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- Wally Lamb to speak at faith and writing fest - MLive.com
- Helene Pohl - SOUNZ
- St. Ansovinus - Catholic Online
- Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend - The Christian Science Monitor
| Wally Lamb to speak at faith and writing fest - MLive.com Posted: 13 Mar 2010 06:03 AM PST By Kalamazoo Gazette staffMarch 13, 2010, 9:00AMGRAND RAPIDS — Novelist Wally Lamb will be among the speakers at the 2010 Festival of Faith and Writing Festival at Calvin College.The college is planning to host more than 70 authors and about 2,000 attendees during the festival, scheduled for April 15-17. Lamb, a two-time Oprah's Book Club author, will give an evening address on April 15. The lineup also includes Eugene Peterson, author of "The Message," a modern translation of the Bible; Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Richard Rodriguez; author Parker Palmer; and award-winning poet and memoirist Mary Karr. Festival planners are also trying something new this year — offering a Festival in the City, a series of free events open to the public at the Ladies Literary Club, in downtown Grand Rapids. On Calvin's campus, children's author Kate DiCamillo will do a reading and book signing that is free and open to the public. For more information on the festival, including a schedule and biographies of all of the speakers, or to register for the whole festival or buy tickets to individual events, go to www.calvin.edu/festival. For other inquiries, call (616) 526-6770. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Posted: 13 Mar 2010 04:23 AM PST ProfileBorn in Ithaca, New York to German parents, Helene Pohl spent her childhood on both sides of the Atlantic and began her musical studies at age four. At 17 she was accepted for tertiary study at the Musikhochschule Cologne. She continued her studies with members of the Cleveland Quartet at the Eastman School of Music and at Indiana University with Josef Gingold. As first violinist of the San Francisco based Fidelio String Quartet (1988-1993), Helene performed extensively in the USA, Germany, England, Italy and South America. The Fidelio Quartet was prizewinner in the 1991 London International String Quartet Competition and quartet in residence at both the Tanglewood and Aspen Music Festivals. Helene joined the New Zealand String Quartet as first violinist in February 1994 and became a New Zealand citizen in 1997. In 2001 she became Artistic Director, with fellow quartet member Gillian Ansell, of the Adam New Zealand Festival of Chamber Music. Source: http://www.nzsq.co.nz/about-the-quartet/biographies/helene-pohl/ September 2008Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| St. Ansovinus - Catholic Online Posted: 12 Mar 2010 11:58 PM PST Feastday: March 13 840 Bishop and confessor of the Frankish Emperor Louis the Pious. He was born in Camerino, Italy, and entered the religious life at a young age. After living as a hermit for many years, Ansovinus elected Camerino. Ansovinus' sanctity and miracles also brought him to the court of Emperor Louis the Pious where he served as confessor and spiritual counselor. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend - The Christian Science Monitor Posted: 13 Mar 2010 02:36 AM PST If biases be told, this reviewer is a lifelong Willie Mays fan who can't imagine a book about his idol being anything but a must-read. Over the years there have been a number of slap-dash biographies of the greatest baseball player ever to lace up spikes, though none recently, and none that have stood the test of time. Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend by James S. Hirsch, is long overdue, not only because it brings Willie Mays into sharp focus, but also for documenting, in broad strokes and in intimate details, the evolving times during which the "Say Hey Kid" ruled the diamond – and the hearts of millions of Americans – from his kingdom in center field. Skip to next paragraphWillie Mays made his mark in four decades, and his career touched all the bases to a degree that only a handful of baseball players can claim. He got his professional start at age 15 in the gritty industrial leagues of Birmingham, Ala. He even played ball with white kids in the neighborhood until grown-ups called the police. He graduated to the Negro Leagues in the late 1940s, and made the jump to the minors in Trenton, N.J., where he was the only black player in the league in 1950. He had just turned 19. The next spring, he was called up by the New York Giants, who were the runts of the city's three-team litter. Mays became Rookie of the Year, and the Giants caught the Brooklyn Dodgers to win the National League pennant. In 1954, his first full season in the big leagues (he was in the Army the previous two), Mays was the league's Most Valuable Player, his team won the World Series, and he made the cover of Time magazine. He was 23. After his early minor and major league seasons, Mays kept right on playing through the winter, barnstorming the country with black and white all-stars, an activity that would soon fade into history. He slept in segregated hotels, South and North, apart from his white teammates, and when barnstorming disappeared, he played winter ball throughout the Caribbean. So how good was Willie Mays? He was unlike anything baseball had seen before, or since. He could run like Ty Cobb, field like Joe DiMaggio (only better), hit for power like Babe Ruth, make catches and throws that left his peers shaking their heads in disbelief, swearing that they had never even seen anything to compare it to. He stole bases like a whirlwind, terrifying pitchers, catchers, and fielders alike. He scored from first on a bunt once and could score from second on a ground out. He owned the base paths. In a game of numbers, he was always better than the box score. Of his over-the-shoulder catch in the 1954 World Series, widely considered to be the greatest ever made, Mays insists that he had it all the way, that he was already thinking about the throw well before the ball nestled in his mitt. He was nearly 500 feet from home plate, in the Siberia that was center field in the Polo Grounds, and he wanted to prevent the man at second base from tagging up and scoring. His back to the plate, he caught the ball and spun like a ballerina, throwing in one fluid motion as if he had choreographed it, which he had. The man stayed at third. The Greatest Catch of All Time wasn't even his best. That's how good Willie Mays was at our national pastime. Page: 1 | 2 Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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