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As part of the Greater Philadelphia Martin Luther King Day of Service, many were taking part in various projects at Girard College in north Philadelphia and 110,000 people had registered to take part in events around the region, director Todd Bernstein said.
"In a nation too often divided, we can embrace Dr. King's legacy by joining together, promoting tolerance and understanding, and serving others," he said in a statement.
Volunteers were participating in service projects, workshops and training, as well as a community health and wellness fair and events for children, said Bernstein, an aide to former U.S. Sen. Harris Wofford, D-Pa., when he teamed up with U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., to sponsor the 1994 congressional measure designating the holiday as a day of service.
Noting that it was the 50th anniversary of King's March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Bernstein said the organization was also sponsoring its second annual job fair trying to match up 17 employers with job-seekers and also providing workshops on such things as resume writing, interviewing, restoring credit and help for veterans transitioning to civilian life.
In the Girard College armory, which now serves as the school's gymnasium, hundreds of people were sitting at tables working on service projects or providing information about community resources to residents. On a couple of large screens along one wall, clips of King played continuously.
At one table, a few dozen people sat writing letters of support and appreciation to members of the armed forces and their families as part of a project sponsored by Alpha Kappa Alpha. Mary Houston, president of the Philadelphia chapter of the sorority, said members were also collecting books to be distributed to children living on military bases.
"We wrote about a thousand letters last year, and we hope to match that this year," she said.
Jennie Burkholder, an English teacher at Abington Friends School, a private Quaker institution, was at the Mitzvah project where participants were making scarves and hats for people in need.
"One of our philosophies is community service, so here we are," she said as 4-year-old daughter Harper played peek-a-boo. "She's ready for a nap."
Featured prominently by organizers was a program called Keyspots intended to extend Internet access and training to all communities in the city, including teaching basic computer skills to public housing residents.
Several women sat at a table sponsored by the city chapter of the Peaches and Cream motorcycle club transforming air fresheners into dolls wearing African-style clothing to give to senior citizens. Elsewhere, the Germantown Deaf Ministries Fellowship held sign language classes. Next to piles of donated clothing, there were four bins of sporting equipment such as lacrosse sticks, hula hoops and golf clubs to be donated to local YMCAs and recreation centers.
In an effort to encourage the volunteer spirit to last longer than one day, two dozen community groups were on hand trying to sign up people to work on projects over the rest of the year. Bernstein said officials hoped the events would as a "springboard" for year-round community involvement.
"Just as Dr. King was a champion of action 365 days of the year in order to solve the community's pressing problems, we have to harness those resources of government and the private sector and individual volunteers and communities of faith to be able to solve these continuing issues that could never be solved in a day," he said.


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Looking at how Cuban has turned the Mavericks into a lottery team, he should keep his mouth shut.
Mark Cuban: Dwight Howard made a 'mistake' signing with Rockets
A little more than 24 hours before the Houston Rockets and Dallas Mavericks are set to square off, Mavs owner Mark Cuban is adding a little fuel to the fire. He said Thursday that he believes new Rockets center Dwight Howard made a "mistake in judgment" by signing with the Rockets in the offseason.
The Mavs and Rockets were two of the five teams to battle for Howard's services in free agency last summer, along with the Los Angeles Lakers (who were trying to re-sign him), the Golden State Warriors, and the Atlanta Hawks.
Cuban's reasoning: Even though the Mavericks are older, they have a better overall supporting cast of players. Cuban believes that Howard, 27, went into free agency looking to sign with the Rockets to team up with 24-year-old guard James Harden.
"You choose teams. You don't choose players," Cuban said, according to ESPN.com. "If he made a choice off of an individual player, yeah, he made a mistake. You choose teams. You choose organizations. You choose coaches. And it's just not relative to Houston. That's just the way I look at it, because if he's that good, then the right organization …
"Put aside Dwight. Any young superstar looking to make a move, if you're that good, then the right organization gets all the right pieces around you. So it's not about you'd rather play with this guy. If you're that good and you have [salary-cap] flexibility, the right organization will put the right pieces around you and get you there."
Even though Mavs star Dirk Nowitzki is 35 years old, the pair would have been a formidable duo. Cuban let center Tyson Chandler and others walk in free agency in 2011, in part, because he wanted to chase a superstar. The Mavericks missed the playoffs last season for the first time in 13 seasons.
MAHONEY: Dwight Howard's first game as a Rocket says a lot about the team's future
cuban, you're full of sh….t….
Classless and stupid. When will he admit his mistake in breaking up a championship team which had great chemistry and getting nothing in return?
Sour grapes on Cuban's part. His team will finish last in its division this year.
So, I guess Steve Nash wasn't that good when Cuban had a chance to re-sign him back in 2004. By Cuban's logic he could have put the missing pieces around him. Oh yah, Nash went on to back to back MVP's the following 2 years - so I guess he was pretty good. Hey Cuban, shut up and quit talking garbage because you're upset Howard went elsewhere. Your logic is flawed - as usual
Who cares about Howard, guy is a diva who only plays hard when he feels like it and he will never ever win a championship because it just doesnt matter to the guy.
I don't know. Choosing to play with particular players seemed to work out pretty well for LeBron.
Why does Mark Cuban sound like a scorned women everytime he opens his mouth the last two years. Every marquee free agent is avoiding Dallas just because of the make up of the team in Dallas. And history shows that Cuban is not shy about blowing a champion up if he thinks it fits his bill. Oh and by the way did the mavs not just fire the second GM in as many seasons. That loooks like real continuity, what a contender needs.
Cuban is FOS on this one. It was highly publicized that one of the biggest reason Howard chose Houston is because of his ability to be mentored by Akeem Olajuwon and Kevin McHale. He chose a young, up and coming organization that had the money and the present team nucleus to give Howard a long term shot at winning
I generally like Cuban, but this is just dumb. The Rockets have some terrific pieces, while Dallas doesn't have much, and their best one is due to fall off a cliff at any moment. And how does Cuban know Howard wasn't factoring in the organization at all? In a lot of people's eyes, Morey is one of the best GMs in the league. And Howard is now being coached by a Hall of Fame big man. Cuban really just sounds like a sore loser. (Not that I blame him - his whole plan has spectacularly failed.)
I Happen to agree with Mark Cuban. Also, Dallas is a much better basketball city than Houston. Some players don't mind playing in a smaller market (certainly not Howard - nor most superstars) and some smaller market has a huge basketball fan base.
someone is jelly!
Mark, dont be a poor loser... come on now
Mark Cuban got lucky when Yahoo bought broadcast.com at the height of the dot com bubble stupidity. Since then he has done nothing but run his mouth. I would like to see him start a real company that actually produces something and stays in business.
Dwight's a selfish player, and a dim bulb. The chances of a team he's on winning an NBA championship are slim. Dallas dodged a bullet when DH signed with Houston.
When Cuban first bought the Mavs I kind of liked him because he wasn't like every other owner in the NBA. But the past few years I feel he really needs to shut up. He just comes across as a poor loser with comments like this. And beyond that...he's wrong. The NBA is the one league where you absolutely make decisions based on superstar players since without them you have zero chance of a championship.
@Dale73 But he also turned that team into a winner. Teams come in waves and flows. The Celtics have had periods when they miss the playoffs, the Lakers have had years when they are rebuilding as well. I am not concern with the Mavs struggles lately, I'm more concern on how Cuban rebuilds and obviously he looked at Howard as a piece to that puzzle and still upset about it. It is time to move on for him, but his opinion does matter.
@ksfhg How exactly do you figure that Dallas is a "much better basketball city than Houston"? I grew up in Houston and now live in Dallas. I just don't see it. Houston has two championships and Dallas has one.
@MattS He may have been lucky but he was smart enough to take the Yahoo shares that he received for selling, which were at around 300 per share at the time, and sold them and diversified into solid stable investments so that when the internet crash hit and yahoo stock crashed to 30 dollars he wasnt screwed.
@MattS Broadcast.com was way ahead of its time. The ability to listen and watch your favorite sports teams over the internet was unthinkable in 1999. No-one had the device or bandwidth to be able to receive digital content like we do today. If the company was never purchased by Yahoo it may have succeeded in some form but it would have gone through some rough years until a company called Apple put out the IPhone. As is usually the case with Yahoo... it had no idea what to do with Broadcast.com and eventually just destroyed the company.
@NoHoJo NBA history is littered with dim bulbs that won rings. And being selfish isn't that much of a problem for a big man.
I couldn't agree more.
@Voiceover310 @meandmesa Nice argument Voiceover. I am now convinced.


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He's even been "brushed" — passed by a car so close he could reach out and touch it.
"One of the last things my wife tells me every time I get on my bike is, 'Please be careful,'" he said.
Allen's complaints are common to bicyclists on Alabama roads, but Allen isn't just any biker. The Tuscaloosa Republican represents District 21 in the Alabama Senate, and he's proposed a bill that, if passed, could give bicyclists wider berth.
Allen has pre-filed a bill for the 2014 legislative session that would require drivers to stay at least three feet away from bicyclists when passing them on roads anywhere in Alabama.
At least 23 states already have three-foot passing laws, including every state bordering Alabama. Advocates of the three-foot rule say it would make bike riders feel safer, and would encourage more people to ride.
In Anniston, where bike races and mountain biking trails often attract out-of-town bikers, local bicyclists seemed to welcome the effort.
"I was not aware of the bill, but it seems like something that should be done," said Mike Poe, a member of the board of the Northeast Alabama Bicycle Association.
Allen's bill would change only 20 words in Alabama's laws regarding traffic. State law already mandates that bicyclists "shall be granted all of the rights" of drivers of other vehicles on state roads.
Allen and other bikers say most drivers don't seem to realize that.
"I have people hollering at me all the time, saying 'Get off the road,'" Allen said. "They don't know I have a right to be there."
Anniston's bikers came forward with similar stories last year in the wake of the death of Derek Jensen, a Center for Domestic Preparedness employee who died after being struck by a truck while biking to work.
Supporters of three-foot laws acknowledge one drawback: they're extremely difficult to enforce. According to a study by researchers at Rutgers University, Minnesota's three-foot law has resulted in only about three citations per year statewide. Police in Florida have conducted sting operations to catch those who violate the three-foot rule, the study said. Still, the study found, most citations are issued after car-and-bike collisions.
The Rutgers study also found that there's not yet conclusive data to show that the three-foot law reduces bicyclists injuries.
"There's no data that proves that," said Charles Brown, a researcher at the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers. "But it's a valuable tool for educating drivers about how to share the road."
Brown said the three-foot law encourages more people to bike, increasing awareness that bikers are part of everyday traffic. With proper publicity for the three-foot law, he said, drivers come to understand that bikers belong on the road.
Supporters of the Alabama bill, too, said the main benefit could be in simply asserting a biker's right to be on the street.
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Asserting that right is sometimes a challenge even for bike riders in states where there is a three-foot law. When Tallahassee resident Joe Mizereck realize that drivers weren't observing Florida's three-foot law, he started biking in a yellow shirt with "Three Feet Please" blazoned on the back. He now sells the shirts to customers across the country.
Mizereck said a three-foot law needs to be publicized in order to work. He said the law does encourage biking because it addresses the most widespread misgiving about the sport: fear that it's just not safe to bike in traffic.
"When you ask people what they fear most, people fear being hit from behind," he said.
Anniston bike shop owner Patrick Wigley said he'd like to see the bill pass, though he's not sure it meets bicyclists' biggest safety need.
"For me, a bigger fix would be a requirement that whenever a state or federal road gets re-paved or rebuilt, it gets a bike lane," he said.
Wigley said most would-be bikers are afraid to ride "in the paint," but would be more comfortable on a bike lane or a shoulder wide enought to accommodate bikes.
Last year, the Anniston City Council adopted a policy that would require the city to consider bikes and pedestrians when new roads are planned or old roads are resurfaces, but it's non-binding and only affects areas inside city limits.
Wigley said bike riders had high hopes for Choccolocco Road when it was recently repaved, seemingly wide enough for a bike-friendly shoulder.
"And damn if they didn't paint the lines right on the edge," he said.
Allen has filed his three-foot bill twice before in the Senate, but those earlier efforts went nowhere. Allen said they got "lost in gridlock" over budgets and other matters.
For the 2014 session, the three-foot measure is Senate Bill 9, among the first dozen pre-filed bills. Allen thinks its chances are good.
"The leadership in the House and the Senate have said they want to deal with bills that are non-controversial next year," he said.
The 2014 legislative session begins Jan. 14.
Capitol & statewide reporter Tim Lockette: 256-294-4193. On Twitter @TLockette_Star.
Editor's note: This story has been modified to correct a reference to Mike Poe's role with the Northeast Alabama Bicycle Association. Poe is a member of the group's board of directors.


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The Female Athlete of the Year is awarded to an individual athlete or crew with a record of outstanding achievement in national and international competition. Through behavior and manner this recipient has set an example for other competitors and has demonstrated leadership and sportsmanship like qualities. Recipient of the 2012 Sail Canada Female Athlete of the Year Nikola Girke is an extremely dedicated and hard working individual; she has consistently improved her results to top 10 finishes at both the Worlds and the Olympics over the past year. In addition to being an incredible Athlete, Nikola is an incredible person, involved in her community by helping with programs like KidSport, Fast and Female and 60 Minute Kids Club. She has recently reached the landmark of competing in her 3rd Olympic Games, in multiple classes, a feat only achieved by few in the sport of sailing in Canada.
Her coach Ben Remocker notes that "Nikola is a true professional athlete. She has dedicated herself tirelessly and with great focus for the sport she loves. Coaching Nikola is a true pleasure, as her determination to improve each day is the model scenario for any sailor to achieve great things."
With her eyes set on the 2016 Games in Rio, Nikola has recently paired with teammate Luke Ramsay to sail the Nacra 17. Luke writes – "As a fellow Olympic teammate of Nikola Girke I have come to admire and respect her as an athlete and person, she is an invaluable part of the team and truly deserves this award after years of commitment to the sport. Nikola was 10th overall this past summer at the London Olympic games in the female RS:X Class.
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For 12 innings in a doubleheader against UVA-Wise Thursday night, very little was going right for Milligan's baseball team.
Knoxville product Ryan White changed the bad fortune and things turned in a heartbeat.
In game two of a double header after UVA-Wise won the first game 6-2, White broke a 2-2 tie with a double that brought in Luke Kirk for the first of six runs by the Buffs in the sixth inning in an 8-2 triumph in the nightcap at Anglin Field.
Milligan was in danger of being swept by Milligan, but then White came through with a huge hit that basically set off a chain reaction.
White's hit turned out to be the game-winning hit and he had the confidence to come through in the clutch.
"I was looking for a good pitch right over the plate and I had some hard luck earlier in the game and I hit some balls right at people, but I knew I would get something to hit and I was looking at something over the plate to drive," White said.
Two batters later Brandon Malone put the insurance on the comeback with a three-RBI double that gave Milligan a 6-2 lead.
Wesley Jones added insult to injury for UVA Wise by driving in two runs on a single that brought the game to its final score of 8-2.
Happy Valley product Jake Howell closed the game out in the seventh.
For White, it was a case of rallying the Milligan batters and just getting everyone confident.
"The thing with this team we have a lot of talent on this team and this year we've played well in spurts, but we just haven't strung everything together," White said. "I know once we get on a roll like that it's going to be contagious. We'll pick it up soon.
Malone's hit was just as big as it set everything up for Howell to relax on the mound and get the save.
"I wanted to get my teammates in," Malone said. "We fought back hard in the second game, but we have to pick it up and get sweeps."
Milligan head coach Nathan Meade couldn't have been happier with the sixth-inning heroics by his team and for battling through such a tough day.
"We finally woke up and swung the bat a little bit," Meade said. "Ryan is a clutch player and he's a veteran now. He's been in a lot of clutch situations and he's the right guy for that spot right there."
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Jake Watts from nearby Boone, N.C. earned the win on the mound for Milligan. Nathan Milsap topped Milligan with two hits while Joe Purus had a home run.
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How our pollies can get us to "medal" again
Julia Gillard must be very glad she resisted the urging of Australian Olympic Committee president John Coates to attend the London Games.
John Howard benefited politically from the flood of Australian gold medals at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. Kevin Rudd flew to Beijing in 2008 to bask in the glory of our athletes' performances there.
Gillard was accused of snubbing London. Coates called her decision to stay at home a "missed opportunity" and "a disappointment to our team".
But it proved to be smart politics. If Gillard had turned up in London she would have been associated with disappointment, and she can't afford that.
As it is, there are those doing their best to lump her with at least part of the blame for the Aussie team's failure to live up to predictions of a top five finish in the medal table anyway.
They claim inadequate federal government funding made out athletes less competitive, despite Coates' statement as the London Games wound down that greater funding is not necessarily the way forward.
"We believe that there has been enough funding for the team to do well here," Coates said -adding that elite sports authorities in Australia need to reassess whether they've been spending money provided by the government in the best way.
So far, the funding issue has not blown up into a serious political problem for Gillard. This is largely because the federal opposition - like the government - is committed to a tight-purse-strings economic policy.
Tony Abbott - cyclist, swimmer, marathon runner, former boxer - might be a one-man Olympic team himself, but he is stuck with the coalition's spending restraint mantra.
He is not in a position to demand that the Gillard Government agree to big increases in spending on sport, or to promise such increases himself after next year's election.
But, as the various Olympic post-mortems get under way, pressure will build on both sides of politics for action to bring back the glory days. Australians have got used to seeing their sporting heroes triumph every four years.
What is needed is a politician like Bob Ellicott, the Sports Minister who made Australia's Olympic ascendancy possible in the first place and did it with sufficient cunning to conceal much of the cost.
I wrote about Ellicott's role back in 2000, when the results of his labours were there for all to see. Australia won 58 medals at the Sydney Games, 16 of them gold.
Perhaps it's time for another reminder now that our Olympic fortunes have apparently started to ebb again.
When Australia came away from the 1976 Montreal Olympics without a single gold medal, it came as a shock to the relatively new prime minister Malcolm Fraser. He approached some of the athletes personally to find out why they had done so badly.
"The answer was very simple," Fraser said later. "A whole lot of countries - not just the East Europeans and the Russians - backed their athletes with government funding and resources. Techniques and practices were developing so fast that, unless you had the best and most professional people and facilities, you could not compete any longer."
Then, like now, was a time of financial stringency and spending cutbacks as the Fraser Government dealt with the economic impact of the big-spending Whitlam years. It was hardly the ideal time to start pouring money into sport.
The then Treasurer, John Howard, was certainly against it.
But Fraser called in Home Affairs Minister Ellicott, one of the country's most eminent lawyers before he entered politics, and said: "We've got to get this fixed, Bob." He added sport to Ellicott's portfolio and gave him the job of rebuilding Australia's international sporting reputation.
Ellicott got the idea of a national Institute of Sport after visiting Beijing and seeing an institute, set up as part of a college, where students from all over China came to train as physical education teachers. The same thing, he realised, could work for athletes.
Because he was also Minister for the Capital Territory, Ellicott was able to build his vision of an Australian Institute of Sport on the cheap - "a sort of cut and paste job", was the way he described it to me.
He allocated land for the Institute next to a stadium that had recently been built in Canberra for the Pan-Pacific Games, ordered work to start on a sports hall and administrative centre, used rooms at a half-empty College of Advanced Education as accommodation, upgraded a suburban swimming pool with a roof, heating and weight-training area paid for out of the ACT budget instead of the Institute budget, and so on.
The entire cost - including construction of tennis and netball courts - was less than $6 million.
The Australian Institute of Sport was opened officially on Australia Day, 1981, and has underpinned much of our Olympic and other sporting success since then.
As Coates acknowledges, money is not everything. Imagination, determination and a bit of cunning can achieve a lot, too - as Ellicott showed.
Laurie Oakes is political editor for the Nine Network.
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ronny jonny says:
This story shows how badly off track our governments have gone. Ellicotts achievement was an example of can-do. Imagine if they were setting up an institute of sport these days? They'd need millions of dollars worth of consultants reports before they even made a decision about whether to build it or not. They certainly wouldn't look at reusing or renovating existing facillities to suit a budget or a bit of creative financing to help things along. Julia would most likely introduce a new tax to pay for it and of course she'd pay three times what it was worth, then it would be two years late being finished and probably not produce any improvement in performance anyway.
That is the difference between having competent, capable people in government and what we have now.
Thomas says:
Yep more funding will make you run faster, swim faster, row faster, and jump higher.
Then again it might work if you dangle 100 bills at the finish line?
Honestly how does anyone anywhere do anything without Government funding?
acotrel says:
There is an easy way for Australia to win gold at the Olympics. We should work with our areas of strength, and promote Moto3 and lawn bowls as Olympic sports.
Badjack says:
Hey Laurie it's good to see you haven't fallen off the perch yet. Even Lib supporters would not be blaming Gillard for the lack of Gold. The only people who think the AOC need more money are the AOC and the athletes who benefit from the free money and the parasites who feed off them. The normal Australian would be saying they get enough of our money and all they have to do to win more medals is to;
Stop whining
Stay away from facebook, twitter etc.
work as hard at training and be as focussed as the Chinese swimmers, Sally Pearson and Anna Meares.
become a celebrity by winning their events and not by being social butterflies.
Look in the mirror when they don't do as well as THEY expected to.
Don't answer dumb questions put to them by flakey media types.
daniel says:
If more funding was allocated to sports other than swimming then I wouldn't really care. However, realistically that wouldn't be the case.
eRon says:
The "smart politics" was for Gillard to be absent.
Seems to be a commonly held view.
Looking forward to the logical progression of that mantra being realised.
KimL says:
I am not an expert and don't claim to be, but it seems to me that kids are not as active today as they were when I was young. We a played games outside and did sport at school, that was a good basis for those who were good enough to go on and become champions.. I certainly do not blame The Government for our lack of Gold.
pa_kelvin says:
Our athletes failed to perform. The athletes from other countrys worked harder and reaped the rewards…...simple
biff says:
Before we send our athletes to Rio can we sew up the lips of our swimmers. Idle boasting doesn't mean success.
the cynic says:
Forget about the sports that they tried to grab a medal in. The AIS should be hard at lobbying the IOC to include binge drinking ,wanton vandalism ,sexting, texting, twitter, facebook , stabbings, drive by shooting, random unprovoked bashings, all the range of video games ,political nepotism, assylum seeker spending to name a few pursuits into the Olympics . Australia would have a good chance at the No. 1 spot.
Paul says:
I reckon we scatter ourselves across sports where we don't really have a chance. An example is Sergei Bubka. The guy could run a hundred in 10.1 but realised he was never going to win a thing as a sprinter. So he changed over to pole vault where he did pretty good. Look at the Koreans. They have 13 golds and I never saw one at the athletics stadium and just one at the swimming. So let's tell our marginal athletes the facts of life and direct them if possible over to something they can win rather than is waffle about participating. As a taxpayer I don't want to fund their impossible 'dream'.
C says:
The best exercise of all would be push the "off" button on the TV, the computer, the game-controller and the like. Then send the kids out to play in adventure style playgrounds - sans close adult supervision. That way they will learn to explore the basic skills that lead to advanced athletic skills. They will develop the imagination that leads to the mental capacity to handle the stress of sport at the highest levels. They will, even if they never make it to the Olympics be healthier and fitter. Those that don't make it may end up colonising Mars or some other planet or finding a cure for diabetes or cancer.
Yes, there will be some bumps, bruises and a broken bone or two but they will overcome those and be back for more.
It is not simply a matter of pouring money into sport and training up a few who look promising. We need to change our entire attitude to life.
wantok says:
Laurie,can you imagine the outcry had Julia Gillard gone to London for the Games while Tony Abbott is at the Aurukun aboriginal community on Cape York engaged in a tightly scripted PR event, paint brush in hand, together with an invited group of industry leaders (although Twiggy Forrest and James Packer dropped out at the last moment).The media would have been scathing of our prime minister's choices.
dibatag says:
At the end of it all we were just not good enough, as for the money spent like all taxpayer funded things it's most likely going on non jobs to useless peoplewho know nothing about sport
Davo says:
Announce to the world that we are going to use drugs to cheat at the olympics and use every method available to prevent our athletes testing positive. Due to the current lacklustre drug testing we should win more medals for less cost. After the olympics show the world how we did it and how to improve the drug testing. Once improved drug testing is in place try to ensure the next olympics our athletes are clean. Again we should win more medals.
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"Inadequate Federtal Funding" Really? Is that what the Australian Olympic Committee & members of the Australian Olympics team are claiming?
I fail to see how they can make such a claim for, depending on which report you read, they got either $380 million or $500 million since 2008. That is a hell of a lot of money for a small, if wealthy, country to spend on something as meaningless as the Olympics have now become.
There were just 410 actual Competitors plus a huge 319-person team of hanger's on. We can amost bet that whilst some Competitors travelled Business class & some in Steerage those "officials" will probably have gone First Class.I think our athletes did very well for we can't always expect to be at the top. Why was so much time & money wasted by the officials in their attempts to resurrect past Olympians who had (in athletic terms) long-since retired?
bananabender says:
Sorry folks but most of the Olyopic "sports" aren't real sports. They are physical activities designed for B and C grade competitors who can't compete in real professional sports like soccer or baseball.
Frank says:
oh get rid of Coates! hes the only reason we fail hes a dinosaur in a modern time and the meteor is coming, we need new blood in the AOC get rid of him and allow us to go into the future
Sam says:
Spend even more money of Sports ! Nooooo !!!!
Im sorry but I think we have more important things to worry about other than how fast someone can swim.
I do not understand this obsession some have with watching sport, I do not see how spending tens of millions of dollars just so a handful of athletes can get a nice shiny medal is in any way a benefit to the rest of the community.
I think priorities should be looked at. Whats more important -
A Gold medal or providing shelter to a homeless person
A Gold Medal or providing care for an abused child
A Gold Medal or providing mental health care
A Gold Medal or providing affordable dental care to low income earners
The list can go on and on, I defy anyone to say that a few athletes running, swimming and jumping deserve more money to do something they chose to do when we have people who have dire needs that are caused by issues not of their choosing.
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We can't possibly get orid of mr coates until he puts Richard in front of his name as Mr Kevan Gosper has. IOC reps have a wonderful life enriched in so many ways. Shame we invested in Casino's Australia, well mr coates putour cash in it, or we would have $4m more in 1998 dollars to spend on the last past the post mortem
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Most Americans find joy and patriotism in those words, as well they should. Young and naive as I am, I simply am forced to wonder why winning the game is a miracle. Yes, I understand that the USSR was the best hockey team of that age, that we were in the middle of the Cold War, and the game was as much political as it was athletic. I know how the team was made up of college kids and amateurs. But something inside me, some big-headed Uncle Sam viewpoint makes me wonder, shouldn't we always win?
As a student growing up in America, History class generally made me feel as if America could not lose at anything. We learned about the bravery of Americans everywhere. Battles from the American Revolution, War of 1812, Civil War, World War 1, and World War 2. As most educated Americans know, these wars all ended in favor of the US, or in the case of the Civil War the "good guys". Of course, I now know that we haven't won 'em all. Vietnam, and Iraq (probably) will not go down in history as victories. So my Uncle Sam/schoolboy viewpoint asks, "So shouldn't the same be true in sports?"
London, England 1948
In the first Olympic Games since the famed Berlin games of 1936, the sporting world was trying to return to its feet after The Second World War ripped athletes off the playing fields and onto the battlegrounds. In the 1936 Olympics, the overall medal count was won by the Germans, with the Americans second, and Hungary in third. Today, historians question the credibility of that medal count. For example, in the cycling finals, German Toni Merkens knocked the Dutch Arie Van Vliet off his bike, in an event that none could argue could be and accident. Instead of disqualification, which seems the only suitable punishment for this infraction, Merkens was fined 100 marks, just enough for him to keep his gold. Of course, we all know the story of Jesse Owens and his four gold medals. Another example: Wouldn't you at least expect the leader of the host nation to at least stay in the stadium? Not this psychotic dictator. When black American athlete Cornelius Johnson, beat the German competition in his event, **** stormed out of the stadium in a rage.
So, lets just say that the London Olympic Games of 1948, were the first true measure of sporting dominance in a long time. In an amazing effort, the American athletes in London dominated the games, shoving aside any European doubt of the athletic ability of these newcomers. In the basketball championship, the United States defeated France 65-21 to claim. The final medal count had the United States in first with 84 points, second was Sweden with 44 points, almost half of the Americans' output. Isn't that how it should always be?
Sadly, in recent years we have seen the Americans slip in many Olympic sports. Namely, soccer. The real reason this is happening in my opinion is that there is simply not enough interest from athletes. In Britain, extremely athletic children will almost certainly be playing soccer, practicing it, and aspiring to play it one day. Here in America, the chances that extremely athletic children are playing soccer are slim to none. They will likely be playing Pop Warner football, select basketball, and Little League baseball. We just have too many sports for us to care about soccer. Let us consider for a moment, the sporting dream of a European youth is to play soccer for their country. Here in America, kids dream of the NFL, the NBA, or the Major Leagues. The true reason our soccer team hasn't been up to par lately is because of precisely this. We've got better things to do.
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Very disappointed about not receiving TIGER V grant funds. However, efforts will continue in pushing ODOT and the state to find the funds to improve the fishhook. Senator George is 100% behind these efforts as he as well as many others realize that freight traffic will be greatly impacted by having to stop, make a left turn and then climb a curving onramp. I have faith that we will find the funds to address this entry issue for trucks.
I feel the biggest loss we suffered from not receiving the grant was a multi-purpose trail ODOT committed to building along the Bypass if we received the grant. That trail may still happen but funds likely won't come from ODOT or USDOT. If the trail along the Bypass is not built that will be a great loss to the citizens of Newberg and Dundee.
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MARCO ISLAND — Marco Island's electric utility takeover proposition fizzled out Thursday afternoon and by Monday's Council meeting, some were hoping to spark the idea back up.
The committee looking into the possibility of the city taking over the Island's electric provider, Lee County Electric Cooperative, decided in a meeting Thursday that further investment in the study was not worthwhile for the city.
Their decisions and recommendation to council to not proceed further may not last long.
The city's Ad Hoc Electric Municipalization Committee voted (14-2) to disband at their meeting Thursday afternoon. Disbanding came swiftly after the committee chose not to hire consultant Bill Herrington for $18,500 to assist in completing the study (10-6).
Most committee members said they no longer served a purpose once the decision to not hire a consultant was made.
Herrington had just completed a two-day, $4,700 contract of gathering preliminary information.
"The committee really got down to the point of frustration," said the committee's chairman, Councilman Jerry Gibson.
Gibson added that he was surprised and disappointed by the outcome of the discussions. He said without getting the study done, the question of "what if" would linger within the city.
LCEC spokeswoman Karen Ryan said she expects to hear more about the issue.
"It would be surprising if this is the end of it because the few people that are driving this, I don't feel they will let it go," she said.
Resident Bill McMullan was among the initial 32 members of the committee, but resigned shortly after its creation in mid-2008. McMullan attended several of the meetings over the past few months and said he was concerned about the "possible bias" of Herrington as the chosen consultant.
Herrington said in Wednesday's electric committee meeting that he had a negative experience with LCEC representatives in the past. Herrington also said taking over the electric utility by eminent domain would "get ugly."
"I was very pleased to see that most members of the committee recognized the futility to go forward," McMullan later reported.
Gibson addressed the issue at Monday's City Council meeting, echoing a statement made by City Manager Steve Thompson.
"The staff is working under the guidance that City Council is expecting a recommendation and does need direction if the council position has changed," Thompson wrote in a memo to Council Friday.
Chairman Bill Trotter said he hoped Gibson would prepare information for the council to decide how to move forward with or without the consultant to gather facts.
"The original mission was to find the facts so we can proceed if we choose to do so," Trotter said.
Committee member Steve Stefanides said he believed the committee's decisions to not hire the consultant and disband were recommendations to council based on facts already gathered, which indicated it did not make sense to move forward with the electric takeover study.
"When you factored in the cost of condemnation, which ranges from $2 million to $4 million, it gets very expensive," Stefanides said.
"I would be disappointed if (Council) wanted to go down a road that a good segment of the community felt it wasn't worth continuing on," Stefanides added.
Former City Councilman John Arceri, who was among the initial proponents of studying the utility takeover said he hopes it will continue.
" ... The fact finding mission directed by City Council needs to be addressed without political considerations, preconceived opinions or based on feelings. I am not sure how this would be done, but still feel it needs to be done," Arceri wrote in an e-mail Monday evening. (Read more from Arceri in his guest commentary.)
Stefanides said that while a couple members of the committee may have already had their minds made up before the study began, most were open-minded and learned through fact gathering that the proposition of taking over the electric utility and running it would not have a cost savings for residents in the near future.
Under Trotter's recommendation, the issue is planned to be discussed at the March 16 City Council meeting.


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A truck crashes into the playground at Rockland Elementary School in Libertyville. | AnnaTarkov~ Sun-Times Media
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LIBERTYVILLE — No students or pedestrians were injured when a gray pickup truck traveling westbound on Rockland Road veered off the street and onto the playground of Rockland Elementary School at 10:30 a.m. Thursday.
The 69-year-old driver's identity was not been disclosed by Libertyville police, who said the investigation is ongoing. He was taken to Advocate Condell Medical Center, Libertyville, where he died.
Libertyville Grade School District 70 officials said they are thankful that students were not at recess when the accident occurred. Parents were notified of the mishap by e-mail from District 70 officials.
Police closed Rockland Road between Milwaukee Avenue and Stewart Avenue because of the crash.
The truck stopped before reaching the building, but did hit a parked van, drove through a fence, wrecked a fire hydrant and also hit a bike rack and mature pine tree.
School officials said recess was held indoors while police handled the scene.
Anna Tarkov contributed to this report