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by Janet Spencer

In honor of the PGA golf tournament coming up this month, Tidbits goes golfing!

GOLF THROUGH HISTORY • The game of golf may have originally started as a game played by the Romans called ‘paganica.’ It was played by hitting a feather-filled leather ball with a crooked stick.

• Modern golf was invented by the Scots, and by the mid-1400s had become so popular that King James II outlawed the game because he felt his subjects were wasting too much time playing it when they should be spending more time doing useful things. Archers were losing their shooting ability because they were spending so much time hitting little balls around instead practicing their aim.

• Golf was once an Olympic sport. It was dropped in 1904.

• The first golf tee was patented on December 12, 1889 by a dentist named G. F. Grant of Boston.

• America’s first 18-hole golf course was constructed on a sheep farm in Downer’s Grove, Illinois in 1892. When businessman Blair McDonald moved to this town, he began constructing the course with his colleagues because he loved golf. The Downer’s Grove Golf Course is still intact after all these years, although it has since been downsized to just 9 holes.

GREAT SHOTS • During the 1949 British Open, Harry Bradshaw accidentally drove a ball into a beer bottle which broke the bottle’s neck. The ball ended up inside the bottle. To avoid a penalty, Bradshaw played it where it lay. He smashed the bottle with his club. The bottle traveled about 30 feet (9 m). The ball didn’t move.

• In 1975 Perry Crowley of Connecticut was playing golf when he hit a ball into the water. However, it skipped off the lake, ricocheted off a rake in the nearby sand trap, then landed on the green and skidded into the cup.

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• During a 1938 PGA tournament, Jimmy Hine’s with a red cloth before the crows can spot them. chip shot on the 13th hole hit opponent Sam • Sign posted on an African golf course: “If the Snead’s ball, and they both ended up in the cup. ball comes to rest in dangerous proximity to a Both players, who were tied, were awarded a crocodile or a hippopotamus, another ball may birdie two. Snead eventually beat Hines by one be dropped.” stroke.

• Songwriter Hoagy Carmichael was playing at Pebble Beach, California. He teed up on a par-three hole, chose a club, and smacked the ball. It bounced once on the green, rolled to the pin, and dropped in the hole for a hole-in-one.

Hoagy didn’t react at all. He just reached in his pocket, pulled out another ball, teed up again, and said, “I think I’ve got the idea now.”

• Henry “Dads” Miller of Anaheim, California, once shot a 99 on a 5,734-yard course. He was 100 years old at the time, and had not taken up golf until the age of 67.

• On a golf course in Africa, golfers tee off from the flat top of a 15-foot (4.5 m) termite mound.

A hundred other mounds on the course provide the hazards.

• You need to walk 35 miles (56 km) to reduce • Fred Astaire was nearly as good at golfing as he one pound (.45 kg) of fat. If you drink two was at dancing. In his 1938 film “Carefree,” he average cocktails during an 18-hole round of danced over tables, down the hallway, out to the golf, you will end up with a net caloric gain. terrace, and onto a golf course. There he was to dance over to a golf club and hit, in rhythm and • In the movie “Diamonds are Forever,” James on cue, a dozen golf balls that were lined up Bond smuggled diamonds inside his Dunlop 65 on the fairway. When the crew went to retrieve golf balls. the golf balls, they found all twelve balls within • Golfer Gene Sarazen was playing in an early eight feet (2.4 m) of each other on the green. world championship match in 1922 against • “Golf Digest” reports that there are an average Walter Hagen. At the end of the first day, he was just 2 strokes behind, on account of having of about 120 holes-in-ones reported every day. missed a couple easy putts due to nerves. That FAST FACTS ABOUT GOLF night he complained of stomach pains and was • Stephen Horchler of Scotland invented a golf unable to sleep. The next day he went on to win ball that has a built-in radio transmitter that the match. Four hours later he underwent an beeps distress signals so golfers can find it. emergency appendectomy. He commented, “A • Astronaut Alan Shepard made golf history when sick appendix is not as difficult to deal with as he knocked a few golf balls around on the moon. a five-foot putt.”

But he missed the first shot, taking a mulligan.

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This earned him a lifetime membership in the U.S. Duffers Association of Newport, Kentucky.

They also awarded him the presidency of their first moon chapter.

• Crows living near the golf course in Bombay, India, have developed a taste for golf balls, picking them up and carrying them back to their nests. Caddies run after the balls and cover them

When Laura Baugh started tearing up the golf courses in the early 1970s, she was still too young to play on the women’s pro tour according to regulations.

So her agent took her to Japan, which did not have a minimum age requirement. The golf-happy Japanese fixated on the curvaceous young blond American.

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• Tiger Woods was only 8 when he got his first hole-in-one. Five-year-old Coby Orr was the youngest golfer to shoot a hole-inone.

He did it in Littleton, Colorado in 1975.

• Henrik Stenson made headlines by stripping down to his underwear when his ball went into a swampy area during the WGC Cadillac Championship in 2009. Wearing nothing but a glove and his jockey shorts, he hit his ball out of the muck and made bogey.

• Jack Nicklaus won the Masters tournament six times.

• Someone asked Muhammed Ali how he was at golf. “I am the greatest!” he replied. “I just haven’t played yet!”

GOLF FACTS • The word “caddy” comes from the French word for student, “cadet” which is pronounced cadDAY. • The medieval Dutch word “kolf” or “kolve” meant “club” and is probably the origin of the word golf.

• Balls travel significantly further on hot days.

• A club remains in contact with the ball for half of a thousandth of a second and travels with the ball for three quarters of an inch.

• 400 million rounds of golf are played in America each year.

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July 20, 2015

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Noteworthy Inventions...

QUIZ: GARNET CARTER

• On Aug. 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden, elderly residents of Fall River, Mass., are found bludgeoned to death in their home. Suspicion soon fell on daughter Lizzie and the axe she’d just bought. At her trial, the jury only took 90 minutes to decide that such a sweet-looking Christian woman could never commit such a heinous crime.

• On Aug. 6, 1928, Andy Warhol, one of the most influential artists of the latter part of the 20th century, is born Andrew Warhola in Pennsylvania. After being incorrectly credited as “Warhol” under an early published drawing, he decided to permanently remove the “a” from his last name.

• On Aug. 9, 1945, a second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the United States, at Nagasaki, resulting finally in Japan’s surrender. The devastation wrought at Hiroshima had not been sufficient to persuade the Japanese War Council to accept the Potsdam Conference’s demand for unconditional surrender.

• On Aug. 3, 1958, the U.S. nuclear submarine Nautilus accomplishes the first undersea voyage to the geographic North Pole. The Nautilus dived at Point Barrow, Alaska, and traveled nearly 1,000 miles under the Arctic ice cap to reach the top of the world.

• On Aug. 6, 1964, the United States Congress overwhelmingly approves the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, giving President Lyndon B. Johnson nearly unlimited powers to oppose “communist aggression” in Southeast Asia.

The resolution marked the beginning of an expanded military role for the United States in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

• On Aug. 8, 1988, the Chicago Cubs host the first night game in the history of Wrigley Field. The first-ever night game in professional baseball took place nearly 60 years earlier in Des Moines, Iowa.

• On Aug. 5, 2002, the rusty iron gun turret of the ironclad warship U.S.S. Monitor was raised from the floor of the Atlantic, where it had rested since it went down in a storm off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, during the Civil War. She sank in December 1862, while being towed from Cape Hatteras. © 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

• John 'Garnet' Carter was born in 1883 in Sweetwater, Tennessee. Although he dropped out of school, he later completed a six-month business school which filled his head with ideas.

• In his early years, he bounced around between jobs, working at a grocery store, becoming a travelling candy salesman, and going into business with his brother selling aluminum ware.

• Next he went into business developing real estate on Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga, Tennessee. There he constructed an inn with a ballroom.

• In 1927, Garnet Carter was looking for an added attraction to entertain his customers. He came up with a successful idea that immediately caught on with the public and became a national craze. His invention provided simple, fun outdoor recreation. It could be installed in a week and cost (at that time) as little as $2,000.

• The first example of Carter's idea was built on Long Island and brought in $362 in its first day of business. At first they were barred from within 50 feet of churches, schools, or hospitals.

But one progressive church in New Jersey installed its own and urged everyone to come. The profits paid off the church's debts.

• Three years later, there were 40,000 of these inventions across the country and Garnet Carter was a rich man. The industry took in $225 million in a single year, and employed 200,000 people.

The Queen of Belgium got hooked on it, and Al Capone invested in it.

• The steel industry, the pipe industry, and the felt industry were very happy about the new product— and so was Garnet Carter.

Can you guess what Garnet Carter's big idea was?

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By Keith Roach, M.D.

What Is COPD?

DEAR DR. ROACH: Please help me to understand what COPD means. -- S. ANSWER: “COPD” stands for “chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.” “Chronic” means that it is long-lasting, and “obstructive” means the airflow in and out of the lungs is decreased. The three subtypes of COPD are chronic bronchitis, emphysema and chronic obstructive asthma. These conditions usually are progressive. COPD is the third leading cause of death in the U.S. Chronic bronchitis is a chronic productive cough (specifically, lasting three months or more in two successive years). Smoking is far and away the leading cause of chronic bronchitis in the developed world, but home cooking fires are the cause in developing nations.

“Emphysema” means the destruction of the walls of the airways, causing abnormal, permanently enlarged air spaces. Smoking is again the leading cause of emphysema, but a genetic condition, alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency, can bring about both emphysema and liver disease. People with this uncommon disorder sometimes mistakenly are assumed to be smokers.

Asthma is a common condition that is highly variable from person to person. Most people have reversible obstruction to the airway with exacerbations of asthma, but some people have a degree of obstruction all the time, and they are considered to have COPD. COPD typically causes cough and shortness of breath, especially with activity. COPD often has exacerbations, which may be associated with infections, that cause worsening of symptoms, frequently requiring treatment, including hospitalization. Treatment for COPD is to remove any known cause (usually smoking, even secondhand smoke). Medicines to reduce inflammation (especially inhaled steroids) often are used, as are medicines to relax the muscles inside airways to relieve obstruction. In severe cases, oxygen is necessary. Lung surgery or transplantation is rarely used.

The booklet on COPD explains both emphysema and chronic bronchitis in detail. Readers can obtain a copy by writing: Dr. Roach -- No. 601W, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803.

Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6 Canada with the recipient’s printed name and address. Please allow 4-6 weeks for delivery. *** DEAR DR. ROACH: I have Parkinson’s disease. Although my medication is still working, it’s not as effective as it was. I have heard that this is the time to consider stem-cell treatment. Can you tell me if this is a good idea? -- S.A. ANSWER: Parkinson’s disease is caused by the loss of neurons (nerve calls) in a portion of the brain called the substantia nigra.

Stem cells are early, unspecialized cells, capable of differentiating into any kind of cell. The theory with stem-cell treatment is that the stem cells will go into the affected part of the brain and take on the role of the damaged or destroyed cells. Some early work has been promising.

In my view, the technology is not yet ready for widespread clinical use. I don’t recommend it. There are many new medications for Parkinson’s disease, and I have recommended non-pharmacologic therapy, including exercise, several times. I strongly recommend evaluation by an expert, preferably a neurologist experienced in Parkinson’s disease.

A reader recently wrote to tell me that treatment of his vitamin D deficiency greatly relieved his Parkinson’s symptoms. *** Dr. Roach regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but will incorporate them in the column whenever possible. Readers may email questions to ToYourGoodHealth@med.cornell.edu. To view and order health pamphlets, visit www.rbmamall.com, or write to Good Health, 628 Virginia Drive Orlando, FL 32803. (c) 2015 North America Synd., Inc. All Rights Reserved

by Samantha Weaver * The average resident of North America consumes about 600 sodas every year. * Another good reason to recycle: The energy saved by recycling one glass jar is enough to watch TV for three hours. * There are many laws that have been passed during our nation’s history that make you think that some of our legislators have a bit too much time on their hands. For example, in Alaska it is illegal to look at a moose from an airplane; an Illinois law states that a car must be driven with the steering wheel; in West Virginia, you can be imprisoned for cooking sauerkraut or cabbage, due to the offensive odor; and a California law of 1925 made it illegal to wiggle while dancing. * The same man who discovered the planet Uranus also invented contact lenses. * A giraffe can use its tongue to clean its ears -- not too difficult a task, I suppose, if your tongue is 21 inches long. * Everyone has seen bonsai -- those tiny trees that are pruned into aesthetically pleasing shapes. Many people don’t realize, though, that even trees that grow to be giants of the plant world, such as redwoods and giant sequoias, can be used to create these miniatures. * The United States once issued a bill of currency that was worth 5 cents. * The name of the popular Japanese dish teriyaki literally means “shiny and broiled.” * There is only one bird that can swim but not fly: the penguin, of course. *** Thought for the Day: “A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.” -- La Bruyere (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

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PAWS CORNER By: Sam Mazzotta Cat ‘Horks’ Up Hairballs DEAR PAW’S CORNER: Sometimes my cat “Bink” starts making “horking” noises and occasionally after some time will cough up a little ball of hair. But other times he just makes the noises without producing anything. Should I be concerned? -- Karl in Des Moines, Iowa DEAR KARL: You can always contact your cat’s veterinarian if you’re unsure about a potential health issue. In this case, Bink may be simply dealing with hairballs or trying to cough one up.

According to Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, it’s not unusual for a healthy cat to cough up a hairball every week or two. These vary in size but are rarely round because the esophagus compresses them somewhat as they are brought up. Hairballs are just that: a clump of indigestible hair, typically swallowed while a cat is grooming itself. Sometimes they’ll bring them up with a bit of undigested food as well, which is always a pleasure to clean up, right?

If a cat has several episodes of retching without producing a hairball, or if it vomits or is lethargic, contact the vet. It could have another problem, either digestive or even respiratory, that only the vet can diagnose and treat.

So, can you prevent hairballs in cats? No, not really. Grooming is natural and healthy, and hairballs are a by-product of this. You might be able to reduce their size and frequency by feeding Bink a diet that keeps his coat healthy, with less shedding. Groom him often, even daily, to remove shed hairs.

Should you give him a hairball remedy? Many vets recommend against it, as they do little to minimize hairballs.

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Watermelon, Family-Style It has been a watermelon summer!

The luscious, juicy treat has made a regular appearance in our soups, salads, grilled sides and sliced up on large platters for the perfect al fresco “big crowd” dessert.

Summer days are going by quickly, so grab a fresh melon today and let it quench your thirst, satisfy your sweet tooth and provide lots of “good for you” vitamins A, B-6 and C. Here are some creative ideas for serving local watermelon during this peak season:

CHECKERBOARD WATERMELON SALAD 10

chunks of ripe watermelon and 8 chunks of ripe honeydew melon cut into 3/4inch cubes 1/4 cup feta cheese 2 fresh mint leaves chopped 2 basil leaves chopped (optional) Olive oil and white balsamic vinegar or your favorite vinaigrette dressing Let kids arrange cubes in a checkerboard pattern on salad plates. Sprinkle feta, mint and basil on top. Dress with a drizzle of olive oil and white balsamic or vinaigrette dressing. A pinch of sea salt tastes good, too. Makes 2 servings.

Alternate idea: Replace two honey-

Cut three cups of watermelon flesh into chunks. Remove seeds and liquefy in a blender. Pour into ice-cube trays and freeze. For a satisfying cooldown beverage on a hot afternoon, fill a tall glass with the watermelon ice cubes and orange or grapefruit juice.

Garnish with a whole strawberry or a thick triangular slice of watermelon with the pointed end slid onto the rim of the glass.

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WATERMELON ICE CUBES

July 27, 2015

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WATERMELON FRUIT KEBABS When serving grilled chicken or beef kebabs, keep the “food on a stick” theme, and let one of your school-age kids skewer chunks of watermelon, cantaloupe, pineapple and kiwi on short wooden skewers. Strawberries look especially appealing on either end of the stick. Enjoy the fruit dipped in small dishes of fruit-flavored yogurt. *** Donna Erickson’s award-winning series “Donna’s Day” is airing on public television nationwide. To find more of her creative family recipes and activities, visit www.donnasday.com and link to the NEW Donna’s Day Facebook fan page. Her latest book is “Donna Erickson’s Fabulous Funstuff for Families.”

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• I have a pair of pants I wear while gardening. The knees wore out, naturally, and I went to sew patches on the knees. I left the top of the patch open, and when needed, I slip in a piece of foam rubber. Magical knee pads! — R.E. in Oregon • Are you great behind the lens of your camera and love animals? Consider donating your time to your local animal shelter as a pet photographer.

Showing Mittens and Fido off to their best advantage can mean the difference in their finding a forever home.

Check with your local rescue organizations, too!

• To clean your tarnished silver jewelry, simply line a tray or shallow bowl with aluminum foil, lay the pieces on the foil and fill with a hot water and detergent solution (NOT bleach-containing). You also can use baking soda and hot water. Swish and allow the tarnish to transfer to the foil.

Use a soft cloth to dry.

• If your car’s windshield or back window fogs over, try this trick, borrowed from the bathroom: Spread regular shaving cream over the window and wipe clean with a cloth. Buff off any streaks with newspaper. This will last a good while! — P.P. in South Carolina • Now is the time to tighten your cane-bottomed chairs. Flip the chair over, then soak the cane with hot water and allow it to dry fully in the sun.

• If your plastic wrap gets sticky, place it in the refrigerator. You even can store it there to keep it easy to unroll. — L.K. in Arizona Send your tips to Now Here’s a Tip, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803. © 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

IDA & WILLIAM ROSENTHAL • Ida and William Rosenthal were Russian immigrants who came to America penniless. Ida was a dressmaker so she and her husband set up a dress shop.

• Ida was constantly dissatisfied with the way dresses fit around natural female curves. The current fashion was for women to wrap themselves with a "bandeau," a strip of cloth that circled the chest, flattening everything.

• In frustration – and also in rebellion against the popular flat-chested look of the flapper – Ida and William invented the first form-fitting bra which had two separate rounded pockets. Since all women are not built equally, Ida invented the cup size. She later designed different models for every stage of a woman's life. This design enhanced rather than downplayed a woman’s natural shape. They called their company Maidenform.

• They were granted a patent for the ‘uplift brassiere.’ The dresses did indeed fit better.

• At first the brassieres were built into the dresses they made; then they gave away a free bra with every dress sold. The bras started to become very popular, so they gave up the dress shop and started a brassiere company with a capital investment of $4,500 in 1922.

• Four years later, they had 40 machines turning out mass-produced bras. Forty years later, they had 19 factories producing 25 million bras annually.

• During World War II when fabric was in short supply, Maidenform rounded out its line to include vests worn by carrier pigeons in order to help out with the war effort and prevent the company from going bust. Paratroopers would "wear" a bird strapped to their chest when they jumped out of a plane. When they landed, they would attach a message to the bird and release it.

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Game Changers

by Jason Jenkins

Long Equals Long

Lag putting is an essential part of the game that can either add or subtract strokes from your score each round. Controlling the speed on long putts can be more important than how accurate your read or aim of the putt had been. Hitting the first putt inside a makeable range should be the goal for most golfers when the putt is outside thirty feet.

One of the common mistakes seen in the long putting game is a belief that that backstroke is short or the same length for all putts. This restricted backstroke leads to an attempt to overly “accelerate” the putterhead through impact to create proper speed. This can be a very inconsistent and difficult way to control long putts.

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