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by Kathy Wolfe There are lots of ways to make beautiful music on instruments other than the familiar ones. This week, Tidbits looks at some of the world’s more unusual instruments along with a few well-known ones.

• Atlantic City, New Jersey, is home to the world’s largest pipe organ, with seven manuals, or keyboards, and 33,112 pipes. Credited as the largest musical instrument ever constructed, it was built between 1929 and 1932 by Long Island, New York’s Midmer-Losh Organ Company at a cost of $350,000, and weighs about 150 tons. It’s in the midst of a 10-year, $16 million restoration project. If you want to take a tour of the organ at that city’s Boardwalk Hall, you will need to notch out 4 ½ hours.

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• The Fluegelhorn has its origins in the early 18th century, when it was a large semicircular hunting horn, essentially a bugle without valves, played by the “Fluegelmeister.” The modern instrument looks much like a trumpet, but with a much wider bell. It has a richer, mellower, darker sound than the trumpet, about halfway between the tones of a trumpet and a French horn.

• Benjamin Franklin invented an instrument called the hydrocrystalophone, which in simpler terms is known as the glass armonica. His armonica consisted of a series of glass bowls of graduated size floating in a tray of water.

The varying sizes produced different musical tones based on the size of the bowl.

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thin flat wooden frame with up to 50 strings stretched across its body is known as a zither. Five of the strings are used to play the melody with the remainder used for the harmony. The performer can pluck the strings with either his fingers or a special tool called a plectrum. The zither is common in Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, and southern Germany. An early form of the zither was found in the tomb of Chinese royalty dating back to 433 B.C. • The indigenous Australians of northern Australia developed the didgeridoo about 1,500 years ago, and it’s still in use today. The wooden cylinder measures anywhere from 3 to 10 ft. (1 to 3 m) in length. The longer the didgeridoo, the lower the pitch.

Aboriginal craftsmen look for hollow live eucalyptus trees, usually ones that have been invaded by termites that have attacked only the heart of the tree. The tree is cleaned out and the bark removed, then shaped into an instrument, with a rim of beeswax added to the mouthpiece end. A British medical study indicates that playing the didgeridoo helps reduce snoring and sleep

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• Oompah! Where would marching bands be without the sousaphone? Although many folks call it a tuba, this large 40-lb. (18.1 kg) brass instrument that wraps around the player (who supports most of the weight with his or her shoulder) is more accurately called a sousaphone after its designer. John Philip Sousa, conductor of the United States Marine Band in the 1890s, and composer of “Stars and Stripes Forever,” was looking for an improvement to the era’s helicon, a narrower version of the sousaphone. Sousa came up with a design that was submitted to Philadelphia’s J.W. Pepper Company, a design with the bell pointed upward. By the 1920s, the design had been changed to the bell pointing outward for better sound projection. In more recent years, the instruments have been manufactured from fiberglass to lighten the load.

• The hurdy-gurdy has been around since about the 12th century when it was known as the organistrum or symphonia. It’s a three-stringed instrument with a wheel or circular bow that is turned by a crank. The strings are attached to keys and when the wheel rubs against the strings, it produces a sound similar to that of a violin.

The large organistrum has a guitar-shaped body and long neck where the keys are set. The name hurdy-gurdy is often confused with the barrel organ or street piano played by street musicians. That instrument consists of barrels onto which perforated paper rolls are attached. Only a turning of the crank is required to play the barrel organ, with no musical skills required. It’s the instrument seen in illustrations of an organ grinder and his performing monkey.

• One of the world’s oldest musical instruments, the harp, was developed from a hunting bow. Pictographs of harps have been found in ancient Egyptian tombs dating back to 3000 B.C. The modern harp has a long hollow side called the column or pillar, in which are situated the rods that control the instrument’s seven pedals. The pedals allow for changing notes and switching keys. Because there are no “black keys” to help the harpist locate notes on the nearly 50 strings, the “C” strings are colored red and “F” strings are black. The harp’s strings are made of nylon, gut, wire, or silk.

• The Jew’s harp isn’t a harp and it isn’t Jewish! Its proper name is “plucked idiophone,” and its small lyre-shaped metal frame is played by positioning it on the performer’s teeth. A bent metal tongue inside the frame is plucked by the player’s finger. Ancient frames dating back to the year 1400 have been found in Germany. One of Beethoven’s music teachers, Austrian composer and organist Johann Alberchtsberger, composed several concerti for the Jew’s Harp around 1765.

• Since 1998, folks across Europe and Asia have been listening to the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra, a group of 11 musicians who play instruments carved from fresh vegetables. They make their instruments one hour before each performance from the freshest vegetables possible, and play music on cuke-o-phones, radish marimbas, carrot flutes, bell pepper trumpets, pumpkin basses, violins carved from leeks, and percussion instruments fashioned from eggplant. It takes about 90 lbs. (40.8 kg) of fresh veggies to create the orchestra, and following the performance, the group’s cook throws all of the instruments into a kettle of soup.

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• After a stint as a flying officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II, Greene returned to Canada to pursue an acting career.

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• His role in 1957’s Peyton Place led to a guest spot on television’s Wagon Train, which led to his most wellknown role, that of Ben Cartwright on the western Bonanza in 1959. Green modeled his character after his own father, a shoemaker. For the next 14 years, Greene played Cartwright on a series that became the second-longest running western series (after Gunsmoke). Within two years, Bonanza was the Number One show on TV, and in the mid-1960s, Greene was making $11,000 a week.

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• In 1978, Lorne Green took on the role of Captain Adama in the popular sci-fi series Battlestar Galactica and its follow-up Galactica 1980.

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• In 1987, a made-for-TV movie with a Bonanza reunion was planned, and Greene signed on to reprise his role of Ben Cartwright. Unfortunately, he passed away before the filming began from pneumonia that developed following ulcer surgery. The movie was still produced, with Greene’s daughter playing the role of the love interest of Little Joe Cartwright’s son.

• Green left behind a tribute to his Canadian roots by his founding of Toronto’s Academy of Radio Arts, originally called the Lorne Greene School of Broadcasting.

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CHOCOLATE-Y FACTS In honor of Chocolate Day on July 7, Tidbits checks out the facts on this favorite confection. â&#x20AC;˘ A small evergreen tree ranging in height from 15 to 26 feet (4 to 8 m) is the source of cacao beans.

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by Samantha Weaver • It was civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. who made the following sage observation: "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

• In 1811, London became the first city in the world to reach the milestone population of 1 million.

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• You might think that hot dogs are a relatively recent food offering, but you'd be wrong. The first sausages were created more than 3,500 years ago when ancient Babylonians began stuffing spiced meat into the intestines of animals.

• If you hear the word "Bilbo" you might think of a famously adventurous hobbit, but a bilbo also is a finely tempered Spanish sword.

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• If you were at a certain street corner in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, on a certain day in 1962, you would have seen a startling thing: After plunging through the atmosphere, a 21-pound chunk of the Soviet Sputnik IV spacecraft made impact at the corner of Park Street and North 8th Street.

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*** Q: Angela Kinsey has to be one of the funniest women on television; I love her recurring role on "New Girl."

Will she star in anything of her own soon? -- Judy T., Santa Fe, N.M. A: The talented actress, who's perhaps best known for co-starring on "The Office," returns to a comedy series when she co-stars in "The Hotwives of Orlando," a Hulu original series premiering Tuesday, July 15. As you can probably tell by the title, the series is a riff on all the "Real Housewives" series, which follows Angela as the Religious Zealot, Casey Wilson as the Trophy Wife, Kristen Schaal as the Drug-Addled Former Child Star, Tymberlee Hill as the Entrepreneur, Danielle Schneider as the Bankrupt Overspender, and Andrea Savage as the Cougar. Paul Scheer (who also is a producer on the series) costars as Matty Green, the Enthusiastic TV Producer.

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While we all know how important corn was as an early American food, it has taken scientists decades to learn how corn evolved as a domesticated, cultivated grain.

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Try my recipe for Fresh Corn Roasted With “Herb Butter” and make some delicious memories.

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1. In a small bowl, mix together margarine, green onion, lemon juice, parsley, salt, pepper, chili powder, Worcestershire sauce, nutmeg and hot sauce. Cover and refrigerate at least 1 hour or up to 7 days. Leave husks on corn, but remove the silk strands. Spread each ear of corn with 1 tablespoon herb butter. Wrap each ear in the husk in foil.

2. Roast corn on barbeque grill, turning every 3 to 4 minutes for 10 to 15 minutes, or use oven broiler, and place corn 4 inches from heating element for 30-minutes, turning every 5 to 10 minutes, or until kernels are tender.

3. Unwrap foil, and detach and discard husks and any remaining silks. Spread corn with any remaining butter. Makes 6 servings. *** Angela Shelf Medearis is an award-winning children's author, culinary historian and the author of seven cookbooks. Her new cookbook is "The Kitchen Diva's Diabetic Cookbook." Her website is www.divapro.com. To see how-to videos, recipes and much, much more, Like Angela Shelf Medearis, The Kitchen Diva! on Facebook and go to Hulu.com. Read Gina Harlow's Blog about food and gardening at www.peachesandprosciutto.com. Recipes may not be reprinted without permission from Angela Shelf Medearis. (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc., and Angela Shelf Medearis

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Talk about irony! Colin Firth, an Oscar winner for "The King's Speech," has bowed out of providing the voice for "Paddington," the accident-prone young bear. Firth admitted, "It's been bittersweet to see this delightful creature take shape, and come to the sad realization that he simply doesn't have a voice. I've had the joy of seeing most of the ďŹ lm, and it's going to be quite wonderful." Have no fear, though. Firth is in Woody Allen's new comedy, "Magic in the Moonlight," with Emma Stone and Marcia Gay Harden, out July 25; the mystery thriller "Before I Go to Sleep," with Nicole Kidman, out later this year; and the British spy-thriller "Kingsman: The Secret Service," with Samuel L. Jackson and Michael Caine, out Oct 24.

Jay Leno's gone but not forgotten! He'll be this year's recipient of The Mark Twain Prize (won last year by Carol Burnett). Leno receives his prize at The Kennedy Center Oct. 19, and on PBS Nov. 23. Kennedy Center Chairman David M. Rubenstein said, "Like Mark Twain, Jay Leno has offered us a lifetime's worth of humorous commentary on American daily life. For both men, no one was too high or too low to escape their wit, and we are all the better for it."

"Harry Potter's" Rupert Grint will make his Broadway debut in Terrance McNally's 1982 comedy, "It's Only a Play." Grint, recently on the London stage in "Mojo," will attract young "Potter" fans, while Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick's reteaming after their Broadway mega-hit "The Producers" will be a huge draw. "It's Only a Play" also will have "Will & Grace's" Megan Mullally, "Grease's" Stockard Channing (she played Betty Rizzo) and "Amadeus" Oscar-winner F. Murray Abraham. It will open Oct. 9 for a limited run; better plan your trip and order your tickets now. harlie Hunnam had to bow out of "50 Shades of Gray" because of commitments to "Sons of Anarchy" and Guillermo del Toro's "Crimson Peak," with Jessica Chastain and Tom Huddleston (out in October 2015). He explains, "When you put time into something like that and a character comes alive in your mind, it's heartbreaking not to be able to play him." To Hunnam fans hoping to see him in various stages of nudity, it's more like 50 shades of disappointment! (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.

â&#x20AC;˘ On July 17, 1938, Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan, a glory-seeking ďŹ&#x201A;ier, takes off from Brooklyn, pointed west.

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Researchers Issue Stronger Guidelines for Preventing Cancer A group of researchers has recommended applying the precautionary principle to food choices that probably, if not conclusively, increase cancer risk as shown in a recent report in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition. The precautionary principle is typically applied to toxins that are likely harmful to health, but where evidence is not yet complete.

The researchers conclude that based on this approach, it’s best to limit or avoid alcohol, dairy products, red and processed meat products, and meats cooked at high temperatures. Conversely, they encourage the consumption of soy products, fruits, and vegetables.

For more details, read Applying the Precautionary Principle to Nutrition and Cancer here.

Gonzales JF, Barnard ND, Jenkins DJ, et al. Applying the precautionary principle to nutrition and cancer. J Am Coll Nutr. Published ahead of print May 28, 2014.

Plant-Based Diet Reverses Heart Disease A new research report confirms that heart disease can be dramatically improved—and even reversed—by a plant-based diet.

Researchers from this study counseled 198 patients with cardiovascular disease on a diet free of fish, meat, dairy, and added oils. Of the 89 percent of participants who followed the diet, 81 percent improved their symptoms and experienced fewer complications from heart disease.

In addition, those participants lost an average of 18.7 pounds, while 22 percent saw a complete reversal of their condition. This study employed a nutritional training program that eliminated both added oils and animal products.

Plant-based Foods Benefit Longevity Vegetarian diets increase longevity and reduce greenhouse gases, according to a study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Researchers investigated health impacts and greenhouse gas emissions related to dietary patterns among Seventh-day Adventists. They found that non-vegetarians experienced a 20 percent higher mortality rate than vegetarians. A vegetarian diet reduced emissions by 29 percent while a semi-vegetarian diet reduced emissions by 22 percent, compared with non-vegetarian diets. This study emphasizes that even modest reductions of animal product consumption potentially provide significant health and environmental benefits.

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In your case, it sounds like you have had one problem for a long time and now something is causing a different kind of back problem. Back pain that gets worse with bed rest and better with exercise is not likely to be a herniated disc or spinal stenosis -- two serious causes of back pain. I am guessing that there is a component of osteoarthritis in your back now, which would be quite common in a 74-year-old man. Osteoarthritis does tend to get worse with rest and better with exercise. I am impressed by how acutely it gets worse, and it's entirely possible that there may be some muscular spasm associated with your back pain.

*** DEAR DR. ROACH: My gallbladder was removed 16 years ago, and I have been having frequent diarrhea for those 16 years! I understand it's because without the gallbladder, there's no bile. It seems to me that with all the brilliant researchers in the world, someone could come up with a substitute for bile. A pill, maybe?

I am an 85-year-old female and have seen at least four gastroenterologists during this time, and none of them had a clue. The last one I saw told me to "live with it."

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Carmelo Anthony

We all make decisions in life, and as the sporting world often reflects the real world, the recent talk regarding Carmelo Anthony and LeBron James' decision to take the "player's option" and opt out of their guaranteed multi-million dollar contracts hit home with me.

It's not the talk about money that intrigued me, it was the talk about career trajectories. When Anthony's agent informed the New York Knicks, the New York press, Knicks fans and observers that he wanted to test the market, it really sounded like a divorce.

"Carmelo loves being a Knick, he loves the city, and he loves the fans," Leon Rose, Anthony's agent, said. OK ... but?

"At this stage of his career, he just wants to explore his options."

Ah, right ... the old "it's not you, it's me" line. Anthony didn't even say it to New York's face ... he used a proxy.

I'm not sure what's worse -- the way Anthony went about it or the way Lebron James did when he announced "The Decision" after a one-hour, live broadcast TV special.

Ironically, Anthony, who is notorious for failing to share the ball with teammates, is not going through a selfish phase. He stood to make more with the Knicks if he re-signed, by about $30 million. No, for Anthony it's a career move. He wants to win a championship. James, apparently driven by narcissism, appears to want more affection and play the field.

Cecil has been having a hard time of it of late and a lot has been written about his estrangement from his son, Prince. I'm not going to speculate about that, but I will make a prediction about Anthony: He's staying put.

Anthony always has been up front about exploring free agency, but he exposed a lot about himself last season when he spent the bulk of an interview talking not about his career, money or his aspiration for a championship. No, instead he talked about his son. He worried about moving his family, and how his kid would adjust to a new school district. He had moved as a kid and hated it, he revealed, and his son loves New York.

Play the field or stay at home, where your heart clearly remains ... it's your choice to make.

In baseball, players often are given contract options, but they also have a play called the "fielder's choice." That's when a fielder has multiple ways to put somebody out. My favorite fielder's choice however was executed by a guy named Cecil ...

Cecil Fielder, to be exact. In the mid-'80s, Cecil was at a point in his career with the Toronto Blue Jays where he had to make a decision: Would he languish his huge body on the bench behind Toronto's sluggers, or would he go a different route?

Mark Vasto is a veteran sportswriter who lives in Kansas City. (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.

His answer arrived in the form of a million-dollar, one-year contract with the Hanshin Tigers of Japan. Fielder jumped at the opportunity, moved his family to Kobe and flourished. When he returned to America he ushered in the Home Run Era, a time when people trying to emulate his stadium-shattering blows resorted to drug use. In 1996 he won a championship.

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• To find a professional stager, start with www.realestatestagingassociation.com. To do your own staging, search online for ideas at HGTV's Front Door (www.frontdoor.com) and HGTV (hgtv.com), as well as Bankrate.com and Realtor.com.

Visit new model homes to see how they're done.

Your payoff for staging your home? A faster sale means not making those extra mortgage payments while your house languishes unsold.

David Uffington regrets that he cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into his column whenever possible. Send email to columnreply3@gmail.com. (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.

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JULY 4TH SALE & SUPER SATURDAY! The Salvation Army Family Stores are celebrating July 4th with a 50% OFF Sale at all six Broward County Family Stores on Friday, July 4! Enjoy 50% OFF ALL Red, White & Blue Tags* and at least 25% OFF ALL Furniture. Some Furniture will be 50% - 75% OFF! July 4th hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. *Red, White & Blue Tags are on Clothing, Shoes, Household Items, Books, Jewelry, Belts, Purses, Linens and more. Basically, all departments in the store use Red, White & Blue Tags with the exception of Furniture and Electronics.

Don’t miss our Super Saturday Sale this (& EVERY) Saturday! All 6 Broward County Locations have 50% OFF EVERYTHING $1.99 and up excluding Furniture and Electronics.

The specifically designed program provides the individual help they may need to adapt Taoist Tai Chi® Internal Arts of Health to their situation. The class meets every Thursday 11:30 to 1:00, led by an accredited instructor. The first class is free.

Bring the kids to experience the PATCH Garden and learn about the benefits of eating fresh from the garden.

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ANTIQUE & FLEA MARKET Salvation Army Family Stores offer clothing and shoes for the entire family, furniture for every room in the house, computers and electronics, home appliances, artwork, sporting goods, books, home accessories and more. More than 3,000 items are added DAILY to each store. What will YOU find?

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TAOIST TAI CHI SOCIETY RK/Sage Plaza, suite 27 800 E. Hallandale Beach Boulevard Hallandale Beach *TWO NEW TAI CHI CLASSES IN HALLANDALE Wednesday evenings from 6:30 to 8:00, beginning July 9 and Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 6:00 to 7:00 (twice a week), beginning July 15 The first introductory class is always free!

These are new 3-month beginner classes.

Classes are also given on other days and evenings, and members may attend as many classes as they wish at no additional cost.

Visitors are always welcome. *Health Recovery Classes For those who have been challenged with a disability, illness or injury.

Its focus is to help people of all abilities, including those relying on a wheelchair, to partake in a gentle form of exercise, an internal martial arts which helps cultivate body and mind to promote physical and mental well being.

There will be an Antique & Flea Market Saturday, July 12 at The First United Church of Christ located at 200 North 46 Avenue in Hollywood from 8am-3pm. Get a bang for your buck at this bargain shopper's event including a variety of items, unique collectibles and antiques, jewelry, coins, glassware, new and used items, plants, clothing, silverware, and much, much more. Bring in your jewelry, gold, broken gold, silver, coins and antiques for cash. Buyer on premises. Admission is free. For more information, please call 305-951-7349 or email jeweldaisy@aol.com. Vendor space is still available. Directions: Take I-95 to Hollywood Blvd. Go west.

Make a right at North 46 Avenue. Go 2 blocks and church is on your left.

DANIA BEACH MARKET GARDEN Visit the Farmer’s Market at the PATCH: Saturdays from 8:30 am to Noon 1200 NW 1st Street Dania Beach, Florida 33004 Join us for the Dania Beach Farmers Market, featuring fruits and vegetables from the PATCH Garden and Marando Farms.

The PATCH Farmers Market is open to the public and offers a variety of foods, ranging from heirloom tomatoes to farm fresh eggs, strawberries to baked goods, and collard greens to local honey!

The PATCH Market will be held rain or shine and is a fabulous place to find affordable organic and locally grown fresh fruits and vegetables!

The Dania Beach Market garden is located at 1200 NW 1st Street - Dania Beach

At the light at US 1 (Federal Highway) & NW 1st Street, Turn WEST on NW 1st Street; Continue on NW 1st Street to 12th Avenue; the PATCH Garden and Farmers Market will be on your LEFT. Directions from Stirling Rd: At the light at Stirling Road and Bryan Road, Turn North; Turn RIGHT on NW 1st Street; Continue on NW 1st Street to 12th Avenue; the PATCH Garden and Farmers Market will be on your RIGHT. Parking Available on site.

JOIN US IN RECLAIMING OUR BEACHES! According to cigarettelitter.org, “It is estimated that several trillion cigarette butts are littered worldwide every year. That’s billions of cigarettes flicked, one at a time, on our sidewalks, beaches, nature trails, gardens, and other public places every single day. In fact, cigarettes are the most littered item in America and the world. Cigarette filters are made of cellulose acetate tow, NOT COTTON, and they can take decades to degrade. Not only does cigarette litter ruin even the most picturesque setting, but the toxic residue in cigarette filters is damaging to the environment, and littered butts cause numerous fires every year, some of them fatal.”

Parks and beaches, which exist to provide a fun, healthy and safe environment for children, adults, and wildlife, are heavily polluted each day by tobacco products and other litter. Residents, volunteers, and various community nonprofits are taking action. To promote the dangers this litter poses to the environment, the group plans on conducting monthly cigarette butt hunt and beach sweeps to expose the most littered item in the world—cigarette butts.

The results of these cigarette butt hunt and beach sweep efforts are always mind-blowing! In just a short couple of hours volunteers and participants always manage to find, collect and remove thousands of cigarette butts from our beaches!

These monthly beach clean-ups are hosted by the City of Hollywood’s Green Team with participation from the American Lung Association, Broward Regional Health Planning Council’s TOUCH initiative, and Tobacco Free Partnership of Broward County.

July 12, 2014 @ 7:00 AM – 11:00 AM Charnow Park 300 Connecticut Street Hollywood, FL 33019 Free parking will be provided in the garage lot for registered volunteers. To register, please visit Volunteer Hollywood on the City’s website or call (954) 967-3020.

MARLINS BARK AT THE PARK 2014 Looking for something fun and exciting to do with your dog? If so, join the Humane Society of Broward County Sunday, August 3, 2014 at “Bark at the Park” with the Miami Marlins.

You and your well-mannered canine friend can show your support of the Miami Marlins as they take on the Cincinnati Reds at Marlins Park. Game time is 1:10 p.m. and ticket prices are $15.00 for humans and $10.00 for dogs. Proceeds from the dog ticket sales will benefit the Humane Society of Broward County. All dogs must have current vaccinations and display their current valid rabies tag. Owners must bring their dogs' rabies certificates. Dogs who do not have proper proof of rabies vaccination may be prohibited from entering Marlins Park.

All tickets are for reserved seating and are ONLY available at www.humanebroward.com/events and MUST be purchased in ADVANCE. There will be no tickets available at the shelter or stadium. Groups of 10 or more humans should contact the Group Sales Department at 305-4802523 or groups@marlins.com .

There is NO GENERAL ADMISSION for Bark at the Park event days. Fans must sign the release form before they enter each game.

Download the form in advance at www. marlins.com/specialevents and bring the completed release with you to the game. For questions, email groups@marlins.com.

The Humane Society of Broward County is a private, non-profit organization that does not receive government funding or funding from any national or local group with a similar name. The shelter is located at 2070 Griffin Road, Fort Lauderdale and is open seven days a week for your convenience.

DEAR FRUSTRATED: There must be something awesome about that closet. Wait, I know: It's a dark, cozy hiding spot ... something most cats love. There may be something attractive on the floor of the closet, like strings dangling from a bag of knitting or small lint balls.

Or, your cat could be hiding from a perceived threat. Do you have a dog or another cat? Jess could be looking for a place where she isn't bullied or barked at.

WHY DOES CAT KEEP HIDING IN CLOSET? DEAR PAW'S CORNER: I cannot keep my cat "Jess" out of the closet! Even though I keep the sliding doors closed, as soon as I open them to get something, she jumps right in and hides in the very back corner. How can I stop this? -- Frustrated in Fresno

Is Jess spayed? If not, has she spent time outside or been in contact with other cats? Pregnant cats begin hunting for a dark, safe spot as the time to have their kittens approaches. If you're not sure, take Jess to the vet to get her checked out.

Is she showing signs of possible illness -- like personality changes, lethargy, excessive meowing, not cleaning her coat or other strange behavior? Cats that are sick will instinctively try to hide to avoid predators. Take her to the vet if anything seems amiss, even a little bit.

If none of these apply and Jess' health checks out, employ some redirection. Sprinkle a little peppermint oil on the floor of the closet, or put down some duct tape -- the tape feels weird to cats, and they'll avoid it. Meantime, provide

an acceptable alternative hiding spot, like an elevated cat climber with a shelter cubby. And keep Jess out of the room if possible before opening the closet door.

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• Always wear long trousers and sturdy, close-toed shoes when doing any lawn work, particularly with power tools and mowers.

Q: I don't have a lot of experience with yard work, but I'm trying to save money by doing much of it myself. I've figured out lawn mowing, but how can I get the edges trimmed? I don't want to buy an expensive edger. -- Sarah in Mobile, Ala.

• Wear eye protection when using a string trimmer, and maybe gloves, because it's painful and dismaying to be hit with debris when using this tool.

A: A string trimmer (also known as a Weed Whacker, Weed Eater or weed trimmer) doubles as a good edger, and is really affordable: You can purchase an electric trimmer for as little as $40. For a little more (about $100 on average) you can get a cordless electric trimmer, which eliminates the hassle of dragging around extension cords and the worries about accidentally striking one.

• Learn to angle the trimmer so that grass and dirt fly away from you. The trimmer guard helps, but doesn't provide full protection.

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• Be careful when trimming around shrubs and trees, as the whirring line can damage the bark.

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Still, this is a potential blow to the most sensitive part of the owner's body ... his wallet. Native American complainants argue that the ruling "imperils the ability of the team's billionaire owner to keep profiting off the denigration and dehumanization of Native Americans."

Indeed, he must suddenly face the possibility that he will no longer be able to demand money, huge sums of money, from anyone who decides to make commercial display of the logo or the name itself.

PLAYING DEFENSE I usually hate gloating, but this time I'm doing it. And loving it. That's because the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office panel has decided that the Washington NFL team no longer has federal trademark protection for its R-word team name. If this stands the test of lawyers, it will mean that the pro football franchise will no longer absolutely control the use of the name or the brand, because it's "disparaging to Native Americans."

So ruleth two of three members of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, which is the regulatory, uh, referee in such matters. But the call can be challenged in court and will be.

Whatever schadenfreude some of us are experiencing needs to be tempered with the knowledge that owner Dan Snyder can hold up the enforcement of this for a long time and not only use the offensive brand whenever he wants to, but also continue to reap the monetary rewards from his control of it.

This is not the first time and Patent and Trademark regulators have come to the same conclusion. But when they did it 15 years ago, they ultimately were overturned by a judge on a technicality. Snyder's trademark attorney raced out a statement declaring, "We are confident we will prevail once again, and that the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board's divided ruling will be overturned on appeal."

As always, he insists that the R-word is actually intended to honor Native Americans. Furthermore, he argues it is an essential part of a team with a proud tradition, neglecting to point out that, in fact, the tradition was heavily racist. The team was the last in the NFL to include black players, and then only grudgingly, after the threat of serious financial losses.

Until Snyder or the National Football League owners start feeling the squeeze or get tired of being compared to Donald Sterling and the NBA, this petty battle will continue. These are cynical people, accused, for instance, of hiding the dangers to the brains of the players of their violent sport. But hardhearted as they may be, even they might get weary of the growing calls for boycotts, which eventually would really damage their all-important bottom line.

That's when we'll see Snyder and the league magnanimously declare that they have decided that a name change is appropriate. Of course, they'll come up with some sort of profitable way to make it happen, like a contest of one kind or another, but it will happen.

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