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May 24 2006, 08:53 PM
smart girl!
May 24 2006, 09:27 PM
midge, I was just saying, because I have been lactose intolerant my whole life, and still am, the doctor may have caught an allergy to dairy by now. The only food allergy they've ever came back with was that I am allergic to sesame oil. Kind of a random allergy, but it give me an itchy red rash to eat anything cooked with sesame oil.
May 24 2006, 10:08 PM
okay......gotta just say this, vitamin water is NOT just vitamins and water. the second ingredient is crystalline fructose, a form of sugar that comes from cornstarch. they generally have about 13 grams each of sugar and carbs, about one less gram than gatorade. i love that stuff too (esp. when hungover!), but it's not exactly a health drink.
i'm happy about this new thread. i was pretty much raised on holistic medicinal practices (unless of course something was really wrong and antibiotics were necessary). my mother still thinks i'm a traitor now that i use advil when i need to.
i'm actually just about to start the "master cleanse" (10 days on fresh lemon juice, grade b maple syrup and cayenne, with a saltwater flush and laxative tea--it's basically a really hard-core detox program. the maple syrup lemonade gives you the nutrients to survive while everything else loosens up and flushes out your system). i've never done it before, and am generally skeptical, but i've been feeling really sluggish and gross lately and have heard only good things about the results. i figure if i don't feel like it's doing anything good for me, i'll stop. but i'm curious if any of you have done it, and what your experiences were.
May 24 2006, 10:31 PM
well, at first i felt fairly awful. hungry, light-headed, spacey, dizzy, irritable. after the third day it was a different story though. very light and airy, clear, amazing, and not hungry at all. after a few days i had lost a bit of weight (expected, but not good for me 'cause i am a rail already) so i stopped early, but i felt really, really good.
when i was first diagnosed with ibs i went 100% raw vegan right away, after two months i did the master cleanse for 8 or so days followed by a colonic and didn't see a symptom of ibs again for years. i like the lemonaide fast a lot, but i never did the salt water flush or the enemas and the senna tea was actually too strong for me. the colonic was A-MaZINg though. WoW.
May 24 2006, 11:04 PM
maddy, I thought I'd pop in with what worked for me:
I was given Luvox and then Prozac and none of them did me a bit of good. I got all of the side-effects that are rare. It wasn't until I was reading up on depression that I realised why.
There are two types of enzyme pathways that can be involved in depression (that we know of so far). One is treated by SSRI (prozac, luvox, etc) and the other is treated by the older drugs (the ones you can't eat cheese with). If you are given a drug that blocks the enzyme pathway that is working then it stands to reason you would get some nifty side-effects. I think that is what happened to me.
Unfortunately no drugs can treat both pathways at the same time, so that leaves a subset of patients kind of fubarred. Anyway, I did some reading on depression and started taking St-John's Wort (specifically the brand used in a clinical trial) and it worked. I could tell it was working (which I never could with drugs) and I could tell when I went off of it too soon. I also took tryptophan (I didn't even realise that it was illegal where I live until I went to buy my second bottle!)
Anyway, there were a couple books that I found really helpful that you might want to check out:
The Way Up From Down - by Priscilla Slague, MD
(easy to follow, drug-free program of B vitamins and amino acids)
Depression and Natural Medicine - by Rita Elkins
(a nutritional approach to depression and mood swings)
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy - by David D. Burns, M.D.
(clinically proven drug-free treatment for depression)
It's been a while since I've read them (they worked so I haven't needed them in several years). They are all available from Amazon. Good luck!.
May 24 2006, 11:05 PM
Wow, that sounds fantastic. I think I need a cleanse (never done one so probably) Can you describe it again, maybe with proportions? How much should I make for a whole day? Should I avoid any activities while on this? Does it taste like crap? I am definately feeling rather sluggish as of late and could really use a health boost. Would love the "recipie".
May 24 2006, 11:14 PM
there's a book called "the master cleanse" by stanley burroughs. but the ratio is
2 Tbsp lemon
2 Tbps pure grade B (NOT grade A) maple syrup
1-10 tsp cayenne (to taste)
12 oz purified water
drink it 6-12 times a day. you drink a laxative tea (senna leaf) at night, and do a saltwater flush of 2 tsp sea salt in a quart of water in the mornings. chug the whole thing. i'm taking the tea tonite and starting the lemonade tomorrow, but apparently it's pretty.....cleansing. like stay by the toilet for an hour after you drink the saltwater. not exactly looking forward to that, but what i've heard about the results make it worth it.
if you google "master cleanse" you'll find a lot of info, as well as other peoples' experience with it. i'll keep y'all posted as i do it, too.
May 24 2006, 11:53 PM
mouse, thank you for that info. my mom does the stomach cleanse w/ cayenne and vinegar. I'll have to try yours, though. where do I find the maple syrup? that cleanse will heal an ulcer or an irritated stomach too. I've been eating the acitivia lately and that seems to be working well for me. I need to get off the sugar. I'm particularly bad about eating oreos and ice cream. I also need to do more exercizing.
oh, btw, how often do you drink the concotion?
May 25 2006, 06:38 AM
AH, my favorite topic has finally come up, as I knew it would! Cleanses and colonics! Over in the okayland thread, they sweetly call me the butt flush queen...what can I say, they are very beneficial, and I share my joy with others!
I do a cleanse about 3x a year, but I go a little crazy with the lemon cleanse, so I use a product called
to make smoothies with a little frozen fruit and water in the mornings and evenings, and then eat raw veggies for lunch...it gives my body the rest it needs, and the BioCleanse keeps my energy stable, and blood sugar stable. I'll usually get a couple of colonics while I cleanse, and that really helps keep my cravings down and keep me on track with my diet when I go back to a more normal eating schedule. I'm about due for another cleanse.
I'll also take lots of epsom salt baths during my cleanse week to assist in detoxing, and if I'm lucky I go down to the massage school and get a massage too. To me, cleansing is as much about pampering myself as it is cleaning my body. ;)
Clover - most grocery stores should carry the Grade B maple syrup...
May 25 2006, 08:59 AM
I have heard good things and bad things about cleanses and fasting. Wouldn't doing something like that screw up your metabolism?
Anyway, I've been wondering for a long time about my poop. It seems like looking in the toilet bowl can be a good indicator of your health, and mine is always very smelly and sludgy and gross and seems oily. I don't know why! I get a moderate amount of excersize, drink plenty of water, and my diet is mainly raw fruits and veggies, trail mix, hummus, granola, soy, oats, etc. No meat or dairy. I very RARELY eat eggs and when I do they are fresh from my boyfriend's pet chickens. I can't think of anything refined or overly processed. Am I missing something?
May 25 2006, 09:43 AM
ht - yup, your poop is a good indicator of a lot of things. I'd recommend taking 3 chlorophyll capsules everymorning - makes your poop vibrantly green!...but also helps clean out your intestines. It sounds like you eat a great diet, but things are still literally fermenting in there...which is the smell. How well do you chew your food? With lots of raw foods and whole grains, unless you chew your food really well, your poops can get a little gross.
The oiliness is odd though, and the only thing I can think of is that you can't quite fully digest the soy. I'm that way, so I pretty much cut out the soy except for the occasional soy cheese pizza. Also I know that I really have to be careful about my olive oil (any oil) consumption...I can't have much of it before my body talks to me about it.
I think the important thing about starting cleanses is really being aware and listening to your body...and having professional support your first time out. If you start to feel odd, overly tired, twitchy, just stop. I know that for me, I need to use a medical food product like BioCleanse that is designed for cleansing gently and maintaining energy....and its wheat/dairy/egg/gluten free, which is important to me.
May 25 2006, 09:44 AM
Oh - also ht - if you can, you might want to get a colonic - a good colon therapist can diagnose your issues really well, tell you which part of your intestines are slowing things down for you, and recommend natural digestive aids to help you digest more efficiently.
May 25 2006, 10:53 AM
just a little fyi if anyone is going to try st. john's wort or any 'natural' anti-anxiety meds that have it in them, it does interfere with the effectiveness of hormonal birth control, so if you're on the pill/patch/ring/depo, stay away!
raskel--i see, and that is a weird one, the sesame oil!
tatiana--i'm on a waitlist for that "feeling good" book from the library, i'm glad to hear it's actually good!
hellotampon--just a little concern over the smelly/oily poop...i'd be concerned that you are having some malabsorption problems ...haha, omg, i just googled "smelly oily poop" to make sure "malabsorption" was the right term for the problem, and the fifth result is the "everyone poops..." thread where we talked about the poo nurse a while back! lol! well, i guess you are already concerned about this. but if this has been going on so long, why not go check it out with the doc? it can be caused by less worrysome things like soy or dairy allergy or parasites (though, parasites do need to be treated), but can also be signs of much more severe problems like celiacs disease, problems with your pancreas, and even cystic fibrosis! even if it is just from an allergy, it is a strong sign that your body is not absorbing all the nutrients from the food you eat, which is not healthy! i really hope you look into this further since it has been an ongoing issue!
May 25 2006, 03:29 PM
okay....day 1 of the master cleanse....it's 3pm here and i've had four cups of the stuff. it's tasty, but i can see myself getting sick of it real quick. the saltwater made me super nauseous this morning (do you know how much a quart is??? A LOT is the answer. A LOT) but it, uh, did what it was supposed to do.
i have a pretty heavy caffeine addiction so i have a vicious headache right now...they're supposed to disappear in a couple of days. i can stick it out.
i'm not hungry at all. i want food for the taste, but i'm not physically hungry.
May 25 2006, 03:50 PM
Has anybody tried Wheatgrass juice?If so please tell me how it tastes because I've heard it has many health benefits.
May 25 2006, 04:04 PM
I was surprised to like wheatgrass juice. It is kinda sweet...and to me it sort of has an icky taste right at first but then that goes away and you get a yummy flavor and aftertaste. It is just sorta fresh and grassy...that's the only words I can find.
The Mr. and I like it enough to sip it, and then the guy at the juice bar yells at us to hurry up and drink it cuz all the vitamins are going away as it sits there.
I'm gonna do a juice fast sometime soon...I like that more than the master cleanse, but I still drink a lot of water with lemon. It's sort of a good, spring-y time for a cleanse!
May 25 2006, 06:08 PM
Yup, I love the wheatgrass...I grow my own, and then I juice it with a little ginger - hoo-boy - that is better at revving you up than anything!
May 25 2006, 07:01 PM
dang i hate wheatgrass. which really sucked when i worked at a wheatgrass FARM! all the free shots i could stomach. i was up to two-four ounces after a few months. some people really love the taste but, blech, i found it so overwhelmingly sweet and grassy. it was ok mixed with apple juice but adding ginger would have pushed me right over the nauseous edge, ugh.
the health benefits are unmistakable. really.
May 25 2006, 09:21 PM
so I went and saw my doctor today and I told him that I was going to break open my capsules and pour a little bit out everyday. he advised against it b/c I couldn't measure it. I asked him what the alternative was and he said just to stay on it!!! what????? come on!! so I went home and broke my capsules open and poured out 25 granules for the first week, 50 for the second, approx. 75 for the third (I didn't really count each one here) and around half of the capsule for the fourth week. We'll see how it goes. I've wanted to do this for a long time and now that I'm not working or going to school I feel that I can do it. I've been on Effexor for over three years. I don't know what it's like w/out it and I don't really know exactly what it is doing to me side effect wise. it's been a good drug for my anxiety but it has caused me a lot of nervousness (what a trade, huh??). I may stay on it if it gets to where I can't handle the anxiety but I'm going to be positive about it and say that the anxiety will not return. My brain is different now and I've learned to not catastrophize as much like I used to. okay, this probably belongs in the anxiety thread but I just wanted to update anyone who cares. Thanks for listening!
May 25 2006, 09:33 PM
good for you for taking things into your own hands. if i were you i would find another doctor while you're at it, pill pushers make me nervous. it's like they don't know enough about how things work to suggest anything other than drugs. wierd! they're supposed to be doctors, shouldn't they have something more up their sleeves than that?! sheesh.
May 25 2006, 09:37 PM
Does anyone know about taking care of asthma naturally? I know I've heard of it being done, I just don't remember who told me or what they said.
May 25 2006, 10:55 PM
i'm hungry, my head is pounding, and the scent of maple syrup makes me want to puke. things can only get better, right..?
May 26 2006, 07:21 AM
Thanks turbo, I'll have to get some chlorophyll capsules!
I haven't (and won't) see a doctor about it because I have no insurance. Otherwise I would have, a long time ago. I'm thinking maybe it's a soy intolerance because I've been having my poopy problem pretty much since I turned vegan and started eating more soy. Which is horrible because I lovelovelove tofu!
May 26 2006, 08:22 AM
hello - I hope you see improvement when you cut down on the soy...I stil eat tofu about once a week, but that's about my limit, with a litte soy cheese pizza occasionally. And when I eat tofu - I make sure its worth it by getting the handmade stuff by the artisan tofu-ery in our 'hood.
raskel...I've no real advice on the natural asthma treatment, though again, I'll say that changing my diet made mine go away completely...of course, I worked on getting in decent physical shape too, so I'm sure it was a combination of factors.
mouse....be sure to listen to your body, and if you don't feel right, then stop the cleanse, and rethink how you can do a cleanse and still support your body's needs. I'm a firm believer that cleansing shouldn't mean suffering.
May 26 2006, 09:01 AM
turbojenn:Can you tell me how you grow it and where to get the juicer because I really want to try it; people say wheatgrass is really good and has lots of health benefits!
May 26 2006, 09:28 AM
I got my juicer at Target - its not a super deluxe model, I think it was around $40, and I think it might be a Juiceman model...I remember laughing with turboman in the store about its 'as seen on tv' status...but it works just fine.
I buy my wheatgrass already growing - natural food stores sell them in about 4" x 4" blocks with dirt and everything, and its crazy easy to grow, and it makes me happy to see green growing things in my house. I'm getting half a flat of wheatgrass this weekend at our organic produce co-op, and I'm going to fill a whole window box with it!
May 26 2006, 10:20 AM
Cloverbee-Just stay on it? Um, ok, that's great advice. What was your dr. thinking? I'm glad you are going to slowly wean yourself off of it, cause I think cold turkey will hurt a lot. Good luck! Let us know how it goes.
Tatiana-thanks a bunch! i'll get one of those books and start doing the research. It just makes me tired to have to learn all this new stuff about nutrition and stuff....
May 26 2006, 01:25 PM
Clover, you take effexor? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not just stop it completely. I have been taking effexor for almost 4-5 years and anytime I am without it (like the time my dr just flat out refused to prescribe it to me, without giving me prior notice), I became horribly horribly depressed and really weepy (right word?), headachy, and very sucidial. Def not something I would ever wish on anyone.
As far as natural stuff goes, I totally want to start eating organically again. I just end up very broke when I do. Does anyone know of any inexpensive natural food stores? Kinda like a cheap whole foods?
May 26 2006, 01:39 PM
i feel a lot better today--no headache, not hungry. the maple syrup is still making me queasy--so sweet!! and i don't generally have much of a sweet tooth even when i'm eating crap. i'm drinking some mint tea right now to switch it up a bit and feel a little better about the thought of the syrup. i'm just adding less to the concoction.
i think the headache was part caffeine withdrawal (and i KNOW that i get headaches when i go too long without coffeeeee...yuck), and partially cos i didn't get much exercise yesterday. i'm getting over a cold and felt kind of fevery so i slept most of yesterday, but today i feel a lot better.
May 26 2006, 01:52 PM
mouse, hang in ther, girl.
cstars, thanks for the advice. I once skipped a day and it was a freaking nightmare. I have found myself at the drugstore crying to the pharmacist when I was out and my doc was away. yes, it is a bad drug to come off of. some say it's the worst.
turbo, can you go into more detail about how you grow the wheatgrass? do you leave it inside? how do you juice it and how much does it take?
I'm starting my diet today. I slept until 1:00 this afternoon. I think it's PMS. it's time for a change.
May 26 2006, 02:31 PM
cstars - the cheapest organic foods are at walmart. everything's 20 cents less expensive, but you can't get everything there either. i can always get pasta, bread, fruit and vegetables at walmart, and occasionally they have other organic foods there. i've also heard that sam's choice milk is hormone and steroid free, but i have never looked into that myself.
May 26 2006, 04:19 PM
okay, day 1 folks and I'm dizzy and hot and my arms are heavy but I'm in the best damn mood of my life!!!! WOW!
May 26 2006, 07:29 PM
mouse, cut the syrup. you don't have to use so much, especially if it's too sweet for you. i only used a splash and the fast was great for me. and remember the first three days are the hardest. it will be over before you know it and you'll be so glad you did it in the end.
as for juicing wheatgrass. there are a few inexpensive models around but they're almost all manual hand crank type juicers. while a regular centrifical force juicer (shreds veggies and fruit up and spins out the juice) can handle a bit of, say, spinach mixed in with some carrots or apples, it isn't for wheatgrass, sprouts or even most leafy greens in larger quantities. the ratio of juice to grass is very low in comparison for one thing. wheatgrass is best juiced with a press, the hand crank and electric models crush and squeeze out the juice which gets out way, way more of it and also doesn't damage the juice through oxidation or heat (oxidation from spinning, many centrifical force juicers heat up too much for wheatgrass). wheatgrass juice (and many green juices) lose potency extremely quickly when exposed to air and light and especially heat. once juiced, it should be consumed well within 10 minutes and the best way to take that kind of juice is all by itself, not mixed with anything at all. that maximizes it's nutritive and cleansing properties.
well worth the effort, amazing stuff indeed.
can you tell i worked at a wg farm? whew.
May 27 2006, 11:34 AM
pepper:Are the health benefits true and does it give you energy?
May 27 2006, 03:32 PM
wait, clover, are you doing the cleanse too? or is this a different diet? did i miss something?
today......i can stomach the syrup fine. i've been using less and the smell doesn't gross me out. i don't want to cut it out entirely tho since that's where you get the majority of your calories from and i'd really rather not pass out.
my legs kind of hurt, in the way that they feel when you first wake up and are all stiff, or when you're trying to stretch too far. but they feel like that just standing up or lying down. weird....maybe an effect of the cleanse, or maybe.....i just am not stretching well. i've been walking around, but nothing strenuous. ..i dunno.
the major thing today is, other than my tongue being totally grossly coated, is.............i feel highhhhhhhh.
May 27 2006, 05:15 PM
aching muscles can be a sign of detox, you're doing great. the icky tongue too. and when you fast you don't need calories, water fasting and even short term dry fasting can have even more profound (and quicker) results than the master cleanse. the mc is a "cleanse" not just a fast, it's designed to flush and support and clean you out at the same time. but don't worry about cutting down or even cutting out the syrup, whatever feels right to you.
yes the wheatgrass really is all that. super detoxifying, amazingly nutritionally powerful, really incredible. it can give you lots of energy, but it can also just knock you out. depends on what your insides are like and how you react to it.
May 27 2006, 05:29 PM
mouse - you might want to take some hot baths with epsom salt - about 2lb per bath, and water as hot as you can stand it - that will assist the detox, and loosen your muscles..Be sure to shower off afterward, or you'll have salty skin.
wheatgrass definitely gives me a boost in energy...and pepper, thanks for the juicing tips...I've definitely had some issues using my juiceman for wheatgrass...I'll look for a hand cranker for that.
May 27 2006, 05:29 PM
damned double post!
May 27 2006, 05:43 PM
I'm doing the no more Effexor cleanse ;)
May 27 2006, 06:17 PM
Someone posted a really great link to a site that had the whole master cleanse (i'm pretty sure it was teh mc) in one of the health threads quite a while ago. Does anyone know what the site was? It had all the info on it.
May 27 2006, 06:55 PM
https://123webmagic.com/themastercleanse/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=38&produ cts_id=83
hey mouse - here is a really cute certificate you can print out for yourself after you finish your master cleanse and then you can be a member of the "Lemonade Brigade" for "people who have actively searched for ways to improve their health and followed that search with action"
i though it was really cute and thought you might like it.....
May 27 2006, 06:58 PM
sorry about the double post BUT.... erinjane - here is a site that outlines the "Master Cleanse" and is the same place I found the "Lemonade Brigade" certificate of completion for *mouse*.....
May 27 2006, 07:13 PM
tj, a good inexpensive one is called the porkert (yes, ha ha, very funny i know). it also works for berries and very soft fruit like peaches, etc.
nice call on the epsom salts too, that's a great idea. a swim and a sauna would be awesome too, got a local pool with a steamroom nearby?
May 28 2006, 12:19 AM
Voodoo, thanks for that. It's a different site, but similar. The other one was a pdf file and it was probably about 20-30 pages and very thorough. I had it bookmarked but my computer has since crashed. That looks like a good start though. I recently went totally vegetarian, which really wasn't a huge difference from what I was eating before, but I just feel like I need to detox my body and have a fresh start or something.
May 28 2006, 12:44 PM
has anyone heard of sun chlorella? it's supposed to cleanse your body of toxins but I've never tried it. it's very expensive.
May 28 2006, 01:15 PM
if you're trying to eat more organic, this site is good:
to find health food stores and the like near you.
also, cloverbee, that's about the way i went off of effexor when i did. i counted the little beads that i poured out and went incredibly slowly, and then didn't have any problems. true, you're not dealing with exact dosages that way, but if you want to go off the drug, you can get a good enough estimate of the dosage that way. it seems to be the only way, or it was for me. if you have probs with anxiety, there's gotta be some sort of milder drug that can help you, because effexor is horrible stuff. and hopefully, you'll be fine and not need anything at all. fingers crossed for you.
May 28 2006, 01:40 PM
annelise, why is effexor so bad? I am just curious if it does bad things to your body or do you mean that it's hard to get off of? I really don't know a lot about it.
May 28 2006, 02:42 PM
i'm not sure what sort of effects it has when you're on it, but anything that gives you withdrawal that bad has gotta be some pretty powerful stuff, IMO. plenty of AD's have withdrawal effects when you try to go off of them, but from what i've read/heard, effexor is the worst of all of them by far.
May 28 2006, 03:10 PM
day four.
i am going off the cleanse. i feel really shaky and high and feverish today, and while that might be par for the course, i start a new job on tuesday and i don't want to be this out of it for that. this is something i could do under different circumstances, i don't think it's a healthy thing for me to be doing right now. i started in on the second day of a cold, which i think is a good reason why i feel feverish. i also just started my period, and i tend to get kind of anemic so i think it's probably not a great idea to be not getting iron right now.
if i had some more days off, or if i was just going back to a job i knew well, it would be different, but this is the first "real" job i've ever gotten and i want to be in top shape, not shaky and feverish and taking half a second too long to respond to people.
regardless, my digestive system does feel *A LOT* better. i'm going to start orange juice today and do soup tomorrow. i really wanted to do the cleanse mainly to jumpstart myself into eating better, and i definietly thing it's done that. for the first day or two i was practically licking the screen if an olive garden commercial or mcdonals or anything horrible came on tv, but now i'm just kind of salivating about, like, barley.
i'd like to try it again, but i really don't think now is the right time for me to do it. i feel kind of bad, but i also know it's necessary. bleh.
May 28 2006, 03:47 PM
mouse, I think you are doing very well in listening to your body. When you decide to do a cleanse again, I would recommend something gentler with a product like BioCleanse that gives you all the nutrients you need and keeps your blood sugar stable...it still gives you a great experience, but none of the downsides.
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Thai protesters now look to courts
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Buddhist monks collect alms from protesters at Lumpini Park in Bangkok yesterday.
BANGKOK: Anti-government protesters in Thailand have retreated to a central Bangkok park, freeing up traffic after blocking big intersections for more than a month, but Thailand's four-month political crisis looks no closer to a solution.
The protesters, who moved to Lumpini Park on the weekend after orders from their leader, Suthep Thaugsuban, are banking on judicial intervention from courts widely seen as hostile to Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to bring down her government.
"Bangkokians are able to go to work more easily but the state of play in Thailand has not changed since protesters scaled back," said Siripan Nogsuan Sawasdee, a political analyst at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok.
"He (Suthep) realises that the fate of the government won't be determined by his group but lies in the hands of independent organisations - the anti-corruption body and the courts."
Demonstrators seeking to overthrow Yingluck took to the streets in November and have since blockaded ministries, occupied government offices and, in January, set up camp at major traffic intersections in Bangkok.
They want Yingluck to resign to make way for an appointed "people's council" to overhaul a political system they say has been taken hostage by her billionaire brother and former premier, Thaksin Shinawatra.
Although tension has eased on the streets, there was a reminder of the danger when two grenades were thrown at a Bangkok criminal court yesterday, although only one exploded and no injuries were reported, police said.
Critics have accused the criminal court of siding with demonstrators after it rejected several government requests for arrest warrants to be issued for certain protest leaders.
Yingluck faces several legal challenges, the most significant being negligence charges for mishandling a disastrous rice subsidy scheme.
The scheme paid farmers above the market price and has run out of funds, prompting farmers - normally the prime minister's biggest supporters - to demonstrate in Bangkok.
Hundreds of farmers joined anti-government protesters led by Buddhist monk Luang Pu Buddha Issara in a rally at the Finance Ministry yesterday to demand payment but they dispersed later.
Yingluck has been given until March 14 by the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) to defend herself. It will then decide whether there is a case to pursue.
"It seems likely she will be found guilty," said Kan Yuenyong, an analyst at the Siam Intelligence Unit think-tank.
"At that point, she will have to suspend her duties if the case goes to court. The endgame that protesters are hoping for is a way to suspend the whole cabinet so that an interim, so-called neutral, prime minister can be elected," Kan said.


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Sammy has faith in regime
Keep up to date with England's Investec Test Series against West Indies with our in-depth day-by-day reports - plus all the reaction, highlights and photos
West Indies captain Darren Sammy has reiterated his belief in the methods employed by the team under coach Ottis Gibson.
The Windies have won just two of their last 31 Tests and, although there have been signs of promise since Gibson and Sammy joined forces at the helm, they have been unable to secure a victory in their previous seven outings in the five-day format.
Sammy, however, believes in what the pair are doing, which amounts to a bottom-up overhaul of the central tenets of Caribbean cricket.
"I try and do the best I can for West Indies but everybody has an opinion and I respect that," he said on the eve of the second Investec Test against England at Trent Bridge.
"Coach Gibson and myself are trying to build something for the future here. Everybody might not like it but the team has been responding in the last few series we've played.
"People are free to talk, it's a free country. Ottis has made it known this West Indies team is a hard-working team.
"He (Gibson) came on board with a whole new idea - determination, working hard for yourself and the team, fitness. He wanted to play a brand of cricket where fans could see the determination and passion and see us competing against higher-ranked teams. So far we've been able to do that.
"The West Indies have been going down to the bottom for the last 15 or so years and we kept doing the same things over and over again. Somebody said to me that if you do the same things over and over and expect change that's crazy."
With Shannon Gabriel having flown home after sustaining a back injury in the five-wicket defeat at Lord's, the tourists need to make at least one change.
Ravi Rampaul, fit again after a neck complaint that handed Gabriel his debut, is set to return and there could also be a place for spinner Shane Shillingford.
Shillingford missed out in the first Test after complaining the cold weather was hindering his delivery of the ball, but the balmy conditions in Nottingham should solve that.
"There's a good chance Shillingford might play in this match with Shannon out," said Sammy.
"Ravi is fit again and he's been the man taking wickets with the new ball for us. We'll probably go back to our usual...two hard, fast bowlers and myself and a spinner."
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Lexington, KY – June 29, 2012 – Commonwealth Eye Surgery has become the first ophthalmic center in Kentucky to offer cataract surgery with the Catalys Precision Laser System. Catalys combines a state-of-the-art femtosecond laser, advanced 3D Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) imaging, sophisticated software and a host of other unique features that deliver a precise, customized procedure and an exceptional experience for cataract patients.
"The long awaited 'new era' has arrived…precision laser cataract surgery is now a reality. Real time imaging systems integrated with the power of femtosecond lasers will help boost refractive outcomes for cataract patients to those presently enjoyed by LASIK patients." said Dr. Lance S. Ferguson, Surgical Director at Commonwealth Eye Surgery. "We are indeed fortunate to have been selected as the flagship for the Catalys system in this region, the fifth installation in the entire United States."
A cataract is an age-related condition in which the lens of the eye becomes clouded or opaque, making vision fuzzy and normal daily living activities more difficult. Cataract surgery is the only treatment for cataracts and is one of the most common procedures performed worldwide, estimated at 19 million cases per year.1 In the conventional (non-laser) procedure, the surgeon must perform several critical steps by hand. This manual approach limits predictability and precision, potentially affecting visual outcomes and complication rates. In recent years, laser technology – which is used in procedures such as LASIK – has been incorporated into cataract surgery to enhance the precision, accuracy and safety of the procedure. The Catalys Precision Laser System represents the next generation of this technology and has been shown in clinical study to deliver precision that is unequaled in the industry.
Using Catalys, surgeons can access and remove the cataract-affected lens with accuracy that is within tens of microns.1 (For visual perspective, the width of a human hair is 85 microns.) This new level of accuracy may allow surgeons to position the artificial replacement lens exactly where it is intended to ultimately ensure effective performance and excellent visual outcomes.2,3,4 This is especially true for premium intraocular lenses (IOLs), which include presbyopia-correcting multifocal and accommodating IOLs and astigmatism-correcting toric IOLs.
In addition to its accuracy benefits, Catalys' sophisticated laser technology makes break-up and removal of the cataract easier and gentler on the patient.5 A clinical study has shown that Catalys reduces the amount of ultrasound energy needed during this step by approximately 40 percent, an improvement that may enhance procedure safety.
"The potential patient benefits are enormous…reducing energy required to remove the cataract preserves corneal clarity and the consistent size and shape of both internal and external laser incisions provides marked improvement in the final unaided visual acuity. Despite expert surgical technique, no human hand can approach the consistency and accuracy of the Catalys femtosecond system. And for patients' sake, it's time for surgeons to park their egos and embrace the technology that will ultimately become the standard of care.
Autopilots were initially denigrated by "real" pilots, but with their consistently superior computer driven performance, they are now an FAA requirement for most commercial and many private aircraft. They simply fly the airplane more accurately than their human counterparts. Likewise, femtosecond laser cataract surgery will complement the surgical skill and judgment of even the most experienced practitioner," said Dr. Ferguson.
"Finally, patients will enjoy additional comfort as the Catalys system painlessly completes the most critical steps of cataract surgery before the patient arrives in the operating room, thereby minimizing his or her time in surgery."
The Catalys Precision Laser System was developed by OptiMedica Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif., USA) in close collaboration with a Medical Advisory Board of cataract experts from around the world. Catalys was CE mark approved in August 2011 and market cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in December 2011. The system is available at leading ophthalmic centers around the world.
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Located in Lexington, Kentucky, Commonwealth Eye Surgery is Kentucky's first and finest optometric co-management center and the premier surgical eye care provider in the Bluegrass. Our array of services include laser cataract surgery (including the Crystalens presbyopia correcting and TORIC astigmatic correcting premium lens implants), LASIK (including True Custom Wavefront and ALL laser LASIK) and other refractive surgeries, glaucoma laser treatments, and other laser procedures. Our "team approach" creates a seamless and convenient integration of your eye care between our facility and your local eye care provider. Our surgeon, Dr. Lance S. Ferguson, has operated successfully on more than 70,000 eyes in Lexington since 1985. Known as the "Doctor the Doctors Choose," he is the surgeon of choice of other eye doctors, having operated on more eye doctors and their families than any other eye surgeon in Kentucky.


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With a spread of -14 my knee jerk was to take the peacocks over their neighbors, but after inspecting their lineup and results, the obvious pick here is seton hall right? well not so fast, the st. peters results are misleading because they were missing their starting center for the first 3 games, then he came back and they blew out a winless binghamton team. Meanwhile, the Pirates have relied on their experienced and lightning quick point guard Jordan Theodore and 6'8"center Herb Pope. When you add talented 6'6"sophomore wing Fuquan Edwin to the mix, the Pirates have the tools to give any MAAC team all it can handle. SPC guards will need to keep Jordan Theodore out of the lane and stop him from penetrating if they want to stay in contention. I think the talent at guard will eventually wear down the lesser manned Peacocks as they did last year when the pirates won by 20. I see a similar outcome tonight.
Seton Hall -14 for 2 units
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I think the redhawks are the better team here. So.....
College Basketball 780 Illinois State 2nd Half +155* vs Rutgers
Also got Kansas -8 tonight v. UCLA....talent wins out!
2-0-0 on the season after the dukes kept it close enough to cover against Arizona.
No write ups tonight but im putting a unit on the following:
Rhode Island +6 v george mason 1h
Ole Miss +11 v Lousiana Monroe
Rutgers +11 v Dartmouth
More to follow and maybe a write up
Season: 1-0-0
A good start to the year as I scooched the St Johns under on Monday Night. Onto the next one....
The Wildcats are ranked 16th in the country but don't let that fool you. This team may get there at some point but right now this Arizona team is as raw as the come. In fact, they suffered a loss to a division 2 team in the preseason. On Monday night, they led Valpo by just 2 and after stretching the lead to as many as 20, Valpo was able to cut the lead to single digits and only lossed by 9. Duquesne is better than Valpo and much more athletic. Yes, the Dukes lost a ton of production, but they have the A 10 frosh of the year coming back in local product T.J. MCConnell. The Dukes will try out there 40 minutes of hell tonight, pressing the entire game, hoping to dictate the tempo. They also have the advantage of having game film on this current wildcat squad. I think McConnell will be able to keep Kyle Fogg in check most of the night. So Arizona will have to find other players to contribute scoring wise. I'm not sure they'll be able to do that. All and all I love the +10.5 the Dukes are getting. At +425 I considered the ml, but instead I'll take the points.
Pick: Duquesne +10.5 for 3 units
Happy opening night fellow cappers.
Tonight I feel we have been given a gift with a total of 137.... St. Johns has basically a brand new set of players led by 6'9 juco transfer God'sgift achuiwa....yes his name is actually god'sgift and he played his juco ball in my hometown of buffalo. He has some raw skills which will be on display tonight. But I think as a group it will take the johnnies sometime to mesh. William and Mary has experience coming back with 13 of 14 returning including 4 starterw but is still wet behind the ears with 2 sophs and 1 frosh in its starting lineup. They''re star Quinn Mcdowell is hampered by an injury and will not be a 100%. The team's star player has been out much of the preseason with a meniscus injury. Two contributing players are definitely out with injuries: Tim Rusthaven and Kyle Galliard. Add all this up and basically you got stjohns teams who have little to none regualr season game experience and W&M with a young lineup hampered by injuries and a star player looking to shake off the injury rust... To me this adds up to a game that will be played in the low 60s. the pick: one unit u137
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Council divided on business registration
June 16, 2013
EAST PALESTINE — The possible implementation of local business registration is on hold while Village Solicitor Shirley Smith looks into whether it is even allowable under state law....
So Elzer thinks he can just bypass or ignore state law, is that it? And where was the law director when all of this was being proposed? Isn't she supposed to be checking this out before it reaches council, to make sure it's all legal to begin with? Why is it that Cohen is the one that has to point this out and not Ms. Smith? What exactly is she paid to do? Elzer wants to set up his own little kingdom in EP, tax everybody for everything and stick his nose into everyone else's business. Meanwhile, he can't even handle his own businesses, just creates one mess after another. I say get your own house in order before you start telling others how to run theirs.
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And the beat goes on..... Smith sits there and does nothing all meeting she has no clue as to what she is doing, and dont let Figley fool you, he is licking his chops to run for Unity twp trustee, not that he has been to any meetings or anything, he just wants the Insurance. All politics for the wrong reasons
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Spurred by the disclosure that 758,000 registered voters do not have Pennsylvania drivers' licenses, six civic groups called on Gov. Corbett Friday to delay implementation of a new voter ID requirement for at least a year.
The Corbett administration immediately rejected the request.
"Our goal since the law was signed is to reach out to all voters to make them aware of the law so all eligible voters are able to get ID if needed, and cast ballots in November," said Ron Ruman, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of State, in charge of the state election machinery.


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The latest buzz in Israel is about who will replace President Moshe Katzav, who has so tragically fallen from his public pedestal.
President Katzav once enjoyed tremendous popularity and had been thought to be one of the few presidents who was able to bridge the ethnic and political divides in the country. But the suspicion of sexual harassment – which turned into charges by the Attorney General of rape, obstruction of justice, fraud and breach of trust – has left both him and his office battered.
When the suspicions against Katzav emerged in the fall, there had been a constant vigil of people outside his residence, just two blocks away from the ADL office in Jerusalem, calling for his resignation.
Today, there is no one. Some of his staff members have quit their posts and officials have cut all but mandatory links with his office. Since the allegations against him became public, the President has avoided traveling abroad and drastically reduced his public appearances. It is as if he no longer exists and the country has become focused on who will take his place.
Katzav, 61, once the wonder boy of the Likud Party, has become the object of newspaper cartoons and a symbol of the woes of Israel's leadership vacuum. The Attorney General's charges against the President topped a couple of weeks in which the Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff was replaced following criticism of his performance during the summer's conflict with Hezbollah, and the police announced an investigation of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for possible wrongdoing in the sale of the state's second largest bank.
The Katzav scandal, in particular, has had a damaging effect on Israel. For Israelis, it is not comfortable to have a president, albeit in a mainly ceremonial role, being accused of rape. Indeed, the Arab media in its editorials and cartoons have exploited this by comparing the State of Israel to a rapist.
On the one hand, the country can feel proud of its democracy and its commitment to the judicial process. This is the message the Ministry of Foreign Affairs wants its diplomats abroad to convey. But on the other hand, Katzav is the country's head of state and his downfall is seen as a symbol of the unprecedented low opinion the nation has of its leaders.
Katzav has temporarily suspended himself until his hearing with the Attorney General. If indicted, he will immediately resign, thus opening the way for a new election for president by members of the Israeli Knesset, to take place within 45 days. If it drags on, then the original mid-July election date (when Katzav's term officially ends) will stand. While no "race" has been formally opened, there has been a flurry of behind-the-scenes maneuvering by the candidates.
For the moment, the leading candidates for the presidency are the perennial Shimon Peres, currently Vice Prime Minister (Kadima), former Speaker of the Knesset Reuven Rivlin (Likud) and Collette Avital, currently Deputy Speaker of the Knesset (Labor). Other names being bandied about are former Supreme Court Justice Aharon Barak and Rabbi Meir Lau, former Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi.
• Shimon Peres, 83, who unexpectedly lost to Katzav last time around, is by far the most popular candidate in the country according to public opinion polls. But it is the 120-member Knesset which votes secretly and that brings intrigue to the outcome. Peres has his supporters not just in Kadima but in his long-time Labor Party and others. But he also has created many political enemies during his 50-plus years in government. One proposal being debated now in the Knesset is the so-called "Peres Law" which will make the vote for president open, the thinking being that no one would publicly vote against Israel's elder statesman. One political cartoon has Peres shooting for an enormous soccer goal with legislators holding it open yelling "Is it wide enough for you?"
• Reuven "Ruby" Rivlin, 67, is probably the best liked by fellow Knesset members, which is key here since they are the ones voting. A lawyer by profession, he served just one term as a minister, but is known for his jovial character and stalwart, old-time Zionist-Revisionist views which he no doubt inherited from his father, Prof. Yosef-Yoel Rivlin, who lost against Yitzhak Ben-Tzvi for President in 1957. Hardly as well known around the world as Peres, Rivlin has made great efforts to bridge the gaps between Jews and Arabs in Israel and work for equality. "I am a Jabotinskyite, so it is important for me to unite the whole country," he quipped.
• Colette Avital, 67, has been very involved in Diaspora affairs and before entering politics, served in Israel's diplomatic corps in a variety of positions, including Consul General in New York. Avital had been known as a supporter of Peres but has since struck out on her own. There are many who feel the time has come for a woman President, and believe that such a development could help heal the Katzav scandal. Avital has vowed not to pull out of the race for Peres' sake, which could help Rivlin in the end.
• Rabbi Meir Lau, 70, was a well-respected Chief Rabbi of Israel and is currently Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv where he enjoys great popularity. A Holocaust survivor and a stirring orator, Lau has always made efforts to find consensus in Israeli society, an attribute that has won him support as the compromise candidate for all sides. One unexpected pitfall for Lau is the hesitation by some in the Sephardi religious camp to see the presidency occupied by an Ashkenazi and Orthodox Rabbi. Others have expressed disappointment in his religious rulings.
In the meantime, following official protocol, Speaker of the Knesset Dalia Itzik has taken the reins of the presidency until Katsav resigns or returns to office before his term ends. According to some reports, despite Itzik's protestations, should Peres pull out of the race, Itzik may run as Kadima's candidate, thus putting two women in the running – an ironic postscript to a scandal that has shaken the country. * By Arieh O'Sullivan, Director of Communications at ADL's Israel Office in Jerusalem.
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struct BaseClass { enum TYPE { SubclassA, SubclassB, }; unsigned char type; ... }; struct SubclassA : public BaseClass { int width; ... }; struct SubclassB : public BaseClass { int stride; ... }; BaseClass *pInstance; ... int bufferWidth; if( BaseClass::SubclassA == pInstance->type ) { bufferWidth = ((SubclassA*)pInstance)->width; } else if( BaseClass::SubclassB == pInstance->type ) { bufferWidth = ((SubclassB*)pInstance)->stride; }If we were coding a pure object-oriented design, this would surely be a CodeSmell. Actually, in this trivial example, it is a CodeSmell. But there exist real cases where it's smaller and faster to check for type information than to use polymorphic dispatch. Note also that the type information is available through a member variable. Alternatively, one could write:
struct BaseClass { enum TYPE { SubclassA, SubclassB, }; virtual BaseClass::TYPE getType() const = 0; };and then return the type through a polymorphic call. However, to create the polymorphic function, this may require upwards around 100 bytes a class, at a cost of 1 byte (or at most 1 alignment) an instance. This trade-off can be significant in memory-constrained environments like embedded devices. Moreover, the polymorphic dispatch can take many times as many bytes as a simple member access. Besides which, if you're going to introduce a polymorphic getType(), why not just introduce a polymorphic getBufferWidth() through which each subclass can use whatever subclass-specific member variables it needs to use? -- MikeSmith This is one of those fine trade-off cases. There are many reasons not to do this. For one, it's a ridiculous optimization, and we all OptimizeLater anyway. But in general, this really only works well if:
./plain Normal: 220 Manual: 279 ./optimized Normal: 65 Manual: 220(Key: "Normal" uses standard polymorphism, and "Manual" is the way described on this page). Maybe I messed something up in the code to make it an unfair test. I didn't test the space consumption, though I can't really see where space would be lost or saved. Help! Is this the same thing that happened in CatchDontCheck/CatchDontCheckRefuted where someone posts some ugly code in the name of optimization that ends up not even being as optimal as the legible version? Inlining is evil. Remove the inlining. You also eat it on the inlined constructors and destructors. By the way, I'm not making this up based on suppositions about the compiler. I spend a lot of time trying different constructs out under the environment I work in and then I choose the best one empirically. I often make assumptions that aren't true, which is why I test everything out. I think that "Inlining is evil" is much too strong a statement. On many platforms, calling a function has some non-trivial cost (in both code size and execution time). An OO system favors short methods; in a lot of cases, inlining the shortest methods actually reduces code size because the method is shorter than the code required to call it. The purpose of inlining is to expose the inlined code to compiler optimization in the context of its caller. Properly refactored small methods may still contain redundancies which most compilers can only exploit when they are inlined into some larger context. Note that "clean" C++ code practically depends on compiler inlining to achieve the same performance as C. Unless you are using C++ as a bigger-better-c, judicious use of inlining is a good thing, not a bad thing. I think what you're really railing against is not inlining in itself, but the implementation of inlining in various compilers. In particular, the language/compiler should probably give the programmer more control over inlining than it usually does, since the compiler is sometimes not smart enough to control inlining itself. -- WylieGarvin
class SchemeObject { ... public SchemeString asString() { if (this instanceof SchemeString) return (SchemeString)this; throw new WrongTypeError(this, "string"); // found, expected } ... }This is done for every subtype. For example, when I need a list where the first element is a string, I can do:
public void doSomething(SchemeObject argument) { SchemeString s = argument.asPair().getCar().asString(); ... }This statement will throw a WrongTypeError when either the argument isn't a list, or the first element isn't a string. This is a very common form of casting/type checking/error throwing in my appication. So this solution is very convenient. Only when I need to do something else than throwing an error, which is pretty rare, I use the instanceof operator. I understand that this looks bad in many ways, but in every way I think about it, it's really the best solution. The number of "things that are done" with SchemeObjects (more specifically: implementations of built-in Scheme functions) is huge, and in a lot of cases work only on one type and throw a WrongTypeError on every other type. Note that a WrongTypeError is converted into a Scheme error, and does not necessarily have to be considered to be a Java error. Polymorphism wouldn't help me. String concatenation is only applicable to strings, so a concat(..) function does not belong in SchemeObject. The same goes for arithmetic functions: add, subst.... don't belong in SchemeObject because they are not applicable to strings, pairs etc. etc. Only the evaluation function could be implemented trough polymorphism, but since eval is a Scheme function too, and I already had a Scheme "procedure" abstract class, I implemented eval in the same way as every other procedure, separately. Only equals() and toString() are implemented polymorphically. In this case, every SchemeObject is a Scheme data type, but that's really the only similarity. A SchemeString and a SchemeNumber share nothing but being Scheme data types. I think that there are other cases in which TestTypesInsteadOfDispatch can be useful: When a certain collection of classes is similar in one way but polymorphous in another way, when (most) actions are naturally implemented separately, because these actions are entities of themselves, not bound to classes, TestTypesInsteadOfDispatch will be necessary.


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The placement of stents has been proposed as a possible modality to treat pancreatic diseases. Ductal changes observed on endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography during stenting are believed to be reversible when the stents are removed. We describe a patient with normal anatomy on baseline pancreatograms who underwent endoscopic sphincterotomy, followed by stent placement for 9 months. Symptoms progressed, leading to a pancreaticoduodenectomy. Histologic evaluation of the head of the pancreas revealed more extensive inflammatory changes in the duct and parenchyma drained by the stent. This suggests that stent-induced changes noted on pancreatography correspond to parenchymal changes that may be severe and irreversible.
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Alamo City Offers Lots of Public & Resort Golf
Buoyed by temperate weather featuring an average of 300 days of sunshine and sporting a bevy of great resort and public golf courses, the truly international city of San Antonio wants badly to earn notice as the Lone Star State's premier golf destination.
That quest will be aided greatly next year when the TPC San Antonio and its 1,002-room JW Marriott Resort opens in the city's northern end. In the meantime, there are plenty of golf options for visitors to this historic and vibrant city - and even more to do when your day on the course winds down.
San Antonio has never had a problem attracting satisfied visitors from near and far. With its boundless scenery and the dynamic River Walk, the old Spanish town of San Antonio dates back to 1718 when it served as a way station for road trippers en route to east Texas missions. The city grew around the scenic San Antonio River, which gave life to the settlers who were busy founding missions and fighting Apache and Comanche Indians.
Continually under duress in those early days, Texas's most defining moment occurred at the Alamo when Mexican president and dictator Santa Anna laid siege to the city's old mission, making martyrs out of its defenders before eventually losing control of the colony that became the Republic of Texas and - in 1845 - a member of the United States.
Today San Antonio is perhaps the Lone State State's most romantic and welcoming city, acting as the gateway to south Texas and its endless ranches and shorelines or central Texas and its rolling hills, lakes and prairies.
Golf really started to boom here in the early 1990s, and in the years since there has been a steady stream of new courses to complement longtime favorites in the birthplace of Texas golf. Longtime local promoter Buddy Cook - the man behind Briggs Ranch and the Golf Club of Texas on San Antonio's southwest side - says there's no place quite like the Alamo City.
"You can compare San Antonio to Palm Springs," said Cook, who has served as a golf professional in both cities. "Each has a variety of interesting and excellent golf courses, but when the sun goes down, that's when San Antonio really shines."
The true beauty of public and resort golf in San Antonio is that the fun doesn't end after you sink that final putt of the day. Unlike many destinations that boast fine courses but have little to do after golf, there's no such problem in San Antonio.
We spent a long weekend in the Alamo City in late February, playing golf on some of San Antonio's top resort and public tracks. Five rounds in three days produced loads of great - and some not so great - shots to go with a true appreciation of San Antonio's slew of great golfing opportunities, a sampling of its wonderful restaurants and, perhaps most of all, its friendly citizens.
La Cantera is Twice the Fun & Double the Challenge
Any talk about golf in San Antonio has to begin with the Westin La Cantera Resort, a 1,600-acre master-planned development that includes two championship 18-hole layouts, a gorgeous hotel built in 1999 and modeled after famous King Ranch's "Big House," two stunning clubhouses and an academy of golf to hone your game.
The Westin La Cantera has consistently been ranked one of the best resorts in America by Golf Magazine and, for the past four years, has earned a spot on Conde Nast Traveler's "Top 100 Golf Resorts" list, marking it as one of the top golf destinations in the world. It moved up to No. 19 from 41st last year in becoming the top-ranked golf resort in Texas.
"We are very pleased to receive recognition from such a well-respected publication in the travel industry, and we're happy to be part of the effort to make San Antonio a major golf destination," said Tony Cherone, the Westin La Cantera's general manager. "With our $10-million room renovation project scheduled for completion in the spring of 2009, we look forward to continued success as a premier golf destination."
The digs are nice at La Cantera, but it's the two golf courses that are the resort's biggest draw and they are superior in every sense of the word. The Resort Course, the final project by the former design team of Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish, and the Palmer Course, fashioned by (you guessed it) Arnold Palmer with help from longtime collaborator Ed Seay.
The Resort Course opened in 1995 and offers a handful of natural water features, 75 sand bunkers and an up-and-down ride that sports half-a-dozen holes with panoramic views of the city and the surrounding Hill Country. Its majestic beauty is marked by rock outcroppings, running streams, mature trees and holes that work their way through and over land that was once a stone quarry.
The Resort Course - site of the PGA Tour's Valero Texas Open - plays at 7,021 yards and par of 72 from its back set of five tees. With a rating of 72.5 and a slope of 134, it challenges golfers with a mix of tightly tree-lined and open fairways and with numerous elevated tees and raised landing zones.
Opening with its hardest hole by handicap, a 665-yard downhill par-5, the Resort Course continues with the rightward-turning 448-yard, par-4 second, a hole that requires target golf strategy and unerring iron play.
The downhill and snaking 533-yard par-5 fifth looks out toward the main rollercoaster at Texas Fiesta Six Flags theme park (located across the street) and finishes with an undulating and tricky putting surface surrounded by bunkers. No. 7 - a severe downhill par-4 whose green seems to lie just beneath the rollercoaster - plays at just 316 yards and is perhaps the Resort Course's most famous offering.
The 415-yard par-4 12th is unique and tough, featuring an approach shot to a plateau green fronted by a landscaped stream and waterfall. No. 16 will draw the interest of big hitters (including women hitting from the forward tees), as the 380-yard dogleg-right, risk-reward par-4 can be reached off the tee. Its bowl-shaped green is one of the hardest to navigate on the course, however, so take your chances if you dare.
Located just down the street from the hotel, the Palmer Course was built and added to the La Cantera family in 2001. It contains a variety of holes touched with dramatic waterfalls, beautiful views and mind-blowing landscape. Playing to a par of 71 at 6,926 yards from the tips, the Palmer Course is full of blind tee shots, carries over canyons and up-and-down and side-sloped lies.
As one of the Palmer Course's signature holes, the 188-yard par-3 fourth requires a long carry over a lake with waterfalls along the front of the green and a trip over the Winnie Palmer Memorial Bridge, named after The King's late wife.
The most difficult hole by handicap at Palmer is the 426-yard No. 5, which requires a spot-on long-iron approach to carry a dry creek bed that splits the fairway. You'll want to keep you tee ball left of center on the stunning 10th hole, as anything right of the marker in the fairway could bounce down into the 120-foot chasm that runs along the entire right side; even with a good shot you will likely have to carry the abyss if you want to attack a back-right hole placement.
No. 18 at Palmer (rated 74.2 and with a 142 slope) is a spectacular par-4 finale that stretches 490 yards. It runs slightly up and then down an 80-foot slope, providing excellent views of the clubhouse and a waterfall-fed lake. Guests often sit out on the clubhouse's balcony and applaud shots that reach the green in regulation and putts that end up in the bottom of the cup.
The main difference between the Resort and Palmer courses at La Cantera is that Resort has many more open fairways and not as many blind shots. Even though the Resort is the one that hosts the PGA Tour event, it's much more playable for the average golfer than Palmer.
There are times on Palmer that you will feel like you're standing at the highest point in San Antonio. From this vantage, you look down at the city in the distance, the holes from the adjacent Resort Course and jets flying into the nearby international airport whizzing by you at eyelevel. Just don't lose focus or you'll be losing a lot of golf balls.
Fun and fair, the Westin La Cantera pulls in players with thrill-packed golf, first-class service and amenities, a great combination for all involved. For more information or a tee time, visit http://www.westinlacantera.com.
Foresight Mixes Old & New
The second day of our visit to San Antonio was highlighted by play at the Republic Golf Course and Pecan Valley Golf Club, both of which are run by Boerne, Texas-based Foresight Golf. The pair is about a mile away from each other southeast of downtown, so close that Foresight officials say they were fishing golf balls with Pecan Valley logos out of Salado Creek while the Republic was being developed.
Besides being operated by the same company, there's little else that the two courses share.
The Republic, voted by local golfers as San Antonio's favorite course for the past three years, is friendly and mostly forgiving. It offers a pure-golf experience with big, fast greens and secluded oak-lined holes. There are no encroaching homes and no glitz; just inviting fairways and thick, woodsy rough in a beautiful river flood plain.
Architect Art Schaupeter took advantage of the property's relatively flat terrain and an abundance of trees to keep a natural feel to the course, which plays to a par of 71 and 7,007 yards from the tips. The Republic, which opened in 2002, contains four par-5s and five par-3s, is rated at 73.5 and has a slope of 131.
"The most unique thing about The Republic is its natural environment," Schaupeter said. "Virtually every hole is completely secluded."
The Republic's wide range of tees - on some holes, distances can vary by more than 100 yards - makes the course a fair test for just about all skill levels. The track is relatively flat and, despite winding around Salado Creek, water never cuts across any fairway.
"This is a very sensible course for all players because you never have to cross the creek off the tee," said Mike Weiland, Republic's general manager. "There is never a forced landing for the average player."
On the sixth hole, for instance, the creek runs all the way down the left-hand side, but Schaupeter's design makes sure you don't have to cross the water on the 624-yard, dogleg-right par-5. "That way, the women can play it, the novices can play it, the beginners and the low-handicappers can get it around as well," he said.
The best holes at the Republic are the 222-yard, uphill par-3 third - which requires a precise long iron to get to its tough back-right hole location; the 459-yard par-4 fourth (with a wide, inviting fairway and a green that swoops deep from right to left); and No. 12, a 569-yard uphill par-5 where you must blast your tee shot over Salado Creek and turn your approach hard left.
Toward the finish take care on the reachable par-4 16th, which - at just 336 yards from the back tees - asks the bold player to cross a ravine and land a shot between two bunkers, and the 243-yard, par-3 17th, which sports a bunker 20 yards in front of the putting surface and an undulating 48-yard-deep green when you get there.
Republic has its teeth (especially near the end) and is a great course to work out the kinks in your game and gain confidence in your swing. You can easily see why it's so beloved by the locals. For more details, visit http://www.republicgolfclub.net.
On the other hand, Pecan Valley can flat wear you out - and that's a good thing. Originally designed by J. Press Maxwell in 1963 and renovated by Bob Cupp in 1998, Pecan Valley is one of the Alamo City's oldest and most storied courses. The track hosted the 50th PGA championship in 1968 (when Julius Boros famously held off Arnold Palmer to win), the Texas Open in 1967, '69 and '70, and the 2001 U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship.
The long-underutilized layout was acquired by Foresight in February 2008 and is still undergoing a transition intended to reintroduce it to San Antonio and south Texas' discriminating golfers.
Locals say the area now known as Pecan Valley Golf Club was a jungle in 1961 when the course was built. The location is near Goliad Road, which was constructed in 1720 by Spanish explorers. There's a historic marker on the course celebrating the "Burnt Oak," a 100-foot-tall live oak with a girth of 22 feet. It's estimated to be more 800 years old and was used for centuries as an early navigational aid.
Pecan Valley is situated on 200 acres; Salado Creek winds through the front-nine five times and the back-nine thrice more. The bunkers are strategically placed, and the doglegs will keep your attention. Easily walkable and free of fairway housing, San Antonio's best players flock to this pure-golf sanctuary and find the challenge as daunting today as it ever was. Pecan Valley carries a rating of 74.4 and a slope of 132.
The track's mighty second, a 453-yard, uphill par-4, is considered the best hole in San Antonio. There's a bunker left to catch those who head that direction, but the real difficulty is in the approach, which must fly to an elevated green with a false front. It's easy to select the wrong club and watch as a well-struck but short shot comes tumbling backward toward you in the fairway.
The front side is also highlighted by the difficult 152-yard par-3 third, which was thankfully shortened by 60 yards during Cupp's renovation. The hole drops 60 feet from the tee and is guarded by a daunting pond on the right side.
The back side is known for its finishing holes, which some feel is the toughest such stretch in the Lone Star State. The 14th is Pecan Valley's signature offering, a mean 467-yard, dogleg-right par-4 that requires a monster drive to the corner to have a reasonable chance to get home in regulation.
Both par-3s on the back are 200-yards-plus from the tips (No. 12 is 215 yards while the 16th plays to 212 yards), and the famous 18th is known for its role in determining the 1968 PGA champion.
After hooking his tee shot short of the creek, where it dissects the hole, Palmer drilled a 3-wood uphill to 12 feet from the pin, giving himself a birdie chance to tie Boros. Though he missed, Mr. Palmer is honored by a plaque from the spot where he hit the shot. Better yet, his 3-wood is on display in the restored clubhouse.
During that same tournament, Jack Nicklaus missed the cut and complained of the course's difficulty, reportedly comparing Pecan Valley to a hayfield.
Playing Pecan Valley is like stepping back to the game of yesteryear. But even today's advanced equipment doesn't give you an edge on the tough-as-nails layout. The course is hard but in a good way, and you owe it to yourself to test your game on the track if you ever get the opportunity. For a tee time, visit http://www.pecanvalleygc.com.
A Golf Course Fred Flintstone Would Love
On Day 3 of our visit to the Alamo City, we played the Quarry Golf Course, where bad shots can hit you in the head like a rock. If you forget to concentrate on your game and spend too much time looking at the track's 100-foot high rock walls or trying to find your wayward ball in the ankle-high rough around the fairways and greens, you might end up heading home shaking your head.
Designed by Keith Foster, who reworked Southern Hills for the 2001 U.S. Open, the Quarry is a course that, more than any other, catapulted San Antonio into the golf-destination business. It plays to a par of 71 and a longer-than-the-card-reads 6,740 yards from the tips. The track is rated at 72.4 and has a slope of 128. But there's no mistake about it, this is a very difficult course that changes personality in a hurry and demands your best.
The underrated front nine is open and essentially treeless, making it tough sledding when the wind blows. Hole Nos. 1-9 (which play to a par of 35) border an expressway, railroad tracks and an office complex - not exactly a serene golf experience, but keep your focus. Tall heather abounds, adding an aesthetic touch and a propensity to swallow golf balls.
Only one of the six par-4s on the front side reaches more than 400 yards from the back set of tees, but the difficulty is turned up by rolling fairways, high grass just wide of the landing area and water on seven holes.
The Quarry's picturesque back side makes concentric circles inside an old limestone quarry; the sheer walls extend up to a rim lined with luxury homes. An adjacent factory where limestone was once converted into concrete is now the upscale Quarry Market mall, making the entire area an example of urban renewal with a touch of The Flintstones' Bedrock.
These holes created the buzz when the Quarry opened in 1993. The back nine is one beastly test after another, with carries over waste bunkers, narrow fairways and 400 more yards than the front. The setting, however, is something to behold, and the final three holes can make or break a round here.
The par-3, 242-yard 16th requires a solid shot and is named "Gibraltar" as it's framed by a rock cliff. When you reach the 16th green be sure and take in the view and look back down onto the huge 17th green.
Speaking of the 17th, it's a par-4, 386-yarder named "Reload." Many average golfers must do just that on this hole because the tee shot is a target drive. Too far left and you are way down below the elevated fairway. In reality, the landing area is generous as long as you make sure you hit it far enough right, but not too far right or you will be in the rocks of the Quarry's eastern wall.
The 18th, named "High Road Home," is a 565-yard par-5 with a narrow fairway and a boulder-filled wall along the right. Slices into the wall - covered with native plants and prickly-pear cactus - could get a lucky bounce back onto the fairway, but don't count on it. Hit a long iron to the skinny landing area, then on the second shot you can hit 3-wood because the fairway widens near the green.
After the round enjoy the view from a clubhouse with a restaurant and bar where you can peer down on the Quarry side and see every hole. For more information about the course or a tee time, visit www.quarrygolf.com.
Given the varied courses and great conditions we encountered in San Antonio, golfers should be flocking to the city. Book your flight now and beat the rush.
Steve Habel is one of Cybergolf's national correspondents, contributing news stories, features, equipment and book reviews and personality profiles from his base in Central Texas. He is also the media coordinator for Bechtol Golf Design, the managing editor for Business District magazine in Austin and works as a contributing editor for Horns Illustrated magazine, a publication focusing on University of Texas sports. He also writes a blog (www.shotoverthegreen.blogspot.com), which features news on golf and the Longhorns.
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Increasing minimum wage brings substantial benefits
I am writing in regard to the Jan. 23 Another Voice, "New research debunks report favoring pay increase." As the owner of Talking Leaves … Books in Buffalo, I know that we expand and hire when we have customers with money to buy our books. In contrast to what Michael Saltsman says, there is a broad consensus among honest and respected economists that a higher minimum wage, one that more realistically reflects the cost of living, will strengthen the economy, particularly the local economy, by increasing consumer demand.
Contrary to the popular perception that small businesses favor a low minimum wage, many small business owners support raising the minimum wage because we understand that lower employee turnover decreases the costs of constantly training new workers, and fosters increased productivity, improved customer satisfaction and a better company reputation. Treating employees as partners rather than as pawns has always been a wise decision. Paying a decent wage is good for business and good for our community.
Repressed minimum wages typically benefit large corporations more than small local businesses, with the ironic consequence of forcing customers to spend their dollars at national and multinational retailers who maintain artificially low prices on some goods in part by paying low wages and by demanding concessions from their suppliers, who also suppress wages, often by shipping jobs overseas. Not to mention, the bulk of the money spent in those chains leaves our community, flowing into the coffers of the home office, or offshore accounts. The benefits of a higher minimum wage are substantial, and extend far beyond the obvious one of improving the lives of those at the bottom of the economic ladder.
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