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If you are uncertain whether or not your position is clear to those with whom you have dealings, reiterate the facts.At the very least, others will get a clearer perspective of your stance.CAPRICORN (Dec.22-Jan.19) - You’re capable of remarkable mental achieve ments, especially in situations where you’re motivated to make material gains.If there is money to be made, you’ll find the ways and means.AQUARIUS (Jan.20-Feb.19) - This is a better day than usual for communication with others on all levels.You have the ability to be very effective on any issue that’s on your mind.PISCES (Feb.20-March 20) — Do not allow pressures to build up; have those discussions with family members who have been bothering you.You’ll find it is easier than usual to express your innermost feelings.ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Although your independence will always be important, you’ll actually work better by putting your head together with another who thinks and reasons on the same level.TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Take advantage of your natural ability for developing opportunities at work — those can spell financial gain or advancement in your field of endeavor.You can be ingenious in this area.Monday, May 28,2007 Computers have a long way to go By Phillip Alder Computers still play bridge poorly, but they rarely do anything as bizarre as in this deal played at Bridge Base Online (www.bridgebase.com).The given auction was produced by a pair who requested anonymity.South’s two-spade response was a strong jump shift, showing either a powerful one-suited hand, or a two-suiter with spades (his suit) and diamonds (partner’s suit).North’s two no-trump asked for clarification.Then, North made an excellent four-club control-bid (cue-bid).This said that he was raising to four spades, but that he liked his hand for play in spades.South used Roman Key Card Blackwood twice (five clubs showed three key cards: any ace and the trump king are key cards; six diamonds promised that king and denied the club king) before bidding seven no-trump, the best contract, which was easy to make.How did a computer sitting South and a human playing North bid these hands?First, North opened an off-center one no-trump.Then South responded with two hearts, a transfer bid showing five-plus spades, when he could have asked for aces by jumping to four clubs, the Gerber convention.But the real North A A 05-28-07 - V A 7 6 5 ?K Q 10 7 A A 7 2 6 West East A J 6 A 8 7 5 V K Q 10 9 8 3 V J 2 ?J ?9 8 5 4 3 A J 1C 5 3 A 9 South 6 4 A K Q 10 9 V 4 ?A 2 A K Q 8 Dealer: North 4 3 2 Vulnerable: East-West South West North East 1 ?Pass 2 A Pass 2 NT Pass 3 A Pass 4 A Pass 4 NT Pass 5 A Pass 5 NT Pass 6 ?Pass 7 NT Pass Pass Pass Opening lead: ¥ K shock came after North rebid two spades — South passed! West, an innocent computer, balanced with three hearts.Now North bid three no-trump, which is “illegal” because South could have held no points.South recovered by bidding seven spades! CROSSWORD ACROSS 40 Schedule abbr.26 Wash rm.48 Sault Marie 1 Comic absurdity 42 Fish-eating eagle 27 Stadium level 51 Not healthy 6 French cleric 43 Go by again 28 Sign up to compete 52 Mattress denizen 10 Haydn’s sobriquet 46 Rara follower 29 Land or sea follower 55 Dundee lad 14 Oak beginning 49 MO ball-cap letters 30 Shad output 56 Alan of “M*A*S*H" 15 Oaf 50 Check 31 Doha’s land 57 Conceited 16 Iowa college town 53 One of these days 32 Body trunks 59 Mine excavations 17 Check 54 Golf gadget 33 Barbra Streisand film 60 Latin handle 20 Marsh grass stalk 55 Really enjoy 37 Secluded valley 62 Jot 21 Finish second 58 Practice punching 39 Roping, as a steer 63 Blue pencil 22 Producer Spelling 61 Ceased to exist 41 Gardner of filmdom 64 Unit of force 23 Caesar’s three 65 Check 44 Tempest 66 Zzzz letters 25 Church vestments 68 Host of Valhalla 45 Paulo, Brazil 67 Victrola mfr.27 Check 69 Newts 47 Ice breaker, briefly 34 End of a bus.?70 35 Greek portico 71 36 Killed in the Oval Office 72 38 Relative of etc.73 Saturday's Puzzle Solved Jump the line Sharp taste Tableland Colorful chalcedony DOWN M A 1 N T O P 1 C O S S E T S U N N E R V E 0 P T 1 M A L T E S T 1 E R R E A P P L Y A M i ¦ P R i M N G ¦ L A N T O s H ¦ c L A N s ¦ w A R E E N T 1 T L 1 N G ¦ F N 1 S S E S S 1 O N s ,1A N E A S S L U G F E s T S E S P 1 E D ¦ N s O L A T E S T U N S T E R O D O X T A N G m 0 L A R ¦ W A R P E N D ¦ E R U D 1 F ¦ P R O E L 1 S 1 O N 1 L i G A T E S M E T E R E il E V 1 L O N E S Y S T E M S D, E S E R T S C)2007 Tribune Media Services, Inc.All right* reserved.5/28/07 1 So-so 2 Summit 3 Strong cord 4 Alternative to cash 5 Terminate 6 Ray of “Pat and Mike” 7 Moves to the beat 8 Chest of drawers 9 Ike’s command 10 Leech 11 Part of USA 12 Cancun coin 13 NAACP part 18 Ness of “The Untouchables" 19 “It Happened One Night” star 24 Contingencies 1 2 3 4 5 j 14 17 20 18 21 123 24 27 28 29 34 38 43 39 135 44 I6 7 8 9 15 r 19 22 r h 12 13 I 30 31 140 26 53 55 56 57 65 68 71 146 41 47 48 154 142 52 37 149 58 59 60 169 172 161 62 63 64 170 173 By Stanley B.Whitten Hlghwood, IL 5/28/07 page 20 Monday, May 28, 2007 .-¦ ¦ ¦THE m i RECORD Brome County Women’s Institute The Annual Brome County Women’s Institute meeting was held in the Town Hall in Austin on April 26, 2007.President Lucy McGill of Austin graciously welcomed us all to the beautifully decorated hall; it looked like spring with the lovely yellow flowers.County President Doris Wallet opened the meeting with the Collect and Salute to the Flag.President Elect Jane Hamilton read the fall minutes and acted as pro tem secretary for the day, in the absence of Sarah Cobb.Doris thanked everyone for the cards she received from WI members, especially the one signed by all at the Mis-sisquoi meeting, also a special thanks to Verna Patterson, for the lovely flowers she won and sent to me, such kindness! Tina Linde gave her treasurer’s and auditor’s report.Special reports from the branches, showed Austin very busy knitting preemie sets, blankets, baby jackets and mitts, to be distributed to hospitals and CLSC; Sheila Needham received a reply for the bursary from the County, but we will wait until fall for hopefully, more requests to come in.The chairs of agriculture, Health and Community Living, Education and Per- sonal Development, publicity and awareness gave committee reports.Doris introduced Jane who spoke about the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa: how the grandmother’s are looking after millions of children, and the help they need.There were books and pamphlets, she had really put a lot of information together and spoke so well, a great deal of interest from the members was shown.We sang Grace and enjoyed a bountiful lunch, made and put on by the Austin branch.Associated County women of the world Pennies for friendship were collected, and door prizes were won.Lucy introduced their guest speaker; author Mary Jean Woodard Bean, who wrote about the life of Julia Grace Wales and her quest for peace, during the First World War.New business: QWI convention Saturday, May 19, 2007.Banquet table decorated will be made by South Bolton Branch, and $15.00 from branches for sales table.Austin will supply a homemade canvas shopping bag from the County.Also the Histories of Brome, Austin, Abercorn, South Bolton will be taken to the QWI convention.Slate of County officers and committee chairs for 2007 - 2008 are: Officer’s Past President: Jean Lee President: Doris Wallet President-Elect: Jane Hamilton Secretary: Sarah Cobb Treasurer: Tina Linde Committee Chairs Agriculture: Elizabeth Davidson Health and Community Living: Betty Needham Eduction and Personal Development: Jane Hamilton Publicity and Awareness: Doris Wallet Brome Fair awards and delegates for prizes: Jean Lee and Betty Needham.Next meeting: Semi-annual September 20 in Austin (finger food).Special thanks to Lucy and members of Austin for a great lunch and very interesting day, hope to see everyone at the fall meeting, please bring lots of items for the auction.For Home and Country, Doris Wallet Stanbridge East Thelma Rhicard I was pleased to have a pair of Canada Geese land on our pond, then come ashore and eat the cracked corn that we’d spread about, later on I was delighted to see two pairs .until I read Maurice Crossfield’s article in last Friday’s Record “Honk if you worry about geese.” Now 1 let our dog Chimo do what he wanted to do .chase them away! They honk and complain before they’ll finally lift-off with effort, Chimo chases, them as they noiselessly fly across the meadow until they reach the woods.In a couple of days their bird-brain forgets, return and the sport begins again.Spring arrivals here were: April 25 -Yellow - bellied Sapsucker 28- Bluebirds & Great Blue Heron, 30-Northern Flicker, May 1 - Brown Thrasher, 7 - blackflies, 8 - June bugs, 9 - Tufted Titmouse and male Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, 10 -Ovenbird, Barn Swallows and Great-Crested Flycatcher, 16-male Ruby -throated Hummingbirds, and on the 21st the female arrived.Colin II (5) Those first months were great.He slept and he ate.And he grew and he grew and he grew.Though he ate like a pig.He’d never be big.But now he would surely pul] through.Bits of Nostalgia From the Sherbrooke Daily Record of July 5, 1929 DOMINION DAY CELEBRATION HELD AT BURY Fine Programme Presented by Bury Athletic Association on Dominion Day BURY, Que., July 5, _ The hard worked officials of the Bury Athletic Association were greatly cheered and encouraged .on awakening to a morning of bright sunshine on Dominion Day, after the depressing influence of the weather of the days immediately preceeding.The grand success of the day’s events were well worthy of the glorious weather conditions and the big crowd enjoyed to the full the entertainment provided.That this annual event is popular seems amply evidenced and the association is to be congratulated for providing the community and the surrounding districts with such an aopportunity to enjoy dean sport and wholesome recreation.Once again the value of the Memorial Park has been shown and the decision years back of obtaining the piece of land as a sobers memorial is more and more appreciated.The day’s event opened with a baseball match between Scotstown and bury, which was a well contested match, keenly fought and closely followed with great interest by all.The result being a win for Bury with a score of eight to six.During the luncheon hour the hillside at the western end of the Park was a veritable picnin ground, and the Women’s Institute and the Boy Scouts were very busy disposing of their wares.Ihe afternoon events followed one after another, very smoothly and speedily.The one mile oped, usually looked upon as the event of the day, was somewahat disappointing, neither last year’s winner nor the runner up competing this year.It was comparatively a slow race, the time being six minutes.The events and their winners were as follows; One hundred yard dash - 1.T.G.Stokes; 2, Paul Therrien; 3.Winston Prangley Pole Vault, - 1.Parsons; 2, Rudd, 3, Martin Allison, 8 ft.6 in.Quarter mile, - 1.winston Prangley, 2, T.G.Stokes; 3, Jean Anderson High jump, men— 1.Lawrence Kinn-ear High jump, girls,- 1.Verlie Martin; 2.Kathleen Judge Broad Jump men — 1, Paul Therrien, 18 ft 4in.; 2.Thomas Lapalme 17 ft, 10 in.; 3.Thomas G.Stokes 16ft.8 in.Broad jump, girls, - 1.Jane Vann, 11 ft, 9 in.; 2.Kathleen Judge, 9 ft.9 in.; 3, Dora Berwick, 8 ft.11 in., Hurdle race, 1st heat —'T.G.Stokes, 2, Cecil Coates; 3, Winston Prangley.Second heat-1.Paul Therrien; 2.Ernest Ross; 3.Arthur Atlins.Final-1.Paul Therrien; 2, T.G.Stokes; Winston Prangley One mile, open- 1.Cecil Coates; 2, Jean Anderson; 3, Gordon Joyce.Time 6 minutes Other event were; pillow fight, prize money divided between Rudd and Mayhew.This event caused great amusement to the crowd, who, however, were more willing to look on than to participate.The baseball throw was won by Angus Nicholson, The potato race for girls was very keenly contested and was won by Lena Prangley, followed by Ethel Matthews and Jean Vann, second and third.The sack race and hammer throw were scratched.Tere were also a number of races for the juniors, both girls and boys, the little tots, five years and under having the honor of opening the afternoon’s proceedings.While the official finding of the winner of the highest aggregate of points had not yet been made.It would seem that T.G.Stokes and Paul Therrien tie with thirteen points each.The magnificent challenge cup presented by the president of the association, Col.O.1.Pope exited great admiration.On this cup will be engraved the name or names of the win-nere of the highest score of points and it has to be won, in this manner three times before it becomes the property of any individual.The Bury Brass band enlivened the proceedings during the afternoon with numerous selection and again in the evening previous to the dance, when in spite of the rain, many came to the park in their cars to listen with appreciation to their music.At the dance in the Town Hall in the evening, the assembly was honored by the presence of Col R.Stock-well, Brigadier, 4th Mounted Brigade and staff, also Capaint Wood of the R.C.D., and other officers.Col.Stock-well was welcomed by Col.Abel White-head, and in reply Col Stockwell expressed his pleasure to be present and congratulated the community on the splendid celebration of Dominion Day.As in all other respects, this part of the day’s programme was a great success.A good orchestra had been secured and a large crowd enjoyed themselves until nearly two o’clock Tuesday morning.” Submitted by Nina Rowell The girls, all enthralled, Made sure he never bawled.And the household remained undisturbed.The men forgot.The strange little tot, Who was seldom seen and less heard.One of nature’s great things.Familiarity brings.Understanding and truth to the fore.As he laughed and he played.The impression he made, Was a normal child, now turning four.Other babies were born, All fitting the norm, And he became one of the pack.With a mind that was quick, His life was idyllic, And for love, there was never a lack.Those years drifted by.And kids then were shy, And nobody came much to call.And if they did, They all ran and hid.And were seldom seen, if at all.Of course the rumors got out, From Aunt Matilda the stout.And the preacher who’d come to baptize him, That they harbored a beast.Ghoulish at least, The worse they’d ever set eyes on.The men were subjected to smirks, For people will act like jerks, Every time that they went into town.But what could they do?They agreed it was true.And refused to have him around.Wayne Robinson