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Ginn Open Photo Caption Uh...Explanation
Any idea what this is that we're calling a trophy (held by Ginn Open winner Brittany Lincicome)?
The construction of hazards, their place in the scheme of the hole, the artistic blending of their contours with the character of the ground and their relation to the scenery as a background are things of the first importance if a harmonious and satisfactory result is to be obtained. TOM SIMPSON
Any idea what this is that we're calling a trophy (held by Ginn Open winner Brittany Lincicome)?
Last week I asked if "relatable golf" would be the future direction the pro game takes to quench our society's unquenchable for all things narcissistic.
Well, Garry Smits found some fans who would agree that it's all about them while exploring the question of whether the year's other three majors (oh and
The Players THE PLAYERS The PLAYERS) will be plodding bogeyfests.
When it comes to majors and The Players, fans seem to want to watch the best grind.
"We really enjoyed watching the Masters this year," said Kevin Leonard, a Cincinnati resident visiting the First Coast with his family to play golf at the TPC Sawgrass. "I don't like watching 27 under win a tournament."
His son, James, a college student, showed that feeling crosses generations.
"I know the Masters has been won on birdies and eagles on the back nine in the past," he said. "But I didn't miss that. It was fun knowing that they had to make pars to win."
Dennis James, a Green Cove Springs resident, said watching PGA Tour players fight enables the average golfer to relate.
"When I see those guys working hard to make pars and bogeys, well, that's us," he said. "Besides, majors are supposed to be hard."
It's all about ME!
Consider also that television ratings for the Masters were slightly higher than last year, when Mickelson won at 7 under.
Garry, let's not encourage the Ridley's and Driver's of the world. They're dangerous enough as it is!
Former PGA of America president M.G. Orender, a Jacksonville Beach resident, said competition committees can only go so far. Weather was the main reason for the high scores at Augusta, he said, not back-room suits bent on punishing players.
"I thought Augusta did the same thing the PGA does for our championship. It's a major. It should be tough, but you want the course to be fair, given the things you can control," Orender said. "Par is just a number. At the end of the day, if the course is fair, it doesn't matter what score wins."
Hmmm...and here I thought it was about identifying the best player!
David Feherty, interviewing Boo Weekley after chipping in on the last two holes to win the Heritage, noted that Weekley is not the typical Tour drone because of his "bag abuse" and that it was "great to see some character out here."
Is that really a sign of great character?
My NSA sources took time out from their search for those lost RNC emails to share a Sunday night conversation between the LPGA's Commissioner Carolyn Bivens and PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem. This followed Sunday's bizarre day in which the LPGA event on CBS was delayed, the PGA Tour's Heritage play on CBS cancelled by high winds, and with the delayed LPGA's event on CBS airing on The Golf Channel.
DaBrandLady: tim, you there?
twfPGATour©: Hi Carolyn.
DaBrandLady: Rough day for the product.
twfPGATour©: I know, our consumers had to listen to Bobby Clampett on two channels at once.
DaBrandLady: oh. I meant the winds.
DaBrandLady: i thought he was great on the ginn. we feel lucky to have his insights.
twfPGATour©: Yes you are. He's a big talent.
DaBrandLady: say tim, I know the ginn on cbs was an ad buy for us and all, but since it was running long and the heritage was in that hurricane delay, don't you think we could have seen more of our event shown live on cbs instead of tape from last year's heritage?
twfPGATour©: Well you know I wish could have helped, but as you well know the platform layering dynamics are intensely complicated.
DaBrandLady: ha! i actually wrote a dissertation on that when I was at the usa today and they wanted to change the life's section color from purple to navy blue.
DaBrandLady: anyway, i do know all about the parameters involved. it just seemed odd to have our event going on with so many dynamic young women-American golfers competing with a future hall of famer, and then to turn and see you all teasing the viewer with updates before heading back to tape of last year.
twfPGATour©: I feel your pain Carolyn. It's out of my hands.
DaBrandLady: and for cbs, what an opportunity to declare their devotion to young women-american athletes in light of the dan imos de-branding thing.
twfPGATour©: It's actually Don Imus I believe.
DaBrandLady: of course, silly me!
DaBrandLady: say, that new creative with zach johnson was quite exquisite.
twfPGATour©: Yes, fortuitous timing for strengthening our family of brands and for Zach's ability to leverage the equity in his newfound brand stature.
DaBrandLady: whoever thought of using him in those new spots should get a big raise!
twfPGATour©: Glad you reminded me of that Carolyn. I'm making a note right now to bump Tom Wade's salary another $100,000 a year. He's undervalued at $550,000 per year.
DaBrandLady: say, speaking of salary Tim, did you see this sports business journal article about how much I'm making?
twfPGATour©: They had you at around $500,000 I believe.
DaBrandLady: yes they got it off this battlestar web site that monitors non-profits.
twfPGATour©: Guidestar.
DaBrandLady: well, anyway, i was looking around their site and i noticed you guys have managed to keep your most recent tour returns off. how do i do the same thing? because my brand coaches feel i took a hit in light of the fact that i'm only making a half-mil while you are making $7 million and Len Zelig is making $14.5 million.
twfPGATour©: it's Bud Selig and can you believe that? I need to go back to the policy board for a raise.
DaBrandLady: right, so how do I stop this brand-damaging from going online?
twfPGATour©: well it's a legal issue for us, but if you call Ed M he'll explain how to do it. It's a layered process that involves many dynamics and metrical platform delineational restructuring with the IRS.
DaBrandLady: oh, and here i was hoping it was just something powell-tate handled up in d.c.
twfPGATour©: Well, there's that too.
DaBrandLady: great! thanks tim!
twfPGATour©: My pleasure Carolyn. Give my best to, uh...
DaBrandLady: he says hi back!
Someone highjacked Dan Jenkins' laptop, broke out the pom-poms and declared love on Dan's behalf for a no-name winning a U.S. Open at his beloved Augusta National.
More than anything, some of us loved the fact that Zach Johnson never went for a single par 5 at Augusta in two. No eagle putts for this Iowa boy. But he birdied 11 out of the 16 during the four rounds. That's some kind of wedge play, son, and a winner's putting stroke.Wow, never thought I'd read Dan-the-man lauding conservative play at Augusta.
It was almost as if certain writers were blaming new chairman Billy Payne and The Weather Channel for the fact that there was no Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer or Gary Player on the leader board shooting 17 under par.
Oh, like we don't love Dan for being the biggest of the big-name lovers. Come on Dan!
I, for one, loved it. The Augusta National, with an assist from nature, finally reined in technology. That alone was worth a roar, wasn't it?
This at least gives us some insight into that bizarre thought process that goes something like this: the course, patrons and players must suffer because a bunch of guys running the USGA (and not coincidentally also belonging to Augusta National) are afraid to admit they made a mistake about regulating distance. They are afraid to do what's best for the game because they would have to admit they blew it.
Sounds familiar. I can't think of it at the moment. It'll come to me though. It's a metaphor for something bigger in our society. It's just right there at the tip of my fingers...
Anyway, back to this column attributed to the great Jenkins...
They took the winning 72-hole score back to 289, the highest it had been since 1954 and 1956, when the basic culprits were strong, gusty winds and the hard old Bermuda/rye greens that wouldn't hold a pitchfork if Tiger Woods was swinging it.
If there was anything I liked better than seeing the tour pros have to face a tough course for a change, it was learning that Zach Johnson, the new Masters champion, is an unapologetic God-fearing lad who has a Yorkshire terrier like I do.
God-fearing? I heard a whole lot of thanking Jesus, not many nods to God. Or are they now one-and-the-same?
The New York Times' Juliet Macar examines the decline in NASCAR ratings and attendance. It's hard to read this and not think of the PGA Tour...
No recent move by the Frances has been more significant than the introduction of the standardized Car of Tomorrow, which is supposed to enliven races by making it easier to pass. It made its debut last month at Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee, receiving criticism from drivers. Wheeler, of Lowe's Motor Speedway, said the Car of Tomorrow would produce close racing, which would produce rivalries and drama that could bring the fans back. "With this car, I can see that sparks will fly once again," he said.
Of course, the Tour would have to acknowledge first that their races need enlivening! And not by narrowing fairways, growing rough and encouraging plodding golf.
Perhaps nothing has changed more than the television contracts, and the money at stake. Nascar is in the first year of an eight-year contract with Fox, ABC/ESPN, TNT and Speed valued at about $4.5 billion, or $560 million a year. Its previous contract was worth $400 million a year.
Kyle Petty cited NBC's decision not to renew its television contract with Nascar as a warning flag. "That's a big, big story that someone walked away," he said. "That's a huge blip on the radar."
Well, at least that hasn't happened in golf!
The Augusta Chronicle's Scott Michaux says the trees and rough need to go and recommends that Billy Payne look to a group of former champions to undo Tom Fazio's changes.
It's the trees and the rough, however, that seem to fly in the face of the original design and strategic intent that the club, players and patrons so passionately embrace. The constriction of options and the mandated conformity of play on certain holes defies everything that Jones and MacKenzie strived to achieve with Augusta National.
The Big Three doesn't include perhaps the finest traditionalist architect today - and he happens to have a pair of green jackets as well in his locker. Ben Crenshaw understands the architectural genius that made Augusta National so great, but he's too gracious to publicly criticize the course.
These gentlemen and Payne might be able to restore whatever it is that makes Augusta National and the Masters so exceptional. The club has fixed flawed changes before - from the tributary of Rae's Creek in front of the 13th green to the mounding that abuts and defends the eighth green. Not every change proves to be in the best interests of the course.
We can only speculate as to how Bobby Jones might have reacted to combat the equipment issues that have forced some of the world's greatest courses to change with time.
But's it's unlikely he would have seen the need for a tree - or a whole grove of them - to interfere with the playability and drama of his tournament.
Bob Verdi in his post-Masters Golf World column:
Well, you probably won't hear about Augusta National making additional land purchases anytime soon so as to elongate some of its 18 holes. They needn't bring in more trees, either, and the membership likely will postpone discussion about instituting a uniform Masters ball. Last week's tournament tended to allay concerns about rampant golf technology, not to mention global warming, just as thoroughly as Zach Johnson chloroformed parties throughout distant parts of the world.
And Booger and Google, blogging under the headline "Zack saves the game" write:
So, my friend, you are right once again. Distance, in the majors when it really matters, is not ruining the game. Distance, in the setting by which all other settings are judged, is over.
Uh, hate to be the bearer of bad news, but most the post-Masters discussion is not about what a wonderful thing it was to see the highest ever world ranked player win, but what a mess has been made of the course.
And why is the course a mess?
Oh that's right, because a bunch of old guys who are supposed to be really smart--many Augusta National members included--got outsmarted on the distance issue and have been cowering ever since.
No, I'm kind of thinking more people than ever see that these frustrated guys are using tacky setup ploys so they don't have to address the real issue.
Scottish Paper of Record Scotland On Sunday columnist writes about the sad state of Seve's game and how it can't tarnish his legacy.
Mark Figueroa on Torrey Pines getting a kikuyu resodding and on changes to the fourth hole:
Woodward added that alterations to the fourth fairway are also being made. The hole, which runs north and is considered one of the South's more difficult holes, has been reconfigured more to the left and will bring the cliffs more into play. The trees that run along the cliffs will be transplanted to the other side to create more space between the fourth and fifth fairways.
Trees also will be planted near the right side of the fourth tee box to discourage players from driving their tee shots intentionally into the wrong fairway.
The Orlando Sentinel's Mike Bianchi manages to turn some mildly oblivious responses from Annika and Nancy Lopez into a hysterical (in more ways than one) rant about the lack of
photo-opportunistic feminist leadership in sports.
Brace yourselves...
Her response -- correction: her non-response -- is both shocking and disappointing.
Here's the exchange between Annika Sorenstam and me Wednesday during her pre-tournament news conference for the LPGA Ginn Open:
"Annika, some derogatory comments were made about the Rutgers women's basketball team the other day; obviously, you've heard about them . . ."
Before I can finish, Annika stops me cold with her response.
"No, I haven't."
You haven't?
"No," she says, shaking her head.
Uncomfortable pause.
All I can think of to say at this point is, "Never mind."
All she can think of to say is, "Sorry."
Yeah, I'm sorry, too.
Sorry because herein lies the colossal problem facing female athletes in their ongoing battle against sexism in the sports arena: Nobody cares enough to speak up or stand up for them.
Where have you gone, Martha Burk?
A gender turns its lonely eyes to you.
I've been out and about at some golf facilities the last few days and heard near unanimous frustration at how boring the Masters has become.
We've considered the architectural and setup influences, but after reading Stu Schneider's TV Rewind column in this week's Golf World (column not posted), it seems that we should not discount just how much CBS's presentation has played into the change in perception.
The Frank Chirkinian presentation style that many of us enjoyed showed more shots and imany more of them live than we see with Lance Barrow's production approach. Schneider points out how long it took for CBS to show several shots, including Ogilvy's eagle on 13 and most amazingly, a Zach Johnson eagle birdie on 3 followed by a Vaughn Taylor missing an eagle putt on 2, even though they were paired together.
Is this playing a role in uh, "rebranding" the Masters as more of a U.S. Open style event?
I know I promised I'd asked my last Masters question, but the debate is just too good to let go of in light of all the great comments that this years Masters is generating.
In the Rosaforte and Davis pieces critiquing the setup and architecture, there were a couple of interesting comments about the Saturday night green watering.
Is it the sign of a good setup when you have to water greens during tournament play (with light winds)?
Is it a sound setup when you play three days firm and then soak them for one day?
Consider what Rosaforte wrote:
Some players felt the water should have been turned on earlier, but Ridley and the Competition Committee did eventually turn on the hoses. "Yesterday we saw the weather and relocated some of the pins to make it fairer," said David Graham sitting at lunch. The two-time major winner has served on the Cup and Tee Marking Committee for 17 years and stated the goal was to make it as difficult as possible without crossing the line, "but this week was more difficult than a British Open."
And here's what Davis submitted:
In the past, the competition committee has aimed to get the greens here to dry out as the week goes on. On Sunday morning, the greens were wet and receptive even though it didn't rain here on Saturday night. That's what you call a concession, but by then it was too late. Even though Sunday was a relatively wind-free, balmy day, the average score was 74.33, and the lowest score was a 69 (and only three players shot that).
It seems that the ideal setup is one where the greens do not have to be artificially controlled by such a dramatic shift in watering. One could argue that a SubAir draining of moisture is just as contrived, but I would argue that that is done in an attempt to firm up conditions in order to accentuate skill.
The watering this year was, as Davis wrote, a "concession." A move made after Daddy had whipped the boys around, and decided to let the flatbellies have their Sunday fun. I don't get the sense this concession was one made with great pleasure.
So is this what the Masters will be in the future: three days of torture and one day of watering to shut up the critics who dare to dream that we might see another '86-Masters type finish?
I can only recall such dramatic green watering happening to mitigate impending setup fiascos. And not coincidentally, Fred Ridley was the head man during the two most recent examples: 2004 at Shinnecock and the 2007 Masters.
SI's Michael Bamberger writes about Palmetto Golf Club, one of golf's best kept secrets and talks to Rees Jones, whose changes to the place had to be fixed by Tom Doak.
Rees Jones, who gets to Palmetto once a year, during Masters week, first played the course at the invitation of an old friend, Bobby Goodyear, one of the few Palmetto golfers who is also a member at Augusta National. Jones suggested some changes to the course, mostly in the area of bunker restoration, and oversaw the project. "I did the work for free because I love the place, and they have no money," Jones says. One of the things he likes best about Palmetto is that the members have no airs.
One year during Masters week old Tom Moore squeezed in the Jones foursome in front of a group of members.
"Who the hell are you guys?" one of the aggrieved golfers asked Jones.
"Well, that's Michael Bonallack, who runs the R&A," Jones said. "That's David Fay, who runs the USGA. That's David Eger, who runs the USGA competitions."
"Yeah — and who the hell are you?"
The piece does not mention that the greens will be reconstructed and restored to their original dimensions under Gil Hanse's supervision starting in a few weeks.
Okay, well not really. But they do engage in an interesting chat about this year's Masters over at golfalot.com.
...and the criticism of Augusta National's setup far exceeds the number of defenders, which in itself is monumental since ust few years ago it was rare for a writer to dare question the direction of the course changes.
For starters, it's clear that all of the bickering I've done with Doug Ferguson over the changes will have to continue, because after hearing for years from our great AP writer that we must reserve judgement until a firm and fast week to evaluate the horrid tree planting, shabby looking rough and lack of tee flexibility, apparently we now need to provide a multi-year window before returning a verdict.
It would be easy to suggest that Augusta National ruined its major by adding nearly a quarter-mile of length since 2001, but that would be measuring the Masters based only on this year.
Ugh. I look forward to our next debate Doug!
Of course, at least there's hope with the always thoughtful and passionate Ferguson, but I'm not so sure about South Florida Chamber of Commerce groupee and Golf Digest scribe Tim Rosaforte, who always gets into trouble when he writes about course setup and architecture matters. His cheerleading sounds especially lame this week in light of the overwhelmingly negative responses elsewhere.
Surprisingly, there wasn't much whining. Some players felt the water should have been turned on earlier, but Ridley and the Competition Committee did eventually turn on the hoses. "Yesterday we saw the weather and relocated some of the pins to make it fairer," said David Graham sitting at lunch. The two-time major winner has served on the Cup and Tee Marking Committee for 17 years and stated the goal was to make it as difficult as possible without crossing the line, "but this week was more difficult than a British Open."
Ah, taking it right up to the line without crossing it.
Sort of like frat brothers hazing those new pledges. As long as no one dies, it's a successful pledge drive! They all had to go through it. It was tough but fair! Oy...
Sunday, it warmed slightly and so did the mood. The big hitters were reaching the par-5s again, the Cup and Tee Marking Committee gave the field more accessible locations and there were birdie and even eagle roars echoing through the pines.
Right. And oddly, both pointed out that no one complained, but I'm afraid they weren't talking to the right folks.
Remember that declaration of Sunday joviality when reading the next few pieces, starting with Rosaforte's colleague at Golf World, Bill Fields whose excellent online "letter" was excerpted in this week's Golf World.
Interestingly, the magazine picked his criticism of the course changes for publication.
I found myself in almost complete agreement with Tom Watson's assessment last week: "They had to do what they did with the length of the course because the equipment mandated it," Watson said. "The drivers and the balls go so much farther, and the kids are stronger. They had to do that. When Tiger hit two sand wedges and two pitching wedges into No. 5, they said that's enough. They had to do something. And that was right. Add the length, and let these guys play it the way they did before. But they added the trees. They dressed it up a little too fancy. It used to have a simple elegance to it off the tee."
But following the second round, Crenshaw was asked when the course, usually so alive with cheers during the tournament, had been so quiet.
"Yeah, [the last] four years," he said, his answer covering the period of the most extensive changes. "A day like today, this course is real difficult. It's a combination of the length and the width of the fairways. If you're just a little bit off-line now, you can be behind a tree or a funny spot, in the little bit of rough, then you just can't play. It's the nature of the course now, you try not to get hurt."
While Crenshaw was talking to reporters he was interrupted by Chris DiMarco, who was making his way from the ninth green to the 10th tee. "How is it out there?" DiMarco said.
"Pulling teeth," Crenshaw said.
Meanwhile SI's Seth Davis also blasted the lack of excitement that seemed to be a direct result of the changes, and not the weather as some have suggested.
In the past, the competition committee has aimed to get the greens here to dry out as the week goes on. On Sunday morning, the greens were wet and receptive even though it didn't rain here on Saturday night. That's what you call a concession, but by then it was too late. Even though Sunday was a relatively wind-free, balmy day, the average score was 74.33, and the lowest score was a 69 (and only three players shot that).
Don't try to blame all this on the wind and the cold. They've been playing this tournament on this course every year since 1934. You think this is the first time they've had a little inclement weather? Johnson's score of one over par was tied for the highest ever by a winner, and it was the highest since 1956. That's not because of the weather. That's the course.
The saddest part of all this is that we had absolutely no excitement on the back nine on Sunday. The only spine-tingling moment was Woods's brilliant approach at 13, which led to an eagle that moved him to within two of the leader. That leader was Johnson, who had just 216 yards to the green on No. 13 but laid up. You have to give the plucky Johnson credit for making a 10-foot putt for birdie, but when you lay up from that close at 13 on Sunday at Augusta, you should be penalized half a stroke. (Johnson also laid up on every other par-5 this week.)
Goosen was still in the hunt when he got to the 13th tee. He hit an iron off the tee. Guess I picked the wrong week to quit drinking coffee.
Gary Player has been one of the biggest advocates of making the course tougher so today's players use the same clubs on their approach shots that they did in Player's prime. Yet even he said this was the toughest layout he had seen at Augusta in 50 years — and that was before the cold weather rolled in.
So no, things weren't any easier early in the week, when the sun was out and the wind was quiet. After shooting an 83 in the first round, Larry Mize said, "I was out there practicing yesterday afternoon and there were no roars out there. No roars at all. I think they need to get the roars back, because that's part of Augusta."
Not anymore, Larry. This is the new Masters. The tournament ends on the front nine on Thursday.
And finally, just to validate the point that fans did not enjoy the antics, check out the golf.com blog of user comments on the event. This was my favorite of the many comparisons to U.S. Open golf, from Mike Moyle:
When a course is so tough it exceeds the actual skills of the players involved, then you are not "identifying the best player" as the USGA likes to quip. You are identifying the luckiest player! Its disappointing to see the Masters set up this way.
An epic little pre-Harbour Town diatribe from Davis Love on the state of Augusta National, The Masters and the trends in course setup:
DAVIS LOVE III: Well, I think it's taken four or five years for everybody other than players to realize how difficult that golf course is now and what a challenge it is. They've taken the scoring and the fun out of the golf course and made it -- they hate the comparison, they've made it like a U.S. Open rather than a Masters. It's a grinding week. It's a real hilly golf course. It's a tough tournament, plus they've made the golf course extremely hard. So it's a long week. It's been that way for the last five or six really, at least.
Q. Could you talk a little bit about how a lot of people have talked about how Augusta was limited to the big hitters winning the last couple years, but this year it played so firm and fast, some of you guys' balls may have actually been running into trouble and actually could have hurt some of the big hitters a little bit, how it played this year?
DAVIS LOVE III: Well, I don't think it's really ever -- that's always been a big talk. You have to be able to hook it and you have to be able to hit it a long way. Ben Crenshaw has done well there, and the list of guys I just gave, plus Mike Weir. Not necessarily do you have to be a bomber any time. You have to chip and putt well and you have to hit really precise irons to be able to play. Yeah, they've made it long, but we're used to that. Everybody has got length now. It's just a big overreaction to they've perceived that the game has gotten too easy. They want scores to be high.
I think a short game has always been good at Augusta, and Zach proved that, and like I said, Olazábal, Langer, grind it out, chip and putt. It's gotten to be Retief Goosen kind of golf, make a lot of pars and you can win. I certainly wished that I could do that because that's what it takes to win more out here now.
The Greg Norman or Jack Nicklaus style of -- a lot of big, flashy shots and a lot of birdies will win, but that style of golf is tougher to do now. It's got to be more methodical and you've got to chip and putt way better. If I'm teaching my son to play golf, sure, I want him to be long, but you've got to have all the short game shots because they're not going to give you a golf course where you can hit 16 greens a round like they used to. You've got to chip and putt.
If I was a fan, I would be -- I think as a Tour, we can't control the majors, but as a Tour we have to be real careful with our Players Championship and our course setups, that we don't fall into that trap, because most people don't want to watch pros putt for pars on TV. I think we've got to be real careful about that and make sure there's some risk-reward. There's no risk-reward on laying up on 15 every day or laying up on 2 every day or 8. It's just wedging in. Long putts for birdies or short putts for par, I think we have to be real careful about that.
Q. Does that change coming here a little bit? Is it a little bit less demanding?
DAVIS LOVE III: This tournament is more about the weather, really. When it's windy and cold and dry, it plays tough, and when it's wet and calm, you see 13, 14, 15, every once in a while 18-under will win. But if it's really windy and it's really cool, then the scores go way down. We've seen 6-, 7-under win. But that's because it's a good, solid golf course, and it's dictated on the weather.
Here and Colonial seem to get the best reviews from the players because it's all golf course, it's not tricked up. It's a good, solid design, and you can still play. If the weather is bad, the scores go up. That's the thing, at a major now, if the weather is bad they go ridiculous, rather than just from 13-under to 7-under, it goes to average scores of 77s and 78s. And you know if the pros are averaging 77 or 78, the course is probably not fair. It's probably over the edge.
I said to Rich Lerner this morning, what would I shoot at your home course? We go out and shoot 66 every time. On Tour maybe the average should be 68 or 69 or 70, not 77. That just shows you how hard it is.
I mean, even we are astounded at how hard the U.S. Open and The Masters is, so the average person just can't comprehend how hard a golf course it is. I told John Kelly when we got down to 18 on Friday, I said, "Don't worry about this week, this is not real golf. Don't beat yourself up." Because it's not, it's some other game, and it's more a mental test than it is a physical test.
That's why, again, you see guys like Langer and Mize and Mike Weir, guys like that, do well, Retief Goosen, because they're really, really good. But you put them on The International, that format on that golf course, they're not going to do very good with that style of game.
It's nice to have a variety. It seems like the variety has gone out of -- especially out of our three majors over here.
Copied and pasted with the LPGA's deranged font settings and spacing kept intact:
Galloway named LPGA deputy commissioner
REUNION, Fla., April 11, 2007 – Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Commissioner Carolyn F. Bivens today named Elizabeth "Libba" Galloway to the newly created position of deputy commissioner. The announcement was made following the LPGA's spring Board of Directors meeting in Reunion, Fla.
"I am pleased to name Libba to the position of deputy commissioner," Bivens said. "Libba's leadership, insight and commitment to the growth of the LPGA in all facets of our business have been significant in the LPGA's success. She will continue to lead the organization for corporate governance and compliance. Libba and I will share the activities we have underway with various association business, including representation of the LPGA in the golf industry and in women's sports."
Galloway most recently held the position of executive vice president, office of the commissioner, where she was responsible for corporate governance and compliance as well as the association's legal affairs, tournament operations staff and the LPGA's television distribution.
In addition, she has taken on leadership positions with numerous organizations outside the LPGA on various Boards of Directors: the College of William and Mary Alumni Association; the Sports Lawyers Association; the Daytona Beach and Halifax Area Chamber of Commerce; and the Florida Tennis Center Foundation.
"Carolyn and the entire professional staff of the LPGA have made tremendous strides in the last year and I look forward to continuing what has been one of the most professionally satisfying experiences of my tenure with the LPGA," said Galloway. "The members of the LPGA are world-class golfers and world-class people and I'm thrilled to be part of our organization's continued growth and success."
Galloway has a wide range of legal experience, including commercial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, sports law, financing and regulatory, corporate, real estate and banking law. Prior to joining the LPGA in February 2000, Galloway was a partner in the Cincinnati-based firm of Taft, Stettinius & Hollister, where she was a member of the business and finance department. For two years prior to her Taft position, Galloway was an associate for Louisville-based Greenebaum, Doll & McDonald in the real estate and finance department.
A classic SI cover this week, with Robert Beck's shot of Tiger wrapping his 4-iron around an Augusta National Christmas tree.
Golf World's J.D. Cuban also captured a fantastic sequence of the same moment, but from the side (viewable here along with other Round 4 images).


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Pronunciation: /lōZH /
1A private box or enclosure in a theater.
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I order a Red Velvet cake and it was really good. I will placing more orders with Patty Cakes!
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I order a Red Velvet cake and it was really good. I will placing more orders with Patty Cakes!
i read the reviews for Patty's Cakes and they were so good that I wasn't sure they could be true. But they are!
Made the mistake of stopping by on a Monday, sorry, we're closed. Had to come back on Tuesday for the yummiest cupcakes. My favorites are anything chocolate and they make the very best. I'll be back to get more.
My Boyfriend brings me the Red Velvet Cupcake with cream cheese filling & frosting! Its great! Im addicted!
And if it's wrong to say a cupcake changed your life, then I don'tever want to be right. It was rich and moist, amazing and addicting and all topped with chocolate chip mousse that I swear tasted like ice cream. Combine that with great service and Patty's is my new favorite dessert place.
I don't understand why Patty's Cakes isn't as known as Sprinkles Cupcakes…I mean her cupcakes are better than those main stream shops! Especially her cakeballs!!!!
But that's not why I'm here. I came to Patty's cake cause I needed a wedding cake!!! And I got the most amazing wedding cake EVER – I mean seriously – there were no leftovers at the wedding! NOTHING! I'm so glad the top tier was saved for us…I even had a few bites of it when I got home before freezing it for our anniversary. *blush*
Her cake tasted homemade and that is what we were looking for. And it was moist!!!! But the best part was that her service was amazing! I remember coming to their shop stressed and just feeling down and defeated from wedding planning activities but somehow I always left her bakery feeling positive and excited for the wedding!
I posted a picture of our cake – check it out!!!
Our experience with Patty's Cakes couldn't have been better! We had a vision of a wedding cake with a tree on it, and Patty made us a beautiful cake exactly as we were envisioning! The cake was delicious too! Patty and her co-worker Philip were two of the nicest people we worked with while planning our wedding.
My favorite nail tech., Tasha D., sent me
over after getting my nails done (as it is right around
the corner from Glo Salon) to try a cupcake. I wanted to
try a vanilla one but they had just ran out when I went
sooo, I tried a cake ball and was not disappointed. It
was simply delicious. I was impressed to hear, while I
was there, that they ice your cupcake freshly when you
order it so their cupcakes are not just sitting around
already iced waiting for someone to buy them! Can't wait
to go back next time I get my nails done & I'm around
there. :)
I first heard about Patty's while watching the news. I
love cupcakes so I sent my daughter to get some. I was
amazed at the taste of these delicious cupcakes. They
were perfectly moist and delicious. My favorite was the
chocolate with the rasberry chambord mousse. Can you say
heaven? The lemon one was also to die for! I'll have to
head over there again very soon!
These cupcakes are simply amazing!! I was a skeptic, as
I have always liked Sprinkles, but wow!! My favorite is
the Red Velvet. The cake is nice and moist, and the
frosting is pure heaven!! If you're in the mood for
something smaller, the cake balls are just as delicious!
I'll definitely be a loyal customer from here on out
our work bought some for halloween they were so good:-)
My daughter insisted we visit a cup cake place while she
visited. It was nice to know Patty's Cakes was a few
blocks away.
My fist thought was geez do we really need to do this?
Well, so off we go to Patty's Cakes. I have to tell you
I am glad we went. These little cake are soooooo fresh
and tasty. I could eat myself into oblivion eating each
flavor and type. Each one of them are fabulous!
I must first warn you though, you cannot eat just six of
The best cupcakes in town. The moistens
most flavorful cake's too!! We've been to other cupcake
shops but nothing beats Patty
This was the first time I used Patty's cakes. I was
having a baby dedication/daughter going away event. The
staff help me come up with unique cake decorations that
related to both events.
Everyone commented on how wonderful the cake was. It was
red velvet with cream cheese filling. It was not too
sweet, just right.
I will definitely use Patty's Cakes in the future.
Thank you Pattty and staff.
WARNING!!! This place is sooooo wrong!!! It is wrong
because these little fresh gems are beyond sooooooo
tasty!!!! Good luck trying to eat just six of them!!!
They are fresh full flavored and fantastic! BEWARE! When
you go in to Pattys you will be overcome by this awesome
aroma of Patty's goodies! OK, I warned you!! Don't blame
me when you get addicted to this awesomness!! I must try
them all again and again!!! I believe the place should
be outlawed, since everything that is fun and decadant
is!!! I can hear the cupcakes calling out to me at
night………… Come to me, come to me, come to me,
come to me, you know you want me……..you cannot
resist.. Resistance is futile!!!!
Best cupcakes in town, my whole family loves them. A must stop while in California.
My husband brought home Patty's cupcakes for my birthday. Those were the best cupcakes ever. I would highly recommend Patty's cupcakes
I have been looking around for a place to order my daughters first birthday cake. I found this place and i am so happy that i did. Patty is such a friendly person that she makes you feel like family. Her store is so cute and inviting. I ordered the three quarter sheet cake with marble cake and chocolate chip cream filling. OMG it was amazing. So moist and not heavy at all. My daughters theme was minnie mouse and patty did an amazing job, it was what i wanted. The inside was even pink instead of white and brown it was pink and brown. Everyone was so suprised. I also ordered the big cupcake cake with red velvet and cream cheese, delicious. I could of literally ate the entire thing. I will defiantly come back for more occasions and I will defiantly recommend Pattys cakes.
The chocolate chambord (cupcake), pumpkin choco chip (cupcake) and lemon cake ball were amazing! I love how the cupcakes were not overly sweet, and the frosting was light and fluffy. that was the type of cupcake i was looking for!
SO GOOD! I had the peanut butter chocolate… And I
died. I couldn't eat it in front of friends because I
wanted to devour it. Also the frosting is to die for.
It's not the cheap frosting, like the kind you get on
costco cakes. And the best part! They inject the
cupcake with MORE Butter cream frosting. Love this
Amazing!!!! I had red velvet with choc chip frosting, Elvis, white with raspberry moouse and a choc with vanilla… All of them were to die for!!! Most definitely making another trip soon!!
I fell in love with the red velvet and now the lemon drop! I sent my co-worker and now she is addicted to the chocolate! Now its time for the cake balls! *yummy*
I heard about Patty's on the News. My friend was
celebrating a birthday and I saw that Patty's makes an
Elvis cupcake, well my friend just loves Elvis. So I
had to get it for her. I live in Orange and I would
drive to Fullerton any time day or night for a Patty's
cupcake. Thank you so very much. Keep up the great
i tried patty's cakes a couple weeks ago after reading
about them while visiting the dentist. it turned out
they were within a few miles of my dentist and when i
yelped them it gave me a free cupcake with a purchase.
i did buy three and my husband and i split each in half
so we could taste all of them. we found them to be
delicious and will be going back for more when we are
in the area.
I love Patty's Cakes. Today I treated
myself to a chocolate cupcake with Fudge and caramel
frosting with a sprinkling of sea salt. OMG.
All this year I have presented friends and family with
a special Patty's Cupcake for their birthday, I am
thinking this is a new tradition.
Another very special item that I treasure about Patty's
Cakes, is that they sell Hand Made Greeting Cards. I
have presented many people with these " one of a kind"
cards. Check them out next time you visit to fill your
craving for a cupcake.
Patty's cupcakes are awesome! The cake is moist and
fluffy. The frosting is perfectly light. It is a
perfect balance of cake to frosting. I have to say,
they are the best cupcakes in orange county. Definitely
worth seeking out! Delicious!
I purchased 6 cupcakes and each and every single one of them were delicious, very unique, and tasted wonderful. I could tell that each cupcake was designed with quality and care. I enjoyed the different flavors. In addition, the cake was super moist and the frosting tasted great! I would definitely come here again and highly recommend trying their cupcakes, at least. I also loved how their was surprise filling in the middle of each cupcake!
i read the reviews for Patty's Cakes and
they were so good that I wasn't sure they could be
true. But they are!
I recently got married and everyone loved the cake!
EVERYONE!!! (And my family is really big on sweets).
Try them, you'll love them. And their cupcakes are
super yummy too (I like the chocolate salted carmel
one, so good!)
Thank you Patty's Cakes! You were so helpful and
wonderful! I couldn't be happier!
Made the mistake of stopping by on a Monday, sorry,
we're closed. Had to come back on Tuesday for the
yummiest cupcakes. My favorites are anything chocolate
and they make the very best. I'll be back to get more.
I ordered a Red Velvet cake and it was really good. I will be
placing more orders with Patty Cakes!
I go to Patty's every other day!! great
food and great service.. and if your lucky you can run
into a few movie stars
My name is Allen and I love cupcakes especially from here! I come here every wednesday to get a cup cake! CUPCAKE WEDNESDAYS!!!! YUM!
Oh my goodness I love patty's cakes! The cream cheese frosting gives me tingles and the cake just melts in your mouth! As far as cupcakes go, this is the place to get em. Forget the grocery store, support your local bakery and get down there!
The cake of my cupcake was the best I have ever had and I eat a lot of cupcakes. :) The raspberry chambord frosting was delicious and actually tasted like raspberry which could've disappeared in the chambord. You must visit!!!! By the way, Patty only gets four stars because my mother is the only person in the world who gets five. Haha.
Patty's cakes has the best red velvet cupcakes I've ever had, I crave them every day! In fact, I'm gonna go grab one right now. And I'm gonna pick up some cake balls for my gf while I'm at it. Mmmm cake balls… :)
Patty's cake balls are delicious! Once you have one you want to go back for more! :) My daughter LOVES this place.
My 1st trip to Patty's last week was in a desperate search to find a birthday cake for a party that was starting in less than 2 hrs. I was feeling a little out of luck when they had nothing in their glass counters, but they pointed to the menus on the wall and told me they could have a cake or cupcakes ready in less than 10 minutes. I was really impressed by all the flavors so I ordered a dozen cupcakes, 4 different kinds. When they brought out the pink box with 12 beautifully decorated cupcakes I was amazed how beautiful they were. When we served up the cupcakes for the party, all 8 guests wanted to try more than just one 1 cupcake each. I was sorry we didn't buy more. My family has decided to get several dozen for Christmas dessert as we are looking forward to trying Patty's holiday flavors.
Patty's is now our family favorite and we will be visiting often.
Thank you for your fast and friendly services. Your creations are as tasty as they are beautiful!
Okay I am now reviewing for the White w/ Coconut cupcake. It was good and moist. Love the coconut toppings, that add to it. But it wasn't as great as the red velvet that leaves a taste in your mouth that makes you want to go back for more. But i'd recommend to try if you are a white cake type of person.
The cake balls are so yummy! I think it will be a family outing a few times a month. :)
So I need to comment on two things. First being their service: Outstanding! My husband and I knew we wanted cupcakes instead of a cake for our wedding. We had been to a few local places and hadn't been wowed, but did have a place in mind we were going to go with. We were out in the Fullerton area several months before the wedding and saw Patty's Cakes and decided to go in so we could cure our sweet tooth and get a cupcake. Phillip was so helpful and recommended a couple flavors for us to try. They were hands-down the best cupcakes I had ever had. My husband and I decided right in the store that we would book Patty's Cakes for our wedding. The prices were the best we had been quoted and the cakes tasted even better. Phillip and I corresponded over email several times and he was always prompt and courteous. One of the nicest guys ever!
Secondly, the cakes were amazing! We ordered four different flavors of cupcakes and a small cake for my husband and I to cut into, and each and every one was beautiful and tasty! I got sooooo many compliments on my cupcakes, and one of my friends even booked with Patty's Cakes for her wedding after tasting them.
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We have relatively sluggish job growth, weak consumer spending, and protracted weakness in the housing market. Although it does not seem that any of these things are going to pick up substantially anytime soon, it doesn't seem as if we are on the verge of an utter collapse either. With that in mind, the U.S. economy will likely continue to grow, but at a trimmed pace from what we've seen recently. Here is one way to hunt for stocks in this environment.
The Hunt
Consumer spending has eased a bit lately. Friday's labor statistics show that the economy continues to add jobs, but at a slower pace, and, absent a significant improvement anytime soon, this could place further pressure on consumer spending. Current fiscal and monetary policy suggests that a catalyst to considerably propel growth ahead of its recent pace is lacking, as the present stimuli have already been in place for a while. Given those factors, we do not necessarily want to focus on consumer-oriented companies when looking for stocks. As part of the stock-screening process, we want to omit consumer cyclicals. Note that we are still permitting non-cyclicals.
Given the weakness in the real estate market, as well as potential issues arising from the soft labor market, we also want to exclude financials. Small regional banks have experienced a lot of pain in recent years. Although the pace of bank closures has slowed dramatically, and this might be a good time to gain more exposure to that market, we're going to skip it and all other financials for now.
Conglomerates are large companies that have exposure to many different parts of the economy. If we were looking to place a bet on economic growth, we would want some exposure to conglomerates. At this point, though, we'll pass. So, we omit conglomerates as well.
At this point, we can focus on companies that are in better defensive positions. Specifically, we want companies that have relatively less debt than their competitors. There is a plethora of financial research on the optimal debt level maximizing shareholder wealth. If these were ordinary times, then we might be more willing to stomach higher debt levels. Given the propensity for growth to slow, we don't want to take a chance with a potentially overburdened company. Thus, we focus on companies where the debt to equity ratio is less than the industry average.
As the economy recovered over the last year, some companies may have been tempted into taking on more debt to expand. This could have happened on an industry-wide basis, so that the industry average debt level rose. Therefore, simply focusing on companies with below-average debt-to-equity ratios is not sufficient. We also want to focus on companies that have been reducing their own debt burden. So, we focus on companies where the debt-to-equity ratio is less than it was a year ago.
In a slow-growth environment, corporate sales can still be increasing, just not all that quickly. This leads us to a couple of important points. First, we want to focus on the companies where more of that top-line growth will translate into earnings, so we filter for companies where the operating margin is better than the industry average. Second, given that it will likely be more difficult for companies to considerably grow their revenue, we want to focus on the firms that have some history of doing a good job, particularly relative to their competitors. We accomplish this in a couple of steps. One, we filter for companies where revenue growth is faster than industry median over the last quarter, year, and five years. Two, we screen for companies where the pace of revenue growth has been accelerating. More specifically, we filter for companies where revenue growth over the trailing twelve months is faster than the three-year average, and the three-year average is faster than the five-year average. Keep in mind that we do not necessarily expect these growth rates to continue. We are just using this focus on companies that might have better sales and marketing channels to more-effectively handle a challenging environment.
Valuation is also important. Arguably, companies with cheaper price tags should have less room to fall if the market takes a hit, but also have more room to climb than their peers that are valued more richly priced. For this reason, we filter for companies where the P/E ratio is less than the industry average. In this case, we are focusing on the forward earnings for both this year and next. Taking valuation a step further, we also filter for companies that have a PEG ratio of less than 1.5.
Fully recognizing that there are no guarantees, we would still like some reason to believe that the company will do well in the future. We turn to analyst forecasts and focus on companies where next year's EPS estimate is higher than this year's estimate.
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Definition of 'Supply'
A fundamental economic concept that describes the total amount of a specific good or service that is available to consumers. Supply can relate to the amount available at a specific price or the amount available across a range of prices if displayed on a graph. This relates closely to the demand for a good or service at a specific price; all else being equal, the supply provided by producers will rise if the price rises because all firms look to maximize profits.
Investopedia explains 'Supply'
Supply and demand trends form the basis of the modern economy. Each specific good or service will have its own supply and demand patterns based on price, utility and personal preference. If people demand a good and are willing to pay more for it, producers will add to the supply. As the supply increases, the price will fall given the same level of demand. Ideally, markets will reach a point of equilibrium where the supply equals the demand (no excess supply and no shortages) for a given price point; at this point ,consumer utility and producer profits are maximized.


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Windows 8.1 on a MacBook Air: thoughts?
I'm increasingly running into an issue at work, where I do technical support for end users on a daily basis. Customers frequently ask me for laptop recommendations, and I'm always having to weigh my love for the naked Windows operating system, coupled with my disgust for the vast, vast majority of hardware available to run it. Acer, Dell, and Samsung have made some interesting strides in making better hardware of late, but none of them seems to quite fit the bill for something I can simply recommend to anyone looking for an unambiguously great notebook to run Windows. If Microsoft can ever be convinced to just make its own "Surface Book," or whatever, that may solve the issue once and for all. Until then, I feel stuck on recommendations between a bunch of "close but no cigar" solutions, particularly when it comes to industrial design.
To that end, I'd be very interested to hear from those using the MBA+Windows combo on how it works for you. In particular, i'm interested in how the battery life compares to running OS X on the machine, and how well the trackpad works. Is the stunning ID worth the tradeoffs? Are there substantial tradeoffs? In particular, if you've also used, for example, a new XPS 13, or an Aspire S7, I'd love to hear your thoughts comparing these machines.
I also wouldn't mind hearing from you if you've used any Apple laptop to run Windows 8, but the 2013 MBA is especially interesting.
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Harry Styles Look-alike Claims 'There's a Lot of Jealousy' [VIDEO]
25-year-old Aron Dale dropped out of college in order to pursue his career as a Harry Styles lookalike full-time. Whoa.
25-year-old Aron Dale dropped out of college in order to pursue his career as a Harry Styles lookalike full-time. Whoa.
In our top story tonight...
Christina Aguilera, who gave birth to a baby girl on Saturday (Aug. 16), has officially released her daughter's name, Summer Rain Rutler!
Seriously, don't try this one at home!
Sometimes a good idea can go way too far.
The Ice Bucket Challenge become an internet sensation, rasing millions of dollars and awareness of ALS and all in just a few short weeks
Seriously, no wonder so many women want to be with a Maine man! When you have two such fine representatives like a light house keeper and a lumberjack, well, let's just say there's a reason that women are throwing themselves at Maine men! Ladies
He doesn't need a 'Suit & Tie' to prove he's a class act!
According to ABC News, while performing in San Jose, Calif. earlier this week, Justin Timberlake sang 'Happy Birthday' to 8-year-old Julian Delan - and he got 25,000 fans to join him!
A trio of newcomers entered the box office arena this weekend, but two battle-hardened and grizzled champions kept them at bay, holding onto the top two spots and making it look easy. Sorry, newbies: This top 10 still belongs to 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' and 'Guardians of the Galaxy.'
It's a girl for Christina Aguilera!
The 33-year-old singer gave birth to a baby girl on Saturday, Aug. 16, according to Us Weekly. Aguilera underwent a C-section at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Liam Payne busted out a verse of Michael Jackson's 'The Way You Make Me Feel' at a recent One Direction concert, and he totally kills it! Watch the video here.
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My Kingdom for the Princess II
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Breakthrough in Electricity-Producing Microbe 177
from the devil-in-the-dark dept.
We don't have enough shit over here? we don't need electricity over here?
Why can't we use that technology to make the water treatment plants produce electricity while they also treat our wastes?Â
As someone who helps to design and manufacture medical devices, I have no doubt that they could be made safely. That said, I doubt I'd be first in line to get one. I think even our current battery technology is sufficient for most implants. Of course, that doesn't mean we shouldn't strive to improve.
If the technology works out, I do look forward to a home septic system that produces power for me AND saves me from tearing up my yard. (Wishful thinking, yes, but cool nonetheless.)
Anyway, regardless of whether this technology becomes a commercial success, this kind of stuff could/will be very useful down the road. Great work.
The Geobacter biofilm's "fortuitous" electron-transferring skill, the product of natural selection, suggested a pathway to Lovley - a way he might use selective pressure to increase its capacity to produce power. He and colleagues grew Geobacter as usual on a graphite electrode, providing acetate as food and allowing a colony to form the biologically active slime, or biofilm where electron transfer takes place across the nanowires. But for this new experiment they added a tiny, 400-millivolt "pushback" current in the electrode that forced Geobacter to press harder to get rid of its electrons.
The result of providing a more challenging environment, within five short months, Lovley notes, was evolution of a beefed-up microorganism that can press at least eight times more electric current across the electrode than the original strain. âoeI'm really happy with this outcome," the microbiologist notes. "It's exceptionally fast feedback to us and a very satisfying result." He adds, "I'm still a little amazed that they make electricity, but I'm happy to be exploring how to harness that ability. I'm sure there'll be applications developed in the future that we canâ(TM)t even envision right now."
That's halfway down in the article.
You should try reading things before you try to debunk them. The environment will be created to get the most electricity out of the little microbes, and probably sealed off and not thrown in the dirt. I imagine there may even be filters in place where the waste comes into make sure that any natural predators are weakened or killed to continue allowing the organisms to thrive.
And they have been studying this organism since 1987, and examining it for electrical production since 2002. I'm glad you're skeptical, but not glad that you're commenting on something you didn't even bother to read.
... what's to stop the microbes from evolving/adapting BACK to the lower output when they're placed in a rich environment (fuel cell, whatever) again? Stupid researchers... they forget that mutation doesn't only occur when they want it to occur and not only in the fashion they desire.
[sarcasm]You're right. All this research is useless. We should just give up.[/sarcasm]
I feel like I say this constantly, but I just can't help myself here...
Just because you don't see a benefit doesn't mean there isn't one. Just because the technology doesn't instantly save humanity from all of its mistakes doesn't mean it's not worthwhile. Even research that never directly leads to a useful commercial application is helpful. Tons of advances have come sideways out of unrelated research. (Also, knowledge for the sake of knowledge is a choice many scientists make and there's nothing wrong with it.)
If you can't see past your own life, please get away from mine.
We get at least one of these stories a week on
1. No "Alternate" Energy source is believed to be capable of producing a sizable fraction of our current energy needs at competitive rates in the next twenty years. Wind and solar are only popular in areas with massive government subsidy because they aren't cost effective on their own. And any attempt to scale either to carry large percentages of the grid will only make those issues clear and reveal more problems. Hydrogen is itself 'clean' but none of the sources are easy to tap in a clean way with one politically unacceptable (Nuke power) exception. Biofuels create egoboo for greens in small quantities but lead to famine when scaled up.
2. To obtain oil we are sending a large share of our wealth to people who are using it to destroy our civilization. This is a very bad idea.
3. The greens might have a point with the whole AGW thing. And even if their math and models are all wet it is likely we are having SOME effect somewhere with all this drilling, extracting and burning of fossil fuels.
4. Fusion has been thirty years off for the last forty years.
We really need to have a hard look at those realities, stop dreaming of a painless solution and start looking at options that might actually be able to help in the next twenty years.
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Vatican Letter for World Day of Prayer for Sanctification of Priests
Sent by the Prefect of the Congregation for Clergy
VATICAN CITY, JUNE 26, 2003 - Here is a translation of a letter that Cardinal Dar�o Castrill�n Hoyos, prefect of the Vatican Congregation for Clergy, sent on the occasion of the World Day of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests, which will be observed this Friday, solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
The feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus is an invitation for us to contemplate the love which unceasingly flows from Christ and spreads through the whole human race through "the gift par excellence" which is the Eucharist. Pope John Paul II's recent encyclical draws our attention to the completely exceptional importance of this gift. The divine gift is given in a very special way to us priests. In receiving that gift, we bear responsibility for the efficacy of the Eucharist in the world.
The Call of Faith
At every celebration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, having consecrated bread and wine so that they may become the Body and Blood of Christ, the priest proclaims: "The Mystery of Faith." Here we are placed before a miracle which evinces adoration. To the material eye, nothing appears changed. In his encyclical, the Holy Father expresses his desire to be with us "in adoration before this Mystery: this great Mystery, this Mystery of Mercy" (11). He adds: "What more could Jesus have done for us? Truly, in the Eucharist, he shows us a love which goes 'to the end' (cf. Jn 13:1), a love which knows no measure."
The Mass is the memorial of the sacrifice of the Cross. The Church constantly draws her life from the redeeming sacrifice; she approaches it not only through faith-filled remembrance, but also through actual contact, since this sacrifice is made present ever anew, sacramentally perpetuated, in every community which offers it at the hands of the ordained minister. The Eucharist thus applies to today's men and women the reconciliation obtained once and for all by Christ for mankind in every age. Indeed, "the sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the Eucharist are one single sacrifice" (12).
The Eucharist is a sacrifice in the proper sense of the term. Firstly, it is the gift of Christ to the Father. It is a "sacrifice that the Father accepted, giving, in return for the total self-giving of his Son, who became obedient unto death (Phil 2:8), his own paternal gift, that is to say, the grant of new immortal life in the resurrection. In giving his own sacrifice to the Church, Christ has also made his own the spiritual sacrifice of the Church, which is called to offer herself in union with the sacrifice of Christ" (13).
More particularly, the Supreme Pontiff emphasizes that "the Eucharistic Sacrifice makes present not only the mystery of the Savior's passion and death, but also the mystery of the resurrection which crowns his sacrifice. It is as the living and risen One that Christ can become, in the Eucharist, the 'bread of life' (Jn 6:35, 48), the 'living bread' (Jn 6:51)."
The offering of the sacrifice is therefore the source of new life. The saving efficacy of the sacrifice is fully realized when the Lord's Body and Blood are received in communion: "we receive the One who offered himself for, we receive his body which he gave for us on the Cross and his blood which he 'poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins'" (Mt 26:28).
"Through communion with his Body and Blood, Christ also grants us his Spirit (17): grant that we who are nourished by his Body and Blood may be filled with his Holy Spirit so that we may become one body, one spirit in Christ. Thus, by the gift of his Body and Blood, Christ increases within us the gift of his Spirit, already poured out in Baptism and bestowed as a 'seal' in the Sacrament of Confirmation."
Moreover, the words "until you come in glory" affords us the opportunity better to discover the eschatological implications of the Eucharist: "the Eucharist is a straining towards the goal, a foretaste of the fullness of joy promised by Christ (cf. Jn 15:11): it is in a certain sense the anticipation of heaven, 'the pledge of future glory.'"
These horizons which open on to communion with the heavenly Church should always be before our hearts and minds. While they may appear distant, they do inspire "our sense of responsibility for this world," "and plants a seed of living hope in our commitment to the work before us" (20).
The call to this sense of responsibility is valid for everyone. For us priests, however, it is especially resonant. Every Eucharistic celebration is bound to awaken to conscience of those who partake in it. For the priest, it awakens his responsibility towards a world ...
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The entertaining bustle of Fremont Street Experience is serving as an ideal backdrop for a free CPR training session being offered on Wednesday.
Las Vegas Fire and Rescue and the American Heart Association are administering a hands-only CPR training class from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Fourth and Fremont streets, in front of the Slotzilla structure.
Attendees of the short classes will be given a free CPR training kit, valued at $35.
Organizers noted the public event will be using the Bee Gees song Stayin' Alive as a guideline to the chest compressions. They explain the song, which is at 100 beats per minute, has the rate at which you the compression should made in the technique.
Organizers also noted the importance of CPR training as nearly 360,000 Americans suffer cardiac arrests away from the hospital each year. About 90 percent of those patients die because they don't receive immediate CPR.
Wednesday's offering follows the city of Las Vegas' launch of a mobile phone application that connects CPR-trained people to those in need of the life-saving technique.
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WILLMAR -- Willmar won 10 events, including all three relays, to beat St. Cloud Apollo 103-81 in Central Lakes Conference swimming and diving action Thursday.
Michael McLain and Ross Swartz won two events each. McLain was first in the 200-meter individual medley in 2:17.37 and in the 500 freestyle in 5:32.62. Swartz won the 50 freestyle in 23.74 and the 100 butterfly in 1:02.91.
Willmar 103, St. Cloud Apollo 81
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It has been 10 days since we have won the Superbowl.
As the main question right now is "Can the Seahawks repeat?", each analyst or expert is expressing the need for due caution with regards to the hard decisions this FO will have to take during the off-season. It sounds like this is the Ravens' post SB dismantling last year. Rest assured, it's not.
It is common practice in the NFL that anything you can strip of a SB winner is of more value than similar other players and the hunt for cap cuts and UFA's is on. However, this Seahawks team is young, deep and has most of their assets in hand for at least another year.
Before they cries about losing this or that UFA to offers he can't refuse and we can't match lets look at it first the PC way. Lets see what we do have for sure and then evaluate the rest.
If the FO will let each and every free agent player go(and they won't) what will we have left?
Lets see -
Oline: Okung, Sweezy, Unger, Carpenter, Bowie, Bailey, Jeanpierre. No a bad group to start with before draft and add-ons.
RBs : Lynch, Turbin, Michael. I could live with that…
TE : Miller, Willson, Helfet. I could live with that too…
QB : What's his name…the short guy with the SB ring…
WRs : Rice, Harvin, Kearse, Lockette, Baldwin(RFA).
I think we could far worse…
Dline : Red, Mebane, Clemens, Avril…Brooks, Scruggs, Hill, Jesse, Boatright, Mayowa…
LBs : Smith, Wagner, K.J., Irvin.
LOB : Sherman, Maxwell, Thomas, Kam, Shead.
I think most teams have far worse…
So, the above is the absolute worse we can do.
Now, keep the above list in mind as we start making those life altering dynasty crushing decisions.
Yes, I would love Bennett, Tate, Breno and possibly Thurmond too. I know the potential loses involved but it will make us stronger. If we can, we will. If we can't get them all we'll be just fine.
I also know that we can supplement some lost talent via the draft according to what's needed and what's available.
I know we'll keep finding late round and un drafted gems because it's less about the gem and more about the way we train them to be gems.
Maybe we can keep some of the minimum veteran contract players and I have a feeling that if we can't, there would be other valued vets ready to take a similar contract and play with a championship caliber team. Life in free agency veteran world is not as rossy as it used to be.
All in all, as I look at our absolute worse roster and realize it will only get better then that, I feel calm and safe. Whatever "hard decisions" will be taken I know comes September there won't be a team in the NFL eager to face us.
Yes, the rich will only get richer. A very strange feeling for a long term hawks fan.


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Every Monday, we look back at the weekend's series and then preview the next week's series (or, in this instance, next week's lack of a series).
Breathe. Relax. You've made it this far. This is a safe place. From now until Friday, you can avoid the non-stop Russian dash-cam car crash footage that is the 2014 Texas Rangers season.
You get a week off, Ranger fans. You've earned it.
The best use of this week? Recalibrate your expectations. Celebrate the losses. Imagine reloading the team with cheap, young talent. Imagine having a no. 1 overall draft pick. Imagine the draft signing bonus pool and international signing pool that comes with it.
The team gets a five-month head start on the 2015 season while Oakland, Los Anaheim, and Seattle tighten their focus down on the games ahead of them.
The Rangers kept that focus on the present for four years. You see where it led us, ultimately.
And the end came right on time; Like dreaming of Angels, and leaving without them
The bad news? The Rangers were just outscored 33-15. The good news? Roman Mendez and Matt West are acquitting themselves well, and Jake Smolinski is so hot right now. Jake Smolinski.
The only thing I'll say about Thursday's opener is it was a historically bad start for Colby Lewis and he deserves better.
Ok I lied. I'll also say I question the wisdom behind letting Roman Mendez throw 44 pitches two days after throwing 22. I understand Ron Washington's bullpen is nearly as overworked as a migrant construction worker working on a FIFA stadium for Qatar, but Mendez's minor league career can be defined as a fragile brilliance. Mendez throwing 91 pitches over 5 days is worrisome; especially worrisome since as a new guy, he's more likely to say "Sure yeah I can go, I feel great," instead of "I'm really kind of a one-inning guy right now?"
Chris Gimenez, though, let's let that guy pitch some more. I'm a literal actual sucker for position players pitching and not being Jose Canseco-bad at it.
On Friday, Nick Tepesch made a quality start. It probably deserved a standing ovation. Unfortunately, Garret Richards was on the mound for the Angels, and he met Tepesch's 6 IP / 3 ER performance with seven innings of shutout ball.
In Saturday's game, starter Miles Mikolas was gifted with a two-run lead in the third after Roogie Odor and Shin-Soo Choo each drove in a run in the bottom of the second. Mikolas held that lead into the sixth but then things exploded and he left with five runs across (four earned). Mikolas is an interesting guy and he might be something of an innings sponge at the big league level at some point; that point isn't exactly right now though. Mikolas' ERA is 10.05, which is about double the point where you start thinking it's bad.
Scott Baker had been something of a revelation for the Rangers; while his contributions hadn't been great, he was able to save the bullpen several times and keep guys like Chris Gimenez off the mound. On Sunday, he allowed 10 runners while getting 12 outs. The bullpen allowed five runs over the five innings Baker didn't give them. But let's not talk about that horror show; let's talk about the horrorshow Joey Gallo inflicted on the International Futures Team; specifically, the 419 foot home run Gallo hit off of Astros prospect Michael Feliz. The idea of Gallo up in September has gone from insane at the beginning of the year to almost a foregone conclusion. That's partially due to the development Gallo has shown this year, and partially due to the lack of development the big league club has shown.
Fun fact: a crawl during the Futures Game called Gallo's power a 75. It is not an 85. His raw power was probably an 80 as a high school junior. If that's not 80, what is? And can we harness it to power our society?
Then again with the way Jake Smolinski is hitting, maybe a late season renaissance is in order for the team and ahahahahaha I can't even type that without laughing and crying a tiny bit.
You'll be there, when everyone is sane; do do do, the carnival's closed down
The Rangers have five days off punctuated only by Yu Darvish and Adrian Beltre participating in All-Star festivities in Minnesota. This is Derek Jeter's last All-Star game, so you might want to check it out because I doubt anyone's going to point that out or talk about that Derek Jeter's career has quietly been pretty good.
Former Rangers Nelson Cruz, Koji Uehara, and Ian Kinsler will also be there to entertain and or annoy you with their happiness and success and teams that don't have a revolving door of minor league grinders playing every night.
Remember also the winner of the All-Star Game hosts the World Series because Bud Selig is literally a monster made out of terrible ideas and hatred for fun and common sense.
See you in the second half!
Joseph Ursery can be found here and on twitter.com at @thejoeursery. His main interests include fatherhood, craft beer, facial hair, and twenty-year-old middle infielders with patience and power. Oh, and cover songs, too. He really likes cover songs. "No particular reason why," he says, but WFAA feels like there's more to this story.


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UFC middleweight contender Michael Bisping is a lot of things to a lot of people, but no one can deny that he's a shrewd businessman. He understands exactly how to make the most money in MMA, and has done very well for himself despite never even fighting for a title in his career to date. In a recent online chat with Yahoo Sports, Bisping was asked about another much-debated topic in the business of MMA - superfights (via MMA Weekly):
"It is a business and I think Anderson vs. GSP would be astronomical numbers," said Bisping. "I think Jones vs. JDS (Junior dos Santos) would be awesome too. Everyone wants to see champ vs. champ."
Anderson Silva vs. Georges St. Pierre appears to be closer than ever to going down, but Jon Jones vs. Junior dos Santos is pretty far off. Nonetheless, Bisping gave his prediction for each fight,, and a possible bout between Anderson and Jones:
"I think Anderson beats GSP and Jon Jones; and JDS beats Jones."
With Bisping usually pushing the idea of himself facing Silva, it's nice to see him acknowledge that a bout with GSP is the bigger fight. I don't agree with either of his predictions, but it makes for a fun debate nonetheless.


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It has been an excellent three months in Guatemala, with incredible exam results and investments being made on our sustainable income plans, like Plan Moo (income from milk). Over the next few months we intend to invest more in Plan Pollo (eggs) as well as more cows which eventually will cover many of our day-to-day costs.
Due to water shortages we built an underground water tank which will now ensure daily water one of our schools. With two more sets of exams to go, Independence Day, Day of the Child and more sustainable plans, the next few months are very busy. Thankyou for all your support now and in the future.
We have launched our Gift For Good, where for a donation of just $35 you will receive a hand-made fabric purse and also feed one child for the rest of the school year, definitely the perfect Gift For Good! Please follow this link or the link at the bottom of this report to make a difference.
A fantastic few months in Itzapa and Santa María. Excellent results in our first set of exams with our ten 14 local teachers shining in their education roles. Semana Santa (Easter) was celebrated with our own procession to keep up tradition, being open to all. Construction in Santa María continues at pace and should be finished in the next month. Plan Moo was officially started with the purchase of our first cows, and one has already given birth to a beautiful female calf, to ensure progression and sustainability. Plan Moo involves families receiving a cow and the income from the sales of milk are shared between the family and the school's runing costs.
Much to come in the next few months, with more exams, further Plan Moo purchases and construction. Keep in touch and please do donate to out Gift For Good appeal, cheers
As we swiftly move into February all our projects are now back up and running after the holidays and we can eagerly look ahead to providing yet more education, employment and daily food and fruit to almost 1000 children across Latin America.
In Guatemala the new school year started in January in Itzapa and Santa María where we have increased the number of local teachers we employ, most of whom have been through our projects over the past years. We hope to supplement the food program, as well as provide better and more educational materials that will improve further the level of education we can provide.
It is thanks and testimony of your support during these past years, and years to come, that we can continue the projects, getting better each year and providing an education for these communities that had little chance or opportunity.
In 2014, we will be holding three charity challenges in Guatemala as well, so if you fancy heading down, seeing the projects and raising funds by challenging yourself, please see our website on http://www.thephoenixprojects.org/donate-now/challenges/
Thank you for your continued support during 2014!
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Hope you are well. As the year draws to an end we wanted to send you a quick update of our main successes from the past ten months, to take a moment to reflect upon exactly what your support has achieved.
This year, across all of our projects, we accepted more students into the schools and are currently supporting over 1,000 children, handing out over 250,000 pieces of fruit, 35,000 pieces of bread and over 100,000 hot meals to keep them warm, full up and nourished!
We have kept over 50 locals in work with 30 of them teaching the children over 28,000 teaching hours in classrooms that have been built and refurbished. On top of that, 30 of our old students have graduated and are now new teachers, ready to educate the world!
Our vital sustainable plans are going really well; Plan Café in Honduras will have its first crop later this year, Plan Moo continues to support secondary school students in Ecuador and new plans, Plan Arveja in Santa Maria and Plan Papa in Ecuador, have started this year!
We have also had some wonderful volunteers building stoves, teaching, painting and helping out throughout the year. And of course YOU, supporting every one of these children get the start in life they deserve. Thank you.
Not bad huh? We will be in touch next week with some exciting Christmas news, but for now pat yourselves on the back and congratulate yourselves for the support you have given us over the last ten months and remember how important your continuing support is for these wonderful children.
Thank you
Hi there Massie Family!
At Phoenix, we believe education is more than just teaching the basic curriculum, we believe it is also about showing the children what they can do with that education, where it will take them and what exciting opportunities there are when you have a good basis of education.
Recently, we were able to use some of the funds raised from our generous donors to take our older English students on a school trip to Antigua. Antigua is about an hour away from their town and some of them had never been before so were really excited! The reason they went was because a lot of people from smaller towns have come to Antigua and found very good jobs in tourism by having an excellent level of English. They went to six different places including banks, adventure shops, travel agents, a restaurant and an Art Gallery, all places where English is used in the work, and had to speak in English!!
Their faces lit up with excitement as they understood just where education could take them and what exciting and interesting work they could find if they studied hard. A lot of them also came away with some offers of work experience when they finished school.
A lot of the children in the school don't have any knowledge of where thier education can take them, they have only seen thier their families work in the fields and in the home, they don't understand what opportunities are out there! On the way home they couldn't stop chatting about what they want to do and how hard they were going to study to get there!!
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Welcome, brawny reader to the first chapter of The Mighty Gorebrah's Mighty Dinner Party! When he's not Barbarianing around the place, Gorebrah loves to cook tasty dishes for his friends and enemies alike (the enemies find it a bit odd at first, but a free meal's a free meal).
Click and open each page in a new window to see it at its full, hefty glory. More adventures with Gorebrah soon!