerequisite to law and medical school to the crucial point that so-called "looser" standards in various disciplines have actually led to higher demands for the completion of the PhD. Along the way are a few tantalizing ideas and implied proposals, as in his outline of how academic and professional curricula might enrich one another:
Almost any liberal arts field can be made non-liberal by turning it in the direction of some practical skill with which it is already associated…. But conversely, and more importantly, any practical field can be made liberal simply by teaching it historically or theoretically.
Despite this measuredness, however, the more contentious background to Menand's arguments frequently seeps through. While other hot-buttoned cultural issues have replaced the debates over the canon that flooded universities and the popular media in the eighties and nineties, Menand seems on the defensive about the changes that took place during those eras. He makes a point of emphasizing that theory and post-structuralism had undone the assumptions of the humanities before the "politically consequential critiques" of feminist, post-colonial, and queer theorists. His larger point – that the academic models of the post-war so-called "Golden Age" of higher education during which universities expanded at unprecedented rates were anomalous – is well taken. But in making it, he leaves out part of the story. In fact, conservatives in the eighties and nineties weren't wrong to talk about the connections between these transformations and the political upheavals of the sixties and seventies. The creation of Black Studies programs came about largely due to the activism and sit-ins of students at institutions ranging from Cornell University to San Francisco State, and the founding generation of Women's Studies was, in fact, organically linked to the evolution of second-wave feminism. Menand rightly points out that curricula during the "Golden Age" was neither inevitable nor unshaped by politics, but his account of more recent developments suggests the extent to which conservative charges of a politicized curriculum have succeeded in placing even mainstream progressive arguments on the defensive.
The title of the fourth chapter, "Why Do Professors All Think Alike?," suggests that here Menand will more directly confront the politicized questions that shape so many discussions of academia. Instead, something potentially more interesting but also stranger takes place. He begins with an overview of a 2007 study of the views of over 600,000 academics. Unsurprisingly, the numbers reveal that academics are, by and large, not the wild-eyed radicals David Horowitz has made a career of "exposing" but mainstream liberals. Then, instead of considering whether or not this is a problem and, if so, what should be done about it, Menand shifts to a discussion of the issues surrounding graduate education. The basic facts will likely be familiar to current or recent graduate students: graduate school takes longer to complete than ever before, especially in the humanities, nearly half in some fields like English drop out before completion, and many of those who do finish will not find tenure-track positions. To his immense credit, and unlike many critics, Menand recognizes that making graduate school more demanding or raising barriers of entry will only exacerbate the problem. Instead he suggests a shorter time to degree, with the completion of an academic article taking the place of the dissertation. He argues this on humanitarian grounds, but then notes the institutional pressures that demand a large pool of graduate students and underemployed PhDs as cheap labor. As if acknowledging the intractability of this situation, he shifts the argument again, suggesting that the long time to degree should be a concern because of the barriers to entry this creates to the profession. This is an essential point; however, rather than suggest that this would help academia attract more scholars from poor or working class backgrounds, more scholars of color, or more women (and men) turned off by the sacrifices to family and personal life represented by a ten year stay in graduate school, Menand returns to his starting point and argues that a more flexible model would diversify the political views of academics.
At first I was perplexed by the chapter's two-step, starting with the "problem" of liberalism that may or not be a problem, then presenting the real problem of graduate education as a way of solving it. Then I started to wonder about Menand's audience – not so much readers of his book but the faculty – and, perhaps, administrators – to whom he originally delivered these talks. Did he think they were likely to be indifferent to appeals to humanitarian treatment of young scholars or to calls for greater equality in access (old news) but sensitive to charges of liberal bias (also old news, but tapping into academics' seemingly bottomless capacity for self-flagellation)?
Like most recent graduate students, I can imagine this scenario, as I've sat in on many variations of this discussion, and read more than a few of the legion of articles devoted to these questions. Recently, however, I've found myself more and more impatient with their arguments. It's easy for me to understand why: I've spent the past four and half years teaching at community colleges. From the perspective of my daily life in the classroom, Menand's framing of the issues seem more than a bit tangential, centered as it is around a hypothetical student who is less and less typical – a recent high school graduate secure enough in a middle-class future to brave four years of being asked just what it is she plans to do with that art history degree and likely to return to graduate or professional school in order to secure that future. By contrast, more and more college students are not eighteen to twenty-one. They are first generation immigrants or laid-off workers. They hold down jobs and go to school at night. More and more are taught by graduate students or part-time faculty who shuttle between campuses. Even those who are recent middle-class high school students are less likely to pursue a liberal arts path – understandably so, considering the pressures aligned against them: the stagnant wages of the past three decades, the need for a health-insurance-bearing jobs, the increasing cost of college and the resulting debt burdens carried by most graduates.
Menand knows all this, of course, but he quickly sets it aside:
Like most people who write about American higher education, I focus on what is in reality a very thin slice of the whole – undergraduate and graduate education in the liberal arts and sciences…. Most of what I have to say concerns higher education as it is experienced by the history major, rather than the business major, and most of my examples are taken from elite liberal arts institutions. This is because, historically, the elites have had the resources to innovate and the visibility to set standards for the system as a whole, but there are many institutions for which the problems I discuss are either irrelevant or non-problems.
Unstated here are other likely reasons for this focus. Most academics (and many journalists who cover higher education) attended elite liberal arts colleges or research universities. For academics, undergraduate and graduate school most often amounts to over a decade of acculturation into the ways and concerns of these institutions, much of it spent working towards the goal of being accepted to another elite institution as a faculty member. Many will end up teaching at large public universities, at non-elite private schools, and at community colleges. Many will seek out this work, find much of value in it, and discover different ways of thinking about colleges. Most will, however, be too busy teaching to write books about the state of higher education.
At the end of his introduction, Menand notes, "The modern American higher education system was and remains a great social accomplishment. It can handle a few questions." But, like the great accomplishment of our health care system, its availability to anything more than an elite is far from guaranteed. The University of Virginia, where Menand delivered his lectures, is public largely in name only, receiving only eight percent of its revenue from the state. The crisis at the University of California, which, as The New Yorker recently reported, has laid off two thousand staff since Governor Schwarzenegger cut its budget by $637 million, is only the most striking case of the threat to public higher education. Menand's acknowledged focus on elite research universities masks this wider context. Community colleges – which enroll nearly half of today's undergraduates and where many of Menand's PhDs will go on to teach – go largely unmentioned, as they do in so many discussions of higher education. (Whether the Obama administration's stated interest in and commitment to community colleges will change this remains to be seen.) After the overheated debates of the eighties and the nineties, it's easy to understand Menand's desire for a measured, understated history of these issues. Today, however, with public universities – and, by extension, the possibility of higher education for any but the privileged few – on the chopping block, finding smart dispassionate critiques like Menand's may be less helpful than what has been harder for the university to produce: advocates and defenders.
Laura Tanenbaum is an Assistant Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, in New York. Her fiction has recently appeared in failbetter and Steel City Review, and she is a founding editor of the on-line literary journal Vibrant Gray.


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What are some of the sights to see and places to stay for a 60ish single guy in mid-November? I know about the Harley Davidson Factory tour which I plan to take. Anybody been there? Also interested in the blues and jazz and local history of Kansas City. Are there economical hotels near union station? Thanks.
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Posted 27 October 2013 - 09:39 AM
Posted 27 October 2013 - 02:14 PM
What are some of the sights to see and places to stay for a 60ish single guy in mid-November? I know about the Harley Davidson Factory tour which I plan to take. Anybody been there? Also interested in the blues and jazz and local history of Kansas City. Are there economical hotels near union station? Thanks.
I suggest you use a Travel Site like Kayak or Orbitz, Booking.com etc. to check out Hotels, I prefer to use them over "Blind" Sites like Priceline/Hotwire etc. cause you get to see Pics/Locations/Reviews etc. of the Actual Hotels. Union Station itself has a really Nice Train Museum.
Over in the Historic Black Entertainment Center around 14th and Vine is the Jazz Hall of Fame and the Black Baseball League Museum (ie Hall of Fame). They are located in the Same Building for One admission Price1 There are also Blues and Jazz Clubs in the Area and the Original Location of Arthur Bryants Bar-B-Q is also up the Street! Highly Recommended, hop a Cab,, Busses do go there or you can even walk through the "Arts" Diustrict in Daylight, not Recomended at Night!!
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Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,No matter where its going!.." -Edna St. Vincent Millay
Posted 27 October 2013 - 02:47 PM
Over in the Historic Black Entertainment Center around 14th and Vine is the Jazz Hall of Fame and the Black Baseball League Museum (i.e. Hall of Fame).
They actually make the point clear in the museum that they should not be considered a hall of fame -- since the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown is just as much a hall of fame for Negro Leagues players as it is for players in the American and National Leagues.
Posted 29 May 2014 - 01:11 PM
Chipping in my 2-cents for a city that is one of my favorites in the mid-west:
I think the initial question has been addressed, therefore I will simply concentrate on the city itself with some of the things I have enjoyed.
My travels take me to western Missouri somewhere between 8 and 12 times per year by train - the Missouri River Runner from Kirkwood, MO.
Kansas City downtown is pretty much a change in progress with the old and new side-by-side, all competing for the tourist dollar. There are more than enough places to spend your cash - including some gambling on the riverfront.
From downtown along Main Street, you will easily find a vey nicely done complex for shopping and entertainment called Crown Center; built by and named for Hallmark greeting cards. The mall is a multi-level affair with easy access to all floors with scores of shops, eateries and entertainment venues to capture one's interest. Within Crown Center is a walkway to the Hallmark museum - which for many is a highlight. Definitely something to appreciate. Crown Center also boasts an outdoor ice skating rink which in fall/winter reminds me a bit of Rockefeller Center in NYCity. A stretch, but there is a connection of sorts.
Though an elevated walkway one can access the renovated Union Station which today handles daily Southwest Chief and twice-daily Missouri River Runner trains. Depending on what is on tap in the "yard," one might luck out with perhaps a full consist of Kansas City Southern's Southern Belle. A treat by any other name. Lots to take in within Union Station. Also, if you read my latest trip report on the SW Chief, you may want to check out the impressive bronze plaques and sidewalk bricks in the front of the complex.
Within the immediate area is the World War I museum complex; a most impressive monument and place to reflect on what transpired back then to permit so much to continue on.
From the Crown Center area, proceeding south you will come to Country Club Plaza. For my wife and I, this has always been a special place to visit during the Christmas season as all of the buildings of the multi-block outdoor shopping and entertainment district are outlined in lights. Very well done and worth the while to see.
Getting to and from without a car should not be an issue if one wishes to do the North-South visits. There are trams and buses running regularly with seasonal rubber wheeled trolleys available too.
Eating in KCity for us has always included a trip to the Golden Ox restaurant - prime rib is the specialty. It is located directly in front of what was the stockyards and is across the parking lot from Kemper Arena. Private transportation to this place is recommended. The food and ambiance of the restaurant will please even the more critical amongst us. For the rib and BBQ crowd - you will find plenty of offerings throughout the area.
Kansas City - oh yeah, some crazy little women there and I . . . . dream on, eh?
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Lori Levin was pleased, but not thrilled, when she took her child to Stirling Elementary School Wednesday, the first day back from the winter break.
New signs indicated the speed limit on Stirling Road had been reduced from 45 mph to 15 mph in front of the school.
But no notice of the speed limit change was posted on 56th Avenue or Southwest 40th Avenue.
Levin, who has fought for over a year to get the speed limit reduced, believes any tickets motorists receive on those roads will be dismissed in court.
``This is better than nothing, but when you`re going to do a job, don`t do it halfway,`` she said.
Still, other parents, students and police officers said they were pleased that something is being done to reduce the speed limit around Broward County schools.
``I`m glad they`re down,`` said fifth-grader Teresa Kilpatrick, a safety patrol at Stirling Elementary. ``When they`re going too fast, too many people get hurt.``
Signs with flashers also were posted at Margate Middle School and West Atlantic Elementary School in Margate, and Ramblewood Middle School in Coral Springs.
While the number of tickets issued by Hollywood, Margate or Coral Springs police was not available, Broward Sheriff`s deputies handed out at least 12 tickets at Stirling Elementary alone. The area north of the school is in unincorporated Broward County.
Hollywood police officer Tony Rode stopped cars making right turns onto Stirling from 56th Avenue Wednesday as they passed Stirling Elementary.