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Most North Coast state parks have plans to remain open in some capacity, saved by cooperative efforts from nonprofits, local governments and private companies.
State Sen. Noreen Evans is promoting a bill that would direct $68 million over the next five years to keep state parks open and operating. It is scheduled to go to state senate and assembly floor votes today. If approved by both houses, it will go to the governor.
Last May, the governor announced the closure of nearly 70 parks across California, including Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park, Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park, Fort Humboldt State Historical Park, Benbow Lake State Recreation Area and Standish-Hickey State Recreation Area on the North Coast.
The number of parks still facing closure statewide is down to approximately 20, due to partnerships like the one that kept Grizzly Creek open.
Evans' Communications Director Teala Schaff said the Sustainable Parks Bill is the only bill that could save parks slated to close next week.
The bill would require the California Department of Parks and Recreation to develop a revenue generation program and would appropriate to the department bond funds made available by the Safe Drinking Water Act and other sources.
Schaff said that enforcing visitation fees for park visitors would alleviate budget problems.
"It's just a simple math problem with the folks that aren't paying," Schaff said.
The bill will benefit local businesses, she said.
"It's more of a long-term funding system for operating parks," Schaff said. "Parks are the economic drivers, largely, on the North Coast."
Humboldt County supervisors voted last month to take over the operation of Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park under a cost-neutral plan in partnership with the state Department of Parks and Recreation and the Save the Redwoods League, but what the future holds for the Benbow Lake State Recreation Area, Standish-Hickey State Recreation Area and Fort Humboldt State Historic Park is less clear.
The National Park Service took over the operation of Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park, a volunteer group is expected to begin operating the Standish-Hickey State Recreation Area in mid-July and Fort Humboldt State Historic Park is expected to remain open on weekdays -- mainly because it houses the North Coast Redwoods District headquarters.
Humboldt County Visitors Bureau Executive Director Tony Smithers said that closure of Benbow Lake's campground is a concern, because it's particularly important to Southern Humboldt's economy. It's day-use area will remain open.
California State Parks is looking for a concession to operate the campground, but won't likely have that in place until next year, according to District Superintendent Dana Jones.
Smithers described the parks as economic engines, especially in Humboldt County, which draw people to outdoors opportunities.
"Since we sell the redwoods, and the parks have our redwoods, they are very important," Smithers said. "The real issue for us is to convince the public that the parks are open."
Jones said no outside group has come forward with interest in operating Fort Humboldt. It will be closed on weekends and holidays, but will be accessible by foot traffic on those days.
While it appears the North Coast's state parks will remain open in some capacity, others around the state are expected to close next week.
Jones said California State Parks will continue to do everything it can to preserve the legacy of its parks and keep them open to the public.
"I don't think any parks employee started this job thinking we were going to have to close parks," Jones said.
At a glance: Status of North Coast parks that faced closure
Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park
Status: Open.
Humboldt County Supervisors voted last month to take over management of Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park. Operations will be funded by a donation from Save the Redwoods League and fees. The park sits on the Van Duzen River about 17 miles east of U.S. Highway 101 on State Route 36. The redwoods in the Grizzly Creek area are what inspired Owen R. Cheatham, founder of Georgia-Pacific Corporation, to preserve this site.
Fort Humboldt State Historic Park
Status: The park will be open weekdays, but not weekends or holidays. Visitors can still walk into the park on off days.
Fort Humboldt, overlooking Humboldt Bay in Eureka, was built as a military post in 1853 to assist in conflict resolution between Native Americans and gold-seekers and settlers who came to the area.
President Ulysses S. Grant took up a short residency at the fort after being decorated for bravery in the Mexican-American war. Grant said the fort was too isolated and resigned his commission after six months. Fort Humboldt was formally abandoned in 1870 and today only the hospital building remains. It is now an historical museum dedicated to telling the story of the fort and local Native American tribes.
The park includes a logging museum and displays of historic 19th and 20th century equipment, including a Dolbeer Steam Donkey.
Fort Humboldt is locate on Fort Avenue off of Highland Avenue in Eureka.
Standish-Hickey State Recreation Area
Status: The park is closed to vehicles and camping, though a volunteer group is expected to begin operating the campground mid-July. Hike and bike campsites are available and the Taber Trailhead will remain open.
Standish-Hickey began as a campground acquired by the Save-the-Redwoods League in 1922. In the late 1950s, the Standish family donated 500 acres. The park was named to honor Edward Ritter Hickey, the son of a local lumberman who died of influenza while caring for the victims of the 1918 epidemic.
The Eel River runs through the park for nearly two miles, and virgin redwood groves can be found in the area. Standish-Hickey is located on U.S. Highway 101 one and a half miles south of Leggett.
Benbow Lake State Recreation Area
Status: Day-use area will remain open. The park is currently looking for a concession to operate the campground, which is likely to begin next year.
A concrete dam was built on the Eel River in 1928 to supply power to the surrounding valley, which also resulted in the creation of Benbow Lake. The Benbow family made efforts to preserve land around the lake and Benbow Inn, and in 1958 the state bought the property from the family. The park is located two miles south of Garberville on U.S. Highway 101.
Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park
Status: Open. The National Park Service will operate the park this season.
Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park was established in 1927 and is made up of approximately 50 percent old growth redwood and eight miles of wild coastline. The park is located seven miles south of Crescent City off U.S. Highway 101 onto the campground road.
Source: California State Parks website www.parks.ca.gov
Grant Scott-Goforth can be reached at 441-0514 or email@example.com.


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As I was working on the latest issue of Theme Park Geekly (Issue 4 is live by the way, check it out), I came across a video of Theme Park Review's Robb Alvey interviewing Alan Schilke of Rocky Mountain Coasters. They're the company behind the New Texas Giant. We can thank them and Larry Chickola for that coaster's incredible ride and unreal amount of airtime.
Rocky Mountain Construction's Iron Horse track was, in my opinion, the biggest roller coaster development of not only this year, but in several years. The New Texas Giant landed at 6th on my Top Ten Coasters List and its 3rd on my Top Steel Coasters List.
New Woodie & a Rocky Mountain Upgrade Coming in 2013
Schilke mentions in the video that they're working on a brand new wooden coaster that'll be on topper track. The new woodie will debut the company's own Rocky Mountain coaster trains. He said that their trains are made for their rides, but can be used on other wooden coasters as well. And, then he states that their working on I-Box replacement track (sounds like a New Texas Giant project) that will replace an existing coaster. I wonder if it will be one of these coasters: Poll – Pick the Next Coaster to Get the the Texas Giant Treatment
Here's the video featuring the interview with Rocky Mountain's Alan Schilke:
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Lactobacillus reuteri is one of a few naturally occurring strains of lactobacilli colonizing the human colon. In fact, L. reuteri is found in the digestive tracts of many animals, and is also present in many meats and milk products. It is passed from healthy mothers to their newborns via breast milk. When it colonizes the gut, L. reuteri supports the immune system and helps prevent infections.
The study included 44 infants with chronic constipation, marked by two or fewer bowel movements per week, hard bowel movements that were large and painful to move, and the presence of a large mass of feces retained in the rectum. The infants were at least six months old, had been weaned, and were being fed formula. Half of the babies were given five drops of a probiotic liquid providing 100 million colony-forming units of L. reuteri per day for eight weeks, while the other half received placebo. Parents kept track of bowel movement frequency, stool consistency, and episodes of inconsolable crying.
At the end of the study, comparisons were made between the babies receiving the probiotic and placebo:
Unexpectedly, episodes of inconsolable crying increased in both groups during the study, and this change was slightly more pronounced in the probiotic group.
The findings suggest that L. reuteri can be effective for increasing stool frequency in chronically constipated infants. "On the basis of our results," the study's authors said, "probiotics as a natural, safe, well-tolerated treatment may provide a simple and attractive way to treat infantile functional chronic constipation." The reason for the increased crying seen in both groups in this study remains elusive.
Here are some additional measures you can take if your baby suffers with constipation:
(J Pediatr 2010;157:598–602)
Maureen Williams, ND, received her bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and her Doctorate of Naturopathic Medicine from Bastyr University in Seattle, WA. She has a private practice on Cortes Island in British Columbia, Canada, and has done extensive work with traditional herbal medicine in Guatemala and Honduras. Dr. Williams is a regular contributor to Healthnotes Newswire.
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I like to keep my electronic music studio as modern looking as possible. I also like to set a mood. During my day job I came across these very cool lights from Philips called Livingcolors. They are LEDs that change colors. The original has a remote that has a color wheel in which you can select out of 16 million colors. The mini version has the color wheel on the lamp and lets you choose out of 256 colors. You can get the Philips 818564 LivingColors Mini on Amazon for $89 and the larger Philips 818566 LivingColors Translucent Changing LED Lamp with Remote for $190. I would say forget the lava lamp and live in twenty ten with one of these.
"Bright sunshine yellow when it's grey outside. A pale leaf-green to relax you. Touch the color ring and LivingColors lights up your world in any shade you choose, from soothing pastel shades to rich, intense colors. 16 million colors possible. Dimming and adjustable color intensity. Intuitive remote control. Including automatic color changing." – consumer.philips.com
If you have serious money and are building your studio new consider Go Energy's GO FLL Planar Lighting GFS03T Troffer (your build it into the ceiling). It's a 2×2 Foot panel made of LED light with a high CRI (Color Rendering Index) that allows you to change it's color temperature and brightness by remote. These run about $600 each but if you see one in person you will appreciate the look.
The best part these lights are all energy efficient.


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Andrew is the CEO and Co-Founder of Mixbook, a rapidly-growing internet company that allows people to design their own photo books, cards and calendars on the web. Mixbook has raised over $11 million from top-tier venture firms and grown revenues by over 200% every year since inception. Andrew was named to Inc. Magazine's 30 Under 30 list of entrepreneurs in 2012. At age 15, Andrew founded his first startup - a web consulting business which he ran for 8 years. Andrew received a BS in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of California, Berkeley.


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TEST Valley charities will benefit from a Songs of Praise event at Romsey Abbey next month.
"It will be exactly the same as everything that people see on the BBC Songs of Praise programme but with no cameras," said co-organiser Angie Nelson of Romsey's Oasis bookshop.
Regular programme presenter Pam Rhodes will compere the event on Sunday, March 16 at 6pm and all the hymns will be selected by members of the community.
Test Valley Borough mayor Janet Whiteley and Romsey's vicar, the Rev Tim Sledge have organised the event with Angie.
Proceeds from a retiring collection will be split between Romsey Abbey and charities in the Test Valley.
These include the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance, Romsey Good Neighbours, Jane Scarth House, Andover Life After Stoke Club and Countess of Brecknock Hospice.
Further details can be obtained by calling Oasis on 01794 512194 or Sharon Goodridge at Test Valley Borough Council on 01264 368022.
Prior to the Abbey event Pam will be signing copies of her new book Casting the Net – The Dunbridge Chronicles (a fictitious Dunbridge, not the Test Valley's) her second novel about a small English country town.
The book signing will take place at Oasis between 4.45pm and 5.45pm.


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Guest Since 1963
We first came to Paradise Point (then named Vacation Village) in 1963. We had a son who was two years old and a 2-month-old boy. We stayed in what is now room 265. There was a street to its side; the rooms on the bay east of our room didn't exist nor were there any rooms built on what is now Paradise Cove. We fell in love with the resort and have been coming ever since. By 1968, we brought our new daughter and our boys fished for the first time (fishing in the lagoon was permitted then). As the kids got older they found new things to do - tennis, sailing, golf and feeding the chickens and rabbits.
Vacation Village became the Princess Resort and now Paradise Point, where we have continued to take vacations over the past 48 years. The size of our group has grown. When our children were in high school they often brought a friend. As our children grew up and got married, they came with us with their growing families. Because of our family's long tradition, we also celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary at Paradise Point. Here's to the resort's 50th!


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You know football managers have run out of ways of criticising referees when so many of them are now encountering 'the worst decision I've ever seen'.
Kingstonian manager Alan Dowson used the phrase on Monday to describe a goal scored by Met Police at Kingsmeadow.
The referee seemed to blow for a retake after Ks had taken a free kick on the edge of the box, only to then allow Charlie Collins to race clear and give the Blues the lead.
Presumably Dowson thought that was worse than the decision lambasted by Manchester United manager David Moyes last month after his team saw penalty appeals for a challenge by Tottenham keeper Hugo Llores on Ashley Young waved away.
If Moyes thought that was bad, he clearly didn't turn his TV on the night eight years ago when Spurs' Pablo Mendes' shot landed deep into the United net only for the linesman to deem it had not crossed the line.
Beneficiary: Charlie Collins races away to open the scoring against Kingstonian in controversial circumstances
Or how about the bogus goal scored by Reading against Watford a couple of years ago when, somehow, referee and linesman, influenced by the appeal from a Reading player, found a way to give a goal even though a Hornets defender had clearly played a ball out for a corner.
Referees have and will always make mistakes. This week, it was revealed Premier League officials have been shown 21 occasions this season when they should have shown a red card and failed to do so.
But, when a full Match of the Day panel can seriously claim Luis Suarez did nothing wrong in diving to claim a penalty against Aston Villa last Sunday because he felt contact, do we seriously think the referees have a chance?
There was no intent by the Villa goalkeeper to foul and there was clear intent by Suarez to win a penalty.
The fact Suarez isn't condemned can only lead to more players in non-League and parks football seeing the referee as merely an accessory waiting to be conned.
Until there is a change in attitudes or referees get the extra help, the 'worst ever' decisions will keep getting worse.


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While the economic downturn triggers massive reshuffling in the wholesale market, greater commercial opportunities do exist there for retailers who have a smart vision to seize them.
It is likely that the tightened spending of customers is giving rise to lower-cost but nimbler supplies from wholesale market across the world. In the old days, it's hard to imagine that a factory sales rep would wait out there for a click of your mouse to reply to your inquiry, for a fairly negotiable quantity.
As retailers are all seeking to improve stock turns and speed-to-market while preserving net margins, supper suppliers with access to production capacity around the world are expected to stand out.
The market calls for a higher synchronization of activities in supply chain, more flexible delivery and a reduction in logistics service cost, while proximity, which is traditionally a critical concern, has been deemed less important today. From this perspective, regions like West Europe and North America are losing their edge in many sectors compared with countries like China, India and Vietnam who have almost equal responsiveness to demands.
The biggest trouble of China—the export base of the world lies in its over-capacity of production, especially during recent period. But on the other hand, importers will have enough reason to smile over the openness of Chinese suppliers and factories to negotiation and price reduction.
Compared with its tough competitor China, India tends to provide better costs and flexibility in delivery but still sees some inferiority in quality, competency and reliability.


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Scuffling Bourjos out of lineup in favor of Jay
NEW YORK -- With the Cardinals struggling to score runs, manager Mike Matheny is looking for anyone who can change things while becoming less patient with those who aren't hitting.
So Jon Jay was back in center field on Tuesday night against the Mets, and Peter Bourjos was out of the lineup for the third time in four games.
Bourjos entered play Tuesday hitless in eight at-bats since an infield single last Tuesday in Milwaukee, dropping his average to .190 and his on-base percentage to .261. Jay, who has a .341 on-base percentage, entered Tuesday with eight hits on the road trip.
"I'm trying to get the guys in there that are taking good at-bats," Matheny said. "Peter Bourjos is going to get opportunities. Right now, we've got to get something going."
Matheny said he spoke with Bourjos.
"I'm just trying to find his swing, like about half our lineup," Matheny said. "He's got the right approach. He's trying to stay through the ball. He's just finding himself in deep counts and trying to hit tough pitches. It doesn't usually work out for anybody."
Matheny indicated that Bourjos would be in the lineup Wednesday against Mets left-hander Jon Niese.
Danny Knobler is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Some 800,000 people flocked to the funeral of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the Israeli sage who founded the Sephardi Orthodox Shas political party and exercised a major influence on Jewish law.
TEL AVIV — Some 800,000 people flocked to the funeral of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the Israeli sage who founded the Sephardi Orthodox Shas political party and exercised a major influence on Jewish law.
The renowned rabbi died Monday at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem. He was 93.
The rabbi's followers flooded Jerusalem from around the country in order to pay their final respects.
After a number of eulogies, the rabbi was buried in the Sanhedria cemetery, alongside his wife, Margalit, who died in 1994.
Yosef served as Israel's Sephardi chief rabbi from 1973 to 1983, and extended his influence over the ensuing decades as the spiritual leader of Shas, which politically galvanized hundreds of thousands of Sephardi Israelis, though Yosef himself never served in the Knesset. In 1999, at its height, Shas was the third-largest Knesset party, with 17 seats.
Though he adhered to a haredi Orthodox ideology, Yosef, a charismatic speaker, published relatively liberal Jewish legal rulings and drew support both from traditional and secular Sephardi Israelis. Known to his followers as Maran, "our master" in Hebrew, Yosef's main Jewish legal goal was to take diverse Jewish practices from the Middle East and North Africa and mold a "united legal system" for Sephardi Jews.
As his influence grew, Yosef presided over a veritable empire of Sephardi religious services. Shas opened a network of schools that now has 40,000 students. Yosef managed a kosher certification called Beit Yosef that has
become the standard for many religious Sephardim. And he was a dominant power broker when it came to electing Sephardi chief rabbis and appointing Sephardi judges in religious courts. This year, Yosef's son — and preferred candidate — was elected to become the new Israeli Sephardi chief rabbi.
Through his work, Yosef, who was born in Baghdad, Iraq, in 1920, hoped to raise the status of Israel's historically disadvantaged Sephardi community, both culturally and socioeconomically. He dressed in traditional Sephardi religious garb, including a turban and an embroidered robe, even as most of his close followers adopted the Ashkenazi haredi dress of a black fedora and suit.
As a scholar, Yosef was known for his ability to recite long, complex Jewish tracts from memory. His best-known works, Yabia Omer, Yehave Da'at and Yalkut Yosef, cover an array of Jewish legal topics.
"He was a character that people capitulated in front of, a man of Jewish law that created a political entity with strong influence on Israeli politics and culture," said Menachem Friedman, an expert on the haredi community at Bar-Ilan University. "It raised up Middle Eastern Jewish culture, gave legitimacy to Middle Eastern Jewish traditions."
Outside the religious community, Yosef was best known for his sometimes controversial political stances. His authority within Shas was virtually absolute, and even in his ninth decade he remained closely involved in the party's decisions.
While Yosef favored policies that served the religious community's interests, he also supported peace treaties involving Israeli withdrawal from conquered territory. He argued that such deals were allowed under Jewish law because they saved Jewish lives.
In the 1990s and 2000s, Shas joined left-wing governing coalitions multiple times, allowing for the advancement of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process — though Yosef opposed the 2005 Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip because it was done unilaterally.
In his later years, Yosef also stirred controversy with a number of inflammatory statements, often made at a weekly Saturday-night sermon. In 2000, he said that Holocaust victims were reincarnated sinners, and in 2005 he said that the victims of Hurricane Katrina deserved the tragedy "because they have no God." In 2010, Yosef said, "The sole purpose of non-Jews is to serve Jews."
"Rabbi Ovadia was a giant in Torah and Jewish law and a teacher for tens of thousands," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement Monday.
"He worked greatly to enhance Jewish heritage and at the same time, his rulings took into consideration the times and the realities of renewed life in the state of Israel. He was imbued with love of the Torah and the people."


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One might look at Universal Display (PANL) and not like my trade. I was long the shares and nervous into earnings. I had no issue giving up half of the upside move so that I could sleep last night. It is a tradeoff. My cost basis for PANL is $25.71 and my hedge, which is long the March $27 put and $26 put while being short 3 March $23 puts for $1.60 had a break-even cost at $25.70. From $25.70 to $23, I was actually over-hedged against my long shares by a 2-to-1 margin. But below $23, I not only became long my 100 shares again, but also long another 100 shares; however, I would have saved myself $2.70 worth of pain, or roughly 10%. For me, that was worth it.
So PANL is up some $3.20 today and I'm only seeing $1.60 of it on the bottom line --assuming my puts expire worthless and I do nothing with them. Those are the choices an investor often has to be prepared to make. I'd love to have the other $1.60 on the move higher now, but I don't regret the trade at all....228 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days.
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Coming Soon: Giorgio Armani Fall 2008 Python Collection
I'm petrified by snakes, but I may put my phobia aside, just this once. In September, Giorgio Armani Beauty is launching a collection called Python. The concept behind the look is a strong, bold smoky eye. The star product is the Python Palette ($100), which contains three eye shadows (gray taupe, dark iridescent gray, and luminous gray pearl) and two new lip shades (deep red and mauve) that help create a dark and sexy makeup look.
The Python collection also contains two blush duos and a deep burgundy lipstick. To find out the details about the new products and to see close ups of the palette along with Sasha Pivovarova modeling the line,
- Python Palette ($100) is a double-tiered sleek, round black palette that contains three highly-pigmented eye shadows, two lip colors, and a mirror.
- Blending Blush Duo (n°1 and n°2) ($60) are compacts that contain two blushes for the cheeks. One side contours, sculpts and adds color while the other highlights.
- ArmaniSilk (n°80) ($25) is a new deep, burgundy lipstick.


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The record is quiet on the Leybas for the rest of 2006. But on Jan. 17, 2007, a nurse at St. Vincent Hospital called police when Marino left his wife at the emergency room.
Officer Judah Montano found Loretta in tears. Her left arm was in a purple cast.
According to the police report, that afternoon she'd been watching television and having "a few drinks," she said, when Marino came home, enraged. He lifted her from the sofa by her neck.
"I'll break your other arm," he shouted. "I'll kill you."
Marino had at least nine inches and 60 pounds on his petite wife. He pushed her into the bedroom door, knocking her down. She looked up at him.
"You're right," she said. "I need help. Please take me to the hospital."
Montano arrested Marino for misdemeanor battery of a household member. He spent four hours and 23 minutes in jail.
The next morning, he called police, complaining of "unwanted telephone calls from his wife." Then he filed divorce papers. Judge Vigil ordered mediation for the couple.
Marino's attorney was Yvonne Quintana of Española. Loretta's only advocate was the state. And three months after saying Marino had beat her, Loretta requested prosecutors drop the case. She was drunk, she claimed, and had "misconstrued" her husband's actions. Now sober, she realized "he did nothing inappropriate, threatening or abusive" and in fact was only "trying to help her."
Such reversals are common, Esperanza's Taylor says.
"If somebody attacked you on the street, you wouldn't want to protect them. When it's someone you're sharing a home with, sharing your bank account with, sharing your children with—a lot of times the charges are dropped," Taylor says.
Around this time, Reno began dating Sarah Lovato. She was 15, he was 20. Roses grew in the yard of Reno's new trailer on Calle Norte, off Agua Fria Street, and he continued working for his father.
Sometime on June 20, 2007, Officer Bryan Hidalgo arrived at the Vista Allegre Apartments on Zepol Road, where a Mace-wielding security guard had chased a man into his home.
The guard was Reno's father, Marino. When Hidalgo arrived, Marino had his Smith & Wesson 9-millimeter holstered.
"I knew Leyba had been arrested for a domestic-violence-related charge since I had served him with an emergency order of protection," Hidalgo wrote. "Leyba…stated he did not know if the conditions of his bond allowed him to possess firearms. I instructed Leyba that due to the time of night, I had no way to verify those conditions."
Nothing much came of the incident. Santa Fe County Magistrate Court Judge Sandy K Miera amended Marino's bond conditions, from the assault on Loretta, so he could carry a gun "for job release uses."
Miera would later look down from the bench on young Reno.
More red flags unfurled. In September 2007, Detective Martin got what was by then her fourth CYFD referral about Angel, then 16. The girl "disclosed being molested by her father," according to Martin's report. SFR has no way of determining the truth of this allegation, only that it was documented in a public record as were Angel's other allegations. And as with those other allegations, police referred the case to some "other agency"—likely the district attorney or CYFD or both. Father Marino was never charged with molestation. However, a person familiar with the family says Angel would disclose abuse and later recant—much as Loretta withdrew her charges against Marino.
The Leybas spent 2008 spiraling toward destruction.
That May 2, Marino called 911. Loretta had tried to shoot herself, he claimed, but he intervened and she shot the wall instead. SFPD Officer Flavio Salazar's report doesn't say whether he simply took Marino's word for what happened, but police did take the gun as evidence. They sent Loretta to the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation.
Two things happened that fall.
Detective Martin got her last public report about Angel, who by then lived in a mental hospital outside Santa Fe: "A CYFD referral alleges a 17 year old has been physically and sexually abused by her father and two brothers over several years." Again, SFR could not determine the veracity of the allegation or what "other agencies" did to follow up. CYFD Investigations Supervisor Gabrielle James did not respond to a message by press time.
The second event: Reno and Sarah Lovato conceived the child they would name Isaac. By all accounts the pregnancy made Sarah glad. She was 16, he was 22.
Sarah Lovato's family also knew violence.
Her mother, Linda M Sanchez, known as Lindy, married Bennie Ray Lovato Sr., on May 3, 1982. She was 21, he was 23. Their first son, Bennie Jr., was born that September, so Lindy must have been pregnant already. Later came Jared, Nick, Sarah and Julie.
In 2001, police arrested 18-year-old Bennie Jr. for attacking a "household member" with a knife. He was also charged with blocking a call for help.
Bennie Jr.'s first Santa Fe County jail stint lasted 108 days, records show. Later years brought more arrests. He would show up at probation appointments with traces of cocaine in his urine or booze on his breath, telling officials "he cannot stop drinking." One probation officer wrote, "Mr. Lovato becomes very violent while under the influence of alcohol." Another wrote, "Bennie appears not to care about his future."
Reno's family, the Leybas, looked wealthy next to the Lovatos. Lindy found a job "caring for children" for CYFD in the late '90s, according to later divorce papers, but was applying for disability benefits in 1999, when Sarah was 7. When Lindy filed for divorce in 2004, she said she was homeless but had physical custody of the children. Their father's monthly income was $529 in disability benefits; mom got $387 through a federal needy-families program.
Court mediator Teddy Delfs decided the sisters would stay with Bennie Sr. at the Paseo Del Sol apartments. Across the street from Capital High School, that affordable housing project was a step up. Sarah lived there when she dated Reno; she would die there, too. By then, the Leybas' course was set.


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Oh and yes he should obviously come off the bench, me bringing up his 2009 season is in no way, shape, or form an endorsement for him to start or even play more than 20 minutes a game.
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Oh and yes he should obviously come off the bench, me bringing up his 2009 season is in no way, shape, or form an endorsement for him to start or even play more than 20 minutes a game.
You mean the David West who had CP3 at point guard and Tyson Chandler at center? I mean as long as we're talking about 5 man lineups.
I mean I always think it is easier to play with good players on my team than with bad players.
No, danny Granger only had good numbers because he had such bad teammates. Forget Chris Paul making the game easier on David West. And having to play against the likes of Troy Murphy in the post while Danny got doubled.
I don't know why danny even commanded any defensive pressure. He cant dribble or pass. The guy just needs to stand with his hands up and danny is useless.
Paul's season this year is far more impressive. Granger racked up numbers on bad teams over the years. Just because he did that, does not mean those numbers weren't very much inflated especially in a JOb style offense.
Heck, Troy Murphy went from averaging 14.6 to 3.6ppg...right after leaving Indy. It's a known fact when players move to better teams their numbers almost always drop dramatically. The same would be true for Danny so Paul's numbers are unbelievable.
In fact, there were times when Marquis Daniels seemed to be our best player at times. Also, what about the time when people thought Mike Dunleavy should have an all-star nod because he was pretty darn close to as good as Granger? These things did happen and while Granger became a bit better later, the difference isn't that great. I vividly recall games when DWest seemed like the better player and in fact he is.
Edit: don't take my word for it. Mark Boyle said Lance is more talented didn't he? I think Mark knows a bit about the team.
Lance is finally home. Whether he becomes our starting PG or he's 6th man, he's getting big minutes and he's here to stay. #llortontnia
He said it himself that he was a chucker not sure why you guys are getting upset it is the true, him saying it should put an stop to the overreaction at the words "chucker" and "Danny" on the same sentence(at least I hope).
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Just because a player is more talented does not mean his better. Larry Bird has said Lance has been the most talented player on the roster since he was drafted. Is Lance our best player? Nope. Not even close
Agreed on that point. It's all a matter of meeting one's potential. Danny maximized his potential as a Pacer. You really have to respect him and his work ethic. I'm glad he's coming back. But you could even see it his last full season. Even surrounded by young, albeit talented, players his numbers dropped significantly. He's not a 20ppg scorer on an above .500 team. He's a very good player who could start on a championship team but he's at best #3 on that team. He's Batman on JOb's team. Robin on a .500 team. ...and the Joker on a champion.
Lance is finally home. Whether he becomes our starting PG or he's 6th man, he's getting big minutes and he's here to stay. #llortontnia
that is really funny lol
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You're right it is much harder to put up good stats surrounded by George Hill, Lance Stephenson, David West, and Roy Hibbert. I'm just going to see myself out because I really don't feel like arguing about two of my all time favorite Pacers who both happened to be fantastic players but in two completely different situations. If you can't see how the situations are completely different than I am not going to be able to convince you of it.
Also, yes Danny is the joker on a champion. Good job, great analogy really in depth stuff.
The local news in Fort Wayne just said he was playing Friday. I sure hope he can stay healthy.
Good God....both sides have been arguing the same old points for the last year. Until he actually steps on the court and does something and shakes off whatever rust he has......none of us know how well or poorly he's going to do until he levels off and plays at whatever level ( whether it be 75% of his pre-2009 form or a complete shell of his former self ).
Can we re-visit this Granger discussion in a month? I fully expect for him to have A LOT of rust on Granger that he will need to shake off for the next couple of weeks. If he still looks no better than Butler/OJ/Solo/Copeland by mid-January....then I am willing to concede that he's just a huge Expiring contract and be ultimately disappointed.
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As a guy who really likes both players, I'm kinda shocked that Danny's assist numbers are as close to PG's as they are. Danny had 2.7 APG, Paul had 3.6 APG?
Who the heck was Danny passing to?
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Seems most here have truly forgotten just how good Danny Granger was. Dunno if thats because they werent really following that close back then or just have selective memory but either way its pretty sad. In the first 15 or 20 games this year Paul played on a similar level as Danny did his best season. We will see if Paul can maintain such throughout the season, but hes definitely hit a rougher patch the last few games, albeit against some pretty stiff competition. Danny was an allstar on a bad team, something we all know is not the easiest thing to do as guys from the better teams are most often given the nods. He was just that good. How good will he be coming back, who knows for certain, but seems most are resigned to thinking what most of the league is hoping-he will be nothing like his former self. Otherwise, its gonna be borderline unfair to the other teams if he comes back and is anything resembling his former self.
But, fine, the narrative has now moved to people implying that even in his prime Danny would have been a bench player at best on this team, which has gone beyond silly.
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Or throw in a first-round pick and flip it for a max-level point guard...
That 08-09 Pacer team was actually 5th in the NBA in scoring at 105.1 PPG. The problem is that we gave up 106.2 PPG.
Ford, Muprhy, Daniels, and Jack all averaged double figures in addition to Granger. Dunleavy did too, but he only played a tiny amount of games because of injury.
Now the question is if he was forced to be a chucker under JOB how come he was still a chucker under Vogel?
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As for your second question, I think Danny just got so used to the role of being the only really dependable scorer on this team that he kept up the habit. The last time he was healthy, Roy was an inconsistent offensive option (and really, still is), PG obviously wasn't what he is now, Lance wasn't even dressing for games...I mean he still was the alpha dog and we still needed him to score. That's why his reintroduction to the lineup will be so interesting. He will be forced to play a supporting role as opposed to carrying the load. It's another reason I think coming off the bench will be better for him, in case he does revert back into chucker mode.
What I hope to see from Danny is timely offense, better defense than OJ, rebound, mental toughness and some passion.
I'm not going to trash Granger. He played very hard for the Pacers for a long time and was an entertaining player to watch on an otherwise cesspool of a team with a hideous coach. And then he was the best scorer on a Pacer team that won 63% of its games in the 11-12 season. His career has been clouded by some very bad luck in that he came of age with the likes of Murphy/Dunleavy/Ford/Tinsley/Daniels, and then he had to deal with a brutal injury at a relatively young age. He played hard for the Pacers for a long time and deserved better fortune.
Now, I do think that the harsh realities of professional sports will make it virtually impossible to keep him beyond this season. But just because he isn't a top player for us anymore doesn't mean that I'm going to trash him and act like he didn't used to be really good. He was a damn solid player and I do think that his professionalism and leadership were instrumental for the young guys. Here's to hoping he can come back and carve out a nice role on this team and have a nice finish to his Pacer career. Lord knows we could use a legitimate wing off of the bench.
Also, DG was a much needed classy personality for the Pacers after all of the unlikable a-holes we had in the mid 2000's.
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If Danny does return to the floor tonight I won't be expecting a lot out of him. He's going to be beyond rusty and hopefully there won't be too much complaining.
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Its hard for me to imagine that he can't at least provide us what pulp or Solo was giving us.... that isn't asking for much. Anything more than that is just gravy.
It sounds like we won't have any problem keeping Granger for vet minimum, since he's a chucker who never played defense or offense, was never more than a 6th man if he hadn't played for the worst team in the league and will be lucky to be able to play as well as the 15th guy on a championship team.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Or throw in a first-round pick and flip it for a max-level point guard...


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GLENNVILLE, Ga. — Danny Bowen has been managing the onion packinghouse at the intersection of U.S. Highway 301 and Georgia Highway 196 for years, and he's still on the job even though Van Solkema Produce Co. now owns the facility.
Van Solkema, Byron Center, Mich., bought the shed last fall and is using it year-round.
In mid-March, about 35 workers were packing Georgia-grown carrots in one side of the packhouse while electricians were on the other side wiring an upgraded pack line in preparation for the Vidalia onion season.
The higher-capacity onion line means the shed will be able to comfortably pack about 400 acres of Vidalia onions for Van Solkema this season, Bowen said.
Overall the shed is about 85,000 square feet, which includes six drying rooms that total about 15,000 square feet.
"Van Solkema has been in the Vidalia deal since 25 acres was considered a big number," said salesman Todd Van Solkema.
"We started out with Beasley Farms about 35 years ago, and Jamie Beasley is still one of our contract growers," he said.
Other Vidalia growers affiliated with the Michigan company for the 2013 deal include Morgan Knight and Wayne Durrence, Van Solkema said.
He said his family's company is committed to the Vidalia deal "for the long haul" and should be able to pack 14 to 16 semi trailers of Vidalias per day in the shed just south of Glennville.
"We will transfer some of the onions to our facility in Moultrie for distribution from there to save some truck miles for customers," Van Solkema said.
Several members of the Van Solkema administrative and sales staff will spend time in Georgia during the Vidalia deal, including sales manager Talbert Nething and salesman Jon Shriver, who joined the company in November.
Although the staff is familiar with sweet onions in general and Vidalias in particular, Van Solkema said Bowen's knowledge of growing is a huge advantage.
He said the people behind Van Solkema's Oh Boy brand believe the 2013 Vidalia crop looks "1,000 times better than last year," but he stopped short of naming a specific shipping start date or price point for the Oh Boy brand of Vidalias.
Bowen agreed there's no way to pinpoint such details until the deal has begun.
"You just can't take a book and pull out a recipe to grow a good onion," Bowen said. "And you couldn't just go out and add a bunch of fertilizer after those rains (in late February) to make up for what washed away. That could impact the pungency."
Bowen and his son, Brandon, who is shipping manager and inventory control officer at the operation, plan to work at the shed year-round.
During the busiest time, the packing line will require up to 65 people. About half of those positions are now year-round, though. Carrot packing at the shed fills in the gaps when Van Solkema isn't using the shed for Vidalia onions or onions from Peru, Bowen said.


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How can analytics generate value in SaaS, CRM, HCM, and the proverbial "alphabet soup" of cloud applications? Read below for the "cliff notes" from Pentaho's recent webinar series on how vendors are leveraging analytics inside a variety of different SaaS (Software-as-a-service) apps.
Pentaho just wrapped up several webinars with Montclare, a leading provider of SaaS advisory services, on how embedded analytics can benefit SaaS vendors in the Customer Success, Human Capital Management (HCM), and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) categories. One clear trend was that thinking outside the box to incorporate new & novel data sources can create tremendous value for end users. It's not just about pretty visualizations and dashboards – it's about insights that bubble up when diverse data is blended together. We've broken out some webinar highlights below, and have also created a short summary video for each webinar – see links in each section.
Customer Success with Nick Mehta of Gainsight
Gainsight is a provider of customer success solutions. CEO Nick Mehta stressed that before you can really build process around customer success, you need a data management strategy. This means figuring out where crucial success information lives – whether in CRM, Product usage databases, customer surveys, billing systems, or other places. It also means finding the right way to integrate this information and understanding the data granularity necessary for useful analytics (time frequency, aggregation, etc).
Big Data is one path for streamlining a data management approach. Gainsight leverages a hierarchical infrastructure, where Hadoop serves as a high-volume raw data store, and NoSQL is used as an operational store for more summarized data, which then connects to a final end-user reporting layer. Data and architecture innovation has allowed Gainsight to create an "at a glance" view of which customers may be at risk (see picture). This resonates with an evolving trend where SaaS vendors are innovating via Big Data architectures to create more powerful, intelligent, & valuable apps for their customers. The Customer Success video can be found here.
HCM with Janice D'Aloia of Mo'mix
Mo'mix is an IT software and services provider that embeds Pentaho Analytics in its Performance Center offering – which it launched to give customers a single view across a variety of enterprise data systems. While self-service analytics and quick deployment helped drive the decision to partner with Pentaho, Mo'mix has really been able to generate value for customers by being able to connect to virtually any data source (ERP, HCM, niche sources, and more), bringing together an end-to-end view that's accessible to all types of end users, from HR administrators up to the executive level.
Janice went over a few use cases where its clients improved HCM decision-making. In one example, a client discovered that it was missing employee termination reasons in its source systems, and then was able to fix the discrepancy and track the relevant trends at a more granular to reduce voluntary terminations. She also touched on retention use cases that focused on identifying high-performing and at-risk employees. The HCM video can be found here.
CRM & Marketing with Montclare & Pentaho
In this presentation, Kevin Dobbs of Montclare shared some of the analytics-related trends driving CRM & Marketing application adoption – including demand for data insights on a variety of social media channels. This was exemplified in the case of Paytronix, a Pentaho OEM partner that provides online loyalty solutions to restaurants. As part of their deployment, Paytronix integrated social and mobile data sources, as well as Big Data technologies, to help clients optimize campaigns against end customer behavioral data more effectively. At the same time, as they streamlined multi-source data for embedded analytics, Paytronix was also able to reduce ETL processing time by 80%, generating major operational benefits for customers. The CRM & Marketing video can be found here.
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Legends of the Green Isle
In northwest Ireland, the winds howl and the rains fall on some of the world's purest and most remote links golf courses
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Golf comes in no greater dramatic abundance than the northwest coast of Ireland. From Connemara in County Galway to Ballyliffin in County Donegal, there is a series of true links courses that, taken as a whole, has no rival. It is a fantasy land for links golfers, for those who want their golf hard by the sea, staged amid dazzling dune land and surrounded by brooding mountains and eerie bogs.
At every turn through the linksland of northwest Ireland there is awe and inspiration, and not a little intimidation. Golf here is not for the faint of heart and the soft of spirit. Along with 14 clubs, your best rain gear and thermal underwear, bring along a sense of adventure and appreciation of grandeur.
Pat Ruddy, Ireland's golf impresario, has traveled the northwest links for more than three decades. Ruddy is a golf course designer, an owner and a journalist in his own right. There is a sense of theater about the man, in his writing, his design and his speech. He has designed a new course at Rosapenna and revitalized the old one there. He's designed a course at Ballyliffin and renewed a grand old tract at Donegal.
"It is a magical place, the northwest," says Ruddy, the owner and designer of the European Club south of Dublin. "The influence of the weather there over time has sculpted the place. You get northwesterly winds from Iceland. It's a bit more raw there, more manly stuff. It's more exposed to the North Atlantic and as such, life on land gets a bit more turbulent. But I should say that it is a place that once experienced is always remembered. And I am quite pleased to have my name on the ticket with men like Harry Vardon, James Braid, Old Tom Morris—the men who first came up here to fashion golf courses. I have tried to help a bit, you know."
This is also the land where Ireland's most revered links golf designer, the late Eddie Hackett, left his substantial mark. Hackett was a humble man who was humbled further by the grandeur of the northwest coast. He came there not so much to design courses as to discover them. Accepting tiny fees, which he often deferred, Hackett walked the land and prayed to God for the strength to do the right thing. He had little money with which to work, yet the land was so dramatic that it revealed to him the most wonderful sites for tees and greens that never could have been constructed with bulldozers and earth scrapers.
So it is here, to the northwest, that you come with your sense of adventure. The roads, often narrow and twisting, take substantial time to navigate. You may be stuck behind a farm vehicle, have to wait as a flock of sheep cross the road, but it is time well spent in anticipation. Let your imagination take over, let fantasy take flight, then arrive to one of the links of the northwest coast and find reality all the more overwhelming.
Here, now, is a trip through that magic land. And isn't it all the more appropriate, in the theatrical sense, that this is the land of James Joyce and William Butler Yeats? They weren't golfers, but they knew a thing or two about the rugged drama of the northwest.
Enniscrone Golf Club
Enniscrone, County Sligo
Enniscrone, County Sligo
Oh, Enniscrone, you beauty, you.
The Enniscrone Golf Club, approached by car from the west on the R297, is love at first sight. Without seeing a single hole, you are sure you have arrived and know that you are smitten. How could this massive, muscular dune land not hold a monumental links? How could it not, within its voluptuous folds, hold some of the dearest golf holes tightly to its bosom?
Enniscrone is the collaboration of its far-sighted members, the practical magic of Eddie Hackett and the kindred imagination of Donald Steele. Hackett expanded the original nine-holer in 1974 to a full and respectable 18 that took great advantage of the dunes, but budget constraints kept him from fully utilizing them. However, as the club became better known and attracted more members and visitors, a hardier cash flow put the heavy, heaving landscape of dunes within reach. The architect Steele was brought in at the turn of the millennium to create, or rather discover, six new holes in the dune range on the championship 18 and to build three additional ones, which turned the facility into 27 holes. The transition could not have been more seamless, the result more spectacular.
Steele's new holes are the second through the fourth, and the 14th through the 16th, and most recently a reworking of the 18th. His new holes on the front nine are highlighted by the par-5 second, one of a quintet of superb three-shotters in the range of dunes. A tee shot through a dune saddle is followed by a right turn toward the ocean. When you get to the green, you find yourself with a front-row mezzanine view of the sweep of Killala Bay, a 180-degree vista that includes the oddly white buildings in the town of Enniscrone.
After the par-5 fourth, you embark on Hackett's holes that take you from the dunes' edge in the flatland and along the estuary of the River Moy, a salmon and trout fishery. Then Hackett reaches back toward the sea. His par-4 12th includes a dune of such a striking volcanic aspect that it should be known as Vesuvius or Etna.
Apart from the theatrical dunes, upholstered in the dense and defensive marram grass, and the seminal presence of the sea, what stands out on Steele's holes is the absence of sand bunkers. Not a one. And there is not the slightest need. The dunes and rough are sufficiently penalizing to require accuracy, and the greens so naturally and challengingly contoured with short-clipped rolling surrounds that sand bunkers would be redundant.
Enniscrone's lively head professional, Charlie McGoldrick, has not lost an iota of enthusiasm about the place in more than a decade of manning his small, well-stocked shop and providing instruction on the practice ground. He freely gives to nearly every visitor a sound bit of advice: Don't cut corners. It would be rather like trying to scale Everest by cutting across K2. Aim for the fairways and the wider parts of the greens and be satisfied that bogey is a good score on most holes.
When you are done, you will surely come back. After all, if Sophia Loren were available for a second dance, are you going to leave the ball before midnight?
Carne Golf Links
Belmullet, County Mayo
Belmullet, County Mayo
This was Eddie Hackett's last links layout and one that leaves a lasting impression on all who play it. Carne is but a baby born along the coast of County Mayo and overlooking the Atlantic and Blacksod Bay. The first nine holes were opened in 1992, the second nine in 1993, along with the modest clubhouse. But true to Hackett's form, Carne seems to have been there for an eternity.
The fairways at Carne toss and turn fitfully over the heaving landscape. You can get a month of links bounces in one round at Carne, where not every good drive is rewarded nor every bad one punished. The 'umps and 'ollows that so characterize links golf are in abundance at Carne and a perfectly struck ball may end up in the bottom of a pit. But a poorly struck shot might also benefit from an unexpected carom.
While the front nine is challenging with some interesting holes, it is the back nine that will burn an indelible stamp in the memory. From the par-5 10th, its green sitting in a pocket in front of an immense dune, to the tortured roller-coaster ride of the par-5 18th, the back nine at Carne never fails to impress or inspire.
The uphill par-4 15th makes you wonder whether you need a caddie or a Sherpa. To the right, all the way up, is an enormous dune ridge with about as much exposed sand as you are ever likely to see in Ireland. The club is planting the face of it with marram grass to ensure that the ridge is not worn down by the winter gales, but the gaping exposure of sand is wondrous.
The par-3 16th plays steeply downhill into an amphitheater of dunes and you could well imagine the mystical community of Brigadoon taking shape at the bottom of the hill. The long, tough
par-4 17th has two deep pits that threaten tee shots on either side of the fairway. But it is the view of a huge dune canyon to the right that can stop any golfer in his tracks. The canyon has no golf hole at the moment, but the club has some ideas for the future.
par-4 17th has two deep pits that threaten tee shots on either side of the fairway. But it is the view of a huge dune canyon to the right that can stop any golfer in his tracks. The canyon has no golf hole at the moment, but the club has some ideas for the future.
The 18th presents a very substantial challenge. The green on the par 5 can be reached in two by longer hitters, but the average player will have to decide between laying up more than 150 yards from the green at the top of the hill, or letting his second shot roll down to the bottom of a ravine fairway and face a severely uphill blind third shot. Carne will take the measure of anyone who plays it.
Connemara Golf Club
Ballyconneely, County Galway
Ballyconneely, County Galway
Ed Hackett's credo—"Nature is the best architect. I just try to dress up what the good Lord provides"—may be expressed best at the Connemara Golf Club, due west of Galway at nearly the exact middle of the Irish Atlantic Coast.
Connemara was the dream of Father Peter Waldron, a young priest who realized the secular necessities of the poor Irish coast in the late 1960s. The area needed something to draw both Irish and international tourists, something to bolster a depressed economy. Golf seemed like just the thing, and as it turned out, Hackett was just the right architect. When he arrived at the site in 1970, Waldron told him that there wasn't any money yet to build a course. That
didn't stop Hackett. He put pins and stones in places for the tees and greens and told the locals to pay him when they could, to construct the course when they could.
didn't stop Hackett. He put pins and stones in places for the tees and greens and told the locals to pay him when they could, to construct the course when they could.
So with a dreamer of a priest, an icon of an architect and locals willing to build their first golf course, Connemara Golf Club was born. In the end, it is a very natural and humbling place, 27 holes of charming golf that will keep you wanting to come back for more.
Connemara doesn't have the dramatic dune landscape typical of northwest Irish courses. The land is distinguished by rocks and rock outcroppings, though they seldom come into play unless you hit a very bad shot. The rocks provide backdrop details for the holes, props at the side of a stage. They are most apparent at the short par-3 13th, a hole chiseled out of a rock basin. It is the first of a series of dramatic holes that conclude the marvelous back nine and provide a fitting climax to Father Waldron's dream.
County Sligo Golf Club
Rosses Point, County Sligo
Rosses Point, County Sligo
The County Sligo Golf Club is poetry, and well it should be. Sligo was home to the poet William Butler Yeats and he once referred to Rosses Point in one of his works. Not the golf course, mind you, but the dramatic peninsula setting, a thumb of land sticking out into the Atlantic and reaching toward the Americas.
Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim grey sands with light
Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night —W.B.
Yeats, The Stolen Child
Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night —W.B.
Yeats, The Stolen Child
County Sligo was founded in 1894, with its present layout designed by the noted Englishman Harry Colt and opened in 1927. Pat Ruddy spent much of his childhood there. The course is the home of the West of Ireland Amateur Championship and holds a legendary status within the country, certainly equal to courses such as Ballybunion, Portmarnoch and Royal County Down, which are better known internationally.
The course pitches and tumbles along the peninsula. The tee shots at the third, fifth and 10th holes are dramatically downhill and bring a rush to anyone standing with a driver in his hands. The fifth hole is aptly named "The Jump," with the tee on a cliff and the fairway far below. The 10th plays down through a valley of dunes to a green that has as a backdrop Ben Bulben mountain, a brooding rock tabletop of lore. Yeats is buried in Drumcliff churchyard at the base of the mountain.
The par-4 17th at Sligo has few equals, and if it was on the British Open rota, it likely would be as famous as the 17th at St. Andrews, the Road Hole. Sligo's 17th is 455 yards of pure muscle and dread. It takes two prodigious and accurate shots to get home, and even then the green pitches so severely from back to front that two-putting is not assured. Though Sligo is less than 6,700 yards, it is one of Ireland's strongest courses.
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The Season Finale of My Search
Like the season finale of a new television show, my first year on the job market in Britain ended with an unexpected surprise, a bit of sorrow, and a cliffhanger. The unexpected surprise is that I got a job offer. In fact, I got two.
First, a college where I had been teaching part time asked me to take over the job of adviser and administrator for incoming and second-year undergraduates in the new academic year. Besides teaching courses in my field, I would help students arrange their classes, keep up with their progress, and generally watch over them. In certain ways, it's my dream job since it involves a great deal of student contact and administrative work that I've never done before but that interests me. The only problem: The position is part time, with a small salary.
A week later, I had an interview at a top British university, an interview I was sure I had failed by being too confident and too relaxed. In fact, apparently I had succeeded by being just those things. British universities make hiring decisions much more quickly than American ones do. Three days after my interview, I discovered not only that I had been chosen but that the department didn't have any other candidates if I said no.
The phone call offering me the job was an immense relief and pleasure. But what I found most interesting was the assumption on the part of the caller that I would accept instantly. She seemed to have no expectation that I would negotiate or consider turning down the offer. When I asked her some questions that are the norm in the United States, she was clearly taken aback. What were the retirement benefits? She didn't know. How many courses would I have to teach? She couldn't precisely say.
Even lacking the answers to those questions, it was a very good job, the kind of job I'd been hoping to get all year. Nonetheless, I had worries. For one thing, it became clear during the interview that the university was extremely research oriented. I am not. I think research is vitally important, certainly, but I rank it equally with teaching, not above it.
For another, the job offered me nothing new: It would not involve any advising or administrative duties that would challenge or stretch my skills. What it would offer was a permanent position with a salary. And that's pretty hard to beat.
In the face of uncertainty, I did what every wise academic does: I began to do some research. In this case, that meant I sought out advice from pretty much everyone I knew: My mother all but begged me to take the research job. A friend pointed out that there was a lot to be said for being in a job while you look for another. But my best (nonacademic) friend pointed out that sometimes fulfillment outranks salary.
I consulted Web sites that offered contradictory advice: "If you got one job offer, you can get another," and, "In these straitened times, think very carefully before you turn down a job."
The comment that truly swayed me, though, came from an utterly disinterested observer, an English friend who was not an academic. "I can't give you any professional opinion," he said, "but I can tell you that it's a terrific university. But there's nothing else there."
Wait, I thought, didn't I just leave that party? I moved overseas after quitting a tenure-track job in the United States because I was miserable in the isolated location. (Oddly enough, shortly before my interview with the British research university, my old American institution informally asked me to reapply for my former position. I declined.)
Past experience had shown that, for me, the quality and support of a university couldn't make up for its isolation. Present experience has shown me that, in these straitened times, you cannot "publish your way out of anywhere" or "always find a better job than the one you're in." These days, once you're in a job, you might be stuck there forever—although the same, I realize, might be said once you're out of a job.
So I turned down the full-time offer at the isolated research university and accepted the low-salaried, part-time job I really wanted at the British college.
I am both pleased by my decision, and terrified. What if I don't get another full-time offer? Ever? In fact, that possibility veered into the realm of reality almost immediately, when I wasn't granted even an interview for a different full-time position at my current college (that was the sorrow in my season finale). I was wounded by that, but the hiring committee explained that it had found other candidates more qualified for that particular post. I had intended to use the 2011-12 academic year to settle in and establish myself. Instead, as 2012-13 approaches, I find myself established only as a part-time employee, with more responsibility and not much money to show for it.
Yet I've accomplished a great deal in the last 12 months. I've kept writing and publishing while teaching over 20 hours a week, and I've been proud of what I've written, and felt it was significant work, which I've rarely felt before. I've established myself in a new country from scratch, even if that has involved foolish choices and nasty surprises. It also involved some lovely perqs, like free cake, a different one each day, in the faculty common room.
Perhaps more important, I've learned that my devotion to my career, and to my subject, doesn't spring from any source but myself. The articles and reviews I wrote and published over the past year were written for my own pleasure, or out of my own sense of determination. I started a writing program at my college out of a conviction that all university students can improve their writing, and that program has taken root and grown.
"They don't just say that you teach them writing," the head of my college said to me recently about my students. "You give them confidence." In an institution that appears to offer precious little of that commodity, I'm proud to be singled out for supplying it.
All of which is very fine on the "you go, girl!" level, but still leaves me underemployed in Britain. Moreover, the Research Excellence Framework, the review effort that was responsible for producing so many open faculty positions this year, ends in 2014, so there may be fewer jobs advertised. That is a worry, and I'm a worrier, so I'm worried (this is the cliffhanger). I've learned this year that a heavily research-oriented job, especially in a remote location, is not what I want. And I continue to believe, for some inexplicable reason, that it will all work out.
But I still haven't told my mother I didn't take the full-time job.


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Long-term Daily Use of Trazenta® Tablets in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
This study is ongoing, but not recruiting participants.
Boehringer Ingelheim
Eli Lilly and Company
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Boehringer Ingelheim
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First received: July 24, 2012
Last updated: August 25, 2017
Last verified: August 2017
|Tracking Information
|First Received Date ICMJE
|July 24, 2012
|Last Updated Date
|August 25, 2017
|Start Date ICMJE
|July 2012
|Estimated Primary Completion Date
|October 2017 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Current Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Incidence of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) [ Time Frame: up to 156 weeks ]
|Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Change History
|Complete list of historical versions of study NCT01650259 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site
|Current Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|The change from the baseline in HbA1c to the last-observation on treatment [ Time Frame: up to 156 weeks ]
|Original Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Current Other Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
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|Descriptive Information
|Brief Title ICMJE
|Long-term Daily Use of Trazenta® Tablets in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
|Official Title ICMJE
|Post Marketing Surveillance on Long Term Drug Use of Trazenta® Tablets in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
|Brief Summary
|Study to investigate the safety and efficacy of long-term daily use of Trazenta® Tablets as monotherapy in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and to assess baseline characteristics of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus starting Trazenta® Tablets or any other oral antidiabetic monotherapy (naïve or switched from prior therapy of different oral antidiabetic drug).
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Time Perspective: Prospective
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|Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
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|Active, not recruiting
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|Estimated Completion Date
|October 2017
|Estimated Primary Completion Date
|October 2017 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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Exclusion criteria:
|Child, Adult, Senior
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|Boehringer Ingelheim
|Study Sponsor ICMJE
|Boehringer Ingelheim
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|Eli Lilly and Company
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|PRS Account
|Boehringer Ingelheim
|Verification Date
|August 2017
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