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Need an Edge for Tiger-Phil Props? Shadow Creek GM Breaks Down Every Hole
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Jason Sobel
Nov 23, 2018, 02:35 PM EST
"The Match" between Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson will take place on Friday, Nov. 23 at 3 p.m. ET at Shadow Creek in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Since Shadow Creek is largely unknown by the public, I spoke with general manager Monte Montgomery, who broke down every hole on the course.
One of the best things about "The Match" between Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson? There will be enough prop bets to make a Super Bowl jealous.
One of the worst things? Host venue Shadow Creek, an ultra-exclusive course in Las Vegas, is largely unknown by the masses, which can mean we're flying blind on many of these props.
Will both players hit the first fairway? Who will be closest to the pin on the tough 13th? Does the setup favor either player?
Let's face it: You need an edge before Friday's match.
Well, here it is.
I spoke with Monte Montgomery, the general manager at Shadow Creek, who broke down every hole on the course, with an estimated yardage they'll be playing for each one.
Here's his expert analysis…
Shadow Creek Course Breakdown
No. 1: Par 4, 400 yards
"Off the tee, they've got to keep it to the right and in the fairway. If they're not in the fairway, it's a difficult approach shot. Anything left is dead. From the fairway, though, it's an easy birdie hole."
"This is a straightforward hole; they just have to be precise off the tee. Both left and right are dead. If they find the fairway, [they] should have about a 9-iron into the green. This should be one of the easier holes — one of their attack holes."
"This is a very difficult, long par-4. They'll have to find the fairway, which is uphill, but [it's] an easy tee shot. It's then a difficult approach to an uphill green. If they're not within 20 feet, this could be a tough two-putt."
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"One of our best holes, this is a risk-reward hole. They can choose to play a tee shot to the right or try to bite off some of the dogleg and take it down the left side. The second shot will be about 250 yards to a tight green surrounded by water. If they go for it and don't hit the green, it's a difficult up-and-down. You're going to see somebody win or lose this hole, guaranteed."
"Normally, this is a 210-yard hole, but it'll be playing about 140. You're going to see a birdie here, for sure. There's an easy pin placement, and shots will funnel from the left to the right. You might even see a hole-in-one. I saw one sportsbook had 100-to-1 for a hole-in-one. This is the one they're going to be sweating out."
"This will be the most difficult hole of the day. The drives will shoot down the hill, but they'll still have 7- or 8-iron into the green. They've got to maneuver around the bunker on the right, but otherwise it's a pretty approachable green. A good iron shot into the green could lead to a birdie, but outside 20-30 feet, they'll be faced with a difficult two-putt."
"More fireworks here — it just depends on who the aggressor is. I know what Phil is going to do off the tee; Tiger will probably hit 3-wood. They've got to position themselves in the fairway here. They'll be looking at about 240 yards to a boomerang-shaped green. You're going to see birdie or maybe even eagle here. It's one of the more approachable par-5s, so somebody is going to get after this one."
John David Mercer, USA Today Sports. Pictured: Tiger Woods
"The tee shot is downhill to the green. Again, the pin placement will be very accessible for their iron shot, but they can't go right. They'll have to stay left on this hole or else it's a very difficult up-and-down."
"I think this is probably the prettiest hole on the golf course; it overlooks Sheep Mountain. These guys will probably hit anywhere from a 5-wood to an iron; nobody will hit driver here. The widest part of the fairway is 280 yards, so they'll be trying to position their ball there. Then it's probably a 9-iron or wedge. They'll try to favor the right side of the green, because the ball will hit the hill and funnel toward the pin, but anything too far right is dead, and outside 20-30 feet is a difficult two-putt."
No. 10: Par 4, 430 yards
"This is a big dogleg to the right. This is a position hole. They'll probably need only about a 280-yard shot off the tee, so you won't see any drivers here. From there, it'll be an 8- or 9-iron into one of our smaller greens. Where the flag is, they'll have to be precise. Anything short right falls into the bunker, and anything left is a very difficult up-and-down."
"A driveable par-4. It's 300 yards to fly it on the green over some very difficult bunkers; you don't want to be in those front bunkers. If they go for the green, long is better. From there, it's a pretty easy chip shot. Someone will make birdie on this hole."
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"Another attack hole where you'll see 3-woods or even irons off this tee. All they'll need is about a 270-300 yard drive. The green slopes back to front, so they'll want to be short of the hole. Anything long is difficult and very fast."
"This is probably our toughest par-3. It's our most difficult green; there's a buried elephant under there. They'll have to be within 20 feet. Where the pin is, they won't want to short-side themselves to the left. The right side is definitely better."
"Slight dogleg to the right. You'll see them hitting driver here. Because they can't go left, you'll see someone in the right bunker. From there, it's anywhere from 6- to 8-iron. But it's a difficult approach shot. The green slopes a little bit from the back to front, so they'll want to stay short of the flag. If there's a birdie here, it'll win the hole."
"Another beautiful hole toward the mountain. A good drive is key here. The creek meanders down the left and a very deep bunker guards the right. From there, they'll have anywhere from a 5- to 8-iron for a difficult approach shot. The creek slides back in front of the green, which is the quickest green on the course and slopes back to front. They'll want to stay short of the hole here. Par is a good score; birdie will win."
"The longest of our par-5s, this is a dogleg to the right and very narrow off the tee if they hit driver. They'll only be able to get home in two from the fairway. Even from there, it might be a 3-wood into a very difficult, narrow green. There's a false front that slopes into the bunkers. They absolutely can't be long on their second or third shot; they'll have to be short of the hole."
"This par-3 is downhill and just a wedge off the tee, but it's our smallest green on the course, which is heavily guarded by water and bunkers. If they miss the green, it's a very difficult up-and-down."
"Another risk-reward hole, this is a slight dogleg to the right. A bunker guards the left side of the fairway at 300 yards, and there's a lake to the right. They'll have to have a great drive here. There's a slope at 300 yards; if they can fly it, they'll get another 50 yards. So they can have anything from 4- to 9-iron here. The second shot has to carry the water; it's all carry. This is another green that slopes back to the front. It's an easy chip shot as long as you're over the water. This is an eagle or birdie hole, for sure."
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Chris Cornell's Final Resting Place And Funeral Details
Chris Cornell, the lead singer for Soundgarden, will be laid to rest on May 26 in Los Angeles, two people with knowledge of the plans told CNN Saturday.
Cornell's body will be flown from Michigan to Los Angeles on Sunday, and Cornell will be buried at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, the sources said.
One of the sources told CNN, "The family is thinking about a (public) memorial for fans, but is coping now with their loss and the funeral service."
Late Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland's funeral was held at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in December 2015, with members of Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver, and Jane's Addiction in attendance.
Chris Cornell's Mother-In-Law Criticizes Eddie Vedder, Claims He Won't Attend Memorial
Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder has left for his European solo tour, and Chris Cornell's mother in law is claiming he will not be attending Cornell's Celebration of Life on Friday at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Vedder kicks off his tour on Saturday in Amsterdam, and the tour runs through the end of June.
Cornell's mother in law Toni Karayiannis criticized Vedder on Twitter for not attending the ceremony, and for a variety of other reasons. At first she did not say who she was talking about by name, but she later retweeted messages critical of Vedder, and tweeted about him singing "Daughter." Pearl Jam released a tribute photo entitled 'Chris' on their website a few days ago.
We usually post written text from tweets in addition to embedding them, but due to the highly emotional nature of these remarks, we are only embedding them in case Karayiannis decides to remove any of them at a later date.
Everyone grieves in their own way, especially with a terrible tragedy like this. We have yet to hear from Vedder about how he is dealing with the loss of his friend of 27 years, so it is impossible for us to judge him or anyone involved in this situation. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Cornell family, Eddie Vedder, and all of Cornell's other friends and fans.
The world is mourning an angel ! Chris Cornell! Except one person the person he helped the most! Not human not a man!
— Toni Karayiannis (@ToniKaras) May 24, 2017
Oh yes! Actually is obvious!Who did not pay tribute to Chris who didn't say a word on his death like never met him Only one ! Shame on him https://t.co/7tLngWn6GH
Who did he helped and gave a chance to be who he is!Who said yrs ago bec of Chris ! Am I angry ? Oh yes! Go ahead say I help his daughter
U will find me in your face any time u say u helping ppl!U sang 4his daughter which now u turn your back?I want his fans to know!U not a MAN
Who's not man enough not to pay a tribute to the man who gave him a chance to be who he is????? To not send a message to his wife and 3 kids
Who can be that cruel?One of the kids close to him cry last night u animal!uthink I won't say that ?u send nothing to his 3.kids not a word
What did his 3 kids done to you?? Except oh yes I forgot! Their father gave u a chance to be who u are ! And that coming from your mouth!
We play clown to make these angels laugh!U sang daughter? Ha Look the angels u hurting u have kids shame on u!! 💔💔💔 pic.twitter.com/7HjMupxsrW
Exactly what bothers some ppl! Do not extend it to his kids though!I attack sorry!Everymother is important ? Really?🤥 pic.twitter.com/GDjw7Mzobb
My heart breaks to see kids abandon by fathers friend???? Especially one totally devastated and in disbelief! U fooled her to believe u care
If the child is afraid to tell u?I'm not! U send nothing u done zero not a flower or note!&she cried!Dont u dare say his name like Ramone
Don't u dare cry crocodile tearsU not using Chris not a chance! Now the world knows what nothing u r of a manShe cried last night asking why
Sorry if someone hurts my children in the worst time of their lives loosing dad u expect me to shut up! I hate to disappoint u I won't ! https://t.co/HojTLmbDez
That the world knows who loved Chris who used him to look like he's the man!Who cares and cries?Ever I want him to put his name in his mouth https://t.co/HojTLmbDez
His best friend!And the one who Chris according to him helped him to be who he is today! Strangers k but friends hurt kids who look 4support https://t.co/2n2GRTpoCn
💔Don't they say is always your best friend who will hurt u?But not children pls!3 devastating kids and u turn your back 4 no reason?Big no💔 https://t.co/A379seAIlQ
I only spoke the truth and the cries of a child who was so confused to hear no we not coming to to your dads funeral! https://t.co/iQWQ7QC51E
View Vedder's tour dates below.
DATE CITY, COUNTRY VENUE
May 27 Amsterdam, The Netherlands AFAS Live
June 1 Berlin, Germany Zitadelle
June 3 Kvaerndrup, Denmark Heartland Festival, Egeskov Castle*
June 6 London, UK Eventim Apollo
June 9 Dublin, Ireland 3 Arena
June 11 Cork, Ireland Live at the Marquee*
June 19 Antwerp, Belgium Lotto Arena
June 24 Florence, Italy Firenze Rocks Festival*
June 26 Taormina (Sicily), Italy Teatro Antico di Taormina
[I personally agree with the editors of Alternative Nation. It's just impossible to believe that Eddie was not deeply touched by his long time friend's death but with the tour dates already scheduled, he had to make a difficult choice and I absolutely understand that he did not want to leave his European fans. In fact, he paid a tribute to Chris during his live shows and I think it was the best he could do to celebrate Chris' life. I believe Chris would understand and approve it. – footnote by Anna Solun]
First Video And Photos From Chris Cornell's Funeral
The first video and photos have surfaced from Chris Cornell's Celebration of Life at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
"The Promise" played at funeral for @chriscornell pic.twitter.com/DYIIT7IB9h
— Jeff Nguyen (@jeffnguyen) May 26, 2017
Actor #BradPitt rumored to be among mourners @ funeral for #Soundgarden frontman #ChrisCornell right now. #NBC4LA pic.twitter.com/KitUSPMQKk
— Gordon Tokumatsu (@GordonNBCLA) May 26, 2017
Guests arriving to #hollywoodforevercemetary for funeral service for @chriscornellpic.twitter.com/35YfewjV4c
Watch Dave Grohl & Courtney Love Hug Chris Cornell's Bandmates In Beautiful Video
More video footage has surfaced from Chris Cornell's funeral at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery from Friday.
The new video initially shows Josh Brolin, Alice In Chains' Jerry Cantrell, Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale, Filter frontman Richard Patrick, and then 1:05 in Dave Grohl and Courtney Love are shown hugging Chris Cornell's surviving bandmates, Soundgarden's Matt Cameron and Audioslave's Tom Morello.
Watch a video of the beautiful and surreal moment below.
Watch Tom Morello's Beautiful Eulogy At Chris Cornell's Funeral: 'Look Out For Each Other'
The first video clips of one of the eulogies at Chris Cornell's funeral has surfaced, and it is two portions of former Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello's eulogy. The clips are short, but a videographer also included another quote that Morello said during the service.
Morello told mourners to make a committment to look after one another "for Chris' sake."
Watch two video clips of Morello's eulogy below.
Surviving Soundgarden members reunite for dinner following Chris Cornell's funeral
Family, friends, collaborators, and contemporaries came out in force to honor Chris Cornell during a funeral service held at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery last Friday. Soundgarden's three surviving members, Kim Thayil, Ben Shepherd, and Matt Cameron were in attendance, as was founding bassist Hiro Yamamoto. Following the ceremony, Thayil, Cameron, and Yamamoto went out to dinner together, joined by longtime Soundgarden producers Jack Endino and Stuart Hallerman, and Cornell's ex-wife, Susan Silver. Hallerman shared a photo of the group with the caption, "We're all living on 'silver linings' today, but they are abundant" (via Alternative Nation).
Stuart Hallerman shared the following photo after Chris Cornell's funeral with the caption: "We're all living on "silver linings" today, but they are abundant."
In the photo are Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil, former Soundgarden producer Jack Endino, Soundgarden drummer Matt Cameron, former Soundgarden bassist Hiro Yamamoto, and Chris Cornell's ex-wife Susan Silver.
Hallerman responded to a comment from former Screaming Trees drummer Mark Pickerel, "Your name came up, Matt was reminiscing about their first trip to Ellensburg, a show with you and the Trees. Car problems! VW bus with no clutch cable made it home over the pass after…"
Ex-Pearl Jam drummer Dave Abbruzzese commented, "Absolutely fantastic!! Thank you for posting this photo! Great great great to see you all together!"
Ben Shepherd was not featured in the photo, and the only photograph that appeared to surface of him at the funeral was a picture of him next to Filter frontman Richard Patrick.
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Chris Cornell About Writing Lyrics
Soundgarden vocalist Chris Cornell says the band's style means people often miss his lyrics – and it took a Johnny Cash cover to change perceptions
Chris Cornell was never complimented for his lyrics until Johnny Cash covered Soundgarden – and he believes it's because of the way his vocal can be buried in his band's music.
That's one of the reasons he enjoys his solo work as much as working with Kim Thayil, Ben Shepherd and Matt Cameron.
Cornell tells Courant.com: "You can't always make out the words I sing with Soundgarden. When Johnny Cash covered Rusty Cage it was the first time I received compliments from my lyrics.
"To take this in another direction, when I covered Billy Jean by Michael Jackson, it was going to be a joke. I couldn't do it in the form it was originally recorded in so I slowed it down. When I did that, it wasn't funny any more – it's an amazing story, brilliant lyrics.
"When you break out the acoustic guitar, the words are the focal point unless you're the Jimi Hendrix of acoustic guitar. So the words have to have meaning."
Cornell has been interested in stripped-down music since Soundgarden's early era. "When we were super-loud and aggressive, I didn't want to listen to that type of music when I was off stage," he says. "When I got to my stereo I drifted towards more mellow recording artists.
"When I started writing for Temple Of The Dog I went to my room with my acoustic guitar, and I was happy to stay in that mode."
His interest resulted in 2015 solo album Higher Truth, which he admits was "harder than I thought it would be" to make – but he adds: "It ushered me into a whole new world of songwriting."
Meanwhile, he reports: "Soundgarden is in the middle of writing songs. After this tour the songs will become real and we'll put an album out. There's much more to Soundgarden. I get to play with my band and I get to go solo. It's great for me."
He's currently touring North America, with dates running until the end of July.
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Tagged ben shepherd, billy jean, chris cornell, higher truth, jimi hendrix, johnny cash, kim thayil, matt cameron, michael jackson, rusty cage, soundgarden, temple of the dog

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How Auto IRAs could soon improve retirement for millions of Americans
J. Mark Iwry and David C. John Wednesday, October 20, 2021
Brieanna Nicker bnicker@brookings.edu 202.540.7721
On September 9, the House Ways and Means Committee took a potentially historic step that could help millions of Americans to build financial security.
J. Mark Iwry
Visiting Scholar, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
David C. John
Deputy Director - Retirement Security Project
Senior Policy Advisor, AARP Public Policy Institute
Twitter dcjretiresecure
Under the leadership of Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA), the Committee included a provision in the budget reconciliation package that would require employers that do not offer a retirement plan to automatically enroll their employees in IRAs or 401(k)-type plans. If passed, the legislation would implement the Automatic IRA, first proposed 15 years ago by the Brookings Retirement Security Project (RSP) and the Heritage Foundation with bipartisan sponsorship and the strong support of AARP and other groups. In addition to the Automatic IRA, the Ways and Means retirement legislation includes other provisions and options that would expand automatic contribution plans and arrangements.
The Automatic IRA would help roughly 55 million people build savings that would supplement their Social Security benefits. Employers with more than 5 employees that do not offer another retirement plan would act as a conduit enabling their employees to save a pre-set amount from each paycheck that would be invested in privately-managed, low-cost financial assets. Self-employed and gig workers could also save this way.
Employees would have complete control and could opt out entirely or change their contributions or investments at any time. Meanwhile, employers would not contribute or have any fiduciary liability or any of the responsibilities of sponsoring a plan. Experience with an Automatic IRA program in Oregon shows that, for employers, implementation is easy, usually involves no out-of-pocket costs, and can also spur the adoption of 401(k) plans.
While waiting for Congress to act, other states have also started Automatic IRA programs. Besides Oregon's program, Illinois and California have active programs, and six additional states and two major cities are in the process of implementing Automatic IRAs. Their experience shows that Auto IRAs work. In just the three currently operating programs, almost 400,000 people at over 37,000 businesses have so far saved almost $325 million. A national program would vastly increase those numbers and would include tax credits for participating employers.
The Automatic IRA would help roughly 55 million people build savings that would supplement their Social Security benefits.
In addition to helping millions of Americans to improve their retirement security, the Automatic IRA has many other benefits. Because people who currently do not have a workplace retirement program are disproportionately Black and Hispanic, some experts believe that the program could reduce the racial wealth gap. And since the Automatic IRA uses a Roth IRA, savers could withdraw their contributions without penalty in the event of a financial emergency. There is evidence that having and using emergency savings strengthens household finances over a longer-term, which may enable them to save even more for retirement over time.
The Ways and Means legislation also includes an expansion of the saver's tax credit for lower- and moderate-income individuals who save in employer plans or IRAs. The existing credit, which is seriously under-utilized, would become up to a 50% match deposited into savers' retirement accounts and become refundable for savers without income tax liability. These changes, long advocated by RSP, have support in the Senate under the leadership of Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR).
Both the Automatic IRA and the expanded saver's credit have a long way to go before they are enacted, but both have the potential to increase retirement security for millions of Americans.
The Automatic IRA at 15: Helping Americans build retirement security
J. Mark Iwry and David C. John
Pursuing Universal Retirement Security Through Automatic IRAs
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Rick Santorum Confronted by Crazy Questioner (VIDEO)
Written by Nick Field, Managing Editor
There's one in every crowd.
Unfortunately for former Senator Rick Santorum, he had to field the question from the crazy person.
The 2012 and prospective 2016 presidential candidate was attending the South Carolina National Security Action Summit last week.
In a video discovered by Andrew Kaczynski of Buzzfeed, Santorum was confronted by a woman angry that Congress hasn't done more to stop President Obama (the questioner did not seem aware that Santorum is no longer in Congress).
After accusing House Speaker John Boehner of making a supposed deal with the President to allow amnesty for illegal immigrants, the woman, who remains off-screen, grew increasingly agitated.
"Why is the Congress rolling over and letting this communist dictator destroy my country," she screamed. "Y'all know what he is and I what he is. I want him out of the White House, he's not a citizen. He could've been removed a long time ago."
The woman was not done, however, as she accused the President of trying to nuke the country for some reason.
"Where do we go from here? Ted [Cruz] told me I've got to wait now til the next election. I don't think the country will be around for the next election," she asserted before dropping the big one (pun intended). "Obama tried to blow up a nuke in Charleston a few months ago."
Santorum was visibly uncomfortable throughout the entire diatribe and tried to turn the question into a riff on the President's executive actions on immigration.
"He [President Obama] did something, as you mentioned the word tyrant comes to mind," the former Senator said in response to the woman's original question on immigration. "The President has done a lot of dangerous things, this is the most dangerous thing he has ever done."
The exchange between Santorum and the woman, who identified herself as a retired school teacher, begins at 17:55 in the video above.
Update: Thanks to the invaluable Dave Weigel of Bloomberg News, we now know the "nuke in Charleston" story came from 9/11 conspiracy theorist and famously crazy person Alex Jones.
March 18th, 2015 | Posted in Front Page Stories, Presidential, Top Stories | 23 Comments
23 thoughts on "Rick Santorum Confronted by Crazy Questioner (VIDEO)"
I try not to let idiots bother me like the Republicans who only watch Fox News who conitinually misinform people. Santorum scares the crap out of me but God willing and Democrats vote we will get rid of the ghouls known as Far Far Right Republicans. I don't see one Democrat whining in these posts just a bunch of crazy Republicans who don't realize who wants to take everything from them. No need to argue with people who don't want to know the facts.
val gibson says:
Well, the good news is, that crazy is no longer in the classroom influencing children.
Stephanie Simko says:
There is no executive Amnesty and no one in Congress has agreed with anything President Obama has proposed. Is anyone looking into what village is missing their idiot?
The Lizard says:
Santorum did one of the finest imitations of a bobble-head toy I ever saw. But he knows his base. Unlike John McCain who had reached the point where he just didn't care about the consequences of shutting down the emotionally unstable and factually challenged woman at his town hall by saying something sane about Obama, Santorum has no chance whatsoever without the lunatic fringe. He knows it, too.
It's these kind of crazies that are taking over our country! It is scary and sick…and Rick Santorum did not have the guts to stop this woman and stand up against this horrible ranting. He is to me the biggest form of a hypocrit..and he is the Christian Values man! He is as deplorable as she was…at least John McCain had the respect to correct that other crazy that insulted President Obama….this guy is a weasel!
"One"? In any GOP crowd, you might find "one" who isn't a raving loon. Probably not, though.
Hypocrisy my ass Upson Downs! What I did was speak the truth and my disgust at the state of politics, government and voters like the woman in the video. What I stated is truth not hypocrisy. If my words are hard for you to swallow, get a glass of kool-aid, put on your tin-foil hat and watch Fox News. There you'll feel better.
EllaW says:
Dave, I totally agree with you. I was horrified when I heard her rant last night. She is a retired teacher, and so am I. How embarrassing that someone like that was once credentialed to teach children. How totally misinformed. As a supposedly educated person, didn't she know that you can't rely on one type of source for information? What is the deal with Rick Santorum? Such a coward. How is it possible that he didn't didn't try to stop an out-of-control rant. Republicans have always gone insane when a democrat is elected president. Since we have a black democrat in the White House, republican bigots have become totally out of control, they've elected the most unproductive congress in history, one that would rather undermine progress then compromise and govern. Their hatred has blinded them to facts. Then, facts and logic don't mean anything to Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Newsmax, and all extreme right "news" sources.
Fox Watson says:
What is there to say? ! The crazy ship left the port a long time ago in this Country! The fact that Santorum wasn't insulted by this rant is now what's wrong with the mainstream Republican Party. Crackpots and Kooks now sound almost normal to these politicians.
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Isaac L. says:
David Diano – I always love how Pres. Obama has a time machine and is holding out on us. Despite taking office in January 2009, he was responsible for the Bush Administration's failed response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the Economic Crisis of 2008. They seem to forget gas prices were pushing $5 a gallon the summer before and point out that it was under $2 when he took office… conveniently forgetting that that was because the markets took a swan dive that ended in a belly flop.
Nick – Tongue firmly planted in cheek, I suggest the following article, entitled "No One Cares If Your Puns Were Intended"
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=puns
Upson Downs says:
Dave, no need to call you names, or even to point out the ironic hypocrisy of your post. Your rant speaks for itself.
Greendragon says:
This is all a big misunderstanding. The government was trying to detonate a *cuke* in Charleston harbor, not a *nuke.* An extra-large cucumber was spotted floating around the harbor and might have become a danger to shipping if it weren't dealt with. Repeated attempts to remove it had failed, and the military concluded that the only option left was to blow it up. The military officers were dismissed, very properly, because they ultimately could not even destroy the cucumber by firepower or depth charges. Finally the cuke floated to shore where it was pecked apart by ravenous seagulls.
Sonya Jones says:
This woman is hilarious. It is nothing like a good laugh before I go to bed. Insane in the membrane!!!!
The Independent says:
Hey jmarshak, how about a Xanax with your Kool-Aid and tin foil hat Conservative?
jmarshak says:
Some cheese with your whine, liberals?
from the burg says:
These upset seniors aren't even noticing that their beloved Republicans met today to dismantle their Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security….
Fox News may single handedly be responsible for misinforming the everyday senior.
It is the proverbial Republican war on women, as well.
The screamer from the audience could herself be an eventual nursing home resident whose family is depending on Medicaid to pay for her long term care and hospice.
It isn't President Obama threatening her future. IT IS REPUBLICANS
Santorum was only interested in defending himself for not currently being a member of Congress. He had his chance to redirect the total hyperbole of the comment, and he did not.
He had plenty of time to formulate an answer, and failed.
Typical right wing republican who hates the president with one thousand hot suns and can't figure out a decent response,
Time to initiate a commitment hearing at Torrance for the dangerously out of touch speaker
David Diano says:
Who will they blame when Obama's gone?
Well, they are still blaming Carter for stuff, and he's been out of office over 30 years. But, in Louisiana, more Republicans blame Obama than Bush for the response to hurricane Katrina.
Sorry, it should be "…because of a small error." I missed the letter a. So, are you going to criticize me now too jmarshak? Perhaps you're an angry conservative with nothing to say but a critique of someone's sentence?
jmarshak: You probably have nothing constructive to say in response to Dave's comment when you tear apart his comments because of small error. Who made you the grammar police?Leave the guy alone.
jmarshak: And exactly what was wrong with that sentence? I take away "It's" and you have the exact same sentence as you wrote? How is it not coherent? Maybe I forgot something from english class many years ago. I'm human, give me a break. You don't have to throw my comments back at me over a tiny, little error.
"[U]ninformed voters like that woman is partly the reason why our Congress is ran by morons."
If you're going to call somebody else stupid, at least make sure that you can write a coherent sentence first.
Not surprised at the stupidity of this woman. That woman is a good picture of the Republican base. Stupid, gullible and easy to scare. It's uninformed voters like that woman is partly the reason why our Congress is ran by morons. Those morons were voted in by morons. The GOP knows this and that is why Fox News is such a great propaganda tool for the GOP. When Obama is gone in 2017, who will that woman turn her hate, bigotry and stupidity to? Whoever and whatever Fox News tells her to. That is what's wrong with the American electorate. Now I wait for a conservative reader to yell at me and call me a Libtard. Go ahead, I dare you.


This page shows how to use a Kubernetes Ingress object to configure certain properties of a Google Cloud Platform backend service.
In a GKE cluster, when you create a Kubernetes Ingress object, the GKE ingress controller wakes up and creates a Google Cloud Platform HTTP(S) load balancer. The ingress controller configures the load balancer and also configures one or more backend services that are associated with the load balancer.
The configuration information for a backend service is held in a custom resource named BackendConfig.
A timeout of 40 seconds.
A connection draining timeout of 60 seconds.
Any Pod that has the label purpose: bsc-config-demo is a member of the Service.
TCP port 80 of the Service is associated with a BackendConfig named my-bsc-backendconfig. The beta.cloud.google.com/backend-config annotation specifies this.
A request sent to port 80 of the Service is forwarded to one of the member Pods on port 8080.
In the manifest, you can see that incoming requests are routed to port 80 of the Service named my-bsc-service.
Wait a few minutes for the ingress controller to configure an HTTP(S) load balancer and an associated backend service.
Make a note of the node port value that shows in the output. For example, in the following output, the node port value is 30936.
List the backend services in your GCP project.
where [BACKEND_SERVICE_NAME] is the name of your backend service.
You can use a BackendConfig to configure client IP affinity.
To do this exercise, you need a VPC-native cluster. Client IP affinity is useful only for Services that are backed by network endpoint groups, and network endpoint groups require a VPC-native cluster.
To set client IP affinity, set affinityType to "CLIENT_IP" in your BackendConfig manifest.
You can use a BackendConfig to configure generated cookie affinity.
To do this exercise, you need a VPC-native cluster. Generated cookie affinity is useful only for Services that are backed by network endpoint groups, and network endpoint groups require a VPC-native cluster.
To set generated cookie affinity, set affinityType to "GENERATED_COOKIE" in your BackendConfig manifest. You can also use affinityCookieTtlSec to set the time period for the cookie.


Geo (earth) thermal (heat) energy is a clean, renewable and reliable source of power that reduces our nation's dependence on fossil fuels. Geothermal power plants use the earth's natural heat to generate electricity that is environmentally sound and sustainable.
Here's a simple description of how it works: Water far beneath the surface that is heated by hot rocks. This steam and hot water then collects in underground reservoirs, if the proper geologic conditions are present. Geothermal reservoirs are common along areas where the earth's tectonic plates meet or an area referred to as the "Ring of Fire." In the United States, geothermal reservoirs are common in the west, including Alaska and Hawaii.
In order to use this hot water to generate electricity, wells are drilled into the reservoirs which might be hundreds or thousands of feet under the earth's surface.
The geothermal production wells then move the hot fluid to the power plant and convert the thermal energy of the water to electrical energy. After providing its heat for production, the geothermal fluid is injected into the reservoir.
To gain more specific information about how our facilities work visit this page.
Geothermal steam vents naturally from the earth in the Long Valley Caldera.
Electricity from geothermal resources is clean, safe and sustainable. In addition to saving fossil fuels and reducing air emissions, geothermal facilities use minimal land space and can be designed to blend in with their environment. They also provide reliable, baseload power that is not dependent on the weather. Geothermal facilities provide significant economic benefits to their local communities in the form of property taxes, lease payments and royalties. In addition, they offer good paying jobs and regularly purchase products and services from other local businesses.
With all these advantages, you might wonder why there aren't more geothermal power plants. Unfortunately, they can't be built just anywhere. There must be a proven geothermal resource and the facility must be located near that resource. It's also important to note that geothermal facilities require a substantial up-front capital investment that involves exploration to confirm the geothermal resource as well as purchasing equipment and building the pipelines and power plants.
Numerous more recent eruptions formed the Inyo volcanic chain. The resurgent dome was created by magmatic activity and continues to grow today.
The geothermal system in the caldera is most noticeable in surface expressions such as steam fumeroles and mudpots on the flanks of the resurgent dome. The Casa Diablo Geothermal Field supplies the Mammoth Geothermal Complex power plants with hot geothermal fluid and is located at the southwest edge of the resurgent dome. It is thought that the heat source for this geothermal system is under the volcanic domes in the northwest part of the caldera.
In general, subsurface water flows from west to east in the caldera. Rain and snow melt from the Mammoth Mountain area and the western boundary of the caldera flows down through the caldera ring fractures.
At depths greater than 3,500 feet, the water is heated by contact with hot basement rocks to about 450 degrees Fahrenheit. The hot water begins to flow upward through faults from beneath the Rhyolite Plateau and flows eastward toward Casa Diablo.
The geothermal fluids eventually flow out at the surface at springs in the eastern part of the caldera. These include fish hatchery springs, Little Hot Creek, Hot Creek and Crowley Lake.
The production wells at Casa Diablo are completed at the relatively shallow depth of about 450 feet. These production wells use pumps to move the hot water that is flowing into the western portion of the field to the power plants. The cooler geothermal fluid, after being utilized by the power plants, is injected back into the reservoir via wells on the east side of the field. The injection wells are approximately 2,000 feet and intersect a deep fault zone.
Mammoth Geothermal Complex does not own all the land where the geothermal fluids flow. Instead, we enter into lease agreements with local landowners that allow us to produce geothermal fluid from the reservoirs beneath their land. Mammoth Geothermal Complex pays royalties to the landowners - with an overwhelming majority of Mammoth Geothermal Complex's production being performed on federal lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Approximately 25 percent of the royalties paid by Mammoth Geothermal Complex to the BLM is routed back to Mono County's general fund.
Through payments to the federal government, Mammoth Geothermal Complex maintains additional leases on lands in the Mammoth area that are not currently in geothermal production. Similar to Mammoth Geothermal Complex's royalty payments, a portion of these lease payments is also routed back to Mono County.
These federal leases, as well as the national Geothermal Steam Act, require that Mammoth Geothermal Complex diligently explore the leased lands for geothermal resources for possible commercial production. As a part of that effort, Mammoth Geothermal Complex is working on the CD IV development project.


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Second Shot (Charlie Fox)
ZOE SHARP was born in Nottinghamshire, but spent most of her formative years living on a catamaran on the northwest coast of England. She opted out of mainstream education at the age of twelve and wrote her first unpublished novel at the age of fifteen. While her regular job is as a freelance photo-journalist, mainly for the motoring press, her writing career took off with the publication of Killer Instinct, her first Charlie Fox novel, which was followed by four others. Zoe lives in Cumbria, and is married, but would rather have a motorbike than children. Her hobbies include sailing, fast cars, (and faster motorbikes), and reading just about anything she can get her hands on.
Sharp's second Charlie Fox thriller to be published in the U.S. (after 2005's acclaimed First Drop) opens with a harrowing scene of the hard-hitting British bodyguard slowly bleeding to death in the frigid New Hampshire woods. Flashback to London: under the watchful eye of her boss and sometimes lover, Sean Meyer, Charlie reluctantly takes a job protecting recent lottery winner Simone Kerse and her young daughter, Ella, from Simone's ex-boyfriend. Determined to find her long-estranged father, Simone travels to Boston with Charlie and Ella in tow. Charlie has her suspicions when a mysterious man approaches Simone, claiming to be her father, and these suspicions soon become frighteningly real when secrets about the Kerses' past come to light, culminating in a gun battle that leaves Charlie struggling to piece together why a client shot her own bodyguard. Sharp expertly builds the suspense in a nonstop thrill ride that should win her many new American fans. Author tour. (Sept.) Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.
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Ensuring that all children are safe at Biggin Hill Primary School is given the upmost importance. Children cannot thrive academically unless they are in an environment where they feel completely safe. Good mental health and wellbeing is an integral part of having a successful education, and we work hard to ensure this for all our children. The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing all of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We ask all adults in school to be aware of any potential dangers and to follow three simple steps if they have any concerns.
Sometimes the smallest observation can be vital in informing the school of potential risks and removing them from a child's life.
The school works closely with safeguarding services provided by the London Borough of Bromley as a well as Gooseberry Planet. Gooseberry Planet provide high quality safeguarding training for all adults in school, training for parents on online safety as well as games and apps that children can use to develop their own understanding of keeping themselves safe.
More information on the schools procedures can be found in the safeguarding policy and its supporting documents.


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Winnipeg, Manitoba (NHN)-Jayden Schwartz knocked a puck out of mid-air and past Connor Hellebuyck to score the game winner with 15 seconds left in regulation to give the St. Louis Blues a 3-2 win and a 3-2 series lead over the Winnipeg Jets.
Alex Steen won a battle for the puck along the end boards and got it to Tyler Bozak who fired a centering pass which Schwartz hit past a shocked Connor Hellebuyck, who could only manage to get a piece of before the mesh bulged.
"I think their line (forwards) and their D were a little bit tired from the lines before," he said. "Just a good grinding shift, we kept the puck below the goal (line) and ended up winning it back a couple of times. We were kinda relentless on the puck."
"(Tyler Bozak) came on, he was fresh, and probably knew there wasn't much time left so he just threw (the puck) on net and I kind of got lucky, it just hit my stick," said Schwartz of his tally, which put St. Louis within a win of advancing to the Western Conference Semi-Finals.
The goal capped a three goal comeback by the Blues, who scored all of their goals in the third period after trailing 2-0 after two periods.
Ryan O'Reilly and Brayden Schenn also scored for St. Louis.
Jordan Binnington turned aside 29 shots.
Adam Lowry and Kevin Hayes scored for Winnipeg.
Connor Hellebuyck made 26 saves for the Jets.
Adam Lowry gave the Jets the lead 12 seconds into the contest when he lifted a rebound off a Brandon Tanev shot from the corner past Blues goaltender Jordan Binnington to make it 1-0.
Kevin Hayes made it 2-0 13:56 into the first when he took a pass from Dustin Byfuglien before driving the net on his off wing and stuffed his own rebound through Binnington's pads.
The goal was his 2nd of the playoffs.
The Jets centreman, acquired at the NHL trade dealine, had a strong second period, narrowly missing giving the Jets a 3-0 lead 12:52 into the period when his second effort to poke the puck past the goal line actually sent it in the other direction.
"The puck went through his legs, Parayko lifted my stick and my stick came down and hit it out," said Hayes.
"We had a pretty good second half of the game and I thought our best period was the third. They scored three goals," he said.
"We've been down before and I'm sure the guys will come back and regroup, watch some film and be ready for Game 6," added Hayes.
There was no scoring in the second period.
St. Louis got on the board 1:29 into the third period when Ryan O'Reilly snapped the disc past Hellebuyck off a rebound from a Brayden Schenn shot.
Brayden Schenn tied the game on a controversial goal at 13:52 when he buried a backhander past Hellebuyck as the net was knocked off it's moorings.
Oskar Sundqvist hit Schenn with the pass but was knocked into the net by Jets defenceman Dustin Byfuglien as the puck was entering the goal.
Officials ruled the net was knocked off by a Jet player.
The goal was his first of the playoffs.
Blues Head Coach Craig Berube credited Sundqvist with getting the inside track on Byfuglien.
"He did a great job driving to the net, took the puck wide. He's been a real good player for us for the whole season. Playing wing, middle, doesn't matter. He does a great job for us killing penalties. He played against Scheifele's line all night, thought he did a great job."
Jets Head Coach Paul Maurice said the game was like it has been for the entire series, tight.
"There's too much good action. So it's almost been a low event series, not a tremendous number of shots, there's not 45 shots. But everything is dangerous. There's going to be chances that you're shaking the head at, Kevin Hayes alone had a hat trick on his stick. There's going to be a bunch of those. It's tight. It's going to be one more save at the end."
Blues defenceman Alex Pietrangelo said the series has made little sense with the home team yet to win a game.
"You don't see that too often right? You don't see the road team win all the games but, again, we've got to go home and we played better in Game 4 there so we've got to build off that," he said.
Jets captain Blake Wheeler was succinct in his assessment of the game.
"No different than being down 0-2. Happens all the time, man. Gotta win a hockey game. Won almost a hundred of them the last two years. So we're confident we can do that," he said.
Game 6 is Saturday night in St. Louis.
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Q: StreamSets Kafka Consumer not consuming from topic I have a Kafka broker that's running in a docker container, and I'm trying to consume from a topic on that broker utilizing StreamSets. I have pointed the broker URI in StreamSets to localhost:19092, but nothing seems to be happening once I do a test run and add records to the topic. Here's my broker settings within my docker-compose.yml:
broker:
    image: confluentinc/cp-server:6.1.1
    hostname: broker
    container_name: broker
    depends_on:
      - zookeeper
    ports:
      - "29092:29092"
      - "19092:19092"
    environment:
      KAFKA_BROKER_ID: 1
      KAFKA_ZOOKEEPER_CONNECT: "zookeeper:2181"
      KAFKA_LISTENER_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_MAP: PLAINTEXT:PLAINTEXT,CONNECTIONS_FROM_HOST:PLAINTEXT
      KAFKA_LISTENERS: PLAINTEXT://broker:29092,CONNECTIONS_FROM_HOST://broker:19092
      KAFKA_ADVERTISED_LISTENERS: PLAINTEXT://broker:29092,CONNECTIONS_FROM_HOST://localhost:19092
      KAFKA_INTER_BROKER_LISTENER_NAME: PLAINTEXT
      KAFKA_METRIC_REPORTERS: io.confluent.metrics.reporter.ConfluentMetricsReporter
      KAFKA_OFFSETS_TOPIC_REPLICATION_FACTOR: 1
      KAFKA_GROUP_INITIAL_REBALANCE_DELAY_MS: 0
      KAFKA_CONFLUENT_LICENSE_TOPIC_REPLICATION_FACTOR: 1
      KAFKA_CONFLUENT_BALANCER_TOPIC_REPLICATION_FACTOR: 1
      KAFKA_TRANSACTION_STATE_LOG_MIN_ISR: 1
      KAFKA_TRANSACTION_STATE_LOG_REPLICATION_FACTOR: 1
      KAFKA_JMX_PORT: 9101
      KAFKA_JMX_HOSTNAME: localhost
      KAFKA_CONFLUENT_SCHEMA_REGISTRY_URL: http://schema-registry:8081
      CONFLUENT_METRICS_REPORTER_BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS: broker:29092
      CONFLUENT_METRICS_REPORTER_TOPIC_REPLICAS: 1
      CONFLUENT_METRICS_ENABLE: "true"
      CONFLUENT_SUPPORT_CUSTOMER_ID: "anonymous"

Here's a snippet of my settings for the Kafka Consumer in StreamSets:
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Inspiration Award for Barshim
Barshim's London bronze upgraded to silver
Mutaz Barshim Inspiration Award
Qatar's high jump champion Mutaz Barshim shared the Inspiration Award with fellow Tokyo Olympic gold medallist Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy at the World Athletics Awards 2021 ceremony held Wednesday.
Barshim and Tamberi shared the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics when, after both finished on 2.37 metres, the Qatari athlete asked officials: "Can we have two golds?" These two became one of the biggest talking points of the Olympic Games , mainly for the act of respect and sportsmanship between two friends.
Barshim said: "I hope to inspire more people to love our sport and maybe share a gold one day!" Tamberi added: "It is just crazy if I think about this story. Thank you very much for this trophy. I now call Mutaz like five times a week because I need to speak with him. I feel that now we are not just friends, we are really like blood brothers."


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Bale Fire
Bale Fireis a book in three cycles. The first explores the darker side of communities in decline. The middle is a transposition of elements and characters of the Odyssey to a Scottish hill farm and its neighbours. The final part looks at the idea of harvest and loss.
Jim Carruth offers here both a celebration and an elegy. The poems in this collection address the themes of our time: war, friendship, honesty, violence, humanity and love.
Black Cart
Freight Books
Black Cart continues to draw on his upbringing in the farmlands of Renfrewshire. Almost eighteen years in the making, this collection is a love poem to a rural community in Scotland. The freshness of its language brings the daily grind, its joys and harsh realities, to vivid life; its final elegies form a moving testament to a lost generation of family, friends, farmers and farms.
Praise for Black Cart
'[a] remarkably powerful and moving collection.' David Robinson, the Herald
'Jim Carruth's poems are in the great tradition of pastoral: their vivid and evocative rural environment is the surface of a world of ageless significance and often tragedy. Many of these narratives make the reader think of Robert Frost: there is no higher praise for the modern pastoral' Bernard O'Donoghue
'In Auden's words, 'like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.' The local, the remembered, the lived makes Jim Carruth the poet of the Renfrewshire farmland where he grew up. It is a quiet, beautiful collection, poems punctuated by the names of fields, of grasses, and of disused dairy farms. I trust every word.' Gillian Clarke
'For the last two centuries, Burnsian sentimentality and bombast have drawn a heavy shadow over scots poetry of the land, cheapening an earlier love which had helped to preserve its life. It is the hope of Jim Carruth to restore agricultural writing and the depth of its detail. It is to this end that he has created over the last twenty years a poetry of great tenderness in praise of the farming landscape and its human keepers.' Les Murray
Killochries
Killochries is a stunning verse novella, tracking the relationship of two very different men working a remote sheep farm over the course of twelve months. As the winter breaks, so does their silence, drawing them closer through tragedy and the young man's burgeoning understanding of this rural life.
'a novel in verse that is artistically successful and highly satisfying... Carruth's sparse verses evoke the permanence and certainty of a lifestyle that has remained almost unchanged for millennia, but also the harsh and unforgiving aspects of a life spent in communion with nature.' Herald
'Killochries is storytelling and poetry cut to the bone. A first collection of real distinction.' Bernard MacLaverty author of Lamb, Cal and Grace Notes
A beautiful collection which lingers in the reader's mind.' Gillian Clarke, National Poet of Wales
Killochries is an impressive achievement.' James Robertson, The Testament of Gideon Mack, And the Land Lay Still and The Professor of Truth.
Mariscat Press
Prodigal explores the rural family and love and tensions that surround it. In many ways this is Jim Carruth's most personal collection to date, with moving elegies for his mother and grandmother.
Whether by means of a harvest scene painted over, or the advent of a diesel tractor, these poems vividly evoke a rural past being constantly subsumed by the present. They are personalised and enriched by the skill with which, from 'the thick scent and myth of early childhood' to heart-stopping instances of love and loss in old age, Jim Carruth captures familial loyalties bound not just by the passage of time but toa specific locality. Hand in hand with their warmth and insight go the humanity and dignity with which he invests his subjects and engages our feelings.
- Stewart Conn
Rider at the Crossing
Happenstance press
jim carruth is from Renfrewshire. An acclaimed chapbook author, he has acquired a reputation as Scotland's leading rural poet, a man who brings farm and field together in lyric mode.
Rider at the Crossing is somewhat different from previous writing. The poems are wide-ranging and often unsettling. Perspectives shift rapidly, from local to global. At their heart is a man reflecting on life and mortality, a person who has—in more than one sense—reached a crossing.
Working the Hill
ISBN 978 0 946588 58 9
Working the Hill looks at the life time commitment of the agricultural communities to their vocation. It is the fifth cycle of an ongoing longer sequence following on from previous collections such as High Auchensale and Bovine Pastoral.
"Jim Carruth's poems are pared and unsentimental, as if through exposure to the seasons and western weather of the Renfrewshire hills. I can't think of any other living poet who writes from such experienced wisdom and hands-on familiarity with agriculture, livestock, and the men and women who work the land. Carruth's poetry is important to a Scotland which defines itself in literature too much as an urban nation."
"These poems are rooted in an intense, sensuous intimacy with the land— and especially with the people who work that land—re-created in worked language that has a hard-won, unmistakeable authenticity."
Liz Lochhead
Grace Notes 1959
Dreadful Night Press 2010
Grace Notes 1959 is Jim Carruth's personal response to four classic and ground breaking jazz albums half a century after they were first released.
The sequence captures an essence of the radical innovation and challenge to form provided on albums by Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Dave Brubeck, and Charles Mingus. It also explores the difficult social period they were created in, and looks more generally at individual freedoms – that ongoing search for the space for us all to stand up, find our own voice and let it be heard.
"Grace Notes is visual poetry that breathes, it's a beautiful and accomplished tribute not just to those who made 1959 such a special year in jazz but to the creativity itself, its disciplines and its riffs"
Cowpit Yowe
Ludovic Press, 2008
"There seems to be a natural parallel between the poetry and the "fields" - seed-bed and sowing, measuring and harvesting, and a sense of both activities, well before Virgil, bringing the poet and farmer together. Jim Carruth does this convincingly, an if at times there seems a forced determination to draw a very ancient poetry into the orbit of modern writing. This is no bad thing: a good concrete poem can be a good poem. The grand old theme of the fight between order and fertility is hung out to dry with some eclat."
Edwin Morgan
"The experiment of these poems insists on the rural, and its wonderful to see the world of Hesiod through eyes brightened by modernist inventions. The poems are delightful individually and cumulatively. they are not all tinged with elegy:like Morgan's poems, they swim insistently in the present, towards the future."
"Jim Carruth's poems add to the literature of a county of saints, planned economies, shipyards and light engineering, by bringing the reader back to the rural, to the fascination of the tangled mess of set aside"
Baxter's old ram sang the blues
"Jim Carruth has written a modern parable, beautifully illustrated by Barbara Robertson. Like the best parables, it makes you think, makes you look at yourself and the world you live in; and ask questions about it. As the bible may put it: may those who read it, understand."
"The commerce of folk tales back and forward across the Atlantic has for a long time been productive of vivid and racy poems and song. Jim Carruth's book marries the old Scottish tradition of a beast fable to the "blues" of its theme, a stinging critique of modern society. The sharp accompanying linocuts by Barbara Robertson add their own depth to this striking and attractive volume"
High Auchensale
Ludovic Press 2006
A return to a family farm leads to a renewed exploration of the importance of family and community as the farm faces up to new threats and an uncertain future.
"Subtle, true, rich in earthy detail, the poems in High Auchensale form a fond but unsentimental record of a farming world that may not be around much longer. In two short collections Jim Carruthhas established the kind of distinctive voice that some poets struggle to achieve in a lifetime."
"To follow the success of Bovine Pastoral was not going to be easy. With High Auchensale Jim Carruth has succeeded beyond my highest expectations"
Duncan Glen
Bovine Pastoral
A powerful sequence of poems that captures the challenge facing the rural community in which he lives
"Bovine Pastoral is a breath of fresh air from the authentic voice of the countryside"
"A wealth of visual imagery in this memorable first collection"
"A strikingly imaginative poem sequence"
Stewart Conn
"This is a haunting and highly original collection of poems"
Val Thornton


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In the rather small Ladies' Lounge at the Forum Theatre, Geraldine Hickey is definitely in-your-face. Hickey's Love or a Slab of Fudge is a personal narrative told for comic effect, and it is funny, if you don't mind some rather crude humour, too-much-information on occasion, and plenty of swearing.
As Hickey points out, this show should have been called 'how long is a piece of fling?' However, Love or a Slab of Fudge is a fairly accurate title too – this is a show about successfully managing, and walking away from, an affair that has a deadline. What keeps Hickey on the straight and narrow in this story is, of course, the fudge.
I'm beginning to think there's a theme emerging among comedians at this year's festival, with Hickey, like Hannah Gadsby in Happiness is a Bedside Table, proud to have finally 'grown up'. There's an element of this in Claire Hooper's Plums, too, though Hooper's is expressed quite differently and all three comedians use this as a topic for comedy in very different ways.
For Hickey, becoming an adult is somehow linked to relationships, and that's the crux of this narrative. Hickey takes a certain pride in being a late starter when it comes to romance, and so while this might be adult comedy in terms of content, it's not so adult in terms of sophistication. Hickey creates a good rapport with the audience (unless you look like you're not having fun, in which case beware), but sometimes relies on swearing or cajoling the audience to get a laugh.
This show did have me laughing from early on, and the narrative was engaging so that I was keen to know how things would end up. The finale could have been stronger, but overall this was an enjoyable show if you don't mind an intimate venue. To top it off, a few of Hickey's one-liners were comedy gold and have stuck with me – always a plus.
Geraldine Hickey in Love or a Slab of Fudge is on at the Forum Theatre Ladies' Lounge, Tuesday to Saturday at 9.45pm and Sunday at 8.45pm until April 21.


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Wodson Park Sports & Recreation Centre (Registered Charity)
Sited just on the north edge of the town, Wodson Park Sport & Recreation Centre offers a very wide range of sporting activities both indoors and outside. There is an eight lane athletics track, an all weather astro turf pitch, a rugby pitch and a pitch for occasional football, all floodlit. All the halls, courts and pitches are available for public hire, for use for social or sporting events; there are clubs for the different sports one can join, and there is a very well equipped fitness room, with training available. There is a studio for aerobics, dance, martial arts and table tennis. Also a gym club for children and Action Tots for the below-school-age youngsters.
The cafe provides lunches & snacks and the Wadesmill Suite consists of a dance floor & two bars and is flexible in size for weddings, anniversaries, birthday parties, conferences & dinner dances. On Friday evenings the Wadesmill Suite can be hired at special rates by non-profit making adult groups.
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Herts. Phoenix Athletics Club is very active and uses the Wodson Park Sports & Recreation Centre as its home base.
An outdoor basketball court can be found in the Priory Grounds. Operated by Ware Town Council it is free of charge and accessible throughout the year.
There is a first class Bowling Green situated in The Priory Grounds which is operated by Ware Bowls Club, but also available for public use.
Hoe Lane, Ware is the home of the Ware Cricket Club and Allenbury's Cricket team play at Park Road, Ware.
During the season it is possible to fish along the river Lea towpath, Fishing Rights are owned by British Waterways (for this area) who lease these rights to Lee Anglers Consortium. It is they who are responsible for issuing the day passes and managing this area of river. Further details available from David Fussell of the Ware Angling Club. Fishing in the Priory grounds is now free, contact Ware Town Council, Tel: 01920 460316.
The Ware Football Club play at Wodson Park, Wadesmill Road Tel: 01920 463247. Ware Lions (youth) also play at Wodson Park and Ware Youth play on their own pitches in Fanhams Hall Road, Ware.
There are a number of clubs within close reach of Ware. The most local is on the south side of Ware, Chadwell Springs (9 holes). Tel 01920 463647/462075
Whitehills Golf Centre is at Dane End, near Ware; East Herts. Golf Club (18 holes) is at Hamels Park, Hanbury Manor Hotel, (Thundridge), Brickendon Grange Golf & Country Club (Hertford) and Great Hadham Club & Driving Range (Bishop's Stortford).
Fanshawe Pool has a fully equipped fitness centre, located in Park Road and operated by East Herts. District Council. There is also a gym at Wodson Park Sports & Recreation Centre Tel: 01920 487091.
The putting green is open daily, in the Priory Grounds, from noon until dusk from May to the last Saturday in September.
Top Events GB are an Independent Outdoor Activity Centre based at Westmill Farm.
The Hertford Rugby Football Club operates from Hoe Lane; it runs several sides at weekends, with midweek floodlit games, and mini rugby facilities. There are two courts for Squash here. The Old Hertfordians Association Sports Club.
Running & Triathlon
Ware Joggers - UK Athletics and British Triathlon Association, Wodson Park Sports & Recreation Centre, Wadesmill Road, Ware.
Snooker Hall
"Pockets" is next to the bridge - Riverside House, Amwell End.
Ware Priory Lido is one of the last Lidos in the country, an outdoor heated pool in the Priory grounds and is open during the summer months, for more details Tel: 01920 460703 or 01920 460316.
Fanshawe Pool is an indoor pool with a fitness centre situated in Park Road and is operated by East Herts. District Council.
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Северин-Мстислав-Ігор Палидович, сценічне ім'я Ерко ( 17 березня 1938, с. Гостів, тепер Тлумацький район, Івано-Франківська область) — український співак із США, який виконує український ліричний шансон, український шансоньє.

Життєпис
Северин-Мстислав-Ігор Палидович народився 17 березня 1938 року в с. Гостів, тепер Тлумацький район, Івано-Франківська область. Батьки Северина працювали у Львівському оперному театрі — тато був диригентом і музикантом в оркестрі, композитором, а мама — артисткою, співачкою і танцівницею.

У кінці війни, коли вже наступала Червона армія, сім'я Палидовичів подалася зі Львова на Захід, де опинилася в німецькому концтаборі, звідки через декілька місяців їх звільнили американські військові. Сім'я Палидовичів потрапила в американську окупаційну зону і залишилася в Західній Німеччині, життя було важким. У 1949 році переїздить на постійне проживання в США (коли Северинові виповнилося 11 років). Влаштуватися у США на роботу за колишніми спеціальностями батьки не змогли, і сім'я спочатку бідувала, однак поступово життя налагодилось.

Северин Палидович у юні роки був членом Пласту, належав до куреня «Чорноморці». Сеньор Уладу пластунів-сеньйорів.

У США Северин Палидович працював у Кліфтоні вчителем, а потім – директором школи. Працював тренером з гірськолижного та інших видів спорту.

Ерко не лише навчав дітей і співав. Свого часу його захопило гірське лещетарство,  якого він не покинув і досі. Працював тренером з гірськолижного спорту. Цьому хобі сприяє й те, що Северин має будинок у Гантері — центрі лещетарського спорту. Він є президентом Карпатського лещатарського клубу , заснованого 1924-го у Львові.

1958 одружився з українкою Ольгою, яка подарувала йому доньку Володимиру (1959, 17 березня) і сина Северина-Богдана (1962).

У ранньому дитинстві, ще мешкаючи у Львові, Северин навчився грати на скрипці. Перебуваючи в США, він рано відчув потяг до пісні і в юності самостійно навчився грати на гітарі. У 70-80-і роки на святкуваннях Днів Української Культури в США та інших культурних заходах української еміграції виступав з "живим" оркестром, виконуючи український народний репертуар та інші популярні пісні.

У 1994 році у палаці архітектора в Києві відбувся перший концерт Северина Палидовича в Україні. Цього ж року Северин Палидович записав перший диск з українськими піснями. Ерко виконує народні пісні, власні пісні, багато пісень Веселовського, Гайденка, Крищенка, Гаденка, Гіги.

В 2000-х на музичному ринку України з'явилися шість альбомів з його піснями. Ерко мав поодинокі концерти у Києві і Львові. В Україні його інтереси представляє художник Анатолій Буртовий. П'ять альбомів Ерка, що вийшли в Україні, проілюстровано роботами Буртового. У всіх них звучить оркестр Ігоря Кирилюка, який і аранжує усі твори.

25 вересня 2010 міністр закордонних справ України Костянтин Грищенко за дорученням Президента України вручив високі державні нагороди видатним представникам української громади в Сполучених Штатах Америки. Серед відзначених — президент Карпатського лещатарського клубу Северин Палидович.

Під час приїзду до Львова у лютому 2016 року в одному з інтерв'ю Ерко сказав:

Тоді ж відбувся концерт «Від Веселовського до Ерка». Кошти, виручені від продажу квитків та компакт-дисків Ерка, були перераховані на лікування вояків АТО, які перебувають у Львівському військовому шпиталі.

Дискографія

 «Коли б я мав...» ( 2003)
 Коли б я мав... (3:57)
 Струмочок (3:20)
 Білі нарциси (3:57)
 Нехай буде (3:22)
 В світ за очі (2:43)
 Вулиця Наталі (3:10)
 Далеке літо (2:55)
 Скрипка плаче (4:16)
 Бродить ніч (3:45)
 Любов то сон (3:12)
 В краю моїм (4:30)
 Літо іде (3:03)
 Остання ніч (4:26)
 Я маю лялю в Монреалю (2:38)
 Достигає вишня (2:47)
 В саду зозуля (3:24)
 Білий сніг (2:51)
 Шукай кохання в інших (4:20)
 Друзі мої (3:57)
 У райськім саду (6:14)

 Будьмо! Ще хоч раз! (2003)
 Лети тужлива пісне (3:23)
 Била її мати (3:10)
 Місяць на небі (3:03)
 Я піду в далекі гори (3:35)
 Чорноморське танго (4:00)
 Спогадай дівчино (3:21)
 Росте черешня в мами на городі (3:57)
 Свята ніч (2:55)
 Романс (3:31)
 Ліщина (3:55)
 Сон (3:30)
 Чорна коса (4:01)
 Ой чорна вона чорна (2:44)
 Дві долі (3:16)
 Ніч така Господи (3:12)
 Я до тебе іду (3:37)
 Ти ж мене підманула (4:44)
 Як тебе не любити (3:43)
 Знов на полонину йду (5:01)
 Чи справді (3:10)

 Львів вже спить (2005)
 Львів вже спить (4:46)
 Очі (2:45)
 Алое (2:31)
 Едельвейс (2:40)
 Зорепад (3:22)
 Намалюй мені ніч (3:45)
 Скажи мені (3:39)
 Вітай весно (2:39)
 Як знайдеш ти когось... (3:22)
 Згадай про море (2:55)
 Пізня зустріч (6:23)
 Ти з любови собі не жартуй (2:53)
 Емігрантка (3:57)
 Моя кохана (3:39)
 Бували дні (2:53)
 На Підзамчі (3:10)
 О гарна крале (5:30)
 Я сам не знаю (4:19)
 Батькова пісня (4:18)

 Конвалії білі (2005)
 Конвалії білі (3:28)
 Рушив поїзд (3:29)
 Розкажи мені (2:54)
 Рушничок (2:31)
 Солоний вітер (5:06)
 Смерекова хата (4:36)
 Два Голуби (3:16)
 Екіпаж (немає)
 Черемшина (2:57)
 Чом в Тебе... (4:31)
 Ой смереко (3:14)
 Ясени (4:15)
 Стояв гуцул (2:49)
 Дві Троянди (3:39)
 Марина (2:03)
 Старість зажди... (2:11)
 Червона рута (3:14)
 Писаний камінь (3:39)
 Зоре... (3:12)
 Волошки (3:02)
 Гарі гарі... (2:15)
 На вигоні (1:56)
 Будь здорова (2:20)

 Ціле моє життя (2005)
 Ціле Моє Життя... (4:32)
 Гуцулко Ксеню (3:58)
 Червоні Вишні (2:57)
 Заграй Ми Цигане (3:08)
 Останнє Танго (3:19)
 Бо Це Май (2:34)
 Радий Би Я... (3:49)
 Понад Прутом (3:50)
 Білий Капелюшок (2:27)
 Розсипані Троянди (3:36)
 Гроші На Книжки (2:15)
 Було Не Тужити (3:40)
 Червоні Маки (4:25)
 Сильний Вітер (4:02)
 Марина (2:03)
 Далеке Літо (5:00)
 Заграй Ми Цигане Старий (4:07)
 Сіріли У Сумерку (3:01)
 Вчора (4:21)
 Прощаюсь Ангеле... (2:30)

 Тільки тобі (2005)
 Тільки тобі (3:10)
 Коли б я мав (3:57)
 Два голуби (3:14)
 Конвалії білі (3:26)
 Очі (2:45)
 В краю моїм (4:31)
 Я маю лялю в Монреалю (2:38)
 Ціле моє життя (4:32)
 Нехай буде (3:22)
 Білі нарциси (3:57)
 Емігрантка (3:57)
 Львів вже спить (4:46)
 Росте черешня (3:56)
 Намалюй мені ніч (3:46)
 Заграй Ми Цигане (3:08)
 В саду зозуля (3:24)
 Ти з любови собі не жартуй (2:53)
 Червоні Вишні (2:57)
 Друзі мої (3:57)
 У райськім саду (6:14)

Примітки

Посилання

 Ерко «Енциклопедія Сучасної України»
 Ерко повертає в Україну шансон
 Северин-Мстислав-Ігор Палидович. Дискографія (7 альбомів) на «Discogs»
 ЕРКО - Дискографія (6 альбомів) (2003-2005)
 Украинский шансон в эмиграции: Эрко (Ерко) — Северин-Мстислав-Игорь Палидович
 Ерко (Єрко, Северин Палидович): Моє навчання грі на скрипці закінчилося тим, що я її спалив

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New year, new bookshelf. The last few years have been golden ones for fiction, and 2015 looks set to be just as dazzling, with Kate Atkinson following up 'Life After Life' with a 'companion volume' out in May, while old favourite Judy Blume is publishing her first adult novel in 16 years in early summer. But before then, says Jennifer Lipman, there are plenty of gems to consider, whether you prefer family dramas, Edwardian mysteries or psychological thrillers…
What to read if you want a book about an extraordinary yet ordinary family…
There's a scene in Anne Tyler's latest novel that's both touching and heart-achingly sad, when a widower reflects on how he should have switched sides of the bed, so that he wouldn't reach over for his departed wife in the night. It's a simple, authentic moment, characteristic of Tyler's understated style.
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This year's 'Gone Girl'? That comparison is overused, but while Paula Hawkins' thriller is perhaps not as slick as Gillian Flynn's bestseller, it's equally disturbing. Our narrator is Rachel, a divorcee in a dead-end life with a suitcase-full of personal problems and an unhealthy obsession with her ex-husband. Bitter about the way her life has turned out, she spends her daily commute dreaming of the happy existence of a random couple she spots from the train. Then one of them goes missing, and she decides to get involved, with horrifying consequences.
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A crumbling old mansion in the depths of the Somerset countryside, in a village seemingly untouched by time…
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Taster sessions aim to encourage secondary school starters to take up sport
Students starting secondary school in the north and south of the Island have been encouraged to take up sport following a day of taster sessions.
The sessions, offering a 45 minute taster of six sports, were held at Castle Rushen High School and Ramsey Grammar School. They were specifically targeted at year 7 pupils (ages 11 and 12) who started secondary school earlier this month.
It's hoped the taster sessions will encourage more young people to take up sport in the community – leading to lifelong hobbies and friendships.
The 'Southern Six' event, staged for a third year, saw Castle Rushen students try their hand at hockey, rugby, netball, badminton, golf, and boxing.
At Ramsey, a new 'Northern Six' event featured table tennis, rugby, netball, badminton, golf, and table tennis.
Gianni Epifani, Senior Sports Development Officer with Manx Sport and Recreation, said:
'At both schools, year 7 pupils tried sports they might not have taken part in before, in rotation, under the instruction of volunteer coaches from community clubs.
'The clubs that took part are all keen to attract new members and it's hoped pupils will sign up as a result of the day.
'Students went home with booklets detailing information on training times and contacts for the clubs involved.
'Taking part in community sport has great social, as well as physical and mental health, benefits and encouraging people to take up sport as a pastime is part of our 10-year strategy to get more people, more active, more often.
'Many of those who join community clubs when young find they have a fulfilling hobby for life, forge friendships and go on to coach and encourage others.'
For information on joining sports clubs, contact Gianni on +44 1624 688556 or email gianni.epifani@gov.im.
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