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Steamboat Springs After winning two out of three games in the opening weekend of play, the members of the Steamboat Springs High School boys soccer team might be looking for a break headed into the second week of the season.
They will not get it.
This Friday, the Sailors will play the first home game of the season against Niwot. That game is scheduled for 6 p.m. under the lights at the high school field. The contest will be followed by another big challenge at 11:30 p.m., Saturday at Dudley Field against Centarus.
"It's a big weekend," Steamboat's Kyle Nelson said. "Everybody is really excited to play at home."
The players are also excited they opened the season on Aug. 29 near Boulder at the Alexander Dawson Tournament with a win against Ralston Valley.
Regulation ended without a goal, though, so the two teams went to sudden death overtime. In the second half of the overtime period, Steamboat Springs' midfielder Alec Nelson beat his man deep down the left side. He placed a crossing pass onto the foot of Devin Borvansky who beat the Ralston Valley goalkeeper for the win.
"For the most part we were the dominant team," Sailors coach Rob Bahaman said. "But we were lacking the finish."
He said the lack of offensive production was a theme for his team in the first two games of the season. However, Kyle believes this young team is just starting to gel. When that happens, the goals will start coming.
"This first weekend was a measuring stick for us," Kyle said. "It let us know where we stand and what we still need to work on."
The Sailors' opening victory set up a match with host Alexander Dawson in the second round of the tournament Friday.
Bohlmann said his team spent the day at the Colorado Rapids training camp and entered Friday night's contest on a wave of enthusiasm.
He said the Sailors came out strong in the first 20 minutes of the game but learned a valuable lesson in the closing minutes of the half.
"In five minutes we gave away two goals," Bohlmann said. "It's because we decided to play referee instead of soccer."
Dawson's first goal came on an apparent offsides. The Sailors defensive players slowed their rush to the ball thinking the play would draw a whistle.
It did not, and the Dawson attacker took advantage of the situation to drive on goal.
The second goal came on a free kick. While the Steamboat players complained to the referees about the call, Dawson took advantage of the situation to create a goal scoring opportunity.
"We learned a valuable lesson," Bohlmann said.
The two quick goals gave Alexander Dawson the edge they needed to secure the win over the Western Slope opponent. Dawson added one more goal in the second half en route to a 3-0 win.
Despite the loss, the coach credited players like Kyle Nelson and Kelly Carlson for their efforts in the game. He said Kyle Nelson was used in a variety of roles including the center, back and midfield slots and even up front for a short period of time.
Meanwhile, Carlson made his presence felt between the pipes. Bohlmann said the senior goalkeeper was key to the team's opening win against Ralston Valley and also kept his team in the game against Alexander Dawson.
Steamboat rebounded in the third game of the tournament, which was played on Saturday against Battle Mountain, with a 3-1 win.
Kyle Nelson opened the scoring after being pulled down in the goal box during a scoring attempt. He took the penalty kick and put his team up 1-0 about 25 minutes into the game.
Steamboat added to the lead in the second half when Mike Holland made a run toward the back of the box and sent a crossing pass to teammate Andy Comeau. From there Comeau completed the scoring run by beating the goalkeeper.
The final Steamboat goal of the game came five minutes later when Alec Nelson assisted his brother Kyle with a corner kick. Kyle put the ball in the back of the net to give Steamboat a 3-0 lead.
Battle Mountain scored in the final stretch of the game but never really threatened the Sailors' lead.
"I think everybody was happy with the way things went in the opening week," Kyle Nelson said. "Now we just have to keep building toward the start of league play."
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There will be entertainment by local Celtic band, The Out of Kilters, from 6 to 8 p.m. and local crafters and Celtic organizations will set up in the back yard.
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Pop star Britney Spears' sons have been learning how to sing and dance by watching her rehearse. The Perfume singer is preparing for the start of her two-year residency in Las Vegas Dec 27 and says sons Sean Preston, eight, and Jayden James, seven, have picked up plenty from her rehearsals.
"Preston, he's already dancing up a storm. He shows all my dancers how he can dance. It's really funny. (Jayden) is actually the singer. He sings a lot," says Spears. Spears said one of the things that motivates her during rehearsals is when she spots one of her sons in the crowd.
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Luigi "Gino" Macaluso isn't one of them. A flamboyant, hard-driving adventure seeker who is always looking to capture the moment, he's dedicated to conquering time, to making it an aesthetic experience and to working high-tech, horological wonders.
While this ambitious pursuit typically finds him designing chronometers or chronographs, Macaluso, the owner and chairman of the Girard-Perregaux watch company, also finds it exhilarating to race around the Alps in his electric-blue Ferrari 45.
Macaluso is a curious figure in the staid circles of Swiss watch making. He is just as content repairing one of his 29 classic rally cars as he is designing expensive timepieces. In Switzerland, where the good ol' boy network of power brokers and faceless conglomerate czars strictly adheres to Old World rules of low-key refinement and decorum, Macaluso's particular brand of enthusiasm is something new.
"In watchmaking, like racing, there are lulls, and as Girard's team leader, it's my job to push the accelerator, to always encourage the best performance," says the 51-year-old Macaluso, sitting in his office. "I must engage people, lift spirits. We've achieved a lot, yet we must still race forward. Many of the complications [watches offering several functions] we'll be introducing in the next few years will be extremely intriguing if we keep on striving for excellence."
An aggressive leader with a self-described manic personality, Macaluso has brought Girard-Perregaux back from the brink of extinction. In 1992, he assumed control of a firm that was asleep, if not dying, and transformed its image by deftly marketing new pieces and reworked classics, reestablishing the cachet of this legendary firm whose roots go back to 1791.
Today, Girard-Perregaux, which produces about 16,000 watches annually, is extolled for such intricate complications as the Opera One carillon minute repeater, the Pour Ferrari collection, and the Tourbillon with three gold bridges chronograph. It also sells masterfully crafted movements to a host of high-end manufacturers (most prominently Piaget and Vacheron Constantin).
The reason Girard-Perregaux was struggling and little recognized in the early 1990s was its exclusive focus on craftsmanship at the expense of marketing, contends Philip Warner, president of Asprey & Garrard, a London-based jewelry firm. "Macaluso brought energy, style and vision to the company," says Warner. "[He's] just superb at brand management; he's made the world aware of Girard, one of those few Swiss manufacturers which designs, makes and assembles the total watch."
That vision is best viewed at the Villa Marguerite. Adjoining Girard-Perregaux's factory in La Chaux-de-Fonds, this recently restored, early-twentieth-century mansion is not only a museum laden with such treasures as gold Hunter pocket watches, diamond-studded pieces and limited editions graced with the magical Ferrari "Prancing Horse" emblem. It's also a smoker's paradise, as visitors are treated to an idyllic retreat for lunch, where the dining-room walls are lined with humidors brimming with Cuban Cohibas and Bolivars (tours can be arranged by calling 41 32 911 3333).
Macaluso was excited at the prospect of reviving these opulent surroundings. After graduating with a degree in architecture from Turin University in Italy, Macaluso dreamed about racing the Grand Prix circuit. He became friends with Enzo Ferrari's son Piero and Ferrari president Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, and competed in a number of prestigious European races, such as the European Rally Championship in 1972 and the Italian Championship in 1974. While he enjoyed braving hairpin turns and 200-mph bursts, Macaluso realized it was an unpredictable, if not dangerous, lifestyle. So, in 1974, he left professional racing and went to work for SSIH (which became Swatch), first in the advertising department and later climbing the ranks to become the firm's managing director in Italy.
Macaluso left SSIH in 1982 to establish his own watch distributorship, Tradema, which handled Girard-Perregaux, Breitling and other brands. By 1987, thanks to the relationship he had cultivated with Girard-Perragaux head Francis Besson, Macaluso owned a 20 percent share in the company. At the time, the brand was "tied to a conservatism that badly hurt us," according to Willy Schweitzer, who works on product development with Macaluso. "We didn't promote ourselves. It hardly mattered that we were one of those rare companies that made its own movements. We were unknown."
Though Girard-Perregaux won few accolades at the time, Macaluso seized the opportunity to acquire the company. Convinced Girard-Perregaux could be reinvigorated "with a shot of horsepower," he quickly set out to revamp the brand by negotiating a deal with Ferrari that allowed him to use the fabled stallion logo on watch dials. He has designed many of those dials (and other features) himself and is particularly proud of his 1994 debut work, the limited-edition, automatic split-seconds chronograph, which paid tribute to his friends at Ferrari.
"It was very natural to honor them this way, since these cars and GP watches are extremely accurate in their technology," says Macaluso, who also styled a $150,000 Ferrari watch with a diamond bezel and a stallion logo carved out of rubies in 1995. "Having a watch with the mythical Ferrari name is certainly a way for us to reach a male audience. But mainly it's a brand that inspires unique emotions among all people, and the same can be said about Girard-Perregaux watches."
The link with Ferrari was further celebrated in 1996 with the limited-edition F50, an automatic chronograph with perpetual calendar that honors the car maker's legendary "ballistic missile," the 203-mph F50. (A perpetual calendar is a complication that adjusts automatically to account for the different lengths of each month, including February during a leap year.) Girard-Perregaux later developed a full line of sporty Pour Ferrari timepieces. One of the most coveted pieces in that collection, introduced last year, is the SF Seconde Foudroyante, an automatic split-seconds chronograph with a coaxial pushpiece for "jumping" seconds, in a platinum, white, yellow or pink gold case.
With the assistance of the Ferrari racing department, Macaluso recently unveiled another revolutionary aluminum alloy piece, a chronograph with a case that he claims is 50 percent lighter than titanium. He also recently received help from Asprey & Garrard's Philip Warner, who helped develop the concept of the limited-edition Ferrari F156 chronograph, an 18-karat-gold $13,500 tribute to 1961 Formula 1 world champion Phil Hill, the first American to win the championship for Ferrari ($4,950 in stainless steel).
"We wanted a vintage-looking piece unique to our company, and what appealed to me was Girard's zealous attention to detail in the complications," says Warner. "My wife wears the steel chrono and I love the gold. All of Girard's complications are beautifully designed and built."
That's particularly true about Girard-Perregaux's signature work, the Tourbillon with three gold bridges. This much-lauded $65,000 timepiece (best appreciated when styled with a "skeleton," or transparent, case, which allows the wearer to view the watch's movement) brought firm founder Constant Girard a gold medal at the 1867 Paris World Exhibition. (In 1906, Girard's son, Constant Girard-Gallet, acquired the assets of a watchmaking company that was founded in 1791 by Jean François Bautte.) The tourbillon remains the ne plus ultra of the watchmaker's art.
All the finer houses produce a tourbillon, a device that compensates for the negative effects of gravity on the regular running of awatch movement, particularly when in a vertical position. Girard-Perregaux's creation is especially elaborate; it takes six to eight months to construct the 74-part, 0.3-gram tourbillon and the three gold bridges--each of which is enhanced by a glittering ruby--that span the delicate movement.
A three-bridge tourbillon also distinguishes the new Opera One, a minute repeater that nearly replicates the exquisite chimes of Westminster Abbey.
Another minute repeater that the firm is showcasing is a tonneau-, or barrel-shaped watch with a delicate striking mechanism, a moon-phase indicator and a perpetual calendar. The watch is an update of a classic design that first appeared decades ago. Another new piece, the Vintage 1999, part of the the Vintage 1945 line, is Girard-Perregaux's new curved and spherically shaped chronograph that gives the numerals an easy-to-read, three-dimensional effect. The sporty, yet still elegant F and Laureato collections feature stunning diamond- and gem-studded pieces to broaden Girard-Perregaux's appeal to women.
Another watchmaker renowned for craftsmanship is Audemars Piguet, the Swiss firm founded in 1875, which has pioneered numerous horological advances. The company has introduced such treasures as a split-second chronograph with minute counter as early as 1882, and the Grand Sonnerie, a watch that chimes the hours and quarter hours, which requires three years of work. Overall, production is limited to 15,000 watches annually.
Artisans at this family-run watchmaker continue to perform magic with their rectangular, 2871-caliber Tourbillon Canape (only 6.10 millimeters thick, this $95,000, micro-mechanical marvel has 146 components) and the automatic Millenary perpetual calendar in glittering 18-karat pink gold. The company is most widely celebrated, however, for its Royal Oak collection, octagonally shaped pieces whose power and elegance have made Audemars Piguet a leader in the luxury sports watch market ever since their introduction in 1972.
"Though it is the most expensive, stainless steel chronograph [$15,200] on the market, the Royal Oak Offshore is our flagship, the ultimate piece when it comes to flaunting the fact you have the strength to wear a big, heavy watch," says Francois Bennahmias, the president of Audemars Piguet, North America. "While we've introduced a titanium Offshore [only 100 grams as compared to its 250-gram stainless steel sister], the Royal Oak is still a planet removed from our amazingly thin pieces. It's the watch that really says, 'Look at me.'"
Arnold Schwarzenegger recently collaborated with Audemars Piguet to design a limited-edition Offshore chronograph celebrating his recent millennial film, End of Days. The watch, which has a "devilishly black" dial, automatic movement, tachymetric scale, stainless steel case and bracelet buckle, is built to withstand the most extreme underwater and shock-producing conditions.
Whether it's the steel chronograph, the 450-gram yellow-gold model, or the even larger Grand Complication ($650,000), the flamboyant Royal Oak line is one of the world's most fabled collections. Yet that renown, according to Bennahmias, has also cast a long shadow over Audemars Piguet's other pieces. "The Royal Oak's fame is certainly a positive, but it's also bad," he says. "Since those pieces get so much attention, people don't know we do lots of other incredible things."
One of the company's most noteworthy achievements is the Batman, or Night and Day Double Hunter pocket watch, which is studded with 38 carats of diamonds, 9.95 carats of yellow sapphires and 48.72 carats of blue sapphires--1,599 precious stones in all. Priced at $4 million, it depicts a starry night illuminated by a radiant moon, and a sun's golden rays. The intricate gear-and-wheel mechanism magically animates the winged Batman symbol.
The Ladies Minute Repeater Carillon, a testament to Audemars Piguet's renewed efforts to appeal to sophisticated women, also flaunts bold engineering. The smallest wristwatch of its kind, with 340 parts shoehorned into two cubic centimeters, the complication employs three bells and three hammers to produce distinctive chimes for minutes, quarter hours and hours.
Audemars Piguet's manly version of a minute repeater, the $360,000 Jules Audemars Tourbillon Split-Second Chronograph, is its tour de force. Besides producing clear, melodious sounds, this elegant, yet strong-looking, limited-edition watch (only 20 pieces were made) is a complex technological delight. The chronograph, named after company co-founder Jules-Louis Audemars, comprises 474 components, including 40 jewels, a guilloche dial, a transparent sapphire caseback, mechanical safety systems that guard against overwinding, and a device that ensures synchronization of the hours, quarters and minutes. The watch is presented in a sumptuous wooden cabinet with ample space for other items. Audemars Piguet will continue to unveil one limited edition of the Jules Audemars each year through 2006.
Finely crafted technological timepieces have long distinguished Breguet, the legendary L'Abbaye, Switzerland, firm founded by Abraham-Louis Breguet in 1775. Breguet was esteemed as the father of the modern wristwatch, responsible for such inventions as the self-winding perpetual watch, the independent seconds hand and the tourbillon. The company's early clients included King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Napoleon and Czar Nicholas II. In the twentieth century, Winston Churchill owned Breguets and Ettore Bugatti adorned his Royale dashboards with them.
Today, classical Breguet watches--with their renowned blued steel pomme (or apple) hands and patterned guilloche dials--are no longer the exclusive domain of European royalty or industry titans. Under the spirited leadership of Jean Jacober, the former chief operating officer at Patek Philippe, Breguet is offering six-figure objet d'art complications, along with a wide range of pilot watches and Marine chronographs priced to appeal to a young, discerning audience. In keeping with Old World traditions, the company limits total production to about 9,000 pieces a year.
Breguet's flagship piece is the $170,000 Equation of Time, a unique self-winding perpetual calendar that indicates the difference between the mean solar time measured by watches and clocks and apparent solar time that would be shown on sundials. "We only make about 15 of these a year, and it's definitely my favorite, for we're going against the myth that the day is 24 hours," says Jacober, the president of Breguet's management team (the company has recently been acquired by Swatch). "There are 360 days, which are really plus or minus one to 15 minutes. We measure that, so this watch is our rebellion.
"But even though you have to be affluent to buy this piece, I want the dream of owning a Breguet to be accessible to more people. In line with that strategy, we're going to celebrate the 225th anniversary of the company with a very simple $15,000 to $18,000 item with enameled hands and hand-painted numerals which tells the time and date. We recently launched our Art Deco-inspired tonneau, or barreled-shaped, Heritage chronograph [$26,000] and we're also right on target with pieces that look nothing like classical Breguets: the sporty Type XX Aeronavales and Transatlantiques."
The Type XX watches, originally designed in the 1950s for the French air force and navy, are fitted with the retour en vol, or fly-back, function, which returns the chronograph hand to zero by a single touch of the lower button. There are three sundials for second, 30-minute and 12-hour counters, and the new titanium version has a self-winding, 25-jewel movement. The carbon fiber dial with luminous hands and Arabic numerals is a handsome tribute to Louis Breguet, one of the founder's descendants and an aviator instrumental in the creation of Air France in 1933.
The Retrograde Perpetual calendar, with indicators for day, month and date in 18-karat yellow gold, and the Tourbillon Chronograph, featuring a hand-engraved movement and dial with skeleton back in 18-karat rose gold, are also worthy of Breguet's time-honored stature. Both complications are painstakingly crafted by an elite team of watchmakers cloistered in the factory's research and development sanctum.
"Breguet complications are mechanically superb," says Leon Adams, the president of Cellini, a New York watch emporium. "We just don't get them back for repair. Too many of the other companies' grand complications are temperamental. But Breguets work, and are truly exemplary."
Carlos Dias and Roger Dubuis are seated at a Geneva restaurant, smoking Montecristo A's and conjuring up watch designs on paper napkins. In an industry bound by tradition, it's quite unusual to find a Portuguese ready-to-wear fashion mogul (Dias) associating with a scholarly Swiss developer of complex mechanical watch movements (Dubuis).
Yet Dias and Dubuis are stirring excitement among the cognoscenti. The duo founded Manufacture Roger Dubuis only five years ago and offers timepieces from $10,000 to $1 million.
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March 23, 2014Princeton Places Second to Lead Four Teams in Top 10 at NCAA Fencing Championships Harvard's Adrienne Jarocki claimed the women's saber individual title.
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March 10, 2014Three Teams Celebrate National Championships at the White House President Barack Obama welcomed 19 national championship teams to the White House's South Lawn on Monday, including Princeton Field Hockey, Princeton Fencing and Yale Men's Ice Hockey.
March 10, 2014Ivies Win Six of 12 NCAA Fencing Regional Titles Princeton won four weapons at the Mid-Atlantic/South Regional, while Harvard won two at the Northeast Regional. NCAA Championship bids will be announced on Tuesday.
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Debate the issues facing Seattle Public Schools, share your opinions, read the latest news. Organize and work for high quality public schools that educate all students to become passionate, lifelong learners.
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Long Term Enrollment Projections
Washington + 869
Denny +726
Mercer +725
Eckstein +673
Aki Kurose +606
Whitman +515
The other three are positive as well, but to a lesser extent.
If you look at each of these it is easy to prescribe a solution:
Washington - move north-end APP out of Lowell, attract students to Madrona
Denny - build a K-5 on the location of old Denny
Mercer - re-open Van Asselt
Eckstein - McDonald and Sand Point need to take up the growth
Aki Kurose - Rainier View needs to take up most of the growth
Whitman - Viewlands will take up most, bring students to Broadview-Thomson
The move of elementary north-end APP to a north-end location is a challenge. This may be, however, the only population that would accept John Marshall as a site. The building is bad enough, but it is also right next to the freeway and it has no playground. Honestly, though, these folks would take a tent pitched in an open field so long as the instruction is appropriate. I regret the only alternative is Broadview-Thomson. Suggestions?
Nearly all of the 6-8 enrollment growth over the next 5 years is expected to come north of downtown.
Whitman +315
Eckstein +279
McClure +188
Hamilton +169
Again, the District needs to get to work re-opening Wilson-Pacific as a middle school and they need to get started on it right now.
The high school picture is mixed. There are a number of attendance areas where the District expects a decline in high school enrollment.
Chief Sealth -149
Hale -35 (why are we expanding this building?)
Rainier Beach -31
Ingraham -29 (why are we expanding this building?)
Other areas are expected to see real growth in enrollment
Roosevelt +266
Ballard +229
West Seattle +182
Garfield +71
Franklin +18
Hmmm. Does this suggest that we re-open Lincoln to anyone else but me?
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- BB said...
Simple solution for the Roosevelt over crowding - shift the Hale/Roosevelt boundaries, and assign the 226+ Roosevelt students to Hale. Perfect balance.
This solution would leave every north end school full to capacity, and over enrolled. No wiggle room at all. But probably not over crowded enough to open Lincoln. Maybe a small alternative high school, like NOVA, in the north end would work? The north end has no local alt high schools - maybe that would be a solution? - 6/9/11, 6:45 PM
Regarding this - Eckstein - McDonald and Sand Point need to take up the growth
McDonald is in the Hamilton service area.
Sandpoint capacity is 300 and they are going to have over 200 next year. Sandpoint is going to be FULL within two year.
- north seattle mom - 6/9/11, 6:48 PM
BB - so you want the Roosevelt boundary maybe 1 block north of the school or should you move it actually on block south of the school???
To shift that many kids to Hale, you will need to move the boundary to be practically on top of the school. What do you think this is? Ballard?? (Meant to be more painful than funny)
But seriously, the solution for Roosevelt is to move the West boundary back to Ballard and to get Queen Anne a High School of their own.
Queen Anne has to go somewhere and there are enough students enrolled in elementary school, north of the ship canal to completely and totally fill all four high schools and Lincoln. In six years, they are going to have the same problem at high school as they are having in middle school.
- north seattle mom - 6/9/11, 6:56 PM
"Ingraham -29 (why are we expanding this building?)"
Had you ever actually visited the old Ingraham portables? That would answer your question.
- Chris S. said...
I thought Michael DeBell at one of his coffee hours was talking about re-opening Lincoln as a high school as pretty much a given.
As DWE mentioned, the old math building at Ingraham was dismal. It was built as a temporary structure about 40 years ago (I could be off on the time here, but you get the picture). It's a miracle the thing hadn't collapsed at some point. At any rate, the school isn't being enlarged so much as improved, which was a dire need.
- Melissa Westbrook said...
Reopen Lincoln? What and ruin the district's need to always move everyone off-site during a rebuild? Eckstein and/or Whitman or Washington will be renovated under BEX IV. If Lincoln gets reopened, then they will have to build on-site. (Of course, Lincoln is almost at the end of its lifecycle so it might need help as well.)
Speaking of John Marshall and APP (yet again!), at the APP-AC meeting on Tuesday, Kay Smith-Blum showed up, which was great. She shared some thoughts with the group, some good and some scary.
The huge immediate issue in front of the APP community right now is that Lowell will be incredibly overcrowded this fall. More than you can believe. Honestly, I don't know how the numbers we're hearing (easily over 700) can be safely accommodated. There's a $50k project planned for the summer to carve a new classroom out of the current art room, but with 5 add'l classrooms needed on top of a very crowded building already, I can't imagine what will happen.
KSB made one suggestion that got a round of applause: an APP 1-8 ! :-)
She is concerned about middle school, however, having heard that MS kids don't want to be with the same group of kids in middle school as elementary (although I know at least a few MS APP kids that would take it in a heartbeat over the existing system, but I digress). What she mentioned as a possible solution sounded wonderful:
A mushroom 1-8 APP at John Marshall, with 6-8 filling in from the area. One could imagine a Spectrum program in the building that could pull (not push!) kids from Eckstein. And she mentioned using Lincoln at the temporary building for the north APP kids for 1 year while getting Marshall up to code.
NOTE: this was not an official proposal by her, just something to discuss and consider, but it was a solution that seemed to be a palatable in her mind to the APP over-crowding problem at Lowell (and soon to be at HIMS as well).
Now, on the downside, she also brought up something that many of us feel would be the final stake in the heart of APP: more splits. As in further splitting the Lowell cohort into a central and north APP (as if ThM is south!), and she mentioned even splitting again for West Seattle.
Unfortunately, she's totally missing the boat on this one. The first split has been really, really hard on the families, staff, students. The program has changed a lot, and not for the better. Another split, especially in the near future would be devastating. The only reason this might not spectacularly fail is that Spectrum is systematically being eliminated from the district, and that's creating more demand for APP by kids that could be well-served in a regional Spectrum program.
This would essentially be the end of APP as it morphs into what Spectrum should be. I hope everyone understands the ramifications of another split and takes it very seriously. - 6/9/11, 8:21 PM
- cascade said...
A Different Name
Conjecture of one but yabetcha a north end APP split is going to be fastracked. I'd put big $$ on it. Next year will be close to untenable at Lowell. Neighborhood and medically fragile kids aren't going to move. That leaves APP.
It all goes back to closing TT Minor. And dismantling Spectrum. Put them together and boom, North End APP here we come. Broadview-Thompson anyone? Marshall?
-skeptical- - 6/9/11, 9:02 PM
- Lori said...
Actually, Charlie, I would not be okay with a site for North end elementary APP that did not have a play ground. Yes, the instruction is critical, but so is the rest of the school experience, including what the kids learn on the playground. These kids may be bright but they are also kids. They need to get outside and play and learn to socialize and all the other stuff that happens in every elementary school in this city. I for one would be furious if they dumped my kid into a building with no playground.
Now, looking at John Marshall on Google maps, I see that there are two tennis courts and a basketball court and a big parking lot surrounding/behind the school. Are those school property or do they belong to another adjacent structure? If they could be repurposed into playground, that's a whole 'nother story. - 6/9/11, 9:22 PM
- biliruben said...
It is 2 blocks from Greenlake's sports fields. Maybe some sort of sharing with Parks would work, at least for the older kids.
- GreyWatch said...
At a Hamilton parent PTA meeting a few months ago, Sherry Carr said the district was planning to open another north end middle school within the next 4 years. At that point all she could say was they were looking into options. It does seem to follow that you'd need more high school capacity as well, unless there is another option by then for QA and Magnolia families.
The bid for Lowell modifications is actually for $100,000, which includes the art room, and changes to rooms on the first floor as well - some to special ed space and a combining of two smaller rooms/offices into a class sized space.
-saw the plans - 6/9/11, 10:02 PM
I've heard that the remodels at Hale and Ingraham are NOT expansions. They will not increase capacity, just replace buildings in poor condition.
Have you heard otherwise?
I think that enrollment at both of these schools will increase soon after 2015, based upon what's happening at north end elementary schools (opening Jane Addams, Viewlands, most elementaries at or over capacity, etc...).
I actually wish they HAD factored an increase in capacity into the Hale and Ingraham remodels.
North End Mom - 6/9/11, 10:03 PM
- Charlie Mas said...
Looking at the expected elementary growth in the Washington Service Area, the District may have to do something more. I'm not sure what. I don't know how much available capacity there is at Thurgood Marshall, Leschi or Gatzert.
- Mercermom said...
How many kids at Lowell are in the "Walk Zone"? I.e., would eliminating the Walk Zone option for South End students have a significant impact on the overcrowding? SPS is already transporting kids from the Walk Zone area (and beyond, like Montlake) to TM, so there would be no additional transportation impact.
- wsnorth said...
Interesting and odd that Chief Sealth and Denny share an attendance area, yet one is projected to be way up and the other down.
- seattle citizen said...
John Marshall:
Yes, tennis courts and part of the parking lot north or south side)could be repurposed to make a small playground. Not a sports field, but a grassy area to run around. And park is a short walk away.
Building: Three stories, no elevator, so access issues. Cafeteria was long ago repurposed into auditorium (no cooking equipment, but these days, a moot point I suppose.) Could be used as cafeteria/auditorium with addition of food warmers, etc...
TWO small gyms. Daycare facility on site (unless it was torn out)
Condition: Some earthquake retrofitting over the years. Structure is sound, some external condition issues. One of two boilers not in good shape. Overall, probably a three out of five (if you like the old school buildings!) Capacity, they say, is right around 800, but some rooms have been repurposed and at a guess I'd say it would fit 650 or so comfortably.
Science lab was code a few years ago, but needs updating and is small. Library is beautiful but also a bit small.
A noisy building with freeway right there and older windows allowing noise in.
Marshall Alternative wanted to open a community school in the facility, and used an apparent APP interest in it to make wild claims about equity in a desperate attempt to save itself from closure, but those days are past and an APP K-8 makes good sense: Central north for access; clears out space in other buildings; a fine, usable building; and the idea of an APP K-8 is just good sense. - 6/10/11, 7:34 AM
- Melissa Westbrook said...
Hale was built for increased capacity (up about 300 seats). Ingraham's is just an addition (they, along with RBHS and Sealth never received a full renovation).
Mercermom, there are only a couple dozen kids in the Lowell APP walk zone. Moving them isn't enough to make a difference in the crowding at Lowell. Besides, Thurgood Marshall is full and cannot handle a major influx of APP kids unless the general education program there was kicked out, which doesn't seem like a good idea.
It's pretty clear the district is going to have to open as many schools at it can in the next 1-5 years, especially in the north. That is the only solution to this problem.
Of course, that is going to be embarrassing for a School Board that approved closing a bunch of schools just two years ago. But they are going to have to do it anyway. - 6/10/11, 8:18 AM
- kellie said...
wsnorth - those are projections through 2015 only. So it is a short term increase and a short term decrease. It is most likely that both will be an increase so they will be revised next year.
The same with the highschools in the north end. Those projections are only for the next three years when the normal completely full three middle schools roll up.
The more interesting High School projections would be six years out when the current middle schools cohorts are fully in the highschools. - 6/10/11, 8:19 AM
Charlie – I know you were being facetious but I completely disagree with your comment that APP families would be happy with a tent. I have 2 APP qualified kids who are very active and need a lot of room to run around at recess and burn off steam. I am getting pretty tired of just moving the APP kids from one school to another to either solve capacity problems or to try and improve a school's reputation and draw families there. There's a co-hort of APP middle school kids (the ones just about to graduate from 8th grade) that went to Washington for 6th grade, Lincoln for 7th, and Hamilton for 8th - because the APP program kept getting moved. I understand the need for Lincoln due to the Hamilton remodel - but still, it was 3 schools in 3 years. I would love to see a long term vision for APP that is based (or at least takes into consideration) the needs of the APP kids - rather than continually moving the program around to solve other problems. I would also like the District to factor in how the apparent dismantling of Spectrum is going to funnel more kids into APP (you'll have families like ours that chose to keep our APP qualified kids in an elementary school that was closer to home deciding to make the switch to APP because the neighborhood school can no longer meet the needs of our kids). Jane
- Fremont Mama said...
I would love a true north end APP. We went to the ice cream social last night and going from Fremont to Lowell during the evening commute was a NIGHTMARE! But, I agree with the others that a playground is essential. That was the highlight for my daughter last night....playing on Lowell's playground. We are currently at B.F. Day and they have several empyt classrooms - why not move elementary APP there?
- Charlie Mas said...
@Jon, The APP community and a number of other observers told the District that south-end APP students would quickly fill the Thurgood Marshall building to the point that there would not be room for local students. They were asked to make the general education program there an option program without an attendance area. In that case it would fill with APP siblings.
There were 579 elementary APP students this year. If half of them are at T. Marshall, that would be 290 kids. The building has a functional capacity of about 425. A K-5 general education program with just one class per grade would need about 130 seats. There is no room for a second class per grade.
I don't think the District can draw an attendance area that small. - 6/10/11, 4:57 PM
- Charlie Mas said...
Jane, APP at John Marshall would make use of the playfields in the park across the street. Kids would lose some time getting there and back, but it could be made to work.
And yes, of course the talk about school in tents was hyperbole. That said, as bad as you may think Lowell is now, it is WAY better than it used to be. During the last round of closures the District wanted to close it because it was uninhabitable. Kinda harsh thing to say when they are assigning your kid there. - 6/10/11, 5:06 PM
- wsnorth said...
Who can believe these "projections" any more. It looks like the 4 "north" West Seattle Elementary schools are oversubscribed by almost 4 full classes of K. This is after the district added portables for at least 4 full K classes (maybe 5, I've lost count). AND this is the "cluster" where they CLOSED 2 schools!
Capacity down 33%. Enrollment up 50% +++
Great projecting so far! - 6/10/11, 6:30 PM
- LG said...
Charlie, I'd rather make Rainier Beach a safe and effective HS than open another north end HS.
- Charlie Mas said...
LG, I, too, would like to see Rainier Beach become a safe and effective high school, but that wouldn't create the needed capacity in the north-end.


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December 20, 2010, 03:13:38 AM »
We've done this one two years in a row now..it's an Emeril Lagasse recipe and really easy.
Emeril's Bacon Braised Green Beans
1 tablespoon olive oil
6 slices bacon, diced
1 cup thinly sliced onion
2 tablespoons sliced garlic
2 pounds green beans, rinsed, ends trimmed
1 cup chicken stock or canned, low- sodium chicken broth or water
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Cooking Directions
Set a Dutch oven over medium heat, and add the olive oil. Once the oil is hot, add the bacon and cook, stirring occasionally, until it is well browned, about 5 minutes. Add the onion and garlic and cook, stirring occasionally, until the onion is translucent, 3 to 4 minutes. Add the green beans and toss to combine with the bacon and onion.
Increase the heat to medium-high and add the chicken stock. As soon as the stock begins to boil, place the lid on the pan and cook the beans for about 6 minutes. Remove the lid, season the beans with the salt and pepper, and toss well. Replace the lid and cook until the beans are tender, 1 or 2 minutes longer.
Remove from the heat and transfer the beans to a serving dish or small platter to serve.
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December 21, 2010, 12:03:38 AM »
Easy to make and a real crowd-pleaser. One of my favorite
recipes and real yummy.
1 can (16oz) refried beans
1 Tbsp. taco seasoning mix
1 cup BREAKSTONE'S Sour Cream
1 cup salsa
1 cup shredded lettuce
1 cup KRAFT Mexican Style Shredded Cheese
1/2 cup chopped green onions
2 Tbsp. sliced pitted ripe olives
MIX beans & taco seasoning mix.
Spread onto bottom of 9-inch pie plate.
LAYER remaining ingredients over bean mixture; cover. Refrigerate several hours or until well chilled.
SERVE with tortilla chips or assorted crackers.
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December 22, 2010, 09:27:34 PM »
Classic English Toad-in-the-Hole Recipe
Preparation time: 1 hour.
1 1/2 cup of plain flour
2 eggs
1 1/2 cup milk
1 tbsp olive oil
1 lb of good-quality sausage (pork, turkey)
salt and pepper
1 Pre-heat oven to 425 degrees F. Sift flour into a bowl with a pinch of salt and pepper. Make a well in the center of the flour. Whisk the eggs and the milk into the center of the well in the flour, gradually to smooth out lumps. Cover and let stand 30 minutes.
2 Brown the sausages in a little olive oil and cook through, about 10 minutes
3 Put sausages in a roasting pan, pour the batter over the sausages and place in oven. Cook for about 20 minutes or until the batter is risen and golden. Serve at once.
Serves 4-6
Bon Appétit!
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Marmalade Baked Ham Recipe
* 1 boneless fully cooked ham (3 to 4 pounds)
* 12 to 15 whole cloves
* 1 can (12 ounces) beer or Progresso ® Beef Broth
* 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
* 1/2 cup orange marmalade
* Place ham on a rack in a shallow roasting pan. Score the surface of the ham, making diamond shapes 1/2 in. deep; insert a clove in each diamond.
* Pour beer or broth over ham. Rub brown sugar over surface of ham. Cover and bake at 325° for 1-1/4 hours.
* Spread with marmalade. Bake, uncovered, for 15-25 minutes longer or until a meat thermometer reads 140°.
Yield: 12-14 servings.
We make this all the time and love it. We use the beer instead of the broth. I will post it later. But...we're trying a new recipe this Christmas, that's similar - will post it later.
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December 30, 2010, 05:06:18 AM »
We tried this ham recipe this past Christmas and loved it!
Orange Baked Ham
Ina Garten
* 1 (14 to 16-pound) fully cooked, spiral-cut smoked ham on the bone
* 6 garlic cloves
* 8 1/2 ounces orange marmalade
* 1/2 cup Dijon mustard
* 1 cup light brown sugar, packed
* 1 orange, zested
* 1/4 cup freshly squeezed orange juice
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Place the ham in a heavy roasting pan.
Mince the garlic in a food processor fitted with the steel blade. Add the marmalade, mustard, brown sugar, orange zest, and orange juice and process until smooth. Pour the glaze over the ham and bake for 1 hour, until the ham is fully heated and the glaze is well browned. Serve hot or at room temperature.
(I skipped the food processor step and just whisked it all together, using the minced garlic that comes in a jar- came out fine! Very easy.)
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January 23, 2011, 06:45:13 AM »
Another favorite from Ina Garten (Barefoot Contessa on the Food Network)
Lemon and Garlic Roasted Chicken
* 1 (5 to 6-pound) roasting chicken
* Kosher salt
* Freshly ground black pepper
* 1 large bunch fresh thyme
* 4 lemons
* 3 heads garlic, cut in 1/2 crosswise
* 2 tablespoons butter, melted
* 1/2 pound sliced bacon
* 1 cup white wine
* 1/2 cup chicken stock
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
Remove the chicken giblets. Rinse the chicken inside and out. Remove any excess fat and leftover pinfeathers and pat the outside dry. Place the chicken in a large roasting pan. Liberally salt and pepper the inside of the chicken. Stuff the cavity with the thyme, reserving enough thyme to garnish the chicken dish, 1 lemon, halved, and 2 halves of the garlic. Brush the outside of the chicken with the butter and sprinkle again with salt and pepper. Tie the legs together with kitchen string and tuck the wing tips under the body of the chicken. Cut 2 of the lemons in quarters and scatter the quarters and remaining garlic around the chicken. Lay the bacon slices over the chicken to cover.
Roast the chicken for 1 hour. Remove the bacon slices from the top of the chicken and set aside. Continue roasting the chicken for an additional 1/2 hour, or until the juices run clear when you cut between a leg and thigh. Remove to a platter and cover with aluminum foil while you prepare the gravy.
Remove all but 2 tablespoons of the fat from the bottom of the pan. Add the wine and chicken stock and bring it to a boil. Reduce the heat, and simmer for 5 minutes, or until reduced by half.
Slice the chicken on a platter. Garnish the chicken platter with the bacon slices, roasted garlic, reserved thyme and 1 lemon, sliced. Serve with the gravy.
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This is a Paula Deen recipe that I tried last night - we did not have sausage, so we left that out, and used frozen corn - the niblets. We used Old Bay for the crab boil seasoning. Use small red potatoes, or cut up larger ones.
Low Country Boil
* Crab boil, 2 teaspoons per quart of water
* 12 red new potatoes
* 6 (4-inch) smoked sausage link sausage
* 6 ears corn
* 3 pounds fresh shrimp, unpeeled
Fill a large pot with enough water to cover all of the ingredients. Add the crab boil and bring to a boil. Adjust the crab boil to suit your taste. When the water boils, add the potatoes and sausage. Cook on medium heat for 20 minutes. Add corn and cook for an additional 10 minutes. Add shrimp and cook for no more than 3 minutes. Drain and serve with warm bread.
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November 20, 2012, 11:48:06 AM »
Found this thread and wanted to bump it at this very appropriate time of the year. Happy Thanksgiving.
Dip that makes as much or as little as you want.
bag of Fritos, scoops
container of sour cream
jar of salsa
bag of shredded cheddar cheese
can of chicken, optional
green onion, optional
combine ingredients in microwavable bowl. When the color is peach you have the correct portion of each of the first three ingredients in your bowl.
Microwave until cheese melts and is hot.
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November 20, 2012, 12:04:36 PM »
Cheese Ball
pack of cream cheese, softened
can of Underwood chicken spread
combine mixing well
Option one form into a ball and refrigerate until firm, serve with chicken in a basket crackers
Option two microwave and serve soft
Good with either crackers or Fritos. What you use depends on if it is warm (soft) or cold (firm)
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Baked French Toast
In 13 x 9 baking pan tear up 1 loaf of bread
mix 3 1/2 cups milk, 7 eggs, 1/4 cup sugar, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, 2 teaspoons vanilla and 1/2 tsp salt...after mixing well pour over bread
Combine 1/2 stick butter and 1/2 cup brown sugar mixing until course, sprinkle over bread mixture
Cover with clear wrap, refrigerate overnight,
in the morning bake at 350 for 35 minutes or until done
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Is either of those scenarios the most likely one for that player? My guess is no, which is why I rank Puig and Kemp the way I do, but neither is the kind of predication I can make with 99 percent assurance. It's more like 60-40.
Which brings me to the broader question concerning Puig: Now what?
Let's say you have him. I'll get to if you don't in a minute, but for now, he's yours. You beat everyone else to him and have relished every moment since. The easy response would be to just plug him into your lineup and let him do his thing.
But would that be for the best?
Since your mad dash to the waiver wire, Puig's value has escalated. He's gotten off to an impossibly hot start, becoming just the second player since 1900 to hit four home runs in his first five games as a pro. But the numbers don't tell the whole story. The timing of his feats -- from the game-tying three-run homer June 4 to the grand slam that cushioned the Dodgers' one-run lead Thursday to the game-tying solo shot just one day later, not to mention all the game-changing, highlight-reel assists from right field -- has elevated him to almost mythical status.
In short, you aren't the only one relishing every moment. Everyone else sees what's going on with Puig and can't help but think, "Man, I wish ..."
Which is, of course, the perfect recipe for a sell-high candidate.
Now, here's where it get tricky: What if Puig really is this good -- or, perhaps more applicable, what if he's really this good this soon?
I wouldn't even entertain the possibility if not for Mike Trout last year. Before him, the assumption for any rookie who took the league by storm in his first few weeks on the job was that he'd inevitably meet with an adjustment period that would bring his numbers down to size. He may overcome it soon enough to finish the year among the best at his position, but he'd bring a certain level of frustration to those who owned him in Fantasy -- and without any real assurances.
Yes, before Trout, rookies who could not only help a Fantasy team, but carry it, came along once every generation, like Albert Pujols .
Player Name | % change | |
1. | Gerrit Cole , SP, Pirates | 46 |
2. | Kyle Blanks , OF, Padres | 31 |
3. | Tony Cingrani , SP, Reds | 30 |
4. | Anthony Rendon , 2B, Nationals | 27 |
5. | Carlos Quentin , OF, Padres | 26 |
6. | Adam Lind , 1B, Blue Jays | 22 |
7. | Bartolo Colon , SP, Athletics | 18 |
8. | Jose Iglesias , SS, Red Sox | 17 |
9. | Ryan Doumit , C, Twins | 16 |
10. | Jason Marquis , SP, Padres | 16 |
So maybe Trout just so happens to be this generation's Pujols -- i.e., a beautiful, freakish aberration. It stands to reason. But Puig is doing his best to suggest otherwise. Unlike Trout, who struggled to the tune of a .220 batting average in his first taste of the majors back in 2011, Puig has only thrived against major-league pitching so far, carrying his .517 batting average and 1.328 OPS from spring training into his first week as a pro. And unlike most rookies, he most likely already has some experience against upper-level competition from his playing days in Cuba.
Why couldn't he be that rare case of lightning striking twice, living up to all the Bo Jackson comparisons by delivering the kind of numbers that shake up the standings? It's a relative long shot, judging by all the rookies who've come before him, but for some Fantasy owners, that long shot is all they have.
At 4-6 or 3-7, they're close to dropping out of the playoff picture and on the verge of not even caring anymore. They don't need just another good player to get them back in the race. The need a miracle of Mike Trout proportions. And now, with Puig, they have hope.
Unless someone in their league is so enamored with Puig's potential that he's willing to give up a stud hitter like Edwin Encarnacion or Adrian Beltre or a true ace like Justin Verlander or (as one person on Twitter suggested might actually be a possibility) Adam Wainwright , they're not going to find that same hope on the trade market.
So while in a vacuum, trading Puig for someone more assured like Alex Rios , Ian Desmond or Billy Butler makes almost too much sense, in certain situations, it's the equivalent of looking a gift horse in the mouth.
The same would apply if you don't own Puig but have a chance to trade for him. I had such a chance with a similarly unproven Trout in the Podcast Listeners' League at this time last year when host/producer Adam Aizer, owner of the first-place team, marketed him for pitching.
Off to a miserable start at 3-7, I offered Matt Moore , who wasn't quite as established as he is now. In terms of risk-reward, he was something like this year's R.A. Dickey -- a pitcher whose big potential is shrouded in inconsistency. (It's not the cleanest comparison, but you get the idea.) Adam accepted.
I didn't know if Trout was the answer at the time, but I had a pretty a good idea Moore wasn't. I needed a miracle, so instead of clinging to my occasional ace just because he was one of the few commodities I had, I decided to put my faith in the 20-year-old wunderkind who, as little as he offered in the way of track record, at least came with the assurance that someday he's supposed to be good.
Sound familiar?
Of course, by then it was too late. In a league where only four teams advanced to the playoffs, I had dug myself into a deeper hole than even Trout could pull me out of. But at least I made a game out of it. With Trout, my team was immeasurably better.
And Adam? Well, he can't complain too much. He went on to win the league -- with some help from Moore, of course. That's not to say he wouldn't have won if he had held on to Trout, but because he accomplished his ultimate objective, I doubt he regrets the move.
Which says something about the way the other half should treat Puig.
Teams already in good shape shouldn't have to resort to miracles to claim the title. If you buy into the idea that Puig is more likely to emerge as an above-average-to-good mixed-league outfielder than a one-man wrecking crew as a rookie, then why take the chance of him being anything less? Instead, take this opportunity, while his value has peaked, to pawn him off to someone else in search of a miracle, getting back something far better than you could ever hope to find on waivers, like a Rios, Desmond or Butler.
What happens after then is inconsequential. If Puig continues to Hulk out on the rest of the league and the other guy ends up "winning" the deal, who cares? You probably locked up the title by making the trade, and keeping Puig wouldn't have accomplished more than that. It only would have exposed you to more risk.
It's sort of like a retirement plan. The closer you get to the goal, the less risk you want to take.
Puig is risk -- risk of regression, with risk of demotion attached to that regression. Because of that, he's more valuable to the teams with the least to lose and the most to gain.
What about those in between -- the owners of the 5-5 and 6-4 teams? Whether you're a seller or buyer of Puig ultimately comes down to the direction you think your team is headed, the alternatives you already have and, of course, what you'd be getting or giving in return. Risk or no risk, nobody's suggesting you dump Puig. Even the owner of an 8-2 team is looking to sell high on him, settling for nothing less than a player he can expect to start every week. Likewise, nobody's suggesting you offer up a Carlos Gonzalez or Prince Fielder for Puig, requiring him to meet the full extent of his potential just to recoup your losses.
Naturally, asking too little or giving too much for Puig isn't the answer, so if you're not comfortable with the direction your negotiations take, your best bet is to sit on him and wait.
Which brings us back to Kemp. He presents a high degree of risk himself, so I'm not sure I'd ever be comfortable acquiring him in a deal. I suppose I have more faith in him meeting his best-case scenario than Puig, but unless I was already running away with the league, I think I'd have more to lose than gain by pulling the trigger on this deal now.
Two weeks from now, we'll only have a better idea of Puig's true value, and two weeks from now, Kemp might still be hurt.
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Andy Kennedy 3 years, 11 months ago on Deb Babcock: Good for your garden and town
Deb Babcock: Good for your garden and town
Great article Deb, thanks for spreading the word on how valuable compost (and our industrial compost facility) is!! I shared it with our networks and posted it on the www.yvsc.org Zero Waste page. Happy Spring!
Andy Kennedy 4 years ago on ReTree Steamboat could receive $5,000 grant from Alpine Initiative contest
ReTree Steamboat could receive $5,000 grant from Alpine Initiative contest
For those who don't have Facebook, you can also vote here - and you can vote multiple times so please do!! http://blackdogdigi.com/apps/ai/grassroots_grants/
Andy Kennedy 4 years ago on Yampa Valley group calls for strategic plan to strengthen economy through sustainable energy practices
Yampa Valley group calls for strategic plan to strengthen economy through sustainable energy practices
For more on yesterday's presentations, see www.yvsc.org/nwcoenergy-followup for the powerpoints and www.youtube.com/yvsustainability for the videos.
Steamboat needs to get on the map... so far, we aren't. http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20130228/NEWS/130229839/1077&ParentProfile=1058
Andy Kennedy 4 years, 7 months ago on Antigrowth documentary to screen Tuesday in Steamboat
Antigrowth documentary to screen Tuesday in Steamboat
In conjunction with YVSC's Talking Green program's Annual Local Garden Potluck in conjunction with Transition Steamboat, the screening actually starts around 7pm, after dinner. Locals are invited to both events, bringing local food from gardens or suppliers to the potluck. Gardner is also showing a shortened version of the film. For more on this event, see www.yvsc.org/talkinggreen
Andy Kennedy 5 years, 3 months ago on What do you think should be the primary focus of Steamboat Ski and Resort Corp. during the next 10 years as part of the ski area master plan?
What do you think should be the primary focus of Steamboat Ski and Resort Corp. during the next 10 years as part of the ski area master plan?
I'm disappointed that I don't see "environmentalism" or "Green Travel promotion" on this poll!
Andy Kennedy 5 years, 7 months ago on Our View: Plastic bag fee won't work
Our View: Plastic bag fee won't work
It is surprising to me that the board has not done more research on this controversial topic before issuing what sounds like a blanket statement.
Over 30 countries have banned the plastic bag, including China, who makes them for us. As many or more countries and US cities, including Aspen, Basalt, Carbondale, and Telluride, have opted for a green fee for bags instead because it DOES encourage change faster than free bags do, to the tune of 95% reduction of plastic bag use in Ireland.
I am also curious as to how the Pilot proposes to raise funds for their expensive suggestion, a budget that YVR simply can not raise, likely $5-10,000 per year for these reusable bags. I think you are assuming quite a bit in saying that residents and visitors will return these bags, when most visitors will likely take them home as Steamboat souvenirs.
I urge those of you who care strongly either way about this topic to listen to the facts and education power point on 9/6 to City Council before you make a decision.
Andy Kennedy 5 years, 7 months ago on Should Steamboat Springs require retailers to charge their customers a fee to use disposable plastic grocery bags?
Should Steamboat Springs require retailers to charge their customers a fee to use disposable plastic grocery bags?
While paper isn't great bc it's expensive and made from trees, it not only biodegrades, it's compostable and reusable. Plastic is made from petroleum, therefore goes up in price when petroleum does, doesn't biodegrade, and is confusingly recyclable - it's only recyclable at the stores, not through Waste Management but winds up in WM bins bc of the recycle logo on it. Bottom line, we shouldn't be using EITHER. Charging or banning plastic doesn't mean people will use paper. It means they'll bring their own bags.
Currently Yampa Valley Recyles and the Zero Waste Initiative are creating a powerpoint on this with pictures of -yes- bags blowing around town and our river, facts on what other resort cities are doing and how easy it is to monitor and share the funding. Please attend on 9/6 if you support!
Steps to keep this from truly impacting the retailers and visitors: 1. You can always get plastic bags from the outside recycling bin at City Market and Safeway if you forget them. 2. We can use this as a way for funding for Yampa valley Recycles and the Zero Waste Initiative. 3. Get green companies to sponsor bags for prop mgnt companies (PMCs) as additional advertising and show of support. 4. Encourage PMCs to spread the word in email to bring own bags if they need more than the one pmcs will provide. 5. PMCs can tack the 50c onto each room bill to help pay for bag when sponsors dwindle. 6. If visitors get a bag, what a nice steamboat takeaway to bring to their town and carry on this effort. 7. Make this optional for smaller retailers and help train their staff to simply ask. 8. A portion of the 20c can go back to retailer to pay for the tracking and payout on this. 9. This will continue to market Steamboat as a Green Town that the growing waves of Green Travelers will applaud. It's not all about appeasing the Triple Crown Gang, many of which are also Green Travelers. 10. Many other resort towns are doing this, and many more ideas can be borrowed from them.
Andy Kennedy, Zero Waste Initiative Thanks TV18 - http://www.steamboattoday.com/videos/...
Andy Kennedy 6 years, 10 months ago on Fall paving likely in downtown Steamboat
Fall paving likely in downtown Steamboat
The construction is unavoidable at this point, and instead of complaining we should all go downtown and shop to support those businesses.
But in the meantime I support a workshop on traffic control for our officers, they obviously don't know what "keep the flow moving" really means. One car at a time is not "flow."
I also am concerned to hear that the asphalt they're ripping up is going into a landfill near our river instead of being picked up for free and recycled by Connell construction, which I know from an employee that they offered to do.
I would love to see all these concerned citizens collaborating on how to fix the problems in this horrendous nuisance that we actually can help solve.
Andy Kennedy 7 years, 2 months ago on Couple works to open town to those with disabilities
Couple works to open town to those with disabilities
In-kind donations and volunteers are still being accepted for our 2010 Ski Camp! Contact Access Anything through firstname.lastname@example.com Thanks Joel for such a wonderful article!
Andy Kennedy 7 years, 10 months ago on Corna death under investigation
Corna death under investigation
oh Chris, you were taken from us way too soon. you leave a huge hole in Steamboat's heart that we'll never be able to fill. this is such a sour tragedy, and our deep loss is heaven's great gain. we can only ask, why?
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But for the unassuming 18 year old, readjusting is no problem. In fact, it's actually been one of his strengths.
Spending the last three seasons with the Edmonton Oil Kings of the Western Hockey League, he's almost had to. The franchise has missed the playoffs twice since Pysyk signed on, including more recently when the Oil Kings had the second-worst finish in the in the 2009-10 campaign.
It's forced him to step up, block out the adversity and ultimately rise above it – which he has. Prior to being drafted 23rd overall by the Sabres in 2010, Pysyk was being praised for his performance on an otherwise lackluster team. He accumulated more than 20 minutes of ice time each night and provided the leadership, scoring 24 points in 48 games before being sidelined with a broken foot.
But the injury hasn't seemed to bother him either. Taking things in stride is steadily reflected in his demeanor, even as he fields questions from the media.
When asked if his life had changed since being a first-round draft pick in the NHL, Pysyk simply shrugged and said, no. And when discussing the honor of having his own bobble head night at a minor league Edmonton Capitals game, his response was a smile and admission that 'it was pretty cool.'
He's taking the same modest approach this week, as rookie camp winds down and the veterans report to HSBC Arena for training camp.
He's ready to go out, play his game and continue to adapt to whatever comes his way.
Pysyk is hoping that will include a second trip to HSBC Arena in the coming months. It's not so much that he's not anticipating making Sabres right off the bat, but he could play for Team Canada in the 2011 World Junior Championships this winter, hosted by the city of Buffalo, after taking part in the team's selection camp in August.
"That would be incredible playing in [the building] of what will hopefully be my team someday," Pysyk said.
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Reforming the IMF
© Peterson Institute for International Economics
It is widely recognized that many of the small economies of the world do not possess the resources to expand demand in order to limit their contraction of output in the face of the adverse gales now blowing. Over sixty years ago the world created an institution (the IMF) intended inter alia to help them act against cyclical downturns. Today most countries do not wish to use it except as a last resort, and so it sits hardly utilized in the face of what some people regard as the most severe shock the world has faced since the outbreak of the First World War.
This is unacceptable. It could be changed by adopting two types of measures.
The first has already been talked about ad nauseam, and a few months ago all seemed to be lost for the indefinite future on that score. But today there is at least some hope that the Obama administration will not regard itself as locked in to the surrender negotiated by its predecessor, and that a real reform of IMF governance will take place. For unless the countries that need to draw from the IMF come to regard it as their institution (which it is not and will not be under the terms negotiated by the Bush administration), they are unlikely to "go to the IMF."
My colleague Edwin M. Truman has neatly summarized the first of the changes as involving chairs and shares. "Chairs" refer to seats on the Executive Board, and "shares" to the percentage of total quotas that determines voting power in the Fund. At present both reflect the world of the 1940s, being dominated numerically by the Europeans, although only one country-the United States, obviously-has veto power. A real reform would give the European Union a single Director, with the same voting power as the United States, neither of whom would be able to veto changes. This would permit a major increase in both chairs and shares for the Asian countries, which are almost all egregiously underrepresented in view of the rapid growth of the region over the past half century. And it would still leave enough slack in the system to allow a reduction in the size of the Executive Board, the already-agreed increase in the size of basic votes (which benefits the small countries), and quota increases elsewhere in the exceptional cases that merit them by virtue of their past economic growth.
Changes in IMF governance need to go beyond the question of chairs and shares, key as this is. They also need to involve adoption of a formal mechanism for appointing the Managing Director when the position becomes vacant, with the mechanism aiming to appoint the best person in the world for the job rather than giving it to the person nominated by the Western European country that regards it as its turn to have the job. And there was great merit in many of the suggestions for reforming IMF governance-like replacing the International Monetary and Finance Committee by a council, and directing its Executive Board to focus on strategic rather than tactical issues-advanced last year by the Fund's Independent Evaluation Office.
The second type of measure is intended to increase the likely level of lending by the Fund during the crisis. This also involves two types of changes: changing the principles that prompt Fund lending, and increasing the sums available to be lent. Likewise proposals for reforming the principles underlying Fund lending tend to come in two forms. In my view the well-conceived ones are directed at discriminating between countries that wish to borrow as a defensive mechanism because of events elsewhere, and those that are obliged to go to the Fund because of their own policy inadequacies. There should be, but is not, ample scope for countries to borrow of their own volition when their shortage of foreign exchange happens through no fault of their own. There are also proposals for easing conditionality faced by countries that have to go to the Fund because of their own inadequate policies. I am much less sympathetic to making big changes here. When I ran a conference on IMF lending (way back in 1982), one of the participants summed up our findings as saying that we would all design programs much like the IMF did for any country bar our own. I fear he got it right: Self-induced borrowing from the Fund should be painful, for there is a problem that has to be fixed.
Reform should therefore concentrate on enabling countries that have to go to the Fund through no fault of their own to borrow large sums without all the complications and degradations of conditionality. The Fund has already created a short-term liquidity facility to provide quick-disbursing finance to countries with "strong policies" suffering a liquidity shortage because of contagion in the financial markets. This is useful, but it can at best help a limited number of countries.
Two other proposals might be more helpful in this context. One is to resume SDR allocations, on a far more massive scale that in the past. I am in favor of this, but frankly I am skeptical that much will happen. This is partly because SDRs accrue to the deserving and the undeserving alike: to countries that are short of liquidity and to those that are not, and to those that are short because of their own misguided policies as well as those that have been hard hit by international developments beyond their control. It is also in part because some creditor countries have never been enthusiastic about the SDR.
Hence I attach more importance to the second reform, which recently has been pushed by one of my colleagues, Morris Goldstein. 1 This would consist of reviving the Conditional Financing Facility (CFF) that the Fund ran successfully before it was butchered as part of the drive to tighten up Fund lending in 1988. The CFF provided funds practically automatically to countries suffering an export shortfall as compared with a five-year moving average centered on the year in question (with future export levels estimated by the IMF staff). The reasoning was precisely that such an export shortfall would not be the result of country policies but of international developments, and therefore it would be inappropriate to require changed policies in the recipient country. A revived CFF would supply finance to many countries-the demands for its services right now would be considerable-but it contains safeguards against giving easy finance to the undeserving. It deserves to be restored immediately.
Accepting this change would add urgency to what is already an important issue, namely increasing the funds at the IMF's disposal. One can think of a number of expedients, like borrowing from governments under the General Arrangements to Borrow or the New Arrangements to Borrow, or borrowing from the markets, but in my view it would be preferable to go back to first principles and have a big quota increase. The Fund's size has not kept up over the years with the nominal growth of the world economy. We are not likely to return to the levels of the 1940s, but it is hardly surprising that the Fund loses influence while it continually shrinks relative to all comparators.
1. See Morris Goldstein, "Dig into the IMF's Tool Box to Tackle the Crisis."


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