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Blast Fat the Vegan Way!
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If you are looking to maintain a svelte frame, what you put into your body is equally as important as how you take care of your body on the physical level. Simply counting calories with no regard to quality does not lead to better fuel or a more efficient body. There are many ingredients that studies suggest may help you lose body fat, increase metabolism, and stay satisfied so you're less likely to nibble between meals.
Try a few of my favorite delicious vegan recipes made from some of these beneficial ingredients. Just remember that portion control is key—too much of a good thing is still too much!
Apple-Cinnamon Oats
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Key Ingredients: Since cinnamon appears to keep blood sugar steady for healthy individuals as well as diabetics, it may prevent the typical post-meal sugar spike and subsequent crash that can lead to cravings. In a study in the journal Metabolism, people who ate a diet including almonds lost more body fat than those who didn't eat the nuts.
Serves: 1
1/2 apple, chopped
1 teaspoon cinnamon, plus more for baking apples
1 cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk
1/2 cup rolled oats
1 dash salt (optional)
1 to 2 tablespoons unsalted slivered almonds
1 tablespoon maple syrup (optional)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place apple on a baking sheet and sprinkle with cinnamon as desired. Bake for 5 to 7 minutes until soft. Meanwhile in a small pot, bring almond milk to a boil. Stir in oats, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, and salt, lowering heat to medium-low. Simmer for 3 to 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Cut apple into bite-sized pieces. Once oats have reached desired consistency, stir in baked apples, almonds, and maple syrup.
Slow-Cooker Hearty Vegetable Chili
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Key Ingredients: Jalapenos contain capsaicin, which studies suggest may boost metabolism as well as decrease appetite, while beans provide resistant starch, a type of fiber that appears to increase short-term satiety and, according to animal studies, reduce body fat.
Serves: 2 to 4
3 cups zucchini (green and golden)
1 can (15 ounces) kidney beans, rinsed and drained
1 can (14 ounces) no-salt-added diced tomatoes
1 cup diced onion
1 cup diced bell peppers
3/4 cup diced carrots
1 jalapeno pepper, minced
2 stalks celery, diced
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon coriander
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
Salt and pepper to taste
Place all ingredients in a slow cooker and cook on low for 8 to 10 hours.
Peanut Butter Noodles
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Key Ingredients: Peanut butter is high in healthy monounsaturated fats. One study found that eating a MUFA-rich diet may help decrease belly fat more than a carb-heavy diet can. And new research out of Columbia University suggests that ginger may be able to reduce feelings of hunger and rev up metabolism.
Serves: 4
1/4 cup peanut butter
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 tablespoon agave or sweetener of choice
2 tablespoons water
1 clove garlic, minced
1 teaspoon minced ginger
1/2 tablespoon apple cider vinegar (or rice wine vinegar)
1 teaspoon sesame oil
1/2 teaspoon sriracha (or other red chili sauce)
4 ounces soba noodles
3/4 cup julienned cucumber
1 scallion, diced
1/4 cup peanuts, for garnish (optional)
1/2 scallion, diced, for garnish (optional)
Combine first nine ingredients (peanut butter through sriracha) to form a sauce, mixing well until thoroughly blended and smooth. Cook soba noodles according to package directions and cover in cold water as soon as removed from heat. Once cool (about 20 to 30 seconds), drain noodles and toss with sauce, scallions, and cucumber. Top with peanuts and additional scallions, if desired.
Lentil Bolognese
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Key Ingredients: The lentils alone provide about 11 grams of protein and 7 grams of fiber per serving of this dish, meaning you'll be too full to even think about dessert. And in a Korean study, garlic reduced body weight and fat in overweight mice.
Serves: 2
1 package (7 ounces) pasta
3/4 cup vegetable broth
1/4 cup diced yellow onion 1 clove garlic, minced
1/2 cups chopped carrot
1 can (12 ounces) no-salt-added crushed organic tomatoes
1 can (14 ounces) organic lentils, rinsed and drained
8 basil leaves, torn
1/4 cup nutritional yeast
Salt and pepper to taste
Cook pasta according to package directions. Meanwhile place 1/4 cup vegetable broth in a pot over medium-high heat. Add onion, garlic, and carrot and saute for 5 to 7 minutes, stirring constantly and adding vegetable broth as needed so that nothing sticks or burns. Add tomatoes and mix well. Place mixture in a blender and blend until completely smooth. Place lentils in the pot used for veggies, add remaining vegetable broth, and stir. Add blended sauce and stir for 1 to 2 minutes. Add basil and nutritional yeast, mix, and add to pasta. Mix and season with salt and pepper.
Moroccan Quinoa
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Key Ingredients: High-protein quinoa (the 1/4 cup in a serving of this dinner packs 6 grams) keeps you satisfied for hours, while chickpeas helped adults eat less processed foods and fewer calories overall in a study in the journal Appetite.
Serves: 2
2 cups vegetable broth
1/4 medium onion, diced
1 clove garlic, minced
1 sweet potato, peeled and cubed
1/2 cup dry quinoa
1/2 cup chickpeas, rinsed and drained
1/4 cup dried cranberries
1/4 cup almonds
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Salt and pepper to taste
Fresh parsley, for garnish (optional)
Pour about 1/2 inch vegetable broth into a pot and continuing adding broth as needed while cooking vegetables. Add onion and saute for 3 to 5 minutes until translucent. Add garlic and sweet potato and saute for another 3 to 5 minutes. Pour in quinoa and stir to lightly toast. Add remaining vegetable broth, dried cranberries, and chickpeas and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer for 15 minutes until potatoes are tender and all liquid is absorbed. Remove from heat and stir in almonds, salt, pepper, and parsley.
Spiced Baked Apple withPeanut Butter
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Key Ingredients: In addition to the benefits of peanut butter and ginger, apples contain pectin, a fiber that may leave you more satiated after your snack.
Serves: 1
1 apple, halved
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
2 tablespoons peanut butter
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Sprinkle apple halves with cinnamon and ginger and place on a baking sheet. Bake for about 15 minutes until softened. Let cool for 1 minute and serve with peanut butter.

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Another Hawley citizen who became Wayne County District Attorney was Lawrence May Atkinson, who was active as a lawyer in the early 20th Century. A prosecutor at only age 25, his life as well as his fast and enterprising career was cut short only a few years hence.
HAWLEY- Another Hawley citizen who became Wayne County District Attorney was Lawrence May Atkinson, who was active as a lawyer in the early 20th Century. A prosecutor at only age 25, his life as well as his fast and enterprising career was cut short only a few years hence.
Atkinson was the youngest son born to Captain Joseph and Helen Cooke Atkinson (Jr.) in Hawley, on May 5, 1874. Captain Atkinson's father was among the early settlers of Paupack Eddy, the original name for the village. The family made their wealth in lumber. Joseph Atkinson Jr. served in the Civil War and was Sheriff of Wayne County from 1879 to 1882.
The Atkinson home was at 528 Academy Street, which is today known as Academy Street Bed and Breakfast. Joseph built the fine Italianate residence in 1873.
Newspaper articles from the 1890's tell us that Atkinson, like so many Hawley youth, was active in sports. An 1897 article tells of a football game between the Honesdale and Carbondale teams. Lawrence Atkinson of Hawley was listed as umpire. Played at Honesdale, the Carbondale Indians won, 10-0.
He graduated at Phillips Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire in 1893. He came back home and registered as a law student with a prominent Honesdale attorney, Hon. Henry Wilson in November of that year.
Wilson served as an associate judge of Wayne County Court and was editor of the Honesdale Citizen. He was also commander of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Post in Honesdale, serving Civil War veterans.
In addition to Atkinson, Chester A. Garratt of Berlin Township also studied law under Wilson, and likewise served as District Attorney.
Atkinson pursued the law course in the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in in 1897. Immediately afterward he was admitted to the bar of Philadelphia where he started a law practice, but also joined the bar in Wayne County in 1897.
In November 1899, Atkinson ran unchallenged on the ballot for Wayne County District Attorney, on the Republican ticket. He succeeded another Hawley attorney, Marcus M. Treadwell, who had served two consecutive terms. The new D.A. was only 25 when he was elected. Treadwell, who was featured in an earlier article in this series, was 51 when he took office.
Atkinson and his sister Alice rented lodging in Honesdale that winter. He served one term as District Attorney, from 1900 to 1903. They also had a brother, Harry.
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During his term, Atkinson prosecuted a murder case. A July 12, 1901 article in the Scranton Tribune tells of a hearing for a man from Carbondale, charged in the murder of a man from Scranton. The defendant was lodged in the stone jail house in Honesdale on a charge of murder.
The hearing was before Justice Robert A. Smith of Honesdale in the courthouse. Witnesses from Carbondale arrived that morning on the train.
"District Attorney Lawrence M. Atkinson, whose youthful face, by the way, was somewhat of a surprise to the visitors who have been accustomed to looking upon older and graver men in the office that he holds, anticipated there would be a flocking to the hearing and he forestalled an uncomfortable crowding of the trial room by issuing admission cards..."
The defendant smoked a cigar and exhibited a bravado air.
D.A. Atkinson was assisted by attorney Alonzo T. Searles, who later in his career would be judge.
The murder took place June 26 at Lake Lodore at Waymart, which at that time was an amusement park served by the train between Carbondale and Honesdale.
The victim had been knifed. They had been reported to have been at the park for a picnic, and were both intoxicated.
The trial was held that October. The defendant was found guilty of second degree murder and was sentenced to Eastern Penitentiary in Philadelphia, for 20 years.
••• Diverse career
In 1900 Atkinson was also serving as the solicitor for Hawley Borough. After his term as District Attorney, he was solicitor for Wayne County and referee in bankruptcy for both Wayne and Pike counties. His law office was at 923 Court St., Honesdale, near the courthouse.
He served as chairman of the Wayne County Republican Committee and was active with the Republican State Committee. He was nominated for Congress in 1904 by the Wayne County Republicans.
It wasn't all law or politics.
Since his father died in January 1898, he assumed the duty as manager of the lumber and box manufacturing business his father kept at Hawley. His brother Harry J. Atkinson was listed as president and treasurer of the company in 1912.
This firm was located off Barker Street next to the expansive Hawley Glass Company. Hawley Village Apartments occupies the area where the Atkinsons operated their lumber and box business.
Lawrence Atkinson was able to do some traveling; newspaper accounts record his 10-day trip to Cape Cod and a visit to see his sister in New Orleans.
A New York Times article in December 1903 reported that Attorney Lawrence M. Atkinson of Honesdale, had injured in his leg in a train accident. An Erie passenger train was slowing down for the station at Rowlands when it ran into a coal train. There were no fatalities.
Atkinson was a member of the Episcopal Church and a member of the Freemasons in Hawley. He was also director of The Dime Bank, which was founded in 1905.
••• Died at age 33
The young lawyer died on March 16, 1908. He was only 33. He was found dead at his boarding house at 310- 11th Street in Honesdale. "The news of his death produced a great shock in Honesdale as he was about the streets here yesterday," The Scranton Truth reported. "Death was due, it is believed, to heart failure. Mr. Atkinson was taken suddenly ill after attending the banquet of the Carbondale Automobile club in Scranton on the night of March 6." Although up and around by the time of his demise, he has been confined to his bed a week. He stated during that time that he may have been poisoned by eating a lobster.
He was highly regarded by his associates. "...His natural ability and genial disposition augur for him a successful career," said the editor of Illustrated Wayne in 1900.
At the end he was remembered as having a host of friends and being very generous in his hospitality, and for being a lucid, logical speaker. The Pennsylvania Bar Association lauded him for his excellent attributes as a lawyer and unblemished character. "He was highly intellectual, and had every promise of a brilliant career in the law," The Scranton Truth stated.


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We don't really know...but Kota Kinabalu seems unlikey, Penang seems good.Airport in 12-24 hours would be good to watch. Likely an extended Pitstop??This is probably the last or next to last leg before the finale.
i moved to the courtyard at raffles, the raffles hotel, the padang and even the singapore flyer and there's no tar in action. went back and the ice cream door didn't return. aww. tried my best. sorry just didn't have luck. will share photos when i return home.
Great job, Joab!! Great effort. You were awesome!!I do think it would be worth checking again tomorrow if someone could., but am now wondering if this all happened earlier today. ..but right now I would really like someone to keep an eye at the airport?? Starting in 8 hours or so?? can you help, Wil? See the post in spec re times and see what y'all can do. I am pooped, going to bed.
If you look carefully, the ice cream poster on our spoiler pic and the ice cream poster on the pic i posted, the provider is actually the same. I think it's Magnolia ice cream. Similar ice cream logo with 2 pics above. Therefore, in conclusion.. it is definitely an ice cream stand.
Quote from: ltvols on December 15, 2009, 11:29:41 PMjust spotted this on twitter......stephanietang Spotted AmaZing race crew at s'pore!! Bugis near temple. http://tweetphoto.com/6514943Hope this helps! Wondering if other TAR versions use the same colors as the US versionThe place shown in the picture is on Bencoolen Link at the corner with Waterloo St in downtown Singapore. Singapore (City/Country) is not far away from Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.Here is the street view:http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=bugis+temple&sll=1.301135,103.853534&sspn=0.005449,0.009602&ie=UTF8&radius=0.33&filter=0&rq=1&ev=zo&hq=bugis+temple&hnear=&ll=1.301124,103.853524&spn=0,359.990398&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=1.301139,103.853525&panoid=EGwVBbrVfprbvWSVsnsTyg&cbp=13,353.6,,0,-2.34TAR Latin America, which doesn't go to Asia, uses blue-black-blue flags.
just spotted this on twitter......stephanietang Spotted AmaZing race crew at s'pore!! Bugis near temple. http://tweetphoto.com/6514943Hope this helps! Wondering if other TAR versions use the same colors as the US version
Okay, i'm home and alive and this has been a crazy TAR adventure even though i didn't catch any TAR teams in action.I am still very skeptical about TAR visiting Singapore, because this is very surreal and unbelievable and i can't believe that they can enter a country where TAR receives a quality amount of ratings but the leg still wasn't spoiled by any spoilers with photographic evidence. Where were all the TAR fans?!?!?My TAR scooping >>It took me around 30 minutes to cool and calm myself down and find the exact location, because i was brainlessly looking for cameraman and not the background shops. Then i decided to use my internet and with the help of the picture, find the exact location, but no ice cream man. Scooped around, asked a few shops and all of them were pretty sure they didn't know of any filming which took place. Then i decided that there was no point staying around because it seems like TAR won't remove their stations. I thought that all teams might have completed that task and that's why it's gone. Peach suggested scooping around different prominent Singapore attractions -The Courtyard at Raffles - NoRaffles Hotel - NoPadang - NoEsplanade - NoSingapore Flyer - NoAfter going through so many places, i believed the next location after the teams received the clue at Bugis would not be in town, but somewhere AWAY from town area (Not raffles place, city hall or marina bay) but neighbourhood areas like Jurong, Bukit Batok etc, etc. Wasn't there a spoiler 2 or 3 days ago about clueboxes being spotted in Singapore? I seriously thought it was a local camp race, now it's worth digging up again.As for the picture, someone might have taken a picture of it days ago, and only uploading today.. as suggested by someone on this forum previously.After which, it was already nearing night time and there was still no teams. Decided that if the shots was taken in the day, then the leg has to be completed in the day. No point hanging around anymore, unless Joab happens to be this unlucky man who just needs to miss his favourite TAR teams after 13 seasons.And.. that's the end of my "spoiling", don't know how much it helps.
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UFC 163 had some great action and the usual insane atmosphere. This action included a very closely contested title fight between Jose Aldo and Chan Sung Jung, a very questionable decision win by Phil Davis over Lyoto Machida, and two extremely slick submissions by the two finalists of the first Ultimate Fighter: Brazil in Sergio Moraes and Cezar Ferreira. In case you missed it, here are the results of this weekends fights from Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.


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When it comes to preventing combine fires, there are just two key points to remember: prevention and preparation.
• Keep the machine clean. Power-wash to remove caked-on grease, oil and crop residue. During harvest, frequently blow dry chaff, leaves and other crop materials off the machine. Remove any materials that have wrapped around bearings, belts and other moving parts. Be sure to check those pockets where wires or lights are housed and chaff accumulates.
• Eliminate heat sources. Exhaust systems surfaces, exposed electrical wiring and worn bearings, belts and chains can potentially generate enough heat to start dust and crop residue on fire. Check these areas daily and make repairs if there are problems.
• Don't park a hot combine in the shed or shop. After a long day of harvesting, smoldering hot spots may be present in the combine. If those spots suddenly flare up, at least you won't lose the building!
• Keep at least one fully-charged, 10-pound ABC dry chemical fire extinguisher with an Underwriter's Laboratory approval in the combine cab.
• Mount a second fire extinguisher on the outside of the machine that can be reached from ground level.
• Recharge partially discharged extinguishers.
• Have a cell phone.
• Have a plan. Turn off the engine, get the fire extinguisher and your phone. Get out and get help.
• Approach the fire with extreme caution. Small fires can flare up quickly with the addition of air (by opening doors or hatches).
• Stay a safe distance away.
• Know when to wait for help.
So as you harvest this year's crop, take the right steps to prevent a combine fire, but be prepared just in case.
Reference: John Shutske, agricultural safety and health specialist, University of Minnesota Extension


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I don't know much about routers, but the Linksys Dual-Band Router is very simple to setup. The simultaneous dual-band function allows for multiple connections while offering higher speeds for all — a must in our large household! And unlike most routers, it has a very sleek, attractive design that you won't feel like you have to hide away.
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SLAX is one of our favorite Linux distributions so when SLAX 6.0 RC3 was released you can be sure that had caught our attention. New in SLAX 6.0.0 RC3 is the Linux 22.214.171.124 kernel, full NTFS write support, and upgrades to Slackware current. This mini LiveCD distribution is definitely an interesting distribution worth trying out for an older PC or if you are simply looking for a lean and efficient distribution.


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EHood's MC Inland Report
23 August 2017
2017 MC Inland Yachting Association Championship
Lake Geneva, WI.
By EHood
The Young Guns of MC sailing dominated the top 10 of this year's 71 boat ILYA MC Championship. Three Youth teams were in the top ten, won the event overall and also won the top Woman Skipper Division.
This was the final year of the designed three year plan to sail the big championship at Lake Geneva and showcasing the new Buddy Melges Sailing Center. LGYC had a great three year run for sure, setting the bar very high for the future.
Winds were challenging but fair. For the MC class, we had three solid races with medium/heavy winds. A scheduled six race series; we saw on day 1 (too much wind) and abandonment on day 3 (no wind). It takes three races to be an official championship and PRO Mark Prange, along with his great RC group, did a perfect job getting our minimum three races in on day 2. Conditions for Friday's racing were winds from the WNW ranging in velocity from 9-18mph. A little shifty, for sure, but still very fair. Courses were WA3s. Race 1 was 45 minutes long with .7mile legs, race 2 and 3 were 43 and 38 minutes long with .65 mile legs. Our starting line for 71 boats was .28 mile long.
Just looking back on the racing this week, it was exciting to see all the division winners in the top ten of this year's big ILYA Championship. Your overall winner Ryan Grosch (Lake Harriet) and his crew Jessie Olson, not only won this year's championship, they were also winners of the Youth Division. Just one point behind, we saw the Strothman family (Lake Geneva) with skipper/dad Peter along with sons Bo and Grady. We also saw a strong third place showing from Gordon Lamphere (Lake Geneva) and he was also the top single-handed sailor. Another division winner and Top Master was Mark Tesar (Clear Lake) who finished fourth. Rounding out the top five on the Rocket Monster was skipper/dad Mike Kaiser with Kamron and Kasha Kaiser for crew. Your top Grand Master, finishing in sixth, sailing really well was Boss Hog himself Steve Avery from Okoboji. From Gull Lake Vince Driessen with Martha, Gabriela, and Natalia Driessen finished seventh. Race three winner, Henry Chesnutt and Sarah Eide finished 8th plus they were second in the Youth Division. Chris Tornehl from Wissota was ninth. Top Woman Skipper plus third Youth and finishing tenth overall was skipper Natalie Sinn ( Harriet) with crew Paige Boegeman.
Race winners were Brian Heimsch (race 1) with crew Justin and Allison Heimsch. Ryan Grosch and Jessie Albritton won race 2. Henry Chesnutt and Sarah Edie led race 3 from beginning to end. Winning a race was tough this year. Great job to this group for your race wins!!!
Lessons learned, at least for the three races we had in solid but a little shifty breeze, was be fast off the line, hike hard as you can with vang on as needed (to keep boat from being nervous up and down) but not too much (as to lose pointing ability off the line). Stay with the flow, for sure. That is, stay with the top ten boats and their general position on the first beat. With 71 boats it really is about getting to the first top mark in good shape. Also, dealing with waves, both powerboat, when they came and just the waves from the wind was pretty important this week. The flatter you sailed the boat the more the boat went up and over the waves. Downwind was fun as gains were there to be had as the wind was showing on the water and the puffs/wind zones were easy to see. All in all, some great sailing, tough sailing & fair sailing for the championship.
In closing, I will say the ILYA's decision to have the big championship here at LGYC and the Buddy Melges Sailing Center was a huge success. The sheer number of entries and folks attending is a testament to this success of LGYC running a great event three years in a row. When you run big events or even small events run your process through a filter that asks the question "are the folks not sailing having as much fun as those folks sailing". If the answer is yes, then you have a great regatta. LGYC gave us their best and it was fantastic. Thank you from all of us in the MC Fleet and I bet the other fleets as well.
One other note of interest, I personally met several folks who came to see the new MC deck design and of course the big championship. Folks from St. Louis, Chicago, New York, Florida and Michigan came to specifically see our two new MCs at the regatta with the new deck style and design. Right now we appear to have the most interest we have seen in a long time; folks wanting to join our great class. Exciting news for all of us in the MC Class. Keep sharing the good news about this cool boat, share your knowledge, take someone sailing, let someone borrow your boat and we will keep growing this awesome class.


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I don't know if this is so much an issue with the builder, unless you look at making separate tags in the xml file, but it would be GREAT if the part that is used for the output directory is on a separate line in the jsb files found in SVN. These always get altered by users to follow their local paths. But currently, other things in that line change, and so we end up with conflicts when doing SVN updates.


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WASHINGTON — A political tip sheet for the rest of us outside the Washington Beltway, Friday, Feb. 3, 2012:
— GAMBLING ON NEVADA: Republicans Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich spent the eve of the first Western contest, in a state with the nation's worst rates of unemployment and home foreclosures, arguing that Democratic President Barack Obama isn't doing enough to create jobs. Both candidates, vying for the right to challenge Obama in November, pressed their case despite a government report earlier in the day showing that the unemployment rate had inched down to 8.3 percent, the lowest it has been since February 2009. It also was the fifth straight month of decline in U.S. joblessness. Romney was favored to win Saturday's contest. He won the 2008 caucuses with a whopping 51 percent of the vote in a seven-candidate field. Gingrich, on the other hand, was fighting for a respectable showing after his drubbing earlier in the week in Florida's primary. Ron Paul also was competing in Nevada. Rick Santorum has moved on to Missouri.
— WHAT'S IN THIS? Rick Santorum was taken by surprise by the size of the omelet he was served at the Mark Twain Dinette in Hannibal, Mo., where the famed author grew up. "This is a serious omelet. What's in this?" he asked a nearby scrum of reporters. A waitress informed him that the steaming, football-sized meal was made of eggs, onions, green peppers, cheese and more, with hash browns folded into the omelet. "It's like a cake," Santorum said, shaking his head. He asked for extra plates and began cutting it up and doling out the pieces to table mates. "That's one serving. That's two servings," he began. The omelet fed four. — By Associated Press writer Philip Elliott.
— JOBS: The monthly unemployment report showing that 243,000 jobs had been added in January provided a dose of good economic news for Obama. The slow-recovering economy figures to be a central issue in his campaign to win a second term. Obama said far too many people still don't have jobs but that the latest numbers show the recovery is speeding up. The positive report wasn't the best news for Republicans, who weren't in the mood to give Obama any credit for the improving economic picture. Romney said the numbers can't hide that Obama's policies have prevented "a true economic recovery." Gingrich said "anemic growth is not growth." The news was still good enough for the stock market: The Dow Jones industrial average closed Friday at its highest level since before the 2008 financial crisis.
— JOBS FOR VETERANS: Obama crossed the Potomac River for the short trip to an Arlington, Va., fire station, where he offered new proposals to reduce unemployment among military veterans by helping them find work as firefighters, police officers and park rangers. The president announced that communities that make it a priority to recruit veterans will be among the first to get financial aid from the federal government. Obama also wants to help put up to 20,000 vets to work in local communities or rebuilding national parks. The proposals require funding from Congress, which is not assured.
The government said January's 8.3 percent unemployment rate was the fifth consecutive month of a drop in the number. Here are the past six months of monthly unemployment figures. The rate was 9.1 percent in June and July of 2011.
— August: 9.1 percent
— September: 9 percent
— October: 8.9 percent
— November: 8.7 percent
— December: 8.5 percent
— January: 8.3 percent
— In short, it will be a long night. Don't expect to find out who won until after 10 p.m. East Coast time. Nevada Republicans will meet at precincts around the state, beginning at noon Eastern in most counties. But the final caucus, a special one in Clark County for Jewish observers of the Saturday Sabbath, doesn't start until 10 p.m. Clark County, the state's largest, in the past has accounted for more than half the total vote in statewide GOP primaries and caucuses.
—Nevada will award 28 delegates to the Republican National Convention, proportionally based on the statewide vote. A look at the delegate breakdown by candidate, heading into Saturday's contest:
Romney: 87
Gingrich: 26
Santorum: 14
Paul: 4
Huntsman: 2
Perry: 2
— "Don't muck it up." — Obama, prodding Congress to keep the economic recovery going.
— "The policies of this administration have not been helpful. They in fact have been harmful. They have slowed down the recovery, made it more difficult." — Romney.
— "I believe the economy will begin to recover the day Barack Obama is voted out of office." — Gingrich.
— "It's unfortunate that public pressure builds to provide money to an organization that goes out and actively is the No. 1 abortion provider in the country. That's not health care ... Killing little children in the womb is not health care." — Santorum, after the Susan G. Komen for the Cure, under heavy public pressure, reversed course Friday and abandoned plans to deny funding to Planned Parenthood.


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- Sweep sidewalks, driveways and patios instead of hosing them down.
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- Preserve established trees and shrubs.
- Don't let sprinkler water wash over streets and sidewalks.
- Pick up pet waste and throw it in the garbage.
- Drive your car less and use public transit or ride a bicycle instead.
- Use an automatic car wash that recycles wash water and uses non-phosphate soap.


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There is still time to score an amazing gift for this Mother's Day 2017. After interviewing amazing mothers in our community and across the country, based on their feedback, I have a new list!
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(I was contemplating putting this on BeastSquish, but it's not all that related to the server, just mods in general, so it's here!)
Herro everyone! I've been mainly doing Modded MC to try and spice things up a little lately, and I was wondering what mods the community would put in a modpack if they wanted to have their own personal one or one to share with them and all their friends. (If you don't have any friends, think again, you have us Squishies!)
Lately I've been really interested in the Custom NPCs mod. If improperly used, this can make players very OP very quickly, but it's a fun mod to play around with. It allows you to make NPCs with custom speech, quests, roles, and other stuff. With some programming knowledge (JavaScript, I believe) you can also make them do things at certain points in the day. It seems more custom map based for creative, but you can also use it in Survival mode.
So, what mods would you like to use if you created a modpack? Tell me a little bit about them and what you like about them! Maybe we can turn it into one big community modpack and play it on BeastSquish (You never know!)


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Tip off is for 7 p.m.
The Taft College women's basketball team won't get its first home game until Jan. 9 when conference action gets underway.
The Cougars will, however, be a bit closer to home tonight when they play at Bakersfield College. Tip-off in the Gil Bishop Sports Center is at 7 p.m.
The Cougars are 4-6 in the pre-conference season.
They will be in Chula Vista (near San Diego) tomorrow to take on Southwestern and take part in their fourth and final tournament Dec. 14-16 in San Diego. After that they will take some time off during the holiday season before a Jan. 4 date with Cosumnes River College in Sacramento in the final pre-conference tune-up.
The Cougars should have their leading scorer back in the line-up tonight after missing two and a half of the games TC played in last weekend's tournament in Salinas.
Freshman Erica Evans, who is averaging 18.5 points per game, tweaked an ankle in the first tourney game after scoring 15 points. Her field goal percentage is 51.1.
Sophomore center Bezait Anbesse is averaging 10.6 rebounds per game.
Bakersfield comes into tonight's game with a 3-3 record and has won two in a row – 55-53 over San Diego Mesa and 63-59 over MiraCosta.
TC will have played 16 road games before opening Central Valley Conference play by hosting Reedley College.


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Are all medical procedures, drugs good for the patient?
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When healthcare professionals take the Hippocratic Oath, they promise to prescribe patients regimens based on their "ability and judgment" and to "never do harm to anyone".
Although extraordinary progress in medical knowledge during the last 50 years, coupled with the development of new technologies, drugs and procedures, has improved health conditions and quality of life, it has also created an ever-growing quandary regarding which drugs, medical procedures, tests and treatments work best.
And for policy makers, administrators and health economists, the unrestrained acquisition and use of new medical technologies and procedures (e.g., open heart surgery to replace clogged arteries, ultrasound technology scanners to aid in the detection of heart disease, and life-saving antiretroviral drugs for HIV/AIDS) is increasing health expenditures in an era of fiscal deficits.
In many countries, I've see how ensuring value for money in a limited-resources environment is not only difficult but requires careful selection and funding of procedures and drugs. It also comes with serious political, economic and ethical implications—and with new drugs and technologies appearing every day, this challenge isn't going away. What should countries do?


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Bus wreck: Carrier failed four of five inspections
It's a risk nearly all parents take when they send their children off to school, but on the morning of Friday May 29, risk became unhappy reality for the entire fifth grade of Baker-Butler Elementary School, as they became the second group of area school kids ensnarled in an injury-causing accident. In this case, the bus company involved has seen one of its vehicles, a motorcoach, fail its last three federal inspections and get pulled from service. Could this trip-spoiling incident have been prevented?
Police charged the driver of one of the buses, Samuel Hilton Richard, with following too closely. Richard, 62, a 37-year industry veteran, tells a reporter he's not at liberty to discuss the accident.
However, another industry player, Dan Goff of A. Goff Limo, calls the bus company involved, Lynchburg Bus Service Inc., the "low-cost carrier for this area." And SAFER, a website run by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, notes that 75 percent of Lynchburg Bus's vehicles have been pulled service for safety deficiencies, a rate that is over three times the national average of 23 percent.
Duane DeBruyne, spokesperson for the Administration, which is part of the Department of Transportation, declined to characterize any company, but he explains, "Out of service means there's an immediate hazard to safety, so that bus is not moving until that gets repaired."
According to online Administration records, Lynchburg Bus Service failed four of its last five inspections. In particular, one of its motorcoaches, vehicle number 1TUFCH6AXHR005939, was cited on multiple occasions for faulty steering and brake systems, with its most recent inspection, last August, noting "inadequate brakes for safe stopping."
Currently, there is no evidence that maintenance issues led to the accident, but Goff believes that Lynchburg Bus may not have its own maintenance garage. "Bus garages matter," says Goff. "Without the garage, it's something you wouldn't want to put your schoolkids in."
A person answering the phone at Lynchburg Bus said that, under advice from an insurer, the company would not speak to the press. Driver Richard, reached at home, said he's had "no problems" with the company or its buses in the eight years he's worked for Lynchburg Bus.
As to why Baker-Butler chose Lynchburg Bus for what Schools spokesperson Maury Brown calls the "culminating trip" for its fifth graders to the Smithsonian Institution and other attractions, Brown referred the question to Principal Dave Cushman, who then directed all questions back to Brown, who says she doesn't have the information.
Ultimately, Goff notes, there are risks for all companies in the transportation field, and a lot of it just comes down to luck. "We know both companies– good people, hard workers," says Goff.
As for the bus company involved in the I-66 accident, Quick-Livick, Inc., known as Quick's, was founded in 1946 and hasn't been involved in an injurious accident for "over 40 years," says company president Robbie Quick, calling the incident "one of those things."
"We do all the training, all the safety seminars, and all that stuff, and you preach and you preach," says Quick, who, while he attributes the May 22 accident to driver error, notes that passengers have sent emails and letters stating that the driver was cut off by another vehicle on busy I-66 on first day of the Memorial Day weekend. "We do the best we can just like everybody else," Quick says.
–updated 2:14pm, Tuesday, June 2
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Ditto what Sue said. We would not otherwise have known this.
The Hook rocks!
So can you tell me...was the bus involved in the accident the one that failed the previous inspection?
The author is printing speculation...nothing investigative about that. How hard was it to get a competitor to say he "believes" they do not have MX garages? Did anyone find out for sure - how hard would that be?
The author even admits that currently there is no evidence to suggest that the accident had anything to do with the way the bus was maintained...so why is this such great journalism?
Come on - there's got to be a higher standard.
Great job Cameron ! This is the type of investigative journalism that the Hook excels at, and that far surpasses any other news media in our area.
Grateful that no one was killed. I remember when my daughter was in the CHS Band Mr. Tornello was a stickler for the safety of the buses the Band used for trips. Doesn't look like that was happening here.
The bus driver of the third bus was talking on his cell phone while driving. He should be charged with more than following too closely.
He ruined a big deal for those kids, they are unable to reschedule that trip.
He also endangered the lives of many people.
Someone in the ACS system should have to answer for hiring that company.
Nice job on reporting this.


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Jesus advised a rich young man, "go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me." (Matthew 19:21, NIV) The man went away sadly, because he could not do that.
Jesus advised a rich young man, "go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me." (Matthew 19:21, NIV) The man went away sadly, because he could not do that.
Patrick and Jana Crisp held a two-day tag sale last weekend and sold most of the possessions they've worked eight years to accumulate. The house was already sold, and they have moved out. They didn't give the money to the poor — in today's world, financial obligations have to be met and missionaries must contribute to their own support — but they accept whole-heartedly Christ's injunction to "follow me."
Within a few months, Patrick, Jana and three children, age 1 to 5, will make the first move that will eventually take them to Africa, where they expect to become career missionaries.
"We're Christians," Jana said, as a short answer to "Why?" "For us, that means more than going to church and trying to be a good person."
On reflection, she provided a longer explanation.
"Every person in the world, American or African or anyone in between, needs to know that they were created by God with a purpose; not to wander aimlessly through life, but to know Him, to love Him, and to find their reason for being in Him. And once we do come to understand that, it is our privilege to share it with others who have never heard."
Jana said she has wanted to be a missionary since she was 14. After college, she served two years in Senegal, Africa, and when she returned home, was ready to turn around and go back.
But the Crisps married soon afterwards, it took longer to pay off student debt than they anticipated, and they became parents to three children.
"We kind of lost momentum," she said. "We thought 'our dream is gone.'"
Separately and together, both she and her husband had served in some short-term missions, and a year and a half ago, they decided the dream was not gone. They listed their house with a realtor and began a long application process.
Because Patrick is a licensed pilot and aeronautical graduate with experience in the aviation industry, they decided Proclaim Aviation Ministries in Minnesota would be a good fit. They will move there in January and stay for about a year. The organization serves as a bridge to getting missionaries into the field, she said. After that, they will move to Nairobi, the largest city and capital of Kenya, where they will remain another nine to 12 months, while Patrick transfers certifications and ratings and learns the language.
They will work with African Inland Missions, which has a 100-plus year history in the region and current bases in Uganda, the Sudan and Kenya. The Crisps could be assigned in any of those countries, or others where Jana said "access is limited."
His job as a missionary pilot will be as a servant to other missionaries in their work, to bring food and connections from the outside world, transport medical supplies and take doctors and nurses to remote villages to set up clinics and mobile surgical units.
Jana's role will be much the same as it is in Pratt — to provide a stable home, educate their children, and minister in informal ways to people she meets in the course of a day.
They acknowledge some risks in leaving behind a comfortable life.
"There is inherent risk to everything," Patrick said. "I feel like the cause justifies the risk. There is such a need to reach people with the Gospel who are hurting, in desperate situations. I feel like I have the gifts, talents and abilities to meet that need."
In Nairobi, they will have modern conveniences, Jana said, and once they move to a village, it is expected that Westerners hire native help. She's pretty sure she can't make a meal starting with a live chicken or do laundry without the appliances she's used to. A helper will be beneficial in other ways, instructing them as they learn about a new culture and what is appropriate.
They also acknowledge the difficulty, as missionaries, in looking to others for their support. Making the decision and selling their possessions was the hardest thing he has done, Patrick said.
"I'm number four in a line of western Kansas farmers, where a man makes his own way and is a good provider for his family," he explained.
At the same time, he believes his citizenship is not here on earth but in the Kingdom of Heaven, and that there are enough resources within that kingdom to support his family.
"I have an abundant faith the Lord will provide our needs according to his riches and glory."
"In America, we're taught to be independent, to be capable," Jana said. "This (depending on contributions to the ministry) is very humbling, but it's good to accept help. When someone offers to help, they become a partner."
The couple will hold an informational session at their sending church, First Southern Baptist in Pratt, in the near future to explain their mission.


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U.S. Stock Futures Slump as Shutdown Enters Week Two
Tomi Kilgore takes a look at today's market action, including three stocks to watch. Photo: Getty Images.
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Ian Rankin, in full Ian James Rankin, pseudonym Jack Harvey, (born April 28, 1960, Cardenden, Fife, Scotland), Scottish best-selling crime novelist, creator of the Inspector Rebus series. (For Rankin's reflections on the Scottish capital, see Edinburgh: A City of Stories.)
Rankin grew up in a small coal-mining town, where at a young age he displayed a talent for writing poetry. He studied English literature at the University of Edinburgh, receiving a bachelor's degree in 1982. While working on a never-finished Ph.D. in Scottish literature, he began writing the story that would become his first novel, The Flood (1986). It was published by a student-run press in Edinburgh. Set in a small town based on Rankin's own birthplace, the debut was an exploration of the prejudices and superstitions of a fading community as reflected in its casting out of a young townswoman believed to be a witch.
The following year Rankin's earliest crime novel, Knots & Crosses, introduced the character Inspector John Rebus, a rough-edged former military man serving in Scotland's territorial police force. Rankin, who claimed to have had no intention of being a genre novelist, strayed for several years afterward from depicting what would become his most popular character, writing two unrelated novels in the interim. In 1990 he released his second book featuring the inspector. Rebus's career would continue to unfold over two decades, culminating with his retirement in Exit Music (2007). Though Rankin maintained at the time that it was to be the last novel in the series, the superannuated Rebus was on the case again in Standing in Another Man's Grave (2012), Saints of the Shadow Bible (2013), and Even Dogs in the Wild (2016). The series gave Rankin an opportunity to depict Scotland, in particular Edinburgh, in high, often bloody colour. Through the authority-flouting inspector's investigations, which played out in classic police-procedure style, the capital city emerges as a vibrant textured place, filled with secretive corners and strange historical echoes. The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus Short Stories (2014) collected his short fiction featuring the hard-bitten inspector.
In addition to his Rebus books, Rankin wrote a handful of thrillers under the name Jack Harvey between 1993 and 1995. In 1997 the eighth Inspector Rebus novel, Black and Blue, became Rankin's first international best seller. Inspired by the case of an unidentified serial killer thought to have operated in Glasgow in the 1960s, the work was also the basis of the first episode of the Rankin-penned Rebus, a 14-part television program based on the book series that aired in the United Kingdom in 2000–07. Other novels he wrote following the reported retirement of the Inspector Rebus character included The Complaints (2009), which featured another Scottish cop protagonist, Malcolm Fox, and Dark Entries (2009), a graphic novel centring on an occult detective's investigation of a haunted reality television show set.
Rankin gained international recognition for his work, which was translated into more than 20 languages. His honours included a Raymond Chandler Fulbright fellowship (1991) and the Cartier Diamond Dagger, presented to him by the Crime Writers' Association in 2005. He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2003.


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It's New Food Friday again and I have a new product that I tried and really enjoyed! Have you ever tried a can of hummus and tahini dip? I purchased the Ziyad brand of hot and spicy hummus and tahini dip in the can. I wondered if it could be any good coming from a can. I've purchased hummus in a plastic container in the refrigerated section of my supermarket before but I never tried a canned version. Surprise! It was equally as good if not better!
If you're familiar with hummus, you know that it is made with garbanzo beans (also known as chickpeas).
Here is the garbanzo bean as a growing plant.
This hummus is made with tahini, or crushed sesame seeds, to form a paste.
The first canned hummus dip I bought was creamy and spicy! (I bought the spicy version first – not shown in the photo). I added some garlic salt, lemon juice, and a small amount of olive oil but it was equally good without the additions. You could see the bits of red pepper in the dip so it was definitely spicy. In fact, I decided to add more chickpeas to the dip because I can tolerate only so much spice! I had a can of chickpeas and minced half the can and added it to the dip. It was still spicy!
I served the dip with celery and carrot sticks. This is good for snacking or to bring to a party or potluck.
I found the canned dip on sale for $2.29 in the ethnic aisle of my Meijer supermarket. Ziyad is the name of two brothers from Jordan and their company produces 1,600 products.
Here is the nutritional data:
As you can see, it is low in calories. It is a great dip if you are watching your weight.
I not only used this hummus as a dip, I used it as a spread on a sandwich for my turkey burger. It was also good!
Don't be afraid to try this canned version of hummus with tahini dip. It's a shortcut if you're in a hurry and you can also keep it on the shelf for an emergency with the rest of your canned goods.
I bought the unspiced version a week later. It was also good. I'll talk about that some more next Friday and also about the NEW vegetable that you can dip into the hummus which is also very low in calories.


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Wait, what did you think I was going to say?
I've never listened to an audiobook before this summer but I started listening as research. I've been contemplating producing one of my own books into audio and figured I'd better at least know what an audiobook was supposed to sound like before I started. Well, an interesting thing happened.
I got hooked.
There's something really soothing about the sound of the human voice and being told a story is one of the oldest human traditions there is. After devouring multiple audiobooks I was convinced. Audio deserves way more attention than it receives and I'm super excited to present my first contribution to the audio world.
The narrator I chose has a pretty.. Ahem.. Sexy voice so take a listen and let me know what you think!
**CONTEST** Leave me a comment about whether you've ever tried an audiobook and you can win a copy of the audio edition of Teasing Trent!! Contest ends on 7/7.
Hopefully this will make your nights as interesting as mine have been.
Happy Listening!


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Rodeo Mike wrote:I do wish we didn't have go thru a 3rd party to host our pics. I understand it probably takes lots of space on that server. Photobucket doesn't do so well on my phone, I was trying to load some pics to put here yesterday, after a hr I gave up.
You can upload pictures now to this server, you just have to resize them so as not to eat up too much bandwidth while serving them.


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GigaOM Redesign: Speed as a Feature
When GigaOM launched their redesign earlier this year, they impressed us by cutting down their page generation time by more than half – and, they built it in just two months. How? We chatted with Casey Bisson, Director of Engineering at GigaOM to find out.


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Is Multitasking Good for You?
Multitasking may often mean that we sometimes do too many things just "okay," as opposed to a few things "very well." But studies show that doing a lot at once makes us feel good, hence why we engage in such behavior.
Productivity may be high, but performance can be low. Despite this fact, emotional and habitual needs are met by doing more than one thing at once.
As it turns out, younger people feel more productive when they multitask.
A team at Ohio State University looked at the effects of media multitasking on college students, who can study, write a paper, listen to music and text friends at once and are part of a multitasking generation. The research was conducted outside of the lab and in the real world, with 19 students reporting four weeks of activities on a cell phone-like gadget.
They were asked to rate what needs (mental, emotional, habitual or social) were met by doing certain things and the motivation behind them, as well.
Studies indicate that people under 34 engage in media multitasking the most and that emotional and habitual needs were satisfied by multitasking, despite the fact that thinking skills were lowered as a result of all that distraction.
Researcher Zheng Wang, PhD said, "There's this myth among some people that multitasking makes them more productive." Wang continued, "They are not being more productive — they just feel more emotionally satisfied from their work."
Additionally, doing other things while engaging in a boring but necessary tasked helped make said boring but necessary task more bearable.


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In 1643, an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed by the devil. The convent's charismatic priest was eventually convicted of seducing the nuns in his charge and being in league with Satan. Then he was burned at the stake. Aldous Huxley's brilliant book about this religious scandal was first published in the 1950s and has drifted in and out of print ever since. Now it's back, together with handsome HarperPerennial re-issues of Huxley's "The Perennial Philosophy," "The Doors of Perception" and "Heaven and Hell." "The Devils of Loudun" shows Huxley's genius at its best: It's his scientific, almost forensic and detailed approach that makes us feel the truth and horror of what happened long ago in France.
Hanif Kureishi: "The Black Album With My Son, the Fanatic: A Novel and a Short Story" (Scribner)
Hanif Kureishi always writes with grace and fluent brio, and this is a smart reissue, a coupling of two of his earlier books, both dealing, presciently, with rising tensions between Islam and the West, showing young Asians -- born in Britain -- seduced by fundamentalism and becoming almost like young Trotskyites. In "My Son, the Fanatic," originally published in the New Yorker, and later filmed, a taxi driver ponders the increasingly strange behavior of his son. Is it drugs? the father wonders. But, no, the influence turns out to be religion. Kureishi, a hater of imperialism but a lover of liberalism and hedonism, got at these issues early on, giving his fiction real heft.
William Carlos Williams: "In the American Grain" (New Directions)
In his genre-defying first published book, William Carlos Williams meditates on episodes in American history. We see Columbus, facing mutiny, and Cortez, preparing to assassinate Montezuma and destroy the "ornate dreams" of all that Montezuma built. Sir Walter Raleigh is here, and Aaron Burr and Lincoln, as well as the vain, original, driven Edgar Allan Poe. The treatment is free and episodic, beginning with the Vikings, while the writing, as Rick Moody notes in his introduction to this new edition, feels as fresh and vigorous as it did nearly a century ago. Raleigh -- "beloved by majesty, plunging his lust into the majesty of a new world," Williams notes. Superb stuff from a great poet.
David Grossman: "Writing in the Dark" (Picador)
David Grossman, the Israeli novelist, author of the wondrous "See Under: Love," ponders politics and literature. His reflections on the Polish writer Bruno Schulz (shot by an SS officer in World War II) offer inspiration about what story can do. His plea for peace and sanity in the Middle East, made in a speech to the Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Rally, provide a special moving pungency, since Grossman's own son had been killed in the disastrous second Lebanon war of 2002. Grossman sees Israel as: "A victim once again -- but this time, a victim of itself, of its own anxieties and despair, of its own nearsightedness." Not all will agree, though Grossman's grief gives his words clarity and sober authority.
Robert Walser: "The Tanners" (New Directions)
The Swiss writer Robert Walser -- admired in his life by Kafka and Walter Benjamin, among others -- died in 1956 and was pretty much forgotten until re-introduced by the late W.G. Sebald, who had known him. Sebald called Walser "a clairvoyant of the small" and in "The Tanners," an early novel with the taste of autobiography, we see exactly what Sebald meant. The book follows the Tanner brothers and chronicles their minor adventures and misadventures. But it's the dream-like and delicate quality of the writing that astounds. Here Simon Tanner thinks about his fellow employees at a bank: "They all wrote with diligent fingers, made calculations using calculating machines and also sometimes their memories, thought using their thoughts and made themselves useful with their knowledge." When Walser met Lenin in Zurich, he apparently said: "So, you, too, like fruitcake?" In the lightness lies something deep and subversive.
Victor Hugo: "Les Miserables" (Modern Library)
The plot is familiar from the musical and various film versions. The escaped criminal Valjean becomes a successful man but is pursued and caught by the implacable policeman Javert. Then Valjean escapes again, caring for the young Cosette, and Javert hunts them both. Hugo writes in short chapters, moving us swiftly from the Napoleonic wars to the barricades of 1848. But the book is dauntingly immense, and new translations are therefore rare. This one, by Julie Rose, is a smash: lively, dramatic, racy, making Hugo as readable in English as he might have wished. "Les Miserables" is one of the great adventures in world fiction, and Rose encourages the reader to make it afresh. Introduced by Adam Gopnik.
Richard Stark: "The Rare Coin Score," "The Handle," "The Seventh" ( University of Chicago Press)
Richard Stark, a.k.a. Donald Westlake, died recently, but the University of Chicago continues to re-issue his landmark series of hard-boiled novels featuring the lean and mean anti-hero Parker, who sets up heists that then tend to be derailed by the stupidity-venality-treachery of his colleagues. The plots work like machines, as Luc Sante notes in his introduction to this new set, but nonetheless turn on human foible. "You can read the entire series and not once have to invest in a bookmark," Sante writes. Parker's the biz, and so was Westlake.
Rainer Maria Rilke: "The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Rilke" (Penguin)
"This, then, is where people come to live; I'd have thought it more of a place to die," begins the great poet Rilke's only novel, more of an autobiographical prose-poem really, chronicling a young man's arrival in Paris and his lonely obsessions with death and with trying to be a writer. "I strolled through the Tuileries. Everything to the east, before the sun, was dazzling, but where the sunlight fell, the mist still hung like a grey curtain of light. Grey amid grey, the statues took the sun in gardens still draped." Many other would-be writers have read this short work, and some, like Saul Bellow, have been successfully influenced by it. But few have Rilke's almost morbidly sensitive powers of observation. A brilliant new translation by Michael Hulse.
Maureen N. McLane: "Same Life" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Maureen N. McLane, in her debut collection, has a batch of poems entitled "After Sappho" -- Sappho being, of course, the great Lesbian poet of ancient Greece, whose work has come down to us in fragments:
some say a host of horsemen, a horizon of ships
under sail is most beautiful but I say it is whatever
you love I say it is
That's a bold, exhilarating version. "The daily failures are piling in heaps / at the ends of all driveways / and no one is sure there's recycling," McLane writes in "The Daily Failures," one of many poems here that deal with loss of life and loss of love with a fierce, redeeming wit. 'Go litel myn book / and blow her head off," begins "Envoi." Terrific.
Raul Zurita: "Purgatory" ( University of California)
On September 11, 1973, supported by the CIA and U.S. military forces, General Augusto Pinochet deposed the democratically elected Salvador Allende in Chile. A brutal military dictatorship began, and Raul Zurita, then an engineering student, was arrested, detained and tortured in the hold of a ship. That experience began a poetic journey: "They've shaved my head / they've dressed me in these gray wool rags / Mom keeps on smoking / I am Joan of Arc / They catalog me on microfilm," writes Zurita in one of the poems in "Purgatory," a sequence that uses many different strategies -- some autobiographical, some surreal, some graphic -- that have caused its author to be compared to Pablo Neruda. Fair enough: Although Zurita seems odder, tougher, wilder. This work -- ably translated and introduced by Anna Denny -- seems, also, to predict Roberto Bolaño.
Rayner is the author, most recently, of "A Bright and Guilty Place." His Paperback Writers column appears at latimes.com/books.