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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Left tackle? Left guard? Trade up? Trade down? Stay put?
So many questions for the San Diego Chargers' rookie brain trust, and so many ways they can go in the first round of the NFL draft Thursday night.
Even casual Chargers fans who saw Philip Rivers scrambling for his well-being all last season know San Diego desperately needs to upgrade the left side of its line, particularly at tackle to protect the quarterback's blind side.
But holding the 11th overall pick puts the Chargers in somewhat of a no man's land, a spot that's not high enough that the team is assured of getting Lane Johnson of Oklahoma, the third of the three top-rated tackles.
San Diego was consigned to that spot by a win over the lowly Oakland Raiders in a meaningless season finale, with the Chargers already assured of missing the playoffs for the third straight season and coach Norv Turner and general manager A.J. Smith one day away from being fired.
So it's up to rookie GM Tom Telesco to attempt to undo the damage Smith did to the roster, both in unproductive recent drafts and in an uncharacteristic free agent frenzy last offseason that stuck the Bolts with bad contracts and underwhelming players.
The Chargers' needs are many, starting with left tackle. They could also use a left guard, a defensive tackle, inside and outside linebackers and a safety.
Rivers was sacked 49 times last year and committed 22 turnovers, many because he was under siege so much of the time. Toward the end of the season, he'd often drop back and have to throw the ball into the ground because the line couldn't hold off the pass rush.
The Chargers still haven't adequately replaced left tackle Marcus McNeill and left guard Kris Dielman, who were forced to retire after the 2011 season due to injuries.
San Diego thought big Jared Gaither was the answer at left tackle, but they cut the player nicknamed "The Big Lazy" after an unproductive, injury-riddled 2012 season raised serious questions about his work ethic.
Left guard Tyronne Green is an unrestricted free agent.
For the time being, King Dunlap, one of three offensive linemen picked up via free agency, is the top left tackle. The Chargers lost right guard Louis Vasquez to Denver.
"Sure it's something we're looking to address, yeah," is as specific as Telesco got when asked about the need to bolster the offensive line.
"No. 1, we don't rank our needs," said Telesco, who learned the importance of building through the draft while working in the Indianapolis Colts' front office. "To me, if you start ranking your needs, it may start influencing your draft board, so we have positions we think we'd like to add players to and then after that we let the board tell us where to go. We don't rank our players 1-255. It's more of a horizontal look by position and then we'll rank each player against each other at different positions. But we let the board tell us where to go."
Important stuff, considering that Telesco calls the draft board "a living, breathing thing."
The top two tackles, Luke Joeckel of Texas A&M and Eric Fisher of Central Michigan, are expected to be long gone by the 11th pick. There's a chance Johnson will still be there, and the Chargers are known to like him.
Telesco said the Chargers would consider taking a guard at No. 11, perhaps Chance Warmack of Alabama or Jonathan Cooper of North Carolina.
The Chargers could trade up, although with as many needs as they have, it'd be more likely that they'd trade down, which would allow them to stockpile picks.
New coach Mike McCoy shares Telesco's view of building through the draft.
"The big thing is, when you get done with the draft is, how did you improve your football team?" McCoy said. "Without a doubt, you always want to keep the guys you draft and re-sign them so it's not just developmental for some other team. With today's salary cap, you've got to make tough decisions some of the time and we're going to do whatever we can to draft the right guys and re-sign them and keep them here long term."
Even with all the changes that have been made since the new regime took over, Telesco and McCoy say the Chargers aren't rebuilding.
"Nope," McCoy said, "because we have a core and a foundation here and we're building to win as many games this year as we can, and to win over time."
The Chargers were 7-9 last year.
"You know, we don't like to use that word because it makes it sound like we don't care about winning right now," Telesco said. "I want to win right now. Mike wants to win right now. We want to build this as we go, but there's a lot of transition that's going to happen between now and then. There's no timetable to how long it's going to take."
Telesco was No. 2 in the Colts from office when they went from 2-14 in 2011 to 11-5 and the playoffs behind Andrew Luck, who was taken with the first pick overall in last year's draft.
"Where I just came from, we tried to turn it over as fast as we could and try to win as we get there. That's going to be the plan here," Telesco said.


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I haven't had time to listen to the whole thing, but The Nation has an audio of the infamous Lee Atwater interview from 1981 in which he explained the Southern Strategy:
You start out in 1954 by saying, "Nigger, nigger, nigger." By 1968 you can't say "nigger"—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states' rights, and all that stuff, and you're getting so abstract. Now, you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "Nigger, nigger."
Fast forward — Now Paul Ryan is saying that he and Mittens did not lose the election because voters rejected his policies. They lost the election because of all those "urban" voters.
I think he needs to get a lot more abstract.

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Cinereous vulture
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The Cinereous vulture is the largest bird of prey of the Old World, and is only slightly smaller than the Andean condor. It has a length of 110-120 cm, a wingspan of 250-300 cm and a body-weight of up to 14 kg. The wings are long and broad with parallel edges, prominently indented trailing edge and with 7 deeply splayed fingers at tip. The tail is short and wedge-shaped. The plumage is dark brown with a fluffy ruff and bluish neck. In adults, the head is bare and buffy in colour with a blackish throat and dark markings around the eye, giving it a menacing skull like appearance. The very powerful bill is horn coloured, and the cere is pale blue. Juveniles have a blackish face, black bill and pink cere; and often a fluffy tuft on the back of the head.
The cinereous vulture breeds mostly in high mountains and large forests, in loose colonies or solitarily. Usually it builds a huge nest in a tree, where it lays one egg. Laying usually starts at the beginning of February and finishes at the end of April. Incubation lasts 50–54 days with both, male and female, participating. The chick usually spends more than 100 days in the nest and remains with the adults 2–3 months after fledging before moving away.
Cinereous vultures feed on medium to large carcasses, only rarely taking live prey, but also insects, tortoises and lizards appear in the diet.
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|Name (Scientific)
|Aegypius monachus
|Name (English)
|Cinereous vulture
|Name (French)
|Vautour moine
|Name (German)
|Name (Spanish)
|Buitre negro
|Local names
|Greek: Maurógypas
Portuguese: Abutre-preto
|CITES Status
|Appendix II
|CMS Status
|Appendix II (as Accipitridae spp.)
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|Africa: Morocco (?), Sudan Asia: Afghanistan, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Israel, Kazakhstan, Korea DPR, Korea Rep. Kyrgyzstan, Lao PDR, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam. Europe: Albania(?), Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Croatia, France (re-introduced>), Georgia, Greece, Macedonia former Yug. Rep. (?), Montenegro, Portugal (?),Russian Federation, Serbia, Spain (Baleares), Turkey, Ukraine Breeding populations are discontinuous, but vagrants may be encountered in many other Euopean, Asian and North African countries.
|Temperate forests and grasslands, cold semi-deserts and deserts and mediterranean-type vegetation.
|Wild population
|The global population is declining. It is currently estimated to number 7,200-10,000 pairs, with 1,700-1,900 pairs in Europe and 5,500-8,000 pairs in Asia (2004) (Red List IUCN 2011)
|Zoo population
|198 birds reported to ISIS (200) with the majority being kept by European Zoos.
In the Zoo
How this animal should be transported
Untrained birds travel better in completely dark boxes, with a carpeted floor and roof, with an upwards sliding door at one end and no perch. As a general rule, trained birds are easier to manage in boxes with a carpeted perch at the right height to give plenty of head and tail room, and with a hinged side opening door.
For air transport, Container Note 20 of the IATA Live Animals Regulations should be followed.
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This issue of Origins Research marks the 10th year anniversary of Students for Origins Research. Such an occasion provides this founding father with an irresistable opportunity to take a nostalgic look at the progress we have made over the past ten years and offer a few thoughts about where we hope to go in the future.
Some things have not changed much over the past ten years. In an editorial appearing in the Sept-Dec 1978 issue, I pointed out that SOR existed because there was a need for another voice, an alternative viewpoint. I documented how the powers-that-be in the scientific publishing circles were more interested in promoting a "philosophy of life" than in "doing science" when it came to discussing origins. Ten years ago Biological Sciences Curriculum Study Newsletter accepted an advertisement from the American Humanist Association which affirmed evolution as a principle of science. And yet a rebuttal advertisement by a creationist group was repeatedly denied without explanation. Similar infractions were documented concerning Science News and Scientific American.
Ten years later the censorship still exists, as evidenced by Chris Foreman's lead article is this issue concerning Omni magazine. Instead of quietly ignoring the creationists, however, the censorship has escalated to a public smear campaign to the point that the editors of Omni attempt to paint the creationists as the censors.
Elsewhere in this issue Peter Gordon points out in his review of American Biology Teacher that an increasing hostility toward creationist views has developed over the years in ABT. However, the most revealing events in recent months have been the reactions to the Teaching Science booklet published by the American Scientific Affiliation (reviewed elsewhere in this issue). Despite the overwhelming positive response from the science teachers who have returned the evaluation cards (76% A's & B's, 19% D's & F's), the booklet has been severely criticized by people in high places because it does not teach evolution as dogma and leaves the door open to theistic views. A series of "coincidental" events have unfolded that paint the picture of a coordinated censorship and smear campaign against the ASA in response to their booklet.
Earlier this year there was an attempt to revoke ASA exhibit privileges and a program advertisement at the March convention of the National Science Teachers Association in Washington D.C. Fortunately in this case reason prevailed and the ASA was able to set up its exhibit booth (next to the National Academy of Sciences booth) and distribute over 2,000 copies of Teaching Science to teachers.
The ASA and ICR were not so fortunate in the upcoming June meeting of the Pacific Division of the AAAS in San Diego. The January 23, 1987 issue of the Pacific Division newsletter listed a technical session in the Educational Division on Modeling the Origins of the World, Life and Diversity. One of the field trips also listed was a tour of ICR headquarters lead by William Thwaites and hosted by Duane Gish. ASA was in the process of lining up two of their members to speak in the Origins session when it was suddenly cancelled without explanation. In the April 25th issue of the Pacific Division newsletter both the Origins technical session and the ICR field trip were not listed. Somebody at the top pulled the plug.
The AAAS campaign against the ASA began in the January 2, 1987 issue of Science (pg. 19-21) where editor Constance Holden dropped a brief mention of Teaching Science. Because the booklet encourages a cautious teaching of evolution (including the unsolved problems and the limitations of science), Holden labelled the ASA as a group of sophisticated extremists who are attempting to censor science. The ASA responded with four different letters defending their book, and the Science editors refused to publish any portion of them. Who are the real censors?
One of the most vicious attacks on the ASA booklet has come from the pen of evolutionist defender William J. Bennetta. A long review by Bennetta full of name calling, accusations, and innaccurate statements appeared in a recent issue of California Science Teacher. To date the editors appear unresponsive to a meeting with the ASA writers to discuss the misunderstandings and misrepresentations of Teaching Science that appeared in Bennetta's review. The conspiracy plot thickens.
This type of hostility makes two clear statements. First, creationists are finally being taken seriously. I would prefer a calm scientific dialogue about the data, and that is taking place in isolated cases (we are attempting to be one of those isolated cases). But given the choice of a public flogging and being ignored, I'll take the beating any day. Which brings me to the second point. These unscholarly reactions prove that the basic issue is a struggle of world views between the theist and the materialist. People do not get hostile about data. They get hostile when their philosophy of life (i.e. religion) is challenged.
The creation/evolution controversy is but one battle that is going on in a large scale "world view" war in our society. This point is well made by Paul C. Vitz in a 1983 study funded by the National Institute of Education. Professor Vitz systematically examined ninety widely used social studies and history textbooks and found that religion, family values, and certain political and economic positions have been purposely omitted. For example in a total of 670 stories from grades three and six readers, not one reference to representative Protestant religious life was found (Censorship: Evidence of Bias in our Children's Textbooks, Paul C. Vitz, 1986).
So ten years later we still feel Origins Research fills the need for "another voice."
There are several ways that we have changed over the years. Our pages have become increasingly filled with dialogue between creationists and evolutionists. As we examined the other organizations and publications on this issue, we found that creationists and evolutionists were basically talking to themselves. We thought there would be real value (and progress) in letting proponents of each side put forth their best arguments leaving the readers to draw their own conclusions. Our readers have indicated they appreciate this format.
Ten years ago it was hard to find a book that was critical of scientism and evolutionism, and yet suitable for use in our public schools and universities. A quick glance at our expanded book catalog in this issue, shows that the situation has changed dramatically. In recent years there have appeared a number of books by "non-creationists" which raise the same issues that creationists have been raising for the past two decades. Evolution a Theory in Crisis, Origins: A Skeptics Guide to the Creation of Life on Earth, Darwin Retried, The New Story of Science, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle, and Neck of the Giraffe are all a new breed of books that are steadily chipping away at the materialistic framework based on evolutionary dogma that has so gripped the 20th century mind.
There is also a new breed of creationist books such as The Natural Limits to Biological Change, The Mystery of Life's Origins, and Origins Science which focus primarily on the scientific issues and attempt to make a positive scientific contribution rather than merely attack the standard evolutionary positions.
Another change beginning with this issue that may appear small on the surface, but which we hope will be large in its effect, is the replacement of our Board of Advisors with Technical Committees. The broad range of disciplines involved in origins discussions requires a integrated interdisciplinary effort if we are to produce any significant results. If we want to be taken seriously in scientific/academic circles, it is also important that our papers be refereed by people with the appropriate credentials and experience. For these reasons, we will be leaning heavily on our technical committees to help us produce a journal that is respected for its good science.
Where are we headed in the next ten years? In our annual report to SOR members last September we formulated some principles that will hopefully steer our organizational and editorial direction in the coming years. We had such a positive reaction from our members that we thought it would be profitable to reprint it for our general readership. I will close here with "The SOR Approach":
Battles over creation/evolution are being fought on three fronts: religious, political, and scientific. There are many groups that are fighting the religous battles and many that are fighting the political battles. And there are many groups that are fighting two or three battles simultaneously. We believe there is only one truth about our origins, and that science and religion each provide unique ways of coming to that truth. However, given the scientific, political, and religious climate of our culture today, we feel there is a need for a group that focuses solely on the scientific issues. This is the reason SOR was founded and is still the reason we exist today, ten years later.
Within our primary goal of focusing on the scientific issues are several secondary goals. We have mixed a little ancient proverbial wisdom with a little modern common sense to come up with the following approach:
To seek the truth. Our first job is to examine the truth, not to persuade others of our current version of the truth. We all have a world-view through which we filter the facts, and we all get caught up in persuasion. But when we do persuade we must be careful no to use faulty, out-dated, or ignorant arguments, for when they are found out, they will only damage the cause. We would rather err on the side of being too cautious, than on the side of being too persuasive.
To be critical. We cannot work in the scientific arena without learning to be critical -- critical of friends, critical of our foes, and critical of ourselves. For fifty years our society has uncritically accepted the macroevolution theory of origins. For the last twenty years many creationists have uncritically been trying to present a flat creation alternative. By presenting the evidence for creation to the academic and scientific communities and engaging in written dialogues with evolutionists we have tried to address this problem in the pages of Origins Research.
To be open-minded. Science is a continuously changing body of knowledge. We cannot hope to practice science by clinging to yesterday's evidence when today's evidence brings us fresh insight and knowledge. To be sure we must learn to recognize the world-view filter of others through which data are presented to us, but we should also be slow to throw away all data which do not fit our own preconceptions.
To be humble. The fact that we are dealing with circumstantial evidence, the fact that more evidence may turn up tomorrow, and the fact that we all make mistakes, should work together to keep us humble. We don't have all the answers and we should avoid talking as if we do. We need to be ready to admit our mistakes and face the fact that we will make them.
To be kind. We want to assume the best about the people who disagree with us and allow them every opportunity to defend themselves. This is the way we desire to be treated.
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Zebra costume to make from a pillowcase. No-sew costume. How to make a Zebra costume.
NEW! Make a fun Zebra costume for Halloween or just for dressup playtime. Quick and easy to make from a pillowcase. Kids costume.
Items needed:
- White pillowcase / Zebra print pillowcase
- Black half-face mask
- Scissors
- Craft glue
- Black permanent marker
- Stapler
- Iron pillowcase to remove creases and wrinkles first.
- Fold pillowcase in half, lengthwise, and then cut a small opening, on folded side, for the neck . Unfold and then cut a slit down the back, only, about 5 inches long from the neck opening.
- Across from the neck opening, at each side seam, cut away a 1/4 inch slice for the arm holes.
- Dab a bit of white glue onto the cut edges to prevent fraying, if desired.
- Cut off bottom border from pillowcase.
- If you are using a white pillowcase, print the pattern for the zebra stripes, then make irregular stripes, using the marker, similar to those shown. Make stripes all over the pillowcase. (Place a piece of cardboard inside the pillowcase so marker doesn't go through both layers of fabric.)
- Trace ear pattern onto cardboard and then cut out both ears. Using a piece of the pillowcase border, insert one of the ears between layers of fabric. (Dab glue on both sides of cardboard before inserting.) Press fabric and set aside to dry. Do the same with the second ear.
- Cut around the ear shapes removing all excess fabric. If you are using the white pillowcase, use marker to add stripes to ears.
- Staple ears to mask, adding a piece of tape to back of staple.
- Dress child in a black shirt to complete the Zebra costume.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 8th Nov 2012 20:54 UTC, submitted by Elv13
"Theme development is a tedious and difficult task, and for the GTK devs to be so careless in breaking their API at every turn disrespects the many hours people put into making themes for it. [...] I was given to believe that this breakage stems from a Microsoft-like climate of preventing users from customizing their systems, and deliberately breaking the work of others so that your 'brand' is the best. Anytime I hear the word 'brand' being used in Linux, I know something valuable is being poisoned." I find the tone of this one a bit too harsh and overly negative at times, but his point still stands.
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DIY Reupholstery Project or Not?
Q: I found this awesome chair on the street (by a dumpster next to an apartment building) the other day. It has no tags, is very old & worn, stained, and the upholstery is torn on the arm.. but it otherwise greatly resembles the Knoll Saarinen Executive Armchair (particularly the one sold by DWR.) Is there any chance this might be authentic? And either way, what should I do about the upholstery tear given that I don't want to spend lots of money? Is this a reasonable first DIY reupholstery project?
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Readers- any recommendations for Sanae about either the chair itself or the idea of reupholstering it?


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Fathers are important. Children whose father spend time with them are more likely to be successful adults.
Fathers do matter, and fathers come in all kinds of shapes, sizes and relationships. Not all children have a father who is an active presence in their lives. Fathers die, go to prison, are stationed overseas, and might be absent from their children's lives for a host of other reasons.
Fatherhood is not just about biology. Male roles models are important for children -- whether they be biological, adoptive or step fathers or whether they be relatives, neighbors, teachers, coaches, doctors, dentists, preachers, policemen, and other males. Children are very observant and they are watching the men who they come into contact with at home and in the community. If you are a male, children are watching you.
The following list from the First Five LA website is not just for biological fathers, and it includes tips for other male role models in a childn's life.
What Dads Can Do
1. Respect your children's mother. When children see their parents respecting each other, they are more likely to feel that they are also accepted and respected.
2. Spend time with your children. If you always seem too busy for your children, they will feel neglected no matter what you say. Set aside time to spend with your children.
3. Earn the right to be heard. Begin talking with your kids when they are very young, and talk to them about all kinds of things. Listen to their ideas and problems.
4. Discipline with love. All children need guidance and discipline, not as punishment, but to set reasonable limits and help children learn from natural or logical consequences. Fathers who discipline in a calm, fair and nonviolent manner show their love.
5. Be a role model. Fathers are role models whether they realize it or not. A girl with a loving father grows up knowing she deserves to be treated with respect. Fathers can teach sons what is important in life by demonstrating honesty, humility and responsibility.
6. Be a teacher. A father who teaches his children about right and wrong and encourages them to do their best will see his children make good choices. Involved fathers use everyday examples to teach the basic lessons of life.
7. Eat together as a family. Sharing a meal together can be an important part of healthy family life. It gives children the chance to talk about what they are doing and it is a good time for fathers to listen and give advice. 8. Read to your children. Begin reading to your children when they are very young. Instilling a love for reading is one of the best ways to ensure they will have a lifetime of personal and career growth.
9. Show affection. Children need the security that comes from knowing they are wanted, accepted and loved by their family. Showing affection every day is the best way to let your children know that you love them.
10. Realize that a father's job is never done. Even after children are grown and leave home, they will still look to their fathers for wisdom and advice. Fatherhood lasts a lifetime.
• A Father Matters: http://readysetgrowla.org/Dads/index.html
• How to Be a Good Father: http://www.wikihow.com/Be-a-Good-Father
• Promoting Responsible Fatherhood: http://fatherhood.hhs.gov/
• Ten Ways to be a Better Dad: http://www.first5la.org/articles/ten-ways-to-be-a-better-dad


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The national political barometer has shifted to South Carolina as operatives speculate on who Gov. Nikki Haley will appoint to fulfill the unexpired term of U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint.
The national political barometer has shifted to South Carolina as operatives speculate on who Gov. Nikki Haley will appoint to fulfill the unexpired term of U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint.
DeMint announced Thursday that he will resign effective Dec. 31 to lead the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.
Speculation immediately turned to U.S. Rep. Tim Scott, who represents the first congressional district, and other members of the South Carolina congressional delegation including Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-Spartanburg, and to "place holders" — such as Henry McMaster and David Wilkins — who could serve until voters selected a permenant replacement in 2014.
During a phone interview Thursday, Gowdy said he has not spoken to Haley regarding her selection, but he would urge her to appoint Scott or Rep. Mick Mulvaney.
"It's her decision and hers alone. She has not called and asked my opinion and has no obligation whatsoever to do so, but if she did, the two names I would give her are Tim Scott and Mick Mulvaney," Gowdy said.
Both, he said, have previously expressed interest in the job and have deep, true conservative values.
Gowdy, Scott, Mulvaney and other members of the S.C. congressional delegation learned of DeMint's resignation when he called them Thursday morning. Gowdy, who had dinner with DeMint last week and saw him earlier this week, was shocked by the news.
Gowdy praised DeMint's service in the Senate and said Scott or Mulvaney would be ideal for the post.
When asked whether he was interested in the job, Gowdy said Scott and Mulvaney were more qualified and interested than he was in being the next senator from South Carolina.
"If you're asked to pick someone who can prosecute a case, you would do well to pick me," Gowdy said. "If you need someone in a group of 100 people to make decisions on a national level, I would choose either Mick or Tim … Tim is uniquely qualified for the job and I'm not talking about his race."
When Gowdy looks in the mirror, he said he doesn't see a U.S. senator.
"Plus, I don't like to take long afternoon naps so I don't know that I would do well in the Senate," he quipped.
Gowdy said that Scott is smart, hardworking and his faith drives every decision he makes.
"His faith is the utmost important thing to him and there's not a close second," Gowdy said. "He is a devout believer and he values education and hard work, and there's not a person in Washington who doesn't respect him. Keep in mind that respect and like are two different things."
Gowdy said Scott is well-known for sticking to his conservative values, even when it's not popular.
Scott, one of two blacks elected to the U.S. House in 2010, said during a phone interview Thursday evening that he has not spoken with Haley or her staff, but said she would likely make a decision in "days or weeks."
"I appreciate Trey's comments and I would say the same about him, except I would say he is the smartest guy in the delegation and not just for the fact that he says he's not interested in the job," Scott joked.
Scott said he is confident in Haley's ability to make the appropriate selection.
"The governor recognizes the need for us to keep someone who is a real, bonafide conservative in office," he said. "I think she'll make the right decision no matter who she chooses."
In a statement, Mulvaney said that DeMint has been a strong conservative voice.
"I have faith Governor Haley will apoint someone with the character, leadership and conservatism Senator DeMint has provided South Carolinians for the past 11 years."
Some speculated Thursday that Haley could step down and then be appointed as the next senator, but Gowdy and Barry Wynn, a longtime DeMint friend and advisor, said there was a "zero percent" chance of that happening.
"I don't think she'll put herself in that position," Wynn said. "That has not proven to be a smart political move in most cases."
Wynn, a good friend of DeMint's for more than 30 years, remains the treasurer of DeMint's political action committee. Wynn said the Heritage Foundation was a good opportunity for DeMint, and also mentioned Scott as a likely successor.
In 1965, then Sen. Olin Johnston, the father of former U.S. Rep. Liz Patterson, died while in office. Then-Gov. Donald Russell resigned as governor and was appointed to fulfill Johnston's unexpired term. Russell lost in the 1966 Democratic primary.
"Donald Russell was one of the most impressive, distinguished people to ever walk in this state and it didn't work out too well for him," Gowdy said.
Patterson, who also learned of DeMint's resignation Thursday morning, said she was shocked to learn of DeMint's decision.
"To me, to resign from an office to which you've been elected to take a political job, it's turning his back on the people who elected him in South Carolina," Patterson said. "It also leaves our state without a voice — a really true elected voice — which is unfortunate. I think it's a very unfortunate move. It's a very, almost a self-serving move."
Ron Romine, Spartanburg County Democratic Party chairman, said DeMint's decision raises the stakes for the 2014 election.
"That really makes for an interesting election two years from now," he said. "That election will have all kind of extra meaning to it. A governor and two senators. It'll be almost like a presidential election … Both parties are going to be gearing up in ways they probably wouldn't have before this happened."


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MINNEAPOLIS — Without even knowing it, Dwight Howard was doing a modern-day impression of that famous Rodin statue, resting his chin on his hand as he hunched over in his chair.
He had his back turned to reporters at his locker Wednesday night and was lost in his thinking. Finally he rose, had an ice wrap removed from his right shoulder and showered.
The latest snag in the Lakers' season is the repeated aggravation of a torn labrum in Howard's shoulder. He has already missed three games because of it and left two others early, most recently Wednesday in a 92-86 loss to Phoenix.
The Lakers were leading, 78-73, when Shannon Brown blocked Howard's shot with 6:56 to play. Howard went down on the court for several seconds and never returned, saying he felt numbness "all down my arm and my neck."


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Profile of Robert L. Johnson
Robert L. Johnson is the founder, chairman and CEO of Black Entertainment Television (BET). He is also the majority owner of the the Charlotte Bobcats of the National Basketball Association. Johnson grew up in Illinois and earned a graduate degree in international affairs from Princeton University. In the early 1970s Johnson found himself in Washington, D.C. during the early expansion of cable television. After a few years as a lobbyist for the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, Johnson borrowed money to start his own cable brand, BET. Launched in 1980, it was profitable within five years. In the early '90s BET became the first African-American-controlled company to be traded publicly on the New York Stock Exchange. In 1998 Johnson bought it back and then sold it to Viacom, pocketing a reported $1.5 billion himself and retaining his position as chairman and CEO. Since then Johnson has continued to expand and diversify the BET brand, and in 2003 he became the owner of a new National Basketball Association franchise, the Charlotte Bobcats.
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For a blind man who managed to escape a security cordon around his home-turned-prison, it is perhaps no surprise that Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng's next feat was to address a U.S. congressional hearing. Speaking from a Beijing hospital, where he has been isolated from friends, supporters, media and the U.S. diplomats who had temporarily sheltered him, Chen repeated his desire to leave China with his family. He said he was not only worried about his safety but the safety of his family, including his mother and brothers who face reprisals for his April 22 escape from his village in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong. "I haven't be able to reach them all yet," he said by phone, adding that security officers have installed video cameras and an electrified fence around the family home where his mother is still staying. "I'm very worried about my mother and my brothers," he said. "So I hope the Americans can contribute to secure my family's security as well. That's what I am worried about right now."
(More: Team Chen Guangcheng: The Activists and Friends Now Also At Risk)
Chen also said that he hoped to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who arrived in Beijing Wednesday for two days of pre-scheduled annual talks with Chinese leaders. Clinton spoke with Chen by phone on Wednesday as he left U.S. protection. At that point Chen hoped to remain in China, and plans were made to allow him to attend law school in China with his wife, Yuan Weijing. But hours later Chen's position shifted. "My real thoughts are that I want my family to leave China as soon as possible," he told TIME by phone. "This was not what I originally hoped for, but I changed my mind last night. I changed my mind as a result of the current circumstances."
The twists in the case have opened American officials to criticism that they were eager to get resolve Chen's case ahead of the May 3-4 U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue, and may have pressured him to leave the embassy and underestimated the risk he faced outside. Mitt Romney, President Obama's likely Republican challenger in this fall's election, waded into the debate to criticize the administration. "If these reports are true, this is dark day for freedom, and it's a day of shame for the Obama administration," Romney said. "We are a place of freedom, here and around the world, and we should stand up and defend freedom wherever it is under attack."
(MORE: Chen Guangcheng Affair: U.S. Denies China Dissident's Account of Coercion)
U.S. Ambassador Gary Locke has denied that Chen was under any pressure to leave the embassy, and U.S. officials have said that he never requested asylum. His changed at Beijing's Chaoyang Hospital after speaking by phone with supporters including Beijing-based dissident Zeng Jinyan and lawyer Teng Biao. Teng, who released a transcript of his calls with Chen (translated here by the Shanghaiist blog), warned the activist that he was at risk. "If you stay on in China, it's going to be very dangerous for you," Teng said. Over the course of two hours, Chen's tone becomes more and more worried. Those discussions helped Chen change his mind. "Yes, the phone calls from Teng Biao and Zeng Jinyan did influence me a little but my decisions are made by myself," he told TIME.
With Chen no longer under U.S. protection, leverage in his case has clearly shifted to the Chinese side. U.S. diplomats have been bared from meeting him in the hospital, where's he's being treated for a an injury he sustained in escaping his farmhouse. U.S. diplomats were able to speak with him by phone twice Thursday and meet with his wife. But by Friday the U.S. was no longer able to reach Chen for more than a few seconds, the Associated Press reported. Reporters outside the Chaoyang Hospital said they saw U.S. Embassy staff entering carrying a cell phone box, a sign that they were possibly trying to reestablish communications with him.
(MORE: How the Chen Guangcheng Case Will Test U.S.-China Relations)
A remaining source of U.S. leverage is the presence of Clinton. With the Sino-U.S. talks ending Friday, and she scheduled to leave on Saturday, the U.S. side is scrambling to find a suitable resolution to the standoff. In his comments to Congress, Chen was careful not to ask for asylum, stating instead that he wanted to visit the U.S. "In the agreement between the U.S. and China, China said that it will guarantee my human rights as given by the constitution, which includes the freedom of getting a visa and traveling abroad," he said. "So now I'm asking them to obey their promises and give me the freedom to go aboard to rest. I want to go to America to rest for a while because I haven't had a weekend in the last seven years."
Signs of a potential compromise emerged Friday afternoon. One key development: He Peirong, the citizen activist who helped Chen escape to Beijing and was later detained by state security officers, said on Twitter that she was allowed to return home Friday. And a Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman said that Chen could apply to study abroad, just like any other Chinese citizen. At a press conference at the close of the talks Clinton said that Ambassador Locke had spoken with Chen and that embassy staff had been able to meet with him. "He confirms that he and his family now want to go to the United States so he can pursue his studies," Clinton said. "In that regard we are also encouraged by the official statement issued today by the Chinese government confirming that he can apply to travel abroad for this purpose. Over the course of the day progress has been made to help him have the future that he wants. We will be staying in touch with him as this process moves forward."
For Chen's supporters, the Chinese foreign ministry's announcement was a welcome sign. But also one tinged with uncertainty. The foreign ministry is only part of China's central government. It was unclear whether its statement represented the thoughts of hardline elements in China's security services, which have been badly embarrassed by Chen's escape from detention and unlikely to be happy about his potential departure. After the collapse of the initial agreement on Chen, it's possible to see the foreign ministry's statement through a more pessimistic light. Just like other Chinese citizens he can apply to study abroad, but there's no guarantee he'll be approved.
—with reporting by Chengcheng Jiang and Jessie Jiang/Beijing
MORE: Poets, Peaceniks and Protesters: Meet China's Leading Dissidents


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Pospisil beats Hewitt in 2 sets in Vienna opener
VIENNA (AP) — Vasek Pospisil of Canada saved two set points and defeated Lleyton Hewitt 7-6 (6), 6-4 in the first round of the Erste Bank Open on Tuesday.
Pospisil trailed the 53rd-ranked Australian 6-4 in the tiebreaker before reeling off four straight points to take the opening set. An early break in the second proved enough for the seventh-seeded Canadian.
"It's very special for me to beat a former No. 1," said the 23-year-old Pospisil, who won just two games in his only previous match against Hewitt last year in Newport, R.I. "I've come a long way since. I started working with another coach and I've put in a lot of hard work."
Pospisil will play Robin Haase, who rallied to beat Ilija Bozoljac of Serbia 5-7, 6-2, 6-2. The Dutchman won both of his career titles in Austria.
Also, Michael Russell of the United States failed to convert any of his 13 break points in a 6-3, 6-4 loss to qualifier Mirza Basic of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Ruben Bemelmans of Belgium had 10 aces while beating Jan Hajek of Czech Republic 6-2, 6-0. Slovakia's Lukas Lacko defeated Austria's Gerald Melzer, brother of former two-time champion Jurgen, 7-6 (5), 6-1.
Miloslav Mecir Jr. of Slovakia stunned Pablo Andujar of Spain 6-4, 6-4 in his first main draw match. The son of 1988 Olympic champion Miloslav Mecir is ranked 240th and came through three qualifying rounds. He had nine aces and never faced a break point.
Earlier, Daniel Brands of Germany beat Andreas Haider-Maurer 6-4, 7-6 (5) despite the Austrian serving 16 aces. The 57th-ranked Brands managed one break in the opening set against the 2010 finalist and held serve throughout to set up a second-round match against top-seeded former champion Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
Dominic Thiem, playing in only his second ATP event this year, defeated Daniel Gimeno-Traver of Spain 6-4, 5-7, 6-4. The 20-year-old Austrian reached the second round for a third straight year and will play either sixth-seeded Gael Monfils or Marinko Matosevic of Australia.


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Mir M. Ali - Advisory Group Member (current), CTBUH Fellow (2009)
Gilberto do Valle - CTBUH Chairman (1993-1996), CTBUH Fellow (2006)
Ron Klemencic - CTBUH Chairman (2001-2006)
Ryszard M. Kowalczyk - Advisory Group (current), CTBUH Fellow (2009)
R. Shankar Nair - CTBUH Chairman (1997-2001)
John Rankine - CTBUH Chairman (1982-1985)
Leslie Earl Robertson - CTBUH Chairman (1985-1990)
David Scott - CTBUH Chairman (2006-2009)
Robert Solomon - Associate Director (1990-1993)
Antony Wood - Executive Director (2006-current)
Subsequently in 1999 I became the Chairman of the newly formed Group PA: Planning and Architecture and a member of the Steering Committee of the Council. In the Chairman's role I was responsible for overseeing eight topical committees. I was instrumental in proposing some revisions to all committee names in light of latest developments in the respective field, which were adopted by the Executive Committee. I attended most Steering Group and Executive Committee meetings. I also attended all World Congresses to date since 1990 and organized workshops in Hong Kong, Amsterdam and Melbourne. The idea of a bulletin was discussed during the Amsterdam Congress in 1995. Shankar Nair had an active role in this. I wrote a piece "On My Mind…" in the Council's newsletter The Times in August, 1995 exclusively devoting it to justify the need for a bulletin, which later evolved into the online CTBUH Review journal, which was approved by the Executive Committee in a New York meeting in 1998. I was appointed the first editor that year and the journal was launched in 1999.
The name of CTBUH does not have the word "international" before it for which I had to explain to others who were not familiar with the organization that it is an international organization. I found that somewhat awkward. I brought this up to Lynn. In an Executive Committee meeting in New York, CTBUH Chairman Gilberto do Valle mentioned that this matter was once deliberated by Fazlur Khan and others and they felt the title was appropriate without the word "international."
Fazlur Khan also defined the height of the tall building as the distance between the finished grade at its main entrance to the top of its structure. This definition was revisited and deliberated in 2004 by the Council's Height Committee appointed by Ron Klemencic, Chairman of CTBUH at that time. I was a member of the Committee. Many interesting and provocative discussions among committee members took place via email. Khan's definition still remains the official definition of how the Council measures the top of a tall building. The height issue became critical when CTBUH had to make a decision on the title of the "tallest building of the world" when the construction of the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur was completed in 1996. Some controversy arose at that time, but following the official definition of height, CTBUH declared the Petronas Tower as the winner of the title over the Sear Tower that held this title so long since 1974.
I visited CTBUH Headquarters in Bethlehem in 1999 to carry out research on Fazlur Khan when I was in the middle of writing a book on him. I met Lynn and other staff there and checked the library and slide collections, and gave a seminar at Lehigh University. It was a good experience for me to be at the HQ of the organization and see firsthand its functions and activities.
I was invited by Ron Klemencic, the then CTBUH Chairman, to edit a book of tributes on Lynn Beedle in 2003. I accepted the invitation. The idea was conceived by Ryszard Kowalczyk, who proposed it to Ron after discussions with me and others. The project was funded with a generous gift from Sabah Al-Rayes. When I called Lynn on his cell phone to tell him about it, he was driving and he stopped at a parking lot to hear the details. He sounded very happy and assured me to help me by giving me any information that I needed from him. He provided me with a lot of information, pictures and archival materials that I requested when he was in a critical stage fighting for his life with terminal illness. The book was published by CTBUH in 2004 after his death. In a note of thanks to me after the book was published, his wife Ella Beedle wrote that Lynn was very busy before his death working on the "last project of his life."
I was scheduled to attend a Congress of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineers at Rome (September 1991) where I would be elected as Vice-President of IABSE. Lynn Beedle was aware of my schedule, phoned me and said: "Since you will be traveling to Rome, why not stop by New York. Les Robertson, Don Ross and I would like to have lunch with you." So I made a stop in New York for the scheduled lunch, and almost fell off my chair when they said, "We would like to invite you to be the next Chairman of CTBUH." "Why me?", I asked. "Because you have attended all the meetings of the Executive Committee since you took on the role as Vice Chairman for South America, and you have attended this lunch. This means that you believe in CTBUH."
I had my first interactions with CTBUH around 1990. I was working on the design of a tall concrete tower for a Japanese client and the client suggested that the project design team travel to Hong Kong to attend the CTBUH World Congress. This trip was my first to Hong Kong, in fact my first to Asia, and WOW, …what an eye opening experience. Hundreds and hundreds of very tall buildings that I had never seen before… all in one location. Who designed all of these buildings, I wondered?
The Congress itself was an eye opener as well. Attended by something like 600 of the world's top architects, engineers and contractors, I remember distinctly catching a glimpse of some of the "rock stars" of the industry—Walter P. Moore, Les Robertson, Gene Kohn, Richard Keating, and so on… then there was Dr. Lynn Beedle… the energetic, charismatic man leading the Council and the Congress.
I was very honored to have been associated with the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, virtually right from the very beginning. I was closely associated with Lynn Beedle at Lehigh University and enjoyed every moment of my association both with Lynn and the Council. To be asked to follow Fazlur Khan as Chairman of the Council was a great inspiration in itself. In addition, being the Chairman of the Council allowed me to travel to the USA and provided me with the opportunity to meet all of the top engineers and to be kept up to date with all of the latest trends in engineering.
When my term as Chairman ended I "passed the gavel" on to Les Robertson who I regard as one of my dearest friends. Looking back, I realize how privileged I was to have been sandwiched between two of the greatest structural engineers—Fazlur Khan and Les Robertson. As I enjoy my retirement on my farm in Australia I fondly remember the very happy memories of my time with the Council.
My term of office was so long ago as to dull the memory of any but the most significant of events. Indeed, the plural is improper as my memory focuses on but just one central remembrance: Prof. Lynn S. Beedle.
Lynn created the Council… and did so from nothing more than his own dreams and his own energies. He dragged us, sometimes kicking and screaming, to the far corners of the globe… thus providing a sort of technical transfer of information about tall buildings. In a way that was typical of Lynn, he gently "bulldozed" us into creating the "Monographs", that stack of books that has turned up in the offices and the classrooms of the world. He did his gentle prodding with both enthusiasm and grace.
Of course it would be disingenuous to claim that all this occurred as a result of my direction and control. As with many things in life, I was a victim of circumstance. I took over the Council shortly before the world-wide building boom reached full throttle and was able to build upon the enthusiasm and commitment of our membership and a resurging interest in tall buildings. The shock of 9-11 had passed by, casting a fleeting shadow on the design of tall buildings. However, it was healed by the understanding of what happened, and in parallel there was a re-appraisal and re-evaluation of tall buildings in the urban habitat, and recognition of their importance to the future success of our cities.
I was very fortunate to be able to appoint Antony Wood as Executive Director of the Council early in my tenure as Chairman. Antony is a dynamo and his appointment was swiftly followed by several more, including Philip Oldfield, Katharina Holzapfel, Steven Henry, Jan Klerks and many others who joined us on a part time basis. This team and our members have helped organize and delivered a wide array of information and data to our membership.
There have been some dramatic technical achievements in my time as chairman, and one of the most remarkable has been the Burj Dubai. By being approximately 60% taller than the previous world's tallest, the Burj is the world's first star-scraper. The Burj has increased tall building aspirations by making 500m towers seem more commonplace, which they are not, but it has also caused architects and engineers to rethink the technical constraints of super-tall.
It has long been recognized that Building Codes were not written for the tall buildings that we are designing today. Prescriptive rules that are blindly applied to tall buildings can make them uneconomic or unsafe, and sometimes both. I am pleased to see the growth of performance based design approaches in dealing with wind, seismic, fire safety and blast, and the Council is keen to collect best practice examples in these areas. Frequently a Performance Based approach will lead to a more appropriate and efficient design solution. The Council's Guide on the Seismic Design of Tall Buildings highlighted some of the problems with existing seismic codes and outlined a strategy to build safer, and more economic, towers in areas of severe seismicity. Next year we expect to follow our Seismic Guide with a Guide to Wind Tunnel Testing and a Discussion Document on the Performance Based Fire Engineering of Tall Buildings.
The Council is the most prominent international organization dedicated to sharing information and opinions about tall buildings and the urban infrastructure. Our membership is unique, insofar as it is holistic and diverse: it is international and covers the whole range of professionals in the modern construction industry, from developers, builders, building officials, project managers, architects, engineers, planners and many others.
This is the great strength of our organization and gives us the opportunity to raise standards and awareness of technical issues, such as the seismic, fire and wind issues described above. We provide a platform for our members to change and improve practice, and I am in awe of their dedication and commitment in the Committees, Panels and Working Groups where they participate.
Over the last four years the quest for sustainability and efficiency has become one of the most dominating drivers for our cities and tall buildings. We have a long way to go. The Council is committed to collecting and disseminating knowledge on this issue. Our very successful 8th World Congress Dubai in 2008, Tall and Green, was our first conference with a sustainability focus. It is clear to me that sustainability will be a major part of conferences for years to come.
My first exposure to the Council had occurred three years earlier, at the CTBUH Kuala Lumpur conference in 2003. I have often mused since then that, but for a chance seating on the technical tours bus next to then-Chair Ron Klemencic during the conference, I might never have found my way to the role that I now occupy. Having already spent a couple of days at the KL conference by that stage, and having excitedly presented a paper on the benefits of skybridge connections between tall buildings, I was mightily impressed with this organization—"The Council"—that had drawn people from all around the globe to debate the myriad issues of tall buildings. So an afternoon sat next to Ron as we toured some of the tall delights of the Malaysian capital was a boon for me, and very likely a nightmare for Ron, as I grilled him for all manner of information on this impressive organization.
I smile when I read Ron's account of his first encounter with CTBUH founder Lynn Beedle numerous years before (click here to read), and how Lynn—"ever the consummate promoter" had him signed up for membership and various committees by the end of that first brief conversation. In a trait that is perhaps common to all CTBUH Chairmen, I found my enthusiastic questions to Ron similarly rewarded with an involvement in various roles and sub-structures of the Council as penance for my questions.
It was a fairly swift rise from that chance meeting with Ron and my humble speaking slot at the Kuala Lumpur conference in 2003. I chaired a session of the Seoul Conference the next year, chaired the Scientific Committee of the 7th World Congress New York and became CTBUH Vice-Chairman for Research the year after that, and in 2006 the new Chair of the Council, David Scott, asked me to take up the newly planned Executive Directorship of the Council in Chicago.
So it was that I arrived in Chicago with a wife, a couple of kids, a huge excitement at the new role ahead (coupled with a complete naivety on what was involved), and found myself on the first day in the office opening dusty boxes. The boxes contained much of the material that the Council had produced over the preceding 37 years. Some of it—the odd conference proceeding for example—was familiar to me, but most of it was not; monographs and data books, pre-prints and committee reports, newsletters and photographs.
As I worked my way through the boxes backwards in time to the Council's foundation, the material took on both an air of historic importance and a certain fragility, as glossy books gave way to hand-written journals and idiosyncratically-typewritten brochures. The very final document I opened was the first document that the Council had ever produced—a kind of manifesto outlining what the Council was about, with its aims and objectives and list of anticipated committees. It must have been hand-typed by Lynn not long after the inception of the organization as the Joint Committee on Tall Buildings in 1969 and, enthralled, I found myself a partially opened box for a perch and, turning the delicate pages of this and other early documents, settled down to read about this great organization of which I was now a part…
Several hours later a knock on the door announced the arrival of my computer and I was jolted back into the present from this yester-year of seminal tall buildings, people and organizations who were all there at the beginning—the Hancock and Sears Towers, the Fazlur Khans and Les Robertsons, the IABSE's and ASCE's, the exotic sounding conference locations such as Bled and Bogota. It was largely a world of literature and-action-around-a-common-goal that had been created by one man—Lynn Beedle. The mark of Lynn was evident everywhere (as it still largely is throughout this document, some six years after his passing), and as I carefully placed the historical, fragile documents back into their dusty boxes, I felt an overwhelming sense of responsibility, not only to the organization and what it promised to become, but to the people who had created the Council, and the legacy they had produced.
It is almost three years to the day later as I write this, since that first day of opening the boxes of the CTBUH Archive. It has been a whirlwind three years since then, as David Scott as Chair and myself as Executive Director have steered and witnessed the growth of the Council, on the back of an unprecedented worldwide boom in tall buildings, much re-organization and re-focusing of the Council and, perhaps most importantly, an international reputation that is a result of 40 years of the efforts of people like Lynn Beedle. As many have said before me, and I know I speak for David and others charged with steering the Council, it is easy to reach great heights when you are standing on the shoulders of giants…
Thus, as we approach now the cusp of the second decade of the 21st Century, it is excellent to see that the Council is in perhaps its strongest position ever. It is also important to note that this strong position is in spite of the ravages of a severe worldwide economic recession which has gripped the globe for the past twelve months. It is testimony to the value of the Council that, even in a time of necessary cut-backs and reductions across companies, we still have the strong support of our members which has allowed us to grow to venture into a myriad of new initiatives for the greater benefit of our membership and the international building community.


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Recently, I wrote about the possibility of golf cart usage on our city streets. I was kindly asked by a Sturgis City Commissioner. I posted it on Facebook and invited people to comment. The results were interesting, and clear.
My post received a fair amount of interest and commentary, to which I can only hope weighs in on any idea the city may be contemplating. An overwhelmingly 93 percent of comments were not in favor of the possible measure to allow golf carts on the roads — even if it were only on roads designated to do so.
Most people were quick to say the streets are also busy with other automobiles, motorcycles, bicycles, pedestrians and buggies. I'd have to agree. There's nothing more dangerous on the streets of Sturgis than an Amish buggy on Friday night on South Centreville Road.
A few people said the idea seems to work in smaller communities, but completely were opposed to it in Sturgis. Others saw it as almost a silly idea.
One person said, "Sturgis is too big of a town to have them on the streets. Lakeview is already a drag strip."
Another person commented, "NO WAY!! I have enough problems with people who drive cars let alone golf carts."
I don't think it's a silly idea, hbut it would not work in this town. it would only add to the madness already seen on the streets.
Such is the response from this person - "If Sturgis was the size of Mendon, Centreville, Colon or Burr Oak I say yeah. But, there's too much traffic and we're bigger with bunch of irresponsible people."
I can't help but feel that it only adds to the notion of marketing us as a senior-friendly community to outsiders as well as this idea that Sturgis needs to build a whole new Senior Center. I don't see the point here — not even from an environmental standpoint.
I think most people would rather we have roads that are passable by car and not littered with potholes. Thus was the case for this comment: "Absolutely not! I think we need to focus on getting these streets of ours repaired instead of allowing golf carts on them. And, with the way people drive around here, I foresee lots of accidents, even ones that kill. It just takes someone not paying attention to run into a golf cart and kill someone."
I think it this ever comes to fruition, it should be something that the voters can decide, not just a few commissioners with other agendas in mind.
What do you think about this? Your thoughts do matter. Should this idea go to a city wide vote if the Commission decides to move forward with it?
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Recently, I wrote about the possibility of golf cart usage on our city streets. I was kindly asked by a Sturgis City Commissioner. I posted it on Facebook and invited people to comment. The results were interesting, and clear.


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The Terminal Cancer Patient Who Won a Marathon
Texas Man With Terminal Brain Cancer Aims for a Personal Best
In competitions against the clock, some athletes display an ability to seize control. Think of the Clark-Kent-to-Superman routines that John Elway and Michael Jordan often pulled in the final seconds.
But Iram Leon stands on the sidelines of his own race against time. Lodged in his brain is an untreatable and inoperable cancerous tumor that statistics suggest will kill him before he is 40, eight years from now. Medical science is advancing at a rate that doesn't preclude the development of a treatment, but it's not clear if it will come in time.
"No one knows what technology will be available in five years," said Allan Friedman, Duke University Hospital neurosurgeon in chief, who in 2011 removed as much of Leon's brain tumor as possible.
The torment of enduring that wait can paste a cancer patient to the couch, a surrender heavily associated with deadlier outcomes. Some seek escape in their careers, but that is no longer an option for Leon, who early this year was forced to step down as a juvenile probation officer in Travis County, Texas, a position he had held for almost seven years. His thinking is no longer clear, said Leon, adding, "I was making too many mistakes on the stand."
But Leon can still run. Two years after his brain-cancer diagnosis, he recently ran a sub-five-minute mile for the first time since high school. What has startled the medical community even more is what Leon did this month in Beaumont, Texas. He won the Gusher Marathon, finishing in 3:07:35. That was one second slower than his personal record in the 26.2-mile event, set days before he underwent brain surgery in early 2011.
But that lost second can't be blamed on his disease: During the run, he was pushing his 6-year-old daughter, Kiana, in a stroller. "She had a blast listening to Disney songs and getting food from volunteers," said Leon, an Austin resident.
Leon's high-speed finish provides cancer survivors with an athletic role model only weeks after the defrocking of Austin's more-famous cancer-battling competitor, Lance Armstrong. After being stripped last autumn of his seven Tour de France titles, Armstrong publicly admitted doping during his cycling career.
That Leon is competing amid his battle for survival may make his case all the more instructive to fellow cancer patients. Recent research clearly shows that exercise improves outcomes for cancer patients. "Few other leads have shown as much promise as physical activity in extending the lives of cancer survivors," said an editorial last year in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
In a nation where healthy people don't often exercise, persuading the ill to do so is all the more difficult. Research shows that there are lower exercise rates among cancer patients than among the general population, a problem often exacerbated by oncologists who urge their patients to take it easy. Never mind that the American Cancer Society and other medical groups now encourage exercise among cancer patients—including encouraging breast-cancer survivors to lift weights. "Among clinicians there continues to be a reticence," said Kathryn Schmitz, a University of Pennsylvania researcher on exercise in cancer patients.
"Mr. Leon gives us someone to point to when a person fighting cancer says, 'I can't do it,'" says Dr. Schmitz. "Start where you are. Walk laps around the dining room table. A cancer diagnosis doesn't give you a get-out-of-jail-free card."
Leon was still in the hospital in late 2010 when—stunned by news of his terminal diagnosis—he felt the need to run. "A friend came by and ran with me around the hospital—against doctors' advice," recalled Leon.
When the first neurosurgeon Leon consulted cautioned against running, he sought out Friedman at Duke.
Friedman did more than give Leon the OK: After initially recommending immediate surgery, Friedman agreed to put it off a couple of weeks to accommodate a marathon for which Leon had logged months of training. "Here's a young guy with a brain tumor who likes running, who's good at it, so why not?" said Friedman, citing "defensive medicine" as the main reason other physicians might say no.
Leon sensed another factor behind the neurosurgeon's encouragement. "Friedman knew it might be my last marathon," said Leon.
During that surgery, Friedman removed most of the tumor. The remainder resides in sections of the brain beyond the reach of surgery. At the moment the tumor isn't growing, said Friedman, but the majority of such tumors prove fatal.
There is hope. In one case, Friedman removed from the spine of the novelist Reynolds Price a tumor initially diagnosed as inoperable, but that was eventually made reachable through new technology. Price chronicled the story in one of the many books he wrote in a quarter century following that experience. While waiting and hoping for the surgery that eventually saved him, Friedman noted, "Reynolds wrote—he didn't let the cancer stop him." In 2011, Price died at 77 from causes other than cancer.
While hoping for a similar fate, Leon runs. The anti-seizure medication he takes sometimes causes him to vomit during runs. Once he blacked out during a run, not knowing what had happened until he woke up in an ambulance. Running alone is out of the question because he's easily disoriented, a vulnerability that makes it difficult to lead the pack. At the front of this month's marathon, he said he had to focus carefully on the cyclist who was showing the way.
The payoff? "When I'm in a race, when I'm climbing a hill, for a few moments it feels like I'm pulling ahead of my problems," he said.
Leon said he wants to set a new marathon personal record. But he is only racing these days in events that will allow him to bring along his daughter, Kiana, for whom a scholarship fund has been established at www.donationto.com/Sports-Society-Fund-for-Iram-Leon.
"I want her to have as many memories of me as possible," he said. "I want her to remember us having fun together, not me being sick."
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