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TIDBITS® VACUUMS UP DUST
by Janet Spencer A grain of dust floating in the sun streaming in the window is halfway in size between a sub-atomic particle and the size of the planet Earth. Come along with Tidbits as we sweep up dust! THE GREAT DUST BOWL • The seeds of the Dust Bowl on the Great Plains were planted when the pioneers began turning the prairie sod over to plant crops in place of native grasses. Then came World War I. Troops needed food, so land that had previously been grazing land was converted to cropland. A vast number of acres that had never been turned by a plow were now seeded. • After the war ended, the price of wheat dropped, so livestock were returned to graze these areas. Their sharp hooves pulverized the soil which was no longer protected by native plants. Then came a few years of drought which prevented the return of native grasses. • By 1934 strong winds created huge dust storms called “black blizzards” that sometimes darkened the sky as far away as the Atlantic coast, creating a widespread health hazard. It’s estimated that 150 million square miles of land were stripped of much of their topsoil. That’s an area equivalent to Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana combined. The land was ruined for both crops and pasture for many years to come. Sixty percent of the population of the area moved away.
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THE GREAT DUST BOWL (cont) • In 1935 the Soil Conservation Service was formed to rehabilitate farmland. Eventually erosion control methods were put into practice. Grass was replanted, crops were rotated, acres were allowed to lie fallow, contour farming was begun, and shelter belts of trees were planted. Things were looking pretty good all across the Great Plains, and then World War II started. Wheat prices soared and the entire Dust Bowl pattern was repeated in large part. By the 1950 the U.S. Government stepped in to subsidize farmers in order to restore vast areas of wheat back to grassland. DESERT DUST • “Sahara” comes from the Arabic word “sahra” meaning desert. One of the major sources of dust on Earth is the Sahara Desert. Many deserts consist of rocks and gravel with a few touches of sand here and there, but one-fifth of the Sahara is covered with loose sand. That’s an area equal in size to four states of Texas, buried in sand to the height of a fivestory building on average. In some places the dunes are 1,000 feet high. • It’s estimated that a boxcar’s worth of sand leaves the Sahara to be launched into the atmosphere every four seconds. Once in the atmosphere, the wind carries the sand incredible distances. Astronauts often report seeing a huge tongue of airborne Sahara sand trailing out from the desert. Even sailors out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean have swept heavy coatings of Sahara dust off their decks. • Dust researchers went to the Caribbean island of Barbados to collect space dust. Their logic was that the wind, having crossed the entire Atlantic Ocean, would be clean of earth dust by the time it reached Barbados 3,000 miles away. Instead of collecting space dust, what they collected was a great deal of reddish dust from the Sahara Desert. (cont)
• N.B. of Texas, writes: “I never could find the time to exercise. When I got home, I had to rush to get supper, etc., and afterward all I wanted to do was plop down and watch television. Then I got an exercise mat and a stationary bicycle. When I couldn’t work out very long, I worked out during commercials. I’ve lost 3 pounds so far!” Great idea for all those with fitness on their New Year’s Resolution lists, Nancy! • Two wonderful tips came in from G.K. of Minnesota: “To protect floors from being damaged by chairs being pushed around, glue rounds of carpeting beneath the chair legs. They are easily removed for replacing as they wear down. Also, when making bread or rolls, warm the flour in the oven or microwave so as not to chill the butter. The dough will rise faster.” • B.W. of Colorado swears by brake cleaner to get rid of bad spots on carpets. “Regular automotive brake cleaner on the spot and a clean rag will remove almost all stains,” he says. • “In cold winter months, keep your robe (and slippers or whatever else) under the covers with you when you sleep. Pull it next to or over you a few minutes before you get up. It’ll be toasty and will help make the transition into the cold a little less harsh.” -- B.M. in New York • As tax time draws closer, try taping a large manila envelope to the fridge, leaving the top open. Immediately place all tax-related forms and receipts in the envelope as they come in. This way, when you are ready to start your taxes, all items will be together and easy to find.Send your tips to Now Here’s a Tip, 628 Virginia Drive, Or•
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TIDBITS of Kootenai County, Idaho Issue #3 Jan. 18th 2021 BARBADOS • Barbados, one of the southernmost islands in the Caribbean, is made entirely of white and gray coral. Yet the soil on the island, instead of being white or gray, is actually a reddish orange. Researchers found that the chemical composition of the soil doesn’t have any of the components contained in coral, but it exactly matches the chemical composition of the sand in the Sahara Desert. Over eons, dust carried high aloft traveled the breadth of the Atlantic Ocean to fall on Barbados, building the soil to a depth of several feet. POLLEN • Some pollens are designed to be transferred to other flowers using the help of insects such as bees. These types of pollens are relatively large in size and spiky in shape, the better to cling to insects. But other pollens are meant to be dispersed by the winds. These spores are very tiny and smooth, the better to fly in the breeze. The less they weigh, the farther they fly. Built-in air bladders keep pollen afloat. • One of the more notorious pollen producers is the ragweed plant, whose pollen aggravates the allergies of people across the nation. The more carbon dioxide there is in the atmosphere, the more pollen the ragweed plant produces. Researchers think that ragweed around the world has doubled its pollen output in the past century, and it may double again in the coming century as the amount of carbon dioxide continues to increase. IT’S A FACT • “Pollen” is the Latin word meaning flour or dust.
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® of Idaho TIDBITS of Kootenai Issue #3 Jan. 18th 2021 TidbitsCounty, Dallas County DUSTY GLACIERS • It’s a fact that dust absorbs heat. Consider what happens when dust falls on ice: • In 1980 when Mount Saint Helens erupted, ash fell on Blue Glacier on Mount Olympus in Washington. Researchers scraped the ash off a patch of the glacier that was 10 feet wide and 13 feet long and waited to see what would happen. Within two weeks the surrounding ash-covered ice had melted so much that it was a foot lower than the ash-free ice. • In 1991 an extra-heavy layer of airborne dust from the Sahara Desert fell on a glacier in the Alps, allowing the ice to melt back enough to reveal the remains of the Ice Man, a CopperAge man who had died and been entombed by ice for over 5,000 years. • In an experiment in Russia, coal dust was spread over a glacier. The dust absorbed the heat of the sun, increasing the rate at which the ice melted by 55 percent. This produced more drinking water for nearby towns, but the cost of transporting and spreading the coal dust proved to be prohibitively high. • Soot holds heat 50 times better than desert dust and 200 times better than volcanic ash. If a nuclear holocaust threw tremendous amounts of particulate matter into the atmosphere, the dust and soot landing on ice sheets, ice caps, and ice bergs would cause them to melt, raising the level of the oceans. In 1954, the hydrogen bomb dropped on the Bikini Islands as a test spread radioactive dust over 7,000 square miles. IT’S A FACT • In 1816, a volcano named Tambora erupted in Indonesia. The gas and dust circled the globe, causing extreme weather and unusual cold worldwide. A 19-year-old woman named Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was vacationing in Switzerland that summer. Since it was too cold to go outside to enjoy the mountains, she stayed inside and wrote Frankenstein.
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By Lucie Winborne • To train new operatives during the Cold War, the Soviets built fully functional replicas of American towns. Their residents consisted of retired deep-cover operatives who taught the trainees everything they needed to know about blending into American life. • In 1963, the Bronx Zoo had an exhibit called “The Most Dangerous Animal in the World.” It was a mirror. • The U.S. Navy has a tradition that no submarine is ever considered lost at sea. Subs that don’t return, including 52 lost during World War II, are considered “still on patrol.” Every year at Christmas, sailors manning communications hubs send holiday greetings to those listed as still on patrol. • An outbreak of the common cold occurred at an Antarctic base after 17 weeks of complete isolation. • In the category of Best Song Titles Ever, country music stars Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty recorded a duet titled “You’re the Reason Our Kids Are So Ugly.” (Despite which fact, the lyrics make clear that the couple is still in love.) • After high school senior Allison Closs dressed up a cardboard cutout of Danny DeVito to go with her to prom, the actor returned the favor by bringing a cardboard cutout of Allison to the set of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.” • A $3 million lottery winner was sentenced to 21 years in prison after using his winnings to finance a meth trafficking ring. • Actual town names in the U.S. include Rabbit Hash (Kentucky), Two Egg (Florida), Ding Dong (Texas) and Bacon (Delaware). • Ever have trouble finishing your veggies? Try taking a tip from Leigh Knight, who in 2006 sold an unwanted brussels sprout left over from his Christmas dinner for £1,550 ($2,100.72 USD) to aid cancer research. Thought for the Day: “May your coffee kick in before reality does.” -- Unknown (c) 2021 King Features Synd., Inc.
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By Dr. Holly Carling
THE COMPLEX HEALTH PICTURE
With ever-increasing complexity in life, we learn to compartmentalize our life in an attempt to bring order to chaos. We have our spiritual life, family life, work life, social life, animal/pet life, recreational life and our health. Our health gets further compartmentalized into food, exercise, stress-relief, sleep, hydration, energy and disease-management. The disease-management is even further compartmentalized, or fractionalized, to all the specialty fields of medicine. We have a doctor for our joints, one for our heart, another for our digestive system, another for our emotional health, etc. Even within these specialties are sub-specialties! Wow! Is this wise? On the surface it does make sense. As our health, or rather our disease model, is becoming more complex, there isn’t a doctor around that can be an expert in all areas. Because of this fractionalization of our medical care, we tend to lose track of the whole picture, the body as a whole entity. When we treat one symptom, not the entire symptom picture, we jeopardize other parts. When those parts that got jeopardized from the treatment scream out at us, we call it side-effects. For instance, when we take acid-reducing pills for heartburn or reflux, we handicap the digestive system and it can’t break down the nutrients needed for other bodily functions. Calcium and magnesium deficiencies, common when taking these medications, can increase the risk for osteoporosis.
Vioxx, now taken off the market, had a high risk of heart-related incidents, though it was a powerful anti- inflammatory drug. In all areas of health and choices in health care, we need to not forget that the body is complex. It is a highly intelligent, highly complex interactive relationship which we do not fully understand. For instance, it is now commonly known that the gut acts like a brain on many levels. The gut-brain mechanism is only recently being understood. We used to think that the appendix was a worthless organ, serving no purpose and best discarded. Now we understand that it assists in lubricating the intestines, is part of the gut’s immune system and assists in maintaining a healthy gut microbiome. Whenever considering a remedy for symptoms, it is best to take a wholistic (whole body) and holistic (natural) approach. Viewing the body as a picture and the symptoms as pieces of a puzzle, gives a crisper idea of what went wrong in the first place. Then, the picture is treated – the whole person – and not just the symptom. Obviously, there are times where the puzzle piece has to be handled, such as when you’re having a heart attack, but then getting down to what went wrong to precipitate that event needs to be addressed. YOU need to be evaluated, treated, supported, and nourished, and not just your symptom.
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 208-7651994 and would be happy to answer any questions regarding this topic.
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The COVID Vaccine Is Coming for Vets
TRIVIA TEST The COVID vaccine is currently being distrib- By Fifi Rodriguez uted to 37 VA locations around the country. The logistics to move 300 million doses to where 1. MOVIES: Who was the first African American they need to be (Operation Warp Speed) are to win the Academy Award for Best Actor? overwhelming, but the Department of Veterans 2. ASTRONOMY: How many phases does the Moon go through each month? Affairs has plans in hand for us. The first thing to remember is that you likely 3. MEDICAL: What are leukocytes? won’t be first in line to get the vaccine. Until 4. TELEVISION: What are the names of the you get the two shots (spaced weeks apart), your three animated “Powerpuff Girls”? job is to stay healthy. Just because you get the 5. INVENTIONS: Who is credited with inventfirst shot doesn’t mean you’re in the clear. And ing the first battery? depending how things are going in your area, 6. GEOGRAPHY: What is the largest country in you’ll likely need to keep wearing a mask and Africa in land area? doing social distancing, even after you’ve had 7. MEASUREMENTS: What does a Geiger counter measure? both doses. The order of vaccination is still being organized, 8. LITERATURE: What item did the crocodile but it will likely start with medical staff and resi- swallow in “Peter Pan”? dents of long-term care facilities, and those with 9. FOOD & DRINK: What is grenadine made from? high-risk medical conditions. Once they move down the list, the vaccines will 10. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What is a baby goat be available to all veterans who get VA health called? care. The fine print says they’ll contact you when it’s available, but it can’t hurt to check with your Answers health team to make sure they have your info. If 1. Sidney Poitier, in 1964 you’re not signed up for VA health care, you can 2. Eight apply online with VA form 10-10EZ. 3. White blood cells Other tidbits: 4. Blossom, Buttercup and Bubbles If they come out with multiple vaccines, no, you 5. Alessandro Volta won’t be able to pick which one you get, at least 6. Algeria not initially when there are shortages. 7. Radiation If you haven’t had a flu shot but plan to get one, 8. A clock do it now. You likely will not be able to take the 9. Pomegranates COVID vaccine too soon after getting a flu shot. 10. A kid The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is still deciding about this. (c) 2021 King Features Synd., Inc. For more info on the vaccines and VA, go to www.va.gov/health-care/covid-19-vaccine. Scroll down for lots of information and resources. (c) 2021 King Features Synd., Inc.
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PHOTO: Scene from “Frozen” Photo Credit: Walt Disney Pictures
Here are nine movies that bring winter into the story in very different ways, playing up the many facets of this seasonal gift. Comedy: “Groundhog Day” -- A narcissistic weatherman, Phil (Bill Murray), goes on assignment in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, and cannot escape. He’s forced to live the same day -- Feb. 2 -- over and over again until he gets it right. Action: “The Day After Tomorrow” -- An instantaneous ice age cannot stop a geologist (Dennis Quaid) from rescuing his college-age son (Jake Gyllenhaal) who’s stuck above the freeze line. To get there, he’ll cross a frozen landscape on foot, if necessary. (Spoiler alert: It’s necessary.) Horror: “The Shining” -- Jack Nicholson is terrifying as a writer who takes his family to a remote Colorado resort to live as off-season caretakers. With winter closing in and a psychically sensitive son, it’s hard to tell who’s more haunted: the resort or the writer. Western: “The Revenant” -- Mauled by a bear, his son killed, then left for dead, Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio, in an Oscar-winning performance) claws his way back through a wild and unforgiving climate to seek vengeance on the man who did him wrong. Romance: “The Holiday” -- Two women trade houses at Christmastime, each having sunk to the depths of heartbreak. One, a movie-trailer maven from LA (Cameron Diaz); the other, a writer from merry old England. You think they’ll find love and a healthier self-view? You betcha! Animated: “Frozen” -- Queen Elsa’s magical gift is delicate enough to build a snowman (we love you, Olaf!) and disastrous enough to unleash permanent winter in Arendale. When she runs off to an ice castle in the mountains, her plucky, dedicated sis Anna enlists the local ice salesman as a guide and follows her, determined to heal Elsa’s frozen heart. Thriller: “Wind River” -- Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen star in this thriller about a Fish and Wildlife officer and an FBI agent investigating the death and sexual assault of an indigenous woman on an impossibly cold reservation in Wyoming. Drama: “Titanic” -- OK, yes, the Titanic set sail in spring (April), but a frozen mass definitely played a significant role in its demise. Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet play ill-fated lovers -- one low born and one high-brow -- on a voyage to America on the Unsinkable Ship. Fantasy: “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe” is set in winter -- thanks to the terrible White Witch, who has cursed the land of Narnia to 100 years of snow and ice. Four siblings unexpectedly stumble into the kingdom through a door in a wardrobe, and must partner with mighty lion Aslan to regain control of the land and end winter. (c) 2021 King Features Synd., Inc.
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• On Jan. 25, 1776, the Continental Congress authorizes the first national Revolutionary War memorial in honor of Gen. Richard Montgomery, who had been killed during an assault on Quebec on Dec. 31, 1775, one of the first generals of the American Revolution to lose his life on the battlefield. • On Jan. 30, 1835, Andrew Jackson becomes the first American president to experience an assassination attempt. Richard Lawrence, an unemployed house painter, shot at Jackson, but his gun misfired. A furious 67-year-old Jackson confronted his attacker, clubbing Lawrence several times with his walking cane. • On Jan. 29, 1845, Edgar Allan Poe’s famous poem “The Raven,” beginning “Once upon a midnight dreary,” is published in the New York Evening Mirror. • On Jan. 28, 1855, the Panama Railway, which carried thousands of unruly gold miners to California via the dense jungles of Central America, dispatches its first train across the Isthmus of Panama. The Panama Canal would parallel the railway 50 years later. • On Jan. 31, 1944, D-Day is postponed until June when several key leaders agreed that there would not be enough ships available by May. D-Day would later be postponed once more, by a single day due to high winds. Finally, on the morning of June 6, the longawaited invasion of France began. • On Jan. 27, 1965, the Shelby GT 350, a version of a Ford Mustang developed by American auto racer Carroll Shelby, is launched. The sports car featured a 306 horsepower V-8 engine and remained in production through the end of the 1960s. • On Jan. 26, 1970, U.S. Navy Lt. Everett Alvarez Jr. spends his 2,000th day in captivity in Southeast Asia. First taken prisoner when his plane was shot down Aug. 5, 1964, during one of the first bombing raids over North Vietnam, he became the longest-held POW in U.S. history. (c) 2021 Hearst Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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What’s Life in Long Term Care Without Respect?
By Matilda Charles
Art: Unlocking Your Creativity
Creating art can be emotionally healing and freeing. Who among us can’t use a little of that nowadays? Once you get started, you’ll wonder why you didn’t begin sooner. Here are some ideas: Collage Wish Board: Collect pictures of things you miss and hope to have or do again. You’ll need a poster board, school glue, scissors and magazines (or print out pictures you find online). If you hope to travel, gather travel magazines and snip out pictures of places you want to go once the ban on travel disappears. Paris? Add the Eiffel Tower. London? Add Buckingham Palace. If you plan a garden for next summer, collect gardening magazines or look for pictures on seed catalog sites. Add in a small plan of your garden. A collage wish board can be made for nearly any interest and topic. (Mine is a mixture of all the things that didn’t happen this year: the annual music festival, square dance classes and monthly museum exhibits.) Coloring: There’s something very relaxing about taking a handful of fine-point markers and filling in the designs on a page in front of us. Search for “adult coloring books” online and print out the free pages. The topics are endless. (I’m a fan of the Celtic knots and mandalas.) Crafts: If creating things is more to your liking, search online for “craft kits for adults” and see what appeals to you. Stained glass window art, jewelry-making, macrame, birdhouse kit, origami, wind chimes, mosaics, oil painting or watercolor ... the kits are endless. Look at the website for your local hobby and craft store. Chances are they have curbside pickup. (I’m in the middle of a 1:250 scale model of Notre Dame Cathedral.) Have fun! (c) 2021 King Features Synd., Inc.
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The Lodge loves this article published by Jan Noyes Rosemary, living in a Pennsylvania nursing home, says, “Quality care means that I have what I need when I need it, and that I’m treated with respect. Life would have little meaning without respect.” Every resident in long term care, in assisted living and skilled nursing facilities everywhere, desires and deserves respect. So what does respect mean in long term care? It means that • residents have privacy during cares, • staff is courteous and friendly, • food is hot, nutritious and tasty, • the environment is clean, orderly, and safe, • there is a variety of enjoyable activities, • medication is delivered on time, • call lights are answered in a timely manner, • individual choices are considered, • questions are answered patiently, • staff talks to the residents and not over them, • there is ample staff to meet residents’ needs, • residents are treated as unique individuals, • individual attention is given to each resident, and • residents are treated as if their residence is their home. Long term care should be about the residents first. Of course, business should be profitable. After all, without facilities, where would all those thousands of elders go when care becomes necessary? Managing the balance between quality care and profit must lean toward quality care. There are good facilities here that do just that, but there are always enough problems in our area that make an ombudsman program necessary. It would be ideal if every long term care facility owner, corporation, and administrator would treat all the residents as if they were their own loved ones. How long would their loved ones sit in a wet brief, eat cold food, be ignored, lose privacy, or be rushed through cares? Ombudsmen, like me, Roseanna Lewis, Jan Young, and our 13 volunteer ombudsmen are problemsolvers. We visit the facilities, observe the environment, talk to the residents, and solve problems. It’s not always that easy, but we’re all well trained and we make a positive difference in the lives of the residents. The Ombudsman Program is part of The Older Americans Act, and gives ombudsmen license to go anywhere in the buildings, talk privately to the residents, and even (with the resident’s permission) look at their records. HIPPA does not apply to us because we are a health oversight organization. Our main concerns are resident rights, quality of care and quality of life. That includes the environment, safety issues, access to information, individual choices, and all aspects of facility care and caregiving. Looking for a rewarding way to serve? A new volunteer training is coming up September 11 – October 23, 1 day a week for 7 weeks, 9 am – 3 pm. Upon graduation, volunteers become Assistant Ombudsmen and each is assigned a facility (with their approval). The volunteers are mentored until each feels comfortable enough to go it alone. Be a voice for those vulnerable elders that won’t, don’t, or can’t speak for themselves. Contact Jan Noyes, Volunteer Ombudsman Coordinator, at the Area Agency on Aging, 208-667-3179 or jnoyes@aaani.org.
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By Mick Harper 1. Who wrote and released “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag”? 2. Name the artist who originally released “Long Tall Sally.” 3. Where did Mungo Jerry get their name? 4. Who was the lead singer for “Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)”? 5. Name the song that contains this lyric: “Listen boy, it’s not automatically a certain guarantee, To insure yourself you’ve got to provide communication constantly.” Answers 1. James Brown, in 1965. The versions in the single and in the 1991 box set aren’t the same. The box set version was as written, while the single version was speeded up. 2. Little Richard, in 1956. The song was so uptempo that he had to practice to fit all the words in, building up more speed. 3. They took their name from a T.S. Eliot poem “Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer” in the “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats.” 4. Tony Burrows. He has a long history of fronting different bands, sometimes simultaneously. 5. “Tell Her About It,” by Billy Joel, 1983. The song encourages a boy to tell his lady love how he feels, while he has the chance. The song appeared on the album “An Innocent Man.” (c) 2021 King Features Syndicate
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