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Basketball: Douglas boys, girls beat Galena
January 26, 2013
The Douglas boys basketball team took full control of the Sierra League title race Friday night, avenging their lone league loss this season with a 70-62 victory over Galena.
Douglas extended its win streak to nine games while improving its season record to 15-6 overall and 11-1 in Northern Division I play.
Galena dropped to 8-3 in league play, having fallen at Spanish Springs earlier this week and at Hug earlier this season. With four league games remaining, Douglas needs two wins or a win and a Galena loss to clinch the Sierra League title for the second year in a row.
"It seems like the guys are coming together and working together," Douglas coach Corey Thacker said. "We still have a lot of room to grow, and we need to keep at it to get there. The important thing is getting a little bit better every day, every game."
Douglas jumped out to an 11-2 lead over the first five minutes of the game with the help of three baskets from 6-10 junior center James Herrick and a big 3-pointer from senior Hunter Myers.
Myers led the Tigers in scoring on the night, pouring in 22 points, including four 3-pointers. Herrick came up big on the scoreboard for the second time in a week, putting up a season-high 18 points. Both players finished in double figures in rebounds.
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"James had a big night scoring and that helped open things up," Thacker said. "He's continued to improve all season. He worked very hard in the offseason and he's still working hard to refine his game. He came up big tonight, and really these last couple of games."
Following the 11-2 run, Galena strung together a pair of consecutive baskets, but Herrick put a halt to that with another lay-up. Jaden Mustacchio capped Douglas' scoring in the quarter with a runner inside the paint to put the Tigers up 17-6.
"The defense played a big part for us tonight, especially in that first quarter," Thacker said. "They were getting the stops, making Galena take quick shots and we were getting the rebounds. There weren't many second chances for Galena.
"The kids stuck to the game plan and that made a big difference."
With Douglas leading 20-9 early in the second quarter, thanks to a Myers 3-pointer, Galena slowly began to work its way back into the game.
The Grizzlies put together a mini 5-2 run and then Galena standout Caleb Wood let loose, scoring his team's next 10 points. His efforts were part of a larger 15-7 run for the Grizzlies that cut the deficit to 27-24 with 3:38 remaining in the first half.
Wood finished the game leading all scorers with 23 points.
Another Mustacchio basket, followed by a personal 5-0 run from Myers, set the Tigers back out at 34-25.
The teams traded baskets over the final 1:14 before settling at a 38-31 Douglas lead heading into halftime.
After allowing a quick basket to start the third, Douglas clamped down and held Galena without a field goal over the next seven minutes – running up a 13-2 run in the interim.
Wood again closed the gap back down with a pair of 3-pointers in the final minute of the third. Douglas entered the final period leading 53-31.
Herrick opened the fourth up with what proved to be his, and the Tigers' final field goal of the night, at the 7:49 mark. The shot put Douglas up 55-41.
From there Galena began to try to get stops through fouling, but Douglas was able to hit 15 of 22 free throws over of the final seven minutes to clinch the victory.
Galena hit three 3-pointers down the stretch to help cut the score back to its final eight-point gap.
Douglas got eight points from Austin Evans, seven from Pat Johnson, five from Joe Syammach and four each from Michael Nolting and Mustacchio.
The Tigers next host McQueen at 7 p.m. Tuesday night.
Douglas bounced back from a loss earlier in the week to clobber the Galena Grizzlies 53-24 in Minden Friday night.
The Lady Tigers clinched a playoff spot with the win and bumped their season record to 11-13 overall and 6-6 in Northern Division I play.
Douglas jumped out to a 7-0 lead in the game and never looked back, extending it to 18-6 by the end of the first quarter.
An 8-0 run through the middle of the quarter pushed Douglas to a 16-point lead at 26-10, but Galena closed the gap back down to 11 with a 6-0 run over the final two minutes of the first half.
The Grizzlies would get no closer, though, as Douglas opened the third quarter on a 12-0 run. The Tigers allowed just eight points in the second half while running away with the win.
Freshman McKenna Kynett led the Tigers with 14 points and sophomore Corryne Millett had 13.
Diana Regalado scored nine points, Desiree Cage scored six, Madison Ryan had four, Kassidy Freitas had three and Kelly Sonnemann capped the scoring with two.


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I would just like to say that main street looks great with the new street lights...however, I was very dissapointed to see that the city tree went up
at the courthouse this year.. Since I have moved to the Vandalia area in 1989 I enjoyed looking at the tree at the top of the street... But this year it would have been exceptionally beautiful with the new street lights...I hope that next year that is where the tree will be.
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Norris can't complete first inning in return to Bay Area
Right-hander allows six runs in shortest career outing; Pena homers
OAKLAND -- Bud Norris did his job as one of the Astros' team leaders while standing in front of his locker following the team's latest loss.
Norris looked everybody in the eye, refused to make excuses and took responsibility.
There's nothing fun about getting knocked out of the game early, though the past three games have shown one silver lining for the Astros pitching staff: the bullpen.
Norris gave up six runs and recorded only two outs for the shortest outing of his career, and the Astros dropped the series finale, 7-5, on Wednesday to the Oakland Athletics.
"I don't know what to say. I felt good, but they were finding holes," Norris said. "I was trying to battle through it and keep making pitches. Unfortunately, it wasn't my day. They swung the bats and found some holes. I just have to keep making pitches."
Astros relievers Xavier Cedeno, Wesley Wright, Hector Ambriz and Jose Veras combined to allow one run on six hits in 7 1/3 innings, helping keep the game within reach.
Their relief efforts came on the heels of lengthy efforts from Paul Clemens and Dallas Keuchel the previous two games.
The Astros bullpen combined for a 2.61 ERA in the three-game series against Oakland, allowing six runs in 20 2/3 innings.
"The bullpen did a great job," Houston manager Bo Porter said. "They kept it where it was and allowed the offense to do what they did. They kept chipping away. I think that let's everybody know we're not far off."
As a result, the Astros were able to make things interesting, scoring three times in the seventh inning, including Carlos Pena's solo home run (his second of the year), and another run in the ninth on Rick Ankiel's pinch-hit homer.
"When I see him drive the ball the other way, that's the first sign he's seeing the ball," Porter said of Pena. "He's getting locked in."
Jose Altuve had three hits and drove in a run, and Chris Carter and Marwin Gonzalez also drove in runs for the Astros, who lost their fifth straight after a 3-1 start to the nine-game road trip.
"I don't discount anything about a particular team, they pushed us to brink," A's manager Bob Melvin said. "A big league team's a big league team, and a win's a win. The way the schedule is right now, we've played them six times. That doesn't mean anything to me other than getting six good games under our belt."
Altuve finished the road trip with a .385 average. Pena is 10-for-29 (.345) with two homers, four doubles, six RBIs, and six walks over his last eight games.
Houston starters combined for a 25.31 ERA (15 runs in 5 1/3 innings) in the series with the A's. If it were different starters, Porter might be concerned.
"We have a resilient group and we will continue to battle to the end. I'm proud of the guys after the early deficit to get back in it," Porter said. "[Norris] just didn't have it. Like Erik [Bedard] the other day, you're just going to have those days. If he could get through the first, he can get settled down."
Norris, who gave up five hits and walked three, isn't about to give in either.
"I know my role on this team and I know I have to pitch deep into games," he said. "I did not want to come out. This team knows I will give it everything I have every time out. But i understood the bigger picture. You live and learn and make adjustments."
Rick Eymer is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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CarGo has surgery, might not be ready by spring
DENVER -- Rockies outfielder Carlos Gonzalez had the middle third of the left patella tendon repaired and a bursa sac removed in a surgery on Monday. Head athletic trainer Keith Dugger cautioned that it won't be known for months if Gonzalez will be healthy enough to begin Spring Training on time.
"The fatty pad [bursa sac] was beat up and torn up," Dugger said. "they cleaned that out. The middle third of the patella tendon was where the actually diseased tissue was. They cut that out and sewed it back together."
Doctors knew from MRI readings that the tendon was damaged, but understood that the full extent of damage could not be assessed until the surgical procedure, performed by Dr. Thomas Hackett in Vail, Colo.
Dugger said Gonzalez was placed in a straight-leg knee immobilizer and will be on crutches at least three weeks.
Gonzalez tweeted: En Vail saliendo a Denver. Todo salió perfecto, gracias a Dios y a mi Chinita... Ahora unos meses de terapia. --CarGo"
En Vail saliendo a Denver. Todo salió perfecto, gracias a Dios y a mi Chinita... Ahora unos meses de terapia pic.twitter.com/2WhSUlEo1v
- Car Go (@CarGoMedia5) August 19, 2014
Translated, in part, he said: "Thank God and my sweetheart that everything went perfect. Now four months of physical therapy, but it will all be worth it."
But when he'll be full-speed is uncertain.
"We really won't know how he is going to be until that 4 1/2- to 5-month mark," Dugger said. "He might be a little delayed for Spring Training, but our goal is to get him there and get him ready.
"Nothing is a cure-all. The closest thing to a cure-all is the rehab."
Rockies teammate Michael Cuddyer had a similar surgery after the 2010 season, when he hit a career-low 14 home runs. Cuddyer returned in 2011 to hit 20 homers and drive in 70 runs, and the Rockies signed him after that season.
Gonzalez, who underwent surgery in June to remove a benign tumor from his left index finger, played in just 70 games and batted a career-low .238 with 11 home runs and 38 RBIs.
Thomas Harding is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @harding_at_mlb. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Even more than a year later, the piercing shriek from her toddler coupled with the crash of shattering glass still haunts Amanda McComb.
The Escondido mother made coffee every day. Always left the hot pot on its cradle in the kitchen. But on that day, Dec. 9, 2011, her toddler son reached up and grabbed it.
The boy, just 18 months old, drenched himself with hot coffee. His skin quickly began to peel.
Xavier Flores is 2 years old now. He not only still carries scars on his chest from the scalding, but also on his right thigh, where doctors took healthy skin to graft over burnt skin. The boy is still receiving treatments at UCSD Burn Center in San Diego, which handles all serious burns in the county.
In the last year, the Burn Center treated 500 people under 21 years old for scalding.
Scalds account for more than half of all burn injures sustained by children under 10 years old at the center. And two-thirds of the kids admitted as inpatients at the center suffered a scalding, officials said.
Last month a mother accidentally scalded her infant daughter while trying to bathe the baby in their Fallbrook mobile home. The child was flown to UCSD Burn Center.
Pull-down scalds like Xavier's — where a child reaches up, grabs a container of hot liquid — are the most common sorts of scalds, said Dr. Jeanne Lee, a surgeon at the center.
Children have a way of reaching a cup of hot coffee, even when it's pushed back on the counter.
"Kids are very resourceful," Lee said Friday. "They are able to reach and grab for whatever they want."
According to the Burn Institute in San Diego, liquid at 155 degrees can cause a third-degree burn within one second. Most burns happen in the home, most often in the bathroom or, as in Xavier's case, the kitchen.
When McComb, 28, heard Xavier screech, she flew into the kitchen, scooped him up and handed him to his father, Ismael Flores, in a panic.
Flores remembers the baby's skin peeling off into his hands. Xavier's screams were "the worst thing a parent can hear," the father said.
McComb said the event repeats over and over in her head. The ordeal compels her to be overly cautious, even slipping hot food in the freezer before serving it to her children, Xavier and older brother Adam Laffoon, 8.
Even Adam said he watches out for his little brother, moving hot items out of his reach.
McComb and Flores praised the care their son received and the help they got as well from both the Burn Center and Burn Institute — the latter of which was able to provide the carless couple with a car, as well as gasoline cards so they could get to the hospital, McComb said.
The Burn Institute offers tips to prevent scalding, among them the suggestion that people cook on the back burners and turn the pot handles to the back of the stove. Also, set hot water heaters in the home to no more than 120 degrees.
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Monday, September 25, 2017
Mouth Diseases
Recurring lump on tongue
I have alump that seems to come up on my tonngue at night when sleeping and then disappears as day goes on. It`s towards the front of my tongue, on top, at left hand side. In terms of colouring it`s bluish, almost looks like a swollen blood vessel. It`s been going on for about 9 months now appearing and disappearing but now becoming more frequent and during the night. I don`t drink or smoke. Any idea of causes or what I should do?
What you describe sounds very much like a swollen blood vessel and, in particular, a swollen or dilated vein (or venule). The proper term for this is varix (some people know the term "varicose vein," which is often found on the lower leg). A varix is not uncommon around the mouth, especially under the tongue (like yours) or on the lips or cheeks.
When you sleep, more blood goes to your head and the vein may become a bit more prominent with fluid that can leak out into the surrounding tissues. As you awaken and become upright in the morning, the blood and fluid drain away more efficiently and the swelling becomes less noticeable.
You likely do not need any treatment, but have your dentist take a look the next time you are in for a check-up or regular visit to confirm my working diagnosis.
John R Kalmar, DMD, PhD
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The Ohio State University


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Topic: Update on Roberts treatments.
We just finished six cycles of systemic chemotherapy with gemzar and oxcilaplatin and are having the cat scan Nov. 30. I know it sounds crazy but Robert must be feeling better because he spent the last few weekends dancing the night away with me. I can only hope that his tumor has responded . Send us your prayers and as always I thank you for the support.


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Necrotic Skin Lesions: Spider Bite—or Something Else?
Necrotic Skin Lesions: Spider Bite—or Something Else?
Patients often attribute the otherwise unexplained development of a dermonecrotic lesion to a spider bite. This self-diagnosis is rarely corroborated by evidence, however. The spider is seldom seen by the patient, let alone recovered for identification, and the bite is often not felt.
Although spider bites can produce dermonecrotic wounds, the differential diagnosis of such lesions is extensive. Most of the conditions in the differential are far more common than spider bites. Thus, we suggest that you approach the complaint of a "spider bite" with a skeptical eye.
Here we describe the clinical features of spider bites and summarize the treatment options. We also examine the reasons why the diagnosis of "spider bite" remains a popular explanation for any unexplained dermonecrotic lesion, and we review the conditions in the differential diagnosis of such lesions.
Spiders have complex and specialized feeding strategies; they often use webs to capture and eat insects and other small arthropods. Unlike insects that feed on human blood or serum, spiders have no reason to bite humans. Thus, a spider bite must be considered an anomaly that probably resulted from human actions which induced the arthropod to bite in self-defense.
In most cases, the medical consequences of a spider bite are minor. Typically, the bite causes limited local tissue inflammation similar to the bites and stings of other small arthropods, and patients respond well to over-the-counter analgesics and antihistamines, if any treatment is needed. Systemic effects, if they occur, are typically mild.
The bites of only a few spider species produce medically significant effects in humans. In the United States, the brown recluse (Figure 1) and the black widow (Figure 2) are the 2 best-known species that can cause serious illness.
Brown recluse spider. The brown recluse spider (Loxosceles reclusa) is endemic in the south central states, from Texas to the Carolinas, and as far north as Iowa and Illinois (Figure 3).1 Other Loxosceles species in the Southwest cause fewer reported bites, and their envenomations are typically less severe.
The brown recluse spider is tan to brown and has a darker mark on the dorsal cephalothorax that resembles a violin; hence, its other common names, violin spider and fiddleback. As its name implies, the brown recluse spider dwells in low-traffic areas, such as attics, basements, and woodpiles. In states where the spider is endemic, hundreds or even thousands of brown recluse spiders may be found in a single home, yet no one in the household has been bitten.2
Clinical features. Patients who have been bitten by a brown recluse spider may report a pinprick sensation, although the bite may be painless. Bites most commonly occur when a person disturbs a spider after he or she puts on clothes that were left on the floor or rolls over in bed onto the arthropod. Brown recluse spiders are nonaggressive toward humans; however, when they feel threatened, they may bite in self-defense.
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Tiny Utopoias: Model Railroad Towns
Published March/April 1997
Tiny Utopias Broadway Set Designer Clarke Dunham Creates Model Railroad Towns You'd Want To Live In
by Phil Scott
Although its name comes straight out of George Bailey's nightmare from It's a Wonderful Life, Pottersville has no neon-coated fast-food franchises lining its streets, nor any prefabricated metal buildings, nor anything with a strip mall's ambiance. Nestled in New York's Adirondack Mountains, Pottersville looks like a small town out of America's past: perhaps Tom Sawyer's Hannibal, or the utopian Willoughby of "The Twilight Zone," but most like a rustic miniature village that you would find only in the center of a model railroad's oval track. In fact, in its own quiet way, this town has become a mecca for people who love and collect such scale models.
Here in Pottersville is a craftsman who creates detailed, elaborate Lilliputian worlds for those classic trains. These worlds--layouts, as they're called in the business--are such elaborate works of art that they nearly steal the thunder from the trains themselves. Indeed, the big wheels in the business world--and the biggest wheels in the $708 million-a-year model railroading world--travel to this bucolic town to seek an audience with their creator. Here they confess to him their vision, for they know only he can make it into the most perfect reality. The man's name is Clarke Dunham, and in the past decade he has risen from a mere railroading buff to become the most sought-after designer in the genre. "Most modelers try to downplay the layout," says Andy Sperandeo, editor in chief of the 216,000-circulation Model Railroader magazine. "But with Clarke's ability to handle backdrops and make something out of it, I can understand why he does what he does."
What Dunham does is create works of art in an unusual medium. Comparing Dunham Studios' layouts with any other designer's is like comparing a statue by Michelangelo to a lump of clay fired by a high school art student.
Clarke Dunham and his wife, Barbara, live here on a quiet road--quiet when logging trucks aren't rolling down the mountain loaded with pine and poplar--in what was once a vacation lodge, hewn more than a century ago from such lumber that grows there. In the back sits a huge barn of the type that Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland might proclaim in unison, "Hey kids, we've got a barn and all this talent--let's put on a show!" In a sense, that's just what the Dunhams have done. After a fashion. Accidentally. And circuitously.
They met at that prime Rooney-Garland age. She was 15 and he was 17; they married two years later, in 1955. But let's go back a little further. Clarke's mother was a painter, his father an honest-to-goodness philosopher whose book Man Against Myth reached the New York Times best-seller list and whose influence left Clarke with a wry philosophic bent. The Dunhams traveled in a circle of literati whose spokes originated with the Algonquin Round Table. "I grew up playing 'Twenty Questions' with Dorothy Parker," he says, speaking in his usual calm, measured sentences.
And what was that like?
"Tiring," he says with a chuckle.
The McCarthy era destroyed that circle, and Dunham blames the Red paranoia for starting a long, slow decline in American theater that weighs heavily on him still. For it was not his ambition to build train layouts. His true calling, his first profession, was Broadway set design. After he and Barbara graduated from Philadelphia's Tyler School of Fine Arts, Clarke began commuting from Philadelphia for the bright lights of New York and The Great White Way. They worked together at the start, then she switched to a career in woodcuts, sculpture and children while Clarke continued working as a scenic artist. As the years passed his curriculum vitae racked up a few score impressive entries: He designed scenery and lighting for dozens of operas and worked on more than 50 Broadway productions, including such hits as The Iceman Cometh and Bubbling Brown Sugar. In television he worked as a scenic artist for such diverse NBC productions as the soap opera "Another World" and "Saturday Night Live," plus a number of commercials. He's even designed for theme parks, world's fairs and industrial shows. In the three decades of his career, Dunham has designed all or part of more than 300 productions.
But his first love remained Broadway. He began a collaboration with Harold Prince that continues to this day. In 1984 he received a Tony Award nomination for his work on the play The End of the World; in 1985 he received a second nomination for the musical Grind. Business couldn't be better, nor could his reputation. It was so good that, following his second Tony nomination, representatives of Citicorp approached him to bid on a massive model train layout to be displayed during the 1987 holiday season in the atrium of the 59-story Citicorp Center in midtown Manhattan.
Unbeknownst to Citicorp, Dunham brought on board more than just the sensibilities of a respected Broadway artist: he had also been a model train aficionado since age 14. But even the most innocuous-looking layout can be a devilishly complex maze of wires, lights and electronics; in all those years, he admits, he'd never built a railroad that actually ran. That was about to change.
"They already had all levels of specifications developed," Dunham recalls. "The specs conspired to render the job impossible to accomplish, so since the theater is about doing impossible things," he went to work. "I decided the specifications had been developed by someone with an orderly mind," he says with some bemusement. "I went to the building and measured the doors, and concluded that I could build larger than what the specifications called for. Everybody else came in with small designs; I came in with a three-story station house."
And that's not all: His plan called for multiple layers of tracks and trestles criss-crossing a bouldered, tree-lined waterfall at seven levels, in addition to a hillside farm, a mid-Hudson Valley town and the Hudson River town of Weehawken, New Jersey, straight out of the 1940s. Naturally, all railroads would lead through a smokestacked landscape of outlying factories into New York City at its Art-Deco best, the lights from the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and a few dozen others reflecting purple and pink off the nighttime clouds in the background.
Dunham's design won the competition hands-down. But it was early October before he could finish the design. And since presumably Citicorp wanted its trains to move, he now hired all the specialists who could make it so. "Suffice it to say, between November 4th and the 29th, when we delivered it, we did the entire thing," Clarke says. "We were 70 people going very fast." Amazingly enough, the whole layout worked just fine from the start; or, as Clarke says, "The thing has always run well and had absolutely no reason to."
The 450-square-foot "Citibank Station" wasn't just a masterpiece of modeling, but also a masterwork of miniaturized wiring, lighting and electronics. Overnight, Clarke had another smash hit to add to his résumé.
"[Citicorp's advertising] agency people would come up to me and say, 'It's the biggest in the world, right?' and I'd say 'No, there are any number of farmers who have built big tables out of many sheets of plywood and charged admission.' But you don't make it on size; you make it on quality." A little detail helps, too. The Citibank Station contains 7,000 trees, 200 buildings, 1,000 people, 200 autos, 12,000 feet of wire and 1,000 feet of track, with 24 trains running on 18 different tracks of three different sizes, or gauges. "People think it's so big because of its use of perspective--I used the depth of the corners to lead the viewer's eye places, for instance--but the largest depth is just 10 feet," he says, then adds modestly, "Quite possibly it's the most complex train layout, since we literally have them running on top of one another."
Citicorp had hoped to draw 30,000 people that holiday season; more than 141,000 came through the atrium doors. The next year the new and improved station drew 200,000 visitors, and the year after that, 240,000 saw the display. But just when the nation needed it the most, during the 1990-'91 recession, Citicorp put the show on indefinite hiatus, a victim of cost-cutting. "We got calls for three years asking what happened to the train," says Barbara Dunham.
Of course, Broadway was hit hard by the recession as well. It's a generally recognized fact that praise has no known nutritional value, though it's less widely understood that Tony nominations can't be used as legal tender (in most states). "Since I can't call Hal [Prince] and say, 'Gee, I want a Broadway show this week,' we were left with the necessity of making a living," Clarke Dunham says. "We decided we would capitalize on a story in Model Railroader, and placed ads looking for other corporate clients" thinking only corporate pockets could handle paying upwards of a quarter-million dollars for a train layout. It turned out, however, that other groups were interested as well. First in line was the P.T. Barnum Museum, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, which was compiling an exhibit of--what else?--model trains. When the curator commissioned a layout from the Dunhams, they became formal museum clients. With a little prodding Clarke can tick off a list of other such clients: The Valley Junction Train Museum in Des Moines, Iowa; The Western Heritage Museum, Omaha, Nebraska; New York City's World Trade Center; and a huge exhibit at America's Railroads on Parade in Williamsburg, Virginia.
The corporations called, but to Dunham's surprise, his studio also began getting calls from individuals who wanted their own layouts--some of which are nearly as large as the commercial jobs. He takes pains to protect the privacy of his clients, though there are a few tantalizing hints. There was the godfather of a national pizza chain, for instance, who commissioned a western railroad. Its craggy, sparsely vegetated mountainsides recall the 1930s paintings of Thomas Hart Benton and the classic westerns of filmmaker John Ford.
With theater only now reviving from the recession-induced dry spell, the train layout business "has been a boon to us," Clarke says. During busy times, many of the artists live at the Duhham lodge for up to eight weeks at a stretch. Says Barbara, "It's the only bed and breakfast where you pay the people to live with you." Part of her job, other than constructing many a layout's buildings, is to cook for the crew. "The 'starving artists' complain that they gain weight here,' she adds.
Inside the Dunhams' barn-cum-studio, there are no hay bales set up for one of Mickey's and Judy's talent revues, but instead a cavernous area covered with battens of silver-coated insulation. At a workbench, Clarke and artisan Rand Angelicola have been busy crafting the set model of a new Broadway musical for Hal Prince, Candide--they'd just received the go-ahead from Prince, and he wants it in two days. At the moment, though, Dunham's not exactly waiting for the next train to come along: nearby there's a model for a layout for the Altoona Railroaders Memorial Museum in Pennsylvania. A section of a new layout for a private customer is taking shape in the middle of the shop floor. Right now it's just a clear, smooth plywood base, with a future gorge already cut in. A tall, perfect, miniature (but still big) trestle already spans the gap, waiting for rocky ledges and waterfalls frozen in space, and, of course, a train. Around this new section, small portions of the World Trade Center's layout languish on the shop floor, giving potential customers an idea of the depth--and height--of the studio's work.
Clarke says that, aside from the extravagantly sized layouts, they've developed some 40 small layout types that are customized and adapted for individual wants and needs. All told, the sizes of Dunham Studio's works range from the four-foot-by-eight-foot plywood sheet favored by everyday basement enthusiasts to platforms 100 feet long. For the discerning enthusiast, size does matter. "We've done more big than small," Clarke says.
The price? Some of the bigger jobs cost nearly half a million dollars. For the most basic designs, figure paying $150 to $300 a square foot. There is no ceiling.
But there is a philosophy--and that as much as anything is responsible for the studio's success. For instance, in his commercial work Dunham likes to mix the scales of the trains: the larger ones in the foreground, descending in size to the smallest gauge in the background. "The foreground will have more of an element of fantasy, with a realistic center," says Clarke. "That way, everybody gets what they like." On top of that, Dunham must consider crowd control; that is, keeping up to 5,000 people a day moving through a commercial space. "Sometimes you walk around them, sometimes you walk into them. On three different public displays," he muses, "there has been only one incident out of a million people."
When it's pointed out that more people have seen his train layouts than have seen his work on Broadway, Dunham pauses for a moment. "That fact is not lost on me," he says. "It's ironical but true."
He walks over to a large section of the Citibank Station's layout to point out some of its extravagance of detail. It's a scene from a fictitious Hudson River community, circa 1941. The recently released Citizen Kane is now (and forever) showing at the miniature Art Deco Edison Theater, while a group of tiny children are frozen in place, having gleefully burst forth from the corner soda shop. A sign atop the tallest building reads: HUDSON HOUSE/GENERAK'S FINEST.
"People will say to us, 'I've eaten in that hotel and the food is really good,' " Dunham says. "After a while we've learned to agree with them." The good city of Generak, after all, derives its name from "generic."
Everywhere the advertisements of bygone and familiar products dot the landscape. Dunham says that they model from archival photos--"always with a large dose of art thrown in," he says with a chuckle. "There is a technique for modeling and theater called 'selective compression.' You take that from the object you need to convey what it is, and leave the rest behind." Still, for Dunham, authenticity is a must. "Somewhere there is a billboard for 'BULL DUNHAM' I am told, but beyond that it's total realism. Occasionally you might find dinosaurs peeking out of the woods, but they were put there by people no longer here," he says, before turning philosophical again.
"As for what clients get out of it, I don't know," Dunham says. "The guy who wants to watch trains go around wants it to watch trains go around. His point is to have something to treasure.
"In a real way, when you develop something like this, it's as real a work of art as anything else in the art world. They're portraits, not of a person, but of the world. It's as perfect as you want to make it. Better yet, it's your world and you can make with it what you will." In fact, when his customers insure their layouts, they do so as works of art.
"But why? It's the most common question and I still don't have any answers. But it seems to be that the transportation metaphor is always memory-based," he says. "What it carries you back to is what it means to you. It can be a better time, a happier time, or just a good time. But the words you hear the most--happier, simpler, familiar--it always has something to do with the past. It sure is powerful. A corporate officer at Citicorp said to me, 'Why do people want this? I don't understand.' All we can tell them is that it is fantasy. Anything more is counterproductive."
After a moment of contemplation, though, Dunham's not so willing to settle for an easy answer just yet. "If anyone can identify the synapse triggered by funny things running around on tracks," he finally says, "I'd be happy to know the answer."
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Stanford has established four of the school's top five single-season rushing marks each of the last four seasons. Last year's final total of 2,738 yards ranks third on the all-time single-season list, slightly behind the school-record mark of 2,837 compiled by the 2009 squad and the 2,779 yards amassed by the 2010 Orange Bowl team.
With two of its top three rushers returning from a year ago, including Doak Walker Award candidate Stepfan Taylor, along with a young stable of hungry backs looking to take on larger roles, Stanford will again rely on a power running game to key an offense that has set school-scoring records each of the last three seasons.
"We believe we will impose our will on everybody we play," said running backs coach Mike Sanford. "Every defense has its breaking point and we're looking to move past that breaking point."
Head coach David Shaw calls Taylor "the most underrated back in college football" - and for good reason. Operating in the huge shadows cast by Toby Gerhart and Andrew Luck, Taylor has quietly rushed for 2,770 yards and 27 touchdowns over the last three seasons.
Taylor enters his final campaign needing 1,263 more to tie Darrin Nelson's all-time school rushing record while his 27 career rushing touchdowns currently rank third in Stanford's career annals. He is one of six Stanford backs to record a 1,000-yard season and just the third back to register back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons, joining Nelson (1977-78) and Gerhart (2008-09).
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The Menlo-Atherton High football team spent its annual Community Service Work Day painting the town of East Palo Alto. The Bears also did a lot of landscaping, trash removal and graffiti removal.
The Bears joined forces with parents and coaches for the project and was supported by the Music & Arts Project (MMAP), the East Palo Alto Police Department, Police Activities League (PAL), and Home Depot.
Several groups were formed and spread throughout the city to do their good deeds.
Stanford sophomore Patrick Rodgers advanced to match play at the U.S. Amateur in Cherry Hills Village, Colo.
Rodgers shot a 2-under 68 at CommonGround Golf Course on Tuesday for an even-par 141.
Cardinal senior Steve Kearney did not make the cut after his 4-over 75 at Cherry Hills Country Club for a 6-over 147.


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Russ Skinner wanted to move to the Grand Valley so much, he was willing to take a pay cut.
The 37-year-old teacher was offered a job with School District 51 as he and his family were traveling to the Western Slope on vacation to check out the fast-growing mountain biking scene. He quickly accepted the job.
"Mountain biking was the reason we came here," he said. "Mountain biking is my number one thing. I had a teaching job in Michigan I'd been at nine years. I took a significant pay cut to come here and I have a 7-year-old and 5-year-old. My wife and I were dedicated to trying something new.
"We had a great time and fell in love with the place."
Not many people would be willing to take a pay cut to move across the country, but more and more people are visiting the area for the mountain biking opportunities.
There were 63,000 more visitors on the trails north of Fruita on 18 Road and the Tabeguache trail head area last year compared to 2007, according to the Bureau of Land Management.
The North Fruita desert had 90,000 visitors in 2009 compared to 57,000 in 2007. The Tabeguache trail head had 60,000 in 2009 compared to 30,000 in 2007.
Usage numbers for the Kokopelli Loop near Loma weren't tallied because it's on McInnis Canyon National Conservation Area land.
The BLM, with the help of Mesa State College, is in the process of doing a visitor assessment study and is discovering the trails are attracting people from all over the world, which in turn brings in millions of tourist dollars.
"The study we did was more of a visitor assessment and what people want," BLM Recreation Program Manager Chris Ham said. "We did ask economic questions, but it's not refined enough. Twenty-four million (dollars) is conservative. What it does indicate, it generates enough economy in the valley, it would be nice to take a larger look at it. We would like to do that so we can answer some questions."
Ham says it is clear the trails are bringing in a vast array of people who probably wouldn't consider vacations here.
"Since we have these trails, people come from regional, national and international places," he said. "If we didn't have these trails, people wouldn't likely be here. People are taking vacations here because they know what they're looking for. It's an excellent place for putting this all together."
The Colorado Plateau Mountain Bike Trail Association (COPMOBA) started building trails in the area in 1989, beginning with the 142-mile Kokopelli's Trail from Loma to Moab, Utah.
Over the Edge bike shop owner Troy Rarick, who grew up in the Grand Valley, opened his shop and started building trails north of Fruita.
"When we started in the winter of 1994-95, a few of us were looking for someplace to ride," Rarick said. "We started by following trails in the area, built links and turned them into loops. The stuff we built was more fun than riding cow trails.
"It was interesting at that time because there was not a plan for that land. It was used to dump trash and refrigerators. Everyone asked me if we had permission to build. We didn't, but we didn't have opposition to not build it, either."
The next spring, Rarick started the Fruita Fat Tire Festival.
"In the first year of Over the Edge, we had trails going and a momentum of people coming to check out the trails," he said. "Local businesses in Fruita asked me, 'We're starting to see new customers from out of town. How do we get more of this?' I said, 'We'll start a mountain bike event.' "
The festival will celebrate its 15th year from April 30-May 2 and more than 1,500 people are expected to show up.
"In the initial days, if you saw another rider out there, you probably knew who they were," Rarick said. "Now, the parking lots are full and I might not know any of them. It's exploded as far as the visibility."
The mountain bikers will have a lot more trails to choose from than they did in the early years of the festival.
There are an estimated 75 named trails of various lengths in the Grand Valley, COPMOBA President Chris Muhr said, totalling 1,500 miles, including fire roads built by various groups.
"It's because we decided 21 years ago, we wanted long trails and we wanted singletrack trails," Muhr said. "The construction of singletrack trails is like the Holy Grail of mountain biking.
"It's difficult to pull off unless you have the right group of people and longevity to see programs, trails from start to finish. It often takes one to five years from conception to final construction."
It's not just a case of cyclists blazing trails any more.
"There are a lot of studies to be done. There are National Environmental Protection Act guidelines to follow," Muhr said. "If you have a bunch of fly-by-night guys building singletrack, they aren't going to be able to stick it out."
Skinner loves the trails because of their proximity and various degrees of difficulty.
"First of all, there are a lot of them within a small area," he said. "There are a lot of different options. The house we're currently in is a half-mile from the Lunch Loop area. We ride some of the best trails in the country.
"They are more challenging than anything we had in Michigan. I tell my friends here I didn't see a rock until I came here. The rocks change the whole mountain biking game. Some of the other trails aren't quite as technical, but easily as fun.
"The trails themselves are amazing. Our jaws were dropped the whole ride."
COPMOBA has worked with the BLM on everything from where to how to build trails so they would not only last, but preserve the fragile desert landscape.
"When we founded the group to get the Kokopelli's Trail started, we had a lot of support from the BLM office," Muhr said. "We had political support, too. Senator Tim Wirth, Congressman Ben 'Nighthorse' Campbell and Governor Bill Ritter were pushing to develop this.
"It's waxed and waned a little bit over the years, but we have an excellent working relationship with them. We're developing a good working relationship with the U.S. Forest Service as well."
COPMOBA has plans to continue building links to trails in the Tabeguache Lunch Loop, Kokopelli Loop, on Grand Mesa and to assist in developing trails in Palisade.
Volunteers are needed May 1 to help construct a 22-mile trail through the Gunnison Gorge between Austin and Olathe, called the Sidewinder Trail. To assist, visit http://www.copmoba.org.
The relationship between COPMOBA and the BLM is crucial in continuing to build trails. The two entities have such a good relationship, the BLM state office recently selected COPMOBA as its 2009 Volunteer of the Year.
"I was in Meeker for most of a decade and wish I had a group as active as they are," Ham said. "They understand stuff does take time. We have outstanding relationship with them. Regardless of how slow things may go, the end result is an outstanding trail system. There's no short term; it's very long term. I've not seen many relationships like this in my career (15 years)."


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Dombrowski not bothered by Astros leaks
DETROIT -- While reactions have been varied from Major League general managers over the leak of internal trade discussions from the Houston Astros front office, Tigers president/general manager Dave Dombrowski did not seem particularly bothered.
"[Astros GM] Jeff [Luhnow] was great. He apologized ahead of time before it came out," Dombrowski said. "It's one of those things that happens. I'm sure they didn't want it to come out."
The leaked discussions, which showed up on an internet forum and later were published on Deadspin, included some notes on the Tigers-Astros trade talks leading up to the Jose Veras trade last July. The only major piece of information, that the Astros were apparently interested in trading for Nick Castellanos, was not a major revelation. Dombrowski has said for a couple years that Castellanos' name came up in the intial stages of many trade talks they've had.
Asked if he was surprised something like that could happen, Dombrowski shrugged.
"That's how life is," he said." Your computer could get hacked. It happens all the time. You do the best you can."
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From Coach Cal to the Big Blue Nation.
April 21, 2011
There's been some talk about what it means to be a "players-first program" and coming off the road from recruiting seems like a perfect time to discuss this.
Being a Players-first program means:
1. During the recruiting process, we don't make outlandish promises about playing time, starting positions, minutes, shots, points or anything to these young men that we can't keep. At Kentucky, you have to work for everything and compete every day at the highest level.
2. The second part is that once the season begins, we are teaching players to be the teammate they want to play with. Our whole focus is on team play. I want individuals to play well but I'm getting them to understand nothing of significance will be accomplished by themselves.
3. Lastly when the season is over, when our TEAM is done playing, my job is to help them make the best decisions, with the best information I can give them, for them and their families. I'm not trying to convince them to come back if that's not in their best interest. Likewise, I'm never trying to shove anybody out the door.
The Truth is that these top players in the country want to play for a certain kind of coach in a certain kind of program. They are not playing for just any coach. They want to play with someone who has proven results.
The Lie is that because a player won't go to a certain school, it's impossible to win championships with that type of young, elite talent.
None of this takes away from our goal of winning championships. If you do right by these kids you will win championships and we have. It's a ludicrous statement that you can't win with players who earn a chance to pursue their NBA dreams early.
We've done pretty well in March. Winning a championship won't change me one bit; but it would change me if it came after I told a young man to return to school for my own selfish reasons.
I'll leave you with this, if we do right by these young people they will do right by us.
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Thanks for the memories Regg! will NEVER forget you!!!!
I am still crying.
This is one of the saddest moments of my life.
He sure stepped of the court with style!! HUGE game he had!!
I know. But I can't get over the fact that he is really leaving. It is hitting me really hard right now and I cant stop crying.
Im not sad , im *****ing pissed on how the refs managed to win the game for the pistons!
Oh come on man
Forget about the ****ing refs and be happy/sad for reggie.
Yes the refs were horrible, but you know what, this is a night for remembering reggie and being sad for him leaving not complaining.
Please reggie... ONE MORE YEAR
Its not gonna happen, forget it.
If Reggie comes back, then the ending to that game becomes pointless. I know that as of right now it's probably the most memorable sports moment I've ever witnessed (the most positive one). I'm sorry but that's a kickass way to go out. He got his props the way he should have, he had a big game which unfortunately we lost...but hell after the season we had we souldn't have been 2 games from the Conference Finals anyway...
Lets be real, even if we had beaten the pistons, the heat would've held their ground.
I'm just glad Reggie ended his career at Indy and the Indiana folks had the chance to show their love
Wow, i was in tears when the pistons came out onto the court and cheered for Reggie. class act. and if i needed another reason to hate ben wallace. HE FREAKING BLOCKS REGGIE'S 3 POINT ATTEMPT THAT COULD HAVE GIVEN HIM 30!
Shedding a few tears on the drive home tonight, I got to thinking.
I wouldn't trade my 18 years of experiencing the heroics of Reginald Wayne Miller for one NBA world championship. Growing from an 11 year old boy tailing my father to a game to a 28 year old man relishing in the joy of my hero's farewell -- the memories will warm my heart for the remainder of my life, beyond what a banner, a trophy, a ring, and a t-shirt would ever provide.
The wins, the losses, the makes, the misses, the joy, the pain, the bumps, the bruises, the grocery bags in the lower bowl, the brown curtain on the upper bowl, the late nights with Bake & Clark out west on TTV4, the long drives with Mark & Slick, the rally towels, the Reggie Miller Show, the All Star weekends, the gold medals, the brashness, the ticket stubs, the roar of the race car soundbyte, the jumpers relived through the rim and net in my backyard, the conditioning, the lawnchairs and big screen Market Street, the broken orbital, the Hicks vs the world, the choke signs, the chalk on the hands before a foul shot, the hoarse throats, the broken remote controls, the walk off jumpers, the push offs, the cuts, the floaters, the flops, the curls, the stripe, the Flo-Jos, the pinstripes, the contract squabbles, the loyalty, the re-defining of Pacer Pride, the bounce of the ball before tipoff, the hi-top fades, the balding grays, the ejections, the Superman shirts, the fishing caps, the damage to my shins from the rows in front of me at MSA, the fathers that introduced their young sons to Millertime, the fully-grown sons that returned the favor to their fathers on April 20th, the mentoring, the rejuvenation, the theatrics, the doubt, the hope, the magic, the cheers, the tears.
Every minute along the way has been rewarding and worthy of stories that fathers will tell their sons for generations to come.
May the curtain call forever ring throughout the seats of the Fieldhouse.
Thank you, #31.
Reggie got a great farewell from everyone. I no longer hate the Detroit Pistons. Their show of respect for Miller has ended my hatred for them.
Reggie will always have a place with the Indiana Pacers franchise. If he ever decided to get into coaching, I'm more than sure a spot with Carlisle would be there, or if he wanted to do something else within basketball's limits, he would have a spot in the Indiana organization. He's earned a spot in my heart and all of yours. Thank you, Reggie.
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Me too, at least for now. Too bad their fans are still jackasses.Originally Posted by Fig Newton
Who, naptownrev and so on posing as Pistons fans on RATS?Originally Posted by 31 Forever
"If I have the ball, I will shoot it, you have to believe that," - Stephen Jackson
When he shot that last 3-pointer, I knew it was over. When Detroit came out and started clappin for him, I couldn't hold it in anymore. Now, I hardly cry for ANYTHING, but seeing Reggie walk off that court for the last time hit me hard. I'm gonna miss you soo damn much, Reggie.
p.s. Sassan was in attendance tonight. We talked for a very brief moment.
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There were lots of tears at Conseco tonight.
Reggie - Great game man, great game. You out played 'em all tonight. You went out with class - with all the guns a blazin'.
It'll never be quite the same with out you, bro.
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I really can't express my feelings properly as I don't have the vocabulary to it, but I just want to say that Reggie Miller changed my life, made me proud to be a Pacers fan, and he'll be missed desperately! It will be hard and weird to see a Pacers team without him, he's earned a sacred place in my heart..
Thanks for everything #31, thanks for the memories, thanks for making me the person I am today, thanks for your love of the fans, thanks for just being "Reggie", and last but not least, thanks for making me the biggest Reggie Miller fan in Europe! Period.
The thoughts you all have regarding Reggie have been really interesting to me. As most of you know, I am one of the "elder" posters on the board. Throughout my life, there have been athletes I have loved come and go - their careers seemingly a flicker. My first real taste of this kind of sadness was when the ABA Pacer players began to disappear. The reality of "my" players getting too old to play didn't seem possible.
I have paid particular attention to the younger posters' comments. All I can say is thank you. Thank you for boosting my respect for your recognition of what exactly went on here. Thank you for pushing aside all the hip-hop stars of today and understanding what Reggie represented. Adopting his attitude and philosophy of life and it's direction and preparation can carry you all very far.
The highest compliment I could possibly give Reggie is to hold him in the same regard as I do to all those players who fought to bring Championships to Indianapolis back in the day. Forget the ring, Reggie IS a champion of the highest calibre. I am truly going to miss him.
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CLEVELAND -- It's impossible to say whether a chilly day at Progressive Field had anything to do with the Indians' cold bats. The club was able to get away with its muted offense in the first game of Monday's doubleheader against the Yankees, but the same would not hold up during the encore.
Shortly after Justin Masterson's shutout in Game 1, New York starter Vidal Nuno and reliever Adam Warren combined to pitch a shutout of their own in Game 2. Cleveland dropped the second game, 7-0, despite a strong showing from right-handed pitching prospect Trevor Bauer.
"You know what? He keeps 'em off the scoreboard," Tribe manager Terry Francona said about Bauer. "I'll tell you what. There's so much to like about him, and he's still developing, but even in the midst of that -- you know, coming up like he does isn't the easiest thing to do -- and he gives us a chance to win every time he pitches."
The first run Bauer allowed came in the first inning and was unearned. Jayson Nix singled to left and then advanced to third when first baseman Carlos Santana committed a throwing error on an infield single by Robinson Cano. Nix scored on a grounder off the bat of Vernon Wells.
Bauer was mildly hurt covering the bag for Cano's hit.
"The throw was a little bit behind me, and my right foot got stepped on pretty good, and I jammed my left ankle a little bit when my foot slipped," Bauer said. "I wasn't going to come out of the game because of it, that's for sure."
The righty displayed no sign of pain or discomfort the rest of the way. He cruised until the seventh inning, which Corban Joseph led off with a double, his first Major League hit. Two batters later, Austin Romine doubled as well, plating Joseph and knocking Bauer out of the game.
In came reliever Nick Hagadone, who allowed Romine to score on a single by Nix. That run would be the last one credited to Bauer.
"I thought he threw his fastball more tonight, more effectively than we've seen in the past," said Francona, who was also impressed with Bauer's offspeed stuff.
Hagadone took the blame for the next four New York runs, although only three of them were earned. Vernon Wells singled in Brett Gardner, who reached on a walk. Lyle Overbay doubled in Nix and Wells. Then, after Matt Albers replaced Hagadone, Overbay scored when Ben Francisco reached on an error by Mark Reynolds.
Bauer (1-2) allowed six hits over 6 1/3 innings. He walked two, struck out four and was charged with three runs, two of which were earned. His ERA rose slightly to 2.76.
"I can be a lot better than I was today, and I was a lot better today than I have been this year," said Bauer, who cited his command as an improvement. "I'm definitely moving in the right direction."
Bauer's opponent, Nuno (1-0), left after five scoreless innings, during which he surrendered three hits, issued three walks and struck out three en route to his first big league win. Warren went the other four innings, notching four strikeouts while allowing two hits to record his first first career save.
"You look at him, he's very poised out there," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said about Nuno. "Nothing seems to bother him. He works quick. He throws a ton of strikes. The first pitch of the game is a strike. He was ahead of hitters all day. When he had to battle and get a long at-bat, he continued to make pitches."
Monday callup David Huff pitched the final 1 2/3 innings for the Indians. He allowed one hit and struck out two batters.
Nick Swisher's eighth-inning double was Cleveland's only extra-base hit of the game. The Tribe went 0-for-4 with runners in scoring position and left eight men on base.
"We were a little tired today. It showed," Swisher said. "But to be able to come out of that with a split, I mean, we've got to be happy with that. We were dragging a little bit. ... Maybe that second game, we didn't really bring it as much as we should have. Sometimes that's going to happen."
The defeat snapped a three-game winning streak for the Indians, who have won 13 of their past 16 games.
Mark Emery is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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My 9 year old daughter was diagnosed 8 months ago with a cyst on her left vocal cord. She has been in speech therapy since discovering the cyst. She has sung professionally since the age of 5 and most people she has performed with tell us she has a bright future as a vocalist. Her first scope was in August, she was scoped again in December and it appeared the cyst was getting smaller. She was scoped again last week and it is still there and now closer to the original size. They are now referring us to Dr Peggy Kelly at Childrens Hospital here in Denver, CO. From what I have read regarding this type of surgery it`s success rate is as good as the skill of the surgeon. I am told there is not really an expert in vocal performers and children. I have heard your department at UC is one of the best in the country. I had a couple of questions I am hoping you can answer. 1. Would you ever recommend surgery on someone so young? 2. What types of insurance do you accept? 3. We are being told that she has nothing but time on her side. Is this true? Or would surgery soon be the best option since it is not responding to speech therapy? I understand if you are not able to answer my questions without first seeing her. We are just trying to gather as much opinion as possible before making any decisions as to how to proceed. We are very concerned about making a decision that would result with her not being able to continue singing. Singing is such a big part of who she is. Thank you for your time.
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SALEM, Ore. - Every state gets two statues to display in Washington, D.C. that symbolizes great citizens from that state.
There is a showdown right now over whether we should replace one of Oregon's statues with a new one of former Sen. Mark Hatfield.
A group called Reviving Oregon's Amazing Roots (ROAR) is spearheading the effort to fight House Bill 2387 that would replace Jason Lee, a founder of Oregon's provisional government, with Hatfield's.
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Wayne Allen, Mendocino Coast District Hospital chief financial officer and interim chief executive officer, has released an executive summary of the results of the hospital's recent survey.
The Mendocino Coast District Hospital has provided vital healthcare services to the coastal community for more than four decades. However, like many other rural hospitals throughout California, recent governmental policy and economic factors have put the hospital's financial condition in a fragile state, Allen wrote. "Everyone at the hospital is actively working to restore its financial health and continue providing access to quality healthcare on the Mendocino Coast."
To seek input from the community about their connection to the hospital, their feelings about different aspects of the hospital, and whether they would make an investment in the hospital, the board approved a written survey to be released to all voters in the district. More than 2,700 responses were received.
"The number of responses was significant and certainly indicates that the coastal community cares about the hospital," Allen wrote. "Of all of the responses, the vast majority (approximately 2,000) were handwritten and returned in the mail or in person to the hospital. Also, this response rate is greater than the 18.3 percent turnout throughout Mendocino County for the recent primary election on June 3. The vast majority of responses came from Fort Bragg and Mendocino, given the concentration of the district's population in those two communities, and most respondents appear to have received services from the hospital and/or have heard or read some information about MCDH."
Allen said the overall sentiment was positive, and a considerable majority of respondents were willing to say "yes" to the parcel tax question. The proximity of the hospital, the quality of care, nurses, physicians, and many other aspects of MCDH were viewed favorably by a large portion of respondents. The vast majority also value local health care and want it to continue at MCDH.
Some portions of the hospital, however, appear to be less known to the community.
"This means that public outreach is critical so everyone can better understand the work being done to allow the hospital to continue providing quality health care – as well as take advantage of the wide range of services the hospital provides to the greater community," Allen wrote.
Ninety-four percent of respondents indicated that they want MCDH to continue providing local health care. Strong support for the hospital was reflected in most of the responses, and nearly all respondents want MCDH to continue providing local health care.
"With this nearly unanimous agreement – as well as sustained engagement with the broader community – a solution can be developed," Allen wrote. "Based on all the feedback and suggestions, the board, administration, medical and hospital staff, foundation, and many community members will redouble efforts to communicate with local residents, accepting additional input, continuing to improve local health care, and refining a solution.
The survey is part of Mendocino Coast Healthcare District's effort to remain solvent after it emerges from bankruptcy protection under Chapter 9 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, filed on Oct. 17, 2012. The district is still in the process of working out a debt-repayment schedule for its unsecured debt.
The survey comes also amid increasing competition by Adventist Health, which is expanding into the coastal health care market with new physicians and services. Both Adventist and MCHCD are advertising heavily.
The marketing and research into a possible parcel tax measure efforts are part of a survival strategy adopted by MCHD with advice from consultant Michael Riemenschneider, of Eastshore Consulting.
John Kermen, MCHD board member, summarized the survey results at last Thursday's regular board meeting. He stressed that the survey was done to provide "a foundation of knowledge to build upon." The goal was not to solicit a yes or no answer to the parcel tax question, he said.
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|Christmas for the Dying
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I don't know her name, but she is barely alive in the shrunken shell of the body God gave her. She lays under blankets and peers out of heavy eyelids in sunken sockets, belabored coughs slowly scrape her ancient throat. I smile and say hello. Her eyes flutter toward my voice. She leans her head slowly toward me. My one year old daughter is where her eyes rest. She doesn't saying anything, and I cannot even say that I see a change of expression. But she cannot take her eyes off of my daughter like my daughter cannot take her eyes off of her. Death meet Life. Beginning meet End.
No more let sins or sorrows grow, nor thorns infest the ground. He comes to make His blessings flow, far as the curse is found. And I cannot sing these words without choking, without clenching my teeth, without my eyes watering as I look at this woman. How can we sing these words to the dying? How can we say 'Merry Christmas' to these deformed, barely breathing corpses? Sure, some are more aware than others. Some smile and tell us stories. Some grimace and complain that we're singing too loudly or that they don't know this particular song or they call for the nurses to take them back to their rooms. Others nod off to sleep in their wheelchairs and look up every now and then, startled by our customary, 'Amen!' announced to the entire nursing home at the close of each hymn.
My daughters are undone by this. They wave at the residents dutifully, but they are bewildered. They are too young to articulate this overwhelming feeling. But they are restless and threatened by all the old ladies who want to touch them. They all want to touch my children. They want to touch life. They stare at them. They see us coming down the hall, and they stare. And sometimes when I come without them, all the questions are about my children, at least the ones whose memories are still intact. Others will not remember me from week to week, but some of them will remember when I tell them about my son or my daughters. Their eyes will light up, as I tell them about the three trees of life that live in my house.
There's another man I talk with frequently. Gene's wife died of brain cancer many years ago. He is estranged from his children and grandchildren. He says they resented the fact that he got remarried. He had a stroke last year, and he lost the feeling in his left arm. I ask him if he will see any of his family for the holidays, and he shakes his head, frowns, and says no. I ask him why they won't even talk to him for Christmas, and he says he wasn't a good dad. His tongue plays over the two remaining teeth in his mouth. He shrugs. The college students are getting ready to sing. He says it was hard to watch his wife die. She grew sick and laid in bed all the time. He took care of her. He didn't mind it because it was his wife, but it was hard to watch her die. Joy to the world, the Lord is come, let earth receive her King. Let every heart prepare Him room, and heaven and nature sing. Gene's eyes question me as our conversation is drowned in the carol. I don't really have any words for Gene. I think he must see the vacancy in my face.
I cannot think of a better catechism, a catechism of bodies and emotions and song, a weekly liturgy wherein I look death in the eyes, and I sing to death. I sing songs about a little Child to death. A little Child in whom was life, and how this life was the light of men and how He rules the world with His truth and grace and makes the nations prove the glories of His righteousness and wonders of His love. And the question comes, why are we doing this again? Why do we sing to the dying? I have no words for these people. No words will possibly do. And these people don't really have many words left either. How can we have words when life and death meet? There are no words. We can only sing this part; we cannot say it. I cannot tell Gene that Christ was born for this. But I can sing it. I can barely say 'Merry Christmas,' and it could sound like this is some kind of unbelief, some kind of doubt or skepticism.
But I choke on the words because I believe them, and because the dying face in front of me so aches for it to be true. I know that I am saying something heavy, something overwhelming, something like glory. I know that saying them isn't good enough. I know they must be said, and so we'll read them out loud from Luke 2. But I don't know if they're listening anymore. I just see them staring at my children. Staring at the children, staring at the closest thing they have to the Incarnation, life at the beginning, full, squirming, with smudges of dinner still on their cheeks.
This is Christmas for the dying, but we are all dying. We are all just minutes away from our own wheelchairs and toothless smiles, memories running away like streams after a summer storm, bodies crumpled, eyelids heavy, coughing the last spasms of life out of our lungs. I love singing the carols; I love announcing 'Christ is Born!' to the congregation, and hearing them respond, 'Worship Him!'
I do believe. But this belief aches. It aches and groans because I know that this reality, this sin-raped world is still not all right. We all stare together at that little Child from
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THE yellow brick road leads the way to the stage at Salisbury City Hall this week, as Musical Theatre Salisbury goes on a magical trip to the Emerald City, via Munchkin Land.
And those who slip on their ruby slippers and follow Dorothy Gale and her friends on their quest to ask the Wizard of Oz to grant their dearest wishes won't be disappointed.
Robert Preedy, David Simmons and Matt Sparkes as The Cowardly Lion, Tin Man and Scarecrow are every bit as endearing as they should be.
Jenny Mears puts in a cacklingly evil turn as the Wicked Witch, Laura Kitching is superb as the Sorceress of the North, and the munchkins are enthusiastically adorable.
But the star here is 16-year-old Natasha George as Dorothy.
The Avon Valley College student is word-perfect, dances and sings with a confidence justified by her ability and puts in a performance in her first role with the group that would be a credit to someone twice her age and with twice the experience.
In my preview of this production, I mistakenly referred to the part played by Toto the dog. He doesn't appear here.
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A show for all the family that the cast seemed to enjoy every bit as much as the audience.
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Three people in south Essex have lost more than £12,000 after being tricked by thieves who pose as police officers to steal cash from elderly or vulnerable victims.
They have been the latest victims in a fraud that has been going on across Essex since the start of 2013.
Since January 1 this year the thieves have made 21 attempts to steal from elderly people across Essex and all but three realised that the telephone calls they received were scams.
But on January 15 a man in his 80s in Canvey lost £5,000, on January 21 a man in his 90s at Leigh was also tricked out of £5,000 and today, January 23, a woman in her 70s from Westcliff was the victim of a £2,000 fraud.
In all three cases the victims received telephone calls from men claiming to be officers from the Metropolitan Police who said that they were investigating bank account fraud. They asked their victims to provide bank cards or cash to be used for forensic examination. The cards and cash were collected by couriers using cabs from local taxi firms.
More than 550 thefts and attempted thefts have been reported in Essex since January 2013, and similar crimes have been reported in the Met Police area and other counties. More than 80 people in Essex have been tricked out of money and the total stolen is more than £286,000. Six people have been arrested in connection with the investigation.
DS Neil Hudson said "Fortunately the number of cases where money has been stolen has reduced significantly after our publicity campaigns in the media and the distribution of warning leaflets and posters.
"But some elderly people are still being tricked by these despicable thieves so it is important that everyone is always on guard against any telephone callers claiming to be from the police or a bank and asking you to send them money. If that happens, put the phone down, wait a few minutes until you get a dialling tone and call Essex Police to report it.
"Some of the tricksters call their intended targets several times in an attempt to convince them, that they are genuine callers.
"One trick is to ask people to call back or to call their bank to verify claims that their accounts have been infiltrated. But they stay on the line and when the victim thinks they are starting a fresh call the same tricksters claim to be at a police station or a bank.
"It is important that anyone who is called by these fraudsters lets us know so that we can investigate and establish which different stories are being used by the thieves and to see how they are targeting different areas."
• Police will never ask for your PIN.
• If you think you have been a victim, call police FROM A DIFFERENT NUMBER.
• If you don't have another phone, use a neighbour's, or wait five minutes before dialling 101 or 999 (if urgent).
The Essex Police Operation Seaford team has already made a number of arrests for these offences but incidents continue. Anyone with information about the thieves should contact the team at Grays on 101 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.


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