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The 2003 census showed 65 million dogs and 77 million cats living in the US. The majority of today’s pet owners think of their pets as members of their family. They want to do everything 1. possible 3 to give their pets a long, happy, and healthy life. Unfortunately, the cost of many modern 2. “Peter Pan’s Flight” life-saving operations is too steep to afford without insurance. WHAT INSPIRED US TO START ALL4PETSWNY? We were made aware of a very sad situation. A mother and her young child brought their young and otherwise healthy pet for a treatable medical condition. After spending $800 trying to treat the animal with medicine, they realized surgery would be neccessary. The mother had a life threatening illness of her own and had just been informed her health care provider would no 1 package chocolate flavor, sugar-free instant pudding longer cover her treatments. They could no longer afford to pay for the pets care and he was and pie filling for 4 servings re Academy Awards and nominations than any other person in history – 22 Awards and 59 nominations euthanized. We started All4PetsWNY to save lives, one at a time, and to help caring pet owners 1 1/2 cups milk keep their pets in tough times.

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1. Prepare pudding as label directs, but use only 1 1/2 cups milk and instant espresso powder. 2. Pour into 4 dessert dishes. Garnish with whipped cream and sprinkle with ground cinnamon. Serves 4. * Each serving: About 105 calories, 5g total fat, 15mg cholesterol, 360mg sodium. For thousands of triple-tested recipes, visit our Web site at www.goodhousekeeping.com/recipes/. (c) 2018 Hearst Communications, Inc. All rights reserved

HOW TO DONATE

If you’d like to donate to All4PetsWNY, please complete this form, and enclose it with your payment.

Name____________________________________________________________________ Address__________________________________________________________________ City________________________________ State________________ Zip______________ Phone______________________ Email_______________________________ Amount Enclosed____________ Is your donation being made in memory of someone special? If so, please complete the following: In memory or honor of_________________________ Mail to: All4PetsWNY • 900 Jefferson Rd. Suite 105 • Rochester, NY 14623 Fax: 585.292.6748 Donations can also be made via Pay Pal to: sozio.allpets.lmarie@gmail.com

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KIM PEEK (cont’d) • Mega-savant Kim Peek worked his way through the entire high school curriculum by the age of 14. Yet, standardized IQ tests put his intelligence at around 87, which is below the normal range of 90-110. • CT scans and MRIs showed that the bundle of nerves that connects the left hemisphere of the brain to the right was missing. His brain had wired itself differently. Peek probably suffered from FG syndrome, a rare genetic abnormality that causes physical anomalies such as low muscle tone and a large head. • Peek was known as a human computer and earned the nicknames “Kimputer,” and “human Google.” He could give driving directions to cities across the world based on maps he had seen only once. He could tell instantly what day of the week any date fell on, past or future. He could reel off area codes and zip codes, regional TV and radio stations, dates of historical events, and instantly add long columns of numbers. • He presented a confounding mix of disability and brilliance. He had problems with basic reasoning and lacked social skills. It was difficult for him to follow simple directions. He could recall any fact requested but was unable to carry on a conversation. • In 1984, Peek met screenwriter Barry Morrow, who had written a movie called “Bill” about a mentally retarded person. As a result, he was invited to a symposium on mental retardation where he was astonished by Peek’s abilities. The result was the movie “Rain Man.” The popularity of the movie led to many public appearances for Peek, who acted as an emissary for people with mental disabilities. By the time Kim Peek died of a heart attack at the age of 58 in 2009, he had read – and memorized – over 12,000 books. TIDBITS OF NIAGARA REGION IS NOW ON FACEBOOK https://facebook.com/tibitsofniagararegion

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ACCIDENTAL POISONING

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• In the Kurdish province of Kirkuk in 1972, the local doctor was perplexed. Dozens of people had come to him suffering from strange neurological disorders: numb hands, clumsiness, stumbling, sensory loss, blindness, deafness. He called for help from other doctors, only to find that hospitals all across the region had been seeing hundreds of similar cases every single day, mostly coming from the northern Kurdish provinces. Most of the victims were farmers. • A terrible drought had descended upon the area two years earlier. Many rural families had been forced to eat their seed wheat, leaving them with nothing to plant. The Ministry of Health stepped in, and the Iraqi government bought a large shipment of seed grain from Cargill Corporation of Minneapolis. It arrived in the country in the fall of 1971 and was distributed across the northern Kurdish provinces. There was enough grain to meet the planting needs for all of Iraq for that year. • By the time the grain reached the rural farmers, the time for planting the critical winter wheat crop was over. Farmers had depleted their own native seed stock for the planting, so the American seed went into their sheds and storehouses instead of going into the ground. And when there was a need for bread, they went to the American seed sacks for their grain. • At the request of the Iraqi Ministry of Health, Cargill coated the grain with alkyl-mercury fungicide, which inhibited spoilage. It also dyed the seeds red so people would know the grain had been treated. It also attached labels to the grain sacks stating in plain English as well as Spanish that the grain had been adulterated. There was a picture of a skull and crossbones on the label • Alkyl-mercury had been banned in Sweden in 1966, and Britain in 1971. But the U.S. and Mexico still used it in agriculture to kill fungus (continued on next page)

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Differences

1. Arm is moved. 2. Frame is different. 3. Hassock scallop is missing. 4. Clock is missing. 5. Clown is turned. 6. Remote control is missing.

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ACCIDENTAL POISONING (cont’d)

* It was way back in the 17th century when noted Scottish scholar Patrick Young made the following sage observation: “The trouble with weather forecasting is that it’s right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.” * As 2018 winds down, you might want to keep this crime fact in mind: Those who study such things say that New Year’s Day is the No. 1 holiday for car theft. Perhaps they’re making up for Christmas Day, which is typically the holiday with the fewest auto thefts. * I bet you didn’t know there’s a word specifically used to refer to the space between your eyebrows. Yep: It’s called the “ophryon.” * Fans of old Westerns have doubtless seen depictions of Native Americans scalping their enemies. Most probably don’t realize, though, that the brutal practice didn’t originate with the Indians. When the Dutch and English settlers were trying to clear out the natives, they were paid a bounty for each scalp they brought back. The Native Americans adopted the practice only after the Europeans’ arrival on the continent. * If you’re a runner -- and a compulsive counter -- you might already be aware of the fact that the average person’s feet hit the ground approximately 800 times per mile when running. * The food eaten by a typical American travels between 1,500 and 2,500 miles from the farm where it was grown to the plate where it’s consumed. * Paleontologists claim that Neanderthals used toothpicks. How can they tell, you might well ask? It seems that toothpick use leaves distinctive grooves on teeth. *** Thought for the Day: “We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.” -- Tzvetan Todorov

that caused seeds to spoil. • The hungry farmers could barely read and write their own native Arabic, much less English or Spanish, so they could not read the warnings. The skull and crossbones was merely an interesting piece of American art as far as they knew, perhaps the logo of the company. The red dye washed off easily in plain water, leaving the colorless, odorless, tasteless alkylmercury fungicide on the grain. • Chickens and other livestock who ate the grain showed no side effects, because the effects of eating alkyl-mercury fungicide are cumulative. By the time it reaches a toxic level in the body, it’s too late. Thousands of people milled toxic grain into bread and ate it for weeks. They fed the grain to their livestock, and then ate the mercury-contaminated meat. • When the government of Iraq figured out the problem, they issued declarations making it illegal to use the contaminated grain. Farmers reacted by dumping the grain into rivers and waterway, thereby contaminating water supplies and local fish with mercury. • The damage was irreversible. In 1972, over 6,500 people were treated at Iraqi hospitals for mercury poisoning, although it’s estimated that perhaps as many as 60,000 others remained untreated, being unable to reach hospitals. The death toll may be as high as 5,000. It was the largest case of mercury poisoning in the world at the time. • Because of this disaster, the World Health Organization has enacted tighter controls, better regulations, and stricter requirements regarding labelling.