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THE VANCOUVER GAMES by Rick Dandes
February 12 is the start of the Twenty-first Winter Olympics; for cold-weather sports fanatics it’s an every four year TV spectacular. This year, the setting is one of the most beautiful in the world, Vancouver, Canada. Tidbits this week, honors the Games with a look back. • The first time a winter sport appeared in the Olympics was in the summer games. Figure skating made its debut in the 1908 Summer Olympics. The top skaters were 10-time world champion Ulrich Salchow of Sweden, who originated the backwards, one revolution jump that bears his name, and Made Syers of Britain. Both were the first singles champions. • Many organizers of the 1916 Summer Games in Berlin planned to introduce a “Skiing Olympia,” featuring nordic events in black forest. But the games were cancelled after the outbreak of World War I in 1914. • Upon the conclusion of World War I, the Games resumed in 1920 at Antwerp, Belgium, where figure skating returned and ice hockey was added as a medal event. Sweden’s Gillis Grafstrom and Magda Julin took individual honors, while Ludovika and Walter Jakobsson were the top skating pair. In hockey, Canada won the gold medal, with the United States second and Czecholslovakia third. • Over the objections of Modern Olympics’ founder Baron Pierre de Coubertin and the resistance of the Scandinavian countries, which had staged their own Nordic championships every four or five years from 1901-26 in Sweden, the International Olympic Committee sanctioned an “International Winter Sports Week” at Chamonix, France, in 1924. • Norway is number one, when it comes to most Winter Olympic medals, with 263. continued on page 2!
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Page 2 THE VANCOUVER GAMES (continued) • The very first “Winter Sports Week” was an 11-day event, which included nordic skiing, speed skating, figure skating, ice hockey and bobsledding. It was a huge success and was later called the first Olympic Winter Games. • Not surprisingly, no country in the Southern Hemisphere has ever hosted a Winter Games. • U.S. Speed skater Bonnie Blair has won six medals at the Olympic Winter Games. That’s more than any other American athlete. • Nobody has won more medals at the Winter Games than cross-country skier Bjorn Dählie of Norway, who has 12. • Norwegian Sonja Henie won her first gold medal at the 1928 Olympics and at the next three Olympics. No female figure skater could compete with her, she was that good. • Sonja Henie’s grace and style sets a new standard for figure skating. And she was young. At 15 years, 10 months, Henie was, at the time, the youngest woman ever to win a gold medal. • The 1940 Games, in Sapporo, Japan, and 1944 Winter Games, scheduled for Corina d’Amerzzo, in Italy, were cancelled due to World War II. • Seventy years after those first cold weather Games, the 17th edition of the Winter Olympics took place in Lillehammer, Norway, in 1994. The event ended the four-year Olympic cycle of staging both Winter and Summer Games in the same year and began a new schedule that calls for the two Games to alternate every two years. • The Soviet Union (USSR) participated in its first Winter Olympics in 1956, and took home the most medals, including the gold medal in ice hockey. • It takes two: 1968 East Germany and West Germany officially send separate teams for the first time and continued to do so through 1988. • After East and West Germany’s unification, the country finally sent a single team in 1990.
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• Thanks, but no thanks: The International Olympics Committee granted the 1976 Winter Games to Denver in May 1970. But wait a minute: in 1972 Colorado voters reject a $5 million bond issue to finance the undertaking. Denver immediately withdraws as host and Innsbruck, Austria is chosen as the site of the 1964 Games. • Why the change in cycle? The IOC moved the Winter Games’ four-year cycle in order to separate them from the Summer Games and alternate Olympics every two years. • The Olympic flag’s colors of red, black, blue, green and yellow rings on a field of the Lake Placid Olympics of 1980, it was white are there because at least one of later voted the greatest upset in hockey those colors appears on the flag of every in the 20th Century. “Do you believe in nation on the planet. miracles? Yes,” shouted TV broadcaster • Number one: The U.S. was the first Al Michaels, who called the game. In retcountry to win a Winter Olympic event. rospect, maybe it wasn’t so much of a Speed skater Charles Jewtraw won the miracle. Of the 20 players on the U.S. first event of the Games with an upset in team, 13 eventually played in the Nationthe 500 meters. al Hockey League. • U.S. figure skater Tara Lipinski, 15, be- • 1980 was not the first time the United came the youngest woman to win a gold States achieved Olympic hockey gold. medal at the Winter Games. Sonja Henie The less publicized—but no less miracwould have been proud. ulous—1960 U.S. men’s hockey team also shocked the world with its stunning • After earning her Olympic gold medal victory in Squaw Valley, Calif. in 1968, Peggy Fleming starred in several television specials and performed • Curling — think shuffleboard on ice — in numerous skating exhibitions across debuted in the 1924 Olympics. It came the U.S.A. She was also been a popuback in the 1932 Lake Placid Games as lar commentator for ABC Sports, often a demonstration sport, then went on a working with fellow Olympic champ Dick 56-year Olympic hiatus. It was brought Button. back as an official medal sport at the 1998 Nagano, Japan Games. • Jean Claude Killy, the brilliant 24-yearskier, already a world champion, excited the world again at the 1968 Winter Games in Grenoble, France, by winning gold medals in all three Alpine skiing events, thus becoming only the second skier to ever accomplish that feat; Austria’s Toni Sailer did it in 1956. • Miracle on Ice: After a group of U.S. amateur hockey players beat the invincible Soviet Union hockey machine at
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An elderly man went to the doctor for a visit. “Doc,” he says, “I am so stricken. I have chest pains, headaches, back pains, nausea, arthritis, constipation, stomach cramps, earaches, burning in the eyes, congested lungs...” “Sir,” says the doctor, “you complain you have so many things. What don’t you have?” The man answers, “Teeth.”
ancient creature. My face is all wrinkled, my boobs sag so much that they dangle to my waist, my arms and legs are as flabby as popped balloons, and...my butt looks like a sad, deflated version of the Hindenburg! ”She turns to face her husband and says, “Dear, please tell me just one positive thing about my body so I can feel better about myself.” Harvey studies Gladys critically for a moment and then says in a soft, thoughtful voice, “Well, there’s nothing wrong with your eyesight.” He never heard the shot. Maurice, an 82 year-old man, went to the doctor for his physical. A few days later the doctor saw Maurice walking down the street with a gorgeous young lady on his arm. A couple of days later the doctor spoke to Maurice and said, “You’re really dong great, aren t you?” Maurice replied, “Just doing what you said, Doc: Get a hot mamma and be cheerful.”The doctor said, “I did not say that. I said, ‘You got a heart murmur. Be careful.’”
You know it’s going to be a bad day when your teenager knocks on your bedroom door first thing in the morning and says, “Today is Nerd Day at school, Dad. Can I borrow One day, a man walks into a dentist’s some of your clothes?” office and asks how much it will cost to I dialed a number and got the following reextract wisdom teeth. “Eighty dollars,” the cording: “I am not available right now, but dentist says. “That’s a ridiculous amount,” thank you for caring enough to call. I am the man says. “Isn’t there a cheaper way?” making some changes in my life. Please “Well,” the dentist says, “if you don’t use an leave a message after the beep. If I do not anesthetic, I can knock the price down to return your call, you are one of the chang$60.” “That’s still too expensive,” the man es.” says. “Okay,” says the dentist. “If I save on A three-year old put his shoes on by himanesthesia and simply rip the teeth out with self. His mother noticed the left was on the a pair of pliers, I can knock the price down right foot. She said, “Son, your shoes are on to $20.” “Nope,” moans the man, “it’s still the wrong feet.” He looked up at her with a too much.” “Well,” says the dentist, scratchraised brow and said, “Don’t kid me, Mom. I ing his head, “if I let one of my students do KNOW they’re my feet.” it, I suppose I can knock the price down to $10.” “Marvelous,” says the man, “book my After she woke up, a woman told her husband, “I just dreamed that you gave me a wife for next Tuesday!” pearl necklace for our anniversary. What do Son: Dad, I heard that in China, a man you think it means?” “You’ll know tonight.” doesn’t know his wife until he marries. Fahe said. That evening, the man came home ther: That happens everywhere, son, evwith a small package and gave it to his wife. erywhere! Delighted, she opened it to find a book enPolice Chief: As a recruit, you’ll be faced titled, “The Meaning of Dreams.” with some difficult issues. What would you One night my father woke himself up with do if you had to arrest your mother? New a loud “Hello!” to someone in his dream. As Recruit: Call for backup! the next day came and went, Dad thought Harvey and Gladys are getting ready the nocturnal outburst was his alone to refor bed. Gladys is standing in front of her member. But that night, as he and Mom full-length mirror, taking a long, hard look were getting ready for bed, she said dryly, at herself? “You know, Harvey,” she com- “If you see anyone you know tonight, just ments. “I stare into this mirror and I see an wave.”
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By Samantha Weaver • It was American journalist, author and humorist Don Marquis who made the following sage observation: “Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.” • A giant carnivorous plant has recently been discovered on a remote mountaintop in the Philippines. The second largest pitcher plant on record, nepenthes attenboroughii secretes a nectar that lures insects, frogs and even rats into its trap, where enzymes and acids break down the animal and digest it. • There has been a lot of debate about whether older drivers should be required to pass driving tests in order to renew their licenses, with failing sight and diminished judgment being cited as reasons for the more stringent requirement. However, statistics tend to indicate that, as a group, teenagers are the more dangerous drivers, with their auto-accident death rate roughly triple that of the elderly. • If you’re thinking about going back to school during this economic downturn, you might want to consider working toward a master’s degree in business administration. The average salary increase enjoyed by new MBA holders is a whopping 64 percent. • The men’s formal attire known as the tuxedo takes its name from the Tuxedo Park Club in New York, where the clothing first became popular. The word itself is derived from the Algonquian word for wolf. • The man who holds the world record for running 100 meters and 200 meters, and who has won three Olympic gold medals, is a Jamaican by the name of Usain Bolt. Yes, Bolt. • The Zagat restaurant rating system recently conducted a survey of Americans’ tipping habits. The results? It seems that residents of Philadelphia are the most generous tippers in the nation, leaving an average of 19.6 percent. The average across the country is 19 percent. (c) 2010 King Features Synd., Inc.
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If you have multiple cards with different balances, talk to your primary bank about consolidating your debt to get one interest (NAPS)—Just as blood pressure, weight, rate. body mass index (BMI) and cholesterol count are numbers you need to know to be Credit Score healthy, there are important numbers for Credit scores are a vital part of your financial fiscal fitness, too. Your account balances, health. They help lenders and others predict credit card limits and interest rate, credit how likely you are to make payments on score, and retirement savings add up to time. Credit scores affect whether you can form a picture of your financial health. get credit and what you pay for it. Think numbers are mind numbing? Think You can learn about and keep track of again. Your financial institution can help important numbers, auto loans, mortgages with online tools and advice to shape up and other kinds of credit through many your wallet and your funds for the future. financial service providers. Account Balances The single most effective thing that you can It’s important to keep your checking account do to improve your credit score is to pay balanced so you don’t spend more than you your bills on time. Also, be aware that you have. Before you withdraw money, write a will have a better score if you regularly use check or use your debit card— know your no more than 25 percent of your total credit, compared to 50 percent. balance. Most financial service providers let you check your balance by phone, online, at an ATM or at a banking location. If you bank online or with your mobile device, by setting up e-mail and text alerts, you’ll always know when you are close to your limit. Credit Card Balance Every credit card has its limit. If you find yourself using more than two cards, you may be spending more than you can afford.
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Go to your bank’s Web site or a branch and speak with an expert about personal financial management tools. For example, Wells Fargo’s online Smarter Credit resource center has information, tips and tools to help you take charge and improve Know How Much You Need To Retire your credit, and its Retirement Center can Retirement planning has to be an ongoing help you plan and get on track for your process. It’s never too late to revisit the retirement. objectives and strategies you set for your Learn More retirement plan. People should plan for Go online www.handsonbanking.org to what they need for a 30-year period (and learn more about how to take charge of that time could be longer for women), in your own finances and reach your goals. which they may not be employed full-time. To prepare for this, people need to save, Many financial service providers help and they need to figure out how they want you learn and keep track of important to replace their paycheck for the later years numbers.
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1. TIME: A quadrennial refers to what period of time? 2. CARTOONS: Who was the voice of “Underdog” in the cartoon series? 3. GEOGRAPHY: In what U.S. state did the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain take place during the Civil War? 4. ASTRONOMY: What shape is the Milky Way galaxy? 5. LANGUAGE: What is the meaning of the Latin phrase, “Cogito ergo sum”? 6. MOVIES: What movie was Steven Spielberg’s first major directorial effort? 7. LITERATURE: What is the name of the bookstore in Diagon Alley in the “Harry Potter” series? 8. EXPLORERS: Who was the first European to explore Greenland? 9. HISTORY: During what war did the Battle of Trafalgar take place? 10. MATH: What is the decimal equivalent of the fraction 3/5?
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