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TIDBITS® GAZES INTO YOUR EYES
by Kathy Wolfe In 1981, President Ronald Reagan issued Proclamation 4821, declaring March 3 – 9 as Save Your Vision Week, urging citizens to show “greater concern for preserving vision and preventing eye injury…” Follow along as Tidbits takes a peek into those organs of sight, the eyes. • The eye is the second-most complex organ in the human body. Only the brain is more complex. Each eye has more than 2 million operational parts, and can process upwards of 36,000 bits of information every hour. We actually see with our brain, not our eyes. The eyes function like a camera, capturing images and sending them to the brain. About half of the brain is used for vision and seeing. Over the course of the average lifetime, the eyes will see about 24 million different images. • Eyes sit in a hollowed socket called the orbit for protection, with only about 1/6 of the eye exposed. The eye is about 1 inch (2.54 cm) in diameter and weighs about 0.25 oz. (7.09 grams). Eyes begin to develop just two weeks after conception. Growth of the eye is rapid the first three years of life, and by age 13, it is full size. • When your eyes are watering, it’s not because they have excess moisture. Actually, it’s the opposite! Your eyes are producing tears to compensate for dry eyes. turn the page for more!
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holly EYES (continued): • You’ve heard it said that life passes by in a blink of an eye. Did you know that we spend about 10% of our waking hours with our eyes closed, blinking. Each blink lasts about 1/10th of a second, and takes place about 25,000 times a day, about every 12 to 15 seconds. A person blinks more when talking, but less when reading or staring at a computer screen. Because we blink less often during screen time, that’s what makes our eyes tired. Blinking keeps our eyes lubricated as well as protecting the eye from foreign particles. • Each fingerprint has 40 distinctive characteristics. The colored part of your eye, the iris, has 256, which is why eye scans are gaining widespread use for security purposes. • One of the most common eye injuries is poking the eyeball with a mascara wand! But the good news is that it takes only about 48 hours to repair a minor scratch on the cornea. • The iris, that colored part of the eye, has an important function – controlling the size of the pupil and the amount of light reaching the retina. The color of your eyes is due to the amount of the pigment melanin. A high concentration of melanin in the front layer of the iris results in brown eyes, while blue eyes have a lower amount. Although brown is the world’s most common eye color, 86% of the population of Ireland and Scotland have either blue or green eyes. • Most newborn babies with European ancestry have blue eyes at birth. But as the child grows, cells within the iris of the eyes begin to produce melanin, and by 3 to 6 months of age, the adult eye color is established.
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NOW HERE’S A TIP By JoAnn Derson * “I store my extra sheets under the bed they go with in a storage box. On the lid of the box, I write the date when the mattress needs to be flipped. This way I never forget how long it has been.” -- W.F in Arkansas * One way to de-pill a sweater is using a new scrubbie from kitchen. Just hold the sweater taut, and use the rough side of a kitchen sponge to lightly brush the fabric, letting it catch the pills and sweep them away. * “To get rid of brassy undertones in your hair, mix 10 drops of blue food coloring and 5 drops of red food coloring in 2.5 cups of vinegar, and apply as a rinse to hair. The purple cools the red tones, and banishes the brass. The vinegar smell does dissipate, and it leaves hair with a softened shine, too.” -- I.W. in Louisiana * Did you squeeze out too much eye cream? Use it on your cuticles.” -- A.S. in Florida * Here’s the secret to dealing with muddy shoe prints: Let them dry. Loosen dirt clumps and vacuum up as much as possible. Then come in with an appropriate carpet cleaner. Never add water to mud. * Set a standing appointment to check in with your budget and checkbook. If you don’t already have a budget set, now’s the time. Remember to factor in quarterly or yearly payments. You can divide them by the number of months they cover (say, six for car insurance) and pay that amount into your savings account each month. When the time comes to pay the bill, you’ll have the money ready. Send your tips to Now Here’s a Tip, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803. (c) 2019 King Features Synd., Inc.
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EYES (continued): • Speaking of newborns, although they do a whole lot of crying, they don’t produce any tears until they are between 4 and 13 weeks of age. • The eye’s cornea is the only tissue in the human body that does not contain any blood vessels. • Vision is measured in fractions, known as Snellen fractions, named for the Dutch ophthalmologist who developed the system in 1862. If a person has 20/20 vision, he or she is able to clearly see an object at a distance of 20 feet (6.1 m). The distance from the person to the eyechart is 20 feet, and the letters on the chart are a certain size, getting larger as the fractions increase. If a person can only see the big single “E” at the top of the chart, vision is 20/200. The smallest letters on the Snellen chart correspond to 20/10 vision. If you’re fortunate enough to have 20/10 vision, your eyesight is twice as sharp as a person with 20/20. • Cells in the eyes come in different shapes. Rod-shaped cells are very sensitive to light and allow us to see shapes. There are 100 million of these rods, which also enable us to see better in the dark. The cone-shaped cells are responsible for the eyes seeing color. The 7 million cone cells can differentiate between about 10 million colors. • Folks whose cones don’t have all the necessary pigments – red, green, and blue -- have trouble seeing certain colors. Deuteranomoly is the most common form of color blindness, affecting 5% of all males. The green cone pigment doesn’t work properly, making yellow and green look redder, and making it difficult to distinguish blue from violet.
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® of Idaho TIDBITS of Kootenai Issue #9 March 4th 2019 TidbitsCounty, Dallas County EYES (continued): • When the red cone is deficient, known as protanomaly, orange, red, and yellow look greener. Tritanomaly is the result of missing or limited blue cones. Blue looks greener, and it’s hard to tell pink from yellow and red. Some rare individuals have no pigments in any of the eyes’ cones, and see no color at all. This condition is known as monochromacy or achromatopsia. • One in 12 men of European descent is colorblind, while just one in 200 women are affected. This is because the condition is located on the X chromosome, of which men have only one. Women have two X chromosomes, so that if a female has the colorblind gene, she has a normal gene as a “backup.” • Each of your eyes has about 100 eyelashes on the top eyelid, and 50 on the lower lid, each with a lifespan of about five months. Over the course of your lifetime, you will shed eyelashes amounting to a length of over 98 feet (29.9 m). • When you hit about age 45, you may have to don reading glasses due to an increasingly worsening ability to focus clearly on small print and close objects. This condition, simply due to the aging of the eye, is known as presbyopia. • The number 80 is an important one when it comes to eyes. Our eyes account for 80% of what we learn, 80% of our memories are determined by what we see, and 80% of vision problems around the world are avoidable or curable.
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by Samantha Weaver * It was 20th-century British actor George Sewell who made the following sage observation: “Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.” * When someone mentions the band ZZ Top, you probably think of a group of musicians with long beards. They don’t all have beards, though; the drummer is clean-shaven as a matter of safety (imagine being in the middle of a drum solo and getting a stick caught in a long beard -- ouch!). Interestingly, the unbearded drummer’s name is Frank Beard. * If you’re like most people, you’ve probably never encountered a tziganologist. That is, unless you consort with those who study Hungarian gypsies. * Those who study such things say that the immortal bard, William Shakespeare, used a grand total of 17,677 words in his works. (That must have been a tedious calculation.) They also say that fully one-tenth of those words had never been used in writing before. * Unless you were around on April 17, 1964, you may not be aware of the hullabaloo caused by the introduction of the Ford Mustang. In Seattle, a truck driver was so distracted by a display of new Mustangs that he crashed his cement truck through the window of the dealership. In Chicago, so many people were trying to crowd into the cars in a showroom that the dealer had to lock all the vehicle doors. A dealer in New Jersey had only one Mustang, so he auctioned it off. The winner of the auction insisted on sleeping in his new car that night, just to make sure nobody else got it before his check cleared. * By the time he was 5 years old, 19th-century French composer Camille Saint-Saens was already composing waltzes. Thought for the Day: “Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.” -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (c) 2019 King Features Synd., Inc.
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COUCH THEATER -- DVD PREVIEWS By Amy Anderson
PHOTO: Margot Robbie in “Mary Queen of Scots” Photo Credit: Focus Features
“Ralph Breaks the Internet” (PG) -- John C. Reilly and Sarah Silverman return as Wreck-It Ralph and Vanellope Van Schweetz in “Ralph Breaks the Internet,” the Oscar-nominated animated sequel to the 2012 film about a bad guy with a heart of gold who showed a whole arcade that you don’t have to be who people say you are. Flash-forward to now, the best friends must face an adventure through the Internet in order to find a part that will fix Vanellope’s game “Sugar Rush.” There are a crazy number of references in this movie, both overt and hidden. The DVD will keep you busy checking out the small stuff, while the story line, core players and cameos (original Disney princesses) are top-notch. “Mary Queen of Scots” (R) -- Saoirse Ronan takes a turn as the Scottish Queen Mary, detailing her tense power struggle with the English Queen Elizabeth, played deftly by Margot Robbie. As the two women manage their respective kingdoms, they are subject to the powerful influence of jealousy and competitiveness as well as the political machinations of the men at court. Guy Pearce also stars as royal adviser Sir William Cecil and David Tennant as the cleric John Knox. The (slightly inaccurate, highly dramatized) historical lesson starts off slowly, but builds to some action in the second half. The period styling -- dress, location -- is stunning. “The Possession of Hannah Grace” (R) -- Megan Reed (Shay Mitchell) takes a graveyard shift at the county hospital morgue as a part of her new life of sobriety. It’s the perfect place for an ex-cop carrying a ton of guilt to get a little quiet time. Unfortunately for her, one of her first intakes is a corpse of an unknowingly slightly undead young woman (Kirby Johnson) who was picked up midritual in an exorcism gone awry. As it’s explained, that demon has to go somewhere, so the possessed slowly awakens, each kill bringing her strength. Megan must fight both her inner demons and the literal creepy dead girl demon in a hospital that apparently cannot afford proper lighting. “Between Worlds” (R) -- Nicolas Cage is at his B-movie best as Joe, a down and out big-rig driver who lost his family in a tragic accident. He forms a tenuous relationship with a psychic named Julie (Franka Potente), who is seeking the soul of her daughter Billie (Penelope Mitchell), near-drowned and lying comatose in a hospital bed. When her daughter wakes up, the result is not quite what she’d hoped -- it’s not Billie in the body. This supernatural thriller is for a very limited fan group -- those who already have an established “crazy Nic Cage” drinking game. Everyone else can skip it.
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TIDBITS ofTidbits Kootenai® County, Idaho Issue #9 March 4th 2019 of Dallas County
By Dr. Holly Carling
Why Am I So Tired?
If I had to guess which complaint was number one in my office, I would say it is FATIGUE. Fatigue is defined as “extreme tiredness”. It can be acute (just happened, and for a short period) or chronic (lasting for a long time). You can experience mental, emotional or physical fatigue. Other synonyms for fatigue are weariness, exhaustion, tiredness, languor, lethargy, drowsiness, sleepiness, tiredness. Each of these synonyms have their own qualifications, but the bottom line is, we don’t like it! We want to be energetic, lively, spirited, industrious, vigorous and dynamic! Who wouldn’t? So if you find yourself in the fatigue spectrum of things, it’s time we pull out the magnifying glass, put on our health detective coat, and dig into the reasons why you may be fatigued. The reasons can be broken up into two major categories: Lifestyle and health/disease. Lifestyle would include lack of sleep, excess activities, not drinking enough water, eating foods lacking quality nutrients, being overwhelmed, insufficient physical activity, skipping meals, drinking alcohol or taking drugs, etc. Most of these we are aware of, and are within our control to change. The health (or lack thereof) reason is much more extensive. Many illnesses have a fatigue component to them. Organs and glands that are not working up to par such as the adrenals, thyroid, heart, pancreas,
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kidneys, liver, lungs and brain can all be factors. Many medications you may be taking for these organs and glands, as well as other conditions have side effects that include fatigue. If you are inflamed, in pain, are fighting an infection of any type, fatigue is likely. Especially if you are fighting a chronic infection or virus, known to you or sitting just below the surface, the body will be inclined towards tiredness. It’s exhausting for the immune system to be constantly fighting something! This could be an underlying tooth infection, chronic sinus congestion/infection, or any infection in the body. Nutrient imbalances, especially minerals, proteins and fats can lead to fatigue; especially those responsible for building the blood, such as iron. The thyroid, adrenals and pancreas are all energy-supplying glands that have their own special mineral, fat and protein needs. When lacking, fatigue is a real possibility. While the thyroid is often recognized as responsible for fatigue, its buddy, the adrenal glands may be even more so. They are often neglected in conventional medicine. Reserved for investigation only if suspected to be in failure, it can also be an issue in the stages below that. Like every other organ or gland in the body, there is no such thing as total health or total failure, and nothing in between. The in between, the grey area, is the time to address function and get them back towards health again. Getting all organs back to health again is the answer to the fatigue fix.
Dr. Holly Carling is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine, Licensed Acupuncturist, Doctor of Naturopathy, Clinical Nutritionist and Master Herbologist with over three decades of experience. Dr. Carling is currently accepting new patients and offers natural health care services and whole food nutritional supplements in her Coeur d’ Alene clinic. Visit Dr. Carling’s website at www.vitalhealthcda.com to learn more about Dr. Carling, view a list of upcoming health classes and read other informative articles. Dr. Carling can be reached at 208-765-1994 and would be happy to answer any questions regarding this topic.
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ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Take time from your busy schedule to check out what’s going on around you. You might find that someone has been secretly trying to pull the wool over those beautiful Sheep’s eyes. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Once again, the Bovine’s boldness pays off in uncovering the source of a disturbing workplace situation. Your personal life calls for patience, as a certain matter plays itself out. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Forget about going all out to impress someone in your personal life. Just being yourself is all that matters. A workplace decision will need more time. Don’t rush into it. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Some supersensitive Crabs might take offense at what they perceive as a slight. But a closer look points to a simple misunderstanding. The weekend holds a welcome surprise. LEO (July 23 to August 22) Sure, you can roar your head off over someone’s failure to keep a promise. But the wiser course would be to ask why it happened. Be prepared for an answer that might well surprise you. VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) A developing relationship needs time to find its direction. So please be patient and resist pushing things along. A recently cooled-down workplace situation could heat up again. LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Congratulations. Your well-thought-out proposal seems to be working. Someone who hasn’t agreed with you on most things in the past could turn out to be one of your major supporters. SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) Things seem to be going well. However, you can still expect criticism -- some of it pretty heavy. But as long as you can back up your position, you’ll be able to rise above it. SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) Getting together with people who care for you is a great way to get that ego boost you might feel you need at this time. Things start to look brighter by week’s end. CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) You should be able to continue with your plans once you get past those temporary delays. Surprise, surprise. An offer to help comes from a most unlikely source. AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) Prioritizing your tasks is important this week because of all those demands you have to deal with. The pressure eases in time for you to enjoy the weekend. PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Save your energy and stay focused on what has to be done, despite all those distractions you’re likely to face. You should see some evidence of real progress by week’s end.
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You are a generous, giving person who is always ready, willing and more than able to help others in need. (c) 2019 King Features Syndicate
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Photo caption: Brendan Frost, 11, “flies” through winter on a monarch butterfly bicycle over a frozen lake.
Monarch Butterflies Set to Spring into Flight
Itching to travel for spring break this year? It’s not just you. Consider the monarch butterfly: It’s common for these beauties to spring into flight through different migration corridors of the country and head north this time of year. To get inspired by the life cycles and travel itineraries of monarchs, kids in Minnesota’s Twin Cities landed at a family event on stark and frozen Lake Harriet to learn and interact at the Monarch Butterfly Migration Shanty (think ice-fishing house). Wearing decorated helmets, they rode “monarch-winged” bicycles on the ice. Painted to represent butterflies, thick canvas wings were attached to bicycle handles and available to all. “I’m flying like a monarch,” exclaimed 11-yearold Brendan Frost, as he imagined his flight from Mexico to Canada. Inside the shanty, heated by a wood-burning stove and decorated to represent where monarchs overwinter, kids in wool hats and scarves colored paper butterflies and “tagged” and clipped them to fir-tree sculptures as they learned about pollinators and the migration of these wondrous creatures. Here are three ideas to begin your own monarch adventure: Attract Monarchs to Your Yard As you plan your summer garden, add milkweed to attract monarchs. Poke a sign in the ground saying, “This is a butterfly-friendly yard” to encourage other neighbors to do the same. Raise Monarch Butterflies Observe firsthand the wonder of how a caterpillar emerges from a chrysalis as a brilliant orange, black and white butterfly. Insectlore.com is a resource many teachers use for ordering caterpillars and supplies. Or, check out books from your library or online about how to find caterpillars and eggs in your own garden habitat this spring. Send a Butterfly Greeting Take a photo of that monarch that landed in your garden and print it. Or, find images of monarchs and draw your own. Attach the photo or cutout drawing to the front side of a folded sheet of cardstock or heavy construction paper. Inside, write a message to a special friend or relative. Maybe it will be a story dictated by your child about the transformation of a caterpillar to a butterfly in school or in your home, or this lovely poem, attributed to Nathaniel Hawthorne: “Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” 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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With spinal cord injuries, inflammation and swelling cause most of the damage after an injury and stem cells are the most effective treatment for this swelling. If this can be done in dogs, what about humans? There is now much research being done on stem cells with spinal cord injuries, including at the Mayo Clinic, Stanford, U of California, U of Texas, and throughout the world. Patients who were told they would never walk or even move again, are walking - truly miraculous. It also requires a lot of rigorous physical therapy to make appropriate neuronal connections. With spinal cord injury, stem cell therapy is not effective without PT. The PT generates impulses from the brain down the cord to the area of injury. These impulses direct the stem cells in how to bridge the neural connections. Stem cells are natural and are in every tissue of the body. As we age we have less of them, and they are not as active as when we are young -which is why children heal very quickly compared to adults -they have many more stem cells. We give stem cells sourced from the umbilical cord from a live healthy birth, and regenerate cartilage in joints to reduce pain and inflammation, restoring function again. This is a common occurrence. But for those with spinal cord injuries, look into research trials being done today with stem cells, and see if there is a possibility of reversing your condition. Why is establishment medicine dragging its feet on spinal cord stem cell therapies when there is ample evidence in dogs, mice and even some humans that spinal cord repair is not just possible, but can be accomplished today? Millions with spinal cord injuries may be living a life of crippling pain and disability without need.
Q&A with Susan Ashley, MD Stem Cell Therapy Reverses Paralysis Dr Steven Dale Garner is a veterinarian that uses stem cells in his practice. He has done miraculous things, including regenerating cartilage for arthritic joints, and now restoring spinal cord function in dogs with spinal cord injuries. His most famous case is a paralyzed dog that was scheduled to be euthanized in 2016. Instead, he injected stem cells in its spinal cord, and the dog is now happily running around just like any other normal dog! Dr Garner explains: “Stem cells are everywhere in the body, they’re in suspended animation; they’re not moving, they’re hibernating. We harvest these cells and grow them to therapeutic numbers, so they are ready on a moments notice. Dogs with spinal cord disease need treatment today, and we do everything for them just like is done for humans”. He goes on to say that “it seems impossible that stem cell therapy could work. Until just a few years ago, we did not know that stem cells were in every tissue of the body and that we do not need embryos or embryonic stem cells for therapy”. Stem cell therapy is regenerative therapy that restores tissues back to their original state. Healing, on the other hand, creates scar tissue which is not as good as the original. Every cell shares an exact copy of the DNA, or “cookbook” of the cell, but not every cell can read every recipe. Stem cells, however, can read every recipe of the DNA, and therefore have the potential to become any cell. Dr Ashley is board certified in Family Medicine and in Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine. She provides a mix of traditional with alternative medicine and specializes in bio-identical hormones for both men and women.
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1. MUSIC: What is the full name of former Beatles member Paul McCartney? 2. FOOD & DRINK: What is marzipan? 3. CHEMISTRY: Who is credited with discovering the element oxygen? 4. ANATOMY: What purpose does bile serve in the human body? 5. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Who was the first woman to appear on the cover of Playboy magazine? 6. HISTORY: The Contras guerrilla movement was associated with which country? 7. GEOGRAPHY: The island of Sardinia is a region of which country? 8. LANGUAGE: What does the Latin abbreviation “cv” or “curriculum vitae” mean in English? 9. LITERATURE: Which movie was made from the science-fiction short story called “The Sentinel” by Arthur C. Clarke? 10. MOVIES: In which post-apocalyptic 1980s movie did the singer Tina Turner appear? Answers 1. James Paul McCartney 2. A confection made of honey or sugar and almond meal 3. Joseph Priestley 4. Bile breaks down fat and increases its absorption. 5. Marilyn Monroe 6. Nicaragua 7. Italy 8. “Course of life” 9. “2001: A Space Odyssey” 10. “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome”
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REMARKABLE PEOPLE: MADAM C.J. WALKER
In honor of International Women’s Day on March 8, Tidbits pays tribute to Madam C.J. Walker, one of the first American female selfmade millionaires. • Madam Walker was born as Sarah Breedlove on a Louisiana cotton plantation, two years after the Civil War ended, into a family of freed slaves, the first in her family born free. Orphaned at the age of seven, Sarah lived with her sister and picked cotton as a sharecropper. • After years of living with an abusive brotherin-law, Sarah married at age 14 to escape her situation. At 20, she was a widow with a two-yearold daughter. She moved to St. Louis to be near her brothers, and worked as a washerwoman for $1.50 while she attended night school. She married Charles Walker, an advertising salesman for the local newspaper. • In her 20’s, Sarah developed a scalp condition that cause much of her hair to fall out. She began using a product known as “Annie Malone’s Great Wonderful Hair Grower,” and after achieving success with the concoction, she joined Malone’s team of African-American sales agents, and moved to Denver, Colorado. While employed, Sarah began experimenting with her own hair products, and in 1905, she launched her own brand, “Madam Walker’s Wonderful Hair Grower,” as well as conditioners and straighteners. • Charles created the advertisements and helped Sarah establish a mail order business, and the pair traveled throughout the South promoting the products, giving lectures and demonstrations. In 1908, with the profits from her business, she opened a factory and beauty school in Pittsburgh. She and Charles divorced two years later, and Sarah relocated to Indianapolis, where she built a new factory.
TIDBITS of Kootenai County, Call Idaho Issue #9 505-0674 March 4th 2019 For Advertising (334) MADAM C.J. WALKER (continued): • While in Indianapolis, she continued to train sales beauticians, sending them out into AfricanAmerican communities, promoting her philosophy of “cleanliness and loveliness.” In 1913, she branched out into Latin America and the Caribbean, and eventually employed 40,000 AfricanAmerican women and men in the U.S., Central America, and the Caribbean, offering generous commissions for their sales work. In 1917, she founded the National Negro Cosmetics Manufacturers Association. • As Sarah traveled, her daughter A’Lelia, now 31, was seeking property in Harlem, New York, as a base for expansion of the business. Sarah moved there in 1916 and quickly became involved in Harlem’s social and political activities. She was a noted philanthropist, donating heavily to the NAACP, establishing scholarship funds, and soliciting donations for homes for the elderly, focusing on improving the lives of African-Americans. The Indianapolis YMCA also received a large amount of money toward its new construction in 1913. • In 1916, construction began on a 34-room mansion on the Hudson River in Irvington, New York. Sarah’s mansion was built at an estimated cost of $250,000 and included a gymnasium, pipe organ, billiard room, and accommodations for eight servants, along with numerous guest rooms. It was here that Madam Walker passed away from kidney failure at age 51, after only one year of residence. She remained the sole owner of her business to her death, valued at more than $1 million in 1919. Two-thirds of her substantial funds were bequeathed to charity. • The Madam Walker Beauty College is still operating and her original products are still manufactured and distributed.
What’s Behind Dog’s Heavy Panting? DEAR PAW’S CORNER: We have a large property of several acres, and I let our dog “Boomer,” a big Labrador mix, run out there every day for at least an hour. Yesterday he came in panting very rapidly and drooling a bit, and looked agitated. He kept that up for over an hour before settling down. Boomer seems fine today, but what could have caused that rapid breathing? -Dan J., Bloomington, Indiana DEAR DAN: Even though he’s returned to normal, take Boomer to the veterinarian to be checked out, just to make sure there are no underlying issues. It’s normal for dogs to pant heavily after lots of exertion or on a hot day, but prolonged, heavy panting should catch your attention, especially if it’s accompanied by other behaviors. The causes can be many: On hot days, heat exhaustion or heat stroke are a big concern. A neurological or heart problem could be the silent culprit. Or, Boomer could have gotten into something that’s poisonous to him. Write down all of the symptoms you noticed during his panting episode, and include the temperature that day, what you fed him, how much he ate and how much water he drank during the day. Take those notes to the vet with Boomer. If no underlying chronic cause is found, the vet probably will recommend that you keep a watchful eye on Boomer for a few days and make sure he gets plenty of water to drink. I also recommend that you go with him on his next couple of romps to see where he typically roams, looking for plants, chemicals left unattended or anything that he could accidentally ingest. Send your tips, questions and comments to ask@ pawscorner.com. (c) 2019 King Features Synd., Inc.
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OREO’S Oreo Cookie Day is celebrated every March 6, honoring the day that the treats were first marketed in 1912 by the National Biscuit Company (Nabisco). This week, Tidbits has all the info on these little sandwich cookies. • Nabisco produced the first Oreo cookies in their factory in the Chelsea Manhattan section of New York City factory. They were packaged in tin containers with glass tops and sold for 25 cents a pound (453 g). The first Oreo was sold in a Hoboken, New Jersey grocery store. • Oreo’s weren’t the first chocolate sandwich cookie. The Sunshine Company had already been baking Hydrox cookies for four years before the introduction of Oreo’s. The Hydrox cookie was a little crunchier and the filling was a little less sweet. • A lemon meringue variety was also offered at the Oreo debut, but was discontinued in the 1920s. • When Oreo’s were introduced, they were known as Oreo Biscuits. A name change to Oreo Sandwich came along in 1921, and another in 1948 to Oreo Crème Sandwich. Since 1974, they’ve been known as Oreo Chocolate Sandwich Cookie. • A regular Oreo cookie is 71% cookie and 29% cream, and contains 45 calories. Double Stuff Oreo’s, introduced in 1975, don’t really have double the filling. In 2013, a high school math school conducted an experiment in 2013 to determine the ratio, and found that Double Stuff have just 1.86 times the filling in the original. And Mega Stuff, which reportedly have three times the filling, have only 2.68 times the cream of a regular Oreo. • It takes about 59 minutes to make an Oreo. A rotary mold forms the cake dough into the round shape before the cookie enters a 300-foot-long (91 m) oven.
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TeleHealth Visits Surge
In 2018 the Department of Veterans Affairs increased the use of TeleHealth medical visits by 19 percent, bringing the total to over 1 million. If you have an opportunity to use Telehealth, do. Half of the veterans who use TeleHealth live in rural areas, far from any facility, or are unable to travel. Using a computer or mobile device, medical problems such as PTSD, diabetes and chronic heart failure can be monitored from the comfort of your own home. A care coordinator takes charge of the details, working with the care providers to change treatment, set up clinic appointments and more. Half of the TeleHealth visits don’t involve a specific appointment. Instead, staff monitors, screens and assesses the data sent in by the veteran or another VA facility, taking vitals or sending images that are stored until staff examines them. Telehealth lets you to talk to specialists who might be a thousand miles away for any of 50 different medical categories, making contact from a nearby clinic through Clinical Video TeleHealth. TeleMental health, TeleRehab, TeleSurgery (consultation and diagnosis, not the actual surgery) and over a dozen other medical categories are available from the nearest clinic, even if the clinic itself cannot provide those levels of care. You’ll have medical staff there should you have questions or need help. To learn more about TeleHealth, go online to www.telehealth.va.gov or www.ruralhealth. va.gov. To learn more about the app that makes all this possible, download the VA Video Connect app from mobile.va.gov/app/va-video-connect. It works with Android, iOS and Windows, and you’ll need internet access and a web camera. There’s a test link to ensure your device is compatible. One big stumbling block has been removed by a new federal rule: the legality of an out-of-state physician consulting with a veteran in another state. Veterans can now contact specialists no matter where they are. (c) 2019 King Features Synd., Inc.
OREO’S (continued): • Oreo has had several advertising slogans over the years. Their first slogan and jingle was in 1950 – “Oh! Oh! Oreo.” During the 1980s, the company changed slogans five times, and included “For the Kid in All of Us,” “The One and Only,” “Who’s the Kid with the Oreo Cookie?”, “Oreo, the Original Twister,” and “America’s Best Loved Cookie.” And in fact, Oreo is not only America’s best-loved cookie, it’s the best-selling cookie in the entire world, available in more than 100 countries, with over $2 billion in annual sales. In the U.S. alone, about 20 million Oreo’s are consumed every day. • Also during the 1980’s, advertising copywriter Edna Robinson wrote the famous lyrics, “A kid’ll eat the middle of an Oreo first, and save the chocolate cookie outside for last.” Since 2004, Oreo’s slogan has been “Milk’s Favorite Cookie.” • The name Oreo was trademarked just eight days after its introduction. There are several theories as to how the Oreo got its name. Some say that because the original packaging was gold, the cookie took its name from the French word for gold, “oro.” Others contend that the two “O’s” represent the round wafers, and the “RE” is the cream. Yet another theory insists that the names comes from the genus of the laurel wreath imprinted on the original cookie, the Latin word “Oreodaphne.” • In 2018, Google purchased the former Nabisco factory for $2.4 billion. The street where the building stands on Ninth Avenue between 15th and 16th Streets is known as “Oreo Way” in commemoration of the cookie.
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KOREAN WAR…PURE GOLD
By Matilda Charles
You Don’t Have to Go Hungry
Some things just break your heart ... I was sitting at a traffic light when I saw one of my neighbors go into a pawn shop carrying a bag. This was worrisome, and I pulled into the parking lot across the street to watch. Sure enough, she came out empty-handed ... and sure enough, she pulled out into traffic and headed for the grocery store. When I spotted her later as she headed for the checkout line, there wasn’t much in her basket. I pulled into the pawn shop on my way home. The owner was hesitant to disclose any information, but yes, my neighbor had brought in three items to pawn, and yes, he knew why. She was out of money and her Social Security wasn’t due for two weeks. When he told me what she’d pawned, my heart broke. From there I went to the food bank where they loaded up two bags of food once I told them what I was doing. With a little subterfuge, the groceries were delivered anonymously to my neighbor. If you’re ever in a position where you don’t have enough food, there are ways to get help. Church pantries (even if you’re not a member), a food bank and your local senior center are good places to start. For more information, contact your local Agency on Aging. Ask about the monthly food boxes, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP), Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP) and Meals on Wheels. Call the National Hunger Hotline at 1-866-3-HUNGRY (1-866-348-6479). Look online at www.feedingamerica.org and nutrition.gov (put Nutrition Programs for Seniors in the search box). Check your potential benefits at www.benefitscheckup.org. Don’t wait until you’re to the point of needing to pawn precious belongings before you ask for help. (c) 2019 King Features Synd., Inc.
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(By Barbara Powell, Resident, The Lodge Assisted Living) There are many war stories. There are stories about great battles, great bravery and great sacrifice. A large part of the time our heroes don’t want to talk about their encounters with the enemy. They don’t want to recall or relive the horror of war. By 2018 a large number of the Korean War Veterans have died and their stories are dying with them. This was the year that I entered an assisted living facility. I noticed that one of the men living there kept very busy. He watered and maintained our vegetable and flower gardens. This man was a very thin and fragile looking person. His name was Warren. During the Korean War, Warren was a paratrooper. He was assigned to the 101 Airborne Screaming Eagles. As we became friends, Warren began to share his story. He had the most fascinating and the scariest job of any one that I have ever known. Some of Warren’s missions were to parachute behind enemy lines into North Korea. The purpose of this action was to rescue our American soldiers from the prisoner of war camps. He was trained to do just this. All total, Warren completed three of these missions. These rescues were a joint effort. Other paratroopers went before the 101 st . They drew the maps and gathered all the information that they could. The U.S. also found that a number of vehicles were stored at these POW camps. Through the barb wire fence the POW’s were told, “Get ready. We’re coming to get you.” Our armed forces knew that the North Koreans had another battle emerging at another site in a nearby country. Their attention was not on our POWs. With perfect timing, Warren’s platoon of 150 men jumped into North Korea. What a site. Paratroopers falling from the sky, jumping into the dark. Our POWs were ready and waiting. Their captors were surprised and over-powered. The POWs then jumped into their enemy’s trucks and drove the prisoners out of the camps. It was a race to safety. All of these near miraculous events came together perfectly. Warren said that he was very afraid when they made the first jump. The second jump made him a little afraid. When making the third jump, he was not at all afraid. All three jumps were successful. Our POWs were rescued. If we are listening, we will discover that God reveals himself to us a little at a time. One of the things that God revealed to me was that He is not impressed by religious people. He is impressed by the love that we have for others and that, “No greater love does one have but that he lay down his life for his friends.” I read a story about a woman who was killed. She was surprised when she found herself in heaven because she was not particularly religious. Jesus revealed to her that everything she had done in her life had benefitted or helped someone else. Recently the 6 th grade class from a Catholic school around the corner from our assisted living facility asked to visit with us and to share our lives with them. I asked Warren if he would tell his story. Warren said that he could not because of reliving the trauma of war. I respect his wishes. At the same time, these kids as well as most of the people in our country will never know the sacrifices and suffering that was gone through so that we might live in a free country. At the Korean War Memorial in Washington, D.C., is a wall. On the wall is a message which reads, “Freedom is not free.” Most acts of bravery or kindness are not seen. Heroes to not draw a crowd. They simply act out of what is needed. Even the ones who do them do not always realize the magnitude of what they did. God’s word says, “What we do for the least of His, we do it for Him.” Some bought our freedom with traumatic hurts to emotions or minds. Some bought it with their injured bodies. Some bought it with them lives. Jesus takes all of this very personal. Again……… He said…….. What we do to the least of His, we do for Him. Open our eyes, Lord. Help us to see Jesus. Contact Linda Davis, 208-755-3637 for a tour when the time is right for your loved one and for your family.
Linda Davis Director of building relationships. 208.457.3403 www.LodgeLiving.net
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MOMENTS IN TIME The History Channel * On March 15, 44 BC, Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome, is stabbed to death in the Roman Senate house by 60 conspirators led by Brutus and Cassius, who believed that his death would lead to * There are good reasons to recaulk your base- the restoration of the Roman Republic. boards from time to time. Not only will it give you a clean look, but it will help to stop drafts * On March 16, 1751, James Madison, author and block out bugs, which can creep in through of the Federalist Papers and fourth president of the tiniest of cracks. the United States, is born in Virginia. Madison is best remembered for his critical role in the Con* “Here’s a tip for making a box cake taste like stitutional Convention of 1787, where he overit was made from scratch: Add an extra egg, use saw the drafting of the final Constitution. melted butter instead of oil and use milk (whole) in place of water. Mix for an extra minute or two, * On March 17, 1776, British forces are forced to to really aerate the batter. It’ll be gorgeous.” -- evacuate Boston following Gen. George WashT.H. in New Hampshire ington’s successful placement of fortifications and cannons on Dorchester Heights. Realizing * “Hide the cords coming from your wall-mount- their position was now indefensible, 11,000 Brited television by running them through a length of ish troops sailed to the safety of Halifax, Nova PVC pipe. It can be painted to match your wall, Scotia. too! Measure the length you need, and your hardware store may be able to cut a piece for you if * On March 14, 1919, Max Brand, perhaps the you can’t find one the right size. It looks so much most prolific writer of Western stories, publishes cleaner, and you can even use double-stick tape his first novel, “The Untamed.” Max Brand was to attach the pipe to the wall.” -- B.B. in Florida one of 21 pen names used by author Frederick Faust. Unlike many Western authors, Faust made * “Donate extra throw blankets to your local ani- no pretense to historical accuracy in his works. mal shelters. In fact, visit the website of your local shelter and check for a ‘wish list’ to see if * On March 13, 1969, “The Love Bug,” a movie you have anything that can be donated. They are about the adventures of a Volkswagen Beetle always in need, and so deserving.” -- F.I. in Texas named Herbie, opens in theaters. The Walt Disney film, based on the 1961 book “Car, Boy, * “On weekend trips to our cabin, we pack a Girl” by Gordon Buford, spawned four spinoffs. laundry basket for each bedroom. It includes fresh sheets, towels and the clothing for that per- * On March 12, 1972, the last remnants of the son. At the end of the weekend, it’s easy to ‘pack’ First Australian Task Force withdraw from Vietthose items that need to be laundered. The bonus nam. The Australian government had first sent is that they stack nicely in the back of the car, and troops to Vietnam in 1964 and by 1969, their they’re a snap to unpack, too!” -- A.H. in North forces totaled an estimated 6,600 personnel. Carolina * On March 11, 1990, Lithuania becomes the Send your tips to Now Here’s a Tip, 628 Virginia first Soviet republic to proclaim its indepenDrive, Orlando, FL 32803. dence from the USSR. The Soviet government responded by imposing an oil embargo and eco(c) 2019 King Features Synd., Inc. nomic blockade against the Baltic republic, and later sent troops. Lithuania would gain its independence in September 1991. NOW HERE’S A TIP By JoAnn Derson
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1. In Michael Martin Murphey’s “Wildfire,” who is Wildfire? 2. Which solo artist released “Touch Me in the Morning”? 3. Who wrote and released “Widescreen,” and when? 4. Which artist was responsible for the futuristic disco number “I Feel Love,” and when? 5. Name the song that contains this lyric: “It’s hard for a backstreet affair to be easy, For each hour of happiness there’s two hours of pain.” Answers 1. Wildfire is a wild pony who escaped during a blizzard. The 1975 song went to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. 2. Diana Ross, in 1973. It was her second solo No. 1 single, staying on the charts for a whopping 21 weeks. 3. Rupert Holmes, in 1974 on his album by the same name. Barbra Streisand discovered the album, and Holmes, and his career, were launched. 4. Donna Summer, in 1977. In a shocking move, the Library of Congress added it to the National Recording Registry. 5. “Any Which Way You Can,” by Glen Campbell. The song was on the soundtrack for the 1980 film by the same name, the Clint Eastwood sequel to “Every Which Way But Loose.” The original role of Clyde the orangutan was played by two fill-ins, C.J. and Buddha. (c) 2019 King Features Synd., Inc.
1. The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (PG) animated 2. What Men Want (R) Taraji P. Henson, Kristen Ledlow 3. Cold Pursuit (R) Liam Neeson, Laura Dern 4. The Upside (PG-13) Kevin Hart, Bryan Cranston 5. Glass (PG-13) James McAvoy, Bruce Willis 6. The Prodigy (R) Taylor Schilling, Brittany Allen 7. Green Book (PG-13) Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali 8. Aquaman (PG-13) Jason Momoa, Amber Heard 9. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (PG) animated 10. Miss Bala (PG-13) Gina Rodriguez, Thomas Dekker (c) 2019 King Features Synd., Inc.
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Top 10 Video On Demand 1. Widows (R) Viola Davis 2. The Grinch (PG) animated 3. Girl in the Spider’s Web (R) Claire Foy 4. Hunter Killer (R) Gerard Butler 5. The Wife (R) Glenn Close 6. First Man (PG-13) Ryan Gosling 7. Boy Erased (R) Lucas Hedges 8. The Sisters Brothers (R) John C. Reilly 9. The Hate U Give (PG-13) Amandla Stenberg 10. Night School (PG-13) Kevin Hart
SPORTS QUIZ By Chris Richcreek
1. Francisco Lindor set a Cleveland Indians record in 2017 for most home runs in a season by a middle infielder (33). Who had held the mark? 2. Who held the major-league record for most home runs by a rookie before Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees belted 52 in 2017? 3. Pro Football Hall of Fame kicker Morten Andersen retired in 2008 as the leading scorer for two NFL franchises. Name them. 4. When was the last time before 2018 that Clemson’s men’s basketball team reached the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament? 5. Name the first black player in the NHL. 6. When was the last time before 2018 that Croatia’s men’s soccer team reached at least the semifinals of the World Cup? 7. When was the last time before 2018 (Desiree Linden) that an American woman won the Women’s Open at the Boston Marathon?
Answers 1. Joe Gordon, who hit 32 home runs in 1948. (Lindor hit 38 home runs in 2018 to surpass his own mark.) 2. Mark McGwire hit 49 home runs for Oakland in 1987. 3. New Orleans and Atlanta. He is still the leading scorer for the Saints. 4. It was 1997. 5. Canadian Willie O’Ree, with the Boston Bruins in 1958. 6. It was 1998. 7. Lisa Larsen Weidenbach won it in 1985. (c) 2019 King Features Syndicate, Inc.
Top 10 DVD, Blu-ray Sales 1. The Grinch (PG) Universal 2. Widows (R) FOX 3. Girl in the Spider’s Web (R) Sony Pictures 4. The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (PG) Disney 5. Hunter Killer (R) Lionsgate 6. Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer (PG-13) Alliance/GVN 7. Halloween (R) Universal 8. Creed (PG-13) Warner/MGM 9. Venom (PG-13) Sony 10. Reign of Superman (PG-13) Warner Bros. Source: comScore/MediaPlayNews (c) 2019 King Features Synd., Inc.
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