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tion about their future. Fortuna is depicted as carrying a cornucopia in one hand, symbolizing the gift of abundance, and a ship’s rudder in the other hand, denoting her control of destinies. She stands on a ball to represent the uncertainty of fortune, since she was not only the goddess of good luck, but of bad luck as well. • Back in 1968, at the Summer Olympics in Mexico City, American athlete Dick Fosbury introduced a new method of high jumping he had perfected. Fosbury’s technique involved going over the bar backwards, back first, landing on the shoulders and back. Prior to this, high jumpers used the straddle technique, going over the bar face down, lifting the legs over the bar individually, or the scissors method, with the jumper running toward the bar facing forward, lifting the legs one at a time over the bar. Fosbury’s technique, now known as the Fosbury Flop, requires the runner to sprint diagonally toward the bar, then curve and leap backwards. Dick Fosbury took the gold medal as well as setting a new Olympic record that year. • Football fans know that when a player fails to catch and hold onto the ball, it’s called a fumble. But how about a fumblerooski? That’s when the football is intentionally placed on the ground by the offense (usually the quarterback), and his teammates try to trick the defense by pretending that the ball carrier is running one direction, while another offensive player picks up the ball and runs in a different direction. The hope is to gain considerable yardage before the opposing team realizes who really has the football. TRIKES (cont’d) ProdecoTech.com and Evelo.com.

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A great choice in this category is the Sun Traditional Trike (see Sun.bike/trikes) that cost between $440 and $550. Or, for a less expensive option consider the Schwinn Meridian Adult Tricycle sold at Walmart, Target or Amazon.com for around $300. Recumbent Trikes These are the low-to-the-ground, stretched-out frame trikes that allow you to recline with your legs positioned in front of you. Available in various styles, recumbent trikes are very comfy, easy on the back and aerodynamic which make them ideal for longer rides.

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April 15 has been designated Jackie Robinson Day, a day to honor the remarkable athlete who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball. • Born into a family of Georgia sharecroppers, Jack Roosevelt Robinson and his four siblings were raised in poverty by a single mother. Athletics was his gift from a young age, playing four sports throughout high school. Athletic ability ran in the family as Jackie’s older brother won a silver medal in the 200-meter dash at the 1936 Olympics, edged out for the gold by Jesse Owens. • Jackie entered UCLA to continue his education, and became the university’s first student to win varsity letters in four sports – football, baseball, basketball, and track – and was named (continued in next column)

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to the All-American football team in 1941. Sadly, shortly before graduation, he had to leave UCLA because of financial difficulties. A move to Honolulu brought him a spot on the semi-pro football team, the Honolulu Bears, but when the season was cut short due to the United States’ entry into World War II, Jackie enlisted in the Army. • Jackie’s ability to stand up against racial discrimination was put to the test when, after two years in the Army and the rank of second lieutenant, he was discharged for refusing to give up his seat on a segregated bus. • Jackie began his professional baseball career in 1945, playing just one season with the Negro Baseball League, before he was tapped by Branch Rickey, president of the Brooklyn Dodgers, to begin the desegregation of Major League Baseball. Robinson spent the 1946 sea son as the only black man on the Dodgers’ farm team, the Montreal Royals. (continued in next column)

• Jackie’s .349 batting average with the Royals led to his bump up to the Dodgers. Prior to the first game, Branch Rickey acquired a promise from Robinson that he would not fight back when confronted with racism. • Jackie Robinson stepped onto Ebbets Field on April 15, 1947, challenging racial segregation. He endured boo’s, racial slurs, and outright threats from the crowd, the opposing team, and even his fellow Dodgers. Dodgers’ team captain Pee Wee Reese made his feelings known when he stepped over to Robinson on the field and put his arm around him in a now-famous gesture of support. • Jackie persevered through the obstacles, and was named the season’s Rookie of the Year. The Dodgers won the National League pennant that year, aided by Robinson’s 12 home runs, 29 steals (more than anyone else in the League), and .297 batting average. The 1949 season 11 S. ST., LYNDONVILLE • with a .342 average brought hisMAIN selection as the (continued onAllnext Pepsipage) Products

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April 14 – 20 has been designated National Karaoke Week in honor of this popular form of entertainment. Sing along with Tidbits as we learn about karaoke! • Back in the early 1960s, NBC television broadcast the series “Sing Along with Mitch,” a karaoke-like program that offered home audience participation by superimposing a song’s lyrics at the bottom of the screen. Viewers were invited to “follow the bouncing ball,” as a little white ball led would-be singers through the lyrics. • In 1971, a Japanese musician named Daisuke Inoue developed the basic idea of karaoke. Inoue led a band that provided back-up music in clubs where wannabe singers took the stage. When a certain businessman asked Inoue to provide music for the man’s business trip, instead, the musician handed over a reel of taped accompaniment for several songs. • When the businessman came back to him a few days later asking for more songs, Inoue realized the potential of such a concept, and asked the man to help him create eleven “Juke 8s,” a machine made up of an amplifier, microphone, coin box, and eight-track car stereo. • It took two months for the machines to be completed, at a cost of $425 each. They were called karaoke machines, translating from Japanese “kara,” meaning “empty,” and “oke,” for “orchestra.” First used in clubs in Osaka, Japan, the machines were an instant hit, and a year later, Inoue’s company had created 25,000 of them. The popularity spread to Tokyo, then throughout Japan, Asia, and eventually to the world. • Unfortunately, Daisuke Inoue failed to see the enormous potential of the karaoke industry, and (continued on next page)

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didn’t patent his invention, losing out on becoming one of Japan’s wealthiest people. Another inventor, Roberto del Rosario, invented a similar system in 1975 and did patent it as the “Minus-One,” and he is the current patent-holder for what we call the karaoke machine. • Inoue didn’t give up on inventing, however, and developed a pesticide that prevented cockroaches and rats from destroying the electronics inside the karaoke machines. In the 1990s, he launched a business that acquired licenses for karaoke music. He was honored by TIME magazine in 1999, and in 2004, received the Ig Nobel Peace Prize, a parody of the Nobel Prize, awarded to celebrate unusual achievements in scientific achievement that “first make people laugh, and then make them think.” Inoue’s award was for “providing an entirely new way for people to learn to tolerate each other.” • Early karaoke singers had printed lyric sheets, (continued in next column)

but as technology advanced, the words appeared on the machine’s screen. The first time that singers could see lyrics on a video monitor came with the invention of Laser Disc technology, a 12-inch DVD. • Prior to the 1990s, karaoke singers could only sing songs that were available on tapes, and later Laser Discs, that were supplied by the individual clubs. However, newer machines, known as “communication karaoke,” accessed songs through a remote content provider, and nearly any song could be requested. Today’s machines even allow a singer to change the pitch of the music and choose a key suitable for their vocal range. • In 2011, a karaoke marathon was held in Hungary, one which lasted for over 1,011 hours. Each song had to be more than three minutes in length, and the gap between songs had to be less than 30 seconds. No song could be repeated during a 2-hour period.

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