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So, how and when did Adrian Beltre learn to deal with pain?
He doesn't have to take more than a few seconds to find his answer even though the moment came 20 years earlier.
"It was during a fight. I still have a bone bruise on the outside of my hand. I still played (Little League) baseball," he said, pointing to his right hand which was broken in the altercation.
"I'm not going to lie, sometimes it's stupid, But that's what I want to do. I want to be there every day. The team needs me to be there every day. I'm not going to take a day off because of some soreness or an injury."
The latest test of Beltre's resolve might not measure on his all-time most challenging injuries to overcome ("This isn't anything," he said of his recent hamstring woes), it isn't all that unfamiliar.
What the injury to Beltre's left hamstring represents is a reminder as to the battles he has had to fight.
As he explains, since tearing the same hamstring in 2000, it has been that part of both of his legs that have challenged the mind-set first entrenched as an 11-year-old pugilist.
"Hamstrings," Beltre once again answers without hesitation when asked what has been the most difficult injury to overcome during his professional career.
"Some days my hamstring was so bad I couldn't even walk. Sometimes it hurts to jog. Especially some day games, when you get up in the morning and they are just killing me. I've always had hamstring problems, especially on the left side … I've learned how to play through it every year.
"The first few weeks my hamstrings are free but after that I have to deal with it."
It is an interesting answer considering some of the injuries Beltre has had to fight through. Perhaps the most notable ailment came on Aug. 13 of last season, when his decision not to wear a protective cup came back to haunt him as he took a ground ball in the crotch that ultimately led to bleeding in one of his testicles.
But even then, it wasn't hard to uncover the attitude as he actually finished out what turned into a 14-inning Seattle Mariners victory.
"I grew up like that. Sometimes the mind is stronger than the body," Beltre said. "My mind said that I wanted to be there every day. You're not going to play 162 games, but I wanted to be there every day. I know there are a lot of tests, and nagging and soreness, but the fact is that if you don't know how to play with pain and soreness you aren't going to play a full season so that's the way I look at it.
"I always want to test myself and push myself to be there every day. So far I know how to play in pain and I've been doing that."
Beltre got good news Thursday when an MRI showed that his injured hamstring shouldn't present too much of a problem going forward. But what should be noted that it was far from the first time he has has to turn back the pain. He went five straight seasons playing in 156 games or more, and before the 2009 injury hadn't totaled less than 143 since 2002.
Another example of the third baseman's resiliency came in St. Petersburg last week when Beltre rocketed a foul ball off his left leg just moments after Kevin Youkilis had left the game with a foot injury. He remained in the game, saying after it was over, "It isn't broken, and if isn't broken it isn't a problem."
"You play through something like that and three or four days later you're OK," explained Beltre, who also credits his older cousins for roughing him up just enough to teach some valuable lessons.
"It was already in me. That's the way I think. That's how I've been over the years and I don't think it's going to change any time soon."
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Jurors in federal court in Miami deliberated more than three days before finding Lauer not guilty of wire fraud and conspiracy in connection with the alleged scheme. He faced as many as 25 years in prison and $500,000 in fines if convicted.
"There was simply no evidence, nothing illegal," Lauer said outside the courtroom after the verdict. He said he plans to return to the hedge fund business.
The government alleged Lauer and an associate bought quantities of restricted stock of shell companies starting in 1999 and instructing brokers to buy a smaller number of shares of the same companies at higher, open-market prices to drive shares to a targeted price, according to court filings.
Lauer, who founded the New York-based Lancer Group in 1993, then falsely valued all of the firm's securities at the higher closing prices, which artificially inflated the funds' investment returns, prosecutors contended. That helped attract new investors and generated lucrative fees for fund officials, the government contended.
Lauer's lawyers countered during the six-week trial that the hedge fund manager was a savvy trader whose stock picks were designed to make money for investors and he didn't engage in fraud.
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COVENANT OF RANCHO SANTA FE, Calif., Aug. 19, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Concierge Auctions, a luxury real estate auction firm serving high-net-worth individuals worldwide, today announced the successful auction of El Milagro, the storied home of sports betting icon Bill Walters. Following a spirited auction with 8 bidders, El Milagro has gone under contract for what, when closed, will be the highest recorded price in the exclusive Covenant of Rancho Santa Fe since a $15M sale in October, 2008. The property went under contract in cooperation with Laura Barry of Barry Estates.
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The seller, Bill Walters, is a successful entrepreneur and renowned gambler who is credited with introducing statistical analysis to the world of betting. "I've always been pretty good at staying on the cutting edge of trends," stated Walters. "Non-distressed sellers will increasingly choose to sell their trophy properties through auction, as it's simply the best way to take control. If the market is trending up, then strong bidder interest drives the highest price. If it's down, the auction creates momentum and urgency. And, best of all, the seller has a defined date of sale."
Unique attributes of El Milagro include:
- An expansive property, spread across 9 rare unobstructed acres within the exclusive Covenant of Rancho Santa Fe
- An ideal location, situated within the top school district in the San Diego area, just four miles to Pacific Ocean beaches, and thirty minutes to downtown San Diego
- Dave Pelz-designed pro putting and chipping greens
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Concierge Auctions' marketing efforts resulted in:
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Listing agent Laura Barry stated: "The Concierge process is great for one-of-a-kind properties because there are no negotiations — the 'counter' situation is removed from the equation — and value is identified real-time."
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About Concierge Auctions
Founded in 2008, New-York based Concierge Auctions has quickly become the dominant player in the luxury real estate auctions sector, selling high-end properties worldwide through a transparent and market-based bidding process. Since its founding, Concierge has successfully closed over a half-billion dollars in luxury properties, with $194 million contracted in 2013 alone — at an average price of $5.4 million. The business has spanned the globe, domestically from New York to Hawaii, and abroad from Fiji to Toronto.
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From "the reigning queen of crime fiction" (Time Out), a sequel to A Sight for Sore Eyes, one of Rendell's most beloved novels—featuring the retired Inspector Wexford.
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From "the reigning queen of crime fiction" (Time Out), a sequel to A Sight for Sore Eyes, one of Rendell's most beloved novels—featuring the retired Inspector Wexford.
In the stunning climax to Rendell's classic A Sight for Sore Eyes, three bodies—two dead, one living—are entombed in an underground chamber beneath a picturesque London house. Twelve years later, when a manhole cover is pulled back, the house's new owner makes a grisly discovery. Only now, the number of bodies is four. How did somebody else end up in the chamber? And who knew of its existence?
With their own detectives at an impasse, police call on former Chief Inspector Wexford, now retired and living with his wife in London, to advise them on the unsolved murders. Wexford, missing the thrill of a good case, jumps at the chance to sleuth again. His dogged detective skills and knack for figuring out the criminal mind take him to London neighborhoods, posh and poor, as he follows a complex criminal trail back to the original murders.
But just as Wexford's case gets hot, a devastating family tragedy pulls Wexford back to Kingsmarkham, and for the first time in his life, Wexford finds himself transforming from investigator into victim. Masterfully plotted, The Vault will satisfy both longtime Wexford fans and new Rendell readers.
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"Ruth Rendell has written an astounding 59 novels. All are reason to rejoice, but this 60th, starring the beloved Reginald Wexford, is worth shouting about from the rooftops… [A] classic Rendell tale."— Carol Memmott, USA Today
"[A] fiendish plot… Wexford hasn't lost his touch."--Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review
"This is Ruth Rendell at her authoritative best."—Muriel Dobbin, Washington Times
Ex–Chief Inspector Wexford returns from retirement to solve a most unlikely case: the mystery of who killed the three people whose corpses were last seen at the bottom of a coal hole inA Sight for Sore Eyes(1999).
In the decade since Franklin Merton left St. John's Wood in 1998, Orcadia Cottage has changed hands twice by the time Martin Rokeby, who wants to make room for an amphora his wife Anne found in Florence, pulls up a manhole cover in his backyard and shines a light down a dark shaft to reveal not only the three victims from Rendell's earlier tale but a fourth, much more recently dead than the others but equally beyond identification. Det. Supt. Thomas Ede, of Cricklewood, is getting nowhere with the case, so he invites Reg Wexford, who's retired to Hampstead Heath, to join him as an unpaid consultant. "I'm an amateur detective now," thinks Wexford, though one accorded much less respect than Poirot or Lord Peter. Accompanying Ede and his sergeant, Lucy Blanch, on interviews, he ventures several guesses as to the identities of the dead—Merton's vanished second wife, Harriet? The young man seen driving an Edsel and heard calling himself Keith Hill? His uncle, from whom he may have taken his name and much more? Orcadia neighbor Mildred Jones's cleaner Vladlena, who memorably burned the shirt of her then-husband Colin?—and then watches as he's proved right or wrong. Nor does he simply watch, for trauma and tragedy are about to visit Wexford's own family in equally unnerving ways.
Though this sequel doesn't pack the punch of the earlier novel, which never seemed in need of a sequel, it's an undoubted tour de force likely to offer enjoyment both to readers with long memories and to those approaching it as a stand-alone.
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A CURIOUS WORLD WE live in," said Franklin Merton, "where one can afford a house but not a picture of a house. That must tell us some profound truth. But what? I wonder."
The picture he was talking about was Simon Alpheton's Marc and Harriet in Orcadia Place, later bought by Tate Britain—simply "the Tate" in those days—and the house the one in the picture, Orcadia Cottage. His remark about the curious world was addressed to the Harriet of the picture, for whom he had bought it and whom he intended to marry when his divorce came through. Later on, when passion had cooled and they were husband and wife, Franklin said, "I didn't want to get married. I married you because I'm a man of honour and you were my mistress. Some would say my views are out-of-date, but I dispute that. The apparent change is only superficial. I reasoned that no one would want my leavings, so for your sake, the decent thing was to make an honest woman of you."
His first wife was Anthea. When he deserted her, he was also obliged to desert their dog, O'Hara, and to him that was the most painful thing about it.
"You don't keep a bitch and bark yourself," he said to Harriet when she protested at having to do all the housework.
"Pity I'm not an Irish setter," she said, and had the satisfaction of seeing him wince.
They lived together for five years and were married for twenty-three, the whole time in that house, Orcadia Cottage or number 7a Orcadia Place, London NW8. Owing to Franklin's sharp tongue, verbal cruelty, and indifference, and to Harriet's propensity for sleeping with young tradesmen in the afternoons, it was not a happy marriage. They took separate holidays, Franklin going away ostensibly on his own but in fact with his first wife, and he came back from the last one only to tell Harriet he was leaving. He returned to Anthea and her present Irish setter, De Valera, intending to divorce Harriet as soon as feasible. Anthea, a generous woman, urged him to do his best to search for her, for Harriet couldn't be found at Orcadia Cottage. The largest suitcase, most of her clothes, and the best of the jewellery he had bought her were missing, and Franklin's belief was that she had gone off with her latest young man.
"She'll be in touch as soon as she's in need," said Franklin to Anthea, "and that won't be long delayed."
But Harriet never got in touch. Franklin went back to Orcadia Cottage to look for some clue to where she might have gone but found only that the place was exceptionally neat, tidy, and clean.
"One odd thing," he said. "I lived there for all those years and never went into the cellar. There was no reason to do so. Just the same, I could have sworn there was a staircase going down to it with a door just by the kitchen door. But there isn't."
Anthea was a much cleverer woman than Harriet. "When you say you could have sworn, darling, do you mean you would go into court, face a jury, and say, 'I swear there was a staircase in that house going down to the cellar'?"
After thinking about it, Franklin said, "I don't think so. Well, no, I wouldn't."
He put the house on the market and bought one for Anthea and himself in South Kensington. In their advertisements the estate agents described Orcadia Cottage as "the Georgian home immortalized in the internationally acclaimed artwork of Simon Alpheton." The purchasers, an American insurance broker and his wife, wanted to move in quickly, and when Franklin offered them the report his own surveyors had made thirty years before, they were happy to do without a survey. After all, the house had been there for two hundred years and wasn't likely to fall down now.
CLAY AND DEVORA SILVERMAN bought the house from Franklin Merton in 1998 and lived there until 2002 before returning to the house they had rented out in Hartford, Connecticut. The first autumn they spent at Orcadia Cottage the leaves on the Virginia creeper which covered the entire front and much of the back of the house turned from green to copper and copper to red and then started to fall off. Clay Silverman watched them settle on the front garden and the paving stones in the back. He was appalled by the red, sticky, sodden mass of leaves on which he and Devora slipped and slid and Devora sprained her ankle. Knowing nothing about natural history and still less about gardening, he was well-informed about art and was familiar with the Alpheton painting. It was one of his reasons for buying Orcadia Cottage. But he had assumed that the green leaves covering the house that formed the background to the lovers' embrace remained green always and remained on the plant. After all of them had fallen, he had the creeper cut down.
Orcadia Cottage emerged as built of bricks in a pretty pale red colour. Clay had shutters put on the windows and the front door painted a pale greenish gray. In the paved yard at the back of the house was what he saw as an unsightly drain cover with a crumbling stone pot on top of it. He had a local nursery fill a tub with senecios, heathers, and cotoneaster to replace the pot. But four years later he and Devora moved out and returned home. Clay Silverman had given £800,000 for the house and sold it for £1.5 million to Martin and Anne Rokeby.
The Rokebys had a son and daughter; there were only two bedrooms in Orcadia Cottage, but one was large enough to be divided and this was done. For the first time in nearly half a century the house was home to children. Again there was no survey on the house, for Martin and Anne paid cash and needed no mortgage. They moved into Orcadia Cottage in 2002 and had been living there for four years, their children teenagers by this time, when Martin raised the possibility with his wife of building underground. Excavations to construct an extra room or two—a wine cellar, say, or a "family room," a study, or all of those things—were becoming fashionable. You couldn't build on to your historic house or add an extra story, but the planning authority might let you build subterraneanly. A similar thing had been done in Hall Road, which was near Orcadia Place, and Martin had watched the project with interest.
A big room under Orcadia Cottage would be just the place for their children to have a large-screen television, their computers, their ever-more-sophisticated arrangements for making music, and maybe an exercise room too for Anne, who was something of a workout fanatic. In the late summer of 2006 Martin began by consulting the builders who had divided the large bedroom, but they had gone out of business. A company whose board outside the Hall Road house gave their name, phone number, and an e-mail address were next. But the men who came round to have a look said it wouldn't be feasible. A different firm was recommended to him by a neighbour. One who came said he thought it could be done. Another said it was possible if Martin didn't mind losing all the mature trees in the front garden.
Martin and Anne and the children all went to Australia for a month. The house was too old, prospective builders said; it would be unwise to disturb the foundations. Others said it could be done but at a cost twice that which Martin had estimated. They said all this on the phone without even looking at it. Nevertheless, he applied to the planning authority for permission to build underneath the house. The project was put an end to when planning permission was refused, having had a string of protests from all the Rokebys' neighbours except the one who had recommended the builder.
All this took about a year. In the autumn of 2007 the Rokebys' son, who had been the principal family member in favour of the underground room, went off to university. Time went on and the plan was all but forgotten. The house seemed bigger now their daughter was away at boarding school. In the early spring of 2009 Martin and Anne went on holiday to Florence. There, in a shop on the Arno, Anne fell in love with a large amphora displayed in its window. Apparently dredged up from the waters of the Mediterranean, it bore a frieze round its rim of nymphs and satyrs dancing and wreathing each other with flowers.
"I must have that," said Anne. "Imagine that replacing that hideous old pot."
"You have it," Martin said. "Why not? So long as you don't try getting it on the flight."
The shop sent it, carefully packed in a huge crate, and it finally arrived in St. John's Wood in May 2009 by some circuitous route not involving aircraft. A local nursery agreed to plant it with agapanthus and Sedum spectabile, but before this was done, Martin emptied the plants and soil out of the wooden tub, placed the remains of the tub into a black plastic bag, and put it out into the mews for the rubbish collection.
"I've often wondered what's under that lid thing but never bothered to have a look."
"Now's your chance," said Anne, uninterested.
"It's probably too heavy to lift."
But it wasn't too heavy. Martin lifted the manhole cover to disclose a large, dark cavity. He could see nothing much beyond what appeared to be a plastic bag or sheet of plastic lying in the depths. Better get a torch, he thought, and he did, thus wrecking his life for a long time to come.
An exaggeration? Perhaps. But not much of one. By shining that torch down into the dark cavity, he gained a place for his wife and himself and his home on the front page of every daily newspaper, put an end to his and his family's peace for months, attracting mobs of sightseers to the street and the mews, reducing the selling price of his house by about a million pounds, and making Orcadia Place as notorious as Christie's home in Notting Hill and the Wests' in Gloucester.
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For over four decades, Ahmad Buyong followed orders faithfully, making sure his distinguished bosses went everywhere safely and on time.
The 65-year-old holds a special place at the Philippine Embassy as he is the longest serving employee there, having been employed as a chauffeur in 1968.
"I have served many great men and thanks to my job, also got to meet many fine people over the years," said Ahmad, who has served 10 ambassadors.
The longest serving chauffeur in the local diplomatic circuit's passion for the job has not diminished, saying he still looked forward to reporting for work daily.
"It is always a joy when I am given an assignment," said Ahmad, adding that the official black Mercedes Benz vehicle was also a joy to drive.
The Kuala Lumpur-born father of six has picked up more than just driving skills.
He also speaks Tagalog, the official language of the Philippines.
Ahmad is building a special relationship with his present boss, Ambassador J. Eduardo Malaya, who was posted in Kuala Lumpur last year.
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Last year's edition of the Beirut Art Fair was dominated by local galleries, an imbalance redressed somewhat by the South East Asia Pavilion.Scheduled for Sept. 18-21, the fifth edition of the fair will feature an Indian Pavilion, curated by Paris-based Fabrice Bousteau. An independent art critic and curator, Bousteau co-curated a major exhibition focusing on art from the subcontinent at Paris' Centre Pompidou in 2011, entitled "Paris-Delhi-Bombay: India Through the Eyes of Indian and French Artists". BAF may not be able to provide Bousteau with 2,500 square meters of exhibition space, but the pavilion is set to match the Pompidou show in the number of artists represented. Although no names have been confirmed, the curator hopes to include work by around 30 artists.
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Listen to Another New Song From Neko Case
A couple months ago we posted the first new single from Neko Case's upcoming album, The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You. That song, "Man," was a gender-bending rocker with M. Ward.
The lyrics to Case's new song, "Night Still Comes," are more obscure, but that may be deliberate. "If I puked up some sonnets,/ Would you call me a 'miracle'?" she sings on the second verse. Still, that doesn't stop the words, which seem to survey the ruins of a lost relationship, from being evocative. By the time her voice rises up to belt the chorus, you may find that the meaning of it all ceases to matter.
The Worse Things Get… is out on Sept. 3.
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