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On May 31, 2008 ERNEST D. Beloved husband of the late Olga Bronson. Dear father of William, Richard and Daniel Bronson. Also survived byeight grandchildren and one great grandaughter. Friends may call at the Family owned GONCE FUNERAL SERVICE P.A., 4001 Ritchie Hwy on Thursday from 7 to 9 P.M. Services on Friday at 1:00 P.M. Interment in Glen Haven Memorial Park. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to the Lansdowne Assembly of God Church, 132 5th Ave. Halethorpe, Md. 21227

Nearly every day in Maryland, people drag themselves to dental specialists to undergo the necessary ordeal of root canal surgery. But only one was performed yesterday at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore. And the 500-pound patient was a first, even for veterinary dental surgeon Dr. Ira R. Luskin, who already counts lions and antelopes among his patients. Anoki, the zoo's 11-year-old female polar bear, slept through the entire two-hour procedure, splayed on her back with a dozen humans poking, prodding and watching her vital signs.

After Information Resource Engineering Inc.'s stock tumbled, Steven N. Bronson didn't sell his 150,000 shares and search for another high-tech company promising to take off.Instead, he tried a coup, proposing to overthrow IRE's board and replace it with his own candidates.Whether the attempt succeeds will become clear Friday. At IRE's White Marsh headquarters, shareholders will choose between the company's nominees -- four incumbents and one new member -- and Bronson's.Bronson, 32, president of Barber & Bronson Inc., a Miami-based brokerage, said his attempt follows a long series of disappointments.

A 28-year-old chimpanzee named Charley died at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore over the weekend. Zoo spokeswoman Jane Ballentine said an initial necropsy provided no obvious explanation. The animal's remains have been sent to the Department of Comparative Medicine at Johns Hopkins University for closer examination and tests. Charley is the third adult chimp to die at the zoo in the past two years. The others were Joe, a male about 35, of peritonitis; and Rusty, 23, a female, of anesthesia complications after severe tonsillitis, said Dr. Ellen Bronson, senior veterinarian.

With a hint of tension hanging in the air, Information Resource Engineering Inc. investors yesterday rejected a shareholder's attempt to oust the company's board and install his own slate of candidates.By a margin of approximately 3-to-1, shareholders elected Anthony A. Caputo, the chairman and chief executive officer, and four other management nominees -- three of them current directors -- to one-year terms on the board. About 80 percent of the 5.5 million shares were voted, Caputo said.

On May 3, 2006, BERNARD F.; beloved husband of Nancy (nee Bronson); devoted father of Mark A. Bronson; dear brother of Frank Custodero; loving grandfather of Caitlynn M. and Charles S. Bronson. Also survived by many nieces and nephews and friends. A Vigil Service will be held at the family owned Leonard J. Ruck, Inc Funeral Home, 5305 Harford Road (at Echodale) on Friday at 3:30 P.M. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Francis of Assisi Church on Saturday 9 A.M. Interment Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery.

WHAT DO YOU call even less than a little bit? Recently I was reminded of the allure of the ultra-minimal by the work of Bethe Bronson, a master's degree candidate at the Maryland Institute, College of Art.I have written before about my own difficulty coming to terms with the obscure visual language of post-modern art and of my quarrel with the incomprehensible jargon in which so much contemporary art criticism is couched.It is one of the ironies of contemporary criticism that the movement known as minimalism -- a style characterized by extreme restraint in the use of color and form, and the employment of simple geometrical, often repetitive, motifs -- has inspired some of the most arcane, convoluted commentary ever commited to paper.

Nearly every day in Maryland, people drag themselves to dental specialists to undergo the necessary ordeal of root canal surgery. But only one was performed yesterday at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore. And the 500-pound patient was a first, even for veterinary dental surgeon Dr. Ira R. Luskin, who already counts lions and antelopes among his patients. Anoki, the zoo's 11-year-old female polar bear, slept through the entire two-hour procedure, splayed on her back with a dozen humans poking, prodding and watching her vital signs.

BaseballToronto Blue Jays: Named Ronald Bronson Jr. assistant general manager.Los Angeles Dodgers: Will not renew contract of 3B Tim Wallach for 1996.BasketballBoston Celtics: Signed C Charles Claxton.Charlotte Hornets: Waived G Negele Knight.Portland Trail Blazers: Waived F Bob Thornton and G Derrick Chievous.Jacksonville Barracudas (USBL): Named Artis Gilmore president and Mike Strader vice president-marketing coordinator.College4( Patriot League: Named Navy sophomoresoccer F Mike Curtis Offensive Player of the Week.

" Bombardiers," by Po Bronson. 319 pages. New York: Random House. $22Poor, naive Sidney Geeder.Geeder thinks his firm, the Atlantic Pacific Corporation, is going to turn belly up when the market discovers how flimsy its RTC bonds are. Geeder thinks that the SEC will come storming in like the A-team when it finds out Atlantic Pacific is propping up both sides of the market on its Romanian investment deal. At the very least, Geeder thinks he can walk away cold with a few million bucks as soon as his company shares mature.

You give your rambunctious toddler a nice soapy bath, and what's the first thing he does? He goes out and stomps in the mud, of course. It was no different this week for Samson, the 5-month-old African elephant at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore. No sooner had keeper Marsha Zabarkes scrubbed him down with suds and a stiff brush and hosed him off than the busy 590-pound infant scampered off and immediately stepped in his mother's dung. Nice.

Maryland Zoo officials say they're still puzzled by the death of a 23-year-old chimpanzee during an examination Thursday. "This was quite sudden and not something we were expecting," Rebecca Gullott, the zoo's mammal collection and conservation manager, said yesterday. "This was a very sad occasion for us because we develop strong bonds to the animals we care for." Since Sunday, Rustie, the largest of 11 chimps in the zoo's troop, had been lethargic and reluctant to eat, zookeepers said.

On May 31, 2008 ERNEST D. Beloved husband of the late Olga Bronson. Dear father of William, Richard and Daniel Bronson. Also survived byeight grandchildren and one great grandaughter. Friends may call at the Family owned GONCE FUNERAL SERVICE P.A., 4001 Ritchie Hwy on Thursday from 7 to 9 P.M. Services on Friday at 1:00 P.M. Interment in Glen Haven Memorial Park. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to the Lansdowne Assembly of God Church, 132 5th Ave. Halethorpe, Md. 21227

Apart from one urban cliffhanger set in a parking garage - it should have an afterlife as an action sequence long after the rest of this sorry celluloid has turned to soup - the grandiose, grimly silly revenge thriller Death Sentence will mostly benefit free-form players of "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon." Bacon can now readily be linked to nonpareil macho movie star Charles Bronson, because Death Sentence is based on novelist Brian Garfield's 1975 sequel to Death Wish, which Bronson and director Michael Winner turned into a hit vigilante film in 1974.

So we've about reached the quarter post of the fantasy baseball season. It's still too early to say that struggling stars will be busts or that the surprises of April and May are breakout stars. But it's not too early to take stock of your team and see where you're weak. Doing so is pretty simple. For each category (even the ones in which you're thriving), find the players on your team who are performing significantly above or below expectations. Then figure out where you would be in that category if they had performed at projected levels.

On May 3, 2006, BERNARD F.; beloved husband of Nancy (nee Bronson); devoted father of Mark A. Bronson; dear brother of Frank Custodero; loving grandfather of Caitlynn M. and Charles S. Bronson. Also survived by many nieces and nephews and friends. A Vigil Service will be held at the family owned Leonard J. Ruck, Inc Funeral Home, 5305 Harford Road (at Echodale) on Friday at 3:30 P.M. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Francis of Assisi Church on Saturday 9 A.M. Interment Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery.

Information Resource Engineering Inc., a White Marsh-based computer security company that has bounced in and out of profitability in recent years, reported yesterday that it dipped back into the red during its second quarter despite doubling its revenues over the same quarter of 1994.IRE reported a net loss of $391,568, or 11 cents a share, compared with a loss of $152,500, or 5 cents a share, in last year's second quarter. Revenues jumped to $1.1 million from $518,074 a year earlier, but that growth fell far short of the quadrupling of revenue IRE enjoyed during the first quarter.

Apart from one urban cliffhanger set in a parking garage - it should have an afterlife as an action sequence long after the rest of this sorry celluloid has turned to soup - the grandiose, grimly silly revenge thriller Death Sentence will mostly benefit free-form players of "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon." Bacon can now readily be linked to nonpareil macho movie star Charles Bronson, because Death Sentence is based on novelist Brian Garfield's 1975 sequel to Death Wish, which Bronson and director Michael Winner turned into a hit vigilante film in 1974.

LOS ANGELES-- --I've already marked my calendar. The new Barry Bonds reality series, Bonds on Bonds, will debut with an hourlong special on ESPN2 on April 4, and I don't know if I can wait that long. It's on a Tuesday night, so I don't have to worry about missing Desperate Housewives, and it's about a guy whose personality is so complex and volatile that he has carved out a unique place in the American sports consciousness. I realize there are going to be a lot of cynics out there, convinced that this is just a case of the media-weary Bonds wanting to outflank the Bonds-weary media during his attempt to become Major League Baseball's all-time home run king.

He said it "It was kind of weird. A few Yankee fans were giving me a standing ovation when I came up in the ninth. I had to look around to see what was going on." Omar Vizquel, Indians shortstop, on trying to go 7-for-7 in the 22-0 win On deck Bronson Arroyo faces the Angels tonight as the Red Sox continue their playoff chase. Who's hot Ichiro Suzuki of the Mariners had 56 hits in August, most in a month since Cleveland's Roy Weatherly in July 1936. Who's not The Mets have lost four straight and nine of 10. They have been shut out eight times this season.