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Frazier Black broke into the home of Mr. & Mrs. David Conner. Among other things, they stole two TVs and a checkbook. A few hours later the two men showed up at a local bank with a check made out to Johnson for $200 and asked the teller to cash it for them. She asked them to please wait a minute, and discreetly called security. The two were detained until police arrived. The check they had tried to cash was her own.

• Ricky Shipman went swimming off a beach in North Carolina in 1972, and lost the drivers license out of the pocket of his swim trunks. Eleven years later a man named Gause gutted a mackerel which had been caught by a friend of his off the Carolina coast. Inside the fish was Shipman’s license, still lamenated in plastic and intact. Gause contacted Shipman and arranged for its return.

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Ann Bickerdyke had to earn her own way in life. Because she had completed some studies in nursing and medicine she hung out a shingle in Galesburg, Illinois, advertising herself as a Botanic Physician. Her neighbors found that she was effective in helping the sick, and they gladly paid her what they could for caring for their ills. It was for her the beginning of a lifetime devoted solely to helping others.

• At the start of the Civil War, a young Union volunteer physician wrote to Mary Ann’s church congregation about the deplorable conditions at the military hospitals at the Army stockade in Cairo, Illinois. As thousands of troops were camped there in preparation for their attack on the South, hundreds were already dying of dysentery, pneumonia, measles and typhoid due to the severe lack of doctors, nurses and medical supplies. The town’s citizens raised $500 worth of the needed goods and, since no one else would volunteer to go, they elected Mary Ann Bickerdyke to deliver them.

• When she arrived at the stockade she was horrified by the filthy, unsanitary conditions the

soldiers had to endure. The living quarters and make-shift hospital were filthy, overcrowded and virtual breeding places for disease.

• Rather than turning around and returning home, Bickerdyke stayed and immediately went to work cleaning, scrubbing and getting things organized. She provided hot meals, hot baths, clean clothing, clean sheets, and freshened-up mattresses. She stayed on at the Cairo stockade as an unpaid, unappointed and unofficial nurse, cleaning up and giving medical care wherever she could. So grateful were the men for all that she was accomplishing on their behalf that they began to affectionately call her “Mother.”

• Writing home, Bickerdyke asked her friends and town officials to send more supplies. She was most concerned about caring for and feeding sick soldiers. The Army allotted the sick lesser rations than the healthy received. This did not sit well with her, so occasionally when packages of goodies arrived for individual men, she would discreetly intercept them and pass them out to the boys she felt would benefit from them most.

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2. In 2012, Carlos Beltran became the eighth member of the career 300 steals/300 homers club. Name four of the first seven to do it.

3. Coach Bill Belichick and quar-terback Tom Brady have made five Super Bowl appearances together. Name three coach/QB pairs to have made four trips.

4. When was the last time before 2012 that Creighton won an NCAA men’s basketball tournament game?

5. How many times was Montreal’s Steve Shutt on a Stanley Cup-win-ning team?

6. Who was the last American soc-cer player before Abby Wambach in 2012 to win the FIFA women’s World Player of the Year award?

7. Who was the first boxer to have been featured on a Wheaties box?

Answers1. Bobby Witt, in 1987.2. Barry Bonds, Bobby Bonds,

Andre Dawson, Steve Finley, Willie Mays, Alex Rodriguez and Reggie Sanders.

3. Tom Landry and Roger Staubach, Marv Levy and Jim Kelly, and Chuck Noll and Terry Bradshaw.

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1. Name the 1979 song by KC and the Sunshine Band that was covered by KWS, Basshunter and Timmy T.

2. What were The Platters’ multiple lawsuits about during the past 40 years?

3. Who released “My Forbidden Lover” and “My Feet Keep Dancing,” and when?

4. Which 1966 album included “Leaves That Are Green,” “Kathy’s Song,” “Anji” and “April Come She Will”?

5. Name the song that contained this lyric: “Why should you sacrifice, If you’re not satisfied, He’s just a canine runnin’ ‘round in heat”

Answers1. “Please Don’t Go.” The song was

written as a love ballad and in several incarnations was a techno dance num-ber.

2. In short: trademark rights and infringement. Over the years, The Platters have had hundreds of person-nel changes. As members left, they would spin off their own “Platters” pretender group.

3. Chic, in 1979. Their “Le Freak” was originally written as a message to the doormen who barred them at Studio 54, a club in New York City, except the word wasn’t “freak.”

4. “Sounds of Silence,” by Simon and Garfunkel. The album title was altered slightly but named after their song “The Sound of Silence.”

5. “Girlfriend,” by Pebbles in 1987. The song was originally written for Vanessa Williams.


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• In 1971, Mrs. Willard Lovell of Berkeley, California, accidentally locked herself out of the house. After repeated unsucessful attempts to find a way in, she was sitting exasperated on the front steps when the postman arrived and handed her a letter. Inside was a house key and a note from her brother, apologizing for forgetting to return the key after his visit to her home the previous summer.

• It was a hot evening in June in El Paso, Texas when patrolman Allen Falby accidentally crashed his motorcycle into a speeding truck. Businessman Alfred Smith witnessed the accident and was the first person on the scene. Falby lay bleeding to death from a severed artery in his leg. Quickly, Smith removed his

necktie and fashioned an effective tourniquet from it. When the ambulance crew arrived, they credited Smith with saving Falby’s life. Falby eventually recovered, and returned to police work. Five years later, he responded to an accident scene along Highway 80. A car had smashed into a tree, and the driver was bleeding to death from a severed artery in his leg. Falby pulled the man from the car and applied a tourniquet. While waiting for the ambulance to arrive, he suddenly recognized the victim. It was Alfred Smith, the same man who had saved his own life five years earlier. Falby quipped later, “One good tourniquet deserves another.”

• Brenda Rawson became engaged to Christopher Firth in 1961, and he gave her a nice diamond ring. She was heartbroken when she lost the ring while on vacation in Lancashire, England. Eighteen years later in 1979, she was talking with her husbands’ cousin, John, who had recently bought a metal detector. He mentioned that one of his kids had discovered a diamond ring while playing with it near Lancashire. Upon investigation they discovered it was her lost ring.

• Actor Anthony Hopkins was looking for a book called The Girl from Petrovka by George Feifer because he was playing a part in a movie being made on the story. He looked all over London for a copy but couldn’t find one. Later he was waiting in a subway station when he noticed someone had left a book behind on a bench. Picking it up, Hopkins was astounded to see it was The Girl from Petrovka.

• Two years later Hopkins was filming another movie when he was visited on the set by author George Feifer. They began discussing the Petrovka movie, and Feifer complained that he no longer had even a single copy of his own book. He had loaned his last one to a friend a couple of years earlier, who had lost it in London. It was especially annoying, he said, because he had written notes in the margins. After checking his library at home, Hopkins met again with Feifer and handed him the book he had found in the subway. It was the same copy that Feifer had lost.

• Christina Cort lived in Salvador, Brazil in 1966 when an out-of-control truck crashed into her house. In 1989, she was still living in the same house when once again, an out-of-control truck crashed into it. It was the same truck driver who had barreled into her home 23 years earlier.

• Gosselin Delius of Brussels, Belgium was caught in a storm while sailing a yacht off the coast of England in 1988. His glasses fell overboard. Several weeks later he was reading a newspaper when he saw an article stating that

Yan Gazelle of Belgium had caught a 13-pound monkfish, and found a pair of glasses inside it when he gutted it. The glasses, identified by their serial number, belonged to Delius. They were somewhat bent but still usable!

• Otto Lewis, a lobsterman in Maine, lost his glasses when they fell overboard in the Atlantic. A few days later, a friend who was also a lobsterman returned them to him after finding them in one of his lobster traps.

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against old army regulations and incompetent medical help. Her patients loved her because of her strict standards and untiring zeal. Many of the less devoted and incompetent doctors often disliked her for those same reasons.

• It did not take her long to figure out that the best food and supplies were being confiscated by the doctors, officers, and cooks. When she discovered a healthy lieutenant wearing clothing that she knew was intended for the sick and wounded, she wrestled him to the floor and ripped the shirt off his back, snatching his stolen socks and slippers as well, all while the patients cheered. The following day the lieutenant applied for a transfer.

• She suspected, too, that the kitchen help was stealing food intended for patients. One day she carefully cooked up a batch of peaches, saying they were strictly to go to the boys in the infirmary. When she returned a few hours later, the peaches were gone and the kitchen workers were sprawled on the floor, writhing in agony. She had mixed tartar emetic in with the peaches as a little extra surprise.

• The humanitarian deeds of this remarkable, self-appointed “nurse-disciplinarian” did not go unnoticed by General Ulysses Grant. In time, he was so favorably impressed with her one-woman crusade that he eventually appointed her Chief of Nursing under his command.

• When staff officers complained to Gen. William T. Sherman about the outspoken, insubordinate female nurse who constantly disregarded the army’s chain of command and military procedures, Sherman threw up his hands and exclaimed, “She ranks me. I can’t do a thing in the world about it!”

• One surgeon, seeing her busy at work on the battlefield tending to wounded men, accosted her and asked by whose authority she was there. “I have received my authority from the Lord God Almighty,” she bellowed in his face. “Have you anything that ranks higher than that?” He decided to leave her alone.

• During the four years of the war, Bickerdyke was present at nineteen battles, tending the wounded on the field or in hospitals, directing diet kitchens, managing army laundries (which she introduced), and, in general, displaying

extraordinary administrative ability. Zealous in fighting for the enlisted man, she was the curse of incompetent officers, but both generals Grant and Sherman held her in the highest esteem.

• “Mother” Bickerdyke was so loved by the army that the soldiers would cheer her as they would a general when she appeared. At S h e r m a n ’s request, she rode at the head of the XV Corps in the Grand Review in Washington at the end of the war.

• Bickerdyke died peacefully of a stroke in 1901 at age 84. A statue

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SHIP OF FOOLS• Martin Frobisher sailed from England past

Greenland in the year 1576 in search of the Northwest Passage. He ran into trouble with some hostile native Eskimos and turned around for home, taking with him samples of ore-bearing rocks he found on the shore. In England, a chemist pronounced them as containing gold ore.

• Frobisher quickly mounted a second expedition, feeling that gold was more important than the Northwest Passage. He returned and spent the summer of 1577 on Baffin Island, loading three ships with 200 tons of rock.

• Back in England, scientists marvelled over how much gold the rocks bore— so Frobisher headed back again, this time with 15 ships.

• He brought home 1,350 tons of ore this time, and smelters in England spent five years trying without success to extract gold from it. They finally concluded that the “gold” was actually iron pyrite— fool’s gold. It was worthless.

GHOST SHIP• On August 11, 1775, a Greenland whaling

ship called the Herald found itself battling gale force winds in heavy seas surrounded by icebergs. They spent most of the night fighting against the shifting winds, struggling to keep the icebergs at a distance. By morning, the weather cleared and the seas calmed .

• Suddenly another ship came into view. As they neared it, the whalers saw that the unknown ship was covered with ice and no humans were on deck. They received no answers to their hails. The captain lowered a longboat and went to investigate, accompanied by eight men. As

they approached the derelict ship, they saw that her name was the Octavius. Boarding, they found no sign of life.

• Kicking open the ice-coated door to go below, they were greeted by a musty odor. As they entered the cabin area they called out again, but received no answer. Stepping in further, the men found that every bunk contained the corpse of a sailor. Each was heavily bundled in blankets and perfectly preserved by the cold.

• In the captain’s cabin, they found the captain’s body slumped forward on a desk, pen in hand. The body of a woman lay in the bunk. In the corner of the cabin was the corpse of a sailor, with a flint in one hand and a piece of steel in the other. A mound of wood shavings was in front of him. Nearby, under a heavy coat, was the body of a small boy. They found no provisions on board.

• Taking the log book, they returned to their own ship. Unfortunately, the log book was dropped and several pages were lost into the sea. The Octavious drifted off, never to be seen again.

• The logbook revealed that the doomed ship left England bound for China on September 10, 1761. Good winds and fair weather prevailed, and nothing was amiss. The final page said, “We have now been enclosed in the ice 17 days, and our approximate position is Longitude 160 W, Latitude 75 N. The fire went out yesterday, and our master has been trying to rekindle it again but without success. He has handed the steel and flint to the mate. The master’s son died this morning and his wife says she no longer feels the terrible cold. The rest of us seem to have no relief from the agony.”

• The location given in the logbook in the final entry was north of Point Barrow, Alaska. The captain of the Octavius had decided to look for the yet undiscovered Northwest Passage through the Arctic instead of sailing home all the way around South America.

• The ship, locked in the ice, sailed on even after the demise of the crew— and became the first ship ever to negotiate the elusive Northwest Passage. Her crew for the journey was a captain and crew who had been dead for 13 years. Today the logbook of the Octavius is in the archives of the Registrar of Shipping in London.

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How to Tear Down Attitudes of Entitlement It is strangely ironic that the freedoms and affluence we enjoy in our society are the very things that stand to ruin our children if not addressed early and effectively. The consumer-credit industry is doing all it can to get your kids to fall for the buy-now, pay-later lifestyle. If you do nothing to intervene, statistics show that your child is headed for a life that will be severely impacted -- not by credit -- credit is not the problem here -- but by the overwhelming debt it can so easily create. When the following three characteristics occur at the same time in the heart and mind of a child, they create a kind of “perfect storm” that has all the likelihood of creating a disastrous situation: 1. An attitude of entitlement. 2. Financial ignorance. 3. The glamour and excitement of easy spending and immediate gratification

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Adaptive Sports for Disabled Vets Disabled veterans who participate in adap-tive sports experience less stress, less dependency on medication -- and more independence. The Department of Veterans Affairs knows this and has loaded their calendar with the Gold-en Age Games (for those age 55 and older), Sum-mer Sports Clinics, Training-Exposure-Experience (TEE) Tournament (golf), Wheelchair Games and the Winter Sports Clinic. Coming July 13-18 is the 33rd National Veter-ans Wheelchair Games in Tampa, Fla. The 17 com-petitive events include air guns, archery, basketball, bowling, track and field events, handcycling, motor-ized wheelchair rally, nineball, power soccer, quad rugby, slalom, softball, swimming, table tennis, trap-shooting and weightlifting. Registration deadline is April 15 and is lim-ited to 550 athletes. Get your registration packet online (www.va.gov/opa/speceven/ssc) or call Paralyzed Veterans of America 800-424-8200, ext. 752 or 657. If you were OEF/OIF/OND, there is a grant program for expenses if this will be your first Games. If you want to go, get started on the paperwork. One requirement is that your doctor must sign a Physical Exam Form (Forms C & D). If you’re unable to attend, check for a sports club near you. The Sports Club Finder on the VA’s webpage linked above has a searchable index of clubs by state and ZIP code. For example, ZIP code 83709 (Boise, Idaho) lists Paralympic Sport Boise, which has summer swimming and triathlon. ZIP code 27105 lists Triad Trackers, which is a member of the National Wheelchair Basketball Association (NWBA) in Winston-Salem, N.C. The listing notes that 15 percent of the membership are disabled veterans. ZIP code 68134, which is Omaha, Neb., lists a chapter of the Paralyzed Veterans of America. It offers both summer and winter paralympic sports, including archery, shooting, wheelchair basketball, wheelchair rugby, boccia, powerlifting, track and field, sled hockey and bowling. * * *

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Excerpted from “Raising Financially Confident Kids” by Mary Hunt (Revell, 2012). Mary Hunt is the founder of www.DebtProofLiving.com and author of 23 books, includ-ing her 2012 release, “Raising Financially Confident Kids.” You can email her at [email protected], or write to Everyday Cheapskate, P.O. Box 2099, Cypress, CA 90630. To find out more about Mary Hunt and read her past columns, please visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

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Q: I just learned that I will be required to pay $146.90 for Medicare this year when all of my friends are paying $104.90. This isn’t fair!

A: Do you want the good news or the bad news? The good news is that you must be richer than all your friends. The bad news is that rich people pay more for Medicare. Most people don’t know this, but the Medicare Part B premium ($104.90 for most people) pays only 25 percent of the cost of running that part of the Medicare program. The taxpayers pick up the other 75 percent. A while back, Congress said that was too much of a burden on working Americans. They originally wanted to raise the premiums on all

Medicare beneficiaries, but ended up only doing so on wealthier people. So now, the richer you are, the more you pay for Medicare Part B. Just be glad you’re not among the super rich. They pay $335.70 per month for their Medicare coverage! If you want to learn more about this, here is a link to a government fact sheet that explains these rules: www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/10536.html.

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Health Booth Can’t Replace Doctor Coming to a Walmart or Sam’s Club near you: a self-service health booth. SoloHealth Sta-tions are interactive kiosks that could keep you from going to your doctor for proper medical care. There, I’ve said it. I’m against them. Here’s how they work: You sit at a machine and answer questions about your lifestyle, what you eat and the health of family members. You get cuffed and have your blood pressure checked. Weigh in and get your eyes checked. Learn your BMI -- body mass index. Get advice on vitamins and pain management and heartburn. (How conve-nient that the machine will even tell you what aisle those products are on.) This is one-stop health monitoring, or so say those who are responsible for putting these convenience machines in Walmarts. But is a machine going to notice if you’re looking a bit pale? While it’s taking your blood pres-sure, will it also listen to your heart and notice just the faintest little blip that shouldn’t be there? Can it hear a tell-tale rasp in your breathing or sense a rattle in your chest? How do you ask it questions? How can it ask you questions about how you’re feeling or difficulties you may be having? And what of privacy? You’ll enter a lot of personal information into the machine when you sit down for your “do-it-yourself” health exam. Where does that information go? Down the road, that same personal information that it’s collected on you can be collected in a database and used to “as-sess” your diabetes risk, send you direct-mail ads or telemarketer phone calls, enroll you in a medi-cal-care policy, and who knows what else. There is a proposal to let these machines help you diagnose whether you have high cholesterol -- and even pick up an over-the-counter drug for it. Make yourself a promise: If you’re tempted to use one of these health kiosks, go ahead, but send the results to your doctor. It’s one thing to play with high-tech toys. It’s quite another to turn your health over to an electronic gadget with marketing overtones without any one-on-one human medical intervention.

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A: Unfortunately, I must also agree that it seems this is where we are headed. The uncertainty of government health care regulations, higher in-surance rates and higher deductibles are on the hori-zon. Couple this with the strong possibility of a more heavily devalued dollar and the future isn’t looking bright -- especially for seniors on a fixed income. Doctors are especialy noticing growing anxi-ety in their older patients. Many seniors who are ex-periencing declining health are now watching their money even more closely. There is a growing fear that because of rising medical expenses and other factors, they may no longer be able to afford the level of health care they once had. Some patients are be-coming more demanding, trying to squeeze as much benefit as possible from visits to their doctor. Doctors also know that many of their elderly patients, sadly, are not taking their required medica-tions simply because they can no longer afford them. We are at the brink of a whole new set of rules for our entire health care system, and no one at this point seems to know for certain where all of these changes are taking us, or even what all of those changes will be! And, from what I can gather from my own contacts, many medical professionals are as uncertain about this as the rest of us. * * *

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A: I.M. Singer and Edward Clark estab-lished I. M. Singer and Company in 1851. The name was changed to the Singer Manufacturing Company in 1865. The gold design on the machine is a decal and features an Egyptian sphinx. The decal is frag-ile and should only be cleaned with gentle cleaners. Modern cleaners can harm the decal and greatly di-minish the value. Many sewing machines were made in Eliza-beth, N.J. Singer made the first zigzag machine and the first electronic machine. Currently, the Singer Company is located in Tennessee. Your sewing machine was made around 1900 and would probably be worth $200 to $300. * * *

Q: This mark is on a tea service from my home in England. Also included in the mark are the words “Travel -- Designed by Ravilious.” The set includes a tea pot, two cups and sau-cers, two cereal dishes, a milk jug and an egg cup. The dishes have a gray-white background and the designs are turquoise and black. Each piece has a hot air balloon in the design. I was wondering if my set is collectible.

A: Wedgwood made your Windsor Gray set in Etruria and Barlaston, England around 1950. It was designed by artist Eric Ravilious. His travel series featured different types of travel. He also cre-ated other dinnerware sets and commemorative pieces. During World War II, he was designated as a war artist. In 1942 he failed to return from an air-sea mission off the coast of Iceland. Because of war regulations, many of his designs were not produced until the 1950s. Your set was made around 1950 and would probably be worth $300 to $500.

Address your questions to Anne McCollam, P. O. Box 247, Notre Dame, IN 46556. Items of a general interest will be answered in this column. Due to the volume of inqui-ries, 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.com


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Spring Training About 3.5 million people make the pilgrim-age to Florida or Arizona every February and March to take in a few baseball spring training games in the Cactus or Grapefruit leagues. Along the way, those pilgrims will drop a cool $1.1 billion for the opportunity to see an old baseball icon or the team’s next star. And after watching all of the batting prac-tice, the stalking of your kid’s favorite player for his autograph, the shakedown at the hands of the popcorn, soda and memorabilia vendors, you still have a game to watch. While most fans really don’t care about the guys with the high numbers on their back (the Yankees had a kid wearing the number 98 at first base the other day), there’s always a few who really, really do care. The profile is two to three older guys wear-ing mesh-backed caps or one of those floppy fish-ing hats. They eagerly tuck into their first round of beer but they don’t drink more than one or three a game. They’re the ones who like the peanuts in the Crackerjack. Heck, they’re the only ones eating the Crackerjack. They also clutch a magazine in their hand. It’s one of the top two baseball magazines for young-talent evaluation, and throughout the game they’ll be the ones pointing at number 98 and recit-ing how many doubles he hit at Wilmington. But there will be a few things said that they’ll get wrong. If you’re sitting within earshot and want to get in on the discussion, here are a few little-known facts and information you can drop to their displeasure: 1. “The Brooklyn Dodgers invented spring training.” Baseball teams have been traveling to the warmer climes since the late 1880s. (The 1921 Yankees took a Clipper ship to Bermuda ... they got seasick on the way home and didn’t win a game for the better part of a month). What the Dodgers did was build “Dodgertown” in Vero Beach, Fla. The City of Vero had an old Navy compound and the Dodgers had the league’s largest farm system with 26 minor-league teams. The barracks came in very handy for accommodating all of those players and families (and cost a lot less than a whole floor of hotel rooms). 2. “The Cactus League started so West Coast teams could be closer to home.” Traveling wasn’t really the problem ... though it was a lot tougher then. The Pittsburgh Pirates used to train in Honolulu, for instance. The Cactus League was born more out of the desire to avoid racism. Bill Veeck, the legendary baseball owner of the Indians and White Sox, moved the Indians to Phoenix as soon as he starting signing black baseball players like Larry Doby. He then used the “stay close to home” argument in order to lure the San Francisco Giants. 3. “War is stupid.” If those guys’ mesh-backed caps have the emblem of a battleship, destroyer, aircraft carrier or submarine, then they’re not talking about the statistic “wins over replacement.” Even if they are, thank them for the service, agree with them on this one and offer to buy the next round.

Mark Vasto is a veteran sportswriter who lives in Kansas City.


Singer Sewing Machine Company was founded in 1851.

Eric Ravilious created his

Travel series for Wedgwood.

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Adapting to the Ball Above Your Feet

Have you ever gone to the driving range and hit the ball greatonly to see it disappear when you play the course? If that is the case, the reason could be that when you are on thedriving range the ball is on a flat lie that is level to your feet.When you play on the golf course the ball is lying at anglesthat could position the ball above or below your feet.The first thing you want to do when you are getting ready tohit your shot is to assess the lie. Is the ball above or belowmy feet? You can see in the picture that I drew a line alongthe ground that represents “foot level”. The ball isapproximately a couple inches above that line. With the ballbeing above my feet I need to make two adjustments to mysetup; 1) I need to grip down an inch off the top of the club,therefore shortening the shaft. 2) I need to be taller in the legs and in my spine angle.I will also need to make slight adjustments to the swing; Be sure to have the right foot push the hip up through the ball inthe forward swing which will help from hitting the shot fat. Also, finish the swing with the hips and shoulders level to thehorizon. This swing feels very similar to a baseball swing,more level to the horizon line rather than “down” to the ball.The best way to check and see if these adjustments aregoing to help is to make a practice swing and see where andhow deep the divot is in reference to the ball. Your goal is to have a clean brush of the grass through the area of the ball.Keep making the adjustments to the setup and swing untilyou get the right combination for that perfect brush of thegrass. Now you’re ready to have the ball respond to thatswing.The biggest challenge in golf is that the ball lie’s at variousdegrees on sloped ground. That challenge requires that youdevelop the ability to adapt to those angles to produce thebest shot possible.

Rob Stanger is recognized as a 2005-08 Golf Magazine Top TeacherWest Region. He teaches at The College Golf Center. You cancontact him at 760-409-8628 or at www.robstanger.com for inquiries about your golf.

Images created through JCvideo.com softwareAdapting to the Ball Above Your Feet

Have you ever gone to the driving range and hit the ball greatonly to see it disappear when you play the course? If that is the case, the reason could be that when you are on thedriving range the ball is on a flat lie that is level to your feet.When you play on the golf course the ball is lying at anglesthat could position the ball above or below your feet.The first thing you want to do when you are getting ready tohit your shot is to assess the lie. Is the ball above or belowmy feet? You can see in the picture that I drew a line alongthe ground that represents “foot level”. The ball isapproximately a couple inches above that line. With the ballbeing above my feet I need to make two adjustments to mysetup; 1) I need to grip down an inch off the top of the club,therefore shortening the shaft. 2) I need to be taller in the legs and in my spine angle.I will also need to make slight adjustments to the swing; Be sure to have the right foot push the hip up through the ball inthe forward swing which will help from hitting the shot fat. Also, finish the swing with the hips and shoulders level to thehorizon. This swing feels very similar to a baseball swing,more level to the horizon line rather than “down” to the ball.The best way to check and see if these adjustments aregoing to help is to make a practice swing and see where andhow deep the divot is in reference to the ball. Your goal is to have a clean brush of the grass through the area of the ball.Keep making the adjustments to the setup and swing untilyou get the right combination for that perfect brush of thegrass. Now you’re ready to have the ball respond to thatswing.The biggest challenge in golf is that the ball lie’s at variousdegrees on sloped ground. That challenge requires that youdevelop the ability to adapt to those angles to produce thebest shot possible.

Rob Stanger is recognized as a 2005-08 Golf Magazine Top TeacherWest Region. He teaches at The College Golf Center. You cancontact him at 760-409-8628 or at www.robstanger.com for inquiries about your golf.

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Adapting to the ball aboveyour feet Have you ever found yourself hitting the ball great at the driving range, only to see all that dis-appear on the course? It could be that the ball at the range is always level to your feet, but on the hilly course your setup is always changing. To overcome these terrain changes, you first need to assess your lie. Is the ball above or below your feet? In the photo I’ve drawn a line to represent my “foot level”. In this case the ball is several inches above that line, which means I need to make two ad-justments to my setup: 1) I need to grip down an inch off the top of the club to shorten the shaft. 2) I need to be taller in the legs with less angle in my back. My swing will also need some adjusting. My right foot needs to push my hip up through the ball to avoid hitting it fat, and I’ll finish with my hips and shoulders level to the horizon. This swing is somewhat similar to a baseball swing, more horizontal than “down” to the ball. Your goal is to adjust your setup according to your lie and have the clubhead make a clean bush of the grass through the ball. Once you’ve learned to adapt to the slopes this way, youll be producing the best shots possible.

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PHOBIAS (continued):

• Some phobias relate to what’s up above,such as the sun (heliophobia), the clouds(nephophobia), the moon (selenophobia),and the stars (siderophobia). Some folks arejust afraid of looking up – they are calledanablephobes.

•Not all phobias seem that abnormal oruncommon.Lotsofpeoplemighthaveafearof death, known as necrophobia. But thosewith an extreme form might be terrified ofbeing buried alive.A nosocomephobe has afearofhospitals,averminophobeisafraidofgerms,andahydrophobehasanirrationalfearofwater.

• Individuals suffering from extreme agora-phobiararelyleavetheirhomes,duetotheirfearofpublicoropenspacesand the inescapablesituationsthatmayoccurthere.Onlyhomeissafe.

• Somephobiascanbea learnedbehavior thatcomes from listening to others describe atraumaticevent.Anindividualinone’slifecantriggeraphobia,suchaspeladophobia,thefearofbaldpeople.Thosewithnosto-phobia,afearof returninghome,maybeable tocontributetheirpanictoaspecificincident.

• Peoplewhoareafraidoflookingintomirrorshave cataptrophobia, while those with cyberphobia have a fear of working withcomputers.A person with an anxiety aboutmemories is a mnemophobe.

•Don’tconfuselevophobia, thefearofobjectstoaperson’sleft,withdextrophobia, thefearofobjectstotheright.

•Although some of us fear the possibility ofcancer,anextremecarcinophobewillconvincehimself he has cancer because he touchedsomeone who has it.

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• Beatrice Lillie, famed British actress, was appearing in a stage play called “This Year of Grace” in Ontario. During a matinee performance, the entire cast was on stage for the finale in which Lillie sang, “Britannia Rules the Waves.” The cast lined up behind her, waiting for her to sing the final verse, which was their que to step forward in unison into their positions across the stage for the final curtain. However, they were startled to hear Lillie repeat the second verse over, and then over again. There was nothing to do but go along with her and wait as she sang, marking time in place as they stood in line across the back of the stage. Suddenly, a heavy arc light fell from the ceiling, landing with a loud crash in the middle of the stage. Glass and metal splattered across the stage exactly where the cast would have been standing had Lillie not, for reasons still unknown, continuously repeated the second verse.

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1. GEOGRAPHY: Where are the Cape Verde islands?

2. U.S. PRESIDENTS: How many presidents have won Nobel Peace Prize?

3. ANATOMY: Where is the sacrum in the human body?

4. LANGUAGE: What is meant by the term “fifth column”?

5. HISTORY: In what year did the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge into the AFL-CIO?

6. MILITARY: What is the moral code of the Japanese samurai?

7. GAMES: What kind of game is “Millipede”?

8. FOOD & DRINK: What is arrow-root powder used for?

9. MUSIC: What were the first names of the Allman Brothers?

10. THEATER: Who wrote the play “The Iceman Cometh”?

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Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama

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2. In 2012, Carlos Beltran became the eighth member of the career 300 steals/300 homers club. Name four of the first seven to do it.

3. Coach Bill Belichick and quar-terback Tom Brady have made five Super Bowl appearances together. Name three coach/QB pairs to have made four trips.

4. When was the last time before 2012 that Creighton won an NCAA men’s basketball tournament game?

5. How many times was Montreal’s Steve Shutt on a Stanley Cup-win-ning team?

6. Who was the last American soc-cer player before Abby Wambach in 2012 to win the FIFA women’s World Player of the Year award?

7. Who was the first boxer to have been featured on a Wheaties box?

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Andre Dawson, Steve Finley, Willie Mays, Alex Rodriguez and Reggie Sanders.

3. Tom Landry and Roger Staubach, Marv Levy and Jim Kelly, and Chuck Noll and Terry Bradshaw.

4. It was 2002, when the Bluejays beat Florida.

5. Five.6. Mia Hamm, in 2002.7. Muhammad Ali.


1. Name the 1979 song by KC and the Sunshine Band that was covered by KWS, Basshunter and Timmy T.

2. What were The Platters’ multiple lawsuits about during the past 40 years?

3. Who released “My Forbidden Lover” and “My Feet Keep Dancing,” and when?

4. Which 1966 album included “Leaves That Are Green,” “Kathy’s Song,” “Anji” and “April Come She Will”?

5. Name the song that contained this lyric: “Why should you sacrifice, If you’re not satisfied, He’s just a canine runnin’ ‘round in heat”

Answers1. “Please Don’t Go.” The song was

written as a love ballad and in several incarnations was a techno dance num-ber.

2. In short: trademark rights and infringement. Over the years, The Platters have had hundreds of person-nel changes. As members left, they would spin off their own “Platters” pretender group.

3. Chic, in 1979. Their “Le Freak” was originally written as a message to the doormen who barred them at Studio 54, a club in New York City, except the word wasn’t “freak.”

4. “Sounds of Silence,” by Simon and Garfunkel. The album title was altered slightly but named after their song “The Sound of Silence.”

5. “Girlfriend,” by Pebbles in 1987. The song was originally written for Vanessa Williams.


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