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It’s National Apple Week, and there’s no better time for Tidbits to take a look at one of the world’s favorite fruits! • There are more than 7,500 known varieties of apples, each with its own specific characteristics and qualities. Some are tart, some are sweet. Some are meant for eating fresh, some for cooking, and still others for cider production. • The Malus domestica, the apple tree, originated in eastern Turkey. More apples are grown in China than any other nation, about half of the world’s supply. The United States is a distant second, producing about 5% of the world’s apples, while Turkey is in third place. About 70 million tons of apples are grown worldwide annually. • When the Pilgrims arrived in North America in the 17th century, they discovered crabapples, but disliked their sour and woody taste. The colonists requested that seeds and cuttings be sent from England on subsequent voyages, and North America’s first apple orchard was planted in Boston in 1625. During the early 1800s, Massachusetts native John Chapman traveled across Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois planting apple trees, and became known as Johnny Appleseed. Turn the page for more!

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Tidbits® of Bismarck ALL ABOUT APPLES (continued): • In 1820, a London sea captain brought seeds to North America’s western coast, the origin of the state of Washington’s apple crop, the largest in the U.S. More than 60% of America’s apple crop of 220,000,000 bushels are grown in Washington. That’s a lot of apples, considering that one bushel is 48 lbs. (21.8 kg.)! • Although we think of Eve convincing Adam to eat a forbidden apple in the Garden of Eden, the Bible’s Book of Genesis does not actually identify the fruit as an apple. It refers to it as the fruit of the “tree of the knowledge of good and evil.” In ancient languages, the word “apple” was used as a generic term for any round fruit that grew on a tree, bringing about the common misconception that Eve 1. U.S. STATES: Which four states within was tempted with an apple. the United States are referred to as commonwealths? • Apples were associated with pagan religious practices and as mythological symbols. 2. LITERATURE: In how many of Norse mythology portrays apples as a source Shakespeare’s plays does the character of of eternal youthfulness, while Greek and Sir John Falstaff appear? Roman myths refer to the fruit as a symbol of love and beauty. Remains of apples have 3. MEDICAL TERMS: What would a patient been found in the graves of early Germanic with alopecia be lacking? people. 4. GEOGRAPHY: What is the only continent • The Jonathan apple is mostly red with that has no desert region? patches of lime green. There are differences of opinion as to how this variety got its 5. LANGUAGE: From which two words is the name. Some say an Ohio woman, Rachel term “cyborg” derived? Higley, was responsible for discovering it in 1804, and cultivating an orchard of this tart 6. MYTHOLOGY: What is a harpy? fruit, naming it after her husband Jonathan. Others claim it was first discovered in 1826 in 7. TELEVISION: What was the name of the Woodstock, New York, and was named after concierge in “Gilmore Girls”? Jonathan Hasbrouck, who first introduced the fruit. 8. MOVIES: What horror movie series featured the character Mike Myers? • The McIntosh apple has its origins in Canada, discovered by John McIntosh on his Ontario 9. ENTERTAINERS: Comedian/actor John farm in 1811. Candy was born in what country? • The flavor of the Golden Delicious apple varies depending on the climate. When 10. FAMOUS QUOTATIONS: What groundbreaking female comedian said, “I grown in a cool climate, the amount of hate housework! You make the beds, you acid increases, resulting in a sweeter taste, do the dishes and six months later you have while in a warmer climate, the acid quantity to start all over again”? is lower, and the apple has a milder flavor. This variety was first discovered on a West Virginia farm in 1890 and was known as the (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc. Mullins Yellow Seedling for 25 years before being renamed. The Golden Delicious has been used as a parent to develop several other varieties including the Gala, Ambrosia, Pink lady, and Jonagold. • The number of apples imported from New Zealand is increasing every year. The popular Braeburn apple was developed there in 1952, and another favorite, the Gala, was cultivated in New Zealand beginning in the 1970s.

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ALL ABOUT APPLES (continued): • The phrase “An apple a day keeps the doctor away” is a common one. But where did it originate? The first recorded use of the old proverb is in the 1860s in a Pembrokeshire, Wales, publication in a little different form: “Eat an apple on going to bed, and you’ll keep the doctor from earning his bread.” • It’s certainly true that apples help keep a person healthy. They are loaded with nutrients and antioxidants that keep the body on track. Their supply of Vitamin C helps the body resist infection and disease, while an apple’s B-complex vitamins are vital to a healthy metabolism. Its potassium content aids in controlling heart rate and blood pressure.

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• Apples are full of fiber, about 4 grams in a medium-size fruit. Research has shown that those who eat high-fiber foods have a higher protection against Parkinson’s Disease and high cholesterol. • How about some positive percentages? The American Association for Cancer Research tells us that eating apples can reduce the risk of pancreatic cancer by up to 23%. Women who eat one apple every day are 28% less likely to develop Type 2 diabetes, while other studies indicate that the apple’s antioxidants contribute to a 15% reduced likelihood of developing cataracts. • Pregnant women who regularly consume apples are less likely to have children with asthma. Apple eaters have better lung function. Apples can even aid in preventing tooth decay by stimulating the production of saliva, which lowers the levels of the mouth’s bacteria. And they’re low in calories – about 95 in one medium-sized apple. With all these health benefits, why wouldn’t we all want to have an apple a day?

1. Name three of the four major-league teams that Jim Fregosi managed. 2. Who had a bigger gap between career strikeouts and career hits: Jose Canseco, Dave Kingman or Jim Thome? 3. In 2013, Northern Illinois’ Jordan Lynch set an NCAA record for a quarterback with 316 rushing yards in a game. Who had held the mark? 4. Three people have been inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach and a player. Name two of them. 5. In 2012-13, Martin St. Louis became the oldest scoring leader for a season in NHL history (37 years old). Who had been the oldest? 6. Landon Donovan set a Major League Soccer record in 2014 for most career goals. Who had held the mark? 7. Name the last one-name winning horse at the Kentucky Derby before Orb in 2013.

• Apples also have their place in folklore. Legend has it that if you can peel an apple in one long strip, then toss it backwards over your left shoulder, the shape made by the peel will be the initial of your future spouse. An old wives’ tale says that warts can be cured by cutting an apple into the number of pieces equal to the number of warts. Rub each apple piece on a wart, then bury the pieces. As the fruit rots in the ground, the warts are said to disappear. During Yuletide, many cultures engage in the ancient custom of wassailing the apple trees to drive away bad luck and ensure a good harvest. Farmers choose one tree, and the village folk gather round it, drinking to the tree with cider. Cider is also thrown over the roots, followed by placing a piece of bread soaked in cider into a fork of the tree’s branches.

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JIM CARREY Jim Carrey is in the spotlight this week, a multitalented Ontario native who has made us all laugh. • Jim Carrey was a born comedian, performing for his junior high classmates at an early age. His father was a musician, but was obliged to get a “real” job to support his wife and children. However, when Jim was a teenager, his father lost that job, and the family quickly became nearly poverty-stricken, even living out of a van for a time. Carrey, a straight-A student, was forced to drop out to help support the family, working as a janitor at a factory. When his mother became seriously ill and was bedridden, Carrey practiced his comedy on her to make her laugh. •

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When he was 10 years old, Carrey wrote to Carol Burnett, asking if he could appear on her variety show. He never received a reply. However, 36 years later, his dream of starring with the famed comedienne came true when the two of them did voice-overs in Horton Hears a Who.

• At age 17, Carrey bravely moved to Los Angeles and managed to get a gig at The Comedy Store. It was there that he was spotted by comedian Rodney Dangerfield, who signed him as his opening act on tour. Carrey auditioned for Saturday Night Live in 1980, but was not selected. (Ironically, he went on to host the show twice.) In 1983, at age 21, Carrey debuted on The Tonight Show. • Upon arrival in L.A., Carrey wrote himself a check for $10 million and put it in his wallet, determining that at some point in his life, he would be able to cash it. Fifteen years later, that resolution came true.

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• A proverb of unknown origin states, “The length of a piece of wood can only be too short on one end.” • A Neanderthal’s brain was actually larger than the brain of a modern human. • Keep an eye on the weather in your part of the country, it may be a sign of things to come. An old saying goes, “Much rain in October, much wind in December.” • A famous and oft-quoted line from Sherlock Holmes is “How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?” However, author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle didn’t come up with that one himself; he took it from a story by Edgar Allan Poe, another pioneer of the detective genre. • Just as bears do, many frogs hibernate. A frog will burrow down into the mud at the bottom of a pond and, not being able to use its lungs to breathe, it will absorb the oxygen in the water through its skin.

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• Everywhere you go these days, you see people carrying around bottles of water. I wonder if they realize how much money they’re spending? At $1.49 for a 9-ounce bottle of Evian, a gallon would cost $21.19. It could be worse, though. Pepto-Bismol is $123.20 a gallon. • Jayne Mansfield had an interesting definition of men. She said they are “creatures with two legs and eight hands.” • Snakes can get hiccups. ***

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• On Oct. 11, 1809, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at Grinder’s Tavern in Tennessee. Most historians have concluded that Lewis’ death was a suicide brought on by depression over financial worries, but some believe he was murdered, possibly by the tavern owner. • On Oct. 12, 1810, when Bavarian Crown Prince Louis marries, the citizens of Munich are invited to attend the festivities. The decision to repeat the festivities the next year gave rise to the tradition of the annual Oktoberfest. Today, more than 1 million gallons of beer are consumed annually at Oktoberfest. • On Oct. 8, 1869, future auto inventor and mechanic Frank Duryea is born. Duryea was the first automobile driver on the American road. In 1893, his Duryea Motor Wagon made its first successful trip, 600 yards down his street in Springfield, Mass., before the transmission blew. • On Oct. 7, 1913, for the first time, Henry Ford’s entire Michigan automobile factory is run on a continuously moving assembly line. A motor and rope pulled the chassis past workers and parts, cutting the manhours required to complete one “Model T” from 12-1/2 hours to six. • On Oct. 6, 1926, Yankee slugger Babe Ruth hits a record three homers against the St. Louis Cardinals in the fourth game of the World Series. In 1928, in another YanksCards World Series, Ruth tied his own record, knocking three more pitches out of the same park. • On Oct. 9, 1940, during the Battle of Britain, the German Luftwaffe launches a heavy nighttime raid on London, and a bomb pierces the dome of St. Paul’s Cathedral, destroying the High Altar. The cathedral had been built, destroyed and rebuilt many times over the years beginning in 604 A.D. The current cathedral dates from 1710. • On Oct. 10, 1973, Spiro Agnew becomes the first U.S. vice president to resign in disgrace. He pleaded no contest to a charge of income-tax evasion in exchange for dropping charges of political corruption,

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• Carrey first became well-known in 1990, when he landed a regular slot on the comedy show In Living Color. The year 1994 was a big one for Carrey, as he had the leading role in three hits, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Dumb and Dumber, and The Mask. An Ace Ventura sequel came out the following year and Carrey’s stardom was secured. He took over the role of The Riddler in 1995’s Batman Forever. In 1996, he became the first actor to command a $20 million salary for a film in his role in The Cable Guy. • Jim Carrey is not all about crazy facial expressions, flexible body movements, and slapstick comedy. In 1998, he took on a serious role in the critically-acclaimed The Truman Show, which garnered Carrey his first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama. His second Best Actor Golden Globe came the following year when he portrayed entertainer Andy Kaufman in the bio Man in the Moon. • Carrey has acknowledged that he has ADHD, and has at times battled depression. Although he treated his depression with Prozac, he now declares himself medication-free, and avoids all stimulants, including coffee. • In his free time, Jim Carrey enjoys painting and sculpting, and in recent years, his work has been featured at various exhibits.

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• Although Carrey was granted U.S. citizenship in 2004, he retains dual citizenship with Canada, stating, “I have no intention of giving up my Canadian heritage, and all those who loved and supported me. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.”

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EDITOR’S NOTE: DVDs reviewed in this column will be available in stores the week of Oct. 6, 2014.

PICKS OF THE WEEK Edge of Tomorrow (PG-13) -- Tom Cruise gets ripped apart by space aliens and resurrected over and over again until he gets it right. In this unfortunate futuristic setting, a powerful alien army is spreading over Earth. Cruise plays a military officer who’s more of a spokesman than a rifleman -- until he mouths off and gets sent to the front line. He doesn’t last long in combat, but whenever he dies, he just wakes up at the beginning of the day. Using his Groundhog Day power, Cruise does a little better each time. The whole time, I wished I was the one with the video-game controller, and not watching somebody else play. The upside is that the movie looks like a game worth playing. The core gimmick of the movie is used to good effect, generating a rhythm of intense action. A Million Ways to Die in the West (R) -- This Western parody shows that people didn’t need epic gunfights and wild horse chases to die spectacularly in the Wild West, there were plenty of awful ways to die a humiliating and mundane death. Seth McFarlane, the creator of TV’s “Family Guy” and the raunchy buddy-comedy “Ted,” wrote, directed and stars in this rambling spoof. An A-list cast fills in the township where lowbrow jokes blow around like tumbleweed -Charlize Theron, Amanda Seyfreid, Neil Patrick Harris and Liam Neeson. Like much of MacFarlane’s work, the humor gives you a clear idea that a smart guy is writing the dumbest and grossest jokes he can get away with. While not every joke is a winner, the movie makes up in volume. However, the rapidfire raunchy humor can wear on some audiences.

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Tidbits® of Bismarck Obvious Child (R) -- Donna (Jenny Slate) tells her embarrassingly personal jokes in a tight stand-up club with a little audience. She’s honest and awkward and refreshingly funny. However, her jokes about her relationship finally push her boyfriend to dump her, triggering a downward swing for Donna. In a subsequent one-night stand, Donna and her partner are both too drunk to figure out a condom. Later, when Donna realizes she’s pregnant, the all too sweet-as-pie guy from her one-night stand starts to court her. This is the first starring role for Slate, who had a short stint on “Saturday Night Live,” and she shows an astounding talent for balancing the heavy with the light. The Grand Seduction (PG-13) -- Don’t expect rays of white-hot seduction to emanate from your screen as Brendan Gleeson turns up the charm in this small-town dramedy. In an itty-bitty fishing village in a far-flung piece of coastal Canada, fishing is restricted and the townspeople have set their hopes on a oil company setting up a new factory. Trouble is, the company won’t build unless the town has at least one doctor in its population, and the town has none. Gleeson plays the town’s acting mayor, tasked with wooing a visiting young doctor (Taylor Kitcsh) into taking up residence.

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SQUIRRELS October is Squirrel Awareness Month. How much do you know about this family of rodents? Follow along and see! • Scuiridae is a family of small or mediumsize rodents that includes tree squirrels, ground squirrels, chipmunks, marmots, woodchucks, gophers, flying squirrels, and prairie dogs. Squirrels are the largest group of living mammals, with over 360 species making up 40% of all mammal species. • The word “squirrel” has its origins in the ancient Greek language from the word Skiouros, which translates “shadow-tailed.” • The smallest squirrel is the African pygmy squirrel with a length of just 2.8 to 3.9 inches (7 to 10 cm) and a weight of 0.35 oz. (10 g). The largest, the Alpine marmot, living high in the Alps and Pyrenees, grows up to 29 inches long (73 cm), and can weigh 18 lbs. (8 kg). • In order to remain healthy, an adult squirrel must eat about a pound of food (0.45 kg) every week. The average squirrel enjoys a diet of nuts, seeds, and fruit, but will consume bird eggs, bugs, and even the dead body of another animal in a pinch. The brain of most squirrels is about the size of a walnut. • The body of a squirrel has many unique characteristics. Its very large eyes give it an excellent sense of vision. Because the eyes are high and on the side of the head, the animal has a wide field of vision without having to turn its head. A squirrel can also rotate its hind feet 180 degrees at the ankle, which enables it to easily descend a tree head first. It also has special whiskers known as vibrissae on its head and limbs, which gives the squirrel an exceptional sense of touch.

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SQUIRRELS (continued): • Squirrels are the cleanest animal in the rodent family, taking a long time to perform grooming tasks. Surprisingly, the male takes twice as long as the female to groom itself. • They’re also loners, with adult squirrels normally living alone. When it gets extremely cold, they will allow other squirrels into their nests to conserve body heat, but as soon as it warms up, it’s back to their solitary lifestyle. • If you see a squirrel leaving wet footprints on a sidewalk, it must be a hot day. The sweat glands are located in the pads of the feet, and the tiny footprints are the product of perspiration. • Ever wonder how a squirrel finds the nuts it buries? Before it buries the nut, the squirrel licks the nut to apply its personal scent to it, enabling the rodent to sniff it out when hunger strikes. • That big fluffy tail isn’t just for show. Squirrels often use their tails as a signaling device to communicate. • Don’t worry about contracting rabies from a squirrel bite, because rabies is practically unknown in squirrels. There is no record of a human getting rabies from a squirrel bite. However, a squirrel bite is nothing to take casually. Some species have a bite force of 7,000 lbs. per square inch. How strong is that? Compare it to the human, whose bite force is around 500 lbs. per square inch. The squirrel’s teeth are always growing, due to the constant wear on them. Incisors grow about six inches (15.2 cm) per year.

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Sports Quiz Answers Angels, White Sox, Phillies and Blue Jays. Kingman had 241 more strikeouts than hits, topping Thome (220) and Canseco (65). Northern Illinois QB Stacey Robinson, with 308 yards in a game in 1990. Later in 2013, Lynch ran for 321 yards in a game to set a new mark. Bill Sharman, Lenny Wilkens and John Wooden. Bill Cook of the New York Rangers was 36 when he won the scoring title in the 193233 season. Jeff Cunningham, with 134. Barbaro, in 2006.

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Flash Back Trivia Answers The Byrds. The song, with lyrics taken from the Book of Ecclesiastes, was penned by Pete Seeger ... or, as he put it, six words of it, plus the music. Seeger always gave 45 percent of royalties to the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. The Crystals, in 1963. The Beach Boys followed in 1965 with “Then I Kissed Her.” Black Sabbath, in 1970. “Paranoid” was written at the last minute to fill three minutes on their album of the same name. Anita Ward, in 1979. “Don’t Sleep in the Subway,” by Petula Clark in 1967. English composer Tony Hatch said in an interview that the “subway” wasn’t an American transportation system but was instead a British pedestrian underpass. Trivia Test Answers 1. Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Virginia. 2. Three 3. Hair (baldness) 4. Europe 5. Cybernetic organism 6. A female monster in the form of a bird with a human face 7. Michel 8. “Halloween” 9. Canada (Ontario) 10. Joan Rivers

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