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[13] is a small historic town south-east of Amsterdam, on the river Vecht. It was once fortified, and several of the bastions, moats and forts still survive. In the Amsterdam region, Weesp is the nearest small town that has survived as an independent entity. It is only 3 km from the end of the Amsterdam metro, but the wide Amsterdam-Rhine Canal keeps it geographically separate. Weesp is a rail junction, and very easily accessible. The town is surrounded by open grassland.
Weesp has about 18, 000 inhabitants, and is located in the province of North-Holland in the Netherlands.
Although the river Vecht was an important north-south connection since Roman times, this region was mainly a peat bog wilderness until around 1000 AD. Only a few elevated places like riverbanks were (temporarily) inhabited by hunters and fishermen. That changed when the peat was drained and turned into farmland.
Weesp was granted city rights in 1355, and celebrated its 650th anniversary as a city in 2005. It was probably settled several centuries earlier. Its position on the river Vecht influenced its history greatly. From the late Middle Ages, the Vecht was a defensive line for the County of Holland, and it remained a military defensive line until the Second World War. Weesp was strongly fortified, more than its size would justify - for most of its history it had a few thousand inhabitants. The defensive lines consisted of inundation zones, which would be flooded in wartime. Behind them were fortified towns, forts, barracks, and other military structures. The most comprehensive was the Stelling van Amsterdam, a circular inundation zone around Amsterdam. See the website on its history Defence Line of Amsterdam. The defence line is a UNESCO World Heritage Site [14].
After the Second World War, new housing was built to the west, and an industrial zone with a harbour on the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal. In the 1970's a suburb was built on the south. Since then the town has not expanded. However, a motorway through the fields around the town is now in the planning stage, to connect the A6 and A9 motorways. It was first planned in the 1960's, and to meet environmental objections, some of it would now be in tunnel. Everywhere in the town you will see posters against this project. On the north side of Weesp, the rail line forms a barrier: there is a small housing estate just north of the station, the rest is open fields. A large housing development is planned here, in combination with another west of Muiden, which would make the area definitively suburban. The Tourist Office is at Hoogstraat 10, on the Vecht riverbank. Open Monday 13.00-17.00, Tuesday to Friday 10.00-17.00, and Saturday 10.00-16.00. Tel. (0294) 415427; fax (0294) 418702, [15].
Get in
By bicycle
You can cycle from central Amsterdam to Weesp, 15 km, in an hour. The route is well signposted: from Central Station, follow the cycle direction signs for Almere, along the Prins Hendrikkade, Oostenburgergracht, and Zeeburgerdijk. From the end of Zeeburgerdijk, Weesp is shown on the cycle signs. Cycle along the Amsterdam-Rhine canal for about 7 km, then cross the cycle path on the railway bridge. Turn right under the first underpass toward Weesp, cycle straight on along this road, then turn left along Amstellandlaan.Turn right at the traffic lights, and left after the bridge, toward 'Centrum'.
By train
Weesp station is a rail junction with trains to/from four directions, and an intensive service (as of 10 December 2006).
The town centre is 5 minutes walk from the station: go through Stationsplein, (with the bus stops and a city map), turn left into Herensingel, then right onto Stationsweg, on the bank of the Vecht river.
By metro and bus
Bus 49 connects the Amsterdam metro stations Bijlmer and Gaasperplas with Weesp. Every 30 minutes, but hourly evenings and weekends. From central Amsterdam, the train is always faster.
The small historic centre, and the waterside streets and quays, are the main attraction of Weesp. Specific sights include:
Bus 110 takes you from Weesp to the fortified town of Muiden in just 5 minutes, and the medieval Muiderslot castle is another 10 minutes walk from the bus stop. You can also walk along the Vecht river, it would take about an hour from Weesp to the castle (walking the long and most scenic route along the eastern bank of the river).
You can walk across the fields south of Weesp, through the Aetsveldsche Polder, on an old road (Aetsveldseweg). Most of it is unsurfaced. It starts beside the street map, just south of the traffic lights, where the main road (N236) cross the Van Houtenlaan, south of the centre. When you reach the Vecht again, Fort Hinderdam is about 500 m to the left. The planned A6-A9 motorway will cut through this polder. Walk on past the fort, and the road will bring you back to Weesp (via Lage Klompweg and Utrechtseweg).
Cycling around Weesp
If you came from Amsterdam by bike, you can cycle on to Muiden and cycle back from there: that will add about 3 km to the trip. You can also cycle to several villages, the Naardermeer Nature Reserve, and Naarden fortress.
If you arrive in Weesp by train, you can rent a bicycle at the bikeshop at the station. Practical information on cycling in the region on this linkpage. There's also a GoogleMap with a lot of pictures of the region. Look on GoogleMaps (in User-created content) for "Places of interest, just east of Amsterdam", or use this link.
To cycle eastward out of Weesp: pass the circular fort, and cross the bridge. Turn left to reach Muiden along the right bank of the Vecht. For Muiderberg, Naarden and and Bussum, turn right along the 's-Gravelandseweg, the right bank of the Vecht.
For Hilversum, take the Utrechtseweg (Vecht left bank) past the two windmills, then the Lage Klomp weg, and then use the cycle path alongside the main road (Gooilandseweg, N236).
For the small village of Nigtevecht, leave by the Breedstraat, Groeneweg, van Houtenlaan, cross the N236 south of the town centre, and follow the signs. The cycle path is parallel to the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal, with open grassland on the east. This landscape will be cut by the planned motorway. In Nigtevecht (5 km from Weesp), go on through the housing estate to the old section of the village (one street)
Several signposted cycle routes pass Weesp. Most are circular routes signposted in one direction, taking several hours. You can start the Plassen Route (lakes route) and the Boerenland Route (farmland route) from the station. (Follow the hexagonal route signs from the corner of Stationsplein and Herensingel). The Plassen Route and the Muiden Route pass the circular fort. One much longer route passes just behind it: the Forten Route, 187 km long, along all the forts of the Stelling van Amsterdam.
Although Weesp is a small town, it does have a local speciality: Weesper moppen, small almond cakes. You can buy them at the bakeries:
There are a great number of restaurants.
There are many bars and pubs in Weesp.
Get out
Weesp is easy to reach, and easy to leave. The last train back to Amsterdam is at 00.37. If you came from Amsterdam, you can combine a stop in Weesp with a trip to Naarden, which has much larger 17th-century fortifications. Take the train to Naarden-Bussum station (4 trains per hour, next stop, 7 minutes), from there it is 30 minutes walk to the bastions and old town centre. (You do not need an extra ticket to stop off at intermediate stations). Naarden and Muiden can also be reached by bus 110 from Weesp station, every half hour.
There is one other bus line you can use: bus 122, run by BBA [17]. It runs through the small villages south of Weesp, to Overvecht station in the north of Utrecht. Despite the proximity to Amsterdam, this is a less developed rural area, otherwise unserviced by public transport. Hourly, 30 or 32 minutes past the hour, until 18.30.
Note: There are also regular bus connections (every half hour)directly to several Amsterdam metro stations. I took this bus in September 2009.


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For the Lady Blue Devils, guard Allison Kitchen earned a spot on the All-Conference Newcomer Team – awarded to five athletes new to the WHAC Conference. A quiet leader, Kitchen was also tabbed for the Champions of Character Team. The true freshmen finished the season averaging 8.5 points and 4.3 rebounds per game, including ten double-digits games and a career-high 26 points against rival University of Michigan-Dearborn.
The Lady Blue Devils had three All-Academic student-athletes who are juniors and seniors with a 3.25 GPA or higher, Brenda Davis, Jackie Hood and Christina Nagle. Psychology majors Davis and Hood are seniors who are expected to become the first graduates from the women's basketball program this summer. Since Nagle missed a season for medical reasons, she still has two years of eligibility.


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Nisma Zaman came to New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program to pursue a graduate degree after working primarily in educational television for seventeen years. At ITP, Nisma has been taking a medley of design, programming, and social media classes with the goal of becoming an interactive producer/designer in digital media after graduation. Already, Nisma has learned to how to create data visualizations in Illustrator and Processing, mobile applications for Android devices (Java programming), live image and video pixel manipulations via openFrameworks, animations and image effects in Processing, augmented reality animations and games using Flash, wiring and programming Arduino microcontrollers with sensors such as photocells and accelerometers. Specific projects thus far include ElectriSeed for the "Design for UNICEF" class taught by Clay Shirky; PairBurst for the "Hospitable Room" class taught by Dan O'Sullivan and Marianne Petit; Gastronomica for the Big Screens class taught by Daniel Shiffman; and CrabSense for the "Designing Living Systems" class taught by Marc Alt. Currently, Nisma is learning how to hack the Kinect for 3D scanning and gestural interactions, how to use MaxMSP/Jitter to create video installation art, and is working on a thesis project in environmental monitoring involving multiple cameras, movement tracking and 3D data visualization. Nisma is documenting some of her course work on her ITP blog.
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Former eight-term congressman Steve Rothman on Monday will join the Newark law firm Sills Cummis & Gross to lead a new interdisciplinary defense industry group that will draw on his experience as a member of the House appropriations subcommittee on defense.
Rothman, who lives in Englewood where he served two terms as mayor in the 1980s, lost his seat in Congress after a redistricting primary battle last June with fellow Democrat Bill Pascrell (D-Paterson), who went on to win the general election in November.
Rothman said Sills "is looking to build a practice that will represent aeronautics and defense industry clients. My experience with defense issues and my familiarity with how to get one's foot in the door for consideration at the Pentagon stems from my (six) years as a member of the House appropriations subcommittee on defense—a 15-person subcommittee that recommends all of the military spending for the U.S."
He will also join the firm's litigation practice group, and its government relations and public policy practice group.
Sills expects to be able to compete with other law firms for business from defense and aerospace companies nationwide. The current push in Washington to cut federal spending, which Rothman said could slow the rate of Defense budget increases, "makes a familiarity with the appropriations process, and the Pentagon way of doing things, even more important." He said this is "an era where there is even greater competition to gain access to the Pentagon, for either an absolute smaller pie or a pie that will not grow as large as it might otherwise," as a result of the nation's fiscal challenges.
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Max Crane, managing partner, said the firm's "tradition of attracting leaders from the public sector – for the benefit of our clients – continues. We have always been committed to attracting the best legal minds, including those with distinguished careers in public service. Steve Rothman is another excellent example of that phenomenon."
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There's been no let-up in the debate about the Obama administration's rule requiring most employers to provide prescription birth control to their workers without additional cost.
Here's the rub: The only truly novel part of the plan is the "no cost" bit.
The rule would mean, for the first time, that women won't have to pay a deductible or copayment to get prescription contraceptives.
"Now millions more women and families are going to have access to essential health care coverage at a cost that they can afford," says Sarah Lipton-Lubet, policy counsel with the ACLU. "But as a legal matter, a constitutional matter, it's completely unremarkable."
In fact, employers have pretty much been required to provide contraceptive coverage as part of their health plans since December 2000. That's when the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled that failure to provide such coverage violates the 1978 Pregnancy Discrimination Act. That law is, in turn, an amendment to Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which outlaws, among other things, discrimination based on gender.
Here's how the EEOC put it at the time: "The Commission concludes that Respondents' exclusion of prescription contraceptives violates Title VII, as amended by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, whether the contraceptives are used for birth control or for other medical purposes."
But it's not only the EEOC that has ruled on the issue. More than half the states have similar "contraceptive equity" laws on the books, many with religious exceptions similar or identical to the one included in the administration's regulation.
That's no accident. "The HHS rule was modeled on the exceptions in several state laws, including California, New York and Oregon," says Lipton-Lubet of the ACLU.
There are now lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the policy, including a new one filed on behalf of the religious television network EWTN. But the exemptions have already been tested in court, at least at the state level.
In 2004, the California Supreme Court upheld that state's law, in a suit brought by Catholic Charities, on a vote of 6-1.
The court ruled that Catholic Charities didn't qualify as a "religious employer" because it didn't meet each of four key criteria (which, by the way, are the same as those in the new federal regulation):
- The organization's primary purpose is "the inculcation of religious values."
- It primarily employs people of that religion.
- It primarily serves people of that religion.
- It's a registered nonprofit organization.
Two years later, in 2006, New York's top state court rejected a claim by Catholic Charities and several other religious groups that the state's contraceptive coverage law discriminated against them because it exempted churches but not their religiously affiliated groups.
"When a religious organization chooses to hire nonbelievers, it must, at least to some degree, be prepared to accept neutral regulations imposed to protect those employees' legitimate interests in doing what their own beliefs permit," the justices wrote.
Said Lipton-Lubet, "In both the California and New York cases, Catholic Charities made arguments very similar to the ones being made now with respect to the HHS rule. Those arguments failed in that litigation, and they're no more persuasive here."
Lawyers for religious litigants, however, say they think they may stand a better chance challenging the federal rule, particularly given a recent unanimous Supreme Court decision exempting religious employers from employment discrimination laws.
Opponents of the Obama administration's rule are also hoping they can find the votes to overturn it in Congress.
Now, for all the controversy over this policy, it turns out that at similar requirement has existed for years, and it's already been tested in court. NPR's Julie Rovner has more.
JULIE ROVNER, BYLINE: One of the things that most frustrates backers of the birth control mandate is that the requirement itself is not so new. Sarah Lipton-Lubet of the ACLU says the only really new part is that for the first time, women won't have to pay a deductible or copayment before they can get contraceptives.
SARA LIPTON-LUBET: But as a legal matter, a constitutional matter, it's completely unremarkable.
ROVNER: What gave contraceptive coverage its first big boost was a ruling by the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission back in December of the year 2000. Two nurses had filed a complaint because their health plan covered other preventive services, but not birth control. In that ruling, the EEOC found that a 1978 law- the Pregnancy Disability Act, or PDA - prevents discrimination in the provision of birth control used to prevent pregnancy, says Peggy Mastroianni, EEOC's general counsel.
PEGGY MASTROIANNI: That the PDA covers not only people who are pregnant, but also discrimination based on the ability to become pregnant, or potential for pregnancy.
ROVNER: Back in 2000, the EEOC also looked at whether failing to cover contraception when it's used for medical reasons - not to prevent pregnancy - violated Title VII of the U.S. Civil Rights Act.
MASTROIANNI: And under that analysis, because these prescription contraceptives are available only for women, everybody who is affected by their exclusion is female, and that is simply straightforward Title VII sex discrimination.
ROVNER: The EEOC ruling - though not technically legally binding on every employer - had an immediate effect. It was cited in lawsuits, and helped accelerate the trend of states passing their own laws requiring contraceptive coverage.
Today, 28 states have such laws. Several of those states have no exceptions at all for religious employers but several do. And in many cases those exceptions look a lot like the one in the rule issued by the Department of Health and Human Services last month.
The ACLU's Lipton-Lubet says that's no coincidence.
LIPTON-LUBET: The HHS rule was modeled on the exceptions in several state laws, including California, New York, Oregon.
ROVNER: Specifically, those states and the new federal rule exempt religious organizations that have as their primary purpose, quote, "the inculcation of religious values," and who primarily employ and serve people of that religion. That means, in practice, that churches, synagogues, mosques and other houses of worship are exempt, but religious hospitals, universities and social service agencies are not. And while lawsuits are now being filed, they're not the first to challenge that distinction.
Lipton-Lubet says the social service agency Catholic Charities sued in both California and New York, in 2004 and 2006, respectively.
LIPTON-LUBET: In both the California and New York cases, Catholic Charities made arguments very similar to the ones that are being made now with respect to the HHS rule.
ROVNER: That would be that requiring them to include contraception in their health plans would force them to violate their religious beliefs.
LIPTON-LUBET: Those arguments failed in that litigation, and they're no more persuasive here.
ROVNER: And in both states, she says, the cases got to each state's highest court, where justices resoundingly found in favor of the contraceptive requirement, and against the idea that it was an infringement of religious liberty.
LIPTON-LUBET: In fact, the litigation in New York was appealed all the way to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court decided: We don't need to hear that case.
ROVNER: But opponents have said when the government acts, it's a whole new legal ballgame, and as we've seen, certainly a whole new political one.
Julie Rovner, NPR News, Washington.
INSKEEP: So here's where we stand this morning, as reported by our colleague, Scott Horsley: President Obama is about an hour away from announcing a change in his policy on contraception. The new policy will be that women working for religious institutions can still get contraception for free, but they would get it directly from their insurance companies without involving the church. We will bring you reaction to that change as we learn it on NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Not everything about the Christmas shopping season is bright and merry for retailers: According to a study produced by Checkpoint Systems, in the Thorofare section of West Deptford, U.S. retailers can expect to lose $8.9 billion in theft, fraud and vendor losses during the busy season.
The report showed $3.8 billion in merchandise will be shoplifted, $4.7 billion will be taken by employees and vendors will cause up to $400 million in losses. The total amount lost is expected to increase 4 percent from 2011's holiday season.
Top product categories likely to walk out of the store unpaid include alcohol, apparel, toys, health care items and electronics. These losses, called shrink, are expected to add roughly $98 to the average consumer's holiday shopping total.
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So, I kind of mocked this story yesterday, but today an interesting twist has emerged which puts the story in an entirely different light. This week, CNet reported a story about how Apple is working with the San Francisco Police Department to retrieve a lost iPhone 5 prototype. The police and Apple apparently traced the phone to someone's house, and showed up on his doorstep, threatening him and his family. The only problem - the SFPD has no record of any house search or of the case in general - raising the question whether Apple employees falsely impersonated the SFPD, which happens to be a serious crime in California. Update: While I was busy sleeping, the story changed a little bit, but it's still far too shady. After conferring with Apple, the SFPD now states four police officers were involved, and that only the two Apple employees entered Calderon's house. However, Calderon had no idea these two were private non-police people, since he claims they did not identify themselves as Apple employees. Had he known, he would not have let them search his house. So, update or no, Apple employees still impersonated police officers, and issued threats to intimidate Calderon into letting them search his house - without a warrant. I don't understand how people can just accept this sort of behaviour. Don't you have rights in the US? Update II: Perfect summary.
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Yesterday, we kicked off our week-long State of the Phillies series by breaking down the past, present and future of the first base and second base positions. Our mission over these next few days is to identify where, exactly, the Phillies can improve this roster. The lesson from yesterday was that any improvement won't come at first or second base. Or, for that matter, anywhere in the infield, a point that Ryan Lawrence expands upon in today's paper.
The Phillies do have a vacancy at third base, but they don't have much in the way of options for filling that vacancy. The free agent market is thin, as is the trade market (forget David Wright). In other words, it is business as usual for the organization.
The last time Phillies third basemen finished a season with better than a .697 OPS was 2004, when David Bell hit .289/.362/.455 to lead the position. The only similarity between the position then and the position now is that Placido Polanco played it. Of course, Polanco had as many home runs in 50 plate appearances that season as he had in 315 plate appearances this season: two.
2012: .672
2011: .665
2010: .697
2009: .686
2008: .695
2007: .688
2006: .684
2005: .692
2004: .828
I. 2012 production, Phillies third basemen (NL rank out of 16 teams in parentheses)
BREAKDOWN: The above numbers pretty much tell the story. Placido Polanco was once again beset by injuries and is clearly winding down his career. In 78 games, he posted a .259/.301/.331 batting line. Ty Wigginton hit just .184 when playing the position and was not much better on defense. The one bright spot was Kevin Frandsen, who made the most of his opportunity, hitting .335/.377/.450 in 205 plate appearances at third base.
II. Future salary commitments (luxury tax threshold $178 million in 2013, increases to $189 million in 2014)
2012: $7.25 million, 3.37 percent of luxury tax threshold (Placido Polanco, 36 years old)
2013: None
FLEXIBILITY: The Phillies have plenty of flexibility to add personnel at the position. The $7.25 million salary listed above for Polanco include a $1 million buyout on a mutual option that is a formality at this point.
III. 2013 Organizational Depth Chart
- Freddy Galvis, 23, pre-Arb (1.000 service time) under club control through at least 2017.
- Kevin Frandsen, 31, arbitration eligible (est. 4.000 ST) under club control through at least 2014
- Cody Asche, 23, AA
BREAKDOWN: There are no easy answers at this position. Barring an unforeseen trade, Galvis figures to enter the season as the top defensive option at the position. The Phillies have yet to give an indication that they view Frandsen as an everyday player at the hot corner, talking about his prospects for 2013 more in the terms of a utility man or platoon player. The problem with a platoon is that Frandsen is a right-handed hitter who mashed lefties this year, and slick-fielding rookie Galvis was much better as a right-handed hitter. Galvis has never played third base, but he has shown he can play shortstop and second base and the Phillies are confident he would do the same at third. The big question is whether he can hit well enough to justify an everyday spot in a contending major league lineup. In 58 games before a back injury and PED suspension, Galvis hit just .226/.254/.363 with three home runs, 24 RBI and 14 runs. A repeat of those numbers would mean the Phillies actually got worse offensively at the position. Asche is the one hope for the future. He hit .324/.369/.481 with 12 home runs in 559 plate appearances at high-A Clearwater and Double-A Reading, but he will have to prove that he can field the position without being a glaring liability before he gets a shot in the majors. We should see him in big league spring training, but there is no way the Phillies can base their Opening Day plans for the position around Asche.
IV. Potential for personnel upgrades
TRADE POTENTIAL: There have been rumblings all season that the Padres are open to parting with veteran third baseman Chase Headley, whose plate approach and power potential would provide a perfect fit for this lineup. But the Padres also have a news ownership team that has locked up Carlos Quentin and Huston Street, and their strong finish to the season has tempered expectations that Headley will be traded. Houston's Jed Lowrie, who has 52 career starts at third base, is another player who you could at least envision being traded, given the Astros frequent activity in the trade market. That being said, the Astros probably wouldn't have much financial motivation to trade Lowrie, who made just $1.15 million 2012 as a first-time arbitration-eligible player. That means any team hoping to acquire him would likely have to overpay for a player who has never cracked 400 plate appearances in a season and whose career batting line is .250/.326/.417. Lowrie did hit 16 home runs in 387 plate appearances this season. There are no indications that the Mets are willing to trade David Wright. The Brewers made a late run at the postseason thanks in part to a .901 OPS and 27 home runs out of Aramis Ramirez, so it does not seem logical that they would trade the veteran. Plus, the Phillies could've signed Ramirez themselves last offseason if they viewed him as a solution at third base, although their philosophy was likely affected by the presence of Polanco.
FREE AGENT MARKET: Jeff Keppinger played third base for a playoff contender in Tampa Bay this season, posting an .806 OPS and .367 on base percentage. That being said, he had a .698 OPS in the four seasons prior. Kevin Youkilis, who had a solid run with the White Sox after Boston traded him away, could become a free agent if Chicago declines his $13 million extension. Eric Chavez had a solid season for the Yankees, but there is reason to doubt that he would hold up physically as an everyday third baseman. Same goes for Youkilis.
V. Third base, in conclusion
We'd have Galvis as our early favorite to enter the season as the regular third baseman, with Frandsen getting 300 to 400 at-bats, depending on whether he plays his way into more time. It would not be surprising to see the Phillies get creative at the position, but I have spent most of the season trying to figure out a creative way that they might fill the void and have failed to come up with a potential trade scenario. The likely scenario is rolling with Galvis and a low-cost veteran (perhaps Frandsen) and hoping they get lucky like the Rays did with Keppinger. With the rest of the holes that need to be filled, particularly in center field and perhaps one of the corner outfield spots. The Phillies can't afford to significantly overpay for the production they will receive, particularly if there are health concerns with the signee.


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Editors' Note: The Herald is running profiles of each of the six City Council candidates this week. The stories, which started Monday and will finish Saturday, are available on the Herald's website.
By Jim Haug
Herald Staff Writer
Before the Durango Community Recreation Center was completed in 2002, controversy raged about how space should be allocated within the building, pitting racquetball players against swimmers, stair climbers against wall climbers.
"Everybody wanted a piece of that building," said Dean Brookie, an architect on the project. "It was all-out negotiation over six months."
Today, the building attracts more than a thousand people a day, proof that "we were able to build consensus and please everybody," Brookie said.
A resident of Durango since 1980, Brookie touts his experience and familiarity with local issues in his run for City Council.
In his professional capacity as a community planner and architect, Brookie estimated that he has been to more than 150 council and city board meetings, so much so that his three children often did their homework in the back of council chambers.
With his children grown, Brookie, 59, feels he has even more time for council meetings, although it would mean sitting on the opposite side of the dais and staring out at the audience.
Brookie has a long history as a community activist, promoting historical preservation on Main Avenue, getting the Van Dal landfill closed to prevent pollution of the Animas River and thwarting attempts to sell county land for a Walmart on North Main Avenue, saving the space that later became the Recreation Center.
Building the Rec Center was not a slam dunk as the bond issue only passed with 51 votes, Brookie said.
"Certain segments of the population were not understanding what they didn't have," he said.
Architects keep busy in Durango by doing everything from front-porch additions to multimillion-dollar homes. Brookie said his business has significantly grown outside the city limits, working on affordable housing and historic-preservation projects around the country and Puerto Rico.
Closer to home, Brookie is designing a new $42 million high school for Cortez.
If any of his projects conflicted with city interests, Brookie said he would recuse himself from a vote.
He said professional experience demonstrates his ability to handle a big budget. It also indicates his interests as a politician.
"As a planner, I am conceptually against sprawl," Brookie said. "A certain amount of infill (development) is important and vital. I also happen to have an (accessory dwelling unit). It's over 100 years old. It was grandfathered in."
Brookie straddles the issue of ADUs, saying he wants to create more affordable housing but is sensitive to overcrowding in a neighborhood, too.
He promised to be a "moderate voice on council."
"You've got to listen to all sides and come to consensus," he said.


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'Free China: Courage to Believe' to be shown Monday in Rolla
A Rolla homeschooling mother invited members of the Rolla City Council and the community to attend a screening of a documentary about oppression in China Monday night.
"Next Monday is International Human Rights Day," Sara Effner told the council. In honor of that event, she, her husband and their son have invited a representative of New Tang Dynasty TV to show the movie, "Free China: Courage to Believe," about the Chinese government's crackdown on the practitioners of Falun Gong, a system of meditation with exercise.
Falun Gong was founded in 1992, although it is based on ancient practices. Effner said the Chinese government at first thought the Falun Gong movement was good for the communist nation, but changed its mind when the movement grew rapidly.
Now that the adherents may number 100 million people, the government is persecuting the followers.
There will be a private screening Monday night, she said, and anyone who wants to see it may reserve a seat by calling 308-0077.
The documentary follows the persecution of two people.
Here's a description from the movie's official website:
"The fates of a woman living in Beijing and a man living in New York become inextricably linked because of a common conviction.
"A mother and former Communist Party member, Jennifer Zeng was imprisoned for her faith. As she endures physical and mental torture, she has to decide: does she stand her ground and languish in jail, or does she recant her belief so she can tell her story to the world?
"A world away, Dr. Charles Lee, a Chinese American businessman, wanted to do his part to stop the persecution by attempting to broadcast uncensored information on state controlled television. He was arrested in China and sentenced to three years of re-education in a prison camp where he endured forced labor, making amongst other things, Homer Simpson slippers sold at stores throughout the U.S."
The film "exposes the widespread human rights violations that still take place today in China. It examines the conditions in the Chinese prison re-education program, the brutality of an authoritarian state against tens of millions of Falun Gong practitioners, and the efforts by people of conscience to stop the persecution."
Continuing, the website notes, "This timely documentary also highlights the issue of unfair trade practices with the West and how Internet technologies and the re-emergence of traditional Chinese culture are helping bring freedom to 1.3 billion people in China.
Completed in February of this year, the movie has won several awards. Among them:
• Best Feature Film at IX International Short Film Festival - FENACO (Peru, Nov. 17)
• "Best of the Fest" at Freethought International Film Festival (Denver, Aug. 3)
• Winner at American Insight Free Speech Film Festival (Philadelphia May 16)
Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline introduced in China in 1992 through public lectures by its founder, Li Hongzhi, combines the practice of meditation and slow-moving exercises with a moral philosophy.
Effner told the council it has three main tenets: Truth, Compassion and Forbearance.
Those who practice it have claimed it leads to spiritual enlightenment and better health. In fact, Effner said, one woman reported being cured of multiple sclerosis after beginning the meditation and exercises.
It is related to Buddhism and Taoism.
The Chinese government declared Falun Gong a "heretical organization."
Effner said the film has disturbing information about persecutions of the followers of the movement, including the killing of some followers and the sale of their organs.


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Oak Ridge City Council approved a resolution to extend and modify the current water services contract between the city and the Department of Energy to set a new pricing structure for potable and non-potable water from the city.
Oak Ridge City Council approved a resolution to extend and modify the current water services contract between the city and the Department of Energy to set a new pricing structure for potable and non-potable water from the city.
Council voted 6-1 at its Dec. 10 meeting, following a lengthy discussion about the contract, which would extend the contract for three years and end on Dec. 31, 2015.
Newly elected Council member Trina Baughn cast the lone "no" vote.
In previous years, the city has charged DOE for both potable and non-potable water based on a volumetric rate per thousand gallons of use, but the new contract calls for a fixed cost of $2,075,000 to be billed monthly.
The amount was based on a review of the city's operation and maintenance costs over the previous years with the total costs being apportioned based on the split of DOE flow and city flow.
According to city information, DOE currently uses 53.5 percent of the total water used and the city uses 46.5 percent. DOE is the only user of non-potable water and the new fixed cost will be adjusted annually using the Consumer Price Index.
The term "potable water" means water that meets current and future federal and state drinking water standards applicable to municipalities, while "non-potable water" means water from the intake facility that has not been processed at the Water Treatment Facility located on Bear Creek Road and does not meet potable water standards.
City Manager Mark Watson told Council the city and DOE shares the Bear Creek Road water tank that used to be operated by DOE but was transferred to the city many years ago. He said the city and DOE officials have been discussing the contract since July and the city will see a "slight increase in net dollars" under the new contract.
"I think we developed a good plan and I recommend its adoption," Watson.
Baughn's concern Monday was the residential rate increase recently enacted versus the slight price increase for DOE.
Watson admitted residents would see at least one more rate increase in the next few years.
Baughn said it appears residents will pay significantly more than DOE.
"We have more services on this side of the hill," Watson said referring to the services the city provides residents and businesses.
"DOE is not paying less than before," said Finance Director Janice McGinnis. "This is just a more controlled mode."
McGinnis said currently DOE's rate "shifts."
"DOE will only share in water treatment," she said.
Baughn called the contract "a wash and not a benefit."
Beverly Majors can be contacted at (865) 220-5514.


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