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HALF MOON BAY -- The Body Glove Mavericks Invitational big wave surf contest will be held Friday after all.
Maverick's pioneer Jeff Clark, the man who had the final say as to whether the big wave surf contest will be run this week at the break a mile from the Pillar Point Harbor in Half Moon Bay, gave the event the go-ahead Wednesday afternoon.
"With this big of a swell coming at us, we really don't want to miss it," Clark told the Sentinel. "Swells of this size don't come along every year. We haven't seen one for two years. So we're taking advantage of it. We're lucky the weather has come together to a place where we can have the contest. It's dangerous enough out there."
The 24 invited contestants -- including eight from Santa Cruz -- and a handful of alternates were warned Tuesday morning that the contest might be upcoming. Clark was expected to give it the green light early Wednesday morning for a Friday contest. But Clark said a growing south wind caused by low pressure system over the Central Coast caused him to delay his decision.
"It looks like a south wind, and that would be totally dangerous," Clark told the Sentinel at the time.
Winds are also what caused the postponement of the Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau contest at Hawaii's Waimea Bay earlier this week.
Contest invitee Tyler Fox of Santa Cruz said south winds would be the worst for the break, which is best on a northwest swell.
"Any sort of south winds aren't good out there," he said. "They go across the side of the wave, and it creates a side chop."
About 1 p.m., however, the pressure system cleared and Clark approved the contest.
Mark Sponsler, the official forecaster for the Mavericks Invitational, said Tuesday that the swell will bring waves of 18 to 20 feet, which translates to 35- to 40-foot faces. Clark affirmed that forecast Wednesday.
"Tuesday's 12 (feet at the buoys) turned out bigger than we expected. It was well into 40-foot-plus," he said. "The next one is bigger. We're keeping our fingers crossed."
Many surfers, some of whom hail from as far as Brazil and South Africa, had started arriving or were making plans to arrive Wednesday in anticipation of the contest, which offers a $50,000 purse and valuable Big Wave World Tour points.
The Mavericks Invitational is one of five events on the Big Wave World Tour and one of three, along with the new Seatka Pro at Nelscott Reef in Oregon and the Dive N Surf at Todos Santos in Baja Mexico, that can be held until March 31. Gary Linden, the Big Wave World Tour founder, said holding Mavericks was a priority.
"This swell could run Nelscott, Mavericks or Todos, but Mavericks is the big fish," he said. "With Mavericks done, things can kind of relax a little bit."
Santa Cruz surfers invited to compete at Mavericks include Fox, Ken Collins, Peter Mel, Zach Wormhoudt, Ryan Augenstein, Nic Lamb, Shawn Dollar and Anthony Tashnick. Shane Desmond is the first alternate and Tyler Smith is the fifth alternate.
Spectators shouldn't expect to glimpse the waves in person unless they're willing to pay for a spot on a boat. Fans will again be barred from the beach and the cliffs overlooking Maverick's and will instead be asked to watch the action on the big screens at the Mavericks Festival, held in the parking lot of the Oceano Hotel and Spa. Many bars and restaurants around the Pillar Point Harbor will carry live feeds of the action. Tickets to the festival are $15 in advance and $20 on contest day at www.mavericksinvitational.com.
The action will also be webcast live at www.mavericksinvitational.com and redbulltv.com. For the first time in contest history, the final will be aired live on TV on Universal Sports. That channel that is not available on Comcast but can be seen on DirecTV channel 625 and DISH channel 402.
For information, visit www.mavericksinvitational.com or www.bigwaveworldtour.com.
Stephen Baxter contributed to this report. Follow Stephen Baxter at Twitter.com/sbaxter_sc. Follow Sports Editor Julie Jag on Twitter and Tout @julie_jag.
Body Glove Mavericks Invitational
WHERE: Maverick's, a reef break near Half Moon Bay's Pillar Point Harbor
WHEN: Friday
ON THE NET: www.mavericksinvitational.com for info and live webcast; follow the contest online at www.santacruzsentinel.com/mavs
TV: The 1-hour final will be broadcast live on Universal Sports at a time to be determined. The channel is available on DirecTV 625 and DISH 402.
Mavericks Invitational Lineup
Heat 1
Jamie Sterling, Hawaii
Anthony Tashnick Santa Cruz
Mark Healey, Hawaii
Ken 'Skindog' Collins, Santa Cruz
Ryan Augenstein, Santa Cruz
Chris Bertish, South Africa
Heat 2
Colin Dwyer, Pacifica
Grant Washburn, San Francisco
Dave Wassel, Hawaii
Tyler Fox, Santa Cruz
Ryan Seelbach, San Francisco
Peter Mel, Santa Cruz
Heat 3
Zach Wormhoudt, Santa Cruz
Nic Lamb, Santa Cruz
Ben Wilkinson, Australia
Shane Dorian, Hawaii
Greg Long, San Clemente
Carlos Burle, Brazil
Heat 4
Rusty Long, San Clemente
Nathan Fletcher, San Clemente
Shawn Dollar, Santa Cruz
Kohl Christensen, Hawaii
Alex Martins, Brazil
Grant Baker, South Africa
1. Shane Desmond, Santa Cruz
2. Danilo Couto, Brazil
3. Derek Dunfee, San Diego
4. Kelly Slater, Cocoa Beach, Fla.
5. Tyler Smith, Santa Cruz
6. Frank Solomon, South Africa


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"Occiput Posterior Presentation"
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Q: I am currently 32.5 weeks pregnant with my third child. My first baby was anterior. My second baby was persistently posterior. He turned *just* before delivery. Both births were unmedicated. My baby is currently posterior—at around the same time my son became posterior. I tried acupuncture, water exercise, yoga, pelvic rocking and tilting, hands and knees, etc. with my son. I have been doing the same things this time with the addition of chiropractic (and I have not done acupuncture yet). I am planning a homebirth this time and am very anxious about repeating my 2.5 day excruciating posterior labor. I am also very familiar with Pauline Scott's new book [Sit Up and Take Notice: Positioning Yourself for a Better Birth]. Are there any suggestions that would be helpful for me? Or is there anything else I have not tried yet?
— Robin
A: I highly recommend the Pink Kit, which is a little like optimal maternal positioning—it helps you get to know your body, especially your pelvis, and has great ideas for loosening up any tight areas and positions for helping you in labour. It is enlightening and empowering. See www.birthingbetter.com for more information and to order the kit.
— Sarah J Buckley, Anstead, Queensland, Australia
A: We must realize that babies in utero feel everything emotionally that the mother does and that they also come with their own "set of baggage." Something I have had great success with when it comes to getting babies to turn is guided relaxation and visualization. Getting the mother into a highly relaxed state and then having her acknowledge her anxieties and fears allows her to let them go. Then she takes herself into her womb (with her mind's eye) while still in this relaxed state, and she is able to see her baby and sense its environment. She then communicates her love to the baby, gives reassurance to the baby, and asks the baby, "If it will not hurt you to do so, please turn facing my back" (or head down, or whatever you need the baby to do). I have observed the baby moving and shifting while the mother is communicating, and often the babies turn that night. It can also be very helpful to ask the baby what it needs from you. I have found that you can do many exercises to assist, but the key thing is connecting to the baby and being able to reassure him/her with your peace. And when you do this, you are also reaffiming to yourself your faith in the birth process. In Robin's case, the baby could very likely be picking up on her apprehension about having another long back labor.
— Abbie Thomas, CD (DONA), CLD
A: Our doula group recently had a chiropractor come speak to us about the Webster technique. We usually associate this technique with helping breech babies find a better position, but the principles of alleviating uterine constraint by realigning the sacrum and thereby restoring balance to the ligaments also have implications for women whose labors tend to be long and less than effective, or for malpositions other than breech presentation. You might check with your chiropractor to see if he/she is trained in the Webster technique, and if not, switch to one who is. Check this link for one in your area: www.icpa4kids.com/find_pediatric_chiropractor.htm
— Ana M. Hill, CD, CLD
A: Have you tried the pressure point on the outer sides of the pinkie toes? If not, have someone apply pressure to the outer side of the joint at the base of your pinkie toes. Make sure the pressure is even on both sides. This technique has been shown to help turn a baby. I had a 10-pound posterior baby girl at home; what saved me was envisioning her coming down anterior.
— Alicia
A: I am a homebirth CNM and am very adamant about trying to turn the baby to an anterior position prior to labor. In addition to hands and knees, I ask my patients to have their partner or support person encourage the baby to turn using the following exercise (first you must know from your midwife what position the baby is in currently): Thoroughly oil your belly; while on hands and knees, have a helper (H) reach across your belly from beneath and draw the baby toward H in the direction of pulling the back of the baby in their direction. For example, if the baby's back is more on your left, H will pull from your left to right in an attempt to bring the back to the anterior position.
Stair walking can be an effective exercise to turn a posterior baby. In addition, I suggest placing one foot on a chair or couch and lunging, with the leg corresponding to the baby's back being the one on the chair. Finally, if the baby persists OP in labor, I massage the uterus during contractions with lots of oil, beginning at the pubis with both fists, bringing my fists up to the fundus, sort of lifting the baby out of the pelvis. This is very uncomfortable, but the tradeoff is a much shorter labor if the baby turns on its own without encouragement. For pain relief, I use sterile water papules to relieve back labor. Very effective and easy to do at home.
— Anon.
A: Here are a few articles you may want to check out: www.homebirth.org.uk/ofp.htm
— Erika
A: I highly recommend Jean Sutton's book Optimal Feotal Positioning. She is a New Zealand midwife. I empathize with the back labour and hope this helps. Have a great birth!
— Patricia Vanier, St. Albert Alberta, Canada
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A: Be sure to check out www.spinningbabies.com to help with positioning. I've also had good luck helping babies turn in labor by having the mom get into an exaggerated 3/4 over side-lying position. You can also put ice down near the baby's face while mom is doing knee chest. Lastly, doing pelvic lifts during contractions with a rebozo can help the baby turn.
— Wendy Kogler, LCCE, CD (DONA)
A: Have you tried "diaphragmatic release"? It is very simple, and I have personally seen success with the two woman I've had try it with their posterior babies. They each only had to do it a couple times over a 24–48 hour period, and their babies turned beautifully. It seems to be a wonderful little technique.
— Diana Efsits
[Editor's Note: For a step-by-step description of the diaphragmatic release technique, plus references, see "Posterior No More!" in Midwifery Today Issue 63.]
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A: I too had a posterior home/waterbirth with baby 3, and with all the research I did I knew how to tell if this was the case. I didn't know until she was out that she was sunnyside up. The reason? I didn't have one second of back labor pains! I just did what my body told me at each contraction. I was on the floor with knees spread as wide as they could go and leaned on pillows or just hands, rocking/swaying hips. And I must say the water was a very big factor! So soothing. I concentrated on keeping belly lower than spine, hammocking baby into belly rather then lying back with baby on the backbone. It just felt good that way. She was born from beginning to end in less than 4 hours and weighed 8 lbs, 8 oz, 21 1/4", 14" head and 15" ribs, not a tear and really no "pain."
— Anon.
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When I read Valerie's question [E-News Issue 6:7], the first question that came to mind is whether her son is regularly seeing a chiropractor. Although his symptoms and conditions sound severe, sometime chiropractic care can help diminish their effects. The following might be worth sharing:
Fetal heart fails to signal cerebral palsy risk
— Sandy, Redwood City, CA
Regarding E-News Issue 6:5 Art of Midwifery: Pregnant or nursing women, as well as infants under age one, should never ingest honey due to the botulism spores/increased risk of SIDS.
— Gail Neuman, RNC CPHW SNP, Tustin, CA
Miscarriage and pregnancy loss are very difficult emotionally on families. It is something that is uncontrollable, sometimes unanswerable and usually unpreventable. This gives way to feeling out of control, losing trust in one's body, and a general feeling of helplessness that sometimes cannot be overcome. Of all care providers, the midwife should be most in tune with the lasting effects of loss during pregnancy, and yet the emotional issues surrounding miscarriage are rarely handled properly if at all, even by midwifery care.
Recently I was blessed to attend the birth of a 15-week baby. The mother was a midwifery patient and had presented in the office the evening before with spotting. Fetal heart tones were attempted for 20 minutes without success. The midwife sent her home to rest, with a promise to make an ultrasound appointment for the next day (she did not want this mom to sit in the ER for hours waiting).
The following morning the mom experienced primary SROM, was transported to the emergency room, and on her exit from the vehicle experienced secondary SROM. She was taken into ER, triaged, and placed in a temporary cot. Her husband and I spent the next 1.5 hours tending to her as not a nurse or provider would bother with her until she was in a room.
I got her water, wiped her face, helped her when she vomited, changed her soaked and stained pants, and explained the bleeding that had begun. I also expressed twice to the nursing staff that she was bleeding, chilled, that she was afraid. The standard response was "I'm sorry but there is nothing I can do." The midwife had not called ahead to the ER nor come to see her patient.
Once mom was in a room, the ER OB/GYN did a pelvic exam, found the baby in the vaginal canal, and placed him in an emesis basin. She was then handed over to the cover OB for the midwifery practice. She experienced a retained placenta and required a D&C and an overnight stay. Meanwhile the midwife had been informed by the OB of the mother's loss. She did not come to the hospital. The mother went home the next day, dealing with a heavy loss. The midwife did not call.
The mother took her experience to the hospital board and has in the works a city-wide policy change for the four local birthing hospitals that all pregnancy-related concerns be handled through Labor and Delivery, not the ER. But she blames her treatment on the lack of support from her primary care provider, the midwifery practice.
The standard answer, "There is nothing that can be done," is the wrong answer. A woman/family experiencing loss can be helped by love, compassion, service. Just because you cannot stop the loss does not mean the job is over. The focus is often on completing the miscarriage, getting it over with. Many times the process is handled mechanically so the mother does not have to go through the trauma. What is missed is the heart. Grieving must be accepted for pregnancy loss the same as grieving over death is accepted. The midwife should have the resources and ability to acknowledge this process and help the healing that is to happen along the way.
For anyone reading this who has experienced a pregnancy loss, you count, your baby counts, and your feelings count. You deserved better if you did not get it and should expect better always.
— Chantel Haynes, pregnancy and birth assistant, Mokena IL
The trends of our times keep nudging us toward a technological world that grabs hold of our personal and collective fears and pocketbooks. And yet, the times also take us through trends that develop us all in evolutionary paths we can't begin to understand. How shall midwifery survive for those who wish to experience their own humanity in deep and perennial ways? Perhaps by continuing to share in forums like the ones you offer. Thank you for your work.
— Patricia Kay, CNM, Olympia, WA
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Trick or treaters looking for a different type of costumer this Halloween will want to head to Target, a retailer that knows a few things about differentiation.
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A Long-Term Extension Study of AT2101 in Type 1 Gaucher Patients
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|Gaucher Disease Type 1 Gaucher Disease Gaucher Disease, Type 1
|Drug: AT2101
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|An Open-label, Multicenter, Long-term Extension Study to Assess the Safety, Efficacy, and Pharmacodynamics of AT2101 in Adult Patients With Type 1 Gaucher Disease
- The primary objective of the study is to evaluate the long-term safety of orally administered AT2101 in adult patients with type 1 Gaucher disease. [ Time Frame: Every 3 months ]
- The secondary objective of the study is to assess the long-term efficacy of orally administered AT2101 in adult patients with type 1 Gaucher disease [ Time Frame: Every 3 months ]
- The tertiary objective of the study is to assess the pharmacodynamics of orally administered AT2101 in adult patients with type 1 Gaucher disease [ Time Frame: Every 3 months ]
|Study Start Date:
|January 2009
|Study Completion Date:
|May 2012
|Primary Completion Date:
|May 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Arm 1
AT2101 dose 1, regimen 1 (same as in the lead-in study GAU-CL-202)
Drug: AT2101
AT2101 oral capsules
Other Name: AT2101, afegostat tartrate
Experimental: Arm 2
AT2101, dose 1, regimen 2 (same as in the lead-in study GAU-CL-202)
Drug: AT2101
AT2101 oral capsules
Other Name: AT2101, afegostat tartrate
Detailed Description:
This is an open-label, long-term extension study designed to assess the long-term safety, efficacy and pharmacodynamics of AT2101 in patients with type 1 Gaucher disease who successfully complete Study GAU-CL-202. Participants may enter this study immediately upon completion of Study GAU-CL-202, or at any later time point. Each participant will continue to receive AT2101 at the same dose level and regimen as in the previous study.
Study visits will occur every 3 months. At every visit, safety evaluations will be performed and blood samples will be collected for pharmacodynamic tests. At the completion of every year of treatment in this study, or at the early termination visit, participants will undergo a comprehensive physical examination, MRIs of liver, spleen and femoral bones, DEXA scans of femoral bones and lumbar spine, and complete the SF-36 questionnaire. Duration of treatment will depend on the time of each participant's enrollment in the study. Participants will be contacted approximately 1 month after study completion for assessment of adverse events.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Male or female subjects, 18 years of age or older
- Completed study GAU-CL-202 with no significant protocol violations or safety concerns
- Clinically stable
- Has not received enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) or substrate reduction therapy (SRT) in the past 12 months and is willing not to initiate ERT or SRT during study participation
- All subjects of reproductive potential are required to practice an acceptable method of contraception
- Provides written informed consent to participate in the study
Exclusion Criteria:
- During the screening period (Visit 1), any clinically significant findings which would compromise the safety of the subject, or preclude the subject from completing the study as deemed by the investigator
- A clinically significant disease, severe complications from Gaucher disease, or serious intercurrent illness that may preclude participation in the study, in the opinion of the Investigator
- History of allergy or sensitivity to the study drug or any excipients, including any prior serious allergic reaction to iminosugars (e.g., miglustat)
- Pacemaker or other contraindication for MRI scanning
- Pregnant or breast-feeding
- Presence or sequelae of gastrointestinal, liver, or kidney disease, or other conditions known to interfere with the absorption, distribution, metabolism, or excretion of drugs
- Subject is otherwise unsuitable for the study in the opinion of the investigator
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00813865
|United States, Florida
|University Research Foundation for Lysosomal Storage Diseases, Inc.
|Coral Springs, Florida, United States, 33065
|Sociedad Espanola de Soccorros Mutuos
|Asuncion, Paraguay
|United Kingdom
|Royal Free Hospital
|London, United Kingdom, WC1N 3BG
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|Amicus Therapeutics
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|Amicus Therapeutics
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|Study First Received:
|December 22, 2008
|Last Updated:
|September 7, 2012
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Gaucher Disease
Lysosomal Storage Diseases, Nervous System
Brain Diseases, Metabolic, Inborn
Brain Diseases, Metabolic
Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Lysosomal Storage Diseases
Metabolic Diseases
Lipid Metabolism Disorders
Metabolism, Inborn Errors
Lipid Metabolism, Inborn Errors
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A civil War re-enactment will be staged on The Common in Marlborough this summer, despite the reservations of some town councillors.
When the idea was discussed at a meeting in January, members were told the cost of the weekend could be up to £18,000.
A decision was made to write to the organiser, the English Civil War Society, saying the re-enactment could not be staged if sufficient funds were not secured and the responsibility would not fall on the council.
At Monday's full council meeting, town clerk Shelley Parker said after funding from Marl-borough History Society and the English Civil War Society there was now a shortfall of £7,500.
If Marlborough Area Board approves a £5,000 grant application at its next meeting, the History Society will donate another £1,000 and the council would have to find only £1,500.
Coun Marian Hannaford Dobson said: "I think, for £1,500, we'd be real humbugs if we did not treat the people of the town to such a spectacle.
"I'm told by people I know on the Area Board that it probably would be looked at favourably."
But Coun Nick Fogg said: "Is this the most appropriate way to spend money? We're coming up to a major commemoration of the First World War; it may be more appropriate to put funding in some way to commemorating that."
The re-enactment - over the weekend of July 26 and 27 – will depict the end of a three-day siege in Marlborough in 1642, when Royalists occupied The Common and ran through town.
It will sit alongside a programme of related events including lectures and demons- trations at Marlborough College Summer School, activities at the Merchant House and educational visits to primary schools.
Ian Macdonald-Watson, of the English Civil War Society, said: "We take it very seriously that we bring on youngsters and provide them with an opportunity to take part in an outdoor activity with good supervision."


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RHINEBECK, N.Y. -- A Rhinebeck man was killed Sunday in a one-car crash on Rhinecliff Road.
Dillon J. VanWagner, 21, of Rhinebeck, was driving a 2013 Dodge Dart southbound on Rhinecliff Road at about 6:46 p.m. when the vehicle went off the right side of the roadway near Orchard Drive, struck a tree and overturned, according to the Dutchess County Sheriff's Office.
VanWagner, who was the sole occupant in the vehicle, was pronounced dead at the scene, the Sheriff's Office said in a news release.
The accident was still under investigation by members of the Dutchess County Sheriff's Office crash investigation unit, however authorities said a preliminary investigation revealed that speed and possible alcohol use were contributing factors to the crash.


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Thursday, November 8, 2012
Book Review: The Entertainer By Margaret Talbot (Highly Recommended)
And the memoirs of the children of Hollywood stars are usually worse—distilling into either bitter hatchet jobs or worshipful love notes.
But I couldn't have been more wrong about this one. I was hooked on The Entertainer before I finished the preface and now rank it as one of the best Hollywood memoirs I've ever read.
Okay, that's three things.
Lyle Talbot got his first lesson in acting early. Raised by his maternal grandmother in a small Nebraska town shortly after the turn of the century, Talbot routinely got a beating if he didn't shed enough tears over a lock of his dead mother's hair—the mother who had died shortly after Lyle's birth. Bewildered by this remembrance of a woman he'd never known, Talbot soon learned to conjure up the appropriate response even if he didn't quite know why he needed to. But he learned his lesson well, figuring out how to please people and enjoying the positive attention he got when he did.
The two funniest anecdotes in the book make it clear it's a miracle Talbot made the transition to acting at all. Hired on as a bit actor in a traveling theater troupe, Talbot mistimed a staged punch in the very first scene of his very first performance and cold-cocked the star, leading to an early curtain. Only the intervention of the troupe manager's wife—she was sweet on the handsome boy—saved his job.
Fortunately, Zanuck was in a forgiving mood when he watched the tests the next day—or maybe it's that he had maverick director "Wild Bill" Wellman in tow—and Talbot got a contract.
Like most second tier players in those days, Talbot worked like a dog, making eleven movies in 1932, ten in 1933 and ten more in 1934.
The best of his films was probably Three on a Match, starring Bette Davis, Joan Blondell and Ann Dvorak. One of the fastest and most cynical films of the pre-Code era, Three on a Match packs episodes of drug addiction, adultery, prostitution, blackmail, kidnapping, child neglect, suicide and Bette Davis in her undies into 63 breakneck minutes. Talbot's role as a weak-willed hoodlum who lures a rich housewife into a life of sex, champagne and cocaine was a memorable one.
What woman wouldn't swoon!
He also had good parts in 20,000 Years in Sing Sing opposite Spencer Tracy, Ladies They Talk About (Stanwyck again), and Mary Stevens, M.D. with Kay Francis at the height of her career.
Yet despite a big build-up and favorable notices, Talbot never achieved the stardom the studio had mapped out for him.
And then he developed a fondness for alcohol—Hollywood was a small town with lots of distractions, and the actors liked to blow off steam in places like the Brown Derby and the Cocoanut Grove. A teetotaler by upbringing, Talbot discovered he enjoyed the buoyant feeling he got from a drink, and with what was likely a genetic predisposition to alcoholism, he started lapping it up and found he couldn't stop. His drinking never prevented him from working, but the tabloid tales of drunken buffoonery didn't help his standing with a studio already worried about the trajectory of his career.
He wound up as one of the legion of "oh, yeah, that guy" character actors who filled out cast lists in nearly two hundred movies, and later nearly three hundred episodes of series television.
In fact, Talbot acted steadily until his retirement in 1987, when he appeared in an episode of Newhart and the movie Amazon Women of the Moon. He died in 1996 at the age of 94. He won no awards, received no nominations, and as far as I know, doesn't even have a star on the sidewalk in the town he called home for decades.
So what makes this biography of a relatively-unknown journeyman so fascinating?
But more than that, Talbot is only half telling the story of her father. What she's really doing is telling the story of entertainment in America during the 20th century. Her father acted in practically every medium there was—stage, radio, movies, television—and witnessed (and participated in) the development of the concept of "mass media." In telling her father's story, she evokes the Hollywood of the 1930s, New York of the early '40s, television in the '50s and '60s, and perhaps most interesting, the life of the actor living out of a trunk, playing tiny towns all over the American midwest nearly a hundred years ago, a way of life that came to end, ironically, when talkies came in.
She also writes of Lyle as a prime example of what she argues was the transformation of American values from the 19th century's focus on "character" (how one might be perceived in the "eyes of God") to the 20th century's fascination with "personality" (how we sell an image of ourselves to others).
All in all, a terrific story. Highly recommended.
6 comments:
- Irv O. Neil said...
Informative review! I read the excerpt in The New Yorker and am looking forward to the entire book.
- November 8, 2012 at 11:12 PM
- mister muleboy said...
I'm taking some days off -- let's go the AFI and catch the best (that you and K-T-B-t-D aren't seeing together, o' course).
PS I saw some silent flix with live orchestration last month at AFI, and will offer my glorious (read: idiosyncratic
(well, read: shitty reviews later on the Mouth O' the Mule. . . .
sweet review, btw
- November 9, 2012 at 8:34 AM
- Mythical Monkey said...
let's go the AFI and catch the best
Absolutely -- I'll send you the schedule. I think they're mostly showing them as double features because those pre-Code films were so short.
- November 9, 2012 at 8:39 AM
- Mythical Monkey said...
I read the excerpt in The New Yorker and am looking forward to the entire book.
I think it was the October 2 issue for those playing along at home. If you're like us, the New Yorkers pile up a bit and them we comb through them later.
Great magazine. A friend of mine gave us a subscription as a Christmas present more than fifteen years ago and we've been renewing it ever since ...
- November 9, 2012 at 8:42 AM
- Who Am Us Anyway? said...
professional raconteurs, blabbermouths, axe-grinders, apologists, sex fiends and fantasists ... wow, you make that sound like a BAD thing!
But thanks for the fine heads up this book; it's eerily prescient of the sort of book i've been fooling with in my head for the past umpteenth bazillion nights re my old man versus Leo Gordon but you're always wanting it to be more than that of course.
I'll be picking up The Entertainer and giving it a go. I'll tell them Myth sent me.
- November 9, 2012 at 10:37 PM
- Mythical Monkey said...
it's eerily prescient of the sort of book i've been fooling with in my head for the past umpteenth bazillion nights re my old man versus Leo Gordon but you're always wanting it to be more than that of course.
You know, a book about how Hollywood covered up all manner of crimes, or something about how we'll forgive actors and sports stars anything would be really interesting ...
- November 10, 2012 at 8:58 AM


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A number of sites have leaked images of what appears of the upcoming NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan video card! At first glance the image looks like the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690, but it is certainly a different card. It appears that the NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan shares a similar design though as it has what looks like a magnesium alloy fan cooler shroud, clear acrylic window over the cooling fins and so on. The leaked images show that the NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan has both 8-pin and 6-pin PCIe power connectors, a pair of SLI bridges for a triple SLI setup and a backlit 'GeForce GTX' logo on top of the card. No new information on the specs, but it appears to be running the NVIDIA GK110 GPU and has 2688 CUDA cores and 6GB of GDDR5 on a 384-bit memory bus. This card should be a monster and we should find out soon if it is as usually when images leak out, the launch is close! You can follow the source link below for a dozen images of this card from various websites, so this appears to be the real McCoy!
Thanks to our Chinese and Egyptian friends we don't have to wait until NDA is lifted. The GTX Titan is packed with the GK110 GPU, which has 2688 CUDA cores. The card is clocked at 837/878 MHz for base and boost mode respectively, however, some reviewers already say that the boost mode is not working properly. This new addition to the NVIDIA lineup features 6GB of GDDR5 memory across a 384-bit interface. The memory itself is clocked at 6 GHz effective. Interestingly, there is no backplate, which would be a nice addition to these dual-sided memory chips. You can clearly see that it requires only 6+8pin power connectors, in turn this card should not require more than 250W of power.
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Cain gets work despite start getting rained out
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Saturday's rainout of the exhibition game against the Chicago Cubs didn't change pitching plans for the Giants' top starters who could have been affected.
Scheduled to face the Cubs, Matt Cain still threw his quota of pitches, returning to the Giants' Scottsdale Stadium complex to work a pair of simulated innings. Among the relievers scheduled to follow Cain, at least one, right-hander Adam Reifer, also threw.
Right-hander Tim Hudson remained on schedule to make his Cactus League debut for the Giants on Sunday against Arizona.
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text: W.Va. leaders mum on storm, climate change By Ken Ward Jr. November 1, 2012 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The widespread and serious damage from superstorm Sandy doesn't appear to be bringing any urgent calls from West Virginia political leaders for government action to deal with global climate change.The Gazette asked various officeholders and some candidates exactly what they proposed that West Virginia and the nation should do about climate change to try to minimize future disastrous storms.Sens. Jay Rockefeller and Joe Manchin, both D-W.Va., did not respond. Neither did Democratic Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin or Reps. Shelley Moore Capito and David McKinley, both R-W.Va.The only member of West Virginia's congressional delegation who answered was Rep. Nick Rahall, D-W.Va. Rahall said that "harsher domestic emissions restrictions" should wait until industry improves technology to capture carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants."While scientists debate whether abruptly lowering carbon emissions would have any effect on the severity of natural disasters, there should be no debate that such a policy would create a man-made disaster here in West Virginia and in other coal-producing states," Rahall said through a spokesman."The wiser course is to find ways to address the challenges of burning coal in a potentially changing world, and the United States ought to lead in that effort so that we can reap the benefits of research and development combined with the existing world market that is in need of more efficient energy technologies," Rahall said.In the wake of this week's storm, climate scientists say it's difficult to conclusively blame Hurricane Sandy on human-induced global warming. However, researchers see possible links to human activities in factors that made the storm worse, such as a foot of sea-level rise in New York in the past century, unusually warm waters in the Atlantic, and even a high-pressure ridge that steered the storm in an unusual due-west path."Human-caused climate change is delivering a one-two punch that is chipping away at our coasts," said Brenda Ekwurzel, a climate scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists. "Sea-level rise and more intense precipitation from a warmer, moister atmosphere make coastal storms more damaging."In West Virginia, though, where this year's election has focused on what the mining industry has depicted as the Obama administration's "war on coal," some political leaders and candidates are very sure that climate change is nothing to worry about.Seth Wimer, campaign manager for Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Maloney, said that Maloney "believes we should be mining more coal, and that it's nothing more than a hoax to think that man has anything to do with global warming." This summer, a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that coastal flooding and more extreme precipitation were strongly linked to human-induced climate change and are expected to get worse in the future.Scientists said they could have only "low confidence" about the historic link between hurricanes and climate change. But, the report said, it's likely that heavy rainfall associated with hurricanes will become more intense."A changing climate leads to changes in the frequency, intensity, spatial extent, duration, and timing of extreme weather and climate events, and can result in unprecedented extreme weather and climate events," the IPCC report concluded.Emissions from coal-fired power plants are among the largest sources of global-warming pollution, and scientists have recommended swift cuts in carbon dioxide emissions to avoid the worst consequences of climate change. In response to the Gazette's question, Democrat Sue Thorn, who is trying to unseat McKinley in the state's 1st Congressional District, said West Virginia needs to "develop safe methods of extracting and utilizing fossil fuels, new ways to increase our current energy efficiency, as well as the efficiency and availability of renewable energy systems."Such a transition to a smart grid and a replenishable, never-ending supply of energy will not only mean a slower warming of our planet, but also tremendous job opportunities in construction and energy production for our state and nation well into the future of our kids and grandkids," Thorn said. "The question for us in West Virginia is whether we take a lead in determining our future or leave our future for others to determine for us."Bob Henry Baber, a Mountain Party candidate running against Manchin, urged West Virginians to help fight climate change by increasing their energy conservation efforts."I challenge all of us, myself included, to exercise more, buy less, consolidate trips, turn off the lights, recycle, purchase low-consumption appliances, take advantage of passive solar heat in construction, adjust our thermostats, and quit wasting food and water," Baber said.Jesse Johnson, the Mountain Party candidate in the governor's race, said, "I'm the only gubernatorial candidate who believes in climate change" and that "the new weather patterns that is has produced are exacerbated by man.""The time is now for West Virginia to step into a leadership position as a government of, for and by the people," Johnson said. 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SALEM, W. Va. -- The Gannon University men's water polo team used a seven-goal explosion in the first quarter to earn a second straight win, handing host Salem International University a 10-5 loss in Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) Southern Division-West Region play.
Gannon wasted no time in jumping on the Tigers, holding a 7-1 lead after the first eight minutes. Salem managed to out-score Gannon in the second quarter by a 2-1 margin, but the Golden Knights still held a 8-3 lead at the half.
In the third quarter, Gannon added two more scores, while Salem netted one. Gannon failed to score in the fourth quarter, but the Tigers added just one goal, giving Gannon the 10-5 win.
A total of six different Golden Knights scored in the match, led by Greg Nelson (Homewood, Ill./Homewood-Flossmoor) who netted three. Tommy Nimrod (Glenview, Ill./Glenbrook South) and Nathan Bean (Houston, Texas/Cypress Creek) both scored twice while Kyle Lazenby (Erie, Pa./McDowell) and Cody Sherman (Erie, Pa./McDowell) each netted one.
Gannon's Neal Zoellick (Homewood, Ill./Homewood-Flossmoor) had five blocks in goal for the Golden Knights.
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It's been too long since I've given you a medical update here on the blog. If you're my personal friend or Facebook friend, you probably know what's been going on. But if not, I feel like I should let you in on something…something quite crappy going on in my life.
Remember that surgery I had? The one to fix my hearing?
I thought it would be a life saver. And maybe, eventually, it will be. But right now, I wish I had never done it. Because now, you see, I'm worse off than I was before. Before I was going deaf and now I not only need to wear an earplug 24/7, but I also have mind-numbing pain. All. The. Time.
Let's take a step back. The surgery was to repair my going-deaf ear by replacing one of the tiny ear bones with a tiny titanium prosthetic. The surgeon said it went fine and that I was recovering well. But I insisted I wasn't "recovering well", because I was still having pain.
"I've never heard of this," he said. The words still echo through my mind nine months later. "You should not be having pain this long after surgery." After a few post-op visits, and hearing tests that proved I was, in fact, gaining my hearing back, he dismissed me with those final words. He wouldn't prescribe me any more painkillers and insisted on a regimen of Aleve.
I wept my way to the parking lot in a blur of tears. He didn't understand; couldn't understand. Aleve? Aleve wouldn't cut it. I was not, and am not, addicted to painkillers, for Christ sakes. This was–is–real pain, cutting through my ear and reaching up behind my eye, yanking down my neck like some devil's hand. It never goes away. Morning, noon, night–pain.
I have a life to lead. A life that was going along swimmingly until I lost my hearing; a life that was going along great until the operation. My two tiny girls have a mommy who is cranky, deaf and frustrated.
It sounds like I'm blaming the surgeon. Maybe I should be, and maybe I shouldn't be. I have no diagnosis to go on. I'm just so fed up, living with day-to-day pain. I've been to four other doctors—three more on the docket in the coming weeks, including the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix—and no one can give me an answer as to why this pain is occurring. I've had MRIs, CTs, massage, cranio-sacral therapy. I manage on a regimen of painkillers that I loathe— they make my mind foggy and sleepy. I don't want to live on pharmaceuticals, but right now they're the only things I've found that makes the pain manageable. They don't even fully take it away, just numb it a bit.
The worst part? Sound makes the pain worse. The simple banter of my daughter requesting eggs for breakfast is murder; if I must attend a loud event I'm screwed for days. I've become a recluse, mostly avoiding social situations when I can. The world is loud, and it won't stop being loud. I don't blame it. I want the world to be loud–I just want to be a part of it. I want to hear it.
I wear an earplug at all hours of the day. It irritates my ear even further and everyone stares at me curiously. I don't listen to music. I don't watch TV. I don't go to movies. I used to enjoy these things—they used to make me happy, make me relax, and now I can't.
I'm back to where I was—deaf—but worse than deaf. My other ear, the one without the earplug, is deafer than it was before we discovered the disease (otosclerosis), and it's degenerative. My poor children and husband have to repeat themselves endlessly to speak to me. We should just get pads and pens to communicate. The only thing that keeps me sane right now is this—writing—but on the painkillers my brain gets foggy and word recall is sometimes difficult. I think I'll lose my mind soon.
I worship those of you who have been living with chronic pain for longer than I have. I don't know how you do it (how do you do it?). There are so many people worse off than me—I'm just being a pathetic whiner.
But I do feel as though I have to tell my story in case there is someone out there reading who is experiencing the same thing. If that's you—if you have otosclerosis (conductive hearing loss)—thoughtfully consider your options. It's such a delicate area to operate on.
Stay well. Hug your kids. Call a friend. Blast your music. Go to movies. RSVP YES! to that party. Listen to the traffic and the birds and the lawnmowers. I hope that I will be able to again, someday soon.


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Well considering Tony tends to be wrong about a lot of things Colts related I hope he's wrong here too
Tony Dungy Could See Peyton Manning Walking Away from Football in a Year
By Larry Brown September 30, 2011 - Posted in Football
Peyton Manning had been a bastion of good health throughout his NFL career until succumbing to a neck injury recently. In early September, the All-Pro quarterback had a third procedure on his neck, ending his streak of 227 consecutive starts. His former coach, Tony Dungy, doesnt believe the quarterback will exit the game on this note. However, Dungy could envision Peyton walking away from the game after one more year.
I dont think it would be hard to walk away from the game where he is now, with everything that hes done. He loves it, hes very competitive, Dungy said during a guest appearance on PTI Thursday. I dont think hell walk away like this unless the doctors tell him that he cant play. I think he wants to come back and have a great year. I could see him walking away after one more year, but I know him as a competitor, and theres no way he wants to leave because of an injury.
Dungy coached Peyton for seven years, so we trust his insight on the subject. However, he conceded that he no longer has insider info on his former quarterback.
We actually dont talk as much as we used to because he views me as the media now. If I call him just to say hey, how you doing? the antenna goes up. [Peyton thinks] Does he really want to know, or is he trying to find out for NBC?
This comes across as speculation on Dungys part, but it does make sense. Peyton is 35 years old and recovering from a neck injury. He probably didnt have too many years left in the league prior to the multiple surgeries, and this likely sped up his imminent retirement.


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ATHENS—Falcon International Reservoir joined the Toyota ShareLunker action on Thursday, February 7, with a 13.4-pound entry into the ShareLunker program.
Isaac Denson of Monahans was fishing in two to three feet of water when the big bass hit about 11:30 a.m. The fish was 26.5 inches long and 20 inches in girth.
The fish was weighed and held for pickup at the official Toyota ShareLunker Weigh and Holding Station at Falcon State Park. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department staff from the A.E. Wood State Fish Hatchery in San Marcos picked the fish up and took it to San Marcos, where it is awaiting the results of DNA testing.
If the fish is pure Florida largemouth, it will be taken to the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center (TFFC) in Athens and held for spawning; otherwise, it will be returned to the lake as quickly as possible.
The fish is the fifth entry of the season into the Toyota ShareLunker program, following entries from Lakes Austin, Fork (two entries) and Dunlap.
The largest entry of the season to date is Richard Scibek's 16.04-pounder caught from Lake Fork on February 2. The angler who catches the largest entry of the season is named Angler of the Year and receives a prize package from G. Loomis consisting of a G. Loomis GLX854C jig and worm rod, a Shimano Chronarch 200E7 casting reel and a spool of Power Pro super-braid fishing line. If the Angler of the Year is a Texas resident, he or she also receives a lifetime fishing license.
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ShareLunker entries are used in a selective breeding program at TFFC in Athens. Some of the offspring from these fish are stocked back into the water body from which they were caught. Any lake producing an entry into the program receives a share of the fingerlings, whether the fish from that lake spawns or not. Anglers who enter fish into the program receive a free replica of their fish, a certificate and ShareLunker clothing and are recognized at a banquet at TFFC whether their fish spawns or not.
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HEALTH bosses are pleased with the steady uptake of the flu jabs in the town this winter, but still want to raise awareness of its importance.
New figures released by NHS Swindon show only small variations between this year's uptake compared with last year's, putting them on track to achieve their targets.
The flu jab is offered free to people over 65, under-65s with serious long-term health problems, pregnant women and frontline health and social care staff.
So far this year, 35.8 per cent of pregnant women have had the jab, compared to just 27.2 per cent of those in the same group this time last year.
Figures for the under-65s at risk stand at 33.6 per cent this year compared to 35.4 per cent last year, while the uptake amongst over-65s stands at 56.3 per cent compared to 58.9 per cent last year.
Dr Ayoola Oyinloye, consultant in public health medicine for NHS Swindon, said: "We are pleased with the number of people who have had their vaccination this year so far.
"But we would like to see more people contact their doctor's surgery to find out more and book an appointment.
"The flu vaccination this year will protect you against the circulating flu strains including the swine flu virus.
"Please don't wait until a flu outbreak occurs. However if you do contract the flu virus, stay at home, keep warm, drink plenty of water to stay hydrated and take paracetamol or other painkillers such as ibuprofen to lower a high temperature, and relieve aches.
"For most people, flu is a self-limiting illness, but if you have to visit your GP with flu-like symptoms, please let the surgery know you may have flu when you arrange your appointment."
GWH chief nurse Hilary Walker said: "Flu is not just a cold – it can be a really serious illness for some people and it doesn't just affect older people.
"If you're pregnant, have lowered immunity or a long term health condition such as asthma, a chest or heart complaint, or diabetes then you should get a flu jab from your GP.
"The flu jab is completely safe, and it can't give you flu."
The flu vaccine changes every year to fight the latest strains of flu, so even if you had a jab last winter you need another one this year to stay protected. The jab doesn't contain the live virus so it cannot give you the flu.
The 2012/13 vaccine protects against three types of flu virus - H1N1, the strain of flu that caused the swine flu pandemic in 2009, H3N2, a strain of flu that can infect birds and mammals and was active in 2011 and a strain of flu that was active in 2010 known as B/Wisconsin/1.
Hilary said: "Flu can increase the risk of developing more serious illnesses such as bronchitis and pneumonia, and can make existing conditions much worse.
"Flu can knock you off your feet and make it hard to look after the kids or go to work.
"In the most serious cases, seasonal flu might land you in hospital – it can even be a killer."


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Here's a shocking statistic: Nearly half of all New Mexicans can't read at a sixth-grade level. Yet in 2011, when the state Legislature faced a $450 million budget deficit, adult literacy funding was one of the many programs on the chopping block.
That year, the state slashed adult literacy support by 57 percent [news, Dec. 14, 2011: "Unread"]. For the nonprofits focused on improving New Mexico's dismal literacy rate—which in turn affects its education system and job market—the cuts were significant.
State funding for Literacy Volunteers of Santa Fe, one of the state's largest literacy programs, dropped from $15,000 to $5,000 that year, according to LVSF Executive Director Letty Naranjo. In the past five years, founder Meredith Machen estimates LVSF has lost one-third of its students and been forced to redirect some of its resources from teaching to fundraising. Other organizations are even worse off: Literacy Volunteers of Doña Ana County, which has also faced funding cuts, has seen its student population sink from 600 to 300 in the past two years. This year, state funding for both organizations—as well as eight others—hit zero.
"We're crippled, and we're running at half capacity because of this change," says Steve DeGiulio, LVDAC's literacy program coordinator.
That change has led to tensions between local literacy programs like LVSF the New Mexico Coalition for Literacy, the nonprofit charged with distributing state funding among them. Essentially, the new policy bars granting state literacy funds to nonprofits that receive assistance through the state- and federally-funded Adult Basic Education, or ABE, program.
"This year, rather suddenly and unexpectedly, the State made revisions to our contract which prohibited us from funding the ABE-based literacy programs, as it would be considered a duplication," explains NMCL Executive Director Heather Heunermund in an email to SFR. This fiscal year, the coalition spent $133,000 on literacy programs—only $16,000 less than it spent in FY2012, but some literacy providers say they saw disproportionate cuts.
"It appeared as though the ABE programs had been double dipping for all of these years since they already receive State and Federal funding for both ABE and literacy," Heunermund continues.
LVSF staffers dispute that assessment. According to the nonprofit registry GuideStar, in 2010, LVSF reported income of $95,000 from ABE. But Machen says the ABE numbers aren't grant funding, but rather an accounting for resources (computers, classroom space, etc.) shared with an ABE-funded program run by Santa Fe Community College.The two programs served different students: state-funded literacy programming was limited to students in sixth grade and below, while the ABE programming is for seventh graders and higher.
"There's no way we're double-dipping," Naranjo says. "Double-dipping would be counting the same students twice."
Last fall, DeGiulio, Naranjo and six other literacy program directors signed a joint letter to State Librarian Devon Skeele, airing their frustration with NMCL. The letter says NMCL lacks "a clear rubric or formula" for how it spends state funds.
"Literacy programs have little or no input into NMCL policies and are denied access to grant criteria," the letter reads.
NMCL, however, faces its own set of challenges. Heunermund notes that some community programs saw funding cuts because they failed to file documentation properly. LVSF, she writes, was serving too few "basic literacy" students and made a mistake on its 990 tax form.
In any case, she adds, "The literacy programs we fund and support are satisfied with our services. The directors with whom you have spoken are not our programs."
Yet while Heunermund says the coalition is trying to work with local literacy programs, a recent email exchange illustrates the tension on both sides.
"I hate to be fussy," DeGiulio wrote to Heunermund, "but since NMCL cannot support our program…you need to remove our program's name from the map on the NMCL web site that claims LV-DAC as a program you support."
Heunermund replied that the removal was "in process" and told DeGiulio to "calm down."
"In fact, get your own house in order before you point fingers and remove our logo from your program's website PRONTO!" she wrote. She ended with a curt farewell: "Have a nice life."
As LVSF's state funding has dwindled, the organization says it's been scrambling to make up the difference through donations—but, literacy coordinator Kevan Morshed notes, that can't last forever.
"How many times can you ask the same people?" he asks.
State Sen. Peter Wirth, D-Santa Fe, says the lack of state funding going to LVSF is a "real concern."
"Literacy Volunteers of Santa Fe has a proven track record in our community," Wirth writes in an email. "This is something I will ask the Legislative Finance Committee to review during the upcoming interim session."
Naranjo adds that despite the funding cuts, NMCL and literacy programs like hers can still work together.
"They're a statewide coalition, even though we're not receiving funding from them," she says. "Why are they throwing us to the dogs?"


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Historic Landmark Inn Offers February Valentine's Special
CASTROVILLE, Texas — If you're a Texas history buff and a romantic at heart, Landmark Inn in Castroville just west of San Antonio has the perfect way to celebrate Valentine's Day.
Since Valentine's Day, Feb. 14, falls on a Tuesday this year, the state-run bed-and-breakfast inn dating from the 1840s is offering sweethearts a "deluxe romantic package" any weekend of February. You'll be pampered with breakfast in bed one morning and enjoy the serenity of antique-furnished rooms with no telephones, television sets or other distractions.
The package price of $315 to $389 plus tax per couple includes a two-night stay at the inn on the banks of the Medina River, one evening of fine dining with a French flair at La Normandie Restaurant and lunch at the new Castroville Café. A gift basket and flower arrangement made with wildflowers grown onsite welcome arriving guests.
On the other morning, guests will gather to eat breakfast in the parlor of the Vance House, one of several historic structures on the five-acre state historic site operated by the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department. Former inn owner Ruth Lawler, who once lived in the Vance House, donated the inn property to the State of Texas in 1974. Landmark Inn is only one of two TPWD properties operated as a bed and breakfast establishment.
Recently ranked among the state's Top 10 B&Bs by Texas Highways Magazine readers, the Landmark Inn has been carefully restored and maintained to provide guests with an opportunity to touch Texas' frontier past while enjoying all the modern comforts of home. The inn dates to 1849 when Swiss merchant Cesar Monod built a store on El Camino Real that crossed the Medina River just east of the property. It has operated as an inn since the 1850s.
The Landmark Inn offers 10 heated and air-conditioned rooms, four with private baths. Six of the rooms are in the main, two-story inn, while two are in the old rock bathhouse and two others are located in the Vance House.
To reserve your special Valentine's package, call the inn at (830) 931-2133 and "sleep where history was made."
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Welcome, friends! The goal of the Wellness Program is to help the members of the Warren Wilson College community create, pursue and practice a lifestyle of wellness. The Wellness Program organizes many campus activities including ongoing classes in yoga, vegetarian cooking, and workshops on topics such as herb identification, gender-specific health, healing arts, meditation, and Earth skills.The office is staffed by crew members who provide weekly open hours for students, staff, and faculty to drop in for bodywork (massage, energy healing, cupping), tea, empathy, and health information. One-on-one sessions can be arranged with specific crew members for issues that require more support than is able to be given for open hours.
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