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I, and just about every Cavs fan or basketball fan for that matter, have been asking the question since the Cavs got bounced from the playoffs. What happened? The team that won 60+ games in back to back seasons, the team with the 'Best Player in the NBA', and the team who appeared poised for a title run lost in such a puzzling way in the SECOND round of the playoffs.
Even more shocking than the fact that the Cavs lost in the 2nd round, was the WAY they lost. Its been questioned and analyzed to death, but there are a few insights that local fans have heard whispers about, but they've been covered up by the main stream local & national media. I'm not going to rehash the details of the season & series, but I would like to take the opportunity to point some of the things that have been whispered for months and that some of you may or may not be aware of.
Game 2: The Cavs obviously looked very flat, unenthused, and had little to no intensity. While it hasn't been reported by local or national media, it is a fact, that LeBron took the team out after the MVP ceremony in Akron (the night before game 2). While LeBron doesn't typically drink much, if at all, being out until 5AM the night before a game certainly wouldn't be the organization's, coach's or fan's ideal situation for preparation for a playoff game. Unfortunately, this seems to be a fairly common occurrence in the NBA. Other NBA 'Stars' have been known to go out to various clubs the night before games (Amare Stoudemire, Carmelo Anthony, and countless others). Who knows how often this happened with the Cavs in the LeBron years and what impact it had on their performance in game 2, but it is certainly a potential answer for such a flat performance in such a critical game.
Gloria: We all know the rumors that LeBron found out about Gloria's sexual relationship with Delonte West. For what it's worth, I have a source who is a long-time sportswriter. Over the years, he came to be personal friends with a current Cavs player. He didnt go public with this information, so its not like he's saying this for his own benefit. According to a conversation he had with the Cavs player, the rumors are 100% true. He says LeBron brought some food up to Gloria's hotel room to surprise her and Delonte, in a towel, opened the door. LeBron and Gloria argued over it and ultimately Gloria said 'I'm grown, I can do what I want and this doesnt concern you'. Understandably, LeBron was upset. But what is unacceptable to me, and most Cavs fans is the way he handled it on the court. Even before the infamous game 5, after his ridiculous performance in game 3, he seemed completely flat & disinterested. In Game 4, he was deferring way too many shots as his teammates struggled to keep the game close. The Cavs pulled within striking range and waited for their 'King' to take over in the 4th Quarter and close the game like he'd done so many times. He kept deferring and then….
Game 5: Ok, no details here. Its disgusting to Cavs fans and completely unacceptable. But a little more info from the sports writer source. The rumors of Shaq confronting LeBron are according to him, also true. At halftime after LeBron appeared completely disinterested, and with the entire team knowing about Gloria/Delonte, Shaq is said to have grabbed LeBron by his jersey and threw him up against the wall saying 'don't you dare fuck this up for us'. Obviously, Shaq's attempt to be the leader that LeBron couldn't be failed as the 'King' went on to have one of the worst playoff performances by an NBA 'superstar' in the history of the league. It seems to some that LeBron wasn't just hurt and upset about his mom, but it was more of a 'fuck the Cavs, I'm leaving, you betrayed me, and I'll make sure we don't win' attitude.
Obviously, there are other questions that we need answered, but will probably never get those answers. Such as, why did the team quit playing late in game 6, why did Mike Brown quit coaching in game 6, when did LeBron decide to leave, etc.? But for those who haven't heard some of these whispers, hopefully this will provide you with at least some insight as to the massive failure that was the Cav's 2010 playoff run.


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Hmmm I used to care about things like this when I was like 5.
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I remember the good ole' days with Ed, Edd, and Eddy, Dexter's Lab, and such. Good times. Good times.
Although I do like some new stuff; Lazlo, Bloo, and such. Not-As-Good-But-Still-Moderately-Good times. What I said before times.
yup i love the old Cartoon Network. (not the "CN" one lol") But kids today change and so do their shows. Its a shame they'll never be able to watch the greats like Dexters Lab, looney tunes and such but theirs nothing we can do.
But ah well at least we got adult swim. The best damn modern channel out their.
Theres a reason for that actually. They got low ratings with Code Geass and Moribito, when they pushed them to 4am death slots alot of companies took notice, same thing when they cancelled Toonami. It seems as if Cartoonnetwork doesnt want to have anime.
Especially with adult swims popular "anime sucks" thread on there site.
CN in Australia is shit. They have 3 minutes of show followed by 3-5 minutes of commericial half of which are shitty songs (I tested this while watching Naruto). And most there shows are now CN originals and all of them are terrible. It seems they come up with on bad show after another. They don't even have [adult swim] anymore so the only good show on (IMO) is Dragonball which starts at around midnight.
!, 300 channels over here I don't think we even come close to that many channels.
I never got Cartoon Network, and as a child I was pretty sad. We got teletoon instead, which was a cartoon only network too I guess.
im australian so i have the australian CN.. it was good when tonami was on because i love all the anime xD but then they took it off i was devestated... then anime came back on adult swim but they took it off once again... DEVIASTATED! lol... xD
I am mad about it.... still i used to watch it.... this is only network which makes me happy and keep in peace of mind when i am fully stressed...
Cartoon Network was the fuckin' shit back before 2004-5. Does anyone remember Dexter's Lab, Cow & Chicken, Ed Edd n' Eddy, Johnny Bravo, all the actually GOOD shows? Hell, I would still watch them if they were on/were still good.


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Or did Jeremy Lin save his best game of the season for his homecoming? Linsanity was alive and well at the Garden Monday night. Unfortunately he was wearing a Houston Rockets' jersey, as he and the Rockets handed the Knicks their first home defeat. Lin outplayed his Knick replacement, Ray Felton, and got the last laugh on the Knicks who they have beaten twice this season.
Speaking of the Knicks, Amar'e Stoudemire has gotten an okay to practice. He's back!!!! Now we will find out if the Knicks are prospects or suspects. Can they play together or will Coach Woodson begin pulling out his scalp?
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Or did R.A. Dickey win the Cy Young award last season? Dickey who won the award for being the best pitcher in the National League was traded by the Mets to the Toronto Blue Jays. WHY? Only the Mets would do this. And we wonder why they are lousy each year.
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Or is it time to congratulate Jim Boeheim on his 900th victory? Syracuse head basketball coach Jim Boeheim , 68 and in his 37th year at his alma mater, is 900-304 and joined an elite fraternity. Mike Krzyzewski (936) and Bob Knight (902) are the only other men's Division I coaches to win that many games. Boeheim won all 900 games at Syracuse University, the Oranngemen. Congrats Coach! Have a glass of orange juice on me.
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Or is it time to take a minute to remember the 26 victims of the Newtown, Connecticut massacre? This senseless tragedy is beyond comprehension. Twenty children, ages 6 and 7 , and six adults were gunned down by a crazed gunman armed with an assault rifle and two semiautomatic handguns at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Once again the issue of gun control surfaces. Hunters and gun enthusiast, argue that guns don't kill, people do. Nonsense!!!!! People with guns kill and do so at an alarming rate in the United States. Name one other industrialized country where this happens. If you must hunt and need to go out and kill Bambi, you can do so without an assault weapon or a large magazine clip. (personally I think it would be a lot fairer if we gave the animals weapons and let them shoot back).
They also point out that they have a constitutional right to bear arms. Yes a document written in the 18th century before we had supermarkets and freezers; A different time , with a different life style.
Jack Pinto the first of twenty children to be buried was a huge NY Giant fan. His favorite player was Victor Cruz. Cruz honored Jack by writing his name on his football cleats. He also met with the family and gave them the shoes. Class!
As a Martial Artist I was extremely proud of the little boy who offered to lead his classmates to safety. He told his teacher he would go first because he knows karate. OSS!!!
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The whole idea had seemed like a barrel of laughs until he was standing in the starting gate for the first time, looking down the rock-hard, uneven track that snaked through the streets of Quebec City. In that moment, he came to understand why so many people think the idea of downhill skating is more than a little nuts.
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He didn't. In fact, the Westdale grad made it to the bottom of the Red Bull Crashed Ice track unscathed and still on his feet. Which was all he needed to become emboldened enough to go back to his initial idea of going full out all the way for the next run. A plan he followed that time back in 2011 and again earlier this year.
It's a plan the 28-year-old real estate agent will be following again Friday and — if he qualifies for the final — Saturday at the first-ever Crashed Ice event in Niagara Falls.
Having grown up in hockey playing AA and AAA with the Hamilton Reps, he feels comfortable on skates. There isn't much he hasn't done on the ice. Yet a few years ago when his brother sent him some pictures of the Quebec City race, he was blown away.
"It was the wildest thing I had ever seen," he says. "I started watching YouTube videos."
Then trying to find out how to be one of the maniacs he'd just seen.
Eventually he found his way to London, Ont., for a walk-on competition. The 250 guys who showed up would skate an obstacle course. The fastest handful would get to move on to the real thing. He finished third.
Thing was, the rather benign qualifying course that essentially just tested general competence on skates bore no resemblance to actually going downhill. It was held in a rink with a couple of hurdles to jump over, bars to slide under and cones to skate around.
Unfortunately, there's just no way to evaluate how people will do going 65 kilometres an hour on ice frozen onto a man-made hill. There are no angled rinks in the world for testing. So making it to the event and doing it when you get there are as different as hitting in slo-pitch and connecting on a Justin Verlander slider.
"(My family) thought I was nuts, absolutely," he laughs. "Everyone was encouraging me to take out significant life insurance."
He survived that first event. Then he went back and did it again, with less-wonderful results. Earlier this year, he went airborne on one of the jumps and ended up in a Superman position with his belly facing down and his arms extended. When he landed, he shredded the labrum in his shoulder.
Could have been worse. You don't see it all that much on the TV coverage, but he says the infirmary is a busy place on qualifying and race days. Purdon says one guy cracked a couple vertebrae not long ago. If you escape with just a bruise or two, you're doing well.
There's body contact. Not intentional but, with four people racing at the same time, it happens. The boards are as unforgiving as the surface. Bodies fly around.
The biggest challenge is finding decent ice. You can't run a Zamboni up and down the course for obvious reasons. With the speed the competitors are travelling, the corners tend to get chewed up. Ruts and grooves are deadly. Lucking out and navigating a quality patch of ice is key.
"The ice is not spectacular," he says. "Picture the worst pond you've ever played hockey on and you're flying downhill on it."
So you hold on and go all out.
If it's a good day, you make it to the bottom on your feet and smiling. Maybe you even get to the finals so you have a chance to race in front of thousands of screaming fans lining the course and thousands more watching on TV.
If it's a bad day? Well, it's best not to think about that.
Spectator columnist Scott Radley hosts The Sports Lounge weeknights at 9 on 900CHML.
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Turns out the late Eric Knodel goal that earned a 4-4 tie for No. 4-ranked New Hampshire against Maine on Saturday at the Whittemore Center, was not enough to salvage a tough weekend for the Wildcats.
When all the results were in on Saturday night, UNH had slipped to fifth place in Hockey East and must go on the road to face No. 4 Providence College in the quarterfinal round next weekend.
The Wildcats went into the weekend series at home against their bitter rival hoping to win the Hockey East regular season championship and needing two points to guarantee themselves a home series in the playoffs.
They came up with only one of the four available points, losing 4-3 on Friday night and then failing to close out Saturday's game for a win.
"That's the disappointing part of the weekend," said UNH coach Dick Umile. "We had the opportunity to secure home ice and we didn't do that."
UNH played a 4 p.m. game on Saturday and the other league games were at 7 p.m. The Wildcats had to await the results of key games before they knew their playoff fate.
There were several scenarios that set UNH up for a home series next weekend.
But UMass-Lowell knocked off Providence, 4-1, to earn its first Hockey East regular season championship and Boston University beat Northeastern, 5-0, and those results left UNH, BU and Providence in a three-way tie for third place.
Based on head-to-head tiebreakers, BU was awarded the No. 3 seed, Providence No. 4 and UNH the No. 5.
UNH and Providence will play a best-of-three series starting on Friday night with the winner advancing to the Hockey East championship round at the TD Garden in Boston. The Friars won the season series against UNH with 6-5 and 1-0 wins and a 3-3 tie.
The Wildcats will hit the road for the quarterfinals for the second straight year. Last year, they fell in three games at Boston University. UNH had finished in the top four and earned a home series for 16 consecutive years before that.
The other Hockey East quarterfinals have No. 8 Maine at No. 1 UMass-Lowell, No. 7 Vermont at No. 2 Boston College and No. 6 Merrimack at BU.
"We just want to keep playing," said Maine coach Tim Whitehead. "We think at this point we can play with anybody. We know we can play with anybody."
UNH had not lost a game all season in which it led going into the third period.
UNH was up 3-2 entering the third on Saturday but needed the Knodel goal to get a tie.
"Obviously, we're not too excited," Umile said. "We had the opportunity to win it and gave it up in the third period. We're not too pleased with that."
The Wildcats finished the regular season with an overall record of 18-9-7 and were 13-8-6 in Hockey East.
Maine wrapped up 10-18-8 and 6-13-8.
The Black Bears scored a pair of goals in a span of 74 seconds early in the third period to grab a 4-3 lead.
Senior forward Joey Diamond tied it up, 3-3, at the 5:58 mark of the period. Freshman defenseman Conor Riley made it 4-3 Maine at 7:12.
Knodel, a junior defenseman, scored on a blast from out front on the power play.
Casey DeSmith, the sophomore from Rochester, made 32 saves for UNH.
Maine junior Martin Ouellete, who played at Kimball Union Academy, had 31 saves.
The teams scored four goals in the second period, two for each team, in a span of just under four minutes to turn a 1-0 UNH lead into the 3-2 advantage with 20 minutes to play.
Twice UNH went up by two goals and twice the Black Bears cut it back to a one-goal margin.
Wildcat freshman Maxim Gaudreault made it 2-0 with 5:54 left in the period. Joey Diamond answered for Maine. UNH's Grayson Downing got that one back 32 seconds later for 3-1. Adam Shemansky's goal cut it to 3-2 with 1:57 left in the period.
UNH senior forward Scott Pavelski converted a pass from Gaudreault to open the scoring with 4:01 left in the first period.
It was one shining senior moment on a Senior Night that would end in disappointing fashion.
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The Changing Ecology, Uses, and Perceptions of Golden Gate Park
Today, San Francisco's Golden Gate Park is a living, dynamic landscape, a space for recreation and refuge, and an informal record of its own cultural and environmental history. In 1865 however, this vast, urban garden was "nothing" but acres of largely undeveloped sand dunes and grasses. Its presence in the heart of southwest San Francisco represents the massive, human transformation of an environment. Donald Worster's framework for environmental history can be used to understand Golden Gate Park as it is currently, the landscape that preceded it, and the processes that drove its transformation. Worster uses the concepts of ecology, modes of production, and ideas to create "levels of interpretation" for historic environmental changes1. Applying these tools when reading Golden Gate Park's present landscape and photos of its past landscape provides significant insight into why this area has changed so dramatically.
Before the Park
Historically, the lands now occupied by Golden Gate Park had a quite different ecology. The photograph from 1865 in Figure 1 in the Appendix shows great, rolling dunes topped with grasses. Grainy mounds cascade from the horizon to the ocean where sand and water seamlessly converge. There are no signs of agriculture or industry. Besides a few houses along a single-lane road, it appears to be an area relatively undisturbed by humans. In 1865, the wild ecology of this space was probably not one considered very useful or productive by many San Francisco residents.
The past uses, or lack thereof, for this land reveal how it was perceived. A map of the City and County of San Francisco from 1866 (Figure 2 in the Appendix) aptly reflects his. At the northeast end of the peninsula, the tight, linear development of a burgeoning city is depicted, while to the south and west the map simply shows empty space. After all, that checkerboard in the northeast represented progress– shops and trade, art and industry. To the southwest were dunes. What could one do with those? There was not much there to mine or log or grow. The dunes were a challenge to builders or farmers. They were, as the caption beneath Figure 2 says, the "outer lands." In the 1860s, the area later transformed into Golden Gate Park was undeveloped, waiting for human "improvements."
Golden Gate Park Today
Since 1865, humans have drastically reshaped the ecology of the lands now titled Golden Gate Park. The aerial photograph of the contemporary park in Figure 3 (see Appendix) reveals a giant, green rectangle transected by roads and bounded by a highway on the west and a sea of streets and buildings on the east, north, and south sides. Unlike the free-form dunes of 1865, the park is a neatly contained geometric space, cut off from the ocean by the highway and a cement barrier meant to keep the remaining sandy beach where humans would have it. Within the park's borders are forests, lakes, and meadows. The landscape is a veritable salad of plant species. On a walk through Golden Gate Park one might see a lilac bush blooming beneath a eucalyptus tree or blackberry brambles beside a juniper. Ducks, pigeons, and squirrels all make their home there. Exploring the park now, it might be easy to mistake it for a "natural" environment, but the maintenance it requires and the activities and built environment it houses would prove the contrary.
Golden Gate Park's ecology is intimately connected with human modes of production and ideas. For one, the manmade lakes require regular maintenance. In 1997, the San Francisco Chronicle published an article detailing the need for increased funding to repair Golden Gate Park's decaying infrastructure. Apparently, the idyllic lakes were leaking thousands of gallons per day. Similarly, the paper mentioned that much of the vegetation was in need of care. Gardeners and volunteers were, and still are, needed to trim trees and replace numerous dying plants.2 In order for the park to remain a verdant retreat, citizens and government officials must decide that this public good is worth the cost of maintaining it. The park's survival is dependent on human perceptions of it. Clearly, the upkeep of this space is tied up with the city's prosperity and values.
Human modes of production and values are also apparent in the park's buildings and uses. Through the years, humans have created spaces in Golden Gate Park to house a variety of activities and ideas. Leisure space is definitely a prominent feature here. From the Angler's Lodge to the tennis courts, one can catch glimpses of past and current recreational fads. Park-goers also temporarily transform the forests and meadows into spaces for relaxing and socializing. For instance, add humans to a grassy hillside and it becomes a place to drink to the day's great bike ride or celebrate someone's birthday. Beyond leisure, spaces have been carved out for more formal communication of values. For example, the new California Academy of Sciences is simultaneously a place to work for some individuals, a place to play for others, and a statement on the imperative for humans to better understand and interact with their environments. With its undulating, grass-covered roof and "green" construction, the Academy is a symbol of growing concerns about humans'
impacts on the natural world. Similarly, the National AIDS Memorial Redwood Grove has been designated a monument to the brave individuals who have battled AIDS and as a place
of refuge for everyone impacted by this disease. Here the park's landscape has been shaped to serve the above purposes with quiet places to sit and memorials like the one in Figure 4 in the Appendix, a boulder inscribed with, "The Pines-In Memory of Don Miller." From its fly fishing ponds to its grassy slopes, Golden Gate Park is a landscape created by humans for humans.
Interpreting the Transformation
While the story behind Golden Gate Park's establishment is an essay in itself, it can perhaps be summed up as the application of political will and technology to a landscape. Without these two human elements, the sand dunes of 1865 might still be there. To begin with, someone, or rather a group of people, had to decide that the outer lands were worth developing. Amidst public clamor for a park in the 1850s and 1860s, city officials and businessmen saw an opportunity to reclaim the outer lands. San Francisco was to have its own Central Park that would increase property values in the hinterlands of the peninsula and draw development there.3 To accomplish their goals, they hired young engineer William Hammond Hall. This determined man applied his engineering skills, lots of imported water, and a slew of nonnative plants to the dunes to slowly establish the city's great park.4 In doing this, he proved that the outer lands could indeed be conquered, thus bestowing them with new value.
Since Hall coaxed Golden Gate Park from the sands, various individuals and groups have sculpted the park to reflect their values and needs, creating what is seen there today.
Over the years, an eclectic mix of amenities has been compiled in this space, reflecting changes in culture. To illustrate, whether fly-fishing pools or an equitation field in the park would be strongly petitioned for today is rather debatable. Conversely, the creators of Golden Gate Park had no conception of AIDS or climate change and therefore would not
have understood the need for the Memorial Grove or new Academy building. This is part of the beauty of the park's transformation–it's ongoing. From its very beginning this landscape has been changed by San Francisco's needs and desires and continues to be shaped by its current users.
Golden Gate Park is an excellent example of the transformative potential of humans' interactions with their environment. The present park full of people and their structures is vastly different from the sand dunes found there in 1865. Worster's concepts of ecology, modes of production, and human ideas can be lenses for viewing these present and past landscapes and the interactions that have made the park what it is today. Interpretation of this space using these tools clearly reveals Golden Gate Park as an artifact of human culture that is continually formed and reformed with changes in ideas and modes of production.
Figure 1- "View From Cliffhouse, 1865. Golden Gate Park Not Planted Yet…"1
Figure 2- "Map of San Francisco and the 'Outer Lands' – 1866″ 2
Figure 3- "Aerial of San Francisco and Golden Gate Park" 3
Figure 4-"Values and Nature- the AIDS Memorial Redwood Grove, 2009″ 4
Notes- Essay
1. Major problems in American environmental history documents and essays. Edited by
Carolyn Merchant. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005, 2
2. Garcia, Kenneth J. "S.F. Treasure's Sad Decline / Decades of neglect take their toll on city landmark." SF Gate. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/ article. cgi?f= /c/a/ 1997 /07/ 28/MN04GGP.DTL (accessed November 29, 2009).
3. Brechin, Gray. Imperial San Francisco Urban Power, Earthly Ruin (California
Studies in Critical Human Geography, 3). New York: University of California P, 2001
4. Ibid., 82-83.
Notes- Appendix
1. View from Cliff House, 1865. Golden Gate Park not planted yet, just sand hills. Only
residences Seal Rockhouse and a few small houses. 1865. The Bancroft Library,
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA. In Calisphere.
http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf1m3nb284/?query=1865&brand=calisphere (accessed
November 29, 2009).
2. Wollenberg, Charles. Golden Gate metropolis perspectives on Bay Area history.
Berkeley: Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, 1985.
3. Garcia, Kenneth J. "S.F. Treasure's Sad Decline / Decades of neglect take their toll
on city landmark." SF Gate. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin /article .cgi? f=/c/a/ 1997 /07
28/MN04GGP.DTL (accessed November 29, 2009).
4. Marker in the National AIDS Memorial Grove, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco,
CA. Personal photograph by author. October 09, 2009.


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I never use golden delicious unless they are really fresh....they keep so well so long but do get mealy....even while still looking good, that I am wary of them. But if you know your apples are good and juicy this should work well. Ingredients: 6 Cups apples cut into 1/4 - 1/2 inch pieces Topping: 3/4 cup flour Procedure: toss the dried fruit with the flour and mix with apples and eggs. Dump into a buttered dish. 8 1/2 by 11 Make topping: Mix flour, butter, ground cinnamon. Process in food processor as pastry dough. or in a bowl with a pastry blender Pour into a bowl and mix with oatmeal nuts and brown sugar. Crumble together. Put on top of fruit. Bake in preheated oven at 375 deg F for 45 to 60 minutes (until top is crisp and apples are tender) |
Basic Apple Crisp 5-6 apples, peeled & sliced (I like Gala) Topping: Fill an 8 x 8 baking dish with sliced apples. Sprinkle cinnamon over apples. Pour water over all. You can add a bit of fresh lemon juice to the apples if desired. I now add some crumbled almond slices to the topping to make it interesting. |
Lindac... Used your recipe this weekend. We used dried blueberries. It is great! Will definitely be using this one again. |
Glad you liked it...I find that the egg in there keeps it "neater"...the filling is a little thicker and it makes neater servings. Never done blueberries......and I have some....maybe I better make an apple crisp. |
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Thursday, March 8, 2007
Steamboat Springs The future of the new Steamboat Springs Community Center, way over budget and well behind schedule, suddenly is very unclear.
Steamboat Springs City Council members are giving very different answers about whether the city should allocate up to $1 million from in reserve funds to meet the escalating construction cost of the new center. Meanwhile, users of the current community center and the adjacent Bud Werner Memorial Library fear the city is coming close to reneging on promises made to them.
On Tuesday night, the City Council reacted with shock when the lowest bid for the new center came in at $1 million more than anticipated. Council members tabled any decisions on center funding for one week.
A new community center is necessary because the current center must be torn down to make room for the library's voter-approved, $11.4 million expansion. The council had promised to have a new center built by the time the current center is torn down. Demolition could come as soon as July 1.
Councilman Ken Brenner expressed fears that library officials - who plan to take bids in May - will encounter high construction costs and then decide not to move forward with the expansion.
"That would be a really bad thing to find out two months from now," Brenner said. He called spending an additional $1 million on the new community center "ridiculous."
Fox Construction of Steamboat Springs has bid the community center project at nearly $4.1 million. That amount is more than $1 million more than the community center's total budget. Tom Fox, owner of Fox Construction, told City Council members that if they don't decide on community center funding until after hearing the library bids in May, the community center project would then need to be re-bid, almost certainly at an even higher cost.
The new, 8,400-square-foot community center is to be built on a 2.3-acre site adjacent to the Stock Bridge Transit Center west of downtown Steamboat.
Whether the City Council decides to fully fund the building will affect users of the current center, primarily the local American Legion chapter and Routt County Council on Aging; library users, staff and officials; and Steamboat Springs taxpayers.
City Finance Director Don Taylor has said Steamboat will have more than $3 million in unallocated reserves at the end of 2007, without increasing funds for the community center.
Tuesday night, Councilman Loui Antonucci expressed doubts about the building's rising price tag.
"I don't know that I'm of a mind to approve a $4 million budget," Antonucci said. "We really need to be prudent with taxpayers' money. If we spend another million on (the community center), what are we going to be giving up in the next five years?"
Councilman Towny Anderson has been an outspoken opponent of the Stock Bridge site and community center plans throughout the process.
On the other hand, Council members Paul Strong, Karen Post and Steve Ivancie support moving ahead with the project.
"I think if we delay it another six months, it could cost another half million dollars," Strong said, echoing an argument made by Ivancie.
City Council President Susan Dellinger could not be reached Wednesday.
A "no" vote on the additional community center funding, according to Deputy City Manager Wendy DuBord, would require architects to "re-design the project and reduce the square footage," causing a delay of up to four months. That would push completion into the summer of 2008 and necessitate "immediate negotiations with the library district."
Library director Chris Painter said Monday "additional delays on the community center project : would likely impact the library's timeline," but would not elaborate on whether library officials plan to break ground July 1, the earliest allowable date according to the library's agreement with the city.
Library staff members are eagerly awaiting an expansion that would triple the size of the current building.
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Thelma Whitmer worked as a postmaster in Clark from 1970 to 1983, while raising five children with her husband in North Routt County. During lunch, Whitmer said she doesn't expect to see a new community center any time soon.
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morebuns 6 years, 2 months ago
Hmmmm, a million or so extra for a tennis "bubble" that will eventually have to be replaced is OK; however, an extra million in order to replace the community center for our seniors and veterans is "ridiculous" according to one member of our City Council . . . I wonder if he plays tennis!!$@#$$%
WZ 6 years, 2 months ago
What's all this hype I hear from officials about "controlled growth" and the like??? Then those in charge go ahead and approve an unprecedented number of major development projects, all at once!
Steamboat is a centrally isolated tiny town. It doesn't have the resources to handle all of these projects all at once. It seems to me classic supply and demand. (Speak up Scott Ford.) City Council screwed themselves, the tax payers and visitors at the same time, not just with this one project, but with all of them. This is just one project (on a very small scale in comparison) of many that could soon to be 25% over budget. I can't wait to hear Jim Cooke billowing next!
What a legacy this council is leaving....
another_local 6 years, 2 months ago
These guys are talking about spending $500 a foot to build what is in essence a large empty house. I doubt you will see the private developments going over budget like that. Those guys watch the money more effectively. If they do go over budget it is thier own problem to deal with. You will not hear the screams if there are any.
The high end of the selling prices for the downtown residential units underway is more like $400 a foot and that includes the land, construction, profit for the builder, profit for the developer, profit for the investor and commision for the real estate agents... and covers the cost of the whole building including the retail spaces they aren't selling.
Figure it out. We are getting screwed on these public works projects. This project can be built for $250 a foot or less. Remember, there is NO LAND COST.
Put the community center in the old section of the library! If the library board will not talk about it throw them out! They serve at the pleasure of the public by appointment from the city and county.
SilverSpoon 6 years, 2 months ago
Move the seniors up to the sanctuary, complete with sauna, hot tub, stainless appliances, and spectacular views. 6000 sq ft only costs 3 million up there. Get it done in 1 month.
another_local 6 years, 2 months ago
Silverspoon may be right... just buy a big house that already exists and close before the library project begins (if it does begin)
elphaba 6 years, 2 months ago
Trying to get this Council to accomplish anything - even a reasonable idea is impossible. If it doesn't serve their own self-serving private agendas - they are incapable of doing anything. Could it be time for recall?
Gadfly 6 years, 2 months ago
No, Ken doesn't play tennis. If he did, he would have asked for a free season pass by now.
Watcher 6 years, 2 months ago
I think silverspoon has a great idea. Buy one of the mega houses and remodel the kitchen. It would be WAY cheaper. probably nicer also.
I would also like to reference the golf club which cost 4 million and the council never blinked. What's up with that? That was okay because it would draw more tourists to Steamboat.
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THURSDAY, Sept. 6 (HealthDay News) -- When Sierra Jane Downing's fever shot up to 107 degrees and she suffered a seizure, her parents knew their 7-year-old daughter had more than the flu.
Thanks to a persistent doctor, the little girl is recovering in a Denver hospital from a case of bubonic plague, the first identified in Colorado in more than six years. It's thought she was bitten by infected insects -- probably fleas -- while trying to bury a dead squirrel on a family camping trip.
Hers is the fourth case of plague reported in the United States this year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said. "Over the last 10 years we have had an average of five cases a year," said CDC epidemiologist Kiersten Kugeler. "So this year is quite average."
However, plague -- the scourge of the Middle Ages -- is rare, so "people should not be panicky," she said.
Kugeler said many more cases occurred in the early 1980s, when some years saw 30 to 40 people with plague. The reduction in infections is most likely the result of better sanitation and climate, she said.
Of this year's infections, an Oregon man was the most severely affected and needed to have some fingers amputated, Kugeler said. He came down with plague after a bite from a family cat. It's suspected that a woman who had contact with the same cat also developed plague but that case has not been confirmed. The fourth plague patient was an elderly man in New Mexico.
Most people recover with antibiotic therapy, but early treatment is important, experts say. "The last plague fatality in the United States was in 2009, because it was not recognized early enough," Kugeler said.
Fleas infected with the bacterium Yersinia pestis are the usual source of plague, but infected animals, including rabbits, rodents and pets, can also transmit the disease.
The biggest barrier to treatment is that many doctors don't recognize the symptoms -- which include swollen lymph nodes -- as those of plague. In addition to a tender, swollen lymph node in her groin, Downing also had low blood pressure and a high heart rate, according to published reports.
The dimpled girl, hospitalized in late August, is expected to make a full recovery, but had it not been for a tenacious emergency room doctor near her home in Pagosa Springs, her story might not have had a happy ending. That doctor reportedly called several hospitals until he found one -- Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children -- that wanted to see her immediately. She was air-lifted to their facility.
Plague can occur anywhere in the western United States, Kugeler said. "Since plague was introduced to this country in 1900, it has not passed what we call the plague line," she noted. This longitudinal line roughly falls along the 100th meridian, which stretches north from Texas to North Dakota.
This probably has to do with environment, altitude, humidity and temperature -- the conditions necessary for these types of fleas to survive, she said.
The best way to guard against plague and other diseases transmitted by infected rodents is to remove places around the yard where rodents like to live, such as wood piles, Kugeler said.
Protecting pets from fleas and ticks is also essential, she pointed out.
Plague almost never spreads from person to person. The only time person-to-person transmission is possible is when the bacteria reaches the lungs, she said. Then the plague can spread to those in close contact with the patient for an extended time, and then only just before they die.
"The last case of person-to-person in this country was in the 1920s," Kugeler said.
In 14th-century Europe, the Black Death, as the plague was called, wiped out an estimated 35 percent of the population.
Nothing like that can happen here, experts say.
"Plague will never make a resurgence," said Dr. Marc Siegel, an associate professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City. "We have public health measures in place that prevent that."
Treatment with antibiotics is effective, Siegel said. There is a need, however, for doctors to "think outside the box and recognize the possibility of plague," he said.
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More than 160 illnesses have been reported in 30 states. Of those with salmonella infections, 64 percent are children aged 10 or younger, 27 percent are children aged 1 or younger, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Fifty-six percent are Hispanic.
"Many people don't know that turtles and other reptiles can carry harmful germs that can make people very sick. For this reason, turtles and other reptiles might not be the best pets for your family, especially if there are children 5 years old and younger or people with weakened immune systems living in your home," Casey Barton Behravesh, deputy branch chief in the CDC's Outbreak Response and Prevention Branch, said in a CDC news release.
Contact with reptiles such as turtles, snakes and lizards and with amphibians such as frogs and toads can be a source of human salmonella infections. Salmonella germs are contained in both reptile and amphibian droppings, and can easily contaminate their bodies and the water in their tanks or aquariums.
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THURSDAY, Sept. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Nearly one-third of doctors and nurses are not so thrilled with the idea that hospital patients should be encouraged to remind them to wash their hands before treating them, a new Swiss survey suggests.
The poll was conducted among medical workers at a health center in Geneva, and it also found that very few patients raise the issue with their doctors and nurses, despite rising global concerns about the threat of hospital infections.
"The results were very surprising," said survey author Dr. Yves Longtin, who conducted the research in 2009 while with the Infection Control Program and World Health Organization Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety at the University of Geneva Hospitals.
"Patients have been encouraged for many years to ask health care workers whether they cleaned their hands before caring for them," noted Longtin. "This movement has been implemented in numerous countries, including Canada, the U.S., the U.K. and Switzerland. There is no doubt that these campaigns were good-intentioned. However, health care workers' perceptions regarding these campaigns was little understood."
Longtin, who is currently an assistant professor and infectious disease microbiologist in the department of microbiology and infectious diseases at Laval University and Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Quebec in Quebec City, Canada, reports the findings in a research letter published online Sept. 3 in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
In recent years, a rise in the rate of in-hospital antibiotic-resistant infections in the United States and abroad has focused public attention on hospital hygiene. The research team pointed out that good hand hygiene among health care workers is widely thought to be the number one way to curtail such infection risk.
To explore how the patient-caregiver relationship turns on this issue, the team randomly distributed a written survey to 700 nurses and doctors at the University of Geneva Hospitals. About 40 percent (277) responded, with 44 percent of those responses coming from doctors, and 56 percent from nurses.
The authors noted that about two-thirds of those who responded had more than a decade of experience under their belt, and that the hospital had a long history of promoting hand hygiene among its staff.
However, the hospital did not have a specific policy or program in place to promote patient participation on that front, and Longtin's team found that only 3 percent of the health care workers polled said they had been asked about hand hygiene by a patient in the month leading up to the survey.
Nearly three-quarters of the respondents did say that, generally speaking, more patient involvement might be helpful in reducing the rate of hospital infections.
However, 29 percent did not specifically support the notion that patients remind them to wash their hands, with 27 percent suggesting that it is not the role of a patient to do so, the investigators found.
Why the pushback? About one-quarter said that patient inquiries regarding hand hygiene would take up too much of their time, while 17 percent and 27 percent, respectively, said that such queries would be either upsetting or humiliating.
Between 43 percent and 44 percent of those polled added that they'd feel guilty and/or ashamed to be found out or forced to admit to patients that they had forgotten to wash their hands. About one-quarter said that such an admission would make them appear inept at their jobs, and 18 percent feared legal ramifications.
The poll suggested that such concerns may have implications for hospitals considering new hand hygiene policies, as nearly four in 10 (37 percent) said they would not agree to wear a badge that would specifically solicit patient inquiries on the issue.
"Health care workers have feelings, too, and patients have to be receptive to them," Longtin noted. "[This] shows that the implementation of a real safety climate will require some change in health care workers' mentalities in addition to convincing patients that they have a role to play in their care."
Dr. Philip Tierno, a clinical professor of microbiology and pathology in the department of pathology at NYU Langone Medical Center, sees the issue in black-and-white terms.
"The patient has every right to ask and know if health care workers wash their hands between patients," Tierno said. "And that is no matter who the person is, whether it is a nurse, a physician or a technician. Because hospital-acquired infections account for about 100,000 deaths in the U.S. alone per year, and 80 percent of all infectious disease is transmitted by either direct contact, such as coughing, talking, sneezing, or indirect contact, such as not washing your hands after touching a bed, a telephone, a doorknob in a patient's room," he explained.
"So there are many institutions in the U.S. that have initiated hand-washing programs," Tierno noted, "and I personally think it's foolish and myopic for any health care worker to be offended by a patient asking this sort of question. Patients have that right and they are justified in asking."
For more on hand hygiene, visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
THURSDAY, Sept. 6 (HealthDay News) -- The intense preparation required for the law school admission test (LSAT) changes the structure of the brain, resulting in stronger connections between areas of the brain that play an important role in reasoning.
That's the finding of University of California, Berkeley, neuroscientists who used diffusion tensor imaging to analyze the brains of 24 college students or recent graduates before and after 100 hours of LSAT training over three months.
The findings suggest that training people in reasoning skills can reinforce brain circuits involved in thinking and reasoning and might even help increase a person's IQ scores, the researchers said.
"The fact that performance on the LSAT can be improved with practice is not new. People know that they can do better on the LSAT, which is why preparation courses exist," study leader Allyson Mackey, a graduate student in UC Berkeley's Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, said in a university news release.
"What we were interested in is whether and how the brain changes as a result of LSAT preparation, which we think is, fundamentally, reasoning training. We wanted to show that the ability to reason is malleable in adults," she explained.
The U.S. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke funded the study, along with Blueprint Test Preparation, the release noted.
The study was published recently in the journal Frontiers in Neuroanatomy.
"A lot of people still believe that you are either smart or you are not, and sure, you can practice for a test, but you are not fundamentally changing your brain," senior author Silvia Bunge, an associate professor in the UC Berkeley department of psychology and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, said in the news release.
"Our research provides a more positive message. How you perform on one of these tests is not necessarily predictive of your future success, it merely reflects your prior history of cognitive engagement, and potentially how prepared you are at this time to enter a graduate program or a law school, as opposed to how prepared you could ever be," Bunge noted.
Another expert, John Gabrieli, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, agreed.
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