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A community bank appealed the capital rating of 3 assigned at the most recent examination. Management agreed with the identified risks and committed to timely resolution but disagreed with the overall rating. The bank also appealed the "adequately capitalized" designation contained in the draft formal enforcement action.
The appeal stated that prior to the conclusion of the examination; the preliminary results led the bank to believe a capital rating of 2 was appropriate and the bank was "well capitalized" as defined in 12 C.F.R. Part 6 – Prompt Corrective Action.
The supervisory office stated the need for higher levels of capital were warranted because of increased credit risk in the commercial real estate portfolio and a high level of classified assets. Historically, the bank maintained capital just above the well capitalized level in order to maximize shareholder equity. The bank's annualized return on average assets (ROAA) was .41 percent due to a large provision to the Allowance for Loan and Lease Losses (ALLL) directed during the current examination. The supervisory office estimated additional provisions to the ALLL could total $1 million; wiping out earnings for the year. The supervisory office projected a $3 million injection was needed to bring capital to a satisfactory level given the bank's current risk profile.
Under the Uniform Financial Institutions Rating System, "a rating of 3 indicates a less than satisfactory level of capital that does not fully support the institution's risk profile. The rating indicates a need for improvement, even if the institution's capital level exceeds minimum regulatory and statutory requirements." In contrast, "a rating of 2 indicates a satisfactory capital level relative to the financial institution's risk profile."
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Lipscomb baseball Head Coach Jeff Forehand has released the schedule for the Bisons 2007 season.
The Bisons will open the season at home by taking on Evansville in a three game series February 9-11.
"We have a competitive schedule that will prepare us for a tough A-Sun conference," Forehand said.
Following that series the Bisons will travel to Alabama to take on Auburn University in a single game on February 13. Auburn is the first of four SEC opponents this season. The Bisons are set to play at Vanderbilt on February 21 and again at home on April 17.
On March 1, the Bisons will make the trip to Baton Rouge, Louisiana to take on LSU in a three game series. Lipscomb will face their final SEC competitor on March 6, in a single game against Tennessee.
One highlight of the Bisons' 2007 schedule will be the Music City Classic on February 23-25. The Bisons will open the tournament against Boston College on the 23rd and then conclude with Ball State on the 25. The middle game of the series will feature a rematch with Pittsburg. Last season, Bisons' right-hander Matt Schnelly delighted the home crowd by throwing a three hit shutout against the Panthers, while racking up 11 strikeouts.
"I want our team to prepare to play every game and not be intimidated by the size of the school," Forehand said. "We have a great opportunity to play some teams who have been to Regionals and World Series. My hope is that we can learn from those experiences and compete with everyone we play."
The three game series at LSU will kick off a 13-game road trip for the Bisons, their longest of the season. In addition to LSU and Tennessee, Lipscomb will also face Alcorn State, Georgia Southern, Gardner-Webb, and Evansville before returning home to host North Florida on March 30.
"We have a big stretch of games in March that are on the road," Forehand said. "I look forward to seeing what we will learn from those 13 in a row on the road."
The Bisons will take on rival Belmont in a three game series from April 27-29. Last year the Bisons defeated the Bruins 2-1 in the season series.
"Winning the series against Belmont really served as a great confidence booster for the team throughout the season last year," Schnelly said. "Hopefully we can take that confidence and translate it into another series win this season. The Belmont series always receives a lot of hype because they are our big rivals, but it is important to remember that every game counts the same and every win is equally important."
Lipscomb will close out the season with a three game series against Jacksonville in Jacksonville, Florida on May 18-20.
With a difficult non-conference schedule to go along with their list of formidable conference opponents, the Bisons have their work cut out for them this season.
"Everyone knows that the A-Sun is one of the toughest conferences in the NCAA," Forehand said. "I want us to have the confidence that we can compete with anyone and hopefully our non-conference schedule will prepare us for that."
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This is the kind of thing I really hoped was a joke. I seriously can't believe that Lamborghini is going to build an SUV. If it was something like the LM002, I might have been able to stomach it. But I almost had a stroke when I saw this piece of crap. I'm depressed about it. And Jack Baruth over at The Truth About Cars summed up my feelings. Anyway this other stuff happened this week.
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Quaker Hill Country Club
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• 6,010 yards • Par 70
Many clubhouses in the Hudson Valley are blessed with fascinating artifacts from the early days of the game. Only one, however, can boast a fragment of limestone from the palace of Sargon II dating to 700 BC; a tilefrom Jamestown, the first English settlement in Virginia; and a stone from the Peary Monument that stands 1,500 feet above the Polar Sea in Greenland. These are just a few of the wonders built into the fireplace of the Quaker Hill Country Club, founded by adventurer, traveler, broadcaster, and bon vivant Lowell Thomas in 1940.
Thomas was also an avid golfer, so he brought his friend Robert Trent Jones, Sr., to the fertile farmland of Dutchess County to lay out a nine hole course on top of a plateau where the views never end. Sam Snead, Gene Sarazen, and Jimmy Demaret were among Thomas' friends who played the course, as were New York Governors Thomas Dewey and Nelson Rockefeller. So was Babe Ruth, who is pictured in a clubhouse montage arriving on a motorcycle.
The course continues to challenge golfers today with tiny undulating greens and two full sets of tee boxes that allow for a complete 18-hole round without repetition. Even though you cover the same ground twice, you never play a hole the same way due to vastly different shot angles introduced by the distinct tee boxes. Even the par threes aren't just longer or shorter — the fourth/13th hole, for example, makes you approach the green from two completely different directions. The number one handicap hole, the 403-yard par-four fifth, becomes a short but treacherous 455-yard par-five the second time around as the back-nine tee box brings out of bounds into play on the hole.
Probably the most striking thing about Quaker Hill, though, isn't the 19th-century barn converted into a clubhouse and museum full of history, or even the delightful and perfectly maintained golf course. It's the casual, friendly atmosphere of a small family club without pretensions.
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Attorney General Bill Lockyer Announces That DNA Match Identifies Suspect in Santa Rosa Sexual Assault
(Sacramento) – Attorney General Bill Lockyer announced that as a result of a recent "cold hit" made in the California Department of Justice (DOJ) DNA Laboratory in Berkeley, the suspect for a January, 2000 sexual assault of a Santa Rosa developmentally disabled woman has been identified and apprehended.
Perry Lee Tatmon, 36, of Santa Rosa, was arrested today by the Santa Rosa Police Department, and booked on a number of charges, including rape, and oral copulation, by force or fear. Tatmon was identified when evidence from the crime yielded a match to Tatmon's DNA profile stored in the DOJ DNA Convicted Felon Databank. Tatmon, who was on parole at the time of the January, 2000 sexual assault, was not considered a suspect for the crimes when the DNA database match produced a "cold hit" on January 29, 2001.
"We are beginning to take full advantage of DNA technology to help law enforcement agencies solve crimes," said Lockyer. "This case is another example where the suspect was unknown to law enforcement until an identity was determined based on DNA."
California law requires blood and saliva samples to be taken from individuals convicted of any of nine specified felony sexual assaults and other violent crimes. The samples yield DNA profiles, which are stored in the state DOJ Convicted Felon DNA Databank in Berkeley. DNA profiles extracted from crime scene evidence are compared to DNA profiles in the databank. Tatmon's DNA profile is in the databank as a result of a 1992 Alameda County felony conviction for attempted murder.
Four other matches, or "cold hits" were made by the state's DNA Lab on January 29 when 21,000 recently developed DNA profiles of convicted felons in the Short Tandem Repeats (STR) format were compared for the first time to DNA STR profiles extracted from crime scene evidence from unsolved cases. The matches identified five separate suspects for five unrelated cases.
Local law enforcement agencies were notified about the identified suspects and have proceeded appropriately with that information. So far, the identity of the suspect for one of those cases, Christopher Cardwell, has been released. Cardwell was charged last week with the February, 2000, rape and robbery of a Los Angeles woman.
As a result of DNA "cold hits" a total to 29 suspects have been identified since the DOJ DNA Convicted Felon Databank was established in 1994.


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The game at Citi Field on Saturday is scoreless. Giants starter Jake Peavy is perfect through six innings.
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March is here and that means it is time for March Madness! In this article, we highlight some of the sports marketplace statistics that we study — and come up with a simple-to-use system that has been profitable over the past few years of March Madness. Note that the system we highlight below may also be used during Conference Playoffs (as the system is based on all games during March and April). There is increased public attention as we near the NCAA Tournament — so that Betting Against the Public works particularly well at this time of the college basketball season. This article is updated with some tidbits for the March Madness NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.
Last week, we highlighted the fact that "Betting Against the Public" has even more value when there is increased public attention. The NCAA Tournament — with all of the office pools (!!) — is a prime example of this bias. We also summarized a simple system that can be used to capture some of this bias (see below). In this updated article, we include some biases that match up well with SportsInsights' overall philosophy of finding value in the sports marketplace.
Recent Performance of NCAA Tourney Seeds
With so many people involved in NCAA office pools, we studied recent performance of various seeds "against the spread" (ATS) during the first round of the tournament. Interestingly, the performance over the past five years agrees with the "value" that SportsInsights often finds on large underdogs.
Betting Against the Public and Public Games
Betting Against the Public has proven to work across all of the major sports. Its consistency is remarkable; we have seen that Betting Against the Public and SportsInsights' Square Plays have consistently won in the 54%-57% range, on average. We have also seen that this approach of Betting Against the Public works particularly well in "big games" or "games of national focus." The rationale is that with more of the public watching a game, more public biases occur in the sports betting marketplace (such as betting on "favorites" and "overs"). This leads to an increase in the edge for "sharp bettors."
Number of Bets
SportsInsights collects and displays numerous sports marketplace indicators, with Betting Percentages being its most popular. Betting Percentages are very useful at helping to uncover value in the sports marketplace. We also feel, however, that other indicators – such as the Number of Bets are important as well.
Using a simple system that typically takes College Hoops underdogs, we overlaid a filter that played only the top 1/3 of games in terms of number of bets. The winning percentage increased by more than 2%! This makes sense, because games with public interest will lead to overpriced favorites. The moral of the story: if you are Betting Against the Public, focus on the games where there is a lot of Public interest.
March Madness: Putting things Together
The great thing about March Madness is that many of these factors come together to help make SportsInsights' tools even more effective for our Members. We have the whole country watching the tournament due to all of the office pools. The increased attention leads to an increased number of bets — and an increase in public biases. The team at SportsInsights decided to see how our basic sports marketplace indicators performed during this time of "national focus" on "March Madness."
Using our College Basketball database that goes back over the past four seasons — and over 12,000 games — we looked at a simple system.
During March and April, betting on a team that has a:
Smart Money Techniques
An even stronger use of "betting percentages" is to combine it with "line movement." SportsInsights.com's members will recognize this as Smart Money Techniques. We won't go over Smart Money methods since SportsInsights has several good articles (including this one on College Hoops) on that topic. Suffice it to say that using line moves in combination with betting percentages are a very powerful method of finding out where the Smart Money is going.
College basketball offers sports investors many investment opportunities — and at the same time, many challenges. We have reviewed some tools that sports investors can use for college hoops. This includes SportsInsights.com's bread-and-butter sports tools such as Betting Percentages and Line Moves. In addition, we highlighted the Number of Bets — which is often overlooked as an indicator. Now, let the Madness begin — and let the "sports investing profits" roll in! Good luck!
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BlackBerry's better-than-expected earnings report boosts its value as a possible takeover target for a larger tech company, CNBC's Jim Cramer says.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The women's swimming and diving team recorded six event victories on Saturday, but it wasn't enough as Tufts University knocked off the Engineers, 170-130. Jen Chao and Amy Jacobi netted two individual wins a piece to pace the attack, while Kristie D'Ambrosio secured an NCAA qualifying score in diving.
Jacobi continued to shine since making a return to the lineup. She swept the 50 and 100 free, while swimming 1:00.83 to finish a close third in the 100 fly. Jacobi also led off MIT's 200 free relay, which delivered a two-second victory over the Jumbos. She split 24.97 to win the 50 and 54.86 in the 100. Sophomore Katie Creasey also enjoyed a strong swim in the 100, finishing third overall with a time of 55.83.
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Project overview and design
The wall space in your garage is way too valuable just to hang rakes, bikes and garden hoses at random on nails, hooks or shelves. To make every square inch of that wall space work for you, we designed this wall storage system.
Our system is made entirely from plywood and standard hardware. It's easy to build and easy to customize to suit your needs. You can install it to fill any size wall or cover only part of a wall. You can hang shelves, bins or hooks and arrange them to make efficient use of wall space. With special store-bought hangers, you can hang hard-to-hold items like bikes or wheelbarrows. Best of all, everything hangs from sturdy rails, so you can rearrange the wall in minutes without any tools. Some store-bought systems provide the same versatility, but they can cost two or even three times as much as this homemade system.
The only power tools you'll need are a circular saw and a drill. Other tools—a table saw, router, miter saw and brad nailer—will save you time, but they aren't necessary. All the materials you'll need are available at home centers. If you don't expect to hang anything from the lower half of the wall, you can cut time and expenses by covering only the upper half. If you completely cover a large wall as we did, expect to spend a weekend building the system and another finishing it and assembling shelves and hooks.
Figure A: Wall System Parts
The design includes 1/4-in. plywood backer and a plywood rail mounted to the wall. Various hanger assemblies then hook over the rail.
Note: You can download Figure A and enlarge it in the Addendum below.
Step 1: Cover the wall with plywood
Photo 1: Nail plywood to the studs
Cover the wall with 1/4-in. plywood. Spread construction adhesive on each sheet, then nail them to studs. Mark stud locations with masking tape.
Photo 2: Frame the wall perimeter
Frame the wall with 1-1/2-in.-wide strips of 3/4-in. plywood. At corners, nail the strips flat against adjoining walls. Then run strips across the top and bottom.
Photo 2A: Close-up of framework
Vertical edges lie flat against adjacent walls.
You could nail and glue the rails directly to bare studs or drywall, but we chose to cover our wall with 1/4-in. plywood, for three reasons: First, the birch plywood matches the rails and gives the whole system a rich, finished appearance. Second, plywood won't scratch, gouge or dent as easily as drywall, and third, you can quickly clean it with a damp cloth.
The sheets of plywood should meet at studs, so start by locating studs with a stud finder. Chances are, you'll have to cut the first sheet lengthwise so the edge aligns with a stud's center. Then you can use full sheets until you reach the end of the wall and cut the final sheet to fit. Your cuts don't have to be perfect and the sheets don't have to fit tightly into corners because you'll cover the edges with trim later (see Photo 2).
If you're installing the plywood over drywall as we did, run a bead of construction adhesive around the edges of each sheet and cover the middle with a zigzag pattern (Photo 1). Use at least half a tube of adhesive per sheet. If you're fastening plywood to bare studs, apply a heavy bead of adhesive to each stud. Nail the sheet to studs with 1-5/8-in. paneling nails to secure the plywood until the adhesive dries.
Frame the plywood-covered wall with strips of 3/4-in. plywood (Photo 2). Make the strips using the same techniques used to make the rails (see Photos 3 and 4). Rip 3/4-in. plywood into 1-1/2-in.-wide strips, chamfer one edge with a router and nail them into place with 16d finish nails.
Step 2: Combine thick and thin plywood to make rails
Photo 3: Cut the rails
Position your ripping guide using a spacer block and clamp it into place. Then cut the 3-1/2-in.-wide plywood rails. Cut two sheets at once to speed up the job.
Photo 3A: Use a spacer block
Use a spacer block to set the saw guide. It's faster than measuring every time.
Photo 4: Chamfer 3 edges
Cut three 45-degree chamfers 1/8 in. deep on each rail using a router and chamfer bit.
Photo 4A: Close-up of chamfer bit
The chamfer bit will leave a smooth, clean beveled edge.
Photo 5: Add the plywood spacer
Glue 2-1/2-in.-wide strips of 1/4- in. plywood to the back of each rail, even with the non-chamfered edge. Tack the strip into place with a pair of 3/4-in. brads every 12 in.
Begin rail construction by cutting strips of 1/4-in. and 3/4-in. plywood. If you don't have a table saw, make a simple ripping guide to ensure straight cuts. Cut a 3-5/8 in. spacer block to position the ripping guide (Photo 3). Tip: If you make the guide from 1/2-in.plywood, you can rip two sheets of 3/4-in.plywood at once. Cut a 2-5/8 in. block to position the guide when cutting the 1/4-in.plywood strips. You'll get 13 rails from a sheet of 3/4-in. plywood; 18 strips from a sheet of 1/4-in. plywood. We made twenty-three 8-ft. long rails for our 8 x 20-ft.wall.
The chamfers on the rails are optional (Photo 4).The two on the face of the rail are purely decorative. The one on the back lets the aluminum cleats slip over the rail more easily. Instead of chamfering the edge, you can simply round it slightly with sandpaper. For appearance, we also chamfered our shelves and hook mounting plates.
Fasten 1/4-in. strips to each rail (Photo 5).To save time, finish the rails before you install them. We used water-based polyurethane. But don't coat the back side; construction adhesive will grip bare wood better than sealed wood.
Figure B: Plywood Rail Details
Assemble the rails from 3/4-in. and 1/4-in. strips of plywood.
Note: You can download Figure B and print it, see the Additional Information section below.
Step 3: Nail the rails to the wall
Photo 6: Space and nail
Spread two beads of adhesive on each rail and nail them to studs with 16d finish nails. Start at the bottom and work up.
Attach rails with two beads of construction adhesive and a 16d finish nail driven at each stud (Photo 6). Cut rails so that the ends meet at stud centers. For better appearance and strength, avoid putting rail joints at plywood seams.
Use a level to make sure the lowest course of rails is straight and level. Then use a pair of spacer blocks to position the rest of the rails. You can space the rails however you like. The closer you position them, the more flexibility you'll have when hanging shelves or hooks. We began with a 10-in. space between the bottom strip of trim and the lowest rail, then spaced the rest of the rails 6 in. apart. When all the rails are in place, finish the entire wall with a coat of polyurethane.
Step 4: Mass-produce hanger cleats from aluminum stock
Photo 7: Cut the aluminum
Cut aluminum angle and flat stock into 4-in. long sections. Round off the razor-sharp edges of each cut with a file or sandpaper.
Photo 8: Drill screw holes
Drill three 3/16-in. screw holes in angled cleats and two in flat cleats. Then drill a shallow screwhead recess with a 3/8-in. bit.
The cleats that hook onto the rails are made from 1/8-in. thick aluminum stock that's available in 2- to 8-ft. lengths. Use 3/4- in. x 3/4-in. angle for shelves and 2-in.-wide flat stock for mounting plates (see Photos 9 and 11).Cutting and drilling aluminum is fast and easy. Cut the aluminum with a metal-cutting blade (Photo 7).We cut all our cleats 4 in. long, but you can vary the length to suit your needs. Drill 3/16-in. screw holes and 3/8-in. recesses with standard drill bits (Photo 8). Wear eye protection when cutting and drilling aluminum.
Step 5: Make a dozen sturdy shelves in an hour
Photo 9: Mount the cleats
Screw cleats to the shelf about 1/4 in. from the ends. Use a straightedge to position the cleats flush and parallel with the back edge of the shelf.
Photo 10: Position shelf brackets
Position shelf brackets with a 3/4-in. plywood spacer block. Add a strip of duct tape to slightly widen the space so the cleat slips easily onto rails.
The shelves are made from aluminum angle cleats, 3/4-in. plywood and brackets that are available in a range of sizes. We made shelves 6, 12 and 15 in. deep and 24 in. long. You could make yours longer than that, but remember that long shelves are less versatile than short ones. To keep shelves from sagging, place brackets no more than 30 in. apart. We chamfered three sides of each shelf with a router and coated them with water-based polyurethane before adding cleats and brackets (Photos 9 and 10).
Finished Shelf Unit
Make shelves any length with this system.
Step 6: Plywood mounting plates let you hang just about anything
Photo 11: Assemble mounting plates
Glue a hanger strip to the mounting plate. Then add a strip of duct tape and screw on the cleat 1/4 in. from the top edge.
Photo 12: Add hooks
Predrill and screw hooks near the top of the plate where they can penetrate two layers of plywood.
Mounting plates are just pieces of plywood that hold hooks, bins, drawers or anything else that you'd want to mount on a wall. Cut 4-1/2 x 4-1/2-in.plates for small hooks. Glue and nail a 1-1/2-in.-wide plywood hanger strip across the back of each plate. Coat the plates with polyurethane. When the finish is dry, position the aluminum cleats about 1/4 in. from the upper edge of the hanger strip and fasten it with 1-1/4-in. drywall screws (Photo 11). Finally, screw hooks to the plates (Photo 12).We also made larger mounting plates for bins, drawer units and a bicycle holder.
Finished Plate Units
Use small mounting plates to hold various types of hooks. Use large mounting plates to support drawers and bins.
Step 7: Hang the plates and shelves
Photo 13: Hang the shelves
Slip the cleats over the rails and push down to anchor the shelves and mounting plates.
Don't hang plates or shelves on the rails until the polyurethane has dried for at least 24 hours. Otherwise, the fresh polyurethane can "glue" parts together. We put our deepest shelves near the ceiling where they would be out of the way. That out-of-reach space is the best place for stuff you don't use often and a good spot for child hazards like lawn chemicals.
Custom Racks, Too Few Hooks and a Missed Opportunity
Editor's note: One of the things I like most about this storage system is its adaptability. With a little ingenuity, you can make special holders for all those oddball items that don't fit conveniently on shelves or store-bought hooks (Photo 14). But before you make a custom holder, visit a home center. I spent a couple of hours building a bike rack only to find a better one at a hardware store for $7.
I also wasted time on the storage system project because I made too few mounting plates for hooks. Assembling five or six extras would have taken just a few minutes. Instead, I had to drag out my tools and run through the whole process a second time.
But here's my biggest mistake: Like most garages, this one has too few electrical outlets. I could have hacked holes in the drywall to easily run new electrical lines. No need to patch up the wall, since it was about to be covered with plywood anyway. Unfortunately, this occurred to me just as I nailed the last rail into place. I'll know better next time.
Additional Information
Required Tools for this Project
Have the necessary tools for this DIY project lined up before you start—you'll save time and frustration.
- Caulk gun
- Circular saw
- Drill bit set
- Drill/driver - cordless
- Hammer
- Router
- Safety glasses
Required Materials for this Project
Avoid last-minute shopping trips by having all your materials ready ahead of time. Here's a list.
- Aluminum angle, ¾-in.
- Aluminum flat stock, 2-in.
- Construction adhesive
- Plywood, ¾-in. and ½-in.
- wood glue


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This is a locally operated Family History Center serving the Holladay, Holladay North, Holladay South and Valley View areas of Salt Lake County, Utah.
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Family History Center volunteers can show you how to use the center's resources. To make your visit most effective, collect and organize the information you already have. Bring as much information as you have about the ancestor you wish to research, including available birth, marriage and death information. FHC staff can help you use that information to begin creating a Family Group Record.
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Weiler brings inspiring vision to Hurdle, Bucs
ST. LOUIS -- The Pirates are dragging. It is Day 19 of a stretch of 20 consecutive game days through four states. The losses have outnumbered the wins. Only minutes earlier, injury was added to fatigue with the losses of their closer and indispensable catcher.
That woe-is-us gloom fades as soon as Bryce Weiler shows up in their Busch Stadium dugout on the Saturday of the weekend series, sitting on the bench clutching a baseball. And a white cane.
ST. LOUIS -- The Pirates are dragging. It is Day 19 of a stretch of 20 consecutive game days through four states. The losses have outnumbered the wins. Only minutes earlier, injury was added to fatigue with the losses of their closer and indispensable catcher.
That woe-is-us gloom fades as soon as Bryce Weiler shows up in their Busch Stadium dugout on the Saturday of the weekend series, sitting on the bench clutching a baseball. And a white cane.
Weiler is 22, a few weeks from graduating from the University of Evansville and taking his degree in sports management into the graduate school of sports administration at Western Illinois. And he is blind, has been since his four-months premature birth in Olney, Ill.
His story is relatively well known, retold as an inset to March Madness for a couple of years now, of a sightless sub-six-footer who sinks free throws before and sits on the bench during Evansville games and networks an illustrious roster of coaches, with his corner including everyone from Rick Pitino to John Calipari, with Evansville's Marty Simmons the pillar in the middle.
He intends to land a job, and a pulpit to inspire, in sports.
Weiler's primary wish is painfully understandable.
"My one dream in life," he said, "is to be able to see. If I cannot do this, I hope to find a job where I can inspire others through sports."
Given his roster of mentors, you have to conclude basketball is Weiler's favorite sport. And you are wrong.
"Actually, my favorite is baseball. But basketball coaches are just more outgoing, easier to get to know," he says. "Baseball managers haven't responded to my emails."
Until he got to Clint Hurdle, that is.
"Mr. Hurdle was the first of the baseball managers to respond to me," Weiler said. "I'm thankful to have them. Those are my baseball guys."
"He reached out to me, as he does with other coaches, to enhance his understanding of the game, and to ask questions," said Hurdle, the devoted and proud father of Madison, 11, born with Prader-Willi Syndrome.
Madison's condition had drawn Hurdle to Pittsburgh. The Children's Institute in Squirrel Hill is a leading provider of care for those afflicted with Prader-Willi Syndrome. And it drew him to Weiler.
"He knows I have a special-interest child so it drew my interest, and we've just stayed in touch for over a year. Talked to him, video conferenced with him," Hurdle said, sitting in his small office in the visitors' clubhouse. "But this will be the first time I get to meet him."
Back out on the bench, Weiler is trying to contain his enthusiasm, to "stay within himself," as Hurdle's players would say.
"I'm excited to meet Mr. Hurdle. I will be back in August to see Mr. Black with the Padres," Weiler says, referring to San Diego skipper Bud Black, a former pitcher. "I enjoy talking about pitching, because it's so confusing to me since I can't see. But for Mr. Hurdle to be my first Major League Baseball manager … I wouldn't have traded that for anything."
In addition to being contagiously peppy and upbeat, Weiler is like that, respectful and proudly possessive of the friendships he has cultivated. Everyone is Mister, and they are all his guys.
He also is loyal. Sitting next to him on the bench is Kyleigh Lewis, just as she had joined him on a different bench years ago. A member of the Evansville dance team, one day she noticed Weiler sitting forlornly on the bench and joined him and struck up a conversation still ongoing.
"She was one of the first people who ever talked to me," said Weiler, who had felt understandably isolated in college. "When word got out that I would meet Mr. Hurdle, a lot of people wanted to come with me, but I thought I should bring her because she was the first who really helped me out."
Paying it forward, Weiler senses he may have helped out Maddy Hurdle, even if only in a little way.
"Mr. Hurdle enjoyed reading my articles about my journey through college basketball," Weiler said. "He must've thought sometimes, 'My daughter might not be able to do this,' but this has shown him people can overcome challenges."
Weiler, of course, nailed that. Like many people without sight, his sensory perception is acute.
Prior to departing Pittsburgh, Hurdle had told his daughter about his upcoming meeting with Weiler and described her reaction as "all jacked up."
"Dad, he does the sports? And he doesn't have vision?"
Dad corrected her: "He can't see -- but he's got great vision."
Hurdle comes out of the tunnel leading away from the clubhouse and turns left. He sees Weiler, who senses him and alights from the bench.
The men hug. Weiler presses his face to Hurdle's chest, lost in the 6-foot-3, 200-pounder's embrace.
"Maddy gets it," Hurdle tells Weiler. "She has her own sets of challenges, but has also been an angel without wings for our family. And you've been an angel without wings for your mom and dad and everybody else who has gotten to know you."
That's enough of the somber stuff. The rest is pure irreverent Hurdle, putting Weiler at ease by reverting to his cheeky self.
He teases him about his social life and, when Weiler notes the approaching "3 1/2-year anniversary" of his getting together with Kyleigh, Hurdle says, "Relax … I'm gonna have to put a seat belt on you."
As he has shown everyone who has stopped by, Weiler produces for Hurdle the link from the basketball net cut down following Louisville's win over Michigan in the 2013 NCAA title game and presented to him by Pitino.
Hurdle looks at the fraying strand and says, "Yeah, I bet somebody had to cut that down for you. I'd be careful giving you scissors."
Tom Singer is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog Change for a Nickel. He can also be found on Twitter @Tom_Singer.


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The Performance CC brings a sleek exterior treatment highlighted by black chrome exterior accents, grey pearl paint with custom front and rear bumper, side panels and machined aluminum spoiler. The black treatment continues inside with high-gloss piano black accents offset by matte black graphics. Customer black leather Recaro seats and matching floor mats are highlighted with white piping.
While the Performance CC looks striking, the upgrades will get hearts racing. The 2.0-liter TSI engine has been upgraded with an APR stage 3 turbocharger system with three performance levels. In Full Power mode the Performance CC brings 311 hp and 313 lb-ft of torque; GT mode offers 252 hp and 268 lb-ft of torque; and in Eco mode 222 hp and 236 lb-ft of torque. An APR stainless steel performance exhaust system is also included. Key fact to take note of is that in the Eco performance mode, horsepower went up, as well as fuel economy. A production 2.0T CC automatic gets 28 highway/19 city and our CC in Eco mode gets 33 highway, 27 city. Even the full power mode showed a fuel economy increase.
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|Three more fall prey to Balochistan violence
|[Pak Daily Times] Three more people were rubbed out in two incidents in Quetta on Sunday.
In one of the incidents, a policeman fell victim to the ongoing wave of murders in Kutchlak on the outskirt of Quetta.
Police said that Constable Gulzar was on duty at Bostan in Kutchlak when some unidentified persons opened fire on him, leaving the policeman critically injured.
A passer-by was also maimed in the attack.
Police and rescue teams reached the site and moved the two injured to civil hospital where the policeman succumbed to the injuries. Police launched a search operation to trace the killers.
In the second incident, at least two people were bumped off in Quetta.
According to police, unidentified people rubbed out the two people on Khan Shaheed Road in Pashtunabad area.
Identity of the victims and motive behind the killing could not be ascertained until the filing of this report. The attackers expeditiously departed at a goodly pace after killing the two people. Police have started the paperwork but haven't done much else.
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Bombs away, Brownie
Buffalo Bisons first baseman Jordan Brown hit three home runs today as the Herd defeated the Toledo Mud Hens, 6-2, in an exhibition game from Lakeland, FL.
Brown, 24, hit two solo home runs and a two-run shot for the Bisons, finishing the game 3-4 with three RBI. He also drew a walk as the Bisons evened their spring training record at 3-3-1.
Brown figures to be in the mix in Buffalo this season after a stellar campaign with Double-A Akron in 2007. He was the Eastern League Most Valuable Player, Rookie of the Year and mid-season and post season All-Star. His .333 (161-483) batting average led all Double-A hitters. He also had 36 doubles, 11 home runs, 76RBI, 63 walks and a .421 on-base percentage with the Aeros.
In 2006, Brown was named the Carolina League Most Valuable player after hitting .290 with 15 home runs and 87RBI with Single-A Kinston. He was Cleveland's 4th round pick in the 2005 First-Year Player Draft.
OF Jason Cooper (2-3, 2 2B) and C Wyatt Toregas (3-4, RBI) also had solid offensive games on Monday.
On the mound, RHP Adam Miller started the game and allowed two runs on three hits in 3.0 innings (3K). Edward Mujica (2-0) earned his second spring win with Buffalo with 2.0 shutout innings of work (2H, 1K).


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Do you want to go to Japan just because of the Anime?
Well to be honest you proved my point in the way you think of us. When you said we do not learn from our faults and our history is one sided. A couple years of history will not show you that. I rember growing up and learning history in usa all my life. We never learned it they way you learned it and for that i feel sorry for you.
No my point in you missing the quote was even in america there is a form of dislike and haterd among races. Doesnt mean everyone sees it that way. It is useally the fact of where you were raised and not haveing many of the other race or none at all around.
plus you have to look at the fact of how much the usa and jap realite to each other. They buy most of our music. Some people that is a main part of there curlter. Also in some cartgoryies they were number 1. Ever since ww2 when usa helped rebuild jap curtlers have begun to join togther. I mean just take anime and music. Not many americans like jap music, but they love ours. We like anime witch is there tv mostly made by there people and way of view. I mean just because some people are not open minded doesnt mean they all are not.
The one the only.
Ah, but in America, whites dislike the other "races". In Japan, the Japanese dislike all of the other countries. Americans like all forms of white people. The Japanese (I'm sorry that I am generalizing) even are 'racist' against other Asians. I understand that not everyone has hatred towards the other races. I am saying that the country as a whole dislikes foreigners.
Anime is not all of the television in Japan. In fact, most of the Japanese foreign exchange students I know hate it (saying that it is something you watch when you are a child). I agree that Japan takes a lot of culture from America and the same is true in reverse. Have you noticed that American fashion lately is based off of the Japanese? However this give/take relationship doesn't mean there is no distaste for the other country. Some people enjoy rap, but continue to be racist towards blacks.
I don't think I understand your first paragraph.
Well i mean that is true for all countries. Even though america is a melting pot. We as a nation are not too fond of other countries.
Also i understand the anime thing because one of my friends had a exchange student too. I wasnt trying to say they liked it but americans did.
Just like this forum says did anime make you want to go to jap? You have to think of the reverse the things from amercia that are really big over there. That people love alot wouldnt the opsite be the same for them too?
The one the only.
although the japanese are a raciest people for the most part they heavily contradict themsevles because they do everything they can to have western influences. you can buy a latte or Fajita in japan and also they love our fashion for companys like louis vuitton and other western designers its their single largest market. asian girls dye their hair blonde and have plastic surgerys to make their eyes more rounded...they secretly might not like us but they sure as hell need us in thier culture. So they are much more accepting to westerns than any other type of race
Trevor (OP)
You have to admit, many girls in America dress up in kimonos, dye their hair black, and wear shirts with kanji on it to pretend they are Japanese. It's all about looking different from the people around you. The people want attention. Anyway, Louis Vuitton is French, not American.
Yes, the Japanese contradict themselves. So do most other countries. Japan likes the western influences, but does not like the people (like I keep trying to state) because of the way outsiders are portrayed in the country.
i never said none do lol i think every country does to an extent...but as for the american girls in kimonos and kanji shirts...... i only see the girls who like anime and things along that line who own those the majority of american girls arent japanese obsessed or even interested.....and i never said LV was american i said western
Trevor (OP)
Not really i have not seen one american girl do that where i live. They only do that if they a hardcore anime fan. Only if they going to anime convention too. Well i mean thisnt really weither they like us or not. It is weither that influence would make you want to go there.
The one the only.
Yes, but not every girl in Japan has blonde hair, tries to round their eyes, and buys Louis Vuitton.
Well as far as I know, the Japanese foreign exchange students were not interested in American culture as much as the fast food. One of the Japanese girls last year gained 15 pounds in the time she was in America. They were more preoccupied with their work and they made few friends with the other kids. In fact, most of the conversation around a particular male Japanese student was about lending him Japanese music since he did not bring his to America. They were more concerned with their studies than the American culture.
Maybe.. well i wanna go to Japan to go to the disney and. uh. well anime is one part I also wanna see the cool singers too
but you have to take into consideration there in an entirely different country of course its going to be different for them that in no ways shows that their not interested they came here for a purpose not a vacation soo of course they are going to concentrate on their studies more.
and no not every girl does but you can tell its their because just look @ all of the jpop singers and acts they rap in english and the girls and boys have blonde hair
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There is also video games. I don't know if anyone brought that up too. Akihibara has a lot of cool shit too. I would go to Japan, but I wouldn't watch anything culturaly significant like temples and stuff ebcause chances are that I wouldn't be able to understand the tour guide with their broken English and I would prefer not to deal with that.
Don't believe that online status, I'm always online, but I'm usually not around.
^ isnt that where all the otakus hang out ?
Trevor (OP)
I didn't understand everything you typed kyo. If you could put periods into your sentences, that would help greatly.
I think what arx typed brings up another point. Americans seem to think that foreigners must learn English when visiting America. But when forced to learn another language (such as Japanese) to go to another country, they learn it poorly or don't learn it at all, expecting the English to be perfect or deciding to not to learn about the Japanese culture (which is what they are most proud of).
x_x I'm so tired, I can't even keep my thoughts straight. I'm going to bed now. I'll check on this again tomorrow.
haha it has nothing to do with my puncuation you just didnt have anything to say back lol
anyhow goodnight everyone
Trevor (OP)
Uh...no. I didn't understand the "...of course its going to be different for them that in no ways shows that their not interested they came" part. I understood the of course its going to be different for them part. The that in no ways shows that their not interested they came part is what confusing me. Maybe if you reworded it would help. The final part about the JPop is confusing me too, so I'm just assuming what I think you might mean. Either that or I don't understand which part of what I write you're responding to.
Are you saying that you have to keep your hair color in order to stay true to your heritage/country? How ridiculous. And you talk about music being influenced. Yes, the music is influenced, but it's not like American music isn't influenced from somewhere else, and that music is influenced from somewhere else, etc.


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Yogurt or yoghurt is a pudding-like food made from milk fermented in a culture of (typically) Lactobacillus delbrueckii bulgaricus and Streptococcus salivarius thermophilus. At the end of the process, the yogurt is usually heated to kill the bacteria. "Live active culture" is a type of yogurt that has the live bacteria still in it. Some people believe that this "live" yogurt has special health benefits. Many websites and blogs include pages that serve as instruction books on how to make yogurt out of milk, such as one run by Brendon and Ryan Ross.
Lactic and other acids produced during fermentation give it a slightly sour taste. It is usually eaten with fruit or jam.
Yogurt can also be used as a garnish for savoury food, particularly in the Middle East and South Asia. It is the basis for raita.
Yogurt can also be substituted for buttermilk when baking, as in the recipe for Corn Muffins.
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So many of you kind souls asked for the hot cross buns recipe I mentioned in my last post, that I thought I'd just put my recipe up online for all the world to enjoy!
Hot Cross Buns
makes 12
tweaked from a recipe of unknown origin!
1 Tbsp dry yeast
1 Tbsp sugar
2/3 warm non-dairy milk (about 110 degrees F)
1/2 c warm water
1 c. all-purpose flour
3 c. flour (I use 1 1/2 c all-purpose flour and 1 1/2 c white whole wheat flour)
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp allspice
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 c sugar
3/4 c currants or raisins
1/3 c candied citron fruit
1 vegan "egg" (I used EnerG egg replacer: 1 1/2 tsp powder whisked with 2 Tbsp water)
1/2 c Earth Balance/soy margarine
Powdered sugar + Earth Balance + non-dairy milk
To Prepare:
In a medium-sized bowl, mix together the yeast, sugar, warm non-dairy milk, warm water, and 1 c of flour. Mix it well, and then set it aside to proof, about 5-10 minutes.
Meanwhile, in a large mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, salt, allspice, nutmeg, cinnamon, and sugar. Add in the currants and candied citron and whisk it another few times.
In a small bowl, stir together your Earth Balance and vegan egg substitute.
Add the EarthBalance+Egg Replacer mixture, and the yeast mixture to the big bowl with the flour and candied fruits. Combine it all, and then turn it out onto a lightly floured surface and knead for about 8-10 minutes, until the dough is smooth and elastic.... adding more flour to the kneading surface as necessary.
Rinse out your big mixing bowl, clean it and dry it. Gently oil the inside of the bowl, and then place the dough in the bowl. Cover with saran wrap or a moist dishtowel, and set in a warm place to rise for 1 hour, or until about doubled in size.
After the first rise, punch down the dough. Separate the dough into quarters, and then separate each quarter into thirds, for a total of 12 buns-to-be. Shape your blobs into nice little balls, and then set them on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper (or a silpat). Cover with saran wrap or a lightly damp dishtowel, and set aside in a warm place to rise for 45 minutes - 1 hour.
While they are rising for the second time, preheat your oven to 400F. Once the buns have risen for a second time, take a SHARP knife and gently slice an "X" on the top of each bun. Then bake the buns for 15-20 minutes, until golden.
Remove from oven, and transfer to a cooling rack. Once they are more or less cool, you can make your frosting. If you rush it and put the frosting on right away, it will just melt off and make a mess. So, have a little patience, please! I don't have an exact recipe for the frosting - I just pour some powdered sugar into a cereal bowl, add in a Tbsp or so of Earth Balance, then a tiny little bit of soymilk or almond milk. I start stirring and if it's too liquidy, I add more powdered sugar and more EB. If it's too thick and dry, I carefully add another tiny little bit of milk... until I get the texture I want. You can use fresh lemon juice or orange juice for some/all of the liquid for a nice citrus-y zip. Put the frosting in a zip lock bag and zip it shut. Cut a hole in one corner of the zip lock bag, about the size of a pencil eraser. Squeeze the frosting into the "x"-shaped crevasses on each bun.
Eat and rejoice!


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"Summer up here in the north is beautiful," my Finnish father-in-law once said. "Last year it was on a Thursday." The great Icelandic novelist Halldór Laxness develops this idea in his masterwork, "Independent People": "They stood in bogs and pools, in water and in mud, the close-packed clouds about them interminable, the wet grass whistling drearily under the scythe. The scythe grew heavier and heavier, the hours refused to pass, the moments seemed to stick to them as soggily as their sodden garments; midsummer."
Life is bleak and wild up there by the Arctic Circle. Mere survival constitutes a tough proposition, and such survival entails more than the endless battle against the cruelties of a climate, which can at least be witnessed, observed, prepared for. Iceland, like Finland, is a proud and tiny nation that struggled long for independence and whose fate has been squeezed, pummeled and decided by empires. Individual citizens find themselves and their country powerless in the face of unseen world forces that shape or torture their lives. Hence, in "Independent People" (1934), poor crofters ghoulishly hope for more slaughter in the trenches of France during World War I so that army uniforms will go on being made and the price of the wool they shear from their sheep will continue to rise. A global disaster that has turned briefly to their advantage doesn't last, though, and the grind of uncertainty soon returns. Having no other choice, they live stoically, a condition that is in their DNA -- and one that would be an unthinkable affront to most Americans, accustomed as America is to the luxury of calling its own shots.
Laxness is often described as a writer who reinterpreted the classic Icelandic sagas of the 12th and 13th centuries. This doesn't tell the whole story. Of course he was influenced by his country's extraordinary contribution to world culture. How could he not be? From the sagas he drew a laconic, matter-of-fact tone, characters who talk little but brood lots before launching into sometimes catastrophic action, as well as plots whose big moments might be recognized only retrospectively. In such novels as the "Iceland's Bell" trilogy (1943-46) and "Under the Glacier" (1968), he rarely hits the narrative nail on the head but sidles around that nail, observing it wryly, saving the hammer for later. But as novelist Jane Smiley, herself a scholar of the sagas and one of Laxness' foremost American champions, rightly observes, there's much more to his stuff than faux medievalism.
Laxness was born in 1902 in the capital city of Reykjavik, then a tiny fishing port "where people still wore the same kind of home-made moccasins which peasants in Europe used to wear a thousand years ago when towns did not exist and therefore not cobblers either." From this backwater, he launched a determined journey into modernity. He came to the United States in the 1920s and tried to make it in Hollywood, befriending Upton Sinclair, one of his literary idols. Suspected of being a socialist -- not a good idea in America at the time -- Laxness faced deportation in 1929 until Sinclair and Stephen Crane's daughter, Helen, intervened.
Back in Iceland, Laxness translated Hemingway -- and Sinclair too. As another war loomed in Europe, his books were banned by the Nazis. Meanwhile, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover tried to stop Laxness from getting his U.S. royalties, which were considerable once "Independent People" became a Book of the Month Club selection and sold 450,000 hardcover copies. Hoover feared that those greenbacks would fall into red Icelandic hands. In 1948, Laxness wrote his polemical novel, "The Atom Station," revolving around the U.S. military's presence in Iceland and its plans to build a nuclear base. The following year, he won the Stalin Peace Prize. He denounced Stalin and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1955. He died in 1998, having published more than 60 works. This was a man who engaged with, and in some way conquered, the world.
The allure and ultimate desirability of such engagement is the subject of "The Fish Can Sing" (Vintage: 272 pp., $14), the latest Laxness work to be reissued and with an introduction by Smiley. This 1957 novel is narrated by the orphan Alfgrimur Hansson, who tells, in a meandering way, of his relationship with the mysterious Gardar Holm, who has left Reykjavik and achieved worldwide fame as an opera singer. "We were born and bred each on his own side of the same churchyard and have always been called close kinsmen, and many people have confused us and some have even taken the one for the other," Alfgrimur observes. Throughout the novel, Laxness dangles the possibility that Gardar might be Alfgrimur's phantasm, a double who is by turns glamorous, brilliant and fraudulent. "In his suitcases, which were of good quality and fairly new, were found bricks wrapped in straw and nothing else."
That image, like many in the novel, is quietly haunting and visionary; Laxness habitually combines the magical and the mundane, writing with grace and a quiet humor that takes awhile to notice but, once detected, feels ever present. Alfgrimur can't quite decide whether he really wants to leave Iceland and become a star like Gardar or stay at home and be a lump fisherman. Only for the truly Northern soul would this seem a dilemma.
"The word 'love' was never heard in our house, except if some inebriate or a particularly stupid maidservant from the country happened to recite a verse by a modern poet," notes Alfgrimur in a chapter in which Laxness delves deeply into his people's mistrust of show and all things verbal. "If the person under discussion was more dead than alive, one said: 'Oh, he's a bit low.' If someone was dying of old age, one said, 'Yes, he's off his food these days.' About someone who was on his deathbed, it was said: 'Yes, he's packing his bags now, poor fellow.' "
"The Fish Can Sing" doesn't aim for the grand sweep of "Independent People." It's a more intimate book in which Laxness seems to reflect on his roots and the troubling nature of his celebrity. But, like all his narratives, it has a strange and mesmerizing power, moving almost imperceptibly at first, then with glacial force. "The world is a song, but we do not know whether it is a good song because we have nothing to compare it with," Laxness writes. His sometimes-demented mixture of laughter and sobbing isn't for everyone, but those readers who come to know his world and tone will find him unforgettable.
Richard Rayner's Paperback Writers column appears monthly.
The Short List (also new in paperback):
"Bang Crunch: Stories" by Neil Smith (Vintage)
In his first story collection, Canadian writer Neil Smith takes visceral life and death subjects and boldly handles them in a style both impish and direct. In "The B9ers," members of a cancer recovery group take gleeful revenge on a con man. "Isolettes," which deals with a disaffected young mother's journey through the hell of a neonatal intensive care unit, recalls the intense irony and despair of Lorrie Moore's classic "People Like That Are the Only People Here." The title story, "Bang Crunch," tells of a disease that causes a young girl to live her life at tragically accelerated speed. Smith's writing has real spark and energy, and he also aims for the heart. It's a fizzing debut.
"At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches" by Susan Sontag (Picador)
In this, Susan Sontag's final collection of essays and speeches, the full text of her response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks (originally published in part in the New Yorker) is seen in full in English for the first time. " 'Our country is strong,' we are told again and again," she writes. "I for one don't find this entirely consoling. Who doubts that America is strong? But that's not all America has to be." Also included is her piece on torture at Abu Ghraib and literary essays on Laxness, Boris Pasternak, Rainer Maria Rilke and Victor Serge. "She was interested in everything," her son, David Rieff, writes in the introduction, reminding us of how much we miss Sontag's avidity, her commitment to the life of the mind.
"The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick" by Peter Handke (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
In this reissue of Peter Handke's nearly 40-year-old tale of lonely madness, a failed soccer goalie-turned-construction worker meets a girl, a movie cashier, has a brief affair and murders her without knowing why. Or, rather, because he sees ants in the bottom of the teapot. The writing is cool, almost frozen, yet beneath the surface, the Austrian writer's first novel to be published in English all those years ago seethes with feeling. That's the trick. This is a terrifying and entirely believable record of a man's falling apart.
" John Osborne: The Many Lives of the Angry Young Man" by John Heilpern (Vintage)
"I see treachery everywhere," the English playwright John Osborne blithely replied when asked whether he was paranoid. "You should never forgive your enemies because they're probably the only thing you've got." John Heilpern's biography weaves reportage and archival research into a spellbinding portrait of a life that in the end recalls that of Oscar Wilde more than Harold Pinter. Osborne died -- much loved, much hated -- in 1994, leaving behind enormous debts. Heilpern, who previously had worked at the Observer in London with Osborne's fifth and last wife, Helen, uses the dramatist's previously unpublished journals and is excellent on his relationships with the various women he married and the barmaid mum he could never quite leave behind.
"Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity" by David Lynch (Tarcher)
"I don't necessarily love rotting bodies, but there's a texture to a rotting body that is unbelievable," filmmaker and artist David Lynch writes, pretty much confirming that, whatever else is going on, "Catching the Big Fish" isn't your average feel-good guide to creativity. "Have you ever seen a little rotted animal? You get in close and the textures are wonderful." Lynch writes about his experiences with transcendental meditation, offering snapshots of his career, his weird mind and his artistic process. It's a neat book.
"Wise Children" by Angela Carter (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
A welcome reissue of Angela Carter's last, and perhaps finest, novel, "Wise Children" is the story of Nora and Dora, bastard daughters of a Shakespearean actor who take to the stage themselves as dancers, "two girls pounding the boards." Dora says of her sister: "Nora was always free with it and threw her heart away as if it were a used bus ticket. Either she was head over heels in love or else she was broken-hearted. She had it off first with a pantomime goose, when we were Mother Goose's goslings." Carter was irreverent, hilarious, shocking, vibrant, a complete one-off, and this is a brilliant London novel, a brilliant novel about the theater, a brilliant novel -- period.
"Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland and Vichy France" by Carmen Callil (Vintage)
In this ferocious book, Carmen Callil, the Australian-born founder of the feminist publishing house Virago Press, tells the story of Louis Darquier, a petty thief and con man who collaborated with the Nazis and rose to power in Vichy France as "commissioner for Jewish affairs." While living high and posing as an aristocrat, Darquier not only served, but also expanded a system of mass persecution and murder, shipping countless victims to the camps. It's an ugly story, and Callil tells it with anger, having had a unique point of entry. In 1960s London, she attempted suicide; the troubled therapist who helped her recover a formidable zest for life was, she later learned, Darquier's daughter, abandoned by her father as an infant.
"Persian Girls" by Nahid Rachlin (Tarcher)
In this memoir, Nahid Rachlin tells her story and that of her sister, Pari. Both grow up in Iran, but when Rachlin comes to America to study, her sister stays behind and is forced into marriage to a rich but cruel husband. Rachlin's tone in "Persian Girls" is soft yet intense, and her sorrowful story gives perspective, not just on a changing Iran, but on the prejudice and aching difficulties she faced in the United States.
"Arabian Sands" and "The Marsh Arabs" by Wilfred Thesiger (Penguin)
The tweedy and aristocratic Wilfred Thesiger, a onetime special forces officer and war hero, spent years in the parched deserts of Arabia and the marshes of southern Iraq (where, by contrast, tribesmen lived completely water-dominated lives). He found some of the world's most remote, desolate and merciless environments and went there because they called in some way to his soul. "For this cruel land can cast a spell which no temperate clime can match," he writes at the beginning of "Arabian Sands." Thesiger's style is direct and down-to-earth, but the vivid episodes build into enthralling pictures of landscapes and people.
"The Street of Crocodiles" by Bruno Schulz (Penguin)
Bruno Schulz, a Polish Jew who was bringing home a loaf of bread when he was shot to death in the street by a Nazi officer in 1942, has been compared to Franz Kafka, though Schulz's writing is more sensual and present in the world. "The Street of Crocodiles," a collection of his early stories, magically transmogrifies life in a small town. "Dizzy with light, we dipped into that enormous book of holidays, its pages blazing with sunshine and scented with the sweet melting pulp of golden pears," writes Schulz, remembering a boyhood when his crazy father bred birds in the attic and treated tailors' dummies like people. Jonathan Safran Foer provides an introduction for this new edition, which includes some of the erotically charged drawings of this magical and unforgettable writer.


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The UAE Ramadan Moon-sighting Committee announced that Friday, July 20, is the first day of Ramadan and Thursday, July 19, is the last day of Sha'ban Month.
The Committee held its meeting on Thursday evening at the Department of Judiciary in Abu Dhabi under chair of Dr Hadef bin Joan Al Dhahiri, Minister of Justice.
Al Dhahiri said in a statement on sighting of the crescent of the month of Ramadan for the year 1433 AH, that "after investigating and taking into account all the methods of proof pursued by the Committee in the past years, including the contacts with neighboring countries, it has been proven that today, Thursday, 19 July, complements the month of Sha'ban of the year 1433 AH, and Friday is the first day of the Holy Month of Ramadan."
The Committee members congratulated President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Their Highness Members of Supreme Council and Ruler of Emirates, His Highness General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, Crown Princes and Deputy Rulers, on advent of the Holy Month of Ramadan.
They also extended their Ramadan greetings to the UAE people and Muslim Nation.
Ramadan to begin in Philippines on Saturday, July 21
The Muslims in the Philippines will begin fasting for the holy month of Ramadan from Saturday, July 21 as the moon was not sighted on Thursday.
Dennison Abidin, director of National Commission of Muslim Filipinos (NCMF), said moon sighting committees in Manila, Mindanao and other regions didn't sight the moon due to dark clouds on Thursday. So the first day of Ramadan will be Saturday, July 21, Rappler said in its online report.
Fasting for Ramadan is good for your heart: UAE study
Ramadan commuting: Higher Metro frequency; Paid parking timings
Beware: It is not food but chemical poisoning in most cases


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Voters in the Algonquin-Lake in the Hills Fire Protection District split their ballots Tuesday by electing two people from one slate of candidates and one person from another slate.
According to unofficial vote totals from McHenry and Kane counties, Rick Naatz and Bruce Toussaint won six-year terms on the board.
Tim Moss, with 878 votes, defeated current board President Virgil "Corky" Corless, with 601 votes, for an unexpired two-year term.
Naatz and Toussaint ran on the same slate as Corless.
Moss was on a slate with Joseph Saunders and Natalie Littlefield, both of whom vied for six-year terms.
Naatz garnered 834 votes, Toussaint had 806 votes, Littlefield had 711 votes and Saunders received 652 votes.
Naatz is a current fire district board member. Toussaint formerly was an employee of the fire district for 26 years, and retired as the head of the fire prevention bureau.
Toussaint said he was looking forward to "being able to make good decisions for the district and make it grow and provide the service I know we're capable of."
Moss is an Army veteran and works as a paramedic for Rescue Aid
Ambulance Service, based in Lake in the Hills.
"It could be an uphill battle, but I'm used to working with people," Moss said. "I'm sure we can come to some type of agreement and work together."
Moss said there were a lot of unanswered questions from current trustees.
"People didn't feel they had answers to the questions," Moss said. "I felt that's what helped me get in there."
During the campaign, Moss said the board shouldn't worry about small purchases, and his running mates said the current board members had been micromanaging the department.
Moss said he believes the board needs a job description, just like fire chiefs, battalion chiefs and firefighters have, and to be held accountable.
Naatz said he wasn't sure how the dynamic of the board would change with Moss taking the two-year term.
"I don't know Tim," Naatz said. "I'm willing to work with him. He might bring something ... that we don't know about."
Naatz said he looks forward to putting together a strategic plan, working with a new chief and doing as much as possible in the district without raising taxes.
Naatz, Toussaint and Moss will be sworn in in May.