Petition calls for historic Brighton tennis club to be protected ...

Hundreds of people have urged councillors to help save a historic tennis club in Brighton.

They fear for the future of Badgers Tennis Club which started in the 1880s in Church Place in Kemp Town.

A petition signed by 564 people was handed in by a neighbour of the club and former member Linda Miller at Hove Town Hall yesterday (Thursday 19 September).

Mrs Miller told the Brighton and Hove City Council Economic Development and Culture Committee that Badgers was the oldest tennis club in Brighton and Hove.

The petition was headed Save Badgers Tennis Club. It said: ?We, the undersigned, including local residents and members of Badgers Tennis Club, call on Brighton and Hove City Council to retain the Badgers Tennis Club site in Church Place, Kemp Town, as a site for leisure, recreation and sport and not to allow it to be developed for housing or any other use.?

Mrs Miller said: ?The site has four good courts and a good clubhouse, built only 12 years ago.

?The men?s team plays in the County First Division. The club has an excellent junior programme.

?Following the revelation in May that in 2010 the coaches had sold the club from under them, the members have created a member-run company with plans to make the club more open to the local community and schools.

?This is more than just a leisure facility, more than playing sport and being healthy. People join for the social life. It is part of people?s lives.

?A lot of the members are prepared to invest their time and energy in running this club.

?We are asking the council to give us the assurance that this is land designated for leisure, recreation and sport and that no change of use will ever be granted.

?It seems that the position was clear in 2002.

?Michael Hamilton Pope, who had owned the site since 1953, made the decision to sell.

?The council told him that planning permission to develop would never be granted.

?This determined the price and he sold to two of the tennis coaches for ?90,000.

?But in August 2010, when the tennis coaches sold to property developers, it would seem that the council?s ?for leisure, recreation and sport? designation was ignored.?

The club was bought by three brothers ? Bipin Kamarshibhai Chotai, 66, a phamarcist, Piyoosh Kamarshibhai Chotai, 62, a chartered accountant, and Bharat Kamarshibhai Chotai, 56, director of Kamsons pharmacy.

Mrs Miller said: ?The current owners, the Chotai brothers, saw it as a site for potential development and paid a staggering ?1 million.

?The new owners were not interested in running a tennis club.

?The club continued, run by one of the coaches (Mel Bowden), with a short-term lease, not covered by the 1953 Landlord and Tenant Act, with a clause stating that he would not oppose the owners? plans to develop the site.

?In May a 150 per cent rent increase was announced, taking it from ?12,000 to ?30,000 a year, the owners? intention being to force the club to close ? an empty site facilitating a change of use.

?In response to the strong opposition to the development of the site, expressed in the petition before you, the owners are now proposing a five-year lease deal, again outside the 1953 Act, with a clause stating that the club must not oppose the owners? plans to develop the site.

?A five-year lease means people can still play tennis. But building up the membership, maintaining the courts and facilities, investing time, energy and money in a club destined to close is untenable.

?The big question of whether or not the site will be developed is just being deferred not decided.

?The owners probably made a mistake in buying this land for the price they paid.

?Although the normal procedure would be to wait for a planning application to be made, this just leaves the future of the tennis club hanging in the balance.

?We would like to ask the council for a definitive statement that this site is for leisure, receation and sport.

?The draft City Plan supports this site for tennis club use but the SHLAA document (Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment) has Badgers Tennis Club listed as a possible development site for 12 houses.

?We know that people need housing but people also need recreation.

?This is a well-developed site for tennis with an enthusiastic team of people wanting to keep it that way.

?The petition is asking the council not to grant a change of use for this historic site.

?Please let it continue as a tennis club for another 120 years.

?If the council is able to make the position clear, the owners of the site and the people using the site will all know where they stand.?

The chairman of the Economic Development and Culture Committee Councillor Geoffrey Bowden, who lives near the club, said that no planning application had been received.

Any application would be considered in the proper way, he said.

And he pointed out that the City Plan aimed to protect existing sports facilities.

He added that if the owners applied to build housing on the site, they would have to prove that it was not an important open space.

Source: http://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2013/09/20/petition-calls-for-historic-brighton-tennis-club-to-be-protected/24180

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In Israel, media stars are turning to politics

JERUSALEM (AP) ? They spent their journalistic careers analyzing, covering and skewering Israel's politicians. Now, a striking number are vying to join their ranks.

Four prominent Israeli TV anchors and news pundits are leaving their jobs and running for parliament in Israel's upcoming elections, reflecting the rising star power of media personalities for an electorate that has long had a penchant for retired army generals.

The recent surge of journalists-turned-politicians reflects in part a desire for new blood in a political scene long dominated by the same faces. Frequent corruption cases against figures in power in recent years only increase the appeal of those coming from outside the ranks of Israel's career politicians. The media stars seen nightly on TV or read daily in newspapers have the advantage of being both new and familiar.

For the first time, two significant political parties are entering the fray with well-known TV news celebrities at the helm. Elections are scheduled for Jan. 22.

Popular prime-time TV man Yair Lapid quit his job this year as weekend newsmagazine anchor on Channel 2 TV and formed his own political party, Yesh Atid, or "There is a Future."

And the center-left Labor Party is headed by former TV and radio commentator Shelly Yachimovich, who joined the media-to-politics wave several years ago and was elected party leader late last year.

More journalists are following the path in this election. This week, another high-profile commentator, Ofer Shelah, announced he was joining Lapid's party, and two other media figures said they would run for parliament on the Labor Party list.

Surveys are predicting that Labor and Yesh Atid, both appealing to centrist, middle-class voters, will have strong showings in the vote, albeit behind the leading, right-wing ticket of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. Under Israel's system of proportional representation, the number of votes a party receives determines how many seats it controls in the 120-member parliament.

The newcomers join 11 former media figures in the outgoing parliament in parties spanning the spectrum from the liberal Meretz and centrist Kadima parties to the ultranationalist Yisrael Beitenu and Netanyahu's ruling Likud.

Notably, the number of former journalists in the outgoing parliament is the same as the number of former top security officials, a sign of how the media is beginning to rival a traditional main wellspring of Israel's political elite. Facing frequent wars, Israelis historically have liked having former military chiefs lead the country, and that sentiment still largely remains. But media personalities are loosening the generals' grip on the political helm, in part because they're even more well-known.

"They are known in every home. People like them," said Israeli media expert Yoram Peri. "Recognition has become very important."

The ex-journalists say they've jumped ship for politics for the same reason they went into the media world: a desire to have an impact on society.

"My entire adult life I have been a social activist and feminist, along with my journalistic work...I worked to right wrongs," Haaretz commentator Merav Michaeli, who hopes to represent Labor, wrote on her Facebook page. "Now I want to do that in the political domain, where things are decided and budgets are divided."

"I want to have an impact," said Nachman Shai, former Army Radio chief editor and television executive who served as a lawmaker in the Kadima party. "You can only have an impact where decisions are made." With Kadima sinking in the polls, Shai recently moved to the Labor Party in hopes of being re-elected.

But some are concerned about skewed news coverage when a journalist is mulling a political plunge.

One lawmaker petitioned the Israel Press Council this week to draft regulations to ensure that working journalists disclose their deliberations about running for office. "The conduct we are witnessing at this time seems to cross red lines," said Likud politician Yariv Levin.

In a televised debate on the issue, blogger and journalist Tal Schneider said the phenomenon shamed the profession by compromising its ethical bedrock, impartiality. "If journalists say they want to go into politics, what does it say about the years they worked (in the field) and how they worked?" she said.

Senior Israeli commentator Dan Margalit accused his colleagues of hypocrisy.

"Day after day, journalists and tycoons have prattled on and on about how Israel's best citizens stay away from entering politics," Margalit wrote in Israel Hayom, a free daily loyal to Netanyahu. "Many of those same jabberers now want to join the politicians they demonized daily."

Media and politics have been closely connected since the days of Israel's founding fathers, notes media expert Peri, director of the Gildenhorn Institute for Israeli Studies at the University of Maryland.

Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern political Zionism, came to champion the quest for a Jewish homeland after covering for a Viennese newspaper the 19th-century trial of French Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus, sentenced for treason in a trial Herzl saw as anti-Semitic. Herzl's successor as head of the World Zionist Organization, Nahum Sokolov, was a journalist. Two of Israel's first political party leaders were newspapermen.

But for years, Israeli politics was heavily driven by parties, not the personalities who led them. Voters voted for parties with clear ideologies and long-time members. That changed in the 1990s: political parties weakened as voters began to favor individual candidates, many of whom had no political experience.

The phenomenon dovetailed with the introduction of commercial television in Israel in 1993, after a single state-run channel monopolized coverage for nearly three decades, Peri said. More programming on television meant more TV celebrities, and those celebrities began to be considered as attractive candidates for office.

Gadi Wolfsfeld, a professor of political communication at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, said Israeli journalists may have spent their careers covering politics, but it doesn't prepare them any better than a general or lawyer who enters politics.

"The best training for a politician is being a politician," Wolfsfeld said.

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Follow Daniel Estrin at www.twitter.com/danielestrin

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/israel-media-stars-turning-politics-175342961.html

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Government: Violent crimes rose 18 percent in 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The number of violent crimes rose by 18 percent in the United States last year while property crimes went up by 11 percent, the government reported Wednesday.

It was the first year-to-year increase for violent crime since 1993, marking the end of a long string of declines. Violent crime fell by 65 percent since 1993, from 16.8 million to 5.8 million last year.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics' annual national crime victimization survey, the size of the percentage increases in both violent crime and property crime for last year was driven in large part by the historically low levels seen in 2010.

The increase in violent crime was the result of an upward swing in assaults, which moved up by 22 percent, from 4 million in 2010 to 5 million last year. The increases in violent crime experienced by whites, Hispanics, younger people and men accounted for the majority of the increase in violent crime.

In the latest survey, property crime was up for the first time in a decade, from 15.4 million in 2010 to 17 million last year. Household burglaries rose 14 percent, from 3.2 million to 3.6 million. The number of thefts jumped by 10 percent, from 11.6 million to 12.8 million.

The victimization figures are based on surveys by the Census Bureau of a large sample of people in order to gather data from those who are victims of crime. They are considered the government's most comprehensive crime statistics because they count both crimes that never are reported to the police as well as those reported.

Last May, the FBI's preliminary crime report for 2011, which counts only crimes reported to police, concluded that crime dropped again last year, down 4 percent for violent crime and 3.7 percent for property crime. The declines slowed in the second half of last year, a sign to academic experts that the many years of lowering crime levels might be nearing an end. Historically, less than half of all crimes, including violent crimes, are reported to police.

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Study shows revisions in MPM staging system might be needed in future

Public release date: 15-Oct-2012
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First analysis of IASLC malignant pleural mesothelioma database

DENVER The International Mesothelioma Interest Group (IMIG) staging system has been widely used, however, widespread concerns exist about the validity of the current malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) staging system. Concerns include that the system is derived from analysis of small, retrospective surgical series; it can be difficult to apply to clinical staging; and uses descriptors for lymph node involvement, which may not be relevant to MPM. Therefore, in collaboration with IMIG, the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) has decided to update the staging system for MPM by developing a large international database.

A study, published in the November 2012 issue of the IASLC'S Journal of Thoracic Oncology, reports the current staging system by and large appropriately distinguishes among T and N categories and overall stages but also highlights areas for potential revision.

The study looked at 3,101 patients from 15 centers in four continents. The current data still represents mainly surgically treated patients. The authors report that current T descriptors are qualitative and most applicable to pathological staging. Possibly in the future, volumetric tumor measurement could enhance the current T descriptors.

In addition, the data demonstrate a difference in survival for node-negative versus node-positive patients. The difference between N1 and N2 disease is less clear, suggesting that additional study of the extent of lymph node involvement might yield improvements in the N-classification factor.

And finally the authors suggest that staging groups, especially for stages I and II disease, need to be reassessed. In the future, they say, "the addition of a larger group of patients with more advanced disease, staged clinically and managed nonsurgically may help determine whether stages III and IV should be classified into a and b subcategories."

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The lead author of this work is IASLC member Dr. Valerie Rusch (USA). Co-authors include IASLC members Dorothy Giroux (USA), Catherine Kennedy (Australia), Dr. Erico Ruffini (Italy), Dr. David Rice (USA), Dr. Harvey Pass (USA), Dr. Hisao Asamura (Japan), Dr. John Edwards (U.K.) and Dr. Walter Weder (Switzerland).

About the IASLC:

The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) is the only global organization dedicated to the study of lung cancer. Founded in 1974, the association's membership includes more than 3,500 lung cancer specialists in 80 countries. To learn more about IASLC please visit www.iaslc.org.

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Public release date: 15-Oct-2012
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Contact: Kristal Griffith
Kristal.Griffith@iaslc.org
720-325-2952
International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer

First analysis of IASLC malignant pleural mesothelioma database

DENVER The International Mesothelioma Interest Group (IMIG) staging system has been widely used, however, widespread concerns exist about the validity of the current malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) staging system. Concerns include that the system is derived from analysis of small, retrospective surgical series; it can be difficult to apply to clinical staging; and uses descriptors for lymph node involvement, which may not be relevant to MPM. Therefore, in collaboration with IMIG, the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) has decided to update the staging system for MPM by developing a large international database.

A study, published in the November 2012 issue of the IASLC'S Journal of Thoracic Oncology, reports the current staging system by and large appropriately distinguishes among T and N categories and overall stages but also highlights areas for potential revision.

The study looked at 3,101 patients from 15 centers in four continents. The current data still represents mainly surgically treated patients. The authors report that current T descriptors are qualitative and most applicable to pathological staging. Possibly in the future, volumetric tumor measurement could enhance the current T descriptors.

In addition, the data demonstrate a difference in survival for node-negative versus node-positive patients. The difference between N1 and N2 disease is less clear, suggesting that additional study of the extent of lymph node involvement might yield improvements in the N-classification factor.

And finally the authors suggest that staging groups, especially for stages I and II disease, need to be reassessed. In the future, they say, "the addition of a larger group of patients with more advanced disease, staged clinically and managed nonsurgically may help determine whether stages III and IV should be classified into a and b subcategories."

###

The lead author of this work is IASLC member Dr. Valerie Rusch (USA). Co-authors include IASLC members Dorothy Giroux (USA), Catherine Kennedy (Australia), Dr. Erico Ruffini (Italy), Dr. David Rice (USA), Dr. Harvey Pass (USA), Dr. Hisao Asamura (Japan), Dr. John Edwards (U.K.) and Dr. Walter Weder (Switzerland).

About the IASLC:

The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) is the only global organization dedicated to the study of lung cancer. Founded in 1974, the association's membership includes more than 3,500 lung cancer specialists in 80 countries. To learn more about IASLC please visit www.iaslc.org.

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