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The first week in July has been an eventful one over the years! Follow along as Tidbits investigates some of the interesting occurences that have taken place as we enter the seventh month of our calendar year.• Happy Canada Day! July 1 commemorates the

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At 520 Chestnut Street in the heart of downtown old Philadelphia stands Independence Hall, the stately red brick building where much of early U.S. history was shaped. The Liberty Bell, the symbol of our nation’s freedom, is housed in a nearby building. During this historic week, Tidbits takes a patriotic look at these symbols of our liberty. • Construction on the Georgian-style Independ-

ence Hall began in 1732, the year of George Washington’s birth, and was completed in 1753. Its first purpose was intended to be the location of the State House of Pennsylvania. In 1775, it became the meeting place of the Second Continental Congress, a group of representatives from each of the 13 colonies.

• The Assembly Room was the site of George Washington’s appointment as commander-in-chief of the Con t inen t a l Army in 1775. The following year, the Declaration of Independence was adopted in the same room.

• In 1777, the design of the American flag was approved there. The U.S. Constitution was drafted and adopted in Independence Hall in 1787. The summer of 1787 had many hot days, but the windows of the Hall remained tightly closed so outsiders would not be able to hear the discussions and debates taking place inside.

• Independence Hall is pictured on the back of

the U.S. $100 bill, as well as the bicentennial Kennedy half dollar. The Assembly Room is pictured on the reverse of the U.S. 2 dollar bill, from the original painting by John Trumbull entitled Declaration of Independence.

• The building has a bell tower and steeple, rising to a height of over 168 feet. The steeple was the original home of the Liberty Bell.

• In 1751, a new bell was ordered for the Hall, with the inscription of “Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof,” a verse from the Bible’s book of Leviticus. The bell, cast in England, was raised into the steeple in 1753 and cracked the very first time it was rung, due to flaws in its casting.

• Local Philadelphia craftsmen offered to melt down the cracked bell and recast it. They attempted to make it stronger by adding 10 percent more copper. This changed the tone of the bell, and there were so many complaints, the bell was melted down once again!

• The bell’s composition is about 70 percent copper, 25 percent tin with traces of lead, zinc, arsenic, gold and silver.

• Once the bell was rehung in the steeple, during the time that Philadelphia was the nation’s capital, it tolled when the legislature was called into session, when voters were

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1. CURRENCY: What is the image that appears opposite of Andrew Jack-son on a $20 U.S. bill?

2. GEOGRAPHY: What is the name of India to local residents?

3. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What disease is caused by the bacteria “Yersinia pestis”?

4. COMICS: What comic-book series featured Green Goblin as a vil-lain?

5. BOARD GAMES: If you have to go directly to jail in “Monopoly,” what two things are you told NOT to do?

6. MUSIC: In what year did Elvis Presley make his first national televi-sion appearance in the U.S.?

7. LITERATURE: What was the title of Dr. Seuss’s last book?

8. FOOD & DRINK: What are the main ingredients of vichyssoise?

9. MOVIES: What town was the set-ting for the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life”?

10. ANATOMY: What is the function of the amygdala in the human body?

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3. When was the last time before the 2010 season that Syracuse’s football team won a bowl game?

4. Name the only NBA team to improve on its record at least six con-secutive years?

5. How many NHL seasons did Mike Modano play with the Minne-sota/Dallas franchise?

6. Kevin Harvick set a record in NASCAR’s Truck series in 2012 for most laps led in a race. How many of the 250 laps did he lead?

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• “Don’t you think a stereo cassette player that you can listen to while walking around is a good idea?” Those were the words of Sony’s chairman Masaru Ibuka back in 1979. Ibuka traveled extensively and loved music and pitched the idea to company officials. On July 1 of that year, the Sony Walkman hit retailers’ shelves.

• The year’s midpoint occurs on July 2, with 182 days passed and 182 yet to come (except in Leap years, which have one extra day in the first half). On this midpoint day in 1937, Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan were heard from for the last time as they attempted to make the first round-the-world flight. Their last radio contact was from the vicinity of Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean, and their whereabouts remains a mystery to this day.

• Chevrolet rolled its one-millionth Corvette off the assembly line in Bowling Green, Kentucky, on July 2, 1992. It was a white LT1 roadster with a red interior and black roof, carrying a price tag of more than $31,000. Another automotive milestone took place on this day in 2005, when the very last Ford Thunderbird was manufactured. The Ford plant at Wixom, Michigan, produced the platinum car with black interior. Employees of the plant signed their autographs on the inside fender panels, and the two-seater was given to the great-granddaughter of company founder Henry Ford, Josephine Ford.

• The Civil War’s Battle of Gettysburg took place July 1-3, 1863, the largest military battle in U.S. history. Confederate troops of 75,000 under Robert E. Lee met the 97,000 men of the Union Army commanded by George Meade in the small Pennsylvania town, population 2,400.

By the end of the three-day conflict, more than 51,000 were dead, along with more than 5,000 horses.

• It is estimated that 569 tons of ammunition were used in the assault, and 634 cannons were positioned throughout the 25-square-mile area. The Confederates were defeated in the battle, but it was not to be the end of the war. It raged on for nearly two more years, although Lee’s army never recovered from the devastation.

• The U.S. Second Continental Congress met from July 1-4, 1776, in Philadelphia’s Independence Hall to debate, revise and adopt the Declaration of Independence. The document had been drafted by Thomas Jefferson, listing grievances against the King of England and breaking ties between the colonies and the mother country. Fifty-six men later signed the document, and it was read publicly for the first time on July 8.

• It somehow seems appropriate that two of America’s founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, should pass away on July 4. Jefferson, the nation’s third president and author of the Declaration of Independence, and John Adams, the second president, died within hours of each other in 1826, on the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.

• An announcement at the July 4, 1939, Yankees game saddened baseball fans across the nation. Yankee first baseman Lou Gehrig stood before the crowd and announced his retirement from baseball after being stricken with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The 36-year-old called himself “the luckiest man on the face of the earth” for having played 17 seasons in the major leagues. His amazing record of 2,130 consecutive games endured for 56 years, and his record 23-career grand slams remains unbeaten. Gehrig passed away less than two years later, and his number “4” uniform was retired, making him the first player to be given this honor.

• The world’s first successful clone, Dolly the sheep, was born at Scotland’s Roslin Institute on July 5, 1996. She produced six lambs before her death in 2003. Dolly was stuffed and is displayed at the National Museum of Scotland

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Four high school seniors sufferingfrom “spring fever” skipped theirmorning classes and went to thebeach instead. After lunch, theyreturned to school and told their

teacher that they were late becausethey’d experienced a flat tire whilecarpooling together to the school.

Much to their relief, she smiled.“You missed a test today,” she

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She waited for them to sit down,and then began. “Question One:Which tire on the car was flat?”

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Dear Doug: Yes, it is legal for prospective employers to request your credit report as part of the interview process. A credit report has become more than just a list of creditors. It’s a kind of char-acter reference. Some employers want to see how a successful a potential employee is in managing his life. If you are sloppy with your personal affairs, can they expect the same kind of sloppiness on the job? It’s a valid question. These days, a credit report shows lots of things other than late payments. If you’ve been evicted, had a judgment filed against you, a tax lien or you have a civil action pending -- all of that can show up. Does a potential employer have a right to know all of that? I guess you’d have to put yourself in their place and think like an employer to answer that question. At any rate, making sure you keep your credit report as squeaky clean as possible will work in your favor for many reasons. You should get a copy of your credit report to see for yourself ex-actly what’s on it. If there are negative, albeit true, entries, write up a simple explanation and have it available should a potential employer, landlord, even insurance agent (yes, they look, too) make a similar request. Sometimes a simple upfront expla-nation is all that’s required to set the record straight and get past that issue. * * * Dear Mary: Last month, I lent my sister $500 to pay her rent since she said she was in a jam. She has yet to pay me back, but she eats out every day and gets weekly manicures. I’m seething about this! What can I say to get my money back? -- Christy, Nevada

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A. I’m sorry, but you misunderstood what I wrote in the prior column. I made the point that wid-ows do have the option of taking reduced benefits on one record prior to age 66, and then switching to full benefits on another record on their 66th birthday. But you have nothing to switch to. You said you took widow’s benefits at age 63 because your own benefit was much smaller than your widow’s rate. So you certainly wouldn’t have wanted to switch to less money on your own account at age 66. You will simply continue to receive your reduced widow’s benefits for the rest of your life. I know this is water under the bridge: but you possibly should have considered taking reduced benefits on your own record at age 62. If you could have survived on that smaller amount of monthly in-come, then at age 66 you would have have switched to full widow’s benefits. It’s too late now to do any-thing about that. * * *

Q. You’ve written some recent col-umns about the children of retirees getting Social Security benefits. I am one such retiree -- and I have a problem. I have been getting a separate check for my daughter since I retired several years ago. She is about to turn 18 and because she is only a junior, she will get ben-efits until her 19th birthday. The Social Secu-rity office told me that the checks now have to come in her own name. But here is the prob-lem. For the past several years, I have put most of the money from her Social Security checks in a “529 fund.” This is money specifically set

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A. You can relax about the money in the “529 fund:” the government won’t want the money back once you explain to them what you are doing. The rules say that prior to age 18, benefits for your daughter must be paid to either you or her mother. But once your daughter reaches her 18th birthday, Social Security checks must be paid directly to her. As part of that process, they usually ask that you return any conserved funds so that money can be turned over to her. (It’s your daughter’s money, after all.) However, assuming your daughter is OK with the 529 arrangement, then the money can stay right where it is, and you won’t have to worry about any tax penalties.

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ANSWER: You’re not facing an extended re-cuperation after donating blood. One day is enough. That sounds like too little time, but it’s sufficient. You won’t notice it. It takes a full month for your blood count to return to what it was before you donated. That slight dip in your blood count isn’t going to affect your ex-ercise performance unless you are into marathon training. ***

Ways to Control Irregular Heart DEAR DR. DONOHUE: Last fall, my heart started to jump around, and I took it that I had palpitations, although I wasn’t sure what palpitations were. It turns out I had atrial fibrillation. Since then, I have been on many medicines for the atrial fibrillation plus Couma-din, a blood thinner. The Coumadin requires frequent trips to the lab. I have a hard time get-ting around. I don’t drive. My doctor suggests ablation. What are your thoughts? -- H.M.

ANSWER: Atrial fibrillation is in either first or second place when it comes to heart questions. It means the heart beats rapidly and irregularly. The rapid heart pumps less effectively, and the irregular beat promotes the formation of blood clots in the up-per heart chambers. Those clots, or pieces of them, can be carried through the circulation to the brain, where they cause a stroke. Treatment for atrial fibrillation aims to slow the heart, get it to beat regularly and prevent clots from forming if a regular rhythm cannot be attained.Medicines sometimes can both slow the heart and restore a normal rhythm. If a normal rhythm is not achieved, the patient will still do well if the heart beats slowly. That patient, however, must add to his or her treatment a blood thinner like Coumadin to prevent clots and a stroke. Your doctor has suggested a way to restore a regular beat -- ablation. A heart doctor inches a spe-cial catheter -- a thin, pliable tube -- from a surface blood vessel to the heart. The catheter is equipped to emit radio waves, which make a series of scars to prevent the generation of erratic signals that spawn atrial fib. The result, when the procedure is effective, is a normal, regular heartbeat. The patient can then kiss Coumadin goodbye. My thoughts are that it’s worth serious consideration. You can also get rid of Coumadin by switch-ing to Pradaxa, a blood thinner that doesn’t require lab testing. It’s new and is somewhat expensive. The booklet on heartbeat irregularities ex-plains atrial fibrillation in detail. To order a copy, write to: Dr. Donohue -- No. 107W, Box 536475, Or-lando, FL 32853-6475. Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6. Canada with the recipient’s printed name and address. Please allow four weeks for delivery. *** DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I’m a 34-year-old male and am going bald. What is your opin-ion on hair transplants? Do they last? How suc-cessful are they? -- L.K.

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male hormones shrivel hair follicles, the home for each hair. The hair thins, is shorter and falls out well before its time. Sensitivity to this male hormone ac-tion is genetically programmed, and in some men, it takes place at young ages. Have you considered using minoxidil, which is applied to the scalp, or finasteride, an oral medi-cine? Hair transplantation works well. The hair is taken from the back of the head, where hair follicles have a long life. It’s very successful. It would be wise to check with a doctor to see if your hair loss really is something you inherited, or if it’s a sign of something else. ***

Dr. Donohue regrets that he is unable to answer indi-vidual letters, but he will incorporate them in his column when-ever possible. Readers may write him or request an order form of available health newsletters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475.

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Grandparent Scam There’s a new twist on an old scam on se-niors. The “grandparents scam” has taken a very creative turn. In the typical grandparents scam, a “grand-child” will call his grandparent and claim that there’s an emergency and that money must be wired to solve the problem. Different versions have the grandchild either in jail, stuck in a foreign country, in an accident ... it doesn’t matter, but money needs to be sent im-mediately. Generally a “Hi, grandma” is enough to con-vince a senior that it is indeed his or her grandchild on the phone. Too many times the grandparent doesn’t ask enough questions. And too often, thou-sands of times a year, the grandparent will send the money ... to scammers. It’s not the grandchild on the line -- it’s thieves. Now there’s a new version of this scam. Not only do the thieves know the grandchild’s name and school, they have his or her voice asking you for money for the emergency. You can thank the Internet for that. If a grand-child has posted anything online that includes their voice, scammers can use that recording to create an emergency message, all in your grandchild’s voice. All of these scams have some things in com-mon. It’s an emergency. Money must be wired right away. If it’s not the grandchild, the scammer could claim to be an attorney or another relative. And there is a need for secrecy (“Don’t tell mom!”) You do need to consult others, though. If you get a call like this, contact the grandchild’s parents and ask what’s going on. If they’re not home, call the police. Do not send money. These thieves work out of foreign countries, and you will never get your money back.

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A: Love and patience are always boosters. Continue to practice both of these with your grand-sons. Sometimes, in our childhood, a few wise words from our parents or grandparents can make a dif-ference. When I was about 15, I remember being in one of my negative moods and taking it out on my mother. She promptly sat me down and said, “If you keep on with that negative attitude of yours, pretty soon you’re going to be alone without any friends!” That did it. Her blunt truth hit home and I changed. At some point your younger grandson will fo-cus on his ambitions. Often our real motivations are hidden. One psychologist proved this point when he asked a patient what drove his ambition? The indi-vidual said “money.” Later, the patient discovered his real motivation was “security.” When your younger grandson watches his brother mature and be successful, he will be moti-vated to improve himself. Learning to accept respon-sibility and not blame others for your own situation is an important part of maturing. One of the most helpful things you could do for both of your grandsons is to ask them what their most important ambitions are and why. That should get them to think, and hopefully take a self-inventory of what their true priorities are in life. It may also help to improve the brothers’ relationship.

Q: Dad is 68, and four years ago, he and mom retired to a community about an hour away from where we live. Now he repeatedly says he is “bored as the devil and sorry he moved.” Several years ago, we offered to buy them a computer, which he refused, insisting they had no need for one. We are hopeful Dad will change his mind. How can we convince him there is a new world awaiting him through the internet and email?

A: Focus on his discontent and his need to find new interests. Convince him how completely simple it really is to learn computer basics. Meaning-ful communication and socialization with your fam-ily and other friends is important as we age. Staying involved with the family and learning new skills are a sure remedy for his problem. Point out how his own grandchildren are fully engaged with computers. Their major communication today is not phone calls,

letters or personal visits, it’s now all by email and tex-ting. At the very least, your parents should learn to use email to keep themselves involved in their lives. Age has little to do with the ability to learn computer skills. It is a modern day miracle not to be missed. Buy them a computer, and either take time to show them the ropes yourself or pay for an in-home tutor to do it. They will quickly see how easy it is to type and send messages and photos. And once they get their first reply from a grandchild -- they’ll be hooked for good!

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● On July 3, 1775, on Cambridge com-mon in Massachusetts, George Wash-ington rides out in front of the American troops gathered there, draws his sword and formally takes command of the Con-tinental Army. Washington declined to ac-cept payment for his services beyond re-imbursement of future expenses.

● On July 4, 1911, record tempera-tures are set throughout the northeastern United States, the result of a deadly heat wave that would go on to kill 380 people. By July 13, New York alone had reported 211 people dead from the excessive heat.

● On July 5, 1921, a trial begins in the case of seven Chicago White Sox baseball players accused of throwing the 1919 World Series. The conspiracy trial was just for show, and signed confessions from some of the players mysteriously disappeared from police custody. The jury acquitted all of the accused players and then celebrated with them at a nearby res-taurant.

● On July 2, 1938, Helen Wills Moody defeats Helen Jacobs to win her eighth Wimbledon singles title. Her record was not broken until Martina Navratilova won her ninth Wimbledon title in 1990. Wills died in 1998 at the age of 92.

● On July 8, 1949, Wolfgang Puck, the celebrity chef and official caterer for the Academy Awards Governors Ball, is born in Austria. Puck’s restaurant Spago in West Hollywood, Calif., became famous for its gourmet pizza (which featured such toppings as caviar and smoked salmon) and its celebrity clientele.

● On July 6, 1971, Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong, one of the most influential mu-sicians of the 20th century, dies in New York City at the age of 69. Armstrong pioneered jazz improvisation and the style known as “swing.” He had many nicknames, including Satchmo, short for “Satchelmouth.”

● On July 7, 1983, Samantha Smith, an 11-year-old American girl, begins a two-week visit to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Soviet leader Yuri Andropov. He invited Smith after she wrote him a let-ter as part of a school project.


Victorian Table Reflects 19th Century Ingenuity Q: This is a photo of an antique ma-chine, carved swing-leg table with the leaf down. It belonged to my great-great grandpar-ents and has been in our family and the same house since the late 1800s. It is in mint condi-tion. Any advice on its value will be greatly appreciated.

A: Your table is circa 1880 and an example of the Victorian Eastlake period of design. The mush-room pull on the drawer, incised carving, porcelain castors, distinctive turned legs and overall rectilin-ear lines are characteristic of Eastlake furniture. The industrial age inspired the era of 19th century inge-nuity and innovative designs. A plethora of patented designs burst forth that included platform rockers, extension tables, folding tables and reclining chairs. Your factory-made table would probably be worth $800 to $1200.

Q: This mark is on the bottom of a tiered serving tray and a matching serving dish that belonged to my mother. It is decorated with a mottled, uneven gold glaze. There are 3 trays in graduating sizes and all held together by a chrome handle. I don’t remember her ever using the set and don’t know anything about where it came from or how old it is. Anything you can tell me about its his-tory and value will be appreciated.

A: You have a Weeping Gold set that was popular from the 1940s to the 1960s. The decoration was the result of pouring molten real gold over a tex-tured glaze, thus creating a random dripping pattern. Several factories, including Kingwood Ceramics, Gold Craft, Lemieux, Dixon Art Pottery and Pioneer

Pottery, produced weeping Gold. They made vases, coffee sets, figurines, trays, candlesticks, dessert sets and pitchers. Many pieces were marked with pa-per labels. Pieces that are marked with the name of the manufacturer and also with “22 Karat Gold” com-mand higher prices than those that are unmarked. Because real gold was used, some people attempt to remove the gold. The process is extremely danger-ous and should not be tried. Similar pieces can be found selling in the range of $15 to $35.

Address your questions to Anne McCollam, P. O. Box 247, Notre Dame, IN 46556. Items of a general in-terest will be answered in this column. Due to the volume of inquiries, she cannot answer individual letters. To find out more about Anne McCollam and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.comCOPYRIGHT 2012 CREATORS.COM

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The Smasher and the Simply Smashing

Before he hit the 40-feet hook shot out of the straw to take him to within two putts of the Green Jacket, a little bit of banter in the room turned to what Bubba Watson was wearing.

As most of us know by now, Bub-ba Watson won the Masters, largely due to his monstrous 300-plus yard drives and unorthodox swinging style. But I, too, became curious about Watson’s game and, yes, his style, too.

For the techies out there, Watson uses a PING G20 driver with a cus-tom pink True Temper Grafalloy Bi-Matrix shaft. The same exact driver will be made available to pro shops this year, the company announced after the tournament.

Pink is a color that most sports fans are becoming accustomed to. It appears in splashes on various uni-forms these days to signify the fight against breast cancer, a cause that has successfully managed to co-opt that color and increase awareness. Knowing this, we were all a little leery of making fun of the color.

And we were right: Ping donates $300 to Watson’s charity for every 300-foot drive he makes. His Phoe-nix-based charity aims to donate $1 million to various organizations

during the year, and after this win, it’s a safe bet to say it will do so.

But his manner of dress and that unorthodox swinging style also reminded me of former PGA tour-nament winner from the ‘60s, Doug Sanders.

Known as the “Peacock of the Fairways,” Sanders came out of nowhere to win the Canadian Open as an amateur. His best finish at the Masters was a fourth place tie, and he won 20 events on the Tour, but Sanders was best known for his manner of dress. Sanders was famous for his “Mad Men”-esque devotion to what he wore. He was known to wear golf shoes that looked more like dress shoes, pleated golf plants, button-down cardigans and a golf polo. Each out-fit had complimentary colors of the same shade, and he even made sure his golf bags matched his outfit.

While both Sanders and Watson are philanthropists and champions, they have something else in com-mon — they’re both self-taught golfers. Neither has taken a lesson in his life. Sanders grew up a poor cotton farmer’s son; Watson’s father was a Green Beret Vietnam veteran who gave him a 9-iron once and told him to “beat it down the fairway.”

Well, Watson surely will be beat-ing it down the fairway for a while now, and nobody will make fun of his clothes anymore, but I have one suggestion — and I’m sure Mr. Sanders would agree — you should at least shave before putting on the Green Jacket. Sure he won in a play-off, but this isn’t hockey, you know.

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Get That Spit Out of Here As we all know, baseball lore is peppered with various episodes focused on the eccentricities of the game. There was the “dead ball era,” for instance -- a time when the baseballs were handmade and not as tightly wound, turning a home run into a major event. Third baseman Frank Baker once hit 10 in a season, and he earned the nickname “Home Run.” Then there was the famed “year of the pitch-er” in the ‘60s, when the mound was raised and the strike zone was expanded. Fans didn’t like that era too much. Nothing like sitting in the upper deck to watch 1-0 shutouts and see maybe, if you were lucky, four or five Baltimore chops escape the infield. I won’t expound on the “steroid era,” but an interesting thing happened recently in Cincinnati that bridged a gap all the way to the ‘20s-era style of baseball. It took a 7-6 Detroit Tigers win over the Cincinnati Redlegs to bring us all the way back to the era of the spitball. In that game, Tigers closer Jose Valverde can clearly be seen putting his ball into the web of his glove, inhaling deeply, opening his mouth to re-veal ... um, a natural byproduct of his nasal cavity, and spitting it into his glove. Then, he threw a pitch, struck out the side and saved the game. It was a nationally televised game, but it was one of the Cincinatti Reds players’ wives who raised a ruckus about Valverde’s move on Twitter. It was a spitball! Soon, the video of the pitch in question was all over YouTube. I saw the video. I saw him spit. Then I saw him throw a four-seam fastball that rose up and in -- which is the opposite of what a spitball is supposed to do, which is dip down. But then, we are talking about Jose Valverde, who isn’t someone known for consistency. Former Major League pitcher Dirk Hayhurst cried foul on Yahoo! Sports -- but not for reasons you’d think. “A pitcher spitting into his mitt is nothing new, scandalous or even the best way to doctor a base-ball,” Hayhurst said. “Why, with all the advances in ball doctoring technology available to today’s mod-ern player, hocking a loog on a baseball is like trying to kill an antelope with a sharp stick.” Gaylord Perry, who threw the pitch well into the ‘80s during his Hall of Fame career, has always defended the practice of, well ... messing with the ball. In interviews of late, he says that he “stretched” the rules a bit. “I corked a few bats in my day also, but it didn’t do me any good because I was a lousy hitter. None of those things are gonna help you unless you have the ability to begin with.” And, at the very least, a bit of a stuffy nose. * * * Mark Vasto is a veteran sportswriter who lives in Kansas City.

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The idea of Go Figure is toarrive at the figures given atthe bottom and right-handcolumns of the diagram by fol-lowing the arithmetic signs inthe order they are given (thatis, from left to right and top tobottom). Use only the numbersbelow the diagram to completeits blank squares and use eachof the nine numbers only once.


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GO FIGURE!


by Linda Thistle

The idea of Go Figure is toarrive at the figures given atthe bottom and right-handcolumns of the diagram by fol-lowing the arithmetic signs inthe order they are given (thatis, from left to right and top tobottom). Use only the numbersbelow the diagram to completeits blank squares and use eachof the nine numbers only once.


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1. CURRENCY: What is the image that appears opposite of Andrew Jack-son on a $20 U.S. bill?

2. GEOGRAPHY: What is the name of India to local residents?

3. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What disease is caused by the bacteria “Yersinia pestis”?

4. COMICS: What comic-book series featured Green Goblin as a vil-lain?

5. BOARD GAMES: If you have to go directly to jail in “Monopoly,” what two things are you told NOT to do?

6. MUSIC: In what year did Elvis Presley make his first national televi-sion appearance in the U.S.?

7. LITERATURE: What was the title of Dr. Seuss’s last book?

8. FOOD & DRINK: What are the main ingredients of vichyssoise?

9. MOVIES: What town was the set-ting for the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life”?

10. ANATOMY: What is the function of the amygdala in the human body?

Answers1. The White House2. Bharat3. Plague4. “Spider-Man”5. Do not pass Go, and do not collect

$2006. 1956 (“The Dorsey Brothers Stage

Show”)7. “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!”8. Potatoes and leeks9. Bedford Falls10. Processes fear and emotional

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1. Since the major leagues expand-ed to 162 games in 1961, what was the earliest date that a team clinched a playoff spot?

2. Name the last Los Angeles Dodg-ers pitcher before Clayton Kershaw in 2011 to lead the N.L. in strikeouts for a season.

3. When was the last time before the 2010 season that Syracuse’s football team won a bowl game?

4. Name the only NBA team to improve on its record at least six con-secutive years?

5. How many NHL seasons did Mike Modano play with the Minne-sota/Dallas franchise?

6. Kevin Harvick set a record in NASCAR’s Truck series in 2012 for most laps led in a race. How many of the 250 laps did he lead?

7. When tennis returned to the Olympics in 1988, how long had it been absent?

Answers1. The New York Yankees clinched

their division Aug. 29, 1998.2. Hideo Nomo had 236 strikeouts

in 1995.3. It was the Insight Bowl after the

2001 season.4. The Minnesota Timberwolves

(1992-93 season through 1997-98 season).

5. Twenty seasons.6. He led 248 laps.7. Since 1924 — 64 years.


1. Name the group that released the album “Stage Fright.”

2. What do The 5th Dimension’s “Wedding Bell Blues,” Peter, Paul & Mary’s “And When I Die” and Three Dog Night’s “Eli’s Coming” have in common?

3. Which group struck gold with “Candida” in 1970?

4. Name the band that went to No. 1 with “Learning to Fly” and “On the Turning Away.”

5. Name the soul group that released “I’m Stone in Love with You” and “Break Up to Make Up.”

6. Who had No. 1 hits on the R&B chart with “She’s Gone” and “It Only Takes a Minute”?

Answers1. The Band, in 1970. The album

included “Just Another Whistle Stop” and “The Shape I’m In.”

2. All were written by singer-song-writer Laura Nyro. Dozens of artists can trace some of their success to the music Nyro wrote.

3. Tony Orlando and Dawn. The group followed up with two No. 1 sin-gles, “Knock Three Times” and “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree.”

4. Pink Floyd, in 1987. The songs were on the group’s “A Momentary Lapse of Reason” album.

5. The Stylistics, in 1972 and 1973. Both songs reached the Top Ten.

6. Tavares, in 1974 and ‘75.© 2012 King Features Synd., Inc.

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