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THE 2015 World Gymnastics Championships are coming to Scotland for the first time...
bringing a £5million boost to the city.
Sport bosses announced this morning that the Championships will be held in Glasgow.
It will be one of the largest sporting events ever to be held in the city, with an estimated 500 gymnasts from 80 countries taking part in 10 days of world-class competition.
And bosses claim it will bring £5m in economic benefit to Scotland's economy.
The event will be held in The Hydro – the new £120m, 12,000-seat entertainment arena currently under constructionat the SECC – between October 23 and November 1, 2015.
Councillor Gordon Matheson said: "The World Gymnastics Championships will bring together the world's best gymnasts for what will be an incredible 10 days of competition in a genuinely world-class venue."
The Hydro will openin September 2013.
Meanwhile, tomorrow will see Glasgow's new Emirates Arena host the gymnastics World Cup event in front of a 5000-strong sell out crowd.
Glasgow is one of only four cities hosting World Cup events.
catriona.stewart@ eveningtimes.co.uk


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Being in EMS, I have seen drug related problems that would make a normal person cringe with fear. Stop the "War on drugs" and those drug related problems would multiply out of control. Money saved by stopping the "War on drugs" would have to be spent on EMS and Hospitals. Also the morgue and funeral homes, but that part doesn't bother me so much as it's Darwin's way of thinning the heard.
The answer? Unfortunately, I don't have one, short of executing drug dealers / users on the spot, I'm of little help.
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To think that the drug war is holding back a massive tsunami of drug abuse is false and outdated as "reefer madness".
Many people in the day of alcohol prohibition wanted to do this with alcohol users. As we see today many productive members of society use alcohol in a safe manner, their is a difference between use and abuse.
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I don't know if she pulled that concept out of thin air, or had knowledge of such a system working in other countries, but I am convinced it would not work in American society.
Citizens of this country are enthralled with taking everything to the extreme. Doesn't matter if its a hobby or a sport or just entertainment, we want to see the biggest, the baddest, the fattest, the fastest, the super ultra mostest extreme of anything and everything.
That same mentality also applies to drug addicts.
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If society cannot find a solution to a difficult problem, it should realize its limitations, and defer, rather than creating "solutions" which are as bad as, or worse than, the problems themselves.
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You will never solve the "problem" completely, until you can change the fact that people like to get "high". And that's not going to happen anytime soon, if ever.
Ancient people developed brewing and fermenting, and found plants that could be eaten or smoked to make them feel good. That hasn't changed, and isn't going to.
I see two separate, but intertwined problems. First, that (some) drugs are illegal, and second, how we go about enforcing those laws.
We are constantly hearing about the "costs to society", and while there is a validity to the concept, I think we have gone well overboard with our concern about it. We too often look at results from a group, without considering that the group is made up of individuals.
The focus on possession and use of drugs as criminal, is, I feel, the wrong way to deal with the problem. What people do under the influence is what causes the problem, not the possession of a plant or compound.
A drunk driver nearly killed my family. It wasn't the beer that made that happen, it was the drinker. And what he choose to do after drinking.
In some ways, its a lot like gun control. The problem isn't the guns, its what some people do with them.
And what is the answer our govt and (some) segments of our society give us? A top down war on things, more than on harmful actions.
Of course, if you don't have a thing, you cannot do bad with it. So we all get forced to live so that stupid people are slightly less likely to be stupid?
As a people, we are kind, caring and considerate (of course individuals can be petty and spiteful). We dislike seeing anyone hurt or suffering, even through their own actions. This is a noble sentiment, but there are limits to which this is practical, or effective. AND those limits must be balanced against our personal liberties and freedoms.
We make compromises to our freedoms all day, everyday. That's how society functions. We have set rules, and generally follow them. About virtually everything. However, where one sets the rules, and how they are enforced is critical to our liberty.
Our history is full of things that are now crimes, that once were not.
We've tried a lot of things, and often the "solution" only made the problem worse, or actually created more problems than it solved. To my eyes, the war on drugs has created more, and worse problems than it has solved.
In war, when you consistently fail to achieve your objectives, its time to seriously consider changing tactics. I think that's quite apt to the war on drugs as well.
All else being equal (and it almost never is) bigger bullets tend to work better.
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Maybe making the penalty for having drugs something like... using every bit of drugs you are found with within 10 minutes... it would get rid of the market pretty fast, and make marijuana legal.
Yes, I am being sarcastic... sort of.
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This issue contains some extremes that can cloak substantial agreement, and that when it ignored or conflated can stoke an illusory disagreement.
I would guess that very few people are enthused about locking up people who smoke marijuana. 30 years ago, Bill Buckley wrote about the injustice of sentencing a young man to 20 years of incarceration over a small amount of marijuana.
On the other hand, crack and methamphetamines are grotesquely addictive and all too often can be the first step on a short and ugly journey to death. I believe it would be difficult to persuasively argue that the prohibition on crack and methamphetamines is worse than the problems we would see from legalizing their use.
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Too many are too concerned with what they DONT have and that leads to a lot of societal ills, envy, grudges, depression, etc., all feeding the drug abuse issue'.
Might as well tax it, regulate it, ala Nevada and prostitution, and use the police resources for better things. As to the title of the thread, the police where I live have been a paramilitary force for some time, including having APC's, breaching teams, SWAT, etc.
Maybe if they spent more time back walking beats, talking to the locals and getting to know them better, instead of waiting for something to go bonkers and then react like a SEAL team, they would have a better image, folks might get along better, and some of the crime issues might lessen
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Having lived in California for 5 years, the Marijuana, Coke, LSD, and Ecstacy/MDMA trade is practically a joke. While Mary J might be partially legal, the other three are far from it. Legalizing all 3 would not effect their consumption at all, it would only lower prices and get the financial leverage off illegal drug cartels.
For anyone that is older and doesn't believe me, go to an electric music carnival. 90% of the people there are on Acid or Coke or Ecstacy, or a combination. That's not even including pot or alcohol. Mind you the one I went to (I was the designated driver, I have a severe dislike for real drugs like this) had over 100,000 people. EDC in Las Vegas brought 4-5 times as many people. These concerts get these numbers all over the country.
I want you all to realize how much Ecstacy/Pot/Acid is being consumed, just on special bi-annual events. Millions of pills at each show.
One of my best friends is an associate at PWC and another at NY Life. They are in the minority of those who don't do coke on a regular basis.
Anyone who thinks the War on Drugs is anything more than a moneypit sham is going to extensive lengths to remain delusional. I'm sorry if I sound terse and confrontational, but it is literally the least effective enforcement of law in the country.
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As a general matter, I cannot agree that the "War on [....]" formula can be problematic to the degree it invites a suspension of our ordinary caution.
I have yet to encounter the group who do not mirror the basic bell curve of humanity generally with a small number of extraordinary people at one end, and a small number of people one would rather not meet at the other end.
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Folks, a generalized insult to all police doesn't do us any good. We have members who are police and serve.
Saying that all police are XYZ is as useful as saying all gun owners are rabid nuts.
So let's skip that. I've deleted some. Next time is an infraction.
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I can not remember a single burglary, scrap metal theft, or shoplifter in my 17 years in LE that was not to buy drugs. I have arrested a heroin addict that was doing 6-10 burglaries a day. Every day, he got up and went stealing to buy heroin. Thats it. I had one that I investigated where he stole the jewelry box of an 80+ year old man. Took what he thought was worth money and chucked the rest in a dumpster. That jewelery box cam from India. The victim brought it back from WW2 and had it for 60 years, until a heroin addict stole it, and then tossed it in the trash. That is one arrest out of many.
Making drugs legal is not the answer.
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It could be your problem when they steal from you, rob you, etc.
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yeah it is a waste of life but at least it is only theirs and they would not be robbing innocent citizens to support the contraband business.
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I just don't see how making it legal will drive the price down. Heroin is $8.00 a bag by me. There is no way that making it legal, making it FDA inspected and compliant, taxing it, and selling it in stores and storefronts will make the cost go down. I just don't see that working.
I also don't see the Gov making it legal and not doing all of the above. Just let the drugs come in, and be sold, and be legal with no Gov regulation or taxation. Not happening, IMHO.
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General drug policy is off-topic for this forum. Let's stick to the article and its arguments.
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Sounds like the liberal education system -completely self-serving
These folks COULD be doing something, but too much politics/empire building going on - at payer's expense
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I don't know why he wasn't in jail. He should have been. But he wasn't.
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And I just read Tom's warning. No more drug talk.
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Drug prohibition is unconstitutional. We had a constitutional amendment for alcohol prohibition. Where's the constitutional amendment for drug prohibition? The legislative branch is not permitted to pass whatever laws they think will be popular, and the executive branch is not permitted to enforce them. That's not rule of law, and it's not how a constitutional republic is supposed to work.
The Legislative and Executive can pass and enforce unconstitutional laws, and they have, but if you want to know why people disrespect the rule of law or why certain social constructs are crumbling, Government not respecting the highest law of the land figures into it somewhere. I would say complexity of the law is another. The idea that you have to go look a substance up on the DEA's website before growing, buying, selling, or ingesting it is... well, I don't have words for it that are appropriate in polite company.
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tyme, if I can respectfully go down the line of conversation you've opened (sorry Mr. Servo!), what makes you think it is unconstitutional? I am quite curious to hear.
I realize that may sound sarcastic but I really am interested in hearing your opinion.
Anyways, I think it's very easy to see how DEA and many other police organizations are becoming paramilitary. This does not mean that they abide by the same rules, but with their armored cars, automatic weapons, sniper rifles, breaching tactics, confiscation, raiding, lockdowns, patrols (i.e. Boston), I think the argument could be made.
However, is having military qualities enough to establish a military? Does it need to be a standing militia? Are the police expected to help take up a fight if there is a war? On American soil? Off? Are they subject to martial law?
If not, are they overstepping their boundaries by acting like the military without operating under the same constraints?
I think these questions will help clarify the initial question.
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I hope that arguing that drug laws are unconstitutional isn't off topic.
What do you mean, why? Isn't the argument crystal clear based on the constitutional amendment that was required for alcohol prohibition?
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I n late May, an internal Department of Justice review confirmed what critics had long charged were frightening violations of civil liberties and due process in the wake of 9/11. The report showed that the 762 non-citizens who were rounded up after the attacks were put in cells where the lights were never turned off and kept in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day. They were cuffed and shackled in leg irons before they were moved. Guards slammed them against walls in advance of videotaping their statements.
The report showed that, when detainees went to contact their lawyers, guards gave them wrong numbers to dial or interfered with their calls and that authorities lied to those outside as well. When family members asked after a loved one at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, they were repeatedly told that the person was not being held at that facility.
In the end, none of those Muslim men who were held in the post-9/11 sweep was charged with crimes relating to terrorism. (Zacarias Moussaoui, the only individual with relevant charges pending, was in custody before the attacks.) Many were never even suspected of such crimes. Although they did not learn of their charges for weeks on end, they were held only for minor immigration violations. The common denominators among them were race and religion.
Accusations of mistreatment at the hands of federal authorities are not new. Family members and community organizations have been working to publicize the plight of detainees since their initial arrests. Yet the internal report not only confirms the claims of these activists, it points to a wider trend. In the age of "homeland security" immigrant rights have come under an intensified assault. Government abuses are only feeding the atmosphere of intolerance.
Since most of the detainees have been deported or released, commentators overwhelmingly spoke about the contents of the inspector general's report in past tense. Many, while critical, appeared to agree with Joseph Billy Jr., the FBI's overseer of counter-terrorism in New York City, who pointed to special circumstances and cited "the tenor of the times after 9/11."
But a flood of news items since the report's release in late May show that the government's actions do not reflect an anomalous period of abusiveness. They mark instead an official attitude that increasingly views immigrants as criminals, rather than a key source of strength and diversity for our country.
For its part, the Justice Department's attitude of indignation mutes its vows to implement reforms based on the inspector general's recommendations. As other observers have noted, the Administration has taken an unbalanced stance: Ashcroft's lieutenants swear they have done nothing wrong—and that it will never happen again.
Meanwhile, the Department's attorneys continue fighting in court to defend their practices. They have been distressingly successful in legitimating tactics that strike at core protections afforded by our legal system. On May 27, the Supreme Court rejected a challenge to secret deportation proceedings, which are closed to family members, the press, and the public.
Three weeks later, on June 17, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Justice Department practice of secret arrests—holding suspects in secret and refusing to release the names and locations of detainees. Dissenting Judge David S. Tatel called the decision an "uncritical deference to the government's vague, poorly explained arguments" for withholding basic information about suspects' conditions, an act that prevents watchdogs from determining whether the Bush administration is violating the constitutional rights of those in custody.
The president assures us that he is not waging a war on Islam and that he wants to work with local neighborhoods to locate the real terrorists. Yet he has treated huge numbers of Arab and South Asian non-citizens as suspects, fueling discrimination against immigrant communities. Since last November, the government has mandated that non-citizen men from 25 nations report for mass "special registrations." Except North Korea, all are predominately Muslim countries. Among the 82,000 people who waited in long lines to voluntarily comply with the order to register—a contingent unlikely to include a lot of terrorists—hundreds were shackled and jailed for problems as trivial as falling a few credits short of the course-load require- ments on a student visa.
Some 13,000 who registered were given orders to appear for court proceedings that could possibly result in expulsion from the country. Deportations and fear of discrimination has sparked an exodus of residents from neighborhoods like New York's "Little Pakistan" on Coney Island Avenue, where storefronts and restaurants are emptied.
On June 17, the Bush administration announced with great fanfare prohibitions on the discriminatory policing practices of racial profiling that have attracted so much attention in the past decade. But, as the ACLU pointed out, the guidelines were released by the Justice Department's civil rights division, the same office that "has come under increasing fire over the past year for dropping a number of ongoing cases against municipalities accused of police brutality and racially prejudicial law enforcement." Moreover, the "ban" perpetuates selective persecution committed in the name of national security. Top officials point to exceptions in the new rules for investigations involving "terrorists," and assure us that programs like Special Regis- tration will continue.
Muslims, Arabs, and South Asians are not the only ones under attack. In the third week of June, Amnesty International and Physicians for Human Rights each released reports decrying the treatment of asylum-seekers—those who come to our country to escape torture and oppression abroad. These investigations show that already poor conditions have only worsened in the past year. About one-third of all children in the custody of U.S. immigration authorities, although accused of no crime, are reportedly subjected to shackling, verbal abuse, solitary confinement, or exposure to the adult prisoner population.
On Arizona's border with Mexico, a new wave of vigilantism has risen since 9/11. Increasingly large groups patrol the desert suited in camouflage, vowing to take homeland security into their own hands. Organizations like the Civil Homeland Defense militia have ties to white supremacists and are suspected by immigrant rights advocates of involvement in the murders of undocumented Mexicans, but have thus far escaped serious scrutiny from local authorities.
In response to these gangs, the White House has taken a frighteningly ambiguous position. Ari Fleisher responded to questions about the militias by saying, "The president believes that the laws of the land need to be observed and the laws need to be enforced." As Max Blumenthal reported in Salon.com, this "might mean one of two things. Perhaps it was a warning that militia groups should stay within the law. Or perhaps it was an acknowledgment that federal agencies have failed at the border—and a careful way of cheering on the vigilantes."
It would be nice to have a president who is above suspicion of supporting vigilantism. But we are not so fortunate today. In early March, when he was working to pressure Mexico to side with the U.S. in UN deliberations about the Iraq War, President Bush publicly worried—or threatened—that a "No" vote could lead to reprisals against some of the 28 million Mexicans living in the United States.
"I don't expect there to be significant retribution from the government," he noted in an interview with Copley News Service. But then he called attention to the "backlash against the French, not stirred up by anybody except the people," and said that if Mexico opposed the U.S. "there will be a certain sense of discipline."
As New York Times columnist Paul Krugman commented at the time, "These remarks went virtually unreported by the ever-protective U.S. media, but they created a political firestorm in Mexico. The White House has been frantically backpedaling, claiming that when Mr. Bush talked of 'discipline' he wasn't making a threat. But in the context of the rest of the interview, it's clear that he was."
White House spin doctors may claim that the president's posturing falls short of a threat, but George W. Bush's apparent disregard for the safety of immigrants goes hand-in-hand with the abuses perpetuated by his Justice Department. Ultimately, it's hard to tell which is worse for the future of the country: that the climate of fear and discrimination nurtured in the age of homeland security is making life less safe for millions of people living in this country or that the Bush administration makes no apologies.
Mark Engler is a writer based in New York City. Research assistance for this article provided by Katie Griffiths.


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"Who's the church?"
"We are!"
"Where's the church?"
"Right here!"
The "youth animator" at the center for English-speaking pilgrims in Rio de Janeiro was revving up the crowd of young adults, no small feat considering it was 9 o'clock in the morning. It was the Friday of World Youth Day, and attendees had flooded city buses, streets, and cafés with WYD-related backpacks, clothing, and the all-important dangling ID lanyards. Pope Francis had his hero's welcome the night before on Copacabana Beach and less than 12 hours later the pilgrims were back for another round of morning catechesis, this time with Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley, archbishop of Boston.
This kind of morning wake-up call had been common throughout WYD. Middle-aged Christian rock musicians coaxed the young audience to stand up, sing, dance, hug each other, and shout praise to the Lord. "Let's make some noise!" It seemed to have its effect. The target audience enjoyed it. During the slower tunes—which bordered on love songs in tone but emphasized communion with Christ—some of the young women would sway with eyes closed; they knew every word.
The animator hastily read an academic-sounding introduction for Cardinal O'Malley while the crowd, having grown used to this format over the previous three days, chatted while shifting for comfortable sitting positions—the cardinal's background and accomplishments didn't seem too important. But, as if on cue, all applauded, most stood, and Cardinal O'Malley had the attention of 5,000 pilgrims from around the world.
Cardinal O'Malley's catechesis, on "mission," aimed at connecting the New Evangelization to the mission of all believers. It was an overwhelming, strong talk, and his plea to "avoid the trap of the hookup culture" received respectable applause. But for all of its insight and courageous urging to keep the faith amid a culture that doesn't understand the moral foundations of the Church, I had the impression his talk did not have its desired effect on its audience. Before long, heads started dropping and eyelids started drooping. An audience distracted by its surroundings and coming down from the caffeinated enthusiasm of the animator seemed mostly inattentive to what O'Malley was saying.
It certainly was not the cardinal's fault—the same thing had happened during Cardinal Timothy Dolan's catechesis two days earlier. But this episode epitomized, for me, the World Youth Day conundrum.
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Bangladesh is now scrambling for humanitarian assistance including help for up to 18,000 pregnant women
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Pakistan dedicates International Day of Peace to Rohingya
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Oh, and Babs being jealous of Helena? THAT one I'm not buying for a moment.. at all... seriously.
no subjectDate: 2009-11-11 08:44 pm (UTC)
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Seriously. Haven't they been over this before? And it's not like Babs is involved with Dick right now (by her choice according to the Nightwing Annual) but I thought the Dick/Helena thing was long and buried. Is Daniel just throwing as many things/characters/plotlines at the wall to see what sticks?
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What Nightwing Annual? (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Discontinuity/ComicBooks)
no subjectDate: 2009-11-11 09:47 pm (UTC)
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It's completely fucking ridiculous. They fucked and Babs didn't care.
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Well she did care. But she got over it a long time ago.
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I thought she was jealous of Dick. *shrug*


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Redeeming the Past: My Journey from Freedom Fighter to Healer
Most Americans sat glued to the TV or radio on April 15 (or raced to finish tax returns) transfixed by the horrific Boston Marathon bombing and aftermath. Nearly 100 friends of Fr. Michael Lapsley's gathered that evening at Busboys and Poets restaurant and bookstore in Washington, D.C., to be soothed with a testimony of faith by South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool, soul-stirring cello music, and a transporting testimony of healing by apartheid regime bomb victim "Father Mike."
One of my favorite newspapers in the world, the South African Mail and Guardian, reported on April 19 this way:
"Boston bombings: the marathon struggle of survival and healing … a priest from South Africa, apartheid fighter and a bomb victim himself reaches out to Americans about forgiveness … He had not planned it that way. The event was to launch his book. It had been scheduled for last October but Hurricane Sandy scuppered those plans. Instead it took place on a day when three people were killed and more than 100 injured in Boston."


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Further Study: Read Ellen G. White, The Lifework, pp. 269, 270, in Education; and Laboring for the Middle Class, pp. 564-566, in Evangelism.
In this closing work of the gospel there is a vast field to be occupied; and, more than ever before, the work is to enlist helpers from the common people. Both the youth and those older in years will be called from the field, from the vineyard, and from the workshop, and sent forth by the Master to give His message. Many of these have had little opportunity for education; but Christ sees in them qualifications that will enable them to fulfill His purpose. If they put their hearts into the work, and continue to be learners, He will fit them to labor for Him.-Ellen G. White, Education, pp. 269, 270.
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- Read 1 Corinthians 1:26-29 in class together. What are the key points? Read carefully where Paul wrote that God chose
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Cape Town - On his birthday, a tow truck driver gave a man the gift of life when he saved him from a burning car.
Ruan Heynse, 25, lost consciousness when he crashed his car on the N1 near Kraaifontein on Saturday.
Lucky for him, tow truck driver Chadley Theron was close by at another accident scene and rushed over.
Theron, who turned 37 on Saturday, said that : "When I got there, the car was on fire. I tried to open the driver's side door, but nothing happened.
"My face was hot from the heat, but I ran to the passenger door and luckily I could get it open."
Theron grabbed the unconscious Heynse by the shoulders and tried to pull him to safety, but his foot was stuck.
"I kept thinking the car could explode any moment," said Theron. "Then I immediately called the ambulance and fire department."
Heynse gained consciousness just as the ambulance arrived.
He was able to give Theron his address and the tow truck driver raced off to inform his family.
Shocked mother Hanlie Heynse gave her son's medical aid details and Theron took the vital information back to the medical personel on the scene.
A relieved Heynse's mom later sent Theron a message of heartfelt thanks from her son's hospital bedside where she says he is recovering well.
Heynse's right leg is broken above the knee and he sustained burn wounds to his other leg.
His emotional mom says she thanks the Lord that He sent Theron to save her son.
"The driver gave us a huge gift on his birthday," she said.
Heynse's relieved ouma Anell said that she knew something was wrong when they got a call telling them about the incident.
But the 72-year-old said thanks to Theron, tragedy has been averted.
"That wonderful man Chadley saved our boy's life," she said. "What he did was wonderful and a great gift to our family."
And a proud Theron added: "I will never forget what I did on my birthday."
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This paper focuses on state economic development efforts with an emphasis on formulating a state economic development strategy. An analytical framework for regional policy analysis is discussed. A second framework is presented that outlines criteria for efficient use of state funds. Economic Base theory is discussed in the appendix, along with Shift-Share Analysis. States, although generally lacking a comprehensive development strategy, are active in economic development programs. The "bottom line" in all regional development efforts is enhancement of the productivity of regional resources, particularly human. To ensure the productive use of state financing, eligible candidates for state assistance are being targeted for export-producing businesses that could not achieve their potential for success without this assistance. These programs should be subject to the criterion that the benefits of programs, measured in increased taxes due to the development, be greater than the total cost of the programs and incentives.
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John Dinkeloo (1918-1981) received a degree in architectural engineering from the University of Michigan in 1942, subsequently becoming the chief of production at the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. Also joining the Saarinen office in 1950, John Dinkeloo became a partner in 1956. Like Kevin Roche, John Dinkeloo began his Saarinen years working on the enormous General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan (1948-1956), one of the most important and technically advanced projects of the post-war years. With Saarinen's untimely death in 1961, as the office was moving to Hamden, Connecticut, Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo, along with senior partner and administrator Joseph Lacy, continued under Saarinen's name, finishing projects and securing new work, most notably the Oakland Museum (1961-1968) in Oakland, California. In 1966, with Saarinen's work complete, the office adopted the present name.
Once established, Roche Dinkeloo continued and expanded on the legacy of Saarinen, particularly in the area of large urban and suburban projects. Beginning with the Ford Foundation Headquarters (1963-1968) in New York City, the firm demonstrated its mastery of evolving modern building types. An L-shaped 12-story office building, enclosing an equally tall glass-roofed garden, the Ford Foundation Headquarters transformed the typical post-war office building lobby into a potent design element. Now it became capable of responding to new concerns for the public realm, which emerged from the destruction of public space during the urban renewal interventions of the 1950s and 1960s. Extending this exploration in the renovations and extensions of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1967-1985) in New York City, Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo created a network of large atrium gardens and courts that configure entire sections of a vast museum complex. In addition to solving the practical issues of orientation and relief in the gallery experience, these elements have emerged as significant and vibrant public spaces within the life of the city on par with Central Park and Manhattan's other outdoor rooms.
While the expansive glass spaces emblematic of Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo's urban buildings have endeavored to invigorate the expression of community in older U.S. cities, their use in the firm's suburban buildings have created a vision of public life where none previously existed. The John Deere & Company West Office Building (1975-1979) in Moline, Illinois, an addition to an earlier Saarinen masterpiece, is typical of the suburban variation. A large winter garden, a full one quarter of the building footprint, establishes a central void, in what otherwise is a low-rise extension of the existing building. Containing a cafeteria, the garden represents the public life of the corporate workplace, while providing a link to the other parts of the Deere complex for which Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo have added or proposed several other buildings. More than just an amenity, these spaces in principal designer Kevin Roche's hands have changed the form and perception of the corporate office building from a serial grouping of single office units into a hierarchical environment capable of supporting a full range of experiences from the solitary to the communal.
Concurrent with the transformation of the internal nature of the corporate office building, Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo has significantly altered its external relationship to the suburban automobile landscape. A striking result of this investigation is the General Foods Corporation Headquarters (1977-1982) in Rye, New York. (Fig. 1.) Raised on a three-story podium of structured parking, its symmetrical composition culminates in a six-story rotondalike dining atrium. Clad in panels of white aluminum siding and reflective glass, the building successfully dominates a large portion of the scattered Westchester County suburban countryside. Elevated to almost monumental status, General Foods Corporations offers a highly visible image to passing motorists and an island of stability to smaller developments surroundmg it. No longer a skyscraper transposed to the country and lain on its aide, the corporate headquarters through the work of Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo has emerged as an important modern building type-the corporate villa.
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urban & land use planning books The involvement of the firm with these suburban modifications has not deterred it from investigating the older, although still significant, urban skyscraper type. Perhaps most indicative of Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo's skill at manipulating the high-rise office building is the United Nations Plaza (1969-1983) in New York City. Actually a complex of two 39-story hotel and office towers connected by a one-story base, these buildings deviate with spectacular results from the two zoning paradigms of New York skyscrapers. Neither a step-backed pyramid nor a sheer tower, they are gridded green reflective glass volumes that are tapered and chamfered to imply with subtle but effective means a base, middle, and top.
Although references to traditional architectural language have always been part of the firm's work they have emerged with greater force in its most recent high-rise projects. Projecting an overt classical profile, the Morgan Bank Headquarters (1983) in New York City rises from a four-story arcaded base, terminating in a copper mansard roof supported by glass window bays configured like columns. Variations in other projects include the skyscraper as a column or spire. It is perhaps too early to judge whether these figurative investgations are a turn away from the use of modern elements and the minimalist references that have previously characterized the firm's high-rise work.
In general, Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo's relationship to modern architecture and theory as esteblished in the 1920s and 1930s is a curious one. Inheriting from Eero Saarinen a skepticism about the universal pronouncements of the CIAM urbanism and international style architecture, the work of the firm has at times demonstrated an almost Beaux-Arts sense of composition and proportion. Early projects such as the Richard C. Lee High School (1962-1967) in New Haven, Connecticut, and later work such as Bouygues Headquarters (1983) Paris, France, demonstrate a continuing use of axial procession, the origins of which can be traced to Kevin Roche's early academic training and his contact with the American work of Mies van der Rohe. Nevertheless, in the broad view, the buildings of Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo share some key tenets of modernism. For example, through the efforts of John Dinkeloo, important building technology innovations have merged from the present firm and its predecessor. Most notable are the development of weathering steel and the perfection of the reflective glass curtain wall and its gasketing system. But such technical advances, like those involving building types described above, have primarily been responses to practical problems, infused with a modest vision of seeking a better solution. Although borrowing from a variety of modern vocabularies-Constructivism, Rationalism, and even Corbusian forms as at the Fine Arts Center (1968-1974), University of Massachusetts, Amherst-the firm is at odds with the various social and political programs these branches of modernism represent. Through this disengagement from theory as ideology, Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo has continued, although with much more rigor, the wide-ranging even eclectic experiments of Saarinen.
Avoiding the narrow formal and theoretical strictures or the modernist agenda, Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo has been free to accept present agenda, Roche Dinkeloo has been free to accept present contitions with the proviso that they can be gradually modified within existing architectural, technical, and social conventions. The design of Union Carbide Corporation World Headquarters (1976-1982), Danbury, Connecticut, demonstrates this point of view. Beginning with extensive employee interviews, the architects produced a building that makes use of freeway-type access, decentralization of departments, and individual preferences for office styling. From these familiar elements and experiences an extraordinary work environment resulted. Perched at tree-line on pilotis, the four-story low-rise building makes a minimal impact on the countryside, wrapping in on itself to disguise a central 2850 car parking garage. Such paragmatism coupled with aspirations for an improved future is squarely in line with an American architectural tradition stretching from Thomas Jefferson's tinkerings at Monticello through the development of the skyscraper in Chicago to Albert Kahn's industrial sheds. Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo's search, like theirs, is for evolutionary possibilities instead of the creation of revolutionary inevitabilities.
The working methods of Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo are somewhat unique to U.S. architectural practice in that they allow the time necessary to explore innovative design strategies. Given the scale of the projects, it is a small office-usually about 60 architects-where design is pursued at a comfortable pace, each part from overall planning to interior materials and furnishings receiving Kevin Roche's attention. However, models and not drawings play the critical role in the design development process. Frequently built at large scale, with simulated materials, and later photographed under exacting conditions, the models are almost interchangeable with the finished buildings. Such observations have led to criticism that the work of Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo lacks spontaneity and human scale. Although this is certainly characteristic of some early work such as the New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum (1965-1972), the technique of models and full-size mock-ups has produced such finely scaled work as the Central Park Zoo (1980-1988), in New York City.
For a firm that has produced significant work for more than 25 years, Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo has only relatively recently attracted the focus of critical attention. Emerging from the bulk of current civic and corporate architecture, the work of Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo has received international recognition for its excellence, integrity, and style. Among the numerous honors awarded to Kevin Roche, the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1982 is foremost. Despite John Dinkeloo's death in 1981, the firm continues to prove that within the context of present social life, the automobile landscape and corporate capitalism can produce architecture worthy of society's most stringent xpectations. In doing so, Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo has neither discarded modernism and its forms nor engaged in a futile revision. By avoiding the entanglements of current debate-Kevin Roche neither writes nor teaches-the firm is able to maintain a clear outlook directed to the pursuit of architecture as a constructive and ennobling act.
- Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California, 1996
- Ford Foundation Building, New York City, which features a dramatic 12-story jungle atrium, 1967
- Knights of Columbus Building, New Haven, Connecticut, 1969
- Post Office, Columbus, Indiana, 1969
- New Haven Coliseum, New Haven, Connecticut, 1972
- U. N. Plaza, New York City, 1975
- Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1975
- Power Center for the Performing Arts, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1981
- National Aquarium, Baltimore, Maryland, 1981
- Quincy Market modern, Boston, Massachusetts.
- Many buildings on the campus of the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York.
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Recycle Ann Arbor Quietly Throws CEO Melinda Uerling Under the Wheels of the Compost Truck
by P.D. Lesko
Make no mistake. One look at the last three years of audited financial statements of Recycle Ann Arbor, and the company's losses make it clear that CEO Melinda Uerling was struggling to keep the company, controlled by the Ann Arbor Ecology Center, afloat. Most recently, city staffers went before Council with a resolution for a taxpayer bailout of Recycle Ann Arbor because the pie-in-the-sky estimates of how much more would be recycled when single-stream recycling went live were off by a shocking 40 percent.
There was finger-pointing aplenty. Tom McMurtrie, the city staffer who oversees the management of the recycling program, who approved the estimates made by a consultant from a company owned by a member of Recycle Ann Arbor's Board of Director's, a man who also sits on the Ann Arbor Environmental Commission, blamed RRS, the consulting firm. Recycle Ann Arbor's CEO blamed city officials whom she claimed never allowed Recycle Ann Arbor to have input concerning the wildly off-base estimates of projected increases in collections. McMurtrie's boss, Sue McCormick, blamed the Taliban, somewhat inexplicably, then spent millions on new recycling carts, even as tens of thousands of old carts, also worth millions of dollars, lay unused in a giant heap at the Water facility on South Industrial. Tens of thousands of containers, discarded so that the city could purchase new matching containers, are junked in a pile that is 300 feet long by about 50 feet wide, according to a disgruntled city staffer who took photos this month (below) of the approximately 45,000 perfectly useable, discarded bins.
City Council members, who rarely hold staffers accountable, rallied behind Recycle Ann Arbor as a "local" company that needed the city's support. There was, of course, no mention of the political favors that had been given to politicos who ran for re-election in 2010. Michael Garfield, head of the Ecology Center, the company that controls Recycle Ann Arbor, gave glowing political endorsements to Fifth Ward Council member Carsten Hohnke, as well as John Hieftje, both of whom voted to repay Garfield's characterization of them as forward-thinking environmentalists with a recent $1.7 million dollar taxpayer bailout.
In short, Recycle Ann Arbor was being badly mismanaged, and up until recently only the city's taxpayers paid the price. A source within Recycle Ann Arbor told A2Politico that John Hieftje, Melinda Uerling and Michael Garfield have been feeling the heat from a recent series of posts A2Politico did on Recycle Ann Arbor's financial problems. Members of the Recycle Ann Arbor Board of Directors became concerned with the embarrassing details of salary increases awarded to Uerling even as Recycle Ann Arbor's losses approached $700,000.
The cast of characters in this ongoing multi-million dollar public money Ponzi scheme is a tight web of political cronies that begins in City Hall and encompasses both the Ecology Center and Recycle Ann Arbor.
In September of 2000, The Ecology Center put out a lengthy statement announcing the hiring of Melinda Uerling. That statement gives a bit of background:
Uerling comes to RAA after working four years in Toledo as the Assistant Director of the Lucas County Solid Waste District and as the Executive Director of the University of Toledos Engineering Technology Outreach Program. In the latter position, she directed a program that provided approximately $1 million worth of process improvement recommendations to industrial manufacturers and other businesses. In the former position, she oversaw the District's recycling drop-off collection program, its education program, and waste assessment assistance initiatives. Prior to working in Toledo, she served as a Project Manager for Resource Recycling Systems, an Ann Arbor-based solid waste consulting firm, which has played a major role in the development of the City of Ann Arbor's waste management programs.
The statement ends on an upbeat note: "We are delighted to welcome Melinda to the organization, and look forward to her leading RAA to an even greater future."
Between 2000 and 2009, the cost of solid waste removal in Ann Arbor doubled. The number of tons collected by Recycle Ann Arbor stagnated, as the graph, below, from the city's web site, clearly shows. The number of tons of materials sent to the landfill actually rose after Uerling took over at Recycle Ann Arbor.
However, there is one area where we have seen a dramatic increase with respect to recycling: the amount of money taxpayers spent to pay Recycle Ann Arbor to haul our recyclables has skyrocked since 2004, when the City of Ann Arbor granted the non-profit a 10-year contract to haul our materials. That merit-based contract called for the City to pay Recycle Ann Arbor $766,000, according to minutes from the December 15, 2003 City Council meeting.
Ann Arbor taxpayers foot the bill for the trucks, fuel, and repairs of Recycle Ann's Arbor's collection vehicles. Look again at the chart above at the number of tons recycled.
By 2008, the cost to taxpayers to have Recycle Ann Arbor haul virtually the same number of tons of material to the MRF that the company hauled in 2003, had risen from $766,000 to a whopping $1.6 million dollars. City Council approved the payment of $1.8 million dollars to Recycle Ann Arbor for fiscal year 2010. The November 2009 resolution to move to single-stream recycling includes the following information from city staff to justify the expenditure and support the resolution by the politicos:
Whereas, Implementation of upgrades to the Material Recovery Facility (MRF) to accept single stream recycling provides a number of benefits to the City, including a cleaner community, greater operating efficiencies, overall increases in recycling and rewards to City's residents for recycling
The following net savings are anticipated as a result of these changes in the recycling program.
· $30,000.00 annual savings in recycling dumpster collection
· $450,000.00 annual savings in curbside recycling (RAA contract)
· $450,000.00 annual revenues from merchant MRF users
The 2010 $1.8 million dollar allocation to Recycle Ann Arbor obviously doesn't support the alleged $450,000 savings touted by the three city staff who prepared (Tom McMurtrie, Systems Planning Unit), reviewed (Sue McCormick, Public Services Administrator) and approved (City Administrator Roger Fraser) the resolution presented to Council at the November 2009 meeting at which Council member Carsten Hohnke touted the "savings" taxpayers would realize by switching to single stream recycling. The recent $1.4 million dollar bailout completes wiped out any projected savings.
Here's the real kicker. It costs less to pay city workers to pick up the garbage, even with the generous pay and benefit packages provided to them, than it costs to contract with Recycle Ann Arbor to drive the city-owned and maintained trucks to pick up our recycling. This is the same pay and benefit package lamented by the City Administrator, Mayor and Council members as a major source of the city's financial problems. In fiscal year 2009, actual salary and benefits to city employees for residential garbage collection was $738,093. In 2011, budgeted salary and benefits for city employees for residential garbage pick-up is $789,271.
In 2009, Recycle Ann Arbor spent $809,090 on salaries and benefits for its collection workers, and has budgeted $865,682 for the 2011 fiscal year. In 2009, for the City of Ann Arbor to contract with Recycle Ann Arbor to provide drivers to collect multi- and single-family recycling, the contract labor was $1,580,794 to run eight recycling trucks. The City of Ann Arbor spent $1,171,020 to run 10 city trucks to collect multi- and single-family solid waste.
Ann Arbor provides only about 35 percent of the materials that are recycled at our own Materials Recovery Facility, yet have been asked to over-pay for the services of Recycle Ann Arbor again and again.
Sometime in late August or the beginning of September, Recycle Ann Arbor very, very quietly parted ways with Melinda Uerling (pictured, right). The first public mention of the change came in a short snippet posted by the AnnArborChronicle.com: "The financial stress at RAA may have played a role in the replacement a few weeks ago of its CEO, Melinda Uerling. The RAA website now lists Kirk Lignell in that position." Between August 12th and September 21st, Recycle Ann Arbor posted no news to its web site. There is not a peep about Uerling's departure or the hiring of Lignell on either the Recycle Ann Arbor or the Ecology Center web sites.
If, in fact, as AnnArborChronicle.com posits, "The financial stress at RAA may have played a role in the replacement a few weeks ago of its CEO, Melinda Uerling," a public announcement of her replacement could lead to some uncomfortable questions. For starters, Melinda Uerling was, obviously, responsible for the financial health of Recycle Ann Arbor, but Michael Garfield, as head of the Ann Arbor Ecology Center, was responsible for Uerling's performance. The Ecology Center and Garfield control the Recycle Ann Arbor's Board of Directors. Garfield sits on that Board, and as a member of the RAA Board presumably reviewed Recycle Ann Arbor's monthly financial reports that would have tracked the growing losses. Garfield and the Board of Directors increased Uerling's pay in each of the year's Recycle Ann Arbor lost money.
One could argue that both Michael Garfield and Melinda Uerling should have been replaced as a result of the long-term financial loses suffered by Recycle Ann Arbor. That she has been let go so quietly, and her replacement brought in without an announcement, appears an attempt to get Recycle Ann Arbor back into the black without having to be honest with the Ann Arbor taxpayers, who foot the a good portion of the company's bills, that there have been serious financial problems. It makes it appear as though Uerling was a scapegoat. Her quiet replacement helps her save face, obviously, but also saves Michael Garfield the embarrassment of answering for her performance, the poor financial performance of Recycle Ann Arbor and his own, as the head of the Ecology Center. Just as Uerling's salary was increased as losses mounted at Recycle Ann Arbor, Garfield's salary was increased steadily, as well, from $55,000 in 2006 to $77,730 in 2008. In 2009, the Ecology Center lost $335,935, according to the company's 990 forms, and between 2006 and 2009 Recycle Ann Arbor had racked up almost $700,000 in losses.
It's not immediately clear what background in environmentalism, management and solid waste management, if any, Kirk Lignell brings to his new job as the head of Recycle Ann Arbor. It's also not clear whether the RAA Board and Michael Garfield chose Lignell in a secret rush to oust Uerling, or after a thorough national search. What is clear is that Lingell has his work cut out for him. Recycle Ann Arbor, according to city staffers who prepared the resolution to bail out the company, is having trouble meeting its day-to-day expenses. While residents are paying ever more under the terms of a no bid contract that sets out the terms of recycling collections, it remains to be seen whether the collected materials are being sold, or simply land-filled. That information has not been released by city staff, or provided to a Council member who requested it.
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ED Cowan's father was taken to a Brisbane hospital just hours after the opener yesterday scored the breakthrough Test ton that could deliver him a Cricket Australia contract.
And the Cowan family last night said the left-hander's 136 against South Africa at the Gabba was dedicated to his gravely ill mother Jan, who is battling a terminal neurological disorder.
Diagnosed with what Cowan terms "a cross between Parkinson's and motor neurone disease", Jan attended the opening three days but flew home on Sunday night to rest at her Sydney home.
Now consigned to a wheelchair and unable to talk, Jan, 58, watched her son achieve a childhood dream from her loungeroom television.
Entering the Gabba clash under mounting pressure with a Test average of 29, Cowan produced his most aggressive innings in the baggy green, cutting and pulling his way to 17 boundaries during his 257-ball innings.
Only a luckless run-out could stop Cowan, but his dismissal had an eventful postscript when his father Richard was forced to leave the Gabba early to have a suspected ear infection assessed at a Brisbane hospital.
Cowan said it took him two years to come to terms with his mother's ailing health and his wife Virginia Lette last night spoke of the family's pride at his arrival as a Test opener.
"We're absolutely thrilled. This has been something he has been striving for his entire career," said Virginia, who watched Cowan's century from the Gabba stands with their three-month-old daughter Romy in her arms.
"She was here and we were all hoping that she'd see Ed bat (yesterday), but unfortunately she had to go home moments before Ed went into bat.
"Ed would dedicate this to a lot of people in his family, most of all his mum.
"She's very unwell, but she is always in good spirits and has an incredible will to live. What's more important is she is still with us to see Ed play and it meant so much for her to briefly be here."
Cowan's father, who headed for hospital shortly after his son was dismissed, added: "Jan wanted to stay, but I said, 'No darling, you go home and you will watch it on TV because Ed is not out and you can see him in the morning.'
"I think it (the century) will help his confidence but it won't alter him as a person.
"It warms my heart. It has been a great day. I hope it's the first of many for Ed."
Cowan was overlooked for a CA contract in June but is almost certain to clinch a deal after he dominated South Africa to guide Australia to 4-487.
He attributed his more aggressive approach to a candid chat with batting coach Justin Langer after the tour of West Indies in April.
"I said I was happy to be judged by the runs I score and that's the bottom line. The contract issue wasn't (motivation), that's not keeping me going," he said.
"The last innings in the West Indies, I had a heart-to-heart with Justin Langer and he was all about going out and playing your shots.
"I thought at the time that is a pretty good blueprint because it has felt like in Test cricket if you stand still you are a sitting duck.
"I play my best cricket when I am positive and have a good defence rather than the other way around and I felt like I backed that up."
Yesterday was not the first time Cowan had come to the rescue of Clarke.
In 2005, Cowan was standing in the members bar at the SCG, about to order his first cold beer, when Clarke went down injured against Pakistan.
Desperate for a replacement fielder, Cowan, playing with NSW at the time, was plucked from the crowd by Australian officials, given a pair of whites and asked to help out in the field.
The youngster who grew up in the exclusive eastern suburbs and attended the prestigious Cranbrook School was only too happy to help out proud westie Clarke.
Originally published as Cowan's ton of guts runs in family


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