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Eagles are large, strong birds of prey and are closely related to hawks. Eagles are usually larger with longer wings and typically fly faster and more directly at their prey than their smaller counterpart.

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Eagles have a large, hooked beak and long, sharp talons which are particularly useful for tearing into the flesh of their prey. The type of prey depends on the size and strength of the eagle in question; some prefer fish while others go after other birds, snakes, or small animals.

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Two main groups of eagles exist: land eagles and sea eagles. Land eagles are identifiable by their leg feathers that grow all the way down to their toes, while sea eagles’ leg feathers stop halfway down their leg.

to catch something, then swoops in and steals it. In that respect, Franklin may be right.

The smallest species of eagle identified is the South Nicobar Serpent Eagle, weighing in at one pound and measuring 16 inches. The largest eagle species is harder to determine because some are very large in wingspan or body size, while others are just heavier. The heaviest eagle is the Steller’s Sea Eagle which weighs 15 pounds. The Philippine Eagle is the longest in total length, measuring three feet, three inches. The eagle with the longest wingspan is the White-tailed Eagle whose wings measure seven feet, two inches from wingtip to wingtip.

Franklin also called the bald eagle lazy because they can often be seen perched atop a tree, waiting for something worthwhile to happen. Again, that may be true.

Bald eagles will typically ignore annoyances by smaller birds without using its large size to chase them away. In fact, bald eagles sometimes flee from larger mobs of these smaller birds and Franklin, of course, recognized this and claimed that the bald eagle lacked courage.

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Most eagles typically build their nests in tall trees or on the face of high cliffs.

Their nests are called eyries and are home to the eagles’ eggs until the babies hatch. Often, only one of the chicks lives because the two will participate in an ultimate display of sibling rivalry: a fight to the death. Usually, if the babies are male and female, the female wins since the female is said to be larger in all identified species of eagles.

It’s said that Franklin was seriously disturbed by the selection of the bald eagle as the nation emblem of the U.S.A. because he felt that the bald eagle was not of good moral character and doesn’t make his living honestly. It’s true that bald often waits around for another eagle

Eagles’ eyesight is extremely good (hence the term “eagle eye” for someone with great eyesight) and is mainly due to the fact that they have very large pupils, making for much less diffraction or scattering of the light coming into the eye.

It’s said they can see up to 3.6 times bet-

However, Franklin must not have spent too much time studying these eagles, especially when they were attempting to defend their territory or to attract a mate. It’s said that bald eagles will put on some serious aerial performances that include swooping down on each other at break-neck speeds and mid-air fights where they locks talons with each other and grapple as they spiral to the ground in a free-fall.

So if Franklin didn’t think the bald eagle fit the bill for the national emblem, then what bird did? He felt the turkey was a more suitable bird. Not only was it native to the Americas, he also claimed that turEagles... Continued on Page 3

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keys wouldn’t hesitate to attack British soldiers wearing their red coats who had come to invade their land.

WHY WAS THE BALD EAGLE CHOSEN? Supposedly, at an early battle of the Revolutionary War, the noise of the men fighting had awoken some bald eagles that were sleeping peacefully. Apparently, the eagles didn’t much like the skirmish and flew circles over the battle, screeching the whole time. It’s said the American soldiers took these shrieks as a symbol of freedom and used it as motivation to continue fighting.

Whether or not that incident factored in on June 20, 1782 when the bald eagle was chosen as the national emblem or not is debatable. But nevertheless, the bird was chosen and its long life, great strength and stately looks have graced the backs of our coins and The Great Seal of the U.S. that occupies the floor of The Oval Office in The White House.

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One of the first real problems my wife and I had when we were married was how birthdays were to be celebrated. In the house I grew up in you were lucky if someone remembered it was your birthday.

Birthday presents and cards were not given and we really felt special if mom bothered to bake us a cake. My assumption: Birthdays are no big deal.

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Imagine my surprise when my first post-wedding birthday rolled around and she baked and decorated a cake, invited family and friends over, bought me a lovely “from your wife on your birthday” card, gave me a beautifully wrapped present, and fixed my favorite meal! I was thrilled with the attention but did not translate that to her birthday only a few months later. You don’t want to know what happened when I allowed her birthday to come and go with almost no mention from me.

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The list of colliding assumptions can be endless and far less identifiable than how you celebrate a birthday. For instance, the husband assumes he has met most of his obligations by earning a living and providing his wife a house to live in. She assumes that the romantic ways he wooed her before their wedding day was a prelude to coming attractions. He is shocked when he finds out she wants much more than a portion of his paycheck and a couple of rooms to call her own, and becomes increasingly disinterested in sex. She is disappointed that he does not have a clue to her deep emotional needs and wonders why he won’t help out around the house. He just doesn’t understand, and neither does she.

Friction increases as their undeclared assumptions collide in a cacophony of noise or in a deafening silence.

A couple having communication problems in their relationship should take some time to discuss their assumptions. The clarifying of assumptions will go a long way toward increasing interpersonal communication and promoting marital harmony.

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• On Aug. 13, 1878, Kate Bionda, a restaurant owner, dies of yellow fever in Memphis, Tenn., after a man who had escaped a quarantined steamboat visited her restaurant. The disease spread rapidly, and by October, 20,000 people in the Southeast had died. • On Aug. 15, 1930, President Herbert Hoover gives a press conference in which he offers plans for relief of individuals and businesses affected by a series of devastating droughts. Though criticized later for not doing enough overall, he asked the War Department to provide artillery-range land to Montana cattle and sheep farmers for grazing. • On Aug. 18, 1941, Adolf Hitler orders that the systematic murder of the mentally ill and handicapped be brought to an end because of protests within Germany. But 50,000 people had already fallen victim to it. It would be revived in occupied Poland. • On Aug. 16, 1958, Madonna Louise Ciccone, the entertainment icon later known

around the world by her first name only, is born near Detroit. The provocative performer, who often tackled sexual and religious themes in her work, also became famous for her ever-changing hairstyles and fashion sense, as well as her personal life.

ELECTRIC CO-OPS WERE CONSTRUCTED

• On Aug. 12, 1964, Charlie Wilson, part of the gang who pulled off the 1963 Great Train Robbery, one of the biggest heists of its kind, escapes from Winson Green Prison in Birmingham, England. Several men broke into the maximum-security facility to free Wilson, who was finally recaptured in Canada in 1968.

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• On Aug. 14, 1971, St. Louis Cardinals ace Bob Gibson throws the first no-hitter of his storied career. Gibson’s heroics helped his team sail to an 11-0 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 1964 Gibson won his first World Series Most Valuable Player Award.

He retired after the 1975 season.

EACH OTHER. It seems obvious in retrospect, but there was a time when getting electricity outside of the city limits wasn’t a given.

• On Aug. 17, 1993, Random House agrees to pay Gen. Colin Powell an advance of about $6 million for the rights to his autobiography, “My American Journey.â€? It became the fastest-selling book in Random House history.

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SPENDING UP, SAVINGS DOWN

more you look, the more varied the information you’ll find) one item from the Federal Reserve report stands out: Consumer spending is up ... but rate of saving is down.

LIVING GOD’S GIFTS

The bottom line is that the experts can’t agree on the state of the economy, and therefore don’t know what will happen in the future.

INVESTING FROM A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE

In spite of the appearance of more jobs and income, the old rules from the past few years still apply: • Save, save, save. Put money away.

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• Pay extra on credit cards and get onsumers are feeling more them paid off. Once paid off, don’t confident about spending. use the cards unless you find a sale So says the most recent re- for something you need and can pay port on consumer credit by the Fed- off the balance in three months. Be eral Reserve. Jobs rates are up more sure the interest you pay doesn’t than expected. Pay rates are rising. come to more than you’d save by Home prices are going up. not buying on sale.

In May, the average household mortgage debt was 8.67 percent, a small increase over December 2012.

Consumer debt, however, which includes credit cards, was 5.07 percent, higher than it’s been since the end of 2010.

• If you’re approved for a home mortgage, don’t spend up to the limit you can borrow. Save the extra money for repairs or maintenance.

• If you’d like to buy a new vehicle, consider whether yours will last one more year. Keep the maintenance A Gallup poll in June of the aver- up on it. Shop for sales on tires, and age daily money habits of consum- clip coupons for oil changes. ers across the country showed that the daily spending amount of $90 • Don’t own too many gadgets, and is higher than it’s been since 2008. if you buy, don’t get the best. One These figures don’t include mort- step down is often good enough, gage, vehicle or regular household including refurbished. Get a few bills -- only purchases at a store, dollars on buy-back programs when restaurant or online. you do upgrade.

Mint.com, an online money site that collects information from consumers, says that since 2009, monthly household expenses have gone up from $3,870 to $4,200. Included in that is a rise in gas expenses from $110 to $198 per month. In spite of extra expenses, restaurant spending has risen from $192 per month to $212.

Given the differing information (the

David Uffington regrets that he cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into his column whenever possible.

Write to him in care of King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475, or send e-mail to columnreply@ gmail.com. (c) 2013 King Features Synd., Inc.

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SNIPPETZ WEEKLY MAGAZINE ®

Nick-Snips

CUTOUT THE CRIME!

By Nick Yanez

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t’s 12am, midnight. You have just finished doing your job. It could be any sort of entertainment gig; a band, a magician, dancer, whatever.

You have tons of equipment that you use on stage and you are preparing to load it out of the venue and be on your way. You even made some money. It was a good night.

Unfortunately, upon retrieving your vehicle, you find you have been towed (ouch). This causes a sinking feeling in your stomach. Your mind starts to wander into dark territory. How could this have happened? Why me? All of those questions are promptly answered by the no-so-lovely woman on the other end of your phone. She also lets you know that there’s no way you’re getting your car back tonight. This means that your equipment and crew of 5, have no means of getting home. Of course, one of the members of your outfit does have his two-passenger truck with him.

But can you really fit all five people in there, for what will be nearly a two hour drive??? Desperate times call for desperate measures.

The following story is in no way attached to the introduction of this article. The last two paragraphs were simply written to 1) Anonymously complain about getting my car towed last weekend, and 2) show that when in extraordinary circumstances, people will come up with wacky, yet doable solutions. Such is in the case of the Boston Bike Bandits (I came up with that nickname for it, catchy huh?). Cambridge, MA has been having some crime issues lately.

The Alewife MBTA subway has been riddled with bike theft. Bikes have disappeared at the subway and bus station by the hundreds this year. After a brief investigation, local police discovered

that the bikes were not running way.

No, in fact, there was evil afoot - these bikes were being kidnapped.

There were several options the police could have taken to seek a solution.

One was to occasionally send an officer by. Make it a sort of check point.

Of course this does nothing. Bikes will still continue to be stolen when no one is watching. Another option is to have a police officer constantly guard the station. That would surely work! It would also cost the city roughly $200,000 a year.

After a little thought and a lot of silliness, the police department finally came to a conclusion. They would print a cardboard cutout of MBTA officer David Silen and place him outside the chain link fence by the bike rack. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this is what our taxes pay for.

Which is great news for us, because it’s cheaper than a real human officer and it actually worked. Since placing the cardboard police officer, bike crime rate has fizzled to just under 70%! This proves two things. The first being that Boston city criminals are both unobservant and paranoid. You could also say they lack a certain amount of intelligence; well, 67% of them anyway.

The second thing this proves has been a fear of mankind for decades and appears to finally be coming to fruition.

Humans are obsolete. The strange twist is that we always thought we would be replaced by machines, not paper (of course, cardboard is made by a machine, so does that still mean it’s the machines we should fear?).

Cardboard Police Officer Silen is doing his job as good as any officer in the city. Standing outside of the subway station fence, he’s cutting crime and taking names. Let’s just hope it doesn’t rain.

Feel free to send Nick an email anytime about his weekly column, or any leads you have for underreported stories he could write about, to NickSnipsMail@Gmail. com

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1. ASTRONOMY: What are the Van Allen belts?

1. In 2012, Mike Trout set an Angels franchise record for most runs scored in a season, with 129. Who had held the mark?

By Fifi Rodriguez

2. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What kind of animal is described as ursine?

3. U.S. STATES: What is the only state that has a one-syllable name?

4. FAMOUS QUOTES: What comedian once said, “Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home”?

5. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What percentage of people are left-handed?

6. FOOD & DRINK: What is the spice that gives curry powder its yellow color?

7. ADVERTISING: What peanut butter brand advertises with the slogan, “the No. 1 choice of choosy moms and dads”?

8. U.S. PRESIDENTS: What was the only state that presidential candidate George McGovern carried in the 1972 election?

9. GEOGRAPHY: What is the largest manmade lake in the U.S.?

10. PSYCHOLOGY: What kind of fear is represented by phasmophobia?

By Chris Richcreek

2. Which player led the National League the most times in both doubles and triples for a season?

3. When was the last time a Big East football player won the Heisman Trophy?

4. Who was the last NBA player before New York’s Tyson Chandler in the 2011-12 season to have a field-goal percentage for a season of at least 67.9 percent?

5. When was the last time before 2013 (New Jersey) that a Stanley Cup finalist failed to make the playoffs the next season?

6. Of the original 10 Major League Soccer teams, how many have won an MLS championship?

7. How many years was it between George Foreman winning a major heavyweight boxing title for the first time and the second?

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FLASHBACK

BIBLE TRIVIA

1. Jimmy Page wasn’t the first to have a hit with a song entitled “Stairway to Heaven.” Who was the first?

1. Is the book of Shemaiah in the Old or New Testament or neither?

By Mick Harper

By Wilson Casey

2. “Because the Night” first appeared on which album?

2. What were the names of the two staves (staffs) of Zechariah? Blessed/ River, Scorn/Tolerance, Day/Night, Beauty/Bands

3. Jimmy Jones (1960), Del Shannon (1964) and James Taylor (1977) all had hits with which song?

3. A loan to another Israelite who is poor by thee shall be made at? No payback, Zero interest, The temple, A fast

4. Which group released “Once in a Lifetime”?

4. How old was Eli when he died falling off his seat backward, breaking his neck? 16, 98, 120, 201

5. Name the song that contains this lyric: “When you left me all alone at the record hop, Told me you were going out for a soda pop, You were gone for quite awhile, half an hour or more.”

5. Saith the Lord to Zechariah, what shall Jerusalem be called a city of?

Truth, Holiness, Reign, Hosts 6. Who anointed David as King of Israel? Saul, Salome, Samuel, Sargon

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(c) 2013 King Features Synd., Inc.

BIBLE TRIVIA

TRIVIA TEST

Answers & Solutions

SPORTS QUIZ

FLASH BACK 1. Neil Sedaka, in 1960.

1. Regions of trapped

1) Neither

radiation surrounding Earth 2. Bears

2) Beauty/Bands 3) Zero interest

3. Maine 4. Bill Cosby

4) 98

5. About 10 percent

5) Truth

6. Turmeric

6) Samuel

7. Jif 8. Massachusetts

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9. Lake Mead, created by Hoover Dam

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10. A fear of ghosts

1. Vladimir Guerrero scored

2. “Patti Smith Group,” in 1978.

124 runs in 2004.

Smith rewrote the Bruce Spring-

2. St. Louis’ Stan Musial led

steen song when he wasn’t happy

the N.L. in doubles eight times

with it.

and triples five times.

3. “Handy Man.” All versions of the

3. Gino Torretta of Miami won

song were hits, but Taylor’s ver-

it in 1992.

sion netted him a Grammy for Best

4. Wilt Chamberlain hit 72.7

Male Pop Vocal Performance.

percent of his shots in the

4. Talking Heads, in 1981. The

1972-73 season for the Los

song was used in the film “Down

Angeles Lakers.

and Out in Beverly Hills” in 1986.

5. In 2007, both Carolina and

5. “Lipstick on Your Collar,” by Con-

Edmonton failed to reach the

nie Francis in 1959. In this very

playoffs.

early rock ‘n’ roll cheating song,

6. Six.

the lipstick on the boy’s collar isn’t

7. Nearly 22 years (January

the color his girlfriend wears, and

1973 to November 1994).

she learns he’s been “smooching” her best friend.

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by Samantha Weaver • It was George Bernard Shaw who made the following observation: “The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.”

• Modern dietary trends notwithstanding, raw vegetables have not always enjoyed the healthsome reputation they now have.

In medieval times, in fact, veggies would always be cooked; raw ones were considered to be bad for the humors.

• Those who keep track of such things say that the Rolling Stones’ song “Satisfaction” is played on the radio in the U.S. more than 300 times every day.

• One of the most notorious magic tricks performed by professionals is catching a bullet in the mouth. It’s said to be cursed, due to the fact that, over the past 400 or so

least you’ll have an insight into why it happened.

AUGUST 12, 2013

ARIES (March 21 to April 19) There might still be some uncertainty about the decision you made.

But a quick check of the facts should reassure you that you’re doing the right thing.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) The tidy Taurean needs to be a little more flexible about accepting some changes to those carefully made plans. You might be pleasantly surprised by what follows.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Consider stepping away from your concentrated focus on your new project for a bit so you can get some perspective on what you’ve done and where you plan to take it.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) The understandably angry Crab might not want to accept the reason why someone might have tried to hurt you. But at

LEO (July 23 to August 22) There might be some facts you still need to know before leaping onto center stage. Best to move carefully at this time so that you can observe what’s happening around you.

VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) It’s a good time to expand your outlook by getting out and around, whether you do some long-range traveling or just explore the great things to see closer to home.

LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Your wise counsel continues to be needed as that family situation works itself out. Meanwhile, the decisions you made on your job begin to pay off quite nicely.

SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) Your job situation brightens thanks to all your hard work.

Now, spend some time repairing a personal relationship you might have neglected for too long.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21)

15

years, at least 15 magicians have died in the attempt. Some of them mistakenly used live rounds instead of blanks, and one jealous wife swapped out the blanks for live rounds. One of the earliest attempters of the trick was beaten to death by a mob who believed he was in league with the devil.

Cursed, though? If someone is trying to catch a bullet in the mouth, it hardly requires a curse to result in a violent end.

• Portland, Ore., could just as easily have been named Boston, Oregon. The two men who named the town couldn’t decide which city back east should be the namesake, so they flipped a coin. Portland came up the winner.

• Originally, the best man was supposed to serve as a sort of armed guard, in case the bride needed to be kidnapped from her disapproving parents. *** Thought for the Day: “Every American carries in his bloodstream the heritage of the malcontent and the dreamer.”

-- Dorothy Fuldheim (c) 2013 King Features Synd., Inc.

Aspects favor action in the workplace. Line up your facts and show your superiors why you’re the one they’re looking for.

CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) Your hard work pays off on the job. Personal relationships also can benefit from more of your time and attention. Spend the weekend with loved ones.

AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) Early feedback on your project might be disappointing.

But don’t be discouraged. Use it to make needed adjustments, then submit it to your superiors again.

PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Flattery could lure the otherwise sensible Fish into making an unwise decision. Be careful. All that praise might be an attempt to reel you in before you can learn the facts.

BORN THIS WEEK: You have a wonderful sense of who you are. You are a shining example to others, helping them believe in themselves and what they can do. (c) 2013 King Features Synd., Inc.

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