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field lies. The realignment would both increase traffic mobility and help meet increased parking demands that will come from the stadium's expansion
"Any time you can improve/ extend the sight distance for drivers, it is going to improve safety," Ken Miller, who is part of the Kansas Traffic Safety Commission, said..
The city's Historic Resources Commission reviewed the expansion project and road-relocation plan during last Thursday's meeting at City Hall. The commission approved of the stadium expansion but said realignment plans were not yet fully developed.
"The plans of the road proj
ect hadn't been put together in detail," said Anne Marvin, one of the HRC's commissioners, said. "Our action was on the construction on the stadium itself, which we approved."
The proposal includes a series of maps detailing how the realignment would build roads and parking lots in place of the field. By moving the block of 11th street between Illinois and Mississippi Streets, the new road would provide access to 158 new parking spaces. The realignment would create a four-way intersection on Mississippi Street, currently a confusing set of offset intersections.
Kansas' track and field facilities will be moved to a new $24.6 million facility south of Allen Fieldhouse to be called the "Olympic Village." The facility will be used in the Kansas Relays and also provide a new field and seating for soccer and softball.
In addition to parking changes.
Edited by Abby Olcese
According to the KU Parking Department's Web site, parking passes for the set of lots that include the field are administered by the Athletics Department Williams Educational Fund. Tickets for spots on the field this year run for a donation of $99.
Courtesy of the City of Lawrence
Athletics Department has proposed to realign the intersection of 11th and Mississippi streets, as shown in this sketch, to provide better access to parking lots.
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Lawrence Center, the hospital receives many blood donations from the eight other Community Blood Centers in the region, including the nearest one in Topeka, located at 800 SW Lane.
"When we place an order for blood products from CBC, we don't know where the blood has been collected," she said. "Since they have several collection sites in the area as well as mobile blood drives, it could come from several places. We didn't get our blood exclusively from the Lawrence site."
Tate also said he thought the effect would be minimal for donors and receivers of blood. He said the center would increase mobile blood drives in Lawrence to accommodate for the loss of the center.
"Community Blood Center is a regional organization that serves nearly 3 million people," he said. "Our staff is committed, as are our donors, to ensure we have an adequate supply of life-saving blood for patients in need."
Cordt said driving to Topeka for his regular appointments made it
more difficult to donate as often. Nevertheless, he said he was still dedicated to keeping his schedule as long as he could.
"It's fairly easy to do if you're not afraid of needles. It doesn't take a super long time," he said. "You realize that you're actually saving lives — that they're in desperate need. People forget about that until they actually need it themselves."
— Edited by Jacob Muselmann
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center earlier this month.
Willson said he had been using the unlocked lockers to store items for almost a year but had since purchased a lock. He said he would recommend that students purchase locks before they become victims of theft and said the security was worth the price of the lock.
"If you leave items in unlocked lockers it is just too easy for thieves to go down there and grab them," Willson said.
Chappell said she thought most
of the thefts at the Ambler recreation center were opportunity crimes committed by people only after they discovered unattended property. She also said some criminals likely came to the center for the sole purpose of stealing others' property. Chappell said she thought these criminals showed legitimate student IDs to gain access to the building.
"These people are showing an ID, but it might not actually be the person that the ID belongs to, or they
may look so much like the person in the ID that it is hard to distinguish through our system" Channell said.
Chappell said any student who thought they might be the victim of a theft should first check with the lost and found, located at the welcome center. If the item cannot be found, a supervisor will suggest the student file a report with the KU Public Safety Office.
- Edited by Nick Gerik
LEGAL
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A worker at the San Francisco Medical Cannabis Clinic prepare packets of marijuana buds for sale in San Francisco on Monday. Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Coley last week said he wanted to shut down clinics that sell out for profit
California raids pot stores
State shutting down illegal suppliers of medicinal marijuana
LOS ANGELES — Clay Tepel knew there were risks to setting up a medical marijuana shop; it could lose money, be robbed or be raided by authorities.
BY GREG RISLING
Associated Press
Still, he wasn't expecting the phone call one August day when a voice said the police were outside and he needed to open up or they would bust down the door. His first thought, that it was a joke, turned to terror when he opened the door.
Heavily armed officers in bulletproof vests and, oddly enough, Bermuda shorts stormed his store, handcuffed him, disabled security cameras and seized his drugs before taking him to jail. When he asked why his shop was invaded, an officer responded,
Those words could prove prescient after Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley said last week he wants to shutter clinics that sell pot for profit. Cooley's plan is the latest in a prolonged conflict in California over whether medical marijuana is truly having its intended effect or is being abused by the larger population.
"We're closing them all down."
Until recently, raids on clinics typically led to federal prosecutions, but Cooley's remarks and similar ones from Attorney General Jerry Brown signal a new approach to clear the haze left by Proposition 215, the 1996 state ballot measure that allowed sick people with referrals from doctors and an identification card to smoke pot.
A new policy memo issued Monday by the Justice Department told prosecutors that pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers should not be targeted for federal prosecution in states that allow medical marijuana. The guidelines do, however, make it clear that federal agents will go after people whose distribution goes beyond what is permitted under state law or use medical marijuana as a cover for other crimes.
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"Everybody is scared," said Tepel, who has spoken with other pot store operators. "Why are voters' rights been stepped all over? This kind of blind justice has to stop."
The comments Holder made earlier this year appear to have emboldened entrepreneurs as marijuana shops cropped up across California. In Los Angeles alone, there are an estimated 800 dispensaries, more than any other city in the nation. In 2005, there were only four, authorities said.
The crackdown is a crushing blow for dispensary owners who were relieved in March when U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said federal agents would only go after
mariqua distributors who violate both federal and state laws.
ENVIRONMENT
Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown speaks at Lancaster House in London Monday. Brown urged leaders to attend a climate summit in Denmark.
Cooley contends a vast majority of several hundred outlets his office investigated aren't following state law. He said he would target stores that are profiting and selling to people who don't qualify for medicinal marijuana.
Brown pushes global warming agreement
BY GREGORY KATZ Associated Press
LONDON — The world has less than two months to agree on how to avoid catastrophic global warming whose impact would be felt for generations, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday, a stark warning that puts pressure on the United States to finalize its position before this year's global climate conference in Denmark.
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"If we do not reach a deal at this time, let us be in no doubt: Once the damage from unchecked emissions growth is done, no retrospective global agreement in some future period can undo that choice. By then it will be irretrievably too late."
Brown told the Major Economies Forum talks in London that countries need to compromise with one another to reach a deal at December's conference to avoid "the
dioxide emissions. Brown, who plans to attend the U.N. conference, called on fellow leaders to join him in hammering out an urgent agreement.
Despite Brown's grim warning, the Swedish and British enviromen
GORDON BROWN British prime minister
"There are now fewer than 50 days to set the course of the next few decades."
"There are now fewer than 50 days to set the course of the next few decades," Brown said. "We cannot afford to fail. If we fail now, we will pay a heavy price... If we falter, the Earth will itself be at risk."
The U.N. conference in Copenhagen will cap two years of negotiations on a global climate change treaty to replace the U.N.'s 1997 Kyoto Protocol on carbon
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"We are more in agreement about how the financial system
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ment ministers said progress had been made on figuring out how funds will be handled to help poor countries adapt to climate change and slow the growth of their own emissions.
The financial architecture is a key element of a Copenhagen agreement, though not one of the most contentious issues.
the financial system should be managed, and there is also shared support for the idea that developing countries should be included and have their say in the management of the system," Sweden's Andreas Carlgren told The Associated Press.
More pressing is the demand by developing countries to know how much money the wealthy countries are prepared to pay.
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