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lint filter after every load. • Drain your water heater twice a year to clear out mineral deposits and improve its energy efficiency. • Start a kitchen composter: toss vegetable scraps and eggshells into an old coffee can and carry out to a larger yard composter every couple of days. • Separate out recyclables, like bottles and cans. If your city doesn’t have a recycling pickup program, many grocery stores have collection machines that give you a few cents back for each item. Starting with the above, you can gradually build an eco-friendly home -- and save a little “green” on the side, if you know what I mean. HOME TIP: Reducing water and electricity use is a great starting point to making eco-friendly changes to your home -- and you’ll save a little cash, too.
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Dear brothers and sisters, whenever trouble comes your way, let it be an opportunity for joy. For when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be strong in character and ready for anything.
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• What is the longest anyone has stood on one foot? Seventy-six hours and forty minutes, as proved by Arulanantham Joachim in Sri Lanka in 1997. • The largest millipede on record belongs to Jim Klinger of Texas. His African giant black millipede measures 15.2 in (38.7 cm) long and has 256 legs. • The world’s longest canal is the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. It is 5,885 ft (1,794 m) long and was begun in 486 B.C. • In 1403, 3,000 Chinese scholars began work on an encyclopedia. It took four years to finish and, at the time, was the world’s largest encyclopedia. It had 11,095 volumes and 22,811 chapters. • The oldest tree currently standing is a Great Basin Brittlecone Pine in California. It is named after the Biblical character of Methuselah and is estimated to be about 4,800 years old. • There is an older tree – well, root system. The current tree isn’t ancient, but its root system is estimated to have taken hold in Sweden approximately 9,550 years ago after the last ice age. It was discovered in Swedish scientists in 2004. • The world’s longest fingernails belong to Shridar Chillal of India. His thumbnail alone is over four feet long! He’s been growing his nails since 1952 and his hand is permanently disfigured from the weight of them. • Bao Xishun of China is currently the world record holder for tallest man. He is 7 ft 8.95 in (2.36 m) tall. Leonid Stadnyk of the Ukraine measures 8 ft 5.5 in (2.5 m), but has refused to let Guinness measure him officially, so Bao currently holds the title. • The Guinness World Record for smallest dog belongs
to “Heaven Sent Brandy,” a Chihuahua who measures just six inches from her tail to the tip of her nose. • The longest highway belongs to Canada. The TransCanada Highway took twenty years to complete and stretches from Victoria, British Columbia to St. John’s, Newfoundland and measures in at 4,860 mi (7,821 km). • The record for oldest animal in the world belonged to Harriet the Galapagos Land Tortoise, who celebrated her 175th birthday back in 2005. Harriet died in 2006, just shy of her 176th birthday and is estimated to have hatched before the Civil War back in 1830. • The longest wall in the world? This one’s easy - it’s the Great Wall of China! But do you know how long it really measures? It stretches and winds over 3,768 mi (6,000 km) across China, is 25 ft (7.62 m) tall and is up to 30 ft (9.14) thick in some sections. • The world’s longest snake ever found was a python in Indonesia. It was found in 1912 and measured over 32 ft 9.5 in (10 m). • The world’s tallest man-made structure hasn’t even been finished and it already holds a world record! The Burj Dubai skyscraper in Dubai towers a whopping 2,684 ft (818 m) off the ground. It will have 160 inhabitable floors, the most of any building in the world. It is nearly twice the height of the Empire State Building and will open in September of this year. • The longest interstate is I-90 and runs from Seattle to Boston. It would be a 3,100 mi (5,000 km) trip if you drove it end to end. • The world’s longest mountain range is the Andes. They line the cost of South America, stretching 4,500 miles (7,500 km) from Cape Horn to Venezuela.
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MEASURING UP! (continued): • It takes Neptune 164.79 Earth years to orbit the sun, but this could be because it has to travel 17,561,814,000 mi (28,263,000,000 km) to complete the trip! • The longest serving U.S. President was Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He served over twelve years as President and died in office in April 12, 1945. • The world’s largest cave is Mammoth Cave in Cave City, Kentucky. 350 miles of the cave system have been mapped although 560 miles are thought to exist. • New York City’s subway system is the largest in the world. It has 656 miles (1,056 km) of track in all. The longest line is the “A” 8th Avenue Express train, which is over 32 mi (51.4 km) long. • You might have known that the highest point on Earth is Mount Everest, measuring in at 5,497 ft (8,848 m) above sea level, but do you know what the lowest point on earth’s surface is? The Mariana Trench, at its maximum depth, is 6.8 mi (10.9 km) below sea level. It was first discovered during the Challenger expedition (1872-1876). • In January 1960, Swiss Scientist Jacques Piccard and US Navy Lt. Don Walsh made the world record for deepest dive when they made the 6.8 mi descent into the Challenger Deep, the lowest point in the trench. • The longest title of a book? Davide Ciliberti of Italy holds that record with the 290-word title of a book he published in 2007. The End
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Breaking the Nest Egg Even before the market downturn, workers who save for retirement in 401(k) and 403(b) plans lost billions of dollars. The reason? A host of undisclosed fees, which over time can reduce the value of a retirement account by half. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, there are up to 17 different types of fees that can be deducted from a 401(k). Most of these are simply taken from the account’s earnings, meaning that plan participants never see the fees on their statements. A hidden fee of 1 percent may not sound like much, but it lowers investment returns by 15 percent or more over a 30-year period, according to retirement consultants. In 2008, investors in stock mutual funds paid a weighted average of 0.84 percent in expenses. Yet 401(k) and 403(b) investors often paid 3.5 percent or more. In one case, an employee of the South Kitsap School District claimed in a lawsuit that her 403(b) plan is allowed to charge employees up to 12.17 percent per year in fees. One reason the fees are so much higher for 401(k) and 403(b) plans is something called revenue sharing. While there are thousands of mu-
Dear Dave, If you invest in the stock market, and the market goes down, what happens to the money? Is it lost? Danny Dear Danny, This is a great question! So many people misunderstand how investments work when the market declines. No actual money disappears. What goes away is value! Think about it this way. What happens when you buy a car for $25,000 and its value drops to $15,000? There’s no actual money involved. It’s not like you took bills out of your wallet and threw them away, although it may seem like it when you first roll off the showroom floor. You bought an item for $25,000, and now, after time has passed, it’s not worth $25,000 anymore. It works the same way with stocks. If you bought a company’s stock at $50 and the price of it drops to $40, that $10 didn’t go anywhere. It’s just lost in terms of market value, or what someone else will pay you for it. Make sense? So many people believe we operate with a fixed-pie economy. They think money is gone forever if it leaves one place, but this is a faulty premise, because it can just as easily go to another place. My good friend, Rabbi Daniel Lapin, has a wonderful explanation for how this works. He calls it a comparison of cake versus candles. If you slice a cake and give yourself a bigger piece, there’s less for me. But money isn’t like the cake, it’s like the candles! If you light a candle and use it to
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Grow something others can eat. Even a few rows of carrots or a trellis full of green beans will produce food that the local shelters would love to have. Grow something lovely for others. Bouquets of flowers grown on a patio can be dropped off at the hospital for patients who need a day brightener. If vision is a problem, grow vegetables that aren’t green so they can be more easily seen in the leaves. If there is no way you can grow vegetables or flowers where you live, look around your town. Many communities offer gardening space for seniors, complete with raised beds or vertical trellises that make the work so much easier. Ask at the senior center, too. My garden is of a more modest size this year, but I’m already discovering that it’s the care and feeding of growing things that brings the satisfaction, not how many baskets of green beans I’ll can this summer.
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Restoring Memorial Day Once again Senator Daniel Inouye (DHawaii) has tried to get Memorial Day restored to its original date, May 30. Right after the first of the year, he got right on it, as he’s done every single year since 1989. Within days, according to Congressional records, the bill was “Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary,” where it still sits. Beginning in 1868, Memorial Day was celebrated on May 30. It was a sacred day when the sole purpose was to put flowers on the graves of those who’d given their lives in battle during the Civil War. After World War I, it was expanded to include all veterans who’d died in war. It was only in 1971 that the date was changed to be the last Monday in May. Easier for government workers, I guess, to get a full three-day weekend off. (If they want a replacement for Memorial Day, why not make Armed Forces Day into a long weekend?) In 2000 we were given “The National Moment
of Remembrance Act,” where, I assume, people all across the country stop what they’re doing at 3 p.m. local time. Its purpose is to “promote greater understanding of the meaning of the Memorial Day holiday.” If “a moment” is not enough, and if you want to speak up and either call or send e-mail to voice your opinion about restoring Memorial Day to its original date, go to www.judiciary. senate.gov for info on the Judiciary Committee, where Inouye’s bill still languishes. I did a search for “restore Memorial Day” on its site and found nothing. Or you can thank Inouye for his efforts. His Congressional office number is 202-224-3934. Write to Freddy Groves in care of King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475, or send e-mail to columnreply@gmail.com. (c) 2009 King Features Synd., Inc.
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Pull over! See those lights? That might be a dirt track. Let me call my guy on the cell. Maybe he can hitch up the trailer and get my Late Model up here. Busch is also absolutely unafraid of being himself. Many drivers are little more than cardboard cutouts. They hide behind the advice of handlers, resting their assumption on the notion that, if they kiss up enough, nice things will be written about them. The driver who has won 11 of NASCAR’s last 46 races shares with the drivers of yore -- Bobby Allison, Darrell Waltrip, Harry Gant, et al. -- a thirst for competition. Busch didn’t grow up in Taylorsville, though. He grew up in Las Vegas. He has that trademark flair for the dramatic. Why does he bow to the hostile masses? He claimed Vegas had nothing to do with it. “I’m here to be myself, man,” Busch said in the wee hours of Sunday after the May 2 Sprint Cup race. “I am who I am. Everybody is who they are, for whatever reason. I don’t think it’s necessarily the way you’re raised or where you’re raised, or whatever. I just think what you believe in, what your beliefs are, what all happens around you as you grow up and stuff. “For me, it’s fun to come out here and, I guess, play the villain role sometimes, and yet be liked other times. It’s always cool to have that aspect in this sport. Even if I wasn’t in this sport, you know, doing something else, you’ve got to be happy with the way you’re living life and doing what you’re doing. Otherwise, it’s not worth living or not worth doing what you’re doing.”
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PHOTO: Kyle Busch is gunning to beat Richard Petty’s record of 200 Cup victories by winning in three series combined. (Getty Images)
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