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Cheri Reader, of Steamwood, tries out the beeswax jelly made by Annie Broyles, of Paducah, Ky.,who spoke on Saturday at the Heartland Apicultural Society conference.

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Students create ACA compliant health plan LUKE NOZICKA Daily Egyptian The university’s student health insurance plan is not compliant with the Affordable Care Act, and a student task force has created a new, compliant proposal, which they consider to be more valuable than the current plan.

Graduate and Professional Student Council President Matt Ryg said the Student Insurance Task Force, created by then-Chancellor Rita Cheng in 2012 and overseen by Jim Hunsaker, assistant director of student health services, has created a plan that gives students more benefits for their dollar.

Ryg said while he could not discuss the details of the confidential, proposed plan, the university will eventually need to create an ACA compliant plan, which would consist of mandatory prescription coverage and optional spouse and dependent coverage. An ACA compliant plan would also have no limits on mental health care appointments and would not consist of a lifetime benefit cap.

“If I say we want a fully compliant plan with the ACA – we’re recommending a fully compliant plan – by definition, it includes these benefits,” Ryg said. “I can’t tell you how much [the new plan] costs, specifically how much more, but

it’s between a quarter or a third more than [the $430-a-semester-plan] we’re paying for now.”

Undergraduate Student Government President Cameron Shulak said while the proposed plan would cost more, it is cheaper through the university plan than through an outside one.

“If you were a normal student – not in college – your normal 20-somethingyear-old, your health care premium is going to be very high under ObamaCare because your subsidizing older people that require more coverage,” he said. “Now as a student on a university plan, your pooled together with all these relatively healthy 20 something year olds and it brings the risk factor down significantly and allows that plan to be much cheaper.”

Shulak said the university applied for and received a waver for the current self-funded student health plan to remain in use until the end of the fall 2014 semester. He said the university must reapply for another waiver or create and implement an ACA compliant plan for the spring 2015 semester.

“The new plan could take place at anytime depending on the logistics, but if the waiver expires and isn’t renewed, then we’d need to have a compliant plan by the start of 2015,” he said.

SIU Student Health Initiative Benefit Comparison

Current SIUC self-funded student insurance plan Lifetime benefit cap of $250,000

Affordable Care Act compliant health insurance plan No lifetime benefit cap

Exclude treatment for pre-existing conditions

Cannot deny benefits for any condition covered under the insurance plan

Limited mental health benefits

No limits on mental health care visits

No prescription coverage

Mandatory prescription coverage

Limited number of therapy visits

No limits on mental health care appointments

No option to add a spouse or dependents

Optional spouse and dependent coverage available

The state will be seeing some changes in the near future, as a legislative committee approved medical marijuana rules on Tuesday.

Illinois recently became the 20th state to legalize medicinal marijuana under the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act. The bill allows for the manufacture and distribution in the state under strict guidelines until 2017, when the pilot project concludes.

State agencies can post applications for grower and retailer permits now that the rules have been finalized. Patients can apply for permits that will cost $50 - $100 per year beginning in September. These figures were approved in the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules meeting on Tuesday.

The bill states that applicants must be diagnosed with one of the 40 listed chronic medical conditions, such as HIV, cancer and glaucoma.

As a part of the bill, a 7 percent privilege tax per ounce of marijuana sold will be implemented on growers. The state or municipalities in which the product will be sold are able to charge any other taxes they would normally in addition to the specific sales tax, such as federal income tax on employees.

The guidelines of the bill state that all cultivation and distribution centers must be in a closed building and therefore will be responsible for paying property taxes.

Don Monty, acting mayor of Carbondale, said that he would welcome it to the area, but sees some logistical issues with it coming into fruition.

“There is very little land inside the city limits of Carbondale that would meet the qualifications,” Monty said of the rule that a facility cannot be located within 2500 feet of a residential property. “However, there is ample land outside the city that is close. Certainly, we would like to see a facility near the city.”

Carbondale is within the same districting area as Du Quoin, where the idea of having a cultivation center is being pursued.

Under the guidelines of the bill, the state will decide who is granted business permits for the limited number of dispensaries and cultivation sites. Permits for 60 dispensaries and 21 cultivation centers will be issued to cover the whole state.

Rex Duncan, mayor of Du QuOIn, has said he thinks his town would make a good location for a cultivation site, given its ability to comply with the regulations and potential benefits to the town and its members.

“The proximity of a possible cultivation center or dispensary would lend itself to proper supervision through state police,” Duncan said in regards to the town being the home of Illinois State Police District 13.

“For a cultivation center, you’re probably not looking at much more than 15 to 30 new jobs. In an urban area, that may not seem like much, but in an area like Du Quoin, that’s a reasonable number.”

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Beekeepers make Scientist to test water a beeline for SIU before fracking soars STOREY MAYER Daily Egyptian

This past weekend bee experts, beginners and fans alike swarmed to Carbondale to attend the 2014 Heartland Apicultural Society Beekeeping Conference.

The event was created by the HAS in 2001 with the purpose to bring the beekeepers together for education, skill development and fun. HAS conducts the conferences while different facilities and faculty host it each year.

Regional and national vendors sold bee products and supplies such as protective clothing, books and honey.

The conference offered an array of classes including candle making, honey house construction and queen rearing. Participants also had the opportunity to work with and train live bees. Nationally recognized bee experts spoke each day on various topics.

Phil Goodman, president of HAS for 2014, has been planning the event since July 2013.

“We thought SIU was the perfect facility, so I suggested it and next thing you know I was site coordinator,” Goodman said. “The conference was really good and we thought it turned out real well.”

Although official numbers have not yet been tallied, Goodman said there were more than 200 people each day from all around the nation.

People from all walks of life came to the conference for many different reasons.

Grant Gillard, pastor and published beekeeping author and speaker, traveled from his home in Missouri to come to the conference. He regularly attends bee conferences in hopes of meeting fellow bee lovers and getting the chance to “slip away”.

“I just love to go out with the bees,” Gillard said. “It helps me keep my sanity.”

Although, he described his time working with bees as peaceful, he does not encourage most people to get involved in beekeeping.

“It is a lot of work and people don’t realize it,” Gillard said. “It takes a certain type of person to keep bees.”

He said many people like beekeeping until they actually keep bees, because it is a lot of heavy, hot and hard work. He encourages people to think before they get into bees and get a taste of it before they jump right into it. Gillard said attending a conference is a great way to get an idea.

“Yes, it’s worth it,” Gillard said. “In part because I like what I’m doing, there is a financial reward, and in this day and age people look at you like you are a Renaissance man.”

While Gillard came to shop and befriend fellow beekeepers, Michele Colopy, program director for the Pollinator Stewardship Council, went for a different purpose.

“We are trying to educate people on the issue of the impact of pesticides against pollinators,” Colopy said. “Pesticides are shown to reduce the bees immune system so they can be attacked by pests and pathogens.”

She said a typical beehive that travels through the crop pollination circuit could experience up to 21 different pesticides. She said she is striving to show farmers that when there is no threat to the crops, there should be no pesticide and convince farmers to use the pesticides sparingly.

“There is a twisted view that pesticides increase crop yield, when actually it is pollination that increases crop yield,” Colopy said. “Without pollination, so without bees, you have no crop.”

No matter the reason for coming to the conference, all of the spectators had a commonality: their passion for bees.

HAS holds the conference annually, but the location changes yearly. The location of the conference in 2015 is still undetermined. Sources said that the conference would most likely be held in Michigan.

“We thought SIU was a great spot,” Goodman said. “The conference did a good job of teaching and I would assume SIU will host it again.”

LISA SONG InsideClimate News

As the shale gas boom was making its way into Ohio in 2012, University of Cincinnati scientist Amy Townsend-Small began testing private water wells in Carroll County, the epicenter of the Utica Shale. Her project, which includes samples of more than 100 wells, is one of the few sustained efforts in the nation to evaluate drinking water quality before, during and after gas drilling.

Although it will likely be another year before Townsend-Small releases the results, her work offers a template for other communities worried about how drilling, fracking and producing unconventional natural gas might contaminate groundwater supplies.

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Ryg said he, Shulak and two graduate student representatives from the task force will meet with President Randy Dunn at 1 p.m. on Thursday to discuss and ask for the proposed plan be added to the SIU Board of Trustees July 24 meeting agenda.

“If it were to be on the agenda for the July 24 meeting and possibly be approved that would be a definite step in getting the ball rolling,” Ryg said.

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Although the idea of medical marijuana has long been a controversial topic, Duncan said he is not concerned with the potential criticism of those not in favor of bringing it to their community.

“By large, I think its reasonable to say this is a

Most residents test their water only after they suspect it has been polluted; few have the resources or foresight to conduct baseline testing prior to the drilling.

The tests cost hundreds of dollars, “so it’s not something everybody can afford to do regularly,” said Townsend-Small, an assistant professor in the geology department.

Once her sampling results are published, the data points won’t be matched with specific locations, in order to protect residents’ privacy and to avoid affecting property values.

Townsend-Small’s team offers free water testing about four times a year to interested landowners in and around Carroll County.

She uses drilling reports the industry files with Ohio regulators to determine which water samples were taken near active gas wells.

The task force consists of four undergraduate students appointed by USG, and four graduate students, two of which who were appointed by GPSC and two of which who were appointed by Graduate Assistants United.

“We want to make sure the students have the opportunity to obtain the best coverage possible and obtain the most benefits for their money, and the current plan that the school has right now doesn’t really do that,” Shulak said.

welcoming environment here,” Duncan said. “I put it on a city council agenda a couple months ago.

We had a very public discussion of philosophical issue of medical marijuana… Everyone was very supportive… In Illinois it’s legal, to me it would be no different is a major pharmaceutical company came here and said we would like to but an [oxycodone] factory here.”

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Letter to the editor

Reaching Us

Kudos to the SIU Board of Trustees MICHAEL MADIGAN Distinguished Professor Emeritus In 35 years of reflecting on actions of the SIU Board of Trustees, in many cases out of amazement at the decisions that they made, the Board has recently displayed the wisdom of a university “guiding light” on two major issues, and I applaud them for it.

SIU clearly needed an administrative overhaul, and the Board took appropriate action. This is now complete with the hiring of System President Randy Dunn and SIUC Acting Chancellor Paul Sarvela. I do not know Randy personally but have heard good things about his leadership skills from colleagues at Murray State where he was recently university president. I have known Paul for many years and can attest to his good common sense, his lack of arrogance, and his firm commitment to treating faculty and staff with the respect they deserve. These are exactly the traits one hopes for in a chancellor.

The Board also recognized a lemon when they saw it and (finally) decided

to dump the marketing firm that was hired years ago to increase enrollment at SIUC. Driving around the area I was truly dumbfounded by the strategy the firm employed in their SIUC billboard campaign. In fact, the slogans used were so odd and ineffectual that I sometimes wondered if instead of working for us, the firm was secretly employed by other state universities to steal students from SIUC. I never saw an SIUC recruitment billboard that gave a good reason to attend the university. Instead of a slogan like, let’s say, “SIUC— Academic Excellence at an Affordable Price”, which gives two good reasons for a student to enroll at SIUC, I instead read silly, almost childish and certainly confusing slogans that tried to attract students on the basis of body parts (hearts and brains), moonbuggies (would the average student have any idea what this is all about), and the fact that the campus is large (the “8000 acres of possible” pitch). Are these slogans the best we can do to sell SIUC and attract new students to our

campus? I certainly hope not.

Years ago when President Dunn was at Murray State, I saw a Murray State billboard over by Marion. It had a lovely photo of the campus in its majestic fall colors along with a couple of students heading to class.

The “hook” was a slogan about how students living in southern Illinois could attend Murray State and pay instate (rather than out-of-state) tuition.

This was a pretty effective billboard in my opinion, and is the type of recruitment message I look forward to seeing from our SIUC recruitment folks now that new campus leadership will be guiding their efforts.

I sense a fresh breeze blowing at SIUC. If our new university president and chancellor can recharge the decimated ranks of the faculty, instill a feeling of hope in the university community, initiate a recruitment campaign that makes sense, and return this campus to one where all opinions are valued and can be freely and openly discussed, it may not be too late to get SIUC back on the right track.

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Planet of the apes never tra KARSTEN BURGSTAHLER For the Daily Egyptian This summer has been full of ridiculous images on screen. Magneto dropping a baseball stadium on the White House in “X-Men.” An alien vessel dropping a ship on Optimus Prime in “Transformers.”

“Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” (Rated PG-13; 130 min.) doesn’t drop anything on us, persay. But it certainly joins the ridiculous image club, with its shot of apes waving machine guns and riding through fire into war on horses in slow motion. It’s something so crazy

it takes a visionary to pull it off on screen while also giving the scene some symbolic meaning.

Director Matt Reeves tries to be that visionary. He isn’t.

“Apes” picks up ten years after the series’ second reboot, “Rise of the Planet of the Apes,” for those of you keeping score at home. Caesar (played by Andy Serkis, the most engrossing thing about the film), the genius ape who led a rebellion during the first movie’s climax, now lives in the woods outside San Francisco with his comrades. A deadly form of the flu wiped out most of humanity, but a small remnant lives in the city. In order to

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restore power the humans must venture into the woods to restore a hydroelectric dam. The problem? The apes are nestled right where the humans need to work.

A territory war ensues, but not for the reasons you might think.

There are two storylines going on here: the humans and the apes. To his credit, Reeves deftly balances the two stories. The problem is that neither is all

‘Keurig machine for beer’ ga LISA BROWN St. Louis Post-Dispatch At the end of a 30-minute interview with Steve Young this month, a colleague of the beer entrepreneur checked his smartphone, leaned over and told him, “We just made another $5,000.”

By then, Young was checking his phone many, many times a day. Since the 28-year-old launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter on June 24 for what has been dubbed the “Keurig machine for beer,” the St. Louis resident said he’s getting a thousand emails, phone calls and voice mails a day from people around the world inquiring about the product, eight months before it’s available for sale.

Interested consumers and investors aren’t the only ones reaching out. Since the campaign began, media outlets from Time magazine to Good Morning America have taken notice of the south St. Louis County-based startup.

Per Kickstarter rules, Synek had a month to reach its goal of $250,000 or it wouldn’t get the funding. Over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, it surpassed its goal. As of July 10, Synek had raised more than $450,000.

The money will be used for development, manufacturing and marketing expenses. In return, those who made pledges get first edition versions of

the product when it hits the market next March, T-shirts and other perks, based on their level of investment. More than 1,000 investors made pledges ranging from a few dollars to more than $5,000.

Synek, which has been in development for two years, has a patent pending for its titanium and nylon bags that can be filled from brewers’ taps with a gallon of beer, or the equivalent of 11 beers. The bags are pressurized, allowing the beer to maintain freshness for at least 30 days, much longer than a growlers’ shelf life of a mere few days, according to Young.

Before he co-founded Synek with Jeff Macler, Young was an equity research analyst with Cleveland Research Co. in Ohio, focusing on retailers including Wal-Mart, Costco and Macy’s. Last year, he returned to his hometown and now devotes his attention to Synek full time.

Based in the STLVentureWorks business incubator on Lemay Ferry Road, Synek has six employees.

Young said his timing for bringing Synek to market is aligned perfectly with changing consumer habits as craft beer sales rise and the number of craft breweries keeps expanding.

“It’s the best time to be a part of the beer industry,” Young said. “Two years ago, this couldn’t have happened.”

The Post-Dispatch recently interviewed Young, and below is an edited transcript.

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How did you come up with the idea for a beer dispenser?

As a stock analyst, I was turned on by the industry’s growth and diversity of brands. As I started talking to brewers across the nation, they all complained about the same problem, which was, they make great beer, but it’s hard for them to get it into people’s homes and actually make money.

When you look at the industry, they have two options. They have cans and bottles, which are extremely expensive, and even the bigger craft brewers like Schlafly can only afford to put out their flagship brands. So, bottom line, selection is limited.

Growlers have become a new trend because they give you variety, but the quality lasts about two days. What we’ve designed is a new packaging system that gives people pretty much unlimited variety at the highest quality they can get.

Did the business stem from you being a beer fan?

No, actually. I’ve never home-brewed a beer. I was just traveling to a lot of cities meeting with hedge fund and mutual fund guys, and they’d all take

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screenwriters Mark Bomback, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver never quite creenwriters Mark Bomback, Rick give the audience a good reason to never quite give the audience a good side with the apes or the humans.

It could be an animal rights story, r the humans. but by the climax you’ll be rooting — Karsten Burgstahler for Koba to get his. It could be a that engrossing. The humans don’t get call for gun control, but that’ll much to do but bow before the apes, and be lost on most audiences when they the somewhat villainous Dreyfus (Gary realize how goofy it looks for apes to Oldman), who doesn’t trust the apes, carry guns. Neither side is particularly never lives up to his full potential. This is fleshed out well enough. “Apes” wants doubly disappointing because Oldman to stand for something but can’t quite gets relegated to the background. figure out what.

Koba, the Brutus to ape Caesar’s So looking past the script and the Caesar, is the real villain here. Or performances, all we really have is the is he? Reeves and his THREE (!!) special effects and the digital apes from

WETA Digital, best known for its work on “Avatar.” Sure, the apes stun. After the prologue we get silence for several minutes as the apes communicate with each other through sign language. It’s stunning for the time being. However, the apes are required to carry the film’s emotional heft despite only being able to speak simple sentences. It adds up to an unsatisfying experience.

“Rise” is the superior film in this section of the franchise, telling an interesting human story while pushing against animal cruelty. Any message “Dawn” has gets lost in the stampeding horses, blown away by those apes with machine guns.

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art of the beer industry. Two ave happened.

— Steve Young collegue of Synek me to their local craft breweries. I was there anyways, so I just started talking with the brewers. The first time I heard them talking about their struggles, I thought, this is interesting. Once I heard everybody saying it, I realized it’s kind of an epidemic.

Do you agree with the comparison some have made between Synek and Keurig?

Coffee was made the same way for centuries, and Keurig came in and changed the game. Synek is a product that has the potential to do that. The difference is, Synek doesn’t brew beer. It doesn’t fabricate beer on the spot. It just dispenses already premium, fresh beer that brewers create.

The feedback I’ve received from brewers is that this can be a gamechanger. Every beer that leaves a brewery (for sale at retailers), brewers make maybe a 10 percent margin, not a lot of money at all. Beer that they sell right out of their brewhouse, they make 15 to 20 times that. Not only is this a way they can get beer into people’s homes, it can help save a lot of these struggling breweries that can’t afford $30,000 bottling equipment.

This can blow things open for them from a profitability standpoint.

Weere are you in the manufacturing process?

We already have a design team and a manufacturing team, and we have a

LISA BROWN · ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

Synek’s co-founder Steve Young, left, and strategic director Michael Werner with the “Keurig machine for beer,” which a successful Kickstarter campaign that has seen them raise more than $450,000 for development, manufacturing and marketing expenses. patent pending for the first flexible packaging that can hold carbonated beverages. We’re lining up distributors.

We have distributors in Europe, the U.K. and Brazil reaching out to us.

It’s not finalized yet but, we’re working with a fabricator, a bag supplier here in Missouri.

The dispensers, we’ve tried everything to try to get them produced in the United States, but unless we can get some type of subsidy, they’ll have to be made in China.

Ten days into the Kickstarter campaign, more than 700 people pledged funds.

Were you surprised by the response?

It’s been a roller coaster. We anticipated

the first couple of days would be huge.

Then we opened up our Kickstarter and nobody showed up. We launched it with home-brewers first, people who trade beer with friends. We were at the homebrewers’ conference two weeks prior and everybody loved it, but they didn’t come out. We had a ‘what are we doing wrong, aha’ moment, and we pivoted toward craft beer, and then it blew open. We had already established relationships with craft brewers, but that was going to be Phase 2 of our efforts. We leapfrogged to craft brewers, and called all of our brew partners and said, ‘this is what we’re doing.’ It took about two or three days, but after that, it went crazy.

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Study your art. Play with family.

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Form alliances, build connections and negotiate for mutual growth.

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Give royal treatment to yourself and others. Practice humility and respectfulness, even as your work gains status.

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SEC commissioner Mike Slive repeats need for change in NCAA MATT MURSCHEL Orlando Sentinel

HOOVER, Ala. — SEC commissioner Mike Slive’s passion for history was on display Monday during his speech kicking off the league’s annual football season preview event.

He quoted Muhammad Ali, former U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower and former British prime minister Winston Churchill, but Slive’s own words concerning the future of his league and the NCAA may have just as much impact when it comes to the future of college football.

“We are not deaf to the din of discontent across collegiate athletics that has dominated the news,” Slive said referring to an offseason that included former athletes facing off with the NCAA

during a high-profile trial and conferences clashing with the NCAA over potential rule changes. “... The world of intercollegiate athletics is full of potential. I am certain that our efforts today will ensure its future for tomorrow.”

During the SEC’s spring meetings in May, Slive threw down the gauntlet by stating if the NCAA didn’t make sweeping governance changes allowing the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC to form their own rules and better compensate athletes, leagues like the SEC may look to break away.

Slive reiterated that stance during Monday’s speech, stating the NCAA must change.

“As I have said before, if we do not achieve a positive outcome under the existing big tent of Division I, we will need to consider the establishment of a venue with similar conferences and institutions

where we can enact the desired changes in the best interests of our student-athletes,” he said.

The NCAA Division I Board of Directors are meeting to vote on various rule change proposals in early August, with many of those focused on providing more financial support for athletes.

The NCAA is weighing allowing schools to pay athletes stipends to better cover the true cost of attendance and medical care once they leave college. Small conferences with leaner budgets have voted against such moves in the past, but Slive stressed the wealthier leagues had to move forward with the rule changes.

Slive’s rhetoric is not new, with the commissioner noting he raised the same issues this time three years ago.

He cited former Florida basketball player Patric Young as

one example of an athlete who “has made the most of his collegiate academic and athletic experience.”

“Student-athletes like Patric, as well as many other studentathletes like him, inspire us to protect intercollegiate athletics, to keep it healthy, vibrant and an integral part of higher education,” Slive said. “... This is why it is critical for the NCAA to change, and to change in accordance with the vision proposed for the 21st century by the five conferences.

“While acknowledging the angst among some conferences and institutions in Division I, I remain optimistic that working together we can create a framework that places the academic and athletic success of the student-athlete front and center.”

Slive said despite the litigation the leagues and NCAA face from former athletes, he still sees it as an

exciting time for college athletics and the SEC in particular. The conference is coming off a banner year, highlighting the SEC’s seven national championships in the sports of golf, gymnastics, swimming, track and field, softball and baseball. Slive noted the league competed in its eighth straight national championship in college football, with last season’s game being “just a minute too long.”

Then he addressed the conference’s next big project: the SEC Network. The new 24-hour television network is a partnership with ESPN and debuts in August, providing fans across the country more access to all things SEC. In the end, Slive said he believes the league has plenty of reasons to tout its past accomplishments and trumpet its potential for future success.

“As Muhammad Ali said, ‘It’s not bragging if you can back it up.’“

LeBron’s decision A look forward to proves you can 2018 for Russia’s first go home again World Cup match JASON LLOYD Alcron Beacon Journal The ashen matchsticks, all 13 of them, were scattered on the sidewalk across from Quicken Loans Arena on July 9, 2010. They were most assuredly used the previous night to burn jerseys in a futile attempt to eradicate the hate and frustration of another loss — the loss of a king.

Across the street, workers mingled below the LeBron James banner that engulfed the office building adjacent the Q. They chatted about his departure, about their pain, and about how long it would take to get that damn thing down.

Cleveland has grown so accustomed to losing for so many years, NBA lotteries and draft parties are now celebrated as championships. It’s as if the city gave up on real titles the day James took his title of “King James” to South Beach.

Yet in the most stunning tale of forgiveness, in a fairytale ending fit for a king, James is living proof you can go home again.

Even when home once booed you, and blasted you with chants of “Akron hates you!” Even when your boss accused you of abandonment, of quitting and of cowardly betrayal ... You can still go home again.

Two years after he left, a bombsniffing dog entered the Q about six hours before a game against the Heat. I asked the accompanying police officer if that was standard procedure before every home game.

“Nope,” he snorted. “Only for that.”

James’ initial return game to Cleveland wearing Heat colors included some ejections, a few fights in the stands and a Moondog in a Kevlar vest.

Those feelings of despondence and anger seared your heart for years. The 26game losing streak begat the league’s worst record the past four years while fringe NBA players like Samardo Samuels, Semih Erden, Luke Harangody, Donald Sloan, Lester Hudson and Manny Harris spun in and out of the door.

General managers were hired and fired. Various coaches were fired, hired, fired, re-hired and fired some more. It was all LeBron’s fault. He dug this grave and then threw the Cavs in it.

Only he’s back now and he brought a shovel with him.

He returns to a younger, healthier roster with more upside and potential than the one he left behind four years ago. The Cavs were a mismatched mess by the time he left, an aging roster of past-their-prime stars and few assets other teams found appealing. All that has changed now.

Now the Cavs are two-thirds of the way to their own Big Three, with trade negotiations surrounding Kevin Love sure to intensify.

Now home games will be rock concerts again, with Forbes already speculating Cavs seats could be the highest in the league next season. If it means Alonzo Gee won’t be clanking 3-pointers from the corner, it’s worth every penny.