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by Janet Spencer • The word “generic” comes from the same Latin root word “gene” which means “birth” or “beget” and gives us “genus” meaning race, class, or kind. It’s also the root of “general” meaning “affecting or involving all” as opposed to being specific. A general store sells all goods; a general hospital treats all ailments; a general in the army leads all men. The word “generic” refers to all members of a group. It also means “no longer protected by a specific trademark.” • Genericide is when a company’s protectable trademark morphs into a synonym for the entire product category. The name, once protected by trademark law, enters the public domain. Here are some samples. • In Connecticut in the 1870s, William Frisbie owned a pie company. All of the pies came with a returnable tin pie plate with the bakery’s name stamped on the bottom. The pies were popular at Yale University, and William noted that few of the pie tins were ever returned from there. He found that the students had discovered the pie tins would fly. Instead of demanding the return of the pie tins, he spread the word that they made a great toy, and it became a fad. Pie sales soared. In 1955, Wham-O bought the rights to the toy and made them out of plastic instead of tin, changing the spelling of the now-generic name to Frisbee. (cont)
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GENERIC PRODUCTS (cont) • Canadian physician and geologist Abraham Gesner developed a combustible hydrocarbon liquid made from coal tar and shale oils in the late 1840s and trademarked the substance as Kerosene in 1854. The name comes from the Greek “keros” meaning “wax” because of the waxy oils it came from. After the discovery of petroleum in 1859, Kerosene was made from that instead. The trademark held for several decades until it became popular across many countries for use in lamps, heaters, and stove. • Charles Seeberger invented the escalator in 1897 and patented the innovation in 1900. He named it the escalator after “scala” which is Latin for “steps” or “scale.” The word “escalate” came into vogue after Seeberger’s invention became popular. He sold the patent rights to Otis Elevator Company in 1910, and they held the trademark until 1950 when the U.S. Patent Office ruled that escalator had become a generic term for moving stairways. • George Dempster and his brothers started up a construction company that they named after themselves: The Dempster Construction Company. In 1935 they built and trademarked the Dempster-Dumpster, a garbage machine that could dump tons of refuse into the rear of the truck, and crushing it before unloading it. Soon, municipalities started putting in orders and it became so popular that the word “dumpster” entered the popular vernacular as a generic term. • Bubble Wrap was invented in 1957 by New Jersey engineers Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes, who fused two shower curtains together in an attempt to make an unusual wallpaper. Later it was marketed as insulation for greenhouses. Originally called Air Cap, they later trademarked the name Bubble Wrap. It became popular after IBM started using it to protect computers being shipped and subsequently became generified. (cont)
• Need a quick fix for tarnished brass? Look in your fridge. Ketchup, applied liberally then buffed off, will remove tarnish in a pinch. • Use a sticky note to clean the cracks in your keyboard. First hold it upside down and shake to remove crumbs. You’d be surprised how much comes out. Then run the sticky strip of the note paper between the keys to pick up dust and any other crumbs. • “Many people play drinking games with movies and alcohol, but here’s my drinking game: I work at an ‘office’ job (although we are remote now), and every time I get an email notification, I take a sip or slug of water. It’s got me surprisingly hydrated!” -- P.J. in Florida • Use a cotton swab to clean out the tips of your earbuds! • “To clean out your coffeemaker, run a cycle of water through it, and then pour out half the water and replace it with white vinegar. Pour that mixture back through the coffeemaker (make sure it’s off) and let it sit for 10 minutes. Then run the vinegar mixture through, then two cycles of fresh, cold water. -- A.L. in New York Send your tips to Now Here’s a Tip, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803. (c) 2021 King Features Synd., Inc.
TIDBITS of Kootenai County, Idaho Issue #9 March 1st 2021 GENERIC PRODUCTS (cont) • Charles Browne Fleet was a pharmacist who invented a variety of products still found in drug stores today. One of his more successful ideas was ChapStick, which he formulated in the 1890s. He was never able to find the right niche market for this product, and sold the formula and the trademark to John Morton for $5 in 1912. Morton and his wife made the emollient in their kitchen, but changed the packaging. Whereas Fleet had but the balm into small lengths that looked like small candles, then wrapped it in paper, Morton’s wife had the idea to package it in a tube. Today Americans spend over $200 million each year on the ubiquitous, and genericized, chapstick. • In 1905 a popular brand of soft drink came in powdered form and had to be mixed with water and stirred vigorously. Frank Epperson left his soft drink on the porch of his San Francisco home with a stir stick still in the glass. That night record low temperatures hit the area, and the next morning he found his leftover soda frozen solid to the straw. It was very tasty, like a frozen lollipop. He applied for a patent and named it the Eppsicle. However, his children called it the Popsicle, since it was manufactured by their dad, and the name stuck. When it debuted at a California amusement park in 1924 selling for a nickel, it was an instant hit. The product line was eventually bought out by Good Humor, by which time the popsicle was already well on its way to generification.
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® of Idaho TIDBITS of Kootenai Issue #9 March 1st 2021 TidbitsCounty, Dallas County GENERIC PRODUCTS (cont) • Harry Greenwald, an inventor from Brooklyn, came up with the concept for laundromats in the 1940s. He was inspired by a restaurant where he frequently purchased his weekday lunches. It was called The Automat, and it featured food served behind protective glass doors which would be lifted up when someone deposited the required coins. Greenwald showed Westinghouse how the same technology could be applied to washers and dryers. The Laundromat was born, and entered the public domain forthwith. • In 1917 Earle Dickson was working for Johnson & Johnson as a cotton buyer, because cotton was used in bandages. His wife was constantly nicking her fingers in the kitchen, but the only bandages that Johnson & Johnson produced were far too bulky to protect small cuts on fingers. One day Earle sat down and unrolled some surgical tape, then affixed small pads of sterile gauze to the center of the strip of tape. He re-rolled the tape and showed his wife how she could unroll just a little piece of tape, cut it off the roll, and center the pad of gauze over her wound. This way she could bandage her wounds on her own. • When Earle mentioned this invention to a fellow employee at Johnson & Johnson, he was encouraged to take the idea to management. Management agreed it was a good idea, but sales were slow at first and the product was nearly dropped. Then it was re-configured so that instead of being on a long continuous roll, the bandages were packaged individually. Then they offered these small bandages to Boy Scout troops across the nation free of charge. This resulted in a bandage boom, and Earle Dickson was promoted to vice-president of the company. By the time he died in 1961, Johnson & Johnson was selling $30 billion worth of his product annually, now generically known as the band-aid.
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By Lucie Winborne • In 2008, two sisters from Virginia sold their Illinois-shaped corn flake on eBay for $1,350. • One of the first diet books, “The Art of Living Long” by Luigi Comaro, came out in 1558 ... and is still in print. • In the movie “Psycho’s” iconic shower scene, Alfred Hitchcock achieved the sound of stabbings by knifing through a casaba melon. He even had his crew audition multiple varieties of melon to get the perfect tone. • Folks who enjoy collecting ties are known as grabatologists. • The mostly unknown second and third verses of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” reveal the song was originally written as a feminist anthem about a woman wanting to go see a baseball game rather than go on a date to a show. • Cinderella’s shoes were made of fur, not glass, in the tale’s original version. • Overdo it on the garlic or onions and need to freshen your breath? Try roasted coffee beans instead of gum or mints. Israeli scientists have found that coffee can inhibit the bacteria that leads to bad breath, but if you prefer drinking it to chewing, you’ll do best to take it black. • German chocolate cake was named for an American baker, Samuel German. • “Scurryfunge” is an old English word meaning to rush around cleaning when you see company is on their way over. • In the Middle Ages, the “shrew’s fiddle” or “neck violin” was used to punish those who were caught bickering by linking them faceto-face, forcing them to talk to each other. They weren’t released until their disagreement was resolved.
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“I had a new vision in front of me, and I always feel that if I can see it and believe it, then I can achieve it.” -- Arnold Schwarzenegger (c) 2021 King Features Synd., Inc.
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By Dr. Holly Carling
SUGAR BELLY
It is widely known and accepted that sugar contributes significantly to weight gain. There are quite a few other reasons why we get that belly that is so despised by over-weight individuals. Understanding some of the mechanisms behind sugar causing weight gain can help us in our control over it. The first and foremost is how the pancreas and adrenals respond to sugar when consumed. When we eat a high carb meal, glucose levels go up. Because glucose in large amounts is toxic, it causes the pancreas to raise insulin levels to try to get the glucose out of the blood stream and into the cells where it can be used. The adrenals also release cortisol in response to insulin. Both insulin and cortisol tell the body to increase fat deposition. The more this happens, and the greater the amount of glucose in the blood, the more the cells become resistant to insulin. The pancreas then has to work even harder to get the glucose (which is needed by the energy mechanisms) into the cells. Fructose in the diet also causes the body to become resistant to a hormone called leptin. Leptin is responsible for helping the brain determine how much fat is stored (for use in emergency or famine situations).
The fatter the cells get, the worse the mechanism responds and the brain, instead of seeing that you have ample fat and reducing the appetite, sends the message that you are starving and sets off cravings. Of course, then you eat more, and the fat cells get even fatter, worsening the situation. Sugar doesn’t satisfy. You have receptors on your tongue that are called kokumi. Kokumi is a Japanese word for “mouthfulness”. Meaning, how satisfied your mouth, or tongue feels with food. It enhances the flavors of sweet, salty and savory (aka “umami”), but it is the fat in food that makes you truly satisfied. When we dropped fat from our diet, we were no longer getting satisfied, or feeling kokumi, so we turned to sweets to satisfy instead. Well, the sugar, by far, puts on more weight than fat ever did. Besides, we now know that eating fats (good fats), don’t make you fat. Sugar does. There are 3 vital components to slow down sugar response in the body (reducing insulin and cortisol): Fat, protein and fiber. The more those 3 things are in a meal, the slower sugar will enter the blood stream, and the less negative hormonal response. To help with weight, eat less sugar, and more protein, fiber and fat!
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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Internet Access for Veterans
Fifteen percent of veterans do not have an internet connection, limiting their access to Department of Veterans Affairs video telehealth services. But no longer. The VA’s new Digital Divide Consult has geared up to help over 12,000 eligible veterans so far. If you’re a veteran living in a rural area, have limited broadband service, don’t have a device with video, have a serious medical condition or are in temporary housing, you can get help with internet access and devices. But there’s more: If you’re part of a HUD-VA program, you can receive a smartphone to reach telehealth. If you use TracFone SafeLink, T-Mobile (was Sprint) or Verizon, you can hook up with VA Video Connect health care without incurring data charges on your bill. Go to mobile.va.gov/ app/va-video-connect for details. The VA will even do a test call before your visit to check your connection. If you’re in a rural area or don’t have broadband at home, the VA has coordinated with various groups and businesses to create locations for you to use for talking privately to your health care providers. The American Legion, VFW and certain Walmarts are part of the Accessing Telehealth through Local Area Stations (ATLAS) program. Go to connectedcare.va.gov/partners/ atlas for locations near you. The Microsoft Airband Initiative is charged with creating broadband (high speed) in rural areas. Look at microsoft.com/corporate-responsibility/ airband. (While you’re there, check into the Microsoft Software & Systems Academy, 18 weeks of training for high-paying jobs.) Additionally, you could be eligible for the FCC’s Lifeline program, which subsidizes broadband and phone service for low-income veterans and veterans who get the following: Medicaid, SNAP, SSI, pension and survivors benefits, and more. Check lifelinesupport.org or call 800-2349473. Get started by contacting a VA social worker, who will have all the details and can determine your eligibility. (c) 2021 King Features Synd., Inc.
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The No-Cry Challenge: Tears are shed for many a reason. Unbridled joy. A particularly raucous round of laughter. Heartbreak. The ache of loss. And humans are a curious lot. There are times when we’ll go into absolute denial to avoid tears, but other times we rush right in. Case in point: tearjerkers. Some movies come at you right from the start (the entire first 10 minutes of “Up”) and some wait for the end to twist the knife (when Miguel sings with his great-grandmother “Coco”). Either way, here are a collection of tearjerker moments in film for when you just need a little catharsis. Get a box of tissues and (potential spoilers ahead) have yourself a good cry. “My Girl” -- The death of a child is no easy thing, but in this story of a girl named Vada Sultenfuss, living with her single dad in a funeral home, it’s heartbreaking. If you can get through the scene where Vada loses it at Thomas J’s funeral because he doesn’t have his glasses, I am not sure you are human. “Inside Out” -- A quintet of emotions interact inside the mind of 11-year-old Riley in this Pixar classic. But it’s Riley’s forgotten imaginary friend Bing Bong who steals the heart in a loving act of sacrifice that will have you weeping buckets of candy tears. “Steel Magnolias” -- In this touching story about a group of strong Southern women, there is more than one poignant moment, but for millions of ugly criers, it’s the scene where M’Lynn delivers her monologue in the graveyard, bemoaning daughter Shelby’s lifelong ill health. “Selena” -- The Tejano superstar captured the hearts of a nation. Her tragic story is told with Jennifer Lopez in the lead role, and when she doesn’t catch the white rose thrown to her on stage at the end, you’ll never hear “Dreaming of You” the same way. “Marley & Me” (and for that matter “A Dog’s Purpose” and “A Dog’s Journey”) -- Whenever an animal is involved, you’re already in a position of weakness, but these films take it to the next level. When Marley is put down, it’s gutwrenching. “Life Is Beautiful” -- A Jewish-Italian writer and his son make a game of being imprisoned in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. “Love, Simon” -- When Simon comes out to his mother, finding acceptance. “Green Mile” -- The final execution scene will tear you to pieces. (c) 2021 King Features Synd., Inc.
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• On March 13, 1781, English astronomer William Hershel discovers Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun. It was the first discovery of a new planet in modern times, and the first to be made using a telescope. • On March 10, 1876, the first discernible speech is transmitted over a telephone system when inventor Alexander Graham Bell summons his assistant in another room by saying, “Mr. Watson, come here; I want you.” • On March 14, 1914, stock-car racer Lee Arnold Petty is born near Randleman, North Carolina. In 1959, he won the Daytona 500. Lee Petty never lost a race on account of being too kind to his competitors, even if they were family. • On March 12, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gives his first national radio address broadcast from the White House, in which he explained his recent decision to close the nation’s banks. • On March 8, 1971, Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier meet for the “Fight of the Century” at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The bout marked Ali’s return after the boxing commission revoked his license over his refusal to fight in the Vietnam War. Frazier won by a unanimous decision. • On March 9, 1981, a nuclear accident at a Japan Atomic Power Company plant in Tsuruga, Japan, exposes 59 workers to radiation. Sixteen tons of waste spilled into Wakasa Bay, but Japan’s Atomic Power Commission made no mention of the accident until more than a month later. By then, radioactive levels of seaweed in the area were found to be 10 times greater than normal. • On March 11, 1997, Paul McCartney, a former member of Beatles, is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his “services to music.” McCartney became Sir Paul in a centuries-old ceremony of pomp and solemnity at Buckingham Palace in central London. (c) 2021 Hearst Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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COVID Isolation Affects Our Mental Health, Too
COVID hits seniors hard. Many of us have underlying medical conditions that make a diagnosis of COVID very risky in terms of recovery. But the lockdown from the pandemic has another risky side: mental health disorders. Whether we’re living at home, in a retirement center or a care facility, our isolation has been very stressful. A survey conducted in June concluded that seniors were less negatively affected than other age groups when it comes to mental health. They say we have better emotional regulation, which means we don’t react as strongly to negative events. But the study was done when we were only a few months into this new way of living. (Even the study mentions that as a caveat.) Now eight more months have passed. Holidays without family. Missed doctor appointments. We’ve had to take a crash course in online chat to be able to see and talk to friends and family. Our regular meetings and social outings are canceled. The news has been a daily onslaught of the increasing numbers of positive cases and deaths. A more recent study from Portugal unearthed the truth, however. After reviewing 41 pieces of research from around the world, scientists concluded that “anxiety, depression, poor sleep quality and physical inactivity” have been prevalent among seniors during our lockdowns. If you’re struggling, ask for help. In some communities, hotlines have opened up to deal with this kind of stress. Look online for “mental health hotline” and your state. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention set up a web page in December. Search online for “CDC Coping with Stress” and look at all the offerings on the page. There is a national helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357). Or you can just pick up the phone and dial 211. It’s a referral for community services. Stay safe. (c) 2021 King Features Synd., Inc.
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A text from a resident’s family member received recently really struck my heart… “I’m so ashamed of our Youth Centric Society. There is so much wisdom, culture, love and storytelling that is being wasted and lost, simply disregarded…” Rory Steward in the November 9, 2013, “Guardian” reflects as follows. “…ours is the first generation to draw our deepest fulfilment from our own descendants. Some of my friends imply that all that matters is what happens to their families, in the lives behind their own front doors. We have become reluctant to make sacrifices, except on the altar of our children. And what is the purpose of our children’s lives? Their own children. And so on, all the way down. But instead of focusing overwhelmingly on the interests of the next generation politicians should give more space to the previous generation. We should begin by allowing older people to take far more political responsibility in local communities…. Our older population is the most impressive, self-sacrificing and imaginative part of our entire community. They are almost the last people who belong to political parties, the last who maintain our churches, the most generous and dedicated supporters of all our charities. They are our last fragile link to deeper history. They are also people who can find themselves in extremes of poverty (fuel poverty, in particular), of isolation, of loneliness and of hopelessness in the wait for death, unimaginable to anyone younger. We are not respecting them and, as a society, we are not making use of their extraordinary talents… If we are looking for redemption for the young, and a mission for our society, it could be in our care for the older generation: finding fulfilment and delight in relationships with the elderly and in helping the elderly. We should admire and learn from them. This is possible. On every street corner in Kabul, you can see a teenager in stonewashed jeans raising his head from scowling at his phone and moving with genuine delight to talk to an older person. I would like to see us begin to do the same here. Instead of building a world that’s only fit for our children, I would like to see us building a world fit for our parents…” Rory Stewart is Conservative MP for Penrith For guidance, questions, and tours of The Lodge Assisted Living, call Linda Davis 208-755-3637.
Linda Davis Director of building relationships. 208.457.3403 www.LodgeLiving.net
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1. Name the artist who claims he’s lost fans because of his name. 2. Which group was the first to release “Woke Up in Love”? 3. “Conga” is considered the signature song for which artist? 4. Who was the first artist to be inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? 5. Name the song that contains this lyric: “Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk, I’m a woman’s man: no time to talk.”
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1. Meat Loaf. Vegetarians were leery of him because of the name (in one case a fellow artist who wouldn’t speak to him), although he himself was a vegetarian for over 10 years. 2. Exile, in 1983. “Woke Up in Love” took the former rock group to the top of the country charts in both the U.S. and Canada. 3. Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine. 4. Clyde McPhatter, both as a member of the Drifters and for his solo work. 5. “Stayin’ Alive,” by the Bee Gees in 1977. It was used in the soundtrack for the film “Saturday Night Fever.” After its release, “Stayin’ Alive” shot to the top of the charts and stayed there for a month. (c) 2021 King Features Syndicate
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