| Leaking pool and roof point to construction challenges at College of ...
The College of the Redwoods swimming pool renovation is deemed “completed" on the Measure Q performance audit, but with a leak of 12,000 gallons a day, there's clearly work to be done. “It would be nice if we could do it this summer," said Tim Flanagan, CR's co-director of facilities and management for the past few months. “There are less classes and the ground water is easier to pump out. But that would be pretty quick to get the engineering done and put it out to bid." The pool renovation, completed in fall 2005, was one of the first projects to be done with Measure Q support. In November 2004, 64 percent of the district's voters supported the $40.3 million general obligation to modernize and renovate CR's classrooms, laboratories and teaching spaces. The trustees, and the Measure Q Citizens' Oversight Committee, approved bond expenditures of $1,093,453 for a swimming pool renovation that included new floors, lights, locker room upgrades and concrete bleachers.
Home dialysis machine revitalizes patient's life
SAIA FASSISILA, pastor of the United Methodist Church in San Mateo, dreaded his options when his kidneys failed two years ago. Either he stayed hooked up three times a week, four hours a session to a large machine that cleaned his blood, or he'd die. Although he'd taken medication for years to control his high blood pressure, in his case that wasn't enough to stop the condition from damaging his kidneys. "I had no choice," Fassisila said. When doctors sent him from his bed at Stanford Hospital directly to a dialysis clinic to clear his blood of the accumulated metabolic byproducts, excess nutrients and water were close to killing him, since his kidneys could no longer eliminate them. "I was given a second chance in life with dialysis," said Fassisila, 48, who was born and raised in Tonga.
Table Talk
One small bite feels like a small, tasty firecracker wrapped in velvet went off in your mouth. But then homier sides of buttered parsnips, beautifully dressed with salt and butter in a tiny copper pot, are unbeatable —- and the grits? Made with cream and truffle oil, they're the height of indulgence —- such a seemingly effortless dish elevated so simply to creamy, savory transcendence. A bowl of fleshy chestnuts with porcini ravioli in a light cream sauce seem like the evening's peak, until a tiny tian of meringue arrives swimming in a creme anglaise (like a tiny oeuf a la niege)." Why is Atlanta losing its best chefs to New York? I'm beginning to feel like we're the NYC farm team for the restaurant industry — first Soto, then Seeger and now Joel, who is, like Seeger, one of the most talented chefs in the country.
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