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Everyday life is filled with interactions between superiors and subordinates. Whether you are up or down the food chain, you have to work with someone who has either more or less power than you. Join Columbia University Professor Peter Coleman, as we discuss his new book Making Conflict Work to learn what you can do in these difficult situations.

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Driftwood Bay, Book 3
Melissa Sonnier is desperate to find her own happily ever after as she helps her sister celebrate her beach wedding in Driftwood Bay, but it's difficult to move on and find love when she can't let go of Judson Duvall, a boy she's loved since middle school, even after their last break up in their on again, off again relationship. But as she watches her sister exchange her sacred vows, she sees Judson, waiting for her asking for one last chance. He vows he's changed. Can she risk her heart one last time?
After his latest rodeo related injury Judson Duvall is ready to hang up his spurs and always a man of action, defies doctors and drives all night to reach the only woman he's ever loved. He begs for one last chance and is prepared to do anything to win back Melissa's love. He claims he's changed, but is it enough or is it too late?


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I'm absolutely impressed by how fast the questions are answered. Some guys seems to be spending all day long waiting for questions: congratulations ! Your help is very appreciated, really.
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how do you manage to be so fast?
PS: Well, I suppose SO community is really big, wow ! But Many of my questions have "regular fast answerers". So this is dedicated to them !


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POQUOSON, Va. (WTKR) — A $19 million renovation of a middle school in Virginia unearthed something priceless.
As walls started coming down at Poquoson Middle School, a piece of history saw the light of day for the first time in around 70 years.
A contractor discovered a wallet lost in the duct work in the early 1950s when the building was still a high school.
"There's a calendar from 1951; some wonderful stamps of Santa Claus from 1951. There's two pictures of people that were important to her; there's some silver coins," were the contents inside, explained Executive Director of Operations for Poquoson City Public Schools Steve Pappas.
There was only $0.85 inside. A small newspaper clipping in excellent condition inside asks God to protect all the Navy sailors during the Korean War.
Some things have held up better than others, but the wallet is mostly intact and holds stories long forgotten.
"She remembers playing basketball in the gym — put her wallet down, and then it was lost forever," said Pappas.
That is, until now.
As luck would have it, a little blue book with names and addresses tucked inside the wallet helped the district track down Ester French — whose maiden name is Diggs — 500 miles away in Beacon Falls, Connecticut.
"There was a ledge [in the gym] that I had placed my wallet on, and when I went to get it, it wasn't there, but there was a hole - opening behind that ledge - and so my wallet apparently had fallen down and gone beneath the school, and there was nothing to do about it," explained French.
She figures she lost it when she was 16 or 17 and never expected to see it again.
"It was absolutely shocking when I learned about it. Just very surprising, but interesting," said French.
She doesn't remember much of the contents inside, but now at 85, she's looking forward to flipping through the pages of the past.


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User pages
Please move your user page RichardvanderLuit to User:Nippur as per Fedora Wiki guidelines. --Ian Weller 02:59, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
> Soz, Ian, but I am confused here now
The Translation-Quick-Start-Guide clearly states:
2.9. Introducing Yourself
Once you have edit access on the wiki, create a personal page. at a URL like this: FirstnameLastname This is very useful for Fedora contributors to get to know and contact each other. |
Since i have gotten wiki edit access by signing up at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ with username nippur, i log in at the wiki as nippur, and have made a personal page as stated in 2.9 of the TQSG. Please inform me what Fedora Wiki guidelines you refer to. -Richard 13:24 19.01.2009 (GMT +1)
- I responded to your email and pointed you to Help:Editing#Introduce_yourself. I'll submit a bug against the TQSG. --Ian Weller 15:34, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
- moved my page to User:Nippur and added your note in the dutch translation of Help:Editing#Introduce_yourself
- tyvm Richard 16:43 19.01.2009 (GMT +1)
Account System/NewAccount, et al
Keep in mind that instead of copying over text from one page to another and creating a redirect by hand, you can simply use the move tab at the top of any page to get the same effect. --Ian Weller 00:39, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
Move and Rename
In het Nederlands is move of rename --> 'hernoemen' geworden
- --nippur 21:52, 13 November 2011 (UTC)


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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Rep. George Santos, who faced outrage and mockery over a litany of fabrications about his heritage, education and professional pedigree, has been charged with federal criminal offenses, two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
The charges against Santos, filed in the Eastern District of New York, remain under seal.
The people could not discuss specific details of the case and spoke to The AP on condition of anonymity.
Reached on Tuesday, Santos said, "This is news to me."
"You're the first to call me about this," he said in a brief phone interview.
The charges were first reported by CNN.
The New York Republican has admitted to lying about having Jewish ancestry, a Wall Street background, college degrees and a history as a star volleyball player. Serious questions about his finances also surfaced — including the source of what he claimed was a quickly amassed fortune despite recent financial problems, including evictions and owing thousands of dollars in back rent.
Santos has resisted calls to resign and recently announced he was running for reelection. He said his lies about his life story, which included telling people he had jobs at several global financial firms and a lavish real estate portfolio, were harmless embellishments of his resume.
Pressure on him to quit, though, has been intense. Reporters and members of the public hounded him. He was mocked on social media and late-night television. Fellow New York Republicans demanded he resign, saying he had betrayed voters and his own party with his lies.
Nassau County prosecutors and the New York attorney general's office had previously said they were looking into possible violations of the law.
Besides questions about his life story, Santos' campaign spending stoked scrutiny because of unusual payments for travel, lodging and other items.
The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center lodged a complaint with the Federal Election Commission and urged regulators to investigate Santos. The "mountain of lies" Santos propagated during the campaign about his life story and qualifications, the center said, should prompt the commission to "thoroughly investigate what appear to be equally brazen lies about how his campaign raised and spent money."
In his filings with the FEC, Santos initially said he loaned his campaign and related political action committees more than $750,000 — money he claimed came from a family company.
Yet, the wealth necessary to make those loans seems to have emerged from nowhere. In a financial disclosure statement filed with the clerk of the U.S. House in 2020, Santos said he had no assets and an annual income of $55,000.
His company, the Devolder Organization, wasn't incorporated until spring 2021. Yet last September, Santos filed another financial disclosure form reporting that this new company, incorporated in Florida, had paid him a $750,000 salary in each of the last two years, plus another $1 million to $5 million in dividends. In one interview, Santos described the Devolder Organization as a business that helped rich people buy things like yachts and aircraft.
Court records indicate Santos was the subject of three eviction proceedings in Queens between 2014 and 2017 because of unpaid rent.
Some Republicans, including those in his district, have sharply castigated Santos for his dishonesty. The Nassau County Republican Committee, which had supported his candidacy, said it would not support Santos for reelection.
Santos lost his first race for Congress in 2020 but ran again in 2022 and won in a district that is in the suburbs of Long Island and a sliver of Queens.
A local newspaper, the North Shore Leader, had raised issues about Santos' background before the election but it was not until a few weeks after the election that the depth of his duplicity became public.
The New York Times reported that companies where Santos claimed to have worked, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, had no record of him having been an employee. Baruch College, where Santos claimed to have gotten a degree in finance and economics, said he hadn't been a student.
Beyond his resume, Santos invented a life story that has also come under question, including claims that his grandparents "fled Jewish persecution in Ukraine, settled in Belgium, and again fled persecution during WWII."
During his campaign, he referred to himself as "a proud American Jew."
Confronted with questions about that story, Santos, a Roman Catholic, said he never intended to claim Jewish heritage.
The Times also uncovered records in Brazil that show Santos, when he was 19, was the subject of a criminal investigation there in 2008 over allegations he used stolen checks to buy items at a clothing shop in the city of Niteroi, which is near Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian authorities said they have reopened the case.
Associated Press writers Michael R. Sisak in New York and Lindsay Whitehurst in Washington contributed to this report.
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PerLDAP is written and maintained by a small group of LDAP fanatics, Leif Hedstrom, Michelle Hedstrom, Kevin McCarthy and also Clayton Donley. For some generic LDAP information. please follow the link to our LDAP pages. We've made the v1.4 PerLDAP documentation available as well.
PerLDAP 1.0 was released in August 1998, on the Mozilla web site. The official PerLDAP FAQ is also available from Mozilla, and you can snag a copy of the v1.2.2 source.
For easier access to PerLDAP source, please use the Mozilla CVS server to get the source directly from the tree. The module is named "PerLDAP" (duh...), but you might want to checkout the entire "mozilla/directory" tree. This gives you not only the PerLDAP module, but also the C and Java SDKs.
Leif has made a couple of presentations available on-line. The first is his invited LDAP talk given at Lisa '98, and the second presentation is an introduction to using PerLDAP.


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The Conflagration French folktale
Three years after the event in the forest, Ourson saw Violette arise in the morning pale and exhausted. She was seeking him.
"Come, come," she said, drawing him along, "I have something to say—something to relate—Oh, come!"
Ourson was much alarmed and followed her precipitately.
"What is it, dear Violette? For the love of Heaven, speak to me! What can I do for you?"
"Nothing, nothing, dear Ourson; you can do nothing—only listen to me. You remember the dream I had in my childhood, of the toad! the river! the danger! Well, last night I had this same dream again. It is terrible! terrible! Ourson, dear Ourson, your life is menaced! If you die, I will die also!"
"How! By whom is my life threatened?"
"Listen! I was sleeping and a toad—still a toad—always a toad—came to me and said:
"'The moment approaches when your dear Ourson is to resume his natural skin. To you he is to be indebted for this change. I hate him! I hate you! You shall not make each other happy! Ourson shall perish and you cannot accomplish the sacrifice which in your folly you meditate. In a few days, yes, perhaps in a few hours I shall take a signal vengeance upon you both. Good-bye—do you hear?—till we meet again!'
"I awoke, suppressed a cry which was about to issue from my lips and saw, as I saw on that day in which you saved me from the water, the hideous toad creeping upon the shutter and gazing at me menacingly. It disappeared, leaving me more dead than alive. I arose dressed myself and came to find you my brother, my friend to warn you against the vengeance of the fairy Furious and to entreat you to seek the aid of the good fairy Drolette."
Ourson listened in great alarm. He was not frightened by the fate which menaced himself—he was agitated by the sacrifice which Furious announced and which he understood but too well. The thought alone of his dear and lovely Violette being muffled up in his hideous bear's skin through devotion to him made him tremble and he preferred death. Ourson's anguish was pictured in his countenance, and Violette, who was watching him closely, threw herself upon his neck and sobbed violently.
"Alas! my brother, my dear brother, you will soon be torn from me. You, who do not know what it is to fear, now tremble. You who comfort me encourage me and sustain me in all my fears have now no word to utter to restore my failing courage. You who have combated the most terrible dangers now bow your head and are resigned to fate."
"No, Violette, it is not fear which makes me tremble—it is not fear which agitates me. It is a word which the fairy Furious has uttered, of which you do not comprehend the meaning but which I understand perfectly. The threat was addressed to you, my Violette. It is for you I tremble!"
Violette divined from this that the moment of sacrifice had come, that she was about to be called upon to keep the promise she had made to the fairy Drolette. In place of trembling and shrinking, she felt the most lively joy. She could now at last make some return for the devotion, the incessant watchful tenderness of her dear Ourson—could in her turn be useful to him. She made no response to the fears expressed by Ourson but thanked him and spoke to him more tenderly than ever before, thinking that soon perhaps she would be separated from him by death. Ourson had the same thought. They both fervently invoked the protection of the fairy Drolette. Ourson, indeed, called upon her in a loud voice but she did not respond to his appeal.
The day passed away sadly. Neither Ourson nor Violette spoke to Agnella on the subject of their disquiet for fear of aggravating her melancholy which had been constantly increasing as Ourson grew to manhood.
"Already twenty years old!" thought she. "If he persists in living in this solitude and seeing no one and in refusing to change with Violette, who asks nothing better, I am certain, I am convinced, he will wear this bear-skin till his death."
Agnella wept, often wept; but her tears brought her no remedy.
The day Violette had her frightful dream, Agnella also had a dream. The fairy Drolette had appeared to her:
"Courage, queen," she said to her, "in a few days Ourson will lose his bear's skin and you can give him his true name of Prince Marvellous."
Agnella had awaked full of hope and happiness. She redoubled her tenderness to Violette, believing that it was to her she would owe the happiness of her son.
Every one retired at night with different feelings. Violette and Ourson, full of anxiety for the future which appeared so threatening, Agnella's heart bounding with joy at that same future which appeared so near and so replete with happiness, Passerose, astonished at the melancholy of the one and the joy of the other and ignorant of the cause of both.
All slept, however. Violette after weeping profusely. Ourson after having invoked the fairy Drolette; Agnella after smiling and thinking of Ourson handsome and attractive and Passerose after saying to herself a hundred times: "But what is the matter with them all to-day?"
Scarcely an hour after all at the farm were asleep, Violette was aroused by the smell of fire and smoke. Agnella awoke at the same moment.
"Mother," said Violette, "do you not smell something?"
"The house is on fire," said Agnella. "Look what a light is round about us!"
They sprang from their beds and ran to the parlor. The flames had already taken possession of it and of the neighboring chambers.
"Ourson! Passerose!" cried Agnella.
"Ourson! Ourson!" exclaimed Violette.
Passerose sprang half clothed into the parlor.
"We are lost, madam! The flames are all through the house. The doors and windows are firmly closed—it is impossible to open them."
"My son! my son!" cried Agnella.
"My brother! my brother!" exclaimed Violette.
They ran to the doors; all their efforts to open them or the windows were ineffectual.
"Oh! my terrible dream!" murmured Violette. "Dear Ourson, adieu for ever!"
Ourson had also been awakened by the flames and smoke. He slept out of the farm-house, and near the stable. His first impulse was to run to the front of the house but notwithstanding his extraordinary strength he could not open it. One would have thought that the door would break to pieces under his efforts. It was evidently held fast by the fairy Furious.
Ourson sprang upon a ladder and passed across the flames into a granary through an open window, then descended into the room where his mother and Violette were embracing, expecting instant death. Before they had time to recognize him he seized them in his arms and cried to Passerose to follow him. He ran along the granary and descended the ladder with his mother in one arm and Violette in the other and followed by Passerose. The moment after they reached the ground in safety, the ladder and granary became a prey to the flames.
Ourson led Agnella and Violette some distance from the fire. Passerose was self-possessed: she had quite a large package of clothing which she had collected at the commencement of the fire. Agnella and Violette had escaped barefooted and in their night robes, and the clothing brought by Passerose was thus very necessary to protect them from the cold. After having thanked Ourson for saving their lives at the peril of his own they complimented Passerose upon her forethought.
"See," said Passerose, "the advantage of not losing one's senses. Whilst you two were only thinking of your Ourson, I made up this package of necessary things."
"That is true, my good Passerose; but what purpose would your package have served, if my mother and Violette had perished in the flames?"
"Oh, I knew very well that you would not allow them to be burned up alive. Is any one ever in danger when you are present? Is not this the third time you have saved Violette's life?"
Violette pressed Ourson's hands tenderly and carried them to her lips. Agnella embraced her and said:
"Dear Violette, Ourson is happy in your tenderness which fully rewards him for all he has done for you. I feel assured that on your part you would be happy to sacrifice yourself for him if an occasion offered, that only too willingly would you help him."
Before Violette could speak, Ourson said with animation:
"Mother, do not say anything to Violette of sacrificing herself for me. You know the thought alone makes me wretched."
In place of replying to Ourson, Agnella placed her hand on her forehead and cried out anxiously:
"The casket, Passerose! the casket! Have you saved the casket?"
"I forgot it, madam," said Passerose.
The countenance of Agnella expressed such regret and anxiety, that Ourson questioned her as to this precious casket which seemed to trouble her so much.
"The casket was a present of the fairy Drolette. She told me that the happiness of Violette was contained in it. It was in the wardrobe, at the foot of my bed. Alas! by what fatality did I forget it?"
She had scarcely uttered these words when the brave Ourson sprang towards the burning house and notwithstanding the tears and supplications of Agnella, Violette and Passerose, disappeared in the flames exclaiming:
"You shall have the casket, mother, or I will perish with it!"
A horrible silence followed this act of Ourson. Violette fell on her knees with her arms extended towards the burning house, Agnella with her hands clasped looked with straining eyes at the opening through which Ourson had entered while Passerose was motionless, hiding her face with her hands. Some moments passed thus and they appeared ages to the three women who were expecting a sentence of life or death.
Ourson did not reappear. The crackling of the burning wood, the flashing of the flames, increased in violence. Suddenly, a frightful noise made Violette and Agnella utter a cry of despair.
The roof, covered with flames, had fallen in and Ourson was buried under the ruins—crushed by the ruins, consumed by the fire.
The silence of death succeeded this dreadful catastrophe. The flames diminished, then died away—no sound now interrupted the despair of Agnella and Violette.
Violette had fallen into the arms of Agnella and they sobbed thus a long time in silence. Passerose contemplated the smoking ruins and wept. Poor Ourson was buried there a victim of his courage and his devotion! Agnella and Violette still wept bitterly; they appeared neither to hear nor understand what was passing around them.
"Let us leave this place," said Passerose, at last.
Agnella and Violette made no response.
Passerose tried to lead Violette away.
"Come," said she; "come, Violette, let us seek a shelter for the night—the evening fortunately is mild."
"What shelter do I want?" said Violette. "What is the evening to me or the morning? There are no more beautiful days for me! The sun will shine no more but to illumine my despair!"
"But if we remain here weeping we shall die of hunger, Violette, and in spite of the bitterest grief, we must think of the necessities of life."
"Better to die of hunger than of grief! I will not leave this place where I saw my dear Ourson for the last time—where he perished, a victim of his tenderness for us."
Passerose shrugged her shoulders; she remembered that the stable had not been burned so she ran there with all speed, milked the cow, drank a cupful of milk and tried in vain to make Agnella and Violette do the same.
Agnella rose and said to Violette in a solemn tone:
"Your grief is just, my daughter. Never did a more noble or generous heart beat in a human form than Ourson's and he loved you more than he loved himself—to spare your grief he sacrificed his happiness and his life."
Agnella now recounted to Violette the scene which preceded Ourson's birth, the power Violette had to deliver him from his deformity by accepting it for herself and Ourson's constant prayer that Violette should never be informed of the possibility of such a sacrifice.
It is easy to comprehend the feelings of loving tenderness and regret which filled the heart of Violette after this confidence and she wept more bitterly than ever.
"And now, my daughter," continued Agnella, "there remains one duty to fulfil, that is to give burial to my son. We must clear away these ruins and remove the ashes and when we have found the remains of our well-beloved Ourson——"
Sobs interrupted her speech; she could say no more.


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By late Friday morning, President Biden will have met with Pope Francis — marking the 31st time a president has met with the leader of the Catholic Church.
The convergence of the White House and the Vatican is only a tradition that began at the start of the 20th Century under President Woodrow Wilson. Even after Wilson, the next president wouldn't meet face-to-face with the pontiff again until about 40 years later.
"This is really a modern phenomenon," Shaun Casey, a professor in Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service, told NPR. Casey is also a senior fellow at the university's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs.
For Biden, whose Roman Catholicism has been a part of his public persona as well as a staple of his personal life, this meeting with Pope Francis will be both personal and formal, according to the White House.
With the Obama administration and now Biden's, "I think they discovered in Pope Francis a very willing partner to address some of these massive global issues like climate change, like refugees," Casey said. "When you see that political policy overlap, you see a deepening of the ties and deepening of the relationship between the two entities. And we are in one of those moments."
But as other historical and theological experts shared with NPR, these meetings have not always had such a significance.
The first meeting didn't happen until 1919
In January of 1919, Woodrow Wilson was on a months-long European trip in the wake of World War I.
"On January 4, Mr. Wilson called upon his Holiness Pope Benedict XV," according to America magazine at the time. Benedict welcomed Wilson "most cordially. They spent about a half hour together. It is not, of course, officially known what subjects they discussed."
Wilson's meeting with the pope, which occurred during a time in which the U.S. harbored major anti-Catholic sentiment, is far different than what the White House's relationship with the Vatican is now.
Such a meeting was seen in the U.S. as "politically fraught," Casey said. "There was no political advantage for a president to meet with a pope at that point."
Reportedly, Wilson wouldn't step away from his face-to-face with the pope fully unscathed. An awkward moment arose when the pontiff offered a papal blessing to the White House's entourage. Wilson declined, but offered up the Catholics among his staff to receive one.
It was after President Dwight D. Eisenhower met with Pope John XXIII at the Vatican that a president meeting with a pope became more normalized and a tradition.
Biden is just the second Catholic president
About one-in-five U.S. adults are Roman Catholic, according to Pew Research Center.Yet, prior to Biden, John F. Kennedy was the only Catholic president to serve.
Former Secretary of State John Kerry, who is now the U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, was the only other Catholic to be listed as a presidential nominee of a major party ticket since Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
The Pew Research Center says historically, about a quarter of presidents – including George Washington, James Madison and Franklin Roosevelt – were members of the Episcopal Church. The second largest group are Presbyterians, with eight presidents, listing that as their denomination.
Kennedy faced anti-Catholic sentiment during his run for the presidency, so his meeting with the pope was closely watched, Seattle University's former dean of the School of Theology and Ministry Mark S. Markuly said.
At the time, many Americans thought Kennedy, as a Catholic, would have competing loyalties to the Vatican and to the United States, he said.
The first papal visit to the White House was in 1979
Once meetings with the pope became more normalized, the pontiff eventually made his way to the U.S. — but it's been a rare occurrence.
On Oct. 6, 1979, Pope John Paul II became the first pope to visit the White House. He arrived in style — in an open-topped limousine — and met with then-President Jimmy Carter.
"The people of our country have waited a long time for this meeting," Carter said at the time.
The second pope to stop by 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue was Pope Benedict XVI, who visited the White House on April 16, 2008 — also the pontiff's 81st birthday, according to the White House Historical Association.President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush surprised the pope with a birthday cake before meeting privately.
And on Sept. 23, 2015, Pope Francis became the third pontiff in history to pay a visit to the White House under the Obama administration.
Under Reagan, the dynamic changes
Carter's meeting with Pope John Paul II helped launch a diplomatic relationship between the U.S. and the Vatican — one that President Ronald Reagan would build off of.
Reagan saw a kindred spirit in the pope when it came to fighting the threat of communism during the 1980s, according to Matt Dallek, a political historian and professor of political management at George Washington University.
The pope at the time, who lived in communist-era Poland and under Nazi rule, was a staunch anti-communist. He supported the Polish Solidarity Movement, which is widely seen as having a major role in ending Communist rule in Poland.
"Reagan and the pope really shared that sensibility," Dallek said. "Certainly the meeting with the pope, and I think, the alignment with the pope politically was helpful."
In 1984, the U.S. formally recognized and exchanged ambassadors with the Holy See.
It wasn't always smooth sailing
John Paull II was a strong critic of the war in Iraq — an issue that made some awkward moments with President George W. Bush.
When Bush last met with the pope at the Vatican in June 2004, the pope urged a quick return to sovereignty for Iraq and took a moment to criticize the ongoing war there.
And former President Donald Trump's relationship with Pope Francis was far more tense than his predecessor's.
During the 2016 campaign, Francis took what was seen as a hit at Trump by criticizing the future president's view on building a wall in Mexico. Francis said those who want to build walls instead of bridges are "not Christian."
Trump later responded, criticizing the pontiff's comments and suggested Francis was a "pawn" for Mexico.
Once the two met in person, images of the pontiff frowning while standing next to Trump became a punchline.
Georgetown's Casey, said Biden's meeting with Pope Francis is important following the Trump presidency.
"Biden is actually repairing a fractured diplomatic relationship," he said. This meeting and what's said will be "a signal to the Vatican that you have a partner now in the White House."
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It's Sunday where I live. ;)
Since spring break is HERE
I'm trying to get everything packed up for a little camping!
This post is just a little early.
Early is better than LATE, right??
I've been trying to keep a linky party
going over here on Mondays.
Just a little show and tell.
What are you working ON??
This little IN PROGRESS knitted blanket
will be my constant companion this week.
I might unpack my little sewing machine too...
It's so nice to camp in a trailer!
Let me tell you..
I did the whole TENT camping thing
for many years!!!
The best part about a trailer is the KITCHEN!!!
A BIG bonus is the fact I can sew too!!!
What are YOU making this week??
If you LOVE making as much as I do...
I know you're working on SOMETHING!!!!


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Loveland, CO – Trailing the 5th ranked Chapman University Panthers by two goals, the #1 Colorado State University Rams rallied to tie the game in the last four minutes and Sean Smith (Amherst HS / Amherst, NY) stuck the game-winner with 2:43 remaining in the third overtime period to get a key out of conference victory on a cold night at the Loveland Sports Park.
With the game tied 2-2 going into the fourth quarter, Chapman broke through with two goals, including what looked like a back-breaker by Ryan Welch with 4:44 remaining to make it 4-2. But the Rams, who struggled to beat the Chapman defense and goaltender Warren Nielsen all evening, finally wore down the Panthers and got goals from sophomore Mike Wolff (Don Bosco Prep / Ramsey, NJ) and senior Austin Fisher (Rock Canyon HS / Highlands Ranch, CO) to tie the game and set up the dramatic overtime sequence.
The two teams combined for seven shots over the first two overtime periods as both Nielsen and CSU junior Koltin Fatzinger (Wheat Ridge HS / Thornton, CO) made several nice saves. After a key groundball by Chapman in the third overtime, Colorado State's defense forced a turnover, drew a flag on the clear, and got the ball to Smith, who drove from behind the cage to beat Nielsen on a bouncer to end the game.
The Rams, who benefitted from a stellar 11/14 night at the face-off 'x' by senior Dan Warfield (Smoky Hill HS / Aurora, CO), were unable to turn the extra possessions into production on the offensive end for most of the night. Nielsen recorded 15 saves in a stand-out effort for Chapman, turning aside several outstanding opportunities. It was only the second time all season that the Rams hadn't scored double digits.
Meanwhile, the CSU defense held its own to keep the Rams in the game, holding Chapman's dangerous offense to its lowest scoring output in almost two years. Seniors Hayden Porter (Heritage HS / Littleton, CO) and Tyler Zabor (Rock Canyon HS / Highlands Ranch, CO) led the charge while goaltenders Jack Regan (Sunset HS / Beaverton, OR) and Fatzinger combined for 10 saves on the evening.
In a game where scoring was at a premium, Fisher and senior midfielder Alex Devlin (Langley HS / Great Falls, VA) led the Rams with two points each. Chapman's Timmy Andrews had two assists to lead the Panthers, who had four different goal-scorers. CSU held a distinct advantage on groundballs, scooping up 37 to Chapman's 16, mostly thanks to the dominance at the face-off 'x' by Warfield. Neither team were able to cash in on a combined seven extra-man opportunities
Colorado State (10-0 overall, 1-0 RMLC) secured the best start by the team since 2005 with the victory and also earned them their second overtime victory of the season. The Rams will have Easter weekend off before traveling to Utah for two Rocky Mountain Lacrosse Conference games against #6 Brigham Young and the University of Utah on April 5 and 6. Chapman drops to 7-4 with the loss and will return to California for the remainder of their season.


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Here are two quick updates on prominent Pakistani cases we've been following:
Despite police claims made soon after the assassination-style killing of Geo TV reporter Wali Khan Babar on January 13, there have been no arrests made in his case, and there is little reason to expect that there will be any. Babar was one of 20 people killed in gang violence in Karachi that day. He was returning home after his report on the violence had been aired. Mark another case in Pakistan's poor record for impunity for the killers of journalists–the country ranked 10th last year in CPJ's Impunity Index.
There's been a slight bit of movement in Umar Cheema's abduction and torture case. The News reporter was taken for two days in September 2010, then dumped by the side of the road. He says he's convinced that it was carried out by government agents. A joint government Investigation Team report went nowhere, and the results of a legislative investigation were kept secret.
Cheema sent me a head's up that Pakistan's Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights has taken up his case. The chairman of the Committee, Senator Afrasiyab Khattack, said he will write letters to the directors-general of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and Intelligence Bureau (IB) demanding they hold an internal inquiry to determine who carried out the attack, and who it is that continues to keep Cheema under surveillance.
The ISI and IB are forces unto themselves and have seldom felt any pressure to answer to anyone, including Senate or presidential requests, but at least in Cheema's case there's a bit of positive news to share.


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My thoughts
The premise of Judas the Apostle is intriguing. Did Judas Iscariot have different intentions than what is traditionally known in the Bible, and is there evidence of this in an earlier Gospel? I have to admit to being fascinated by these kinds of stories. I always find myself wondering, "what do we really know about history and the Bible?" These kinds of novels give insight into what could be...opening our minds to new or different possibilities. A thriller in the vein of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, this book could have been more heavy on suspense, but instead was a bit heavy on words. Too much description of every day actions like what they're eating, etc. However, in all, Judas the Apostle is a respectable entry in the vein of biblical thriller. I think books with this type of ideology are important to get us thinking and questioning what is commonly known.
About the book
Title: Judas the Apostle
Genre: Historical Suspense Thriller
Author: Van R. Mayhall Jr.
Publisher: iUniverse
Pages: 300
Language: English
Ancient language expert Dr. Clotile Lejeune is happily living a quiet life in Seattle when her world is profoundly shaken. After she learns that her estranged father has been murdered, Cloe must travel with her soldier son, J. E., back to her Louisiana hometown to unlock the mysteries of a two-thousand-year-old oil jar her father has left her—a jar inscribed with the name Judas Iscariot. Anxious to find her father's killer and dispel her own personal demons, Cloe has no idea that what she is about to uncover has the potential to set the international religious community on fire.
With the help of a mysterious cleric, her son, and a letter from her father, Cloe soon realizes the African oil jar her father unearthed during the war may be the most important relic discovered in centuries. But it is only the beginning. Across the globe, a billionaire arms merchant is leaving a trail of bodies in his wake in his pursuit of the jar and its contents.
In this biblical thriller, the race for answers takes a language professor on a dangerous quest across three continents in order to discover the identity of Judas Iscariot. Now only time will tell if Cloe can find out what the past is reaching out to tell her—before it is too late.
Purchase you copy:
About the author
Van R. Mayhall Jr. is the senior partner in a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, law firm where he practices corporate and business law and handles selected litigation. Born and raised in Baton Rouge, he was educated at Louisiana State University and Georgetown University. He and his wife, Lorri, have three grown children and enjoy boating on Lake Pontchartrain.
A copy of this book was sent to me in exchange for an honest review. I was not monetarily compensated for providing it.


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Replay – Zombies Ate My Neighbors
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'...and moreover'
'A British Outsider Embraced With a French Blockbuster'
'A Course of Severe and Arduous Trials': Bacon, Beckett and Spurious Freemasonry in Early Twentieth-Century Ireland
'A Critic's Choice of Pictures'
'A Magnificent Mischief-Maker: To be in Francis Bacon's company was to be dazzled and confused, seduced and stunned'
'A New York letter: Francis Bacon'
'A Note on the Development of Francis Bacon's Painting'
'A Question of Attribution'
'A School or Not a School'
'A Soho soul made of wild brushstrokes'
'A Trail of Human Presence: On Some Early Paintings of Francis Bacon'
'A brush with ebullient despair'
'A critic saves his Bacon'
'A dark prophet'
'A genius? I say rotten'
'A master of deep disquiet'
'A mind on fire'
'A random view of London pleasures'
'A range of loners'
'A vision of the truth behind the mask'
'Academic Myths and Private Images'
'All the pulsations of a person'
'Ambivalent Homecomings: Louis le Brocquy, Francis Bacon and the Mechanics of Canonization'
'An interview with Clement Greenberg'
'Animal houses'
'Another Look at Bacon: Newfound Canvases Shed More Light on a Master'
'Any way that you slice it'
'Apparitions of evil: Mr. Francis Bacon's new paintings'
'Around the galleries'
'Art Dispatch from Europe: Düsseldorf. Francis Bacon'
'Art In Review: Francis Bacon'
'Art Stars and Plasters on the Wounds: Why Have There Been No Great Irish Artists?'
'Art and Artists'
'Art and Artists: James Tissot Vulgar Society'
'Art attack: Portrait of Bacon's violent lover for auction'
'Art exhibitions: Mr. Francis Bacon'
'Art house'
'Art in London: Paintings, Pleasant and Unpleasant: Francis Bacon Studies'
'Art in the modern manner'
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'Art news from London: Francis Bacon'
'Art news from Los Angeles: Bacon, Bloom; Los Angeles group'
'Art of a New Francis Bacon Is at Met'
'Art, death and immortality over a naked lunch'
'Art: 13 New Works By Francis Bacon'
'Art: Recent Paintings By Francis Bacon'
'Artist of bleak vision, composer of mystical faith'
'Artist remanded'
'Artist who mapped out hell'
'Artist's anniversary marked'
'Artists of despair'
'At $142.4 Million, Triptych Is the Most Expensive Artwork Ever Sold at an Auction'
'At the Galleries'
'At the Galleries'
'At the Galleries: As Bacon Sees Us'
'At the Galleries: Bacon and Sironi'
'At the Galleries: Francis Bacon'
'At the Galleries: Nightmare'
'At the Galleries: Trio'
'At the Galleries: Vertebrate'
'At the Lefevre'
'Auerbach, Bacon and Smith'
'Authenticity of Bacon self-portrait'
'Bacon 'blackmailed' by art gallery owner, court is told in dispute over £100m fees'
'Bacon - II'
'Bacon Goes To Moscow'
'Bacon Picasso: Au Nom du Pair'
'Bacon and Bourgeois Save the Biennale: But Leave the Olive in a Pickle'
'Bacon and Giacometti: Likeness and Difference'
'Bacon and Moore again in Powerful Relation'
'Bacon assessed'
'Bacon dripping with confidence'
'Bacon estate is 'trying it on' court is told'
'Bacon estate sues art dealer'
'Bacon falls violently in love'
'Bacon figure may be £1.5m'
'Bacon film hit by dispute over who owns artist's words'
'Bacon fortune is left to companion'
'Bacon gave secret $4m to beloved banker'
'Bacon hangs his favourites'
'Bacon in New York'
'Bacon in Paris'
'Bacon in close focus'
'Bacon leaves £10m fortune to friend'
'Bacon left his best friend an £11m fortune. So where has it all gone?'
'Bacon not artist of his 'self-portrait'?'
'Bacon painting in auction record'
'Bacon painting settles £680,000 tax demand'
'Bacon papal portrait sells for record £14m'
'Bacon record tops £3.9m on a British night out'
'Bacon reigns in Spain'
'Bacon saved'
'Bacon tops Sotheby's art auction'
'Bacon triptych sets sale record'
'Bacon wanted to bin these 'bits and bobs' - last night they sold for £1.1m'
'Bacon's "Black" Triptychs'
'Bacon's 'worthless' gift to fetch £2m'
'Bacon's Course'
'Bacon's bleak look at the business of growing old'
'Bacon's estate 'is trying it on''
'Bacon's got the guts'
'Bacon's letters to Sutherland'
'Bacon's meal ticket goes on sale'
'Bacon's rare portraits of female lover go to auction'
'Bacon's screaming pope for sale'
'Bacon's theatre of the absurd'
'Bacon's works on despair fetch six figures'
'Bacon, Half-Baked'
'Bacon, White, de Maistre and a reds-topped desk'
'Bacon/Moore: Flesh and Bone'
'Bacon: a mystery in the East'
'Bacon: the rough guide'
'Beaux Arts Gallery: studies of movement with Mr. Wirth-Miller'
'Bed or dais'
'Best of British Bacon in Russian art show'
'Books: Interviews with Francis Bacon 1962-1979'
'Books: Interviews with Francis Bacon'
'Bring Bacon home: The art world continues to neglect our native genius'
'British stars and Scythian gold'
'Briton Speaks About Pain and Painting'
'Brushes with the Bottle'
'Brushes with the soldiery of the canvas'
'Buyers stampede for 'bleak' Bacons'
'Capital deposit north of the border'
'Carcasses and crucifixes'
'Chaos theory'
'Claim for Bacon'
'Classic Bacon: Triptych could fetch record £35m'
'Collecting: Signature tune'
'Crisis in Paint'
'Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: London'
'Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: London'
'Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: London'
'Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: London'
'Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: London'
'Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: London'
'Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: Switzerland'
'Current shows and comments: "If winter comes..."'
'Current shows and comments: A bit of chiffon'
'Current shows and comments: On the significance of a word'
'Current shows and comments: The Dark is Light Enough: Francis Bacon at the Marlborough'
'Current shows and comments: The academic challenge'
'Damien Hirst - Francis Bacon'
'Dealer 'snatched Bacon paintings away''
'Deleuze, Gilles. Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation'
'Demons and beefcake - the other side of Bacon / Sadomasochism and shoplifting sprees: Bacon's legacy revisited'
'Disputed Bacon artworks go on display'
'Disturbed Ground: Francis Bacon, Traumatic Memory and the Gothic'
'Diving deep into darkness'
'Donation a coup for Ireland'
'Eerie resonance as Moore and Bacon capture a savage dignity'
'English Contemporary Art'
'Et Bacon se mit à danser'
'European painting in LA: A grab bag of well-worn issues'
'Evaluating artists'
'Evolution of a maverick genius'
'Ex-convict gets the spoils of Bacon's £30m legacy'
'Excavations in the artist's studio'
'Exhibition Reviews: Bacon/Picasso: Paris'
'Exhibition Reviews: Bacon; Hirst: London'
'Exhibition Reviews: Edinburgh and Luxembourg: The School of London'
'Exhibition Reviews: Evil: Turin'
'Exhibition Reviews: Francis Bacon: Norwich, Wisconsin and Buffalo'
'Exhibition Reviews: Francis Bacon: Vienna and Basel'
'Exhibition Reviews: London: Francis Bacon'
'Exhibition Reviews: New York: Winter painting exhibitions'
'Exhibition Reviews: Paris and Munich: Francis Bacon'
'Exhibition Reviews: São Paulo: The 1998 Bienal'
'Exhibitions: Francis Bacon: Dublin and Compton Verney'
'Explosion at San Giovanni in Laterano, Summer 1993: Notes for Francis Bacon's Figure with Meat'
'Face to face with the dogs of war'
'Face to face with young genius?'
'Farewell to flat, goodbye to square: London Commentary'
'Fascinating Facture'
'Fifty years of hurt'
'Finding the Matisse in Bacon'
'Food for Thought'
'For sale: portraits that Bacon wanted to dump in a skip'
'Forbidden photos pulled from show'
'Fragments of time'
'Francis Bacon - 'I Wanted to Paint the Scream''
'Francis Bacon Archive, Tate Britain, London'
'Francis Bacon acquitted on drug charge'
'Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud'
'Francis Bacon and Walter Sickert: 'images which unlock other images''
'Francis Bacon and a vision of perfection'
'Francis Bacon and the Fortunes of Poetry'
'Francis Bacon and the Geometry of Fear'
'Francis Bacon and the meaning of life'
'Francis Bacon and the tradition of art: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna'
'Francis Bacon artwork sets auction record in NY'
'Francis Bacon at Eighty'
'Francis Bacon at the Metropolitan Museum'
'Francis Bacon en sa terre natale'
'Francis Bacon heute'
'Francis Bacon in Paris: figures in a room'
'Francis Bacon in Venice'
'Francis Bacon in the 1950s'
'Francis Bacon o la pintura en carne viva'
'Francis Bacon on drug charge'
'Francis Bacon paintings boost Britain'
'Francis Bacon was a shock merchant, not a Nazi'
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'Francis Bacon's Paintings'
'Francis Bacon's correspondence with Sir Colin Anderson'
'Francis Bacon's imagery less intense'
'Francis Bacon's new paintings'
'Francis Bacon's plea for costs rejected'
'Francis Bacon, 82, Artist of the Macabre, Dies: Francis Bacon, Painter, Is Dead at 82'
'Francis Bacon, Louise Bourgeois and Franz Xaver Messerschmidt: Cheim and Read'
'Francis Bacon, confounder of art critics: Master of ebullient despair'
'Francis Bacon, the Papal Portraits of 1953'
'Francis Bacon/Henry Moore: Flesh and Bone, Ashmolean Museum'
'Francis Bacon: "De-Faced" Self-Portraits'
'Francis Bacon: "about being in pain"'
'Francis Bacon: A Kind of Grandeur'
'Francis Bacon: A Terrible Beauty'
'Francis Bacon: A Terrible Beauty'
'Francis Bacon: A great, shocking, eccentric painter'
'Francis Bacon: Artist of Endgame'
'Francis Bacon: Back to Degas'
'Francis Bacon: Centre Georges Pompidou'
'Francis Bacon: Henrietta Moraes'
'Francis Bacon: London'
'Francis Bacon: Lost and Found'
'Francis Bacon: Marlborough Gallery'
'Francis Bacon: Metropolitan Museum of Art'
'Francis Bacon: New transmutations of an autumn rose'
'Francis Bacon: Painting after Photography'
'Francis Bacon: Self-Portrait, 1972'
'Francis Bacon: South Kensington London 1982'
'Francis Bacon: Studies for a Portrait - Francis Bacon: Incunabula'
'Francis Bacon: The Authority of Flesh'
'Francis Bacon: The Studio as Symbol'
'Francis Bacon: Tony Shafrazi Gallery'
'Francis Bacon: contradicciones sublimadas'
'Francis Bacon: the Anatomy of Horror'
'Francis Bacon: une bouche comme un Sahara'
'Francis and me'
'French and English art: New trends in painting and sculpture'
'Freudian slops'
'From London: Some Anglo-Saxon intentions and responses'
'From the Archives: James Thrall Soby and Francis Bacon'
'Galleries: A celebration of painting'
'Galleries: A natural talent for symbolism'
'Galleries: Bacon's new creativity'
'Galleries: The thoughtful process of falling off a log'
'Gallery 'cheated Bacon out of tens of millions''
'Genre: Twentieth Century'
'Gossip of a gay genius'
'Gowrie's 'outrageous' decision stops lottery cash for artist's story: Bacon love film funding blocked'
'Greatest living painter'
'Handyman brings home the Bacon for art sleuths'
'Hanover Gallery: Mr. Bacon's paintings'
'Hanover Gallery: Mr. Francis Bacon's paintings'
'Heaven and hell'
'Hello Francis'
'Help the Lazy'
'High prices for modern British pictures'
'His life was a commitment to excess. So it's no surprise that some portraits had two heads'
'Homage to work and love'
'Homosexuality out of the margins and in the heart'
'Horror and Harmony'
'How Italian artists make a fortune faking Bacon'
'How to freeze the human body'
'Hugh Lane gallery profits from 'ghastly misunderstanding' over Bacon's studio'
'Hundreds of 'lost' Bacon sketches surface in studio'
'Hunt for 'missing' works of Francis Bacon'
'Hunting of the ark: men, beasts and gods'
'Hysterical Painting'
'I can't draw, said Bacon'
'I had nobody else to paint'
'I offered Bacon £50,000 a picture but rival blackmailed him over tax bill, claims dealer'
'Icarus or the Walking-Wounded'
'If Paintings Had Voices, Francis Bacon's Would Shriek'
'Image of the Week: theatre of art'
'Imaginable Furies'
'In Camera - Francis Bacon'
'In a class of their own'
'In memoriam: David Sylvester: The art of the interview'
'In praise of rudeness'
'International Studio: Master of the Monstrous'
'Isabel Rawsthorne'
'Isabel Rawsthorne'
'It Ain't the Meat'
'John Edwards'
'John Edwards: Francis Bacon's model companion, in good times and in bad'
'Junk Shock'
'Just blood, sweat and fears'
'King of pain / pope of pop / memo from Turner'
'Knights of the Razor'
'Lefevre gallery: new English paintings'
'Letter from London'
'Letter from Moscow: Francis Bacon'
'Life with thugs'
'London Galleries: Convulsions of Mind and Body'
'London Letter: Bacon, Davie, Kokoschka'
'Lying figure: Francis Bacon and the female nude'
'Madrid: Francis Bacon: Galerie Marlborough'
'Master of isolation'
'Matthew Smith - A Painter's Tribute'
'Me, myself and eye'
'Mirror of his age'
'Modern painting and sculpture: Young Contemporaries exhibition'
'Moon walking'
'Moves to save Oxford's Bacon'
'Mr. Bacon's comment on humanity'
'Mr. Bacon's new paintings: African animals'
'Mr. Francis Bacon'
'Mr. Francis Bacon'
'Mr. Francis Bacon'
'Mr. Francis Bacon's new paintings: Extraordinary use of photographs'
'Mr. Francis Bacon's virtuosity: Van Gogh translated'
'Muriel Belcher'
'My years at the Tate'
'Naked truths on the French Riviera'
'National art treasures lost for lack of money'
'Native Born'
'New Work by Henry Moore and Francis Bacon'
'New York Letter'
'New York commentary'
'New York: Francis Bacon'
'New acquisition of six unfinished paintings by Francis Bacon'
'New acquisitions at the Tate: old and recent works'
'News and Views from New York: New York I at the Alan Gallery'
'No friends, by request, at Bacon's farewell'
'No signs of a City crash crisis as Bacon brings home £26m record'
'Not all Birch'
'Not for the sentimental'
'Notes from Paris and London: Bacon and Wols at the Hanover Gallery'
'Nothing but bums and drunks'
'Obituary: Francis Bacon: Genius formed in the blackness of the Blitz'
'Obituary: Francis Bacon: Genius formed in the blackness of the Blitz'
'Obituary: Isabel Lambert: More than muse material'
'Obituary: Mr. Peter Watson: Modern patron of art'
'Old acquaintance'
'On a diet of oysters and despair'
'On the Strange Case of Francis Bacon'
'Outrageous Bacon'
'Painted into a corner'
'Painted screams'
'Painter busting with exhilarated despair'
'Painting and sculpture'
'Painting bought in 1953 may earn students £700,000'
'Painting pictures in Soho and Greenwich Village'
'Paris Letter: November'
'Paris: L'imaginaire de Francis Bacon'
'Passages to Paint: Francis Bacon's Studio Practice'
'Picture choice: A direct hit on the nerves'
'Pictures by a Sunday painter turn out to be a valuable slice of Bacon'
'Pictures from an Irish exhibitionist'
'Pigment at its limit'
'Pittsburgh prizes for Britain'
'Pleasures of pounding the flesh'
'Pop Art since 1949'
'Pop Since 1949'
'Pope on the ropes'
'Positioning in Representation'
'Power of three: Bacon triptych emerges from Tehran storeroom'
'Preaching art'
'Private View: Francis Bacon'
'Private treasures go public'
'Prophet of a pitiless world'
'Question of Bacon's private life'
'Raffish old master of the elusive'
'Rare chance to own a Francis Bacon original - from the artist's tufted period'
'Realism in painting'
'Realism versus Realism in British Art of the 1950s'
'Reality reassured'
'Record £26,000 paid for a Francis Bacon'
'Reflections on the Venice Biennale'
'Reg Butler and Francis Bacon'
'Regarding the pain: noise in the art of Francis Bacon'
'Regrets: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud and Jasper Johns'
'Relative presences: A roomful of Bacon at the Tate'
'Remaking Bacon'
'Repeat of Orwell work well worth while'
'Rich pickings: Friend who inherited Bacon's £11m fortune went on 11-year spending spree'
'Rina Arya: Francis Bacon. Painting in a Godless World'
'Robert Melville has a look at a book about Francis Bacon'
'Robert Melville: The Last Interview'
'Round the Galleries: Crisis Under the Skin'
'Round the London Galleries: The Catalan Magician'
'Saving Bacon'
'Sex, violence and painting'
'Sexing the Canvas: Calling on the Medium'
'Shafts from Apollo's Bow - The Return of the Problem Picture'
'Show that brings home the Bacon to a new market'
'Sides of Bacon: A portrait of the artist by his friends'
'Sights of Moscow'
'Signs of A New Conservatism In Taste'
'Six New Masters'
'Sketches of pain'
'Snapshots of sozzled Soho'
'Soak it up'
'Soho's days of wine and poses and whisky galore'
'Strangers in a show'
'Studio mess recreated for £1.6m'
'Studios and Private Faces I & II'
'Swastika plus cricket pad equals art'
'Sympathy for the devil'
'Talk at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1971'
'Tate Gallery: Exhibition of recent acquisitions'
'The 1930 Look in British Decoration'
'The 1970 Pittsburgh International'
'The American way with art: Francis Bacon - Recent Paintings'
'The Anglo-French art centre'
'The Art World: Aesthetics of Mutilation'
'The Art World: Optimist'
'The Art of Francis Bacon'
'The Artist Speaks?'
'The Body Unbound: The postmodern aesthetics of Francis Bacon'
'The Bones and the Flesh: Henry Moore and Francis Bacon'
'The Born Again Dubliner'
'The Brutality of Fact'
'The Chaos of Creation'
'The Circus'
'The Consummate Fragmentarian'
'The Contemporary Spectrum'
'The Devil in Mr Bacon: Film of the Week: Love is the Devil'
'The Fugitive Body: Bacon's Fistula'
'The Horrific Theme in Visual Art'
'The Horrific Vision of Mr. Francis Bacon'
'The Investment File: Francis Bacon'
'The Master of the Macabre, Francis Bacon'
'The Mather Award: Citation / On the strange case of Frances Bacon'
'The Modernity of Late Sickert'
'The Narrative of Perception and the Perception of Narrative'
'The Paintings of Francis Bacon'
'The Primal Cry of Horror: The A-theology of Francis Bacon'
'The Problem of Francis Bacon'
'The Queen of Soho'
'The Redfern gallery'
'The SR Interview: "I Think About Death Every Day"'
'The School of London in Vienna'
'The Violence of Paint'
'The ambiguous precision of Francis Bacon'
'The art of infuriating: Giles Waterfield on Bacon'
'The art of ordered chaos'
'The artist as beloved adventurer'
'The artist formerly known as British'
'The beast within'
'The book that Bacon banned'
'The curse of the buddha and other whodunits'
'The deceit of the real'
'The drawings he didn't want you to see'
'The dream and the nightmare'
'The fine art of drinking at Muriel's bar'
'The howl of an iconoclast'
'The human zoo'
'The link between art and life'
'The making of an artist - from weakling to enigmatic master'
'The many faces of Bacon'
'The matter of life and death'
'The paintings of Mr. Bacon: A prophet of doom'
'The pope of putrefaction'
'The scream of consciousness'
'The sleazy side of Bacon'
'The tail wags the gods'
'The worst is not yet'
'This Teeming Womb, This Non-Isle, This Non-England'
'This too, too squalid flesh'
'Three Bacon paintings to be sold for £2m'
'Three Bacon paintings up for auction'
'Too Much Reality?'
'Too risqué for Iran, Bacon's 'lost' painting goes on show'
'Too risqué for Iran, Bacon's nudes may be shown in London'
'Touching the void'
'Turner at the Academy'
'Twentieth-Century Choice at the Marlborough'
'Two British art patrons of the 1940s and 1950s: Sir Colin Anderson and Peter Watson'
'Two men, and nanny made three'
'Undercooked Bacon'
'Unseen paintings may provide evidence in Bacon court case'
'Views and News of Art in America'
'Vile bodies'
'Visions of a Violent Century In Francis Bacon's Paintings: Bacon's Visions of a Violent, Disjointed Century'
'Visual feast of more than just Bacon'
'Vogue Arts: Francis Bacon'
'Vulgar Pictures: Bacon, de Kooning, and the Figure under Abstraction'
'Wealth tax and the living artist'
'What recession? Bacon sells for £26.3m'
'What the critics said: Bacon in his prime'
'Why Bacon was driven to destruction'
'Works by Derrick Greaves'
'World of art pays tribute to Bacon'
'Yale reopens its key Anglo file'
'You should see his bedroom... Why we need clutter'
'£1.8m price tag for 'lost' Bacon painting'
'£9.5m Bacon out of Tate's reach'
'Бэкон in Moscow'
7 Reece Mews: Francis Bacon's Studio
Bacon a Brera: e quaranta disegni di Grosz in sosta a Milano
Bacon and Sutherland
Bacon's Arena
Bacon-Picasso: The Life of Images
Bacon-Picasso: la vie des images
Bacon: 1909-1992
Bacon: 1909-1992: Deep Beneath the Surface of Things
Bacon: Portraits and Self-Portraits
Bacon: monstre de peinture
Caravaggio Bacon
Changing Perceptions: Milestones in Twentieth-Century British Portraiture
Conversas com Francis Bacon: O cheiro do sangue humano não desgruda seus olhos de mim
Conversazione con Francis Bacon
De Manet à Bacon: La collection Jacqueline Delubac
El olor a sangre humana no se me quita de los ojos: conversaciones con Francis Bacon
Entrevistas con Francis Bacon
Erica Brausen: Premier Marchand de Francis Bacon
Fondation Beyeler
Francis Bacon (1909-1992): Three Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion c. 1944'
Francis Bacon - Sansningens logik
Francis Bacon Bibliography
Francis Bacon Kreuzigung: Versuch, eine gewalttätige Wirklichkeit neu zu sehen
Francis Bacon and Nazi Propaganda
Francis Bacon and the Loss of Self
Francis Bacon and the Masters
Francis Bacon and the Tradition of Art
Francis Bacon and the art of the past
Francis Bacon in Dublin
Francis Bacon in your Blood: A Memoir
Francis Bacon
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Francis Bacon ou la brutalité du fait: suivi de cinq lettres inédites de Michel Leiris à Francis Bacon sur le réalisme
Francis Bacon ou la vérité criante
Francis Bacon's Studio
Francis Bacon, Logik der Sensation
Francis Bacon/Henry Moore: Flesh and Bone
Francis Bacon: 'Taking Reality by Surprise'
Francis Bacon: A Retrospective
Francis Bacon: A Terrible Beauty
Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma
Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma
Francis Bacon: Caged, Uncaged
Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné and Documentation
Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné
Francis Bacon: Commitment and Conflict
Francis Bacon: Critical and Theoretical Perspectives
Francis Bacon: Five Decades
Francis Bacon: France and Monaco
Francis Bacon: Full Face and in Profile
Francis Bacon: Grand Palais 1971
Francis Bacon: His Life and Violent Times
Francis Bacon: In Conversation with Michel Archimbaud
Francis Bacon: L'art de l'impossible: Entretiens avec David Sylvester
Francis Bacon: Late Paintings
Francis Bacon: Lo Sagrado y lo Profano / The Sacred and the Profane
Francis Bacon: Logique de la Sensation
Francis Bacon: Paintings 1944-62
Francis Bacon: Paintings from The Estate, 1980-1991
Francis Bacon: Portraits and Heads
Francis Bacon: Recent Paintings 1968-1974
Francis Bacon: Studies for a Portrait: Essays and Interviews
Francis Bacon: Studying Form
Francis Bacon: The Early and Middle Years, 1928-1958
Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation
Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation
Francis Bacon: The Papal Portraits of 1953
Francis Bacon: The Violence of the Real
Francis Bacon: Vier Studien zu einem Porträt
Francis Bacon: Working on Paper
Francis Bacon: az érzet logikája
Francis Bacon: cara y perfil
Francis Bacon: duyumsamanın mantığı
Francis Bacon: face et profil
Francis Bacon: logica della sensazione
Francis Bacon: logica van de gewaarwording
Francis Bacon: lógica de la sensación
Francis Bacon: Œuvre graphique - The graphic work: Catalogue raisonné
Francis Francis Bacon in the 1950s
Gespräche mit Francis Bacon
Gespräche mit Francis Bacon
In Camera
Interviews with Francis Bacon 1962-1979
Interviews with Francis Bacon
Interviews with Francis Bacon
Interviuri cu Francis Bacon: brutalitatea realităţii
Irrational Marks: Bacon and Rembrandt
L'odeur du sang humain ne me quitte pas des yeux: Conversations avec Francis Bacon
La brutalità delle cose: conversazioni con David Sylvester
Logika občutja
Movement and Gravity: Bacon and Rodin in Dialogue
Museu Berardo: An Itinerary
Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna
New Art New World: British Art in Postwar Society
New Studies - Centenary Essays
Obituaries: Francis Bacon
Painting in a Godless World
Peinture, Cinéma, Peinture
Realism in 20th Century Painting
Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection: Volume I: European 19th and 20th Century Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
Roy de Maistre: The English Years 1930-1968
Rozhovory s Francisem Baconem, 1962-1979
Rozmowy z Francisem Baconem: brutalność faktu
Samtal med Francis Bacon
Scholarship & Education
Soho in the Fifties
Studio and Cube: On the relationship between where art is made and where art is displayed
Sunday Night Francis Bacon
The Battle for Realism: Figurative Art in Britain During the Cold War 1945-1960
The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon
Van Gogh by Bacon
Van Gogh vu par Bacon
[The Rubens Prize awarded to Francis Bacon]
'Bacon's Beginnings'
'Just a pile of paint and a nightmare of chic thrills'
培根訪談錄 [Interviews with Francis Bacon]
感覚の論理 : 画家フランシス・ベーコン論 [Logic of sensation: Francis Bacon]
肉への慈悲 : フランシス・ベイコン・インタヴュー [Interview with Francis Bacon]
감각의 논리 [Logic of Sensation]
나는 왜 정육점의 고기가 아닌가? Francis Bacon [The butcher's meat: Francis Bacon]
인간의 피냄새가 내 눈을 떠나지 않는다: 프랜시스 베이컨과의 대담 [Conversations with Francis Bacon]
The Estate
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Bacon's World
Scholarship & Education
Deconstruction of the Studio
By Brian Clarke
By Brian Clarke
Finding Order in Chaos
By Margarita Cappock
Francis Bacon and Reece Mews
By John Edwards
The Studio
By Brian Clarke
Education material


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