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New Farmer Directors Appointed
South Caernarfon Creameries has recently appointed two new member farmers to the Board of Directors for a three year term.
The Co-operative's Board includes five milk producer elected Directors whom are nominated by the producing member farmers. Each farmer Director is elected from one of the four milk collection regions in North Wales and Mid Wales. Members Osian Williams and Malcolm Davies were appointed to the Board of Directors at the co-operative's recent AGM.
Osian Williams, who farms with his family in Llannefydd, Denbigh has been a member of the award-winning co-operative since 2006. Malcolm Davies farms with his family in Dinas on the Llyn Peninsula.
Commenting following their appointment, "South Caernarfon Creameries stands in a very positive position for the future due to the hard work and commitment of its staff. The investment the co-operative has made provides us with a strong platform for existing and future business. There is great potential for the co-operative to further extend business and undertake additional supply contracts and continue to grow and develop its quality sales book."
"We are honoured to have been elected and able to represent the current membership. South Caernarfon Creameries is a forward-thinking business that works closely with its members to safeguard our future and deliver all-important growth and sustainability for member farmers and the Creamery alike."
Alan Wyn-Jones, Managing Director at South Caernarfon Creameries said "It is vital that our member farmers have a voice in the running of the Creamery and our Directors are a conduit for key decision-making. We are therefore pleased to welcome Malcolm and Osian to the Board of Directors. They will be a great asset to the Board and have a very commercial outlook to business which is what's required in our very competitive industry."
At the AGM, South Caernarfon Creameries announced record profits for the period to March 2017; an operative profit of nearly £3 million (9%) on sales of £33.1 million was achieved compared to a profit of £389k (1.2%) on sales of £31.7 million in 2016.


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Balke Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Østre Toten Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the village of Skreia. It is one of the churches for the Balke parish which is part of the Toten prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Hamar. The white, stone church was built in a long church design around the year 1170 using plans drawn up by an unknown architect. The church seats about 290 people.

History
The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1327, but that was not the year of construction. The medieval stone church was built around the year 1170. The church has Romanesque, Norman and early Gothic style. The nave is rectangular and the chancel has a semi-circular apse on its east end.

In 1714, the old church porch was torn down and the nave was extended to the west to make the nave larger. This extension is still referred to as the "new church". The old nave had no windows on the north side, while the new church has windows on both the north side and the south side. A new church porch was built on the west end of the newly enlarged nave and a sacristy was also built on the north side of the chancel. There is also an octagonal tower (from 1822) on the roof near the west end of the nave.

The altarpiece is often called the Mary tablet and is unique in Norway. The artist community at Balke church has given names to the Balkeskolen. A crucifix and a number of saint figures from the church can be found in a museum in Oslo.

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See also
List of churches in Hamar

References

External links

Østre Toten
Churches in Innlandet
Churches in Toten Deanery
Long churches in Norway
Stone churches in Norway
12th-century churches in Norway
12th-century establishments in Norway

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The Skypod Project
The Fifth House and PointB are pleased to announce the exhibition The Skypod Project, an exhibition of sculpture, photographic, and audio-visual works by artist Mark Parrish.
Open Reception:
Friday, September 16th, 7 – 11 PM
Fifth House 198 N. 4th St, Brooklyn, NY
near the Bedford L Train Station
The Centerpiece of the exhibition, the Skypod itself is a collapsible light-weight tent structure capable of hanging from trees, cliff faces, telephone poles or building facades allowing for suspension over diverse terrains.
This portable experience structure creates a mobile habitat for site-specific projects to evolve. At The Fifth House we will exhibit a working prototype of the Skypod that explores the context for the piece and situates the research Mark is concurrently doing at Dreamland – a creative community, the Fifth House's sibling organization, in the deep woods of upstate New York. Night skies, frog songs, Vista Tunnels (constructed poetics views into the wetlands and woodlands at Dreamland) will frame the work.
Inspired by recent trips to various locations around the world where he has been researching urban and natural settings for artistic and creative retreats, Parrish has returned to a project that has long been in gestation: designing portable habitats where individuals or like-minded groups can immerse themselves in a range of contexts from natural settings, to interstitial zones, and temporary spaces – to create, contemplate, and build cohesive communities.
"Parrish builds social sculptures, in a very literal sense", says curator for the exhibition, Amanda McDonald Crowley. "Moreover he equally activates personal experience and group dynamics. It is exciting to see him alternate this thinking between urban contexts and out into nature – where so many of his personal creative interventions have operated in intimate settings – while continuing to develop conceptual frameworks that are equal part about social interaction, and solitary contemplation."
The Skypod Project, Parrish's first solo gallery exhibition in 20 years, combines his experiences building social sculptures as live-work spaces, with his ongoing project to make in-situ works in natural contexts, and his passion for creating 'portable experience structures' – artworks that operate as an enabling apparatus for his audiences, and often also collaborators and co-conspirators, to engage with their surroundings.
Artist: Mark Parrish
Creative Collaborator: Sebastian Bach
Curator: Amanda McDonald Crowley
Project Manager: Lauren Comito
All-Night Party at Marcy North (upstairs) to follow the opening!
Exhibition dates: September 16 through October 30. Gallery Hours are Saturdays from 11:00 am-1:00 pm or by appointment.
About Mark Parrish
Mark Parrish is an American visionary, designer, and artist from Texas who has lived in New York since the 80's. Primarily self-taught, Parrish started his own studio in Austin in the mid 70's. His practice often involves analysis of movement and portability, cultural norms and systems of living. His work takes form in sculptural systems and synergetic architectural space, designed both as tools and as experiential spaces. For the last 20 years, Parrish founded and established an international artist community called PointB, which created short-term co-habitational spaces for mid-career creative professionals. Parrish also spearheads, the non-profit organization, PointB International, which continues to establish new locations worldwide.
About PointB
The PointB vision is a world enriched by the collaboration between global and local creative professionals questioning and transcending their familiar viewpoints while immersed in the social, scientific, and culturally enlightening challenges and inspiration of the moment.
Gallery Hours are Saturdays from 11:00 am-1:00 pm or by appointment.
The Skypod Project | 2016 | exhibitions, Projects

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(CHARLOTTE, N.C. – July 25, 2017) – American Red Cross volunteers continue operating a shelter for residents displaced by the Woodscape Apartments on Monday, July 16. Some families have found places to rent and have moved into new housing while others are still searching for a new home.
Monday night, 42 residents stayed at the shelter. Red Cross volunteers are working with these families and others who return during the day to connect them with community partners for a variety of resources, including financial assistance, health consultations, bus passes and more. Children's activities such as swimming or soccer at the Simmons YMCA are being scheduled throughout the days.
Monday night 42 people stayed overnight at the shelter, down slightly from Sunday night. More than 120 Red Cross volunteers have served nearly 1,500 meals and 1,200 snacks, handed out 120 comfort kits filled with personal hygiene items, and provided nursing services and mental health counseling to 128 people.


Jesus said: "Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to have all of you, to sift you like wheat. But I have pleaded in prayer for you, Simon, that your faith should not fail. So when you have repented and turned to me again, strengthen and build up your brothers" (Luke 22:32 NLT).
In wars like those in Iraq and Afghanistan, our troops often have a difficult time identifying the enemy because they look no different than those on our side. It's not easy to know who your enemy is. The same is true with our greatest enemy, Satan, because he often disguises himself so as to appear friendly and harmless. In life as in war, our first major task is to identify the enemy. Our enemy wants to separate us from fellowship with our Lord and render us ineffective as ambassadors and witnesses for him.
In our passage, Satan wanted to crush Simon Peter and Jesus' other followers like grains of wheat. It was his hope that nothing would be left of them except worthless chaff to be blown away. But Jesus encouraged Peter. Although his faith would falter, it would not be destroyed. It would return stronger than ever and Peter would become a strong and effective leader.
You may be going through a time when your faith is faltering. Your enemy may have enticed you away and you may not be walking as closely with your Lord as you once did. Perhaps you feel ineffective as a testimony to others. If these conditions apply to you, rest assured Satan is the responsible culprit. The first thing you must do is identify your enemy. To do this, it's important that you remember three things about Satan: (1) He is real and active; (2) He is your enemy and he is on the attack; and (3) His power is limited by what God allows (he asked permission to sift Peter).
Once you have identified your enemy, then you must rely on your Lord as your advocate. In verse 32, Jesus showed his advocacy for Peter by telling Peter he was praying for him. Peter's faith faltered when he denied his lord three times, as Jesus predicted in verse 34, but he rebounded and ultimately did not fail.
Please remember that Jesus is praying for you. Listen: "Therefore he (Jesus) is able, once and forever, to save everyone who comes to God through him. He lives forever to plead with God on their behalf" (Hebrews 7:25 NLT). Also, be aware that the Holy Spirit lives within you to give you strength (John 14:16). "Submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you" (James 4:7 NIV). So whenever Satan knocks, let Jesus answer the door. You will then experience triumphant faith which will also strengthen your brothers and sisters in Christ.
"Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. . . . May your unfailing love rest upon us, O Lord, even as we put our hope in you" (Psalm 33:12, 22 NIV).
As we have fun with family and friends this holiday weekend, let's remember the real meaning of Independence Day, July 4, as we celebrate the 238th birthday of our beloved United States of America.
Primarily the work of Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration of Independence was America's proclamation to the world "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights." And it held that the purpose of government is to "secure these rights," not to determine what rights the people can enjoy.
The Fourth of July is a great opportunity to renew our dedication to the principles of liberty and equality enshrined in what Thomas Jefferson called "the declaratory charter of rights." It reminds us to be thankful to God for the freedoms with which we are blessed. It also reminds us that freedom comes at a terrible price, and each of us is responsible for the preservation of our freedoms which were purchased by the blood and sacrifice of so many.
Let's remember to make God our LORD and put our hope and trust in Him -- that we may continue to receive God's blessings as a nation worthy of His favor and protection. Hear the last verse of "My Country, Tis of Thee:"
Protect us by Thy might, Great God, our King!
Dotse and I wish you and your family a safe and enjoyable Holiday as we celebrate together the wonderful freedoms we enjoy.
"In the same way, encourage the young men to live wisely in all they do. And you yourself must be an example to them by doing good deeds, of every kind. Let everything you do reflect the integrity and seriousness of your teaching. Let your teaching be so correct that it can't be criticized. Then those who want to argue will be ashamed because they won't have anything bad to say about us" (Titus 2: 6b-8 HCSB).
Titus, a Greek convert through Paul's ministry, had become Paul's special representative to the house churches on the island of Crete. Paul's letter to Titus instructed him about his responsibilities as leader of the churches -- how to do his job. Titus' instructions are very similar to those in 1 Timothy with its instructions to young Timothy and other church leaders. Although brief, Titus is an important link in the discipleship process of a young Christian growing into a leadership role within the church. Paul's instructions are beneficial to every Christian, especially to those in leadership positions.
As I studied these verses, I concluded that all of Paul's instructions and admonitions to Titus can be boiled down to one word, "godliness." A lack of godliness by a Christian provides ammunition to the critics of Christianity. As a pastor, I often heard words like these from unsaved and unchurched people: "I'm as good as those people in your church – they are nothing but a bunch of hypocrites." Unfortunately, there is sometimes much truth in such accusations. However, when people find themselves living outside the will of God and practicing worldly standards of conduct, it's easy to denigrate someone else in order to make themselves look more virtuous. It's tempting to rationalize ungodly behavior this way.
Paul wanted Titus to be so righteous in both his living and his teaching that no one could find fault with either. Paul wanted Titus to be such a good example to those with whom he mingled that they might see the goodness in his life and strive to imitate him rather than find fault with him. What a wonderful goal for each of us as we yield to the Holy Spirit as our guide, teacher, and encourager. Even when we are not aware that we are being observed, many sets of skeptical eyes are likely to be upon us. Your life may be the only Bible some will ever read.
I wonder how many of us would have the courage and confidence in our character and reputation to react as did C. H. Spurgeon?
Chuckle: "If people were not meant to have late-night snacks, why is there a light in the refrigerator?"
"How will this be," Mary asked the angel, "since I am a virgin?" The angel answered, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will over-shadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God. Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be barren is in her sixth month. For nothing is impossible with God" (Luke 1:34-37 NIV).
Just take a moment and let the significance of these words sink into your mind and heart. Here we see two women who were used of God; one to bring the Christ-child into our world and the other to birth John the Baptist who would herald Jesus' coming. Not in our wildest imagination could such a scenario of miraculous events be conceived. Miracles, by their very nature, are supernatural and originate from the realm of the "impossible." They baffle the minds of us mere humans. As acts of God, they seem to go against the known laws of nature, science, and reason. But some miracles seem even more impossible than others. Jesus said, "What is impossible with men is possible with God" (Luke 18:27 NIV).
God sent His Son into the world as a fulfilment of His promises to His people as written by the prophets. That same Jesus has made some wonderful promises to you and me. He has promised to give us eternal life through faith in Him. He has promised that our sins have been forgiven through His atoning death on the cross. He has promised that His Holy Spirit will live within us as believers to teach us, guide us, convict us and encourage us. He has promised never to leave us or forsake us. He has promised to come back to earth a second time to claim His church and to take us into His presence for eternity. These are wonderful promises that, sadly, are seen as foolishness to many because they appear to be impossible and make no sense to carnal minds.
We can rejoice not only in celebration of Jesus' miraculous birth but for all He has done for us and for His promises for our future. It is by faith that we can claim these promises and have the complete assurance that what God says in His Word is absolutely true and reliable. We know that God specializes in the impossible. If we understood everything about God, He wouldn't be God, but only an extension of our own minds. Let's rejoice that we serve a God who did the impossible by having a virgin conceive and be the Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ. If God can do this, He can certainly bring to reality the promises He has made to us, His children.
We can rejoice with Mary as she said, ". . . the Mighty One has done great things for me -- holy is his name" (Luke 1:49 NIV).


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Q: Overhead of data types in cassandra Where can I find information about overhead of data types in cassandra?
I am interested about blob, text, uuid, timeuuid data types. Does a blob type store a value with the length of the blob data? If yes then which type of the length it is using (int, bigint)?
If I want to store 80 bits how much of disk space will be used for it? If I want to store 64 bits is it better to use bigint?

A: I think these overheads are completely negligible, because they will be heavily compensated by the compression.

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Jallikattu - Legal...
Jallikattu - Legal Questions
Senior Advocate Mohan Parasaran
22 Jan 2017 7:25 AM GMT
The Constitution Drafting Committee had a difficult task of balancing rights and duties in a multicultural, diverse country like India while framing its Constitution. The fundamental rights of persons or groups of persons have been subjected to reasonable restrictions. While fundamental rights were not specifically extended to animals but in a dignified society bound by constitutional...
The Constitution Drafting Committee had a difficult task of balancing rights and duties in a multicultural, diverse country like India while framing its Constitution. The fundamental rights of persons or groups of persons have been subjected to reasonable restrictions. While fundamental rights were not specifically extended to animals but in a dignified society bound by constitutional values, respect for other living beings is implicit. Whether such respect extends to a fundamental right to life is debatable, nevertheless the law on the subject prohibits certain actions qua animals.
The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960 is a legislation enacted with the aim "to prevent the infliction of unnecessary pain or suffering on animals and for that purpose to amend the law relating to the prevention of cruelty to animals".
Jallikattu or Sallikattu is a traditional sport, which symbolizes and celebrates the native, indigenous life of the villages of Tamil Nadu. In many districts, the sport is played in celebration of Pongal.
A notification was issued by the Ministry of Environment and Forest on July 11, 2011 banning use of various animals including bulls as performing animals.
The Tamil Nadu Jallikattu Regulation Act of 2009 which regulated the sport of Jallikattu, was struck down by the Supreme Court vide its judgment in Animal Welfare Board Of India Vs A. Nagaraja & Ors pronounced on 07.05.2014, as repugnant to the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act and therefore unconstitutional, and condemning the sport of Jallikattu and bullock cart race as violative of Sections 3, 11(1)(a) and 11(1)(m)(ii) of Prevention of Cruelty Act, and the July 11 notification of MOEF was upheld.
A subsequent notification was issued on 7th January 2016, by the Central Government in supercession of its earlier notification of 2011 and in effect permitted the use of bulls as performing animals in events like Jallikattu and bullock cart races. The notification provides a number of safeguards like the venue of such an event should be a place where such event is traditionally held annually; the bulls are put to proper testing by the authorities of the Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Department to ensure that they are in good physical condition to participate in the event and performance enhancement drugs are not administered to the bulls in any form, etc. The said notification is the subject matter of challenge in the case where the Hon'ble Supreme Court has reserved its judgment on 07.12.2016.
A blanket ban on a practice of cultural importance will not be a solution to prevent cruelty to animals and will do more harm than good in the form of completely unregulated and illegal organization of such events with no regard to the health of the bulls.
Among other factors, which have to be borne in mind before condemning the traditional sport altogether is its relevance as an incentive to breed and raise the indigenous cattle breed (the Kangayam breed of bulls is the animal participant in Jallikattu). Article 48 under the DPSPs clearly enjoins upon the State to "take steps for preserving and improving the breeds, and prohibiting the slaughter, of cows and calves and other milch and draught cattle".
The Centre has now approved a draft ordinance on Jallikattu by the State of Tamil Nadu,which seeks to exempt Jalliakttu from the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960. An ordinance is also "law" under Article 13(3)(a) of the Constitution of India. The Ordinance will have the effect of "removing the basis" of the 2014 judgment of Supreme Court which struck down the Tamil Nadu Jallikattu Regulation Act, thereby curing basis of the law declared by the Hon'ble Supreme Court on the subject matter. There have been several instances in the past where the effect of a judgment has been neutralized by passing law removing the basis of the judgment (ShriPrithvi Cottons Mills Vs. Broach Borough Municipality & Ors. 1970 SCR (1) 358).
In fact this sport is not unique to Indian culture alone. Even Spain's top Constitutional Court has overturned a regiional government's ban on bullfighting. Nine of the 12 judges ruled that the "preservation of common cultural heritage" was the responsibility of the state and found the same to be "one more expression of a cultural nature that forms part of the common cultural heritage". Similarly in 2012, the Constitutional Court of France upheld the tradition and rejected a challenge to the bullfighting exception contained in the animal cruelty provisions of the country's criminal code.
As a long term solution, a comprehensive law should be envisaged with all necessary safeguards balancing the traditional and indigenous rights of the people of Tamil Nadu to continue with the sport of Jallikatu while also providing a detailed scheme which would ensure that the animals are not ill-treated and subjected to inhuman methods in the name of the sport. The sport should be allowed by law under proper medical supervision and care and veterinarians should be available at the venue to ensure that emergency medical care can be provided to the animals. All of this should be done with an expert Committee with experience in the filed of Animal Husbandry. To ensure that the law is not called into question by way of judicial review, it should be placed in the Ninth Schedule, which would ensure that the uncertainties surrounding this sport is not repeated and the judiciary is not invited to take a view, which is not acceptable to the people of the State. The Supreme Court has held in I.R. Coeho v. State of T.N. (2007) 2 SCC 1 that laws in the Ninth Schedule can only be called into question if the basic structure of Constitution is violated. A law allowing Jalikattu can certainly not be questioned on the grounds of basic structure and therefore this issue can thus be given quietus, once and for all.
Mohan Parasaran is Ex-Solicitor General of India and Senior Advocate.
[The opinions expressed in this article are the personal opinions of the author. The facts and opinions appearing in the article do not reflect the views of LiveLaw and LiveLaw does not assume any responsibility or liability for the same]
This article has been made possible because of financial support from Independent and Public-Spirited Media Foundation.


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Q: Get specific attribute value from select box using jQuery I have one drop down i want to get value of price, and it has be plus with already one price available at up.

USD 200

<select name="options[7]" id="select_7" class=" required-entry product-custom-option">
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<option value="13" price="15">Medium 14.5cm +USD15.00</option>
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How can i achieve that ?
Any help would be appreciate.
 Thanks In advance.

A: One another approach is to maintain the lookup array like
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          lookup["13"] = {price : 100 , OtherStuff : ''};

now you can get the selected value
     var selected = $("#Id").val()
     var moreDetail = lookup[selected];

This will keep you html cleaner and you can add more stuff to your lookup object.

A: price is not a html attribute. use data-price.
how to select:-
html:-
<option vaue="13" data-price="15"></option>

jquery:-
var price = $('option[value="13"]').data('price');
//price = 15

$(document).ready(function(){
$('.required-entry').bind('change',function(){
  $('.price').html('USD '+$('.required-entry option[value="'+$('.required-entry').val()+'"]').data('price'));
})
})

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<option value="13" data-price="15">Medium 14.5cm +USD15.00</option>
<option value="14" data-price="35">Large - 16.5cm +USD35.00</option>
</select>

A: You can use J query change event to detect drop-down change value. then using drop-down:selected attribute you can get data value of drop-down.

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#select_7').on("change", function() {
        if ($("#select_7 option:selected").attr('value') == "") {
            $('.price').text("USD");
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            $('.price').text("USD " + dataid);
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            $('.price2').text("USD " + dataPrice);
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Children's /
Ages 9 to 11 /
The Princess and the Peabodys
Betty G. Birney
9780571240050 Published
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Once upon a time, in the magical land of Pine Glen, California, lived a girl named Casey Peabody - that's me - and her family. We still live in Pine Glen, which isn't really magical, or at least it wasn't until the princess came. Even then, the magic that happened was a lot different than what you read about in fairy tales.
Tomboy Casey Peabody has her life turned upside-down when Princess Eglantine Eleanor Annalisa Ambrosia de Bercy magically appears in her living room. Problem is, her hapless wizard Alaric can't find a spell to magic her back to where she came from - much to Casey's horror. Princess Egg is now living with them, sharing Casey's bedroom and even stealing the affections of Casey's dog.
But life is about to get worse when Egg starts school. Aside from her dodgy fashion sense, she is arrogant, proud and has a habit of calling people peasants. Will Casey be able to stop this royal pain in the neck from turning her into the laughing stock of the school?
A funny, delightful, touching new novel from Betty G. Birney.
Once upon a time, in the magical land of Pine Glen, California, lived a girl named Casey Peabody - that's me - and her family. We still live in Pine Glen, which isn't really magical, or at least it wasn't until the princess came. Even then, the magic that happened was a lot different than what you read about in fairy tales. Tomboy Casey Peabody has her life turned upside-down when Princess Eglantine Eleanor Annalisa Ambrosia de Bercy magically appears in her living room. Problem is, her hapless wizard Alaric can't find a spell to magic her back to where she came from - much to Casey's horror. Princess Egg is now living with them, sharing Casey's bedroom and even stealing the affections of Casey's dog. But life is about to get worse when Egg starts school. Aside from her dodgy fashion sense, she is arrogant, proud and has a habit of calling people peasants. Will Casey be able to stop this royal pain in the neck from turning her into the laughing stock of the school? A funny, delightful, touching new novel from Betty G. Birney.
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Betty G. Birney worked at Disneyland and the Disney Studios, has written many children's television shows and is the author of over forty books, including the bestselling The World According to Humphrey, which won the Richard and Judy Children's Book Club Award, as well as a further nine books in the According to Humphrey series, and eight books in the Humphrey's Tiny Tales series. Her work has won many awards, including an Emmy and three Humanitas Prizes. She lives in America with her husband.
Surprises According to Humphrey
Holidays According to Humphrey
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Opinion: The Milwaukee Bucks Made This Roster Move That The Brooklyn Nets Should Have
According to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski, the Milwaukee Bucks are going to sign DeMarcus Cousins. I believe that the Brooklyn Nets should have signed the former All-Star.
Ben Stinar
According to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski the Milwaukee Bucks are going to sign DeMarcus Cousins (see tweets below and read article here).
Cousins is a four-time All-Star, and while several injuries have derailed his once promising career, he is still an intriguing pickup for the defending NBA Champions.
I believe that the Brooklyn Nets should have signed Cousins.
Why should the Nets have signed Cousins?
The Nets are a team that is built around superstars, and aging veterans with experience.
However, Blake Griffin and Paul Milsap (who relatively play the same position as Cousins) have been off to a poor start to the season.
Griffin is 32-years-old and averaging just 5.5 points, 4.9 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game on 31.8% shooting from the field.
Milsap hasn't been any better; the 36-year-old has averages of 2.9 points, 3.3 rebounds and shooting 34.9% from the field.
Therefore, the Nets should have gone out and signed Cousins instead of the Bucks.
If the Nets have any chance of a winning a title this season they will have to go through the Bucks (the team that beat them in the playoffs last season) and this move was a solid one for the Bucks.
Cousins is low-risk, because if he doesn't work out they can waive him, but if he works out he has the potential to be a game-changer.
He's younger (31-years-old) than both Griffin and Milsap, and last season he averaged 8.9 points, 6.4 rebounds and 1.9 assists per game on 42.6% shooting from the field in 41 games with the Houston Rockets and Los Angeles Clippers.
The move could end up being nothing, but there is also a chance the Bucks may have just gotten an absolute steal that the Nets should have gotten.
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Jay Feaster: The Sophomore Year. Part II.
This is my last installment on the examination of Jay Feaster's tenure as Flames GM. I hope the series has been interesting, informative, entertaining or some combination of the three.
To wind things up I would like to look at the Flames 2012 draft selections. Although Feaster has minimal involvement with assembling the scouting list, it is a product of the scouting staff he has augmented and the software he has employed.
The Flames made a draft-day swap dealing their 1st round 14th overall selection to the Sabres in exchange for the Sabres 2nd round choice and the Predators 1st round pick that was acquired by Buffalo in a trade that sent Paul Gaustad to the Preds.
It looked like a great move when defenseman Olli Matta fell to the Flames at 21st overall. But when the Flames selected Mark Jankowski who was slotted to go in the 2nd round by Central Scouting, there was a collective query of 'WHO!?' by the less informed Flames' fans and a query of 'WHY!?' from the more savvy observers. Now everyone is up to speed on the 'who', but perhaps not-so-much on the 'why'.
Jay Feaster has many times acknowledged the Flames' top need is a #1 center. As we all know these guys don't grow on trees and rarely become available through trade or free agency; so that leaves the draft. With the Flames' choice to rebuild on the fly it is unlikely they will draft high enough in the foreseeable future to get a sure-fire top center ala Nugent-Hopkins. So the Flames elected to roll the dice.
The main criticism of the pick was not the risk-factor though, it was that Jankowski could have been picked up in the second round. Jay Feaster dispelled this criticism when he intimated in an interview that two other GM's were going to choose Jankowski in the first round if he had been available.
Although Jankowski is young and played against inferior competition in his draft year, most scouts agree he has the size and skill to project as the true #1 guy the Flames covet. However that is his upside. He is so young-the youngest player ever selected in the history of the draft-it is possible he will never develop into a regular NHL player. Was the gamble worth it? Only time will tell.
With the Sabres' second round choice the Flames went to the USHL and took hard hitting defenseman Patrick Sieloff. Sieloff was rated by most scouts as the hardest hitter in the draft. He does not bring much offense to the table but he is a reliable defenseman who will drop the mitts, kill penalties and oozes character. His bone-crushing hits can also change the momentum of games.
Patrick won a gold medal in 2011-12 with the USA at the WJC under-18 tournament and has been invited to US camp for the upcoming WJCs in 2012-13.
The Flames did not have a second round pick prior to the trade with Buffalo, and unless Matta ends up being a more valuable player than the combination of Jankowski and Sieloff the trade will work in the Flames favour.
To me this was a bit of a curious choice since there were goalies ranked higher than Jon and the Flames already have Karri Ramo, Leland Irving, Jani Ortio and Laurent Brossoit in the system. However he does project to be a top goalie if he maxes out his upside.
Jon is a huge kid standing 6'4" and weighing 215 pounds. He plays a modified butterfly style, challenging shooters and covering his angles well. He needs to work on his rebound control and closing up the 6 and 7 holes.
Brett was a standout in Midget, winning the Alberta minor midget's Defenseman of the Year award. In his first full year in the dub' he played all 72 games for the Giants scoring 9 goals and adding 15 assists.
Brett is not a particularly physical defenseman, but is good defensively and has good offensive instincts as well as good mobility and puck moving skills.
The Flames chose their third defenseman of the draft when Ryan Culkin was available in the 5th round. Culkin was ranked 66th overall by Central scouting and showed steady progress in his second year in the Q'.
He is a solid two-way defenseman with good puck moving skills and skating ability. Ryan has the ability to raise his game when the stakes are high especially in the playoffs.
Coda is an Alberta boy who slipped in the CSS rankings from his mid-season high of 38th to his final ranking of 61st. He lit up the dub' in his first half, but tailed off as the season wore on, which hurt his ranking.
He was still good enough to be the second-top scorer on the team as a rookie, potting 30 goals and adding 23 assists.
Coda is a skilled player who needs work on his defensive game.
Matt has good size and speed, but needs to bulk up as many 18 year old prospects do. He had just 11 goals and 23 assists in 58 games which could have been partially because of playing for a poor Muskegon squad who won just 17 games.
Matt was identified as the biggest surprise after his performance at the Flames' prospects camp.
When Feaster was asked about his reaction to the draft he said "I am excited because the guys are excited". Even the experts have a tough time evaluating a team's draft performance so I won't even try. But it was punctuated by a surprise first round selection and once again a noticeable departure from the Sutter years.
Next time around I will have a look at the current state of negotiations between the League and PA. Gulp!
Factoid: All of the Flames' 2012 draft selections were ranked within the top 66 players in Central Scouting's final ranking of North American Skaters. The Flames selected no Europeans.
Thanks for considering my blog.
I'm really starting to dig your columns. They are well written, informative, and they have a positive spin without sounding like a homer. I like the Jankowski draft pick for the precise reason you stated: there's likely no other way to get a number one center so to hell with it, lets take a risk. Keep the Flames blogs going, I'll read every one. Cheers.
Hi Kzak99. Thank you very much. I am humbled by the support I am getting. I really appreciate the fact people are willing to spend their precious time reading and commenting on my blogs. I like the Jankowski pick too: no guts no glory.
Nice read. Feaster has done well as GM in his two drafts imo. That includes the trades he has made to get those extra picks.
seriously hate this site some days... fix the damn bug already. Can anyones see what i wrote earlier or is it blank for you as well?
Hi Faron14. Yeas a marked improvement over Sutter fot sure.geta02it...blank for me too I will delete it for you.
is anyone even working on the bugs?Also, I'd be very suprised if Matta turns out to be better than Seiloff and Janko. Great move by Feaster and company.
good article. however would not agree with your rationale that "unless Matta ends up being a more valuable player than the combination of Jankowski and Sieloff the trade will work in the Flames favour" ... the real judgement of the trade is whether Girgenson (#14 pick CAL traded to BUF) or any other player available above #14 (including Matta) will be better than Jankowski and Sielhoff.
I used Matta as an example because he was thought to be the guy the Flames would be most likely to take. You can pencil in anyone you like, but I disagree with your rationale of using 'any other player available abover #14' because after all the Flames could have only chosen one of them, not all of them.


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In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and successful seducer of women and priest of the parish of Loudun, was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of being in league with the devil and seducing an entire convent of nuns in what was the most sensational case of mass possession and sexual hysteria in history. Grandier maintained his innocence to the end and four years after his death the nuns were still being subjected to exorcisms to free them from their demonic bondage. Huxley's vivid account of this bizarre tale of religious and sexual obsession transforms our understanding of the medieval world.
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Aldous Huxley was born on 26 July 1894 near Godalming, Surrey. He began writing poetry and short stories in his early 20s, but it was his first novel, Crome Yellow (1921), which established his literary reputation. This was swiftly followed by Antic Hay (1923), Those Barren Leaves (1925) and Point Counter Point (1928) – bright, brilliant satires in which Huxley wittily but ruthlessly passed judgement on the shortcomings of contemporary society. For most of the 1920s Huxley lived in Italy and an account of his experiences there can be found in Along the Road (1925). The great novels of ideas, including his most famous work Brave New World (published in 1932 this warned against the dehumanising aspects of scientific and material 'progress') and the pacifist novel Eyeless in Gaza (1936) were accompanied by a series of wise and brilliant essays, collected in volume form under titles such as Music at Night (1931) and Ends and Means (1937). In 1937, at the height of his fame, Huxley left Europe to live in California, working for a time as a screenwriter in Hollywood. As the West braced itself for war, Huxley came increasingly to believe that the key to solving the world's problems lay in changing the individual through mystical enlightenment. The exploration of the inner life through mysticism and hallucinogenic drugs was to dominate his work for the rest of his life. His beliefs found expression in both fiction (Time Must Have a Stop,1944, and Island, 1962) and non-fiction (The Perennial Philosophy, 1945; Grey Eminence, 1941; and the account of his first mescalin experience, The Doors of Perception, 1954. Huxley died in California on 22 November 1963.
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As long as there have been poets, nature has been there to serve as a muse. But what of the more immediate and tactile environment of the garden?
For some of the greatest poets, all the important lessons and metaphors about life can be found somewhere right outside the back door. Something as prosaic as a compost pile feeds not just the soil, but also the fertile imagination of someone like Stanley Kunitz, who spent summers working in his seaside garden in Cape Cod.
In his 1995 poem "The Round," he tells us that the only thing he can see outside his study is the "bloated compost heap," but that is enough to inspire a paean to his garden and its powers to renew his very being each morning.
For Genine Lentine, poet, lifelong gardener and writing teacher, the link between gardening and poetry seems obvious.
There is a "kindred experience" between the two, she says, and both are ethical pursuits, in that they demonstrate a deep caring for the world and a need to connect to it. This is not a one-way street: The garden in turn nurtures us. "A lot of poets walk around, asking: 'How do we survive, how do we thrive, how do we flourish?' And the garden takes us through those questions."
This seems a timely consideration. On Dec. 6, the American poet Louise Glück received this year's Nobel Prize in literature. Glück, who lives in Cambridge, Mass., is a gardener, and her horticulture has infused much of her writing.
One of her best-known collections, "The Wild Iris," was written feverishly after a fallow period relieved by the act of gardening in rural Vermont. The work, which won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1993, gives voice to some of her plants. Lentine loves the title poem for its invention of an insistent iris, a rhizomatous perennial that suffers death each fall, only to be reborn in the spring.
"The idea of a bulb saying, 'hear me out,' is literally like a bulb sprouting," Lentine says. "It implies a span of time and is asking us to listen. It returns from oblivion to find a voice."
Glück's work has long been admired for its precision, austerity and psychological depths.
"I think her poems are coming from a responsibility to speak accurately," Lentine says. "Her language doesn't diminish or exaggerate." A good example of this, she says, is "The Sensual World," where the earth is "sublime, indifferent, it is present, it will not respond./It is encompassing, it will not minister."
Lentine's interpretation: "Don't expect life to keep you alive, but while you're alive, it's amazing."
In her Nobel lecture, Glück made what she sees as an essential point about her poetry: Her reader is an audience of one. Her poems are not for collective consumption. She spoke of the influence of another gardener-poet in private conversation with her reader, Emily Dickinson.
Glück recalled reading Dickinson as a teenager. "Dickinson had chosen me, or recognized me, as I sat there on the sofa. We were an elite, companions in invisibility, a fact known only to us, which each corroborated for the other. In the world, we were nobody."
Again, there are parallels for the gardener. Even in the community garden, gardening is, like one of Glück's poems, a private compact between the cultivator and the cultivated.
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For Lentine, the abiding experience of her writing life was the six years she spent as Kunitz's literary assistant, until his death in 2006 at the age of 100. It was a role that morphed in summer into a co-gardener in the poet's small, intensely cultivated garden around his beach house near the harbor in Provincetown. (All these roads seem to lead to Massachusetts.) He had turned a sandy slope into a three-tiered ornamental garden, anchored by conifers, then richly planted as a flower garden.
Kunitz seemed to draw such energy from the garden that he became almost comically blithe to his advanced age. When he was 95, he became the nation's poet laureate. At 98, he decided to take down a mature spruce tree, so he could replant an area of the garden. At the end of each growing season, he would turn to Lentine to confer on what to plant the following year. Together, they wrote "The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden," published in 2005.
In late summer, the owners of his boyhood home in Worcester, Mass., would send him ripe pears from the tree Kunitz had planted with his mother in 1914. The pears, the constancy of the fruit tree, reassured Lentine after the existential jolt of 9/11.
For Kunitz, this annual gift engendered "My Mother's Pears," encompassing memories of a boy struggling to plant the sapling. "I summon up all my strength/to set the pear tree in the ground,/unwinding its burlap shroud."
Toward the end of Kunitz's life, the planting became too much, but he remained nimble with his red-handled pruners, and no faded flower was safe. "He was fascinated by my own fascination with snails," Lentine says. "His main thing was curiosity, and that was the joy of working with him. It's not even accurate to say it's a memory. I feel the force of Stanley when I'm in the garden now," she says.
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Paperwhites and amaryllis bulbs are best staked when planting. You can minimize stretching by placing pots near a bright window and rotating them 90 degrees daily as they grow. A little rubbing alcohol in the water will also promote compact stems.
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Summary and book reviews of Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman
Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire
by Amanda Foreman
History, Current Affairs & Science
UK (Britain) & Ireland
The winner of Britain's prestigious Whitbread Prize and a bestseller there for months, this wonderfully readable biography offers a rich, rollicking picture of late-eighteenth-century British aristocracy and the intimate story of a woman who for a time was its undisputed leader. Lady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day. In 1774, at the age of seventeen, Georgiana achieved immediate celebrity by marrying one of England's richest and most influential aristocrats, the Duke of Devonshire. Launched into a world of wealth and power, she quickly became the queen of fashionable society, adored by the Prince of Wales, a dear friend of Marie-Antoinette, and leader of the most important salon of her time. Not content with the role of society hostess, she used her connections to enter politics, eventually becoming more influential than most of the men who held office.
Her good works and social exploits made her loved by the multitudes, but Georgiana's public success, like Diana's, concealed a personal life that was fraught with suffering. The Duke of Devonshire was unimpressed by his wife's legendary charms, preferring instead those of her closest friend, a woman with whom Georgiana herself was rumored to be on intimate terms. For over twenty years, the three lived together in a jealous and uneasy ménage à trois, during which time both women bore the Duke's children--as well as those of other men.
Foreman's descriptions of Georgiana's uncontrollable gambling, all- night drinking, drug taking, and love affairs with the leading politicians of the day give us fascinating insight into the lives of the British aristocracy in the era of the madness of King George III, the American and French revolutions, and the defeat of Napoleon.
A gifted young historian whom critics are already likening to Antonia Fraser, Amanda Foreman draws on a wealth of fresh research and writes colorfully and penetratingly about the fascinating Georgiana, whose struggle against her own weaknesses, whose great beauty and flamboyance, and whose determination to play a part in the affairs of the world make her a vibrant, astonishingly contemporary figure.
Georgiana was only fourteen when people began to speculate on her choice of husband. Lady Spencer thought it would be a dreadful mistake if she married too young. "I hope not to part with her till 18 at the soonest," she told a friend in 1771. Her daughter's outward sophistication led many to think that she was more mature than her years. In 1772 the family embarked upon another grand tour, this time with all three children in tow. The rapturous reception which greeted Georgiana in Paris confirmed Lady Spencer's fears. According to a fellow English traveller, "Lady Georgiana Spencer has been very highly admired. She has, I believe, an exceedingly good disposition of her own, and is happy in an education which it is to be hoped will counteract any ill effect from what may too naturally turn her head."
Georgiana combined a perfect mastery of etiquette with a mischievous grace and ease which met with approval in the artificial and mannered atmosphere of the French...
The Wall Street Journal - Ned Crabb
[Georgiana] is an elegantly written winner of Britain's Whitbread Prize for biography by a young scholar who did an immense amount of work on a ton of primary source material, plus an impressive list of secondary-source books.... Ms. Foreman's intelligent insights on domestic, social and political aspects of the time and her judicious psychological interpretations of her subjects' behavior flow smoothly, and with no pontificating, into the story.
...riveting...scholarly, serious, and marvelously diverting...Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, had her misfortunes, but reading about her life might make many twenty-first-century Americans feel like sad little Puritans who've missed out on a great deal of fun. Surely Georgiana's intelligence, wit, and angelic magnanimity make her amply deserving of every ounce of fun she had.
The New York Times - Patricia T. O'Connor
...penetrating and enormously entertaining...Foreman, a researcher at Oxford University, combed libraries, archives and personal collections across England to find missing pieces of Georgiana's story, and the result, the author's first book, is biography at its best. Georgiana, winner of Britain's 1998 Whitbread Prize for biography, seamlessly merges a life and its times, capturing not just an individual but an age, a world entire.
Literary Review - Antonia Fraser
A mesmerizing read. . . . The charm of Amanda Foreman's Georgiana is that it gives you all the fascinating detail you want . . . and is at the same time a serious, scholarly work, based on exhaustive archival research.
Sunday Times (UK) - Roy Strong
I put this book down entranced by the woman. This is an outstanding début by a young biographer fully in control of her sources, and with an easy, elegant writing style. She tells a tale that calls not only for our admiration but for our compassion.
Daily Telegraph(UK)
This is an accomplished and well-written biography, remarkably mature for a first effort; diligently researched and entertainingly presented. Amanda Foreman is a writer to watch and one from whom much can be expected.
Simon Schama
Georgiana bursts from the pages of Amanda Foreman's dazzling biography like the force of nature she undoubtedly was--passionate, political, addicted to gambling, and drunk on life. This is a stunning book about an astonishing woman.
Michael Holroyd
A most impressive début. I predict a great future for Amanda Foreman. She is a scholar who matches her learning to a sense of adventure and writes with engaging vitality.
Brenda Maddox, author of Yeats' Ghosts and Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom
Stunning historical research plus feminine acuity yield a vivid portrait of a shrewd, seductive ancestor of Princess Diana's in an age before democracy or contraception.
Rosie B
Georgiana!!
Excellent book, extremely well researched and well written. I enjoyed every minute of reading this book and fell completely in love with Georgiana.
Laura Elizabeth
The author, Amanda Foreman, admits to being in love with her subject, but I don't think it diminishes the book at all. It is, mostly, an objective look at a woman and her life in all it's glory and sorrows. I came away feeling sorry for Georgianna,... Read More
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I'm not sure why, but I seem to forget about keeping the Pebble Beach Stories series going until it gets close to the AT&T or any event at Pebble Beach. Anyways, Tiger never came to the AT&T Pro-Am during the three years I was working there for the event. He went the year before I started working at Pebble (2002), and I always hoped he'd change his mind so I could see the legend in the making play live, but it never happened. In honor of his first entry into the AT&T since 2002, I figured it was a good time to dust off the one and only Tiger story I have, but unlike Stevie Williams and Hank Haney, I'm not going to be making money on it.
From the first time I mentioned Tiger to co-workers they would all grumble something that ended with I hate that guy. They'd regroup and say he's a ridiculously good golfer, but just not a good human being. After asking numerous people why he wasn't a favorite like Phil, Davis Love III, Jonathan Byrd, or even Dustin Johnson, they all seemed to point to the fact that he was a bad tipper, or that he bitched about everything.
There was one time he did come to Pebble Beach while I was working there, and it was for an EA sports party when they were doing promo stuff for his video game, and from that point on in 2004, I didn't like the guy much either. I tried to make some small talk with him asking him about his hotel stay and where he'd eaten in around town to maybe give him some recommendations or something like that. He flat out ignored me like I didn't exist. Now, I could understand if he was doing something like talking on the phone or signing an autograph for someone, but he was just hanging out in front of the pro shop with nobody else but a group that just came of the 18th hanging around. I rattled off at least 30 seconds of chat, but was apparently talking to myself. Maybe it was the crappy weather that day or maybe he couldn't stand getting a fat paycheck for putting his ugly mug on the cover of EA's golf game, but he could at least acknowledge my existence with more than a head nod. I guess I wasn't important enough for him to acknowledge my existence. I'm not one to get star struck especially after meeting lots of celebrities and athletes during my time there, but he might have been the rudest of all I met by simply ignoring me. My new theory on maybe why he ignored me in the post Tiger scandal is that maybe one of the girls he was a sugar daddy for extorted him for the money he just made on the EA game.
Whatever the case, I asked our head golf pro and the assistant golf pro what was up with Tiger, because he seemed so cold and was basically the opposite of Phil to the point that it seemed like it would physically hurt him if he smiled, and he wasn't even there to play golf! They didn't seem to know or really care that much, but what they did tell me was you'll probably never see him at the AT&T Pro-Am, which makes it even more remarkable he's playing this weekend at Pebble when it's not for the US Open. Curious, I had to ask why.
Chuck (the head golf pro) gave me a couple of answers, both of which made some sense.
First he told me that Tiger doesn't like the greens at Pebble or really any public course because they get too much play and thinks they're too bumpy. I was taken back by this answer, because aside from the pace of play, I'd never heard anyone complain about the courses features at Pebble unless of course they plugged the greens, but there's no chance Tiger ever played after they plugged the course, because they'd never want that shown on TV or have the pros complain.
The second thing he told me which made a lot more sense was he didn't like playing with amateurs. They play slow, and usually shank more shots than hit good ones. Today they aired a little interview with Tiger on ESPN talking about his celebrity playing partner this weekend, Tony Romo. Tiger went on to say Tony had been texting him relentlessly asking about how low he needed to shoot, and what he could do to work on his swing that made me crack up just thinking of the way Tiger probably responded. I'm almost positive Romo recieved no advice, and was probably annoyed by the onslaught of texts from someone that wasn't going to be a one night stand.
Maybe he's a better man close to a decade removed from when I met him, but it's still the main reason to this day that I don't root for him to succeed.
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That's interesting, Chappy. I wonder why he doesn't like playing with slow amateurs, but he'll play with slow celebrities.
I read he did the event because his sponsor (AT&T) wanted him to, so I'm betting it's only so he makes a few extra bucks for the appearance!
If Woods wins more than two tournaments this season I'd be pleasantly surprised ! His game is still a long way from where he needs it to be to contend with the likes of McIlroy , Luke Donald and the contingent of young US players now making a name for themselves on the PGA Tour .
Yeah, honestly I want him to contend, but not win!
I am sooooooooooo ready for my Masters trip.
Not that really care about Tiger either way, but heck Bill Belichick has more class than him.
I heard on the course this week that Woods did give Romo some chipping advice on Wednesday, but never played a practice round with him.
Greens too bumpy? Even if that was the case does it matter? You're playing on one of the most beautiful courses in the world.
I think the more stories I hear about Tiger, the more I dislike him! I thought it was hilarious that Belichick was wearing a hoodie most of the week, not that he shouldn't be comfortable golfing, but it seems like someone would've hooked him up with some golf gear!
I have to believe that Hoodie was playing it up some how, because he showed up on Wednesday in perfectly normal golf attire. Perhaps his new lady suggested he continue that wardrobe.
I'd certainly can't visualize Woods missing so many holes but the problem may well have been the holes he's normally use to using his " 9 iron " on weren't necessarily as small as those at Pebble Beach ? Your thoughts ?
Belichick devoted more time in strategising a game plan for the match-up against the Giants rather than consulting golf pros prior his stint at Pebble Beach then perhaps the end result might well have been different . But then again it might not considering the Pats' receivers were so inept ! I'm not saying they were bad there was talk of using industrial glue on their hands .
I see Mayweather and Jason Whitlock are throwin' 'bout the "race card" in terms of Lin's recent performances for the Knicks ? How dumb are those two a##holes to begin with ? Mayweather needs to shut the ###k up get about fighting Pacquiao rather than beating up on a tomato can like Miguel Cotto .
The IQ of Mayweather and Whitlock combined couldn't even gain them entrance into the US chapter of MENSA !
The saying " a mind is a terrible thing to waste " rings true when applied to the likes of Mayweather and Whitlock as both are a$$holes !


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The National Student > Student
KCL trying to demonise climate protesters, claim students
Nadine White at University College London (University of London)
At the beginning of the month London students activists spray-painted the Main Hall of King's College to publicly shame the University's investment in the oil and gas industries.
Two arrests were made following the protest organised by Kings College Climate Emergency – PHD student Roger Hallam and alumnus of the University David Rhys Alan.
After being escorted from the premises by police and locked away for 14 hours, the pair were notified of their respective suspension and exclusion from KCL.
Hallam told The National Student: "I was also told that staff members had been banned from communicating with me. The University thinks that it can run the show with no accountability. Everyone's scared shitless of doing anything because they won't get a degree, the promotion or will get a bad record. So no one wants to challenge anything".
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He continues: "When you get institutions like that…you basically get corruption. People aren't held to account; it's basic, liberal, political theory. It's not radical to say that".
In addition to their bans, both Hallam and Alan face criminal damage charges for £10,000, as a result of their use of spray paint on the University's premises.
The pair maintain that this is an extreme and aggressive reaction to their right to exercise civil disobedience; as promoted by Bishop Desmond Tutu – an alumnus of the institution.
They argue that the temporary chalk spray that was used takes all of "five minutes" to clean.
"In the spirit of taking responsibility for their actions", the protestors brought buckets, soap and clothes and started to clean the chalk after action took place. However, they were quickly stopped by security staff.
"Our aim was not to cause any permanent damage to the walls. Nothing so spontaneous can happen at King's it seems".
Hallam added: "It's totally soluble. KCL have done a major, publication relations, lying campaign that they normally do when they're threatened, to make out that there's hundreds of thousands pounds' worth of damage"
Divide & Rule
Though eight other individuals participated in the protest, Hallam and Alan say that they were deliberately targeted.
"In the great imperialist British tradition of divide and rule, the two likely ring leaders, including myself, were separated off from the rest of the decorators and given special treatment," said Hallam.
Fall out
"I feel let down by the University. It seems as if they are trying to demonise us for what we are doing, when in actual fact, this is something that's going to benefit the university and other people" said Alan.
He continued: "This has made it harder for me do work because I have not been able to use the university's facilities to undertake research".
"I hope that the decision will be reversed to enable me to continue my studies but I don't have much faith that this will happen".
Hallam echoed his peer's sentiment: "I'm really upset but I totally expect it because Kings aren't really open to reasonable argument and haven't been for years".
"Some students have kindly created a petition to call for end to my suspension so that I can continue to do my work and research at Kings College. In the mean time I will challenge my ban in the next few days".
Alan is currently overseas and faces being stopped under the Terrorism Act, Section 7, as a result of the charges.
He hopes that "the protest will draw attention to the cause, securing a commitment from KCL to accept their responsibilities as an institution educating minds of the future, and divest from all fossil fuels".
Student activist Luke Harwood made the following statement on the matter: "The fact that institutions such as KCL are content to happily risk the fate of humanity for a profitable investment is beyond contemptible. When they seem so obviously unwilling to divest the only option is to escalate our message."
The pair have received messages of support from and are working with Greenpeace, the Green party, people and planet and others.
Hallam reflects: "The people that run the show are in the hands of the corporate elite. BP, Shell and all these guys that run the university don't live in the same world as the rest of us".
When contacted for a statement, a spokesperson from Kings offered the following: "Work to repair the damage on surfaces including Portland stone - a porous limestone - will cost tens of thousands of pounds. It is a Grade 1 listed building and we have had to consult specialists about how best to remove the graffiti without causing further damage to the 200-year old stone work".
"The Student Conduct and Appeals process is now underway, therefore it is not appropriate to comment further".
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French Sculpture Census
Stories from the French Sculpture Census
From beloved works by Matisse and Rodin in museums to American icons like the Statue of Liberty, French sculpture has had an indelible impact on the cultural landscape of the U.S. In celebration of a website that reveals the extent of this shared history, Laure de Margerie and panelists from the project's international partner institutions share stories of works drawn from the database of the French Sculpture Census.
Laure de Margerie, Director of the French Sculpture Census, was Senior Archivist and head of the Sculpture Archives at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, from 1978 through 2009. In this position she curated several exhibitions including Facing the Other: Charles Cordier (1827-1905), Ethnographic Sculptor (Paris, Quebec City, New York, 2004/05). She was part of the team who installed the sculpture collection at the opening of the museum in 1986 and co-authored the collection catalogue (1986). De Margerie also worked as archivist in charge of historic buildings in Normandy in Rouen (1983-1985) and oversaw rights and reproductions at the National Archives in Paris (1991-1992). She was awarded a fellowship at the Clark Art Institute, in Williamstown, MA (2000/01), and was the Sculpture and Decorative Arts Department guest scholar at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, CA (Fall 2011).
The Census of French Sculpture in American Public Collections is the first comprehensive catalogue of French sculpture in the United States. It lists all existing French sculpture, dating from 1500 to 1960, in American public collections. Not only does it take account of works in museums, but also in historic houses, government buildings (the White House, for example), corporate collections, and public space. The scope of the census is vast, both in space and time, and currently includes 7,500 works by 680 artists in 305 locations.
Hosted by the Nasher Sculpture Center and supported by a consortium of institutions in the U.S. and France, the French Sculpture Census will be the largest existing website solely dedicated to sculpture. The Census of French Sculpture in American Public Collections is a project of the University of Texas at Dallas and the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, in coproduction with the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art (INHA), Paris, the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, and the Musée Rodin, Paris, with the participation of the Ecole du Louvre, Paris.The website launched in fall 2014 at frenchsculpture.org.
Richard Brettell
Richard Brettell is among the foremost authorities in the world on Impressionism and French Painting of the period 1830-1930. With three degrees from Yale University, he has taught at The University of Texas, Northwestern University, The University of Chicago, Yale University, and Harvard University and is currently Margaret M. McDermott Distinguished Chair of Art and Aesthetic Studies and the Edith O'Donnell Distinguished Chair at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is also an international museum consultant with projects in Europe, Asia, and the United States. He established the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Museums at UT Dallas.
In 1980, Dr. Brettell was appointed Searle Curator of European Painting at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1988, he became the McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA). Since leaving the DMA, Dr. Brettell has been involved with the purchase of the M. H.W. Ritchie Collection for the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Memphis, with the building and renovation program of the Portland Museum of Art (Oregon), and with the Millennium Gift of the Sara Lee Collection, for which the company won the National Medal for the Arts in 1999. He is Senior Advisor for International Art for the National Gallery of Australia and is working with Professor Stephen Eisenman of Northwestern University to catalogue the collection of 19th and 20th century French Paintings at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California.
Laure de Margerie
Jed Morse is Chief Curator of the Nasher Sculpture Center. A specialist in Spanish modernism and modern and contemporary sculpture, Morse received a Master of Arts degree in art history from the University of Texas at Austin. Since 1999, he has held curatorial positions at the Dallas Museum of Art and the Nasher Sculpture Center where he has contributed to such exhibitions and catalogues as Henry Moore: Sculpting the 20th Century (2001), David Smith: Drawing and Sculpting (2005), and Matisse: Painter as Sculptor (2007). Morse has also organized numerous exhibitions, including Jaume Plensa: Genus and Species (2010); Revelation: The Art of James Magee (2010); Tony Cragg: Seeing Things (2011), and Return to Earth:Ceramic Sculpture of Fontana, Melotti, Miró, Noguchi, and Picasso, 1943–1963 (2013). In addition to his duties at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Morse has contributed to books such as Barcelona and Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí (Cleveland Museum of Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2006), and has lectured widely on a variety of topics.
Amélie Simier
A graduate of the Ecole du Louvre and of the Ecole nationale du Patrimoine, Amélie Simier joined the Musée du Petit Palais in Paris in 1999 as curator in charge of the sculpture department. She curated two exhibitions devoted to major figures of 19th century French sculpture : the sculptor/ceramist Jean Carriès, and the sculptor Jules Dalou. She has recently published the catalogue raisonné of the works by Dalou in the Petit Palais collection. Since 2011, she is the director of the Musée Bourdelle and the Musée Zadkine, two wonderfully atmospheric artist's studio/museums in Montparnasse, Paris, once the homes and studios of sculptors Antoine Bourdelle and Ossip Zadkine.
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French Sculpture Census Panel featuring Richard Brettell Laure de Margerie Jed Morse Amélie Simier


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NEW YORK, NY - Paul Doyle, a corporate lawyer appointed by the New York bar to recommend possible discipline of prominent human rights defender Steven Donziger – the lawyer who helped Ecuadorian Indigenous peoples win a landmark $9.5 billion pollution judgment against Chevron – has resigned his post after the disclosure that he had helped Union Carbide escape liability in the Bhopal disaster in India that has killed an estimated 15,000 people.
A New York appellate court appointed Doyle in early July to determine whether Donziger should be disbarred after staff attorneys at the Manhattan grievance committee – apparently at the behest of Chevron -- deemed him an "immediate threat to the public order" and suspended him on an interim basis without a hearing based on the disputed civil findings of a New York judge that have been contradicted by 17 appellate judges in Ecuador as well as by extensive forensic evidence. Donziger, a Harvard Law School graduate, has worked for two decades to help Ecuadorian rainforest communities hold Chevron accountable for the dumping of billions of gallons of toxic oil waste into the Amazon rainforest in what is considered the world's worst oil-related catastrophe, known globally as the "Amazon Chernobyl".
In 2011, the affected Ecuadorian communities with Donziger's help won a $9.5 billion judgment against Chevron in Ecuador -- the venue where Chevron insisted the case be heard. The Ecuador trial court found Chevron had systematically dumped toxic waste into streams and rivers, poisoning the drinking water of local communities. The pollution plunged the region into a humanitarian crisis that Donziger calls "a slow genocide." Cancer, birth defects, and other diseases have killed, or threaten to kill, thousands of people. Three appellate courts in Ecuador – including the country's Constitutional Court in an 8-0 ruling – have affirmed the judgment based on more than 100 expert evidentiary reports and 64,000 chemical sampling results.
The New York bar's decision to suspend Donziger – made by Chief Attorney Jorge Dopico and staff attorney Naomi Goldstein -- was harshly criticized by prominent lawyers, academics, and environmental activists for denying the lawyer a hearing where he could challenge Chevron's allegations and the findings of Judge Lewis A. Kaplan. (See here and here; here is the voluminous scientific evidence relied on by Ecuador's courts to find Chevron liable.) In 25 years of legal practice, Donziger has not received even one client complaint and has been bestowed with numerous testimonials for his public service.
Dopico and Goldstein decided that the civil findings of Kaplan issued four years ago, in a lawsuit brought by Chevron in 2011, should be sufficient to suspend Donziger from the practice of law in 2018 as a "threat to the public order" without a hearing. Kaplan ruled in a non-jury civil trial that Donziger had committed "fraud" in Ecuador – a finding that has been discredited by evidence that Chevron's main witness was paid $2 million by the company and later admitted lying under oath in Kaplan's court after being coached for 53 days by Chevron lawyers prior to taking the stand. Forensic evidence also proved he lied; see this criminal referral letter of Chevron and its lawyers to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Doyle initially accepted his appointment to recommend Donziger's final sanction but then withdraw after the Ecuadorians disclosed that he had played a leading role in eliminating almost all of Union Carbide's liability after the company's chemical plant in Bhopal released deadly gases in 1984, considered the world's worst industrial accident. An estimated 3,800 people were killed within days of the disaster and an estimated 15,000 people have died from ongoing exposures. Doyle, a partner at Kelly Drye & Warren, markets himself on his firm's website as having taken 40 trips to India to help Union Carbide evade paying compensation, saving the company billions of dollars.
After his appointment as Donziger's referee, Doyle proposed several dates in September to conduct a sanctions hearing based on the Kaplan findings. But Doyle abandoned his appointment after a press release appeared last week exposing his corporate-friendly background and work for Union Carbide. In the same press release, prominent attorney Rick Friedman – a leading U.S. trial lawyer, the former President of the Inner Circle of Advocates, and a best-selling author on trial practice – also harshly criticized the process that led to Donziger's interim suspension without a hearing. See here.
Donziger said he thought Doyle's appointment was symptomatic of a deeper problem in the New York bar grievance process.
"Appointing a former Union Carbide lawyer, who blocked thousands of impoverished victims in India from receiving compensation, to preside over any aspect of a case involving Chevron's poisoning of the people of Ecuador represents in my view an acute conflict of interest," he said. In addition, Donziger criticized the fact that six of Judge Kaplan's colleagues on the New York federal bench urged Dopico and Goldstein to suspend him without a hearing based on the judge's disputed findings, without disclosing the existence of contrary findings by three appellate courts in Ecuador. Furthermore, Dopico and Goldstein never disclosed to Donziger that Doyle had served as panel chair of the Manhattan bar disciplinary committee that is prosecuting his case, creating a second conflict of interest.
Six of Judge Kaplan's colleagues on New York's federal trial bench in Manhattan, led by Judge Kevin P. Castel, sent a referral letter in late 2016 urging Jorge Dopico to disbar Donziger without a hearing based on their colleague's findings. Donziger said the Castel letter -- addressed to "Jorge" and showing an intimate personal familiarity with the Chief Attorney of the grievance committee -- ignored the many evidentiary problems with Kaplan's decision and was not in keeping with the judicial obligation of impartiality. Donziger said the letter created enormous pressure for the bar staff attorneys to move against him.
Weyler, the co-founder of Greenpeace and author, said Chevron's corruption of the judicial process to evade its Ecuador liability reaches "historic proportions."
In 2009, Chevron had disclosed its defense strategy was to "demonize Donziger" rather than litigate on the merits. Later, a company official threatened the Ecuadorians with a "lifetime of litigation" if they continued with the case. After losing in Ecuador, Chevron retaliated by suing Donziger and his clients before Judge Kaplan for $60 billion. This astonishing sum is still considered the largest potential personal liability for anybody in U.S. history. However, just prior to the actual trial and after focus groups of potential jurors showed it would likely lose on the merits, Chevron dropped the financial damages claim to avoid a jury of impartial fact finders. That decision kicked the case to Judge Kaplan as the sole decision maker.
While Chevron is targeting Donziger through the bar process, the Ecuadorians are advancing in Canada in their attempt to enforce their environmental judgment and seize company assets to pay for a clean-up. Canada's Supreme Court has ruled unanimously in their favor on a key jurisdictional issue (see here) while company shareholders are putting enormous pressure on management – including new CEO Michael Wirth -- to settle the case because of the growing risk posed by the enforcement action. Chevron has an estimated $25 billion in assets in Canada; Donziger said he believes Chevron hopes to use his bar suspension to try to taint the validity of the Ecuador judgment before Canadian courts.
Donziger, who still has a law license to practice in the District of Columbia, has attracted wide support from prominent lawyers in the U.S. and Canada, musicians such as Roger Waters, Indigenous leaders such as Phil Fontaine (former National Chief of Canada) and Grand Chief Wilton Littlechild, and environmental activists including Rex Weyler and Atossa Soltani, the founder of Amazon Watch. The affected communities in Ecuador also have flooded Donziger with letters of support.