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\"This was perfect timing,\" she said. \"There was a math day in every subject, including language arts and social studies, with a tie to mathematics. We wanted to show the kids that math is all around us. We had two weeks of math challenges where the grade levels are competing to see who can solve the most problems. We are really trying to show kids math can be fun, and math is here to stay.\" \"People react to it because it's so genuine and real,\" he said. \"The skills that I learned entertaining children are just as relevant as entertaining or teaching with mathematics. It has to be entertaining. ... What I'm teaching is new to most people. Everyone learns math, but there is not much emphasis on how to do math mentally.\"

\"It's not like I've forgotten about the people,\" says [Arthur Benjamin], who is also hoping to raise $1 million for Haitians. \"But people have forgotten about the animals.\" \"I was sitting with my little white poodle Buddy, and I turned to him and said 'What are we going to do about this?'\" Benjamin recalls. Buddy had been his wife Gail's therapy dog before she died in 2004. He put Buddy's picture on the Internet, with an ad that read: \"White, good-looking male seeks Cajun girlfriend to wed, swimmers preferred,\" raised $3,000 to help Katrina pets, and managed to get that girlfriend for Buddy, a poodle he named Holly.

  Tigers for Tomorrow at Untamed Mountain is an exotic animal park and rescue preserve at 708 County Road 345 in Attalla. The preserve serves as home to more than 130 animals, including 70 large predators. Its mission is to uphold the highest standards of care and respect for native and exotic animals in need of a secure, permanent home. The preserve also is open to the community as an environmental educational learning center and recreational destination for the entire family.

\"The devastation is so great as is the need that the animals - as in Katrina - are being lost to the greater needs,\" said Arthur Benjamin, ADR founder and president, who hopes to achieve $1 million in support. \"We are grateful to American Dog Rescue for devoting funds to the crisis in Haiti,\" said Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of The Humane Society of the United States. \"Whenever people are in this kind of distress, you can be sure that animals are suffering, too. We hope to be able to put boots on the ground to help the people and animals in their greatest time of need.\" \"HSUS is a national and international established relief organization with the knowledge and know-how to deploy the funds raised to the greatest benefit of the animals as soon as logistics make this possible,\" said Benjamin. \"They are working with partner groups in Haiti and the Dominican Republic in an effort assess the situation to determine the best way to begin saving lives and averting pain and suffering by our four-legged friends there.\"

Clara Hardmeyer, 91, Mott, 10:30 a.m. MDT, St. Vincent's Catholic Church, Mott. (Evanson-Jensen Funeral Home, Mott) Kathleen Young, 58, Oconto, Wis., 6 p.m., First Presbyterian Church, Oconto. (Gallagher Funeral Home, Oconto)

Listeners wishing to explore the concept of the double concerto more fully need look no further than a new disc (Arte Nova 74321 89826 2, pounds 5.99) containing three such pieces for violin, viola and orchestra by Arthur Benjamin, Benjamin Britten and Max Bruch. Yet another Benjamin, the excellent young Viennese violinist Benjamin Schmid, has teamed up with the St Petersburg-born viola- player Daniel Raiskin for performances, with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra under Lior Shambadal, that stress the intricate dialogic nature of all three pieces. The idiom has its roots firmly in Romanticism. Benjamin's concerto even makes fairly overt references to Mahler's Fourth Symphony, and the work is certainly more substantial than the Jamaican Rumba for which he is best-known. Britten's Concerto (1932) remained neglected until 1997, when Colin Matthews prepared the score for performance at the Aldeburgh Festival. Schmid and Raiskin bring out all its ingenuity, yearning and momentum, set against an assured delicacy of orchestration. The disc's range of contrasts is expanded further by the glorious and underestimated Double Concerto by Bruch, a work of sumptuous sonority, heroic gesture and the sort of melody that imprints itself indelibly on the memory.

Besides his wife, his survivors include a sister, Susan Balsam.

Shot down in 1917 by Hermann Goering - a flying ace in the first world war - poor Arthur Benjamin had later to endure another shooting down at the hands of critics who unfairly mistook his brilliance with pastiche and ease with film...

The audience -- composed of learned math professors and students, no less -- lost, and so did the machines. [Arthur Benjamin] figured out the square of 675 faster than they could say arithmetic. He reeled off the answer to \"3,969 x 1,225\" faster than they could tie their shoelaces. Benjamin, 30, went to Carnegie-Mellon University for his undergraduate math degree and later attended Johns Hopkins University for his master's and Ph.D. in mathematical sciences. To multiply two or more digits, for example, Benjamin breaks down the numbers to handle them more easily. If \"61 x 27\" were the problem, Benjamin would break 61 into 60 and 1, then multiply 27 by 60 (which equals 1,620) and 27 with 1 (which amounts to 27). Then he adds 1,620 to 27, getting the grand answer of 1,647.