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Several Anne Arundel County senior activity centers have announced their trip schedules and are accepting deposits. Trips vary per center and include day trips as well as cruises and extended bus trips. To sign up for a trip, you must be a current senior center member with updated information in the database and a key. Membership is free. Call the Department of Aging and Disabilities at 410-222-4464 for more information. Anniversary T-shirts The Arnold, Pascal and South County Senior Activity Centers are selling green T-shirts to celebrate their 30th anniversaries.

Earlier this year, I listed 10 Reasons to Hate the Kindles, including this one on the downside of reading e-books in public: Beautiful Russian ballerinas won't introduce themselves upon noticing your copy of Secrets of Nijinsky. As someone who often carries a book around Baltimore, the inwardness and anonymity of the e-book reading experience seems very odd. I don't mean that we should brandish the latest "hot" book in public like some designer handbag. "Look, the new Pynchon!" It's sad if books become just another way of broadcasting our feelings, like T-shirts or bumper stickers.

Gerald "Captain Jerry" Millman, a former used-car dealer and haberdasher who founded Captain Jerry's Custom T-shirts, died Sunday of kidney and heart failure at Sinai Hospital. He was 82. Born in Baltimore, Mr. Millman was raised in the city's Pimlico neighborhood. After graduating from Forest Park High School, he served in the North Atlantic aboard the Coast Guard cutter Dexter. After being discharged from the service, he established a used-car business in Brooklyn at Patapsco Avenue and Potee Street.

Baltimore's Board of Estimates approved a $100,000 increase yesterday to a city contract for agencies to purchase T-shirts and athletic clothing through May. The additional funds will bring the total authorized amount to $348,206. At yesterday's pre-meeting for the Board of Estimates, Councilman Robert W. Curran said the amount seemed high and asked for more information. "I'm just questioning this kind of expense during this time of austerity," he said later. The city contract is with Columbia-based Nightmare Graphics Inc. and started in February 2007.

Last night before the tip-off with rival Milford Mill, visiting Woodlawn showed the Millers where it had been. On the court, the Millers showed Woodlawn where they hoped to head. Joshua Glascoe scored 22 points to lead No. 8 Milford Mill to a 68-60 win in an important Baltimore County league game. Tevin Mackey led Woodlawn with 19 points. Just before the game started, the players for No. 9 Woodlawn (6-4, 3-1 league) revealed under their warm-ups T-shirts that said, "Woodlawn Warriors, County Champions" - referring to last season's title.

The question has been put to Mr. Flip: In the Olympics, why do the female beach volleyball players wear little bikinis while the men wear sleeveless tops and long shorts? Mr. Flip hadn't really thought about this much while enjoying the athleticism of Misty May-Treanor as the sweat drips down her tanned, toned body and she lightly brushes off the sand that has covered one of her upper thighs. ... One moment, please, while Mr. Flip composes himself. Yes, Mr. Flip supposes some viewers might enjoy seeing the male competitors play shirtless.

Under an exposed air-conditioning duct that seemed barely functional stood a petite woman in fishnets, polka-dotted heels, sparkly blue eye shadow and an oh-so-short turquoise jumper. "I'm going to rock out for a minute. 'Cause that's what I do," the blond musician declared. And rock out she did. Her instrument of choice? The ukulele. Uni was one of four uke players to perform yesterday at a Uke-Pop Party in Hampden. Dozens of people crammed into the quirky Atomic Pop store on Falls Road for a gathering that celebrated the tiny cousin of the guitar.

OCEAN CITY -- Firefighters from more than 20 engine companies extinguished a blaze ata popular pizza restaurant in the oldest part of Ocean City's boardwalk yesterday, successfully containing the worst fire damage to a single building. The nine-alarm fire at the Dough Roller restaurant on the boardwalk at South Division Street initially panicked Ocean City officials, residents and holiday regulars. They worried that flames might consume nearby shops as well as the wooden boardwalk that is the symbol of summer to many Marylanders.

While shopping with her 13-year-old daughter, Diana Kalandros said she became disgusted by T-shirts geared toward girls with what she called "crude and nasty" messages in youth fashion: Promiscuous. You're ugly. I'm so hot, I can steal your boyfriend. So the 44-year-old started producing faith-inspired shirts from her Abingdon home. The shirts she sells online for $14.95 have a word printed on them, such as Forgive, Convicted, Faithful or Grateful. "Kids don't have to dress with a trashy message on their shirt," Kalandros said.

Responding to the sale of anti-war T-shirts sold over the Internet, Maryland legislators have introduced a bill to prohibit the commercial use of names or pictures of dead U.S. soldiers without family permission. Lawmakers said they filed the bill after hearing from the families of soldiers who were killed in Iraq and whose names were among thousands featured on T-shirts with the slogans "Bush Lied" and "They Died" on the front and back. Kevin Kavanagh and Eric Herzberg said their sons, both named Eric and both killed in action, would not have approved of the message.