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Memo to Obama: Closing Guantanamo Can't Wait By Andy Worthington, AlterNet If President-elect Barack Obama truly plans to make good on his promise to close the American gulag, he should start by heeding this advice. Read more »   A disturbing coda to the election of Barack Obama has been a spike in racist hate crimes -- and not just in the South. As Hannah Strange reports this week, "Cross burnings, black figures hung from nooses, and schoolchildren chanting "Assassinate Obama" are just some of the incidents that have been documented by police from California to Maine." In New York, a black teenager said he was attacked with a bat on election night by four white men who shouted "Obama," while in the Pittsburgh suburb of Forest Hills, a black man said he found a note with a racial slur on his car windshield, saying "now that you voted for Obama, just watch out for your house." In Springfield, Massachusetts, a church still under construction that was to house the mostly black congregation of the Macedonia Church of God was burned to the ground. The New York Times described the church's pastor: "Sitting there, stunned, emotional, Bishop Robinson sought context for what had just occurred: a black president is elected, a black church is burned. He thought of dreams realized and dreams denied. 'It was so close I could taste it,' he says. 'I could just see it.'" The good news is that these types of crimes, which did little do intimidate communities of color from voting on election day, reek of the desperation of hate-filled people who cannot cope with their waning influence. The sobering news is that their crimes are an ugly reminder of the work left to be done in creating a more equal and just society. Thanks for reading, Liliana Segura Editor, Rights & Liberties Special Coverage     Obama Victory Brings "Racist Rats Out of the Woodwork" By Hannah Strange, The Times of London UK A disturbing wave of post-election hate crimes across the country shows that the cancer of American racism is far from cured. Read more »   Is the "Turban Effect" the New Bradley Effect? By Tom Jacobs, Miller-McCune.com Two recent studies conducted in two very different settings reveal a disturbing anti-Muslim bias among students. Read more »   How I Spent Election Night in a Baltimore Jail By Michael M. Hughes, Baltimore City Paper On a night of historic celebration, Baltimore city police arrested revelers without cause or provocation. Read more »   "Justifiable Homicides" Are on the Rise: Have Self-Defense Laws Gone Too Far? By Liliana Segura, AlterNet With shoot first/ask questions later legislation passing across the country, are more Americans getting away with murder? 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 »   Could a Person of Color from an Immigrant Family Be Elected in Europe? By Sanjay Suri, IPS News Europe seems to offer neither popular nor political acceptability to members of its minority groups. Read more »   Dick Cheney, Alberto Gonzales Indicted By Grand Jury By Faiz Shakir, Think Progress A South Texas grand jury has returned multi-count indictments against Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Read more »   PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web     Retired Military Brass Call for Repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' By Christian Ehret, Jurist Legal News and Research 100 retired admirals and generals of the U.S military called Monday for a repeal of the discriminatory policy. Read more »   Record Numbers Seek Last-Minute Pardons From President Bush By Matt Corley, Think Progress A record number of felons are seeking presidential pardons or commutations from George W. Bush. Read more »   Why Eric Holder is an Alarming Pick for AG By John Nichols, The Nation For starters, he called for the firing of any "petty bureaucrat" who might dissent from the expansion of government powers after 9/11. Read more »

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420p 11/20 Update: Lost tools don't hamper spacewalk work

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CBS NEWS STS-126 STATUS REPORT: 43
Posted: 4:20 PM, 11/20/08

By William Harwood
CBS News Space Analyst

Changes and additions:

   SR-41 (11/20/08): Spacewalk begins
   SR-42 (11/20/08): Equipment carts relocated; SARJ cleaning resumes
   SR-43 (11/20/08): Stefanyshyn-Piper reports modified SARJ cleaning technique works well

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4:20 PM, 11/20/08, Update: Stefanyshyn-Piper reports modified SARJ cleaning technique works well

Working around lost tools, astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper said an alternative approach, using grease-impregnated wipes to apply a coating of lubricant to a damaged solar array drive gear, works just as well as lubricant from a grease gun to contain debris freed up by a scraper tool.

The success of the alternative cleaning method might make it possible to complete solar array rotary joint cleaning without having to improvise additional tools to take the place of two grease guns that were lost overboard during a spacewalk Tuesday.

"I think both methods are comparable," Stefanyshyn-Piper reported. "I think you get a larger area of grease coverage when you go over with a wet wipe and tamp all over the place. And then for the scraping, you just have to be very careful because you don't have as much grease on the surface to hold things together and so you just have to wipe the scraper tool more often than you did before, because before there was a lot of grease holding debris. But both Steve (Bowen) and I did notice yesterday (Tuesday during spacewalk No. 1) that even as you were scraping there were particles that were coming up and sometimes even a little blob of grease would fly away."

"But you think they both give the same effect in the end?" shuttle pilot Eric Boe asked.

"Yeah. I think this one, like I said, with the blob of grease you get better coverage right underneath where the grease is," said Stefanyshyn-Piper. "But this way, I really made sure I took the grease wipe and really coated the entire outer canted surface and so I got more coverage. Because I noticed something when I was scraping, is that it would be really good right where I laid the bead of grease but you could tell, as I drew the scraper tool over, you could tell exactly where the bead of grease was laid."

"Houston copies and based on what you just said, you're go to use the wet wipe method for the remainder of the EVA," mission control called.

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