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• David Starsky and Kenneth Hutchinson were fictional Bay City, California, cops who raced through the streets in Starsky’s red Gran Torino for 92 episodes on ABC television. Actors Michael Glaser and David Soul portrayed the police pair under the radio call sign “Zebra three” from April of 1975 until May of 1979.

• In 1939, Batman was introduced in “The Case of the Chemical Syndicate” in Detective Comics as a crime-fighter who masqueraded as playboy Bruce Wayne. The faithful sidekick Robin (aka Dick Grayson) joined the Caped Crusader in 1940, and together, the Dynamic Duo waged war against Gotham city crime. The pair moved to television in 1966 for 120 episodes of a liveaction series. On the big screen, Batman has been portrayed by box office stars Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney and Christian Bale. turn the page for more!

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Toddville Free Methodist Church The Heartland Country and Gospel Duo Concert Saturday, January 21, 2012 7:00 P.M. 300 Johnson Dr. Toddville, Iowa The Heartland Country and Gospel Duo, from Anamosa, will be singing and playing at the Toddville Free Methodist Church, Saturday, January 21, at 7:00 P.M. The public is invited. There will be a freewill offering for the couple.

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St. James United Methodist Church Soup Supper & Bake Sale January 28, 2012 4:30 - 6:30pm 1430 Ellis Blvd. NW, Cedar Rapids Now that winter seems to have FINALLY arrived, complete with snow and cold, come and warm up with a hearty bowl of chili, chicken noodle or broccolli cheese soup!

If soup’s not your thing, try the pulled pork sandwich. Top off your meal with a piece of scrumptious pie! Be sure to browse the bake sale table for a yummy treat to take home and snack on later! Event sponsored by the United Methodist Women of St. James UMC. Cedar Valley Humane Society www.cvhumane.org Whacked at da Wedding, a Comedy Whodunit February 4, 2012 (Registration ends January 20) Clarion Hotel and Convention Center, 525 33rd St. SW Cedar Rapids Cash bar opens at 6pm; dinner and show begins at 7pm Cost is $60/plate for choice of roast beef or vegetarian lasagna. All proceeds benefit homeless animals at the Cedar Valley Humane Society. For more info or to register, go to www.cvhumane.org.

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• Although most famous for their “Who’s on First?” baseball sketch, the comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello appeared in 38 films together. They got their start in burlesque in 1935, moving on to radio, film and television.

They were box office stars by 1941 and began their own TV series in 1952. However, fame didn’t come without its difficulties. Both comics were habitual gamblers, and Abbott managed the pain from his epilepsy with alcohol. Costello battled regular bouts with rheumatic fever, which forced him to take a year off from work.

On the day he returned to work, his infant son drowned in the family swimming pool. Both men were charged for back taxes by the IRS in 1956, and both were forced to sell their homes and film rights to cover the debt.

• Bonnie Parker was just 19 years old and already married to an imprisoned murderer when she met 21-year-old Clyde Barrow in Texas. During the Great Depression, the outlaw couple reportedly was responsible for at least 12 bank robberies, countless smaller burglaries and 13 murders, including those of nine police officers. On the day their lives of crime came to an end in 1934, Bonnie and Clyde were driving a gray V-8 Ford, which was ambushed by the law in Louisiana.

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• Meriwether Lewis was 29 years old and cocommander William Clark was 33 when they were commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson in 1803 to explore the Louisiana Purchase all the way to the Pacific coast. Lewis and Clark were both Virginia-born veterans of Ohio Valley Indian wars. Their expedition included more than 40 other men and their Shoshone guide Sacagawea as they wound their way up the Missouri River. Over a period of two years and four months, the group traveled over 8,000 miles using a 55-foot-long keelboat and two smaller boats, all the while making maps and studying the rocks, soil, plants and wildlife they encountered. After the expedition, Jefferson appointed Lewis Governor of the Louisiana Territory. At age 35, on a journey to deliver his journals to a Washington, D.C., publisher, Lewis died from multiple gunshot wounds, generally accepted as a suicide, although some believe he was the victim of an assassin. Clark served as Governor of the Missouri Territory and finally as Superintendent of Indian Affairs.

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• Barbie and Ken were the creations of Ruth Handler, wife of the Mattel toy company cofounder. Ruth named the couple after her own children, introducing Barbie in 1959 and Ken in 1961. Barbie (full name Barbie Roberts) has had more than 125 careers, including architect, astronaut, doctor and racecar driver. Ken Carson, who has had at least 40 occupations, first appeared with a molded plastic haircut with felt hair. In 2004, Mattel announced a breakup of our favorite couple, implying Ken’s reluctance to get married, but rekindled the romance in 2006 in conjunction with a makeover for Ken. Barbara Handler Segal is now a 70-year-old Los Angeles mother of two. Her brother Ken passed away at age 50 in 1994 of a brain tumor • Most baby boomers will recall learning from the popular “Dick and Jane” readers during their primary school years — about 60 million children in all used the books. The brother and sister pair first appeared in 1930, and by the 1950s, about 80 percent of first-graders were reading the series. Written by William Gray and Zerna Sharp, the books also featured sister Sally, Spot the dog and Puff the cat. If you happen to have a first edition of one of the books, it’s worth as much as $200.

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• The German Grimm Brothers introduced Hansel and Gretel in an 1812 publication. The brother and sister were the children of a poor woodcutter who surrendered to his second wife’s plot to abandon the young pair in the woods. Wandering in the forest, the children happened upon a cottage made of gingerbread cakes, home to a cannibalistic witch.

• Mickey and Minnie Mouse became an item in 1929 in the cartoon “Plane Crazy,” just four months after Mickey’s debut in “Steamboat Willie.” They went on to appear in 73 cartoons together. Their friend Donald Duck was single from the time of his 1934 premiere in “The Wise Little Hen” until Daisy Duck’s appearance in 1940’s “Mr. Duck Steps Out.” The sailor-suited Donald is the uncle of triplets Huey, Dewey and Louie, while Daisy is the aunt of their counterparts April, May and June Duck.

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MOMENTS IN TIME The History Channel ● On Jan. 22, 1779, famed Tory outlaw Claudius Smith meets his end on the gallows in Goshen, N.Y. Smith earned the label “Cowboy of the Ramapos” for his use of guerrilla tactics against Patriot civilians. Legend has it that Smith’s skull was filled with mortar and included in the edifice of the Goshen Court House. ● On Jan. 19, 1809, poet, author and literary critic Edgar Allan Poe is born in Boston. In 1836, Poe married his 13-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm, and completed his first fulllength work of fiction, “Arthur Gordon Pym.” He became known for dark horror stories like “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Tell-Tale Heart.” ● On Jan. 17, 1893, on the Hawaiian Islands, a group of American sugar planters under Sanford Ballard Dole overthrow Queen Liliuokalani, the Hawaiian monarch, and establish a new provincial government with Dole as president.

Three hundred U.S. Marines were called to Hawaii, allegedly to protect American lives. ● On Jan. 18, 1912, after a two-month ordeal, the expedition of British explorer Robert Falcon Scott arrives at the South Pole, only to find that Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen had preceded them by just more than a month.

Caught in a storm on the way back to base camp, Scott and two others perished. ● On Jan. 16, 1945, Adolf Hitler, leader of Nazi Germany, takes to his underground bunker, where he remains for 105 days until he commits suicide on April 30 in the waning days of World War II. Hitler and his wife swallowed cyanide capsules (which had been tested on his “beloved” dog and her pups). For good measure, he shot himself with his pistol. ● On Jan. 21, 1957, Patsy Cline, one of the greatest figures in country music history, first gains national attention with her appearance on “Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts,” wowing the studio audience with her performance of “Walkin’ After Midnight.” ● On Jan. 20, 1980, bleachers at a bullring in Sincelejo, Colombia, collapse, killing 222 people. The deadliest tragedy at a sporting event in Colombia’s history was the result of overcrowding and poor construction. (c) 2011 King Features Synd., Inc.

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Quite often a walker recommendation will be given by your family doctor, but sometimes people just feel more stable using a walker. If you plan on purchasing a walker yourself and not use insurance, no prescription is required. If billing insurance, you will need a prescription and have to meet certain qualifications.

The majority of walkers used will be wheeled walkers. Normally a non-wheeled walker is used by people that are extremely unstable in their walk, or briefly used by folks recovering from surgery until they can safely add the wheels to the walker.

Traditionally, wheeled walkers have two wheels up front and the back legs have glides – quite often tennis balls were used for that purpose. Thankfully, a four wheeled walker with a seat was developed! This type of walker is known as a ‘Rollator’.

A two wheeled walker is still commonly used. They are most often seen in skilled nursing facilities or for people that find them more stable than a rollator. Some people prefer a two wheeled walker because they fold up flat and fit into cars more easily.

More and more rollators are seen every day. They have many benefits to the user that a traditional walker does not have. A rollator has four wheels, which makes it easier and faster to walk with. The front two wheels swivel for much easier maneuvering. The rollator has brakes on the handles, very similar to bicycle brakes. The majority of rollators have a seat, either hard plastic or a 1” cushion – which is terrific when you need a short rest break or if you wish to sit and talk with someone. The majority of rollators also have a wire basket or nylon pouch to carry miscellaneous items in.

The other nice thing about rollators is the variety of nice colors, giving them less of a ‘medical’ appearance. They are also fun to decorate – my own grandmother has a small license plate with her name and a bike horn attached to her rollator… what a hoot!

The biggest down side of a rollator is they don’t fold up as small as a traditional walker, though they do still fit the trunk of most cars or the back seat. They are also heavier, normally between 12-14 lbs. There are some models that weigh upwards of 20-25 lbs. You should also be aware that a rollator has an easier potential to ‘get away’ from a person who may not have the skills to properly operate it.

This usually occurs when a person walks with the rollator too far out in front of them, then they put too much downward pressure on the handles… causing the rollator to scoot forward out of their reach.

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CHRYSLER BUILDING Towering over downtown Manhattan is the renowned Chrysler Building, at one time the tallest building in the world. Let’s learn more about this beautiful Art Deco masterpiece, voted by many New Yorkers as their favorite structure.

• In 1928, Walter Chrysler had built his company into the second largest producer of automobiles in the world, and he felt it was time for a company headquarters that reflected that status. Rather than building in Detroit like other automakers, he opted to move to New York City, where he obtained the property at 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue. Because Chrysler wanted his children to inherit the building, the Chrysler Corporation paid for none of the construction, with the entire bill footed by Walter Chrysler himself.

• Ground was broken in September of 1928 in the midst of a fierce competition to build the world’s tallest skyscraper. Three shifts worked around the clock seven days a week, setting a pace of completion of four floors per week. Not one worker died during the building’s construction.

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• There are 3,862 windows in the Chrysler Building, and 32 elevators service its 1,195,000 square feet. About 21,000 tons of steel and 400,000 rivets were required, and 3,826,000 bricks cover the exterior of its 77 floors. Automobile-themed ornaments were chosen to highlight the exterior.

The corners of the 61st floor feature stainless steel eagles, replicas of a 1929 Chrysler hood ornament. The ornamentation on the 31st floor’s corners copied the radiator caps of that year’s model fashioned into gargoyles.

• The top seven floors were designed primarily for appearance with tapering terraced arches of stainless steel. These floors serve as landings for the stairway to the spire. They are very narrow with low, sloping ceilings, and also house radio broadcasting equipment.

• The walls of the elegant lobby are red Moroccan marble, while the floors are yellow marble. The elevator doors are inlaid with Japanese ash and American walnut, and the lobby is decorated with various Egyptian motifs. A 110-foot ceiling mural features a likeness of the building with planes flying around it, as well as painted scenes from the Chrysler plant assembly line.

• The building was officially completed on May 27, 1930, at a cost of $20 million. Soaring to a height of 1,047 feet, it was the world’s tallest building at its completion, as well as the first man-made structure to exceed a height of 1,000 feet. It surpassed the Eiffel Tower, which had been the world’s tallest structure for 40 years, by 48 feet. Just 11 months after the Chrysler Building’s completion, it was outdone by the Empire State Building by more than 200 feet.

• The Chrysler family sold the building in 1947.

The skyscraper remained the auto company’s corporate headquarters from its opening until the mid-1950s. The building has changed ownership numerous times since then. The Abu Dhabi Investment council is now the principal owner of the property.

• The Chrysler Building now ranks as the third tallest building in New York City and the 48th tallest in the world. It still holds the honor of the world’s tallest brick building. It has been a National Historic Landmark since 1976.

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June 22– July 22 . Stop waiting around to be rescued, Cancer, and rescue yourself.

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January 20– February 18 Tempers flare at home. You could play peacemaker, Aquarius, but would it do any good? Leave things be. It will all work out somehow.

July 23– August 22 Good golly, Leo. Your efforts to stay fiscally fit appear to be working, and you’re farther along in your goals than you thought.

A friend, on the other hand, could use your help.

February 19– March 20 Even the best-laid plans can go awry, Pisces. Try not to get too bummed about it. Something better is brewing! A lesson is learned at work.

August 23– September 22 Some promises were made to be broken.

The sooner you accept that fact, Virgo, the easier time you will have moving forward.

A tickle of the ivories gets the creative juices flowing.

The web of deceit is almost always easier to build than it is to untangle, so you might want to rethink your plan, Capricorn. A special occasion draws near.

March 21– April 19 There is a season for everything.

Don’t overstay your welcome, Aries, no matter how much You have to offer.

A shopping venture begins.

September 23– October 22 Drat, Libra. All the work you’ve done proves futile. Step aside and call in a pro. Clear skies set the stage for introspection and selfdiscovery.

April 20– May 20 A dilemma rears its ugly head yet again.

Deal with it once and for all, Taurus, by thinking outside of the box. A painstaking project gets off the ground.

October 23– November 21 Lapses in concentration point to the need for some R&R, Scorpio. Don’t you dare say no to a friend’s invitation.

Pack your bags and get ready to havesome serious fun.

May 21– June 21 Imagination soars, and ideas come tumbling forward. Don’t bother to weed through them, Gemini. There will be time for that later. A friend makes a request.

November 22– December 21 Listlessness sets in at home, and it’s up to you to rev things up.

Start with an outing someplace fun. Rumors compound at the office.

Pay them no mind, Sagittarius.

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TRUTHS ABOUT TWINS Great things come in pairs, so they say. This week, Tidbits shares some truths about twins.

• About one-third of all twins are identical, or monozygotic. This means they were formed from a single fertilized egg that splits into two.

When it splits, there are either two males or two females. It’s a very small window of time for the split to occur — It must happen during the first 14 days after conception, or it won’t happen!

Fraternal twins are formed from two separate eggs, fertilized separately. The combination can be two males, two females or one of each.

• In the United States, the birthrate for twins is about 3 percent. Approximately 70 percent of twins are the result of fertility treatments.

In America, one in 50 people is a dizygotic (fraternal) twin, and one in 150 is a monozygotic (identical) twin. If a woman is a fraternal twin, she has about a one in 17 chance of giving birth to twins. Each year, about 140,000 babies born in the United States are part of a set of twins.

Over 50 percent of those are born prematurely.

• Several celebrities have a twin sibling, including Scarlett Johansson, who has a twin brother Hunter, and Vin Diesel, whose twin brother is a film editor. Kiefer Sutherland’s twin sister is also in the movie business, as a postproduction supervisor and casting assistant.

Ashton Kutcher’s fraternal twin brother is afflicted with cerebral palsy and had a heart transplant as a youth.

• Other celebrities are parents of twins, such as singers Mariah Carey, Celine Dion and Jennifer Lopez, and film stars Julia Roberts, Michael J. Fox, Denzel Washington and Mel Gibson.

• The correct term for Siamese twins is “conjoined” twins. These occur when the babies do not fully separate from each other because the division of the fertilized egg is incomplete. They are connected at certain points of the body, frequently sharing organs or limbs. This condition occurs about once every 85,000 births. Because they are monozygotic, they are always either both boys or both girls, never one of each. The term “Siamese twins” came from a pair of famous brothers Chang and Eng Bunker who were the first conjoined twins to have their medical history documented. Born in Siam in the early 1880s, they were joined at the sternum. Settling in the United States, the men married sisters and fathered 21 children between the two of them. They died at age 62 on the same day. One of their descendants was a candidate for governor in Florida in the 2010 election.

• The town of Igbo-Ora, Nigeria, has been proclaimed “The Land of Twins.” For some reason, about 5 percent of births there result in twins, compared to an overall world average rate of about 0.5 percent. Igbo-Ora’s community leader came from a family of 10 sets of twins, and he himself has three sets. Some experts believe the high occurrence is the result of the residents’ heavy consumption of yams, a food that contains the hormone phytoestrogen, which may stimulate production of eggs in a woman’s ovaries.

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