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Progressive Revolution: We Can't Afford to Play Small-Ball Politics and Tip-Toe Around Right-Wingers Anymore  

Progressive Revolution: We Can't Afford to Play Small-Ball Politics and Tip-Toe Around Right-Wingers Anymore
By Mike Lux, Wiley
This excerpt from Lux's book, The Progressive Revolution, makes the case that it's time to stop playing into conservative fear games. Read more »

The Bushies Stole Us Blind ... So, How'd You Like Your Beer?  

The Bushies Stole Us Blind ... So, How'd You Like Your Beer?

The insane adventure in national suicide known as the Bush administration is at last coming to an end. Read more »

MLK: Why I Cannot Be Silent  

MLK: Why I Cannot Be Silent

As we face possible military escalation in Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere, King's speech against the Vietnam war is a powerful call to peace. Read more »

Can Labor Revive the American Dream?  

Can Labor Revive the American Dream?

The financial markets are in tatters, but corporate America is keeping its eyes on the prize: crushing organized labor. Read more »

Will the Obama Generation Merge With the Protest Culture of MLK or Strike Its Own Path?  

Will the Obama Generation Merge With the Protest Culture of MLK or Strike Its Own Path?

There is a complicated tension between civil rights leaders from MLK's era and President-elect Obama about how change can be made. Read more »

Forgive and Forget the Crimes of the Bushies? I Don't Think So  

Forgive and Forget the Crimes of the Bushies? I Don't Think So

So Mr. Obama should reconsider his apparent decision to let the previous administration get away with crime. Read more »

Everyone's Feeling Economic Pain, But It's Hitting Minorities Worst of All  

Everyone's Feeling Economic Pain, But It's Hitting Minorities Worst of All

Latinos and Blacks are feeling the effects of foreclosures, job losses and increased debt most acutely. Read more »

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Final Days: Jon Stewart Tears into President Bush  

Final Days: Jon Stewart Tears into President Bush

Bush is suddenly doing press as though January 20th is the day his album drops. Read more »

Obama Made 8 Big Promises for Peace He'd Enact as President -- Don't Let Him Forget  

Obama Made 8 Big Promises for Peace He'd Enact as President -- Don't Let Him Forget

During the campaign Obama promised to end the war in Iraq, shut down Gitmo, stop torture and much more. Read more »

Occupation 101: Hebron in the West Bank  

Occupation 101: Hebron in the West Bank

A fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpse into the obstacles that many Palestinians face in their day-to-day lives under Israeli occupation. Read more »

 

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Thousands at Lincoln Memorial celebrate coming inauguration

WASHINGTON, D.C. â€" President-elect Barack Obama welcomed the massive crowd that has begun turning out for his inauguration Tuesday with a seven-minute Sunday address that touched on the nation's challenges and urged people to solve them.



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Looking back on history - Rights activists reflect on events, people who made win possible

On whose shoulders does Barack Obama stand? The president-elect stands on the shoulders of public figures as diverse as the complex, idealistic, impassioned and contradictory nation itself, said several Lowcountry residents who each contributed their portion to make the country a better place.

'Controlled chaos' takes over D.C.

WASHINGTON â€" Packed subway cars. Crowded sidewalks. Long lines and short tempers.

Dream for all of us

WASHINGTON â€" I, too, have a dream. I dream that some day we'll have to be reminded that racism once cleaved our souls and made us wary of one another. That wars were fought, blood was spilled and lives were lost along the way.

Odes to Obama: A poem or two for the new president

Poets don't typically write to order. You can't just call them up and ask them for a poem. Not even for an inauguration. But The Associated Press did ask. And they did write.










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Arizona guns down the Eagles

GLENDALE, Ariz. â€" Down and out for decades, the Arizona Cardinals have turned a bad joke into a Super Bowl-bound team. Yes, the Cardinals, founding members of the NFL, but historically among the most dysfunctional of franchises, are heading for the championship game in Tampa.

Defense powers Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH â€" The Pittsburgh Steelers outhit the Baltimore Ravens and outplayed them behind a steady-as-he-goes Ben Roethlisberger, marching into the Super Bowl behind a defense that brought back memories of the storied Steel Curtain.

USC plays host to 16 prospects

The University of South Carolina's biggest recruiting weekend of the month attracted 16 official visits but only two were not already committed to the Gamecocks — offensive lineman Quinton Washington of Timberland and athlete Travante Stallworth of Leesville, La. And neither left Columbia a...

Arizona guns down the Eagles

GLENDALE, Ariz. â€" Down and out for decades, the Arizona Cardinals have turned a bad joke into a Super Bowl-bound team. Yes, the Cardinals, founding members of the NFL, but historically among the most dysfunctional of franchises, are heading for the championship game in Tampa.

Fort Dorchester boys thriving under 'new beginning'

The Fort Dorchester boys' basketball team had an impressive week, picking up victories over Region 8-AAAA foes Summerville and James Island. The team is 11-2, including 2-0 in league play. That's good enough for the Patriots to earn the No. 6 ranking in the statewide coaches' poll of Class AAAA teams.










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Watercraft dealers look to steering sales through economic storm

Tim Clark knows the annual Charleston Boat Show is sailing into a stiff economic headwind. But the co-owner and sales manager for Longshore Boats near Daniel Island, who also happens to be chairman of the event, is optimistic the exhibition will buoy dealers' spirits and, hopefully, their sales.

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Byron Miller, director of public relations for the S.C. State Ports Authority, has been elected Southeast regional vice president for the International Propeller Club of the United States, a maritime industry organization with more than 8,000 members in 60 ports around the world. In that role, his territory includes all ports in South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Puerto Rico. Miller previously served a two-year term as the president of the Propeller Club of the Port of Charleston.

Force Protection plans to consolidate operations

Force Protection Inc. renewed most, but not all, of its 550,000-square foot industrial site and headquarters on U.S. Highway 78 in Ladson. The company, which makes mine-resistant combat vehicles, recently extended the terms of its lease through June 30, 2014, according to a filing with the SEC.

Penguin palace finds place at S.C. Aquarium

Looking like little more than a giant plastic foam cooler, a new penguin exhibit required a true feat of logistics to land in its new home at the South Carolina Aquarium.










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7 Phenomenal Wonders of the Natural World

Posted: 18 Jan 2009 02:17 PM CST

The classical natural wonders are huge and hard to miss - vast canyons, giant mountains and the like. Many of the most fantastic natural phenomena, however, are also least easy to spot. Some are incredibly rare while others are located in hard-to-reach parts of the planet. From moving rocks to mammatus clouds and red tides to fire rainbows, here are seven of the most spectacular phenomenal wonders of the natural world.

1) Sailing Stones

(Images via: f8BeThere and Ian Parker)

The mysterious moving stones of the packed-mud desert of Death Valley have been a center of scientific controversy for decades. Rocks weighing up to hundreds of pounds have been known to move up to hundreds of yards at a time. Some scientists have proposed that a combination of strong winds and surface ice account for these movements. However, this theory does not explain evidence of different rocks starting side by side and moving at different rates and in disparate directions. Moreover, the physics calculations do not fully support this theory as wind speeds of hundreds of miles per hour would be needed to move some of the stones.

2) Columnar Basalt

(Images via: Centripetalnotion, Habitas and Strahlen)

When a thick lava flow cools it contracts vertically but cracks perpendicular to its directional flow with remarkable geometric regularity - in most cases forming a regular grid of remarkable hexagonal extrusions that almost appear to be made by man. One of the most famous such examples is the Giant’s Causeway on the coast of Ireland (shown above) though the largest and most widely recognized would be Devil’s Tower in Wyoming. Basalt also forms different but equally fascinating ways when eruptions are exposed to air or water.

3) Blue Holes

(Images via: AEAdvisor, BelizeDiving and ScienceRay)

Blue holes are giant and sudden drops in underwater elevation that get their name from the dark and foreboding blue tone they exhibit when viewed from above in relationship to surrounding waters. They can be hundreds of feet deep and while divers are able to explore some of them they are largely devoid of oxygen that would support sea life due to poor water circulation - leaving them eerily empty. Some blue holes, however, contain ancient fossil remains that have been discovered, preserved in their depths.

4) Red Tides

(Images via: Carleton, CleanWaterNetwork and UMN)

Red tides are also known as algal blooms - sudden influxes of massive amounts of colored single-cell algae that can convert entire areas of an ocean or beach into a blood red color. While some of these can be relatively harmless, others can be harbingers of deadly toxins that cause the deaths of fish, birds and marine mammals. In some cases, even humans have been harmed by red tides though no human exposure are known to have been fatal. While they can be fatal, the constituent phytoplankton in ride tides are not harmful in small numbers.

5) Ice Circles

(Images via Panoramio, CrystalLinks, CropCircleAnswers and DailyMail)

While many see these apparently perfect ice circles as worthy of conspiracy theorizing, scientists generally accept that they are formed by eddies in the water that spin a sizable piece of ice in a circular motion. As a result of this rotation, other pieces of ice and flotsam wear relatively evenly at the edges of the ice until it slowly forms into an essentially ideal circle. Ice circles have been seen with diameters of over 500 feet and can also at times be found in clusters and groups at different sizes as shown above.

6) Mammatus Clouds

(Images via: John Olson and the DNR)

True to their ominous appearance, mammatus clouds are often harbingers of a coming storm or other extreme weather system. Typically composed primarily of ice, they can extend for hundreds of miles in each direction and individual formations can remain visibly static for ten to fifteen minutes at a time. While they may appear foreboding they are merely the messengers - appearing around, before or even after severe weather.

7) Fire Rainbows

(Images via: GinaCobb, Unwired and UMN)

A circumhorizontal fire rainbow arc occurs at a rare confluence of right time and right place for the sun and certain clouds. Crystals within the clouds refract light into the various visible waves of the spectrum but only if they are arrayed correctly relative to the ground below. Due to the rarity with which all of these events happen in conjunction with one another, there are relatively few remarkable photos of this phenomena.

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Newsletter + Melamorsico n.139

Buon inizio settimana a tutti,

brutte nuove per i fan di Steve Jobs, poichè a quanto pare il CEO sta più male di quanto credeva, tanto da chiedere un concedo di 6 mesi per malattia. Mesi che gli serviranno per concentrarsi sulla guarigione e per stare con la propria famiglia. Speriamo che a luglio, per il prossimo WWDC 2009, sia guarito e di nuovo con noi.

Il mondo della Mela, però, va avanti. Ecco il nuovo numero di Melamorsico che contiene tutte le notizie della settimana:

  • Flight, le informazioni sul tuo volo direttamente nell'iPhone
  • Aiutaci a migliorare Melamorsicata.it
  • La strana storia che collega il Palm Pre all'iPhone
  • 21 gennaio per i dati fiscali di Apple
  • Boombox, milioni di brani in streaming nel tuo iPhone
  • Apple spendera' 500 mln di dollari da LG
  • iPhone Nano, continuano i rumors, arrivera' a giugno?
  • Apple brevetta le mappe nel calendario
  • Web Mate, Apple accetta il primo browser di terzi per iPhone
  • Il prossimo iPhone sara' HSUPA? E' probabile
  • iDeejay, Radio Deejay sbarca negli iPhone
  • Ballmer: l'iPhone in fondo non e' male
  • Marble, nuova interfaccia grafica in Snow Leopard?
  • BongoMac, un aggregatore italiano di notizie Apple
  • iDownload, scarica qualsiasi file dal browser dell'iPhone
  • Foto: iPhone vs Palm Pre
  • Cosa sara' Apple senza Steve Jobs?
  • Tim Cook come Re momentaneo di Apple, conosciamolo
  • Melamorsicata intervista Duncan Wilcox di Memento
  • QuadCamera, scatta fino a 8 foto consecutive con l'iPhone
  • Apple registra il marchio Os X
  • App Store: 15.000 applicazioni e mezzo miliardo di download
  • Steve Jobs ha bisogno di un trapianto di fegato?
  • In futuro iPhone 4G con tecnologia LTE
  • Ustream presto disponibile per iPhone
  • Wobble, fai muovere le tette di chiunque
  • App Store: le versioni Lite sono un ottimo strumento di marketing
  • Disney: Steve Jobs potrebbe uscire dal consiglio di amministrazione
  • Free Memory, libera la memoria nel tuo iPhone senza riavviare
  • Woz: lasciate in pace Steve Jobs

per scaricarlo basta premere sul pulsante sottostante

Appuntamento al prossimo lunedì

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