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Martin O'Neill is hopeful of having Robbie Keane and James McCarthy available to him for the Republic of Ireland's Euro 2016 opener against Sweden.
Both men were selected in O'Neill's final 23-man squad despite carrying injuries – in Keane's case a calf problem and in McCarthy's a hamstring strain – and neither played in the warm-up games against the Netherlands and Belarus before the squad arrived in France on Wednesday.
However, both took part in training at the Stade de Montbauron in Versailles on Thursday and the manager is keeping his fingers crossed that he will have the option of selecting the pair as Group E gets under way on Monday.
O'Neill told FAI TV: "Fingers crossed. It's looking more positive, let's say, than about six or seven days ago.
"Robbie himself said that he's a quick healer – he's doing fine at the moment – and I think there's been very little reaction to the training that James has done., so that's a very good sign."
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2007 Pontiac Torrent Reviews and Ratings
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The Pontiac Torrent is based on a car chassis, and emphasizes a smooth ride and interior versatility. The Torrent comes standard with a V6. The Torrent shares its basic structure with the Chevy Equinox. It's based on a front-wheel-drive platform but all-wheel drive is available for winter weather.
We found the Torrent delivers quick acceleration and its styling is restrained, clean and pleasing. Inside, the available leather seats are nice, the premium stereo sounds good, and the low dash offers a good view of the road ahead. The back seat slides and reclines according to your needs for extended leg room or more cargo space.
Options include a clever cargo storage system with handy bins in the floor and wheel wells, plus a lightweight polycarbonate shelf that can be placed in various positions for differing needs; it has hooks for grocery bags and can be configured as a table for tailgate parties. Three 12-volt power outlets come standard.
New features for 2007 include four-wheel disc brakes and StabiliTrak electronic stability control, all of which come standard. Dual-stage front airbags for driver and passenger now include GM's Passenger Sensing System; and the optional head-curtain side-impact air bags are now wired to detect rollovers. A tire pressure monitor is now standard. Torrent has earned a five-star (best) rating in federal frontal crash tests.
Also new for 2007 is an electronic Driver Information Center, located in instrument cluster, that combines 20 personalization and vehicle information features. A remote starter is now available, as are three new audio systems, one including navigation. And not one but two different grades of chrome rims are now available for hip urban rolling.
The 2007 Pontiac Torrent comes with a choice of front-wheel drive ($22,455) or all-wheel drive ($23,965). Torrent is powered by GM's 3.4-liter V6 engine and five-speed automatic transmission. Only one trim level is offered, but with a variety of options and packages.
Standard equipment includes air conditioning, power windows, AM/FM/CD with six speakers, remote entry and automatic door locks, fog lamps, roof rails, daytime running lights, a rear window wiper, and 16-inch aluminum wheels.
The Preferred Package ($1,750), expanded for '07, includes an auto-dimming inside rearview mirror with compass, along with cruise control, leather-wrapped steering wheel with audio controls, six way power for the driver's seat, up-level cloth upholstery, full-width rear cargo net, carpeted front and rear floor mats, and a remote starter. Preferred Package buyers may add leather seating ($845). An optional Security Package ($1,090) combines side curtain airbags (now with rollover sensing) and one year of OnStar service. Multiple audio/entertainment choices are available, including a six-disc CD changer with MP3 playback ($135), XM Satellite Radio ($199), a premium seven-speaker sound system ($325), AM/FM/CD/MP3 with navigation ($2,145), and a rear-seat DVD player ($995). The Sun and Sound Package ($1,455) combines a power sunroof with the seven-speaker audio system and six-disc changer. Stand-alone options include cruise control ($175); heated front seats ($250); luggage rack crossbars ($150); engine block heater ($50); trailer package ($350); multi-function cargo panel ($175); and remote starter vehicle prep ($30). Also available are 17-inch aluminum wheels ($295), chrome-clad ($750), or chrome-plated ($850).
Safety features that come standard include four-wheel-disc brakes with ABS, StabiliTrak stability control, a rear child-seat latch system, tire-pressure monitor, and the mandated front airbags. Front-drive Torrents come with traction control as well.
The Pontiac Torrent is relatively large for the class, with a wheelbase that's 9.3 inches longer than that of the Ford Escape. The Torrent is based on a car platform, and shares its basic structure with the Chevy Equinox.
Torrent shares its shape with the Equinox, but a twin-nostril grille with arrowhead divider announces it's a Pontiac, and gives Torrent some distinction, though it still looks similar to most other compact SUVs.
Overall, the Torrent has a pleasing, subtle design, with clean lines and a forward wedge shape to its sides. The trapezoidal twin-beam headlamps look strong, reminiscent of a Saab, and so does the pseudo skid-plate that wraps up onto the front fascia, coming from under the car. The B-pillar is flat black, so it's barely visible between the tinted glass of the front and rear doors. This accentuates the thick, body-color C-pillar, and the pleasantly tall, arcing shape of the rear side window.
Thick aluminum roof rails are suggestive of those on the Nissan Xterra and help give this car-based SUV a more rugged appearance. The outside door handles are of the big grab variety, making it easy to open the doors and climb in without breaking fingernails.
A wide range of dealer-installed accessories, including tubular step assists and an interior trim kit, allow customers to personalize their Torrent to more closely fit their lifestyle and taste.
Getting in the Pontiac Torrent is easy. The door openings are wide, and you need neither climb up nor stoop down to get in the seats. Simply slide in. The seats are comfortable, though we'd prefer more side bolstering.
The cabin looks nice, though the materials vary in quality. The standard cloth upholstery on the seats and door trim is attractive. One of our test vehicles came in light-colored cloth and with a matching roof liner this gave the cabin an airy feeling. The available leather seats are also nice. The plastic used for the dash and other trim is at best average for the class, however.
The steering wheel is leather-wrapped with stylish but bulky stitching that felt rough to our hands. We found the instruments uncluttered and easy to read. The Pontiac-trademark red lighting doesn't improve legibility but might help with night vision. The dashboard is low, affording good forward visibility. Big side mirrors improve rearward visibility. The inside door handles are easy to operate. The switchgear works well, with one exception: The power window buttons are awkwardly located on the center console, not on the driver's door, so you'll have to look down to find them; and lowering the window at toll booths demands a shift of hands on the steering wheel, to toss coins or take a ticket.
The center console flips up and out of the way, making space between the front seats for a tote bag or purse that would otherwise flop around in the passenger's footwell. On the floor is a single cupholder that works well for cans and water bottles; just aft of this on the floor are slots for CDs angled forward for easy access. Flipping the center console back into place provides an armrest and a small amount of storage, though the storage cubby is located far enough rearward as to be awkward to access. A pair of cupholders can be popped out of the end of the console, but they're flimsy and obstruct the floor-mounted handbrake lever; we avoided using them, preferring the floor-mounted cupholder. Your passenger will just have to hold his or her drink. The door pockets are narrow, though there are map pockets on the sides of the center tunnel. There's room for a cell phone on each side of the gear lever, which is surrounded by a grippy rubber pad.
The optional Pioneer sound system is deep and rich, something we discovered while listening to XM Satellite Radio's Cinemagic station, which features movie soundtracks.
The rear seat slides forward or back eight inches, a nice feature. Sliding it forward adds five cubic feet of cargo space. Sliding it back offers rear passengers more legroom. The rear seat is split 60/40 for cargo versatility, and the seatbacks recline, so passengers back there can really lie back.
The front passenger seat folds flat, turning it into a tray or work space or for allowing the loading of long items, like a surfboard, to stretch from the tailgate to dashboard. It's a nice setup, but you have to get out of the car and walk around to flip the front-passenger seat back into position because the release lever is only on the right side; it'd be much more convenient if a redundant lever was on the left side so the driver could reach it. If you really need cargo space, the passenger and/or rear seats can be deleted for commercial and fleet applications.
We found the cargo bay quite generous and it easily handled a big box we put back there. A clever polycarbonate tray is available that pulls out of the floor and can be slotted into one of three height levels, so it can be used for different things, including concealment. It allows two levels of grocery boxes or bags, for example. It's an interesting feature, though we've wondered how many people use shelving systems on other vehicles. The tailgate lifts high enough that all but the tallest owners can stand fully upright beneath it.
The Pontiac Torrent gets good acceleration out of its 185-hp V6 engine. In fact, it's not hard to spin the front wheels when taking off quickly, even though the front-drive Torrent comes with traction control to mitigate that. The engine uses an overhead-valve design, so it's not as efficient as a modern overhead-cam engine. Nor is it as smooth and quiet as the more sophisticated Toyota V6.
Torrent's fuel economy rating has improved for 2008 to an EPA City/Highway rating of 19/26 miles per gallon. That's from its '07 rating of 19/24 mpg, which is impressive, given that most vehicles are getting lower fuel economy ratings for 2008 due to new EPA test procedures. We averaged only 18 mpg in our front-drive test vehicle, but it had logged fewer than 600 miles on the odometer when we got it, and engines often loosen up and deliver better mileage as they are more completely broken in. The Torrent AWD models are rated at 18/25 mpg.
The five-speed automatic transmission may be the smoothest thing about the Torrent. The upshifts are nice and tight. There's good engine torque, peaking at 210 pound-feet, and the gear ratios and electronically variable shift points are well matched. We found the Torrent didn't have to downshift on a hill where transmissions in many other vehicles downshifted, including those far more powerful than the Torrent.
The Torrent is rated to tow up to 3500 pounds.
The Torrent offers good handling for the class without any sign of harshness to the ride. The longest wheelbase and widest track in the class surely add to this capability. The ride was good, even over some rough gravel roads.
StabiliTrak, now standard on all Torrents, helps drivers maintain control during sudden maneuvers or in low-traction conditions by using a comprehensive series of sensors to measure acceleration, deceleration, steering angle and yaw rate. A computer monitors these inputs and automatically reduces engine power and/or selectively brakes one or more wheels to help maintain the course that the driver intended.
Last year we lamented that Torrent came with disc brakes on the front wheels only, and with less expensive but less effective drum brakes in the rear. For '07 four-wheel-disc brakes and ABS come standard. Electronic Brake-force Distribution, however, is not available, even though it can be especially helpful in just this kind of vehicle, that is, one that might well carry varying loads.
OnStar-equipped Torrents feature dual-mode (analog-digital) equipment. Using the GPS satellite network and wireless technology, OnStar offers core safety services plus Hands-Free Calling, now with more intuitive continuous digit dialing and improved voice-recognition accuracy. An externally mounted antenna improves reception. OnStar's optional Directions & Connections Plan with Turn-by-Turn Navigation is available on the Torrent. This new service allows OnStar customers to talk to a live advisor, who in turn sends step-by-step directions that are automatically played through the vehicle's stereo. The directions play as they are needed, triggered by OnStar's GPS capability. This will allow drivers to be led to their destination while keeping their hands on the wheel and their eyes on the road. OnStar is an excellent safety feature because its operators will direct help to your vehicle should your airbag deploy and you fail to respond to their calls.
The Pontiac Torrent is among the biggest of the compact SUVs. It's a competent vehicle with some nice convenience features, such as a sliding rear seat. In terms of refinement it's about average for the class. However, a five-star crash rating and new safety features for '07 add to its appeal.
NewCarTestDrive.com correspondent Sam Moses filed this report from the Columbia River Gorge; Mitch McCullough contributed to this report from Los Angeles.

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Baked Haddock with Stuffing Clean a four-pound haddock, sprinkle with salt inside and out, stuff, and sew. Cut five diagonal gashes on each side of backbone and insert narrow strips of fat salt pork, having gashes on one side come between gashes on other side. Shape with skewers in form of letter S, and fasten skewers with small twine. Place on greased fish-sheet in a dripping-pan, sprinkle with salt and pepper, brush over with melted butter, dredge with flour, and place around fish small pieces of fat salt pork. Bake one hour in hot oven, basting as soon as fat is tried out, and continue basting every ten minutes. Serve with Drawn Butter, Egg, or Hollandaise Sauce. Garnish with lemon and parsley.
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- Flood warning remains in effect in parts of Alabama through Tuesday
- Parts of West Pensacola, Florida, got 23.6 inches due to the storms
- 3 shelters close in Escambia County, Florida, though one remains open
- Officials in Escambia County expect damage there to total more than $20 million
More rain could fall in drenched areas of the Florida Panhandle and coastal Alabama, where residents are assessing the damage from torrential rains that caused widespread flooding and millions of dollars in damage.
While not likely as devastating as the storms in recent days, more showers are likely and thunderstorms are possible through Tuesday in places like Pensacola, Florida, according to the National Weather Service. In fact, the government of Escambia County, Florida, is warning residents to expect rainy weather to continue through Friday.
Meanwhile, problems from the torrential rains that have already fallen persist in the region.
A flood warning is in effect through Tuesday morning around sections of the Bayou Sara waterway in Alabama's Mobile County. Authorities also are warning of a "high rip current risk" through Tuesday evening off beaches in that part of the Gulf of Mexico coast.
The area was deluged over the weekend by water that caused significant damage. Early Monday, a fresh thunderstorm dumped up to 2 inches of rain in Mobile and Baldwin counties in southwest Alabama, according to the weather service.
Rainfall totals from the spurt of storms varied considerably around the region through Monday morning, though no community escaped. West Pensacola received 23.6 inches, while Mobile, Alabama, saw between 7 and 14 inches, the weather agency reported.
Officials in Escambia County, where Pensacola is located, expect damage to total more than $20 million.
Floodwaters up to 8 feet deep inundated the Forest Creek Apartments in the city.
"I walked out chin-deep in water," Lillian Murphy told CNN affiliate WEAR TV. The floodwater submerged her car and almost reached the roof of her apartment. "I don't know who to call or who to contact."
Escambia County remains in a state of emergency. But one sign of progress Monday came when three shelters set up at area schools were closed, according to an update on the county's website. A single shelter at a Pensacola church had seven people as of late Monday afternoon.
Lightning struck a boy in Gulf Shores, Alabama, on Sunday, leaving him hospitalized in critical condition.
"As soon as the lightning bolt hit, everyone hit the ground and took off running," lifeguard Justin Pearce told CNN affiliate WPMI TV. "Then we saw a person laying by the edge of the water."
The family identified the victim as Landon Broussard of Delcambre, Louisiana.
Additionally, several roads and bridges, as well as a number of homes and businesses, were damaged.
One of the structures affected was the Escambia County Jail in Pensacola. Its central booking facility, where inmates are brought in, was under about 6 feet of water at one point over the weekend, according to Escambia County Sheriff's Office spokesman Mike Ward.
The main part of the jail, which houses 697 inmates, lost power in the storm, Ward said. But temporary power was brought in, and efforts continued to get the air conditioning back on. The spokesman said security at the jail was never compromised.
Flash flooding made parts of some roadways impassable, with some reporting waters rising more than 6 feet in spots.
Leroy Bonifay, 90, told CNN affiliate WALA that he and his grandson got stuck along Airport Boulevard in Pensacola when water "washed up over my hood and drowned my engine." It climbed even higher, up to the windows, before two bystanders came to their rescue.
"I have never seen it get this high in this area before," Bonifay said. "It's tough, but we'll make it out all right."


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Erste Group
Erste Group implemented CCH Tagetik's software solution for Group Consolidation, Reporting, IFRS & FinRep Compliance, Segment Reports, Risk Information, Basel III
In order to meet the mounting requirements of a growing, public financial service organization, Erste Group chose CCH Tagetik as its new finance software. With CCH Tagetik, we can fulfill IFRS and FinRep requirements in a single application while establishing a flexible framework for various tasks throughout the group. The easy-to-use solution optimally guides users through the processes of group consolidation, management reporting and statutory reporting. Since it can now quickly respond to new external requirements and internal ad hoc inquiries, we feel well equipped for the future
Barbara Kainz - Director Group Consolidation
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The Challenge
Due to the impressive growth of Erste Group, which currently includes about 700 companies in its scope of consolidation, the finance department had a difficult time integrating new corporate structures into its finance systems.
Aside from its internal business development, the team also had to juggle various external requirements both as a public company and as a credit institution, which is subject to comply with the mounting, stringent regulations of the European Banking Authority (EBA). These factors set the scene for the implementation of a new consolidation system at Erste Group – even though a rather practical aspect stood in the spotlight. Maintenance services for the software it had previously used were going to be discontinued.
Extended scope from segment reporting to risk data and information that is relevant for regulatory compliance
Fast, flexible consolidation on different group levels
Responsible for collecting, uploading data, matching IC transactions, but also connected to the system
Thanks to the IC matching cockpit component, users can reconcile directly early on in the consolidation process
The consolidation process applies a common set of verifiable formats and rules throughout the group
Process support, clear assignment of responsibilities, and more transparency
The Solution
Process support, a clear assignment of responsibilities, and more transparency were other important criteria for Barbara Kainz, Director Group Consolidation and business-side project manager during the implementation of the new consolidation solution. After a multi-vendor selection process, Erste Group chose CCH Tagetik over SAP. In addition to a good price-performance ratio, the CCH Tagetik/pmOne team stood out for its expertise in financial services consulting. "We felt that CCH Tagetik/pmOne understood us – not just as finance professionals but also as financial service professionals because the consultants knew exactly what FinRep and Basel III mean," explained Kainz. "This gave us a solid foundation to quickly implement the project together."
For Kainz's colleagues in financial controlling, harmonizing the processes of segment reporting and legal consolidation played an important role. They, too, were impressed with the unified application that offered specialized functionality for segment reporting. Even the IT department echoed the recommendation for CCH Tagetik after the software passed a technical stress test for the integration into the group's IT architecture. The project team was assigned and ready to start in May 2012. In addition to the finance and controlling departments and the consultants from CCH Tagetik/pmOne, the IT department of Erste Group was also a key stakeholder in the project. Its job was to connect the companies and network banks to the system and ensure compliance with bank-specific security measures. The entire project – from designing and implementing the system to transferring legacy data, training users, going live and rolling out the new solution internally – took less than a year. During the project, Erste Group even used CCH Tagetik for its 2012 year-end close. In January 2013, the consolidation was completely transferred to the new software.
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Recycle Baby Snack Containers into a Make Up KitStep 1
Get your supplies, below are the ones I used. I had some issues, so keep reading and I will discuss what you should use in order to get the best results with the least amount of effort. Let me repeat "Best results with least amount of effort!" How all crafts should be.
|You will need a primer or paints made for plastic. This is discussed more in step 3, make sure to read that step
Remove the label from you snack container
*Tip Important that you pick a snack container that will hold your make up brushes well.
Step 3(the way I did it)
Tape and paint.
You have to do some math to figure how many stripes will work with your container and the tape size your working with. *Tip- if you can't make the rows work out even with the size of your tape then work form middle out, leaving the top and bottom white.
The tape paint process.After each stripe is taped off
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1) Remove every other row of tape then paint. Let dry, repeat, let dry.(two coats)
2)Next if you have a good hand you can then remove the tape that is left on the container. Then free hand paint the next set of "every other" unpainted stripe.(this is how I did it)
or2)If you don't have a good hand at painting steady lines. Re-apply the tape(covering the now painted stripes) then remove the tape off the unpainted rows. Paint them... let dry and repeat.
That is how I did it but as promised I had some issues with this project, bad issues.
What went wrong? My paint was not sticking well, actually it was a very huge disaster. I am surprised I was able to make it work out. Every time I moved tape or even painted the paint pealed off.
I needed to use paint that was for plastic or prime this item!(with primer that works on plastic)
I don't want you to have to deal with the issues I had to make yours look good
You have options to avoid having my pealing paint issue.
(Your options are)
1.Use paint made for plastic(test a hidden area first)
2.Prime the area to be painted first,with a primer for plastic.(test hidden area first)
3.Eff the paint and use paper and Mod Podge for the stripes (this is what I wish I did)
So if you want to paint yours you need to do it different. You must prime it it okay? Or use paint made for plastic. OK?Got it? Good. Then... moving on
Step 4
Seal it!
Paint it all over with a god coat of Mod Podge. I like the Gloss look so that is what I used
When you apply the Mod Podge it will look foggy and white, have no fear it will dry nice and clear.
Step 5 Now take care of the brushes
Now you need to pay attention to your makeup brushes. I wised up and primed my brushes. Even thought they were wood, I figured better be safe and use the primer this time.
Okay then the same step apply to the makeup brushes. One more time those steps are
2)Then Paint
3)Then Seal with the magic ingredient to crafting, Mod Podge!
Step 7 Dry time
I think this is the hardest step of all, also the most important. They need to dry a long time until the mod podge is good and clear and hard. I can't tell you the exact time that it will be. It depends on the temperature, humidity and some other things. The minimum dry time for this project is going to be overnight. For mine it took about two days until everything was dry, hard and clear!
And then you are finished! You have some freshly painted makeup brushes and a nice little case you can toss in your bag.


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By Joel Williams
Dorothy "Dottie" Fountain has spent much of her free time over the past 24 years helping make life a little better for hospital patients and their loved ones.
You can find her at the "main" Methodist location in the Medical Center, dressed in blue, like the other members of the Blue Bird Auxiliary, a volunteer group whose origins date back nearly a century. They help out in many ways, such as using wheel chairs to escort patients between their rooms and other areas of the hospital, attending to people waiting for loved ones to finish surgery, staffing information desks and working in the gift shop, among other tasks. Several hundred Blue Birds serve at Main Methodist, Methodist Children's Hospital, Methodist Boerne Emergency Center and Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital.
The Blue Birds represent community volunteerism in action. Dottie, 86, has put in the most time of all the Blue Birds, logging 85,000 hours volunteering for the hospital since she and her late husband, Lewis, joined the Blue Birds in 1988. The volunteer activity has become an even more important part of her life since Lewis died two years ago after 64 years of marriage.
Dottie especially enjoys following patients' progress with their loved ones and then seeing the patients able to leave the hospital.
"I love working with the people there and making new friends. There is something new there every day," says Dottie, who now volunteers two days a week at Methodist, plus occasional shifts substituting for other Blue Birds.
She puts in more volunteer time at home, helping to sew and stuff the soft toys that they give to children patients who need a happy distraction while getting shots or undergoing other procedures.
"Our Blue Birds are the first and last people that our patients and our visitors see when they enter and leave the hospital and they make a huge difference," says Christi Bond, director of Volunteer Services for Methodist Hospitals in the Medical Center. "We get thank-you notes all the time from patients who have left, thankful for how the volunteers helped to make them feel completely at ease."
The Blue Birds, many of them of retirement age, work alongside their high-school-age Blue J volunteer corps. The Blue Birds also operate a hospital gift shop to raise money to provide patients and their families with items such as bereavement materials, therapeutic pillows and stuffed toys; they also give to nonprofit charities and provide scholarships through the Blue Bird Auxiliary Scholarship Fund administered by the San Antonio Area Foundation.
The volunteer organization was started in 1920 at the Laurel Heights Methodist Church as the Blue Birds of Laurel Heights, changing their charter in 1960 to become the Blue Bird Auxiliary of Methodist Hospital.
Dottie received Methodist Healthcare's Grace Ann Durr Humanitarian Award in 2010 for her thousands of cheerful hours of service.
Volunteers like the Blue Birds make the world a much better place, says Methodist's Christi Bond, adding, "If more people were volunteering, it would give them more of a view of what's going on and what people are facing in their community. And if every organization that requires volunteers had all the people that they need, they would be in very good shape."
Like Dottie, many will tell you that serving others brings them a special type of happiness and contentment.
"I think I get more out of it than I am giving," Dottie says.
Find out more about the Blue Bird Auxiliary online at www.sabluebird.org/.
Joel Williams is Director of Public Relations at the San Antonio Area Foundation.


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Kourtney Kardashian Is Reportedly Pregnant With Her Third Childby Michelle McGahan | PopCrush
There will soon be another little bundle of joy to add to the Kardashian clan! Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick are expecting their third child, Us Weekly reports.
Kardashian, who is already mom to 4-year-old Mason and 23-month-old Penelope, "is only a few months along," a source reveals to the magazine, while another insider adds that the 35-year-old mama and Disick, 31, will be welcoming their new addition in December.
"They don't know the gender yet," the source claims. "They just want the baby to be healthy."
Think what you want about the Kardashian family, but there is no doubt that Kardashian and Disick will be great third-time parents, as they already shower their two kids with all the love and affection they need. And it looks like the eldest Kardashian sis will follow in her mom's footsteps with an ever-expanding brood of babies.
Telling the magazine that the pregnancy was planned, a source also revealed that Kardashian wants "a handful of kids," a sentiment she echoed in a 2012 episode of 'Keeping Up With the Kardashians.'
"…[Having kids] is what life is about," she revealed at the time (quote via Us Weekly.) "I'm not going on the pill. I don't believe in it anymore!"
We can't wait to see super-cute snaps of the baby playing with cousin North West and her big sibs Mason and Penelope. Congratulations to the happy couple!


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EverQuest Next Landmark's alpha test is almost here but will your computer be able to run it? Sony Online Entertainment has published the system requirements that you'll need for the sandbox MMO's first public testing.
Minimum System Requirements
In EverQuest Next Landmark, players gather materials from the game world and use them to construct items and buildings. They can then sell crafted items to each other through an in-game marketplace. Some of the best creations will be used in EverQuest Next, a next-gen MMORPG with destructible environments. EQ Next, powered by the same Forgelight engine as PlanetSide 2, should arrive later in 2014.
Last we heard, the alpha test was going to launch in February. You can secure access to the alpha (and eventual closed beta) by purchasing a Founder's Pack. If you already bought one but just realized that the system requirements are too high for your computer, SOE says that you can get a full refund. Additional details can be found at their customer support site.


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At Gilda's Club Madison, we bring together men, women and children who are living with cancer—and their loved ones—through support and networking groups, informative lectures, workshops and social activities. All of our programs are free-of-charge, so that no one in our community has to face cancer alone.
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We've written about the jailed Egyptian blogger known as Kareem before. Now the people who are working for his release are asking that people "flood the jail with mail" so that Kareem and his jailers will know that the world is watching. I hope you'll take a moment to help.
Kareem attended a conference for Arabic liberal and libertarian bloggers and writers in 2006, when he was 21 years old. Within months he was arrested and sentenced. He has served more than 3/4 of a four-year sentence for writing about freedom, democracy, and women's rights on his blog, and yet he still has not been released. He has suffered not only the loss of his freedom, but continuing abuse. It is important to let the Egyptian authorities know he is not forgotten. Please help by writing to him. And please follow the guidelines and not include anything incendiary or likely to lead to his being harmed further.
As Tom Palmer and Raja Kamal wrote in the Washington Post, "People should be free to express their opinions without fear of being imprisoned or killed. Blogging should not be a crime."
In 2008 students at the first convention of Students for Liberty rallied for Kareem on the steps of Columbia University (at right). Others around the world, on the web and in person, have tried to keep a light shining on Kareem's case. But it's hard to maintain such a campaign for years, as the Egyptian authorities refuse to let this young man go. Don't let them think that no one notices.
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Tara Reid stays out of Lindsay Lohan's way whenever she is out on the town because Lohan becomes "mean" and "paranoid" when she is drunk.
The "American Pie" star has revealed the two actresses "don't really like each other" and she tries her best to avoid Lohan after seeing her nasty side on nights out.
Reid tells TMZ.com, "We don't really like each other. … If I get drunk, I'm a happy drunk. When she gets drunk, she's just mean. She's so paranoid … any time she thinks someone has a camera phone on them (she) drops it in an ice bucket. You just can't be attacking people."
Lohan is due to check into a rehab center this week to begin a 90-day court-ordered treatment plan after pleading no contest to charges stemming from a car crash in California last summer.
Lohn star has endured numerous brushes with the law due to her driving, and Reid is adamant the actress needs to get off the road: "She should stop driving now (she should get a driver)… (this latest problem) doesn't surprise me. She crashed one of my friend's cars. … I said to him, 'Why do you let her do this?' and he's like 'Ah I don't care'."
Reid adds of Lohan, "I think she will (get her life back together). I think this girl gets chance after chance after chance. … She keeps getting to move on to different stories."


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FS#7 - Re-implement Radiosity render abort/continue support
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For proper render abort/continue support, radiosity cache data must be written to (or read from) disk even if the user does not explicitly opt to have a sample data file written/read. This feature has temporarily been dropped from 3.7 beta and is still pending re-implementation.
To meet high-reproducibility requirements in conjunction with SMP operation, it may be necessary to extend the 3.6 radiosity cache file format.
What is the status of this? Is there anything in the frontend code I could help with?
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Whiskey, bourbon, vodka tastings at LI distillery
Linda and Donald Sookram are discovering a little-known corner -- and product -- of farm country. Shot glasses in hand, the Richmond Hill, Queens, couple stand at the bar in the Long Island Spirits Distillery tasting room in Baiting Hollow, drinking samples of locally produced Sorbetta, a liqueur also known as a vodka-based infusion.
They clink glasses and -- arms linked -- take sips of lemon Sorbetta.
"I like the fruity taste," says Linda. But the lime- and orange-tinged versions are rendered "a little strong."
The Long Island Spirits Distillery takes a detour off the beaten path of North Fork tasting rooms. In a rustic, 2,500-square-foot oak-timber room inside a restored historic barn, glasses are filled with liquor instead of merlot or chardonnay.
Local agricultural products, such as potatoes and strawberries, are fermented and distilled in a main-floor production area. The distilling process takes a little more than a week for vodka. In addition, whiskeys and brandies are aged in barrels for one to five years. Well over 50,000 bottles will be produced this year by Long Island Spirits Distillery, says owner Rich Stabile of Smithtown, who founded the operation in 2007.
Visitors choose their "poison," as the old saying goes, from five kinds of Sorbetta, which includes strawberry and raspberry; two types of vodka (LIV and espresso, both distilled from potatoes grown on East End farms), and three whiskeys: Pine Barrens Single Malt Whisky, Rough Rider Straight Bourbon Whisky and Rough Rider Bull Moose Three Barrel Rye Whisky.
Each pour is three-quarters of an ounce, amounting to less than a shot -- and you get to keep the glass as a souvenir. Drink mixes, soda, T-shirts, shakers and other nonalcoholic items also are sold in the tasting room. A picture window looks out onto a deck, a potato field and the vineyards of the neighboring Baiting Hollow Farm Vineyard.
On a Sunday afternoon, a steady stream of vodka and whiskey aficionados from near and far line up for tastes.
"I'm not much of a wine drinker," says T.J. Diaz, 30, an electrician from Farmingville. "This is my forte."
Stacey Markle, 37, visiting from upstate Medina, calls the vodka she tastes "very smooth and drinkable."
A craft distillery in wine country isn't such a reach -- doing a proper whiskey, rye and vodka tasting is "very much like tasting a wine," Stabile explains. Here are the steps:
1. AROMA The scent is the first thing that hits you.
2. TASTE As with wine, roll some on your palate to release the flavors.
3. FINISH Stabile describes this as "a long-lasting, light burn that you get at the end." Take note of how long it lasts on your tongue and at the back of your throat.
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Karlie Kloss is no stranger to being the hot topic. After her nude pics and photoshopped ribs, you'd think she'd want to stay away from controversy! Well, Victoria's Secret didn't help her last week. They sent her stomping down the runway during the 2012 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in this fringed leather bikini, an overload of turquoise jewels, and (the most important item of all) a towering Native American headdress replica. Not such a great idea, VS.
The Native American community was less than pleased (especially since it was a short 3 days after Gwen Stefani and No Doubt were forced to pull their music video because Gwen was.. yes, wearing a sexy Native American getup). Why are the Native American garbs taking so much heat? Among other offensive reasons, the headdress is a traditional sacred item that is being used as a costume. Native women are insulted that they are thought of as a relic/theme/trend of the past.
Victoria's Secret has decided to pull the controversial look from the fashion show's broadcast and any other press. A representative from the company told Huffington Post, "We are sorry that the Native American headdress replica used in our recent fashion show has upset individuals. We sincerely apologize as we absolutely had no intention to offend anyone. Out of respect, we will not be including the outfit in any broadcast, marketing materials nor in any other way."
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Sept. 6, 2002
Head Coach Jerry Smith
On the win
I think we had a big wake-up call against Stanford. We were particularly focused on our defending today. When we are focused on our team, we can shut out an awesome attacking team like Notre Dame. I think since we took three goals against Stanford-and probably should have taken five-we were just very focused on that aspect of our game today.
On Megan Kakadelas
People underestimate her quickness and speed all the time. Yesterday, she had her first practice with the team, so today was her first game, and what a great game it was. She was obviously pumped up for her first game. But in general, she just has an acceleration that most people just don't anticipate.
On the U19 Trio
We were missing three youth national team players in our match against Stanford and they made a huge difference for us today. Jessica Ballweg had to come out of the game injured, so she didn't make as big an impact as Leslie Osborne and Megan Kakadelas, but they showed their quality today as national team players.
On playing a highly-ranked team early in the season
This is why we play those games; let's find out where we are right now. Stanford handed our head to us last week. We had to regroup and today we got the better of Notre Dame. They'll regroup and learn a lot from the game.
Sophomore Forward Megan KakadelasOn her first game as a Bronco
I was pretty nervous, wanting to get used to playing with everybody and in the system. It was great just getting to play.
Junior Forward Kristi CandauOn her first goal
Megan made a great run down the line. I just kind of followed her and she slotted it back. She played it perfectly. All I had to do was tap it in.
On the team's first win
We were kind of down on ourselves after the Stanford game and so it's nice get on a high, especially against Notre Dame.
We like to beat anybody on their home field, but there's always something special about Notre Dame. After they knocked us out (in the NCAA Tournament) in 2000, we were really looking forward to playing them last year. That didn't work out, so it was really great to be able to do it tonight.


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By Robin Schmahl
Unfortunately not much has changed fundamentally over the past two weeks, when this column was last written.
There was a brief price jump in Class III futures contracts of nearly $1.00, but it was very short-lived. Since then, Class III futures contracts through August have made new lows. Prices are rolling down as the steady cheese price is diminishing the potential for these prices to be achieved.
The announcement from the CWT committee that 102,898 cows would be eliminated has not yet accomplished the desired affect of bringing buyers back into the market. In the past, the announcement of the number of cows that would be eliminated had a psychological affect. Traders would buy futures contracts to take advantage of the higher prices that were sure to come and cheese buyers would become more aggressive in the purchasing of cheese. However, the past two rounds have only resulted in lower milk prices. This has caused the trade to take a wait and see attitude before making any decisions.
Traders will wait to see if 2 billion pounds of milk will actually be eliminated or whether other farmers will increase cow numbers and/or production compensating for some of the loss. Traders will wait to see if consumer demand will increase enough to tighten supply resulting in more aggressive buying of dairy products. Traders will wait to see if world markets will change causing world prices to increase. Basically, traders will wait until they see results.
April milk production did not fall below the year earlier level as many had expected. Instead production was virtually steady with a year earlier. With the revision of March production showing an increase of 0.1 percent, production in the top milk producing states still have not shown a year-over-year decrease since June 2004. This streak may end with the May production report. The most recent report did indicate farmers slowed their culling activity with only a decline of 2,000 head from March. The April Livestock Slaughter report confirmed this with a dairy cattle slaughter of 215,000 head; 23,000 fewer than the previous month and 4,000 less than a year ago. Many farmers have been waiting for the results of the seventh round of the CWT herd retirement program.
The bottom line is that milk prices are low because supply is plentiful relative to demand. My concern is the strength of milk prices later this year. There have been 868 loads of cheese traded on the CME Group's spot cash market since the beginning of the year. This is the most since I have kept record back to 1999 and likely a record for the spot cash market in history. Previously, the record was set in 2007 with 510 loads traded over the same period of time. Slower demand and willingness of buyers to purchase cheese at these prices indicates their desire to buy and hold for later demand, which may keep any seasonal price rally in the fall and winter from developing. Buyers will not need to be aggressive except for fill-in demand for fresh cheese that will be traded on the Exchange's spot market. We have seen this happen in the past when higher stocks were on hand later in the year, and the market is certainly setting up for this to happen again.
I currently have no recommendations for hedging milk. The market needs to bounce in price before establishing fence positions. This consists of purchasing a put and selling a call to establish a parameter. This is still my preferred strategy as it establishes a floor while allowing the capture of some upside price potential.
Upcoming reports to watch for are the Agricultural Price report on May 29; the California 4a/4b milk prices on June 1; the Dairy Products report on June 4; the May federal order class prices announcement on June 5.
--Robin Schmahl is a commodity broker and owner of AgDairy LLC, a full-service commodity brokerage firm located in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. He can be reached at 877-256-3253 or through their Web site at www.agdairy.com.
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Exploring Tor's Activity Through Long-term Passive TLS Traffic Measurement. Proceedings of Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM).(2016).
Measuring the Latency and Pervasiveness of TLS Certificate Revocation. Proceedings of Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM).(2016).
Mission Accomplished? HTTPS Security after DigiNotar. Proceedings of the IMC 2017.(2017).
Providing Dynamic Control to Passive Network Security Monitoring. Proceedings of 18th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID).(2015).
Specification Mining for Intrusion Detection in Networked Control Systems. Proceedings of the 25th USENIX Security Symposium. 790-806.(2016).
Spicy: A Unified Deep Packet Inspection Framework for Safely Dissecting All Your Data. Proceedings of 2016 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference.(2016).
TLS in the Wild: An Internet-Wide Analysis of TLS-Based Protocols for Electronic Communication. Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS).(2016).
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Dosas are yummy crêpes made from fermented batter of rice and black gram. These can be made and eaten in a gazillion different forms. I plan on updating this post as and when I make the different kinds and combinations of them. That's why the title "All About". The basic batter for most of them can be made using the below proportions. It is eventually what else you add into this batter and how you make the crêpes that give the various forms and names to this wonderful delight.
Ghee Roast – This golden brown super thin crisp crêpe roasted to perfection in ghee and served right off the flame with mouth watering coconut chutneys is probably the most simple dosa of all and my favorite. So, obviously it goes first in my list of recipes
3 cups idli /parboiled rice (if you don't have it go ahead and use raw rice)
1 cup urad dal(skinned black gram)
1 tsp fenugreek (methi) seeds
2 tbsp channa dal
1 tbsp mung dal
3 tbsp cooked rice(can be replaced with poha/beaten rice)
salt to taste
ghee for roasting the crepe


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Yesterday I had a moment in talking with a friend where I felt God shine a spotlight on an area in my life that needs to change.
Have you experienced that? It's extremely uncomfortable. You're going along doing the instinctual, trusting that what's natural is what's right, and then suddenly you're blinded by a floodlight piercing your eyes. As I wrote that last sentence I am struck by the similarity to Paul's story. You know, when he was still Saul. And killing Christians.
He was living his life the way he'd been raised, and doing it very well. He had clout.
Listen to him brag about himself…
"…circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for legalistic righteousness, faultless." {Philippians 3:5-6}
Paul was the man. He was doing what was natural. Then, God beamed His spotlight on him and Paul was blind. Maybe that's what Jesus meant when He said He was the light of the world.
So, I {like Paul} was making my way through my day — although, to be clear, I was not pursuing and killing Christians — when all of a sudden God lasered in on an area of my mind that is wrong.
And instantly I felt guilt. Well, maybe guilty isn't the right word
Before you begin imagining all of the awful things that I could have been doing, I'll tell you.
My priorities were off. I was selfish. I thought of my own needs before the needs of others.
Even that makes it sound worse than what I intended, but isn't that how those little sin areas in our life always are? We justify, or even overlook, them because they float like dandelion puffs through our mind. The problem that I've discovered with dandelion puffs is that as innocent as it looks when my kids are blowing "wishes" around the yard, those seeds take root and now we have a bunch of weeds.
As the evening progressed that moment replayed in my mind, and I allowed the shame and guilt to settle in. It tucked itself in with me last night and drug itself out of bed with me this morning.
"I need to be different. That has to change. Lord, help me to change," looped in my brain.
Most mornings I don't have the time {make the time} to soak in the Word. The chaos of four kids dressing, brushing, fighting, tying, and rushing takes over; I let it. This morning I took the ten minutes necessary to read and journal.
And God spoke.
The verse isn't necessary, because the words weren't important to the epiphany. Well, it was to me, because my reading illustrated someone doing right what I had done wrong the day before. It felt like the floodlight was now trained on that portion of scripture, which reflected right back onto the sin in my life.
"Woe to me!" I cried. "I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty." {Isaiah 6:5}
before more guilt could set in, God said, "I'm showing you this so intentionally because I am changing this in you. It is not to make you feel ashamed, but rather so you have a milestone to look back on."


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Reshoots are never a good sign for a movie.
Does anyone think they made a damn bit of difference on "Wolverine"? Nope. The movie still sucked. Angelina Jolie's "Salt" is currently enduring them, "Clash of the Titans" announced reshoots at the end of 2009, and now "Jonah Hex, " Warner Brothers' feature-film adaptation of the DC comic series, is set for ten days of reshoots in order to add 12 pages of action.
This isn't the first sign of trouble for "Hex," which lost its original writing duo, "Crank" scribes Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. The terminally awesome pair left the production over multiple issues with their star, Josh Brolin, including his distaste for the script and the multiple changes he demanded.
Replacing "Horton Hears a Who" director Jimmy Hayward is Francis Lawrence, the man behind the should've-been-better "I Am Legend." We're sure Brolin is thrilled with that development.
"Jonah Hex," also starring Megan Fox and John Malkovich, centers on a scar-faced gunslinger who's enlisted to track down a former Confederate general who is raising an army of the undead in order to liberate the South.
But if this movie ends up sucking, nobody's gonna blame the script, the director or Brolin. America's pointing the finger directly at Megan Fox. Sure, she's gorgeous, but that chick is a jinx! "Jennifer's Body," "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People" -- every project she picks turns out to be crap.


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Friday, April 10, 2009
13 comments:
- Sweet Nothings said...
oh, I cant wait to scooop up everything!!!
- April 10, 2009 at 9:04 AM
- Chris Praley said...
That red is beautiful!
- April 10, 2009 at 9:39 AM
Thanks for the post. That's a beautiful piece you're working on. Much success!
- April 10, 2009 at 10:40 AM
- Noelle Doodle said...
Well your phone takes way better pics than mine for what it's worth.
- April 10, 2009 at 12:24 PM
- Kate Alexis Clausen said...
I think your phone works for you... always available in a pinch.
- April 10, 2009 at 1:17 PM
- caroline duke said...
congratulations on the new space. can't wait to see what comes out of it!
- April 11, 2009 at 12:38 AM
- Colleen MacDonald said...
HOORAY for dedicated work spaces! I can't wait for the day when I can have mine (maybe this summer). Congratulations on yours, and here's to the upgrade with better views. I have no doubt that it's in your near future!
- April 13, 2009 at 12:32 PM
- Komichi said...
Congratulations on the workspace! I'm totally jealous - that skyline looks lovely, even if you can't see it normally.
Can't wait to see your collection for Bluefly. :) I know I can't afford any of it but I'm dying to see!
- April 13, 2009 at 1:45 PM
- YnR said...
Love the red/pinkish design!! Interesting pattern of pins. We should all take in small things like that and enjoy them just as much! Good luck with the collection! Not that you need it, your work is gorgeous!!
- April 13, 2009 at 11:26 PM
- Lucys Place said...
We are currently in the midst of the last Project Runway (we are very behind here in NZ) and I suddenly recognised you from Etsy. At that stage I didn't know who had won, but had my bets that it was you. And I was right! Fabulous talent and personality; you were great to watch as was Jerell. All the best for Bluefly.
- April 13, 2009 at 11:41 PM
- Brittney said...
Hooray for the new space and for the upcoming BlueFly collection! Hope you're less homesick and that NYC is treating you well!
- April 14, 2009 at 8:05 AM
- ♥ Chloe said...
That top is beautiful! I can't wait to see everything!
- April 14, 2009 at 11:43 AM
- dana said...
Impressive phone pictures. Why get the real camera fixed?
The red top you're working on is beautiful.
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Not only is Brooks right, but I think it's only a matter of time before someone finally gets DeChambeau to pick up the pace and knock off the intentionally gamesmanship that he displays against his playing partners, by intentionally waiting to start his conversation with his caddie about whatever it is they talk about, until after the other guys have finished hitting. I mean, if you want to talk about air density and a thousand other things no one ever thinks about, fine, but all I think anyone is asking here is that you abide by the pace of play guidelines that the Tour has in place. Eventually the Tour has to buckle to the pressure if enough outside influences keep this topic as alive and well as it has been for some time now. I'm just surprised we have such a blatant horrible penalty on a non-issue with Haotong Li that gave him no advantage whatsoever, when pace of play actually does affect the other golfers on the course, not only in your group, but also behind you, as they wait on every shot because you are too busy crunching numbers on things no one besides you has a clue about or could care less about.
By GSwag
Everyone complains about pace of play, and it's a seemingly never ending conversation. And in all my years (40+) of playing golf, I have yet to have someone say to me, "I sure do like playing golf in 5 or 6 hours; the slower the better."
Everyone I have ever talked to always says that they hate slow play. Yet, once again, I found myself in the bowels of despair this weekend as I was playing in a "tournament" where both my Saturday and Sunday rounds were met with a 5 hour round, where we waited on the group in front of us on every hole and every shot. In the defense of the group in front of us, they were waiting too, as was the group in front of them, etc, etc, etc.
I emailed the tournament director about this, and as kindly as I could put it, simply said that I doubt that I would return to play with this group ever again, simply because of pace of play.
I mean, pace of play is probably the most talked about subject in golf, and yet no one seems to ever be able to fix this "problem."
Now, I realize that pace of play could be a subjective term as well. Because if you give me a cart and an open course in front of me, I am done as a single in 90 minutes tops. I grew up playing as a threesome with my Dad and my brother, and we'd finish 18 holes in 2 1/2 hours.
But I'm not even suggesting those times as what anyone should realistically expect on a golf course. But I know for a fact that the standard for pace of play on a fully loaded golf course at St. Andrews is 3:22. See http://www.popeofslope.com/paceofplay/pace.html
Is your normal round and expectation for a foresome for 18 holes about 4 hours and 30 minutes? Is it 4 hours?
I'll just end this by saying that I refuse to be the group in front of me's gallery for 18 holes. If I have to wait on every shot, I'll quit the game first.
By cksurfdude
OK -- there have been several threads / discussions on pace of play .. and some strong opinions on the matter .. and there have been many suggestions put forward on possible methods on how to handle pace of play issues.
But here, I'd like discuss the Tee It Forward idea.
Personally I practice it myself, and it is not directly related to pace of play (although that dovetails in) but more about....
* developing my game;
* having more confidence with my tee shot;
* working to hit more fairways.
As one example of _not_ teeing it forward .. and I'm pretty sure you've all witnessed examples of this .. are the players who go all the way back to the tournament / championship tees and then either... 1. barely make it past the forward tees, or 2. lose most of their drives off the fairway.
Yes, both those scenarios may have a negative impact on the pace of play for all groups behind, but -- HOW DOES THIS IMPACT HOW THESE PLAYERS ARE DEVELOPING THEIR GAME???
What say you?
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Last week on Tuesday and Wednesday I observed the Washington State Golf Association (WSGA) process for rating golf courses. Why did I do this? Well, I was curious why I could shoot certain scores on some courses, but not fair that well on other courses with similar ratings and slopes. I'm still not sure about that, but at least I now know (sort of) the process used to come up with those ratings.
The team was led by the WSGA Director for Handicapping and Course Rating who is a WSGA employee. The five other team members are volunteers that have gone through a training program to learn the process. Each member has a USGA book that provides a number value for different features of the course for the scratch golfer and the 18-handicapper; for both men and women. All the number values for the holes are crunched to come up with the values we see on the scorecards. I didn't get into that, so how that works will be left up to those who want to volunteer and take the ratings course. The team can either break up and rate alternate holes, or they can all stay on the same hole and rate the different teeing grounds. We did the latter; maybe that was for my benefit so we could all be together.
The criteria for rating courses assumes a scratch male golfer hits a drive 250 yards and a second shot 220 yards, whereas the bogey golfer hits a drive 200 yards with a 170 yard second shot. For the female scratch golfer, the drive is 210 yards with a 190 yard second shot, and the drive for the bogey female is 150 yards with a 130 yard second shot.
These numbers are important because what we did on each hole is drive to the spot in the fairway where the scratch and bogey players would end up and measure fairway width, observe types of hazards and distance to them, and distance to OB is any. If a bunker on the course was not within 20 yards of the landing area, it is not considered for that player. From the tables in their book, a number is assigned for the scratch and bogey players. Also considered are number and coverage of trees and the fairway stance difficulty. Around the greens the team measures the green size, coverage of bunkers and bunker depth with women getting a more difficult value depending on depth. Again, distances to hazards and OB is recorded and the tables in their book assign the number for both scratch and bogey. Of course green speed is measured as is the depth of the fairway rough. The team does these ratings in pairs, and after the hole has been evaluated, the pairs get together and compare numbers and if they don't agree, they resolve it immediately. We did that a couple of times by going back to the spot on the course and re-evaluating the landing zone.
The first course that we rated was Horn Rapids GC in Richland, WA. This course is the only all desert course in the state. There are houses on part of the course with more being built every day, but they don't come into play except for the really bad shot. The team is measuring the green on this short par 4 #1 with bunker in front and mounding left and long. These houses are the closest of any on the course.
Check out the sagebrush that comes into play on this par 5 #5.
The desert also comes across the fairway off the tee that is reachable by the scratch golfers and very close for the bogey golfers. For scratch it is considered a forced layup. The USGA book has a section specific for deserts.
From the tips this 220 yard par 3 #8 plays downhill. The team also measures elevation change which also translates into a number from USGA table.
The short par 4 #9 is difficult because the water is right next to the green on the left with a drop off on the right about 10 feet to a bunker. That tree comes into play if your are on the left side of the fairway.
This course is hilly and quite long between greens to the next tee box, and while walkable, carts are recommended. Rating this course took all day, but after the data was gathered, some of the team members played the course; one of the perks of being on the committee.
On day 2 the team went to the West Richland GC in West Richland, WA. This was my very first course that I played in town, and where I learned to play. My teacher is still the pro there. We played the course this last Sunday and with a sore rib muscle, I still managed to shoot 78. It's an easy, flat course in a flood plain, and it floods most every year. The Yakima River borders the right side of the course which is the back nine and a canal runs through the middle of #1, #9, #10, #11, and #12. Since it floods, maintenance is difficult and as such the course is usually pretty rough.
This is a picture this winter looking out at the #18 fairway from the clubhouse. The canal is actually above water, about 150 yards from the green.
The water is all gone, but the grass has not fully recovered in some spots on the course. Here is the team on the short par 4 #10 green.
Standing on the 190 yard #11 tee box looking through the grass bordering the canal. The river is left of the green.
After going through the process, I understand what they are looking for to determine difficulty of a course, but that doesn't mean that I necessarily agree with the ratings and slope they come up with. It's not a perfect model, but I think it is at least consistent in the application. The Director said that the USGA course rating system will undergo some changes in 2018 in an effort for the all rating systems worldwide to conform to one process. THAT ought to be interesting.
To sum up my experience, I now appreciate what the rating committee goes through to rate our courses. The Director has personally rated every course in Washington State, some many times. But it would not be possible without the help of non-paid volunteers. One of the volunteers was local, but the others all came from the Seattle area which is over 200 miles away. It's a constant process given how many courses there are in the state. Most volunteers are retired, which is how they are able to contribute as much as they do. Do I want to do this? Ahhh, NO!
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