Black Aggie

There is a legend about Druid Ridge Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland. It is locally well-known for it being the former home of a statue known as Black Aggie.
In the early part of the century, there was a woman named Aggie, who was a nurse working at a hospital. She was congenial and well-liked, but it seemed that patients under her care always seemed to die. Superstition grew, and she was put to death, which turned out to be a mistake when she was discovered innocent the very next day. A communal feeling of guilt spread, so a statue was put in Druid Ridge Cemetery in her honor. This became the second mistake, when strange occurrences started happening.
Legend has it that if you stand before it at the stroke of midnight, you will be struck blind by the statue's red glowing eyes. People were even found dead in front of it, including a pledge from a local fraternity.
Another rumor is that pregnant women who walked in the figure's shadow (where oddly, the grass never grew) would suffer miscarriages. People would gather at the graveyard at night, which became a frequent problem.
All of this finally came to a climax one morning when the cemetery employees walked into work only to find Black Aggie with one of her arms sawed off. Upon investigating this, the arm of the statue and a saw were found in the backseat of a worker's car. The man was brought to trial, and he claimed Black Aggie cut off one of her arms and had given it to him in a fit of grief. Some people believed the ironic story, but it wasn't enough for the court. He was found guilty.
Eventually the statue was removed from Druid Ridge Cemetery, and was donated to a Baltimore museum. It was never displayed however, and resided in the basement. Occasionally, people still congregate at the cemetery in pursuit of truth in the legend, but it is no longer the location of fraternity stunts.....

The Name Game

"The Name Game" can also refer to any of several variations on a word game also known in the United States as "States", in Croatia as "Kaladont", in Russia as "Goroda", and in Japan as "Shiritori", in which the players in turn name words in a given category beginning with the final letter of the previous word. For example, a game in which the category was "states of the United States of America" might proceed: Arkansas, South Dakota, Alaska... A game in which the category was "modern musical genres" might proceed: Reggaeton, new age, electronica, alt-rock...
"The Name Game" can also refer to an ongoing game in which one person calls out the name of their victim and then turns away. The victim loses if they look to see who it is. [1]. The initiator usually calls out the name in a demanding way, such as "Excuse me, Joe!". Some play that the initiator loses if they are quickly discovered. In a variant, the initiator follows with "sucks!" when the victim looks.
The Name Game, or "The Banana Song", is a children's singalong rhyming game that creates variations on a person's name. It was written by singer Shirley Ellis with Lincoln Chase, and Ellis' recording, produced by Charles Calello, was released in late 1964 (see 1964 in music) as "The Name Game." That record went to number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, and number 4 on the magazine's R&B charts in 1965. The record was re-released in 1966 and again in 1973. While Ellis' stock in trade was novelty hits, she was not a one-hit wonder. A serious R&B singer for 10 years before that hit, Ellis also charted with "The Clapping Song (Clap Pat Clap Slap)" (#8 pop and #16 R&B), and "The Nitty Gritty" (#8 on the Hot 100 and #4 on the Cash Box R&B chart). Ellis performed "The Name Game" on major television programs of the day, including Hullabaloo, American Bandstand, and Merv Griffin.
"The Name Game" has been recorded by dozens of recording artists in the years since, notably Laura Branigan, whose version produced by Jeff Lorber, appearing on her 1987 album Touch, features a classroom of third-grade schoolchildren singing along to the tongue-twisting game. The Brazilian singer Xuxa recorded a song using the same play and same sample in the song "Jogo da Rima". Often covered by relative unknowns on collections of songs for children, other cover versions have been recorded by artists as diverse (and campy) as Dean Ford and the Gaylords (1965), Divine (1980), and Soupy Sales (2002). In 1982, Stacy Lattisaw took her "rap" recording of "Attack of the Name Game" to #79 on the Hot 100. In 1993, this song was used on television as an advertisement for Little Caesar's Pizza.
Ellis told Melody Maker magazine that the song was based on a game she played as a child.

Heart

Dr. Brewski looked at the name on the file and then at the ugly, overweightman. there was no mistake. it was him. Sullivan(the patient) did not recognized him. that´s how il is, thought Dr.Brewski, you ruin someone´s life, and then you forget everything about then. Dr. brewski looked at the patient lying on the operating table, his chest already opened the heart beating. Dr. brewski found it impossible to concentrate because it was not an ordinary heart surgeon and it was not an ordinary patient. years ago, when he was a medical student, Dr. brewski had gone out with a girl called mary for two years. he loved her and she loved him, he was only waiting to finish his course to ask her to marry him and she said that she wanted to, that she wanted to have children with him. but then, one day, walking through central park, he saw mary with another man, kissing him, the man was nicolas sullivan. he ran back to his apartment, crying, and when mary went to visit him she told him the truth: she loved sullivan.they broke up the same day and he never saw mary again, although he spent many years thinking about her. how many times he thought," if i had the chance, i´d kill sullivan" now he had the chance. " if i make just one small mistake, i can kill sullivan and nobody will ever know. All doctors make mistake. Dr. Brewski was married with two children, so why should he care. Sullivan broke his heart, but if Dr. Brewski wanted to, he could save Sulliva´s heart now...

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The goal is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team (the batting team) take turns hitting against the pitcher of the other team (the fielding team), which tries to stop them from scoring runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways. A player on the batting team can stop at any of the bases and later advance via a teammate's hit or other means. The teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the fielding team records three outs. One turn at bat for each team constitutes an inning; nine innings make up a professional game. The team with the most runs at the end of the game wins.
Evolving from older bat-and-ball games, an early form of baseball was being played in England by the mid-eighteenth century. This game and the related rounders were brought by British and Irish immigrants to North America, where the modern version of baseball developed. By the late nineteenth century, baseball was widely recognized as the national sport of the United States. Baseball on the professional, amateur, and youth levels is now popular in North America, parts of Central and South America and the Caribbean, and parts of East Asia. The game is sometimes referred to as hardball, in contrast to the derivative game of softball.
In North America, professional Major League Baseball (MLB) teams are divided into the National League (NL) and American League (AL). Each league has three divisions: East, West, and Central. Every year, the major league champion is determined by playoffs that culminate in the World Series. Four teams make the playoffs from each league: the three regular season division winners, plus one wild card team. Baseball is the leading team sport in both Japan and Cuba, and the top level of play is similarly split between two leagues: Japan's Central League and Pacific League; Cuba's West League and East League. In the National and Central leagues, the pitcher is required to bat, per the traditional rules. In the American, Pacific, and both Cuban leagues, there is a tenth player, a designated hitter, who bats for the pitcher. Each top-level team has a farm system of one or more minor league teams. These teams allow younger players to develop as they gain on-field experience against opponents with similar levels of skill.

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Smart Cars...Do We Need One?Part III

There are still many other applications that are puden to him to adhere to this wonderful car, but I insist that it is too much to ask for a simple one to be human that has one of these beautiful but expensive cars. The only thing that I can say that serious wonderful that each of us had an intelligent car, but re alidad is very hard and I believe that deberiamos to adapt us to our possibilities and of hoping at least that one of our children can get to have an intelligent car in a country that is not like ours!What do you think?

Smart Cars...Do We Need One?Part II

But to the aim of accounts all of us wish one of these cars, and to have it we'll have that to imagine us in a perfect world; thus that here I go…We have the case of my favorite vehicle the Range Rover, this magestuo vehicle has: Finished in wood, automatic, flying conditioned air multifunctional, seats thermal and climatisados cold/electronic heat, seats with memory, skin of principle quality, next handle of cambos to the conductor, electronic parking brake,Instrument panel with technology TFT, Practical set of Control of slope reduction,Terrain Response, controls of the pneumatic Suspension and the reducing one. Adaptive Dynamics,Terrain Response, Electronic pneumatic suspension,System of brakes (ABS),Dynamic control of Estability (DSC) Control of slope reduction (HDC) with Control of slope Starting (GRC) ,Electronic control of traction (ETC) with control of the subturn,Conterol of adaptive cruise speed,Control of the braking in curve (CBC),Assistant to the Stability with tow.As far as the entertainment and technology we have: Control by means of touch screen Instrument panel with screen TFT-LCD of 12,3" , Systems voice-activated, Wireless communication Bluetooth, Auxiliary connectivity for iPod and USB, Optional system of peripheral Cameras Surround, Positioning system with hard disk (HDD), Optional analogical digital hybrid TV/and digital radio, Power of sound coming from the sound system, Harman Kardon, up to 1,200 watios, optional.

Smart Cars...Do We Need One?

In order to have intelligent cars we must create intelligent highways and intelligent people. In this country none of them exist!I believe that in these conditions we cannot occur the luxury to have cars of this magnitude, since still it lacks much to make and to say to beings country. Before that we'll have to correct the corruption,and the so many internal problems that we have such as: The lack of energy, the lack of potable water, the paving of our streets and highways, etc.

Since we did not provide the health, food to them, education, or stimulus necessary to produce money or to find a job… When everybody is spoken of these cars,and wanted to have one, but the reality is hard and we can occur the luxury to own one of these, since, in the underdeveloped countries like ours the only one way obtaining one of these in deceiving, robbing, or more worse even entering the drug trafficking.

smart cars, intelligent highways.

people have many thoughts about what the life is gonna be like in the future. one common believe is that in the future cars will fly. I dont think future cars will fly but what i think is that cars wont need gas power to run, cars will have a solar panel in order to keep anergy for the night. Another source of energy will be H/2O (water) so when your car needs fuel you just have to go to the closest river and fill it up. I got very surprised when i read the story about smart cars ´cause i think that the visionary of this reading is right. According to him cars will be computerized so that you just have to tell the vehicle where you want to go and automatically it´ll take to the place you wanna go. so there will be communication between you and your car. As a matter of fact, in the future there will also be intelligent high ways. the idea is to have several magnetic lanes like rail in which the automobiles will go tailgating, one after another about 5 meters apart and at speed of 105 kilometers per hour. so you just to go back seat and relax. I think that all of that is great, but i´m the one who thinks that if don´t drive i don´t ride.

SMART CARS

SUPER CARS.

What does a smart car can do?

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them....so, what I really want is to express how man's mind growth with the pass of the time....Is grossy to say this but the tranformation of the future's cars ,now a days is unknown, the man has developed smarts cars for all tipes of people;like wise workers, sportsman,artists...there is a car for each one as automatics,standars and electrics independs of your necessecity...Otherwise when we talk about smarts cars we gotta say how expensive is to support one of those (too much gasoline, energy, oil, of what other inexpensive and not smart car spends of course before this new cars era).

Smarts cars come with computers installed with a program named G.P.S.( global position system) the program has been designed for giving you facilities, confort...e.t.c...Besides it takes time to build one of those when they go out of the fabric and go to the market is incredible what the people do for buying a car of those; but I think that at the end it supplies what you were expecting.
So, the G.P.S. has many functions it can tell you how you have to drive, tell you where to go, when you have to stop or continue, where you gonna find a trafic light, where turn if you're going somewhere and you don't know the address, it can tell you what street or avenue you should take and what cares or precaution you should take.

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