Somerville Highlander Alumni/Alibrandis Baseball Team

One of the best pitchers in the history of the Yawkey Baseball League, Derek Bates was an impressive young pitcher when he joined the team and soon stand out as one of the best pitchers in the league. This was confirmed when Derek was voted by the league manager's as the Pitcher of the Year in three consecutive seasons( 2002, 2003 and 2004 ) and earning a start at Fenway Park in a YBL All Star Game. Derek suffered an injury in 2006 that took him off the field, but Derek worked hard to get back to be the pitcher he was prior to the injury and did just that and was rewarded with winning the YBL Comeback Player of the Year in 2007. His final performance was one for the ages as he struck out the final 9 batters he ever faced in getting the victory of a must win game 5 versus AlThomas. Derek was a member of 8 Championship Teams during his career.

The Somerville Alibrandis Baseball Club will be holding its 11th Annual Golf Tournament at Shaker Hills Country Club in Harvard, MA. This years event has 2 title sponsors, LCN Services and Barstool Sports. Beautiful golf courses are usually akin to beautiful properties and Shaker Hills in Harvard, MA is no exception. Although the dynamics of the extraordinary 2012 renovations accomplished by new owner Fred Curtis, Jr. and company truly set this golf course apart. A classic New England layout is only the starting point of adjectives to describe Shaker Hills. It is in the details of the creative renovations that one truly finds its splendor. How could anyone improve on what was previously the #1 ranked public course in Massachusetts and the #2 best new course in America? Vision. Standing in front of the club house and looking out Curtis recounts the instant feeling of potential. To his amazement, the 18th hole was nowhere to be found, finishing “a mile” away from the clubhouse. The driving range stood between the 18th hole and the club house on the right and the electric cart charging station on the left. There was an opportunity! The trick was to make it happen. Intensifying Curtis’ confidence was the beautiful land lying directly in front of the clubhouse. The Shaker Hills property sits on over 250 acres. The 30 acres in front of the club house are unique as they are “tilted” like a natural “amphitheatre” towards the clubhouse. The problem was this beautiful natural theatre of golf was distorted by the placement of the driving range and cart charging station. Curtis’ plan was hatched. He purchased the property, retained a professional golf course construction company and immediately repositioned the driving range and cart charging area making way for his new layout. Today the older Par 4, 444 yard 18th hole is now a sweeping 560 yard dogleg Par 5 finishing at the club house. Replacing the cart charging area is a creative 10,000 square foot practice green. But most importantly, is the new serene and wholesome “natural theatre” of golf that has been created as clearly depicted in the panoramic photo on the top of this page. To leverage Curtis’ theatre of golf a significant club house renovation is underway and set to be completed in May, 2013. An impressive new top deck allows dramatic single seat views of this “ampihtheatre” of golf including views of the 1st, 9th, 10th and 18th holes. The renovations at Shaker Hills also make this championship course stretch to over 7,000 yards and change it from a par of 71 to a par of 72.

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For example, we are willing to listen (no charge) and provide customer specific questionnaires before recommending any solution or provide any statement-of-work (SOW). We are milestone driven, soliciting customer acceptance before proceeding with the next phase of any SOW. At the close of each engagement, we provide a detailed “Post Engagement Report”, so customers know exactly what they got and how to maintain the solution. Our Solution Consultants and Architects are trained, certified, and experienced in the areas in which we offer services. We have over thirty combined years of experience in Health Care, including actually working for providers, payers, insurers, etc. Recently, for example, we helped a major provider upgrade to CAPS5 from SRE so they could have the best platform possible to rollout their EHR initiative to all their affiliates, which also architecturally provides the framework to transition to CAPS6. In another recent engagement with a nationwide dialysis company, we helped implement a high-performance, high-available, and scalable web-service enabled transaction handler leveraging SRE / CAPS6 with Sun’s cluster JMQ. When it comes to MDM (EMPI), we recently assisted a prominent healthcare software vendor embed CAPS6/MDM into their enterprise PACS solution that they will be offering to their customers. We are equally capable in the areas of Identity and Role Management solutions. We have experience in implementing successful solutions for customers challenged with “User Provisioning”, “Role Lifecycle Management”, and “Identity Compliance” requirements. There is no single company that employs experts to implement the wide range of software and hardware that LCN sells and supports. However, LCN maintains an extensive array of consultants who are experts in their respective fields, enabling us to provide specific experience for each project we undertake for our customer.

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