Steve Rosenbloom on poker: Even pros can out-think themselves (San Jose Mercury News)

The textbook play with pocket aces is to raise preflop in hopes of getting heads-up against a good hand that's not good enough.

Families cool off in east coast waters (The Courier)

School leavers from Bell Baxter High School, Cupar, frolic in the water at West Sands, St Andrews.

Strange News, Politics, Sport, and Celebrity on the Anorak (Anorak)

DOES Jessie Jackson think that his surname makes him the other Michael Jackson? Question #1: What’s this “dignity” he attributes to Michael Jackson? The guy’s date at the Grammy Awards was a chimpanzee named Bubbles.

saturday, july 4 (St. Petersburg Times)

Yesenin Leonid Jakovson's Ballet Theater performs a new ballet to Yury Petukhov's choreography about a Russian poet, based on the music of Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, Beethoven, Artemiev and Privalov.

Surging Stock Sales Benefit U.S. Investment Banks: Chart of Day (Bloomberg)

July 2 (Bloomberg) -- “Equity underwriting returned in spades” during the second quarter and lifted earnings at U.S. investment banks, according to Chris Kotowski , an analyst at Oppenheimer & Co.

5-Star Stocks Poised to Pop: Waste Management (The Motley Fool)

Market-trouncing returns could be written in these five stars.

bridge play frank stewart (Baltimore Sun)

In the Open Pairs at the ACBL Spring Championships, most Souths jumped to two spades over East's opening bid. Since East-West were using negative doubles, West couldn't act. After two passes, East often reopened with a double; some Easts considered that action mandatory.

Bridge (Arizona Daily Star)

Let's say you reach four spades on the bidding shown and West leads the heart jack. You hopefully play the queen, but East produces the king, which you take with the ace.

In San Remo, Coming From Behind in Open Pairs (New York Times)

The last three major titles at the fourth European Open Championships in San Remo, Italy, were decided on Saturday.

Convention center breaks ground (Las Cruces Sun-News)

LAS CRUCES - Perhaps the most appropriate shovel that was turned at Monday's ceremonial groundbreaking for the Las Cruces Convention Center happened minutes after city, state and New Mexico State University officials turned their spades.

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