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By Dr. Greg Fors, DC Board-certified Neurologist (DIBCN) We are at a crisis point today; more people are suffering with chronic pain than ever before, over 116 million individuals. Possibly you are one of them? This crisis is leading to an epidemic of addiction to prescription painkillers. As a society we need to wake up to the fact more people now die from their prescription pain medications then die in car crashes or in gun violence!

No Real Help From Conventional Medicine Why? Most doctors simply do not know how to help their patients heal their chronic pain. This is only going to continue for less than 4% of medical schools have a required course in pain and many offered no dedicated courses at all. When there is a medical course on chronic pain those schools had classes that amounted to less than five hours and the focus was only on drug therapy.

Why Chronic Pain?

Pain is your body’s signal that something is not functioning properly and needs attention. Taking a drug that blocks pain signals is like putting a piece of black tape over your flashing check engine light. It makes no sense! If your body is malfunctioning and sending you signals (PAIN!), it would be more beneficial for you to address the underlying causes.

One of the primary triggers of chronic pain is chronic systemic inflammation.

One of THE primary triggers of chronic inflammation is your diet, especially sugars and simple carbohydrates spiking your blood glucose levels.

How Sugars and Carbs Cause Chronic Pain Like spilled gasoline, excess blood sugar creates a highly combustible environment leading to free radicals and inflammatory fires that chronically erupt. The spike in blood sugar levels that comes from simple carbs and sugars (white bread, pastas, baked goods, white rice, chips, soda, etc.) increases levels of regulatory inflammatory messengers from your immune system called cytokines.

Excess blood sugar levels causes glucose to stick to proteins and lipids making them abnormal, a process called glycation. These abnormal (Glycated) sugary proteins and lipids then attach to your cells and turn on chronic tissue inflammation and dysfunction causing you pain.

This is not conjecture or theory but now established scientific fact. The National Library of Medicine now has more than 5000 scientific papers on the subject matter of glycation and inflammation. So yes, your diet makes a huge difference in healing your chronic pain and fatigue.

The Role of Your GI Tract in Feeling Like Crap (FLC Syndrome) Another hidden source of systemic inflammation and chronic pain comes from your GI tract. The primary culprit is a rarely recognized condition called SIBO or small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. SIBO is defined as “an overgrowth of GI microorganisms adversely affecting the human host”.

Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth is driven by the consumption of fermentable simple carbohydrates and sugars. It is not only an underlying cause of systemic inflammation, but of many functional digestive disorders. Fix the SIBO and many times you fix the GERD, irritable bowel syndrome, Leaky Gut, malabsorption and inflammatory bowel disease.

The bacteria found in SIBO can produce toxins that damage the lining of the small intestine. This damage can prevent your small intestine from absorbing the nutrients you need. Micronutrient deficiencies, such as B1 Thiamine and magnesium, is another hidden factor in chronic muscle and joint pain.

Another way these toxins cause GI injury is by damaging the “glue” that holds the intestinal cells to each other leading to Leaky Gut Syndrome. With leaky gut foreign molecules like toxins, microbes, undigested food particles, can escape from your small intestines. With 70% of your immune system in your G.I. lining your immune system has ample opportunity to mark these “foreign invaders" as pathogens and attacks them. This immune response will cause local G.I problems (e.g. IBS, IBD) and systemic inflammation leading to another hidden cause of chronic pain.

Leaky Gut and its seeping through of undigested food proteins, that your immune system reacts to, is a primary cause of food sensitivities, another hidden cause of chronic pain. Food allergies and sensitivities occur when your immune system mistakenly identifies a normally harmless substance (e.g. a food protein) and tags it as an invader, as if it was a bacteria or virus.

Your immune system then attacks this substance the same way it would attack any invader. When your immune system attacks an invader it releases inflammatory cytokines, causing aches, pains, fatigue, brain fog, and mood issues.

Just like the symptoms you experienced when you last had the flu.

All of these hidden and usually unrecognized causes of chronic pain have specific laboratory tests that I run to determine if they are a factor in your suffering. Tests such as HA1c for glycation driven inflammation, SIBO Breath Test for small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, micronutrient assays for tissue deficiencies of magnesium and B vitamins, a blood test specific for “Leaky Gut Syndrome” and IgG food sensitivity blood tests. Once recognized, I can then reverse these chronic pain causes through diet, nutritional support and acupuncture.

This vital information to your health is covered in greater detail in my book “Why We Hurt” and also at my “A Path To A Pain Free You in 2020” Workshop— Monday, January 27th or Wednesday, January 29th 7:00 PM at the Pain and Brain Healing Center, 1400 131st Ave NE Blaine. Call 763-862-7100 to register, seating is limited, or call for a FREE consultation.

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Globetrotters basketball team travels west from Chicago to play their first game, in Hinckley, Illinois. Coach Abe Saperstein decided to promote his new team’s racial makeup by naming them after Harlem, the famous black neighborhood of New York City. ► On Jan. 8, 1835, President Andrew Jackson achieves his goal of entirely paying off the United States’ national debt. It was the only time in U.S. history that the national debt stood at zero, and it precipitated one of the worst financial crises in American history, the Panic of 1837.

► On Jan. 12, 1932, Ophelia Wyatt Caraway of Arkansas becomes the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate.

Caraway had been appointed earlier to fill the vacancy left by her late husband, Thaddeus Horatio Caraway. ► On Jan. 11, 1949, on Connecticut Avenue in Washington, D.C., the cornerstone is laid at the first mosque of note in the United States. The Islamic Center was complete with a 160-foot minaret from which prayers were to be announced.

hostess Vanna White has never worn the from Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco same gown twice.

Bay. Barker, of the notorious “Bloody Barkers” gang, was spotted on the rock► On Jan. 10, 2008, Tata Motors in strewn shore of the island after climbing India debuts the Nano, billing it as the over the walls. As he waded into the world’s cheapest car. The bubble-shaped water, the guards shot and killed him. mini-vehicle had a base price of $2,000.

It had a body made of plastic and sheet ► On Jan. 15, 1951, Ilse Koch, wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald metal -- and one windshield wiper. concentration camp, is sentenced to ► On Jan. 18, 1803, Thomas Jefferson life imprisonment in a court in West requests funding from Congress to Germany. Nicknamed the “Witch of finance the Lewis and Clark expedition. Buchenwald,” Ilse collected lampshades, Though he did not disclose his intentions book covers and gloves made from the to Congress, Jefferson planned to send skin of tattooed camp prisoners.

Meriwether Lewis on a reconnaissance mission to assess future territorial ► On Jan. 14, 1969, an explosion aboard expansion into the west. the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise kills 27 people in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. A ► On Jan. 19, 1915, during World War rocket accidentally detonated, destroying I, Britain suffers its first casualties from 15 planes and injuring more than 300 an air attack when two German zeppelins people. The Enterprise was the first-ever drop bombs on the eastern coast of nuclear-powered aircraft carrier when it England. was launched in 1960.

► On Jan. 9, 1861, a Union merchant ship is fired upon as it tries to deliver supplies to Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, in the first exchange of shots between North and South. The shots were fired by gunner George E. Haynsworth, a cadet at The ► On Jan. 6, 1975, “Wheel of Fortune,” Citadel in Charleston. the longest-running syndicated game ► On Jan. 7, 1927, the Harlem show in American television, premieres ► On Jan. 13, 1939, Arthur “Doc” (c) 2019 Hearst Communications, Inc. on NBC. In over 7,000 episodes, show Barker is killed while trying to escape All Rights Reserved

RAIN (cont’d)

Two Australian geologists coined the term in a 1964 research paper, from the Latin words “petra” meaning “stone” and “ichor” meaning “ethereal fluid.”

• Scientists have found fossils containing indentations of raindrops dating back as far as 2.7 billion years ago when rain fell on layers of ash from volcanic eruptions, and then more ash fell on top, preserving the dents from the raindrops.

• Forecasting the weather got a boost in the U.S. after there were 1,914 shipwrecks on the Great Lakes in the year 1869. People in the region petitioned Congress to set up some sort of early warning system to track the formation and progress of the storms that were routinely sinking ships. In 1870, President Ulysses S. Grant signed a resolution stating that all military stations in the country should track the weather and develop a warning system for storms.

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weather forecasting grew in importance because it was a matter of safety for soldiers and sailors. Information about the weather passed from station to station via telegraph and a set of signal flags was developed.

• The saying is that “it’s raining cats and dogs” may spring from the Old English word for waterfall, “catadupe.”

• In the 1800s, a meteorologist in Britain named Luke Howard came up with the first official classification of different cloud types. He named cirrus clouds after the Latin word meaning “fiber,” stratus for the Latin word for “layer,” and cumulous for the Latin word for “heap.” Nearly a century later, a coalition of meteorologists met in Paris to refine Howard’s classifications, breaking clouds into nine different categories. The iconic towering puffy cloud was renamed the “cumulonimbus” which is Latin for “heaped cloud” and it was on top of the list of the nine different cloud types specified in the new list. This list of cloud types generated a new saying: “being on cloud nine.” Later the list was revised, and the cumulonimbus is now actually #10 on the list.

• Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon, have reputations as soggy cities, but both cities are drier than any major city on the Eastern Seaboard.

However, both Seattle and Portland are cloudy an average of about 230 days

per year when perhaps just a trace of drizzle falls, compared to only 160 cloudy days in Boston and 120 in Miami.

• On the west side of the Olympic Mountains in Washington state, the area gets up to 170 inches (4.3 m) of rainfall a year. On the east side of the same mountains just 30 miles (48 km) away, the town of Sequim, Washington gets only 15 inches (38 cm) a year, which qualifies the area as a semi-arid desert.

• The overcast city of Manchester, England, gets an average of 30 minutes of sunlight each day during the winter season. Although it gets a whole lot of consistent drizzle, it does not rank in the top ten of England’s rainiest cites.

The town of Seathwaite, just northwest of Manchester, is drenched with 140 inches (3.5 m) of rain each year, making it England’s wettest town.

• The first TV weatherman was Jimmie Fidler of Cincinnati’s WNBT in the 1940s. David Letterman started out as a news anchor and weatherman in Indianapolis. Raquel Welch got her start as a weathergirl in San Diego, and Diane Sawyer worked as the weathergirl in her hometown station in Kentucky.

• The Weather Channel launched in 1982 and took five years to break even.

The channel got a big boost in popularity when cable TV took off, reaching 50 million subscribers during Hurricane Andrew in 1992. NBC purchased it in 2008 for a cool $3.5 billion.

• Two towns called Cherrapunji and Mawsynram in the state of Meghalaya in India are the rainiest places on Earth.

They average about 470 inches (12 m) of rain per year. The world record for the greatest amount of rainfall in one year is 1,042 inches (26.5 m) in Cherrapunji in 1860-1861. Most of the rain occurs during monsoon season, between June and September. The word “monsoon” comes

from the Arabic “mausim” meaning “season.” Meghalaya means “land of the clouds.”

• Most rain in one minute: 1.23” (31 mm) July 4, 1956 in Unionville, Maryland.

• Most rain in one hour: 12” (305 mm) June 22, 1947 in Holt, Missouri • Most rain in 24 hours: 71.9” (182 cm) Jan. 8, 1966 in Cilaos, Réunion, during Tropical Cyclone Denise • Most rain in 48 hours: 98.1” (249 cm) June 15-16, 1995 in Cherrapunji, India • Most consecutive days with at least one-tenth of an inch of rainfall: 331 days, Oahu, Hawaii • The longest time that a place remained without any measurable rainfall was 14 years, in Arica, Chile, from October of 1903 to January, 1918.

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SINGING IN THE RAIN By: Janet Spencer • One of the most iconic golden oldie films is the 1952 movie “Singing In the Rain.”

• The script was cobbled together in order to showcase a selection of songs that had been written by producer Arthur Freed. Some of the songs from the film had been used in other previous movies.

“Good Morning” was performed by Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney in the 1937 film “Babes in Arms.” Garland also performed the film’s title track, “Singing in the Rain,” in the 1940 film “Little Nellie Kelly.” The title song also appeared in three other films in various years.

The only two songs that were written specifically for the movie were “Make ‘Em Laugh” and “Moses Supposes.”

• The screenwriters said they were told by Freed that they were going to be writing a movie called “Singing in the Rain” and given the instructions to put all his songs in it. “All we knew was there would be some scene where someone would be singing, and it would be raining.”

• Gene Kelly not only starred in the film, but also directed and choreographed it. Debbie Reynolds was only 19 years old when she was cast in the film, in spite of having no experience as a dancer. Her training in gymnastics served her well.

• The plot of the film hinges on the idea that, as “talkies” replace silent films, Debbie Reynold’s character steps in to provide the singing and speaking voice of shrill movie star Lina Lamont, played

by Jean Hagan. The role of Lina Lamont

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• The closing musical number of the film is a tap-dancing extravaganza featuring Gene Kelly, Donald O’Conner, and Debbie Reynolds. It took 40 takes to get the scene right, filmed over a 14hour time span. By the time they wrapped up, Debbie had to be carried off the set because her feet were bleeding.

CAT VS ISLAND By: Janet Spencer

• Cats have been ranked as one of the world’s 100 worst invasive species. Cats can be devastating to local wildlife, especially on islands. One study estimated that 14% of all vertebrate vanishings on islands can be blamed on cat infestations.

• Cats expanded their populations around the world largely through traveling on ships, where they were used to control rodents. Upon landing on some remote outpost, many went to shore and established new populations, to the great detriment of native species. Whereas domestic dogs who go feral often struggle to maintain wild populations without aid of mankind, domestic cats who go feral are able to thrive and reproduce even without humans.

• Marion Island off the coast of South Africa is a forbidding landscape, with a permanent snowcap, a harsh climate, and a lot of volcanic activity. Two cats released on this island in 1949 resulted in over 2,000 surviving descendants 25 years later.

The cats had been brought in to control the mouse population, as the invasive mice (who had jumped ship) were affecting the bird population. The cats also decimated the birds. After a concerted effort, all cats were removed from the ecosystem by 1991 at enormous expense.

• A report blamed domesticated cats as a factor in the disappearance of 89 out of Australia’s 138 extinct or nearly extinct mammal species.

• The Balearic Islands off the coast of Spain used to be covered by a particular type of shrub found only on those islands. The shrub reproduced by seeds, but the seeds could not sprout unless they were eaten and then excreted by a certain type of lizard that also lived only on those islands. When cats arrived on the islands, they ate all the lizards, which went extinct. The shrub later died out entirely as well.

• When the invasive cat population was removed from Macquarie Island located halfway between New Zealand and Antarctica, their absence resulted in an exploding population of the similarly invasive rabbits. The rabbits ate so much of the vegetation on the steep mountainsides that it resulted in landslides that wiped out much of the population of native penguins.

• The Key Largo wood rat is found only on the island of Key Largo south of Florida. It was so critically endangered that an artificial breeding program was begun in 2005. Wood rats were raised in Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Orlando, Florida. Yet when they were released on Key Largo, they the rats would invariably end up being killed by local cats. The program was abandoned in 2012.

• Stephens Island is a speck of land off the coast of New Zealand. In 1894, a lighthouse was built on the tiny island. Lighthouse keeper David Lyall brought his pregnant cat along. The resulting litter roamed the island. The cats kept bringing Lyall dead birds. Lyall was an amateur ornithologist, so he examined each bird and was excited to see examples of an unknown species of wren. He sent several preserved bodies off to ornithologists, who dubbed the new bird the Stephens Island wren, and clamored for more samples. However, Lyall had increasing difficulty in finding more samples of the tiny bird. By the time a year had passed from his first discovery, he could find none at all. In the span of a single year, Lyall’s cats had discovered and then decimated the entire population of the new species, which was now completely extinct. Lyall may have been the only human to have ever seen the bird in real life.

When a new lighthouse keeper took over in 1899, he removed over 100 cats from the environment, yet it took another quarter of a century before Stephens Island was once again cat-free.

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• Debbie Reynolds later said, “The two hardest things I ever did in my life are childbirth and “Singing in the Rain.”

• Donald O’Connor performed the memorable comedy dance routine “Make ‘Em Laugh” in which he runs up the walls and turns a back flip on the way down.

O’Connor completed the scene and made it look easy in spite of being a 4-pack-aday smoker.

• Gene Kelly was sick with a fever during much of the the seven days it took to film the iconic title number, in which he dances with an umbrella on a rainy street at night. He danced in the rain for six hours a day. The tap dancing sounds

were edited in later, because it’s hard to get good tap dancing sounds when dancing in wet loafers. As a result, the taps do not exactly match up with the dance steps. To make the rain visible, the rain was backlit in front of the plate glass windows of the shopfronts and the crew had to make sure the equipment wasn’t reflected in the glass.

• Although today it’s considered one of the best musicals of all time, the film earned no Oscar nomination for Best Picture, but it did earn a Best Supporting Actress nod for Jean Hagen, and Best Original Score for instrumental composer Lennie Hayton.

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President Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell address, known for its warnings about the growing power of the "military-industrial complex," was nearly two years in the making. This Inside the Vaults video short follows newly discovered papers revealing that Eisenhower was deeply involved in crafting the speech, which was to become one of the most famous in American history.

Scan the QR code or type in this address https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgjvHynP9Y From President Eisenhowers farewell speach Jan 17th, 1961 Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense. We have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security alone more than the net income of all United States corporations.

Now this conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence— economic, political, even spiritual—is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet, we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications.

Our toil, resources, and livelihood are all involved. So is the very structure of our society.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper. together.

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Wired or Wireless?

Much of the time we want to embrace technology and whatever is the latest and greatest. When it comes to our electronic gadgets, sometimes the newest isn’t necessarily the best.

I suspected I was in trouble when my cable provider insisted on installing a new, fancy modem.

Within hours, my computer, hooked up via Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity), was dragging and cutting out. After multiple phone calls over several days, the cable provider sent a technician. His verdict: I have excellent speed for Wi-Fi (how nice), but it’s the nature of Wi-Fi to do that: slow down at the most inopportune times. I cut to the heart of the problem and went to a big box electronics store where I picked up an ethernet cable, which I ran from the new, fancy modem

directly to my computer. It now runs like a champ, at a consistent speed.

While going through this experience, I conducted a small poll of people to ask whether they prefer Wi-Fi or wired gadgets. The results were surprising.

Seniors are more likely to say they like wireless. Their main reason? It’s the more modern way to hook up computers, printers and so on. The ones who prefer the wired gadgets are the younger geeky guys who work in electronics stores and don’t have time to fool with varying rates of speed created by Wi-Fi. Wired connections have more consistent speed, are more secure, are generally faster and aren’t usually affected by the environment.

My printer, still running on Wi-Fi, has now begun to be a problem, no doubt thanks to the fancy, new modem. The solution will be a USB A to B cable running from the printer to the computer.

Researchers say that 73% of seniors are now on the Internet. It might as well be fast, right? (c) 2019 King Features Synd., Inc.

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By 1900 there were nearly 600,000 phones in Bell's telephone system; that number shot up to 2.2 million phones by 1905, and 5.8 million by 1910 1929: Herbert Hoover becomes the first president of the United States with a phone on his desk. Until this time, the president talked on a phone from outside a booth outside his executive office.

By 1948, the 30 millionth phone was connected in the United States; by the 1960s,

there were more than 80 million phone hookups in the U.S. and 160 million in the world; by 1980, there were more than 175 million telephone subscriber lines in the U.S. In 1993, the first digital cellular network went online in Orlando, Florida; by 1995 there were 25 million cellular phone subscribers, and that number exploded at the turn of the century, with digital cellular phone service expected to replace landline phones for most U.S. customers by as early as 2010.

In June 2014, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Riley v. California, in which the justices unanimously ruled that police officers may not, without a warrant, search the data on a cell phone seized during an arrest. Writing for eight justices, Chief Justice John Roberts declared that “modern cell phones . . . are now such a pervasive and insistent part of daily life that the proverbial visitor from Mars might conclude they were an important feature of human anatomy.”

TIDBITS PETS CATS By: Janet Spencer There are an estimated half a billion cats in the world, of which about 100 million are domestic pet cats living in the U.S. About 68% of Ameri-can households own at least one cat. Come along with Tidbits as we pet our cats!

CAT HISTORY • A doctoral student at Oxford set out to see if he could find a common ancestor for the house cat. He gathered sample DNA from wild cats, feral cats, and domestic cats all over the planet.

Once he had analyzed samples from 1,000 cats, he did indeed find common ancestry among them. Worldwide, all of the cats he found shared DNA with a specific sub-species of cat called Felis silvestris lybica, commonly known as the African wildcat. It is native to northern Africa and the Middle East where the cats still live today.

• “Felis” means “cat” in Latin; “silvestris” means “woodland” or “forest”; and “lybica” means “from Libya.”

• There were at least seven types of prehistoric feline species living in what is now California around 11,000 years ago, including long-extinct species of bobcats, mountain lions, and sabre-tooth lions. Over 2,000 skeletons of saber-tooth cats have been retrieved from the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, more than have been found at any other location on the planet.

• Most of the different breeds of cats were developed starting in the 1960s.

The hairless Sphynx descended from two cats from Minnesota named Dermis and Epidermis who were mutants born in the 1970s. The Scottish fold cat, with

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bent ears, was bred from a mutant that appeared in a litter in Scotland 1961. The short legged dwarf Munchkin descended from a pregnant stray found underneath a truck in Louisiana in the 1980s. The Manx and Cornish Rex were likewise products of mutations. Other breeds, including the Norwegian forest cat and the Persian, developed after being isolated in an ecosystem and being subjected to natural selection.

• All cat species are what is known as “hypercarnivores” eating pretty much nothing other than meat. They have no molars for chewing plants and all of their teeth are pointy and sharp, ideal for killing and cutting. Cats need three times as much protein in their diets as dogs, except for kittens who need four times as much.

• Cats have some of the best binocular vision of any carnivore, with eyes set close together to give them an overlapping field of vision resulting in excellent depth perception. Rabbits, by contrast, have wide set eyes which allows them to see a wide field of vision in order to spot incoming predators, yet they have very poor three-dimensional vision.

• Cats have the largest eyes relative to their head size of any mammal.

• Today the 100 million or so pet cats in the U.S. consume about 3 million chickens every day in the form of chicken-based cat food.

• When archaeologists X-rayed the mummies of cats found in Egyptian tombs, they were surprised to find that many of the cats were actually kittens and that most of them had died violently rather than from natural causes.

CAT FACTS • A study done in 1980 followed people who survived heart attacks. It found that those who owned a pet showed a distinctly larger chance of living for a year following the heart attack (94%) over those who did not have a pet (72%).

However, a follow-up study done by the same researcher in 1995 set out to discover if there was a link between survival rates and the type of pet that was owned. It turned out that owning a dog had significant advantages, while owning a cat did not. This may be due to the fact that dog owners are 64% more likely than non-pet owners to do at least some walking every day. Cat owners were less likely to get outside and walk.

• The first established cat show was held in 1871 in London’s Crystal Palace.

• A study done in England showed that an average of 3.8 million cat pictures are uploaded to the internet every day, versus a total of only 1.4 million selfies.

When Sir Tim Berners-Lee, known as the father of the internet, was asked what aspect of modern web usage he found most surprising, he answered, “Kittens.”

BuzzFeed reports that their average cat post gets twice as many views as their average dog post.

• Cats have 230 bones, which is 24 more bones than humans. About 10% of a cat’s bones are in its tail. A cat’s spine has up to 53 loose-fitting vertebrae, making it extremely flexible. A human spine has only 34 vertebrae.

• Cats sometimes stare with their mouth open because they have an extra organ that tastes scents in the air.

• They use their whiskers to help determine if they can fit in a small space because their whiskers are approximately the same width as their body.

• Cats move with their right feet and then their left feet. The only other animals that walk this way are camels and giraffes.

CAT TRIVIA • Cats typically have about 24 whiskers on their muzzle, 12 on each side.

• Thirty-two individual muscles in each ear allow a cat to rotate its ears 180 degrees.

• A single litter of kittens can have multiple fathers.

• All cats are born with blue eyes.

Their adult eye color will begin to appear in 3 to 12 weeks. White cats whose eyes remain blue have a high chance of deafness. Those with only one blue eye will likely be deaf only in the ear closest to their blue eye.

• Cats can make about 100 different sounds. A dog can only make 10.

• The average cat spends around 70% of their lives asleep.

• Adult cats can leap up to six times their own length and jump five times their own height.

• Cats purr not only when they’re content, but they also when they’re sick, stressed, hurt, or giving birth.

• More than half of cats don’t respond to catnip. Catnip sensitivity is hereditary.

• Cats sweat through their paws.

• Most cats have 18 toes, including five on each front paw and four on each back paw.

• Cat claws curve downward, which means that they can’t climb down trees head-first. Instead, they have to back down the trunk.

• Males are more likely to be leftpawed, while females are more likely to be right-pawed.

• A leopard-like wild cat called the margay, found in the Amazon, attracts prey to it by mimicking the calls made by baby monkeys.

• Spaying and neutering can extend a cat’s life. Neutered males live an average of 62% longer than unneutered cats and spayed females live an average of 39% longer than unspayed cats. About 85% of domestic cats are spayed or neutered, but only about 2% of feral cats are.

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You’re getting very sleepy…so says the one trying to hypnotize you! Celebrate World Hypnotism Day on January 4 by staying alert to these facts!

By: Kathy Wolfe • Whether it’s an act on a stage or hypnotherapy in a physician’s office, hypnosis has long been used to help people control fears, negative behavior, low self-esteem, and even managing pain. Although there is evidence of hypnosis in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, and in early tribal ceremonies, it was first introduced in the medical world around 1770 by Austrian physician Franz Mesmer, who spent much of his career studying hypnosis. Mesmer believed that a hypnotist had magical powers over his subject and claimed that he achieved results through hypnosis for patients suffering from paralysis, convulsions and “hysterical conditions.” The word “mesmerism” entered our language, referring to the control he had over his subject.

• The word “hypnotism” was first used for the process in 1841 in England, using the Greek root word “hypnos,” meaning “sleep.”

• n the late 1800s, hypnosis was formally recognized as being useful in modern medicine. In 1886, while developing theories on psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud used hypnosis to help patients deal with traumatic memories. During World War I, World War II, and the Korean War, hypnosis was used in treating what we now call Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. It was also used as a substitute for anesthetics when supplies ran low. In 1962, brain surgery was even performed in Indianapolis on a patient under hypnosis. Hypnosis continues to be used for pain management during natural childbirth.

• We get most of our impressions about hypnosis from those stage performances, when subjects seem to enter a deep sleep. It’s not a state of sleep at all, but rather a natural state of mind in which patients remain wide awake and aware of their surroundings. Scientists say that we all enter hypnotic states every day, when we are intensely focused or relaxed. How many times have you arrived at your destination without a memory of getting there, or “zoned out” while reading a book? Even daydreams are a form of hypnotic state.

• While in a hypnotic “trance,” many people are more open to helpful suggestions and optimistic thoughts spoken by the hypnotist, such as overcoming certain phobias, forgetting bad experiences, or visualizing success. Hypnosis has been effective in combatting overeating, smoking, serious addictions, insomnia, and ADHD, as well as improving social relationships.

• Performing on the stage, hypnotists frequently tell their subjects that they won’t remember what happened while they were “under.” However, they are not really asleep, just very relaxed, able to hear and comprehend -- not a “puppet” at all!

• Those who have been hypnotized differ in their perception of what it was like. Some describe it as a heavy feeling, while others say it was a floating experience. Others say it has a feeling of detachment, like observing themselves from the outside. Breathing is typically slower and more shallow.

• Some people avoid hypnosis for fear of being “stuck” in a trance, but because hypnotized people are always in control of their mind and body, they can easily come out of the hypnotized state, just by opening their eyes.

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ALIEN By: Janet Spencer • In the 1979 film “Alien” the crew of a mining starship finds the ruins of an alien ship and subsequently becomes tangled up with a fearsome parasitic alien species. In the end, the only survivors are Ripley (played by Sigourney Weaver) and Jonesy the cat (played by four ginger kitties.)

• The film was originally titled “Star Beast.”

• Backers had a hard time finding a studio to produce the movie until “Star Wars” became a blockbuster hit.

Then, every studio in town rushed to get anything remotely sci-fi into production, so Alien got the green light by 20th Century Fox. • The entire crew of the ship was originally cast as all male, but the producers thought it would be more

interesting to have Ripley be a female.

The film launched the careers of Sigourney Weaver in that role as well as director Ridley Scott. It was Scott’s second feature film as director, and he followed it up with “Blade Runner” in 1982.

• The spacesuits worn by the cast were very hot, especially filming under studio lights in the summer. When Ridley Scott put his own kids into space suits in order to film a couple of long shots, the kids both passed out from the heat. After that, the suits were redesigned to allow more ventilation.

• Ridley Scott was desperate to avoid having the alien look like a man wearing a rubber suit. He considered casting mimes, basketball players, and even Peter Mayhew who played Chewbacca in “Star Wars.” But he ran across a man named Bolaji Badejo in a pub. Badejo was about 7 feet tall with long gangly arms and legs that gave him the stance of a praying mantis, which was perfect for the role. While he ultimately had fun playing the creature, Badejo

never acted again, and died in 1992 at the age of 39.

• The creature was designed without eyes, so that it would look chilling and soulless.

• When the space crew first discover the nest of face-hugging aliens, an eerie blue beam of light sweeps across the scene. Roger Daltrey and The Who were experimenting with lasers right next to the studio where Alien was shooting.

Daltrey loaned his equipment to Ridley Scott for the shot.

• To get Jones the cat to react fearfully to the Alien, a German shepherd was placed in front of the kitty with a screen between the two, so the cat wouldn't see the dog at first. The screen was then suddenly removed to make Jones stop advancing and start hissing.

• The slime used on the Alien was K-Y jelly, and it removed acrylic paint used on the surfaces of the models of the monster, which had to be repainted every evening.

• It was Sigourney Weaver’s idea to sing “You Are My Lucky Star” while

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• The first day that she shot a scene involving Jones the cat, Sigourney Weaver’s skin started reacting badly and she thought she was allergic to the cat.

However, it turned out that Weaver was reacting to glycerin sprayed on her skin to make her look hot and sweaty.

• You can buy a book called “Jonesy: Nine Lives on the Nostromo” which tells the story of “Alien” from the cat’s point of view: “Aboard the USCSS Nostromo, Jonesy leads a simple life enjoying The Company cat food and chasing space rodents. Until one day, his cryostasis catnap is rudely interrupted.

The humans have a new pet and it's definitely not house-trained.” The movie’s tag line was, “In space, no one can hear you scream” and the theme of the cat’s book is, “In space, no one can hear you meow.”

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