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A photo has circulated on various "when they were young" and "urban legends" sites with the claim that it's a young, hot and pouty "Francis Bavier", aka "Aunt Bee" of The Andy Griffith Show. It clearly isn't. The caption claims the photo is from "around 1936", but It's actually a publicity still of actress Gloria DeHaven from 1949 for the film Yes Sir, That's My Baby which co-starred Donald O'Connor. Dehaven, born in 1925 was 23 or 24 when the photo was taken. Frances Bavier, born in 1902, would have been 47 in 1949 and never posed for any "Cheesecake" photos. When she was younger she was a Broadway stage actress:
Francis Bavier – better known as Aunt Bea on the Andy Griffith Show.
(Photo taken around 1936)
Some publicity photos of Gloria DeHaven from Yes Sir, That's My Baby:
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Motorists throughout the state may do a double-take this summer as the Kentucky State Police begin rolling out new cruisers with an updated look.
The agency is transitioning from the Ford Crown Victoria, which is no longer being manufactured, to the 2012 Chevrolet Caprice Police Patrol Vehicle (PPV).
KSP recently purchased 125 of the vehicles (100 in traditional gray and 25 in tan for use by its Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Division) to begin replacing its aging fleet of 2004-2010 model Fords.
CARROLLTON, Ky.—J.W. "Pickle" Eaves, 75, of Carrollton, Ky., died Monday, June 18, 2012, at the Norton Hospital in Louisville, Ky.
Funeral Services will be held Thursday, June 21 at 11 a.m.. at the Tandy-Eckler-Riley Funeral Home, 809 Highland Ave in Carrollton with the Rev. Scott Coleman officiating. Visitation will be from 5- 8 p.m. on Wednesday, June 20 at the Tandy-Eckler-Riley Funeral Home. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Carrollton.
CARROLLTON, Ky.—Pat Breeden, 71, of Carrollton died, Thursday, June 14, 2012, at her residence.
Funeral services were held, Tuesday, June 19, at the Family Worship Center in Carrollton with the Rev. Pat Butcher officiating. Interment was in the Squiresville Cemetery in Perry Park, Ky. Tandy-Eckler-Riley Funeral Home, 809 Highland Ave. in Carrollton was in charge of arrangements.
Larrietta (Laurie) Akina Ashcraft, 64, of Grovetown, Ga., formerly of Carrollton, died, June 11, 2012, at Doctors Hospital, in Augusta, Ga.
Memorial services were held on Saturday, June 16, at the Greater Augusta Apostolic Church with the Rev. Terry Newsome officiating. McNeill Funeral Home & Cremation Service 109 Shaw Street in Martinez, Ga. was in charge of arrangements.
Survivors include one daughter, Julie (Michael).Henderson; two sons, Stewart Akina and Terry (Amy) Ashcraft, Jr. ; and five grandchildren.
MADISON, Ind.—Michael Steven Dwight Monroe, 59, of Madison, died Thursday, June 7, 2012, at the Robley Rex Veterans Medical Center in Louisville, Ky.
Funeral services were held June 10 at Morgan & Nay Funeral Centre, 325 Demaree Drive in Madison with Pastor Bill Maginn officiating.
Survivors include his sons M.D. (Kena) Monroe of Milton, Ky. and Mark Steven Monroe of Madison; his mother, Elizabeth "Betty" Ackerman Sullivan of Madison; his father, Junior "Dee" Dwight Monroe of Charlestown, Ind.; and four grandchildren.
GOSHEN, Ky. –William R. "Sug" McAlister, 74, of Goshen, died Sunday, June 10, 2012, at his residence.
Funeral Services will be Thursday, June 14, at 1 p.m. at the First Baptist Church of Carrollton with the Rev. Gary MaGuffee and the Rev. Carroll "Bimp" McAlister officiating. Visitation will be from 4-8 p.m. Wednesday, June 13, at the Tandy-Eckler-Riley Funeral Home and from 11 a.m. until time of service Thursday, June 14, at the First Baptist Church of Carrollton. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Carrollton.
CARROLLTON, Ky.—Harry "Chuck" Hartley, 75, of Carrollton died Wednesday, June 6, 2012, at his residence.
Funeral services were held Saturday, June 9. Graham-Dunn Funeral Home, 213 Fifth Street in Carrollton assisted the family with the arrangements.
Mr. Hartley was the son of the late Harry and Marguerite Hartley and the husband of the late Nina Sue Hartley. He was a Tool and Die Maker and was the former owner of ToolCraft. He was the first employee of Dayton Walther in Carrollton and was responsible for setting up production.
WORTHVILLE, Ky.—Pauline Hughes Bloat, 69, of Worthville, died Thursday, June 7, 2012.
Services were private. Newcomer Funeral Home, 235 Juneau Dr. in Louisville was in charge of arrangements.
Survivors include her husband Michael; and a son, John E. Brands.
She was preceded in death by her parents, John Paul David and Florence Sargent Hughes.
BEDFORD, Ky.—Danny L. Singer, 50, of Bedford died Friday, June 1, 2012, at his residence.
Funeral services were held, Tuesday, June 5, at Morgan and Nay Funeral Centre, 325 Demaree Drive in Madison, Ind. with the Rev. Frank Repper and Pastor Tom Starks officiating. Interment was in the Bedford I.O.O.F. Cemetery.
SUNRAY, Texas—Lawrence "Les" Sharp, 74, of Sunray, formerly of Henry County, died Monday, May 28, 2012.
Memorial services were held, Wednesday, May 30, at Bible Baptist Church in Sunray with the Rev. Seth Seale officiating. Arrangements were entrusted to Morrison Funeral Directors of Dumas, Texas.
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QUESTION: In general practice, does ear syringing improve hearing thresholds?
Randomised {allocation concealed}*, blinded (outcome assessors), controlled trial with immediate follow up.
Ear syringing clinics at 3 general practices in the Bristol area, UK.
116 patients who attended the clinics with an ear drum completely obscured by wax and had instilled oily ear drops for ≥3 days before syringing. 114 patients (98%) were included in the analysis (mean age 63 y, 54% men).
All patients had a first hearing test. 55 patients allocated to the intervention group immediately had their ears syringed, waited until they were dry, and then had a second hearing test. 61 patients allocated to the control group waited an equivalent length of time before having a second hearing test, and then had their ears syringed.
Main outcome measure
Improvement in hearing threshold of ≥10 dB assessed by fully qualified audiologists using pure tone audiometry. Improvement was defined as the average change across 4 frequencies in the syringed ear or, if both ears were syringed, in the ear that improved more.
Main results
21 patients in the intervention group had 1 ear syringed, and 32 had both ears syringed. More patients in the intervention group had improvements in hearing of ≥10 dB than in the control group (table⇓). Mean difference in improvement between the 2 groups was 6.9 dB (95% CI 3.8 to 10.1).
Ear syringing improved hearing thresholds in general practice.
Ear syringing for removing wax that has occluded the eardrum is a common clinical procedure. Previous studies investigating the efficacy of ear syringing have assessed outcomes relating to the ease of syringing or clearance of wax, but it is generally understood that the reason to remove the wax is because it results in hearing loss.
Memel et al sought to determine if ear syringing improved hearing thresholds. Attention was paid to methods to reduce bias, such as random allocation of groups, similar treatment of groups except for the intervention, and blinding of the audiologists assessing the outcome, suggesting the result is likely to be reliable. The main outcome was an improvement in hearing threshold of ≥10 dB as the average change across the 500 Hz, 1 kHz, 2 kHz, and 4 kHz frequencies. Considerably more patients in the intervention group than in the control group achieved such an improvement, but the mean difference in improvement was small (6.9 dB). The mean improvement was much larger among patients with ≥10 dB improvement in hearing thresholds (24 dB), indicating that some patients benefited a lot, whereas others received no benefit. However, this study does not help to determine which patients will benefit most. Furthermore, from a clinical perspective it is not clear whether the treatment effect is a result of syringing alone. The initial hearing test appears to have been done after the ears were treated with oily drops, and thus the benefit of syringing might differ if wax drops are not used. Also, the findings may not be as applicable to young people as the study sample was relatively old (mean age 63 y), and some ear conditions are age related.
Ear syringing has risks, such as perforation of the eardrum, that can result in litigation.1 This has stimulated debate about the best method of removing wax. Unfortunately the study's sample size was too small to report conclusively on the adverse effects of syringing. Alternatives to syringing include suction debridement and disintegration by use of cerumenolytics, but these procedures also have adverse effects, such as irritation, and have not been adequately researched for effectiveness in vivo.2 Given the reported dangers of ear syringing,3 perhaps the procedure is advisable only in patients who had good hearing before a build up of wax. For patients who are unlikely to improve their hearing threshold with wax removal or those who are most vulnerable to further hearing loss (such as those with substantial impairment in one ear), use of cerumenolytics may be safer.
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Source of funding: Royal College of General Practitioners Scientific Foundation Group.
For correspondence: Dr D Memel, Air Balloon Surgery, St George, Bristol, UK. dmemel{at}airballoon.cix.co.uk
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According to her grandson Mark Andrews, the following is a letter written in late 1921 by Mary Eliza Plowman Benedict and directed to the PLOWMAN CHRISTMAS TREE. Mary Eliza, better known as "Lide," wrote from the home of her daughter Pearl Jones in Brooklyn, New York.
I am going back to the time when our father went from Oakland Co. Michigan, to Orange Co. NY, where he was born Feb. 20 1813 (Wm. Tuttle Plowman) to get his first wife Mary Ann Potts. This was in 1833. He told me about it one night in 1866, when I was sitting up to watch for the meteoric shower. He said he was in N. Y. state and going home from seeing Mary Ann Potts when the heavens seemed to be falling. It was a wonderful sight! I was not rewarded, however, for my watching and learned later that the "shower" was not visible in Michigan.
Father and his first wife lived in Oakland on rented farms, working by the month until Ezra was born in 1834. They had oxen and other things for settling on a new farm, and Sam Boughton and wife Kiziah or Jane E., father's cousin, and two other families came with them to Westphalia. There were only six families in the township (36 square miles) at that time. It was not an unusual thing for bears to be looking for some of their live stock.
Father built his first log house and began to clear the land, when one of his oxen was killed by a falling tree. This made it necessary for them to go back to Oakland Co., and make a new start. Charlie was born there in 1837 and they probably came back to Westphalia in '40 or '41. Saron was born in 1842, and father was left with three little children (Mary Ann Potts died in childbirth).
Aunt Adaline came from Oakland Co. to care for them, and Aunt Sarah came for company and help (they were about 13 and 19 years old). [Note: Adaline and Sarah are William's sisters. See the chart. JSW] You can realize something what it meant when their only mode of travel was an ox team, through woods, and all the disadvantages of a new country. But they came and I think Aunt Adaline always had a tender spot in her heart for Saron, and who could blame her.
In 1843 father married our mother, (Emily Crane) who lived with her uncle Sammy Crane. He had moved to Westphalia about the time father did. His brother Francis Crane (Abagail's father) lived just east of the Casper farm.
Father was an enterprising, energetic man. He soon had a large apple orchard, and the peaches, plums and cherries we had when I was a child were larger and better than Clinton Co. can offer now. I could not have been more than seven or eight then.
The four and six gallon crocks of peach and plum preserves made with maple sugar would be a wonder to you now. All from their own labor and no money expenses. When I was about sixteen I tried to can fruit in a crock by sealing it over with a mixture of resin, beeswax and lard. But my first attempt failed, although "Met" had been able to keep it this way. (Met – Luna's mother). [Note: "Met" is Mariette, Charles Nelson Plowman's wife, JSW] It was just after this that glass cans began to be used.
The only thing they could sell for money was "black salts" made from the ashes they gathered where they had burned the log heaps in clearing the land. The leaches would hold six or eight barrels of Ashes, and with a dozen leaches to run off, they took some water. The Lye was boiled down to a shiny black sticky mass. When it was ready for sale, which was a real blessing as it supplied the necessaries they could not produce from the soil (Lute collected it in hollowed out logs). Lyons or Ionia was the place of sale. The land office was at Ionia so that was an important town.
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HILLSDALE�� A 23-year-old Hillsdale man was arrested Monday and arraigned in Hillsdale County District Court Tuesday for one count of first degree retail fraud.
Jacob Stephen Brenner, is accused of stealing more than $1,000 in merchandise from the Walmart store in Jonesville during a theft where he also told an employee he had a gun.
Brenner was picked up Monday by officers with the Jonesville Police Department after they were contacted by store employees who allegedly witnessed Brenner stealing items.
Hillsdale County Assistant Prosecutor Rod Hassinger said the police report indicated Brenner told employees who approached him about the merchandise that he had a gun and to get away from him. Once the employee was told about gun, he appears to have backed off.
Brenner then left the scene in a blue car driven by another person. The JPD caught up with the two men and Brenner appears to have admitted to stealing the items, but said he never had a gun nor did the employee ever actually see a gun. Hassinger said Brenner also told officers that he was an addict and he was stealing the items to pay for his habit.
During his arraignment Tuesday, Brenner asked Judge Donald Sanderson for a court-appointed lawyer, which was granted.
This charge is not the first time Brenner has been in trouble for similar crimes as his arrest record shows numerous charges of first, second and third degree retail fraud.
He also currently wanted in Jackson County on other charges. Bond was set at $10,000 with 10 percent allowed. It was unclear if the man driving the vehicle Brenner was found in will be charged in the case. If convicted, Brenner faces up to five years in prison unless habitual charges can be sought.
He will be back in court on May 7 at 10 a.m. for an examination.
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HILLSDALE�� A 23-year-old Hillsdale man was arrested Monday and arraigned in Hillsdale County District Court Tuesday for one count of first degree retail fraud.


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KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Area students and residents may explore options for advanced studies during the 2014 Graduate and Professional School Fair from 3 to 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 6, in the Bernhard Center Ballroom on Western Michigan University's main campus.
The free fair is being sponsored by the Graduate College and Career and Student Employment Services. Although open to the general public, it is geared toward junior and senior college students as well as recent alumni. Pre-registration is not required, and free parking will be available in parking structure No. 1 at the corner of West Michigan Avenue and North Dormitory Road.
Those attending the Graduate and Professional School Fair can learn about some of WMU's 100 graduate programs as well as graduate offerings available at other institutions. In attendance will be representatives from more than 60 graduate, law and medical schools in Michigan and throughout the United States.
A full list of participating schools is available at wmich.experience.com/stu/cf_details?fhnd=6791
Attendees seeking tips on how to apply to graduate and professional schools may participate in one of three workshops being held from 3 to 4 p.m. No registration is required for these events, which will take place on the second floor of the Bernhard Center, near the fair's main exhibit hall.
Questions may be directed to Linda Comrie, office coordinator in the WMU Graduate College, at firstname.lastname@example.com or (269) 387-8237.


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Place rack in the center of the oven and preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
Melt the chocolate in a medium heatproof bowl set over gently simmering water. When the chocolate is almost melted, turn off the heat and let stand until completely melted.
Meanwhile, in a medium saute pan, scald the cream and milk. Watch carefully as cream will boil over.
In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together the egg yolks, sugar, and salt until the sugar is completely dissolved. Slowly whisk the hot cream mixture into the yolks. If you add the hot cream mixture too quickly, the egg yolks could cook and leave undesirable cooked egg particles.
Remove the melted chocolate from the stove and pour the hot cream mixture through a fine mesh strainer into the melted chocolate. Whisk until well combined and smooth.
Ladle the mixture into 6 (3/4-cup) ramekins. Line the bottom of a baking pan with a clean kitchen towel or paper towels. Place the filled ramekins in the baking dish on the towel. Pour in enough hot water to reach halfway up the sides of the ramekins. Cover the entire pan with aluminum foil and place in the oven. Bake until mixture around the edges of the ramekin is firm when lightly shaken, about 35 minutes. (Baking time will vary depending on depth and width of ramekins.) The center of the Pot de Cremes may still jiggle slightly when shaken, but that is okay, it will firm up as it chills.
Carefully remove the ramekins from the baking pan, wipe dry and allow to cool. Once cooled, refrigerate until firm, about 2 to 3 hours.
To serve, spoon some White Chocolate Whipped Cream into the ramekin and garnish with some grated chocolate.
Melt the white chocolate in a double boiler over barely simmering water, stirring occasionally. Once melted, remove from the heat and cool to room temperature.
Whip the cream in a chilled bowl to soft peaks. Fold in the cooled chocolate and beat to stiff peaks.
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Geovany Soto is Fit Again and Other Bullets
One thing I really hate about this time of year? Every top play on every sports program is a dunk. Sigh. The dunk is, by definition, the easiest shot on the court. Yes, some of them look cool, and involve a high degree of difficulty in terms of getting yourself in position to dunk. But we've seen them all. End the love affair with the dunk.
- Bruce Levine suggests that the Cubs' payroll – currently around $110 to $114 million when you incorporate payments to players on the 40-man roster and certain medical replacement pay (this is just player payroll) – is about what it's going to be when the team breaks camp, which sounds about right (depending on the Cubs' success in landing one or more of the trio of Cuban players, and how their payments will be structured/considered for payroll purposes). That's a marked drop from the $142 million payroll in 2010, and the $131 million payroll last year. I don't think it's a matter of the Cubs going cheap – it's just a matter of reallocating resources, and patiently waiting for the right time to strike.
- Levine also suggests that the problem in the Theo Epstein compensation dispute is Red Sox President Larry Lucchino. He wants blood.
- Tony Campana really wants to make the Cubs out of Spring Training. He's been working out in Arizona for months, and has put on 10 pounds of "good" muscle. "I've been in Arizona since Nov. 1 working out," Campana said. "I kind of know how to go about doing what I need to do and what I need to get better at. Seeing major league pitching for the first time was something I really needed."
- Geovany Soto is also getting in shape this Winter, which, in the past, has proved to be a precursor to his intermittent good years. He looked good at CubsCon, and says he's been working hard. "I already took my big step in 2009," he said of a marked weight loss between 2009 and 2010. "I'm just trying to come to camp in the best shape I can. This off-season was great for me. I was training with my personal trainer. It really paid off. I feel absolutely amazing."
- Of the extreme spread between his arbitration ask and the Cubs' offer, Matt Garza said what we were all thinking: "It's been a business, it's always going to be a business." When it comes to players trying to earn as much as they can while they're healthy and productive enough to do so, I have no beef. Get yours, guy. (But, yeah, objectively, your request was just too high ….)
- Jayson Stark goes through the remaining DH options for the Tigers, and they are many. Stark doesn't even mention Alfonso Soriano, so it's easy to see why the Tigers aren't interested unless they get him, virtually, for free.
- According to Twins third baseman Danny Valencia, the Cubs have signed former Twins utility player Matt Tolbert. At 29, Tolbert has been on a backslide offensively for four years, and doesn't offer much hope of a resurgence. But he can play all over the infield, and offers – you guessed it – additional depth. Though Valencia didn't say specifically, there is zero chance that the deal is not of the minor league variety.
- More details on the Wrigleyville West project in Mesa.


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The snapping crunch of branches and brush make for a surround-sound experience as deer hunter Derek Malcore moves through the forest of Marinette County.
"It's thick. It's hard to walk through. People don't like going through that stuff," Malcore said.
But animals don't mind. Making a small avenue in the woods Malcore is en route to the perfect place for a trail camera.
"You actually get to know these deer when you get a picture," Malcore said.
Between his five cameras positioned across the Wisconsin Northwoods, Malcore's cameras have snapped photos of deer in mid-jump, out for a midnight stroll in darkness, and even some that place animals taking an inquisitive look inside his camera.
"It's fun to do, and you get pictures of all kinds of weird stuff that you would never see if you didn't have one," Malcore said. "That element of not know what could be there, it just gets you hooked," he continued.
That sentiment of excitement is echoed by hunter Lonnie Bernarde.
"It's kind of like catch and release," Bernarde said chuckling.
As a bow hunter, Bernarde says he enjoys the silence easily found amid the ample birch trees of western Shawano County. But even after hunts that don't yield any deer, Bernarde doesn't return home empty handed.
A network of trail cameras that the hunter has planted across his property have been hard at work. Some taking photos of deer, but others of bear.
"They all look alike unless you look a bit closer at them," Bernarde said.
A feat difficult to accomplish in the wild, but easily doable when scores of photos document features like size, gender, and approximate age.
Bernarde has seen photos of large bears and cubs. His trail cameras have snapped images of bears seemingly winking at the camera while others in search of a drink. But in any event, Bernarde says he enjoys the ability to see what kind of animal activity is taking place in his backyard.
"There's so much more going on in the woods," outdoorsman Dave Simonis said.
Simonis owns wooded land near the border of Wood and Portage counties. One of his favorite activities is to utilize his ATV and check on his collection of trail cameras placed across the property.
Among his snapshots includes images of turkeys seemingly in a full sprint, lone wolves overlooking a Wood County field, and reclusive little mammals known as fishers.
"I never would have seen it without the trail camera, and they're still out here," Simonis said.
That statement highlights a basic, yet interesting point in the field of trail cameras. They're designed to snap photos and record videos automatically, whenever a moving object enters it's field of vision.
That means everything from field mice to humans can trigger trail cameras.
"We've used trail cameras for criminal investigations for some time now," Adams County Sheriff Sam Wollin said.
The ability of trail cameras to be an additional pair of eyes in remote locations has proven beneficial to law enforcement.
"The sheriff's office has trail cameras that we use during investigations that we have set up and in attempt to identify several individuals we believe to be involved in some criminal activity," Wollin said.
The department shares photos of individuals in an attempt to identify them with the public's help through social media platforms like Facebook. Anyone with information that can assist the department in finding out the identify of people of interest can contact Adams County Crime Stoppers at 1-877-524-5846 or by texting to the number 274637. The department's Facebook page is available at this link.
"You never know what you're going to see, and you see some crazy things," Dave Simonis said. A statement unifying the sentiment of those who use trail cameras making it a passion worth sharing.


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OUT for Work presentation on GLBTQ career issues
Wednesday, February 20, 2013, 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Apollo Room-A, Student Union
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This event is a collaborative effort by Career Services, Student Activities, and the campus organization, Rainbow Alliance.
Presenter Riley Folds, Executive Director of OUT for Work will offer an Interactive presentation addressing career issues facing the GLBTQ community.
OUT for Work was established in 2005 with the goal of addressing career transition issues from academia to the workplace for GLBTQ students.
The organization sponsors an annual conference to assist students in the cultivation and enhancement of skills to explore career options, master job search techniques and strategies, and research employment opportunities.
OUT for Work assesses the quality of resources being provided by campus career centers to GLBTQ students through its Career Center Certification Program.
The Wright State University Career Center is an OUT for Work gold certified center.
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Also, report of meteor crashing into Cuba today--
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A commenter at one of the sites carrying this info said it had been reported on Italian TV news. Not much else on it yet.
I loved the one with the sound of hte shock wave.
Did everyone have prior notice or did it suddenly just appear?
I don't think so. NASA's briefing on the asteroid notes that they were trying to figure out how big it was. Plus, if someone had known we'd be visited by two asteroids in one day from opposite directions, I think someone would have written about that.
... seem to have driver cams. Really weird.
Russian roads are a class unto themselves. The combination of absolute driving mayhem, regular insurance scams, physical violence, and corrupt police lead Russian drivers to install the dash cams to collect evidence in case it's needed.
I've done a fair number of dangerous things for fun, including activities like running off the side of a mountain and operating a car at speeds in excess of 150 mph as well as jumping out of airplanes. However, all my near death experiences happened on Russian roads when i used gypsy cabs to not only get around St. Petersburg but also as a hobby. Driving in oncoming traffic ceased to be all that exciting after a while because it was a regular occurrence. Playing chicken with trams, careening down sidewalks, and the like were things that people just did. Russian road rage can be unnerving.
I once road with a guy who got really upset with this young woman who cut him off (this may have been class based as she had to have been a "New Russian"). He proceeded to detour far off course so that he could chase this girl. He swerved at her threateningly at times, until oncoming traffic forced him to pull in behind her. He'd pull up next to her and scream in spittle-flecked rage while acting like he was going to run her off the road. Finally, he got the angle he was looking for and managed to arc a phlegmatic creation from his throat onto the windshield of her car directly in front of her face. it was a neat trick. After that, he calmed down immediately and became the friendly stranger i got into a car with again.
This was before the days of dash cams in Russia though. That's too bad, because i would have gladly paid extra for dash cam footage of some of my rides. It's too long a story for here, and the post i thought i wrote on it elsewhere isn't showing itself, but my experience with a Chechen in a dangerously rattletrap Lada was about 20 straight minutes of honestly thinking that i would die. The last left turn, against a light, power sliding through the intersection with the bumper of a bus slipping past my door by literally inches leading to hitting the curb in front of my building and almost rolling the car because of it left me tumbling out of the car with more gratefulness for solid ground and life than i've ever known. Which is when he collected his $3 and told me to thank Bill Clinton for his people when i saw him next.
I am just really surprised NOBODY in the footage I've seen, was concerned. One guy only said "Weird" as an object eerily similar to an ICBM descended from the sky.
... because of road rage and extortion from gangs and the police.
So maybe they have other things to worry about.


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Topic Overview
Although you risk harming your fetus if you drink any alcohol while you are pregnant, the effects range from mild to severe. It is important to have or find a doctor with whom you can talk openly about your alcohol drinking habits during pregnancy. Talk with your doctor about any concerns you have about your child being affected by fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD).
Think about having your child evaluated for FASD if he or she:
- Has the distinctive facial features of FASD. These features include a small face, narrow eye openings, a short upturned nose, and a flattened groove between the nose and the upper lip. These features aren't usually noticed until a child is 2 to 3 years old.
- Is not growing and developing as expected. For example, your child may have developmental delays, such as using fewer than expected words for his or her age. Or he or she may be a lot smaller than other children of the same age.
- Is having problems learning and getting along with others. A thorough evaluation to rule out other conditions that may be causing the problems needs to be done before fetal alcohol exposure can be confirmed as the cause of your child's problems.
The effects of alcohol on a fetus are more likely to be severe if you drank heavily while you were pregnant. (This means having 5 or more drinks on one occasion.) Severe problems caused by alcohol exposure are called fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). If you have a history of heavy drinking during pregnancy, a thorough developmental evaluation of your baby should be done when he or she is about 18 months old. It should include hearing, speech, and language testing.
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Joe Banner appeared on the WIP Morning Show today, very possibly because the host was not Angelo Cataldi but Howard Eklund, excuse me, Eskin. Banner gave some depth and context to last week's surprising news that he was stepping down as Eagles president.
The headline for me came when Banner was asked by Al Morganti whether if he had it to do over, would he function so much as face of the franchise. Banner acknowledged that "frequently not fairly, I became a lightning rod" -- meaning fans came to perceive him negatively, through media mischaracterizations, in his view. "That's just not a constructive thing ... Once you become the lightning rod, you can't really be very effective," Banner said.
My view, this perception situation absolutely played a role in the events that led to Banner's departure.
Rhea Hughes got the heart of my puzzlement, voiced in a post here yesterday, when I said I still couldn't wrap my head around the idea of Banner leaving without having achieved the vindication of a Super Bowl.
"This was the very hardest part of the decision," Banner said. "I have said, though it's possible, I would be extremely surprised if I'm not here for this year's Super Bowl. Hopefully that blank will get filled in before I'm actually departing," except, after last week, fair or not, how much of the credit do you think the guy who stepped down is going to get, vs. Eagles coach Andy Reid or general manager Howie Roseman?
Remember when I wondered yesterday if part of the timing might just be that Banner didn't really see the Reid-Michael Vick Eagles winning the Super Bowl this year? Banner wasn't asked that today, but in continuing his answer to Rhea's question, he said: "The truth is, I was stuck at a point where I could forever --- you don't want to get stuck with waiting for something that may or may not happen."
Wow. Five or six years ago, if someone had showed me that quote and said it came from Joe Banner in regard to the Eagles' hopes of winning a Super Bowl, I would have refused to believe it. The Joe Banner of old had no doubt the Birds were going to win a Lombardi Trophy, sooner rather than later. He believed it, and he took offense if he thought YOU didn't believe it. Really interesting change there.
Eskin actually made a couple references to my post yesterday, which was reprinted in today's DN. At least I think that was what he was doing -- my questions were almost unrecognizable after passing through the Eskin filter, but he did address, with seeming incredulity, my stated desire to know whether we are now living in Andyworld or Howieworld. Eskin asked Banner why anyone would ever wonder about such a thing. Banner, to his credit, allowed that this "appears to be a relevant question" to a lot of people. (Ya think?) His conclusion, of course, was that Andy is in full charge, always has been, since Tom Modrak left 11 years ago, and presumably always will be.
Wonder when we can expect the Reid contract extension announcement, then?
There was a lot more in the 20-minute segment. A personal favorite of mine was when Banner was asked about the DeSean Jackson mess last season -- a reworking of DeSean's rookie contract never happened, and he sulked and slouched through a subpar year. After the season, Roseman took over the talks and a deal was struck almost immediately, even though the Eagles had franchised Jackson, retaining his rights without the risk of a longer-term commitment. (The sort of thing Banner might have seen as a prudent way to proceed.)
The answer to that one was vintage Banner. Joe opined that it was "not unusual for players to play in the last year of their contract," and that some of them handle it better than others. All true. Except, of those players across the league in that final year last season, how many had heard their teams admit at least a year earlier that they had outperformed their deals? How many had made the Pro Bowl twice while being paid under the paltry provisions of a second-round rookie pact? If you were to create a Venn diagram -- something I'm pretty sure Joe knows how to do -- the number of players in their final contract years who would fit in DeSean's exact part of the circle, and fit there happily, would be a really, really small slice of the old pie. And even then, you're not addressing the matter of whether it was ever NECESSARY for the player to play in the final year of his contract, whether the slow pace of talks came out of spite or pique or a disinclination to appear to be entertaining what Banner might have pereceived to be outrageous demands.
Of course, Banner is one of the smartest, sharpest guys around, as Phil Sheridan noted in the Inquirer last week. He knows all of this very well, even as he is glossing over it, which is what used to drive agents, players and sometimes reporters crazy.
Somewhere, sometime, Banner will resurface, running a franchise. He alluded in the WIP interview to "a lot of inquiries from basketball and hockey teams in particular," but said he would exhaust all opportunities in football before going that route. If there really is going to be an expansion franchise in Los Angeles, there might be no one on the planet better qualified to run it. But I'm not sure that laid-back media market is ready for the full Joe. What happens when he shows up in the Los Angeles Times offices demanding to know why the Dodgers or the Lakers got better play that Monday? Might be fun to find out.


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LONDON (Reuters) - British finance minister George Osborne said he would not flinch from his austerity drive, despite increasing pressure to change course after the loss of the country's 'AAA' credit rating and with elections approaching in two years.
Moody's dealt Britain its first sovereign rating downgrade on Friday, saying the $2.5 trillion economy faced years more sluggish growth and debt would continue to rise until 2016.
Economically the one-notch cut will have limited importance - most of Europe, Japan and the United States have already suffered the same fate, and Britain continues to borrow at historically low rates.
But politically it is toxic for Osborne, who has repeatedly vowed to protect Britain's top credit rating since the 2010 election campaign. The downgrade exposes him to opponents who say his failure to deliver economic growth is driving Prime Minister David Cameron towards electoral defeat.
Osborne said on Sunday the move by Moody's showed he was right to focus on restoring Britain to fiscal health, which he said was the only way to get growth going again.
"We've had a stark reminder this weekend of the single most important truth about our economy. Britain has a debt problem, built up over many years, and we have got to deal with it," the 41-year-old Chancellor of the Exchequer wrote in a column for The Sun newspaper.
"If we don't deal with it, interest rates will soar, homes will be repossessed and businesses will go bust. If you doubt whether that's true, just look at what happened to all those European countries now deep in recession."
For investors, the downgrade underscores Britain's predicament: a debt-ridden, stagnating economy that has kept bond yields low in large part thanks to the Bank of England becoming the world's biggest investor in UK government debt by buying it with newly printed money.
A top official with a leading investment firm said the ratings blow was in part self-inflicted by the Conservative-led government, which had room to ease off on its belt-tightening.
"The coalition set out trying to please the ratings agencies, but the inflexible application of front-loaded austerity is partly to blame for the lack of growth that led Moody's to downgrade (the UK)," said Trevor Greetham, asset allocation director at Fidelity Worldwide Investment, which managed over $240 billion in funds as of December 31.
Osborne can take comfort from Moody's confidence that his austerity plan would eventually "reverse the UK's debt trajectory".
A Treasury official noted Moody's had given the UK's credit rating a stable outlook, meaning little chance of a further downgrade in the next 12-18 months. When the United States and France were downgraded, their outlooks remained negative.
But whether growth will return forcefully and long enough before the 2015 election to allow voters to appreciate it is now highly uncertain.
Sterling fell by almost a cent to around $1.5160 after the downgrade, just off Thursday's fresh 2-1/2-year low. Analysts said they expected it to fall further on Monday but most saw limited impact because the downgrade had been expected.
Some of the Conservatives' Liberal Democrat coalition partners questioned the political judgment of attaching so much importance to Britain's AAA rating.
"To be fair, he was very green in 2009 ... He foolishly erected triple-A status as a virility symbol," said Matthew Oakeshott, a former Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman.
Cameron, who led his Conservative Party back to office as part of a coalition government after 13 years out of power, risks another year of stagnation and giving his opponents an open goal to aim at.
The Labour Party, from which Osborne inherited a record peacetime deficit when it lost the 2010 election, called for his head.
"The medicine is not working, so the Chancellor says increase the dose - that's crazy economics. It is like an 18th-century doctor bleeding a patient as they get sicker and sicker," said Ed Balls, the party's main spokesman on finance issues.
But people close to Britain's most powerful two politicians say they are completely aligned. Osborne led Cameron's bid for leadership of the Conservatives and ran the 2010 election campaign. There is little or no chance of him being sacrificed or being forced into a humiliating policy U-turn that would wreck his career.
"Osborne has lots of critics, both inside and outside the party, who are now going to be emboldened by this, but there is no coherent alternative," said Tim Montgomerie, editor of the influential ConservativeHome website.
Though Labour is about 10 percentage points ahead of the Conservative Party in polls, surveys show voters trust Cameron and Osborne more than Labour's leader Ed Miliband.
Osborne originally gambled that by slashing spending, growth rates of between 2 and 3 percent would kick in from 2013.
But with Britain's banks still recovering from the financial crisis and many of its main trading partners in Europe stuck in recession, his debt targets will be missed. His room for more spending is limited as he tries to avoid pushing up yields on Britain's 1.29 trillion pounds ($1.97 trillion) of debt.
With government spending so restricted, many investors' hopes lie with the Bank of England. Its governor, Mervyn King, this month voted to restart buying of government bonds. Although in the minority, his change of heart suggested the bank may be closer than expected to pursuing more stimulus.
If Osborne slows his debt reduction plans, he could upset bond investors and throw his deficit targets further off course.
"We should stick to the plan," said Kwasi Kwarteng, a Conservative lawmaker. "The prime minister would not want to be seen to be panicking, and he's committed to keeping George Osborne where he is."
"But we do also need to look at growth," said Kwarteng, who proposed cutting corporation tax and red tape.
David Blanchflower, who served on the Bank of England's interest rate setting committee from 2006 to 2009, suggested a swift cut to value-added tax, a labour tax holiday for workers under 25 and incentives for investment and hiring.
Business lobby the Confederation of British Industry has called for more investment on infrastructure and housing to be funded by more cuts in day-to-day spending. It also expects the government to guarantee more private-sector projects.
Osborne has a chance in his annual budget next month to deliver such tweaks to policy.
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Oscar- and Grammy-winning lyricist Hal David died Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 91. David is best known for his many collaborations with composer Burt Bacharach between the late '50s and the mid-'70s; many of their songs were recorded by Dionne Warwick, who had a string of hits in the 1960s. They also wrote the songs for the Broadway musical Promises Promises, and won an Oscar for "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" from the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Hear the radio version of a Terry Gross interview with Hal David in 1997 at the audio link on this page, and share your favorite song of his in the comments. We get you started with a five-song list.
On Hal David's favorite song, 'Alfie'
In writing songs, we were always trying to be as good as we can be. We're not always at our very best; I think that's an impossibility for anyone. And then there are time constraints when there are recording sessions to go into, films where the song has to be produced in a given amount of time and a theatre piece where it's got to go in very quickly. Consequently, you let go of songs before it's every bit as good as you'd hope it'd be. I think with "Alfie" — in my case, at least — that song came as close to being the way I wanted a song to be.
On writing the title song for a womanizing movie character
I thought to myself, "My God, why do they keep giving me these terrible assignments?" It seems such an odd phrase: Alfie. It's not a name that spells any romance whatsoever. It sounded almost like a British musical kind of song. It took me a while to find my way into the song, which was the opening line: "What's it all about?" And, suddenly, I had a sense of where I should go.
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies, filling in for Terry Gross. Hal David, the Oscar- and Grammy-winning lyricist, died Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 91. David's best known for his prolific collaboration with composer Burt Bacharach, which lasted from the late '50s to the mid-'70s. Many of their songs were recorded by Dionne Warwick, who had a string of hits in the 1960s.
They also wrote the songs for the Broadway musical "Promises, Promises" and won an Oscar for the song "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" from the film "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid."
Today we'll listen to Terry's 1997 interview with Hal David, but let's begin with some of his songs, starting with one both David and Bacharach described as a favorite.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: (Singing) What's it all about, Alfie? Is it just for the moment we live? What's it all about when you sort it out, Alfie?
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: (Singing) If you see me walking down the street, and I start to cry each time we meet, walk on by, walk on by.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (Singing) Make it easy on yourself. Make it easy on yourself 'cuz breaking up is so very hard to do.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: (Singing) The look of love is in your eyes, a look your smile can't disguise. The look of love, it's saying so much more than just words could ever say, and what my heart has heard, well, it takes my breath away. I can hardly wait to hold you, feel my arms around you. How long I have waited...
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (Singing) Raindrops keep falling on my head, and just like a guy whose feet are too big for his bed, nothing seems to fit. Those raindrops are falling on my head, they keep falling...
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: (Singing) The moment I wake up, before I put on my makeup, I say a little prayer for you. And (unintelligible) and wondering what dress to wear now, I say a little prayer for you: Forever, forever, you'll stay in my heart, and I will love you forever and ever with (unintelligible). Together, together, that's how it must be to live with you (unintelligible) mean heartbreak for me.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: What's new, Pussycat? What's new, Pussycat? Pussycat, Pussycat, I've got flowers and lots of hours to spend with you. So go and follow your cute little pussycat nose. Pussycat, Pussycat, I love you. Yes, I do.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: (Singing) Why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near? Just like me, they long to be close to you. Why do...
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: (Singing) Promises, promises, I'll all through with promises now. I don't know how I got the nerve to walk out. If I shout, remember (unintelligible). Now I can look at myself and be proud. I'm laughing out loud. Oh, promises, promises, this is where those promises, promises end. I don't pretend that what was wrong can be right. Every night, I sleep (unintelligible).
(Singing) Oh, promises, their kind of promises can just destroy (unintelligible). Oh, promises, those kind of promises take all the joy from life. Oh, promises, promises, my kind of promises can lead to joy and hope and love, yes, (unintelligible).
DAVIES: That's of course Dionne Warwick in the medley of just some of the hits lyricist Hal David wrote with Burt Bacharach. The medley also included Jerry Butler(ph), Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas(ph), Aretha Franklin, Tom Jones and Karen Carpenter. Hal David died Saturday at the age of 91. Here's the interview Terry recorded with him in 1997.
Now, you met Burt Bacharach when you were both writing for the publishing company Famous Music. How did you meet each other there?
HAL DAVID: Well, we were both associated with Famous Music, which was the publishing arm of Paramount. We had offices if not next to each other very close to each other, and we were friendly, and people tended to write with different collaborators, trying to find that magic combination.
Burt and I thought we would try a few songs together, and we did. Very soon, almost from the beginning, we started to succeed together.
GROSS: Do you think that you and Burt Bacharach consciously or unconsciously did things together that were different typical song form of the time?
DAVID: I would say unconsciously, yes, we did. We broke through the normal 32-bar pattern, the normal A-A-bridge-A, I guess A-A-B-A or A-B-A-C, which most of the great songs and great composers and lyricists wrote in that form. And we started to go into different forms.
But it just seemed to happen. Whatever - we wrote in a way that seemed natural to us, and very often being natural didn't fall into that pattern of the past.
GROSS: Burt Bacharach often wrote in tricky time signatures and in changing time signatures. For instance in the song "Promises, Promises," I guess it's in the bridge, in the part promises, their kind of promises can just destroy your life, every measure, the time signature changes. It goes from three-quarter to four-quarter to six-quarter to three-quarter to four-quarter to six-quarter again.
GROSS: Did that affect your writing? I mean, do you have to keep this in mind when you're writing the lyric?
DAVID: It never occurred to me that we were changing time signatures when I was writing a lyric to Burt's music, nor did it occur to me when I was writing lyrics first that led to that kind of change in time signatures. Everything always seemed natural.
I never had a problem in listening to the music because I didn't hear the time signatures changing, and Burt wrote, you know, he would have to speak for himself, but essentially that's the way he wrote, that's the way he thought. I don't think he thought in terms of changing time signatures, it just came out that way.
GROSS: So did you have all these, like, triplet kind of notes and decide that that would be one word, promises, promises, promises, as opposed to, like, come to me, come to me, or, you know, three one-syllable words?
DAVID: Well, we knew the title was going to be "Promises, Promises."
GROSS: Oh, so you knew that already, OK, right, because it's the title from the show.
DAVID: That was the title of the show, and Burt wrote the melody that way, promises, promises. And then I wrote the rest of the lyrics to the music. Another song we wrote for that show, "I'll Never Fall in Love Again," which again has some time signature changes in it, it was a song we wrote in Boston.
It was the night before we closed in Boston on our way to Washington, D.C., with "Promises, Promises." And Burt had just come out of the hospital, he'd been very sick with pneumonia, and he'd come out of the hospital, and we needed a new song, and I wrote the lyric for that "I'll Never Fall In Love Again."
And I gave it to Burt, and he sat down in the piano in his room and wrote the music to that.
GROSS: And that's why there's that line about pneumonia in it.
DAVID: Yeah, but I must say it probably is the reason for the line about pneumonia, but it didn't occur to me that I was doing it. I did it unconsciously.
GROSS: Yeah, and you rhymed it with phone 'ya, I'll never phone 'ya.
DAVID: Yeah.
GROSS: Well, what would you rather hear, "Promises, Promises" or "I'll Never Fall In Love Again"? I'm going to let you choose.
DAVID: "I'll Never Fall In Love Again."
GROSS: Let's hear it. This is Dionne Warwick.
DIONNE WARWICK: (Singing) What do you get when you fall in love? A guy with a pin to burst your bubble That's what you get for all your trouble. I'll never fall in love again. I'll never fall in love again. What do you get when you kiss a guy? You get enough germs to catch pneumonia. After you do, he'll never phone 'ya. I'll never fall in love again. Dontcha know that I'll never fall in love again?
(Singing) Don't tell me what it's all about 'cause I've been there and I'm glad I'm out, out of those chains, those chains that bind you. That is why I'm here to remind you. What do you get when you fall...
GROSS: Lyricist Hal David is my guest, and right now we're talking about his long collaboration with Burt Bacharach. "Do You Know The Way To San Jose?" a song that has a really interesting lyric to it, and although it's - the melody is kind of cheerful, the lyric is really about failing and wanting to go back home because things weren't working out. Tell me about writing this lyric.
DAVID: Well, you know, the idea of doing a lyric that is essentially kind of sad to a very up and optimistic melody is something I've done a lot, and I've always thought it was an effective way of writing a song. Burt played this melody for me, and music says things to me and should say things to me.
I heard the phrase do you know the way to San Jose, and from that I began to create the storyline that became the person who comes to Los Angeles to make his or her career in the entertainment business and has dreams of being a big star, and for most people it does not turn out to be quite that happy.
GROSS: Well, here's Dionne Warwick again singing your lyric to "Do You Know The Way To San Jose?"
WARWICK: (Singing) Do you know the way to San Jose? Ive been away so long. I may go wrong and lose my way. Do you know the way to San Jose? I'm going back to find some peace of mind in San Jose. L.A. is a great big freeway. Put a hundred down and buy a car. In a week, maybe two, they'll make you a star. Weeks turn into years. How quick they pass, and all the stars that never were are parking cars and pumping gas.
(Singing) You can really breathe in San Jose. They've got a lot of space. There'll be a place where I can stay. I was born and raised...
DAVIES: Dionne Warwick. We'll hear more of Terry's interview with lyricist Hal David, recorded in 1997, after a break. This is FRESH AIR.
DAVIES: We're listening to Terry's 1997 interview with lyricist Hal David, who died Saturday at the age of 91.
GROSS: One of your songs that I really love is "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence." I'm just a - I'm a real sucker for these big Western themes. I've always really loved this, you know, big Gene Pitney(ph) vocal. And this is not - this song is not used in the movie "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence," it was just inspired by the film. Why did you decide to write a lyric inspired by the story of a movie?
DAVID: We were asked to write it for Paramount. There was a movie called "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence," a John Ford movie.
Great movie.
A great movie. And they were called exploitation songs in those days. The film companies had you do those songs to have a song come out and perhaps become a hit and exploit the film. Every time the title song was played, people would hear the title and think of the film.
The song turned out to be a rather good song, and the Paramount Publishing Company, and we made every effort to try to get the song into the film. John Ford resisted it because he didn't conceive of a song being in the film at that point. As much as Paramount pressed him to put it in, they were not successful and we were not successful.
So, the song came out. Gene Pitney recorded it, did a very good record, and became a big hit. And I suspect Mr. Ford may - might have been a little regretful that he didn't have it in the film.
GROSS: OK. One of the lines that I really like in the lyric: 'cause the point of a gun was the only law that Liberty understood. When it came to shootin' straight and fast, he was mighty good.
GROSS: It's such a different style, then, like, your sophisticated love songs.
GROSS: Tell me about finding the language for this, you know, Western anthem.
DAVID: I don't know. I seem to hear those things. I find it kind of natural for me to do. I've never had a problem writing Western songs, country songs. You know, most of the work we do as songwriters or any kind of creative person is really done in the imagination. And I guess I imagine things like "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence."
GROSS: Well, here's Gene Pitney to sing "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence," music by Burt Bacharach, lyric by my guest Hal David.
GENE PITNEY: (Singing) When Liberty Valence rode to town, the women folk would hide, they'd hide. When Liberty Valence walked around, the men would step aside because the point of a gun was the only law that Liberty understood. When it came to shootin' straight and fast, he was mighty good.
(Singing) From out of the East a stranger came, a lawbook in his hand, a man, the kind of man the West would need to tame a troubled land 'cause the point of a gun was the only law that Liberty understood. When it came to shootin' straight and fast, he was mighty good.
(Singing) Many a man would face his gun, and many a man would fall. The man who shot Liberty Valence, he shot Liberty Valence, he was the bravest of them all.
GROSS: That's Gene Pitney, singing "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence," with a lyric by my guest Hal David.
You and Burt Bacharach had such a great deal of success together. Tell me why you ended up breaking up.
DAVID: Well, breaking up is sort of a very strong view of what happened. We had been writing together forever, it seemed. We began to have divergent interests. We had a contract with Warner Brothers to make records for Dionne. There wasn't always time to make those records. Dionne was kind of upset about that.
And suddenly we found ourselves going in different directions, and that's exactly what we did. We just went in different directions. We never broke up in the sense that we got angry with each other, we were mad at each other, we didn't talk to each other. There may have been a time where it was somewhat a little touchy among the three of us, but we really always remained friends.
And today, as for many, many years, we are very close and firm friends.
GROSS: Burt Bacharach was considered the sex symbol, and he, you know, had the celebrity marriage to Angie Dickenson for a while. He was always, and still is really, the more famous one. How do you feel about that?
DAVID: Well, he's a performer.
GROSS: Right, that's true, right.
DAVID: And a very good performer. And he's much more visible than I am. And that's the way it is. Our songs are collaborations between the two of us, and my wife thinks I'm a sex symbol.
GROSS: So I mean, did you want more fame? Did you want...?
DAVID: Well, everybody wants a certain amount of - you know, they say you're never too thin, you're never too rich, and I guess you're never too famous. But I'm very grateful for the career I've had and have.
DAVIES: Lyricist Hal David, speaking with Terry Gross in 1997. David died Saturday in Los Angeles; he was 91. We'll hear more of their interview in the second half of the show. I'm Dave Davies, and this is FRESH AIR.
WARWICK: (Singing) Tell me now. Is it so. Don't...
DAVIES: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies in for Terry Gross. We're listening to Terry's 1997 interview with Hal David, the Oscar and Grammy-winning lyricist who died Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 91. David is best known for his collaboration with composer Burt Bacharach, which generated hits from the late '50s to the mid-70s, many of them recorded by Dionne Warwick.
WARWICK: (Singing) If you see me walking down the street and I start to cry each time we meet, walk on by, walk on by. Make believe that you don't see the tears, just let me grieve in private 'cause each time I see you, I break down and cry. Walk on by. Don't stop. Walk on by. Don't stop. Walk on by.
I just can't get over losing you and so if I seem broken and blue. Walk on by. Walk on by foolish pride, that's all that I have left. So let me hide the tears and the sadness you gave me when you said goodbye. Walk on by. Don't stop.
DAVIES: Dionne Warwick. Let's get back to Terry's 1997 interview with lyricist Hal David.
GROSS: I want to hear a little bit about your background. I know that your parents were from Eastern Europe, I believe.
DAVID: Eastern Europe - from Austria.
GROSS: And your father opened up a deli in, what, Brooklyn or Manhattan?
DAVID: In Brooklyn, a delicatessen and restaurant.
GROSS: Mm-hmm. And you - you and the family lived upstairs from the deli. What was the best part and worst part about living upstairs from your parents' deli?
DAVID: Well, the best part of living upstairs, it was easy to go home from the store. And we did tend to have our meals upstairs, rather than in the store, as a family. The store in our home is about two to three streets away from elementary school, where the four of us - we were four children, three brothers and one sister - went - all went to the same grade school; all went to the same high school.
And everyone knew us. It was kind of a lower middle class area; lower middle class, maybe to poor. And, but it was kind of a very nice and friendly atmosphere to grow up in.
GROSS: And what was the worst part living above the deli?
DAVIES: I don't remember - well, I think it was a cold water flat and so we had sort of a stove in the kitchen and we have a stove of some sort. It would be like a Franklin stove but I'm sure it wasn't, she was sitting room. So it was that. We lived in what was called a railroad flat and you went through from one room to the other to the other rather than through foyers. So there was probably a lack of privacy but I don't remember that too well.
GROSS: Do you think that you paid a lot of attention to lyrics when you were a kid listening to music?
DAVIES: Well, my oldest brother, Mack David, was a songwriter.
GROSS: I'm going to stop you right there, and name some of the songs that he wrote the lyrics to the - this, he wrote the lyrics to "Blue and Sentimental," "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White," "Lili Marlene," is that right?
DAVID: Correct.
GROSS: "It Must Be Him," that Vikki Carr hit, "let it please be him, it must be him"...
DAVID: Right.
GROSS: "I'm Just A Lucky So and So," and the lyrics for the TV theme "77 Sunset Strip," "Hawaiian Eye," and "Surfside Six."
DAVID: And "Candy" and "I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine."
GROSS: Yeah. That's pretty impressive. So he was what, your older brother?
DAVID: My oldest brother. I had two older brothers.
GROSS: So when did you start thinking that you wanted to do that, too?
DAVID: Well, I don't know. It seems to me always. I was always interested in writing - more lyrics than music. I played - we all studied music. We all played the violin. When I say all, the three brothers. I had a little band. I don't recall if my brothers did or not, but I had a band that used to play for weddings and bar mitzvahs and things of that nature, in Brooklyn.
And used to work in the Borscht Circuit in the Catskill Mountains during summers. And finally got a job writing advertising copy for the New York Post, which is where I thought I was going to wind up being a newspaper person.
GROSS: I think when you were in the Army, you ended up writing songs for the USO?
DAVID: No, not the USO - the Central Pacific Entertainment Section, which was an Army special service unit which was based in Hawaii, in Honolulu, at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu.
GROSS: So, you basically had a show-biz job in the Army?
DAVIES: Oh, that's what I did.
GROSS: That's great.
DAVID: I was very lucky.
GROSS: Yeah.
DAVID: I think the Army was very lucky to have me away from guns, too.
DAVID: And that's what I did for about three years. I worked writing shows, musical shows, songs, sketches. And it changed my life because when I came out of that, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
GROSS: So, did you have to write like morale boosting kind of songs?
DAVID: No, not really. We were writing entertainment for the Army camps all over the Central and South Pacific.
GROSS: So, remember any of the lyrics that you wrote for the Army?
DAVID: Well, my famous lyric - the one I'm most proud of - and it was a hit in the Pacific, though I'm sure it's not known by your audience, was called, send the salami to your boy in the Army. It's the patriotic thing that everyone should do. "Send the Salami to Your Boy in the Army." Don't just send him things to wear. Send him something he can chew.
GROSS: Oh, this is written by the son of a deli man.
DAVID: It's written by the son of a deli man, and it was a hit. And I remember being with my wife at some function, and somebody came over to our table and said: did you write "Send the Salami to Your Boy in the Army?" 'Cause he had been in the Pacific. And I said I had. And he just wanted to shake my hand.
GROSS: So, it really was well-known during the war?
DAVID: Well-known in the Pacific.
DAVIES: Hal David, speaking with Terry Gross, recorded in 1997. More after a break. This is FRESH AIR.
DAVIES: We're listening to Terry's 1997 interview with lyricist Hal David who died Saturday at the age of 91.
GROSS: Your first real big break as a lyricist was writing material for Sammy Kaye. And then Sammy Kaye. Was one of the first people to record one of your songs. Your, I think second hit was magic moments, which Perry Como recorded. So it just seems to me you started out writing material for one generation, the Sammy Kaye, Perry Como performers and you ended up writing material that became like really famous with the rock 'n roll generation, songs recorded by The Drifters and Gene Pitney and Dusty Springfield and Dionne Warwick and Aretha Franklin, Jackie DeShannon, Jerry Butler. So what was that switch like for you to go from, you know, one type of her former to another, from one generation to another?
DAVIES: It never occurred to me that, you know, I, you know, after, with Sammy Kaye I had a song called"The Four Winds and the Seven Seas" that became my first hit. But then I had many songs. I mean I had a song called "American Beauty Rose," which was a hit for Frank Sinatra, "Bell Bottom Blues," which was a number one song for Teresa Brewer. "Broken Hearted Melody," which was a hit for Sarah Vaughan. So it was an ongoing thing. They were the stars of that period, and by the time Burt and I were together were writing for the stars of our period. And later on I wrote "To All The Girls I've Loved Before" which was for Julio Iglesias, which became a star of another period. It just - I'd like to think I keep growing mentally and creatively all the time. I'm very much interested in everything that goes on today and I hope tomorrow as well.
GROSS: There's a song of viewers called "My Little Red Book" and the only version I know a bit is by the band Love. And it's a great, you know, kind of like pre-punk rock version of it. And I don't know the original version, which I believe was written for the movie "What's New Pussycat?"
DAVID: That's correct.
GROSS: What was your reaction to hearing this Love Recording of "My Little Red Book?"
DAVID: Well, I liked it. I happen to like that song.
GROSS: Yeah, that's a very good song.
DAVID: It's probably the most rock 'n roll song that Burt Bacharach and I ever wrote.
GROSS: Did you see it as a rock 'n roll song when you wrote it?
DAVID: Yeah, because we wrote it for a rock 'n roll group in the picture. It was Eric Burton I think of The Animals.
GROSS: Oh. They performed in the movie.
DAVID: Yeah.
GROSS: You could see I haven't seen the movie.
DAVID: It's a fun movie, Woody Allen's fun movie. And I remember recording that song in London and, you know, it was a kick. You mentioned earlier about writing in the rock 'n roll period. But if you listen to our songs, even though we wrote it in that period, and we wrote in what I would think in a very contemporary style, the songs really weren't rock 'n roll.
GROSS: Mm-hmm. The songs themselves.
DAVID: Yeah. They were just very individual and I think that's one of the things that helped make them popular. But "Little Red Book" was a real rock 'n roll song. I always had a lot of fun with it.
GROSS: Let's hear the Love recording of it.
LOVE: (Singing) I just got out my little red book the minute that you said goodbye. I thumbed right through my little red book. I wasn't gonna sit and cry. And I went from A-Z. I took out every pretty girl in town. They dance with me and as I held them, all I did was talk about you. Hear your name and I start to cry. There is just no getting over you, oh, no. There ain't no...
GROSS: Music by Burt Bacharach, lyric by my guest, Hal David. The group is Love.
You and Burt Bacharach have each said that "Alfie" is your favorite song, or at least right on top there.
GROSS: Why is "Alfie" your favorite?
DAVID: Well, in writing songs, we're always trying to be as good as we can be - try to be at our very best. We're not always at our very best. I think that's an impossibility for anyone. And then there are time constraints when there are recording sessions to go into; films where the song has got to be produced in a given amount of time; and then the theater piece where it's got to go in very quickly.
So consequently, you let go of songs sometimes before it's every bit as good as you hoped it would be. I think with "Alfie," in my case at least, that song came as close to being the way I wanted that - a song to be.
GROSS: Now, in the bridge there's - it doesn't really rhyme? You know, as sure as I believe there's a heaven above, Alfie, I know there's something much more - something even non-believers can believe in. Tell me about doing that without a rhyme?
DAVID: Well, now that you ask the question, I hadn't even thought of it, and I don't think I even thought that it didn't have a rhyme. You bring it to my attention. That's just exactly how I heard the lyric going. I wrote that lyric for the most part first, and Burt wrote the music afterwards - he wrote a brilliant melody. I just heard those lines and it - the structure of the lines was the way I thought it should fall in the bridge of the song.
And I now know I didn't have a rhyme in the bridge, and that's interesting for me.
GROSS: You know, you said in a 1973 interview, you said, one thing I never do is think in terms of rhymes. I'm not a rhymester , a technical virtuoso, like Lorenz Hart Cole Porter. If I do use a rhyme it's like paste, only to keep a line from falling off a cliff.
DAVID: Well, that's true. Perhaps that's why did notice. I... Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright National Public Radio.


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MONTREAL — For the past month, Sheila Sedinger woke up every morning fraught with worry over the prospect of being deported to Mexico without her two young children.
But Sedinger, who came to Canada in 2005, was recently granted a stay from a Federal Court justice, guaranteeing her at least two more years in Montreal with her eight- and six-year-old daughters while a custody battle with their father plays out.
Other families haven't been so lucky.
Activists and legal experts say Canada's refugee policy regularly threatens to break up families and often fails to take into consideration the interests of the children involved.
"We're very often in the business of tearing families apart," said Sharry Aiken, a law professor at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont.
"In the scheme of things, these are not the people that Canadian public immigration officials should be worried about deporting."
It's unclear exactly how often such cases come up.
The Canadian Border Services Agency doesn't track the number of instances where an individual is deported while their Canadian-born children stays behind, said Esme Bailey, a spokeswoman for the agency.
In a statement, Bailey said the best interests of the child are taken into consideration "at all times."
She added those facing removal have a number of options available for their Canadian-born children, including "finding a suitable guardian for their children in Canada, or, if there is no one who could assume guardianship, advising them to contact the provincial child protection authorities."
Overall, 10,505 failed refugee claimants were removed in 2013 and 4,632 so far in 2014, according to the CBSA.
The Montreal-based activist group Solidarity without Borders contends several recent claims in the city involving families suggest a worrying trend.
Ivonne Hernandez, also from Mexico, was granted a last-minute reprieve in February until a court hearing to regain custody of her son. She had lost custody to her ex-partner, in part because of her lack of status in Canada.
In another instance, a Chilean man sought residency on humanitarian grounds to care for his ailing mother, a Canadian citizen suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease. He went into hiding in early August to avoid deportation.
On Friday, a mother and father were forced to return to Egypt after their own stay of deportation was denied. They chose to bring their two Canadian-born children.
According to Aiken, Canada's approach doesn't always seem to satisfy the provisions outlined in the United Nations convention on the rights of the child, which Canada ratified in 1991.
"I've seen immigration officers go through the motions," she said.
"As long as immigration officers kind of tick of the boxes and say, 'yes I looked at that, and here's why I don't think it matters,' that's usually pretty immune from challenge, unless there's an extremely egregious case."
For her part, Sedinger has been involved in a lengthy struggle to gain status in Canada.
Her children are the subject of an ongoing custody battle with her ex-husband.
Sedinger said she originally fled Mexico to escape a series of traumatic experiences and a violent ex-partner in that country. Deportation would have separated her from a network of friends and family, including her father, she said.
But on Saturday, the day on which she was scheduled to be deported, Sedinger remained in Montreal, celebrating her younger daughter's sixth birthday.
"I'm not Mexican, I'm Canadian," she said. "I just want to continue with my life."
By: CTV News
Source: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/ottawa-s-refugee-policy-risks-tearing-parents-from-their-children-activists-1.1984794
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Okay so you have just logged into a *nix shell with your handy SSH or telnet client. So you decide to see what all is in your directory. You type ls -at. That's a typo, you had better delete that. So you casually press your <backspace> key and your command turns into ls-at^ ]? What? So you try again and you get the same thing: ls -at^ ]^ ]. Well then you decide to clear it and try again so you hit <enter> and what do you get: ls -at^]^. So now you are confused as to what is going on. Depending on how your telnet session settings are set up, some of you keys may be messed up so it would be handy to know some simple *nix keyboard shortcuts:
tab = Auto complete the file you are typing
~ = returns you to your home directory
ctrl + A or Home = Move the cursor to the beggining of the line
ctrl + B = Move back one character (does not delete)
ctrl + C = Kill the current process
ctrl + D = Delete one character forward or logout of the current session if no text is available
ctrl + E or End = Move the cursor to the end of the line
ctrl + F = Move forward one character
ctrl + G = Cancels a Command that you have started typing
ctrl + H = Backspace
ctrl + I = Goto other panel
ctrl + J = Enter
ctrl + K = Delete one line forward from the point your cursor is at
ctrl + L = Clear the terminal window
ctrl + M = Enter
ctrl + N = Scroll thourgh the next commands
ctrl + O = Repeat a command sequence
ctrl + P = Scroll through the previously executed commands
ctrl + Q = Clear the scoll lock set with ctrl + S
ctrl + R = Reverse search. Lets you search back through your bash history.
ctrl + S = Set the Scroll lock. The screen will not update
ctrl + T = Transpose charaters around cursor: ex. foo (with the cursor on the middle o) becomes
ctrl + U = Clear the current line (can also be used as cut if you follow it with ctrl + Y)
ctrl + V = Next screenfull of text. And if you press it once, the next keyboard command will
display its shortcut
ctrl + W= Clear the current word
ctrl + X = Used to exit apps
ctrl + Y = Retrieves the most recently deleted text
ctrl + Z = Send the current process to the background
ctrl + + = Switch the GUI to a higher resolution
ctrl + - = Switch the GUI to a lower resolution
ctrl + alt + delete = Reboot system
ctrl + alt + backspace = Kill the X-server
ctrl + alt + Fn = (where N equals 1-6) Lets you switch through virtual terminals
ctrl + alt + F7 = Switches you to the X Sever if it is running
ESC + n = (where n is a number) repeat that command this many times
middle mouse button = paste highlighted text
[up or down arrows] = cycle through your bash history
shift + page up = Scroll back up through the terminal output
shift + page down = Scroll back down through the terminal output
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Houlton-Portland baseball game, Houlton, ca. 1895Item 13344 info
Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum
Houlton versus Portland baseball game in the Park on North Street in Houlton. Houlton is in the field. Dr. Miles Cochran is the umpire.
This photograph was taken by (Edward) E. B. White, a Houlton jewelry merchant and skilled amateur photographer.
Baseball game, Houlton, ca. 1895Item 13600 info
Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum
Houlton versus Portland Baseball Game in the Park on North Street. Houlton is in the field. Dr. Miles Cochran is the umpire.
Note the grand stand and pavilion
This photograph was taken by (Edward) E. B. White, a jewelry merchant and skilled amateur photographer.
Skowhegan Base Ball Club, season of 1887-88Item 7332 info
Skowhegan History House
Group photo of the Skowhegan Base Ball Club, amateur champions of Maine in 1887-1888.
The card with photos of the players and all their names was sponsored by Holbrook and Hawes, a clothing, hat, and tailor shop in Skowhegan.
The team members are, rear, from left, E.F. Goodwin, 3rd base and captain; E.P. King, shortstop; Fred Hobbs, 1st base; Will Tufts, center field; A. Lumsden, 2nd base.
Front row, from left: Ned Matthews, right field and sub; W.L. Pushor, catcher; Ed Leach, president SBBA; W.P. Goodwin, right field; George W. Hawes, manager; George Simpson, left field; and John Priest, pitcher.
Houlton versus Portland baseball game, ca. 1895Item 13599 info
Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum
Houlton versus Portland baseball game in the Park on North Street. Portland is in the field. Dr. Miles Cochran is the umpire.
This photograph was taken by (Edward) E. B. White, a skilled amateur photographer who operated a Houlton jewelry store.
Bowdoin College baseball team, ca. 1896Item 12388 info
Maine Historical Society
Percival Baxter, manager of the Bowdoin College baseball team is second from the left in the back row of the photo. Baxter graduated from Bowdoin College in 1898.
Fourth from the left in the front row is Theodore Gould.
Baseball club in Buckfield, ca. 1900Item 5718 info
Maine Historical Society
In the late 1800s or early 1900s this stereograph was taken on the 4th of July of Buckfield's baseball club.
Baseball in Waterville, ca. 1900Item 7723 info
Maine Historical Society
This stereo view shows boys playing baseball in Waterville, ca. 1900.
Baseball game, Squirrel Island, early 1900sItem 9449 info
Stanley Museum
Squirrel Island residents enjoy a baseball game pitting their own island team against a mainland team from the Boothbay area.
The wooden bleachers along the first base line were erected in the late 1890s, a gift of Albert H. Davenport, and were torn down around the time of the first World War.
Spectators, Squirrel Island, ca. 1900Item 9480 info
Stanley Museum
A group of spectators gather near the baseball field on Squirrel Island at the turn of the century.
The building in the background is the Casino, the island community's social center, theater, and dance hall. (The building's name refers to its use as a dance hall, not as a gaming center.) Built in 1887 or 1889, the Casino was destroyed in a fire in 1965.
Houlton baseball club teamItem 11955 info
Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum
Houlton baseball team about 1910. Front row: Nick Wise, catcher; Charles Lunt, left field; Samuel Webber, 2nd base; Jimmy Plummer, pitcher.
Middle row: Dr. Harry Putnam, center field; Ollie Buzzell, 1st base, Billie Craig, right field.
Back row: Sheridan Sleeper, short stop; Herman Whitefield, treasurer; Simon Friedman, president and manager; Jimmy Sheehan, 3rd base.
Burrowes Club Baseball Team, Portland, 1910Item 7614 info
Maine Historical Society
Group photograph of the Burrowes Club Baseball Team of Maine, July 1910.
Sanford High School Baseball Team, 1912Item 5572 info
Maine Historical Society
These players are from the Sanford High School baseball team of 1912. Front row left to right: Winfred Allen, Meyer Shalit '13.
Second row left to right: Clarence Thompson '12, Leon Plaisted '12, Irmont Frost '14, Orville Morrill '14, Ivan Simpson '15.
Back row left to right: Joseph Bernier '13, Charles Crossland '13, Clarence Thyng '13, Silas Albert.
A.H. Ward baseball batItem 13504 info
Fryeburg Historical Society
Baseball bat with A. H. Ward Fryeburg Maine stamped on it. The bat was most likely manufactured at the mill on Wards pond.
The mill, built by John Ward before the year 1900, was later purchased by A.H. and S.E. Ward. It originally manufactured wagons, pungs, sleighs, and peevies. For a period of time in the 1940s the Ward mill turned out baseball bats.
Steuben championship baseball team, ca. 1925Item 8967 info
Steuben Historical Society
This is a photograph of the Steuben High School Baseball Championship Team of Washington County, 1925-1926. They were a championship team for several years in the 1920s. In 1923, the team was featured in a Bangor Daily News article.
Pictured are, back row, from left, Coach John McCart, Danny Whittaker, Carl Haskell, Alonzo Smith, Donald Smith, Eugene Piper, Floyd Fernald, and Prin - Malcolm Noyes.
In the front, from left, are Harlen Coffin, Nelson Spurling, John Dickens, Leon Spurling and Malcolm Hodgkins.
Children preparing to play baseball, Portland, 1927Item 116 info
Maine Historical Society
Children about to play ball are using a bat to see whose hand comes up on top, and therefore who will bat first.
Cabot Mill baseball team, Brunswick, ca. 1930Item 9236 info
Pejepscot Historical Society
Members of the baseball team at the Cabot Mill in Brunswick are, from left, kneeling: unidentified, Karkos, Bob St. Pierre, Roger, Forlin, Blackie Levesque.
Standing, from left, are unidentified, "Smiley" Brilliant, Dominic Paiement, unidentified, unidentified, unidentified. Manager: Claude St. Pierce.
Mill companies, such as the Cabot Mill, organized baseball teams for their employees. Baseball was just one of many activities offered by the company.
Portland-Houlton baseball, Houlton, ca. 1945Item 13892 info
Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum
Baseball game between Portland and Houlton at Houlton Community Park, on Park Street.
Tingley Makes Easy Score, Portland v. Houlton, baseball, ca. 1945Item 13872 info
Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum
Baseball game between Portland and Houlton at Houlton Community Park, on Park Street.
This photograph is part of the (Edward) E. B. White Collection, a collection of photographs by E. B. White and other photographers taken between 1885 and 1920.
E. B. White was a merchant with a jewelry shop on Market Square during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in Houlton.
This collection, a holding of the Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum in Houlton, commemorates these photographers efforts to preserve images of turn-of-the-century Aroostook County.
MGH donkey baseball game, Portland, 1950Item 8897 info
Maine Medical Center Archives
Donald Rosenberger, director of Maine General Hospital, rides a donkey in a baseball game sponsored by the hospital's Employees' Recreation Association.
The employees' softball team beat Dr. Wellington's "medical nine" 2-1.
"It was a toss-up all the way," said Dr. Cooper and Will Pooler.
On the doctors' team were J. Foster Wellington, MD, Manager; Charles Glassmire, MD; Walter Russell, MD; Kurtland Lord, MD; DeVerle Strickler, MD; Llewellyn Cooper, MD; Lawrence Crane, MD; the Rev. Clyde Campbell, Rosenberger, Edwin Gee, and Homer McDavitt.
On the employees' team were Frank Quinn, player-manager; Wilfred Pooler; Ernest Yorke; John Lucey; Mike Kilmartin; Ted Waterhouse; Dick Waugh; Warren Sanborn; Leo Poulin; and Karl Retter.
Maine General Hospital is the predecessor of Maine Medical Center.
Maine General softball team, Portland, 1952Item 8896 info
Maine Medical Center Archives
In 1952, for the third year, Maine General Hospital Softball League, as a representative of the Oaks League, qualified for the city playoffs.
The team had 22 wins and 7 losses for the 1952 season, using the same pitcher, John Lucey. The leading batter on the team was Mike Kilmartin, who played left field.
In the back row, from left, are Michael Kilmartin, Cedric Palmer, Merle Usher, James Mikkleson, Dale Patchell.
In the front row, from left, are James Kilmartin, Harold Flemming, Ernest Yorke, John Lucey. Absent when the photo was taken: Sidney Noel, William Scribner, William Callahan and Charles Livingston.


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