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Monday, April 30
Hot Tip: Chambers Bay Golf Links
Friday I got an email from "Savannah," a caddie's wife who I met in Savannah at the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf two weeks ago. She told me half jokingly she could be a great source since her husband has caddied for years and has as many stories as Titleist has golf balls.
You can call me "Savannah," she said at the time. Great, I said, as I handed her my email address.
Late last week Savannah was anxious to tell me about Chambers Bay, a new Robert Trent Jones II links-style course in Washington state's Puget Sound set to open in June. Following is a portion of her email. (I'll call her husband "Gil," not his real name.)
"Yesterday Gil caddied at the new Chambers Bay Golf Course in Tacoma. It isn't open yet so it was the FIRST time anyone played the course."
"All the employees played for the experience and Gil got to caddy for the assistant pro. He said it is the most beautiful golf course he has ever seen. He has seen several, so that's quite a statement. It's located in University Place with a gorgeous view of Puget Sound. He also stated the elevation was absolutely astounding!"
"Gil will get to play the course for free if he caddies there occasionally, which thrilled him as it is very expensive. (Editor's note: up to $150/round.) He was so impressed with the course our entire dinner conversation revolved around it!"
Thanks for the tip, Savannah.
Judging from the Web site, Chambers Bay is beyond spectacular. It's reminiscent of Scottish and Irish links courses and will play 7,600 yards from the tips.
Get ready to walk: There will be no carts. (The architects wanted the experience of playing Chambers Bay to be as authentic as possible.) However, there will be caddies for those who do not wish to tote their clubs.
The Armchair Golfer
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I know this is heresy, but normal players (not professionals) should not be allowed to walk on any golf course. By all means, walk each day and exercise each day to the extent possible, but stop slowing down a game that already takes too long to play 18 holes. If you can make time for 18 holes, you can make time to exercise without being forced to walk while playing.
- Greg said...
I wish every course was walk only.
Sure there are some who require carts for medical reasons and thats all good.
I think a foursome of walkers will complete their round faster than a foursome of equally skilled riders in two carts on a layout that does not have great distances between the greens and the next tee box.
I, too, prefer walking.
"I know this is heresy, but normal players (not professionals) should not be allowed to walk on any golf course. By all means, walk each day and exercise each day to the extent possible, but stop slowing down a game that already takes too long to play 18 holes."
---That is a seriously stupid comment. People in their carts slow down play much more than people who walk.
I walk every time I play and I'm always playing with people driving and they NEVER wait for me. I, on the other hand, am constantly waiting for them.
They drive to one players ball and he hits, then they have to drive (and usually search for) the other players ball and then he hits. Plus all the times they have the wrong club and they have to wait for their buddy to bring them the right one...while I walk straight to mine, pick a club and hit.
A decent foursome walking will play much faster than a foursome in carts.
Plus cart paths ruin a nice course. Nothing better than hitting a drive just off the fairway and watching it hit the cart path and fly 50 yards out of bounds. Nice.
If you're too fat and lazy to walk than take up a different game.
This course is absolutely incredible. I live just across the main entrance from the new course and have watched the course develope. When it first started taking shape, I had difficult imagining the hole layouts. Now, I feeling like I am looking at panoramic shots from the British Open RTJones really went all out, there is nothing like this in the area. One thing you cannot get a sense of from the website pics is the significant elevation changes throughout the course and the monsterous size of some of the dunes. Honestly though, this will be a once-a-year event for me - unless I cut a hole in the fence and play 2 thru 17 only ;-)
The course is beautiful, I walked the loop around it today. It is going to be tough! Lots of elevation changes and narrow narrow fairways. The soil off the fairways is very sandy and there are quite a few sandy waste areas. This is definitely unlike any course I've ever seen.
This course is so unique to the Pacific Northwest, it's hard to compare it to anything. It has the potential to be better than Bandon in Oregon and the fact that it isn't miles and miles from civilization like Bandon makes it even better. I had the chance to play it the other day and recoment saving up to play it yourself...just don't plan on doing it in the near future, it's booked up solid for a long time...
Another caddie and I caddied for two guests yesterday. I believe they had an excellent time. The other pair of golfers in the same group used their own push carts. They commented to me that next time they are at Chamber Bay, they will definitely use caddies. Now, that is a nice compliment.
I played Chambers Bay on Monday and came away totally impressed. Sure it's expensive but this course is still a good value because it is a World Class course. I've played all 3 Bandon Courses and Chambers reminds me of Pacific Dunes.
I can't wait to see how this beauty matures over the next 5-10 years. This place definately should be considered for a US Open as it can handle a huge crowd with excellent terracing for optimum viewing ... oh it's a great challenging course as well.
My only complaint was the slow greens. I was told they were stimping 8 and I consistently left many putts short. Overall, I can't complain cuz it was fun and I did manage two birdies on the back 9!
I played golf at chambers bay on 6/27/07. This course is amazing! The walk is very long though. This course will be receiving a US Open in the near future. The Par 3's are Amazing. The Greens are still very young and slow but the undulating setup gives you a lot to think about when approaching a green. This will be the best links course in the US period.
$150 a round
Have fun its worth it.
Chambers Bay is a gorgeous course -- bring a camera! It's not gorgeous like some you see with artificial landscaping everywhere -- the sand dunes and grasses are meant to look indigenous and there is only one tree on the entire course. It's gorgeous because it's golf in its almost original form. In Scotland, links are the almost-treeless "links" between usable land and the coast and they are open to the public, just like Chambers Bay. The 9th hole, Olympus, is frequented by spectators on the public walking trail (and one of the best views on the course!). Many other holes see spectators peeking between the dunes from the walking trail.
I agree with the previous post that walkers move more quickly than cart golfers -- we had two older, disabled golfers in carts recently who were in a foursome with two walkers and the carts definitely slow things down, as well as detract from the total golf experience of having a caddy. Sometimes the caddy isn't there exactly when you want because he is parking the cart!
Although you can spot golfers without caddies there, I anticipate that more and more golfers at Chambers Bay will use caddies as word gets out that it is a very long course with some serious elevation changes. Unless you are in excellent shape (Ironman, marathoner, Best Ranger competitor, etc.) you will be exhausted by hole 18 without one!
Greens fees are about $150 plus about $20 tax (a hefty Pierce County recreation tax is added), and caddies are $35 per bag. Don't forget as you plan your trip to Chambers Bay to calculate the customary generous tip for a deserving caddy!
- Steve Naccarato said...
I had the pleasure of playing Chambers Bay two weeks ago and it definately lives up to the pre-opening hype. I haven't played Bandon yet, so I cannot say how it compares, but I do believe it will get "Best New Course" for '07, and will mature into one of the "must play before I die" places on your list. Right now the greens are slow which suprised me as you could hardly
find a pitch mark because the greens were so hard. By this time next year it will play very differently as the whole course will be hard and fast. I can't wait! One big tip: STAY OUT OF THE WASTE AREAS. They killed my score. Easily should have been in the high 70's, but carded an 87 because of a a triple bogey and a snowman due to finding those nasty unraked waste areas.
- Bradley Chodos-Irvine said...
I played Chambers Bay today on a cold, wet morning that turned to mostly sun for the rest of the round.
I liked the course quite a bit - despite days of rain lately here in Seattle I was getting bounce and roll on the fairways -- besides maybe Ocean Dunes in Florence, and all 3 Bandon courses, you wont' find that too often around here.
The course is very much like courses in Ireland, and Scotland - but isn't an exact replica of Ballybunion or Lahinch. I don;t think it was meant to be... it's more of an urban/industrial links course. The dunes all have Caterpillar tracks all over them -- and I assume they left them on purpose (though I guess the fescue will eventually cover up some of them). It's more like Pacific Dunes in many ways than a course from the UK - but the last 3 holes are really cool imitations of links courses in Ireland and Scotland - train tracks and ocean right there the whole way. The short par 4 16th (?) is awesome with an amazing skinny little green. It's too bad there aren't a few more holes along the water but I guess that wasn't really possible. The dunes all have Caterpillar tracks all over them -- and I assume they left them on purpose though I guess the fescue will eventually cover up some of them.
It's a breathtaking course that is very hard particularly with wind and rain (I carry a 14 index and shot a score higher than I am comfortable posting here :-) ) and is really demanding. Being a little offline or in the waste areas means trouble and sometimes more than a stroke to escape, (speaking from experience). Like real links courses, you are often screwed when your approach shot is a little offline and rolls into some trouble or back off the green which can lead to some Thomas Bjorn moments if your touch isn't quite right. Nothing like fixing your original ball mark then going back to your ball down off the green.
Compared to Bandon or Pacific Dunes? It isn't really quite the same as those courses but is just as hard, is visually stunning and intimidating like the great links courses around the world, and is really fun to play.
I should say the staff is very friendly and the course is amazing shape for December 28th, 6 months since opening.

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A woman died in a two-alarm house fire in Williams Bay on Thursday night.
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"It was just engulfed in flames. It was horrific," said neighbor Bob Kleber.
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Whenever you can, count.
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I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the "Law of Frequency of Error." The law would have been personified by the Greeks and deified,if they had known of it. It reigns with serenity and in complete self-effacement,amidst the wildest confusion. The huger the mob, and the greater the apparent anarchy, the more perfect is its sway. It is the supreme law of Unreason. Whenever a large sample of chaotic elements are taken in hand and marshaled in the order of their magnitude, an unsuspected and most beautiful form of regularity proves to have been latent all along.
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Winter is coming.
And with the harshness of winter in Westeros comes the utter hotness of the actor cast to play Jon Snow (Kit Harington) in "Game of Thrones,"set to hit the small screen April 17 on HBO.
Based on George R. R. Martin's sweeping and compelling fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire, "Game of Thrones" is set to delight with Harington as Snow, Lord Eddard Stark's bastard son, and Sean Bean (Boromir in LOTR) set to play Stark himself.
My first thought on Harington: Totally hot and totally right for Snow. What do you think?
I'm just starting on the series itself, (a challenge to read at 750 pages plus per book) which is not necessarily YA, but does have some YA characters, such as Snow and his kick-butt little sister, Arya.
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Way back before a customer could rapidly insert their credit card into a machine at a gas pump to pay for gasoline, there were gas pump attendants like Jennie Marie Moore.
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Former RIAA Boss States The Obvious: The Record Labels Screwed Up... And Continue To Screw Up
from the again-and-again-and-again deptHilary Rosen was the head of the RIAA for many years, and led the RIAA's attack on Napster and other early file sharing systems. She resigned in 2003, just before the RIAA began its campaign of suing individuals for file sharing, though long after the strategy had been decided upon and put in place. Since she left the RIAA, she surprised people by saying a lot of things that seemed to go against her former views -- including throwing some support behind Creative Commons, admitting that music interoperability was important (something the labels fought against for a long time) and then came her rather surprising admission that she believed suing file sharing platforms was a dead end strategy and that she hated DRM -- and then even admitting that this has always really been a business model issue, rather than a legal issue. Of course, what she ignored is that she helped make that so.
Billboard is now running an interview with Hilary Rosen to discuss "10 years since the Napster decision" and she's equally forthright, complaining about the many, many mistakes that the industry has made:
The one lesson the industry did not learn after Napster was speed. When you're talking about technology, you have to move quickly on opportunities. The constant refrain is 'there's no money in these opportunities. There's no advances. We don't see the pay off.' But the thing you have to keep pushing back on is 'what are you comparing it to?' If you're comparing it to physical sales or comparing it to an iTunes download, then you're right, it's going to be hard. But what you really need to compare to is how else fans are getting the music, which is free. The lessons of Napster, of rapid fire adoption, have been too quickly forgotten. The industry has moved a little too slow and have not benefited as much as they might have by the benefits of technology.She does a little to defend the RIAA by noting, accurately, that:
I think the RIAA became the central organizing vehicle for people's anger. But they don't work for the consumers. They work for the industry. It's the business leaders in the industry that are calling the shots there.That's absolutely true, of course. But it leaves out the fact that the RIAA itself has always promoted the idea that it does represent the best interests of music itself, including for the consumer. And that was true when Rosen was there as well. So whenever politicians or the press want to understand what's happening in the music world, they look for a quote from the RIAA, not recognizing that it's a very twisted view -- one focused on protecting a business model used by a single set of companies in the industry.
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PLYMOUTH, N.H. - A Plymouth State College men's basketball player was honored by the Little East Conference and the ECAC for his efforts in two Panther games last week.
Junior Adam DeChristopher (Brockton, MA), a 6'1" point guard, was selected LEC Player of the Week and ECAC/AmeriSuites New England Player of the Week for his outstanding performance. He led the Panthers to impressive wins over New England power Salem State and LEC co-favorite Western Connecticut. He averaged 26 points, five rebounds, and four assists per game while shooting nearly 54 percent from the floor and 46.7 percent from three point range (7 of 15). In the 82-79 victory over Salem State, he tallied 28 points and four rebounds, and was 5-of- 11 on three-pointers, while scoring 24 points and grabbing six rebounds in the 84-75 win over Western Connecticut.
DeChristopher is ranked in just about every offensive category in the LEC. He is third in scoring (18.8 ppg.) and three-point field goal percentage (.417), fourth in assists (4 apg.), fifth in field goal percentage (.523), sixth in free throw percentage (.826), and eighth in steals (2.5 spg.).
PANTHER NOTES: The Panthers have three additional players averaging double figures in points - senior Ace Elefteriadis (Belmont, MA) with 13.3 ppg, senior center Doug Stokes (Wyckoff, NJ) with 11.3 ppg, and junior Eric McQueen (Lawrence, MA) with 11.3 ppg.....McQueen came off of the bench to score 12 points against Salem State. He is shooting 50 percent from the field, averages three rebounds per game and is ranked ninth in the LEC in free throw percentage (.778).....Stokes, a transfer from the College of New Jersey, has fit into PSC's game plan quite well as he finds himself ranked eighth in the LEC with 7.8 rebounds per game, and 11th in free throw percentage (.750)..... Elefteriadis returned from a sub-par performance against Salem State to post 17 points and seven rebounds against Western Connecticut. He ranks first on the team and seventh in the LEC in rebounds with eight per game.....Senior Seth Peloso (Rye, NH) can also be found among the LEC leaders, as he ranks fourth in steals with 3.5 per game, as well as averaging 7.3 points and 2.3 rebounds per game......DeChristopher enters the week just 12 points shy of becoming the 14th man in PSC history to reach the 1,000-point milestone......After a game Monday night (Dec. 8) at Rivier College, PSC wraps up competition for the semester with an LEC battle Saturday (Dec. 13) against Rhode Island College at Foley Gymnasium (4:00 p.m.).
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My NY Mets sketchbook. I create an entry after each Mets game or commentary on the crazy stuff going on around the team.
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Two Brits transplant a Cotswolds cottage garden into the French countryside
"When I was four years old, growing up in the Cotswolds," says Dee Jackson, "I asked my mum for a little piece of bare ground of my own. I can still see the wildflowers that I planted from seed on my tiny plot." Gardening became a lifelong passion for Dee, and when she and husband Pete retired to southern Burgundy from England, they purchased a considerably larger bare plot of more than an acre. It surrounds a 19th-century stone farmhouse known as "The House With Four Chimneys" in a picturesque village called Culles-les-Roches.
Photography: Gordon Beall
A Palette of Roses
A 'Gertrude Jekyll' rose in deep pink is part of a palette that includes blue, yellow, and purple.
Picturesque Vistas
The Jacksons fell in love with the house's vista, a wide view of the Grosne Valley. "On a clear day, we can see the snowy peak of Mont Blanc, 150 miles away," Pete says. With typical English understatement, Dee describes the original site: "There was nothing in the yard to draw your eye from the view." The land fell away from the house in a steep slope, rocky and bare, past a series of tumble-down barns. But the Jacksons, who love to garden together, were looking for a challenge. They've visited many of the major public gardens in both England and France, mining them for ideas.
Perennial-lined Paths
The sloping lot, with the house set off to the side and the village church towering above, did not lend itself to formal French design but seemed ideal for a casual English cottage garden. The exuberant French vegetable gardens and geraniums spilling from window boxes of the stone houses in the village made the perfect backdrop. The couple transformed the barns on the property into a guesthouse, a workshop, and Pete's "man cave."
Below stone terraces in front of the house, perennials line the lawn. "I let things seed and grow where they do well," Dee says. The village lies beyond the gates.
Resilient Blooms
First Pete terraced the upper area of the garden near the house himself, using local stone. He describes himself as a "macro gardener." "I shift soil a lot. I do the big things, Dee does pretty things."
Dee recalls, "I started with a planting plan, but the things I wanted to grow from England just wouldn't. We went from acidic to alkaline soil and, in fact, very little soil, as we are basically on rock." (The village name translates to "butt of the rocks.")
Fitting for their new home, the purple iris is an emblem of French royalty.
Cascading Roses
When Dee lived in England, she learned tips on growing roses from her neighbor, renowned rosarian David Austin. Here in their French garden, 'Gertrude Jekyll' roses cascade from Pete's garçonnière, the French version of a man cave.
A Growing Learning Curve
A former biology teacher, Dee has "green fingers" (the English version of "green thumbs"). "I've always been fascinated by how plants work inside," she says. Still, the learning curve was steep. "The growing season is longer and hotter here," she says. "French friends started giving me plants that I parked quickly into temporary locations, which then seemed to become permanent."
But spontaneity is the nature of an English garden, even with French influences. "English gardens," Dee says, "are loose and blowzy, with things flopping over. There are herbaceous borders, roses, climbing vines, and ground covers filling in every patch of earth. There is a three-dimensional effect, with swaths of color and tall delphiniums peeking through lavender or roses or salvia."
French Garden Structure
Landscaped French gardens are more structured than their English cousins, their colors more controlled. In the Burgundy countryside, vegetables are the focus. Gardeners there love flowers but plant them in pots and window boxes or next to the tomatoes.
Here, perennials line the walkway to a lower door.
Lower Terrace Garden
The Jacksons got into the French spirit by planting a large vegetable garden on a lower terrace, framed by a bank of tall lavender irises above it. Pete says with a chuckle, "We got cow manure from the local farmers and paid them with bottles of Champagne."
Here, a double staircase winds from the house down to a lower dining area with views of the valley below.
Dining Area with Lovely Views
The Jacksons love summer evenings sipping wine under the pergola and enjoying the views. Still, they've decided they have one more project in them. Somewhere close by, there is another bare plot awaiting their discovery.
Historic Setting
The garden is built around barns even older than the house. The Jacksons converted them into a workshop, greenhouse, and garçonnière.
Floral Details
The rose in pale pink is 'Michèle Meilland.'
Casual Seating
Another blooming outdoor dining area overlooks vineyards of the Côte Chalonnaise wine region. The Jacksons also grow fruit and vegetables, making jams and jellies and preserving overflowing harvests.
Garden Details
Small touches, like an authentically aged bust, reflect the refinement of the Jackson's property.
Garden Gate
Metal gates painted blue lend charming, distinctively French touches throughout the property.


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We're officially launching a new session for schools. It focuses on the legacies of transatlantic slavery and is designed for key stage 3 and 4 students. It has been a while in the making and has been a real challenge to do but I'm really pleased with the outcome and how the session has shaped up.


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Unique negatives taken by Captain Robert Falcon Scott on his ill-fated polar expedition have been saved for the British nation after a major fund-raising campaign.
The Polar Museum at the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) in Cambridge had to raise STG275,000 ($A497,107.74) by the end of March to avoid the prospect of the 113 negatives being sold at auction, probably to a foreign bidder.
The negatives are described as an "extraordinary visual record" of Scott's famous 1912 Terra Nova Expedition in which he and his four companions died on their return from being beaten to the South Pole by Norwegian Roald Amundsen.
On Monday the institute announced that it had successfully reached its target after being awarded a grant of STG233,450 from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF), in addition to funds already raised through a public appeal spearheaded by Sir Ranulph Fiennes.
Sir Ranulph said: "Scott's negatives can now take their rightful place in Cambridge alongside the camera on which they were taken, as well as the remaining Scott and Herbert Ponting prints – all of which speak so powerfully to us of the courage and sacrifice of those on the British Antarctic Expedition.
"The negatives have been recently rediscovered, having been thought lost.
"If the Scott Polar Research Institute had not been successful then there was every chance that they would have been sold abroad and into a private collection."
Dame Jenny Abramsky, chairman of the NHMF, said the images provide an extraordinary insight into the rigours of his epic but ultimately doomed expedition.
"As precious as the corresponding original prints, these negatives record not only day-to-day life in the Antarctic but also the development of Scott's photographic skills."
The negatives had been in a private collection and were thought lost until they emerged in 2012.
The museum, which has no budget for acquisitions, said this was the only chance a British had of acquiring this extraordinary visual record.
The negatives are a record of Scott's earliest attempts – under the guidance of expedition photographer Ponting – through to his unparalleled images of his team on the southern journey.
Professor Julian Dowdeswell, SPRI director, said: "The overwhelming level of support and assistance from the public and from charitable trusts and bodies has helped the Scott Polar Research Institute purchase this extraordinary visual record of Scott's last heroic expedition.
"As part of the University of Cambridge, SPRI will ensure that these negatives are cared for to the highest possible standards and, once digitised, we will ensure that these resources will be within reach of a worldwide audience."
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"I could tell she was asking for it..." UGH, doesn't that just make you cringe? Luckily, the posters below make some nice saves with their twist endings.
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So there was a lot that happened at GDC this year. DirectX and Vulkan 3D APIs that I talked about in the last post just scratch the surface. Among everything that happened at GDC, Valve arguably had the most extensive and most industry-changing announcements. This blog post on the Valve website goes over most of the stuff that they announced in more detail, and the Steam Universe website has plenty of awesome info about each product as well as some sweet pictures that I'll post below.
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Horn should have two sound levels..
Horn should have two sound levels..
The GM EV1 had this feature. When driving below 18MPH (or so), you could flash the lights which would also emit a pleasant tone to warn pedestrians. I used this feature several times, but the pedestrians just looked at me quizzically.
Soon all electric cars will have to make noise as long as the car is on and moving >18mph. The government doesn't think you can do it on your own so they are jumping in to help.
Most cars on the road make noise currently and you still have car pedestrian mishaps. You can't fix stupid. Just like brake lights!! they are only effective if you see them!
YESSS!!! And not just electric cars, regular cars as well. Sometimes you don't want to scare someone and just let them know you're there or whatever other reason...I've been thinking this for the last couple years.
Hopefully Tesla will notice this and I'm sure with a simple software update could have a lower volume horn with flash of headlights under certain speeds.


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How hot is the Houston real estate market? An unfinished Houston mansion that looks like something out of a Tim Burton movie has reportedly been sold for nearly double the asking price.
When it went back on the market a couple of months back, the goth-friendly mansion was the toast of social media. It was a dream home of sorts for those with a spooky side, and if they had $150,000 to spend.
According to the Houston Area Realty site's sale report available online, it sold for between $250,00 and $285,000. Neither Realtor Alfonso Parodi nor new owner Nick Ugarov would disclose the exact sale price, but Ugarov said Tuesday that he was the 17th person to make an offer on the house.
The house is located at 2309 Wichita, just east of Texas 288 near Dowling St., and was scooped up by Deutsche Bank following the 2011 death of its owner, who never completed a 31-year renovation and expansion project.
"I probably paid too much because I wanted it so badly," he laughed.
Ugarov said he's still mulling over plans for the Riverside Terrace property, but made it clear he doesn't want demolish it. The real estate investor buys older properties like this and renovates them.
Ugarov knows its place as a Houston landmark, and says a lot of people stop by and take pictures while he is on the property. He first inquired about the house about a year ago after seeing it on his way home one evening.
Previous owner Charles Fondow was a dedicated DIY handyman who didn't get to finish his vision of the house before dying in 2011. Since then, the house's future had been in limbo.
"It's such an unusual house and project," Ugarov said of the 4,861 square-foot, five-bedroom pad. "There is a finished part and an unfinished part of the house."
Ugarov says that it will take him a few weeks come up with a new floor plan to find the best way to preserve it or make it better.
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I really like the Virgin brand, I have a gold card membership for air-miles, a Virgin Amex is my main credit card, I have Virgin Media supply my home broadband and I am a member of the local Virgin Active health and fitness club (The Glamorgan in Swansea). Heck I'm even a big fan of Mike Oldfield (though technically he's no longer part of Virgin). All in then, I spend easily in excess of £10,000 each year with the Virgin group of companies and three or four times that if you add in the money that goes through my credit card.
As such, it came as a surprise when through my door arrived a debt recovery letter, from Virgin, for £58.49 (That's fifty eight pounds and 49 pence).
You see, a little while ago I transferred my current bank account to a new bank, and part of the process was that they also transfer all of my direct debits for me, it's part of the service. Somehow though, Virgin Active made an administration error and while they successfully stopped the direct debit from my old account, they forgot to set up the new one. This led to an earlier letter from the club a few weeks ago, a letter which I promptly responded to and a new direct debit was set up. Lucy, the helpful retentions manager at the local club even added a note to simply take a double payment for the month where the direct debit was in transition. Simples, and all sorted, or so I thought.
Turns out though that James Ace of Virgin Active does not read the notes put into the system. James it seems, decided that I was a defaulting customer and began debt recovery proceedings against me, including a threat to damage my credit rating (something I'm fiercely protective of).
Needless to say, this letter made me less than happy. Were it not for the fact that I have a personal trainer at the gym who I get on very well with, and that I regularly hold informal meetings and even work from the club restaurant, I would have politely told Mr. Ace what to do with his gym and his threats.
Perhaps I'm over-reacting, but I get quite annoyed when something as simple as this gets out of hand by a failure to communicate, especially when people start to make threats that can impact my business and credibility.
It also goes to show just how important communication and customer service is. When I spoke to the staff at the club this morning, they told me that this is certainly not the first time that this has happened.
As an aside to this, it made me personally more aware of how important good communications are. I wonder how many of us in business have lost clients over something as simple as this.
Top tip then, keep an eye on your communication. Good communication is not always obviously rewarded yet poor and miscommunication can result in an immediate loss of customer confidence.
Update: Virgin Active have responded to me on Twitter, they say they are going to try and ensure these kinds of things don't happen in the future.
Update: Other than the above Tweet from Virgin, I have had no response from the gym. Even though I made a direct payment ahead of the Direct Debit date agreed with Lucy, I don't know whether the matter is now resolved or if I should expect to have a bailiff knocking on my door...
Update: Crikey, the media and social attention that my story has received seems to have been notices by Virgin. Louise Ramsey from Virgin Active just rang me to apologise, Louise is the area manager and is contacting the club directly to find out what's going on.
As I mentioned earlier, I'm sure this is just a case of ditching the dreadful management culture that Esporta had and dragging it kicking and screaming into Virgin's far more customer focussed ways. I shall post an update when Louise calls me back.
Update: Louise called back from Virgin Active. Perhaps unsurprisingly she was unable to get hold of anyone at the club who could help either. If the regional manager can't get hold of them, what hope do customers have? The good news is that Louise is going to sort it out, and I have every confidence in her. She's been working for Virgin for years (according to her LinkedIn profile), so she understands customer service and what people expect from the Virgin brand.
Thanks to Louise stepping in, my faith in Virgin is restored. It might take time for the club to fully embrace Virgin's standards, but I'm now happy that they are going to be addressed.


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Real change rarely comes quickly as we would like – it's one of the tough lessons of environmental campaigning. But when it eventually does arrive, it can be very, very sweet, like the satisfaction of saving an immense forest in the far north of Europe.
In February 2005, I was in the back of a car in Lapland, Finland, watching an apparently lifeless, monochrome expanse of skinny dark trees and dazzling white snow blur by. "What", I wondered, "are we doing here, trying to save these young, tiny little trees?" I was part of an international team of Greenpeace activists from all over Europe and beyond who had arrived in Lapland to set up the Forest Rescue Station, a kind of base camp that would put us in a position to help the local Saami reindeer herders protect the forest. If the Finnish government was to have its way, many of these trees were destined to end up as paper pulp for books and magazines across Europe.
I had a lot to learn. It would take me a couple of weeks of immersion in the Lapland wilderness to truly grasp the subtleties of the forest. Due to the short growing season 300km north of the Arctic Circle, the world's northernmost pine trees grow slowly. The wood here is hard and dense, and the annual growth rings are close together; the "little" trees I had scoffed at were actually hundreds of years old. Days later I was shown a clearcut – an area that has been completely cleared of trees half a century before. The "new growth" pines were barely as high as my waist, despite being decades old; it would presumably take hundreds of years for this area to "return" to anything like its original state. No one really knows.
Herd of Reindeer in Ancient Forest, Northern Lapland. Photo © Greenpeace/Matti Snellman
And that's where the good news comes in. last week, Matti, Greenpeace's hard-working forest campaigner in Finland, let us know that following a decade of endeavor, a final victory has been achieved in the campaign to protect old-growth forests in northernmost Finland. Negotiations between the Saami reindeer herders and the Finnish state forestry company Metsahallitus have resulted in a deal to protect 80% of the forests defined as important by both reindeer herders and Greenpeace in 2002.
These areas – all around Inari and the Saami area, add up to 80,000 hectares of original, primary forest that has now been set outside logging areas either permanently, or for the next 20 years.
The struggle to protect the Finland's forest reached its zenith almost six years ago, between February and April 2005, when we established the Forest Rescue Station. Located first on the Finnish-Norwegian border, and then on the Russian border, the Forest Rescue Station was crewed by activists from all over Europe, who hiked, skied and rode snowmobiles through the forest with local reindeer herders to chart and demarcate the forest areas that needed protection. We had mild weather by local standards, but it was a shock for some of the fair-weather southerners; temperatures rarely climbed above -15C, and that was in the sunshine, with no wind, while at night we camped in -30C and below.
Saami reindeer herder and Greenpeace activist demarcating the forest.Photo © Greenpeace/Patrik Rastenberger
And then there were the neighbours. Greenpeace forest activists around the world regularly come against fierce opposition sponsored by the logging industry; in Finland we had to deal with a supposedly "grassroots" group of loggers that set up a rival camp to block access to ours. Activists went through weeks of sleeplessness and stress; harassed by snowmobiles and taunts during the daytime, they were kept awake at night by fire sirens beside our tents or the windows of our converted shipping containers. One night, a huge tree harvesting machine was driven into the heart of the camp and started cutting down the trees around us – on another, we were woken because a tree inside the camp had been set on fire. But they never "got to us" – our team kept its sense of humour, and its determination to carry on.
The Forest Rescue Station. Photo © Greenpeace/Matti Snellman
I spent two months in the village of Inari and the Forest Rescue Station, and despite having trips to the Southern Ocean, Greenland and West Africa under my belt since; I still rate my time in Finland as one of the toughest I've experienced with Greenpeace. There was little respite from pressure; our vehicles were followed everywhere, and one activist who lived locally even started receiving death threats.
But it wasn't all bad – an amazing, dedicated family of activists was formed at the Forest Rescue Station, and in the town of Inari, we had great support, from both the Saami people in general, and the students from the local Education Institute. Special mention should go to Rosso, the Italian activist drafted to cook for at the camp. Even while our tormentors surrounded us, Rosso was in the kitchen turning out fresh tagliatelle from the pasta machine he'd brought with him. And he still maintains he lost weight from the stress and sleepless nights… For my part, I fell in love with the wilderness and wildlife of Lapland, the long shadows of afternoon, and long nights of early summer.
The success of the Forest Rescue Station came not only from working in the forest itself; our campaigners were working from the forest, reaching out across Europe to contact companies directly about products that were connected to the forest destruction and building up awareness of the problem amongst suppliers. Demonstrations were held not only in Finland, but Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland and Italy – countries where the Finnish wood was exported to be made into paper. We even had a group of bestselling authors from across Europe travel to the forest, concerned about where the paper in their books might come from.
All this work eventually led to an informal moratorium on logging beginning in 2006. Now, almost five years later, these forests are protected thanks to the incredible dedication, commitment and patience of the Saami people, Greenpeace folks from Finland and all around Europe. They've worked countless hours, trekking and camping in subzero temperatures, delivering messages to the paper industry and governments, and sitting through rounds of apparently endless meetings.
They all remembered to keep their eyes on the prize, even when suffering setbacks, or when progress seemed impossible. They believed that the longterm protect of the forest was possible, and more importantly, that it was the only acceptable outcome. Siberian jays in the forests of Northern Finland. Photo © Greenpeace/Matti Snellman
Greenpeace is campaigning to protect forests in many different parts of the world, such as Indonesia, the Congo and the Amazon; amongst other things, we are also in the midst of long, hard campaigns to save our oceans, protect water resources, and save our climate. The Finnish forest success outcome is a lesson for us all – great things are not only possible, they are inevitable, if we keep maintain our optimism, have faith in our abilities, and have the determination to see our work through to the very end, no matter how long the fight.
This Blog is dedicated to the hundreds of people who gave their time to fight for Finland's Forests.
Dave (with big help from Olli and Max)
First photo: The beauty of Northern Finland's forests. © Greenpeace/Henna Tahvanainen
I've been lucky enough to visit Lapland last year on holiday. It's truly a beautiful place, and I'm really glad to hear it's getting the protection it...
I've been lucky enough to visit Lapland last year on holiday. It's truly a beautiful place, and I'm really glad to hear it's getting the protection it deserves.
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I am very very happy to hear and to know the outcome of GREENPEACE advocacy about Lapland. A Salute to GREENPEACE.
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Congratulations Matti, and everyone who helped with this work.
This is a great victory for the Saami, and everyone else who wants there...
Congratulations Matti, and everyone who helped with this work.
This is a great victory for the Saami, and everyone else who wants there grandchildren to grow up in a world with healthy forests.
16 December, 2010 at 18:50
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I think that this team is hiero.
This is first time waht I heard forest arrive in my life.
I'm happy to see this news...
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That's fantastic news.
It is a truly mesmerising wilderness there.
I remember beign fascinated with the reports from the rescue ...
That's fantastic news.
It is a truly mesmerising wilderness there.
I remember beign fascinated with the reports from the rescue center at the time, it seemed like you were all living in some magical, far off land.
So glad this campaign has been a success,
Those ancient northern forests have been preserved for future generations thanks to the tenacity of the Greenpeace team and their supporters.
You all deserve a HUGE hurrah!
17 December, 2010 at 15:31
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This is amazing news!
Thank you to the Saami herders and Greenpeace activists for all their hard work.
Let's hope this succ...
This is amazing news!
Thank you to the Saami herders and Greenpeace activists for all their hard work.
Let's hope this success can be replicated all over the world!
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Great News!!!
I would love to see Greenpeace actually go and buy some forest land and manage it on a sustainable basis.This action
Great News!!!
I would love to see Greenpeace actually go and buy some forest land and manage it on a sustainable basis.This action
would produce jobs-income, wood products and conserve
bio-diversity. The NGO Nature Conservancy has a long
history of doing this type of action.This would be a great
way for Greenpeace Volunteers to work, be productive and earn some money.
Bob Curtin
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... great stuff ... lovely personal write-up ... congratulations ... your fundraisers could turn this into a really effective xmas and new year appeal...
... great stuff ... lovely personal write-up ... congratulations ... your fundraisers could turn this into a really effective xmas and new year appeal ...
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Good going Greenpeace, but there's still many other beautiful places to save, so keep up the good work and know that you have the support of many! :)
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