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	Charleston.net News Commercial Real Estate Subscribe to the Post & Courier Place a Classified Ad	Sanford's political star rising
			Gov. Mark Sanford won his first national election Friday. By the looks of it, being voted chairman of the Republican Governors Association won't be the two-term South Carolina governor's last ride on the national stage. Sanford was about the only one in political circles who missed the buzz about this future Friday, as the GOP tries to find new leadership to pick itself up from a devastating Election Day defeat.
Enjoy a every Sunday Only In The Post & Courier find locations		A mother's sacrifice Her children's rooms stand empty. Their toys untouched, clothes unworn. Candace Capers has sacrificed living with her three children for the past month so that they might have a better education and, hopefully, a better life. Body identified, husband charged with murder The body of a woman found Thursday in the Congaree River has been identified as former Moncks Corner resident Logan "Pam" Drake Edwards. Police in Waxhaw, N.C., where she lived, have charged her husband, Danny Edwards, 57, with murder, the Charlotte Observer reported. The newspaper said the husband reported his wife missing about two weeks ago but that police think an argument the couple had on Halloween might have led to the killing. Charleston County goes lean The souring economy has claimed another victim. Charleston County government, buffeted by funding cuts and the possibility that tax revenue will be down, is freezing hiring and ordering a 2 percent budget cut for about half of its departments. Office building under stress COLUMBIA â€" Something's not exactly on the level in the South Carolina Senate office building â€" the floor. The six-story Marion Gressette Building, home to 46 state senators, their staffs and committees, is suffering some noticeable structural problems. Walls are bowing, concrete is cracking and parts of some upper floors have a noticeable three-inch slope.
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Economic Death Spiral | Coke-Smuggling Air Marshals | Sex and Sarah Palin

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Our Economy May be in a Death Spiral -- Will Washington Stop the Bleeding? By Joshua Holland, AlterNet The Bush-Paulson plan isn't doing anything to address the underlying problems threatening America's economic future. Read more »   Exposed: Federal Air Marshals Too Busy Smuggling Coke and Molesting Kids to Protect You By Michael Grabell, ProPublica Since 9/11, air marshals have logged an impressive number of hours committing felony-level crimes. Read more »   Finding the Best, Local Food Near You Just Got Easier By Tara Lohan, AlterNet The Eat Well Guide is the best new on-line tool for foodies, farmers, and anyone who cares about sustainable eating. Read more »   Blackwater Busted? Six Guards May Be Charged in Iraq Massacre By Jeremy Scahill, TheNation.com Critics still fear reckless behavior by the 140,000 private corporate contractors in Iraq will continue. Read more »   Why Sarah Palin Fired up the Public's Sexual Imagination By Susannah Breslin, The Frisky From her hairstyle to her politics, America remains obsessed with the female politician who seemingly came out of nowhere. Read more »   Massive 'Homeland Defense' Joint Exercise Is Under Way By Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive Joint military exercise 'Vigilant Shield,' involving maritime, aerospace, ballistic missile defense is under way. Read more »   Larry Summers Out as Obama's Treasury Pick? By Matt Stoller, Open Left Victoria McGrane and Lisa Lerer from the Politico are reporting that Larry Summers is on the outs with Obama's transition team. Read more »   R.I.P.: The Financial Experts, 1929-2008 By Sasan Fayazmanesh, CounterPunch What's the likely fallout of our economic crisis? Nobody knows for sure -- but the economists won't admit it. Read more »   From Baghdad to Brooklyn: My Journey with an Iraqi Refugee By Jennifer Utz, AlterNet From 2007 to 2008, I spent five months in Syria with Mohamed, an Iraqi refugee. Now, we are roommates in New York City. Read more »   PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web     Secretary Of State: Would Hillary Want The Job? By Seth Colter Walls, Huffington Post Clinton insiders weigh in on whether or not the Secretary of State position would be good for Hillary's career. Read more »   Leahy First Democratic Senator to Go On Record Against Lieberman By Amanda Terkel, Think Progress "I'm one who does not feel that somebody should be rewarded with a major chairmanship after doing what he did." Read more »   The Siegelman Case: More Proof That the Bushies Were Up to No Good By Steve Benen, Washington Monthly Karl Rove's fingerprints are all over this thing. Read more »

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	Charleston.net News Commercial Real Estate Subscribe to the Post & Courier Place a Classified Ad	Cougars hold on in opener
			Carolina First Arena is a beautiful new basketball facility, but there was nothing pretty about the College of Charleston's first game in it. The Cougars had a tough time pulling away, but survived 72-66 against Southern Illinois-Edwardsville on Friday night in front of a crowd of 4,582 in the first round of the Charleston Classic.
		High School Coaching: How hard can it be? In my next life, I'm going to be a big-time college football coach. The way I've got it figured, all you have to do is work your way up the food chain for a few years and wrangle one good head coaching job. With the escalation of salaries in today's world, coaches are making millions of dollars a year just to coach football. And they don't even have to win. Swinney not overlooking a vastly improved Duke While the rumors and gossip continue to swirl around who will be the next head football coach at Clemson, there's one item of business that people have seemed to have forgotten this week — the Tigers do have a football game to play. Lost in the growing list of candidates for the Clem... Swinney not overlooking a vastly improved Duke While the rumors and gossip continue to swirl around who will be the next head football coach at Clemson, there's one item of business that people have seemed to have forgotten this week â€" the Tigers do have a football game to play. Lost in the growing list of candidates for the Clemson vacancy is the fact that Duke â€" the Tigers' opponent this afternoon at Death Valley â€" is a vastly improved team under first-year head coach David Cutcliffe.
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			The Boathouse is taking its dining concept across Charleston Harbor to James Island. The local seafood chain, which is owned by the Crew Carolina hospitality group, plans to open on Harborview Road early next year. It will replace Mimi's Creekside, which will stop serving its casual, Sout...
		Boathouse expanding to James Is. The Boathouse is taking its dining concept across Charleston Harbor to James Island. The local seafood chain, which is owned by the Crew Carolina hospitality group, plans to open on Harborview Road early next year. It will replace Mimi's Creekside, which will stop serving its casual, Southern fare Dec. 28. Boathouse expanding to James Is. The Boathouse is taking its dining concept across Charleston Harbor to James Island. The local seafood chain, which is owned by the Crew Carolina hospitality group, plans to open on Harborview Road early next year. It will replace Mimi's Creekside, which will stop serving its casual, Sout... Retail sales dip alarming WASHINGTON — The worst monthly drop on record for retail sales set off new alarm bells about the economy Friday, stepping up pressure on policymakers to figure out how to combat what increasingly looks to be a severe recession. Confronting opposition by the Bush administration, Democ... Retail sales dip alarming WASHINGTON â€" The worst monthly drop on record for retail sales set off new alarm bells about the economy Friday, stepping up pressure on policymakers to figure out how to combat what increasingly looks to be a severe recession. Confronting opposition by the Bush administration, Democrats in Congress said they would try next week to pass $25 billion in emergency loans for the auto industry, so wobbly that one or more of Detroit's Big Three could go under.
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808p 11/14 Update: Shuttle Endeavour roars into space

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CBS NEWS Coverage of STS-126

CBS NEWS STS-126 STATUS REPORT: 13
Posted: 8:08 PM, 11/14/08

By William Harwood
CBS News Space Analyst

Changes and additions:

   SR-10 (11/14/08): Shuttle fueling begins; updated launch time
   SR-11 (11/14/08): Shuttle fueling complete
   SR-12 (11/14/08): Crew on board; weather appears favorable
   SR-13 (11/14/08): Shuttle Endeavour roars into orbit

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8:08 PM, 11/14/08, Update: Shuttle Endeavour thunders into orbit

The space shuttle Endeavour, carrying urine recycling gear, a new toilet, a galley and private crew quarters needed for a space station "home improvement" makeover, flashed to life and thundered into space today, lighting up the night sky for hundreds of miles around as it rocketed away.

With commander Chris Ferguson, pilot Eric Boe and flight engineer Stephen Bowen at the controls, the shuttle's three hydrogen-fueled engines ignited at 120-millisecond intervals, creating a billowing cloud of steam as near-transparent exhaust hit torrents of cooling water. Seven seconds later, after computers verified the engines were spooled up and running smoothly, the shuttle's two solid-fuel boosters ignited with a ground-shaking roar at 7:55:39 p.m., instantly pushing the 4.5-million-pound "stack" skyward.

Trailing 5,000-degree jets of sky-lighting flame, Endeavour majestically vaulted away, rolled about its vertical axis to put the crew in a heads-down position and accelerated downrange, burning up nearly 1.5 million pounds of propellant in the first minute of flight.

Television views from a camera mounted on the side of the shuttle's external tank showed the pad dropping away and, two minutes later, the separation of the spent boosters. Given the lighting of a night launch, there were no obvious signs of foam debris falling away from the huge tank as the ship continued to race toward space on the power of its three main engines.

Eight-and-a-half minutes after launch, Endeavour's engines shut down as planned and 10 seconds after that, latches disengaged and the shuttle separated from the nearly empty external tank. Launch was timed for roughly the moment Earth's rotation carried pad 39A into the plane of the space station's orbit, the first step in a complex rendezvous. At liftoff, the lab complex was passing 225 miles over the Pacific Ocean southeast of New Zealand.

Over the next two days, Ferguson and Boe will fire Endeavour's maneuvering rockets in a carefully choreographed sequence to fine-tune the shuttle's approach to the station, setting up a docking around 5:13 p.m. Sunday.

Joining Ferguson, Boe and Bowen aboard Endeavour were space station flight engineer Sandra Magnus, Donald Pettit, Robert "Shane" Kimbrough and Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper. Ferguson, station-veteran Pettit, Magnus and Stefanyshyn-Piper each have one previous flight to their credit while the rest are shuttle rookies.

"OK, Fergie, the vehicle's in good shape, the weather's beautiful and so on behalf of the entire shuttle launch team, good luck, Godspeed, and have a happy Thanksgiving on orbit," Launch Director Mike Leinbach radioed the crew a few minutes before launch.

"Mike, it's our turn to take home improvement to a new level after 10 years of international space station construction," Ferguson replied. "Endeavour's ready to go."

The primary goal of the 124th shuttle mission is delivery and installation of a new toilet and complex water processing gear designed to convert urine into ultra-pure water for drinking, food preparation, personal hygiene and oxygen generation.

The astronauts also plan to install a new galley and two cabin-like sleep stations that will provide privacy and radiation protection, all part of a long-range plan to boost the station's full-time crew from three to six next year. The expansion requires on-board recycling because rockets servicing the station cannot deliver enough fresh water to support six full-time astronauts.

Magnus, who will replace outgoing station flight engineer Gregory Chamitoff, said building and perfecting a closed-loop life support system is a critical first step toward eventual flights to the moon and Mars.

"When you go to the moon, when you go to Mars, you have to be able to survive more or less on your own resources," she said. "You can't build a system, build a colony, build a life style that's dependent on deliveries from afar. And so you do need to have a system like this, which allows you to be self-sufficient. This is a first step towards that."

But in the near term, she said, the focus is getting the station's system up and running. The fact that the goal is to convert urine to drinking water is purely secondary.

"Yeah, that's part of what we have to adapt to in our new lifestyle," she said. "This is water, OK, yeah, it used to be urine, forget about that part. it's water, it's important, it'll be clean and that's fine. Yeah, there is a certain amount of, I guess you'd call it a yuck factor to it. On top of that, of course, is the fact that (bathroom) ops in space are intensely interesting to everybody on the planet, it's the most popular topic. So there's a lot of interest in this."

In a later interview, she said interest in the water recycling gear is "funny, too, because our planet itself is a closed life support system. And you ARE re-drinking your urine every day, you are re-drinking water that's been recycled, reclaimed and cleansed. But the system is so large and the process, the time cycle for the system, is so long, that people don't realize it. So we're sort of distilling, if you will, the process down into a couple of days or a week that we experience here on the planet naturally. People don't think about it, so the yuck factor is that much more apparent."

Endeavour's launching came five-and-a-half months after the most recent station assembly mission. NASA worked through the summer and early fall preparing to launch the shuttle Atlantis in mid-October on a mission to service and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope. Endeavour was processed in parallel to serve as an emergency rescue vehicle for the Hubble crew in case of problems with Atlantis that might prevent a safe re-entry.

But Hubble Servicing Mission No. 4 was put on hold when an electronic component aboard the observatory failed Sept. 27. Testing a spare unit on the ground and preparing it for flight is expected to delay the Hubble flight to May at the earliest. After assessing a variety of options, NASA managers opted to press ahead with the next two station flights as planned - Endeavour this month and Discovery in February.

Unlike recent station missions that added modules, solar arrays or truss segments to the station, Endeavour's flight is devoted to delivering some 14,400 pounds of equipment and supplies inside a logistics module that will be temporarily attached to the station's central Unity module. The shuttle also will deliver a spare rotary connector that lets huge folding radiators turn to efficiently dissipate heat and bring a depleted coolant system pressurization tank back to Earth.

NASA managers are expected to extend the docked phase of Endeavour's mission by one day to give the combined crews more time to complete the water system installation and activation. In that case, the shuttle crew would undock the day after Thanksgiving and land back at the Kennedy Space Center the afternoon of Nov. 30.

While work is going on inside the station's Destiny laboratory module to install two water recycling system racks, the toilet and the galley, Stefanyshyn-Piper, Bowen and Kimbrough plan to stage four spacewalks to mount the rotary coupler on the station's exterior, to continue outfitting the recently added Japanese Kibo module and to service the lab's degraded right-side solar alpha rotary joint, or SARJ.

The station is equipped with two massive SARJ joints designed to rotate outboard solar arrays like giant paddle wheels, keeping them face-on to the sun as the lab orbits the Earth. The left-side SARJ is operating normally, but the 10-foot-wide drive gear on the right side has suffered serious erosion and degradation on at least one of its three bearing surfaces, subjecting the mechanism to high vibration and generating extensive metallic debris.

To avoid excessive stress and fatigue that might eventually lead to failure, the joint is no longer allowed to "auto-track" the sun and is only repositioned occasionally to improve electrical output.

Based on analysis of collected debris and a trundle bearing removed earlier, engineers believe the problem was caused by a lubrication failure. While the damage is too extensive to fully repair, engineers believe a thorough cleaning, lubrication and replacement of 11 bearings will reduce friction to the point where the joint can be used in a manual mode to improve electrical generation.

"Today, we know we have enough power to do everything we need to do on orbit and protect the payloads with continuous power," said Mike Suffredini, the space station program manager. "But we do know there are periods when we won't be able to do much additional research during those times. And that's where, if we clean it up and it looks really good and the vibrations are low, that will give us that advantage, to be able to auto track sometimes when you need the additional power to keep doing utilization."

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Quick-Launch Web Links:

CBS News STS-126 Status Reports:
http://www.cbsnews.com/network/news/space/current.html

CBS News STS-126 Quick-Look Page:
http://www.cbsnews.com/network/news/space/currentglance.html

NASA ISS Expeditions Page:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/index.html

NASA Shuttle Web: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/index.html
NASA Station Web: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/index.html
Spaceflight Now: http://spaceflightnow.com/index.html
GoogleSatTrack: http://www.lizard-tail.com/isana/tracking/

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Top Ten Sexy Women Over 40 years old - 1. Monica Belucci, 44. - 2. Halle Berry, 42. - 3. Kylie Minogue, 40. - 4. Michelle Pfeiffer, 50. - thedailydust.co.uk

Top Ten Sexy Women Over 40 years old

Who would be in your top ten?

Like a fine wine, some women just get better with age. We've compiled a list of the hottest women over 40 who still give their younger counterparts a run for their money.

10. Elle MacPherson, 44.

Nicknamed "the body" in her modeling days, now a business woman and Director of a surfwear company called Hot Tuna.  The first supermodel to have postage stamps made using her image.  Divorced and recently single and looking for Mr Right..

9. Teri Hatcher, 43.

Rose to fame in the New Adventures of Superman, playing Lois Lane. Now plays Susan Mayer in Desperate Housewives and won a golden globe for that role.  Also divorced and single.

8. Pamela Anderson, 41.

Found fame playing the part as CJ in Baywatch, being a playboy model and of course that video with Tommy Lee.  Married three times, may be single when this reached the press, could be back with any number of rocker-ex boyfriends or husbands.

7. Kim Cattrall, 52.

Brit born actress has been in many movies, most famous for her role as Samantha in Sex and The City and appearances in the Police Academy series.  Married three times and wrote a book about orgasms with an ex-husband.  Currently single.

6. Elizabeth Hurley, 43.

More famous for dating Hugh Grant and wearing THAT dress.  Just make sure you don't watch her movies or it might detract from this foxy English rose.  Married to Arun Nayar, still.

5. Sharon Stone, 50.

Actress that has showed more than most.  Basic Instinct being the film that made her an A-List celebrity, not forgetting the scene with the uncrossing of legs.  Has hinted a being bisexual on many occasions, is now divorced and single.

4. Michelle Pfeiffer, 50.

Perhaps her sexiest role was that of Catwoman in the film Batman returns, her least rmembered role was in Grease 2.  Married twice, and still married to the creator of Ally McBeal, David Kelley.

3. Kylie Minogue, 40.

The singer and actress first shot to fame in Neighbours and reached global fame with the song "can't get you out of my head".  Had breast cancer and took a year off to recover.  Famously dated Michael Hutchence, is now however, single and looking for Mr Right and have babies.

2. Halle Berry, 42.

Been gracing our screens in a wide range of movies, a firm favourite and too many sexy roles to mention here, apart from maybe that Bond scene on the beach.  Married twice, divorced twice, now happy with a guy ten years her junior and the father of her child.  Said to be happy and planning a second child.

1. Monica Belucci, 44.

Many films in many languages, was in two of the Matrix films, recently said ""I love the idea that when a man pays to see one of my films, he's paying me to feel pleasure." That's good enough for us to get her to the number 1 spot.  She is married.

Did we miss anyone in your opinion?  If so, let us know in the comments.

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