Announcements
Art: Try out your creativity, Sundays, any time from 2-4:30 p.m. in the Arts and Crafts Room.
Qi-Gong: Mondays, 1-2 p.m., in the Community Room. All are welcome.
Meditation: Wednesdays, 7:45 a.m., in the STAR classroom. Open to staff and guests.
I Hear the Sound of Distant Drums: If anyone is interested in forming a drum corps please see Juanetta.
Crochet and Knit Class: Saturdays from 10:00 am to 12:30 pm in the arts and crafts room.
It will be open to anyone who wants to learn, brush-up on their skills or just wants to work on an already existing project.
ABE
▪Learn Spanish: Sundays from 6-8 p.m. in the Adult Basic Education Room.
Four students from Notre Dame will be coming to the ABE room to help students learn Spanish.
▪Academic Fun Fair: December 8-14. Different projects and hands-on activities will be available on a variety of topics including: optical illusions, science experiments, psychology, politics, poetry, Christmas crafts, etc. Students will be given an opportunity to earn a prize upon completion of a passport card showing that they visited all of the displays.
▪Advanced Excel Classes: Wednesdays, Nov. 19-Dec. 10; 3-4 p.m. Sign up in ABE.
▪Power In the Workplace: Wednesdays, 6-7:30 p.m. December 3—“Legal Issues: What Are Your Rights?,” December 10—”The Story of American Workers,” December 17--”Globalization and the Future of Work.”
▪ABE Incentives: Students will be given a card to be initialed during each walk-in class attended. Once a student has attended 10 walk-in programs, cards can be redeemed for prizes.
▪GED: A new GED class started up October 10 in ABE. All GED-bound students are welcome to attend. The class meets from 1-3 p.m. Fridays and includes group discussions and time to work on testing, individual assignments and the computer. Please see ABE for details.
▪Poetry Jam: Poetry Jam returned October 17. The new hours are Friday, from 3-4 p.m., in the ABE Room. Read a favorite poem, share your own work; or just listen, relax, and enjoy.
▪Writing: Thursdays, 6-7 p.m., ABE. Improve your basic writing skills under the guidance of a trained instructor.
▪Creative Writing: Creative writing will resume January 15.
▪Book Clubs: Inspirational Reading Squad—Monday, 7-8 p.m.; Regular—will be meeting Monday, 8-8:30 p.m. Read books of choosing (approved by ABE staff). Sign up in ABE or on the ABE bulletin board by the men’s lounge.
Herald Sports
ND Scores: Football--ND (6-6) to face Hawaii (7-6) Christmas Eve in the Sheraton Hawaii Bowl.
NFL Scores: Monday--Panthers 38, Buccaneers 23.
NCAA Football Notes: Ball St.--(23) Ball St. (13-1) passes on Humanitarian Bowl matchup with unbeaten Boise St. in Boise; will face Tulsa (10-3) January 6 in the GMAC Bowl; Tulsa lost 27-24 to Skip Holtz’ East Carolina team in the Conference USA championship game; Butkus Award--Wake Forest‘s Aaron Curry won the Butkus Award as the best linebacker in the country.
NBA Scores: Bulls 105, Knicks 100; Wizards 107, Pistons 94; Cavalierss 114, Raptors 94; Jazz 99, Timberwolves 96; Rockets 92, Hawks 84; Spurs 133, Mavericks 126 (2 OT); Suns 125, Bucks 110; Kings 113, Lakers 101; Magic 109, Trailblazers 108.
NHL Scores: Flyers 4, Islanders 3; Canadiens 4, Flames 1; Canucks 3, Predators 1; Avalanche 6, Kings 1.
College Basketball Scores: Men--Bethel 120, Holy Cross (SB) 57; (14) Purdue 68, Ball St. 39; (23) Davidson 68, West Virginia 65; (3) Texas 67, (15) Villanova 58; Women--Olivet Nazarene (IL) at Bethel PPD; IU 63, Butler 41; Evansville 74, Lipscomb 50; (15) Maryland 83, Loyola (MD) 52; (25) Kansas St. 64, Creighton 55.
MLB Notes: Hall of Fame--former Yankee second baseman Joe Gordon selected to Hall of Fame by veterans’ committee; Ron Santo falls nine votes short; Cubs--Cubs near to making deal for ace Jake Peavy; need to unload pitcher Jason Marquis and his $9.875-million salary; Indians--tribe near deal with Kerry Wood.
Uncle Ron’s Ramblings
Ronnie (Santo) Was Number Two; Treated Like Number Two: Those who say Ron Santo does not have the numbers to get in to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame are ignorant; I don’t know what numbers they are talking about.
We don’t need to be concerned about the exact numbers though; the only number we need to be concerned with is number two. That’s where Santo ranked among all third basemen--including those already in the Hall of Fame--when he ended his MLB career.
Number two is also what he has been treated like by Hall of Fame voters since then.
Santo was the second third baseman to hit over 300 home runs and collect over 2,000 hits--Eddie Matthews was the first.
Brooks Robinson, the only (official) Hall of Fame third baseman from the 1960’s-70’s, didn’t hit 300 home runs. He had more total hits than Santo but it took him 800 more at-bats to do so. Santo still leads Robinson in more than half the statistical categories.
Hall of Fame votes also mentioned intangibles when they elected Bill Mazerowski to the Hall. Santo also had those. He led the National League in clutch hitting for two years in a row; someone actually devised a formula to calculate the best clutch hitters in baseball although they only used it for those two years in the 1960‘s.
If the President-elect from Illinois wants to get government involved in the shortcomings of sports, maybe he needs to address this issue.
Question: If Jason Marquis is worth $9.875-million, what would Bob Gibson, Don Drysdale, or Sandy Koufax be worth today?
Local
Local Headlines: Parents Charged--both parents charged in case of brain-dead two-year-old girl; Busted--police catch suspect in SB west side home invasion; Close Call--man escapes armed home invaders by exiting second floor window.
Nation/World
Nation/World Headlines: Transition--Automakers--White House, Congress near deal on auto bailout; Illinois--Gov. Rod Blagojevich arrested on corruption; recorded trying to sell President-elect Barack Obama‘s former Senate seat; New York--Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg emerges as favorite for Secretary of State-designate Hillary Clinton‘s Senate seat; Clinton will not resign from Senate until she is confirmed; Deadly Crash--Marine jet crashes into home near San Diego; South Korean immigrant‘s wife, two baby daughters, and mother-in-law killed; pilot ejected safely.
Weather
Today High 29 Low 20 Mostly Cloudy
Thu High 32 Low 22 Partly Cloudy
Fri High 29 Low 22 Chance Snow
Sat High 40 Low 32 Partly Cloudy
Sun High 41 Low 34 Chance Rain
TV Listings: 16--8 p.m., Little Spirit: Christmas in New York; 9 p.m., Life; 22--8 p.m., The New Adventures of Old Christine; 8:30 p.m., Gary Unmarried; 9 p.m., Criminal Minds; 25--8-10 p.m., Stylista (two episodes); 28---8 p.m., Secret Millionaire; 9 p.m., Bones; 46--8 p.m., Lester Sumrall Teaching; 8:30 p.m., Making Healthy Choices Classic; 9 p.m., Harvest; 57--8 p.m., Pushing Daisies; 9 p.m., Private Practice; 69--8-10 p.m., Home Alone.
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