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• Pedicles appear on young deer during their first year of life, appearing as small bumps or knobs. Each year when new antlers grow, the antlers get larger and longer, with more “branches.” You can tell a deer’s age by counting his branches. • After three or four months of growth, antlers can reach a span of 7 feet (2 m) and a weight of more than 45 pounds (20 kg). Antlers serve as a sort of “badge of courage.” The animal with the biggest antlers, or rack, is usually the leader of the herd. Deer of all types use their antlers to fight and show dominance. When the antlers are in their time of quick growth, testosterone is at its highest levels. • Antlers are not hollow like the horns of cows and other animals. Horns are made of tubular filaments of keratin, which is what human hair and nails are made of. Only the rhinoceros has solid horns. Horns, unlike antlers, do not regenerate each year. They grow throughout an animal’s life, and if they are broken, they do not reform. Most animal horns have only one point. The pronghorn antelope is the exception with two points. Pronghorns also are different in that they shed their horns. • Antlers are made of a honeycombed bone-like tissue. They go through a time when they are covered with a thin skin of fine hairs called velvet. The velvet contains an extensive capillary (vein) network. If you were to touch growing antlers on a live deer, they would feel warm from the high level of blood flow. The antlers harden over time during the growth season, and the cartilage in the antlers becomes bone. Antlers start hardening at the base and the process continues rather quickly to the tip until they are completely hard. • When the velvet dries and hardens, the antlers have reached their full size. Deer rub and polish them against trees to keep them sharp and shiny and also rub trees when it is time for the antlers to shed. The antlers do not always fall off together. Sometimes one side will fall off, and the other side may fall off a day or so later. • When antlers are almost fully grown, during the heat of the summer, they serve an unusual purpose. With the large amount of blood running through them, the antlers “throw off” some of a deer’s body heat. How’s that for built-in air conditioning? Of all of the types of deer though, remember that the only females that grow antlers are caribou and reindeer. So, the poor females of the other types of deer don’t have air conditioning!
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down 10 percent of your purchase. Purchases must total more than $50, and each item must be $15 or more. Kmart and Sears also have layaway: There’s a $5 fee for the layaway contract, and $15 if you cancel before paying for your merchandise. You’ll need to pay $20 or 20 percent down, whichever is greater. At Best Buy, your layaway items must total more than $250. You’ll also have to pay 25 percent down as well as a 5 percent fee. This can still be a good deal if it helps you grab an expensive item when it’s on sale. Do the math. Toys “R” Us has a layaway plan for eligible merchandise. You’ll pay a $5 fee and put down at least 20 percent. The cancellation fee varies by state. Beware using online layaway for purchases you make over the Internet. These retailers offer an enticing low fee, but consider the ramifications of putting your banking information online: Money is automatically deducted from your account at regular intervals. If you cancel, they’ll hit your account for $25 or 10 percent of the layaway total. Consider, too, the hassle of merchandise that is delivered late or damaged. Once the holidays are over, open a Christmas Saver Club account at the bank or credit union. If you make regular deposits, by the time next year rolls around, your holiday spending money will be in hand. (c) 2011 King Features Synd., Inc.
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Overcoming The Odds: SPECIAL OLYMPICS In June 1963, Eunice Kennedy Shriver started a summer day camp at her home in Maryland. Different from most day camps, this one was for young people with intellectual disabilities. • Shriver wanted the young people to be able to explore their capabilities in sports and other physical activities. Camp Shriver was the predecessor of what is now known worldwide as the Special Olympics. Shriver’s commitment to individuals with challenges came from her love for sports and for her sister Rosemary, who in 1941, was institutionalized because of her disabilities. • The first Special Olympic Games were held in Chicago on July 20, 1968. This was only seven weeks after the second of Shriver’s political brothers had been assassinated. Senator Robert Kennedy was shot after her other brother, President John F. Kennedy, had been shot and killed. The deaths of her brothers had major impact across America. The games that Shriver started in Chicago would also go on to have lasting effects, in a very different way, on the country and the world. • A small crowd of fewer than 100 people was seated in the 85,000-seat stadium in Chicago for the first games, which had about 1,000 athletes from 26 states and Canada. • The oath that Shriver introduced at the first games is still used today: “Let me win, but if I cannot win let me be brave in the attempt.” • Shriver predicted that “one million of the world’s intellectually challenged would someday compete athletically.” She saw that prediction surpassed three times over! Today, more than three million Special Olympic athletes train in all 50 states and 181 countries around the globe.
• Disabled people are now participating in summer and winter games. Just as the official Olympic Games are held every two years, the Special Olympics are as well, alternating between winter and summer. • The Special Olympics World Summer Games of 2011 were held in the city of the first modern-day Olympic Games in 1894: Athens, Greece. More than 7,000 athletes, 3,000 coaches and officials, 25,000 volunteers, 40,000 family members and thousands of spectators from more than 180 countries were there to witness “the power of sport” changing lives. The challenged individuals competed in 22 Olympic-style sports such as softball tosses, weight lifting, aquatics, bocce and bowling from June 25 through July 4. • Today, attitudes and laws have changed to allow people with disabilities to participate in more workplaces as well as in sports. The Special Olympics helped many to see the abilities that are present if disabled people are given the encouragement, help and support they need. Events associated with the Special Olympics program are scheduled practically every month somewhere in the world, and they prepare and equip the athletes for competition and life. • Just as preparations are being made for the Olympic Summer Games in London 2012, South Korea is preparing for the Special Olympics World Winter Games to be held in 2013. Athletes will proudly participate in winter sports like snowboarding, skiing, snowshoeing and more. • Today, as a result of the publicity surrounding the Special Olympics, more and more people are looking at people with disabilities differently. Worldwide, they now have increased access to jobs, medical care and more. ■
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to try to up your activity until the two are in balance.” Obesity leads to health-care costs that are 36 percent higher, on average, and a 77 percent increase in medication costs. Liz Aleman, Healthy Children’s program manager for Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, said obesity is the result of poor choices and behaviors more than genetics and metabolism, which means there is a lot a person can do to fight obesity. Focus beyond the Thanksgiving table and holiday overeating. The struggle with obesity is year-round. ■ (c) 2011 King Features Synd., Inc.
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An Early Present for Blaney, Baldwin The finish of the Good Sam Club 500 was sideby-side, but third place was “Cinderella.” Dave Blaney, driving the underfunded Golden Corral Chevy for owner Tommy Baldwin, took the checkered flag third, matching a career best. Blaney, who just turned 49, was understandably ecstatic. “We have to thank (fourth-place) Brad Keselowski, who stayed with us all day long, every lap,” Blaney said. “When you get somebody committed to you, no matter what, it makes it a lot easier. Then it’s just timing at the end. “We were in the right place at the right time, squeezed through a couple holes, there you are.” The finish was worth $160,833, a tidy sum for Baldwin’s struggling team. “It’s huge for a race team,” Blaney added. “It’s a tiny little team. This race car we’ve got, it was a Bill Davis (owned) car in 2007 and 2008. It’s not a killer. It’s a big, big accomplishment for us to come out.
Dave Blaney came in with a strong third-place finish at the Good Sam Club 500 at Talladega on Oct. 23. The Tommy Baldwin driver credited Brad Keselowski with helping him get up front in the final laps of the race.
“This is a track where you can do this. You can hang in all day. With Brad Keselowski’s help, we could hang in all day and take advantage of getting a big push at the right time. That’s what it comes down to here, having a car that will roll the last couple laps to do that. It all just worked out.” The autumn Talladega Superspeedway race was the 393rd of Blaney’s career but only his fourth top-five finish. He has two career poles. His best previous finish this season was 13th at Richmond, Virginia, on April 30.
While Bowyer, who won, and second-place Jeff Burton were breaking away from the pack, Blaney and Keselowski were advancing from 14th and 15th in the race’s decisive, two-lap finish. “That was odd to see them get that far away that quick,” Blaney, from Hartford, Ohio, said. “That is obviously what made it a different kind of race. ... It’s exciting racing, whether it’s tandem or packs, stressful on the drivers, exciting for the fans.” (c) 2011 King Features Synd., Inc.
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Inspired by the “wishing tree,” I grabbed the pen dangling from its trunk and found myself stopped in my tracks mentally. I wasn’t sure what to write. Staring across the lake, I realized how making ONE wish is a special gesture and filled with images common to those who make them -like that awkward pause just before blowing out candles on a birthday cake, the thrill of tossing a coin in the Trevi Fountain, or the memory of humming Disney’s “When You Wish Upon a Star” while gazing into the night sky with a child. Lost in the moment, I began reading the tags above me. They were filled with wishes for good health, the end of the war, equal rights for all, a job, a soulmate with a job, a happy marriage, a grandchild, a greyhound, more snow this winter -and to be able to do a real push-up! Branch upon branch, wish upon wish. The public “wishing tree” was an idea born out of freelance copy editor and mom of two preschoolers Deb Arora. “My interest was to create a unique form of community service for my young kids over a long weekend, one they would find fun and interesting. Our ultimate goal was to make people smile,” she said. With Deb’s promise to the local park board to remove the “wish tags” before the next rainfall, the leafless tree would bear more than 400 wishes from young and old, to inspire and to bring a dose of joy to the lives of passersby. Deb and her family hope the “Wishing Tree” will catch on and spark new ideas with other families across the country and that others will feature similar work in public locations or right in their own front yard. Deb has developed a blog for this idea and new projects she has up her sleeve at www.hokeypokeyproject.com. 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.” (c) 2011 Donna Erickson, Distributed by King Features Synd.
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