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OLIVER STREET EDITIONS419 E. Oliver St.Intended to educate the public on the workings of fine art printmaking, Oliver Street Editions opens with a show by three resident artists representing different facets of the art form: Calvin Custen's autobiographical relief wood cuts from his book "The Catharsis of the American Myth," Sam Peters' abstract monotypes (which the artist calls "colorful" and "mysterious), and Cid Collins Walker's mixed-media combines, which include the richly colorful "Neon Series" and "Trevi Series" photo silk screens.

Margaret C. Doyle, a retired public school English teacher and poet who later taught for many years at the Renaissance Institute, died Thursday from complications following surgery at Baltimore Washington Medical Center. The former longtime Pikesville resident was 85. "Margaret was a magnificent woman. She was brilliant and loving," said Jim Holechek, a retired Baltimore public relations executive and author. "Her husband was an artist and she was a poet, and it was always wonderful to interface with her. She was a very sensitive person and able to express herself very well.

When Jena Warren awoke the morning after one of the strangest presidential elections ever, the 36-year-old Atlanta housewife had one thought on her mind: Snap up all the newspapers she could find. Like many papers around the country, her hometown daily, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, made the wrong call in its early edition. "Bush is declared winner" the banner headline read. As elections officials rush to sort out who actually one, some savvy voters are turning election-night confusion into cash by peddling what collectors call "error editions."

Ed Reed doesn't want to say goodbye, but he does want to say thanks. The former Ravens safety took out a full page ad in the Sports section of today's Baltimore Sun  to deliver a message to the fans who have cheered him for more than a decade. The ad reads:    Ravens Nation, My eleven seasons in Baltimore were more than I would have ever imagined, which is why I have such deep love for you all. I will forever cherish my time with the Ravens and the chills that ran down my spine when I finally kissed the Lombardi Trophy.

South Carroll's Dan Hughes was incorrectly identified in this photo that appeared in some editions yesterday.

Because of production problems, futures results will not appear in some editions of today's newspaper.

The name of Alan G. Whicher, a Secret Service agent killed in the Oklahoma City bomb explosion, was misspelled in yesterday's editions of The Sun.The Sun regrets the error.

The Sun is publishing the year-end tables from the New York, American and Nasdaq stock markets in today's editions. The year-end mutual fund tables will appear in tomorrow's editions of The Sun.

Because markets were closed yesterday for Memorial Day, no financial tables appear in today's editions. In addition, the Treasury bill auction normally held on Mondays will be held today; results will appear in tomorrow's editions.

The answers to the New York Times Crossword for Nov. 5 were inadvertently omitted from Sunday's editions. The answers can be found on Page 2B in today's editions.

Many English words derive from Latin. Others from Spanish, American Indian, Norwegian. You name a country, an English word probably came from there. But in the grand history of William Shakespeare, some words are invented by brilliant minds. Derrick E. Vaughan, the president of Dunkadelic Sports Marketing, is one of those modern-day wordsmiths. He said he created the term "dunkadelic" in 1997 in order to find a one-word term that would combine the basketball and hip-hop culture fusion (coincidentally, he's also the creator of National Basketball & Hip-Hop Culture Month)

Reading in Thursday's post that few journalism programs offer much training in editing, Sean Smyth asked, "What is the best training to be an editor?" There are things you can do to prepare yourself to be an editor, the best of which is to read widely and acquire as broad a store of general knowledge as you can. It is through wide reading that you acquaint yourself with the kinds of prose, good and bad, that are past and current. It is through wide reading that you come to recognize allusions and cliches.

Each Wednesday, blogger Matt Vensel will highlight five statistics that really mean something for the Ravens. 17.3 -- percentage of snaps in 2012 for Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco in which he attempted a deep throw. According to Pro Football Focus, Joe Flacco threw the ball downfield more often than any quarterback in the NFL, with 17.3 percent of his throws traveling 20 or more yards. And the Ravens set a new franchise record with 41 completions of 25-plus yards. But you can cherry-pick stats on either side of the spectrum to say whether all those deep throws were a good thing or a bad thing.

This week's episode of WWE Raw seemed ... crowded. I don't just mean in personnel, though there were many -- aside from the regular plethora of WWE superstars (including some still on the roster you don't regularly see), Raw saw returns from "Nature Boy" Ric Flair, the New Age Outlaws and the trio of "Mean" Gene Okerlund, Ricky Steamboat and Jim Ross (who all presented Slammy Awards), Tommy Dreamer (who competed in a match) and The Boogeyman (who seemed like he was there just to provide a random "tell me I didn't just see that" moment before a commercial break)

On the first mile of her three-mile swim Sunday morning, Susan Spencer concentrated on the 25 names written in black marker on her right arm - those of friends and family members who had succumbed to cancer. On her second lap, the Baltimore lawyer reflected on the 14 names of cancer survivors or those in remission scrawled on her left arm. For the final mile, Spencer, 61, said she thought of "everyone and anyone affected by the disease. " She was not alone. In the cove off Gibson Island or in the pool at Meadowbrook Aquatic and Fitness Center in North Baltimore, more than 500 swimmers participated in Swim Across America, Baltimore edition, to raise money for the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins.

A new Guinness Book of World Records was released this week, filled with the world's longest, fastest, biggest, smallest, most prolific and most substantial. Included among this compelling compendium of the world's greatest are a handful of Marylanders -- although (sadly) Ocean City is not included; Last month, it fell a few hundred two-pieces short in its attempt to establish a world record for most participants in a bikini parade. Ridgely's Chad Elchin, for instance, has reigned for 11 years as the record holder for most consecutive loops with a hang glider.

The Sun will publish the January redemption tables for U.S. Savings Bonds in Tuesday's editions.

Connoisseurs of nonsense will enjoy the latest example of fatuity at Wikipedia.* Philip Roth discovers that a Wikipedia entry on his novel The Human Stain says that the principal character is based on the late Anatole Broyard. This is not so, and Mr. Roth attempted to get Wikipedia to correct the error. Here is his account of what happened, part of a 2,700-word article i n The New Yorker : "When, through an official interlocutor, I recently petitioned Wikipedia to delete this misstatement, along with two others, my interlocutor was told by the 'English Wikipedia Administrator' - in a letter dated August 25th and addressed to my interlocutor - that I, Roth, was not a credible source: 'I understand your point that the author is the greatest authority on their own work,' writes the Wikipedia Administrator - but we require secondary sources.' " Yes, you read that.

With Baltimore Comic-Con and the Ravens home opener right around the corner, we had artists illustrate 5 epic moments in Baltimore football history, from the Super Bowl to the Harbaugh Bowl View the photo gallery Timing is everything. Since the first Ravens game of the regular season (Monday) falls within a day of this year's Baltimore Comic-Con (Saturday and Sunday), we decided to combine the two, for a Ravens comics edition of b. We asked illustrators in and around Baltimore to recreate five classic moments from Ravens history as comic strips.